Werner Nominates Five To Compete In K of C Track Coach Chick Werner has chosen five of his Nittany thin dads to compete in four events at the Cleveland Knights of Colum bus meet tonight Captain Jim Gehrdes will lead the Lion delegation invasion of the mid-west this season. Jumpin' Jim. will 45 yard high hurdles and run the initial leg of the mile running companions in the relay will be Guy Kay, Bill Lockhart and Wil Lancaster. This is the same team that set a new Penn State indoor mile relay record two weeks ago. FRITTS TO JUMP The Lions'champion high jump er, Vic Fritts will do his specialty and Wil Lancaster, in addition to his .chore in the mile relay, will run in the 50 yard sprint. The meet will be the first for the Wcrnermen since the New York K of C meet two weks ago In the hurdles test Gehrdes will face 3 men he has been run ning against all season, Harrison Dillard, Craig Dixon and Bill Mitchell. In the New York K of C Meet, Dillard, the former Bald win-Wallace star, nipped Jim by an eyelash. Dixon is an. ex-UCLA ace and Mitchell is still attending Georgetown. GOOD COMPETITION The record-busting mile relay team which has established itself as one of the best in the East, will meet the best of the teams it faced in this section of the coun try plus the best of the middle west. The quartet's new record is 3 minutes 21-2 seconds. Curt Stone and Horace Ashen feller, the two grad students, will run in the two mile. They should have things pretty much their own way with the absence of Fred Wilt who has passed up the meet in order to be fresh for his meeting with Dori Gehrmann Sat urday night in Chicago. John Twomey of the Illinois A.C., who also trains at State, will go in the mile in an attempt to cool off the currently sizzling John Joe Barry from Ireland, running for Villanova. Play Continues In IM Handball Independent and Fraternity intramural hand ba 11 singles matches continued to move at a rapid rate as 34 fraternity men were eliminated, and the independents moved into their second round of play. Don Desandro, Alpha Sigma Phi swamped Bill Beck, Chi Phi, 21-2, 21-5; Jack King, SAE, con quered Clarence Grimm, Pi Kap pa Alpha, 21-2, 21-5; Bob Koons, Sigma Pi, decisioned Fred Sing er, Phi Sigma Delta, 21-17, 21- 14, and David Harman, Lambda Chi Alpha, won by forfeit from Dick Gillespie, Alpha Tau Ome ga, in flight five play. Art Betts, Phi Delta Theta, beat Paul Lapcevic, Sigma Phi Sigma; Gilbert Goldstein, Beta Sigma Rho, topped Jim Barr, Sigma Nu, and Art Oberg, Pi Kappa Alpha, triumphed over Paul Kelly, Phi Kappa Psi, in forfeit matches. SQUEEZE Harold Wolfson ZBT, lost to Bob Bunnel, Phi Gamma Delta, 21-4, 21-5; Robert Morrow, DTD, squeezed by Tony DeJulius, Al pha Phi Delta, 21-13, 21-14; foot baller Owen Dougherty; Kappa Delta Rho, smashed Donald Lin vill, Alpha Zeta, 21-3, 21-6; Bob Kolarik, Lambda Chi Alpha, tumbled Bernard Sotak, Phi Kap pa, 21-0, 21-8; and William Goode, Theta Xi, smothered Ted Yorsch, Sigma Phi Alpha, 21-3, 21-4 in flight seven action. David Bischoff, Sigma Nu, eek ed by Walter Rushinsky, Delta Chi, 21-19, 21-19; Leslie Lam pert, Beta Sigma Rho, notched a close victory over Rhys Phil lips, Theta Chi, 21-19, 21-19; Edward Diddlebock, Phi Kappa Tau, swamped Bob Miller, Phi Epsilon Pi, 21-8, 21-9, and Dick Fader, Pi Lambda Phi, topped Edward Davis, Phi Kappa Sig ma, 21-10, 17-21, 21-8 to round out Monday night's play. BOROWY WINS Dick White, Tau Phi Delta, dropped his match to Tom Rob= inson, Phi Kappa Psi, 12-10, 12- 10; swimmer Cas Borowy, Delta 'wed on page eight) The Captain Takes A Breather It's Blue, White and Green When AllcGrory Takes His Mark By ART BENNING It's a great day for the Irish when a patch of dark' hair and a pair bf flailing arms slice through the water in Glennland pool on Saturday afternoons. The sight never fails to bring the fans to their feet with cries of "Go Mac". When the shouts subside,J and another, distance event is entered in the books, John McGrory, lean, quiet mannered Nittany swimming captain, climbs from the water for a deserved rest. John, who also co-captained his high school team in Hazle ton, holds the Penn State team, record for the 220 yard free style. He outstroked Seton Hall's Al Stein in Glennland pool this season, setting the new mark of 2:24.3. • SHORT TO LONG John came to the campus in the fall of 1947, after spending his freshman year at the Hazle ton Undergraduate Center. Since then he has performed for Coach Bill Gutteron's swimming team, first as a sprinter, and later as one of the best• distance Men' to ever swim for the Lions. In the 1949 Eastern Inter collegiates, John placed fourth in the 220 yard freestyle • as 'the Lions captured fourth spot be hind Rutgers, Seton Hall, and Temple. Last weekend he met many of his dual meet opponents and plenty more in the '5O Inter collegiates at Rutgers. The distance men in the East this year are especially strong. Despite swimming the best race he ever swam, according to swimming manager Don Koontz, John failed to place in the star packed lineup. As a junior in Hazleton High School John won a third. place in the PIAA swimming meet, and a year later, captured the runner-up spot. "That was the year," John Contract for Rogel? Fran "Punchy" Rogel, erst while Nittany fullback, has re ceived a