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Nittany Golf, Track Teams Seek E/GL, IC-4A Horior
Linksmen Face Tough
Rivals At Princeton
Penn State's twice-defeated
golfers will tee off against the
best the East ha s to offer at
Princeton tomorrow morning,
when seven colleges on the sea
board swing their driving irons
for the Eastern Intercollegiate
Golf League crown.
'Defending , champs • frOm the
1943 medal play tourney is strong,
undefeated: Navy. The midship
men scuttled Coach Bob Ruther
ford!s Nittany Lions at Annapolis
two weeks ago, 9-0, and then
whipped the- Penn Staters, 6-3, on
the College greens last week.
• Bright hope for points on the
Penn State sextet is Marine Pvt.
Ramon Peterson, winner last Sat
urday against his Annapolis op
ponent, and number one man on
the • Nittany varsity. Little Bob
Rosenfeld, also a victory against
the Midshipmen, is expected to
:make a strong bid for a title in
the 36-hole championship play.
Extra Man Goes
Joe S'hein, Char=es Winter, Ed
Phillips, Bill Smith, and Jack
Martin will be the remaining Lion
hopefuls. Only four of these men
Will compete for points in the
championship playoffs, but Ruth
erford is carrying an extra man
with the squad,. as is customary
.for intercollegiate title tourneys.
Army's West. Point cadets are
expected to give the Middies their
strongest opposition. in the meet;
but entries . from Dartmouth, Yale,
Princeton, and' Cornell, in addi
tiori to several Penn State poss
ibilities, may upset pre-champ
lionship - -dope.
Cornell, whipped by Army 9-0,
is given_tat chance to cop
the crown.
3. Clubs lied As
IMA Softball Starts
: Three • teams, Mattil's, Nittany
Co-op and Beaver House, are tied
:for first place in the IMA Soft
ball League. The games are play
ed on the college golf course ev
ery Monday and Friday evenings
at 6:30.
• The standing of the nine teams
and the new schedule of games
has just • been announced:
W L
Mattil's 2 0 •
Nittany Co-op 2 0
" Beaver House 2 0
Penn Haven - 1 0
Allen Co-op 0 I
Fletcher's 0
Lutheran's 0 1
Pioneer House 0 2
Penn State Club .... 0 2
Tonight these teams will try to
better their standings in the
league: Mattil's vs Penn . State
Club, Fletcher's vs Allen Co-op.
Lutheran's vs Beaver House, Pio
neer House .v sPenn Haven.
. On Monday, the teams playing
will be Mattil's vs Pioneer House;
Lutheran's vs Penn Haven,
Fletcher's vs Penn State Club;
Nittany Co-op vs Beaver House.
Babe Didrikson Enters
Chicago Golf Nationals
' CHICAGO, May 18—(1P)—Mil
tired "Babe" Didrikson, former
Olympic champion turned golfer,
has accepted an invitation to the
second annual victory national
golf championship s June 28-July
2. Chicago District Golf Associa
tion officials said today.
• She will compete in the pro
ladies 36-hole event, which will
be played the first two days of
the meet.
Other stars who already have
indicated their intentions to par- ,
ticipate- in the meet include Olin
Dutra, Henry Picard, Tommy Ar
mour, Jimmy Hines, Johnny
Dawson, Ells Worth Vines and
Gene Sarazen.
Nittany Lions Aim For 2nd
Win Over Pitt On Diamond
Walter Better Than .
!Whitey' InKurowski .
League claims Ray
Within' the family, circle
"Whitey" Kurowski of the-
St. Louis Cardinals rank sec=
and to his brother,. Walter; as
a hitter, according. to Ray
Kurowski, second sacker for
the Nittany Lions this season
until ruled out by ineligi
bility.
Walter, who at 26 is two
years older 'than his major
league kin and five years old
er than the Penn State marine
trainee, formerly competed in
football, basketball and base
ball at Muhlenberg. He's now
a chief specialist in the Navy,
stationed at Bainbridge, Md.
Netmen To Play
In Smoky thy
Face Carnegie Tech, Pitt
In Weekend Contests
With good playing, weather' a
big help, Coach Ray - Dickison
finds his tenths team in prime
shape for their matches with
Carnegie Tech and the. Pitt Pan
thers •on the Sinoky City courts
this weekend. •
'Hindered in - the early part of
the season by the Mount Nittany
elements,, the squad has come
along, rapidly with steady prac
tice and should' boast a better av
erage at season's end than the
early season results would indi
cate.
