FRIDAY. MAY 13. 1955
Two of Thinclad's Milers - -
Lineups of Sprints,
Mile Relay Altered.
Lion thinclad Coach Chick Werner—in preparation for the Lions’
final home track meet tomorrow with Boston U. —has juggled his
lineup in an effort to strengthen his mile relay squad. If the weather
man cooperates as he did last weekend with a light wind, a dry track,
and plenty of sunshine, the mile relay squad will be one of the top
attractions to watch to slash Penn State’s record marks.
It was questionable yesterday
if Boston U. would be able to
enter a quartet team for the mile
relay. The Bostonites—riddled with
injuries—are expecte’d to be short
handed with a small—but power
ful—lo to 12 man squad.
Same Relay Team
Werner will have the same men
in the mile relay tomorrow that
ran last week, but has yanked
each man out of a sprint race
to give added strength to the
entry.
Jack Morin, Dave Leathern,
Bruce Austin, and Art Pollard
again get the call after turning in
a brilliant 3:13.6 time last Satur
day.
Pollard, however, will anchor
the squad this week instead of
Austin. Pollard’s position of run
ning the third’ leg of the relay will
be handled by Austin. Jacjk Mor
in, a sophomore sprinter, will lead
off for the Lions and Dave Lea
thern will carry the baton on the
second lap.
Pollard—who usually runs the
100 and 220-yard dashes plus a
turn in the mile relay—will drop
the 220 event this weekend. Mor
in, Austin, and Leathern will fol
low a similar pattern of entering
only one other race before the
mile relay event.
Morin will run the 440 with
Urn Defends
Badminton Title
For 3rd Year
Heng Lim successfully defend
ed his title for the third consecu
tive year to highlight Wednes
day night’s intramural activity.
Six soccer teams also copped IM
victoriecs.
Lim soundly trounced George
Welsch in two games, 15-0, 15-3,
to retain his crown. Welsch never
threatened Lim as the champion
took early leads in both games
and coasted to his easy victory.
It was a comparatively easy
road to the title for Lim, as he
never permitted more than 10
points to be scored or him in any
of his games, and that figure was
reached only once. Lim’s toughest
battle was in a semi-final match
with John Lazur whom he defeat
ed, 15-10, 15-7.
Welsch, on the other hand, had
to go to three games twice in his
unsuccessful bid to unseat the vic
tor.
In Wednesday night’s soccer
matches, Alpha Chi Rho defeated
Phi Sigma Delta, 1-0; Alpha Gam
ma Rho beat Sigma Alpha Mu,
2-0; Tau Kappa Epsilon edged
Delta Upsilon, 1-0; Phi- Kappa
blanked Delta Chi, 1-0; Phi Kap
pa Tau nipped Pi Kappa Alpha,
1-0; and Theta Kappa Phi stopped
Phi Kappa Sigma, 1-0.
When Holdredge (Neb.) high
school and Geneva meet in bas
ketball the “Crow Trophy,” a
stuffed crow, goes tQ the loser.
fffs in Mile Relay
Leathern. Austin will move out of
the 440-yard dash and into the
220-yard event with Harry Mit
chell. Neither Pollard or Morin
will compete in tfie 220 dash.
With Leathern out of the 880-
yard dash, Skip Slocum third
last week in the same event—
and A 1 Terrill and Bob Matz will
get the first-line work.
Morin Out of 100
Pollard will enter the 100-
yard dash with Mitchell, but Mor
in will drop the century test for
the 440 and the mile relay.
Last week Morin led off for
Penn State with a :48.7 quarter.
Leathern, in the second spot,
passed the baton to Pollard after
registering :49.2. Pollard main
tained the Lions’ lead over Mich
igan when he turned-in a :47.4
quarter and left the final lap to
Austin.
Running against Grant Scruggs
—winner Of the quarter-mile event
—Austin kept his lead until the
final stretch when Scruggs, passed
him and finished first to score a
:46.8 quarter with Austin coming
in at :48.
Pollard, who suffered leg mus
cle cramps a week before, did
not take his usual anchorman po
sition after running both the 100
and 220 last week.
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IJIE DAILY COUEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Lions Visit Swarthmore Tomorrow
' By FRAN FANUCCI
When Penn State’s lacrosse team meets Swarthmore College tomorrow afternoon it
will be playing against a team which has caused them the most trouble in past years.
The 20-man squad will lea>ve for Swarthmore at 1 p.m. today.
The Lion stickmen pulli
12-6, in last year’s contest at
eluding wins over Lehigh, Del
Lions sported a mediocre 1-6 card,
but led by all-American A 1 Ful
ton, the Nittanies managed the
upset.
Lacrosse coach Nick Thiel said
in past years it has always been
Swarthmore which has beaten the
Lions when they are enjoying
their best season. And, he added,
we seem to do the same to them.
Swarthmore plays an intricate
zone defense which has baffled
the Nittanies in the past. Thiel
said, “If it can be solved then we
won’t have much trouble, but if
we can’t solve it, then look for a
low scoring game.”
Swarthmore. so far this year,
has a 4-4 record. It has beaten
Drexel, 10-7; Lehigh, 6-3; Stevens,
10-4; and Lafayette, 13-4. Its losses
were at the hands of New Hamp
shire, 7-3; Delaware, 6-5; Wash
ington, 9-5; and Loyola, 13-6.
