| Summary: | Thursday, April 4, 1940. THE CONCORDIAN Page Three Dragon Humbled, Intramural Cagers Complete Conquest Severtson Stars In 42-37 Win Over MSTC Five By LLOYD SVEEN Shades of St. George, the Dragon is conquered! By silk-suited basketball play-ers instead of a knight in shin-ing armor, the crimson Dragon of Moorhead State Teachers college has been humbled. Not content with two mortal wounds by the varsity Maroon and Gold for the city football and bas-ketball championships, the Dragon weakly wagged its tail a few weeks back when the MSTC intramural championship quint split two games with Concordia's champions, Group IV. • * • But Concordia's Knights lanced the monster yesterday In the playoff, 42 to 37, and the proud Dragon yielded on all fronts, football, varsity and intramural basketball city championships. And by the defeat Sigurd Sev-ertson added another plume to his helmet in Intramural play this year. For sputtering Sig met the Dragon's snarl with 18 points and blustering bravado. This business of rolling up high scores is a Severtson saga, for he was high point man in Con-cordia's intramural wars this year and Sir Sig took his place at the Table Round with a berth on The Concordlan's fill-Intra-mural team.• * • Sir Irvin Sholy popped five field field goals and a free throw for 11 mortal wounds. Knights Bill Ander-son, Vince Quitmeyer and Ray Car-riere parried sharp Dragon offensive thrusts with strong defense. Sir George himself would have smiled as he watched the Cobbers keep the Dragon at a distance all the way. They led 12-6 at the first quar-ter, 24-13 at halftime and 36-25 at the three-quarter mark. Not even LeGrand's 19 points saved the Crimson. There was too much Cobber power for the MSTC defense. The Dragon is dead. Bat Tennis Is New Intramural Sport; 17 In Boxing Events Competition in bat tennis, some-thing new in intramural play, is a branch of participation which is be-ing opened to any interested indi-viduals. This activity, which has a direct resemblance to lawn tennis, can be entered by signing for it on the posted bulletin in the men's dormi-tory. An entry fee of 10 cents will be charged, and "T" shirts are to be awarded to the champions. • * * The 17 signed up for boxing will have their bouts staged soon. Those entered under various weight di-visions are Harold Magedanz, Ken-neth Ristuben, Fred Dommer, Sig Lysne, Don Dahl, Milrane Mickelson, Floyd Misner, Harlan Johnson; John Foster, Harry Howard, Sig Severtson, Ray Carlson, Marshall Dyke, Paige Nelson, Robert Holdahl, Wilmer Bjugstad and Terry Johnson. • • * Sig Lysne will vie with the victor of the John Anderson-Joel Njus set-to for the college singles ping-pong championship this week. To enter the finals, Lysne downed Vemon Hukee in a three game ser-ies. Winner of the event will re-ceive a "T" jersey with the proper insignia. Here Are New, Old Cob Captains Holding the captaincy trophies which have engraved names of Con-cordia 'athletic captains are: above, left to right, Floyd Misner, Alden Setnes, Martin Kranz and Unite Brodin. Setnes and Kranz are the newly elected football leaders while Misner and Brodin served as co-captains the past season. At the left are Bob Walstrom, cage captain next campaign, and Norman Roos, retiring leader. —Minneapolis Star-Journal Cut. Looping THE LOOP Football is to be stressed on the spring athletic calendar at St. Thomas college. Thirty-five players turned out for spring practice and early workouts are to be held in O'Shaughnessy hall. • * * The Aquin. St. Thomas newspap-er, startled the conference world this week with their headline, "De- Correvent Coming to St. Thomas." The news was only an April Fool joke as DeCorrevent, Northwestern footballer, has no intention of leav-ing his present school. • • • At St. John's university where the Irish and the Dutch pre-dominate, an annual basketball game Is played between the two groups. In this year's campus classic the Irish were victorious over the Dutch. • • * Found in April Fool edition of St. Thomas Aquin: "We of St. Thomas are seriously thinking of reviving the old Tommy-University of Minne-sota football fued. That is, of course, if the Gophers pick up in the next few years. Our football schedule is filled for the next five or six cen-turies, but we might find a spot for them in 1943." • • * Mickey Sowado, probably the outstanding boxer In the Minne-sota College Conference, Is get-ting a lot of publicity for St. John's university. Recently Sowada was a member of a combined St. John's-University of North Dakota team which met the strong University of Idaho squad. Sowada has been outstanding in Gol-den Gloves competition and has met most of the outstanding amateur fighters in the Northwest. Cobber Graduate Writes Of Fishing In Alaskan Waters Arlie L. Dahl, Concordia graduate and now principal of Craig public school in Craig, Alaska, told a fish story from Eskimo land in a recent letter to Prof. Peter Anderson, Place-ment bureau head. Concordia sports fans who are ad-dicted in the finny sport in vacation will be interested in excerpts from his letter: "Fishing boats plying the waters near town are an interesting sight. Small trolling boats and larger sein-ing boats are seen in all directions during the fishing season. "The seiners catch salmon in huge 200 fathom selns and haul them to the cannery where they are pitched off the boat one at a time. Huge fish traps catch more salmon than the seiners, however, and naturally the sein-ers are continually working for the complete abolition of fish traps. "The trollers have about a four-month season