TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947
IM Softball Loops in Tie
As the summer softball league
draws to a close the competition
not only gets to a high pitch, but
finds a two-way tie for first
place in both sections of the lea
gue.
In League I The Football House
and J. E.M. are both undefeated
and tonight’s game will decide
the Championship for that sec
tion of the league.
Last week The Football House
gained two victories- by defeat
ing the Beaver House 3-2 and
handing Larry Joe’s Winderest
team a 6-5 defeat.
Ray Ulinski pitched his. third
straight victory- in as many
games. The other undefeated
J. E. M. team'also took both its
games with, a 7-5 win .over the
Beaver house on Tuesday night
and on Thursday continued with
a. close decision over a fighting
Phys. Ed.’ team by the score of
7-6.
Tonight’s game between lead
ers of the League should produce
a real thriller for the softball
fan. Both teams not only have
fine pitchers . in Ulinski and
Veater, but • have - hard hitting
players as well. The game will
be played on the college golf
course at 6:30 p, m.
The battle for first, place in
League II is hot and heavy as to
night’s games approach. At the
present time Phi Delt and Alpha
Phi Delt are. tied for first place
with-three wins and one defeat
each. Delta Upsilon and. Alpha
Zeta are both tied -.for second
with , two wins, and ,the same
number of loses. Not only is
there a tie for, first and second
but third place is: being held, by
Phi Gam arid Pi:K Phi with one
win and three: defeats; •’
There is a very good possibility
that the games played this eve
nirig will still -not . determine
a champion, for League 11, but
instead may erid in a two or
three-way tie for first ■ place.
If this should happen .the play
off will then : be held , on Wed-:
nesday night to • determine- a
winner.
In last week’s games in this
section the Alha Phi Delt’s
handed the Phi .Delt’s their first
defeat 6-3 and placed ’themselves
in a tie with Phi Delt for the first
place.
.The winners of the. two sec
tions of the . League will meet
in a best out of three game series
oh Thursday, July 24, Tuesday,
July 29 and if. a third game is
necessary on Thursday, July 31.
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LEAGUE I
W L Pci. GB
Football H-Ouse 3 . 0 1.000 ...
J.E.M. . 3 0 1.000 ...
Beaver House ’ 1 2 .333 2 .
Phys. Ed. 1 .3 .250 2%
Windcrest 0 3 ; .000 3
Games Today
Beaver House vs. Windcrest Pi K Phi vs. Phi Delt
J.E.M. vs. Football House Delta Upsilon vs. Phi Gamma
A. Phi Delt vs. Alpha Zeta Delta
Between the Lions
, Five .years, ago this summer, Penn. State football fans weie feel
ing pretty smug. “This is,the year,” was the cry 0 n everyone’s lips
just as it is now. Those fans had a right to that s mug feeing for hadn’t
the ’4l squad handed arch-enemy number one, the Pitt Panthex-s, a
3.1-7 'spanking for the Lipns,firsfwin iri Pitisbui-gih since 1919 to end a
surprising season? Most of that ’4l team was back a nd then too, ther e
was 1 an undefeated freshman team.
' . Star- of the' ’4l Frosh . was one Dave Alston, mild-mannered son
Cunti. .he put On gridiron togs) cf a Midland Negro minister. Dave, a
pre-med student, ran over all-opposition for Marty McAndrews’ first
year inch-arid drew raves from sports editors from coast tc coast.
„>. • In . August. Esquire magazine hit the stands with an article
naming the-Penn Stater as "the top s ophomore football prospect"
“arid as, a'pre-season All-American prospect.
■ Nittany Galley'thlt summer? Bob
Higgins;had a perpetual grin and
more speaking' engagements than
he could handle. Then o ne Satur
day, tragedy struck. It was unbe
ievable. It couldn’t be true. But
it was. A notice posted on the
front of Graham’s A. C., verified
all the rumors. Dav e Alstcn was
dead!
Saturday morning, Dave had
gone -to the Centre ’ County hos
pital for a tonsil ectomy at 9 o’-
clock. By 9:30 the operation was
finished and the patient was rest
ing quietlv—anrfcher routine ton
silertomy was fini-hed. At 10 o’-
clock p blood clot formed which
cut off the circu'ation to his lung
and cpused ♦hem to collapse.
At 11:45 a. m. Aucrusf 15,
Pave Alston was dead.
Penn State would miss Dave
Alston, the banner story on the
front page of Collegian said, not
just beeau-e he could run like
T1 ° G”=ri' CT e or becav=e he could
kick and pas s over 60 yards, but
because he,was one grand guy.
PAVE ALSTON Immediately the Lions'
stock dropped and became just another team to beat, the sports
editors wrote. By the beginning of the season things looked even
darker. ; Seventeen members of the squad had been draftd.
;The..first game, the annual warm-up with■ Bucknell, jeemed to
prove the spWts. writers’ point! The Lions eked .out a 14-7 win over
the Bisons. Then the Lions defeated a n unimpressive Lehigh team IS.
3 and. waded through the mud for four quarters to deadlock Cornell,
.0-0. . ,
. Freshmen Bobby Williams and Larry Joe sparked the Lions
. to a 13-10 win over s trong Colgate but a Iwice-beaien West Vir
, ffinia eleven upset th e apple cart by winning 24-0. An overconfi- -
dent Syracuse team was the victim as the Lions bounced back 18-
13—still not impressive: It would be a slaughter the next week a t
Penn., The Quakers were one 0 f the best in the East.
But the Higiginsmen. turned the brick as the cry was “Let\ take
this one. for Dave.” Mighty .Penn had been humbled 13-7. The next
week’s 14-6 win over Pitt was an anti-climax. Dav e Alston’s memory
had .turned-a supposedly weak team into one of the best in the East.
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Softball Standings
W L Pci. GB
A. Phi Del't 3 1 .750 ..
Phi Delt 3 l .750 ...
D.U. 2 2 .500 1
Alpha Zeta 2 2 .500 1
Phi Gam 1 3 .250 ' 2
Pi K Phi 1 3 .250 2
By Ben French
LEAGUE II
Smith Leads AlKolleoe Golf,
is‘ "
Finals Slated Friday Afternoon
The Al.-College Golf Tournament is now in the final s tage, with
most of the flights completed up to the semifinals. The final matches
to decide the championship are scheduled for Friday afternocn, pro.
viding the semifinal matches have been completed by this time.
In the first flight, Jerry Smith has advanced to the finals. Smith
defeated Sever Tcretti 1 up in the first elimination match, and con
tinued to pay his usual steady game beating Bo b Klein 7 a nd 6 and
then eliminating Dave See in a
closely played match by 2 up. The
hard-driving Smith, however, had
to come from behind in the last
nine holes to. defeat See who led
the first nine holes, 1-up.
The other finalist has not yet
been decided. Don Hart, the win
ner of last fal.’s All-College Tour
nament, Nick Dietterick, a nd Jack
Harper still have to meet to de
cide Who will meet Smith in the
final play-cff for the champion
ship in this flight.
Art Evans defeated Chick Wer
ner in a well p ayed match by the
score of 2 a nd 1 to place himself
in the semi-finals of the second
flight
Other winners in this flight
were Bob Clelanc who eliminated
Bob Bernhardy 2 uip; Larry Roth
stein won over Dave Levine 3 and
2. N. Shaak had to go 20 holes be.
fore defeating A. Michaels.
In the third flight, Dick Kimble
earned the right tq play in the
semi-finals by winning, over Fred
Coomibs 2 and 1. Wolf beat Storer
3 and 1 and will meet Kimble this
week in a match to determine
who plays in the finals. Bob Shad-
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