SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1942
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Ewell's Track Enemy
The Lions „ . ■ n
Uncle Sam almost took away
With DON DAVIS from collegiate competition Bar-
Sports Editor ney Ewell’s bitterest track rival,
Hal Davis of California, national
200-meter champiom He was
foiled in his efforts, though, by
the interference of a. United States
Marine Corps reserve enlistment.
Davis will be permitted to fin
ish his present college term be
fore he Incomes one of the many
in the armed forces. He and
Ewell still remain as the “world’s
fastest humans.”
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Lacrosse Hotbed
Penn State’s lacrossmen will
open their official season against
the Middie stick wielders this af
ternoon at Annapolis Maryland.
And when a lacrosse squad ven
tures into the state of Maryland
they find themselves right in the
backyard of good lacrosse playing.
■ Once before this season Coach
Thiel's charges traveled down
Maryland way only to return with
a 10-0. shellacking at the hands of
Jpfin Hopkins. .
Hes Our Coach
if you have good eyes you may
have noticed in small headlines the
other day that Nick has been sel
ected to coach the All-North la
crosse team in the annual post-sea
son North-South game. To be
selected from among such lacrosse
schools as Hobart, Princeton, Dart
mouth, and Yale is a real tribute
to good coaching. Of course there
is none of the hullabaloo over
Thiel’s selection that there would
■be if Bob Higgins were xxamed
coach of the North football team.
Yet the honor is just as great re
gardless of 'the sport. So we doff'
our columnistic hat to Coach Nick
Thiel, more acclaimed throughout
the North than on his own campus.
Want Some Hiking?
Come the summer semester, this
College is going to have a real
problem on its hands supplying a
sufficient recrealion.a). apd athletic
program. We have previously
rgcqmmended an expanded intra
jjjural program and the possibility
of ihtprscjifool intramujrals. TJnabfe
ip laice cere of all students, such .a
program will-have to be supple
mented by hikes, picnics, swim
njing, sun bathing, student union
dehces etc. And we repeat, it's hot
lpo early to start laying plans for
this recreation program.
We Make A Fledge
Incidentally, in our first column
we refrained from making any
policy commitments until we got
out bearings. There is one pledge
that we feel ready to make at this
time however, and that is: regular
and complete coverage of all intra
murals this summer:, more com
plete coverage than in the past be
cause intramurals will hold a more
important spot this summer than
ever before.
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Announcing The Annual
SAL; APRIL 18 JL U n I 1 ■ SI.JO Couple—Rec Hall
9to 12 1 1% mm I . (checking included)
Music by The Campus Owls
Goff loam Opens
21sf Season Here
April 18 With W Va.
Penn State’s golf team will in
augurate its 21st season next Sat
ux-day when the linksmen from
the University of West Vh-ginia
come here for the third meeting
of the schools. The Lions have
won the two previous encounters
by lai’ge margins.
Penn State last had an unde
feated golf team in 1935, and be
foi-e that, the Nittany golfers won
all their matches in 1927 and
1930. Three years ago, the links
men lost only two of nine en
gagements, to Princeton and
Georgetown.
The condition of the golf course
this Spring has precluded most
of the pre-season practice, but
Coach Rutherford is confident
that from - the large number of.
new candidates out for the team
this year he will be able to select
a winning combination.'
Freshman candidates for the
yearling golf team will be called
as soon as the weather permits,
Coach Bob Rutherford Jr. said
last night.
Tennis Situation P
By BEN BAILEY
For several days we’ve been try- ernor Pinchot is famous,
ing to figure out why Tennis Coach Ole Man Weather then proceed-
Ted Roethke’s boys nicknamed him ed to lay down his record-breaking
“MacArthur.”' After having stud- 30.5 inch snow barrage, and the
ied the tennis picture from every boys once again retreated back to
angle, and, although the boys still Pec Hall. Immediately after Easter
don’t tell why they gave him the they ventured forth into the sun
name, (we can assure you it is fully shine a second time. After three
warranted.).
Anyone who year after year can
beat strategic retreats' from Ole
Man Weather on the one flank,
the lack of interest and apathetic
attitude of students toward tennis
on the other, and the building ex
pansion program, yet keep turning
out tennis teams on the tiny clay
peninsula still remaining like
Roethke does, certainly deserves
the name “MacArthur."
The weather ruri-around has be
come an annual affair for Itoethke.
This year the netmen have been
confined almost exclusively to
midnight drills in Rec Hall. With the building of Pond Lab
Last month they had three days the best courts on the campus were
of outdoor practice on the asphalt ploughed under,
court, which somebody has aptly Potential tepnis counts haye be
termed “Pinchot’s Plaza.” In ap- qome.,' parking lots instead. Over
peai'ance and smoothness it com- tjegide }he varsity courts such a lot
paves very favorably with the old h a S 't>een built. ‘Ruipor has it tfiat
life lot was fiile.d with automobiles
once last Fall ' during Alumni
Homecoiping weekend. The rumor
is unconfirmed, however. Now,
with the .demise of the automobile,
parking lots are becoming an ex
pensive luxury.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Lacrosse Team Battles
Navy At Annapolis Today
Lion Slickmen Aim
For Surprise Win
Glenn's Injury
Proved Sprain
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April
A gleam of light amid a shadow 10 _ Penn State’s lacrosse team
of darkness hung over the Penn, arrived here today for their open-
Sta|te track world yesterday. The ing game with a strong undefeated
light came from reports from Col- Navy team tomorrow afternoon,
lege medical officials reassuring Coach Nick Thiel’s squad, hack
Chick Werner through X-ray irom a losing practice session with
studies that Johnny Glenn’s ankle John Hopkins, 1941 national cham
is not broken as was feared pions, at Baltimore last week, has
Thursday. gone through a rigid training
The sprain, received during a schedule and has bolstered the
physical education class, is severe weak spots discovered during last
enough to possibly keep him from week’s practice tilt.
participation in the Penn Relays,
April 24 and 25. Werner ex
plained, however, that a sprain so
serious might be more injurious
to his work this year than a break
■would have been.
