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

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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 pres- ident 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. The team really had one of its best seasons, winning twelve out of a total of seventeen games. The team registered a total of 709 points as against their opponents 560. This was an average of +1 points a game as agai nst their opponents 33.

r165) Baseball

P. M. C's. nine this yea r has had one of its most successful seasons. This is due to a combination of good all a round playe rs and ou r own super moundsmen. T his g roup included Russel McGuiney, Bud A ndrew, and ou r big captain , Eddie Kawai, w ho besid es being a hurler, can also playa good game in the field .

H aving lost only a couple of varsity men by grad u­ ation last year, our va rsity was well seasoned. H owever our losses were well made up by the addition of such capable men as Russell, C la rk, M alinski , and M cGuiney to our line up. With " Big Jim" D avis at the home plate, we have a catcher w ho seldom lets anyo ne beat him down to second on the peg. The three sacks are held down by Russell, at first, Bash, at second , and Thwaites at the hot co rner. O ver at short we have big Reds Pollock w ho has shown good form all season. Out in the field yo u can find " Midget" Bill Britten, w ho seldom lets ED DI E KAWAL Captain the hi gh flies go by him in left, with Lower, Malinski , and Kawai filling the other two positions.

All in all, with the large number of candidates that reported out for the team this year, making it hard for the regulars to keep thei r positions, Coach Timm has been mighty successful in forming a well organized, well playi ng, club that brings home the bacon. Among the other candidates for the team we found some good substitutes in Zimmerman, Burke, Amey, Krieder, unez, and E nd ress. Even if these men did not get into every game this yea r, they are going to be seasoned pl aye rs in future yea rs. Judd is sure to have a good club for quite so me time now, even if he does not get any additional material next year. The team t his yea r is by far the bes t team that has eve r been turned out in the line of baseball at P. M. C. They dese rve plenty of credit for their good showin g, and we know' that they could stand up against any team in this section. The schedule this yea r ran as follows : Philadelphia Coll ege of Osteopathy, rsi nus, Susquehannah, Penn Athletic C lub, Moravian, Dickinso n, H averford, W est C hester State Teachers College, D elaware, and Western HERMA N PRI SCH MAN Maryland. Manager

r 166J The Rifle T earn After a loss of a number of men from last year's team, it appeared as if there would be very little chance for any so rt of a riA e team this year. When the call for men was put up, however, the cadets responded heroically, and out of many willing contes tants an able sq uad of really good shots w as developed. Phil R egar, one of the c rack shots of the team, was elected captain, and led the team through a season more of good sportsmanship than victory. When the Corps Area match was over, we fou nd that R abin­ ovitch had fina ll y succeeded in winning first place after having won second for the two prev ious years. I uii ez showed so me ni ce shooting by taking second honors. T he other main event of the season was the Hurst Trop hy M atch in 'which R abinovitch, Martin, Huber, Cook, M ochamer, Bec htel, F aust, Nletzger, and Wagner participated. All fired well, and some fai rly good scores ,,-ere marked up_ From these men it was that the best scores w ere turned in throughout the season, with the exception of • uiiez and R egar. These two were not el igible due to the fact that they were not members of the R. O. T. C. We fee l that their assistance was missed in the Hurst M atch. Much cred it for the improvement of the score is due Lt. Armstrong for his untiring effo rts in coaching the men_ The team extends thei r thanks and appreciation for his services. Although we did not turn 111 a wonderful record for the season, every man has disp layed that he is a true sportsman in PHIL R EGAR every se nse of the word.

[ 167] The Tennis Team After a lapse of two years, a schedule for a tenn is team was arranged and greeted with much joy by all those who w ere followers of the net sport. The enti re handling of the tea m was tu rned ove r to the cadets, and M o rt R abinovitch had charge of mak­ in g a rrangements and the coaching of the players. A good team was turned out and the playing of the smaller col­ leges in this sec ti on enj oyed by all.

A lthollgh the racquet w ield ers did not t urn in a brilliant performance, t heir work w as satisfactory. Gree n material was built up, and most likely in fu t ure yea rs these men w ill turn out an excep­ tionall y Aashy team.

