Tuesday, May 3,1938
Vukmamc Sets New Mark To Win Javelin At Relays
Between The Lions
By HERB CAHAN. Sports Edilor
“I ciime to Perm Stnte because of the excellent rutin# of its Engineer*
in# School—ami I want to be an’ electrical engineer above all else.” •
"Yeb; I like to play football, (but—, '
Tlrus spake Penn State’s newest athletic idol—Nick Vukmanic. Satur
day afternoon he.'broke the Penn Relay javelin-throw record with a heave of
223 feet, 10% inches; Sunday night* —* ;: —y* —“ :
•he ,wns “hittin’ the books"'for two! put 'Penn State back in th&, collegiate
exams yesterday. , -. track limelight—-where-it used to be.
Nick, is truly a character out' of a Trbe, the Nittany Lions did not lose
Horatio Alger, novel—modest, retir- a dual meet’ last year,'but there has
'ing, and naturally the apple of Coach been 110 individual star of Nick’s po-
Chiclc -Werner’s eye—it has been tentialities in years,
quite a while since. Chick has had a • Remember, our 'Mr. Vukmanic is.
potential world champ to brag about, now a sophomore. He is 20 years
What makes (Nick’s record-break* pUL He is big—over. .200 pounds—
ing accomplishment all the, more re* .over six feet—still growing. He held
onarkable is that he was suffering the national scholastic record of 206
from a sore aim—a javelin thrower feet, 10 inches. As a freshman he
with a sore arm! In fact his arm threw-, 'around 200 feet. Against
was so- sore thnt he took only one *tMichignn State, Nick threw his spear
qualifying throw—and to add to his 213 feet.' And now the Relay .record,
nghny he had blisters on his feet! . it is obvious that he. is improving—
But, to get down to facts, Nick.has biu! if he can toss that long rod 223
feet, 10% inches with a sore arm—
well," hope we’re not expecting too
much, Nick.
Bob Higgins would give away a
couple hair lbrained backs and a pair
of second-string linemen to get Vuk
mnnic out for football—-Niclc was
quite a grid star in high school—but
he’ll stick, to the javelin—and his
electrical 'engineering—has a 1.7 av*
erage-yrooms with Bernie Briggs, the
1 scholar of the football team.
While on the subject of track;
■here’s a bit of advice to - you fresh
men. There is a meet.coming up this
Saturday with Cornell’s yearlings—
and about 15 members of Penn State’s
freshman class have turned out for
the team!
Surely there are many more than
15. men interested in track in the
Class of ’4l. To go into the benefits
of the sport would be foolish.
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To Lion Grid
Team By 20-6
By BRAD OWENS
Cloning the spring football practice
season with a 2(MJ victory, the •var
sity grldmen overcame a had start in
the first quarter and defeated Scran
ton University, - formerly St. Thomas
College, on New Beaver field last. Sat
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Following a trio of fumbles in the
first quarter, one of them being re
covered and netting the Dions a first
down,, the varsity made good its first
threat, to the Tommies when a Hike
pass play, with Craig White running
the hall, brought the pigskin from the
State 25 yard stripe to the Tommies
•10.
Successive plunges by Lloyd Sekes,
White, and Dick Ewnlt placed the hall
on the enemy IS yard line. A center
rush by Chuck' Peters, last, fall’s fresh
man hack, took the ball over for the
first touchdown of the afternoon.
Score Safety on Bad Pass
After repealed line plunges by both
tennis in the center of the field, u
Nittnny kick from the SO was taken,
by tlie Tommies on their S yard mark
er where the' receiver was tackled.
On a had pass from centerT the Lions
rushed' tlie. receiver and laekled him
behind the Tommies goal for a safely,
making the score «S.(L
In the beginning of the second half
the Tommies made a comeback fea
turing a double-lateral play with Joe
Flaherty starring bringing’ the
hall from the 5(1 yard’ line to the
State a. Going around right end for
2 yards, and through the left side of
the Nittnny line for another yard, fife
Tommies made a. touchdown on their
third l attempt with Oimilutskl carry
ing the ball. .
Peters. Romps For Touchdown
lit tlie fourth'quarter Conch Higgins
shulTied the line-up and the team he*
gun to get into its stride. After a kick
by tlie Tommies over the State goal
line wtis brought out to the 20, tlie
)ml) was pushed up to tlie -15 yard
marker. With beautiful blocking of
an opposing tackle by Gil IlndcHfTc,
Chuck Peters round tin opening and
galloped down tlie field for ills second
touchdown, shooting tlie score up to
1-1-6.
