KBT3OAY, FEBRUARY S. TBSS Lion Cagers Playßutgers Tomorrow Coach Elmer Grpss/sent his squad through a brief work out last night in preparation fqr tomorrow’s tilt with Rut gers University. This will be the' fourth away coiitest the Lions have played in a weejc with the results of the other games shoeing one lone win over Georgetown and looses to Penn sylvania and NavyV -NAVY GAME RECAP The Staters bowed tq a Navy teani that - really had an “On” night: The Middies hit oh 48 per cent Of their shots. --pacing this Midshipmen was the tall center Don Lange, who had 19 points on nine field throws and,.one free throw his nine point outburst in the second quar ter accounted for most of the sd'veji-point lead Navy had at half time:' Score at that time read 28-35 fpr the Annapolis crew. Af ter Keeping pace .with the Mid dies for most of the first half, the Lions shooting and rebound ing began to fall off and they only mahaged to connect for eight tal lies in the third , frame as Navy was' hitting for 17 points. 'ThaMidshipmen played posses sive type ball the second half while oh defense they pressed the Lions, man to man. The final stanza opened with Navy ahead 52-36. State, loosened up, its zone and went , after the ball in the fotirth quarter but couldn’t catch Up-as the Navy men poured in 25 more .. points while the ' Lioiis scored 17. Sophomore Jesse Ar rielle hit on 20% of his shots for l(?points to lead the Lions in sebrihg. 'He had three field goals aft# 10 foul shots. Captain Herm Sledzik was second with 13 and Haag had 12 St*t« -6 P [ G F Ttl Clune.f 3 7-0 13 Cramer ,f 3 4-5 10 Hagan,f 3 2-0 8 Wells ,f- 1 ‘6-8 .8 Lange,e 9. 1-2 19 Hoover,c 0 1-2 1 V'Scoyoc.sr 3 4-5 .10 Sanclline,g 1 0-0 2 McCaliy, e 1 4-7 6 Vfkriey,B 0 0-0 0 Totals 24 29-37 77 15 13 8 17—53 .19 16 17 25—77 Sledxik.f S M 13 Skerry,f 2 3-3 7 Brewer,f . 0 1-4 Amelle.c 3 10-12 16 Block£r;c 0 0-0 0 W’d’nH’er,? 1 0-0 2 Haa?,gr 2 : 8-9 12 Edwards,? 0 2-4 2 Rohland,? 0 0-0 0 Totals 1131-40 53 Pehn ;— Nary Mittmen Meet - (Continued. from, page six) m/s EIBA runnerupjoe McGee last week. In the 156 class, the Spartans have Bill Greenway, 1-1 on' the season. Greenway fell to a Goph er but squared his record with a decision win over Army.' In this weight Hank Arnold will go after his second win for State., In the heavyweight division, State’s Bill Andresevic must meet Wayne Keller, 1-1 to date. Keller dropped a 29-28 fight to a Minne sota foe but easily decisioned Ar my’s Ron Lincoln. Holiday Habit This was the fourth straight year that Penn State’s "basket ball team participated in tourna ment play during the Christmas holidays. ' Baseball Candidates Varsity baseball candidates are to report to Joseph Bedenk at 301 Rec Hall this week- Good Meals at Reasonable Rates Inquire: 329 E. Beaver Ave. or Phone: 7851 Beaver House THE tJAHiY COIiMSCfIKN. STATE CQIAJSGE. Sports Thru The Lion’s Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sports Editor There-are several ways to get a good measure of an athlete’s value. Two of the best are to find out his salary or-iri the case of a collegian—there still remain some ama teurs who toil “for the love of the sport”—find out what it is worth to get him from where he ain’t to where he is wanted. A recent incident concerning State’s headline-grabbing track sensation, Ollie Sax, helps to set the proper value on the Graceful Gazelle who in high school ran a 440 faster than the existing Penn State record: Two weeks ago Sax was entered in the Philadelphia Inquirer Invitation 600-yard run—a race which had the distinguished presence of the greatest half miler in the world today, Marvelous Mai' Whit field.' Unfortunately there are higher things in college than extra curricular activities. One of those higher-things, a final exam, pre vented Sax froni making the trip with, his teammates. The frantic meet-director hastily arranged for the Nittany swifty to fly down. But again higher things interfered and State College was fogbound the afternoon of the scheduled flight. ' A very badly "shook up" meet director was again thrown into no small amount ofdispair. But luckily, Ollie's SAE fraternity brother, Mike Jordan, was Jordan-oh-lhe-spot and volunteered to --drive Sax to the meet. . With Ollie arriving 30 minutes , before the race,' the director's ulcers took a turn for the better. Hardly- having time to change clothes, let alone warm up. Sax kepi his date. It would make a walloping good story to say