FRIDAY. MAY 13. 104!) Thomas, Louis Tied in Lacrosse Scoring Race Latest released lacrosse figures showing the Nittany Lions’ scor ing punch again goes to disprove the popular belief that the rugged stick game is purely a “Big man’s” sport. Flashing eleven points in seven games, Buddy Thomas, smallest Penn State varsity stidkman at 5 foot, 7 inches, is tied with Bob Louis for offensive mark honors. Ranking close behind the two State pacemakers are Eddie Bel field with eight counters and John Finley who has scored seven times. Others who have register ed are Waldo Weaver and Ernie Baer, five; Captain Rodger Nes tor and John Lux, four; and Rocco lannetta James Worley, one apiece. In the seven contests engaged in by the Nick Thiel coached ag gregation, opponents have tallied 57 points, while strangely, State has pushed a like number past its foes. The Lions are averag ing 8.1 goals per game. PRESS BOX CHATTER—Ho bart, Navy, Johns Hopkins and Syracuse are still riding along in undefeated style in collegiate lacrosse play ranking tops among major undefeated teams . . . . the college stick season ends Wednesday, June 8 with two top flight teams in action. Army, re cently upset by Maryland will meet perenially strong Mt. Wash ington. Coach Thiel remains puer plexed over the inability of his ace Buddy Thomas to score. After tallying 10 markers in his first four games. Buddy has been held to one anemic counter ... it seems funny that the Onondaga Indians, who at one time ruled the lacrosse roost in the North and who claim the sport as a prime Indian pastime, are so light ly regarded . . . Colgate's Red Warriors are conceded little chance of overcoming the Lions Saturday at Hamilton. N. Y., com ing up with a team which has little experience and loss reserve strength. London Takes Title InlntramuralTenni? Owen “Sonny” Landon, now a varsity tennis performer, won the independent intra-mural singles championship by defeating Jim Howells 7-5 and 6-3 on the var sity courts. This brought to a close the tennis tournament that was started last October. In other singles competition, Bill Aiken, also o n Coach Sherm Fogg’s varsity, will meet Mark Borland of Phi Gamma Delta for the fraternity finals of the IM tourney. Aiken advanced to the finals via a 6-0, 6-4 win over Paul Hallman of Sigma Pi. Borland reached this stage on a tough three set match i n which he beat Dick Fleming, DU. Usually Landon and Aiken would not have been allowed to enter the tournament but since they were not varsity members when the play started they were given permission to vie for the titles. In the IM doubles competition two more pairs have advanced. Jerry Wolf and Sid Gold, AEPi went to the fourth round by win ning over Frank Luerssen and Terry Ruhlman of Sigma Chi, 10- 8 and 6-4. Gil Welsh and John Wallace, Delta Tau Delta reached the fourth round with a 8-6, 6-3 victory over Do n Orr and Bob Shore of Phi Epsilon Pi. Room and Board all summer at DELTA UPSILON Large lawn, good rooms, ex cellent meals and central lo cation. Room and Board •17 per week Special rate* for meals only Cell 3M9 for Reservations THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA IM Track All men signed up for in tramural track must have their physical examination complet ed by 5 p. m. tomorrow. Participants in Monday's trials are requested to bring their physical examination cards to the meet. Four Out of Four—Back Again This Year Jack Dianetli, Bill Mack, Warren Druelzler and Tom Irmen, pictured above, will compete in tomorrow's meet in the mile relay. These Michigan State cindermen competed last year against Penn State at East Lansing, Mich., and won the relay in 4 minutes, 24 and 3/10 seconds. The Nittany Realm Gehrdes —A Natural Champion The date: March 5, 1949. The place: Madison Sauare Garden, New York City. The guy: Penn State’s top hurdling prospect, long legged Jim Gehrdes. Long will that day and place live in the memory of Gehrdes, for on that day he upset the applecart of Baldwin Wallace’s Olympic star, the “invincible” Harrison Dillard. Dillard, then riding high oh a three-year undefeated indoor string, was beaten to the tape by the Lion flash who covered the 60-yard high hurdles in :07.2 seconds to tie the New York Knights of Columbus race record. “That was the first race I ever ran that I couldn’t describp,” Gehrdes commented in the