PAGE FOUR The Nittany Lyon Chick Werner, Penn State track coach, is due to take a couple of deep bows. The reason? Six Nit tany Lions are in the running for the United States Olympic team. Chances are that only one or two of the Lion luminaries will actually make the team, but the fact that they have survived two shots of the toughest competition imaginable speaks well not only for the boys, but for the coach. Werner, soft-spoken techni cian who has stood in the back ground while his greats have taken the limelight, has done a magniiicient job. Like everyone else, we’re won dering what’s happened to Kar ver. Our good friend Gerald T. has not come up to his real abil ity in the recent NCAA and NAAU tests. Since coach Werner is with his boys in the midwest we asked assistant coach Norm Gordon. And Gordon, who usually has an answer for every question concerning track, had this to say: "Your guess is as good as mine." Whether Karver can return to the form that made him a triple mile champion last year, will be decided, of course, in the Olym pic trials slated for Evanston, Illi nois this weekend. His Penn State fans are pulling for Karver, and we know that no body wants to make good any better than the Boyertown styl ist. Our personal guess about Jerry is that he's simply try ing too hard. The pressure is terrific on the eve of the Olym pics, and we're afraid that Jerry is attempting to live up to his reputation instead of just going out and running races. Anyway, with Dodds out in front, any sane race will be turn ed into a screwy one. Dodds went out to run a 57-second first quar ter in the NAAU 1500 meters last weekend, enough to throw every one off the pace. It seems that you can’t run 57-second first quarters and win unless your name is Dodds. In all the races that Jerry has lost three straight now he could have walked around the course in the winning time. The marks which are being posted by the guys who beat Karver aren’t my better than Jerry has run in the past. Everyone is hoping that the Boyertown picture runner will recover in lime to make the spot on the Olympic team that he deserves. Statistics show that men £et into nine times as many automo bile accidents as women. THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Two-League Intramural Softball Program Opens Eight Contests Slated Today in Summer Circuits Softball will be the first of three intramural sports to swing into action this summer. The first games are scheduled to be played at the New Beaver Field and the golf course this evening at 6:45. Two leagues have been formed, the Fraternity League and the In dependent League. As of today, there are eight fraternity teams and seven in the independent league. Friday, July 9, is the last day to qualify for the Summer Ses sions Golf Tournament. All per sons interested are requested to turn in their name at the Caddy House. The pairings will be post ed on the bulletin board in the Caddy House on Sunday. Actual play will start on Monday. The tennis tournament i s slated to begin on Monday, July 12. The last day to sign up for tennis tournaments in men’s singles, and mixed doubles is Fri day. The schedule will be posted in the tennis office. The softball games are to be seven innings long with ten men on a side. In case of rain the games will be played the follow ing day. Each team is required to pro vide one umpire and as much of their own equipment as possible. The tournament will consist of round robin play, the winners the two leagues playing each other for the championship. A player cannot play for another team after playing for another previously. The schedule: Fraternity League Beta Sigma Rho vs. Alpha Chi Rho. Delta Upsilon v S . Sigma Phi Sigma. Pi Kappa Alpha vs. Delta Chi. .Lambda Chi Alpha vs Phi Kappa. TimeT e 6:45 NeW BeaVer Field ' Independents Hazeltonians vs. Metallurgy football House vs. Fuel Tech nology. Phvs. Ed. Grads, vs. Osmond Lab. Place: Golf Course. Time: 6:45. Four of Penn State’s six all- America football players have been linemen, including the pres ent coaches. Boh Higgins and Joe Bedenk. ASK... anyone at Penn State about the food, portion and price at the Nittany Mountain Hotel • Boneless Sirloin Steaks • Ham Dinners • Pork Chops 11 Miles South on Route 45 PHONE CENTRE HALL 14 No Reservations Necessary M. E. "PETE" COLDRON, Proprietor News of the Nittany Lions . . . Michigan State and Washing ton State will add an intersection al flavor to the 1948 Penn State football schedule. * * * Tommy Smith, sophomore star, was the only non-senior on Penn State's Eastern champ ion golf team. * * * The Lion baseball team, a perennial winner under Joe Be denk, won 12 and lost 4 in 1948. * • * University of Nebraska, a newcomer to the schedule in 1949, last opnoeed Penn State in football in 1920. * * * Ralph Ricker, head coach of football at Dickinson College, is a former Penn State lineman. * * * Coach of the winning team in the world-wide Army boxing tournament was a former Penn State football player, Maj. Jim Conte. * • * A bright future is foreseen for Penn State’s sophomore hurdler, Jim Gehrdes, of Al toona, Pa. * • * Return of 19 lettermen estab lishes Penn State as a nrosneotive football power again in 1948. State’s all-America guard, Steve Suhey, will play for the Pitts burgh Steelers of the National Football League in 1948. * * * Neil “Skip” Stahley, newly eJected University of Toledo foot ball coach, is a former Penn State all-around athlete. • * * Only the Lion tennis team lost more matches than it won during the 1948 Spring sports season. * • • For the second season in a row, State will play a nine-game foot ball schedule in 1948. » * • Lion football and basketball coaches, Bob Higgins and John Lawther, are greatly in demand as instructors at coaching clinics. * * * Championship schoolboy tourn aments attracted nearly 1000 Pennsylvania athletes to the Penn State campus during the last year. * * • Chick Werner’s two distance- running stars, Gerry Karver and Horace Ashenfelter, both were married after the war. * * * Bob Higgins, veteran Penn State football coach, is looking forward to his 19th straight sea son at the Lion helm. House painting is the favorite summer sideline of Gene Wett stone, Penn State’s Olympic gym nastic coach. SEERSUCKER REFRESHABLE CLOTHES Be smart and be cool—wear a seersucker or cotton cord suit from KALIN'S. They are washable and guar anteed not to shrink. The jacket is very smart for eve ning wear with a pair of grey flannel trousers. Let us show them to you. JACKETS 14.95 SUITS STATE COLLEGE WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948 Grid, Diamond Court Snorts Still Rale High Varsity athletic programs in Eastern colleges and universities are built around the three major sports football, basketball and baseball. A poll of 25 major Eastern in stitutions today indicated that track, tennis and golf are the fiext most popular sports. Wres tling follows with teams reported by 20 schools. Soccer, swimming and fencing also showed surprising strength as approximately half of the schools polled reported teams in these sports. Lacrosse teams were reported by ten schools, boxing by five schools, and gymnastics by a like number. "Ir 20.50
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