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Golfers Host Army, Cornell,
For EIGA Regional Playoffs
Defending Champion Lions
Cast Main Hopes on Smith
The Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association Regional play-offs
get underway here today with Penn State, Pitt, Army and Cornell
vying for the position the winner of the match will receive in the
Atlantic City E.I.G.A. finals.
The Penn State Lions have been the winners in the 1947 and
IM6 sectional matches. After last year’s regional victory the unde-
feated Nittany golfers went on to
annex the Eastern Intercollegiate
1 crown.
Pour individuals will be fea
tured in the matches to be held
both today and tomorrow. Cor
\nelTs Pete Smith has paced his
team to its seven-game winning
>atreak, making them undefeated :
in warm-up engagements. Last
week. Smith defeated Tony Lan
gaa, of Syracuse, marking the
*third time Langan has been down
ed in three years of intercolleg
iate play.
Tommy Smith, Pena State’s
mainstay, is one of two men re
maining from last year’s unbeaten
•crown winner. Smith, also owns
a formidable record this season in
non-league contests.
Army’s Ernie Rose and Pitt’s
Bill Burress are the other men
whose recent play promises to
set a grueling pace when the
teams take to the links today.
Dennis Lavender, Army coach,
reports that Rose “hits the longest
ball of any college man in the
country.” Burress, a schoolboy
Star at one time, has been playing
a stellar game in the Pitt ranks.
CbURSE
The Penn State college course
has gone through a face-lifting
procedure. The new fifth and
sixth holes, necessitated by the
construction of new campus build
ings have been lengthened, but
par remains the same. A change
in location of the seventh tee re
duces par there by one. Par at
present on the course is 69.
H. R. Gilbert, graduate mana
ger of athletics at Penn State,
yesterday was appointed referee
of the matches by Asa Bushnell,
executive secretary of th Eastern
Intercollegiate Golf Association.
The schedule of the meets shows
Penn State opening against Pitt
and Cornell against Army. Time
of the match is set at 1:00 p.m.
Rutgers, Lions
To Play in '5O
Penn State and Rutgers Uni
versity today announced a two
year football agreement begin
ning in 1950.
H. R. Gilbert, graduate mana
ger of Penn State athletics, said
the first game will be played here
Nov. 18, 1950.
The Nittany Lions will go to
New Brunswick, N. J., for the sec
ond game on November 17, 1951.
Rutgers and Penn State play
ed only once before, at State
College in 1918, and Rutgers won,
26-3.
His 24th Season
Bill Jeffrey, native Scot, is
looking forward to his 24th suc
cessive year as Penn State soccer
coach.
Lion Athlete Named LaSalle Coa
Kenneth D. (Ken) Loeffler, Penn State graduate and former
coach of the St. Louis Bombers and Providence Steamrollers of the
Basketball Association of America, has been named head basket
ball coach at LaSalle College in Philadelphia.
The 47-year-old Loeffler, a veteran of 17 years coaching' ex
perience, graduated from State in 1924 after winning five letters in
;wo sports. He played basketball
,n 1922, ’23, ’24 and baseball in
1923 and '24. Ken captained the
:ourt squad during the 1924 cam
paign.
Loeffler played professional
pasketball from the time he left
State until he became coach at
Geneva College in 1928. His home
own is Geneva Falls.
He remained at Geneva until
934 when he received a law de
>ree at the University of Pitts
'urg. The next year he took over
By Frank Conte
Netmen Lose to Strong Middies;
Bekhard-Landon Takes Doubles
Navy’s powerful tennis team continued its all-winning ways
Wednesday by trimming Penn State, 8-1, at Annapolis. The victory
was the Middies’ eighth straight over major Eastern colleges.
The Middies had just too many guns for the Nittany Lions and
only a doubles win by Herb Beckhard and Sonny Landon prevented
the hosts from scoring a shutout. Of Navy’s eight wins, five have
been by 9-0 scores and three by
8-1.
Conger Lists
Tennis Rules
Rules governing the use of .-the
College tennis courts have been
issued by Ray Conger, director of
recreational activities.
Reservations for the courts be
tween the hours of 9:30 a.m. and
12 noon and 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
daily except Sunday, and from 1
p.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays, may be
made by phoning extension 87J.
When unreserved, courts may be
used between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 8 p.m. daily except Sunday,
and from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays.
Recreation Hall courts, border
ing Beaver Field, are numbered
from 2 to 12, starting with the
court nearest to the football
booths. The Alpha Zeta court is
13, and varsity courts are num
bered 14 to 19.
All players are required to wear
rubber-soled, heeless shoes.
Other regulations are:
1. First consideration is given
to regular college classes.
2. Aside from classes, college
students and employees have
equal rights. Non-college indi
viduals are not permitted to use
the courts.
3. Reservations may be made
only one day in advance and for
only one hour because of the
limited number of courts.
4. No person is required to giv£
up a court except upon the pre
sentation of a written reserva
tion signed by the dean of the
School of Physical Education and
Athletics or by an instructor in
that school.
