SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1968 —Collegian Photo by Mike Urban PITCHING ACE Denny Lingenfeltei. and catcher Dave Fore confer on the mound during light situation in last Sunday's gam'e against Ithaca. Lingenfelter will be going for his fourth win of the season against Rutgers today. Lion Nine Plays Two at Rutgers By DON MeKEE Collegian Sports Writer After a long weekend when a team loses two of three a lot of coaches would look forward to a few days off. Penn State coach Chuck Medlar disagrees. “It’s hard to keep a team sharp over a layoff of a whole week,” said Medlar, commenting on State’s short vacation. . Today’s doubleheader with Rutgers will be the Lions first action since last Sunday’s split with Ithaca. In the interim Medlar has sent his charges , through a lengthy intra-squad game and seemingly endless rounds of batting practice. All the workouts have been aimed at one thing— curing the ills that currently afflict the Lion hitters. Lack of batting strength allowed one game to slip through Gary Manderbach’s fingers and the same deficit made Denny Lingenfelter’s task much harder. Manderbach had tossed a three : hitter at Villanova last Saturday and totally stifled all Wildcat attempts to score. But Manderbach’s teammates were in the same scoreless boat. The game went to the 10th, Manderbach tired, and State lost 1-0. Lingenfelter fared better against Ithaca, but his 3-2 win was made harder by a lack of “insurance" runs. In the' wrap-up of the Ithaca doubleheader the Lions were shut out for the second time in two days. Despite that less-than-impressive hitting 'record Med lar is making no changes today. Lingenfelter will take the mound and go after his fourth win of the season. The staff leader in innings pitched, Lingenfelter has recorded a great 0.72 ERA in three starts, The chief hitting support so far this season has come from Ken Barto and Joe Comforto, the only two left handed swingers in the regular lineup. Second baseman Barto is hitting a lofty .476 while Comforto has recorded a .333 average. Barto has also driven across a team-leading 12 runs. A Welcome Choice Medlar has still not chosen a starter for the second contest. The coach has the happy task of making a choice between Manderbach and Bill Micsky. All coaches should have similar problems. The two hurlers have given up a combined total of exactly one run in 18 innings of work. Since Micsky pitched his no-hit game two weeks ago he’s been on the shelf with a stiff shoulder. That problem has cured itself and now the sophomore righty is ready to go. State is facing rugged competition today. The Scarlfet Knights are sailing along with a 7-2-1 record and will have their two ace pitchers set to face the Lions. Jim Jackson, 3-0, and Ed Ott, 1-0, will get the nod from Rutgers coach Matt Bolger. The two are benefiting from a much-improved hitting attack. After batting .220 last seasonj the veteran Rutgers team has come alive and is hitting the ball for a .270 average. State’s hitters should be ready for today's game. After a week of hitting drills they’ll be happy to get back to competition. WIST HALLS Presents a JAMMY FEATURING THE MIRAGE Sat. Night April 20 Waring Lounge 25e The Members of Kappa Alpha Psi would like to Congratulate its New Brothers • Bill Broadwater • "Le Roi" Paine • Rip Bourne • Harry Rickets • Rom Jones "Our's in the Bond " A Scoreless Boat Lacrosse Match By STEVE SOLOMON Assistant Sports Editor What we have here is a failure to com- munieate. The Penn State lacrosse team made the long bus trip to Colgate yesterday and ended up holding a 90-minute practice session a few hundred feet from the drilling Red Raiders. Colgate had called the game off but kept the fact a well-guarded secret within the athletic department. Contract( To Expire This was to be the last year for ath letic competition between the two schools. A working contract was to expire at the con clusion of the current spring season. However, when the Lions arrived at the New York school, they were informed by ath letic director Everett D. Barnes that there would be no game. Coach Dick Pencek pro tested, and Barnes said in effect that lacrosse ties between Colgate and Penn State had ended a year earlier. Offered Alternate So as not to forfeit 1 the game, Colgate offered an alternate date of May 11 for the game. The Lions, scheduled to play host to Committees Flare LAUSANNE, Switzer land (AP) A big row flared yes terday between the Mexican Organization Olympic Commit tee and the International Olym pic Committee involving South Africa’s readmission to the Summer Games in Mexico in October. Pedro Ramirez Vasquez, president of the Mexican Or ganizing Committee, told news men no invitation had been sent to South Africa “because we have not had official word ask ing us to invite South Africa.” Letter Request Immediately, Col. John Wes terhoff, secretary general of the lOC, pointed out that he had written a letter to the Mexican Organization Commit tee on Feb. 23 requesting Mex ico to invite South Africa. Westerhoff said he had writ ten another letter dated April 2 again asking the Mexicans to invite South Africa. So far there has ben no reply to that letter. An emergency meeting of the Executive Board of the lOC to discuss the readmission of apartheid South Africa is scheduled today. Westerhoff’s letter of April 2 said: “Due to the fact that until today we have not received any corfirmation that any such in vitation (to South Africa) has been sent out I presume that our letter must have been mis laid or got lost on its