E‘fiE-CEWNGLQGE ESEWQ MIN! 53?. lllllli. diesel lilo rows ill! It? "to lmonye firoup dill Letterman baseball "learn Loses Ella Slur reviewers By Fred Dcl‘tllonoy Hail Tech’s bravest seniors, the men in athletics! Numbering over two dozen, the letter winners of the senior class have given to UT nigh unto an accumulated half a century of total letter winning ef‘ fort. Baseball Most Popular Baseball has the monopoly on the senior’s athletic interest. in this sport six seniors have earned letters. Cocaptains Bill Ranch and Bill Krause have graced the dia- mond for four years, and each will have earned three majors by the end of this season. Bauch, civil, has perched behind the plate for three years after shadowing the great I. X. Seidenberg for a year. “Moose” Krausc, mechanical, has always played the gardens for Tech. A lad who has been sorely mice ed by the infielciers is Bill Grosse, who suffered a fractured ankle about a month ago. Wee Willie en- tered the baseball scene in the last-half of the 1940 baseball sea. son when he took over third base, where he proved to be the spark of pep and a .333 man at the plate- Thls season Bill was playing good hall until the time of the accident in the North Central game. “Plait" in Shiites Frank Plotter of softball lame turned his attention to the league industry and has been going plac» es in the short-stop position. Al- though this is only his; first year with the spikes, “Pied" la playing nice ball and hitting the apple at a lively clip. First baseman Mike Carrier is playing his second year with the club. Always taking a lot of abuse from Coach Vietna- man, “big business” Eugene flail- ey has served as manager for the club this season. Golf manager, Leftoy Goeta. rep resents the sole, senior in the slice and divot world. A civil through and through, Goetz has been an able assistant to Coach Sammy Blob. mange, Hauswztld Leave Tennis boasts of two seniors, Bob Lange and Manager Art Hans. waltl. Lange, after being stricken ed with a severe case of pleuresy that kept him on his back all of last summer has smashed the hall with great consistency this sea son while playing in the number two position. Former assistant sports editor liauswald has prov- en to be a valuable asset to Eli"- Hal Davey in his first year as coach of the team. The two make a great pair. One of Tech’s most consistent men is George Matthews; of the track team. For four years George has been out for both indoor and outdoor track plugging away in the 440 and relay events. He is a great team man. Al Sanowskis has shown up in the outdoor season to hurl the discus and heave the shot. Earl Huebner, senior chemi- cal. is now acting as track coach in the absence of Norm Root after serving as manager of the team. Adieu to flank On the hardwood court Tech has bid goodby to Captain Hank Sliwa, John Brierley, and co-op Bob Schmidt. Handsome Hank has won three letters in the swisher’s league as a guard; whereas it was John’s first season as a regular. Bob Schmidt, former Aurora ace. has traveled many leagues to prac— tice with the team and has given the squad two years of service. floral-landing dealers Leave: dine Records Coach McGillivray of Bartlett pool fame fired his last shot at the following: Captain Blume, Bill Powers, Thurber Stowcll, Fred DeMoney, and Manager Dick Lab son- Blume swam four years for Tech; three on his back and the fourth as a free styler. Bill Powu ers. senior chemical, dove for his first letter last year and swam the 220 for his second one this year. Striving for recognition in the 2.20 this year was last season's mana- ger, Fred Deitioney. Stowell. archi- tect. earned his letter his sopho more year as a breaststroker. Managing the team this year was Dick Larson. ITSA proxy and gen- eral roustahout in charge of south crn tours. Sonny Weissman’s fifth floor collar box emporium sports. box- ing and wrestling. had a more liandfull of seniors enrolled. Cap» lain of wrestling, Blagio Nigrelll, now has a job with l-‘ludeon motor car in Detroit. Guen Baum has been a member of the squad for four years and earned his letter this season in the 145 pound class. Al Ranowskis heaved the bulls around in the heavyweight divi- sion this season for his letter. Elli- clent Dick Grinndal was manager. in the boxing world is Captain Ernie Colant. A member of the team for four years, Ernie has been captain for the past two and has lought in all but this year‘s Golden Gloves As Sonny would say, “He’s a real lighter!” imminm‘als Lose Mar Last but not least in the athlet~ it? world at "l“ech is intran‘iural manager. Chuck lvchleor. Chucla: has aecon‘lpllshed the difficult teal: of mailing the lntramurals pop right along. and deserves lull no claim for this feat, There are the senior athletes. "Fake a good look at them, for they will wear the Gray and Scarlet oi lllinola Tech no more. Gallant men are those, and the class of "All should feel quite proud in hav. ing such a fine but