FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1952
Fiore, 3*
Gaiii: 'N(AA.
Semiaitali
Penn State's ToilY Fibre
and Sammy Marino move.in
to the semi-final round of the
National Collegiate - boxing
tournament tonight. at .8 p.m.
Fiore, classy 139-pound Nittany
stylist, scored a Imanimous
deci
sion over Idaho State's Tim Bren
nan yesterday afternoon in the
_quarter-finals at Pocatello. Ida
ho," to gain , the semi-final berth.
State's' captain and two-time
EIBA champ ,Sam Marino. gained
the semi-finals without a fight as
'he drew .a bye in the 119-pound
class; Sam was runnerup -at this
weight last year.
At Collegian press time no re
sults were available on Adam
Kois'preliminary round bout. Ad
am is State's third entry in the
16th annual NCAA. tourney. An
Eastern 178-pound champ, Kois
is An a rough division including
Wisconsin's Ray Zale,, who Adam
has, already decisioned, and Alex
Tsaltiris; Michigan Stater with
whom Kois drew.
'Kois was scheduled to fight
Idaho's Fred :Bowen.
119 Entries
Vic Kobe, Idaho State; Sam Ma
rino, Penn State; Gary Garber,
Maryland; John Stiglets, Louisi
ana State; Ward Brennan, Minne
sota; and Al Accurso, 'San Jose
State.
139 Entries
Tim Brennan, Idaho State; Dick
Londehl, California; Allen White,
San Jose Stale; Tony Flare, Penn
State; John. Granger, Syracuse;
Bob Hoffman,- Michigan Stat e;
Cal Clary, Louisiana State; and
Chuck Magestro, Wisconsin.
147 Entries
Lynn Nichols, Ida h o; Russ
Lundgren, Idaho State; Dick Ben
der, San Jose State; Herb Odom,
Michigan State; Larry O'Sullivan,
Syracuse; Emmett Guerney, South
Carolina; Pat Sreenan, Wisconsin;
and Ken Bouguess, Washington
State.
165 Entries
Chuck Morg a n, Washington
State; Tom- Hick ey, Michigan
State . ; Ron Schulinghamn, LSU;
.Rigolosi, Syracuse: Don
Anderson, Idaho; Fred Shieman,
California; and Bob Meath, Wis
consin.
178 Entries
Moyle Workman, Idaho State;
Alex Tsakiris, Michigan State;
Adam Kois, Penn Slat e: Ron
BruCh, Minnesota; Ray Zale, Wis
consin; Andy Alford, LSU; Dar
rell Dukes, San Jose State; Floyd
McFarland, California; Fred Bow
en, Idaho; and Don -Q uarl e s,
North Carolina A&T.
3 Homers Aid Cards
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 9 (/P)—
The St. Louis Cardinals spotted
the Memphis Chicks four runs in
the first inning, then roared from
behind for a 12-5 victory today.
The. Redbirds included three
home runs 'and seven doubles in
their 13-hit attack. The four-bag
gers came from the bats of Ray
Jablonski, Larry Miggins and Les
Fusselman.
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Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By SAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Chick Werner, boss of Penn State's modern descendants
of the first Grecian track Men, makes a spectacular figure
for an introductory 'speech to an after-dinner speech. Any
of Chick's introducers could easily get Tong-winded thusly:
He is a man who has guided Penn State to three NCAA • cross
country championships—a man who has brought State six Eastern
Intercollegiate crosS-country titles . . . a man who was a brilliant
thiee-time letterman at Illinois . . . a • man who captained the 1926
Illini track team and won the Big Ten high hurdling championship
. - a man who head-coached his alrpa mater to Big Ten track and
x-country crowns ....a man who assistant coached the USA Olympic
team last•summer . . .
Then after We had consumed 10 minutes of • the time Werner
might have used to speak, the introducer could add that Werner
is a- man who is an eminent authority in at least five fields of
track and field endeaVor—hurdling, sprinting, javelin throwing,
broad jumping,' and distance running.
If the pre-orator made the mistake of stopping with that, he
would not be up to date. At preSent Chick is an authority on the
440 yarq dash thanks to his possession of 011ie Sax—close to the
best middle-distanoe collegian in
the country today. (And, if State
should suddenly' come up with , a
15-foot polevaulter. or a 55-foot
shotputter, Werner would become
an authority in those events.)
All of which gets to the point:
State is and has been more than
a school of distance runners ex
clusively; and Werner is authori
tive on' track in general,- not in
particular events. His "authority"
comes and goes with his athletes.