Penn State played two of these
opponents, New Hampshire and
Bob Bullock
Outstanding on Defense
Loyola. The Lions lost to New
Hampshire, 4-2, and ran rough
shod over Loyola, 17-8.
Coach Avery Blake will rely on
Bill Reynolds, who is leading the
team in scoring with 13 goals,
Tom Simkin, runnerup with 10
goals, and Captain Gene Heaton,
the team’s sparkplug.
This is the last game of the sea
son for Swarthmore. It played
Pennsylvania on Wednesday but
results of the contest were not
available. The Nittany stickmen
led a stunning upset over the highly favored Red and White,
t Beaver Field. Swarthmore was riding on a 6-4 record, iri
laware, and Loyola, when it invaded the Nittany campus. The
have two more games—both next
week.
On returning from Swarthmore,
the Lions will encounter Hobart
on Wednesday and Pennsylvania
next Saturday.
Thiel was pleased with his
team’s performance against Syra
cuse. Hfe said for the first time
this year it outlasted a team be
cause the Lions were in solid phy
THE GREAT CAP and GOWN CONTROVERSY
The cap and gown season is upon us, and with it comes the
perennial question: which side of the cap should the tassel
hang on?
This is an argument that arises every year to roil the aca
demic world, and it is, alas, no closer to solution today than it
was in 1604 when Fred Tassel invented the troublesome orna
ment.
Fred Tassel, incidentally, never made a penny from his inven
tion. The sad fact is he never took out a patent on it. This tragie
oversight becomes understandable, however, when one considers
that patents were not invented till 1851 by Fred Patent, himself
a pitiable figure. A compulsive handwasher, he died in his four
teenth year, leaving behind a wife and five spotless children.
But I digress. We were discussing which side of the cap the
tassel should hang on.
For many years the universally accepted practice was to hang
the tassel over the front of the cap. This practice was abandoned
in 1942 when the entire graduating class of Northwestern Uni
versity, blinded by tassels hanging in their eyes, made a wrong
turn during commencement exercises and ended up at the Great
Lakes Training Center where, all unwitting, they were inducted
into the Navy for five year hitches.
There is one school of thought—large and growing daily larger
—which holds that the tassel should be worn on the same side
you carry your Philip Morris cigarettes. Thus a quick glance
will show you where your Philip Morris are and save much time
and fumbling.
This makes a good deal of sense because when one wants a
Philip Morris, one wants one with a minimum of delay.- One does
not relish being kept, even for a second, from the clean, delicate
flavor of Philip Morris, so artfully blended, so subtly concocted
to please the keen and alert taste buds of young smokers. One
chafes at any obstacle, however small, that is put in the way of
enjoying this most edifying of cigarettes, so pleasing to the
perceptive palate. Here, in king size or regular, at prices that
do no violence to the slimmest of budgets, is a firm white cylinder
of balm and pure, abiding content.
There is another group, small but vocal, that insists the tassel
should hang over the back of the cap. The tassel, they is a
symbol like the bullfighter’s pigtail, signifying honor and
courage.
They are wrong. Bullfighters wear pigtails for only one rea
son: to keep the backs of their necks warm. Do you have any
idea what a draft a bull makes when he rushes past you? A
plenty big one, you may be sure.
In fact, upper respiratory infections, contracted in the wake of
passing bulls, are the largest single cause of bullring fatalities.
I have this interesting statistic from the Bullfighters Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, one of tie
few insurance companies in Hartford, Connecticut, which writes
insurance exclusively for bullfighters. Incidentally, Hartford,
the insurance capital of America, is a most interesting city and
well worth a visit if you are ever in New England, as north
eastern United States is, for some reason, called. Hartford can
be reached by bus, train, plane, and the Humboldt Current. Try
to make your visit in spring, when the actuaries are in bloom.
But I digress. We were talking about what side to wear the
tassel on. An ingenious solution to this troubling problem was
proposed a few years ago by Fred Sigafoos, perhaps better known
as “The Quoit King of Delaware.” An early forbear of Mr.
Sigafoos, Humboldt Sigafoos (who later invented the current
which bears his name) was granted a monopoly by King George
111 on all quoits manufactured in Delaware. Somehow the royal
appointment was never rescinded and from that day to this,
every quoit made in Delaware has been a Sigafoos Quoit.
Well, sir, Fred Sigafoos once suggested that an equitable
settlement to the great tassel controversy would be to starch
the tassels so they stood upright and hung on no side of the cap
at all. Mr. Sigafoos. was, of course, only seeking to broaden his
market, because after graduation, what can you do with an
upright tassel but hurl quoits at it?
The makers of PHILIP MORRIS i cho bring you thts column make no
recommendation about what side to hang the tassel on. But with
cigarettes they say: Slay on the gentle, tasty, vintage side —with
PHILIP MORRIS , of course .
sical shape. He pointed out that
his second midfield kept the pres
sure on the Orange until the first
squad midfield was rested suf
ficently to enter the game.
Also on tomorrow’s schedule
will be a freshman lacrosse game
against Lower Merion. The Irosh
have engaged in only one contest
this year, when it beat Bucknell
14-8. The game starts at 3 p.m.
On Campus
MKOhulman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” sic.)
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