The Nittany Lions dropped con
tests to Swarthmore and Cor
nell in away meets, but won from
Colgate and Muhlenberg in home
encounter's.
Today's line-up will show one
change from last Saturday's start
ing combine. Bob Tuttle, consign
ed to the Infirmary with an ad
vanced cold, will be in playing
condition and ready to take on
the third singles role.
Walt Stenger plays first singles;
Ed Meyer will tackle the second
singles position.
NO. 1 Man Unbeaten
Stenger, according to the Lion
mentor, owes his unbeaten rec
ord in dual meets this season . to
big improvements in his overhead
game. ' This year, his all-around
Play has been vastly better, Dick-.
ison said. •
The unofficial Nittany net cap-,
tain ha s captured 'his first four
starts this year and has a good
chance of going through the •sea
son without a loss, according to
Dickison.
Ed Perry will be Coach Dick
ison's nomination for the third
singles slot and will team up
with Tuttle in the second doubles
combination for the Lions.
Bob Rossheim will face the
Skibo s in fifth place and Herb
Beckhard will hold down sixth
singles.
In the other doubles matches,
Stenger and Meyer play first
doubles and Rossheim and Beck
hard will take on the third
doubles pair.
Beckhard is the only civilian on
the starting line-up for the net
men. Stenger, Tuttle and Ross
heim are sailors, Meyer and Per
ry Marines.
Nittany Co-op will hold open
house at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. The
public is invited according to
Bernice McFate, president.
THE COLLEGIAN
Penn State's roaring Lion will
be nipping in the Pitt Panther
lair tomorrow afternoon, after
clawing the Sthoky City. team, 113 , -
03= in their Mount-Nittany din last
week.
It' will be • the • opehtrig of a
4eek's hostilities for the Penn
State team. Jcie Bedenk .' viill :use
!his star hurler,: Mike - Wardrcip
for 'the csaadion: filreit,j.Within
seven•days, three more•• Lion hurl=
ers will' go into action against
Bucknell on home grounds,. and•
Lehigh - and • Muhlenberg on •for 4
eign fields.
'Last week's game against the
Panthers had everything, includ
ing Al Richard s pilfering of home
plate in the. fourth stanza. Wee
Willie Proctor was tagged for
nine hiti, but fanned eight of his
opponents to sqUare the books.
At the plate, the Lion batters
will be hitting through a porous
Pitt infield,
.and seven Panther
errors put the game on the re
•ceipt side of •the win-lose ledger.
With the aid of a pair of bin
gles by • Richards, Carle, and
Bruhn, and a single swat by ev
eryone but Urion, and Sylvester,
the Lion hurler. coasted 'along,.
taking. painless- batterings, in .the
fourth, seventh ..,and eighth- -in
nings.
No 'New- .Deal
Bedenk. will. not shuffle -.his
line-up for tomorrow's • session
with the wobbly. Panther;.. so, Ed:
, Haller, will again be •behind..the'
plate; and Alltiehards,,Dale Bow . ;
6r, Gerry. Carle, and Johnny. , Sch ,
leisger will handle infield , chores.
In the gardens,.. Johnny Syl-'
vester, Earl Bruhn,, and. Bob
Urforf will get starting, assign—
ments. •
Wednesday afternoon the Lions
come badk to their,homeland pas•
-
tures to tangle with the.Bucknelt
nine. Joe Golembeike will prob
ably get the - nod for mound duty
against the Lewisburg batters.
Phi Sigma Dells Beat
Phi Sigma Kaps In
Fraternity Softball
The fraternity mushball. league,
formed a couple of weeks ago, is
gaining momentum.
Phi Sigma Delta licked Phi
Sigma Kappa 7-5 on the golf
course diamond the other night.
The schedule• follows:
May 23—Delta Sigma Phi vs
Phi Kappa . Sigma; Beta Sig
ma Rho vs :Phi Sigma Delta
May 24—Phi Sigma Kappa vs
Sigma Phi Alpha; Alpha. Kappa_
Sigma vs Triangle; Delta Sig-
ma Phi vs Phi Sigma Delta
'May 25—Phi •Sigma Kippa'vs
Sigma Chi
Results of the contests should
be immediately reported to Stu
dent Union.
Miler Is Weatherman
Gerry Karver, promising Penn
State miler in the prewar era,
now is serving the Army Air
Forces as a meteorologist.
