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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.
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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.
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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.
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Seeing (and playing with) the
Philosophers when they dropped their
game against the Wreckers reminded
one of the Broadley Misfits of 1947.
Nicht wahr ? ? ? ?
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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.
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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.
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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.