Marquette Tribune, November 24, 1938, Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 8

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Marquette Tribune, November 24, 1938, Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 8

Students of Marquette University

1938-11-24

Nimrods Nook Are You A Poor Shot? Suggestions Offered For Improvement By HARRY MEYER Frigid blasts, whirling snow-flakes, numb fingers and frosted feet! All these inconveniences are commonly associated with late November hunting. To the arm-chair sportsman, shooting afield is already * a thing of the past. These garrulous drones are content to measure a “long shot” in terms of liquid, rather than in actual powers afield. Who has ever seen a cold arm-chair hunter? The reason you haven't is simple; they are constantly basking in the warmth of self-reflected glory. Fortunately, sportsmen of such ilk are a rarity at Marquette. The great majority of hunters consider November an ideal month for rabbit hunting. Dual reasons present themselves to back up this statement: First, shrubs have been defoliated and undergrowth withered by killing frosts, thus allowing eager nimrods to sight their quarry more easily and secondly, the moderate snowfall common to this period affords excellent tracking without hindering the hunter unduly. Rules for Improvement During the current season, the writer has heard many discouraged hunters remark that they had given up hope of ever becoming a good shot. This is sheer nonsense. Unless one is affected with some physical disability, such as extremely poor eyesight, he can greatly improve his accuracy by consistent and intelligent practice. Good shots are made, not born. Emphasis should be placed upon the intelligent part of this formula. Merely plugging away at a stationary target is a slow, and seldom successful method of acquiring accuracy. The secret of successful field shooting revolves about mastering some of these points. First, correctly judging distance is important. Second, the speed of the object (if in motion) must be considered. Third, is holding the gun so the object will meet the shot or bullet at the same time as the bullet reaches it. The big mistake most hunters make is in shooting behind the object. Fourth, allowing for wind-drift of shot, is usually neglected. Fifth, closely observing the faults of every shot and rectifying the errors is a great aid to improvement. Trigger Pressure Important Strange as it may seem, much valuable practice in improving one's marksmanship may be had without discharging either a rifle or shotgun. Drill in sighting, trigger squeeze and rapid adjustment of the weapon to firing position, are essential to accurate shooting, and all these activities can be carried out in the home. The most important of all is trigger squeeze. For although one may aim accurately, if, in squeezing the trigger, that aim is spoiled by a wavering gun barrel, the act of aiming was futile. Now if it should happen, as it frequently does, that the gun moves while aiming, hold the trigger pressure steady until the sights are lined up once more. The whole subject of correct trigger pull is summed up concisely by the United State Army Basic Field Manual. The writer quotes therefrom the following: “There is only one correct method of squeezing the trigger; a steady increase of pressure so that the firer does not know when the discharge will take place.” 'Mural Sports Swing Into Action - Cagers, Bowlers Snatch Spot- light From Touch Football Intramural activities on the Hilltop gained momentum for the winter season as bowling and basketball snatched the spotlight from touch- football, after the completion of first round competition last week. Director Edward Rozymarynoski has drawn up a complete schedule for the bowling matches which started Thursday, Nov. 17. The bowling tournament will be conducted at the Gesu school alleys with the Rev. Max G. Mankowski in charge. Entries show an increase over last year with 12 teams in the Fraternity league alone, and many more in the departmental and independent branches. Each team roster is comprised of five men and one match consists of three games. Thirty-four teams have been received in the basketball league that started action Monday, Nov. 14. Of this number, 21 teams have entered the Fraternity league, seven in the departmental, and six in the independent division. Because of the large number of entrants in the Fraternity league. Rozmarynoski has divided it into a “A” and a “B" bracket. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, the gymnasium will be taken over by the fraternity teams, while Thursday and Friday nights have been reserved for the departmental and independent games. First round results of the fraternity A league follow: Sigma Phi Delta, 22; Phi Chi Psi, 25. Phi. Chi, 23; Psi Omega, 4. Alpha Chi, 25; Delta Theta Phi, 18; Delta Sigma Delta, 48; Conrad Club, 19. Begin Indoor Track Practice Jennings Invites Ail Aspirants To Report After Christmas Holidays Abijah (Continued from Page 5) Hilltops Finish Hill, Dale Run Facing the cream of the nation's cross country talent, Len Pruski, George Papuga and Ely Francis, Marquette's representatives in the National Intercollegiate cross country meet, crossed the finish line well back of the leaders. The national meet was run over a four mile course at Lansing, Mich., Monday with Michigan State acting as hosts. With no actual competition under their belts. Coach Melvin Shimek's athletes performed as well as could be expected. Marquette was the only entry without previous dual competition. Greg Rice, Notre Dame distance