TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1950
Mile Relay Quartet Sets New N ittany Indoor T rack Mark
Thinclad Four Captures First Victory
Gehrdes Places 2nd, Fritts 4th
Penn State's one-mile relay team set a new Nittany indoor-mile
relay record Saturday night at the New York Athletic Club Meet
held in Madison Square Garden.
In chalking up it's first win of the season, the Lion quartet of
Wil Lancaster, Guy Kay, Bill Lockhart and John McCall sped over
the distance in 3 minutes and 22 seconds flat, clipping two-tenths of
a second off the old mark:
The victory ' was hard-earned
with Colgate's mile team giving
:he Lions a fight all the way and
finishing only a foot or two be
nind the Nittany runnel's. Yale
was third and Navy fourth.
SMART RUNNING
Coach Werner's boys gained
the victory by smart running and
their refusal to quit. All four
turned in great races. Lancaster
got the team off to a good start by
grabbing a two-yard • lead. Kay,
running the second lap, collided
with the Colgate runner which
hurt the time, but by remaining
in the running, he kept the State
team in the race.
Lockhart took over with a slight
deficit but turned in a terrific 49.6
quarter and put the Lions 'back
in the lead. McCall was pressed
the entirolast quarter by the Col
gate runner but withstopd ,every
chalenge and brought home the
bacon.
THE BRIDE ,
Prior to this race it had been a
case of always a bridesmaid but
never a bride with the' Nittany
mile team. In all its previous
meets during the winter the Lion
foursome had set the pace only to
lose out by a few yards to the best
teams in the nation.
It was the second record broken
by the mile relay team within a
year. Last spring against Notre
Dame the Lion team set new
outdoor Penn State relay mark.
Both records had previously
been held by the same team of
Dan Taylor, Frank Thomas, Jay
Steele and Jay Deming.
GOING ROUGH
Captain Jim Gehrdes found the
going a little rough for the third
straight week as he finished in
second place behind Craig Dixon
in the 60 yard high hurdles. How
ever, Dixon turned in a fine per
formance in winning the event in
7.3 seconds. Last week Jumpin'
Jim finished second :to Harrison
Dillard in Boston. _
Lancaster, in addition to his
stellar performance in the mile
relay, finished fourth in the 60-
yard sprint. He was only a yard
behind th'e winner, Ira Kaplan of
NYU. Ben Kritzberger of Penn
was second and Tom Carey was
third.
// FRITTS FOURTH
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.Another fourth-place finish was
turned in by Vic Fritts in the high
jump. Vic leaped 6 feet, 2 inches.
The winning height was 6.4.
Fred' Wilt, the FBI agent who
has been dominating the distance
events this winter, gained revenge
from Curt Stone in the two-mile
run. Stone -tlpset Wilt in Boston
last week for_ Wilt's only loss of
the season. In that race Stone
covered the two miles in 8.55.
Just like the week befbre,
Horace Ashenfelter set the early
pace. He left the field behind in
,the early stages of the race but
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was unable to hold his pace and
at the one-and-a-half mile mark
Wilt and Stone caught him. Stone
was 'second and Ash third. Wilt's
time was 8:59.3 and he ran the
last quarter in 61 seconds.
Lions, Quakers
Resume Rivalry
Penn State will resume 'its
football rivalry with Penn in
1952. Although the contract calls
for only one game there is the
possibility that the contest will
mark the resumption of an an
nual series.
The two teams have met 40
times since 1890, but only in
frequently in the last ten years.
In their last meeting in 1948,
Penn State paced by Frank Ro
gel, shattered the Quakers'
dreams of an • unbeaten season
by turning in a 13-0 victory.
Penn holds a wide margin in
the victory column, winning the
first 15 games, but in recent
years Bob Higgins, since retired,
held a A-3-2 edge over the Red
and Blue.
Here's More Fuel
For the Argument
'Brains vs. Brawn'
Ever wonder what it takes
to be an excellent rope-climber?
Muscles and co,ordniation, of
course. But gym Coach Gene
Wettstone adds another factor
which might surprise the ave
rage _ layman.
"Brains," he says, and adds,
"There's little to motivate a
rope-climber and induce him to
give out with important extra
effort. A fellow needs brains to
figure out the fun in this event."
Wettstone continued that a lot
of the recent star rope-climbers
at State have been engineers.
They had real - heads on their
shoulders.
Lee Perna, the present top can
didate for rope-climbing honors,
isn't an engineer. He's l a com
merce and finance major, but he's
pulling down threes, If Wettstone
is • correct,' Perna might be just
what the Lions need. •
Take a look at the report card
pa—our boy wants to be a rope
climber.
