7WREcKERs,-To . MEET _ , IpuT4ANs . THIS -TUESDAY RALPH KRECKER - his boys, will play FRANK LUCIA - to manage Outlaws Prof Ralph Krecker's Wreckers, currently tied for first place in the HUC Softball League, will clash with the powerful Swamp Outlaws at Eurana Park, Weatherly, on Tuesday for the league championship With Jimmy Longo slated to take the mound for the Wreckers, Mr. Krecker's proteges are expected to be at full strength for the title con test. Frank Lucia will most likely send Tom Shuptar to the hill to si lence the opposition's booming bats. Both the Swamp Outlaws and the Wreckers have been leading in the regular loop season and this, game has been called as a,-close con test. The batting power of the squads have pushed aside all major oppon ents in the games which were staged at the City Playgrounds during the past month. HA,Z_LETONI COLLEGIAN tillG SPORTS SPORTSTUFF By LEON•BADEN- We had quite a bit of explaining to do when we picked , Boston to finish the National League campaign in seventh place Many HUC fans believe : that SAIN and SPAHN are going to pitch the Beantowners into the first division, but we doubt it.. . The home-run clouting New Yorlc Giants are ,surprising everybody, with their stellar play this season The New. Yorkers are so jam-,packed with power that SID GORDON, who is hitting well above the .300 mark, is riding - the bench . . . A few more good pitchers and the Giants would be hard to keep out of the running. * * * .* Attention, HUGH CLOSE ! ! ! ! TED SEPKOWSKI, who was up with the Cleveland Indians for a while and was traded in= a deal with the Yankees involving RED EMBREE, is now playing right field for the Newark Bears of the International LeagUe. * * * AL "BUSHY" DURBACK, a for mer HUC basketballer, who left town in April to try out with Red Springs, N. C., is back in town nursing an -injury-in-his throwing arm .... Al says that he will return fo the •club if and when the wing whips back into shape .... BERNIE NARROW has won the HUC ping-pong title by de feating Basketball Captain JOHN RILEY in the finals. Softball fans will be in for a treat when they see the HUC Softball League finals at Weatherly on May 18 . . . . It is a good bet that the Swamp Outlaws will face Krecker's Wreckers in the title •contest . . . . JIMMY LONGO, ace hurler for the Wreckers, will be out to avenge:the setback that TOM SHUPTAR & CO. handed him some time ago. * * * Seeing (and playing with) the Philosophers when they dropped their game against the Wreckers reminded one of the Broadley Misfits of 1947. Nicht wahr ? ? ? ? * * * JOHNNY APICHELLA, ex-HUC eager now at the main campus, will desert the ranks of the bachelors next month, according to latest re ports .... We want to join Johnny's many friends in wishing him all the luck 'and happiness possible. * * * Talking- abOut- sports, we know a student who could easily qualify for the Penn' State X-Country team .... STAN REESE, a student at HUC, was Pictured - on the sports page of The Plain Speaker in an Anthracite League game some time ago. Anglers Report On 1948 Crop Of Big Stories I went to, the Fishermen's wharf— .l liked the mackekrel fine, but I, didn't like the smelt. You don't know your grammar." You don't know the Fishermen's Wharf, either! So goes niany, of the stories which have come from scores of Hazleton college fishermen who say they, like fish, will live in schools all their lives—since the angling season has started. And the group from the North side quartette, who like music with everything, go best for the piano tuna. Stanley Sitoski, when interviewed about his 1948 fishing, stated that his fishing and education are natural 'ly thrown - together. He ha's"' learned in Zo that fish . swim baclwards to keep the water out of their eyes so they can sea. . , Most of the boys. admitted that most of the stories told by Frank Kostos were hard to believe es pecially about the fish he caught, which was aristocratic: It was the one that swam under the Mayflower. Getting seri4s_ for a - moment, T. Sandra began tQ expound the theory of cruelty to, the lower animal world, during a recent , teller discussion. But Charlie Quay failed to see the point and insisted that the fish were happy to be caught. "Don't they wag their tails at me, when I sit along the stream?" he queried. So what's the problem? was his parting thought. Angler Bernie Carr reported on his recent trip to the riverside. He said that he got "plenty of right shoes but the left shoes weren't biting at all." "Fishing is a good excuse for getting out of school," claims Bill Moraski; "All I do is drown worms.", WOMEN READY FOR GAME SAT. The members of the Women's Baseball Team have been practicing regularly the past two weeks in pre paration for a game to be played with Marywood College tomorrow. The •crew has been using the field at Hazle and Elm streets, the site of the old Hazle Street elementary school, for the work-outs. The HUC girls have jcarried on an expanded athletic program this year with a close •competition being built up be tiveen the locals and the Marywood collegiates,, especially. Hdr boy friend calls her Bacon, because someone is always trying to bring her home. ~T _ ~`.~ .. ~_ ~~ Olympics Prospect Stanford . University's swiftest, sweetest swimmer is Brenda Heiser, a California girl who's a natural for an Olympic team selection. Brenda specializes in 100 and 200 meter free style trials, and has..-set an American record for the 100 meter event. Posed here beside the beckoning blue the California maiden is a perfect subject for the sporting cameraman. RANDOM RAMBLINGS It's nice to see the Philadelphia Athletics leading the American league, but it is this scribe's hunch that the A's will not be at the top of the heap come June 15. . . At the present time, Connie Mack is getting both fine hitting and excellent pitch ing; however,- veteran sports- experts claim that, the stickwork of the Mack men will fall off when hot weather approaches and that the law of aver ages will finally catch , up with the team relegated to second division by baseball. experts in pre-season pre dictions. . . Ping. Pong Champion Bernie Narrow was crowned the 1947-48 ping-gong champion when he defeated Johnny Riley at the YMCA rooms during the past week. In the semi-finals Narrow won over Jimmy Howells, and Torn Shup tar bowed to. Riley.
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