WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942
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•The Lions
Wilh DON DAVIS
' Sports Editor
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Just An Avocation
. Best known for his speed on the
'gridiron with football under arm,
Cliff St. Clair has turned to differ
.ent spheres of action this Spring
—and yesterday he came through
with a new frosh record for the
half mile in 1:58.7. The old record
held by G. Offenhauser set in 1926
was 1:58.8. Although his run was
’not .during a meet, it was consid
ered official as the frosh trackmen
4 are out of competition but are not
as yet eligible for varsity running.
When a boy is a. natural athlete
as Si. Clair appears to be, it is for
tunate that he is able to partici
pate in more than one sport. Al
though it has often been the case
■in the past that football players
were discouraged from taking
pari in other sports, this situation
- seems to. be clearing up. Of course,
a. football player should not ne
glect the gridiron during football
practice, Bui in off-seasons par
ticipation in other sports seems to
us a wholesome, condition.
IG4-A Chatter
Let’s take a look into next week
' end when the ICAAAA spiked
shoe festival gets under way at
Triborough Stadium, Randall’s Is
land. Winners of this winter’s in
door IC4-A’s, the Nittany Lions
■are favorites for outdoor competi
tion with their strongest opposi
tion in the form of Leslie Mac-
Mitchell and his N.Y.U. contingent.
• Need it be said that Barney
Ewell will be leading the Lion
forces as he seeks his third straight
triple to impressively wind up his
collegiate track career. And Bar
ney is favored to do just this —a
feat which would.surpass the forty
year record , of. Alvin C. Kraenz
lein, the 'Pennsylvania hero of
1898, 1899 and 1900, who won eight
outdoor titles in three years.
However it will take-more than
Ewell's 15 points to wrest the team
. title from N.Y.U. It will be just
as necessary for point winners to
come through in other events.
Coach Werner's track squad has
the men to pick up these points
also. Norm Gordon should be
good for third or fourth in the mile
and Curt Stone should place
equally well in the two mile run.
•In fact. Stone's time at the Penn
Relays was the fourth fastest in
the country this season for official
meets.
If Johnny Glenn is fully recov
ered, there is no telling how well
he will do in the high jump. But
he should definitely be a leading
contender. Other possible point
winners are 'Barney iPlesser in the
low hurdles, Mac Smith in the half
mile, Joe Bakura in the pole vault,
and javelin, Saul Kanin in the shot
•Don Dolbin in the sprints and Lou
Borges in the javelin.
Randall’s Island will undoubt
edly be. the scene of Barney’s
greatest field day this weekend —
and deservedly so. But equally
more important will be an all
around showing by the dozen or
so possible scorers. For this will
mean the climaxing of a truly
‘great Lion track campaign.
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St Clair smashes
Frosh 880 Record
In Late Workout
In a post-season workout yes
terday, Cliff St. Clair, frosh track
and football star, tried and suc
ceeded in officially cracking the
freshman College record in the Disregarding a superstition
halt mile with a time of 1:57.7, making 13 a lucky number for
one-tenth of a second better than him, Chick Werner will take 14
the old record. Nittany trackmen with him to the
Kept from competition in the IC4-A meet in New York Fridav
two frosh meets held rather early and Saturday. These 14, led 'by
in the season, by Spring football stalwart Barney Ewell, will take
drills, St. Clair was unable to take on the big job of upholding the
a flier at any of the frosh records, favorite place the experts have
but has proven himself in this last given them in pre-meet prognosti
effort during workouts that cations
weren’t compulsory Time trials held. yesterday af-
Th .s effort‘s in keeping wdh a ternoon were the deciding factor
plan of Coach Chick Werner’s al- in picking the men wh( f would
lowing the former freshmen now make the Lion . squad, cutting
rated as upperclassmen but not having been made an l mmens °
permitted to compete in upper- task b financial restrictions on
class contests because the current the numbei . who , would be able to
season is the end of their fresh- make the trf
man season, to try to garner Col- The mi!e relay event was the
lege titles. only one which had to be cut en
' Wer f n Tu l yCSt r^ ay i tirely because Werner did not
any of the members of the squad want to h tQO hard the men
would have this privilege since who were tr ing for meet titles .
they will miss an entire season Ewell would undoubtedly have
because of. the accelerated College had to run on the rel team had
program. He said several other, Qne been entered .
attempts would be made before Entries decided on esterday at
training stopped within several ffie time trials are Ewell| 100 , 220,
weeks> • and broad jump; Don Dolbin, 100
and 220, Norm Gordon, mile and
two mile; Curt Stone, two mile;
(Herm Goffberg, two-mile; (Mac
Smith, 880; Gene Nevill and Bar
ney Ple’sser, high and low hurdles;
Captain Joe Bakura, pole vault
and javelin; Sol Hanin, shot put,
javelin and discus; Lou Borges,
javelin; Johnny Glenn, high jump;
Len Frescoln, discus, and IMarty
Schiff; iOO and 220.
Haphazard training during the
two weeks since the end of last
semester may hamper the team
this weekend. (Men who gradu
ated last semester, but still eligible
for competition this meet, and un
dergraduates who dropped out of
school for the Summer have been
forced to practice at home or to
stay here at their own expense
and practice when they had time.
Werner reports most of the team
in good shape. All are back on
the campus and have started to
practice but Captain (Bakura who
is scheduled to arrive here today.
The team will leave tomorrow
for New York arriving -there to
morrow night in order to get well
rested before the qualification
trials begin Friday afternoon.
