Itesany, Api 1120,1837
tte Between The Lions s»
By 808 GRUBB
Strike Three!
IN a few minutes a new. Learn. of
sports writers will take the field.
Having _completed its deliberation,.
the present managing board is about
to turn this . rag over to an-inspired
and ambitious bunch of juniors whc;
will be at bat for the- next year.
As we, go hack. to the-bench,
memory jumps back over the short
space of a-year and,unfolds some
• of the more outstanding events in
Penn State'S:athletic history. Dur
ing the .past year the box score
reflected several things that will,
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Next . Monday'and . Toesday—j`Romeo and "Wier.
always. be remembered.
We shall not soon forget, for in
stance, Harry Harrison's brilliant
94-yard run on Franklin Field in
the Penn game last fall .or Billy
Soose's decisive knockout of' Syra
cuse's MeGivern—only one of many
salient victories in the Houckmen's
undefeated season . . . or the Lion
five's 24-21 triumph over Pitt in as
exciting . a
brand of basketball that
has been seen on the Rec Hall court
in many moons .. pr the Nittany
wrestlers' sweep of the Eastern In
tercollegiates with five champions..
Those ace only a few of the sig
nificant events, however. The year
1036-'37 will always be remem
bered, of course, as the year of
the demise of Ilugo Bezdek from
the Penn State athletic picture—
one of a chain of revolutionary
changes that was to bring about
a healthier athletic . picture. One
of Bezdek's last official acts,' how
ever: brought good . fortune 'to
Penn State in the person oflohn
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ny Lawther, .whom Bei weaned
from 'Westminster to boister.the
- .basketball coaching situation.
And Lawther proved that he could
be just us successful anywhere else
as he was at Westminster—if given
time. He indicated this by whipping
together a Lion five that won over
fifty percent of its conference games
and ended up third in the Eastern
Loop. Compared with the previous
year's standing—no conference
games wonhis achievement was
considered remarkable:
Taking a final look at the Penn
State sports picture, we pause a
moment and doff chapeaux to the
man• who has just been voted the
'school's Outstanding Athlete, for
the year—Frank Smith. The
award of this honor to Smith
came 'as no surprise; for when we
consider the part that Frank
Smith has played in Penn State
athletics for the past four years,
such an award should he taken for
granted.
There have been very.few days in
the last', four years .that • Frank
Smith hah'not seen the locker rooms
in Rec Hall. He has been donning
football, basketball and baseball
uniforms. there almost every after
noon of his callege career. Frank's
career began quite unceremonious
ly in his freshman year' when he
reported for football for nearly a
week before he was given a uni
form. His prowess in the three
sports' has been outstanding in dif
lerent years, it seems. In his soph
omore.year, he was hailed as a great
pitcher. In his 'junior year, - he dis
played his best form on the basket
ball floor as a leading scorer. In
his, senior year he performed a
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Tossers Face
Dickinson at
4 Tomorrow
SimOncelli, Smith Lead
Lions to 2 Wins
Over W. Va.
Back en the winning track again,
Penn State's diamond performers will
face another stiff test here at 4 o'-
clock tomorrow afternoon, when they
meet Dickinson's Red Devils at New
Beaver field in the third home game
of the year.
Dickinson will . tome here with a
veteran array featuring eight letter
men from last year's squad. Only
Pitcher Carl Sivess, who has been
tagged by the Philadelphia Phillies,
will be absent.- The Red Devils have
developed tremendous scoring punch
this season. They blasted Bucknell,
19-1; in their season opener last week,
and crushed the Bisons again, 10-5,
in a return game Saturday.
'Tomorrow's tussle will be the for
ty-fourth of a series that began in
1887. Dickinson has won only nine
times, and has not defeated the• Lions
in the last thirty years.
Didinger May Start
Either Co-captain Frank Smith or
Joe Didinger will face the Red Devils.
Coach Joe Bedenk is striving to de
velop •an experienced hurler to be
paired with Benny Simoncelli on next
year's pitching stall. Smith will
be graduated in June. The rest of
the starting line-up will remain the
same, with either. Ray Brake or Don
Crossin in right field, depending upon
the Dickinson mound Choice.