Rtinther Golfers
Defeat Lions 6*3
<Pitl golfers 'defeated the Lions on
! the home - course Saturday afternoon,
6-3, bringing .to the Nittanymen their
first loss this season. .-The freshman
match, scheduled for Saturday with
Cornell on the home course, was post
poned until next -Saturday when the
yearlings will play the Big Red cubs
n£ Cornell.
■Despite low scoring on the part of
almost all the Lion golfers, they won
only, one of the best.'balls of the three
matches, find Bud 'Miller and Jack
MnhnfFey were the only ones to do-:
feat their Panther opponents.
Souchak Celebrates Birthday
Frank Souchak, gridiron star and
captain of Pitt’s golfers, celebrated
his twenty-first birthday 'by defeat
ing the Nittnny golf captain, Bernie
Burkett, in the first’match, 4 and 3.
TonylKoy, of Pitt, with a medal score
of 71, defeated Bill Gross, who had a
medal score of 72 f 2 and 1, and Pitt
won the best ball; 4 and 3.
Barrett Melvin, sophomore Panther
golf ace, scoring a medal score of -70,
defeated .Toe Stevenson in the second
match, 5 and 4,' and Bill Daddio, of
Pitt, with another low medal score
of 73, defeated Ed Hebda, 4 and 3.
Pitt won the best ball, 5 and 4.
In the third match, the only one in
which Penn State scored, Bud Miller
defeated George Simpson, of Pitt, 4
and'3, mid Jack MahafFey defeated
Ed Lnwry. of Pitt, 1 up. State won
the best ba11,.4 and'3. - '
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Lion Sophomore Sails
Spear 223 Feet; 4-Mile
Quartet Captures Third
Nick Vukmanie, sensational sophoi
reached new heights iir the national si
a new meet mark of 223 feet TOIA incl
44th annual Penn Relay Carnival at F
Vukmanic’s winning heave better
Lion Tennis Team
Loses Double Bill
Returning from their opening trip
with two losses and no victories to
their credit, Dink-Stover's netmen are
rounding into shape for their home
opener with the Gettysburg Bullets:
Thursday afternoon.
(Last Friday the Lions hist to Le
high, G-3, at 'Bethlehem, and Penn’s
strong squad proved too much for
the Nittany notters the following day,
scoring a 9-0 win.
Against Lehigh, Massey,-State, de
feated Hilton, 0-3, 6-4." Hildebrandt,
State, won from Stetson, 6-2, 8-6.
Zell, Lehigh, defeated" Goodman, 6-2,
6-3. Cohen, State, won from Gottlieb,
6-4, 8-6, 7-5. Bartholomew, Lehigh,
defeated "Arber-g, 6-0, 6-0. Grnnnatt,
Lehigh, won from Freed, 9-7, 6-1. In
doubles, Hilton and Stetson defeated
Massey ami Hildebrandt,.vB-6, 6-4.
Grannett and Zell won from Good
man and Cohen, 6-2, 6-0. Bartholo
mew nhd Gottfried defeated Freed
and Wiley, 6-3, 6-0.
tizzy Beilis. Penn’s highly touted
numlxn* one man, played attacking
tennis, often storming the net, won
a close match from Massey, 6-3, 6-4.
-Beilis was reinstated in time to play
last week-end after having been de
clared ineligible for college tennis
because /if “professional table, tennis
exhibitions.
Hildebrandt played a long match
with Harry Albert in the number 2
singles position. Each man tried to
outsteady the other, scoring on the
other’s errors.
In the other singles J encounters,
Reps won from Goodman, -6-1, 6-2.
Kline defeated Cohen, 6-0,. 6-0. Boy
er wOn from Arberg. 6-2, 6-3. Lewis
defeated Freed, 6-0, 0-2.-
In the doubles, Beilis'and Veale de
feated- -Massey-and-Hildebrandt; 4-6,
6-2, 6-1. Mellor and Albert'defeated
Cohen and Goodman,, 6-1, 6-2. Ray
mond and Forshay won from Freed
and Wiley, 6-1, 6-1.
Yearling Ball Tossers
Blanked by Kiski, 9-0
In a game mercifully cut short by
darkness in the sixth inning, the Lion
yearlings were walloped 0-0 by the
Kiski bsill-tosscrs on New Beaver field
last Saturday.
