THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1850 Finish-Line Lion Dashmdn Disputes Loss By ' JOE HUNTER Did Ben Kreitzberg win? Wil bert Lancaster, Penn State's speed ace, does not think so and intends to submit a formal ap-: plication of prbtest to . the of ficials of the 1950 Penn Relay Carnival. 'The dispute arose when Asa Bushnell, head judge of the 1,00, yard dash, declared Kreitzberg, of Penn, the winner in a close finish. No. one in Franklin Field was more surprised at the an nouneement than Lancaster. "Lane"' was close to tears. "I knew I had won," he said. "I tried to.tell them—to ask if they were sure, but they wouldn't listen." , In recounting the dash, "Lane" said that tbe track was excep tionally slow. "We were running into a head wind. Kreitzberg got off to a ' fast start, and I didn't get going _until the 60- yard mark. I caught him at 80 yards and was going away when had never won a dash at the hit the tape. • The sprinter smiled wryly. "I Penn Relays and my first thought as I pulled up was—Thank God, after four years I've finally got myself one Upon reporting back to the, ,judges stand her saw a group of Penn students hoisting Kreitz berg to their shoulders. _ Thindads . Here Wi . th . Navy Coach. Chi& Werner's' Nittany track team is looking for ward to its first home meet of the season Saturday against Navy. • But at the same time the Lion tracksters were looking with satisfaction On last week's battle with Michigan State. The' Weinerrnen took one On the chin; bilt not before they had given the Spartans something to thin k about. The performance of Captain Jim Gehrdes was• the outstanding feature of the day as far as -the Penn State team is concerned. Jumpin' Jim competed in five events and placed in four of them Sensation* Time Jim won the 120-yard high hurdles, finished seb9nd in the 100-yard dash and the '220 yard low hurdles and third in the high jump. He barely lost the 220 .loWs as he forced Horace Smith, *the winner, ~to run the event 'in the sensational time of 22.9 seconds. Jim's appeaance in,the high jump Was his first in collegiate-compe tition. Teammate and vet sprinter Wit Lancaster .chalked up two Amore wins in his spetialties—thK 100- . • NOW! At Your Warner' Theptre Caihaum "Bicycle Thief" Best Film of the Year and DeSica best Director; Nat. , Brd. of Review State Robert Taylor Elizabeth Taylor "Conspirator" , Gregory Peck Dean Jagger 12 O'Cloc,k High TFILP DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Picture Adds Stature to Lane' THIS IS, THE picture Wil Lancaster will submit to the officials of the Penn Relay Carnival. It shows the Penn State sprinfia, (extreme left) driv ing through the tape at the finish.of the 100-yard dash. Penn's .Ben Kreitxberg (extreme right) on "I 'couldn't believe it," Lanc firmation. and he just smiled." track decisions have been re said. "I asked the judge for con- Lancaster cited the fact that versed upon presentation of suf- yaid dash and the 220-yard run. He ran the century in 9.7 and the longer race in 21.6. Wil also placed second in the broad jump giving him 13 points for the day and top honors. for the Lions. Vic Fritts, the high jump artist, captured his second win 'of the season with '•a jump of 6',3". Bill Lockhart came home in, front in the 440 yard dash. Bill, who set the Penn State record for the event last year, as ,a sophomore, ran the distance Saturday - in 50.8. State's other win came in; .the two mile run in which' Bill Ashen felter and Al Porto hit the tape in a deadheat. Bill also finished third in the mile run, behind the MSC stars, Warren Druetzler' arid Bill Mack. The meet was run under very' bad conditions. A 40-mile-an-hour wind blew steadily and, at times reached gale 'force. 