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-
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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.
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• 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.
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