Tuesday, March I4, I939

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ARMOUR TECH NEWS

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Records Endangered in
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By Jim Fahey

Baseball has its All-Star game,
football its All-Americans, and
hockey its Stanley Cup playofi's, but
comparatively they all take a back
seat to this year’s edition of the clas-
sic of mid-western collegiate track,
the Armour Tech Relays,

It is doubtful if ever before has
such on aggregate of stars assembled
to participate in the Relays. To list
the names is to record the tops in
track talent in the Midwest for the
feats of Fenskc, Dcckard, J. Smith,

Burke, Diefenthal, Padway, Ed
Smith, Greer, Davenport, Buxton,

Piker, Rikli, Kauflman, Mehl, Best,
Crag-g, and others have already been
stamped in the books time and again.
Fcnske Out for Record

The feature of the big evening will
be the special mile which will see
Wisconsin’s “Chuck” Fcnske out to
better his record time of last year,
4:08.9. which still stands as the fast-
est mile ever run indoors in the Mid-
west; Last week “Chuck” became
“king of the milers” when he showed
Vcnske, San Romani, and CunningA
ham his heels on the Colombian mile
in New York. His time of 4:111
should be improved on the faster
track of the U. of C. and with the

 

 

 

Wrestlers blend
For Invitational

1 hirer l'lerai Win

This Saturday, the Armour Tech

wrestlers will travel to Wheaton to

participate in the second annual
Wheaten Invitational Meet. The
team will leave Saturday morning
and will be under the direction of
Coach Weissman.

Last year in this meet, the Tec-
hawks came off with several second-
ary honors, but this year the team
expects to take a couple of firsts.
Tullgren, Till, and Kazmierowicz
have all shown that they are going
to be extra hard to beat when the
tourney starts.

Whips Herzl, 23 to 9

Last week as a tune-up, the squad
took on Herzl Jr. College and won by
a 23 to 9 score. Balscwick, Tullgren,
Kazmierowicz, and Till all won bouts
on falls while Nigrelli came through
with a decision.

Hanna and Ropek, after getting
stuck on the time advantage, chased
their men all over the mat but
couldn‘t catch them and consequent-
ly lost. In an exhibition bout, Harri-
son of the Techawks had little trouble
beating his opponent from Herzl.

 

 

 

UNIVERSETY DIVISION
I935 Pill‘sburg
l936 Kansas State
l937 Wisconsin
1938 Illinois
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PAS? WENNERS 0F TECH RELAYS;

I929 Chicago

I930 Armour

I931 Loyola

I932 Indiana

I933 Chicago, Illinois State,
Northwestern

I934 Michigan State

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competition Tommy Deckard and
Jimmy Smith will give him.
While entered in the mile, Deckard
is best known for his ability to heat
Lash at the two~mile jaunt. Tommy

was a member of Uncle Sam’s Olym— i

pic team in 1932, being the No. 1
man in the 2,500 meter steeplechasc.
\Valch Burke, Padway

In the high jump, the spectators
may witness the setting of a new
world’s record, and if not, surely a
new Relay mark, when Burke of
Marquette and Dicfenthal of Illinois
square off. Both have done 6 ft 6%
inches repeatedly and that is already
7711 inches better than the present Re-
lay record.

The pole vaultingr of Milt Padway
also insures a record breaking per"
formance for 14 ft. 2% inches has
been common for this sky-toucher,
and this is only a few inches oil' the
world‘s record held by Wambersham.

To sum it all, no record is secure
and at least four are doomed as Ar-
mour truly presents a “night of
stars."

Sixteen Athletes fledged
lly Honor A or Gathering

Sixteen men met last Wednesday
night in an informal smoker to rev
ceive the highest honor an athlete can
receive at Armour, pledging to Honor
A. The recipients of the award can
now be seen about the Institute wear-
ing the traditional black and yellow
Honor A pledge ribbons.

Pool and ping pong tourneys along
with the Armour pastime, card play-
ing, rounded out the entertainment
which was climaxed by refreshments
galore. Following the refreshments,
each pledge was called upon to dem-
onstrate his ability in a exhibition of
interesting feats which included a dis-
play of wrestling holds by Kazmiero~
wicz, and swing steps by Ropek.

President Bill Kruse addressed the
pledges, stating the purpose of the or-
ganization and a resume of its activ—
ities- Another pledge meeting is
forthcoming at which each pledge will
be assigned his respective duties.

This year’s list of pledges consists
of: Scherer, O’Connor, Hofmann,
Sliwa, Janicek, of the basketball
team; Ropek, Kazmierowicz, Hanna,
Tom Clark of wrestling and boxing;
J. Clark, Ryan, and Elwood of the
track team; Leonard and Ranch, base-
ball, and Dodge and Svagdis of the
swimming team.

 

 

 

 

 

By Art Jenn, '31

(Ed. Note: This week Tech Shorts
is written by Art Jens, who orig-
inated this column when he served
as sports editor in 1930—31. This an~
nual visit by Art will be continued
next week.)

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The Cubs may head for Avalon
and the Blackhawks may enter the
Stanley Cup series, yet the true
harbinger of Spring to us is the an-
nual running of the Armour Relays.
This will he Armour’s eleventh meet
of the series and promises to sur»
pass any and all of its predecessors.
This sounds like big: talk and prob-
ably it is, but we cannot recall a
single instance in the past ten years
when the successor did not exceed
its predecessor.