5. All reservations must end at
the stroke of the hour as sounded
cy Old Main. The next reserva
tion takes effect immediately. If
the players are in the middle of
a game at time, the game may be
finished provided it takes no long
er than 15 minutes.
6. Reservations must be taken
up by 15 minutes past the hour.
Otherwise, they automatically are
cancelled. Anyone has the right
to play on those courts not re
served.
7. Courts are not to be used
when wet.
as head basketball coach and
assistant football coach at Yale.
He held this position for seven
years until 1942 when he was
commissioned in the Army Air
Forces.
The ex-Nittany athlete was the
first coach taken into the league
when the Basketball Association
of America was formed in 1947.
He mentored the Bombers the
first two seasons and the Steam
rollers last season.
THE PAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Friday: 1:00 pjn.—
Penn State vs. Pitt
Cornell vs. Army
Saturday 9:00 a.m.—
Penn State vs. Army
Army vs. Pitt
2:00 p.m.—
Penn State vs. Army
Cornell vs. Pitt
By Fred Holly
Cpach Sherm Fogg’s netmen
will meet another tough opponent
Saturday when the Duquesne
Dukes invade State College. The
Lions’ successive losses so far this
season have been to three of the
best court crews in the East,
Bucknell, Colgate and Navy.
LOSE SINGLES
State dropped all six singles
matches Wednesday although the'
majority of' them were fairly
close. In the first match, Beck
hard was defeated by Goelzer of
the Middies, 6-2 and 6-2. State’s
Jim Howells put up a good battle
before losing out to Vogt, 7-5 and
6-4.
Landon bowed to McKauack,
6-0 and 6-1; Navy’s Wills beat
Bill Aiken, 6-3, 3-6 and 6-3; Bob
Ogden extended Moore, 9-7 and
6-4; Carter was victorious over
George Lawther, 6-1 and 6-2.
WIN IN DOUBLES
In doubles, Beckhard and Lan
don captured Penn State’s only
triumph of the day by defeating
Vogt and Hayneworth, 6-4, 4-6
and 13-11 in a match which last
ed until dark. Howells and Aiken
lost out to Allen and Neely, 8-6,
3-6 and 6-3. Midshipmen Carter
and Gardner took over Bill Gray
and Jerry Gearhart, 6-0 and 6-0.
Summary
Singles: Goelzer, Navy, defeat
ed Beckhard, Penn State, 6-2 and
6-2.
Vogt, Navy, defeated Howells,
Penn State, 7-5 and 6-4.
McGauack, Navy, defeated
Landon, Penn State, 6-0, 6-1.
Wills, Navy, defeated Aiken,
Penn State, 6-3, 3-6 and 6-3.
Moore, Navy, defeated Ogden,
Penn State, 9-7 and 6-4.
Carter, Navy, defeated Lawth
er, Perin State, 6-1 and 6-2.
Doubles: Beckhard and ■ Lan
don, Penn State, defeated Vigt
and Haynewoth, NaVy, 6-4, 4-6
and 13-11.
Allen and Neely, Navy defeated
Howells and Aiken, Penn State,
8-6, 3-6 and 6-3.
Gardner and Carter, Navy, de
feated Gray and Gearhart, Penn
State, 6-0 and 6-0
9 a.m.—Golf—
E.I.G.A. State College
Baseball—
Dickinson Carlisle, Pa.
Saturday
2 p.m.—Golf—
E.I.G.A. State College
2 p.m.—Lacrosse—
Syracuse State College
2 p.m.—Tennis—
Duquesne State College—
-2 p.m—Volleyball—
YMCA Tourney State Col.
0:30 p.m.—Lacrosse—
Oberlin State College
3:30 p.m.—Baseball—
Navy Annaopolis
3:30 p.m Track—
Colgate Hamilton, N.Y.
Four Home Games
Penn State will play four
games at home, five on the road,
during the 1949 football season.
Pitt
EIGA Pairings
Sports Calendar
Today
Aims for Titio
Lion Tennis Duo
Meets Net Stars
Captain Herb Beckhard and
Owen “Sonny” Landon, outstand
ing members of the Penn State
tennis team, will take a'step up
in tennis circles Sunday when
they will opposeDbn McNeil and
Frank Guernsey, two of the top
ranking stars in the country, in
an exhibition match at Williams
port’s- BTandon Park.
Landon is a native of Williams
port and learned his tennis on the
city courts. He was city cham
’pk>n in 1948 and last year was a
member of the Lycoming College
squad. Although .only a sopho
more, he has already become one
of the Nittany Lion standouts.
Beckhard, one of the two re
turning seniors on this year’s
squad, hails from Woodmore,
Long Island and holds down the
number one singles position. He
also teams with Landon in the
first doubles assignment.
In Penn State’s three matches
so far, the Beckhard-Landon
combination have won two out
of three. They defeated Nothel
and Rogers of Bucknell, 6-4, 5-7
and 6-2, and Vogt and Hayne
worth of Navy, 6-4, 4-6 & 13-
11. Colgate’s first doubles team
of Warren and Lust is the only
one to down the Lion netmen.