star, annexed individual honors with Feiler, of Drake, Wittaker of Ohio State, Trutt of Indiana, and Smith of Penn State following in that order. The University of Indiana was crowned team champion. Pruski, Papuga and Francis kept pace with the leaders for the first two miles, but the field began to pull away at this point, although Francis, sophomore harrier, was within striking distance at the 334 mile mark. mates failed to open a hole, he made his own with success. Kischer Led Cyclones The star-studded beef trust of Texas Christian unloaded its cargo of dynamite at the stadium the following Saturday. The 209-pound line of the Horned Frogs swept everything in its path. It was useless to try to stop it; impossible to penetrate. Two all-Americans of last year bolstered it; Ki Aldrich, 195 pound center, and Captain I. B. Hale, the 248 pound left tackle who proved himself to be a human Gibraltar on offense and defense. Between them, they caused grief galore for the enemy offense. The majority of thrusts came up to the line of scrimmage but no further. Aldrich and Hale boosted their all-American stock considerably during the Hilltop rout. The surprise package of the day, and by far the outstanding player ever to set foot on Marquette soil, was little Davey O'Brien, 150 pound field general of the Frogs. He passed, punted and ran until the opponents and spectators were virtually blue in the face watching him. His passing, however, lifted him far above the rest of the team. He sizzled the pigskin into the line, shot it over the line and propelled it into the end zones with the deadliness of a sharpshooter. His accurate barrage netted him 13 out of 18 completions. As far as the fans were concerned, “Sling- in' ” Sammy Baugh and Buzz Buivid never existed. O'Brien became and remains the talk of the grid world. Everett Kischer of the Iowa State Cyclones blew into town the following weekend and displayed another formidable flipper and a strong ground attack. The Iowan halfback added more thorns into the then maltreated Avalanche. He ran, punted and passed to great advantage. One of his passes set up a Cyclone tally. His speed and aggressive drive slowed down the Avalanche attack considerably. Beware of '39 Last Saturday, another former all- American, rampaged around the Hilltop stadium. Johnny Pingel, left half of the Michigan State Spartans, put the damper on the Hilltop Homecoming game. Pingel is wont to relinquish his place on the legendary squad he held last year and his bang- up game Saturday discredited all rumors of failing to repeat again this year. It was Pingel from kick-off to the final gun. His all-American credentials in the Marquette s varsity track aspirants have been seen with unaccustomed regularity around the gymnasium i lately beginning to loosen up stiff i muscles in preparation for the com- I ing track campaign. Informal practice usually beckons the boys about Dec. 1, but this year such varsity hopefuls as Maynard Black, Johnny Kinert, Len Pruska and Johnny Hohler are jumping the gun in their effort to work themselves into condition. Coach Con Jennings will invite both varsity and freshman track aspirants to formal practice after the Christmas holidays. The track squad was spared by the graduation demon, the only lettermen lost through this manner being the veterans Bill Mc- Cahill, who ran the 440 and was also an important cog in the one-mile relay team, and John Drew, hurdler. The Hilltoppers plan a successful season as far as dual competition is concerned. Whether Marquette accomplishes anything in the way of national meets will be determined by the return to championship form of Ed Burke and the continued improvement of Bob Shurilla and Herman Carr. Sophomores who may cut the buck in varsity competition include Walter Shelton in the sprints, George Foster in the hurdles, Ben Owens and Don Vosberg in the weights, ad Ely Francis in the distances. Francis is entered in the National Collegiate cross-country meet, along with Prus- ki, George Papuga and Bob Monahan of the varsity. The indoor and outdoor track schedules will not be announced until Coach Jennings returns from the Big Ten track meeting in December. tees and fraternatees an also sum whut they call independence wich nobody even thought war there, ex- cep wun side, wich wun the eleck- shun. uv course i needent tell you- all thet i war on the winnin side, maw, so you wunt hev to vinndikat the famly onner. i waz doin all the heavy perswadin, maw. all the guys whut they couldent talk into hit, i drug into hit, gently enuf so they could still mark X but firmly too. sum of them objecked to being drug, about 25 at some fraternity house an they are here in the hospittal too. an lissen, maw, kin you keep sum- thin under yer coonskin? I am gon na be prom king next yea> sides hev promised me Th be prom king if i would v' eleckshuneering. But the other feud ma mus say i am in doubt - outcome uv. it war with who is rite nice but kind! views, like, we hav hed ei an i am feudin with sewal sers. ef you git sumthi™ male better not read it m ly advertising ” yer luvin son, Only one member of the university football squad fully riddle you: “Brothers ters, I have none, etc.!'' r 39 Hilltop squadsmen boast of 67 brothers and 39 siste all. Herber Anderson, senior claims four brothers and^ sisters; Marty Dirnbauer wingman, has five brothers sisters, and Paul Fojtik, n- back, points to six brothers sister. Marquette game are self-explanatory. He completed 14 out of 26 passes for a total of 203 of the Staters' 219 yards gained on passes. Three of his flips were for touchdowns; he averaged 