The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, August 12, 1942, Image 3

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    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942
Canal St. Firehouse Crushes Ph
Borsa Fans 11 Dells
Kickers Schedule In Initial Series Win
It was a long walk home for Phi
Infra-Squad Tit Delta Theta last night. The high
ly heralded battle bet Ween Phi
Delt power and Canal St. pitching
"The odds are with us out-of- turned itself into a one team exhi
state boys to lick those Pennsyl- bition—on the mound, at bat, and
vanians," boasted soccer Coach in the field—as Art Borsa led the
Bill Jeffrey, a native of "Old Canal St. Firehouse to an easy 18-
Smoisey" Scotland, who will play 6 triumph over Phi Delta Theta in
for the "foreigners" when the soc- the first of their three game
ber team clashes in an intra-squad series on the golf course field.
tussle on the golf course field at It was a humiliating defeat for
7:30 p. m. tomorrow. night. the fraternity champions who had
'Designed to liven up the night- slugged their way through a Sum
ly Summer soccer practices, this mer season with only a single de
game will give the booter hopefuls feat and entered - last night's fray
a chance to let loose o.lj. an intra- on no worse than even odds with
squad friendly rivalry which has the Independent title holders.
existed between the "state," and With his lucky `"Zippo" shirt
_ "out-of-state and out-of-country"
flapping in the breeze of the Phi
soccermen. Delt swingers, wetting his pitch
/ . Included in the tentative line
up for . the "State" team are
ing fingers every few throws, and
Johnny Struck, Bill Dietrich, Cap- playing to the
_crowd in true
fain Hap Freeman, Bob Schuler, •
Bucky. Newsome style, Art Borsa
lived up to his reputation in corn-
Dick Wesner, Sammy Schnure, pletely dOminating the play from
. c , Boyd Edwards, Jimmy Edwards, his position in the center of the
' Dean Hartman, Van Hartman, Doc diamond.
Underwood, Frank Klase, 'Andy
Gabler, Bob Vail and Charlie Lis- Just to make things spectacular
cher. Others who may see action Borsa opened and closed the game
are Tom Leete, and Dick Wesner. with a strike-out, with nine others
•
Scheduled to play for the out-
sandwiched in between, reaching
of-state group along with Coach
his peak in the third inning when
'Moriarta, leading off, was called
Bill, himself, are Bob Seavy, Bud
_Sempler, Bob Fallwell, Max Che-
out on a third strike, Yeagley
noweth, Bill Pritchard, Bob Fast, watched the last one go by. and
Jose Lombana, Libardo Riverie, Over closed the frame when he
Tom Williams, Speck Rojas, and went down swinging.
Remzi Gurcay. The FirehouSe also supplied .all
Referee for the game will be Al- the news on the hitting side of the
' lan Heck, injured regular full- picture. Fifteen safeties were
back. chalked up by the victors, six of
All those who will see action in them solid blows that went for
the game are candidates 'for the extra bases. Freeman and Gales
1942 varsity and freshman squads hit for the circuit with top honors
except Coach Jeffrey; Schuler, 2- going to Gales who added two doll
year All-American and now a bles to his round-tripper.
graduate' student at the College; Yeagley, pitching for the ffa-
Underwood, freshman coach; and ternity ten, got off on the wrong
Van Hartman, local alumnus, and foot in the opening inning when,
soccer coach at Allegheny Col- . after striking out the lead-off man,
lege, who saw three years of var- Freeman, he issued three straight
sity service. free trips to first ba s e. With one
down MacFarland lined to Mori
arta who held the•funners to their
bases. A walk to Gales forced in
the Firehouse's single first inning
run. Phi Delis failed to score.
• In the second Burt Crego led off
with a single to left and was ad
vanced to second on Apt's nice
bunt down the third base line
which went for a hit. For all prac
tical purposes Freeman ended
things right there when he picked
on one of Yeagley's offerings for
a mighty home run to right center
scoring three runs. -
Steidle, Phi: .Delt centerfielder
got the only hit for the losers in
the first three inriings when he
placed one over second for a sin
gle.
Cabinet Takes Stand
.on,Mixed Drinking
(Continued from Page One)
posed at last week's meeting
Should be postponed until the be
ginning of the Fall semester.
To fill the. place it would have
taken, the group approved a pro
posal that a convocation be held
Sometime this week with student
leaders representing every part of
the student body. The representa
tives will be charged to report to
students.
The committee for the .All-Col
lege convocation was instructed to
contact President Ralph D. Hetzel,
asking him to address the group
and to continue plans for the All-
College meeting next semester.