Beckhard and Landon will play
in the Duquesne match here Sat
urday and then travel to Wil
liamsport for the next day’s ex
hibition. The event, which is
open to .the public, is being staged
b v the Williamsport Municipal
Tennis Association and will start
at 2:30 p.m.
matches.
Following the exhibition match
es, McNeil and Guernsey will con
duct a junior clinic with the idea
of developing young players.
Wgrtz Leads Lion Batters
With Lusty .393 Average
Hustling Dick Wertz, smooth
fielding first baseman on Coach
Joe Bedenk's Nittany nine, owns
the best batting average on the
squad for the first seven games.
Suffering only a 6-2 loss at the
hands of Rutgers, the Lions have
rolled past six foes, the last four
in a row.
Wertz who has pounded out 11
hits in 28 official trips to the plate,
has smacked enemy pitchin for a
.393 mark. The lefthanded first
sacke r has scored the most runs,
8, and tapped the most safeties, 11.
The classy Wertz is also one
of the five Nittanies’ who have
clubbed out two base hits, and he
hit one of the team’s two home
runs. Stan Laganosky, big right
fielder, socked the other in the
Lafayette tilt.
Pitcher A 1 Tkac holds second
place in the batting parade with
a .364 mark, while the two catch
ers, Clarence Buss and Jack Kur
, ty, are tied for third at .333. Only
averages compiled in at least ten
times at bat are listed.
Others who have two base hits
to their credit are Bill Bair, Kur
ty, Buss and Laganosky. Bill
Benyiah and Bill Tegtmeyer have
FRIDAY, MAY .6, .1949
Lion Golfers
To Defend
1948 Record
Meet Scheduled
On College Links
Coach Bob Rutherford’s efforts
to build a 1949 team of golfers
comparable to his undefeated squ
squad of last year will get its test
today and tomorrow when the
Lion linksmen move into the
Eastern Intercollegiate section
ploy-offs on the Penn State
course.
With only two men, Joe Boyle
and Tom Smith, remaining from
last year’s team, Coach Ruther
ford has succeeded in fashioning
a winning aggregation of these
two, four sophomores and a
junior. Since dropping their first
match to Georgetown University
on strange course, the Nittany
golfers have recorded four con
secutive victories in their last
four attempts. All these contests
have been non-league matches.
NON-LEAGUE WINS
The non-league action has in
cluded some tough oppostion,
with the Lions .registering wins
against Georgetown, Bucknell,
Colgate, and Gettysburg since
their initial defeat.
Weekend sectional play in the
E. I. G- A., will see the Penn
State golfers in action against'all
its league opponents; Cornell,
Army, and Pitt. The winner of
this section will go to Atlantic
City to compete in the finals
against winners of the three other
E. I. G. A. sections.
SCHEDULE
The hour and the day of the
various matches follow; today at
lp.m. Army meets Cornell; Penn
State meets Pitt. Tomorrow... at
1 p. m., Army tees off agaiinst
Pitt while Penn State battles Cor
nell* At 2 p. m. tomorrow, Army
plays Penn State and Cornell
meets Pitt.
Jayvee Stickmen
Spike Harrisburg
Led by Paul Raffensberger,
Coach John McHugh's jayvee la
crossemen edged the Harrisburg
Center ten, 11-9, on New Beaver
Field Wednesday.
Raffensberger put on a spurt in
the final quarter, sending three
shots into the Harrisburg net, to
clinch the game for the Lion Cubs.
The win brought the Cubs’ record
to one win and one loss.
Harrisburg tied the game in
the third period at 6-6,. after
trailing by 5-3 at the half. How
ever, Raffensberger sparked his
mates to five £oals, and the Nit
tany juniors led, 11-7. The visitors
scored twice in the final minutes
of play.
Tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. the
little Nittanies tangle with'
Otterbein in the Lions’ second
home engagement. The jayvee
game will follow the varsity’s
battle with highly-rated Syra
cuse.
belted triples, while Gene Solo
mon leads in sacrifice hits with
Eight double plays have been
clicked off by the Lion diamond
men in the seven clashes.. Cap
tain Hal Hackman, fifth hitter
on the squad, has pilfered base 8
t:mes.
Tkac heads the pitchers with
a record of two wins and no de
feats, closely followed by Bair,
who captured his only start at
Swarthmore. Cy Mille r owns the
most wins, 3, but was on the
mound when the Bedenkmen lost
to Rutgers.
G AB R H Av«r.
7 28 8 1 1 .8M
i 11 2 4 .364
6 15 2 6 .833
3 12 5 4 .383
7 2*l 7 7 .304
7 20 7 7 .209
ii 19 5 5 .203
25 6 6 .240
7 24 6 5 .208
4 12 0 2 .107
0 23 3 8 .ISO
Pitching Records
Hackman
Ondick
Tegtmeyer
l.aganoaky
Albriyht
Miller
Solomon
ft IP H BOBBVL Pet
2 18 12 6 3 2 0 1.000
Hair l a 4 6 2 10 I.QOQ
Miller 4 28 26 23 11 8 1 .766
B«nyi-h 2 4 2-3 4 4 2 0 0 .000
MMticolA 14 88209 -AM-