FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1943. •"» v—* - W.VirginiaCagers toiniiiate Lions' All-Opponent Five All Severn lions Pick Mountaineer Hamilton ’West Virginia University’s bas ketball' team, Which defeated the iiions at Morgantown this season and'then came to Rec. Hall to lose, was' honored'by the Penn State varsity basketball team by having two of their players selected for the Lions all-opponent team. .'■Scotty Hamilton, star AU-Amer ican captaih of the Mountaineers, received a special honor frofrr the Lions 'by.••being voted the outstand ing single player. Every man of the seven' first stringers who voted cast.'his "vote for Hamilton as de servirig-a; first string position. ..JohnMahnken, from the Hoyas -of- Georgetown, polled six first place" Votes ■ and one second place vote'.to -rate the runner-up spot. Following Mahnken came Tay Ma larkey of Pitt, jftrry Fleishman of NYU, and Joe Walthall, second Mountaineer.. to make the first team. r 1 ■ “ f -team is dominated b|y;,iVfiishingt9n and Jefferson and <3efligßto.wn:.cagers. Hartman and Zellprs. represent die, Little Presi dents:;while Kraus and Kostecka rpake the-team for the Hoy as. i Three players from Georgetown, . Templerand “Washington and Jef ■ fefsfth . received at least one’vote to top.tfie' list. Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia,',.and New York Univer sity each placed two men on the -Lions’ select list. ■ The* Lions' selections follow: FIRST TEAM , .. Scotty Hamilton, West Virginia . i, John Mahnken, Georgetown Tay Malarkey. Pitt Jerry;' Fleishman, NYU •Joe Warthall, West Virginia 'SECOND TEAM Dan Kraus/ Georgetown HuckJHaitxnaii, W. & J. '4 Geotge? Grejjchell, Temple . i. Georgetown . i aSSEziSgrs'cW. &J. . ./Ralph Furquer. W. St J.f .-Brinh, Qdrnegie : "Tech: Bobb, .Temples MfcGlaughlinit -Temple? -Grenert •ijjyU:; Syracuse? ,■ Stanton, Syracuse:and Artman, Pitt. clairs ..!Buns. . I Cakes, 7-'i Pies. . ! kiinffry Already? .. ;Then satisfy it | . Vr.-xby buying i •; at the | ELECTRIC BAKERY iiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii COLLEGIAN SPORTS s-. v• IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIHIIII Pacing it out with two of the country’s best milers, Dodds and Mitchell, in the Cleveland Arena tonight will'be Gerry Karver, Penn State’s star miler. Karvei;, running in Cleveland’s Knights of Columbus invitation mile competition, will attempt to score an upset over the favored and much more? experienced opponent duo. For the past lew years, the Lions could rely on Barney Ewell to clinch a title here or there, but since Barney's graduation, it has been left up to Karver to carry the Blue and White colors to the most well-known track meets in the country. When Gerry begins his trek towards the finish line tonight, he will be gunning for another victory to add to an impressive,list of wins that dates back to. his high school days. A win today, though, would place him near the top of the list of the nation’s best milers—a feat worthy of the effort involved in keeping up with the fast pace that will undoubtedly be set by Boston’s Gil Dodds. Looking back on Gerry's track career, we find that the lanky ttiinclad from Boyerstown High went through three years of scholas tic competition without a single defeat for the one-half mile and mile But let’s start at the beginning and see how Karver began to com pete in track meets. It was the persistent, coaxing by a classmate on the : vgh school track squad that saw Gerry don the spikes and start on bis sprinting cdreer. He began in the high jumping event, but after limited competition he injured his back and dropped out of the race for the rest of his freshman year. Gerry came back the next year, but this time, up on the insistence ot his coach, it was for the one-half mile distance. He won his first race in this, distance, representative of the victories which he was to garner,-He also tried hi* ban* at cross-country running. This proved to be -a successful venture, for the same year he was crowned cross country champ et the lnterseholastic competition held here at State College.' He placed 22nd in ’the Ifationals the * a *ne year. When the yesr 1940 rolled around, karver again qcjded the cross-- country'title ’to his laurels, qs : well as the state, one-half and mile ciiampion§htps:-The latthf?incidentally, .was done in' a record time of 4;27.8,'1n he ran third, a great iniprove- -previqtj?.^'season’s running.■' ' - championships were determined, this. tW®. that Karvfr prst - caught the 'eye of 'the Mfh traek hut when the time .