Tuesday, March 8, l938 Trackmen Place in illinois Relays Tusslers Defeat Culver; Boxers Lose Five Tech track men returned from the Illinois Relays Sunday morning the proud possessors of silver and bronze medals. Three of the men, Dcutcr, Platz and Finne- gan, earned one each. Armour sent entrees to Urbana last Saturday in the two mile relay, distance medley, mile relay, the dash, shot put and 300 yard sprint events. The individual event entrees were Bingham. Vandekieft, and captain Dunbar. Place in Two Relay Events The chhawks came through with a third in the two mile relay, Deuter heading the list and Ryan, Platz and Finnegan following. Deuter again set the pace in the 880 run of the college medley, while Dunbar took up the baton for the 440, Finnegan for the three quarter mile, and Platz for the mile. They showed fourth in this event. Grapplera Win 241/2-211/2 Meanwhile down in Culver, Indi- ana, Armour's matmen had a tough time quelling the Culver cadets by the score of 24Vr21V2- It took McIntyre in the heavyweight divi- sion to pass up the cadets from a score of 19%-21%. Tech rolled up its points when Ropck, Hanna, and Moxant pinned their opponents, Kazmicrowicz took a decision, and Lindahl toss-led to a draw. Four pins by Culver set the militarists ahead, and so McIntyre floored cadet Smith in four minutes to win the meet. Culver Wins Seven Bouts The Culver boxers, however, proved too strong for Armour, and the former squad battled through with two knockouts and five (leci- sions while Armour was drawing- two decisions. ARMOUR Tech Swot and Such Champs Await QM Soul’s @K for Preseason Tuning Although not vacationing on Cata~ lina Island or elsewhere in the sunny southlands, Armour-’s champion ball- men are giving the baseball season more than a few serious thoughts. Up in the Tech gym the present and coming stars are getting into shape and will blow ofl’ the lid April 15 against Chicago. Battery practice has been conducted noon hours in- doors but the entire team will be out in Ogden field as soon as weather permits. Anxious Toasters Eye invitational Armour‘s matmcn intend to reach the climax of a successful season by winning Wheaton’s first invitational meet to be staged next Saturday. The field of 15 entries will show heavy opposition to Armour’s good intentions, the toughest of which is Wheaten. The latter squad has handed the Armourites their two lone defeats of the season. The tourney promises to offer all the wrestlers a tough day of grap- pling. They will weigh in early in the morning and the bouts will con- tinue until the champions of the eight weight divisions are crowned at the evening show. There will be a trophy presented to the team scoring the most points during the day of wrest— ling. Individual trophies will be awarded also to the first, second, and third place men in each of the eight weight divisions which will be from 118 points to the heavies, The Armour men have a very good chance to walk on" with some trophies for the trophy case. All of the men on the team have had intercollegiate wrestling experience and know how to handle themselves on the mats. About twelve men will make the trip as representatives of Armour. Manson, iienrihsen to head New basketball thawed; hoard Weighs Letters, Honor @yeies At a meeting of the A. T. S. A. board which was to have been held yesterday, Ed Swanson and Paul Henriksen were officially passed upon as co—captains of the Techawk cage squad for the coming season. They were elected by the retiring squad at its meeting on February 22. At the previous meeting it was de— cided that for the 1938-39 squad, :1 system of co»managers would be em~ ployed, the matter awaiting finality in yesterday’s board meeting. Also pending on the results of yesterday’s meeting, seven men were voted to re— ceive majors and five to receive min- ors along with twelve sweater awards. The cagers showed wise selection in their leaders for co~captains of the coming season. I—Ienriksen and Swan- son have played three seasons for Ar— mour and intend to end with a hang- up fourth season. Choose Ideal Captains Both men have turned in fine per- formances in the past season, Ed be— ing second high scorer this year and Paul doing some fine work in the guard position. Swanson’s scoring power coupled with Henriksen’s ag- gressive spirit should form a com- bination that will lead the Teehawks to many victories in the coming sea- son. Swanson has played basketball for a number of years, having a regu— lar berth on Tilden Tech’s lightweight and champion var- sity quintets in his prep school days. Ed also played ball with the Y. M. C. A. team seasons back. At Armour, IRay Pflum used Ed on his first year squad, and Coach Grant Stenger pl 2. y e d Swanson as forward on his team for the past two years. Swanson made 110 points this last season, second to retiring co‘captain Bill O’Brien for scoring honors, the latter having made 145 points in the fifteen game schedule. O’Brien, be" sides being a leading player, his jun- ior year was also high point man, making this the second time he has earned this honor. 