WEDNESDAY, APRIL 40, 1941
Lion Nine Downed
12-9 By Colonials
In Third Defeat
Four home runs highlighted
George Washington's 12-9 victory
over the Nittany diarxiondmen on
Beaver Field yesterday after
noon.
Each, of the three Lion pitchers
who got .in the game, Chuck
Medlar, Ed Tuleya, and Bob
Robinson, was pounded for a
four bagger. Nittany first base
man Bill Debler smashed out the
other homer in the' last inning,
scoring another Lion on the hit.
The Colonials piled up a two
run lead. in the second, added
three more runs in the fourth,
and cinched the game with two
runs each in the fifth and ninth.
Debler, with three hits, and
center fielder Warren Kolke
beck, with two singles, led the
Lions 'at the plate. After the first
four innings, Bedenk's nine was
unable to chop the Colonials lead
to less than four runs.
G., W. (12) AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
Oertel, cf ....4 0 0 4 0 0
McNeil, ss ..5 1 0 1 9 0
Dowd, c 4 1 1 4 0 1
Picco, lb ....4 2 2 14 0 1
Fitzgerald, 3b 4 2. 1 0 1 0
Amendola, p. 3 2 3 0 2 0
Sokol, if ....3 1 1 0 0 0
Lusby, 2b ....5 2 3 1 2 0
Gudmd'son, rf 4 1 1 3 0 1
Totals 36 12 12 27 14 3
P.S. (8) ' AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
Ball, 3b 4 2 1 2 4 2
Kolkebeck, cf 4 2 2 2 1 0
Ebersole, rf ..2 1 0 0 1 0
\ Debler, lb ...3 1 3 13 0 0
Gates, if ....3 1 1 4 0 0
- Stauffer, c•... 1 0 0 2 0 0
Sapp, 2b ....3 1 q 2 5 0
Thomas, ss ..3 0 0 0 3. 0
Medlar, p ....1 0 0 0 2 0
Tuleya, p ....1 0 0 0 2 0
Robinson, p ..2' 0 1 0 0 0
Basista, c ....3 0 o p o o
Ruff (in 9th) 0 1 .0 0 0 0
Richardson ..1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals • 31. _9 .8... 27 18 2
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Frosh Nine Meets Kiski
On Beaver Field At 4 p.m.
Kiski Prep's baseball team
will provide the opposition on
Beaver Field at 4 p.m. today for
the Lion frosh nine's first game
of the season.
Coach Leo Houck will prob
ably start the following players:
first base, Jack Germain; second,
Fred Krug; third, Bill Sidler;
short stop, Eddie Sebastionelli;
catcher, Jim Rumberger; pitcher,
John Stover; left ' field. Max
Green; center field, John Bur
ford; and right field, John Shaf
fer.
Roethkemen Face
Gettysburg Today
Shooting fdr their second
straight win, the Nittany Lion
courtmen will play host to the
Gettysburg netmen on the var
sity courts today at 4 p.m.
Playing for the visitors against
the No. 1 Lion, Captain Mac
Weinstein, will be Bill Shumak
er. Lehigh's squad which topped
the Lions last week, 6-3, also
trounced the Bullets, 8-1.
Coach Ted Roethke plans to
use the same line-up that scored
8-1 over Pitt, Captain Weinstein
at No. 1. Sophomore Don Parker
in the two spot, Del Hughes No.
3, Chuck Bowman, fourth, Bill
Lundell& No. 5, and John Knode
No. 6.
The Lion doubles combinations
will be Weinstein and Hughes
at No. 1, followed by Parker and
Lundelius, and Bowman and
Davis. The Lions will have their
first away match Saturday when
they travel to Syracuse to meet
a strong squad of Orangemen.
Cheerleaders Report
All sophomore candidates for
cheerleading should report to
head cheerleader Walt Sottung
in front of Old Main' at 7 o'clock
every evening. '
While you're keeping
fit ... pause and
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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Between
The Lions
With PAT NAGELBERG
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We are dedicating today's col
umn to a grand coach and ten
scrappy Lion athletes who will
make this season's home debut
against a highly rated Syracuse
lacrosse team this afternoon.
We've only seen three lacrosse
games but this short introduction
to a real he-man game is enough
to make us life time addicts of
the oldest American sport in ex
istence.
While Penn State is one of the
eight charter members of the In
tercollegiate Lacrosse Associa
tion founded 28 years ago, la
crosse is still in its infancy in
this section of the country. To
the average observer scores like
Maryland 12, Penn State 3, mere
ly indicate that State has an in
ferior team but there is more
behind it than shows on the sur
face.
It took a Easter tour through
Maryland with our team to open
our eyes. Every Where you turn
ed, you saw little kids just en
tering grade school handling a
lacrosse stick like veterans. What
baseball is to a Pennsylvania boy,
lacrosse is to the typical Mary
land youngster. When one real
izes that only three State players
in the past nine years came here
with any previous knowledge of
the game, does one appreciate the
tremendous task facing Nick
Thiel and his novice squad.
Nick came here in 1933 after
winning All-American fame at
Syrcause and has devoted his
entire time to building up his
favorite sport. His teams have
never set sport writers to finding
new adjectives but they have
always held their own when op-
posed to outfits of equally meager ;>.
experience.
