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Six Lion Athletes, Coach Mark Ist
Session of Olympic Games Tomorrow
Six Penn State athletes will be among the 5,000 who open the
Olympic games at London tomorrow.
King George will launch the games tomorrow in elaborate
ceremonies at Wembley Stadium. The competition proper will get
under way Friday with 5,000 athletes from 61 nations vieing in
17 sports.
In addition to six participants, the Nittany Lions will be repre
sented in the coaching ranks by
Gene Wettstone, Penn State
gymnastic coach, who is tutoring
the United States Olympic Gym
team.
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Move Info Second
The Brooklyn Dodders rallied
for two runs in the last half of
the ninth inning to nose out the
St. Louis Cardinals. 3 to 2, at the
Dodgers’ home field.
The win boosted the Dodgers
into second place in the Na
tional league standings, five
games back of the league-leading
Boston Braves. The Cards
dropped back to third place, five
and one-half games off the pace.
The Pittsburgh Pirates hold
down the fourth spot, a half
game behind the St. Louis Car
dinals, with the New York
Giants in fifth place, a half game
behind the Pirates.
The torrid four-team fight for
the American League flag con
tinues at a hot pace. The Boston
Red Sox hold down the top spot
by a mere four percentage points
over the Philadelphia Athletics.
A game and a half behind the
league leaders, the Cleveland In
dians and the New York Yankees
are separated by a slim two per
centage points.
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pic Games'
In the track department, three
proteges of Lion coach Chick
Werner will seek laurels.
Rated the best chance of win
ning for the United States is 30-
year-old Barney Ewell, Lion
sprinter in the early 1940’s who
equalled the world’s record in the
10 meters at 10.2 seconds in the
Olympic qualifying trials last
month.
Ewell, national 100-meters
champion, will run the 100, 200
and the sprint relays in the
Olympics.
Curtis Stone, national cham
pion at 5000 meters, will run in
that event at the Olympics, and
Herman Goffberg, another ex-
Nittany Lion, will compete at
10,000 meters as the result of his
third place in the qualifying
round at that distance.
Two members of last year’s
triple champion Penn State gym
team, Ray Sorenson and Bill
Bonsai! will represent the Lions
in the Olymnic gymnastics, in ad
dition to Louis Brodo Bordo.
Lion gym captain in 1942.
The first football game was
with Bucknell in 1881.
THE SUMMER OOtXEGIAN, STATE COUiEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Summer Session Tennis
Tournament Nears Finish
Weidman, White
Meet in Finals
n f Women's Play
The Summer Sessions Tennis
tournament is rapidly approach
ing the finals, and should be com
n!»ted by the end of this week.
In the -third round of the men’s
singles. Stark defeated Snider
6-1. 6-2. and will play the win
ner of the Shuster - Hartman
-'-’atch.
In another match in the men’s
'ingles. Short defeated Gearhart
6-1, 6-0. and will meet the win
ner of the Peters and Aston or
Restain match.
Playoff for the champion shin in
tha women’s singles will take
nlace between Weidman and
White. Weidman qualified for
the finals bv defeating Masters
6-4. 6-2. and White eliminated
Gingrich by a score of 4-6, 6-3.
6-1-
Competition in the mixed dou
bles has narrowed down to four
teams. Snider and White plav
Klotz and Weidman; Peters and
•Tesnak will meet Sthrk and Pan
nacchio to further narrow down
the field.
Olympic Tumbler
Penn State's head cheerleader
in 1948-49 will be ar> experienced
tumbler. .
The cheerleader-elect is Bil-
Bonsall, of Philadelphia, a mem
ber of the Olympic gymnastic
team. ,
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Lions Rich In
Tailbacks for r 4B
Penn State will be rich in tail
backs again in 1948.
The hold - overs tentatively
chosen to report September 8 for
pre-season football drills are El
wood Petchel, of Easton; Larry
Joe. of Derry Township; Bill
Luther of Osceola Mills; Johnny
Chuckran, of Lansford; Bob
Harter of State College; and Bill
Brown, of Dußois.
MAJOR LEAGUES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pet. W L Pet.
Boston 54 36 .600 Detroit 44 45 .494
Phila’lphia 56 38 .596 Wash’Rton 39 50 .438
Cleveland 51 36 .586 St. Louis 32 53 .376
New York 52 37 .584 Chlcasm 28 61 .315
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W I. Pet. W L Pet.
Boston 52 37 .584 New York 44 43 .506
Brooklyn 46 41 .529 Phila’phia 43 48 .473
St. Louis 46 42 .523 Cincinnati 41 49 .456
Pittsburgh 44 42 .512 Chicago 38 52 .422
For the second season in a row.
Penn State will play a nine-game
football schedule in 1948.
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