Baseball,
Nittany Nine Meets
Villanova Wildcats
Ken Yount,
.holder of a win and a loss record for the season, was
nominated last•night by Coach Joe Bedcnk as the starting Lion hurler
in tomorrow's home game with Villanova. Game time is 2:30 p. m.
Playing their third game of the season, the Nittany baseballers
will be striving for their first win of the intercollegiate competition.
The Lions lost to Lafayette 4-3 last Friday when a ninth inning rally
failed by one run. Previously they had defeated the Olmstead Field
Flyers by the same score in a ten
inning exhibition game.
Yount pitched 6 1-3 innings in
last week's collegiate opener be
fore giving way to Bob Gehrett.
Both pitchers were steady in not
allowing more than one run in
any inning,
ißedenk. was uncertain as to his
starting outfield for tomorrow
afternoon's game. Since Chuck
MacFarland was on the sick list
this week, 'the coach was uncer
tain whether the big first base
man would be able to play.
Vislanova comes to State Col
lege with an impressive record
showing only one loss :and that
to the powerful Navy team.
F4clay's Defeat
Last Friday's game was wit
nessed by a large crowd who saw
the Lions fumble five times, each
error. aiding in scoring a nun for
Lafayette.
In•the fifth inning Yount walk
ed rightfielder Reed, who quickly
stole second base. Catcher Mar
tella's toss went over second and
into centerfield. Reed continued
to third. Fred .Bell picked up the
ball in center and juggled it just
enough to make, his throw to
home late and Reed scored with
the first run of the game.
Late Rally
State was trailing 4-0 going into
the last of the ninth when Harold
Hackman, pinch-hitting for Andy
DeLorenzo rapped out a clean
single. "Hoppy" Hopkins • then
proceeded to knock one down to
short which Contini bungled..
Whitey Kurowskk promptly
pounded a hard grounder to sec
ond base where Commie Villanti,
former batboy for the New. York
Yankees, made a beautiful stop,
came up with the ball and threw
it into left field. He was trying to
start a double play by forcing
Hopkins out at second.
In the meantime Hackman had
scored from second and Hopkins
was rounding third. Leftfielder
Zipple raced after the ball and
finally threw it home. where
pitcher Mlard let it slip through
his glove as Hopkins - crossed - the
plate. Score: Lafayette 4, Lions
2.
Kurowski pulled up at third
and scored a minute later when .
Chuck MacFarland dropped a fly
ball into the outfield. Score: La
fayette 4, Penn , State 3. And
that's how it ended.
State proved that it couildn't
come through in the clinches by
having 10 men stranded on the
basepaths. Only the fifth inning
saw -the Lions without a man on
base.
Ogic Martella led the Lions at
Mate with two singles in four
rips. Gene Sutherland drew
hree walks from Allard in four
Imes at bat.
Gridders End
Spring Drills
Lion gridmen ended Spring foot
ball practice yesterday in a final
scrimmage. The boys have shown
much improvement since the first
practice, Coach Earl Edwards
sated, but clue to the lack of men
attending drills Spring practice
had to be cut short.
Promising gridders, according to
Edwards, are Carl Sturgess, place
kicker; Lee Henry, fullback; Hal
Pratt, tackle; Bud Davis, tailback;
Tom Bragg and John Kraynyak,
guards. Kraynyak suffered' minor
injuries and could not 'come out for
the last practices.
Coaches Higgins, Edward's, and
McAndrews have hopes that for
mer Nittany gridmen John. Nolan,
tackle; Bob Rutkowski, guard;
Chuck Klausing, center; Ray Ulin
ski, blocking back; Bob 'Weitzel,
fullback; and Joe Colone, fullback,
will return to the Lion gridiron
next fall to bolster the team's out
look for the season.
John Simon, promising football
er, has left school for the service.
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The Box Score.
Penn State AB RHO AE
DeLorenzo, rf . 4 0 0 0 0 0
Hopkins, ss ... 4 1 1 3 1 1
Kurowski, 2b •. 4 1 1 2 6 0
MacFarland, lb 4 0 1 10 0 0
Tepsic, if .... 4 0 0 0 0 1
Bell, el 4 0 0 2 1 1
Martella, c. 4 0 2 10 0 1
Sutherland, 3b 1 0 0. 0 1 1
Yount, p 2 0 0 2 0 0
Gehrett 1 0 0 2 .0 0
a-Hackman ... 1 1 1 0 0 0
100 0 0 0
b-Leith
34 3 6 27 9 5
Totals
Lafayette AB R H O A E
Villanti, 2b ... 3 0 0 2 3 1
Contini, ss .....' 4 0 .2 - 2 5 1
'Milne, el 4, 0 1 1 0 0
Ash, lb 4 0 1 11 0 0
Reed, rf 3 2 0 4• 0 0
Stanczak, 3b .. 4 0 0 2 '2 1
Zippel, If 4 1 1 2 0 0
Grassey ; c .... 3 0 0 2 0 0
Allard, p 4 1 2 1 3 1
Totals 33 4 7 27 11 4
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Sophomore Class
. . . members will meet to plan
a social function in 121 Sparks at
8 p. .m. Tuesday. Eighteen stud
ents, including the four officers
attended the last class meeting
on April 9.
