WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 194* The Nittany Lyon Stories are still trickling back about Barney Ewell, Penn State’s great Olympic sprinter who is now in London for the XIV Olympiad. Curt Stone, a former teammate of Barney’s under Lion coach Chick Werner, dropped into the office before embarking for the London games. ‘ißarney’s a pretty happv man right now.” Stoney said. “He’s so proud and so tickled, sometimes he’s downright laughable.” And anyone who knows the Lancaster speedster can appreci ate just how Henry Norwood Ewell feels. At the tender age of 30—sup posedly too old for a sprinter— Barney is one of the three double qualifiers who will lead the United States contingent in the London games. "When he gels out of bed in the mornings," Stoney said, "Barney stretches his legs and savs: " These are the legs that equalled the worM's record. You lucky man you'." Ewell has beaten three genera tions of sorinters, or so he claims. Early In his fabulous career, Barney beat Clyde Jeffries, an old-time great. Then later he beat Hal Davis, who shares the 100- meters world mark with Ewell and Jesse Owens, and finally he clipped youngster Mel Patton in the final Olympic tryouts. The “National Champion Olym pian,” as Barney likes to be call ed, also holds a world mark in the 60-yard dash. This is strictly an indoor event, and Brother Ewell has several times knocked off that distance in 6.1 seconds, slightly slower than flying. Patton, the Southern California flash who recently set a new world record in the 100-yard dash in 9.3 seconds, found out the hard way about Barney Ewell. It's an axiom in track circles that "Others may qet better times: Barney wins." The stories about Ewell are nu merous. Without a doubt he’s one of the most colorful athletes in Penn State history. And for that matter, he’s one of the most col orful runners ever to put on a pair of spikes, any place and any time. One of the reasons for Barney’s success is his spirit of competi tion. He loves to run. He loves competition. He loves to get in there and fight it out. After he graduated from State and went to work at his home town. Barney found training rath er difficult. There wasn’t anyone who could give him a race around Lancaster. THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Release Lion Court Card 7 Home-&-Home fonhwis Mark fane Slate Home-and-home games with seven long-time opponents, plus three single games, will give Penn State a 17-game basketball sched ule for the coming year. H. R. Gil bert, graduate manager of ath letics, announced today. The season will open December 4 against the University of Pitts burgh, and close March 5 against Georgetown University. Ameri can University, Colgate, Syracuse, West Virginia and Temple will round out the home-and-home schedule. Single games will be played against Washington & Jef ferson, Navy and Carnegie Tech. The schedule: Dec. 4, Pitt, at Pittsburgh; 14, American U., at Washington, D.C.; Georgetown, at Washington, D.C.; 15, Georgetown, at Washington, D.C.; 18, Washington & Jefferson. Jan. 8, Colgate; 15, Carnegie Tech; 19, Navy, at Annapolis, Md. Feb. 2, West Virginia, at Mor gantown, W. Va.; 5, Syracuse; 9, West Virginia; 12, Temple, at Philadelphia; 19, Pitt; 23, Ameri can U.; 25, Colgate, at Hamilton, N.Y.; 26, Syracuse, at Syracuse, Y. ’ Mar. 2, Temple; 5, Georgetown. Town & Nine Players Present The Philadelphia Story AT CENTRE STAGE July 21 to August 2, Inclusive For Reservations-Phone 4236 National League Shake-up Brings New Fight to Clubs Burt Shotton has provided the Brooklyn Dodgers with the shot in the arm that they have needed to live up to the expectations of the experts. With the removal of I.iopy Leo, the Bums have come to life. Winning three out of four games since Shotton took over, the Dod gers have moved into the second spot in the torrid National league race. Meanwhile, Lippy Leo’s new charges, the New York Giants, have caught the spark and fight of their new manager. Preparing to tangle with the St. Louis Cardinals in a crucial series with second place perhaps at stake, the Giants under Duro cher have won three out of four games to pull up within a game of the runnerup spot. By virtue of their shutout vic tory over the pace-setting Boston Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates managed to stay in a tie for third place with the St. Louis Cardi nals, a half game in front of the New York Giants. The Boston Red Sox managed to climb to within a full game of the New York Yankees by de feating the St. Louis Browns, while the Yankees were being sot down by the Detroit Tigers. Cleveland remained a game and a half in front of the Philadel phia Athletics, and three and a half games in front of the world champion Yankees. The Red Sox managed to hold on to the fourth place berth by their win, keeping a comfortable margin of four games between them and the fifth place Tigers. Washington, St. Louis and the Chicago White Sox remained far off the pace, with the nearest team, the Senators, 16 games be hind the league leaders. The White Sox occupy the cel lar, 23 i games out of first place. Dean of Coaches Bob Rutherford Sr., golf maes tro and dean of Penn State ath letic coaches, will be 68 years old ; September. League Changes Since its origin in 1921, the Na tional football loop has had teams from 38 cities. CIGARS - CIGARETTES CANDY - TOBACCO A Common Expression in Town and on Campus "You Can Get It at METZGERS" TEXT BOOKS STUDENT SUPPUES-STATIONERY OFFICE F n ' T SPORTING GOODS Golf-Tennis-Baseball-Swimming Brief Cases-Luggage-Wallets For Exceptional Bargains Visit Our Bargain Basement Shop at METZGERS Jll-115 Allen St. 112 W. College Ave. PAGE ms MAJOB LEAGUES AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland SO 30 .823 Detroit 82 41 .904 Phlla. S 3 SS .802 Wash’ton SS 4T .427 New York 47 3S .573 St.Looia 28 SI .383 Boston 46 38 .581 Chicago 28 83 .22* NATIONAL LEAGUE Boa ton 50 34 .595 NewYerk 48 2* .588 Brooklyn 4L 38 .531 Phlla. 48 44 .478 Plttab’irh 41 39 .513 Clnne’atl 39 48 .458 St.Looia 41 39 .513 Chleairo 35 48.422 TODAY'S GAMES American League—Cleveland at New York <2>, Chicago at Boston (2, day, night), Detroit at Waahlngton and St. Louis at Philadelphia (night). National League—Boston at Cincinnati (nleht). Brooklyn at Chicago <2), New York at St. Louis (night), and Phlladel nhla at Pittsburgh. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS (Not Including night games) AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 8, St. Louis 3 Detroit 2, New York 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 5. Chicago 8 Cincinnati 9, Boston 8 In 1892 Lehigh beat Penn State in football a scoTe of 106 to 0.
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