This is especially important Pacing the Lion defense will be
with a high jumper The strain Mort Saler at his net position and
of taking off and landing on the Captain Bill Ziegenfus at the first
jumps is greater than any con- defense spot, outstanding perfor
nected with straight running. This mers in the Johns Hopkins tilt,
fact and a possibility of slow Saler and Ziegenfus were main
healing of the injury are hardly stays oti last year’s varsity,
overshadowed by the favorable The remaining positions will be
report from the infirmary. ‘ filled by Howie Hausner at point,
The rest of the team held work- M. Gotwals at cover-point,
outs yesterday despite the incle- George Pittinger at second defense,
ment weather. Field men who and Jim Ritter at center after hav
could find room held, drills under been moved up from the see
the stands on New Beaver Field ond
white runners got their daily Tom Mitchell has been placed at
grinds on the boards of the track first attack being reinforced at that
in Rec Hall slot by Mark Smgley at second at
qte. '• tack. Bob Koch at in-home and
This, mcidentally, is another _ , , , _ . ,
j , , , y , Sam Flenner at out-home complete
dark shadow. That makes two “ ... ~ , ~ . ,
dark to one light. Insistent snow lineup for the Thiel
apd raip leaye the team with poor m R oUnding out ihe traveling ros
ohance to get in proper condition are charlie Temkovit£i j im
before they must take part m H ewitt, Ray Sundback, Bill Briner,
their first meet in two weeks. Jim Hen d e rson, Charlie Lockwood,
Wayne Bitner, Dick Juve, Bill Pi
per, and Dick Ross.
The rugged Middies, in two pre
vious games this year, have van
quished Dartmouth' and Harvard
by overwhelming scores.
resents Problem
■macadam roads for which ex-Gov-
more days of practice they were
driven back to Rec Hall again in
a cross-fire of rain and snow. And
their season goes Wednesday.
With the exception of golf, ten
nis is perhaps the one game in
which most students will engage
after they graduate; yet it is in a
state of decline here at Penn Estate.
Facilities are at a new low, too.
Building expansion on campus
has also taken its toll. Ai though
the student population usually in
creases from year to year, we now
have fewer tennis facilities than
were available 20 years ago.
Sigma Phi Alpha Elects
Newly elected officers of Sigma
Phi Alpha fraternity are presi
dent, Edward P. Arters '43; vice
president, Philip R. Thomford ’43:
secretary, Walter L. Dutton ’45;
treasurer, E. Dean Stanton ’44;
and caterer, Martin B. YarnelT ’45.
Special to the Collegian
Believing his team to be strong
er on the defensive side of the
game than on the offensive, Coach
Thiel expressed the belief that the
Lion stickmen would fight a hard
battle with the Midshipmen.
Goodwin Elected
'43 Hockey Captain
Burton Anthony and Tom
Goodwin were elected captains,
and Charles Sorber and Paul
Panneton were chosen Els man
agers for the 1943 hockey season
at elections held recently. encounters
Goodwin, a sophomore, will be Acting manager for the coming
the acting captain for next sea- season will be Panneton, who suc
son, replacing Larry Lightbody, ceeds Johnny Clark,
who captained the Lion puckmen Anthony and Sorber, both jun
through the recent ceimpaign that iors, will be graduated before the
saw the Lions win five out of six next hockey season rolls around.
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Batmen Postpone
W. Maryland Tilt,
Point For D-Son
With this afternoon’s scheduled
baseball game against Western
Maryland postponed, Coach Joe
Bedjenk’s diamond minions settled
down today to prepare for Dick
inson College on New Beaver
field Wednesday.
Practice is called for 2 o’clock
this afternoon, and if weather
conditions remain the same, the
Lion nine will work out upder the
New Beaver field stands and in
Rec Hall, where they werie con
fined yesterday.
“Wte can’t do anything if the
weather stays like this,” said
Coach Sedenk, looking at the
low, gray clouds as rain drizzled
down.
However, the baseball mentor
is hopeful, the skies will cliear by
Wednesday, so the Penn State
squad can get started on its sche
dule, even though lack of prac
tice may make the Lions under
dogs.
Last, year the home nine scored
an easy win over the Dickinson
Red Devils, 5-2, in a mid-season
contest. Two of this year’s ex-'
pfected starters shared in the win,
as Captain Bill Debler, first base
man, collected a hit and a run,
and Shortstop Whitey Thomas du
plicated Debler’s feat.
If the Blue and White doesn’t
get a chance to see action against
the Dickinson lads, two more op
portunities will occur next week
end when Gettysburg and Col
gate travel here Friday and Sat
urday, respectively.
Franny Farris, slated to start
at second base, is still followed by
an injury jinx. Farris’ knee has
been causing him trouble and he
may have to be replaced at the
keystone spot by sophomore Ed
Sebastianelli. Last year, a broken
ankle sidelined Farris after the'
stalrt of the season.
Three Alumni Made Gadeis
Shirley K. Smith of State Col
lege and two other former Penn
State students, Alfred H. Austin
and S. E. Gardner, Jr., are in the
final stage of their Aviation Cadet
training at Foster Field, Victoria,
Texas.