TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1947
Karver's
Nips Dianetti In 4:11.6 Mile
Spartans Defeat Wernermen 71 3/5 to 592/5
- Stone Breaks Meet Record in Two-Mile Win
, * Gerry, Karver ran the fastest college mile in five years Saturday
afternoon at New Beaver Field, nosing out Michigan State’s freshman
sensation, Jack Dianetti, in 4:11.6.
In; running the second best mi
the Penh State IC-4A champion
legiate miler in the nation, and
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TOP MILER
' GERRY KARVER
Linkper Sweep
Sectional Match
:Penn State’s tournament-bound
golf squad last weekend added
Cornell, Army, and Pitt to its de
feated list-and turned its sights
toward'Atlantic City for the EIGA
matches being held there Satur
day..’'
Last weekend’s, matches, played
in •: Ithaca on three different
courses, found L the Rutherfordmen
taking the upper hand against all
opposition. Cornell- went down
first;-5-4, with matches taken by
partners Harper arid Smith, Bob
Klein, apd Dori. Hart.
. Number two squad to be clawed
by the Lion, Army, went down,
5-4.
• Penn' State’s final victory was
gained at the expense of the Uni
versity- of Pittsburgh squad, who
were downed 6-3. r
The 'Panthers had lost to the
Blue and White, golfers, 11J-J on
the College .course a- week earlier.
Ihtramtirals
IM tennis
Intramural tennis got under
way last week with Tau Kappa
Epsilon . advancing to second
round position by trimming Phi
Sigma Kappa arid Pi Lambda
Phi.'
Match scores were Tau Kappa
Epsilon. 7-5 and 6-3. Phi Sigma
Kappa' took one 7-5. Pi Lambda
Phi lost two out of three, both 6-1.
Delta Upsilpn took two matches
6-3 and 7-5 to win over Alpha
Chi Rho.
Chi Phi advanced to the sec
ond round position with a forfeit
over Alpha Chi Sigma.
IM Soccer
Thursday's intramural soccer
schedule saw Phi Sigma Kappa
take a 2-0 game from Pi-Kappa
Phi.
Alpha Gamma Rho won their
game with two corner kicks over
Tau Delta although they played
to a scoreless tie.
Kappa .Sigma played to a 1-1
tie with Sigma Phi Sigma. Kappa
Sigma won, however, having more
corner kicks.'.
George Earnshaw scored' two
goals to bring Delta Upsilon out
on top of Alpha Tau Omega in a
2-0 game.
Penn State Class Rings
L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY
LOCATED IN THE ATHLETIC STORE
Backstretch Kick
le in the United States this season,
established himself as the top col
second only to Gil Dodds in the
country’s unlimited mile field.
Penn State dropped the dual
meet to Michigan State, 71 3/5 to
59 2/5, but seven meet records
dropped during the course of the
afternoon, and the Nittany Lions
took seven first .places against the
midwestern powerhouse which
had defeated Notre Dame two
weeks ago.
FEARLESS ASHENFELTER
Karver posted the best time of
his career, as did “Fearless Fos
dick” Ashenfelter. who. clipped
nearly two seconds off his previous
test tirne in finishing third in
4:19. -Dianetti, whose . best time
until Saturday was his Drake Re
lay 4:15, ran the four quarters in
4:12.
Dodds holds the fastest mile of
year with 4:09.6, at the . Chicago
Relays. Karver followed Dodds
across the finish line that night in
4:12.8, the Lion star’s previous
best time.
Curt Stone. Nittany Lion dis
tance champion, set a new meet
record in the two-mile b.Y run
ning a 9:27.7, and Dave Pincus
created a new meet mark with a
discus heave of 143 feet, 3 inches.
Michigan State set new records
in the 440, 880, mil** relay and
broad jump.
TOPS OFFENHAUSER
Karver’s time Saturday smashed
the meet record for the mile and
gave the Lion miler a new Penn
State' record, previously held by
George Offenhauser -in 4:16.2 in
1929.
Karver led th» mile at the end
of the first quarter in 61 seconds,
but Dianetti overtook him to set
the pace for a 2:05 half and a 3:10
three-quarters. Dianetti fought
Karver off in the backstretch of
the final lap. but the Penn State
miler passed his opponent on the
final turn and won by five yards.
The Lion miler's time was the
best collegiate outdoor mile run
since Bobby Ginri of Nebraska
ran 4:11.1 in the 1942 NCAA to
beat Les MaaMitchell.
Colgate Nek 8-0
Tennis Victory
Colgate University’s tennis team
rumped the Blue and White
courtmen 8-0 on the Varsity
Courts Saturday, as the netters
dropped their fifth consecutive
meet of the season.
Captain Walt Stenger lost a
Inarathon thre e set contest by
7-5, 3-6, 15-13 in a match lasting
for two hours. The winner, Red
Raide Number one man Frank
Warren, used, his strong cross
court play to edge Stenger, as
many of his placements just
eluded the reach of the smaller
Walt.
On Thursday, th e Nittany net
ters will depart on their second
trip of the season, when they
journey to upper New York State
to . engage Syracuse and Colgate
over the weekend.