small group. Molecules Defeated By jr. Mechs 2044 Champions of the Lewis softball tournament, the highly‘touted hiolecules went down to defeat before the hard-hitting Junior Mocha, undefeated contender for the Armour softball crown, on Tuesday of last week in a slug‘ fest, 20 to 14. The game, which was played at Union Park, marked the first meeting of Armour and Lewis on the softball field. Both teams dis- played hitting-power galore; with the Junior Mechs possessing a slight edge sufficient to swing the tide of battle in their favor. Of considerable aid too was the bung- ling and inconsistent field play of the Molecules, coupled with er- ratic hitting in the early portion of the game. Contributing mightily to the cf» fort of the Molecules were the leading hitters Barnet, Suriano, Lucatorto and Petterino. Pitcher Frank Jencius sparked the play of the Mechs although his usual disconcerting fast delivery was somewhat hampered by the strict ruling governing the speed of delivery. Effective hitting was done by Erickson, Sieg, Carey and Jacobs. ’ schedule of indoor Trocksi’ers Win Four, Lose Six For Year It’s a mediocre but courageous track team came through a tough and outdoor meets with a record four Wins as against six losses. Besides these dual and triangular meets the Techawk thinclads competed in three other invitational meets and garnered points in all three. At Beloit the team finished third out of twelve teams competing and at the Illinois Tech Relays they gar- nered three points to gain a third from last place. At the Elmhurst invitational meet they garnered several places for a very creditable showing. The indoor season opened again- st North Central at .‘Naperville in February. The tracksters lost this meet by a decisive score. Wayne McCullough and Harry Holden- reich scored the only first for HT when they tied in the high jump. A week later the thlnclads lost a dual meet by a close score to W11. son Junior. Wilson subsequently was crowned the Junior College champion. In this meet Bob Osborne and McCullough showed great form as they copped firstgin the «1th and half mile respectively. Bill Johnson and Nat Rather also showed great promise as they placed in the mile. in their first meet with Loyola the 'i‘echawlts lost by a close score after furious battle. Again big lob Osborne paced the team. The relay team also came through with a win in this meet. Later that week in the first triangularmeet of the season the ‘Techawks de- feated Chicago ’l.‘cacbers College and Morton Jr. Tech copped five out of ten first and won thirteen places to walk oil" with the meet. The 'l‘cchawlt scoring splurge kept on as the team defeated Elm- liurai and Wheaton in succession by the decisive scores of 5441 and ‘uwifml‘l'i’ :5}? ant g1, " clinging; 36%“ . in ‘- WM sew—33. in both these meets Gav borne was start scorer as he cop» pad all the sprint and middle dis tance waces. In the Elmhurst meet Barry was also a star performer as he took both ends of the tim- ber‘loppcr races. ”the winning streak was carried to four straight with the advent of the outdoor season as IIT took a triangular meet from North Park and Morton in a thrilling exhibition. For the first time in the season the squad presented a balanced array and walked off with most of the events in fine style. They led North Park by 26 points when the final scores were tabulated. After the winning streak of four straight victories the team seemed to fall apart and lost four straight meets to Elmhurst, Bradley, Loy- ola and Wheaten respectively. In the {fimhurst meet the team lost by only 2/3 of a point in the final race. The last meet of the season was run under the tutelage of Harry ileidenreich and Earl Iiuebner because of the absence of Norm Root due to sickness. At the conclusion of the season the letter and jacket awards will be made. Dick Barry, Jack Tregay, Wayne McCullough, Harry Heid- enreich, Bob Osborne and Earl Huebner were awarded majors the iastbeing a manager’s award. A senior jacket was presented to George Matthews, as he was the only senior on the team, to grad- uate this year. Minor letters were awarded to Don Keigher, Ray Sauer, Bill Parks and George Er. kert iii) 5 gig. , , A .. . n - mums AM narrow {:35 anorro garrison Shows flood ritual lied Adriatic liccorda Seniors Whip locally in Soilboll Conical“ Ten old men of the senior class squeezed out a 6-2 win over an equally decrepit team, the faculty. For seven innings Ogden Field resounded with the squeaks and bending of unlimbered tendons. The seniors, apparently, were bet- ter oiled. John Yellott and five members oi‘ the mechanical department comprised half of the team. The professor came around for the first run and retired to rest on his lau— rels. His excuse about a charley- horse sounded pretty weak. lrwin Perlin pitched a good game His performance was only surpassed by C“iiwfoi~d’s in the field and at bat. One must not over look J ease Kremer’s playing in left