MARCH 4, 1953 indoor Track Records Set By dick McDowell With Its height meet schedule terminated, Penn State’s track teani is looking for warm weather no W,and an opportunity to get out on- the Beaver Field cinders. On the surface the winter cam paign wasn’t'too successful, but a close look at the individual meets, shows that the overall in door record is very deceptive. In all but one of their indoor trials, the Nittahies were facing Olympic competition of one form or an other, and although they lost to these performers in most cases, their records, even while losing, were outstanding. Sax Sets Mark Sensational Ollie Sax, for in stance, lost four races to Mai Whitfield. Marvelous Mai, an Olympic champion last summer, is regarded as the top middle dis tance runner in the circuit today. Five Squads Score IM Court Wins By TOM WERNER Hopes for an undefeated season were, turned into -hopes for an almost undefeated sea son as Alpha Tau Omega and the Lous took their first loss es pf the season in intramural basketball play at Rec Hall Monday night. The Independent league I Lous went under for .the first time as Dorm 38; led by Ed Casey with i 2 points, outscored them, 31-26. Both teams have,a final record of six wins against one loss neces sitating a playoff tilt to determine the champ in their league. A Chi Rho. Wins In a postponed contest, Alpha Tau Omega lost their first of the year to Phi Sigma Delta who had Warren Gittlen scoring 13 tallies to pace the winning 30-29 attack. The Phi Sigs finished the ..season' with a 7-1 slate while ATO, with one more- to play, has a 6-1 reading in interfraternity league E. ‘ Alpha Chi Rho was Zeta Beta Tau’s final humiliation, 32-17. The winners came out of their final game with a 3-4 record, the losers, a disheartening 0-7, in D league. Thela Xi/ Scores Further league D action had Tau Phi'Delta winning by a tooth’s skin over Alpha Zeta, 39-38. Joe StrasSer paced the winners with 14 markers to assure his squad of a respectable 5-2 season slate. Joe Meckley, with 16 points, led Theta Xi to a 29-22 win over Alpha Gamma Rho, also in league D. Both squads end their seasons with 2-5 records. After trailing badly at halftime, 14-6; Phi Epsilon Pi. managed to overcome Phi Sigma Kappa,. 26- 20. Charles Bell was top scorer for the victors'with 10 tallies. The Phi Ep quintet rounded out a re spectable 6-2 season in league F. All Stars Victors Phi Mu Delta came back from a 12-12 halftime knot to shave Chi Phi, 26-24. Jack Harmon’s 10 points helped the most in allow ing the winners to roll up their final digit for a winning 5-3 year in league F. Independent play in' league I featured the All Stars in a 25-13 wm over the Meyermen. Starring All Star Was Stan Fink with sev en points. In league H the Iron Men flat tened Hallpck A.C. 28-12. Bruce Lucas was top scoring man on court with nine tallies. The win ners put the final touch to a decent 5-2 year record. In the same league the Ather ton Men dropped one by way of forfeit to Dorm 44. Favors Boards Penn State’s indoor track sen sation, O.llie Sax, of Kearny, N.J., favors - boards over cinders. : Track Managership Candidates for assis t a n i managership of track are asked t° report to. Chick 'Werner of. Norm Gordon after A p.m, to day at Rec HaU. - [He’s been breaking all sorts of 'off the second place trophy in the 'records on- the indoor boards this They beat such track power- Season, and nobody has been able houses as Army, Penn, George to come as close to him as Sax. town, Columbia, and Navy to do Sax himself set. a record this it. season. The Kearny, N.J. swiftie was clocked at 1:10.4 in the IC4As, good enough for a new intercol legiate standard, and only .2 sec ond off the;world mark held by Whitfield. . Dan Lorch and Jim Herb, fast coming field men, earned inter collegiate championships in their respective events. Herb hit 6-5% in the high jump, and Lorch, who tied for first place, topped the pole vault bar at 13-4. Bunnerup Honors Lorch, in the Washington Star meet last January, finished third in the pole vault behind Bob Richards and Don Laz, the one two men at Helsinki last summer. With only ten entrants, and with nine of them scoring points, Chick Werner’s proteges carried tstandi Lions End Cage Season Againsf Owls Saturday The Penn State cagers, owners of a 15-8 record, will close out, their 24-game schedule this Saturday with the Tem ple Owls in Philadelphia. ’The Lions have been coming on strong the past .three weeks, taking six out of the last seven games. In the last three wins they have averaged 76 points a game and have beaten Syracuse, West Virginia, and Pitt. The Lions need only 38 more points to set a new scoring rec ord. They how have 1559 points in 23 contests. The old record, set last year in 24 games, stands at 1596. Team average over .-thte course has been 67.7 a game while the opponents have been hitting on a 60.8 average for a 1399 total. -Leading the Staters in scoring for the second straight year is sophomore . Jesse Arnelle. At a 16.9 average he has put in 390 points, with eleven more to go to top . 