The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, June 23, 1942, Image 3

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942
Lion Baseballers
Open Home Card;
Split With Colgate
0 Penn State's baseball lads are
•looking to their first home game
,
•of the wartime 'Summer schedule
Saturday after returning from a
weekend visit at Hamilton, N. Y.,
'where the Lion nine split with
'Colgate, losing 10-6 Friday and
'coming back to take Saturday's
*fray, 4-2.
• Washington and Jefferson Uni
versity will appear on the Blue
and White card for the first time
'this season when the Presidents
play on the New Beaver field dia
mond Saturday afternoon. '
• Warren "Whitey" Pyer, who
hurled mostly in relief roles last
- season, held the Red Raiders to
'four hits as he went the full dis
,tance on the mound in the second
contest. Penn State's record with
'Colgate this season shows two
wins and a pair of losses.
' Trailing 2-0 going into the fifth
'frame, . the Bedenkmen pushed
three runs across without a hit,
•then added another in the seventh.
Pyer held the 'Raiders hitless af
•ter the fifth, and retired the last
14 men without letting them get
to first base.
The Canal Street Firehouse
mushball squad, who dominated
the Independent League for four
Tuesday years until defeated last week by
5' P. m. the Electric Diner, will meet the
Alpha Sigma Phi vs. Delta Chi league-leading Mathis at 7 p. m. to-
Phi Delta Theta vs. Delta Sigma night. Matils are sporting a re-
Phi cord of four wins against no set-
Beta Theta Pi vs.. Alpha Chi backs, and a victory for the Fire-
Sigma house lads will throw the two
7 p• m• teams into a deadlock for first
Canal Street Firehouse vs. Ma- place.
til's • Six Fraternity League teams
Jordan Hall vS. Miller Club waged battle last evening in three
Wednesday • lop-sided games that saw Delta
5 p. m. Upsilon trample Delta Chi, 11 to 4;
Theta Chi vs. Sigma Nu Tau Kappa Epsilon walk over
Delta Sigma Phi vs. Phi Kappa Kappa Delta Rho, 17 to 10; and
Psi Sigma Alpha Epsilon smother Al
-7 n. m. • pha Chi Rho, 15 to 1.
Watts Hall vs. Penn State Club Behind the 7 hit pitching of
Canal Street Firehouse vs. Jor- ~8 , ,,
ig Mike Kerns, the DU squad
dari Hall worked methodically against Del-
Thursday to Chi, scoring in every inning
5 p. m. against Bates, who was charged
Gamma Sigma Phi vs. Tau Kap- with the defeat.
pa Epsilon KDR and TKE scored at least
Pi Lambda Phi-vs. Kappa Delta a run an inning during the seven'
Rho frames of their game. KDR's de
-7 p• m. feat can be attributed to loose
Irvin Hall vs. Miller Club fielding, as they garnered 13 hits
Alpha Chi RhO vs. Beta Theta to only 14 for the victors.
P 1
. It was a case of too much Cruik
. Electric Diner vs. Matils shank for the AXP boys• as the
Friday • SAE's star moundsman limited
5 p. m. them to 7 well scattered hits. Ni-
Alpha Chi Sigmavs. Phi Sigma coden, AXP slabman, wasn't so
Kappa ' - lucky, as the winners nicked him
Beaver House vs. Sigma Alpha for 11 hits that developed into i 5
.
Slop Lions, .6-3 Epsilon 7
P. PI. runs.
Competition was limited to fra-
Beta .Sigma Rho vs. Delta Upsi
ternity' teams in Saturday's en-
Grabbing five of six singles lon counters. A sensational 3-hit
matches and one doubles, Colgate Sigma Phi Alpha vs. Phi Kappa pitching job by Fredman, Beta
University's varsity tennis team Psi Sigma Rho •pitcher, paved the way
stopped a stubborn Lion squad by for his team's 7 to 3 victory over
.a 6-3 score on the former's courts— Phi Kappa Sigma. , Another 3-hit
Saturday. ' Blackout Plans pitching masterpiece was turned in
'Sophomore Jim Lawther, play- . a ' - ' :. • • • by Lyon's, on the mound for Delta
Mg his first match as a member. Reach Final Stage . Sigma Phi, as his team turned
of the Lion varsity, topped Mar- .back Sigma Phi Alpha, 12 to 3.
tin of Colgate, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, for the (Continued from Page One) - Again, in the third Saturday
cmly Lion singles victory. pleted through the College switch- game, it was the prowess of the
Confirming his fine display of board during the, dimout except pitcher that decided the victory.
tennis in the doubles, Lawther actual emergency calls. Bendetto.chalked up a five hit jdb
teamed with Dick Armbrust, an- Civilian Defense Corp workers as his teammates from Alpha Phi
. other sophomore newcomer, to will be on duty all night at their Delta marked up a9to 5 victory
topple Colgate's Harkins and Ta- posts. During the dimout skele- over Phi Lambda Pi
bor, 7-5, 6-3. ton crews will maintain the posts.
In - singles, Cy Hull, State's num- When the total bla'ckout is signal
' ber one man, was defeated by led, the Control Centers in Old
'Kendall, 6-2, 7-5. Herb Kray- Main and the Borough Hall will
bill, State's other veteran from be in charge of all-facilities in the
' last season, gave Babcock of Col- community, and the rules of the
'gate a stiff battle at the number Defense Council will be in oper
two Position but fell short by 3-6, ation.
