PAGE .Fol3lc. BiLt Jeffrey and . . . Lion Booters to Participate In Preliminary Olympic Tryouts Soccer coach Bill Jeffrey and six Penn Staters will participate in a preliminary Olympic tryout game with a West Penn Association team at Bridgeville Park in Pittsburgh, 3:30 o'clock tomorrow. The Lion mentor will be in charge of the collegiate squad which also includes players from Carnegie Tech, Haverford, Lehigh, Slip pery Rock and Temple. "The contest is the first in a contemplated series of tryouts for the 1948 Olympic soccer team," said Jeffrey, Previous Olympic teams were chosen only from the amateur ranks, but coining selections will probably include college stars. Gene Graebner, John Hamilton, Tim Petroff, Lloyd Black, Paul Bender and possibly Dean Wit mer will comprise the Blue and White entries Temple's stars include' Barlow, Woodside, Hughes, and captain Laberson. Luciene of Haverford, Molner from Lehigh, Handchen from Slippery Rock and Melott from the Tartan squad complete the roster. HARTMAN OUT Dean Hartman, 1947 captain elect, was scheduled to make the trip but is remaining behind due to illness. Witmer will probably go in his place. - Lions Hamilton, 'Hartman and Graebner were selected to past All - American squads. Graebner received the award as top goalie in 1944, Hartman was selected in 1942 .and 1946 and Hamilton in 1945 and 1946. Line-up for the game will find Graebner at his usual goalie spot, Hamilton at inside right, Petroff at center halfback, Bender at out side right or left, Witmer at in side left and Black at left fullback. •SUCCESSFUL SEASON The Lions completed a success ful 1946 season with a record of seven victories against a tie with Navy and a lone defeat to Temple. Walt Stenger Paces Lion Netters; Georgetown Inaugural A Week Away With an April 18 encounter against Georgetown staring them in the face, the Penn State net team has moved into a seven-day work week in order to find the combination which Coach Sherman Fogg hopes will bring him a successful season in his first year of coaching the tennis sauad. Assisted by grad-student Jack Knede who saw service on 1940 and 1941 Lion court teams, Fogg is closely surveying the candi dates before he lets the axe fall. About 40 men are currently waging battle for playing posi tions and before the weekend is over, Fogg will have pared the aspirants down to working size. Number one man on the '43 and '44 squads,' Walt Stenger, again appears to have the inside track on the top berth STENGER PRACTICES Over the Easter. vacation, Sten ger played a great deal on his home-town • Waynesboro courts, and his mid - season form has drawn praise from his mentors. Fogg counts on '44 holdoVers Bob Tuttle, Herb Beckhard, and Joe Holtzinger to see considerable service, although Holtzinger is currently on the sidelines nursing a recurrence of a foot injury re ceived in the Army. Sessions have been ordered for Saturday and Sunda y. Intra squad matches are being planned beginning today and with a break from the weather, Fogg should have a formidable combine to go against the Hoyas in Washington Pext Friday. The next day, the couriers will COMING SOON - - - "The Barrelts of Wimpole Street" The Beautiful Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning . as presented by • The Penn Slate Players APRIL 24, 25 AND 26 Schwab Auditorium 50C Plus Tax ria DAILY: COMEGLAN; cSTA I rfe; cox ,- ,u3M.;:PAR4TXXIYANttY.,- IZ3 , : ,-:,, r , 5 ,- : .......' :::iti:E:~:ti;~ri2`:; ::> :>:: BILL JEFFREY Coach Jeffrey, in 21 years as soccer coach, has compiled an amazing record which includes a string of 65 consecutive games without defeat over an eight-year period. Records show the Blue and White booters scoring 110 victor ies while losing 6 and tying 22 games during Jeffrey's career. go against the University of Mary land at College Park and then rest a week before the April 26 home opener against Davidson College. IMPRESSIVE Number two man at Cornell while a Cayugan in the V-12, Dick Greenawalt of New Cumberland has shown impressive form in his workouts. His steady game and (Continued on page five) Fnqg from Wisconsin Shenm Fogg, newly-appointed Lion tennis coalch, is a former University of Wisconsin athlete. He later coached at the University of Vermont. Davis Coach at W and J Newly-elected end coach at Washington & Jefferson College is a former Penn State star, Bob Davis. Davis also plays ifor the Pittsburgh 'Steelers •in the pro league. Stenger Looks Good Prospective ace of the Penn State tennis team is Walt Stenger. who won nine of ten singles matches on wartime teams In 1943 and 1944.1 Martella Signs. • Oggie \ 111artella, catcher on Penn State's baseball team last season, has been signed by th e Philadelphia Phillies for their Utica farm club. Grid Practice To Continue Through April Spring football practice, resum ed after the Easter vacation, will continue until the end of April, Coach Bob Higgns said yesterday as lie expressed satisfaction with the progress of the squad during its pre-Easter drills. "Although they had only three days' practice on the field, the boys did very well against Army," the Lion mentor said. iii:±:; The "Hig" was referring to the onictice serimage garr.e at West Point last month. Penn Sto,lte was outscored two touchdowns to one by Red Blaik's Cadets. A short pass from tail back Elwood Petchel to wingback Rip Scherer accounted for the Lions' lone tally. • (Higgins, who has been experi menting. with, `the "T" during daily drills, said he was still un decided on the wisdom of adding the . formaton to . his offensikr e rep ertoire. .1 . 