l' • J u ■ i Lion Trackmen Place Third Despite 5 Firsts In Tri-Meet Penn State’s track team, led by Capt. Jim Gehrdes and veteran sprinter Wil Lancaster, put on a terrific exhibition at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday. But it wasn’t enough and the Lions fell victims to two of the best teams in the nation, Michigan State and Ohio State. The MSC Spartans picked up most of the marbles and came home in first place with a team score of 65Vz points. Ohio State was second with 57 ] /> Ties Ewell's 'loo' Mark . . . Rutgers Hands Stickmen Third All Coach Nick Thiel had to say after his Nittany lacrosse team dropped its third straight game at Rutgers Saturday afternoon was “It’s going to be a tough Spring.” A bad third period' in which the Lion stickmen couldn’t muster a point proved the downfall. Rutgers, in the mean- Tenmlsmen Win First Encounter; Rap Lehigh, 6-3 The Nittany tennismen Anally got around to playing their Arst match of the season last Saturday and came through in expected fashion to defeat Lehigh, 6-3. The Arst match with Bucknell was postponed indeAnitely. .However, before it was all over the Foggmen received quite a scare. • Captain Sonny Landon, number one man, started things off by disposing of Lehigh’s *Fred Porter, 6-2, 6-0, but then the locals received a startling setback when the opposition’s Hardwick took his match from Dick Wisland, num ber two man, 6-4, 6-2. Jim Howells gave State a need ed lift in the number three dual as he fought his way to a 6-3, 6-3 decision over the Engineer’s Harft. BORLAND AND BOYER After Bill Walls’ loss to McKin ley in the fourth setto, 7-5, 6-4, Mark Borland stroked by Arnold, 6-1, 6-4, and Spence Boyer won from Adams, 6-0, 4-6, 6-2. The two losses in the singles necessi tated the playing of Landon and Walls in the number two doubles slot, for added insurance. In the doubles, the Lions main duo of Howells and Wieland out played Kline and Porter, 6-1, 6-4 to take the Afth and deciding point. Landon and Walls eked out a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 triumph over Mc- Kinley and Haft, but' the Engi neer’s twosome of Hardwick and Arnold turned around to scuttle Bill Wood and Gerry Gearhart 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 in the afternoon’s Anale. Hoping for a brighter note in the weather outlook, Coach Fogg’s will meet Washington and By JOE BREU Wil Lancaster Nittany Loss time, overcame State’s 4-3 lead at the end of the first period by scoring four goals. State started out strong in the first period to run up a 4-1 count. Co-captains Bob Louis and Ed Belfield, Jack Wilson and Paul Raffensperger each chipped in with a score during the period. But the Lion lead soon dwindled as the more experienced Scarlet stickmen rang up two more goals before the period ended, leaving the score at 4-3. Roof Falls In Then in the second period the roof fell in on the Thielman as Rutgers poured four goals into the Lion’s net to takfe a com manding 7-4 lead. The third period ended with each team getting one tally. Sophomore Jim Reed tacked on the Lion score while Chuck Dela hunt slipped one into the Lion’s goal for the Scarlet with only seven seconds remaining in the period. Thiel threw his reserves into the contest in the final stanza and Rutgers took that advantage to widen the margin with three more goals. Bob Louis scored the lone Lion tally of the period to take scoring honors for State with two.' Western Maryland The Lions will try once again Saturday to capture their first win of the season when they take on Western Maryland in their first home appearance. While the varsity was dropping No. 3 at Rutgers, assistant la crosse coach John McHugh’s jay vee squad opened their season on the golf course practice field by losing to the experienced Ken yon College squad, 14-3. Jefferson at the Beaver Field Courts tomorrow at 2 p.ra. I‘tiE DAIi.S CO.'