• 6-4, 4-6 scores. Col. J. H. M. Andrews, trustee
e, Armbrust dropped a close one of the College, who is in charge
to Frick of Colgate who lost the of the Philadelphia District Con
'initial ,set to the Lion
. newcomer, trol Center that operates over an
- 7-9, but rallied to carry the second area of five counties in the me
and third, 6-4, 6-4. 'Hal Benja- tropolitan area, recently Inspected
• min, another Sophomore, lost to - the College's setup in Old 'Main.
Harkins of Colgate, 1-6, 2-6, and Colonel Andrews' told George W.
• Stan Spurgeon dropped 'his initial 'Ebert, head of the committee on
match to Waterhouse, '4-6, 2-6. protection, that the College's Con
. Spurgeon and Dan Moses team- • troCCeriter is better" than those he
ed to down. Colgatehs Peyser and has seen. anywhere. a
'Parsons by.:6-4,' 19-8 scores. Hull . The Civilian Defense Corp and
and Kraybill were halted by Ken- the Confrel Center setup in State
dail and Martin, 6-3, 5-4, 6-3, for College were alai:. complimented
Penn State's only doubles defeat. by COL Ralph Mitchell, of the U.
S. Army, who is state director of
District Five•
IState'•s four hits were collected
by Ed Tuleya, Bob Perugini, Dale
Bower, and Whitey Thomas. Four
sophomores broke into the lineup,
including Bower, Don Sandercock,
Bob Bennett, and Jack Weber.
Raider Netmen
BUY mgrENSE STAMPS
Opening—June 24th
The Evergreen Swimming Pool
Swimming Every Afternoon 1.5 P. M.
Admission (Including Tax) Season Tickets
Adults 25c 111, Adults $3.00 plus 30c tax
Children (under 12) 10c Children . . . . $2.00 plus 20c tax
.1 1 / 2 Miles from Co-op Corner East on Route 45
(Pennsylvania Bureau of Health License No. 402)
Canal Street Challenges
Unbeaten Matils Tonight
IVlushbull
Schedule
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
3 Lop-Sided Games
Mark Fraternity Play
IM Mushball
Standings
INDEPENDENT LEAGUE
W. L. Pct.
Matils 4 0 1.000
Electric Diner 3 1. .750 .
Canal St. Firehouse 3 1. .750
Jordan Hall 3 1 .750
Irvin Hall - 2
2 .500
Watts Hall 1 3 .250
Miller Club 0 4 .000
Penn State Club .. 0. 4 .000
Due .to numerous cancellations
and • postponements due to ad
verse weather conditions and rush
ing; fraternity standings and per
centages are not as yet available.
The Daily Collegian will carry all
standings every night as soon as
they are compiled.
Colgate, 3 and 2; Charles Feur-
RECRUIT Hard hitting of Tony bach, Colgate, defeated Bill Smil-
Criscola, recruit outfielder from ey, PS, 5 and 4. Penn State won
Toledo, has won him a regular best ball, 1 up. •
belith in the St. Louis Brown's Charles McClay, PS, knocked
lineup but his slugging was not off Bob Sweeney, Colgate, 1 up;
enough to prevent the Brownies Jim McCormick, PS, and Bill
froth being the only major league Ward, Colgate, split their match.
team to lose both ends in. Sunday's Penn State won best ball, 3 and 1.
double headers. Co-captain 'Swan captured the
honors in medals scores when he
posted a par 69 for the Colgate
course. Fairchild turned in a 71.
Frosh Baseball Call
A call for freshman baseball Coach Bob Rutherford's . golfers
candidates has been issued by Leo made this the first victory on the
Houck, freshman baseball coach. Summer schedule. Five more
Candidates are requested to report games are lined up for the warm
to Beaver Field at 4 p. m. Though weather, -all of them on a home
no definite schedule has as yet and home basis. Lack of intercol
been arranged, Coach Houck legiate competition is due to the
stressed the need for freshman fact that not too many schools are
hurlers. - having Summer semesters.
Dean's List Addition
Gunther Conn, mechanical en- Cards for all freshmen exempt
gineer with a • 2.7 average, was ed from wearing customs by Stu
omitted in the Dean's list previous- dent Tribunal are available' at Stu
ly published. dent Union.
PAGE -THREE
Golfers Win Bth
Match Of Season
Nittany Lion golfers again came
through to keep the record of the
'42 golf team unblemished except
for one loss to Yale, as they de
feated Colgate's Red Raiders Sat
urday to the tune of 51/ 2 -3 1 / 2 on
• the Colgate course at Hamilton,
N. Y.
The squad that beat Colgate is
quite different from the one that
played its way into the champion
ships in the East during the
Spring season. This is the eighth
game since the linksmen went into
action last April against West Vir
ginia.
Led by Co-captain Bill "Ducky"
Swan, Ed Fairchild, and a new
comer, Charlie McClay, who won
their matches, the Lions took Col
gate's measure. Jim McCormick,
a sophomore and another new
comer, won a split to give Penn
State the extra half-point.
Co-captain Dipk Stephens lost
his first match of the year when
Bill Burke of Colgate defeated
him, 3 and 2. Burke has been
playing the Hamilton, N. Y. course
since he was a kid, being a resi
dent of that town.
Swan defeated Earl Hamilton,
Colgate, 3 and 2. Colgate won
best ball, 1 up, 20 holes. Ed Fair
child, PS, took over .Bill Bogle,
Exemption Cards Ready