Fraternity Hell Week—
(Continued from Page One)
to many pledges. The fraternity champs rallied a
Paddling becomes more colorful bit in the closing stanzas but never
when pledges have tomatoes threatened the winner's lead. A
- Squashed and eggs in their trous- seventh inning home run clout by
ers, smashed by willing upper- Gales with MacFarland on base
classmen. ended the Firehouse merry-go-
Tarring and feathering pledges , round. Freeman, Gales and Burt
has been replaced by. molassing Crego led the Canal . St. hitting at
and feathdring them. Then after tack.
a busy day the, pledges make their The second game in the two out
k weary way to the nearest closet or of three series for the all-College
? telephone booth to sleep as best crown will be played Thursday at
they can. 6:15 D. m.
'Don't Miss The Last Round-up of the Season'
--- PRAIRIE PROM
SAT. AUG. 15
REC HALL
The Firemen kept chopping
away at Yeagley, Yeagley kept
giving out passes, ten in all, and
the Phi Delt fielders chipped in
occasionally with error's of com
mission and ommission to keen the
Canal, St. total mounting. At the
end of four frames the score read
10-1. at the end of six. 16-4.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Thomas Honored
As Captain Elect
Of Baseball Team
William "Whitey" Thomas, ace
short stop for Joe Bedenk's base
bailers, was made captain-elect
of the Nittany team for the next
season, according to Bernard A.
Plesser, Athletic Association pres
ident.
Although the position is mostly
an honorary one, since Thomas
gave up. another possible Spring
season by corning to school this
Sairimer, it is well deserved. The
tow-headed ball player performed
in nearly , every game in the last
two years, and was a big factor in
State's successful season which
ended recently. .
Managers announced by Plesser
are Bob DeCoudres, baseball man
ager, and Jack Israel, tennis man
ager. First associate baseball
managers will be Richard D. Col
lins, John F. Byrom, and W. Rob
ert Schmidt, all sophomores: Frosh
manager will be William
with Lawrence Somach as alter
nate.
Letter awards for the Lion dia
mondmen Went to Bill Sidler, sec
ond baseman; Bob Burford, out
fielder; Bob Vail, outfielder; Mike
Wardrop, pitcher; Dale Bauer, sec
ond baseman; Don Sandercock,
third baseman, and Jack Weber,
first baseman.
Working under Israel will be
Robert Hibbard, Robert Klein, and
Bernard Cohen, as tennis first as
sistants, while Robert Sallade will
perform freshman manager's du
ties.
Letters for tennis were awarded
to Jim Lawther, Bob Armbrust,
and Stan Spurgeon, with Kenneth
Cotton and Burt Green getting' as
sociate manager awards. Senior
gold awards will be received by
Bob Jordan, Bill Lundelius, and
Don Parker.
You trust its qua
CAMPUS OWLS
DANCING 9-12
Delta Theta
MI Nine Beats Freshm3n Squad,
10-4, In Error-Packed Match
Committing five errors in the knocked out of the box in the fifth
last frame of a seven-inning bat- when the Lion mentor sent Berlin
tle, the freshman baseball team out to throw against the MI nine.
gave six runs to a nine made up of MI School ab r h o a e
students from the Mineral Indus- Shreppel, c .... 3 2 0 0 2 0
tries School, losing their third Reagan, 3b .... 3 1 1 3 1 1
game in four starts by a score of Blackman, p .. 4 2 1 6 3 0
10-4, on the New Beaver Field dia- Metzger, lb .... 4 2 1 6 0 0
mond last night. Hessenberger 2b 4 2 0 2 0 0
The game was tied at 4-4 until Shaeffer, ss .. 4 1 2 0 1 3
that hectic inning. Freshman re- King, cf 4 0 0 2 0 0
lief pitcher Jack Berlin pitched -to Reede, if 4 0 0 0 0 0
ten miners without allowing, a hit, Skelly, rf 4 0 0 2 0 0
but the boys from the .MI school Totals 34 10 5 21 7 4
racked up six tallies anyhow, win- Freshmen . ab r h o a e
ning by the same margin. Stoner, rf 1 0 0 1. 0 0
Moundsman Jim Blackman of Gracey, 3b .... 3 1 1 3 1 2
the MI squad had a no-hitter until Smith, ss 2 0 0 0 1 4
the fifth when little Jerry Stern, Myers, 3b 3 1 0 3 0 2
frosh backstop, knocked a Texas- Kreidler, cf ..".. 3 0 0 I 0 0
leaguer single, which was follow- Waxman, If :... 2 0 0 2 0 0
ed up by a base hit by Berlin and Shaw, lb 2 0 0 4 0 0
another safety by a '46 "hot-cor- Landy, rf 2 0 0 11 0 0
ner" man Jack Gracey. The only Lanni, c 1 0 0 0 0 0
other hit for the yearlings came in Eisman, p 1 0 0 3 1 0
the sixth when Berlin slammed Berlin, p 2 1 2 3 0 1
one into right field. Stern, c 1 1 1 0 1 0
Coach Leo Houck started hurler Kolarik 1 0 0 0 0 0
Stan Eisman on the - mound for the Battles 1 0 0 0 0 0
first time this season, but he was Totals 25 4 4 21 4 9
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