WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMB —Grandstand Views J rhreot ipack Supremacy Right now the world. U.S. teams sians in a dual meei games in a walkaw; But Uncle Sam So says Chick Wei State's coach. The challenge isr from one country in he said, but all the na bined. Werner is in a go< to know, being a vet international cinder helped coach the 19! team and was the of the U.S. team in games this year. Werner says the Ri be our main threat co time in Rome next said Germany and Empire as well as Au; cause trouble too. The white thatch (he’s in the club witl Bedenk) attributes thi eign track to United S and coaching. In the past, American coaches and track stars toured foreign countries teaching thq Europeans the fine points of the sport and co aching top prospects. “We taught many of our secrets to the foreigners during those clinics,” Werner said. A good example is the West Indies' George Kerr. Kerr, an Illinois trained athlete, led his country to a one-two-t hr e e sweep in the Pan-Am 400-meier run. Kerr and his teammates beat the United State's three great quarter milers Eddie Southern of Texas, Dave Mills of Purdue and Jack Yerman of the California Olympic club. Then in the IGOO-meter relay Kerr again led the West Indies to an upset over the same U.S. team which swept home ahead of the Russians last July. The other three runners on the West Indies’ team all had American training too. “I’m not taking anything away from the West Indies’ team, but I don’t think they’ll win in the! Olympics,” Werner said. “Southern came to Chicago way out of shape. He told me he went to Air Force RO.T.C. camp for training in between the Rus sian meet and the Pan-Am games and didn’t get a chance to work out at all. Even so the West Indies’ team was terriffic.” Werner disclosed that the United States is now taking measures to develop long dis tance runners in hopes of catch ing the Russians in that depart ment. The NCAA, he said, is putting the three mile run, the 3,000 meter steeplechase and the hop, step, and jump in its national tournament this year. Russian supremacy in these events was demonstrated in Phila delphia. The Soviet Athletes took first and second places in the steeplechase, 5,000 meter run and the 10,000 meter run. They also took the top spot in the hop, step and jump. The Russians, in turn, are starting to develop some top flight sprinters to match the Americans, according lo Wer* ner. Summing up the American team that faced the Russians and the one that ran rough shod over the Pan-American ccjuntries. Wer ner said he thought it was the Egli Was Stain Basketball coacli John Egli was a standout performer during his undergraduate days at Penn State in the mid 40’s. The yeteran coach guided the Lions to an 11-9 mark last year. Home Bred Athletes . Penn State depends almost en-! tirely on Pennsylvania talent for its athletic manpower. Of approximately 300 boys who engaged in inter-collegiate sports in 1958-59,-85 per cent were home grown products. And of the 45 froi 40 hailed from bon iR 16, 1959 Jnited States is the track power of the roved it this summer, beating the Rus in July and winning the Pan-American ty earlier this month, s track supremacy is being challenged [ner, Penn greatest track and field team ever assembled. ’t coming particular, tion's corn- And some of America’s best stars were missing Decathlon champ Rafer Johnson had to miss both meets because of a back injury while sprinter Bobby Mor row, the triple gold-medal win ner in the 1956 Olympics didn’t make the team due to a leg in jury. el position ran oi the set. Ha 2 Olympic ead coach i 6 Pan-Am While Werner was very pleased with his team’s performance in the Pan-Am meet he did voice a little disappointment with the showing of Penn State’s star miler Ed Moran. Moran came in third in the 1,500 meter run .behind Ore gon's two acres Dyrol Burleson and Jim Grelle. rssians will ne Olympic ear but he the British tralia could ed mentor l Engle and i rise in for tates’ clinics Werner said Moran made some mistakes in the race which proved costly. “Eddie can still make the Olympic team and I think he’ll do well too,” Weiner added. Moran, by the way. is back on campus taking graduate work and may run for the New York [Athletic club when the indoor season begins this winter. While still on the subject of the Pan-American games, two other Penn State athletes fared well. Bob Hoover, the captain of the baseball team last spring played shortstop for Uncle Sam’s nine and stood out so much that Bill Veeck, the