WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948 6 Lions in Running for Olympics Barney Ewell, Curl Stone Win NMU Crowns The eyes of Penn State will be upon five Nittany Lions this week end in the final Olympic tryouts at Northwestern’s Dyche Sta dium, Evanston, 111. Two graduates and three un dergraduates have qualified for the Olympic finals, and one of these boys, alumnus Hermann Goffberg of Philadelphia has al ready made the Olympic team. Barney Ewell, Lancaster speed ster and a Penn State great sev eral years ago, and ex-Lion Curt Stone of Brooklyn, Pa., won na tional AAU championships at Mil waukee last weekend. Ewell won the 100-meter crown and Stone retained his 5000-meter championship. Here is the Nittany Lion line up for the Olympic finals: 1. Ewell, 100 and 200 meters. 2. Stone, 5000 meters. 3. Horace Ashenfelter, 5000 me ters. 4. Jerry Karver, 1500 meters. 5. Jim Gehrdes, 110 meter High hurdles. Goffberg finished third in the National AAU 10,000 meters run last weekend and thereby gained an Olympic berth. Ashenfelter fin ished seventh in that race, but had already qualified for the Olympic finals with his second place performance in the Na tional Collegiate 5000 meters. Karver finished fifth behind Gil Dodds in the 1500 meters last weekend and gained a qualifying spot for the Evanston finals. Ewell, in addition to winning the 100 placed third in the 200 meters behind Lloyd Laßeach and will compete in both of those events in the Olympic finals. Bar ney won the 200 last year at the National AAU’s. Jim Gehrdes, Altoona sopho more, was shut out in the semi finals of the 110-high hurdles last weekend, but came back to win a run-off and qualify for the Olympic finals. Stone and Ewell rate the best chances of making the Olympic squad, although none of the Penn State entries can be counted out. A one-two finish of Stone and Ashenfelter in the 5000 meters is highly probable and this will put both of the Lion distance aces on the Olympic squad. If Jerry Karver returns to his winning form of a year ago, the Boyertown stylist will cop at least a third in the 1500, good enough to make the team. A good day for Karver would mean a loss for Dodds, since the 1500 is closer to the Lion’s distance. Fourth Night Fray The Lion-Syracuse night game next season will be the fourth arc light football contest in Nittany history. If Your Group Is Planning An Outing to .. . WHIPPLES DAM GREENWOOD FURNACE ROOSEVELT DAM BLACK MOSHANNON POE PADDY PARK PENNS CAVE and other points of interest Wo Can Furnish . . . Inexpensive Transpor- tation CALL 6769 Boalsburg Auto Bus Line THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA State Footballers To Start Drills Sept. 8 Penn Stale will inaugurate pre-season football practice on the camDus. Wednesday, Sept. 8, coach Bob Higgins said today. The season will open Satur day, Oct. 2, against Bucknell University at New Beaver Field. lion Football Combine Safe Draft Penn State football will not be seriously affected by Selective Service for one. or perhaps two years, a study of the 1948 roster today indicated. Of the 44 men tentatively chosen to return in September for pre-season drills, only a half dozen are non-veterans. Gradu ation a year hence will still leave a substantial nucleus of war hardened players. The two players who will be most sorely missed if they are called up under the draft during either of the next two years are Fullback Fran Rogel, of North Braddock, and Tackle Don Mur ray, of Easton. Both were under age during World War 11. Assuming that the number of incoming sophomores will be sub stantially reduced by the draft, no serious dearth of manpower is expected to develop until after the 1949 season. The dearth will be general then, however, and will affect all schools equally. Long Haul Coach Bob Rutherford, Sr., has been at the helm of the Lion golfing team 27 seasons. CIGARS - CIGARETTES CANDY Call 4715 ... for ... DRY CLEANING PRESSING PICK-UP AND DELIVERY ... or Just Bring Your Clothing