mwgqmmww WW«.M~V, M._. W, SEPT. 39, 1941 TECHNOLOGY NEW/S llH‘ltGllil Fill/E ”gooey” “idol” Loni? "lo guidiflig Record geoeon dipoln hormonal ”Niece Sport's @ocupy Weissmun's fichedu'e Mr. Bernard Weissman, coach of baszsball, boxing, wrestling, and better known to the students as “Sonny" begins his fourteenth your at Armour. The congenial little fellow at- tracted attention as an athlete while at Lone Tech, starring in baseball, basketball, track, and Bernard “’oissnmn soccer. in 1924 he entered De Paul university and in 1928 graduated with an AB. and a Lilli. degree, finding time to engage in sports. (Junie to Armour in 1923 in September of l928, he became Armour‘s boxing coach, and in 19:32 when wrestling was revived he took the responsibility of guid— ing the team. To the present your the grapplcrs have always; ended above the .600 average. This year’a outlook seems much better in; many of the lettermon are back. From April, 1934, to November of 1937, he also served the United States as an enforcement officer in the lnternal Revenue depart— ment. In December 1938, Sonny was appointed manager of the Student Union and in the {all of 1939 he became assistant athletic director to John .I. Schommer, ath- letic director of Illinois Tech. ‘Sonny’ has added to his activi- ties the pogilion ol' referee, since 1934, in the National Amateur Boxing association. For the past six years he participated in the Golden Gloves tournaments in that capacity. heel-boll Enthusiosm Reuehco blew Weights lost year, the first time in dec- ades, Illinois Tech unofficially sponsored an eleven man football team. Fred Lukens served as pilot for a scrappy and aggressive or panization. The major games were played against the University of Chicago players. The games were taken by Chicago by three or four touch- downs. This was principally due to the short training period for our team and the lack of reserves. Chicago had three or more fully equipped and experienced teams on the field. They, however. were scored upon and were unable to cope with the spirit of their op~ ponents. This year a number of new men. have showed interest in furthering the efforts of the team. Should a person desire to get information he should get in touch with Fred Lukens or Pete Zemaitis. If satis- factory interest is created, several full time coaches will be assigned. Dovey Pious Repeat 0% mil-dill Successes Last year's tennis team set the hes: record for tennis in this his. tory of the Institute. It scored fourteen wins and one tie as against four losses. The opposition included such formidable schools us Purdue, Loyola, lndiana State Teachers, Butler and Marquette. Stronger This Your? This year’s squad ought to be stronger than ever with the re» turn of the whole team except for the former captain. Bob Langc. The team will be captained by Mike Schultz, who played No. 1 man last year. The manager will be Dick l-iameister. The outfit will again he coached by Doctor Hal Davey. Armed with nothing more than a doctor’s de- gree from Harvard, Dr. Davey created a very successful team last Ssflflfiol'l. Despite the success of the sound and the fact that most oi‘ them are returning, Coach Dav vey suites. “all positions are still open and all tennis players should enter the spring tournament. This is where candidates for the team are chosen," . Allin included in Dr. Dewey’s ac. Hui Dave-y livitics is; the coaching of the hot-lacy team. Hockey is still an unollicini sport at UT but may break into the ranks of oilicialdom after it proves itself. The team played amateur teams around Chi~ t-ugo. ’l‘hey now have equipment and a lighted click to play on so this year’s prospects look brighter. ”loch "i’ochismen Sci dolls; For New Your Sailors Bill Parks and Jack Kas» man are once more clearing the tiE’l‘kFl for another successful sea- son at the helm of the Ililnois ’l‘ech sailing team. Being defend- ers of the MidSWest Intercollegiate Sailing championship after only one year of competition the team seems destined for even better things during the coming nauti- cal season. Lose at Sandmky Holiday races at Sandusky Bay were the last competition in which the team represented Tech. The foursome of Parks, Bonar, Udelle and Kasman, however, found the waves rougher than the competi- tion resulting in fruitless efforts. Members “ranted A new membership drive for the sailing club will soon be in prog- ress. From the club comes the members of the team which rep-v resents TIT in competition. The sailing is usually done in either dinghies or sloops. WAITING) FOR THE WHISTLE “Rennie" Meyer. Iiuskcllmll couch of Illinois lll‘och. Basketball Prospects Loom Best in Years When Bob “Bernie” Meyer took over the coaching of the basket- ball team last year, a great future was predicted for his reign. After only one season this prediction has already been partly realized. In his firm season, Meyer took a disorganized, disgruntled, beaten team and turned them into a fast moving poppy outfit. They won six and lost ucven close oneo last year, in contrast to the previous sea- son’s; record of one win and fifteen Moscow Few Graduate Eleven of the nine mujor letter- lnon from last year’s team are re turning. Among these are Captain Howie i’cndlehury and the team’s leading scorer, Jack Byrnc. Harry Slog. Mike Carey, Bob Ncuhousc, Flay llagodncy, and Wally Fuller- er arm the other returning major lettermen. Several other promising men are returning and will keep the top men lighting for their posi- tions. {not your Coach Bill O’Brien turned out a good Freshman bas- ketball loam and this year has turned them over to “Remio” Mey‘ er. One