7 awarded major ones. , three letter awards given to the soph- Henriksen has also had a great deal of basketball experience to com— bine with his leadership and natural playing ability. At Austin High he played three years with the lights and was a numeral man his first year at Tech under Pflum. Last year and this, Coach Stcnger used Paul as a guard on his first team. Paul totaled it in thirteen games, i“ trailing retiring co- ‘ nell by seven points. “7 O'Connell although i not high scorer was ‘a leading fighter in the Tech frays this season. The team will lose not only its fighting Irish co-captains, but also Ed Wagner and Jim Sheehan, a cou— ple of gomi guards on any college five. This year twelve letter awards will be made to various members of the cage squad. Ed ‘Wagner and co—cap- tains O‘Brien and O’Connell are the retiring seniors who will receive ma— jor letters and Jim Sheehan and Ed Brown, seniors, will receive minor let- ters and sweaters. Four Juniors Receive Awards The juniors who will receive awards are Swanson, \chriksen, Hoffman and Janicck, the latter two receiving minor letters and the former being There will be omores, majors going to Scherer and Norkus while Frank Lurz will be awarded a minor letter. ‘Recommendations for ten men to receive Honor Cycles were also made yesterday; these recommendations are made each year for ten high men based on the candidate’s extra—cur— ricular activity and scholarship. The Honor A men presented an issue which would standardize the awards of sweaters as to color of sweater and letter. This issue also included a sug- gestion that the freshman awards in- clude a sweater with the numeral and the award be considered as the first award. Considering the numeral as the first award will allow the letterman a. choice of color on his next award. At present the ballmen are chain» plans of the Northern Illinois Con— ference, including a circle of Whea- ton, North Central, Elmhurst, Lake Forest, as well as themselves. Al- though not too inclusive, it at least proves them to be offering a better brand of baseball than the average small college, and puts them in line for some outside competition. To favor their position, almost the complete championship team has re- mained intact and so a duplication of their last year’s record of ten wins over three losses is to be expected. One of the snappiest inflelds Ar» mour has seen in a long time, fortu- nately for Tech, did not break up through graduation last year. Dunne, and Wagner will again treat the Ar— lnourites with their double play art— istry. Green and Gebel will honor first and third bases respectively, while Krusc, Pacocha, on the mound, und Seidenberg behind the plate will again win games for Armour. The field lost Logullo and Show- a'huck, and therein lies the need for some new men. But co-captains Scid< (mherg and Wagner have ideas along with coach Stonger, and men are be— ing urged to report in full for all po- sitions. Already the batteries have the training underway of three re- inforcing members, Alex Yursis, Russ Cannon, and Fred Holle. As soon as field practice really gets under way, little of it being con- ducted now in the gym, new men will be spotted definitely for those posi- tions. Especially the [rush and soph prospects have been urged to show up because it will be almost expedient for the good of the following season that new men he worked in, as seven men will be graduating next June, an amount which would leave a gap in any baseball team. The games scheduled so far for the season are games in the conference numbering six, and eight outside of the league. The outside games include encounters with the University of Chicago squad, and the Michigan State nine. TECH NEWS Bowlers Organized tor Department Piay OFF to the biggest start in the his- tory of bowling at Armour will be the newly organized bowling league under the direction of intramural manager Bill Chclgren. The bowling, which will be done on an inter-depart- mental basis, has been organized on a large scale. Teams will consist of five men, and more than one team can enter from each department. The teams will bat— tle in mixed round robin and elim~ ination styles. Like in the touchball tourney, each team will play until it has received two defeats. Although these rules may be changed partly after further consid— eration by Chelgren, and advice from some of Armour's crack bowlers, they stand at present as the probable man- ner in which the tourney will be run 011’. Special cut rate cards have been obtained which reduce the price to )5 cents a line at most alloys in the city, but with a stipulation of: the hours of usage. The cards may be used at estab— lishments that are members of the The track season barely begun, its biggest boast early in the year looms up in the form of the Tenth Annual Armour Tech Relay Games. Just a week this Saturday, March 19, the famous Relays will be run in the great ficldhouso of the University or Chicago. The gala evening will include a number of track and field events, but the starred features are the unusual relays that are run each year, and in which several hundred men repre- By Howard Cog/lo Wheaten holds the wrestling hone ors in this section of the country by means of