PAG® FOUR
Between the Lions
At 6:30 a.m. on April 18, the Penn State tennis team rolled out
of bed and, following breakfast, piled into two cars and began the
212-mile trek to Washington, D. C. Arriving at noon, the squad located
Its Georgetown University objective, lunched and, after a very short
rest, took to the courts and dropped an 8-1 decision in its opening
meet of the season.
This event brought up the old criticism of “Why is the College so
saving that a Blue and White sport team must leave town and, fol
lowing a lengthy trip, participate that same afternoon in an athletic
contest?”
Subsequent investigation has not proved the accused stinginess
of those guarding the purse strings, but in lieu, an explanation with
which few members of this institution are familiar.
The Regulations for Undergraduate Students, as drawn up by
the Senate Committee on Rules, specify allowances of classroom
absences for each sport team. No squad, except baseball, is granted
more than 36 hours absence with official leave in one semester. Sports
carrying over into two terms receive an allowance of not more than
seventy hours, which parallels the maximum allotment to other stu
dent organizations such as Glee Club and Debate.
LIMITATIONS ON ABSENCE
In arranging trips, the athletic directors must apportion each
journey so as not tq surpass the stated limit. Baseball and basketball,
along with indoor and outdoor track (considered as one sport), draw
down the highest amount—6o hours; football, boxing, and wrestling
earn 45 hours, and lacrosse, soccer, tennis and all other sports rate
36 hours.
Specifying a morning as including four hours, and an afternoon
as three, planning stratagem has to be arranged for each sports’
season to keep within bounds.
All of this is to explain why the tennis team had tired and un
steady legs when it faced the Hoyas at Washington; the Senate rules,
and not a tight finance administration being the reason for it all.
Penn State’s regulations in this respect are considered quite lib
eral when compared to other colleges. But those avid basketball fans
who annually follow crack Western quintets on a two-week Eastern
swing will be very much astounded by the term liberal, for if our
policy is considered liberal, Utah, Oklahoma, Oregon and others are
philanthropic,
To a now thriving and potentially larger student enrollment, the
athletic facilities available to all Staters are pitifully inadequate.
Sixteen tennis courts (four of which are for-the varsity) serve the
7000 or so students of the College. In comparison, I might cite Cornell
with its 75 quadrangles, or Ohio State with its clump of 60, supple
mented by a half dozen or more varsity courts.
The golf scene is equally as scanty. Genial Dean Schott of the
Physical Education School has compiled these statistics: in order for
eatery student to tour the course once, it would require approximately
six weeks!
We would like a second eighteen, ala Ohio State, Dartmouth and
others, but at an average cost of $5OOO per hole and the premium on
State College real estate being what it is, all we can do is complain.
Intramural facilities are also woefully defective; however, with
all of the deficiencies, Messrs. Bischoff and Sykes in the IM office
have performed commendably.
FIELD HOUSE
A field house, the dream of our alumni, would provide much
needed additional shower and locker room facilities plus an, immense,
enclosed dirt expanse which all sports teams could use when Jupiter
Pluvius is at odds with us, or when it’s January in June.
West Point’s gargantuan enclosure supplies an indoor, full-size
fiootball field; this can be converted for inside drills in tennis, base
ball, lacrosse, soccer and other sports.
Some day Penn State will have 75 tennis courts; 2 or 3 golf
courses; varsity, jayvee, freshman and intramural football fields;
several baseball diamonds, and a field house. However, in reference
to the field house, the sports page joins the edit page .. . for first, we
too would prefer to see a Student Union.
‘Hope Climb Se
“It was sensational. He went up
so last he surprised ' everyone,”
said Lion coach Gene Wettstone
about the record-breaking 3.4
second rope climb made by Gar
vin Smith in the NAAU’s at Dal
las, Tex. last weekend.
Smith’s arms functioned inde
pendently of his legs, tire Lion
coach remarked, and “this threw
out the theories of all coaches in
the East in stressing the help ob
tained from a kick.”
■Hie new champion, who hails
from Vendee, California, is no
extraordinary athlete, weighing
only 140 pounds and possessing
but ordinary shoulders and arm
muscles, according to the Lion
coach.
Penn State’s standout, captain
Bay Sorensen, won the free calis
thenics event and placed fifth in
the all-around competition to
make the tentative Olympic gym
nastic squad.
Hie Lion performer was the
only collegiate gymnast to place
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INADEQUATE FACILITIES
sationul,’ Says Wettstone
in the first eight spots and be
named to the tentative squad. ;
Cumiskey of the Swiss Gymnas
tic Society of New Jersey, took
first place in all-around competi
tion, but was hard pressed at the
end of the first day by Sorensen.
However, the stellar Lion gym
nast broke on the parallel bars,
high bar and ring events to.place
fifth in final scoring.
