TUESDAY, MAY 22,':1953. The Lion's Lair Lacrosse Team Catches Fire After taking some early season bumps, Coach Nick Thiel's lacrosse team seems to have caught fire, having won its last three contests and upping its record to a respectable 5-3 mark. We might say that it is more than just a respectable mark. Should the Lions cop their last 'game at Cornell this weekend, the six: wins, three losses record would stand as one of the best for a Penn State lacrosse team in many years. And the competition has been the best in the East in teams like Navy, Loyola of Baltimore, the Maryland Lacrosse Club, Syracuse, and 'Hobart. After whitewashing Western Maryland in the opener, Thiel's charges lost to Navy and Loyola on successive weekends. Penn fell before the Nittanies but Syracuse handed the Lions their third defeat. The crack Maryland Lacrosse Club was the next foe on the schedule—the same Mary land team that earlier in the season had dumped last year's National - Open champion, Me Washington. State did an about-iace and de feated the Maryland club, 7-6, in an overtime game. Few people realize the significance of that win because lacrosse has never really caught on as a major sport at Penn State. But in winning that game, the Nittany Lions pulled one of the bigge.st, if not the biggeit, lacrosse upsets of the year. In the Maryland team, State was facing men who had al ready put in three or four years of varsity competition on some of the major college lacrosse teams. The win was a feather in the caps of the Lions and coaches Thiel and John Mc- Hugh. Against Ithaca last Friday, the Thielmen rang up 13 goals while holding the Bombers scoreless— the second shdtout for goalie Phil Stickmen Win Two Weekend Matches Coach Nick Thiel's lacrosse team rol,ied into high gear as the Lions pounded out decisive victories against Ithaca College and Hobart over the weekend. Penn S!.ate whitewashes:3. Ithaca, 13-0, Friday and then bounced Hobart aside, 17-10, the following day. The two ,wins set State'p record at 5-3. The Lions will wind up their season against another New York school, Cornell, this Saturday in Ithaca. Substitute Freely Against Ithaca, the Lions had little trouble in winning. Thiel's crew opened up fast with a 7-0 lead in the first period. After that, substitutes played the ma jority of the game as Thiel tried to keep the score down. • State's 13 tallies were divided among no less. than 10 _players. Two midfielders, Bud Wolfram and \ Paul Rafiensperger, scored five of these goals while the rest were scored 'by "Doak" Walker, Ed Herring, Jim Reed, John Yoh man, Bill Forrest, Jack Wilcox, Don Watkins, and Wayne Hecker smith. Take Early Leed 'ln the Hob a r t match, State jumped off to an early lead and held it throughout. It was 6:15 when the Lions registered their first tally. However, when the 6:50 mark came around, State had two more goals. These three shots by Raffensperger, Tony. Eagle, and Walker plus another by Raffy two minutes later gave State a 4-0 lead. The New Yorkers broke the ice finally when attackman Don "Scoop" Sutton tallied the first of his four goals with four min utes remaining. • ==32!,== Penn State stretched its lead to 8-3 at the half ns 'Raffensperger, who tallied 6 times in the game, hit for two more, and midfielders Al Fulton and Wilcox added one each: . Wilcox and Fulton, as it turned out, were also to .have big days as far as scoring goes as the former netted four shots and the Igter Sawed. three. By ERNIE MOORE Sports Editor Benedetti. Hobart fell before the Lions Saturday, 17-10. It's too bad the Maryland win could not have cosine in the opener. What a differgnce one win will snake! Apologies to the baseball team which has had seven games rain ed out instead of six as was pre viously reported in this column. Incidentally, only two of those seven games were scheduled for State College where rain is a common occurance. But those two are probably the two Coach Joe Bedenk would have most liked to play. The games were a scheduled doubleheader against Georgetown, one of the East's top nines. The Lions are still hoping for the district berth in the NCAA playoffs on the basis of having only lost two con tests. • The leading contender for the District 2 honors, Princeton, has a 16 and three record s. but only two of the losses came in district competition. The Tigers, hold a