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Stickmen Upset Syracuse,
17-13; Hamel Scores 6
An inspired Penn State lacrosse team, led by Bob Hamel who scored six goals, carfie
from behind to upset a rugged Syracuse team, 17-13, before 1500 fans at Beaver Field Satur
day.
Coach Nick Thiel’s stickmen were behind 3-2 at the end of the first quarter and 6-5
at half time, but came back to score 12 goals in the final half to snap a three-game winning
streak for the once-beaten Orangemen .
Aiding Hamel in his scoring
venture was Ron Youtz, who
scored three goals and played bril
liantly throughout the game, Dick
Klein and Frank Locotos who
scored two each, and captain Don
Bell who stopped countless scor
ing attempts by Syracuse. Bob
Bullock also starred as he turned
in a brilliant game of stick hand
the Syracuse goalie,
way for many Lion scores,
Lindsay Scores 4
For Syracuse it was Stew Lind
say, with four goals, and Don
Muller, with three, who led the
Orange, but credit must be given
to Paul O’Donohue, who scored
two goals and came through with
four assists to set up scoring
drives.
Syracuse scored three in each
quarter except the third, in which
it scored four. The Nittanies hit
the net for two in the first quar
ter, three in the second, and fin
ished with five in the third, and
seven in the fourth.
Hamel Scores First
It was Hamel who scored the
initial goal with a 20-foot shot
from the side at 6:15 of the first
quarter. Jack Stawecki tied it up
at 9:21 with a hard shot just in
front of the goalie net, but
George Bicklehaupt came back a
minute later to grab a pass from
Locotos and ram it in to put the
Lions in front temporarily.
Chief Patterson and O'Dono
hne followed with successive
goals for the Orange to give
them a one goal edge at the end
of the first quarter. Don Muller
continued the Orange scoring
with a hard shot at 0:30 of the
second quarter.
Locotos Sparks Team
Locotos brought the Lions to
within one goal of Syracuse with
a score at 1:47. But Ed Smith and
Muller hit the net for two consec
utive tallies to give the boys from
New York a 6-3 edge.
For the next nine minutes both
teams battled to a standstill until
Youtz, unassisted, tossed in a
beautiful shot from five feet out
to start the scoring parade again.
Losing 6-4, the Lions fought back
trying to tie the score before the
gun sounded the half, but were
Johnson's Collapse
Remains a Mystery
PHILADELPHIA, May 9 (A*)—
The cause of Harold Johnson’s
sudden collapse in last Friday’s
nationally-televised fight contin
ued today to be boxing’s No. 1
mystery.
Was he drugged?
Or did Julio Menderos, credited
with a second round technical
knockout, tag the husky Johnson
with a paralyzing punch?
Or was Johnson suffering from
a pre-fight ailment that was not
revealed?
Or is there another reason?
The answer to these questions
remained locked today in the con
tinuing investigations of doctors,
chemists, policemen and officials
of the Pennsylvania Athletic Com
mission. A full report was prom
ised not later than tomorrow.
Meantime, Johnson remained
under police guard at Hahnemann
Hospital where a multitude of
tests, from the brain down, were
comnleted. Doctors said Johnson
is in eood shape physically and
mentally.
PROVIDENCE, R. 1.. May 9 (JP)
—Jose Contreras, 28, Taunton,
Mass, middleweight, died today in
Rhode Island Hospital of a head
injury suffered in a prize fight
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Bob Hamel
Scores Six Goals
able to get only one goal, made
by Jim Hay who grabbed a pass
from Klein and flipped it past
score at 10-10 at the end of the
Thiel Nods Inspiration
What Thiel's talk between
halves did to the Lions no one
will know but when they rushed
out for the second half a de
termined feeling hung over
them and the spectators.
Muller and Lindsay added two
goals to put the Orange ahead
8-5, but this was as far as Syra
cuse went. Bergeson, with an as
sist from Hamel, hit the net at
3:12 for a Lion score and Hamel
himself followed with his second
goal to put the stickmen only one
goal away from tying the score.
