PAGE SIX Baseball's Best in Last 16 Years Baseball coach Joe Bedenk has led the Lion diamendeers to the best season in his 1 16 years at the helm of Penn State ;baseball. This year's squad marked up a 10-I record to rank second in the East. The previous Bedenk record was in 1940 when the Lions won 14 while losing only 2 games. Bedenk came to State as coaoh in i1'93 1 1 and since then 'has •com piled 1 1 59 wins •to 73 losses. Only in 1935 did the team lose more games than they won. The coach had bemoaned the shortage of pitdhers all through Spring practice and even into the season but the record books ,show that Penn State pitdhing outclass ed the batting. Ken Yount and Bob Gehrett carried all the mound duties. Both men will return for next season. Ogie Mantella caught -the games for the two hurlers while also hitting among the leaders in the plate punch department. Mariella was the Lions' repre sentative in the East-West All- Star game played last week in Boston and pulled one of the out standing plays of. the game when he fielded a difficult bunt down the third base line. East won out 6-2. The infield remained steady all season with regulars Chuck Mac- Farland, • 1!b; Whitey Kurowski, 2h; Dan Hopkins, ss; and Gene Sutherland, 3b. contributing to the record hooks. Out in the (far pastures injurie's plagued the original starters and Joe Teps'ic, Fred Bell, .Bob Davis, Ray Bitting, Pete Berleitic, (Harold Hackman, Andy Delorenzo and Ken Hosterman all saw action. The squad will be (honored at a banquet tonight when awards and announcements will be made. The record since 1931 follows: Won Lost 8 2 9 4 5 4 .... 8 5 .... 7• 8 13 4 ....12 4. ....10 7 ....15 4. ....14 2 9 8 ..13 8 . 8 4. • .11 5 7 3 ..10 1 ..159 73 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937. 1938 1939 1940 . 1941 . 1942 . 1943 . 1944 1945 . 1946 Totals Season Statistics AB R H Avg Davis 18 6 7 .389 guthenland ..35 •5 10 .285 Bitting 14 4 4 .285 Hopkins ....32 10 9 .281 Merle ....40 5 10 .250 MacFarland 36 4 9 .250 Tepsic 16 5 4 .250 Kurowskt ...38 7 9 .237 Yount 17 '5 4 .235 Hosterman ,26 2 6 .230 Hackman ...32 8 7 .219 Gehrett ....16 1 2 .125 Berletic .... 6 1 0 .000 Bell 6 0 0 .000 DeLorenzo .. 5 0 0 .000 Leith '1 0 0 .000 Magazines—Candy Perfect Record. •;.; .. • . . • . : . , A • *rt *:1 • • . : . . . . . who once feared an arm wound sustained in the war would end his baseball career, was unbeaten on the mound for the Bedenkmen this season. The right-hander gave up only five earned runs in five starts against college competition. , O'Hora Added To Grid Staff Jim O'Hora, former Lion athlete and 'head coach of 'athletics at Mahonoy Township High School, will return to State this Fall as a member of the football coaching staff. He will report tfor 'duty August 18. Dr. Carl P. Sehott, dean of the School of Physical Bducation and Athletics, today announced the appointment 'of O'Hora 'as instruc tor in physical education And as sistant football coach." O'Hora played football here in 1933, '34, and '3 1 5 and remained on :campus for one year after grad uation as an assistant and mem ber of the (freshmen fooiball coaching , stallf. 'He has since coached winning teams at Roaring Spning and tMahonoy Township High Schools, and returned to the latter post last November after three years in the Navy. Football Coach . . . Bob Higgins will have a monopoly on centers next season as he expects to have Bronco Kosanovich, Oggie Martella, Bob McCoy, and Chuck Klausing out for the center position. Burgess Stanley . t Gross . . . of Windcrest, addressed the Faculty Luncheon Club Monday on "Attila Wes of the Borough_ CouniOil of Windcrest." rt ad ,: ~,.,,., -,„ Tobacco C 3 \AMU\ tA 808 GEHRETT T`HE COT a :F,G Inside Intramurals BULLETIN In the playoff game of the in tramural softball season last night, Pero's beat Sigma Pi, 2-0, to carry off the championship of the College. A game tenta tively scheduled with the NROTC winners has been can celled. Sigma Pi and Peros gained the right to meet for the intramural softball championship as they toppled final opposition in the fraternity and independent tour neys. In the fraternity playoff Mon day night, Sigma Pi eked out a story-book finish over Phi Kap pa Psi as the Sigma Pi captain and sholistop, Robin Mathers, cracked out a home run to give his team a 3-2 victory. Peros copped the independent title Tuesday evening when their pitcher - manager Frank Rose blanked the Ramblers, the league 1 champ, 2-0, in a tight hurlers' duel. Gerwig