Until Sizzling Sax began- searing
the boards indoors ' last winter,
WerneA was considered AmeriCa's
foremost authority on distance
running. In the last decade Wer
ner had collie up - with distance
runners of national prominence
such as Curt Stone, Horace Ashen
felter, and Jerry Karver. In 1948
Stoney set the IC4A two-mile rec
ord and in '49 Ash reset the IC
mark. And, Karver's 4:11.6 best
mile is a speed' bettered today
only by Villanova's Fred Dwyer
and Kansan Wes Santee.
Yet, in 1948 and '49 when Jini Gehrdes was kangarooing over
hurdles in IC4A championship style, Werner was an authority on
hurdling. After all, in the race Dick Attlesey (So. Cal.) sped to a
World record of 13.5 in the 120 yard high hurdles, Gehrdes was
second in 13.7 after leading as late as the eighth hurdle.
Around 1940,1 Werner was an authority on sprinting and broad
jumping. He had the sensational Norwood "Barney" Ewell, perhaps
State's all-time greatest runner. Barney's rule of the 100-yard dash
virtually qualified him as the then World's Fastest Human even
though there were no Olympic games to prove it during those war
years. Ewell's 9.6 century and his 20.7 220 were IC4A records until
Seton Hall's Andy Stanfield began cutting down on stopwatch run
ning time in 1949 and '5O.
Then 'of course Ewell's leap of 251" in the 1942 indoor IC's
immediately made Werner an expert on broadjumping too.
Still earlier, in 1938, Chickery Chick was an outstanding authority
on javelin throwing. He had a whip-armed gent named Nick Vuk
manic who was tossing the spear better than 220 feet. In addition
to taking the IC4A crown, Vukmanic conquered every other avail
able world that season with championships in the Penn Relays,
the Drake Relays, the NCAA's, and the NAAU's.
Sure, Maybe State has been outstanding in the distances and
maybe the events like the pole vault, the discus, the shot, and the
-860 have seen only average performances. But 'with guys like frosh
weighttbrower - Chuck Blockson (Norristown High) and fast-coming
half-miler Don Austin available in the future, who knows but
Werner could gain authorityship in several more events.
One thing is certain. State's track glories have been well spread
in events. Chick can't possibly be accused of having a one-track
mind.
MAKE THAT EASTER MONEY
CLASS RING MONEY!.
You'll want to make good use of
your Eater money. What better
way is there than by buying a
Penn State Class Ring from
Baliour's. Here's a ring that
speaks with dignity of Penn State
. . . presents you as a graduate
of a
,great college. ORDER YOUR
RING NOW. Spend your Easter
money wisely. You'll profit from
the recognition the Penn State
Class Ring offers.
L. G. Balfour - Co.
Office in the Athletic Store
Chick Werner
SYI.V/!MI4
Sigma Nu Leads in All-Year
Point Award, DU Second
Sigma Nu, a constant tower of strength in the IM sports field,
stands number one in the point award system, according to the
latest listing•by Dutch Sykes, assistant director of intramural sports.
In second place , is Delta Upsilon '
with 530 points, followed by Beta
Theta Pi with 361. Only six points
separate. Pi Kappa Phi from the
fourth spot which is -noiv . held
down by Phi Sigma Delta.
Sigma Nu holds down the lead
ing spot due to its strength in
accumulating a large 'amount of
points 'in every intramural sport,
totaling 619. Sigma Nu has been
crowned champs in wrestling and
single handball. The latter tourn
ament was won by Dave Girard.
Sigma. Nu also placed second in
the boxing matches.
Delta Upsilon, which placed
fourth in' wrestling, is in second
place mainly due to its boxing
championship. ,
Other champions crowned were
Alpha Phi Delta in touch football,
Beta Theta Pi in swimming, Phi
Sigma Delta in basketball, and
Delta Tau Delta, as a result of
John Carney's win in golf.
PA,m
Babe Zaharias' Career
Feared to Be at End
- BEAUMONT, Tex., April 9 (4
—The fabulous athletic career of
Mildred Babe Didrikson Zahari
as that spanned more than two
decades and included virtually
every competitive sport apparent
ly is at an end today.
Mrs. Zaharias is in a Beaumont
Hospital awaiting the fate f u l
words of her family doctor, who
Saturday 'is expected to announce
that she never again can compete
in bigtime sports, perhaps never
can participate in any kind of
sports again. The Babe is suffer
ing from a malady of a malignant
nature.
A record-shattering 15,000 per
sons saw the four sessions of the
1953 National Collegiate wrest
ling tournament in Penn State's
Recreation Hall.