PAGE SIX Ninny Nine Opens Season With Olmstead Loaded with power at the plate but still weak in pitching, Coach Joe Bedenk's 1946 edition or the varsity baseball team wil receive Its first real test of the season tomorrow afternoon when it faces the Olin stead Field Flyers in a exhibition gaine at Middletoi,vn. When the "Ump" cries "Play Ball!" Ken Yount will take the mound for the Bedenkrnen foe the first time in his college carere. An outfielder when he played for State in '43, Yount has been switched to .the pitching staff this season and has developed into Coach Bedenk's choice as starting pitcher. Battery-mate for Yount will be big Orient "Ogie" Martella. Mar tella, who was a first string pitch er as well as a varsity boxer be fore the war, will give the Lions added power at the plate; Bedenk was uncertain as to his starting outfield when contacted last night. Joe Tepsic, who also doubles. at football, will start in left field; Either Harold Hack man or Pete Berletic will draw the centerfield assignment while the choice for right field will be either Fred Bell, or Joe Leith. Experienced Infield The infield lineup is set. Chuck McFarland will be at first, the-po sition he played before the war. Ray "Whitey" Kurowski back from '44 has drawn the second base berth. Dan "Hoppy" Hopkins, back from last year; will play shortstop. Rounding out the in Thiel Leads Lacrossemen I n 12th Season By JERRY TRUMPER "Experience. is essential to be come a good lacrosse player," says State's stick mentor, Glenn N. Thiel, Who started to play the "old Indian game" on an organ ized team when he was only nine. " "To be an outstanding lacrose man you have to be a good stick handler, and that takes. years of play," asserts Nick who made All-Ahlericans out .of inexper ienced Penn State stickmen.. • • Prospects Better "The prospects of ',the coming season are much better than they have been for the past two years. However, the •schedule this spring is much more ambitious than any we - have played since the war be gan," stated Nick when asked, how the team would look against the opposition on the ten game schedule. Coach Thiel's ,playing exper.l. ience was highlighted when at Syracuse . High School the lacrosse team remained undefeated in five years of interscholastic competi tion. Syracuse. High School was then the outstanding lacrosse school in the country. Thiel went to college in his home town at the University of Syracuse and made the fresh Man lacrosse team. • Playing varsity ball for the next three years he, was named on the lacrosse All- American team. After graduating from college he remained at Syr.- aCuse as assistant lacrosse coach in the spring of 1934. In the fall of 1934, Nick came to Penn State to become head lacrosse coach. He was coach of vAm‘ A Magazines—Candy Tobacco field will be Gene Sutherland at third. Four other pitchers in addition to Yount will make the Middle town trip. They are Don Miller, Jack Weber, Hal Wausat and Jack Boykin. Stetler Out for Season Elwood Stetler, returning cen ter fielder from last year's team, and one of the best prospects this years, was lost to the team for the season when he broke his ankle. One of the top teams in the Harrisburg Baseball League, the Olmstead Flyers boast several ex professional players and will af ford• Bedemk a chance to see his regulars under fire before the first game of the intercollegiate sea son begins. State opens with La fayette here April 12. IMA Softball . . . teams that wish to join the Independent league. should notify Alex Kotch, 2210„ before Saturday, April 6. • Coaches Thiel and Ameel the freshman basketball team in the pre-war years of freshmen athletics and has been in change of all required physical education for men students at the College for the past 10 years, Receives. Award The coach is regarded as one of the most important men in la crosse today and was honored by the U. S. Intercollegiate La crosse Association when he re ceived the award for the person that has done the most for la crosse for the year 1945. • For the past two years he has been President Of the U. S. La crosse Coaches' association, an affiliated organization of the UISICLA. Nick publishes a news letter for the Lacrosse Association THE COLLEGIAN Trackmen Run' Time Trials Penn State's "unknown quant ity" track squad will be put to the test for the first time this season at Now Beaver Field, 3 p.m., tomorrow, when time trials will be held. Track performers who have shown the most promise of wear ing the Blue and White in meets this season are: sprints, George Policastro, Bob Kreitzer, Francis Deutschle, and Fred Kretzer;, low hurdles, Fred DeLauter, Al Spin ner, Dick Dottermush, an d George Cleveland; high hurdles, Earl Brown, Chuck Maier, Har old Gundell, and Frank Cowley; 440-yard run, Bill Shuman, John Gray, and Don Harris. 880-yard run, Jack Stephenson; Warren Steulbing, and Rufus Wil liams;' mile run, Harold Dixon, Mitchell. Williams, Bob Auman, and George Rhoad; two-mile run s John MoC'all, Dick Gray, and Bob Keagy; broad jump, Chuck Will ing, Charlie Krug, Jim Sykes, and Earl Brown. Pole vault, Wiling, George 'Willigus, and Brown; high. jump, Sykes, Bill Reynolds, Jim Holz inger, and Brawn; shot put, Krug, Danny Pearson, and Mike Gar binski; discus, Pearson, Garbin ' ski, and Bill Turner; and jave lin, Gino . Taccalozzi,, Wally Chambers, Charles Gibes, and Larry Gerwig. Penn State opens the 1946 track season on April 26 when they compete in the annual Penn Re lays at Franklin Field, Philadel phia. six times _ during the active sea son. Paul Ameei, graduating senior, has been assisting Coach Thiel these past two seasons. Paul is. an ex-siVrarine from Detroit and a member of the Marine unit at the College in 1943. ire was on the ice hockey team and played ,on the lacrosse team while at . the College. Ridenour Enters NAAU Tourney Charlie Ridenour, three-time Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling champ in the 121 and 128-pound classes, will attempt to regain another title he held in 1943 when he competes in the 128- pound division of the NAAU championships at New. York to day and tomorrow. Charlie was the last to enter the Nationals from a College wrestling squad in his senior year.. However; as he is already a graduate of the College, he is being sponsored by the New York A. C. in the present tourney. ' Also set to make the trip and compete in • he Nationals was Bob _Morgan„ Lion heavyweight in 1943, and also a graduate of the College, but Morgan injured his shoulder early - this week and will be unable to enter the tour ney. Bill Jeffrey . . ~ soccer coach. asles any- - one. inte,rested. in a bit of Spring booting' to report to the soccer practice field on the golf course any afternoon after four. wok- WARNER BROTHERS AIITTANY: eiFRIDAY* "CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S 'ISLAND" with Ronald Coleman and Ann ,Harding • , . *SATURDAY* Matinee Evening EDDIE DEAN - Al Lartte. in . "CARAVAN - TRAIL" In Gorgeous Color • MONDAY. CARMEN MIRANDA PERRY COMO: . "DOLL _FACE" \ • :TUESDAY * BRENDA MARSHALL WILLIAM GARGAN "STRANGE. IMPERSONATION" FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1946 Six Ag Teams Enter League Six clubs of Ag students have so far entered teams in the, Ag. Student Council's softball league. They are: Block and Bridle, Dairy Science, F.F.A:, Forestry Society, Hort. Club, and .4-H Club. . . Any •Ag. Hill organization is eligible to enter' a. team. The Vol) entrance fee will-cover cost of the winner's trophy. Mayers with highest fielding and batting averages will be picic ed for the All-Star team to: play the Ag. faculty at the council. picnic June 1. ' WARNER BROTI-t ' WARNER BR9THE,T3S
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