'On The Ball'
BY RAY KOEHLER
Sports Editor
Wrestling Coach Charley Spei
del's number one hobby wasn't
always wrestling. There was a
time Charley thought he was a
pretty fair boxer—"but I was
knocked down so often that I de
cided to try wrestling where at
least you get points for being on
the canvas."
Broadway Joe Coppa, the South
Philley flash whom oldtimers
would classify as a great "origi
nal" but who was just a plain
character at Penn State, is now
umpiring Class D baseball in
Ohio.
Joe DiMaggio's toe-hold on
every pitched ball proves he's no
heel at the plate.
THERE WAS A TIME
When rushing to cover a raging
grain -elevator fire near Toledo,
Reporter George Hewes found
that the only phone booth avail
able was in a next-door building
which was, itself, about to go up
in flames.
While helpful firemen played
their hoses around the booth,
Hewes gamely began phoning in
the story. He told how the fire
started, who detected it, how it
was being fought and what dam
age it had done.
The rewrite man, - on the other
end of • the line, 'fur from being
satisfied, began shooting ques
tions. How tall was the grain ele
vator? How full was it? 'What
color was it? •
With flames almost licking the
phone booth, Hewes shouted,
"The firemen are ordering me out
of here! I'll call you later!"
"Hold on," the rewrite man or
dered. "I've got one more ques
tion: How soon are they going tp
rebuild?
"Not," snapped Hewes, "until it
cools."
The source of this tale has been!
credited to many parties but
Coach Bob Higgons claimed it
really happened to him once.
Things haven't always gone
smoothly for The Hig and after
one particularly disasterous foot
ball encounter as he made his way
out of the stadium into the dark
ness of an October evening he was
in no mood for small talk. So it
was a bit uncomfortable being
stopped by an alumnus.
"Hello, Coach," said the alumn.
"Hello," Higgons replied, "Glad
to see you." He wasn't, of course,
but he had to say something.
"By the way," the alumnus ask
ed, "How many students do we
have on campus this year?"
."Oh, about 11,000, I guess," The
Hig muttered.
"Well, all I have to say,' contin
ued the alumnus, "is if we have
11,000 students, why can't you get
at least two of 'em in front of the
ball carrier?"
FAME IS FLEET DEPT.—
In a matching test given to
Senior journalism students last
spring one of the scholars spotted
the name of Joe Bedenk, then
head Nitta n y football coach,
aleingsicle that of the United
States foreign minister to Hun
gary.
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Man Behind the Scene . . .
Sykes' Enterprise Makes
Recreation Scheme Tick
One balmy spring evening, several months ago, numerous
campus personalities were subjected to a good-natured fry
ing at the Penn State Gridiron Banquet, but none was toast
ed to a more deep brown than the, popular, wise-cracking
'Dutch" Sykes, wnose daily
schedule would buckle an ordin
ary man
But Clarence Moss Sykes (as he
grudgingly admits being christen
ed) is far from an ordinary man
—arid he's the first to admit it.
Possessing in his wiry, deeply
tanned, athletic build a suggestion
of the tremendous amount of
nervous energy he burns daily,
Sykes, as director of the vast
Summer Session recreational pro
gram, is Penn State's closest
semblage to. a., three-handed
housewife on a busy Monday
morning.
Enjoys Busy Life
Living on a rat-race schedule
with the burden of satisfying the
manyfold recreational desires of
the persons who attend such . a
diversified institution as Penn
State would not appeal to most
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May We Depend Upon Your Friendship and
Patronage This Season As In the Past?
For Quality Work
and Satisfactory Service
Dry Cleaning Plant
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people, but the bespectacled,
square-shouldered Sykes dotes on
it.
As he puts it, "The thing that
is so rewarding about my job is
the number of students you get to
know. I'll lay you a wager," he
says, "that I know personally one
half of the male student popula
tion on campus. I get a great kick
out of working with them."
A constant booster for intra
mural sports, the flashily-attired
`Dutchman' is constantly impress
ed with the terrific spirit which
intramural sports generate.
He cites a case last winter dur
ing the IM wrestling finals when
the huge audience was shocked
to see a body hurtle out of the
balcony onto the gymnasium
(Continued on page five)
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Softball Deadline IsToday;
Expect Record Enrollment
With the entry deadline set for this afternoon, final de
tails are being made for the recreation softball league.
"Dutch" Sykes, director, has announced that all persons or
groups wishing to enter teams must do so in Room 213, Rec
Hall, today.
Team managers will meet tonight at the Recreation
' Office to map-out final details. All
squads will play twice weekly
and opening games are schedi
to begin no later than next week.
More Late Entries
Late entries are still expected
and the total•number of teams has
not yet been determined. It is
estimated that twenty or more
teams will have representatives
at tonight's meeting. Twenty
teams were entered last summer.
Golf and tennis tournaments
are also on tap according to Sykes.
Deadlines for these events are
Friday, July 14. Golfers will reg
ister at the Caddy House. Tennis
enthusiasts may sign up at the
tennis booth at the main gate of
New Beaver Field.
16 Golfers In Ist Flight
Soccer Win A
'Dream'---Jeff
America's victory over'England,
1-0, in a stunning upset was de
scribed by Bill Jeffrey as a
"splendid dream."
The Penn 'stale soccer coach,
writing to friends in State Col
lege from Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
said ."my boys really rose to the
occasion by defeating England,
1-0, in the World Cup champion
ships. It stillmakes me feel that
it was a splendid dream—but it
must be true, the papers are full
of it."
• Jeffrey, who was named coach
of the United States team just a
week prior to the Cup ; matches,
added that his team was lacking
in "polish and finesse but pos
sessed all the other qualities in
abundance. I. can truly be proud
of this team."
Defeated earlier in the tourna
ment by Spain, 3-1, and later by
Chile, 5-2, Jeffrey said in each
case "my defense weakened, undei
pressure. , '
A crowd of 30,000 saw
the United States-England match
at Belo Horizonte.
The Penn State veteran de-.
scribed the stadium in. Rio De
Janeiro as "the finest and prob
ably the biggest in the world.
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PENN'S CAVE
America's Only All-Water
Cavern
A Boat Ride of 1 Mile underground
1 8.-MILES SOUTHEAST Of STATE COLLEGE
5 MILES EAST Of CENTRE HALL
Opp 9 to 9 P.M. Daily
TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950
All golfers will qualify with
the 16 low scores participating in
the first, flight. As many more
flights as needed will' be set up.
The winner of the match play in
the first flight will be declared
the tourney winner.
Tennis competition will'be di
vided into several groups. They
friclude men's singles,
women's singles and' mixed
doubles. Men's doubles or women's
• ,(Continued on page five)
"You can see the game," he
added, "from any seat, each seat
has an arm rest, and it is a two
tier stadium, covered, with no ob
structions to hamper the specta
tors."
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