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Tankmen Clip
Delaware Hens
After trailing most of the way,
a not-to-be-denied State tank
team stroked to victory in the 400
yird relay, to nose out the Uni
versity of Delaware, 39-36, Satur
day afternoon in Glennland pool.
Behind by a 36-32 count, the
relay team of Vic • Lynch, Bob
Long, Dick Wilson and Cas
Borovyy staged an all out effort
to defeat the Blue Hen's Charley
Lloyd, sophomore ace, and John
Bishop, who trailed Borowy in
both the 50 and 100 yards free
style events.
Gene 'Kblber turned in the rec
ord-breaking time of '5:28 in the
440 yard freestyle event..'Captain
John McGrory placed second in
the event to keep the Lion hopes
alive:.
McGrory, who set a new team
record against Seton Hall the
previous week in the 220 yard
freestyle event, continued his
winning ways by taking the event
in 2:.27;x.. Cas Borowy won both
the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, in
addition to his part in the relay.
Delaware • captured first and
second in the fancy diving, with
State's Bob Richardson taking
third, , The man who captured the
fancy of the crowd with his diving
exhibition was Delaware's Cap
tain Bauduy. Grier, who.. totaled
94.01 points in winning the event.
Delaware's highly touted back
stroker, Murray Campbell, edged
out Rod Waters and Ken Conrad,
but Lloyd, who is ranked as the
outstanding distance swimmer' in
Delaware, failed to• look impres
sive in the 100 yard freestyle and
the relay.
Announces
ANNUAL
5 to 8 p.m.
Gymnasts Miss Captain,
Drop Army Meet, 59-37
Faced with the prospect of carrying on their schedule without
thu services of all-round star and captain Mike Kurowski, Penn
State's gymnastic crew today settled down to pre-Navy drills knoW
ing they have a tough road to hoe.
Kurowski, who became ineligible after the end of the semester
and dropped out of school, was sorely missed Saturday when the
Lions suffered their first loss of the season, 59-37, at West Point,
Without their captain, the Nit
tany high scorer against Michigan
State, the Lions were unable to
grab a first in any event except
tumbling. There, bouncin' Rudy
Valentino out-tumbled everyone
to come' up with his second first
place._ of the young season.
Paced by Bob Brunson, who
grabbed firsts on the horizontal
and parallel bars, Army piled up
a 51-29 lead through the meet up
to the tumbling event and had
the meet sewed that early.
Most disappointing event for the,
Lions was the rope-climb in which
they had pre-meet hopes of scor
ing heavily. As it turned out.
John Claybrook of Army won the
event with a time of 4.4, not ex
ceptionally good, with Lee Perna
of State finishing second, and
John Green of Army, third
JV Boxers Bow
Penn State's junior varsity box
ing team dropped a 5-3 decision
to Syracuse in the first half of a
Rec Hall double bill Saturday
night.
The Summaries
125-pounds Joe Reynolds, Penn State,
decisioned Norm Mosberg, 30-27.
130-pounds William Shaffio, Syracuse,
won by forfeit.
136-pounds—Ed Martin, Syracuse, won
by forfeit.
136-pounds—Ed Martin, Syracuse, decis
ioned Jack Reiter, 29-26. -
146-pounds—Ed Mcßride, Sytacuse, de
cisioned Ed Rohrbeck, 30-26.
155-pounds—Pat Heims. Fenn State, de
eisioned John Pauldin, 29-27.
165-pounds Albie Diconstanzos, Syra
cuse, decisioned Buhl Winter, 30-26.
175-poUnds—Chuck Wilson, Penn ' State,
scored TKO over Fred Wiltz in 1 min. 30
seconds of the second 'round.
Heavyweight— George Kartalian, Syra
cuse, decisioned Chuck Godlasky, 29-27.
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Fencers Gain
First Victory
The Nittany Lion fencers final
ly hit the victory trail by slashing
their way to an 18 to 9 win over
Temple Saturday at Rec Hall.
The Lions encountered unex
pected opposition in the saber
di
vision, which Temple's Owls took
by a 6-3 count. Paul Younkin of
the Lions won two matches and
dropped one. Ed Merek won one
and. lost two. Bob Searles and
John Richards both failed to win
and dropped two and one matches,
respectively.
The Lions, in gaining their, first
victory of the 1950 season, won
both the foil and epee events. In
the foil, Harry McCarty won three
and lost none. Gene Goldbloorn
won two matches and droppeck
one, while. Ralph Meier came out
on top in all three of his.
In the epee, Rolf Wald won
three matches and lost none. Bill
Fairchok lost both of his, but his
substitute, Pete Raidy, a new
comer on °the fencing team,
his only match. Wayne Culver
also chinied in with three vic
tories and no losses.
. Penn ".Mate will -seek its second
fencing victory this Saturday. in
Rec Hall against the Violets of
N.Y. U.
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