shower room shortly after the race. “I was entirely unconscious of everything around me except the track, the hurdles and the finish line." Now that ole King Sol is once again sending his warm rays on the lair of the Nittany Lions, track and field experts alike have their eyes focused on the present pro tege of Penn State’s track men tor, Chick Werner. The Lion flash started off the 1949 track season by copping the 120-yard high hurdles at the Sugar Bowl feature event at New Orleans. Next on his win agenda was the 70-yard flatshoe event at the Washington, D. C., then the New York A.C. title, etc. PENN RELAYS track debut last year an impres sive one. Competing at West Point, the fleet footed Gehrdes set a pair of Army fieldhouse records. Traveling to South Bend the following week, Jim swept Continued on page six Nittany Lion Thinclads Challenge Michigan State Track Powerhouse By George Vadasz But that’s only the beginning of a long list of stellar perform ances this season. Gentleman Jim opened the outdoor campaign with a double win at Navy, and then two weeks ago turned the eyes or the track world toward him when he handily copped the Penn Relays hurdle event. Gehrdes made his Penn State Gehrdes Paces Top Hurdlers In Tomorrow's Big Meet Penn State’s ace hurdleman, Jim Gehrdes, will have his hands full tomorrow afternoon when the Nittany Lion track team enter tains an invading Michigan State horde on New Beaver Field at 1 p.in Jim will be meeting several of the best timber-toppers in the country in the Spartans’ Horace Smith, Fred Johnson and Paige Christensen. This trio has been laving things pretty much its own way this season, and will offer Gehrdes some of his stillest com petition of the year. All three have hung up impres sive records this season, with one or the other winning the hurdles events in nearly all the meets the Spartans have participated in. HURDLERS Smith was victor in both the 120-yard high hurdle.; and 220- yard low hurdles last week as the Green and White overpowered a strong Ohio State cinder team at Columbus, Ohio. He also placed second to Christensen in the 120- yard high hurdles at th e Drake relays, finishing only one step be hind his team mate. Christensen, in the meantime, chalked up a victory i n the 120- yard high hurdles in the Univer sity *f Southern California meet. Facing Stiff Competition HORACE ASHENFELTER The First National Bank Of State College Memhrt «f FodoraF Deposit Insurance (Corporation Federal Keserte System in addition to his winning effort at the Relays. At the same time Gehrdes has been sweeping everything before him in an all-winning season. Jim won both hurdle events at the Penn-Navy meet, the 120-yard invitational high hurdles at the 1 Penn Relays in near-record time and the.22o-yard low hurdles at the Colgate meet last Saturday. In the latter event, Jim set a new Penn State record, traveling the distance in 22.9 seconds. Trackmen Prep For IM Meet Fraternity and independent. trackmen are finishing their physical examinations today in preparation for the three-day in tramural track meet Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Trial heats in the 100 and 440- yard dashes and the 880-yard re lay will be run on the New Beaver track, 6:30 p. m. Monday, for both fraternity and independent groups. According to an IM rul ing, times will be recorded on the first three finishers in each heat. However, only the six low times will qualify for the finals Wed nesday. Tuesday, the field men get their chance as the competition moves to the high jump, broad jump and shot-put events. The time for that meet is also 6:30 p. m. Larry Joe, speedy Nittany half back, holds the 100-yard dash mark with a 9.9-second time, scored for Sigma Nu in the spring of 1947. Sigma Nu also holds the 880-yard relay mark, chalked last year when John Potsklan, Larry Joe, Don Myers and Don Roy flashed over the course in 1:38.9. Sigma Chi’s Ed Merges holds the 440-yard dash record, set in 1947 when he traveled the dis tance in 53.3 seconds. With a fast track Monday, all of these marks may be threatened. Jeff Durkota and Ed Harter of Delta Upsilon hold the shotput and high jump marks. Durkota heaved the 16-pound shot 38 feet, 8% inches in 1947, and Harter cleared the bar at 5 feet, Bii in- Continued on page six PAGE FiV®
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