The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 04, 1941, Image 10
'PAGE TEN INigh Stall Gfsnsiasls Wie Meirte Tomorrow Sixty representatives from 15 Pennsylvania high schools will take part in the PI A A gymnas tic championship meet to be held in Rec Hall from 2 to 4 Vclock tomorrow afternoon. All participants will be final ists who have survived district and regional meets. They will compete for individual state championship medals, the Wett stone trophy for the outstanding gymnast, and the team plaque awarded to the winning high, school by the College. ‘lire® Lion Coaches /Attend N.J. Conference Three Penn State coaches— Charlie Speidel, John Lawther. find Bill Jeffrey—left yesterday afternoon for Asbury Park, N. J., to take part in the third an nual spring athletic conference sponsored by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, The Lion coaches are all on the program today and tomor row, leading discussions and demonstrations dealing with wrestling, basketball, and soc cer. Sessions will be held in the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel. Penn Slate Chapter Acacia Extends Its Greetings to the Many Guests On Our Campus This Weekend IAM3DA CHAPTER of THETA XI Extends Greetings To M 3 Unferiralemity Ball Guests Gridmen Play St. Francis On Beaver Field Tomorrow Krous® Starts At Half; Weaver At Quarterback St. Francis College will pro vide the opposition for the first practice football game of the year when they meet the Nit tany gridders on New Beaver Field at 2 o’clock tomorrow aft ernoon. Coach Bob Higgins will start practically the same eleven to morrow that played on the Blue team in the inter-squad scrim mage game iast Saturday. The only changes will find Don Yoho taking over Sol. Schlegel’s guard post and Captain Len Krouse, now fully recovered from his cold, will start at halfback in place of Hank Day. Will Van Lenten and Bob Davis will see service at the end posts. Mike Kerns and Ken Schoonover will hold down the tackle positions, and Yoho and Mike Garbinski will play at guards. Bob Wear will snap the pigskin back from the cen-' ter slot. In the backfteld, Paul Weaver will call signals at the quarter- ~THE DAILY COLLEGIAN back post and Bill Smaltz wilt pass and plunge at full. Sparky Brown and Krouse are the half backs. Pepper Petrella is still out of action as a result of a pulled leg muscle. He will pro bably be out practicing again next week. No goal posts will be erected for the game as it will be more on the order of an informal practice scrimmage. First downs will be recorded and the game will be. started with a kick-off. Lion Nine Has Five Veterans Five veteran diamondmen form the nucleus for Coach Joe Bedenk’s 1941 edition of Nittany baseballers. The biggest wor ry at this stage of practice seems to lie in the infield prob lem. Lettermen Peany Gates and Bill Debler take care of the out field situation. Gates will play in lelt and Debler in center field. The right field post is still wide open with Emory Kasprzyk, frosh fielder last year, sopho more Bob Ruff, and Bob Fast, former Mt. Alto player, com peting for the job. Franny Farris, formerly an outfielder, is being tested at the third base position. Bill Thom as, frosh shortstop last year, has been plugging up the short field spot, Senior Freddy Ball has taken over at the second sack since Bedenk • moved Captain Eddie Sapp to first base. John Dufford and Ray Edgar fill in as utility infielders right now. The present infield set up may be changed before the opening game with Penn at Philadelphia on April 11. Bedenk has been trying to shape sophomore John Egli into the first base position. Egli is a former softball player who is having his first try at the hard ball sport. If Egli shapes up well, Bedenk may move Sapp back to his old second base position. Sophomores Alex Basista, Jim Sampsel, and Jim Buckey are vying for the catching post with former outfielder Elbur Purnell. The pitching situation is well taken care of by veterans Chuck Medlar and Jim Richardson, aided by Wes Smith, Ed Tuleya, - Bob Robinson, A 1 Maurer, and A 1 Lazar. Richardson and La zar have left on an engineering inspection trip but will rejoin the team in Philadelphia for the Penn game. IM Volleyball Finals Next Week Independent intramural volley ball finals will be played off at Rec Hall on Monday between Phys Ed Majors and Fairmount Hall. Winner of the fraternity semi-finals to be played at the same time between Beta Sigma Rho and Phi Sigma Kappa will meet SPE No. 1 on Tuesday to decide the fraternity champion. Results of this week’s games are as follows:, Semi-finals: SPE No. 1 defeated SAE, 15-4, 12-15, 15-11; Phi Sigma Kappa downed Alpha Chi Sigma, 17-16, 15-5; SAE beat Delta Chi, 9-15, 15-2, 15-10; and Alpha Chi Sigma ousted Phi Kappa Psi, 15-10, 15-7. Quarter-finals: SPE No. 1 de feated Phi Delta Theta, 15-2, 14- 16, 15-9; Beta Sigma Rho beat Phi-Sigma Delta, 15-8, 15-5; Phi Kappa Psi downed Alpha Sigma Phi, 15-8, 18-16. Beta Sigma Rho trounced Beta Theta Pi, 15-4, 15-8; SPE No. 1 ousted Alpha Chi Sigma, 15-2, 15-8, and SPE No. 2 forfeited to Werner Seeks Winner To Replace Vukmanic On Lion Track Squad Filling the shoes of last year’s track captain, that great' field eventer, Nick Vukmanic, pre sents Coach Chick Werner with his greatest difficulty, as the trackmen prepare for the Penn Relays April 25-26, and their first dual meet with Pittsburgh scheduled for New Beaver Field, May 3. The gap Nick ieft in the team is readily seen by surveying the points he regularly amassed for Penn State. He won the jave lin throw in every College dual meet he entered, and managed to cop the shot and discus events in 1 over 90 per cent of his college competition. Werner has half a dozen pros pects concentrating on filling this hole left by “15 point” Vuk manic. Quentin Dietrick, a sophomore from Reading, is the leading contender to toss the javelin this year. As a fresh man he heaved the spear 187 feet and in prep school he was marked at over 190 feet. Ac cording to Werner if he can improve his form and avoid his frequent arm injuries, he should show up as a close second to Nick himself. In Vukmanic’s second depart- BETA CHAPTER of Theta Kappa Phi Fraternity EXTENDS A VERY CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL OF ITS GUESTS AND WISHES EVERYONE AN ENJOYABLE WEEKEND. i FRIDAY APRIL 3, 1941 ment, the discus throw, Lennie Frescoln, also a sophomore, looms as a probable replace ment. Frescoln, although not yet measured at 130 feet, should be hitting that mark soon. With improvement in form, he should be as good or better than Vuk manic before he graduates. At present an engineer for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Vukmanic while at Penn State could always be relied on to put the shot 45 to 48 feet. His understudy, Frank Platt, should do much better this spring since as a senior he will not have track combined with spring football. i Also a prospect for the shot put event is sophomore Sol Han in who broke the frosh record last year by putting the weight 46.5 feet. Read The Collegian Classifieds IF YOU WANT A TAXI DIAL 3421 Out of Town Trips Can Be Arranged At Any Time RESIDES TAXI SERVICE