Hamel Ties Score
O'Donohue and Lindsay kept
the Syracuse attack alive with
two additional goals, but Klein
scored unassisted at 10:11 and
Hamel followed with his third
and fourth goals to knot the
score at 1-10 at the end of the
third frame.
Jt was Klein, 46 seconds later,
here last Monday night.
Contreras collapsed in his
dressing room after his scheduled
10-rounder with Bob Bolton of
Providence was stopped in the
eighth round by the referee,
Sharkey Buonanno.
Shortly after he was taken to
R.I. Hospital, brain specialists
performed a two-hour emergency
operation and found that he had
suffered a subdural hemorrhage
on the right side of the head. A
blood clot was removed, easing
the pressure on the brain, and for
a time it appeared Contreras
might recover.
Leader Set to Open
'Drugging' Investigation
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 9 (JP)
—Gov. George Leader was repre
sented today as ready to outlaw
boxing in Pennsylvania if there
is no reasonable explanation of
the reported drugging of a Phila
delphia boxer.
Sen. John H. Dent (D.-West
moreland), made the statement in
the wake of a furore arising from
the inability of Harold Johnson to
answer the bell for the third
round of a nationally televised
bout at Philadelphia.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
with the tie breaking goal. Youtz
and Locotos followed with two
fast goals to give the Lions a com
manding three-goal lead. But the
always dangerous Lindsay scored
again at 1:50 to give the Orange
some added incentive which re
sulted in two additional goals, by
Lindsay and Smith, to tie the
score at 13-,13.
Stickmen Keep Up Pace
But the inspired stickmen
stuck the terrific pace and broke
the game wide open when A 1
Lechard scored, with help from
jtoulz who tossed a solid pass to
set up the score. Hamel hit the
net for his fifth goal and then
grabbed a loose ball and shot
down the field to throw one past
the surprised goalie for his sixth
and last goal.
Youtz finished the tirade of
scoring with a fourth-period
shot in which he twisted, made
a complete spin, faked the
goalie, and flipped it in the net
to give the Lions their fourth
victory of the season.
It was sweet revenge for the
Nittanies who dropped a 20-7 de
cision to the Orange last year. But
most of all for their coach Thiel,
who graduated from Sc3cuse in
1935. Thiel, smiling ana patting
all his boys on the back, had just
one statement to make:
"It was the best victory in
three years for me."
The stickmen meet Swarthmore
in an away game this Saturday.
A win will give them a 5-5 record.
9 Soccer Squads
Win IM Openers
Six fraternity and three inde
pendent soccer teams won their
intramural openers Thursday and
Friday evening in the IM soccer
tournament.
Alpha Chi Sigma started Thurs
day night’s action by copping a
1-0 victory over Zeta Beta Tau.
Delta Sigma Phi edged Phi Ep
silon Pi 2-0 in the second contest
of the evening. In Thursday’s final
fraternity match, Acacia nipped
Beta Sigma Rho, 1-0.
In Thursday’s independent con
tests, the Iron Men eked out a 1-0
victory over a hard fighting Nit
tany Co-op aggregation. The Cou
gars won by forfeit over the Ter
rible Terrors, and Dorm 4 defeat
ed the Irvin Buffaloes, 1-0.
Friday night’s matches were all
fraternity battles. Sigma Phi Ep
silon won the first game of the
evening, defeating Alpha Epsilon
Pi, 4-0. Alpha Sigma Phi, led by
Dick Bowers who scored both
goals, beat Sigma Nu, 2-0. Kappa
Sigma postec. a forfeit victory
over Triangle.
Sigma Pi stopped Tau Phi Delta
in a thriller, 1-0. Theta Xi and
Pi Kappa Phi met in another ex
citing contest, with Thet% Xi
finally winning out, 1-0. In the
last contest of the evening, Phi
Delta Theta downed Delta Tau
Delta, 1-0.
Twins—
(Continued from page thirteen)
yearbook.
As for the job they’re doing now?