.! EGIAin . . points and the Lions scored 38. Gehrdes and Lancaster shared 23 of those 38 points between them. Jim garnered 13 on two wins in the hurdles and a second place Anish in the 100 yard dash while Lane got the other 10 on victories in the cen tury and the 220 yard dash. FRITTS WINS HIGHJUMP The other State points came on Vic Fritts’ win in the highjump; Bill Ashenfelter’s third place in the mile and brother Don Ashen felter’s fourth in the same race; Bill Lockhart’s third in the 440 yard dash; Bob Parsons’ fourth in the 880 yard run; Dudley Fos ter’s fourth in the two mile and Leßoy Lewis’ tie for third in the high jump. Acres of copy could be written about the performances o f Gehrdes and Lancaster but in the interest of space they can be summed up in one word—sensa tional. Lane tied Barney Elwell’s Penn State record in the 100 yard dash with a 9.6 sprint. And it’s official, too, since the wind was below the four-mile-an-hour allowance. In the 220 he captured Arst place with a run of 21.5 seconds. As if that wasn’t enough, the Philly senior turned in a blister ing 48.7 quartet in the mile relay which was four-tenths of a second better than the winning time in the .440 yard dash. GEHRDES SUPERIOR In winning both the high and low hurdles, Gehrdes once more established his superiority over Michigan State’s. Horace Smith. Prior to the recent indoor season Jim had failed to top Smith in 'four tries, but since the indoor IC4-A meet he’s just been an other guy named Smith. The Lion captain traveled over the 120 yard highs in 14.7 seconds and over the 220 yard lows in 23.6. And he wasn’t far behind Lane in the 100 yard dash in his Arst start as a sprinter in Penn State livery. The 100. yard dash offers good proof of the type of competition the Lions faced Saturday. State’s Jimmy Gibson was timed in 10 seconds Aat which was still no better than eighth. In the mile relay the Lions were third—only three yards behind victorious Ohio State. LOCKHART THIRD Fritts’ win .in the high jump was accomplished with a leap of 6’4 Lockhart was third in the 440 but was only one-tenth of a second,, slower than Jack Dianetti, the winner from Michi gan State. Dianetti’s time was 49.1. One of the real surprises bf the meet to everyone but Coach Werner was the showing (Continued on page five) Handball Doubles in Second Round Fraternity intramural hand ball entered the second round of play with four matches being played at Rec Hall, last Thurs day night. John Frasinelli and Phil Bene detti, Delta Upsilon, teamed-up to defeat John Wylie and Ed Davis, Phi Kappa Sigma, 21-11, 21-15. Duane Snyder and Bill Wilhelm, Tau Kappa Epsilon, moved by Bernie Sotak and Le- Roy Guccini, Phi Kappa, 21-6, 21-11. Basketballer Marty Costa and Jack Strucher, Delta Sigma Phi, edged the Pi Lambda Phi duo of Dick Fader and Marv Golden berg, 21-15, 21-19. Dave Bischoff and Jim Gracey, Sigma Nu, squeezed by Bob Kolarik and Dave Harmon, Lambda Chi Al pha, 21-16, 21-17 in the evening’s final match. I'm Coin' That'a Way Bob Boucher. Duquesne halfback, reels off a sizeable gain around his own right-end in the scrimmage against Penn State at Beaver Field Saturday. Boucher was one of the Duke's best ground gainers but the Nittany Lions still pulled the result out of the fire, 4 fo 3. Homers Plague In 5-4 Loss to Inability to hit with men on base and the old-fashioned home run put the skids under the Nittany baseball team, last Saturday as they dropped a 5-4 game to Bucknell at Lewis burg. , . A 1 Tkac, who relieved starter Dalton Rumberger in the third inning, was charged with the loss. Art Raynor, winning Bison hurler, went all Lhe way and struck out seven. Rumberger gave up four runs in the two innings he pitched. A homer in the third, with none out and none on, by Bucknell’s Cal Seaman sent Rumberger to the showers and brought Tkac in. Tkac slipped only once, in the sixth inning. Bill Franke hit a four master to center that pro vided the winning margin. Outhit Opponents • The Lions outhit their op ponents, .9-6, but had trouble with men on the base paths. ...jDAY, APRIL 25, 1950 Photo by Cots Bauer State Bisens In the third Bisons leading, mimmiiiiiiiiiiiiii Penn St’te AB R H Mbright, If 4 0 1 Tocci, 2b 2 0 1 Tonery, ss 4 0 0 Hopper* cf 4 11 Wertz, lb 4 11 Buss, c 10 0 ICurty, c 3 0 1 Docghorty.rf 4 0 1 Little, 3b .4 1 1 Rumberger,p 10 1 Tkac, p 3 11 Totals 34 4 9 . Totals 28 5 6 miiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimmiiiiiiiiiiim loaded the bases on two hits and a walk, with two out. Short stop Chris Tonery, who had struck out in' the first, came uj» (Continued on page eight) inning, with the 4-0, the Lions iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiim Bucknell AB R H Shirk, 2b 3 0 1 Weber, ss 4 10 Seaman, If 4 0 1 Concklin, cf 4 0 1 Franke, rf 3 11 McKibbon, lb 3 0 0 Danforth, 2b 2 11 DiGuissepe, c 2 1.0 Raynor, p 3 0 0
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