may, APRIL 23, 1948
Between the Lions
Lion lacrosse fans will have their last chance until May 23 to
see Coach Nick Thiel's undefeated stickmen in action tomorrow
afternoon.
Cornell's lacrossers furnish the opposition in tomorrow's con
test, which will be played on New Beaver Field at 2 o'clock.
The Thielmen will be seeking their fourth straight victory,
after successively whipping Drexel. Penn and Hobart.
Lacrosse is a rapidly expanding game in the United States.
Eight new lacrosse organizations in the middle-West and South
have extended the sport to close to 40 member colleges. Its popu
larity is evidenced by its spread from the Atlantic seaboard—its
stronghold, to points in the South and mid-West.
The stick game is still trying to live down its old reputation
for roughness, but since the perfection of headgears and masks,
statistics refute the roughness charge, according to the United
States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.
Lacrosse is being played in many major colleges as a spring
wort. Included in this list are such institutions as Colgate, Cornell,
Duke, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Maryland,
Penn State, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Army, Navy, Vir
ginia and Yale. In addition, many smaller schools have inaugur
ated the Indian game as a Major sport.
Penn State is probably one of the only colleges in the nation
playing lacrosse that has a squad of 70-odd men who never played
the sport before entering college. This year, however, Coach Thiel
has an exception in Eddie Belfield a sophomore, who played the
game at Swarthmore High School.
Coach Thiel began his "tour of duty" as lacrosse mentor at
State in 1934, after playing at Syracuse in 1931, 1932 and 1933, and
winning all-American recognition the latter two years. Each year,
"Nick" brings the Lions into recognition as an Eastern lacrosse
power despite working with inexperienced players.
To make things more difficult, the - Nittany lacrosse schedule
always contains several teams that are annually among the leaders
in the country.
Army and Navy, two of this season's opponents, are consider
ed among the "Big Five" of lacrosse. Also included are such
sturdy stick combinations as Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Mary
land. In 1947, Hopkins copped the National collegiate crown, while
the Wist Point Cadets took runner-up honors.
For the first time in the history of the sport at State, a jayvee
aggregation has been organized. The Lion cubs are scheduled to
play Kenyon College, Oberlin and the Penn State Center at
Swarthmore.
The introduction of the game at the Swarthmore Center gives
Thiel a bright outlook for next year. Approximately ninety per
cent of the male students at the Center are planning to come to
the College next year, and the year of experience they gain there
will make them exceptional candidates for the 1949 varsity.
Jarrin' John Nolan, co-captain of the Cotton Bowl pigskinners
and second team lacrosse all-American in 1946; Tom Smith, and
Joltin' John Finley were the gridders on the starting combination.
Nolan heads the Lion lacrossers in scoring with 10 goals.
Major League Results
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday's Results
Philadelphia 5, Boston 8
Detroit 3, Chicago 2
Standings
Team W L Pet. Team W L Pct..
Phila.___ 3 0 1.000 New York 1 2 :333
Detroit__ 3 0 1.000 St. Louis. 0 1 .000
Cleveland 1 0 1.000 Boston _ 0 3 .000
Washt'n 2 1 .667 Chicago.. 0 3 .000
Today's Games
Cleveland at Detroit
Washington at Philadelphia
Boston at New York
Chicago, St. Louis (not scheduled)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterday's Results
Brooklyn 6, New York 3
Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 3
Pittsburgh 2, Chicago 0
Boston 10, Priladelphia 4
Standings
Team W L Pet. Team W L Pet..
Phila.___ 2 1 .667 Cincin'ti 2 2 .500
St.Louis_ 2 1 .667 Now York I 2 .333
Brooklyn 2 1 .687 Boston__ 1 2 .333
Pittab'gh 2 2 .600 Chicago _ I 2 3:1:1
Today's Carnes
New Yost at Boston
Philadelphia at Brooklyn
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
St. Louis at Chicago
Missing Track
Someone stole part of tile. Col
hoe track, or so it appeared. a fter
the recent rains. When the run•
rers came out to practice, a gapinJ,
hole appeared in the east side of
the New Beaver Field track.
The missing stretch of cinders
was replaced by the ground
keeper, but the culprit. rain un
dermining the track, ie still at
large.
By Ed Watson
NOT SO ROUGH
LACROSSE MENTOR
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
'111! DAILT CXXI=AII, ST •"+ oe, , , -A:
Sigma Nu-A and DU-A won
the right to meet in the IM vol
leyball finals when they register
ed lopsided victories over Kappa
Sigma and Sigma Chi-A respec
tively Wednesday night.
Sigma Nu, leaders in the fight
for IM athletic honors, had little
trouble downing the Kappa Sigs
in the first game 15-4. In the sec
ond game the Kappa Sigs fought
hard to force the match into
three games but succumbed to
the steady Sigma Nu attack 15-13.
DU-A ran up a landslide score
against Sigma Chi, winning both
games by identical 15-4 scores.
As the intramural badminton
championship loomed closer, only
four of the starting 61 contest
ants remained in the elimination
contest.
Jerome Markowitz, Phi Sigma
Delta, took his two games by a
large margin as he outpointed
Charles Sowash, Lambda Chi
Alpha, 15-10, 15-4.
In other games, Jim Worley,
Sigma Nu, outlasted Harold How
and Chi Phi, 15-12, 15-5, and
Dan Pearson, DU, topped Dick
Hoover, Theta Xi, 15-3, 15-10.
Names are essential to an ath
lete but two College runners have
an antipathy for their surnames.
In the cinder department. Isaac
Rowland Evans prefers to be
known as just plain Ike for ob
vious reasons.
On the infield, Alvin Reed Pratt
chooses to oe known by his middle
name. Reed. when listed in the
program, and unless you can run
faster than 175 feet in a few sec
onds with a pointed javelin be
hind you, it's best to carry out his
choosing.
The Penn State Campus is the
delight of us all;
Let's save our "Famous." by using
the mall.
Intramumb
Volleyball
Badminton
Names Fail to Please
Bedenkmen Battle Hoyas
In First Foreign Contest
Embarking o its Scat road trip et the year, the lladh-as l lll
undefeated Lion nine wsl invade Washington, D. C., tOITIOrPVIII, 10
open a twaltPaThe ada Gotwaltatown "Fniweawitg# at fte
field.
Blob Gehrett, awaking hip Mar eneseaolive win and third et Ibia
1048 season, will be ositire bill for the Blue and White in to ti
meeting.
Fireb,alier Sy Mier, lith o wpm his first dart at *re slew*
against Pitt Saturday, ip tenta
tively slated to li t andle *re pitch
ing chores in Sirturday's sleek
contest.
Coach Joe Seder6c and 20 man
hErs of the itevelirg eglind
State liege at 6 o'clock last
night. The first mane with Weir
Capital City foes is scheduled for
4 o'clock line afternoon-
CHEERING SIMS
Cheering news wen lbe
sa
rount that Pitcher Bai
Hill. shtick on the wrist in bat
ting drill last Thurniey, wilt make
the trip. It was originally &grad
that Hill might have suffered a
oroken hand. but a later X-rsy
revealed only a bad bruise.
Believing m the adege "never
change a whmer," Beldenlt wilt
start the sane team against the
HoYas that I won lOW straight
games. amassing 46 rens he 32.
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