Take the word of Fred’s “boss,”
Coach Bob Rutherford who says:
“Fred is the best golf manager
we’ve ever had. He gets every
thing done quickly and well.” Coach
Sherm Fogg, the tennis head, of
fers similar testimony for Law
rence.
Penn State, for the third straight
year, will hold a clinic for high
school football coaches, April
29-30.
Penn Stqte Sports—
ON
THE
LINE
Last weekend track teams of Navy, Michigan, and Pejnn
State were scrutinized by their coaches, teammates, foes, and
fans alike. But there was one pair of eyes in the throng of
track enthusiasts that was taking particular note of what was
going on in the Beaver Field oval.
They belonged to M. C. Dhawan, honorary secretary of the
Amateur Athletic Federation of India, who is making a three-month
tour of the U.S. as a recipient of the Leader-Specialist Grant award
id him by the State Department.
We met Mr. Dhawan a month ago at Navy where the Lions
opened their 1955 card. It was
then that Lion Coach Chick Wer
ner invited Dhawan to visit Penn
State as part of his program to
canvas Eastern seaboard track, be
fore going to the West coast. Since
then Dhawan has visited New
York, Boston, Navy, and the Penn
Relays.
Dhawan, in addition to being
teacher and house master of the
Mayo College, a public school in
Ajmer, India, where he teaches
seven courses including English,
is also the honorary secretary of
the AAFI—a counterpart of the
Amateur Athletic Union of the
U.S. He became secretary in 1950
just four years after the birth of
the federation, which submits its
r.. 9-, entries to India’s Olympic Associ-
Indta s AAFI Secretary ation for final approval for o l ym .
pic participation. Similar federations are set up in .India for other
sports.
While sitting in the sun-bathed bleachers of Beaver Field on
Saturday, Dhawad told us that his job was to study American track
and field, education, and youth welfare work.
When asked what he felt he had “picked up” thus far to take
back to his country, Dhawan said: “We need more competition; here
you have,meets and carnival relays regularly giving your athletes
many opportunities and thus strengthening your Olympic entries.”
Dhawan praised the American colleges and universities for promot
ing track and sports in general, and said that India needed more of
such promotion to “give the participants the opportunity for con
tinual competition.” “In India,” Dhawan said, “we need such a pro
gram in the high schools and colleges to supply the track ranks
and form a broad, self-perpetuating basis for future years.”
Dhawan said that in 1952 it cost his nation nearly $50,000 to
send a 95-man team to the Olym
pics at Helsinki. Most of the money
came from the government; he
estimated that perhaps one-tenth
of Olympic finance comes from
public donations
Because of the financial limita
tions on the size of Indian Olym
pic entries, Dhawan explained
that his federation sets up “stand
ards in each event that compare
to world marks.” By doing this,
he said, his federation can be as
sured that the money allotted to
Olympic hopefuls will be well
spent on athletes “who can post
respectable and competitive per
formances when participating
against world-wide competition.”
India' entered track and field
competition in 1924. In 1952 India
wound up seventh in the 100-
and 200-meter races and ninth at 800 meters. India also entered the
marathon, high jump, and steeplechase.
India’s trackmen and women snapped 17 national records last
year and equalled another. The 21-year-old broad jump of 22-10%
was included in those reset.
Dhawan has had'years of experience as a track competitor and
coach to certify his capabilities. In 1924 and 1929 he held University,
provincial, and Indian records in the hop, step, and jump, javelin,
and discus throws from time'to time.
Dhawan is blessed with a sparkling, magnetic personality,
sprinkled with a touch of reserve and quiet self confidence. This,
pltis his love for good humor and talking with America’s “younger
set” make it easily understood why he was selected to come to
America—both as an expert track and field observer and an “in
formal” ambassador for India. We wish fiim luck on the Remainder
of his tour of the United States and to India in building a stronger
friendship between the two countries.
TUESDAY. MAY 10. 1955
By ROY WILLIAMS
Sports Editor
Chick Werner
Prompted Dhawan's Visit