field. There seems to be some an guinenl; as whether he dropped five or six balls. All the seniors could give to Paul Trumpler was encouragement. In fact, their nag;- ging caused him to run-a-cityblock to miss a ball. After seven innings of play the seniors were so worn out that they were forced to make lnnum~ emblc substitutions. But, the fad ulty went on after the seventh inning to register two runs. With a final score of 10—4, the seniors retire to other pursuits and the faculty returns; to the bench until next year. hillbilly. limb "i”t’ll‘lg lid rear glittlllliil Our hats oil to the Alpha Sig- ma Phi’s for their brilliant per" formance in the sports season of September 1940 to June 1941. As is usually the case, a single fratern- ity again outshined all others in the interfraternity sports. This year the Alpha Sig’s managed to weather the tough competition and to go on and win five out of eight championships. Among the trophies that the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity house has in its possession are the inter- l‘ralernity basketball, swimming, track, relay. and baseball cups. Last year’s sports champions, the Phi Kappa Sigmas, managed to keep their bowling crown and proved to be strong contenders in all sports. The Phi Kap’s are well under way towards another golf title but they have two high ban riers in front of them, the strong Alpha Sig team and the Pi Kappa Phi golfers. Pi Kappa Phi showed that they could play the rough and tumble sports as well as the more refined type when they captured the lan- rels in the football and the ping- pong competition. Delta Tau Delta ran into a bit of hard luck but they managed to take seconds and thirds in five sports. These men should make the going tough for all their 0p- ponents next year for they have much hidden talent. Watch them next year. lntcrfraternity tennis has start- ed and the going looks tough. Any- one is likely to win. All the frat- ernities are putting their heat into the matches and the winner will have to shed a bit of perspiration for the olive branch of victory. It will be interesting to follow the results in this sport. If the new freshmen coming in September are half as good in sports as the freshman class of 44 is, then you can be sure that the fraternities with their share of these freshmen will have bigger and better teams than ever before. lily .l. W. liniorloy Another eventful year in ath~ letics is drawing to a close at, Illla nols Tech. This year saw Hernia Meyer become the new basketball mentor, “Sonny” Weiosman the new baseball coach, and the torn» porary departure of track couch Norm Root. Under Coach Meyer the basket ball team had a fair season dos» pite a slow Sta-rt. The final tabu» lation showed 5 victories against; 10 losses. ‘ y”! r ‘ in )l‘lnwvwl’h'fi’ The freshman team under Coach O’Brien had a small schedule of 5 games without winning a game. They had winning spirit and fought hard all. aoason. [IT swimmers did not reach their peak, of previous years. After a season of still“ competition the final record showed 3 wins and 8 losses. Earle Huxhold will lead the team next year. The rifle team under the carp- taincy of Joe Hartman had a good season in that the team placed second in the National Rifle meet at U. of C. the sea-son ended with 7 wins and 5 losses. ~‘E7A‘-_.;.:_w~4i ‘ Tennis under Coach Davey has had the best; record of any sport. ”Po-date the team record is 13 wins against 3 losses. All players are consistent winners and with some freshmen on the team Coach Davey will have a good team for years to come. The track team lost a great man this year in their Coach. Norm Root, who had to leave because of sickness. Another one of Coach Davey’s enterprises at “T was the forma- tion of a hockey team The team played hard but without results. The season ended with 5 losses, some were by 1 point margins. Tech “frock Sound Loses To Wheaten Once more the track squad lost a heart-breaking meet by a few points. in their third photo—finish loss, and final meet of“ the cinder season the lllinois Tech thinclads were defeated by Wheaten 70-61. The deciding factor of the meet was llT’s defeat in the mile relay, the final event. Second best; batonrcarrier on the relay quartet, George Matthews. and Wayne McCullough, perennial winner in the distance races. were forced to miss the meet last Tues- day afternoon because of scholas« lie labors. otherwise the point score would have read quite differ. cni‘ly Highlight of the meet was Bob Osborne’s iron-man act of winning the 100, 2320, and 330 and kicking through the final quarter of the re- lay in unofficial time of 251.5 which would break the school all-time. record. Even more important was Cap~ lain Harry Heidenreich’s record- smashing throw in the javelin. Harry on his final throw in the event tossed the willow spear 169' 911,". which breaks the school record of me” by nearly 4', Cam. Vamlerkoift of the ’38 team held the old record.