This year's squad is devoid of 6 : :
outstanding stars like George
Ritter and Bart Buser, both All- 'fif; .
Americans in 1940 but the stick
men's team work seems to have'::;;?
increased a great deal. Undeq.' ,
the capable tutelage of Thiel, the r;•:.
players' stick work is steadily
improving, and once they master iir .
the . fundamentals of the game
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they'll be nobody's pushover. •::
The most discouraging factor';:":'
about the lacrosse setup is the ;•
total lack of interest evinced by
the students. You can't expect V
to find a group of young athletes
playing their hearts out when the p.
grand stand is empty. The funny i.y.
thing is that most of the many !:';
rabid sport fans on the campus p
would never miss a lacrosse game . i . ..
if they ever saw one. r,
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Today's battle with the p:•
Orangemen marks the turning I.:.
point of the campaign for the '..
Lion stickmen. A little helpful
encouragement from you fans
will go a long way toward mak- !::
ing it a successful one. H
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SOFTBALL f..
Results of first round play m
independent league to date are as
follows:
Watts Hall Blues 20, Allen Co-
Op 0; Jordan Hall 23, Unit Team
2; and Nittany Co-Op 14, Ath
Hall Waiters 10.
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In the fraternity league: Chi 'if:
Phi 21, Alpha Sigma Phi 18; and
Delta Theta Sigma 24, Theta Xi
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SOCCER
Fit round
,play in fraternity p.:N
league continued this week with
three games played off. Sum
merles:
Delta Chi 1, Delta Theta Sigma
0; Alpha Chi Sigtha 3, Alpha !><?
Gamma Rho 1; and Delta Upsilon
2, Phi Kappa Sigma 0. r
Schedule of games to be played :1::•••;s:.:?•:':• , •!
today or tomorrow, according to 14:.iii.Off;A
manager Bob Beardsley are sig
ma Chi vs. Tau Phi Delta, Pi i:•wn*i::s. l ::*.z , ::•:ei'wwBlo , Y:wo*::o:*F::Wsitv•WV:k4M&EN.loWvi.'.AVA ti g,IMAAt..:':
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Va. Phi Sigma Kappa.
Nittany Stickmen Face
Syracuse Here Today
By DAVE SAMUELS
Determined to shake the losing
jinx which has dogged them in
their past three encounters, the
Lion lacrossmen will open their
1941 home campaign against a
high-scoring Syracuse ten on
New Beaver Field today at 4
o'clock.
Not only will the Nittanymen
be seeking their first victory of
the season, after .being trimmed
by top-notch opponents, but also
revenge for last year's 16-6
trouncing by the Orangemen at
Syracuse.
During the past week-and-a
half of practice, Coach Nick
Thiel has sent his Lion stickmen
through intensive drills in offen
sive plays in hopes of throttling
the high powered offense for
which the Orange-clad lacrosse
men are famous.
Convinced that his team has
come a long way since it lost to a
mighty Navy ten in its opener,
Thiel, an All-American lacrosse
man at Syracuse his senior year,
would like nothing better than
to spring an upset surprise on
his alma mater.
Beginning his seventh year as
State mentor, Thiel will renew
an old sports rivalry with his
own college coach, Roy Simmons,
whose Orangemen have downed
the Lions four times in the past
six years of the series.
Coach Thiel will probably
start the same ten today that he
used to good advantage in nearly
upsetting strong Swarthmore.
Mort Saler will be at goal, John
ny McHugh at cover point, Jim
my Gotwals at point, Bill Zieg
enfus at first defense, and vet
eran Jimmy Ritter at second de
fense.
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PAGE THREE
Veteran Al Blair, who played
so brilliantly against Swarth
more, will be at center again,
Mark Singley will be second at
tack, sophomore Bobby Koch at
first attack, Co-captain Jimmy
Riddell at in home ,and Captain
Bud Dattlebaum at out home.
Coach Thiel will again look to
Bill Ziegenfus, junior defense
man, to carry the brunt of State's
defensive attack. In all three
games this year, Ziegenfus has
been consistently outstanding as
the No. 1 defense cog in the Nit
tany machine.
Another outstanding perform
er who should come in for his
share of attention in today's con
test is goalie Mort Saler. Inac
tive during the earlier part of
the season because of an injured
knee, Saler took over the goal
tending berth in the Swarthmore
fracas and stopped several Gar
net scoring attempts.
Three reserve center fielders
will also be utilized by Coach
Thiel against the Orange. Wayne
Bitner, Bob Thorpe, and Charlie
Lockwood will all see action as
center field replacements.
In their last appearance on
New Beaver Field, two years ago,
a highly-touted Syracuse lacrosse
team was nipped 10-7 by the un
derdog Lions who 'managed to
throttle the powerful Orange of
fensive attack.
Two Syracuse boys, members
of the 1940 North All-Star La
crosse Team, from whom Thiel
expects terrific headaches are
Orangemen Rich, inside attack
man, and DeJohn, outstanding
center fielder.
"If the boys did as well as they
did against Swarthmore," com
mented Coach Thiel last night,
"I'll be satisfied."
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