Tuesday, May 29, 1962
Nittany Narrator
By Dave Craley, Nittany Cub Sports Editor
IT'S TIME WE CELEBRATED. Never before in its history has
the Behrend Campus enjoyed such a rousing culmination to its ath
letic activities in a given year as have the Nittany Cub baseball,
chess, and table tennis teams this year. Although the Behrend
Baseball Bombers ended the season with a 3-5 ledger, Coach Gal
lagher's nine pounded out twenty-six runs in their final three games
last week, winning two of them and losing the other only because they
didn't have a real pitcher to hurl the second game of a doubleheader.
Mr. Baker's chess and table tennis squads ran roughshod over all
opponents during the regular season and didn't let up in the state
finals at University Park several weeks ago. The trophies for PSU
extension campus supremacy in both of these areas were awarded at
the quarterly Organization of Student Governments conference on
May 13.
EVEN JOE PAGE, old-time Yankee relief pitcher, had it easy
when one compares his pitching duties to those of John "the body"
Brown, Behrend Campus' best pitcher (also, our only pitcher). Page
may have been overworked, but one wonders if he ever had to hurl
twenty innings in three days time as John Brown did last week.
Thursday of last week the Cubs traveled to Buffalo's spacious
Delaware Park to play a doubleheader with Bryant-Stratton, a
team the Cubs had defeated once before this year, 8 to 4 at Glen
wood. Buffalo jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning of the
first game with three consecutive hits off Brown after two men were
out. But Behrend bounced back in the third for three runs and added
three more in the fourth. Brown allowed only one hit in the three
final innings he worked. After the New Yorkers had loaded the bases
in the final inning, Brown struck out one batter and got the other to
fly out as the Cubs won, 8-6. Doug Prozan, Al Mac Allister, and Joe
liaser each collected two hits for Behrend,
IN THE SECOND GAME Mel Ross started for the Cubs but
couldn't hold the tide. Brown came on in the fourth and finished
up the seven inning game. Second sacker Joe Haser went 3-for-3
in this game and 5-for-6 on the day, and part-time catcher-out
fielder Tom Larson went 3-for-5. But Buffalo came up with a big
five run inning in the fourth on a lead-off double followed by three
singles, an error, a sacrifice, and a triple. It was enough to win.
Prozan and Howie Estock had two hits apiece in the 8-11 loss.
SATutIDAY AT GLENWOOD the Cubs wrapped up their season
with a 9 to 7 shellacking of Jamestown Community College making
it the first time Coach Gallagher has been able to top Jamestown
in any sport. Brown won his third game of the season and struck out
fourteen Jimmies for a total of twenty-eight strikeouts in two games
against Jamestown. On May 9 the Cubs dropped a 4-3 ten inning
heartbreaker in Jamestown Municipal Stadium even though Brown
fanned fourteen and allowed only six hits. Ron Greer, the Cubs'
centerfielder, slammed out three singles in four times at bat Satur
day. Mel Ross lined two hits as did Joe Haser and Tom Larson. Six
runs in the fifth innings overcame an early Jamestown lead and
set up the rvictory.
Behrend split its season schedule with Jamestown, winning 9-7
and losing 4-3; took two out of three from Bryant Stratton, 8-4, 8-6,
and 8-11; dropped two to Altoona. Campus, 3-1 in the season's open
er, a game in which the Cubs loaded the bases in the ninth with
nobody out and one run already home but still couldn't tie it. The
other loss was a 10-0 drubbing at Glenwood. And the Penn State
Prosh squeeked by, 19 to 1, at Bayview on April 28.
It was a frustrating year for the ballplayers, a year of many
ifs: if they had another pitcher, if they could bunt during the game
as they did during practice, if they didn't have to play State, if they
hadn't left ten men on base against Jamestown and thirteen against
Bryant-Stratton, if-if-if. The Cub's top sluggers were Doug Prozan at
.387 and 14 hits; Joe Haser at .355 and 11 hits; Tom Larson at .313
with 10 hits. Estock was 2 for 4 in a pinch-hitting role. Latecomer
Tom Woodring and pitcher Brown combined for five hits, also. Al
Mac Allister, last year's team leader, finished at .276 with nine hits.