'Bef or 'e the meet began officials were tempted to call it all off. MEMO: THE NEW STATE COLLEGE : LEWISTOWN BUS SCHEDULE . ,Effective Eastern Standard April 30, 1950 Time Daily State College ' 10:30 A.M. 3:35 P.M. .:Ar. Lewistown 11:30 A.M. 4:35 P.M. Lv. Lewistown ' 11:55 A.M. ' 6:35 P.M. Ar. State College 1:00 P.M. 7:40 P.M. . . Additional Service: Friday and Sunday Lv. State College 6:00 P.M. Ar. Lewistown 7:00 P.M. Lv. Lewistown 10:00 P.M. Ar. State College 11:00 P.M. Make Direct Connections With Trains EASTBOUND: WESTBOUND: 12:19 P.M., 4:57 P.M. .11:50 A.M., 6:20 P.M. Fri. & Sun., 7:22 P.M. Fri. & Sun., 9:54 P.M. ' BOALSBURG AUTO BUS LINE, INC. • Photo By. Mosley whose chest the tape is still draped, was declared the winner. The arrow points to the spot where Lancaster broke the tape. Others in the picture are New York University's Hartley Lewis (next to Lancaster) and Cornell's Meredith Gourdine. Tenniseers Open Trip Al Colgate The Lion net team will at tempt to stretch its winning streak to three straight games on the road tomorrow and Sat urday when they journey to Col gate and Syracuse. The tenniseers record now stands at four and two, and Coach Sherman Fogg believes that his squad will continue to win after ,the impressive show ing they made Monday against Bucknell. Owen Landon, Jim Howells, Dick Wieland, Mark Borland, Ed Davis and ,Spence Boyer will go in the singles. In the doubles, Howells and Wieland will go in number one, Landon and - Davis, number two, and. Borland and Boyer will play the • third match. 2nd Round Pairings Set In All-College Golf Play All five flights of the All-College golf tournament finish. ed first round play this week with a few individual excep tions in some flights. 'First Flight: Tom Smith and Jcie Durniak, Ted Robertson and Pete Kalandiak, Bill Gordon against the winner of the Lamoree-Artz match, and Alex` i Monro against the winner of the Weaver-Yerkes match Flight Two: A. Spinner and Jim Moran, Bob Helfand and Fred "Stashak, John Wylie and Jim Mullard, and Don Beal and Bill Brown. Third• Flight: George Schenck and Richard Wilder, Don Eggers and Walt Yahn, Jack Roy and R. Reed, and Dick Hartle and M. Frischberg. Fourth Flight: A. Goldenberg and the winner of the Gillespie- Meyer match, Harry Isabel and John Frederick, Lewis Stone and Don Orr, and Robert Kolarik and Joe Cook. , • In the only match in flight five, Goldstein qA:lvanced into the finals with a win over W. Hoff man. s Protest IM Linksmen In 2nd Round First round play in the Intra mural fraternity golf tournament was completed last week, and the second round is now being played. First round winners were Kappa Sigma •over Delta Chi, Sigma Pi over Phi Gamma Del ta, Alpha Chi Rho over Alpha Phi Delta, Theta Kappa Phi over Alpha Zeta, Delta Upsilon over Sigma Phi Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon over Alpha Sigma Phi, and Delta Sigma Phi over Tau Kappa Epsilon. Phi Delta Theta over Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Epsilon Pi over Sig ma Phi Epsilon, Phi Sigma Del ta over Alpha Tau Omega, Del ta Tau Delta over Theta Xi, and Sigma Nu over Pi Kappa Phi. Second round play is to be completed, by tomorrow. ' ficient proof. He intends to sub mit a picture of the photo-finish for, consideration. The picture shows the broken tape having already been snap ped by Lancaster, while remain ing intact in front of Kreitz berg. Lancaster admitted that photographs can be deceptive, "but I don't see how you can ar gue with a broken tape," he add ed. Four Fraternities Post Soccer Wins Four second-round games were played Tuesday night in the in. tramural soccer league. Sigma Phi Sigma took 'a 2-0 win from Alpha Chi Rho, with Shull and Lapcevic sharing the scoring, and Beta Theta Pi won by the same score over Kappa Delta Rho. Sigma Phi Epsilon continued on the winning road with a 1-0 victory over Zeta Beta Tau, Ful ton scoring, and Pi Kappa Alpha took a forfeit victory froM. Phi Kappa. PAGE THREE
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