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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-
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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.
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