owner of the Chicago White Sox made a statement say ing Hoover would have been signed by any team if it weren’t for his age. He’s 27, having been in the Army before coming to Penn State. Gregg Weiss, who is being groomed to take over Armando Vega’s shoes as the top Penn State gymnast, took a first place in side horse competition. He’ll be a sophomore this year. Football Magazine Rates Lucas Tops Penn State’s Richie Lucas will ( be one of the nation's top 22 foot ball players in 1959. So predicts Stanley Woodward’s Football magazine, which this month named the Nittany Lion! quarterback to its Crystal Ball All-American team for the com ing grid season. The magazine, compiled by Woodward, sports editor of the New York Herald- Tribune, in cooperation with vet eran New York Times sports writer Joe Sheehan, tabs Don Meredith of S.M.U. as the first string All-American quarterback !for 1959, with Lucas winning the second-team berth. Woodward and Sheehan also select Penn Slate tackle Andy Stynchula for their 1959 All-East team, and name Lucas, StynchulS. fullback Pat Botula, and guard Bill Popp among the 65 best play ers in the East. Weidenhamer Named Coach at High School Ron Weidenhamer, former Penn State basketball and baseball ace. has been named head coach of basketball, baseball, and soccer at Greenwood Joint High School, third largest school in Perry County. The 27-year-old Kutztown na tive was co-captain of the Nit tany Lion cage team for two yeais, 1953-54 and 1954-55, and helped carry Penn State to a third-place berth in the N.C.A.A. tournye in 1954. Wettsfone Directs Clinic On Teaching Gymnastics Genn Wettstone, Penn State gymnastics coach, directed a work shop at the University of Wiscon sin for secondary and elementary teachers this summer on the meth ods of teaching basic gymnastic! to boys and girls. The gymnastics clinic was held in conjunction with Wisconsin’s annual physical education workshop. i out-of-state, ering states, i THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA to U.S. By Sandy Padwe Collegian Sports Editor Harriers Prep First For Meet By DICK GOLDBERG Something old, something' new. So goes the old expes-! sion. The Penn State cross country team, under the tu-: telage of coach Chick Werner; will be following this during : their pre-season practice ses jsions. The new innovation will be the use of heavy basketball shoes re placing the relatively light cross country sneakers. The use of the heavy shop during practice will tend to make the harriers light footed during the dual meet sea son. The old feature is two practice sessions daily. This was jntio duced for the first time by Wer -1 ter a few years ago and is now [being used by a great many cross country teams. Werner feels ihai by increas ing ihe number of practices be fore the first meet, the team will be that much more pre pared. However, the Lion mentor does not think the practice interval 1 before the. firstK meet on October* nL|J SAN FRANCISCO (#)—Smash ing out o£ their h' ttln S slump v^Bk ''.M" ijVf with eight runs m the first two ■£BBf Jgr'f' innings, the San Francisco Giants 'BH f - protected their National League lead bv swamping Cincinnati 13-6| 8m ' " Jni ' Daryl Spencer and Willie Mc | Covey contributed homers in the 13 -hit assault as the Giants finally supported young left hander Mike McCormick. Mike had lost his last two outings by 1-0 decisions and hadn't won since Aug. 21. The win helped the Giants maintain sole possession of first place going into today’s crucial senes opener here against the challenging Milwaukee Braves. enough. to get the Lions in condition. Ac- cording to Wer-? ner, no matterj, how many prac- tiee sessions are held, it still take a great deal 01 conditioning tc[ ** v run five miles. werner Werner added that he did not urge the harriers to do much run ning during the summer because the spring track season was a long one and the boys would come back overtired. Therefore, the cross country coach will have to start from scratch in conditioning. Things are not too dark, how ever because Cornell, Penn State's first opponent, will have problems like the Wernermen. Because of this, Werner believes the meet will turn into a “dog fight” with the team in the best shape winning. MAJOR LEAGUES By The An<ioeiat(d P«« By THE ASSOCIATED PRESL American League W. L, Pet. Chicann 90 sfi 1 \—Cleveland S 4 6tl .58 5 New York 7*5 72 ,r>o; \ —Detroit 71 7 5 .49.5 x —Baltimore 70 74 .4sr, \ —Boston G 7 77 .4i»5 x\— Kansas City fi2 81 .4*44 26 , r I xv—Washington GO 80 .417 29 jx—Play night earner i xv —Play twi-night double-header | Pilchers I American League Chicago at New York—Wynn (20-0) vs [Coates (5-1). at Boston—Bell (10-11) vs. Casale (11-8). Detroit at Baltimore (N)—Mo<*si (11-9) vs. Fisher (1-4). Only games scheduled National League Pittsburgh at Chicago (2)— Law (16-0) and Friend <^-17» \s. Andexsou (12-10) and Johnson (0-0). Milwaukee at San Francisco—Burdette! 