4 :, s , , , i gtvm .:,:illk'lligil "The singl e wing attack was by far the most effective against Army, but we plan to continue experimenting with the "T" throughout the Spring practice perod," h e said. The veteran coach, who is 'be ginning his 18th year at the helm of the Blue and White gridders, plans considerable heavy work during the next few weeks, cap ped by one or perhaps two prac tice games. Tepsic Puzzles Nittany Hot Stove Masterminds Joe Tepsic's decision to quit the Brooklyn Dodgers rather than ac cept minor league berth was just as much of a surprise to his Penn State coaches and team mates as it was to observers on the maor league baseball front. While . the former Nittany Lion athlete betrayed fits of tempena•- ment during his brief college ca reer, no one ever suspected that he would permit it to interfere with his big league baseball am bitions. Neither Coach Joe Bedenk, who tutored him in baseball, nor Coaoh Bab Higgins, who rated him one ol! his better backs, could furnish a reasonable answer to Tepsic's present plight "The boy has ablity, plenty of it," Bedenk says, "but the best of them must face a period of seasoning in the minors." HIGGINS DOUBTS Higgins echoed this opinion, and 'added that while Tepsie pos sessed plenty of football ability, he doubted whether he would be able to earn as much money or kst as long in the professional OUALITY FOODS al. FAIR PRICES • *MEATS • FRUITS • FRESH PRODUCE • CANNED GOODS TEMPLE , ,I,ARKET 131 -W. BEAVER • PHONE 4921 FREE DELIVERY • Gymnasts Keepin Trim For NAAU Meet in May SiX. Penn State gymnasts are continuing practice sessions in preparation for the National AAU championships to be held in Dallas, Texas, May 2 and 3. Billy Bonsall, defending AAU champion on the flying rings, and Steve Greene, winner in last year's tourney in the rope climb,. will lead the Lion troupe. Joe Rossi and Stan Wirtshafter on the ropes, Billy Meade on the tumbling mats and Ray Sorensen for alr-around competition com plete the list of those probably making the trip. Bonsall was originally sched uled to compete for all-around honors with Sorensen but injured his ankle in the Eastern Intercol legiates and will have to confine his activity to the flying rings.' Greene, in addition to defend ing his rope crown, will perform on the side horse and the flying rings. Captain Sorensen, being Greene Bonsai groomed for the 1948 Olympics, will compete in all events. Coach Gene Wettstone's out standing rope trio will be, out to defend Penn State's domination of the rope climb which has ex tended through the past seven years. SETS RECORD Steve Greene set the record of 4 seconds flat in the 1944 NAAU's for the rope climb. Although Navy's HOffman is grid game as he would in base ball. "He was a great back," accord ing to Higgins, who exrpressed the opinion that h e would make the grade in the pro game "if he learned to pace himself, and de pended less on strength, .and more on his speed afoot." FUNNY GUY "He was a funny guy," on e of his teammates recalled today. "You never knew quite where he stood. But he could hit that apple. And h e was no punk on the foot_ ball field, either." Tepsic, an ex-marine• who was wounded badly on Guadalcanal, and told to quit athletics, came to Penn State in 1945 unheralded as an athlete, joined the baseball squad, and was a standout from the start. His prowess soon at tracted the attention of big league scouts and he was beseiged with offers. Former teammates of Tepsic, surprised by his decision to forego a reported $5,000 a year to play on a Brooklyn farm club, always (Continued on page five) .P~:., •,a;„FiRS~4 ,YF~•iI4; y,~I947~ Er: o "e • • .•4 •r . ' vc scheduled to compete in the rope event, the high ceiling at the Southern Methodist gymnasium causes considerable swaying dur ing the climb, according to Coach Wettstone, and will probably be prohibitive to the setting of a new mark. Southern Methodist will play host for. the National title --con tenders while the Dallas A. C., is listed as sponsor of the event.: MEXICO. AND CUBA Foreign competitors, 'including teams from Mexico and Cuba, have been sent invitations - to -the play-offs and may compete... The Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City, N.J., is` listed again this year as favorites for the team title. Penn State twice took the - team crown—once in 1943 and again' in 1945 when the Lions took three individual titles. In the past seven years, 12:in dividual titles have been 'added by the Blue and White, acrobats. The practice fields to the east of th e Golf Cours e include two football fields, two soccer 'fields, and one lacrosse field. Pot ti#wltt P"tclV4kal. TUSSY CREAM DEODORANT Tuley Cream Deodorant' s part"- ;• of your costume, part of the • impression you make, whether . You're wearing gingham or chiffon. This fluffy, cosmetic deodorant guards your personal daintiness, leaves a haunting frtgrance., Gentle to your ski n and to the finest fabric. And it stays cramy so much longer! 2 sizes, l ilt and soit PINS McLANAHARS,,, Sorensen
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