its Little Nineteen title, and is initiating an invitational meet ilor all the midwest colleges. Our own grapplers are barely inferior to the Wheatonites, as was shown in that last mat affair out there, and they will be represented along with high hopes of winning a few Tech trophies. . . . The originating of this meet has its similarities with the originating of the Armour Tech Re— lays nine years ago. The idea for the latter was conceived by Lonnie Stagg and John Schommer back in A929. out It is interesting to note that since 1929, the Illinois Relays, at its peak then, faded out in 1931; the Chicago Relays were originated in the Ohio cago Stadium last year by the Daily News; and the Illinois Relays are again being revived. Throughout all these changes, our Armour Relays have remained a fixture and have grown steadily to attain the present heights which we shall witness a week from Saturday night. i! ’3‘- )1: Tolmick, the scoring sensation of last year’s Armour Relay Games has been giving Wayne some more hon- ors back East. Star dash man and hurdles for Wayne University in De— troit, he broke a world’s record a few weeks ago. it *1: * Next week Art Jens will be con- ducting this column to give us the latest and inside dope on the Relays. He was the originator of this column, and, a member of the track team back in 1931. . . . Back in this year, the Tech cindermen ’were contes- tants in the Illinois Relays, the Drake Relays, various outdoor re- lays in Chicago, the Milwaukee Inter- collegiate, and the National Colle~ giate held at that time on Stagg senting several scores of schools par- ticipate. Colleges and universities throughout the middle west will again vie for the silver team trophy cups and individual winner’s medals. The Tech Relay Games were the first 01" their kind in the prairie states, and now many schools have made it a tradition to participate an- nually in the track carnival. The Re- lays were originated back in 192!) by Lonnie Stagg and John Schem- mcr. Distinctive about the games is the classification of entrees into college and university groups. This initial division tends to send the stronger, more experienced university teams against each other, and permit the weaker, but no less colorful, college men to match their abilities. This unusual feature has been in- fluential in increasing the entree lists. __W Field. Nowadays the N. C. A.A. meets are run off out in California. Incidentally, Don Caul was giving Armour all the publicity at those meets, when that towering shot put individual. was heaving the weight fifty feet, close to the world’s record toss. ll‘ it: 1‘ 0h Captain! My Captain! Tired of affixing the same slogans on our basketball satellites, such as Ed Swanson, lanky center, Paul Hen- rihsen, deep scoring guard, etc., fate has kindly played into our hands. Both were elected to head the 1938—39 squad, leading us to new set-ups of co~captwin Swanson, lanky center, or captain. of the guards Henriksen! ’11 Fl! fir Moreover, our pet nomenclature during the past season has vanished during the revolution, namely the “fighting Irish” brand often placed on Bill O'Brien and Jack O’Connor. But then one good nationality de— serves a couple of others, so this year its Henriksen and Swanson. Bowling Proprietor-5’ Association of Greater Chicago. They are good every week-day afternoon till 5:00 13.1\1., and Saturdays until 2 o’clock. Armour Relay Entry List Advances to I4 Entries during the past week lit~ orally poured into the office of John J. Schommer, head of the Armour Tech Relays, until by last Friday the list of entries had reached a high of 15 altogether. Among the entries so far are two universities, Wisconsin and Kansas State. North Central college which broke two records in last year's meet will again participate with a strong entree squad. Kansas State holds a record in the low hurdles although it had been duplicated once by Purdue. The thirteen entries besides Tech’s own squad, in the chronological order of their entering are Milwaukee Teachers, Cornell, Yankston, North Central, and Coo colleges, the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Iowa Teachers, Kalamazoo college, Bradley Tech, Western State Teachers, Eastern Illi- nois Teachers, LaCrusse State Teach- ers, and Kansas State University. Armour Host to Midwest Schools in Tenth Annual Relay fiarnivai Smaller colleges, which dot the mid— dle western states, having less ma- terial to draw upon are in this way more evenly matched, while the larg- er institutions, such as universities in the Big Ten, are pitted against The sprint finish in a Farmer Armour Tech Relay event. each other. College men and teams who desire, however, may enter the University class. Each year the entree lists have grown, and now scores of schools are sending their cream relay i'oresomes and individual stars to be matched against the best competition possible in their class. Professor John J. Schommer is again in charge of hand- ling the entrees and promoting the meet. Falling at the close of the indoor but toward the opening of the out~ door cinder year, the meet will he very important to sports writers and track coaches in