THE BEHREND CAMPUS will need a trophy case in. the new
building next year. On Saturday, May 13, the Behrend delegation
to the OSGA conference at State College was presented two mag-
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nificent gold trophies representing Behrend Commonwealth Campus
supremacy in chess and table tennis. Dale Black, SGA vice-president,
accepted the trophies from R. G. Bernreuter, Dean of Admissions
and Registrar, on behalf of the teams and the Behrend Campus. Dale
also accepted the Bernreuter chess award, a beautiful hand-carved
Mexican chess set to be displayed on the Campus until next year
when another winner may clAim it for that year. A campus that
wins the chess championship three years (not necessarily in a row)
will be awarded the set permanently. Pottsville won it last year in its
first year of presentation. The Cubs stand an excellent chance of
adding their names for the second time next year.
Both teams had little trouble from inter-campus opposition at the
University Park finals on May 4 and 5. Ed Paauwe, Steve Hagan, and
Doug Ray combined to defeat Pottsville in the first chess match, 2-1,
and then trounced York Campus, 3-0, for the championship. Willie
Schickhaus and Jerry Newcamp whitewashed Scranton, 5-0, and
stopped Wyomissing, 4-1, in table tennis. The team ended the sea
son with an 8 and 2 mark. The chess team was undefeated at 10-0.
Paauwe and Hagan were never touched for a single match all year.
Ron Feltenberger was third man on the team during the regular
season but couldn't make the finals. Ray, who bowled for the Campus
'bowlers who just missed out to Altoona in the section championship,
filled in at State.
SO IT'S ALL OVER for another year. Coach Gallagher's ulcer
will have nearly three months to heal—unless the Yankees continue
to pull muscles and the Indians prove to be more than just flashes
in the pan making everyday Fourth of July at the Wigwam. But the
final two baseball victories and the chess and table tennis trophies
hare succeeded for the most part in pushing the agonies of the
t.;asketball season into the distant past. Arid just think—next year we
won't have any pitchers!
Metamorphosis
Complete
As the weather becomes warmer
and the days longer the swimming
pool becomes a popular attraction
to students on campus. A question
that arises in almost every stu
dent's mind is the question of just
how the pool is made ready for
swimming. Although it may seem
a simple task to drain and refill
a pool, in all reality, it is not.
Every spring the pool is com
pletely drained and the sides and
bottom throughly scrubbed with
a strong chlorine solution. After
these preliminary steps have been
taken, the pool, with a capacity
of 63,000 gallons, is ready to be
filled. Because of the limited sup
ply of water, it is filled proportion
ately to the demand of other
buildings on campus. It is filled
by a garden hose, nine hours every
day, until it is almost full; then
it is filled from 7:00 a.m. one
morning until 1:00 the next. Due
to the limited supply of water, the
total time to fill it varies. Even
though the pool is now completely
filled, water is continuously added
throughout the summer months
to restore the loss of water due
to evaporation and the water
splashed out.
Now that the pool is filled, the
water is recirculated through three
McGAHA'S HO HO
filtering tanks of sand and gravel
to filter out the various refuse
which had gathered during the
filling. This process is carried on
continuously throughout the sum
mer with the tanks being back
washed once a week to relieve
them of their gathered debris.
To aid in the filtering process, an
accessory tank containing alum is
used.
In addition to the water, chlo
rine is added to the content of the
pool to kill bacteria and algae
which have gathered on the sides
and bottom. In previous years
chlorine tablets were used. but
these proved inefficient because
the chlorinator could not hold
one day's supply of chlorine. This
year for the first time a new
chlorinating pump has been pur
chased which adds a liquid solu
tion of 15% chlorine to the water
already present. Now to reduce
the acid content of the pool
caused by the chlorine, soda ash
blocks are added directly to the.
water in the pool. This keeps the
pH, degree of acidity and alka
linity, between 7.2 and 7.8, and
the chlorine content between 0.4
and 1.0 parts per million. The
pool is now heated to a tempera
ture of 75 degrees F which takes
approximately three days to
obtain.
This entire process being com
pleted, the pool is now ready for
student recreation.
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