Goes To Nationals Coach Chick Werner of the Nit tany track squad announced at a speciial meeting Monday afternoon that the Blue and White will be represented at the National Col legiate track meet at Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 28 and 29 by Larry 'Genwig, outstanding javelin thrower. • Charles Krug and William Shuman were elected co-cap tains of the 1947 track team by iellow letter-winners at the special meeting. John Gray was chosen honorary captain of the freshman num- eral winners of this season's team. Varsity letters winners in track were Horace Ashenrelter, Richard Dottermuch, Michael Garbinski, Lafty Genwig, Harold . Gundel, Robert Kritzer, Charles Krug, Donald Longnecker. John McCall, Daniel Pearson, William Reynolds, William 'Shu man, Robert Steed, James Sykes, George Williges, Charles Willing, and Richard Lose, manager. Winners of freshman numerals were Robert .Aumen, Casimir Borowy, George Cleveland', John Gray, Gene Love, Georde Policas tro, Albert Spinner, Jack Steven son, and William Turner. .Coach Werner also announice:d that Richard Lose, will continue in the Capacity of head manager next season With Donald Miller, J3en jamin Rose, and Stanley Seigel as first assistants for track. ;Arthur Cantor, Tharnas Botts ford and JaMes RobinriOn were named first assistants for cross country, and Ray Kelly and George Bearer will serve as track alternates. Ex-Lion Captain JOHN NOLAN . . . standout midfielder on this year's lacrosse team will yield his captain's post to team mate George Locotos for the 1947 season. Nolan played in the North-South game and in addi tion was third high scorer for the Lions. • Gross to Aid Cagers Again Big Elmer Gross, ex-Lion eager, will give Coach John Lawther a helping, hand with the lbasetball team again next season. The former State star has been added to the permanent staff as an. instructor in the 'Sdhool off Physical Education and Athletics and also • as assistant basketball coach. Gross, who , Was wounded in the Normandy invasion,' returned to Campus last Fall as a ,graduate student 'and served as Lawther's aide during the 1945-46 season. He will soon be awarded' his m'as ter's degree in phydical edulcation from the College. Women's Archery: . . . team placed 43rd out of 61 teams entered in the seventh an nual intercollegiate telepraghic ar chery -tournament sponsored re cently by the National Archery Association, with a score, Of 2,130. The highest team, score, 4,169, was made by the University of Conn ecticut. 'Ftlii, Sjqm a : , KApp# . . recently elected Edward Hyde, president; George McGow an, vice president; Ernest Nagy, secretary; Jamei Bard, treasurer; John Weber, sentinel; John Mc- Brearty, inductor. kllia AY, JUNE 21, 1946 Outlook Bright For '4l Stickmen When lacrosse Coach Nick Thiel calls for the first practice session next Spring he will have a squad of experienced veterans_ that should. be able to better this season's record of seven wins and three defeats for only two start ers from this year's team will not be around for the tough schedule being planned for the 1947 Nittany stick-wielders. This year's Captain John ;No lan and fast inside attackman [Howdy Taylor are considered.. at this time to - be the only two regr ulars lost from the starting ten. Lettermen that will be out to gain a starting berth in the cloSe defense will be John Finley, Pete Johnson, Bronco Kosanovich, John Pfirman, and Art Tenhula. All five defensemen saw plenty of action this season. The midfield will be manned by newly-elected Captain George Locotos at the "lace-off' post with Ernie Baer, Bernie Crarrier, Rog Nester, Mern Snyder, and Walt Stevens out for the two re maining wing positions. The inside attack will field two regulars--Ken Kerwin and high scoring Cliff Sullivan—and the other attack post contended for by holdovers Dave Faloon, Harry Fisher, and Dick McAdams Who had game experience this season. 4&.• ',4-4-orFS47tAW4Z.,-,, ":145- ' • o^, ' S'ECRET I . , A,. •c• ' Fel , Ara .P$V INTE R o . lt, t - 1 I ; NSTITITTE, • ; ,a leader in the field of Spe- ! ' cialized Secretarial Training for more than a half centUrY; k tlurges you to plan your career well in advanCe. - The demand for trained For- 1 eign language, Medical, Tech ' nical and Executive Secretaries cannot be met. The School's facilities are prey= ently strained in meeting the needs of du; professionia andt u can helik ;ummer and!, RE C D-S, Gigs. 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