THE COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PA
Track, Lacrosse
Villanova Vet
Hen Donohue
Villanove ex-GI who will prob
ably see action pitching against
the Lions tomorrow afternoon.
Hen played on the 1942 edition
of the Wildcat's nine.
Ace Jack Stevenson
Breaks Foot in Spill,
Lost to Track. Squad
Nittany track prospects received
a severe jolt on Monday evening
when ace middle-distance man
Jack Stevenson fell while running
a practice quarter-mile and frac
tured a bone in his right foot.
During time trials at New Bea
ver Field two weeks ago,• Steven
son and Mitch Williams were
spiked in a mix-up on a turn while
running a half-mile and Stevenson
had been absent from work-outs
for a week.
Corning back to the squad again
on. .Monday, the Lebanon (Pa.)
trickster favored -the spiked foot
in working out and gave way
when he struck a spot of uneven
ground on the cinder-path. An,
ray taken at the college infirmary
immediately afterward revealed
that a bone had been fractured in
his right foot and that Stevenson
would probably be lost to Penn
State •for. the remainder of the
track season.
Coach Chick Werner saidi after
the accident that his track hopes
had received a.terriflc* . blolk. , in
Stevenson's loss. The red-headed
ex-G.I. was being counted on
heavily as a point-winner in the
midcle distance events.
Drexel's 'Coach
. . . in lacrosse, Percy 'BeMeld,
and his brother John, played the'
sport here at the College.
Bob Kritzer
. . . speedy spritter on the cin
der squad played •on the State
football team last Fall.
7 Trackmen in Penn Relays Today
Meet Nation's Best in 52nd Renewal
Seven Nittany track men will carry the Blue and White
colors to the 52nd annual University of Pennsylvania Relay
Carnival being staged at Franklin Field today and tomor-
Coach Chick Werner will enter State performers in five
events including the 100 yard dash, shot put, high jump, jav
elin, and either the one mile or the two mile relay.
Bob Kritzer will handle the assignment for
in the invitation 100 yard dash. Kritzer has been
well in the time trials at New
Beaver Field and should place
in the sprints at Philadelphia.
Veteran Jim Sykes will perform
in the high jump for Coach Wer
ncr's squad. The lanky Sykes has
kaput at 6 ft. 2 1 / 2 in practice
workouts this spring, but has
reached 6 ft. 5 in past seasons. A
warm clay and stiff competition at
Franklin Field on Saturday may
force him to his jumping peak.
Tough Competition
In the shot put event, Charlie
Krug will toss for the Nittany
team against perhaps the toughest
competition this event has pro
duced in many seasons. Entered in
this event will be three West Point
All - American football players,
Davis, Blanchard, and Tex Coul
ter..
Larry Gerwig has been selected
by Werner to enter the javelin
throw. He has been measured at
over 170 feet in practice work
outs.
Admitting that the injury to
Jack Stevenson has thrown a snag
into his relay set-up, Coach Wer
neil will, nevertheless, enter a
team in either the one mile or the
ilwo mile relay.
The one-mile relay squad would
consist of Harold Dixon, Warren .
Steubing, Mitch Williams, and Bill
Shuman, running in that order.
Two. Mile Squad
Should Werner decide to enter
the two-mile relay event instead,
the runners in the first, third, and
fourth legs of the mile relay squad .
would remain the same for the
two-mile event. The No. 2 runner
will be selected from among
Steubing, Don Harris,• Rufe Wil
liam•s, and Johnny Gray.
The remainder of the track,
squad will have time trials at New .
Beaver Field today and Saturday
under the suPervision of assistant:
coach Bob Grieve. Performers for
-Ihe, coming triangplar ;meet wit'
Maryland and Pittsburgh on May'
11 will be selected after these re
sults are posted.
Ken Yount
. . . Bedenk's number one•
pitcher this season, is captain
elect of the Lidn rifle team.
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Intrarnurals
All Set To Go
Starting next week, intramural
sports will get underway on cam
pus. Schedules are not yet fully
made up, but Collegian will pub
lish them as soon as they become
available.
Eugene C. Bischoff, director of
intramurals, will notify all teams
scheduled to play before the next
issue of Collegian. Playing sche
dules are late this year because of
the large number of teams entered
in the leagues.
There are 32• softball squads
listed to compete in the ITV
league, matched by 16 teams in
the Independent competition. Al
ready in operation is a five team
league among the Naval ROTC
barracks.