Masterful - hurling by both Simon
celli and Smith enabled State to sweep
the annual two-game series from West
Virginia Friday and Saturday. 'Si
moncelli, afters shaky start, settled
down in the third frame and held the
Mountaineers to four safeties to best
Jack Gecke, 3-1, in a, pitchers' battle
Friday. Only twenty-two men faced
the' State southpaw in the last seven
innings. Not a single Mountaineer
reached first base after the fourth
frame.
Relieving Didinger with none out
and two on in the third stanza of the
second game, Smith repeatedly pull
ed the Lions out of trouble and yield
ed only three singles in seven innings
to lend State's 4-8 victory drive Sat
urday.
Wear Decides Opener
' A .triple by left fielder Lorenz and
a scratch hit by Gocke put West Vir
ginia out front in the second inning
of the opener. State knotted the count
in the fourth on singles by Windy
Wear and Co-captain Mike Kornick,
sandwiched by Joe Adessa's sacrifice.
The Lions finally iced the decision
in the eighth. Johnny Waters walk
ed, advanced to second on Simon'celli's
bunt, and crossed the plate when
Wear punched his second single into
left field. Wear stole second and scor
ed the final run when Lorenz dropped
Adessa's skier.
The Mountaineers again took an
early lead in the second tussle, scor
ing three markers in the first frame.
A walk, a sacrifice hit, a stolen base,
an error by Waters, and singles by
third baseman Scalli and Lorenz sup
plied West Virginia with all of its
scoring power. Subsequent :uprisings
in the third and eighth innings were
bOth squelched by Smith:
Meanwhile, the Lions were stopped
cold, by Ben - Rubrecht, lanky Mound
on page four)
Lions Draw Pole
Twice in Relays
Top Positions Picked in 4-Mile,
Distance Medley Relays;
Indiana Favored
An analysis of the drawings made
for positions at the 93rd Penn Relay
Carnival this Friday and Saturday
shows the Lions to be extremely for
tunate. The drawings were announced
yesterday. Pole positions were drawn
in two events, the distance college
medley relay on Friday and the four
mile relay on Saturday.
Another favorable drawing was I
that for the sprint medley race which
will also be run off on Friday. Here
the Lions will be the second team
from the pole out of the seventeen en
trants. An improbable entry, the Li
ons' two-mile relay team would find,
its starting position in the fifth lane]
from the pole. Eleven teams will cons-
Pete in this event.
The freshman mile relay team, if it
competes, will be placed in the fifth
lane out of a possible seventeen. The
only other drawing made which con
cerned the Lions was that in the 980-
yard shuttle hurdles relay. Here
State will run in the first heat against
Pennsylvania and Cornell. with the
fifirst two teams qualifying for the
fifinals.
Indiana _looms as the favorite in
both races for which Penn State has
the pole. Included in the Indiana line
up will be two Olympians, Don Lash
and Tommy Decherd.
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Trackmen Swamp Juniata,
120-6 ; Clark Cracks Record
Sophomore Vaulter Clears 12 Feet, 51-2 Inches;
State Wins All Ist Places in Season
Opener; Redmond Stars
The dual track meet between Penn State and Juniata Saturday after
noon on New Beaver Field amounted to little more than tryouts for the Lion
participants as Juniata was held to the unbelievably small total of six points.
The final score was 120-6. State took every first place and gave up only one
second place.
Bob Clark, sophomore pole-vaulter, had the honor of being the only rec
o•d-breaker of the day. He scaled 12 feet SV, inches in this 'event to break
the old college record of 12 feet 4 inches and then narrowly missed in three
tries at 13 feet.
Pour . hand-in-hand finishes were recorded in the middle-distance and
-clistance runs. The Juniata men were
not even in the running. Howard
Downey, Adrian Markowitz and
Chuck McKillips crossed the line to
gether in 53 seconds flat. The time
would have been faster, but Downey
and Markowitz chose to wait for Mc-
Killips rather than to cross the line
themselves.
Markowitz, Burt Aikman, and Bill
Criest took things easy -in the 880-
yard run and crossed the finish line
together in the slow time of 2 minutes
5.3 seconds. Aikman also tied with
Pete (Het& in the mile run with Len
Henderson third. The mile time was
-I minutes 38 seconds. The fourth tie:
was a three-cornered affair, with
Olexy, Henderson and Pierce finish
ing together in the 2-mile run. This
race was run in 10 minutes 19.2 sec-
Frank Smith Selected
Most Valuable Athlete
Frank Smith '37 was selected as
the most valuable athlete' in Col
lege for the present year. Smith's
participation in three sports, foot.
ball, basketball, and baseball,-earn
ed for him the highest honer to be
given any athlete in College.
