i: i ■ v t\ Recreation Info Information concerning rec reation for the Main Summer Session may be obtained in 213 Rec Hall, or by calling C. M. “Dutch” Sykes, summer director, extension 95. ... You are cordially invited to our office to see our textbooks on Pennsyl vania subjects—history geography, and civics. Consider our coming ninth grade history, THE PENNSYLVANIA STORY, by Fortcnbnugh and Tarmnn. PENNS VALLEY PUBLISHERS, INC. 121 South Frazier Street State College, Pennsylvania MUSIC SUPPLIES RECORDS any brand Classical or Popular 78 r. p. m. 33 1/3 r. p. m. 45 r. p. m. SHEET MUSIC RADIOS SOLD AND SERVICED PHONOGRAPHS—One or Three Speeds Q THE ' PHONE 2311 A Jy us 's QOM V y 203 E BEAVER AVE. 0 STATE COLLEGE COME IN AND BROWSE AROUND /94 9 Summer Series SERIES TICKETS - $2.00 plus tax. TOTAL-$2.40 On sale in Room 104 Burrowes Building Lion Teams Elect Leaders Two Nittany sport" teams have elected their 1950 team leaders since the close of the spring se- mester. Jumpin' Jim Gehrdes, Lion hurdles ace, was picked to cap tain next year's trackmen by his teammates. Gehrdes, one of the nat i o n’s top timber - toppers, placed second in the 220-yd. low hurdles and third in the 120- highs at the recent NCAA track meet at Los Angeles. Selected as number one man for next year’s baseball forces was Dick Wertz, the Blue and White’s classy first baseman. Wertz, who flirted near the .400 mark in batting most of the sea son, fell into a late slump, but still was one of the Lions’ lead ing batters. Singing star of the American Album of Familiar Music Swiss Bell Ringers in a program of vocal and instrumental favorites Internationally known dance Ensemble in a program entitled Dances of Many Lands. A Negro quartet whose repertoire includes everything for which colored singers are noted THE SUMMER 'OLLPCIAN ST'TK COLLEGE. PRNNrYLV.’.Nf A Beaver Field Gets New Look i Stands Added There’ll be approximately 15,- 000 seats available for alumni and the general public in Penn State’s enlarged football stadium, H. R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, announced recently. Gilbert said preliminary plan ning indicated that the student body and faculty would require only about 13,000 seats in the per manent stands, which would still leave more than 15,000 seats for alumni and non-alumni follow ers. Seating capacity will be prac tically doubled when the North end of the stadium is closed in, horseshoe style, by all-steel stands 30 rows high, while two new sections also have been added at the South end of both the East and West stands. Se&ts within the two goal lines have been priced at $3.60, the others at $2.40. New dressing quarters also are being built under the • West stands for both home and visit ing teams, and a new all-steel press box will be erected at mid field atop the West stands. Con struction engineers have assured athletic officials that the entire project will be complete before the opening game against Villa nova September 24. Sidelights... CROSS-COUNTRY New York University, Cornell, Michigan State and Manhattan will challenge Penn State’s cross country team this fall. The Lions, who also will compete in the IC4-A championships, defeated all but the national champion Michigan State outfit last yea r. GOOD PROSPECTS Major league scouts who saw Penn State in action on the base ball diamond the past season rate shortstop Hal Hackman, first baseman Dick Wertz, pitcher Cy Miller and catcher Jack Kurty “good prospects.” Wednesday, July 6,1949 Tuesday, July 12,1949 Wednesday, July 20,1949 Thursday, July 28,1949 For ComfortubJa Room*. 123W.N1 TTANYAVE, ->?// W/th Ffurrn/rtcf Water Full-scale Sports Program Slated for Early Opening Full-scale programs in three sports—golf, softball and tennis, are in the process of being drawn up by the intramural department. A golf tournament is scheduled to begin sometime next week, with an entry fee of one dollar. A greens’ ticket, good for the en tire Main Session, must also be bought for $lO at the Bursar’s Of fice. Interested golfers are requested to sign up at the Caddy House, Booters Meet Two New Foes Two new soccer faces brace the 1949 schedule of Coach Bill Jeffrey’s Lion booters. West Chester State Teachers College, a cracker-jack unit’ in the TC ranks, wil be the Nittanies’ first opponent when the season opens October 1. North Carolina, a comparative newcomer in soccer, will visit the Blue and White November 5. Two other home contests are scheduled, with Bucknell’s im proving eleven and Temple’s an nually tough team journeying to State College to battle with the Jeffreymen. Away foes (include -Syracuse, Navy'i Colgate and Maryland. RECORD SPOILED Navy's Tars spoiled an un beaten season for the Lions in 1948 when they upset the Nittany applecart, 4-0. The Statemen, who won six, were tied by a good Cornell combination,' 2-2, but reached their peak when they smashed Temple, 4-1, to knock the Owls out of the East ern title picture and the unbeaten list. Captain Ralph Hosterman and Dick Hannah, All-American half backs, head a host of returning lettermen that Coach Jeffrey can count upon in molding a tradi tionally aggressive team. The schedule: Oct. 1, West Chester Teachers; GET YOUR SUMMER COLLEGIAN THROUGH THE MAIL 30c for Six (6) issues—Published every Wednesday Beginning June 29, until August 3 NAME ADDRESS Write Summer Collegian Box 261 STATE COLLEGE, PENNA. MONDAY. JUNE 27. 1949 which is behind Rec Hall, and faces the College course. Golfers will swing through an 18-hole qualifying round and then turn in their scores at the Caddy House. The participants will be placed in flights of 16 persons for the tournament of match play. The tourney is open to the faculty, administration and the student body. The one dollar en try fee will be used to purchase gifts for the flight champions and runners-up. Softball Softball will feature a five week tournament in league play, with games slated on a bi-week ly scale—every Monday and Wednesday. Softball registration is open at the present time, and persons desiring to enter a team for the Session’s contests should go to 213 Rec Hall, the intra mural office. The ticket office at the main gate to New Beaver Field is open for registration for the tennis play-offs. Three flights, men’s singles, • women’s singles and mixed doubles, have been planned. There is no charge for either softball or tennis. Deadline for signing up for any of the three sports’ tourna ments. is next Tuesday, July 5. Play will begin immediately after all entries have been re ceived. 8, Bucknell; 15, Syracuse, at Syr acuse, N. Y.; 22, Navy, at An napolis, Md.; 29, Colgate, at Ham ilton, N. Y. Nov. 5. North Carolina; 12, Maryland, at College Park, Md.; 19, Temple.
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