When the Lions re-encounter
.Colgate, Stenger will be out for
revenge. Although he offers no
excuses for his Saturday defat, it
might be noted that Walt entered
• the match with but five minutes
rest after a 150 mile trip from his
native Waynesboro. Saturday he
should be at his best for the
Warren renewal.
In a close doubles tilt, Lions
Dick Greenawalt and Herb Beck
hard fought a hard duel with
Ware and Mackenzie before losing
in thre e sets, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.
Summaries for the tennis meet
will appear in tomorrow’s Col
legian.
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Lion Stickmen
Maul Drexel, 8-1
In a gam e punctuated by fre
quent displays of brilliant team
work and keen passing, Coach
Nick Thiel’s Lion lacrossmen
swept to an 8-1 victory over
Drexel at Beaver Field Saturday.
Bolstering Nittany attackmen
Ernie Baer and Ken Kerwin who
led the Penn State onslaught with
a brace of tallies each were Bud
dy Thomas, Art Lorenz, John Fin
ley and Jim Wolf. The latter four
added one tally apiece to the
total.
Capitalizing on some weak de
fense play by the Drexel back
field men, the Lions roared to a
4-0 lead in the opening quarter.
DREXEL SCORE
After a rough-and-tumble me
lee at the opening of the seoond
period which resulted in two
Drexel penalty box assignments,
the Drexel offense shifted into
high gear and provided Lion sub
stitute goalie, Jack Nehoda with
plenty of net work. Despite sever
al masterful saves, the Drexel
men managed to register their
only tally of th e afternoon.
Using all 38 players pn the Nit
tany squad at some time in the
game, Coach Thiel opened the
third period with a flurry of sub
stitutions- which devastated the
Drexel defensemen while the
Lion attack racked up three quick
goals. -
Footballers John Finley and
Tom Smith, sidelined with in
juries since the Loyola game,
rejoined the Lion squad to assist
in th e win. Score by quarters:
Drexel 0 1 0 o—l
Penn State 4 1 3 6—B
Scoring: Drexel Goebel.
Penn State— Baer 2, Kerwin 2,
Thomas, Lorenz, Finley, Wolf.
NROTC Pisfolmen
Win District Cup
Penn State’s NROTC pistol team
retained the District Cup Satur
day by defeating the University
of Pennsylvania and Villanova in
shoulder to shoulder competition.
State scored 1,044', Penn 720,- and
Villanova 706.
The final recapitulation on the
1946-1047 season, as released by
coach H. H. Marshall, shows 17
wiinis against 8 losses for a per
centage of .680. G. W. Gibson’s
177 was the high score of the
season.
The rifle team, by winning 26
and losing 16, for a .620 percent
age, placed second in the District
for the Commandant’s Cup and
13th in a field of 30 for the Na
tional Cup. G. W. Gibson, with
361, made the high score for the
season in this branch.
The season averages:
PISTOL
R. A. Keagy 150
G. W. Gibson 156
D. J. Laudig 144
R. E. Steed 141
C. W. Calhoun 139
G. R. Williges 136
RIFLE
G. W. Gilbson 344
D. J. Laudig 330
C. W. Calhoun 327
R. A. Keagy 326
R. C. Ambeland 320
G. R. Williges 315
R. E. Steed 310
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Baseballers Win Sixth . . .
Bedenkmen Blank Mules As
Yount Stars On Hill, At Bat
Joe Bedenk’s Lion baseballers will travel to Bucknell' tomorrow
for a game with the Bisons and a chance to bring their season’s record
above the .500 mark, after blanking Muhlenberg 4-0 Saturday on New
Beaver Field.
Bedenk will probably send Bob Gehrett gunning for the Lions’
sixth victory. Gehrett holds one win for the season—that over the
Pitt Panthers.
Ken Yount took the batting and pitching honors in the Muhlen
berg contest. As well as pitching shutout ball, he batted in two of the
four Penn Statp runs and scored
one,of the others.
Thj» sarnie was Penn State’s first
shutout of the season and Yount’s
fourth win,
Don Stark, leading Lion batter,
was missing from the lineup but
will probably play against Buck
nell.
SIX MULE ERRORS
Both teams accounted for six
hits, but the Mules committed six
misoues while the Lions had only
one. Chuck MacFarland dropped, a
fly ball in rightfield after making
a hard try for it.
Hal Hackman opened the Lion
half of the first inning l.iy singling
to left and scored the first run of
tho game when centerfielder Herb
dropped Whitey Kurowski's fly
ball. Kurowski took second on the
throw in and scored mi Yount’s
single to left.
The Lions added another run in
the fifth when Eddie Sebastian
elli opened with a double to left
center, moved to third on Kurow
ski’s infield single and stored on
Yount’s fly.
YOUNT COMPLETES SCORING
Yount led off the eighth inning
by reaching, first safely on short
stop Swartley’s error. Chuck Mac-
Farland walked and Yount took
third on Johnny Potsklan’s infield
grounder. Yount scored the final
run on Tom Hogan’s fly to right
center.
The Mules threatened twice
Bob Rutkowski, an all-Penn
sylvania choice twice as a Penn
State football guard, is weighing
several professional offers.
PAGE THREE
when they bunched two hits in
each of the final two innings, but
Yount tightened up and retired
the side without a run.
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