contract from the Pitts burgh Steelers offering him approximately $5OOO for one year. Rogel said he will not sign the contract until he gets at least "a couple thousand more." High-Scoring Five in its first go in the relay. His Penn State's 1950 basketball team averaged 57 points per game in its first season under Coach Elmer Gross. said, "that. we beat York in a dual meet, before they went on to win the state championship." During the war the Nittany captain spent 38 months in the states as an Air Corps radio mechanic. Although he had little time for swimming, he modestly tells of winning the 220: yard freestyle in the First Air Corps swimming championships. But according to' Mac, as his teammates call him, his biggest thrill came from winning the .mile title in the Senior Men's AAU meet in Northeastern Penn sylvania. When John set ,a new team • ..x. ,..M. A MM. so • _ .r-‹ • iiv• '' : . 440.1--" llPPjair .. . .4..... ...........,.. : : .:•*: , :•:••:::•:•:........... 4 ., • •-• ~liiiiii:iiiiliiiiiil:::i:ieiai:KA' et :, ::::1:::::::•::::*:•**::::::::::::::ix4K0S:• .. . :::•: : :•: : : : : i : • : ;:i:E:i*i: : • : •ki:i*:::;:i::i:i:i*:•$:i:„: ' glie 5.,, d4 WN::: ......, • .....:::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::•x•mkr '44:Vii:??iiit , 1 Ni : 4 : 4 : . 4.. • . • i:, . ..;.;4 . 1 1 stt N• • „OA :#5..•*•<:,.. . f i l iatkt i laA X /4.. 1 ,h More men are contented since we invented . . . ( - )EiNCS I BLEND , ())14,iiitiotil PIPE TOBACCO SUTLIFF TOBACCO C0.,1,43 Fromm!, 5. F., Calif. BIG THRILL Gridders Bunn, 1950 Question One of the big problems that Penn State's 1950 football coach will, have to face is whatio du about the vacancies left by the, grad uation of 19 lettermen. Another problem remaining from the car nage of the late and lamented football campaign are the knee in juries sustained by linemen Ken Bunn and Ed Hoover. / •Bunn, who earned a letter for his play at the offensive center position,• and Hoover, a good tackle replacement, are expected to help fill two of the gaping holes left by the departure of such sturdies as Chuck Beatty, Ray Hedderick, Joe Draienovich, Paul Kelly, Neg Norton, Don Murray and Bob Hicks. Troubled, by a bad knee all season, Bunn recently submitted the knee to an operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. It will not be until the Fall, how ever, before he will be ready for action. Silver Anniversary This is Lew Andreas' Silver Anniversary season as Head Bas ketball Coach at Syracuse Uni versity. At the start of the 1949- '5O season Andreas' cage team had been responsible for 337 wins against only 124 defeats for a .731 winning average since he accept ed the position in 1924. Lose Co-Captains Penn State will lose its basket ball co-captains, Marty Costa and Joe Tocci, by graduation in June. record for the 220 this season, it was nothing new for him. He merely broke the record he set as a• junior.• In losing to some of the best distance men in the East this year, John has bettered the existing team mark for the 440 yard freestyle, but records are set only wherp winning The distance ace was quick to give his • coach, Bill Gutteron, credit for developing him. "He's a good coach, and tias the criti cal eye that a coach needs," John says. "He's helped me a lot." TOUGH FOES In commenting on the past season, John said the team did a great job, but that the compe tition turned out to, be especial ly tough. He said that all the op ponents this year used subsidized swimmers, which makes it hard for a team without scholarship men. "I think next year's team will be a good one," ,he commented. "Two of the breaststroke men are graduat in g, which ,will weaken the team even more in its weakest event. But they'll do all right," he said. Good evidence , of how much the swimmers will miss their graduating captain, is the 56 points he scored during the dual meet season in '5O. Ready for WC Ball? BUY, or RENT .. YOUR TUX at HUR'S Don't delay in preparing for the "big week end." Come - in now and let us help you settle your tux problem. See our famous After Six tux . . . informal comfort in formal wear. Or rent your tux from us now and avoid the last, minute rush! • , HUB'S Men's Shop OPPOSITE MAIN CAMPUS • E. COLLEGE AVE., STATE COLLEGE Vote., Now '‘Filif , The Sweater Queen ! 1 Just Clip The Ballot Below And Mail To - The Daily Collegian Contest . Box 261, State College ; Pa. On The Back Of A Postcard by Sunday Midnight My Vote For Penn State's Sweater Queen is— ( ) Madeline Gardner ( ) Phyllis .Vorsheim (Check. One) FRIDAY, MARCH' 17. 1950 Hoover Marks SCORED TD Hoover, a substitute tackle who broke into the headlines last year when he intercepted a pass and ran for a touchdown against Bos ton College, was also plagued by a troublesome knee. He recently underwent an operation to remove a cartilage and is now available for limited action only. • Earl Bruce, in •charge of the Spring drills, doesn't want to pre dict that both boys will be ready for full-time duty in the Fall. Knees are cantankerous parts of the anatomy, Bruce points out and there is a chance that they may not heal properly. In the meantime, Bruce and his four assistants are running their, 75-man squad through the first (Continued on page eight)
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