The selection of the man for this
honor is made by the staff of the
School of Physical EducatiOn and
Athletics. In a preliminary vote
each of the - staff chooses, in his
opinion, the one worthy of the
honor. The highest ranking men
of the individual staff members is
then placed on a ballot for the fi
nal election.
The five points which form the
basis for the selection are: num
ber 'of sports in which the person
participated, total number of con
tests played, scholarship, repre
sentative Penn State student, and
number of activities participated
in outside of athletics.
Two Golf Team's!
iWili Open May:l
Rutherford To Develop Varsity,
Junior Divoters; Stevenson,
Gross Score Low
Planning to develop two golf teams,
Coach Bob Rutherford sent twelve
prospects out for the first qualifying
round last Saturday. A varsity and
junior team will comprise the Lions'
golf squad this . spring.. Solar one
match has been tentatively scheduled
for the junior's, May 1 with Cornell,
here. At the same time the varsity
will meet Bucknell on the home course.
The scores in the first round com
petition for the team saw Joe Ste
venson ahead • with a 78. Following
him closely was MR Gross stroking a
74 and 'Bennett and Hayes' counting
a 75. Other first round scores are:
Patterson 77, Walker 77, Albere also
with a 77. Coming in at the last
were: Hebea, 79, Machmer 79, Gott
lieb 80, Burkett 80, Mehaffey 83, and
Powell 89.
Losing only one man by graduation,
last year's Captain Colletti, Ruther
ford looks forward to a fair season in
intercollegiate matches. Expecting a
lot from the squad, the Lion coach
plans many long practices to bring
the team up to its best in all depart
s ments of the game. Due to the in
!tense competition today, no one phase
of the game tan be neglected.
•i . , Course Opened ;, , i
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[I !Per*Mance; of the team hi dual
meets' Will; be 'the deciding .. •Mcior . hi
whether or not to enter the full squad
in the intercollegiates at Oakmont
Country Club, Oakmont, Pennsylvania
late this spring. It is expected, how
ever, that one or two of the players,
regardless of the results, will tee off
at the Pittsburgh club. '
Bob Rutherford. 'predicted today
that this year will be the greatest golf
year in the country since 1928. Cit
ing the fact that more people are tak
ing up the game every year, he ex
pressed the opinion that the golf clubs
land municipal courses would soon
need traffic officers - to protect the
many players-I-and dubs. '
Saturday, the course was officially
opened for the 1937 season. All the
greens are in excellmt shape due to
a mild winter which cow little frost
on the ground to kill the grass. The
condition of the fairways is reported
as being in best of shape for the many
students who will' use it.
STRIKOAGAINST WAR!
Twenty years ago, students
prepared for War.
Today, students are protesting
the War menace.
JOIN THE FIGHT !
ALL - COLLEGE ANTI - WAR
DEMONSTRATION
In Front of Old Main, Thursday, at 11
ALL CLASSES EXCUSED
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Jim Redmond, back in shape after
suffering a pulled tendon at the Penn
Relays last year, walked ofF with high
scoring honors of the meet. Jim earn
ed 15 points. He won the high hur
dles in the good time of 15.5 seconds
and jumped 21 feet 10% inches' to
take the broad jump. In addition, he
finished second in the low hurdles and
tied for second in the high jump.
Other winners were Dave Bauer in
, ard low hurdles,
Vic Sand-
ham in the high jump, Torn Priolo in
both the javelin and discus throws,
Howard Downey in the 220-yard dash,
and Mike 'Brown in the shot-put.
Brown, co-captain of the team with
Downey, and holder of the college rec
ord for the shot-put, was a close win
ner in his event. His winning toss of'
15 feet 6 inches was only three and
one-half inches better than the best
throw registered by Dean Hanley,
sophomore football star.
12=1!1
Performances in both the Juniata
meet'and in the tryouts held yester
day will be weighed by Coach Chick
Werner in deciding upon his lineup
for the P . enn Relays this week-end.