getting an early look at the teams and men who will be the victors and record breakers in the eventful three months following. Track fans in the vicinity and Ar- mour students will be on hand for one of the biggest fieldhouse events of the ’38 track season, the Tech Rc~ lay games. Wrigh t Defoe is Swimmers Again Showing lack of fighting spirit, the Amour tankmen were deluged at Wright junior college by a score of 51.24, This was a return meet, Wright winning the first meet of the year held at University of Chicago by about the same score. The Techmen were able to harvest only one first in the meet. Captain Dodge supplied these five points by winning a very close 100 yard free style in the time of 1:01.9. Most of the other races were very close affairs, with Anderson barely touched out by Carlson 0f Wright in the 40 yard free style. The relay also provided the packed gallery with many thrills, the lead shifting back and forth as each man swam his 40 yards. Wright finished a short band’s length ahead to win the event. Svagdis trailed Havlicek, former Armouritc, in the 100 yard breast stroke to garnish a second. Displa)L ing surprising form, Pettcs performed difficult dives to take second place in his event. Armour had to be satisfied with placing Anderson second in the 40 yard free style. Captain Dodge lost Rage Three modernise Eliot mallard beers Eighteen hoists ll/leeit Receivables Work-- out As Tech Scores ”TY-lb Victory BlNGd-lAll/l THEE RECORD Preparing :for a conquest at Illi— nois, the Armour cindermen toyed with Elmhurst last Friday at the University of Chicago while conquer‘ ing 76 5/6 to 18 1/6. The Techawks took first in every event except the two mile run, which Schiehorn won. Aside from the large score, there was one other result that pleased the Armourites. That was the 70 yard low hurdles, which Alex Bingham flushed through in the time of 208.1. This result ties the Armour record made by‘G. A. Nelson in ’35. Binghnm is High Scorer High point honors went to Bing- ham, with a first in the 60 yard dash and the first in the hurdles. To start things out right, Armour gathered eight points with a first and second in the one mile run. Platts finished ten yards ahead of Faust, who barely nosed out Vernon of Elm~ burst in a last, desperate sprint. The 60 yard dash required a judgos’ con- ference to determine the winners. Finally Binigham was pointed out as the winner with McDonald tying Bohlo of Elmhurst for second. In the 440 yard run, Coving‘toi‘i shadowed Nothalt of Elmhurst until the last lap, when he poured out the energy to win a few yards ahead of the visitor. The runway was then obstructed with high hurdles, which Rothenbcrg hopped over to win by a large margin. Rouge nosed ahead of Elwood of Elmhurst to take second place. Elmhurut Wins Two Miler The track cleared, the two mile event was run off, in which event Elmhurst took its only first of the meet. Plcnccy of Armour built up a consistent lead, only to see it melt away before the advancing strides of Schicrhorn and Walchocr of Elm— burst. Then came the low hurdle skipping exhibition of Bingham with which he tied the old record. He was pressed to the finish by Dunbar, who almost overtook him. Sweep 880 Field Clean Armour made a clean sweep in the 880 yard run, taking an obvious first, second, and third with Finnegan lead- ing: the pack finally, although the lead oscillated several times. Dixon displayed good form in Win— ning the pole vault. There was a tie for third which brought about the first splitting of points. In the high jump, Simeon left his competi- tors in a three way tie for second, with Vandckieft getting a sixth of the slice. However, Vandekieft tri. umphed in the shot put. Beating out his rival by a scant half an inch, Bur- man took second. The Techmen completed the wash- out by winning the relay in fine style. After Faust, running second, developed a lead, the rest increased it until Rothenberg broke the tape a yard to the good. S UMMAR IE5 Mile Run—Won by Platis (A). Fnusté (A) economy Vcrno n (E) third Tim :5 60 and Dnsh— Won y Binzham 4(A), nohle “”6 5um] McDonald tied for msccond. TIE Yard5 Run—Wu on by Covinzton blulél—lt 2(E) seen and, Ccvovsky (A) T70 Yard High Hurdles—Won by Rothen- , Romeo (A) second. Elwood (E) (E). third. (A). third. Run—Won by Schicrlmrn Wnlcnocer (a) second. Budnnr (A) n by Vundckicf: (A). man (A) second Henneay (E) :1. 1m. once—all {cat 8%» Inc we 70 Yard Law Hurdles—Won by Binglmm (A). Dunbar (A)l second. liothcnborlz (A) third. Tim m:c~—- 1. Armour recoi- .) 8811‘ Yard Ru‘h8 —unW Tiby Flnnezon (A). 51333115 (A) second. Dcutcr (A) third. Tim;— Po lc Vr .ull—Won by D1: 1n (A) Elwood (A) second, Dnllx out (E) and Heimnreicli (A) tied for third. Heig lit— fee High Ju mow—W y Simeon (A). Vuml kelfl mil/Die Viornon “(3‘). Prusse: C(12). tled for s econ t’— Hulf Mile ”Relay—— Faust. Clark, Rothenbcfg‘): o Timt—l 38. Bur- Dis- nrcmour (Rom Elmhurst socc— tbe 220, a race he usually wins, and was able to eke out only a third. A one point award also went to Winblad in the 100 yard backs. The final event, the niedle) Hawkins fade out as anchor man, to lose by some distance to the Wright swimmer.