oi” these men, Bob Kidd, played one game with the varsity and showed great promise. While Couch Meyer was still at the University of Chicago he hung up one ol‘ the greatest records of any athlete in the last decade. He starred in basketball, baseball, and football, winning nine athletic awards. Big Ten Star in his senior year he was acting captain for half the season and his court achievements culminat- ed in his being selected on the second team of the Herald-Ameri- can’s all Big Ten squad. Meyer played first base on Chicago’s base- ball team and led the Big Ten in home runs. After he graduated in 1938 Mey- er played pro-basketball and pro- baseball beside selling insurance. Last year this versatile gent came to lilinois Tech as basketball coach and is now concentrating on the coming season, for which practice starts about November 1. NOTICE! All freshmen interested in representing their claps in the coming interplass hardball tour» namcnt will practice on @gdcn field, Tiacsday at 3 pm. lilo there! rhinoceros niwlwlr heroine or hour The Scarlet and Grey~clad track- mcn oi” lllinols Tech returned to school to find their future unset- tled, but l'iopei‘ul. Returning veter- ans and potential freshman mate- rial points toward a rosy future on the cinder-track. But unsettled still is the coaching position which Coach Norman Root vacated tem— porarily due to illness. Roots in Sanitarium Coach Root, former Big Ten and University of Chicago sprint star, was; forced to relinquish the couch mg reins last May due to his con- finement in a tuberculoeis sanitari- um. Barring unpleascnt develop merits, Norm, at the present writ- ing, will be back in December when the call for candidates is made. Since l935 when Alonzo A. Stagg Jr., guided the destinies of the former Armour Tech and pre- aem lllinois 'l‘ech, track teams have rested in Norm‘s hands. He has been a guiding force behind the production of the outstanding Norm Root midwestcrn indoor relay carnival namely, the spectacular lllinois Tech relays. Outstanding team of Norm’s coaching career at Armour was the undefeated squad of 1938, which also garnered fourth in our own Tech relays. Last season’ team was success- ful in beating only six opponents of their thirteen meet dual season. However, with a nucleus of five major lettermen and {our minor letter winners returning the tea-m faces a much brighter future. The returning lettermen include Co- captains Dick Barry, junior hurd- ler, and Wayne McCullough, sen- ior Co-op distance star. Also re.- turning are former Capt. Harry Heidenreich, versatile fieldman, and sophomore Bob Osborne. ini’romurolo ”in he lion idy Milli libero ”ibis Wear So you think you're not good enough to go out for a team, do you? So you haven’t gotenough time to practice? So you can’t . . . Well, if you are troubled with any of these ‘so‘s’ just bend an ear to this following tale. , Years ago the authorities of HT recognized the need for Competi- tion outside of the regular athletic teams for the members of the school. Thus, the intramural. pro gram came into being'as one at the most useful and popular pro?— g‘rams at AIT and then at IIT. Each year the ITSA board choohes a member of the senior class with outstanding ability in the line of sport management. to run this pro- gram. This year Milt Pleva, a member of the senior clvila, has been chosen to be the manager. No Fall Tennis Milt announces that; the pro- gram for this year will follow loot year’s program very clonely with only one major change. This change will be the elimination of? fall tennis. In the pact no medals have been awarded for this event and this combined with the poor weather had cut down the number participating. So, the event is hereby dropped from, the program. For the benefit of those who are new here (and from all reports they are the majority this year) there are many more events to the intramural program than the tennis. As you probably already know the hardball tourney in un- der way. immediately after this will follow golf and touchball, with howling ping-pong, and in- door track following in rapid suc- cession. The year is rounded out with boxing, wrestling basketball, softball, tennis and. again golf. This is not the outlet order of competition but follows along pret- ty closely. (llmngo in Schedule ‘Mllt Pleva wishes to announce several changes in the actual run~ ning procedure from that of the the past years. One major change is that dealing with deadlines. This year the period between an- nouncement of an event and the deadline will be extended so as to last for about ten days or two weeks. However, after the dead~ line is once announced no oth« or teams will be accepted for any but an ironclad reason. An- other major change will be in the umpires used for softball and touchball. These men will be offi~ trial refs and they will be the only ones eligible to run the games. Also, Milt plans to have a stop- watch handy for use with football so the the games can be made more precise than they have been for several years. Scheduled as the first sport is hardball, better known as league baseball. The teams are made up of nine men from each class and games will be played on the sin- gle elimination basis. Last year the sophomores won the title but are handicapped by the loss of Dambros, Silla, and Byrne, all letter winners of the baseball team. This year it looks like the seniors will put out a good team with Jencius, New— liaus, Gertie, and Simonsen play ing for them. Tuesday the juniors play the seniors at 5 pm. and Wednesday the fresh oppose the sophs. The winners will play it oil for the ti~ tie on Thursday.