Looking even weaker than they did
when Mercersburg took them across
0-7 the week before, the freshmen
were able to gamer -but two hits—
both of which came because the Kiski
shortstop insisted upon playing too
far back.
'Russ Kuwa began the hurlinlg for
the frosh. but was replaced by Joe
Scully in the third after being pound
ed for six hits, two of them homers,
which accounted for five of
runs.
•Since the cubs couldn’t lift the ball
out of the infield, batting honors of
the day went to Earl .Stone, Kiski
short-stop. In four times at bat he
hit a homer, a double, and a single.
His home run, which sailed - over
Peante Gates' head in center field and
went under the East stands on the
first bounce, is one of the longest hits
in frosh baseball. Stone’ pulled an
other fast one iff the fifth inning
when he caught catcher Miller nap
ping and stole home;
>more holder of the Lion javelin record,
sporting world by tossing the spear un
;hes, easily capturing first place in the
Franklin Field. Philadelphia, Saturday,
rod the'former record set i'n 1934 by
| over nine feet. Milton Miller of New
York University placed a poor sec
ond with a throw of 203 feet 516
inches.
First Title Since '27
The husky sophomore is {he first
j Nittany Lion to win an individual ti
tle in the Penn Relays since Marian
Ide and Bill Cox won the hammer
throw and two-mile special invitation
raee, respectively, back in 1927. The
last 'Penn State first in the relays
was in 199.2, when the Lions an
j nexed the.sprint medley relay champ
ionship of America.
The four-mile relay quarter shared
some of the spotlight for the Nittany
nien as Norm Gordon, Frank Maule.
Charley Pierce, and Bill Griest step
ped to third place in a rainstorm, be
hind Indiana’s defending champions,
anchored by Tommy Deckard, and
North Texas Teachers' foursome-fea
turing the famous Rideout twins.
Another creditable performance
was turned in by Gordon as he scamp,
ered to fourth position in the 3,000
metre steeplechase specialty won by
Deckard. J
Other Lions Fail to Place
Other varsity Nittany Lions failed
to place in' their individual events
with Bill Smith linding'it difficult to
match the pace in the 3,ooo'meter in
vitation nm( finishing fifth. Ralph
•Schwartzkptr' of Michigan .upset the
dope to defeat the veteran Joe Mc-
CUtskey and Don Lash.
Neither Dave Bauer or Millet* Fra
zier could place in the invitation hur
dle events, and lan Murphy and Tom
Priolo were unsuccessful in the field
events.' The single cub entry, a mile
relay team composed of Walt Hoster
inaii, Van Hartman. JiiiK Williams,
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Tossers Face
Bullets After
Wildcat Loss
By 808 WILSON
That you can't fight oft n cannon
with a cap pistol was concisely illus
trated 'Saturday when Villanova’s
mighty Wildcat nine, touching off one
big bomb in the seventh inning, blew
pitcher Tom Watts and his Lion
mates clear out of New Beaver field,
shattering State’s two-mouse power
attack to coast to a lop-sided 11-4
score.
Tomorrow at 4 o'clock the Bedcnk
men will entertain the Gettysburg
Bullets with the hope of gaining a
third triumph in their seventh tilt
of the season. Ben Simoncclli, Lion
skipper, will face the Bullet batters
on the mound. State’s lineup 1 will re
main unchanged.
Turning their big guns on Watts in
the seventh frame with the count
knotted at 4-4 the Wildcats collected
five hits, powering across seven runs,
before. Bob Goodrich, who replaced
Watts, could quell the attack.
(Cowboy Crnwle'j. Wildcat first
sneker, started the merry-go-round
when he tripled over Johnny Wrig
ley’s head. Lon Merullo bingled*over
second, Crawley tallying. Capt. Ray
Stoviak bashed a mnstodonie home
run between left and" center fields
scoring Merullo in front of him.
Watts walked Wnnnemneher ’and
Bobby Bond doubled over first. Mike
Garbark sent them both home with a
clean singleton and Watts went- to
the showers.
Pitcher Hits Homer
Goodrich, in his varsity debut, end
ed the Villanova bombardment only
after Cliff Choquette, chunky Wildcat
hurler, poled out another four-bagger
with Rice on the patios.
Windy Wear drove in three of
State’s four runs. His singleton in
the second frame scored Wrigley, and
a smashing two-bagger in the third
chased Adessa and Vonnrx home.
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Freshmen Beaten 15-2
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