Westminster Discussion
Westminster Fellowship will
feature a panel discussion, in the
Fireside Room, 6:20 Sunday ev
ening. Servicemen will lead the
discussion, with Pvt. A. M. Linn,
USMCR', in charge.
Thursday morning in the Fire
side room the ninth regular early
morning breakfast was held,
. Members of the Women's Army
Corps on ziuty with. the Army. Air
Forces get flYing.pay- 7 =.50. - per cent
dyer their base pay—it their jobs
require them to fly ,regularly,
Penn State will be among the 30 colleges represented in
the 69th running of the Annual AAAA outdoor track chain
pionships at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, tomorrow.
Track coach George Harvey reveals that the trial re
sults of Wednesday might necessitate &change in the milere:-
lay •line.up which won the class .B mile -retay-Championship
at the Philadelphia Penn Belays reiently.
Bobby trones;. , regular relay •berthman, .re:centlY hijute4
himself training, and
this:- Mishap threw' an . Obst*C:-
Scoritv Low
ace: Big .Red.
The. scoring punch of 'former
Nittany lacrosse teams is . still
among the missing as Coach Niel(
Thiel primes• hi s team for to
morrow's game with the Cornell
Big Red at.lthaca.
Against Swarthmore last week,
the Lions played on a par with the
Garnet during the last half when
both teams scored three times, but
could not make up the deficit of
five goals scored against them
the first stanza.
Offensive play is improving,
though, according to Thiel, who
has had to develop am almost en
tirely, new squad for varsitY com
petition this . season. '
• Bob Maddocks• and. Tom Smith,.
neither of whom had seen a la
crosse stick. until commencement
of .activities this year broke into
the - line -hp against SW . arthmOre;
and ; •'liiet wpsPrepared to norn :
irate another this week,. until; he
learned that . Ted Wilh'elm'jract
wrenched his °ankle :and : would
probably be unable to compete.
The same- starting lirre-up. as
last week faCe off- against
Ctirnell 'tomorrow. The Big - Red
team- held unbeaten: Army. to a
EILt count last weekend.
Notes From The Cuff
Coach - Thiel, Penn State- la
croSse coach. since 1935,. won all-
American recognition as an un
dergraduate at • SyracuSe.
Dorsie Booker, substitute mid
fielder, inherits the Marine Corps.
tradition. His father was in the
service 27 years and his uncle is
a 30-year veteran.
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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1944
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le .: into - the .champion relay,
•=comhinatiorr,
:But - Coach Harvey isn't taking
his tracksters• to the Quaker city
with, dim .hopes.„, Veteran John
Dibeler,. •Marine Pvt. Dick Mc-
Cown and. John Chuckran will be
strong cendidatei tot the Lion
mile relay team. The latter's re
cent trial performances have con
vinced the Lion track mentor that
Chuckran might prove a weighty
asset to the chider squad. Bud
Lorig's injury, a strained muscle',
will possibly keep him out of
competition.
Apprentice Seaman Frank Rai
near, former Princeton runner
will compete in the broad jump
and hurdles for the Nittany Lions,
while Marine Pvt. Bush has the
most likely chance of performing
in the shot-put and discus. Pin
cus will .also be in the Penn State
ag_discus man.
Flo Yd. Lang haa..been : Diminat
, ed. by: Conch. Harvey as the' Nit
tany representative , for the iave
lim, while Smith will' carry Penn
State's'•hopes in the-half mile run.
•-•;/-
. Thirty :colleges have ';Wade- - 4:08'
indiViddal *the
event ..program. Army , -,and 4 Niivig
will•place the' largest teams:" title ,
competition, • with, 19 , ' arid. 16 . men
respectively.
Other colleges - wilt have-the fol
lowing,. number - of - • men - entered:
Boston College;, 3;. Brooklyn
lee ; 1; Colgate; -.1.0'; CitY College
of New - York, 11; Columbia, 24;.
Cornell, .19; Dartmouth, 31; Hay
erford, 3; Holy Cross; 6; Lehigh, -
6; M. I. T., 7;' Mithlenberg, 11; N.
Y. U., 28; North 'Carolina, 9;
Northeastern, 4; Pennsylvania, 27'.
Princeton, 274 Rhode'
State, 4; Rochester; 7; Rutgers, 3 •-;
Swarthmore, 12; Temple, 4; Tufts,
8; Villanova, 25; Virginia, 1; Wes
leyan, 3; West Virginia, 3.