"EDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947
liseum Relays
)r Karver, Ewell
The competition will be tough
at Los Angeles Saturday night
/hen Gerry Karver and Barney
Iwell don tile spikes with other
rack greats at the Coliseum Re
ays.
Gerry, Penn State’s outstand
'ng distance runner who estab
3hed himself as the nation’s top
ight collegiate miler May 10 by
jeating Jack Dianetti of Michi
gan State in 4:11:6, will be run
ning against Ronald Sink of
Southern California, and Jerry
Thompson of Texas, in addition
to three other college mile stand
outs.
Barney’s stiffest competition
will come from Mel Patton of
Southern California, who has al
ready posted a : 9.5 in the hun
dred and beaten Illinois’ vaunted
ierb McKenley.
BARNEY CAN STILL STREAK
Ewell showed, that he still had
jlenty of stuff Saturday at a
Lancaster 'high school district
meet by pounding.an exhibition
hundred in 9.6, the best time he’s
ever done in competition, and the
the Penn State record he set in
1941.
Ten Nittany Lion trackmen, ’in
.•luding “Fearless Fosdick” Hor
ace Ashenfelter, did their best
performances' against Colgate in
ihe Lions’ dual meet at Hamil
ton, N. Y. last Saturday.
Don Longnecker ran the mile
'a 4:32.6, and Jimmy. Robertson
.id . a .10-flat hundred., Robinson
an a dead heat in ; :9;9 in his
.irst race, which was run over.
Johnny Bates pulled his best
im'e in the two mile in' 10:11,3,
nd both Ashenfelter and Fred
.ennox topped previous perform
nces in the 880-yard run. Ash
nfelter’s time was 1:56.9, while
.ennox took second in that ev
nt with 1:58.8. '
THROWERS IMPROVE
Larry Gerwig and' Dino Tac
ulozzi. made their, best javelin
irows in competition, this sea
on against the Red Raiders. Ger
•ig took s.econd with 176 feet,
li inches, followed, by Tacco
ozzi with 176 feet, 6£ inches.
Bill Reynolds cracked six feet
n the high jump .for the first
ime this season, with 6 feet, $
nch at Hamilton. ''
Discus thrower Dave . i Pincus
opped his best performance in
ompetition with 144 feet, 3£ in
hes, and Brown did 16 flat in
10-yard high hurdles for his
?st of the season.
Riders Place in First Show
Left to right: Art Whittier, Mary Goodwin and Bob Post represent
Penn Stale in first intercollegiate competition.
** • *
Penn State’s riding team, in its first year of existence and first
intercollegiate competition, rode in six classes and won four ribbons
at the Penn Hall Junior College riding show Saturday afternoon.
Penn State, Penn Hall, Wilson College, Westtown School, Wapo
tomoc Hunt and a number of individual riders were entered in the
show.
Mary Goodwin, Hobert Post and Arthur Whittier, Penn State
equestrians coached by Captain Gregory A. Gagarin, took fourth
place in the Intercollegiate Team Jumping class, six jumps over a
special course ,and captured an- '
other fourth place in the Hunt
Team class, a team-of-three per
formance over a course 'of 12
brush and timber jumps.
Take Fifth in Working Hunters
The Penn State riding trio also
won a fifth place in the Work
ing. Hunters class, individual per
formances oyer the 12 brush and
timber jumps.
A feature of the Penn Hall ri
ding show was the military lance
Nolan—Thiel's Reason
For Bright Outlook
Despite the fact that he is fa
ced with the loss of five veteran
performers through graduation;
Nick Thiel, Nittany lacrosse Coach
has an optimistic outlook for next
season’s prospects.
Defenremen Tom Smith, Bron
co Kosanovich, -and Pete Johnson
along with middlemen Art Ten
hula and John Finley will not
return to the Lion fold .next
spring.
Chief cause for Coach Thiel’s
optimism for next year, however,
is ;the return of John Nolan to
school. The big gun on the Lion’s
1946 squad, and football co-cap
tain, Nolan, was forced to leave
THE DAILY CXJLLEGIAN, STATE
drill performed by Penn Hall ri
ders in which a troop of 22
mounts was' put through intri
cate and colorful maneuvers.
The riding team participated
in the show through the courtesy
of Fritz Kleeman, Penn Hall tu
tor,. who furnished mounts for
the College’s entries. The Penn
State stable of 12 horses has not
yet been sufficiently schooled for
competition.
college last June, but is planning
to re-enter in the fall. •-
Another reason for the Lion
mentor’s confidence is the im
provement shown by the lacrosse
men throughout the season.
■ “The squacThas progressed a
great deal, since the first of the
season,” said Thiel, “and, al
though the present team doesn’t
measure up to last year’s, I’m
sure that we’ll have a good rec
ord next season, especially with
Nolan coming back.”
REVIVES A GOOD OLD PRE-VAR EVEHT
THURSDAY, MAY 22nd ONLY
loa i
Hatter "
NOT ONLY A, PENN STATE TRADITION BUT AN INSTITUTION
ON COLLEGE AVE.
.VANIA
Golf Putting
Intramural golf putting quar
ter-finalists were announced to
day by the Intramural Office.
Arthur Evans defeated William
Renton, Harry Beale took George
Schautz and Robert Haenel de
feated Royce Nix. Michael Ho
ren also advanced to the quarter
final position.
IM Tennis
Phi Kappa Alpha advanced to
a second round place in the intra
mural tennis doubles by taking
DOORS OPEN AT 8:00 AJU
HaB£ROASHER
two matches, both 7-6,
Kappa Phi. She losses
match, 6-2
Sigtma Chi took two out
from Zeta Beta T-au. Si
both were 6-4.
MEATS & PROVISJO
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