-arrived,.for,. Geiry to'ieayf for the caropus, he changed his mind and '.'cam's to Ben’h Stfte; a break for which;the Lions should be thankful. ■'' ■ i’ lt 'Was the -'same story. during -Karver’s senior- year, at Boyerstown cii^^pOTp^tunmpn?hips; v and againthey Were in-mile and half rhiie rims. Before, Sta^’ College, lie ran as anchor man in itije Penn Medley Relay meet with his.high school teammates and turn-, 4:26 for the final fmledistance. ■ V Most "notajhlf achievement during Gerry's first year at College was <?f the IC4rA. freshman crosscountry jog in New York City. Prior to this he had been the first runner to break the tape in dual freshman meets with Syracuse and Cornell- His indoor compe tition was limited to b meet at Cornell. *t which time he anchored for the victorious Lion medley relay* team.. In the Spring of ’42, he won the mile and two-mile treks against both the Temple Owls and Cornell Reds. He set the two-mile record during th Cornell playoffs, and a motith or so later he broke the Col lege mile record with a time of 4:21, four seconds better than the old mark. At a meet with-CorneU oh July 4, Gerry took the mile run and placed fourth in the 600-yard dash. Cross-country competition in the Fall of ’42 found Karver noif running against varsity opponents. He took third place against Man hattan, sixth at Michigan State, and tied with four teammates for the top position against Syracuse. He ran 12th in the IC4-A meet and ijth in the Nationals held at Michigan, bui his-best in such competition was a fifth plafce in the National AAU tournament at which time he ian under the colors of the Shanahan A. C. of Philadelphia. fn the only dual meet during the winter season, Karver took the mile and one-half mile runs. Last month he placed fifth in the Nation al AAU I.OOOr-yard dash, and second during the IC4-A meet, when he was -beaten by Forddhaim’s Norwicki. A week or so after the Inter collegiates, Gerry took revenge "by beating Norwicki in Washington’s Catholic University invitation -meet. He ended the winter season by running a 2:12.5 for the best time'this yea* in the 1,000 event. This he accomplished at the Knights of Columbus meet in Madison Square Gardens. ; • ■ ■ Such a record undoubtedly makes some-sports fans optimistic as to Karver's chances in loday's race. but when you have -to buck against runners whohavebeen;in: fast-competition for the past -several-years, it's a different story. . Gefry’s main hope'-will'bg.in attempting to keep pace \vith the ■leader, will probably be_Dodds. Singe Dodds is aiming to clinch the gold trophy with a time somwhere around 4:10, Karver will have- a big job if he is able to -stick to the Boston Flash’s Heels. This is something which Gerry has never tried before—a fast start. ' Earl Mitchell also has - hopes of grabbing the' trophy, for last year he took the race with a time of 4:10.5. Considering all the facts, we can boil it down to this: that all contestants are out for a victory, with Karver being handicapped through lack of experience. If -seems practically an impossibility for Gerry to hope for a win, but we know he will'have done his best, whatever the result ma> - be. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN By STEPHEN SINICHAK ' Spring Sports Schedule BASEBALL April 12 Navy 17 Temple 19 ' Pittsburgh 21 Muhlenberg 23 West Virginia 24 West Virginia 30 Syracuse May | L Syracuse 7 Colgate 8 Syracuse 12 Bucknell .15 Pittsburgh LACROSSE 10 Johns Hopkins 22 Johns Hopkins 24 Navy May 1 Maryland 5 Cornell 8 Syracuse 15 Army TENNIS April , o * •' 17 Swarthmore * away 23 Muhlenberg home 28 Bucknell home May 1 Gettysburg home 5 Cornell home 8 Pittsburgh home 12 Navy away 13 Pennsylvania away 15 Carnegie Tech home TRACK April 23-24 Penn Relays away May 1 Ohio State home 8 Pittsburgh home 14-15 I.C.A.A.A.A. away GOLF May ' 8 Teams of Northern and Southern Division, E.1.G.A., 36-hole medal play elimina tions 9 Play-off: 2 teams 36-hole - . medal, ; : ,at . Princeton, .N, J. ‘ (Teams -, in ipopapetUion , Dartmouth, Pennsylvania’,: Princeton," Penn State, and ■ probably. Army, Navy, Cor • nelf, Hply Cross, Pittsburgh; and Williams.) DO YOU PIG ITT Submitted by Betty Boaz, Bloomington, Indiana fa' Popsi-Cola Company, Sigma Pi, Sigma Nu Tie For IM Basketball Championship away home { home home home home home By ART STOBER Climaxing five weeks of intra mural basketball, last .night’s championship . playoffs saw a tie develop for the fraternity league championship between Sigma Pi No. 1 and Sigma Nu as the result of the latter’s victory, and the Vagabonds nose out Podunk Prep to become the independent loop champs. Sigma Nu, led by high scorers Bob Merker and Gordon' Wolfkiel, completely outplayed and stopped; Sigma Pi for their first defeat in. the playoffs by a 17-9 score. Seven points were scored by both of the White Star high scorers, while Jim Gotwals, Walt Funk, and Larry Faries tallied four, three, and two points respectively to account for the losers’ score. The independent championship wasn’t decided until the last 30 of play. when the Vaga bonds’ Jack Krauss wrote an Hor atio Alger’s finish to the tilt by sinking the deciding field goal, breaking a 20-20 tie. Ingleside Club won second berth in the independent league by-vir tue of their 25-12 victory over Allen Co-op, the only other inde pendent game played during the evening. Gruberville J. V. won a forfeit over Bell A." C., and the Lions Den-Fletcher House game was cancelled. '• I The __ fraternity boys of Beta. Theta Pi tangled brothers in the fraternity circuit as their Number one team downed their' number two, 20-15. Gene Sutherland be came the ‘inumber one” Beta by tallying eight paints .for the'Cum ber one -team to wear the high scoreris crown. •- .-.Kappa Sigma forfeited to Sigrng. Chi, • and Ph'i -Kappd Psi did like . Wise to Phi Sigma' Kappa. ■ *, The referees for the champion ship tilts were Sid Cohen, Clay Zundel, “Ducky” Swan, and Lee Reinheimer. home away away home away home away away away away home away - f OO^H, «***3Sr‘ *, fc ms&^j CtSy,N. ong Isi sn. PAGEJTHRES Boftiid locally by 'nrarcbh?..'. !3otl let's
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