400, points for the second successive year. He hit for 492 points last season. Holding down, second place is the only 'senior on the team — Captain Herm Sledzik. He scored 15. points' against F.itt to .boost his total output to34.6—rth'e highest he’s been in three: years ' 6f; var sity competition. His average is 15 a game' on 107 field goals and 132 'free throws: His threeryear total-is 687. y\,-. -y ’ .Hitting on an avei'age of T,(L4 a.gamh- is dependable:Jack.Sher- BAH# COLLEGIAjJ, §TATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Shot put artist, Rosey Grier, and the one and two mile relay teams, all set Penn State records during the season. Grier tossed the 16 pound weight 51 Vs against Army to top Chuck Drazenovich’s 51 foot mark set in 1950. Grier' also finished third in the intercol legiates. In the same meet, Werner’s one mile foursome turned in a 3:21.5 time for a new standard. The baton bearers, along with the Army victory, won the event in the Millrose Games and the New York Athletic Club games. The two mile quartet set its record, ironically finishing sec ond. The foursome was nipped by Penn in the NYACs but were clocked at 7:46.5. (a second finish isn’t an official record.) Lion Courtman ry with 240 points, 81 tallies over last year’s output. He has put in 81 field goals and 78 out of 118 free throws. Ed Haag has 161 points to date —almost doubling last year’s out put of 83 tallies. On an average of 7.3 for 22 games (missed one because of illness), the only jun ior on the team has put in 55 buckets and 51 out of 66‘ free throws. Ronnie Weidenhammer, who' played- one of his best games to date against the Panthers, now has amassed 149 points for ah average of 6.5 a game. He has 55 buckets and 39 out of 54 free throw attempts. "BEALS" BEAUTIFUL DRY, CLEANING 129 S. Pugh Sf. Three Penn State Boxers Boast Undefeated Marks Although the Lion boxing team hasn’t -won a team match yet this season its three outstanding pugilists—Sam Marino, Adam Kois and Tony Flore—can boast of undefeated records in Eastern com petition. Marino, trading punches at 125 pounds, tripped his Syracuse opponent and then in Saturday’s battle with Virginia University missed victory because of two penalty points. His match with Cava lier Bill Banerdt ended in a 29-29 draw. Marino’s overall card reads —two wins, one loss and two draws. The Nittany 176 pound representative, Adam Kois, has not only disposed of Eastern foes at Syracuse and Virginia, but has also slapped defeats on entries from Maryland and Wisconsin. In the Michigan State match he could do no better than draw. Butler, Reynolds Winless Tony Flore’s case is somewhat’ unusual. He has not swapped punches with an Eastern foe yet this year. At the time of the Syra cuse contest he .was declared ineligible and on Saturday he was awarded the decision by forfeit. Tony is the Nittany 139 pound regular. In the 132 pound slot Sam Butler and Joe Reynolds both are without a win. Butler started the season by dropping his bout with Maryland. His next two efforts resulted in setbacks by leathermen from Wisconsin and Virginia. Reynolds has dropped decisions in the Michigan State and Syracuse slug-fests. Stan Engle has dropped battles with Maryland, Michigan State and Syracuse. He fought in the 147 pound class. Steve Melmeck has lost his three bouts, two in the 147 pound class and ohe while boxing at 156 pounds. Hank Arnold, 156 pounder, got off to a good start by halting his Maryland adversary. He has dropped his three assignments since then. Boxing among the 165 pounders, Dick Cameron has lost four bouts, and Dick Ahern lost the only time, he climbed through the ropes. As a team the Lions have dropped their five matches without a win, but there still is Army Saturday, and the Lions will be gunning for an upset over the CadetsT Sports Briefs Nardico, Maxim To Fight Tonight MIAMI, Fla. (A*) —Danny Nardico, hard-punching Tampa fighter who bolted into prominence last New Year’s Eve on a technical knockout over Jake Lamotta, predicted yesterday Ije also will stop Joey Maxim in their 10-round battle tonight at Miami Stadium. “Maxim’s the buy I want,” said the usually quiet, modest former Marine. “I’ll take him like I took Lamotta, and that ought to get me a crack at Archie Moore’s light heavyweight title.” The fight will be televised na tionally over CBS Starting at 10 p.m. EST. The Miami Weather Bureau forecast fair, warm wea ther for the outdoor event. Dark Signs for $31,500 PHOENIX, Ariz. (/P) —Alvin Dark, shortstop and captain of the New York Giants, signed a two year contract yesterday, reputedly for $31,500 yearly. Dark agreed to terms in a tele phone conversation with Giant President Horace Stoneham after Vice President Charles Feeney had. ' made two calls to Dark’s home at Lake Charles, La., to complete the negotiations. The.ac tual contract-signing will take place as- soon as Dark reaches the Giant camp here. WBA Results VOLLEYBALL Woman’s Bldg, over Alpha Kappa Alpha Zeta Tau Alpha over Delta Gamma Co-Op over Aye See Leonides over Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Xi Delta over Atherton West Kappa Alpha Theta over Kappa Delta BOWLING Leonides oyer Alpha Epsilon Phi Tri-Delts over Alpha Chi Omega Gamma Phi Beta over Kappa Kappa Gamma YOU Can Change the WORLD Write:, CHRISTOPHERS, Inc. Box 1635 - McKee Campus Arnold Won First Baseball Ahead Joe Bedenk’s Penn State base ballers already are working out under the football stands at State College. NEVER--TOO LATE DELICIOUS, POPULAR PRICED FULL COURSE DINNERS are served af The Corner from 5 p.m. until nine each night Lenfen Luncheon Specials Each Weekend 1 Ui * [l a 1 * 1 9 / 1 'COHMEB| J /I £ i PAGE SEVEN
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