Chick is still undecided as to how
many men to take to Philadelphia.
Two relay teams are sure to make
the trip. They are the 480-yard shut
tl hurdles team and the four-mile I
team. The shuttle team will be torn-
posed of Jim Redmond, Dave Bauer,
Greg Thompson, and Miller Frazier.,
The probable lineup for the four mile
event is Pete Olexy, Burt Aikman,l
Len Henderson, and Howard Downey.
Individual entrants will be vhosen
from the following: Bob Clark, pole
vault; Vic Sandham, high jump;
Mike Brown and Dean Hanky, shot
put; 'ISM Prick and Bob Common,
discus throw. In addition a fresh
man mile relay team may compete.
The summary of the meet:
Track Events
(All Penn State Men)
100-yard dash—Won by Bauer;
Sutton, second; Kalmanowicz, third.
;Time, 10.2 seconds.
220-yard .dash—Won' - powilpy;
Bauer, second; Sutton, third. Time,
22.4 seconds.
440-yard dash—Downey, Markowitz
and MeKillips finished in tie for first
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Rhoda Improves; Able'
To Walk at Hospital
"Whitey" Rhoda, on his back since
September in the Centre County Hos
pital at Bellefonte, is now able to sit
up every day and is occasionally per=
mitted to walk about his room. His
physician stated that he is improving
daily but would not sny when Rhoda
would be able to leave the hospital.
The former Lion athlete suffered
severe burns while working on the
new addition to the State College high
school. He slipped while' carrying
two buckets of hot asphalt, causing'
the liquid to splash over him.
Lacrosse Ten
Gains 7-4 Win
Over Colgate
Good Offense Feature
Of Lions' 2nd Win
In 3 Starts
Staging a strong offense, Penn
State's lacrosse team defeated' the
Colgate ten, on Saturday after
noon, for its second victory in three
starts.
The intense drill in blocking and
passing Coach Thiel meted out to his
squad after the Harvard 11-to-1
drubbing showed to be of no little aid
in Saturday's game. The Lions kept
the' Red Raiders chasing them
throughout the first half, scoring five
points to Colgate's one. '
Captain Conley started the scoring
after three and a half minutes of
play, followed a minute later with a
goal by Holt. Sheridan, Snook, and
Lotz tallied one point apiece in rapid
succession, all three goals being scor
ed within cne minute. Rinella ac
counted for the only Colgate score in
the first half.
Haft, Conley Tally
Heft and Conley finished the scor
ing for State in the third quarter with
one goal apiece. Ferguson tallied
twice for Colgate in this period while
Brosnier scored the only point in the
last quarter to bring Colgate's total
to four.
Jones, big Colgate goal-tender, was
a thorn in State's side. He put a stop
to niany scoring threats, somehow
managing to put either his body or
Indian-stick in front of the ball as
the Lions tried to score. Jones gave
the spectators a laugh when he grab
bed the ball near his net and ran the
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entire length of the field, only to loss
it on a poor pass.
The team will begin practice for
its tilt with Penn to he held this Sat
urday on New Beaver field.
Coach Thiel sent twenty-three of
his Liims into the fray and would
have put his entire squad on the field
if time had permitted . . . "Killer"
Heft, penalized seven times in the
Swarthmore game. was placed in the
box only once Saturday.
Sophomore Shatters
18-Year Vault Record
Although Bob Clark, sophomore
pole-vliult star, officially broke the
College record for this event on Fri
lay, it was really a year ago that he
bettered the cld mark. For in his
l'reshman year Clark went over the
bar at the same height he cleared Fri-.
day, 12 feet IV. inches. This left
Clark with the unique honor of being
the only freshman record holder with
stark better than the corresponding
record.
The old varsity mark ,was estab
lished away back in 1919 when an
athlete named Runyan sailed over to
a record of 12 feet 4 inches.
Clark tied for first place here in the
State High School meet two years ago.
height was 11 feet inches.
Since"then he has developed rapidly,
and' it is probable that he will change
his present record considerably before
the:present season is over.
Mnshball Begins Today
The intramural mushball tourna
ment will begin this afternoon at 4
o'clock, according to an announcement
made today by Harold L. Gordon,
jr., '39, manager.
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