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We have been at this thing for
a long time now. This column repre-
sents the 72nd effort of your car-
respondent over a period of ten
years and this will be our eleventh
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Relay meet.

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Armour is especially fortunate in
the conduct of its meet in that it
docs not have to compete with highly
organized carnivals such as ure held
in the east each year. True there
are the Chicago Relays, the Illinois
Relays and the Butler Relays to con~
tend with yet the spacing of each of
these, with the exception of the lat»
ter, are such as not to offer serious
conI‘IiCt.

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Armour Relay winners have gone
on to greater triumphs. Many have
won collegiate, national and world
lilies. A roll call of great names
over the past ten years would reveal
some of America's leading [rock and

field performers. To mention in few

,wo give you McCormick of Nolre

 

 

Paul 01? Armour, Ike Lenniugton of
Illinois, ll’ongroce of Michigan State,
Hermann of Carleton,
Detroit, Lash of lndiann, Haller cl
Wisconsin, Grieve of Illinois, Fen-
uke of Wisconsin. Mel]! of Wiscon-
son, Davenport of Chicago, Frury of
Illinois and Ed Smith of Wisconsin.
There were many others and there
will be many additions in the future.

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Again it appears that the high
jump and the pole vault will provide
the greatest customer interest. Pad-
wuy, the Wisconsin skyvtoucher,
should hoist his present record to
above fourteen feet. He made an at—
tempt in a dual meet with Minnesota
several weeks ago to equal the World
indoor record. He scarcely failed in
his third attempt. In the high jump
Dici'cnthalor of Illinois has reached
6 feet 6% inches which is almost a
full inch over the present record.
He should replace Bechcl, the four
time winner in this event, as the rec-
ord holder.

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ll is difficult to forget the notable
performance of Chuck Fenoke in the
mile lam year. Haul he run against
Cunningham that night the record
would probably read close to 4:06
instead of 4:08.53. We saw the Cun-
ningham-Fenske mile at the Amphi-
theatre the week following the Ar‘
muur meet last year and in spile of
the setting, it; lacked lhc thrill of
Fenslw's the Field House
truck.

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It is difficult to predict the out
come of many of the running events.
The hurdle records scum vulnerable
especially with Wisconsin‘s Ed Smith
in both the tall and short sticks.
Smith equalled the American record
in the highs last year with an :0813
race. The 880 seems plenty safe at
1:55.53 which is Il’lt‘ record set by
(lnlvin Beckett of Marquette in 1936.

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If you have never seen an Armour
Relay Carnival; if you have never
heard the bark of a starter): gun then
come to the University of Chicago
Ficldlmuse Saturday and see. one of

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Bill Schoror. who lost week was
elected to succeed Ed Swanson and
Paul Honrikscn on captain of the
chlmwk’u bnaliethnll team. lliill is
a Junior Architect and a membor of
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.

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Basketball in the rough reaches its
peak when Armour fraternities meet
in the matchbox atop “ye oldc Main,”
Phi Kappa Sigma opened the 1939
tourney with a victory over Theta Xi,
23-15).. In the other fir. , round
games, Phi Pi Phi defeated Delta Tau
Delta 29'2/1 in a bloodthirsty battle
which required four overtimes to set.
tie; Pi Kappa Phi won over Sigma
Alpha Mu with comparative ease
435-14, and Rho Delta Rho whipped
Triangle 15—13.

This week in the second round, the
Phi Kaps play ”no Pi hops and the
Rho Delis play Phi I’i l’hi. The win-

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hihlilfilfill MANAGER

Last Thursday afternoon, the Ar-
mour Tech Student Association met
and approved the selection of Bill
Scherer as captain of the 1939-40
varsity basketball squad In addition
to approving the now captain, the
Board awarded major letters to thir-
teen players and to the student man-
ager.

Heading the list of lettermen were
the co—captains of this year's squad
Ed. Swanson and Paul I-Ienriksen,
followed by Joe Janicek, Al Kubiclca,
Paul Hofmann, Bill Scherer, Lloyd
Norkus, I-lerb Sher, Ed. O’Connor,
Frank Lurz, and Hank Sliwa. A man-
ager’s award went to Ed “Streaky"
Grabacki while Rupc Weber, Johnny
Rudnkns, and Tom Barrett-Smith re—
ceived minor letters,

Story; at Guard

The new captain has played var-
sity basketball now for two years,
pluyinp; at both forward and guard.
Bill came to Armour from Naperville
High School where he starred in both
football and basketball. Enrolling in
the Delta Tau Delta frat at the Insti-
tute, Bill soon became known for his
passing ability in touchhall and his
pitching- in softball.

Playing For the fresh team, he was
one or the loading scorers at the for-
ward posi on but when he went out
l'or 1hr: varsity, he was shifted to
guard because of his superior de-
I'onse play. Lost your the Napervillo
’I‘echuwk alternated at guard and for»
word but this year he stayed at the
guard post, from where he scored 54
points to be firth high scorer on the
team.

Lnehcr Succeodn Grubaclti

Replacing,- Ed Grabacki as manager
will he Frank Lasker, a, junior me-
chanical, who has just finished a year
of service as a.. . ,inl; manager. Due
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