starting in May and lasting until September. They troll for the king salmon, whose average weight is about 25 pounds each. Practically all trollers use four poles with one line and several hooks for each. "One interesting sight is spawn-ing herring and the gathering of the herring eggs by the Indians. Most of the herring along this section spawn on the kelp around a few islands. At low tide the Indians gather the kelp on which the eggs remain. They eat them raw, put them in boiling water, or dry them for future use. "I have tasted them but do not particularly relish their taste. The spawning season lasts about a month, from mid-March to mid-April." Combing The Cob By HAROLD POIER The Cobbers' newly elected football co-captain, big Marty Kranz, musing-ly said the other day, "Boy I'd like to see us win the conference football championship next season." Of course, that's a natural desire and is one which needs the backing of good breaks and a quantity of crack grid timber. But Coach Joe Rognstad's spring workout summons has caused us to become football minded again, and on paper indica-tions prompt us say that next cam-paign's outlook is okay. * • • Spring rumors have it that such worthies as Ralph Jensen, Cob center of a year ago, and Pete Perry, a second all-state lineman of two years back, are slated to resume studies here next fall. * • • Last fall's promise of prospective varsity material from the frosh ranks is perhaps the biggest reason to smile, with Harry Howard, Rupert Bauck, Finn Becker and Mag Lutness ex-pected to niche their way into the Maroon and Gold roster. Then, too, Ken Willey, Marshall Dyke and Mike Peinovich have gained their independ-ence from the ineligibility ruling. This trio's apt talent and bulky weight may do damage three times its size to loop opponents once it gets in ac-tion and in condition. Then, too, with St. John's and St. Thomas we're supposed to have an easier list of opponents. We aren't out to place ourselves on the limb by predicting a title, but we'll wager that the Cobbers won't be near their final standings of last year. * • • Another former Concordia athlete has matched the spotlight held by Roy Foster, whose team placed fourth in the Minnesota state prep meet. He is Karl J. Lawrence '26, who is now head football and basketball coach at Allegheny college at Mead-ville, Pa. Material furnished by Eugene Fitzgerald of the Fargo Fo-rum, informs us that Lawrence presented the 'Gators in 1940 with one of their most successful seasons. His club won 12 and dropped three and tallied 759 points to 486 for its opponents. Only Washington and Jefferson, one of the best quints in Pennsylvania, beat Allegheny 40-38, swishing Moorhead Minnesota Down at St. Olaf, plans are being laid for the inauguration of the 'Viking Relays" on June 1. This .vill be an all-Lutheran event and in-flations have been sent to all Luth-ran colleges in the United States. If enough enthusiasm and interest is shown by Concordia' tracksters, Rognstad intends to enter. Colleges which are supposed to have definitely decided to participate are Dana col-lege, Blair, Neb.; Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter; Luther college, Decorah; Carthage college, Carthage, 111.; Au-gustana college, Rock Island, 111.; Augustana of Sioux Falls, S. D.; and VVartburg college of Waverly, Iowa. Also expected to submit their en-tries are Pacific Lutheran of Port-land, Ore.; Hartwick college, Oneon-ta, N. Y.; and Upsala college of East Orange, N. J. * • * Rognstad and Norman Nordstrand, assistant grid tutor, were watchful witnesses of Minnesota's best high school cage clubs at the state tourney n St. Paul last weekend. It was Rognstad's opinion thut about four of the teams were of high caliber. Chlsholm's Bonicelll was his pick as the outstanding performer In the meet, but Mar-shall's publicized Mutts on also attracted high recognition. But he further added, "I'd rather have Clint Wager (St. Mary's bril-liant all-stater and top loop scorer) on my team than any four men pick-ed for all-state, that is if you leave Mattson off." Women's Badminton Tilts In Last Rounds' WAA sports participation will be centered on the final rounds of the singles and doubles badminton matches which will be completed this week. Winning their way to the semi-finals in singles play are Helen Bro-en, Jean Kjorlie, Winnifred Lar-on and Harriet Krogstad. Those remaining from a field of 10 doubles teams, are the four partner-ships of Phyllis Erickson-Lola Rygg, Jean Kjorlie-Irene Satrom, Carol Mc-ftonald- Viola Zeiszler and Harriet Hanson-Ruth Brink. Grandma's Pastry Shop Tilt From Second Third floor dwellers were vic-torious over their fellow dor-mites who reside a flight below in a challenge basketball game last Saturday afternoon. The "Stratosphere D w e l l e r s " out lasted the second floor occu-pants (maybe walking that ex-tra flight of stairs provides that extra stamina) and won 46-41. Harold Poier was the thorn in the side of the second floor drib-blers, as he garnered 20 of third floor's points, 17 in the last half. Ellarfi "Goose" Youngberg led the scoring for second with six field goals and a charity toss for a total of 13. Participating for the winners were Poier, Bob J. Johnson, Stan Cooper, Craig Hertsgaard, Rudy Skogerboe, Irwin Sholy and Don-ald Dahl. The second floor lineup was composed of Marty Kranz, Youngberg, Sig Severtson, Dick Melby, Bob Carriere, Buel Bro-din, Colin Sillers and Jim Aker. —S. N. D. News . . . Not all the news in The Concordian is on Page One. 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