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The Gold Bug, Feb. 25, 1949 Kern Still Unbeaten Frat Crown Falls Green Cagers Down Mount, As Squad Prepares To Gamma Bets; CU Bow To Baltimore U for Bucknell Contest Preachers Trail Fergusonmen Toppl e Sho'men 70-56; Stephenson ' The Western Maryland varsity Gamma Beta Chi clinched the in- wrestling team began a series of terfraternity crown by ~eating Pi And L.throum L....d Team For Season's Scoring three matches in two weeks, meeting Alpha Alpha in a close game 38- Running their victory string to three in a row, western Maryland de- in that period of time Catholic Uni- 28. They have not as yet clinched the feated Catholic University 58-49 on the Gill Gym hardwood on February 11. versity in Washington, Baltimore U. intramural pen nan t, since the in that city, and Loyola College on Preachers and Gamma Bets still have Playing an effective man-to-man defense, the Green quintet restricted Gene Seklara, the Cardinals potent hoop artist, to a meager five point total. Mean- the local mat. to play. while Frank Stephenson rolled up seventeen counters for the night's honors. The Terrors started off on the The Freshmen turned in an upset wrong foot by dropping a 20-16 ver- victory by stopping the Red and Blue When Stephenson didn't penetrate the CU defense, Hart chipped in with some dict to Catholic U. on February 10. last week. However failure of some of very effective set shots, totaling thirteen points. Although the Washington The following Tuesday the Green the Gamma Bet regulars to show up team was always in the game, they could never quite catch the Terrors. and Gold traveled to Baltimore to for the game may have helped the engage the BU matmen: The Bees Freshmen cause. Last Wednesday engage the BU matmen. Before the Black and Whites unleashed Leo Lathrowm the final contest began, the score was some scoring might to down the l,VMC 13, BU 16. Captain Bill Kern, Freshmen in a close game. The addi- __________ • furnishing one of the. biggest thrills tion of several new player-s have prov- of the season, managed to pin his ed valuable to Pi Alpha Alpha. The Lineup opponent with less than two minutes Delta Pi Alpha has continued its their remaining to give the grapplers second win of the campaign by a two winning ways downing the Bachelors the Independents 55- and swamping by Homer C. Earll point edge. 18, the Kernsmen 18. The best the Preachers can hope On February Sports Editor played host to Loyola in Gill Gym. for is a tie with the Gamma Bets for Purple Gold have and the pennant. It was announced recently that The Greyhounds, displaying an alert, lost two while the Red and Blue have Charles "Rip" Engle, an assistant aggresive, and skillful squad beat the lost one. The Preachers and Gamma coach of football and head basketball Terrors decisively. The heavyweights Bets still have to play each other and coach at WMC in 1941-42 and cur- were able to salvage six points while if the Purple and Gold go unscathed rently the head football coach at Loyola garnered twenty-four. a tie will result in a one game play- Brown, will be one of the coaches of John Silber, operating in the 175- off. the 1949 All-North team. While on pound class, gave the Green and Gold Several men have been outstanding the Hill, Engle successfully coached its first three points by decisioning in the scoring ranks. Lefty Elliot of Hart (2) shoots as Stephenson (3), Jacobson (7), Lath1'ollffi (9), and the Green and Gold freshman grid- his adversary, and Bill Kern follow- the Gamma Bets has been turning in del's to an undefeated season. This, by ed this with another win. The match steady ball-playing as he seems to be a group of Washington players look on. the way, was Engle's first attempt as between Kern and Loyola's Mueller the big gun and scoring threat of A costly loss by a 59-55 score to Baltimore U. on February 16 made the a football coach. Under his tutelage, proved to be the high point of an that team. John Babb has also been Westminster team's drive for a playoff position a little more difficult. A the basketball team compiled a four- otherwise disheartening affair. Both turning in creditable performances Terror rally in the second half cut the Bees 30-19 halftime lead to a close teen won, eleven lost record, losing to were previously undefeated and each for the Red and Blue. but insufficient four points. Buttermore was influential in the Green defeat as Loyola 42-33 for the M-D champion- one obviously anticipated the meet- Kenny Shook has been a mainstay he paced the home team with 27 counters. The losers scoring was evenly ship. One of the early season losses ing. The contest was an exciting one, on the Fresman team. John Stern- divided with Leo Lathroum leading the way with fifteen. was to Washington and Jefferson by a and Kern's football tactics and re- 31-2\J count. W & J had previously verses brought cheers from the berg and Bill Munroe have proven • Washington Trampled found the home court more to their liking as they rolled The Fergusonmen beaten West Virginia, the latter go- partisan crowd. By constantly out- themselves able players for Al Paul's over Washington College by a 70-56 count on Friday night. The Hill hoop- ing on to win the National Invitation manuevering his opponent, Kern Preacher. aggregation. Milt Herbert crown in Madison Square Garden. gained a four to one decieon to re- has been an important factor in the sters, led by Lathroum, rushed off to a 37-26 intermission edge. The opponents main undefeated in this season's in- high-scoring Nick Scallion was held to a scant