Show I Acropolis Speaks Those of the readers who have been keeping up with the times b by reading the sports section of the Chronicle will no doubt be deeply touched at the news of Acropolis' Acropolis untimely exit from our midst Acropolis was a scrapper always in there fighting and it is with heavy heart that we write his obituary It seems that one day last week he stepped on his elbow as he dismounted a trolle trolley and in inthe inthe inthe the ensuing maneuvers his left leg applied an Indian lock death-lock on his neck and strangled himself to to death Well VeIl the have done it again They began last winter by drawing the entire nations nation's attention attention attention atten atten- tion to the intermountain territory in a triumphant tour of Kansas and thence to N New ew York for the Olympic finals That trip started a bee buzzing in the collective carof ear car of the citizens of New York and points east cast and they invited the Farmers to make a return engagement engagement engagement engage engage- ment visit Madison Square Garden Gar Gar- Garden den and play Manhattan College The accepted and left Monday for the big city Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington D. D C C. and Philadelphia to engage in intersectional games The publicity resulting from this trip and others of its kind is tending tending tending tend tend- ing to draw more and more attention attention attention atten atten- tion to our section of the country There may be a time in the future that people wont won't raise doubtful eyebrows when told of the athletic prowess of some of the schools in our division After Ryans Ryan's conquests conquests conquests con con- quests nothing is too much to hope for When Acropolis was around he rather pushed a campaign for field houses and out of a sense of duty to him we would like to pooch also It is true that big results from little whispers grow and if every student will just begin to think about a field house its Hs advantages advantages advantages ad ad- vantages and its benefits not only to athletes but also to spectators the talk will naturally foIl follow ow Wed We'd like to know just exactly exactly exactly ex ex- what happened on that trip north last week end that has the whole squad beaming all over the campus All AIl we can get out of our is that two of them were n newcomers to the trav traveling ling racket and as is the usual U. U ofU of U U. cust custom m they were initiated into the order order and and quite prop properly loo Well whatever th they y did the whole gang sure pla played ed basketball Your ur writer only wishes th they y c could uld take a couple of new men al along ng every trip and wed we'd have the old title inthe inthe in inthe the well known bag hag Good luck boys and keep smiling |