Life Saving Added
Life Saving and Water Safety,
a one credit course, has been add
ed to the curriculum of . the
School of Physical Education and
Athletics. The new course, list
ed as 181, will be given during
the first three weeks of the Sum
mer semester. Senior Red Cross
life saving is, a prerequisite. Re
gistration for the course must be
made before 4 p. m. tomorrow.
Frosh Counselors
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Thorman, Edward J. Meyers
Thomas Ridge, Albert : Faust,
Charles B. Eider, Thomas F.
Becker, Joseph Hodin, Dave Gold
smith, Gilbert Weinberger, George
N. Rumsey, Lynn Kippax, Thomas
E. Wilcox, George S. Roy, Rudolph
Bloom, Edward Steidle Jr., John
Fowler, Harry M. Locke, Robert
Atkins, Donald T. Davis, William
Cooner, Howard Casselberry,
Richard Allen, Jack Struck, Theo
dore Taylor, Robert Markle, Jos
eph Bregar, Charles Gundlach,
John Huck, Richard Booser.
Pyer To Hurl Against Pitt Nine
In Clash For Navy Relief Fund
Penn State . students will get
their first opportunity to use ath
letic books for the new semester
at what promises to be one of the
best baseball games of thfe year
on the New Beaver Field diamond
at 2:30 p. m. Saturday.
Pitt, one of the Nittany Lions’
keenest rivals, will provide the
opposition in the Memorial Day
battle, proceeds of which will go
to the Navy Relief Fund. Tickets
for non-holders of AA books cost
50 cents, and a silver collection
will be taken so that students may
aid the cause.
Coach Joe Bedenk said he ex- six members of Cwens, sopho
pects to start Warren “Whitey” more women’s honorary, will as-
Pyer on the mound. Pyer, a sist at the- Memorial Day tilt,
right-handed sophomore, was They include Mary “Grace Longe
dubbed “fireman” because of his necker, president, Patricia Diener,
repeated success as relief pitcher. j u dy McFarland, Carol Emerick,
. Vivian Martin, and Florinne V.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Fourteen Lions To Tackle
Large Field In IC4-A’s
Entries Set In Time
Trials Held Yesterday
Two players, Franny Farris,
leading - hitter on the club, and
Paul Lazar, reserve moundsman,
will be absent from the lineup
since they graduated, although in
tercollegiate rules would permit
them to round out the regular
season.
If inclement weather should
force postponement of the fray,
tickets will be honored at a Cor
nell vs. Penn State game here
July 18, one of the contests the
Blue and White will play this
Summer. Full Summer sche
dule has not been released.
Tickets for townspeople, are
now on sale at the State College
Elks Club and at the Athletib
Store. Members of the State Col
lege’ Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs
are also, selling tickets.-
In th‘e previous encounter with
the Panther baseball nine, the
Lions nosed out the Pitt boys,
7-5, after 11 innings of play. Lead
ing most of the game, the Nittany
squad found themselves dead
locked, 5-5, at the end of the
ninth gnd rallied to win in the
LAUGHS AT SUPERSTITION—
Coach Chick Werner, proverbial
follower of unlucky “13” as a
team number, laughed in the face
of his old tradition this year by
picking 14 men to represent 'Penn
State in the IC4-A’s.
Lion All-Stars
In Tilt Tonight
BALTIMORE, Md., May 27
Plenn State’s two lacrosse stars,
Jim Gotwals and Tom Mitchell,
after running through light drills
with other members of the all
star North stick team, are await
ing the annual lacrosse classic to
be played under the arc-lights to
night on the Johns Hopkins field.
Gotwals, a- defenseman and
captain-elect for the Nittany
team, and Mitchell, a star attack
man for the Lions, expect to see
action for the Northern ten which
is being coached by Nick Thiel,
head mentor.
The Southern team will .be
made up of star players from Vir
ginia, Penn, Washington and Lee,
Drexel, Swarthmore, Loyola of
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, and
Maryland. ,
Tonight’s battle of the cham
pions will mark the third time
that the North-South game has
been played. Competition will
be close since each team has tak
en one. game apiece. Experts
have not decided upon the favor
ite because both teams are con
sidered strong.
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Two Riflemen Gef
All-American Bid
Harold Yount and George Le
Worthy of the Penn State Varsity
Rifle Team have been selected as
members of the Golden 'Bullets
All-American Rifle Team for 1942.
Yount and LeWorthy have gain
ed this recognition by the splen
did firing which they have done
throughout the past season, cli
maxed by their accomplishments
at the sectional tournament. Ken
neth Yount, the frosh marksman,
could not be considered for this
honor due to the fact that such a
bid has never been granted to a
freshman.
As a reward for their efforts,
Mr. C. 'B. Lister, Secretary-Treas
urer the All-American Association,
awarded Yount and LeWorthy
with two golden bullets and let
ters of commendation.
Penn State was the only team in
the country to have two entries in
the Collegiate All - American
match.
LeWorthy and Yount were sel
ected as two of the best riflers in
the country to make up the 10
man team picked by the National
Rifle Association each year.
Although Ken Yount could not
be considered Mr. Lister said that
Ken will surely be a member of
the team in the near future. The
scores which he fired this year
certainly predict a splendid future
for him as a Penn State rifleman,
he said.
Beta Sigma Rho Elects
Samuel G. Fredman ’43 was re
cently elected president of Beta
Sigma Rho. Other new officers
include Richard H. Schiffner ’44,
vice-president; Louis S. Kapnek
’43, treasurer; Joseph Hodin ’44,
caterer; Allen S. Uendler ’44,
warden; and Morris M. Wein ’45,
recorder. ■ •
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