six points during the first • McQuillen With Birds tercollegiate competition. successes of the Bachelors. half, but he managed to work free throughout the remainder of 'the contest Pro baseballer Glenn McQuillen is and ended with a 23 point total. back in print again. After winning Leo Lathroum again led the .scorers with 23 points. Fast breaking by the batting diadem of the American Girl Hoopsters Smother Marylancl Jacobson and the passing combination of Press to Stephenson to Lathroum Association this year with a .324 were vital factors in shattering the visitors hopes of rallying. A third .quarter Orioles. Women; Juniors Overturn Seniors figure, he was traded by the Toledo burst of power put the game out of reach for the Sho'men as the Terrors Mudhens to the Baltimore coasted through the fourth stanza to victory. McQuillen played with the St. Louis • Mounts Soundly Trmimed Browns for several years in the early by Ruth Allan Tuesday night saw a furious cage fracas on the Gill Gym floor which 40's but when his BA slipped, he was Western Maryland's lady cagers down third place with one win and found the Terrors emerging triumphant over Mt. St. Mary's. Two and a peddled to their Toledo farm. His . one loss, while the Iotas are in last half minutes of play saw the Green leading 8-0 and they were never headed average last season indicates that he pulled into the win column last place with two losses. _ thereafter as they inflicted a 64-62>upset defeat on the Mount. Moving on may be headed back for the majors. Wednesday night, when they over- steadily, the Hillmen built their lead Glenn is probably wishing that he whelmed a visiting Mar~and College The Phi Alphs met the Iotas last to a 33-19 halftime score. Monday, with the Phi Alphs emerg- could do as well now as he did while for Women sextette by a score of ing as victors by a 36-18 score. The ~ Mittmen DeFeated Twicc; The second half saw the home at WMC. To express it by those who 37-15. Jumping into an early lead, the squad hit a marginal peak of seven- were here at .the time, the following Hill team had a nineteen point margin Seek Wins In Tourney is a quote from the 1938 "Aloha": at halftime. In the second half the ~~::~ghtW~eefea~a~::da:~e~;he:e~~:~ teen points before the visitors began "Undoubtedly McQuillen was the new limited dribble was used and, lost to the Sigmas. Slated For Penn State to roll. The Mountaineers, in the final standout of the aquad. His record for while this is not employed at Western minutes of the tilt, chopped those sev- the year previous speaks for Itself-.- Maryland, the Green team used it to A game, but inexperienced Western enteen counters down to a flimsy but a batting average of .586 and a field- advantage to increase their final lead Nimrods Trip Jays; Maryland boxing team went to the adequate two point margin. post twice last week and was turned ing average of 1.000." to twenty-two points. 12 Engage Georgetown back on both occasions by West Point Margaret Ruppenthal tallied • Mount Overturned points for Western Maryland to lead and Pautuxerrt Navy. Hopkins kept WMC out of the play- After traveling to Frederick to- Taking only one bout and drawing offs last year but this season the the scorers. game which was night to shoot against the Frederick in but one other, the Terrors were In a preliminary Fergusonmen decided not to give the even more one-sided, the junior var- Rifle Club, the Green Terrors will no match for the better conditioned Jays an opportunity to repeat by sity handed the team from "Lutherville play host to Georgetown University Cadets of West Point. trimming the Mount Tuesday night. tomorrow . afternoon on the home Once again fancy-punching John It was a pleasure to see the favorites a 53-9 defeat. schedule was com- range. Seiland preserved his unblemished The intramural get soundly trounced by the Fergu- pleted on Tuesday. In games played Prospects for a win over Frederick mark in stepping to his third and sonmen. Furthermore, there won't be are high since they won the last fourth straight victories against his any amount of pressure on the team last week, the freshmen defeated the match by the slim edge of two points. Army and Navy, adversaries. tomorrow night. This ought to per- juniors 28-26, while the sophomores Tomorrow's match with George- Joe Corleto, hampered greatly by mit them to function smoothly and to handed the freshmen a 45-15 loss. In town is one of the series of matches - a tender right eye, had Cadet heavy- the greatest possible detriment of the the remaining game, the undefeated being fired in the newly formed Mid- weight and varsity end Kellum "hang- Homewood clan. seniors met the juniors. This resulted dIe. Atlantic Intercollegiate Rifle ing on" in the first round but a Tip the topper: It would be impos- in a surprising upset, with the League, including such top powers stray left opened the cut, and the sible to let the basketball season go juniors, who were in the cellar with as Maryland, Navy, Virginia Poly, bout was declared a draw. This dam- past without bowing to this Terror. two losses, pulling a 42-38 victory out and V. M. J. aged eye prevented him from boxing Four years varsity, one of the lead- of the bag. At the midway mark the The Terrors won their meet with in the Pautuxent match. ing scorers this year, a perpetual juniors had a point lead, which they Johns Hopkins on February 12 by The team was extremely perturbed thorn to opponents, an excellent floor lost during the second half. In the a disputed margin of two points. The over the outcome of the bouts at the man and a deadly