way to Mexico. "Therefore, please find en- Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Co. wishes to congratulate the Central Penn Agency of Stae College for Leading the Country in life insurance sales for the month of March Ben Amato Manager Agents Paul H. Amato Robert Sunday Louis Klein Robert Bloom John Hunsaker Farrell Franks THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA South Africa Invited? closed a copy of our letter to during his consulations with which we kindly ask you to give officials of Soutu Africa’s your full attention.” Olympic Committee. Vasquez alsr said Mexico had The latest controversy came received no official information after a fountain of arguments about South Africa's reinstate- involving South Africa’s read ment. mission to the Games—a coun- When this was relayed to Av- try admitted on a postal vote ery Brundage, the president of from the. 71 members of the the lOC, in Johannesburg, lOC Congress. Brundage said: Unofficial reports said South "That’s crazy. I have copies Africa was readmitted by a of three letters which I sent to majority of three to five. Afri him and which were registered, can countries protested and Maybe they don’t consider that Russia suggested it would drop good enough.” out of the Mexico Games if Brundage made the state- South Africa stayed in ment at an airport news con- The nine-man Execu ti v e ference before taking off for Board of the International Lausanne. Olympic Committee, headed by He affirmed that he had not Brundage, will discuss the asked South Africa to withdraw whole question Saturday and from the Oct. 12-27 Games, Sunday. Celtics Take Playoffs PHILADELPHIA (TP) — The 21 points for the Celtics, hit Boston Celtics regained the the basket with 4:41 remain- National Basketball Associa- ing in the final period to send tion’s Eastern Division cham- Boston ahead to stay. 100-96*victory Havlicek's field lg oal made adelphil 76ers whose Wilt il 89 ' 88 and the Celti «- ChambeHain scored only Two If^welland points and took one shot in the second half. } ead t 0 flve pomts Wlth 3:45 In winning the seventh *° §o ' and deciding game of the Philadelphia’s last chance Eastern final, the Celtics be- to save the title it won last came the first team in NBA year, evaporated when Chet history to come back from a Walker missed a driving lay -3-1 playoff deficit and win. up with 47 seconds to go and John Havlicek, who scored the Celtics ahead 97-95. Cortland State that afternoon, turned it down. Then Pencek attempted to arrange a scrim mage but was refused. The two teams ended up holding practice sessions on adjoining fields. “This was the most expensive practice in Penn State history,” Pencek said. The whole affair cost Penn State an estimated S5OO. After their drills, the Lions took the one hour drive to Syracuse, where they’ll play this afternoon. The Orangemen are 3-1 this season and are favored over State by a nationally circulated magazine, Lacrosse Newsletter. Could Be Blessing Though it was annoying, the cancellation of yesterday’s game could be a blessing in dis guise. Two contests in 24 hours is a rough assignment, but now the Lions can concen trate on Syracuse, a pivotal game in their schedule. “We have to win them all,” Pencek said of the remainder of State’s games. “If we lost just one moret’-it would discredit our perfor mance against Maryland.” Pencek was referring to the Lions’ close 9-5 loss to the defending national champions, who were extended to the limit after Penn State narrowed an early five-goal Terp lead to 6-5 after three periods. —collegian Photo by Pierre Bellicinl OUTSTANDING SENIOR short distance runner Bob Beam, shown breaking the tape above in a recent meet, will be among the 32 Penn State representatives at the Ohio Stale Relays today. Beam is a member of the State 440 relay team, expected to smash the 20-year school record before the end of, the year. Lions Run in Relays Today The Nittany. Lion track and field team will pit 32 of its performers against 500 of the best track and field men in the Midwest today as it partici pates in the Ohio State Univer sity Relays in Columbus, Ohio. State will meet powerful runners from all the Big Ten - , , . - . , schools along with track teams good f?° wm . g r g ? mst from the Mid-American Confer- ‘ he stlff competition m Colum ence in the relays. The Lions _ , T x. r will be the only entry in the . Penn State Coach John Lucas field of 28 teams from the East. * a , s put pre f ure on 'if Held men today. Lucas said, Favored in the meet will be “We expect our discus and strong teams entered by Notre javelin men to score. They Rugby Home, Others Away Penn State sports fans have a slim card of attractions from which to choose this weekend—no varsity teams are playing at University Park. There is one sports event on tap, however. At 2 p.m. today, the Penn State Rugby Club entertains Lehigh on the Rugby pitch behind Beaver Stadium. Both the Blue and the White squads will see action. Holmes Cathrall leads his unbeaten netmen south to Annapolis to face a tough Navy team. The Lions own a 2-0 record and are in top shape following' a 10-day layoff. ■ The golf team is also on the road south, to Morgan town, W.Va. Joe Boyle’s linksmen have run up a 3-1 record on the 'season, led by the undefeated showing of Tom Apple. . Intramural Volleyball ~, , B °, R “ ITOR r , Columbia Elk over Fulton, MJ; 15-8, Watts I over Nittany 33-37, 15-3, 15-2 15-4 Nittany 41 44 over Nittany 31-32, 15-5, indiana-Jefferson over Carbon-Craw- Hemlock over Locust, 15-4, 9-15, 15-4 ,ord '