FRIDAY, APRIL. 14, 19,50
Trackmen Go Outdoors
For Opener Next Weak
With the first meet less than two weeks away Penn State’s, track
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team has its work cut out.
Coach Chick Werner’s Nittany thinclads have plenty of inten
sive training before them on Beaver Field if they hope to be ready
when the starter’s gun sends them off against Michigan State and
Ohio State; April 22.
Held to the meager facilities
.Lions’ fortunes in the opening
meet will rest largely on how
fast , they can approach their
peak. Thus the Lionsare going
to be more than just slightly
interested in the whims of Ol’
Man Weather .during the. next
. few days.
VET CLASSIFICATION
Coaches Werner and Norm
Gordon will have a veteran
squad to choose from. But don’t
let that word “veteran”: mislead
you. In many events the Werner
men .have only one real returnee
from last year with the other
positions depending on new
comers or holdovers from last
year who- did ’ not flash quite so
brightly.'
The Nittany tracksters suf
fered many losses through gradu
ation last June. Gone from last
Spring are Horace Ashenfelter,
whose loss would hurt any team,
Larry Gerwig, the lefty javelin
tosser, and runners Mitch Wil
liams, Bob Bour, Bob Aiiman,
Paul Koch, George Thomas, and
discus thrower Buck Moyer. _ -
In a brief position by position
preview the Lions shape up like
this: v
Capt. Jim Gehrdes heads the
hurdles division and. appears
ready for a big season after a
successful ind oo r campaign.
Back from last year also are
Leon Cottrell and George Kline.
Guy Kay, a newcomer and mem
ber of the record-conscious mile
relay team this winter, looms as
the possible number two man. ; ;
READIES FOR DASHES
In the sprints arid dashes vet-,
eran Wil Lancaster leads the
pack. He .will go in the TOO.arid
220 yard runs. Bill .Lockhart
looks like the top man- in the
440 yard run. The rest of the
places will have to come from
rookies —namely Bill Polito, Jim
my Gibson, Bob Giron and may- ,
be Kay. Giron was set to see
action last year but was put out
of competition by a leg ■ injury.
The distance events suffered
heaviest through graduation. Arid
the men who . were running m
the secondary positions last
spring have pot yet come up
to the promise they showed then
and last Fall in cross country.
In fact Coach Werner feels that
the success of the entire season
lies on the ability of these men
to develop .into runners any
where near the peak expected
of them.
In this group are Bob Free
bairn, Jack St. Clair, Bill and
Dori Ashenfelter, Bob Parsons,
AT Porto, and Bill Gordon. This
leaves the possibility that some
soph might step •in and make his
weight felt. Among these po
tentials are, John. Davison, Stan
Linder, Hal Wilson, Dudley Fos
ter, and Pete Knapp.
In the field events the Werner
men are loaded with ■ vets but
once again this doesn’t mean
too much.
FRITTS ADDS TITLE
IC4-A indoor champ Vic Fntts
and Bill Reynolds, are back in
the high jump as is Leroy Lew
is. All three regulars have re
turned in. the shot put. They are
Doug Shearer, Chuck Drazeno
vich and Bob Krkyer.
With the departure, of Larry
Gerwig; the job of upholding
the javelin event will fall to a
newcomer —Ted 1 Roderer, a jun
ior who was ineligible last
Spring. He appears to have the
edge over the group which in
cludes Wil Bertram and Jim
White from last year.
The discus throw has vets
Max Schlienger and Tom Me-.
Dermott back for another sea
son but the Lions will miss the
services .of Buck Moyer.
Lancaster, the top sprinter, is
also the number one broad jump
er. Wil led the team in this event
last year. \ Bill Reynolds, high
jumper, is also back.
• POLEVAULT iS WEAK
The Wernermen have four re
turnees in' the polevault but
. even so the Nittany - coach con-
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of Rec Hall by the weather, the
siders this event the weakest
spot ori the team. Back from
last year are Ron Coder, Merle
Seiber, Vic Lynch and Chuck
Dewitt. A newcomer, Owen Wil
kinson, may turn out to be the
best of the bunch.
Coach Werner . holds high
hopes for. rookie, Vic Cripps.
Cripps’ specialties are the dis
cus and the shot put. He may
turn,.out to he one of the Lions’
top'fpbrformeijs; .'V ;
The .Wernermen face some
what of an inverted schedule.
The-hardest, meets come in the
early part of the season. After
the opening 'battle with Ohio
State and Michigan State- at Co
lumbus, which unquestionably
will be the toughest riieet of the
year, comes the Penn Relays.
- On May 6 the Lions travel to
East Lansing for a dual meet
with Michigan Stajte. The next
two. .weekends the Wernermen
will. He at horne; first for a dual
meet with Navy and the follow
ing Saturday, for a triangular
rrieet with Pitt and West Vir
ginia. The team will close its
season with the IC4-A and the
NCAA meets. . .
