Varsity Basketball

Varsity Polo Polo, gentle readers, according to the dictionary, origin ated in India, and may be played on roller skates. The variety of skate used at P. M. C., however, is the four legged one, usually associated with the front end of a milk w agon. On the other hand, the polo played at P. M. C. is of such a hi gh character that it is follovved in the diplomatic circles with great interest. nde r the superb guidance of that pa ramount eques trien and poloist, Lieu tenant Frederic deL. Comfort, D.O.L., U . S. A ., J oe Poor, Buddy Pickering, J ack Y oung, and Frank K aiser have chalked up an enviable reco rd. P. ~1. C .'s embryo ni c champions are Sca rlett, Eberbach, Carels, Hires, Pollock, Kitchen, and L azar. Captained by "Joe" P oo r, the varsity has thus far won over half of its games. 1 hey turned in victori es ove r 11 2th Field Artillery, First City T roop, Delco, N ew Jersey, Wilkes Ba rre, Baltimore, Alumni, and the Ram bl ers. In turn they were defeated by Princeton, W est Point, Y ale, and Delco . Such a record , in view of the heavy schedule, is exce ll ent. The best par.. of polo, however, is j ust about to commence, with the first out-door game bu t a short way off. H ow w e are going to play with our fie ld look in g suspiciously as though someo ne has bee n planting radishes, is quite beyond our conception, but such things "J OE" POO R a re on the laps of the G ods. Captain [160] The team this yea r was quite handicapped at the beginning of the season due to the fact that the entire varsity team of last year had left our midst by g raduation. The members that returned from last year's J . V. team were soon out practicing, and an inspiring team was developed. It see med that this year we had to put up w ith two gentlemen from the New E ngland States that still can't pronounce Bawston, Boston. Pickerings and P oor are two sweet polo playe rs and no one can talk that down. Then we had that fast and fu rious rider, J ack Y oung. If he ever stays on his horse for one w hole game he should be prese nted w ith the Cross of H onor. Jack just gets ri ght in there and roughs things up f rom start to fini sh. Ask one of hi s opponents how he can ride them off. Good old lazy, easy going, Kaiser seems to be abl e to stay awake only when there a re hor es around. It is a fact that we have to bring a horse in his room every morning so that he w ill get up and go to revellie. These four boys have had to alternate off and on throughout the season, so we cannot say that anyone of t hem " 'as the sub. When the out-door season starts, and all four will be ab le to take the field at t he sa me time, there is no telling just what will happen. If they don't take the meas ure of the big three in polo, Yale H a rva rd , and Princeton, it won 't be their fault. They have assured us of that already. W e can only say that this yea r's polo team has done t heir part to hold the P . M. C. co lors hi gh in the realm of sport, as \\·ell as \"inning mos t of their games and havin g an en,irely successful season. Credit is due all of them for t he 'way they have played and give n all that was ex pected and then goin g on to hi gher heights. " NORM" LYNN ,Hal/tiger r1611 Varsity Basketball IVlost write-ups conCe rni!lg spo rts seem to be w ri tten by fellow s with remarkably large vocabularies. This one, howeve r, shall consist mainly of one syllable words, hung together so that the average college se nior ca n translate it with little trouble. Most of the men, reponing for practice a few weeks before e h ri stmas, had bee n on th e team for seve ral yea rs and almost' all had been out the yea r before. With this mate rial, Judd Timm's perfect coaching had little trouble in t urning out a team that had M cQU ILKIN BRITTEN Jl1allager few e::j uals in the east. The Captain [162] aptain, Bill Britten, is the boy ori gin all y meant in the crack, " little, but, oh-my" . He i one hundred and thirty pounds of g reased li ghtning. ' ddie Kawai is most likely fa t because there is no hai r to cause wind resistance on the top of that hin head. Just why he drops a one- handed shot ,,-ithout even looking at the basket, no one knows. Jim ook, the thi rd se nior on the team, gave referee Baet sel's vO Ice a strain more than once. tan Kreid er, the \\" ell kno\\"n Dutchman, did no little good scaring t he opposing team by mak in g faces at them. ' Bing" \ Veaver, the local operatic sta r, sets the opposing team dumb before they start by u in g; the deaf and dumb language at the tip off. Jim Finch, \\"h o i about t\\"ice as big a \ Vill Britten, ca n COOK totall y cclip e his opponent K r\ \\' AL 1163) by holding up a large and hai ry hand. F rank ~!Jalin s k y, the ne\\--comer, makes hey-hey at the top of his voice w hile the sun shines, or any w ay while his opponent shoots_ H erb Amey is the mainstay of the team in the yea rs to come. Ivan Bas h, the Trenton Rash should surely cash in on his dash. Russ lVlcG uiney, the second fi rst-yea r man on the team, was ri ght up in there with the best of them_ R oss O sbo rne, a peach of a player, had the bum luck to pull one of hi va ri ous tendons or so mething, and was more or less incapacitated throughout the yea r. The team started the yea r \\-ith a ma rve lous winning streak, and upse t the old superstition that a P. M. C. team had to be scored on first to win. They won no matter what happened_ After mop FINC H ping up Moravian for the lead-off on ou r own Roor, they stayed at home the next week and licked South J ersey L aw School, 52 to 37_ H averford was the next victim to the t~ne of 4+ to 25. St_ J oe, supposed to be an opponent worthy of our mettle came out second best w ith the sco re 28 to 2 1. The fiv e succeeding games, all played at home, were victorie for the cadets_ rsinus could get only thirty- fiv e points to ou r fifty eight. State T eachers College were beaten in nice round numbers, +0 to 30_ The Philadelphia College of O steopathy w as downed ++ to 29. A nd 'loW, undoubtedly interested pur suer of our little reco rd , havin g gotten this far, yo u are probably in a very weak ened condition_ F or t hi reason w e will impose upon yo u to the extent of as king yo u to use yo u r imagination. Pictu re, if yo u can, a bas ketball game, in which t he spec tators, et ai, a re in strictly formal full dres . Such was the case on F eb rua ry tent h, after t he reception for Major G eneral Wil liam G. Price, Jr. P . M. C., in one of t he most thrilling games of history, defeated J ohn H opkins -ni ve rsity, 35 to 32, and neither brass buttons no r boil ed shirts could prevent the onlooker from jumping about with ghouli sh glee in some, and mortal anguish in others_ After this royal battle, the ni ve rsity of Baltimore, a really able W EAVER [ 164) - foe, seemed almost a push over, at 38 to 23. The winning streak was broken, however, and the seemingly invincible cadet team went down be fore Lehigh University at Bethlehem, 37 to +0. The U ni versity of Delaware took advantage of our weakened condition in an extra period game and licked us 38 to 40. In the MALINSKI AND KREIDER following game, our president was torn between loyalty to his boys and loyalty to his Alma Mater, Swarthmore College. Whether he shouted with joy or wept salty teams when they beat us 4+ to +0 is not on record. After hope was nearly lost, the fellows came around and crippled St. Joe for the second time, 42 to 29. After beating Yale for many yea rs in polo, we allowed them to run up a score of ++ to 33 against us in basketball. The next day, on the way home, Rutgers beat us by one field-goal, 27 to 25. P. M. C. was undefeated for the rest of the season. The boy at the scoreboard marked up a score of 61 to 33 against Western IVlaryland, and we celebrated the Inauguration of our new president on the fourth by a 52 to 38 score agai nst Susquehannah.

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