20-14) v% S. Jones <2O-l2i. Cincinnati at I<o-> Angeles (Ni—Acker 1-2) vs. ICoufat (8.5 1 . Only same-, scheduled Sammy’s Billiards Opens of 4 p. m. Underneath the Victory Diner on Rt. 322 N. Sox Near Pennant; Giants, Dodgers Win NEW YORK MP)—Chicago inched closer to its first Ameri can League pennant in 40 years by beating the New York Yankees 4-3 yesterday despite two home runs by Mickey Mantle. The victory put the White Sox five full games ahead of the second-place Cleveland In-] dians who were playing a night ;game in Boston. Chicago has only eight to play and any eombin |ation of five Sox victories or In- Idian defeats would clinch it. Mantle’s! 30th homer with Bobby Richardson on base in the first got the Yanks |, off to an ear'- lead against Bi ly Pierce. Hov ever the styli; lefty settle down and pitc! ed six hitless ii nings retiring ] men in succei sion fiom t‘ second to L j eighth. | ■ After Pierce " ... .. threw two balls 81 y Pl ' rcc to Gil MeDouglad, leading off the ! eighth, Manager A 1 Lopez brought j | in Bob Shaw from his starting, 'brigade. It was announced that j Pierce felt his left shoulder tight- j ehing up. Shaw finished up, bare-] ly escaping in the ninth, after; Mantle hit No, 31. LOS ANGELES (/P) —Don Mc- Mahon forced in the winning run with a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning yesterday as the Los Angeles Dodgers popped back in to a second-place lie with the Milwaukee Braves by defeating I them 8-7. The Dodgers and Braves now Steelers Trim Roster; Obtain Luna in Trade PITTSBURGH The Pitts burgh Steelers trimmed their ios ter to 38 players yesterday with the release of four linemen and two backs. 5 16* IS 1Q 22 Released were tackle George Belotti of BrighanvYoung; end R K. Brown of Georgia; quarter back Dan Nolan of Lehigh; line backer Claude Billingsley of Northeastern Oklahoma; fullback C. R. Roberts of the University of Southern California; and guard Bill Krisher of Oklahoma. At the same time the Steelers also obtained Bobby Luna, a kicking specialist, from the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for a future draft choice. Late Baseball Baltimore, 2 Boston, 1 Closes of ? The Dodgers trailed 7-6 going into their half of the IGtn. But, with one out, little Maury Wills goth his fifth straight hit. a single. Pinch hitter Chuck Essegian fol lowed with a single and was lifted for a pinch runner. Joe Pigna tano. Wills scored on a sacrifice fly by Jim Gilliam and Charlie Neal singled, putting runners on first and second. Wally Moon drew a walk to load the bases before McMahon is-.ued the game-ending walk to Ron Fairly. Seven Matches Scheduled By New Rifle Team ; Penn State has added a new isport to its intercollegiate roster. [Athletic Director Ernest McCov announced that a varsity rifle jteam will compete this season. [ Seven intercollegiate matches have been scheduled so far. Home matches will be held at the Uni versity rifle range in Recreation Hall. The head coach is Master Sgt. Joseph Watson. U.S. Army. He will be assisted bv Master Sgt. Robert Bradley. U.S. Marines and Staff Sgt. Paul Heide, US. Air Force. Eligibility for the feam will be the same as for all other athletics. All students excepting freshmen are eligible. The varsity will be composed of 40 members with the competition limited to the ten outstanding riflemen.* All eligible students interested should report to the rifle range during the first two weeks of school. The range will be open during the following hours: Mon days and Fridays fiom 4 to 5 p.m . Tuesdays from 1 to 5 p m,, and Thursday from 3 to 5 p m. Robertson Will Return To Play at Cincinnati CINCINNATI (/P)—Oscar .Rob ertson, the University of Cincin nati’s two-time All-American basketball player, registered at the school yesterday for his sen ior year. Robertson’s registra tion put at rest, at least for the time being, recurring rumors that he would withdraw fiom school and sign a professional contract with the Harlem Globetrotters Detroit, 1 Cleveland, 0 PAGE FIFTEEN both trail National League leading San Francisco by two games. 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