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PIAA Tourneys
Start Today
:Pennsylvania's youth-500
strong—swarm down onto the
campus this morning,* as the
Pennsylvania Interscholastic
Athletic Association opens
their 1944 tourneys in , golf,
tennis and track. Nearly 500
additional fans, coaches, 'and
trainers are expected to ac
e3rnpany the State's athletic corps.
Colt competition will ge under
way at 10 o'clock this morning,
with 25 high school golfers teeing
oft on their 54 holes of match play.
.C.ll, , mpionship playotTs will con
tinue this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Tomorrow morning the finalists
wii Swing down the fairway at 9
'o'clock to decide winners in the
individual match competition.
Harvey Orth, Lewistown, who
last year won the title on the 69-
'par course with a total of 222
strokes is not returning this year
to_defend his crown.
Tennis. traditionally the smallest
field, will bring 15 netmen froiv
eleven high schools out onto the
varsity courts today at 10 and 2
o'clock today, while champion
ships will be played tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock.
Paced by Pittsburgh schools in
Class A track competition, 300
crack runners and field men will
fight for the Pennsylvania tourney
crowns against favored Upper
Darby and Altoona entries. While
these 300 men battle for Class A
glory, another 150 athletes will be
lighting for Class B laurels on thel
cinderpaths.
Only holdovers among individu
al champs are Neil Pratt, Erie
Str•^ng Vincent miler, and Jack
Senor, C►.mnellsville half-miler. All
other events are wide open in
the 1944 competition.
Preliminaries will begin on New
Beaver Field tracks at 9 a.m. to
morrow morning for the track
sters, and finalists will meet for
the diadems at 2 o'clock that af
ternoon.
• State College High School, de
fending champ team from District
6, will enter four men in the track
tourney.
Beaver .House Wins
4 Straight Games
Beaver House defeated Nittany
Co-op 8-6 Monday to take undis
puted possession of first place in
the Independent Softball League.
:Mattils Lost 6-5 to the Pioneer
House this week to drop out of a
two-way tie for first place with
the Beaver House.
In other League games Penn
Haven beat the Lutherans 10-5
and the Penn State Club downed
Fletchers 6-4.
Games slated for today follow:
Allen Co-op vs. Penn State Club,
Nittany Co-op vs. Penn Haven,
Fletcher ; vs. Pioneer House, Mat
tils vs. Lutherans, and Beaver
House bye.
Monday's contests are: Beaver
House vs. Penn Haven, Allen Co
op P:oneer House, Mattils vs.
Nitlimy Co-op, Fietchers vs.
Lut:let•ans, and. Penn State Club
bye.
Hold That Court!
Tennis court checkers will
be in the booth across from
Roc Hall every afternoon, in
aiding Sunday, from . 1-5 p.m.
AH persons wishing to use the
courts must reserve their play
ing' time through this checker.
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BIG MIRE Wardrop 3 t)-
mound Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, as the Nittany Lion team
honor exactly. 62 years of intercollegiate competition. In. 1802,
the Penn State nine opened their career against the same scliool
that comes to Mount Nittany next week. Hurler
. Wardrop is un
defeated this season, with wins over SWarthmore and Pitt.: In
above picture, Dale Bower, right, star batter on the I..ion,nbie.
is trying to keep his .400 average intact.
Stenger- eyer Tennis Pair
Seeks in Continuation
Blanking the opposition in their
last two starts,, Coach Ray Dick
ison's tennis team has high hopes
of continuing the string against
the Bucknell netmen on the var
sity courts tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.
After a. one-year lapse tennis
has been restored as an active
sport on the Bison's intercolleg
iate athletic program.
One of the stars of this year's
team is Frank Haas, HarriSburg,
who, along with Ed Meyer and
Eob Rossheim of the Nittany
squad, earned a high ranking
among the Middle Atlantic ama
teur scholastic players of last sea
son.
Bill Hoeveler, whom Blue and
White fans will remember as high
scorer for the Bisons as they
broke the Rec Hall streak of the
Lion basketball team last winter,
will probably play in the number
two singles spot for the visitors.
Charle Ogg of Briarcliff Manor,
N. Y. is , another player for the
Thundering Herd. Haas and Ogg
are freshmen, while Hoeveler is
a marine private in the Navy V
-12 Unit at Bucknell.
On The Win Trail
After early season losses to
Swarthmore and Cornell, the Lion
rtetmen picked up a win against
Colgate, then blanked Muhlen
burg and Pitt in their last two
outings.
Two members of the squad
have personal victory strings to
defend. Walt Stenger is unbeaten
ia five straight matches, and Ed
Meyer boasts four in a row.
The line-up for tomorrow's tus
s!e with the Bucknellians will
probably remain unchanged from
the starting six against Pitt.
