Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-23
TWO MORE VICTORIES
WILL GIVE PENN TITLE
Quakers May Clinch Bas-
ketbaH Championship by
Wins Here This Week.
PLAY COLUMBIA NEXT
BY EDWIN J. POLLOCK

THE intercollegiate basketball cham
ponship and permanent possession
of the Hoppe trophy may come to the
nimble sons Of Ben Franklin this week.
Two steps in the right direction this
week will assure Penn of the title and
cup.
The Red and Blue stamped on Cor
nell for it's fourteenth consecutive vic
tory. % l3. Saturday night. That was
the fifth league win. Two more
triumphs and the last mathematical
chance Of the Quakers losing will have
been eliminated. althouoh tie is pos
| sibe. but very improbable.
Two league games at Weightman
Hall are embraced on the slate for this
week, one against Columbia on Wed
ncSday. and the other against Dart
mouth Saturday. These two teams oc-
cupy fifth and sixth places in the league,
so that Penn shouldn't have much trou E
bic snaring wins.
Princeton Helps
The Tigers aided the Quaker cause
by handing Yale 25l0 defeat at
| Princeton. Yale held on to second
place because Penn beat Cornell. The
Blue has lost three league games, SO
that the Red and Blue can lose every
engagement after this week-and this
is not at all probable-and still the
best Yale can do is to tie.
Dartmouth showed a revival of fight
by beating Columbia, 27-22, at Han
over Saturday for its first league vic
tory. George Zahn has been able tc
drill some basketball into his mex
perienced men and the Green mag cause
trouble for Lon Jourdets boys mex
Dan McNichol got back into scoring
form against Cornell and Gagged thre'
field goals. Bill Grave also contributed
three. Roscnast, donated two to thu
Ouakers' total and Sweeney one
Sweeney Gagged five Of his eight fou
tries.
Penn Runners Star
Besides the basketball team. the Penn
runners also had a good night Satur
day, although both the boxing ant
wrestling teams were beaten. The pu
nils of Lawson Robertson snatched fou
rsts and q second in the national junio
games in Buffalo and the New York A
lC. games in the big town
Everett Smalley and Harold Leve
were among the record breakers a
Buffalo. Smalley set new American
figures in the seventy yard hurdles
jumping the sticks in nine and one fiftl
seconds. Lever made a new champion
ship time in the sixty yard sprintp dash
ing the distance in six and three fiftl
, seconds. Larry Browns best in tn
1000 yard run was second, Bob Craw
ford. Of Lafayette, getting the frs
j honors.
In New York, Bob Maxam sprinto
, TO a victory in the 500 yard special
beating Stevenson, Of Princeton, an
Jimmy O'Brien. of Loughlin Lyceum
His time was sixty and two -fifths sec
, onds. The Robertson one mile team
composed Of Davis, Eby, Smith an
Gustafson, captured the intercollegiate
! race in 30.
3 Boxers Lose
) The showing Of the boxing teams $
: far has been somewhat Of disappOint
ment. The Red and Blue ring artist
$ lost to Penn State more than wee
ago, and Saturday they were handed
& trimming by four bouts to two at An
: napolis.
Tommy O'Malley, Of course, cam
through with victory in the lightweigt
class and Sloman produced results in tn
1875 pound division. Captain Heir
. Bourne, however, was stopped Dy MIS-
3 sion, the navy heavy. Heine is not
. from "hu" all last week, and il was {
" FIRST thought that he would not be abb
!, to make the trip to the middle home
ii Penn took only two out of seven dc
= cisions In the mat meet against Yal
e Captain Gerson and Hovies were III
only Quaker victors. e..