Six High Schools
To Play Volleyball
- Six high schools will be repre
sented wheri the Pennsylvania In
terschplastic. Athle.tjq3.Association
volley ball • championships are
held in Penn State’s Recreation
Hall Saturday. Peabody, of Pitts
burgh, is the defending champion.
Also represented will be last
year’s runner-up*, North / York,
Swarthmore; Tunkharinqok, Con
neautville:' and " . Swissvale. The
champion will be determined in
double elimination,
Ambidextrous
Penn' State’s 1950 . baseball
captain," Dick Wertz, of Newport,
bats right-handed but throws
left-handed. The smooth-work
ing first baseman last year was
numbered among > the first five
hitters on the team, and Coach
Joe Bedenk expects him to hit
even better this Spring.
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Still Weather
If Joe Bedenk, Nick'Thiel, and
Bob Rutherford think they have
troubles, just bend an ear to ten
nis coach, Sherman Fogg.
Coach Fogg, who for weeks
has been trying to get his boys out
in State College’s warm sunshine,
besides losing co-captain; Bill
Aiken through ineligibility, has
now found that he has eight men
with equal ability on the squad to
fill positions, four, five, and six
in the singles matches. In addition
to these strains on a coach’s cere
bellum, he has three duos trying
out for the remaining doubles
berth.
All this with the season opener
with Bucknell next Wednesday,
April 19, at home.
Coach Fogg, however, is still
very optimistic on the coming sea
son and' has arinounced that co
captain Owen Landon, Jim Ho
wells and Dick Wieland are three
sure starters next Wednesday.
Landon is a junior, while the
other two men are seniors. -Two
doubles teams which also have
heen named to vie against the
Bisons are Howells and Wieland
and Landon and Bill Walls, an
other junior.
SINGLES
In order to fill up the other
three singles niches, Coach Fogg
will choose from Walls, Mark Bor
land, Gerry Gearhart, Ed Davis,
Bill Wood, Harry Ka'ufmann,
Spence Boyer, and Harry Schutte.
Other candidates who ■ favorably
impressed Fogg were Stan My
ers, Dave Jones, Charlie Shank,
and Coleman Gainsburg.
. Following is the schedule: •
April . ,
19 Bucknell home
22 Lehigh home
26 Washington &
Jefferson
May
3 Navy at Navy
4 Maryland at Maryland
6 Georgetown home
12 Colgate at Colgate
13 Syracuse at Syracuse
17 Duqufesne home
20 Pittsburgh ... at' Pittsburgh
24 ■ Bucknell at Bucknell
27 Colgate home
Cheerleaders
Head cheerleader Dick Clair
has issued a call for all fourth
semester sophomore men to re
port to the steps of Old Main
this Sunday at 7:00 P.M. for
cheerleader tryouts.
Bound For Relays
Penn State will again be rep
resented in the Penn Relays at
Philadelphia by . a strong track
and field contingent.
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Share Captaincy
Bob Louis and Ed Belfield,
•both of the Philadelphia district,
are co-captains of the 1950 Penn
'State lacrosse team.
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SEASON OPENER
Lacrossemen To Open
Against Loyola Today
Lacrosse Coach Nick Thiel opens his sixteenth season this after
noon when his varsity stickmen take the field against the Grey
hounds of Loyola at Baltimore.
Loyola sports a strong offense but Thiel expects to capitalize
on the Greyhound’s supposedly weak defense. The Greyhounds
dropped their season opener to Maryland University, 9-4, but the
Terrapins have a powerhouse
this season and the Lions can
expect a itmgh afternoon
The Loyolan attack is sparked
by Kimmel and Weyland while
their netman, Barry; is being
boomed, for All-American hon
ors.
On Saturday, the Nittanies
travel to Annapolis to encount
er Navy. The Middies are on
NICK THIEL
their way to defending their co
pational champion crown as
they’ve rolled to five straight
victories. this spring including a
15-0 whitewashing of Harvard.
A Lion victory'Saturday after
noon would be a feather in this
year’s s.quad since a Penn State
team lias never beaten Navy.
Although the hosts will be with
out the services of Dick Seth
.and Lee Chambers, All-Ameri
cans last season, a Lion upset
is highly improbable as Thiel
has only three lettermen in this
year’s lineup.
WHAT:
Jam Session and Carnival
WHEN:
Sat., April 15 - 9 p. m.
WHERE:
KDR Fraternity House
EVERYONE INVITED
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Oberg, Lane
In H-Ball Finals
Art Oberg, Pi Kappa Alpha, and
Joe Lane, Delta Upsilon, advan
ced to the finals in the fraternity
section of the intramural hand
ball singles tourney following vic
tories last night over George
Freeman and Phil Benedetti.
The championship match will
take place tonight in Rec Hall.
In yesterday’s battles Oberg,
last year’s runner-up, took the
measure of Freeman, Phi Kappa
Tau, 21-4 and 21-8. Lane upset his
house brother, Benedetti, 21-9 and
21-9.
Auspicious Start
Eddie Sulkowski produced one
Eastern and one National Col
legiate title-holder in his first
season as Penn State boxing
coach.
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