win over Georgetown and that, coupled with State's seven rained out contests, may give Princeton the nod over the Lions. About the best the Lions can get now is a playoff with the Tigers for the District berth. And that's just what the Be denkmen are hoping for—a chance to prove which team is the district's best. Golfers Loie To Navy, 4-3, Play Bucknell .Penn State's golf team will move down to Lewisburg this afternoon to ta k e on Bucknell University. ' The Lions will be after their fourth win of the cam paign. In Annapolis Saturday, Coach Bob Rutherford's linksm en dropped their third match of the season to Nam 4-3. Lose On 18th The match was close all the way and not until the 18th hole was the ' contest decided. Three of the Lion golfers dropped their matches on the last hole. State's Ted Robertson and Na vy's Dick Fontaine matched strokes in the day's best match. Robertson won, 1 up, on the 19th hole. Hud 'Sampson afid Bob Bowers THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Lions Lose To Colgate In Tennis Blanked 9-0 by Colgate's ten nis team Saturday at Hamilton, N.Y., Penn State's tennis team will have a chance to get even this weekend when they host the Red Raiders on th 4 varsity courts. Coach Perry Rockefeller's team captured all of the doubles and singles events to record its 17th triumph in 19 starts. The loss was the third for the Lions in eleven contests. After seeing that defeat was inevitable, Coach Sherm Fogg make a quick switch in his dou bles combinations, atternpitng avoid .a whitewash. However, the strategy didn't, work. Seldom missing any of his ac curately placed shots, coupled with his sharp drives, Colgate's Captain, Bill Lust, checked Cap tain Owen Landon in straight sets, 1-6, 1-6. Sophomore ace, Ben Bishop, won easily from Dick Wieland, Nittany No. 2 performer, 0-6, 3-6. In the third singles, the Red Raiders continued to stand their ground when Dan Barker tri umphed over Bill Aiken. His scores were 5-7, 4-6. Aiken was leading in his first set. However, it was only momentarily; for the Red Raiders' No. 3 man came b ack fast to win. Ed Davis lost to . Stew Bicknell by 4-6, 3-6 counts, and Bill Wood also was defeated, losing to Ed Stern, 4-6, 0-6. In the final singles fray Ted Stanton took the measure of Gus Bigott, 2-6, 1-6. Lust and Bishop overcame State's No. 1 duo of Landon and Wieland in straight sets, 2-6, 0-6. After winning the first set 7-5, the Lions' doubles combination of Wood and Davis failed to cap italize on their first set perform ance ns. they lost the last two sets, 3-6, 4-6. Jai the final match of the af ternoon. Al Strickler united with Dick Millar to overpower lanky Pete Farrell and Charles Shan ken, 54, 2-6. Robinson Stops Marcel In sth PARIS, May 2l weight Champion Ray Robinson stopped Kid Marcel of France' in the fifth round of a non-title fight tonight. The New York fighter toyed with his r i-v al for four rounds and then tossed some hefty punches in the fifth. Mar cel's handlers quickly threw in the towel. The end came after 57 seconds of the fifth while Marcel, French middleweight, champion, was still op his feet and apparently un hurt. Robinson obviously meant business, however, and Marcel's handlers decided to take no chan ces on their fighter getting hurt. were the other Penn scorers. Simpson defeated Inman, 6 and 5, and Bowers defeated Gurney, 4 and 3. Captain Joe Durniak was beat en by Midshipman Williams, 1 up; Thomas of Navy defeated Ray Artz, 1 up; Strohm, Navy, de feated Mary Goldenberg, 6 and 4; and •Midshipman Hall downed John Wylie, 2 up. - SENIORS... Odrer Engraved of Printed Name Cards to be enclosed with Graduation Announcements Now. COMMERCIAL PRINTING Glennland Building Leading Coaches To Hold Grid Clinic Here Football coach Rip Engle will be joined by George A. Munger, University of Pennsylvania, and Lefty James, Cornell University, at a football clinic to be conduct ed on campus Aug. 13, 14, and 15. Three different styles of/play will be represented by the three coaches. Engle's Nittany Lion team employ the wing -T, Mun ger's Penn team the single-wing, and James' Cornell team the straight T. The clinic will be sponsored by the School of Physical Education / /1 Shim griidufe. mama Cum laundry 1,,'. Wrigefi —Fine .white broadcloth, extreme widespread collar. 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