78 yards on 25 attempts which was only 25 yards less than complied by the entire Spartan backfield put together; and he passed and ran for 283 yards of Michigan State's total of 329 yards. Saturday's performance and equally commendable feats in the past make his all-American rating an almost certainty. Despite the number of victories compared to loses, Marquette has given the fans an array of stars equal to any in the country. The fans saw a dogged and fighting Avalanche go down in defeat in all of its home games; the team's spunk and grit made the fans forget defeat, and warned them to keep an eye on the Golden Avalanche in '39. Varsity Gridders Recall Close Calls of Boyh Thirty members of the Marquette university football squad have looked death right in the face, and are here to tell about it! A bit gruesome, perhaps, but true. Coach Paddy Driscoll, it seems, can consider himself fortunate to be able to put a full team on the field this fall. Only 10 of the current Marquette gridmen can recall no close calls, no moments when it looked like curtains, no skating on ice that was perilously thin. All the rest, with proper shudders and gestures, can point to narrow escapes. Brother is Hero Nine of them, for instance, have turned over in automobiles. The ads are right, too; five of those accidents were caused by blowouts. Quarterbacks Johnny Maltsch and Harry Leysenaar were together in a car that skidded 70 feet on ice, hit a barn and flopped over into a rock garden. Some fun! Several have been hit by cars-one while changing a tire, another while crossing a narrow bridge, a third while on a sidewalk when a steering wheel went haywire. At least four have been in automobiles that were ditched, and another was a passenger in one that went into a tailspin on a mountain drive but stopped at rim's edge! Street Car Trained Guard A veteran end was 13 years old when he stumbled in front of a train and remained, seemingly paralyzed by fear, on the tracks. A brother rescued him in the proverbial nick of time. A sophomore center just this summer was swept from a pier Fortunately, a rope was handy. A husky guard leaped just in time to escape more serious consequences when his horse ran away. As it was, he says, it was bad enough. Prof. Rice Returns to Hilltop; Impressed by Many Changes Len Kramp, novice tackk only 12 when he was coast inf a hill on his bicycle which aj struck a bad rut. Young L, was tossed over the handle!* into a nearby stream, and * conscious beneath the wifc farmer pulled him out. Three\ narrowly escaped drowning, i them a fullback who was aj man who gave violent battle The most embarrassing and same time the most thrilling i in the life of Bane Wagner, i more halfback, was when k truck was hit by a train. Ted a first-year guard, will never when a shoving crowd push off a street car and into the) a truck-which stopped! Ai guard was once trapped ini fire, and a tackle was buried cave-in. One of the senion kicked on the head by a horse laugh; he's almost an “A” sth Driscoll Warns of Futa A quarterback had a cla when his dresses caught on I was 2 years old, and still be* scars from that one. The sa was caught in midair when off a roof, hung onto the big a companion when swept id swirling waters of a swollen i and has been through tw smashups. The cat with ni has nothing on him. “You ain't seen nothing yet,' Driscoll told his boys when be all the harrowing details. til you bounce into that sched ours this fall!” “My impression of Marquette? Well,” mused Dr. Herbert D. Rice, instructor in history at Marquette university, “I believe I was most impressed by the tremendous changes in Johnston hall and in the University in general. The change of deans in the College of Liberal Arts also surprised me very much. “After a year's absence, returning to Marquette was like coming back to my favorite haunts, for I regard the University in that light largely, I suppose, because my teaching has been confined to this institution. “In my year's leave of absence I did research work on a 320 page thesis on the early history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad, and at the same time was a graduate assistant at the University of Iowa. I had to consult hundreds of books, corporation reports, newspapers, legislative journals, and thousands of manuscripts. “To the average person my topic would be cut and dried, but I am very much interested in corporation policies. Frequently I had to consult the records of men like Byron Kil- bourn, the Vliet brothers, Alexander Mitchell, and Edward D. Holton all of whom were prominent Milwaukeeans. Of course the history of the railroad is also a background history of the state. I discovered in my research that Milwaukee was at one time the leading wheat port of the entire nation, and Wisconsin, a great wheat producing state.” A thesis alone does not secure a doctorate of Philosophy. The candidate must submit to an oral examination on his thesis. Most of the questions are directed at the authenticity of the material and its sources. Dr. Rice confessed that he was never more nervous in his life than during the two hour examination. GEORGE WEBB & BOYS 731 W. Wisconsin A 1130 W. Wells St. Serving a Billionaire Breakfast Tomato Juice, 2 Buttered l Egg, Coffee (2nd Cup - -Open All the Tine-^1 MOSSEY-O COMPANY Complete line of ^ Standard S. S. White I ments and Materials. 615 N. 16th Street Opposite Dental Scbo*x MILWAUKEE THIS COUPON WORTH 10c PLAY BILLIARDS -at the- ABBOT CREST BILLIARD ROOM Billiards. Pocket Billiards. Ping Pong Acron from the Science Bldg. 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