The pre-Olympic team, of
which Sorensen is now a member,
will compete against a Czecho
slovakian squad in New York this
June 13.
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Lacrossemen Swamp Sampson College, 8-2;
Clash With Drexel On New Beaver Field
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Swamp Sampson 8-2
Heavy rain and mud failed to
bog down Coach Nick Thiel’s Lion
lacrossemen’s attack as they
drowned Sampson College 8-2
at Sampson, N. Y., Wednesday
afternoon.
This was the stickmen's third
win of the season against the
same number of defeats.
The Ni 11 an y stick-wielders
pounded the New Yorkers’ net
for three goals in the first five
minutes of play as Ernie Baer
shot the ball past the Sampson
goalie at 21 seconds of the open
ing quarter to start the scoring.
Midfielder Baer was high scor
er for the Lions, collecting
three goals for Penn State and
as-sisting in two of the other tal
lies made by his teamates.
Jack Nehoda, playing in place
of regular goalie “Wild Bill” Hol
lenbach, took care of the net dut
ies throughout the game, and kept
the Sampson stickmen from scor
ing more than two goals by his
fast-thinking and ball-saves on
the mud-soaked field.
After the first period the game
slowed up because of the down
pour of rain and most of the ac
tion centered around midfield,
with both teams battling to keep
possession of the ball. The line
up:
Posilon Penn Slate Sampson
Goal Nehoda..,.. Wilson
Defense. Kissell Greco
Defense. Tenhula;... Stempel
Defense. Johnson.... Grygo
Midfield Nestor Hirtz
Center.. Locotos Harrington
Midfield, Baer... Peck
Attack.. Lorenz Delahunt
Attack.. Thomas Easton
Attack.. Kerwin
Score by quarters:
lO 1 o—2
Penn State— .3 12 2—B
Time of quarters: 12 minutes.
Scoring: Sampson Delahunt
(10.48); Easton (31.35). Penn
State Baer (0.16, 5.22, 29.05)
Locotus (1.21, 27.26); Thomas
(4.45, 37.30); lannetta (44.05).
team will not be made until after
the NAAU’s next year, said Coach
Wettstone.
Steve Greene, Lion side horse
specialist, placed- second after
breaking during his act. Greene
also took third place in the flying
rings event.
Postponement
Intramural softball games
scheduled for Sunday, May 11,
have been, postponed until Sun
day,. May 18, it was announced
by the intramural office yester
day.
COACH NICK THIEL
Courfmen Host to
Colgate Netters
Still seeking its first win, the
Blue and White tennis team will
encounter Colgate on the varsity
courts at 1:30 o’clock tomorrow;
By comparative scores, the Red
Raiders will rule as favorites sinc A
they deluged Georgetown Univer
sity. 9-0, while the Nittany Lions
lost to the Hoyas . by an, 8-1
count. i
Another comparison shows both
Colgate and State the victims of
a strong Davidson,, sextet, 7-2. and
9-0 respectively.
Against, the invaders, Coach’
Sherman Fogg will field his regu
lar line-up with' Captain Wait
Stenger meeting the Red Raider
number one player and Bob Tutt
le, Dick Greenawalt, Dick Clark
son, Herb Beokhard and Frank
Pessolano completing the bill. ,
Either Ray Fink, Dave Miller,
or Dan Moses may break into the.
line-up either in the number six
slot or in doubles competition. ■ • „
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Clash With Drexel
Bolstered by the return at first:
stringers “Wild Bill” Hollenßach ‘
and John Pfirman to the' goalie
and defense positions
ly, the Penn State lacrosse, team
meets Drexel Tech 0n... New Bea
ver Field at 3:30 o'clock tomor
row. '
Out of action in the Sampson
tussle because of academic bur
dens, Hollenbach and Fffiman •
will be the only two' off the''Six,
Lion regulars able to rejdin the
squad for tomorrow's game:' Tam
Smith. Cliff Sullivan, Jack .Find
ley, and Hairy Fisher are 'still’
sidelined with injuries; . ... '
COACH OUTSTANDING '
Despite its clouded record •of
five losses and one tie, the Drexel
ten boasts a great former sticto
man in .Coach Marshall Austin.'
A graduate of Drexel, mentor
Austin earned a berth on the. All-
Scholastic lacrosse- team while a
student at St. Paul’s Prep in Bal
timore. Later, in 1942, while a
student at. Drexel, Austin was
named to the collegiate All-Am
erican team.'
Hoping for a repeat perform
ance of their last encounter with
the Drexel aggregation in 1942,
in. which theNittany stick-wield
:ers garnered a 6-2 victory, Nick
Thiel’s stalwarts will be gunning
for ' their, fourth victory in seven
starts.
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