Niff any Basebaliers Meet Villanova; Lacrossemen Open Spring Season Nick Thiel Returns To Direct Stickmen i Penn State’s home Spring sports season opens this afternoon at 3 .o’clock when the Nittany lacrosse team opposes Johns Hopkins Uni versity on’New Beaver Field. : The Penn State squad is at full strength for the tiff including Coach Nick Thiel, who arrived on •campus Thursday 'after a short course in Alabama to prepare the 'Lion 'mentor to .train Air Corps ’men. ' With nine iettermeri back, the team this year will be an expert -encedsquad." Sammy Flenner, Tom ‘Mitchell' arid . Mike Milliken will •make up the forward line while Larry Faries, Jim Gotwals, and Pittenger will hold down •the' starting midfield positions. Of these , six, Milliken, a sophomore, is .the only untried player. Captain •Jim- Gotwals and Tom Mitchell •played on the All-North squad of last season. pn the back line, the starters •named by Thiel at the end of yes terday’s stiff practice session are -Howie Hausner, Bill Briner, and Hockey Kern. The goalie, Bill Hol lenbach,' a Soph, has shown up well in practice and should dis .play - some' fancy netminding in .’this afternoon’s battle. ! In the line of reserves, Thiel has Charlie Lockwood and Bill Piper, who will see action on the attack, ! and Wayne Bitner, Bert Sessler, Dale Hamilton, and Dick Boss to fill in midfield spots; Jim "Walker 'will probably ’ handle, the stick •' aga'irifct the Maryland tekriToh' the •defense. " , ; Durhig Thiel’s, absence, A 1 Simp r son,,.,jvho .played : on the ...varsity Blue arid.Mihite squad iri 1939.. and; ~1937<. aided ,by,-.Gotwals and Mitch? :jell,' have vbeen' .putting- the ' squad through-'its paces, :'r[ Johns. iiQpkins held the National Tjdcrosse .Championship .'during, the 'season of 1940 arid 1941 but drop ped it ;last year to Princeton. Last -year’s, scores against Penn State were 10-0 and 10-7 in favor of the Maryland team. Forming the nucleus of this : year.’s Johns Hopkins edition are foitr , All-Americans, Captain ' George Riepe and Buddy Kaestner, i defense; and Tom Zink and Henley Guild, midfield. They were all se lected for the 1942 All-American . lacrosse team. Other returning lettermen are George Thomas, defense; Midfield ers Jim Kuller and Russ Klingen . meier; and Goalie Warren Alons. i'' , f 1/5/9 12/29 "Since the war production drive l gotta do the loafing for the whole family." Penn .State's baseball team entrained last night for Villanova where they will pry open the lid of the away spring sports season .this afternoon After the game at Villanova, the diamond team lays over in Philadelphia Sunday, then leaves on q short jaunt down to Annapolis to battle the Middies in a single contest Monday afternoon. Both Squads Tough According to Lion Coach, Joe Bedenk, both squads will be. plenty tough for the untried Nittany baseballers. The Villanova team is nearly an identical edition as the squad they put on the field last year and will have a distinct edge in experience. iiiiiiimiimiiimmiiiimiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiit Another Season v **«; .» •* , * % ■spsKSsSsSESRSik * •^1:1111^^111! \ : : ; .v:v: ; : : :;: : : : :;: : : : : : : : A : : : i^:y:<^: : : : : : : : :-: : <: : :v:v:v:^v:x‘x Coach Joe Bedenk, Lion base- choice to start the second game ball mentor, will lead his diamond nm may see relief work in the in nine' against a strong Villanova itial . encounter. squad, this afternoon on the Catho- Jn , the Lion iofie ld MarteUa and ' Captain Whitey Thomas are the Bide and. White will then move to * men who have seen - previous rSn er^ ag ® ment £> th • action. Martella played varsity noon Pme?l: ay ball-last . spring while Thomas: flimillllHilltlHlUliHmilillHmillllllltllHlUlllllllHlUHl : .jyhiie jfieikißyrfdrd. arid‘ Jake cover"the" center 'and v ieit "field gardens. ' . Previously scheduled by the Nittanymen for season openers, Dick inson and -Western Maryland were dropped from the schedule when it-was-impossible for them -to make arrangements to travel to Penn State The Colgae Bed Raiders and the. Cadets from West Point also had. games on the card that had to be rubbed out for wartime reasons. Coach Morrill also. ha§ four fine prospects who played high school varsity in the Baltimore school system. Tommy Price and Bob Tate played midfield lor Friends and Forest Park High Schools while. Dick Bernard and Norvell Miller were both goalies, playing ball for Boy’s Latin and McDonogh High Schools. - • » \ * A ■ THB DAILY COLLEGIAN 11l The Navy sailors have won one tilt so far this season, walloping Penn’s Red and Blue to the tune ot 12-2. Early this week they lost a close one to the Washington Senators major league club 10-7. The State batting order and line-up: , Jakie Flowers . Eddie Sebasiianelli. second base Dale Bowers right iield Chuck McFarland... .iirst base Jack Burford center iield Oggie Martella catcher Whitey Thomas shortstop Gene Sutherland. . . .third base Johnny Stover pitcher Nineteen players will make the extended trip, including Mike Wardrop, Ken Yount, Joe Golem besloi and Sparky Brown, pit chers; two catchers, Henry Lasch and' Joe Paperelli; and utility in fielders, Johnny Sylvester and Bitting in addition to the start ing nine. Mike Wardrop is Bedenk’s Every branch -Five -thousand .rqiles fromdrome «BiU Torpedoman iskeeping..a date.: Weeks .of -of hours ofhiding. under che. sea,- all. for .the when he reports overihis wartime telephone, U-'All tubes ready, sir!" There! U.be.othcr datesi BiUrr-betterxmes-winithetkindvof.workl'you're'ifigfatitig'fot. FOR-OWf left field THESPIANS Present KHAKI-WAAC-Y Featuring \ . .. % THREE -STOOGES ' • JANE rABBAMSON # ADELE YABLIN mmmu - *®dmk : SCHWAB AUD. 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