Sax won. But Whit field is no fictional character. Ollie wound up second. Nevertheless you can see the point. Sax has become a big name in the sports world. A name Which has the New York City track writers fre quently calling Coach Chick .Werner for statements, opinion, and even predictions on the runner with a beautiful fluid-drive, floating style. With the New York AC'games on tap in Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, the Gotham scribes have been pressing Werner to this extent: “Is Sax going to repeat his Buermeyer 500 yard victory?” The wily Werner, not one to let himself be trapped, was ever ready with a typical Werner retort: “The first one to finish will win—in world record time.” Which is a mighty reasonable prediction con sidering the unwisdom :of predicting anything in sports. (Sax won last year in 67.2, just off the world standard of 56.9 set four years ago by Villanova’s stocky streaker, George Guida. Sax is improved since then, yes. But to predict that.Oliie will beat standouts like Australia’s Morrie Curotta and Whitfield, is foolish even for one without the track lore of Werner. First, because Whitfield licked the world in the Olympic 800 meters both in 1948 and last summer,; Second, because.indoor races are run on perilously narrow circuits with sharply banked turns. In a race as short as 500 yards, it becomes virtually impossible for anyone to pass a runner like Whitfield if he should have the pole after the first turn. ‘ Since the race is not a half mile, or even 600 yards, it is highly possible that Sax can beat Whitfield tomorrow. Five' hundred yards is closer to Ollie’s pet distance, the incidentally, he ran in 48.3 to win the New Jersey schoolboy championship for Kearney High in 1948. (Just\shy of the national scholastic record of 48.0 set by Jerry Cole of Ohio in 1948.) However, the winning or losing of one race tomorrow is not so important as the company Sax is keeping. He has . become a head line name of the magnitude of Horace Ashenfeller, Barney Ewell, Jiqi Gehrdes, Curt. Stone, and Jerry Karver—Niliany greats of the past-15 years who have kept Penn State a famous nanie in the track and field- world. GOOD THINGS PATIO Evening Special Fried Shrimp Golden delicious Jumbo Shrimp— served PATIO style—on a bed of french fried Idaho potatoes, with a toasted buttered roll. PATIO Morning Special ORANGE JUICE 2 DO-NUTS COFFEE S. ALLEN STREET a&eiicioud iy 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. TO EAT &£^i^erenl | .00 25 c STATE COLLEGE ijfiucrzn. 11 Independents, 7 Greeks Triumph jn IM Basketball The second and final double bill of the IM basketball schedule got underway Wednesday with the Lous chalking up their fifth win of the season. Jim Bentley led the winners with 15 tallies to down Dorm 10, 38-20. Dorm 38 romped over the Lords, 45-16, for its fifth ,win. Ed Casey aided the winning cause with 15 points. Dorm 38’s win kept it in the running and tied with the Lous for the lead in League L First-place honors in League J were also knotted when the 29’ers downed Penn Haven, 26-11, and the Crusaders dumped Dorm 12, 27-17. Jim Lappen led the Cru saders’ march with 14 markers. Both teams have 5-0 records. A winning pace was kept by the Firehouse 5 as they handily subdued the Devils, 41-21. Chuck Spangler’s 10 tallies played an important role in West 25’s 29-27 win over the Polecats. Alpha Phi Alpha’s 27-25 win over Alpha Tau Omega put it in the driver’s seat in League E. Larry Baver of ATO copped the scoring honors with 12 counters. A final split-second shot by Tom Goldsworthy of Kappa Sig ma saved the day as Phi Sigma Kappa felt the sting of a 21-19 IN STATE COLLEGE FOR ARROW young men's iZ7 coueec defeat. Goldsworthy’s final buck et and a 12-10 halftime lead low ered the boom on the Phi Sigs. Phi Epsilon Pi’s 31-23 win over Phi Mu Delta kept the presently fast-moving pace in League F in high gear. Tau Kappa Epsilon is still enjoying a first pl-'ee berth, but Kappa Sigma and Phi Epsi lon Pi are putting the pressure on the TKE’s. Other wins were posted by the All-Stars over Nittany Co-op, 32-21;,Epars over Dorm 5, 28-18; McElwain Men over State Club, 24-15; Phi Sigma Delta over Delta Chi, 50-24; and Delta Upsilon over Kappa Alpha Psi, 38-21. Forfeits of the evening were: Phi Kappa to Chi Phi; East 25 to the Phantoms; Elms to Dorm 8, and the Hamilton Fours to Dorm 35. sho PAGE SEVEN
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