to MEN’S OPPOSITE MAIN CAMPUS E. College Ave., State College Ewell's Friends 4Jd Him in Cfeesl 'or Olwmnir Lancaster is going "all out” to ease the road to the Olvmoics for Barney Ewell, erstwhile Nittany Lion speed demon. The Lancaster newspaper, the Intelligencer-Journal, has launch ed a campaign to raise funds which will be used to maintain Barney’s family during his pro jected trip abroad. Friends of the former Penn State sprint star instigated the plan when they realized that Barney’s home obligations vere a serious handicap to success in the forthcoming Olympic trials. Under the plan, as approved by the National AAU. funds raised in the drive will be used soley to provide support for Barney’s wife. Ducella and his son. Barney. Jr., during the period of Ewell’s absence from home. Lancaster friends say the plan relieves Barney of the necessity of keeping his job in the foundrv where he has been working for the past six months, and to spend the entire time in training for the Olympic trials. MAJOR LEAGUES Not including last nights results. AMERICAN LEAGUE Team W L Pet. GB Cleveland 42 25 .527 Philadelphia 44 29 .605 1 New York 41 29 .586 2Vj Boston 55 82 .522 7 Detroit 35 37 .471 10% St. Louis 25 42 .373 17 Chicago 23 43 .348 18% NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 41 30 .577 St. Louis 38 31 .551 2 Pittsburgh 37 St .544 2Vi New York 34 34 .500 5% Philadelphia 36 37 .493 6 Brooklyn 31 35 .470 7% Cincinnati 32 39 .451 9 Chicago 29 41 .414 11% <■ WWftjA >\, t . TOBACCO R’S SHOP Lion Golfers Eliminated In National Collegiates Penn State’s undefeated Eastern Intercollegiate championship golf team was forced out of the National Collegiate tourney at Palo Alto, Cal., last week. The Lions, boasting the first unbeaten crew tinder coach Bob Rutherford since 1938, were edged out in the first round of match play after only two men qualified for the tourney, Don Hart and Joe Boyle, the only Lions to survive the quali fying round, droped by the way side, Neither offered any excuse for their play, but Ted Pavseur, NCAA golf chairman, said that he felt that the Lions “ran into some tough luck.” Hart lost to Art Wall of Duke 3-2, and Rov Moe of Stanford, dimmed Boyle. _Moe had previouslv qualified with a 149 while Bovle checked in with a 154. Wall had a 146 and Hart Dosted 152 to qualify. The Lion team totalled 1.022 in the qualifving round, comnared with the 979 Dosted by the cham oinns. San Jose State. Eliminated by scoring over the 155 deadline were Jim Noble. 158; Tom Smith. 161: .Terry Smith, 161: and A 1 Hack. 158. The Lions, however, were gal lery favorites right up to the time they were eliminated. Penn State’s fine record in the east this spring made quite an impression on the West Coast fans, but in the end the Lions found the Cali fornia boys a trifle too hot. RECORDS SHEET MUSIC RADIO & PHONOGRAPH SALES & SERVICE at D THE PHONE 23M ife) J^ US> S<poM VJT 303 E BEAVtR AVt. 0 STATE COLLtOC Historical Eutaw House STEAKS - OF ALL KINDS SEA FOOD—DELICIOUSLY PREPARED OPEN DAILY UNTIL MIDNIGHT Sunday Dinners 12-7:30 P.M. We Cater To Dinner Parties and Groups Of All Kinds PHONE FOR RESERVATIONS Intersection Pennsylvania Highway 53 and U. S. Highway 3tt Telephone Ceenlre Hall 48-R-3 PAGE FIVE Old Grads Like Pill, Penn as lion Grid Foes Old grads prefer Pitt and Penn totany other opponents suggested for future Penn State football teams. Next in order of prefer ence are Armv and Navy. An informal poll, still incom plete, also reveals a desire on the part of alumni to build future schedules around Eastern teams. Rated “highly desirable” as op ponents were Columbia, Cornell and Syracuse. Only Syracuse is scheduled at the present time, but both Cornell and Columbia have been met in the past. The poll, the final results of which will not be made known until next month, was conducted by the Penn State Alumni Asso ciation with the approval of the Graduate manager’s office. Potters Mills. Pn
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