Stenger and Meyer will play one
and two respectively, and Bob
Tuttle will take on the number
three singles player of the Herd.
Ed Perry, Bob Rossheim and
Herb Beckherd will play the re
maining singles matches unless
late eliminations during the, prac
tice sessions alter the prediction.
Coach Dickison has been shift
big the doubles combinations of
late, seeking the three best poss
ible combinations. Indications are
THE COLLEGIAN
ASTP Ping-Pong Ace
Wins Ail-College Title
Pvt. Larry Rothstein, ASTP
trainee, defeated Dick Booser in
flur straight games to win the
All=College Table Tennis Tour
nament in 401 Old Main, Monday.
The victor beat Booser, a grad
uate student, 21-13, 21-18, 21-18,
and 21-18 to take the champion
ship. Pvt. Rothstein, one of New
York City's top ranking table ten
nis players, faced Louis Pagliaro,
national titleholder, a number of
tkmes before entering the service.
Pvt. Rothstein defeated Pvt.
Len Lovitz and Booser overcame
Robert Gruver in the semi-finals
to enter the final round.
AWards will be made' to .the
finalists by the Penn State Club,
sponsorer 'of the tournament, at
the ISC• dance June 10. Pvt.
Rothstein will receive a gold key
and the runner-up a silver key.
The women's championship .wa s
decided recently also. Irene Wies
enfeld took three games from
Bernice Fineberg to win the
crown. Miss Wiesenfeld will be
given a gold key at the dance
also.
Former Soccer Manager
Dies Aboard IST Craft
A. C. Unger, former soccer
manager on the Nittany Lion
Looting team, has been killed in
af!tion aboard an LST in the Pa
cific area, it was announced this
week by the Navy Department.
Unger entered the Navy in 1943,
and
. served overseas for two
months prior to his death. He was
rated as a petty officer.
While at Penn State, he was a
member of Phi Epsition Pi fra
ternity,
that Stenger and Meyer will team
up in the first double s slot, while
Tuttle and Perry, and Rossheim.
and Beckhard combine in the
second and third combination
matches.
62 Years On b iamond
arks Over Half Century
01 Collegiate Competition
Big Mike Wardrop will hurl Penn State's anniversary
game here Tuesday afternoon, as the Lions mark their 62nd
year of intercollegiate competition by meeting Bucknell, the
nine which succumbed to the first Nittany baseball squad
in 1882.
Since the inaugural date over a half century ago,. the Bi- .
sons and Lions have. tangled 42 times, Penn State topping
the win record -with 28 tri
umphs. Early records show
that the Nittany batters were
playing organized ball in 1875, but
the Bucknell tilt seven years
later was the first inter-college
game..
It was eleven years later, how
ever, before Penn State played a
predominate college schedule. In
1912 Walter Manning was named
first coach, and served for two
years before he was succeeded by
Dick Harley..
Hugo Bezdek, one-time mana
ger of the Pittsburgh Pirates took
over the Nittany team at the start
of he '2o's, and was relieved of
his duties in' 1931 when assistant
coach Joe Bedenk stepped into
the' bossing job.
• Bedenk had played football and
baseball under the tutelage of Bez
dek, attaining all-American rating
on the gridiron in 1923. Upon
graduation he coached both sports
at Rice Institute, Texas, ,and the
University of Florida t efore com
ing back to State College in 1929.
Triple Winner?
Wardrop will be striving for his
own record in. the Memorial Day
tilt on New Beaver Field next
week, attempting to stretch his
win streak to three. An early sea
son victory was chalked up over
Swarthmore, and the latest nod
was edged over Pittsburgh in Pitt
Stadium last week.
Engineering Obstacle
Bedenk will use Joe Golem
beske in his pitching role against
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Keeler's
Cathaum Theatre Building
Lehigh toworrow to start the
weekend hostilities. Golembeske
whipped the Engineers in the first
home game of the year early this
month, as he shut out his oppo
nents, 3-0.
Pvt. Wee Willie Proctor is slat
ed for mound duty Saturday in
Allentown. Proctor beat Pitt 16-6
in the free-scoring, error-marked
contest several weeks ago, and
lost the season's opener to Navy,
5-3.
Ed Holler, marking time by the
hour as he awaits immediate call
to active duty from the Navy, will
be behind the plate for all three
contests during the next three
days.
The remainder of the squad will
remain the same, according to,
Bedenk i . providing no last minute
shuffles are encountered frim V-12
headquarters.
SPA Goes info Lead
In IF Softball Circuit
Sigma Phi Alpha has taken the
lead in the Interfraternity Soft--
ball League with three wins and
one loss, Martin Sadock, league
chairman, announced today.
Four teams are tied for second
place with two victories and one
defeat. They are Beta Sigma Rho,
Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa, and
Phi Sigma Delta.
All the contests scheduled for
thi s week were postponed be
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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1944