Only three fields on the golf
course are available for softball,
and all gathes will probably be
slated for after-supper hours. The
individual leagues s - vvill most prob
ably be divided into several com
peting units to facilitate playoffs.
Prospects of an Ag. softball
league also serve to complicate
.the scheduling situation.,
Other intramural. competitions
in soccer and golf 'are being ar
ranged for.. At present, 19 teams
are entered
. 1:or golf competition,
and 17 are ready to get underway
in the soccer league.
Coach Bill Jeffrey expects to be
able to run off soccer games in a
half hour apiece. This will give
the soccer league. a flying start
over the other leagues that need
more time for single games.
Bill. Jeffrey
is still 'looking .for %men; in
terested in fa bit:of Spring hooting
on the soccer squad. Anyone inter
ested should report -to the golf
course field' any afternoon at • four
o'clock.
Penn State was . founded as a
Farmers' High School in 1855 for
the study 'of agridulture and re
lated subjects.
For
Ties
FTITPAY, ANVIL 26, 9./i
Lion Stickmen Meet Loyola,
Southern
Over Weekend on
Coach Nick Thiel's Nittany Lion
lacrossemen will battle two tough
oppOnents when they "face-off"
with Loyola College at naltimore
this afternoon and then come up
against Navy at Annapolis tomor
row on their .first post-war South
ern trip.
In their only game so far this
season Loyola lost to the highly
rated University of Maryland la
crosse team, 117-3„ This is Loyola's
first attempt at the stick-game
since the war curtailed their sports
program.
Penn State
showing up
Navy Co-Champs
Navy, .19+5 co-champions with
Army, have split two contests.
Swarthmore was trounced by ate
Middies in Navy's opening game,
13-0, while the Navy stickmen
dropped an overtime tilt to Johns
Hopkins, 12-9, last Saturday. Hop
kins' is expected to give Army a
fight for the lacrosse championship
this year as they are rated as one
of the best combinations in the
country.
The Loyola and Navy lacrosse
games are the' first of four con
tests for Thiel's stickmen in the
next eight days. ,The lacrosse
squad returns home on Sunday
and then takes on Hobart .at 4
p.m. Tuesday. Rutgers will be
the Lion's fourth opponent in
eight days when they "face-off"
on New Beaver Field Saturday
afternoon following the Penn
'State-Maryland-Pittsburgh tri
angular track meet.
The State mentor said that he
expects to start the same line-up
that faced-off against Army in
their opening tilt. The only change
will be Ernest Baer in centerfield
in 'place of Mery Snyder who , is
still side-lined' because of the leg
injury sustained in the opening
quarter of the Army contest. Thiel
hopes that Snyder will be ready
for the Hobart game Tuesday.
Prep School Stars
Loyola has potentialities of de
veloping into a. team that will be
hard to beat. Their squad is made
up of new fellows at Loyola who
were members of Maryland prep
schools which boast the top la
crosse : teams in scholastic ranks.
They will field. experienced stick
men against the Nittany Lions at
Baltimore:this afternoon.
CoachpH-Ay Moore ' s Navy team
is laSt_bu'l; not as , heaVY as'previous •
A - Opapo squads. , _. The - . MiddieS
have three . , regulars from , . .last
year's cO , :championsliip team; led
by gantaiu. Ed Hansen,
,Who was
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named on the second All-American
mid-field last season. The other
two centerfield positions will be
filled by Jim Carrington and Bob
Metzger from the 1945. team. Car..
rington was an All-American de
fense ma•n when at Cornell a 'cou
ple of years ago; Coach Moore
shifted him to midfield when he
came to the Academy.
The remainder of the • Naval
Academy team will consist of vet
erans that saw action on last year's
team and Middies from the junior
Navy squads of last season.
Shte Starters
"Wild" Bill. Hollenbach will
start at the goalie post for the
Lions with Pete Johnson, Bronco
Kosanovich, and . Art Tenhula at
inside defense position's. The cen
terfielid will ibe Ernest Baer and
Captain John, Nolan
. at outside
post and George LocoloS at center.
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The three starting inside attack
men will he Ken Kerwin, Cliff Sul.
livan, and Howdy Taylor.
Making the trip to Baltimore ar.
Annapolis, for the two games, , with
Coach Thiel and the .143-man squ.. I
will be assistant' Coach Pad
.Ameel, Head Manager Jim Chaikfi
and Fred Huehnergarth, a t
manager.
Eight Reserves
In reserve the Lions will • htwe
two inside derensemen, three cen
tertlelders, two attackmen and one
goalie. John Finley and Jack RI:-
man will fill in at the (Wens..
posts while the second mid-del:I
combination will be Walt Stever ;
at center and Bernie Crame,an.l
Fred Poisson on the wings I'r'e
two ctra inside attackmen will L. .
Harry Fisher and Bob MeAdmr.F.
George Meeker will be the rescrVJ
net man on the two-day trip..
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