T he team was handicapped at t he be­ ginning of the season due to t he rainy weather and the condition of t he courts. After the co u rts were fi nall y got into shape, the fellows tu rned out in fi ne fas hion, and it was actually a fig ht to stay on the team. "MORT " RABI NOVITCH CARL BAuER

[ 168J Freshman Sports

[ 169J Freshman Football

Captain ed by Raymond Eggles ton, the fres hman team had one of the mos t suc­ cessful seasons that any fres hman team can boast of for a number of yea rs. W alt L ayer took his materi al in hand and succeeded in turning out a strong line backed up by one of the ha rd es t d ri ving backfields seen on any f reshman football team in t he past five yea rs. L eona rd Frescoln and Bob choles ca rried most of the burden through­ out the season, and they w ere helped along by C lark and Smith, two other dashing backs. In many instances, when the team needed perfect co-operati on, the line proved to be out­ standing and depend ab le. The only time t he team showed any real weakness was against the fa r superior team of the Hun School at Princeton. This game was pl ayed in the rain , a nd the condition of the fi eld seemed to help the P rincetonites and handicap us. This year was the firs t time that any Fres hman team played an inter-academic football team. With a few days of prac­ tice, the eleven clashed w ith Germantown Academy and easil y showed t hei r superio ri ty. W est N otingham Academy and C hurch F a rm School met Layer's powerful eleven, and each in turn was turned back with little or no trouble w hat so ever. In all, the team had a very successful season. The boys really outplayed themse lves in more than one game, and they all dese rve a ll the c red it in t he worl d. lVl ost of the team they played w ere much more experi enced and heavy teams, but not once did ou r boys seem convinced that they were get­ EGGLESTON ting the worst of it. They played real foo tball and in almost Captai1l every case, " 'inning football.

1170 ) Freshman Basketball

An extremely la rge number of men answered Coach Walt Layer's call for duty on the Freshman basketball squad. The sq uad , however, was soon whittled down to just eleven men. IIost of these were new men, and it took a lot of work on the part of the coach to whip a good fi rst and second team into shape. The task was accomplished with unusual success, for the teams went through a remarkable season. Captain C hervanik, star forward, proved himself a fit leader for such a team by his masterful playing. Scarlett, the other forward, made a name for himself both offensively and defensive ly. Russell, at ce nter, played a w hale of a game. It was his ability to get the " tap" that enabled the team to click in 'c h amp i o n ~ hip fashi on. C lark and Ford, two guards, showed the'ir mettle in their aggressive offensive, and in their excellent defense work. Stiles and Pivirotto, reserve forwards, and Fay, H orwitz, Robertson, and Scarlett, reserve guards, gave the first team strong backing whenever it was needed. h corrparison with the former freshman teams, this formidable five turned in more victories than any other team in recent years. A few "hard luck games", lost by but one or two points, prevented a much better season record. A fast passing attack, introduced by Coach Laye r, and level headed defensive work by the team as a whole, gave us a string of victories . Russell's work enGer t he basket and the long shots by Chervani k and ~ca rlett were the features of the season's play. There was no real outstanding performer, though, for the nearly perfect team-work gave no opportuni ty for individual starring. Equal credit should go to the enti re club for the CHERVA IK success encountered. Captai1l

[171] Freshman Baseball

With usual high spi rits and enthusiasm, a la rge sized bunch of sc rubs and old men has turned out for Freshman Baseball. After several weeks of strenuous exercise, almost all of them are still out, w ith practically undampened a rd or. A purist, perhaps, as yet, might experi ence some small difficulty in swearing the reason for the extraordi­ nary activity of these sixteen gentlemen in grey, but an ex pert can easily detect the fact that they a re the components of an excellent club. T he practice might be confused w ith that for water-polo, but to us, this seems a point of minor co nsideration, as all things in emb ryo look like something else. Beyo nd G andy, w ho has the appearance of making a superb defensive forward, and Fay, who w ill be a strong man in the back fi eld ( in any fie ld; ask Fay) we are unabl e to predict any specific positions, but the authorities tell us that they a re shaping up nice ly. Stiles, Schoettle, F ord , Robertso n, C hervanik, Scarlett, Eggleston, Altemus, Pivirotto, F ay, and Broomall make up the first team, w ith the able assistance of F a rrell, Tumbleston, Berman, and Gand y. Their first game, at this w riting, has not bee n played, but it w ill undoubtedly be an overwhelming victory, or a win by a na rrow ma rgin for one sid e or the other. I t may even be a ti e, if tie games could be played, a.lthough the evid ence pointing towards this contingency is not plentiful. I t is freely ad mi tted that the game w ith Tome Schoo l is going to be a rip snorter. The second , third, and fo urth games are shrouded in mystery, as fa r as we a re con­ ce rned, as the cadet manager, H orowitz, has bee n carefully guarded. O ur astute fans w ill have to watch the sport columns STILES of the loca l papers for further news.

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