FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1949 Bedenk Lauds Baseball Charges Thirty-one promising candidates have already caught the eye of Coach Joe Bedenk, who is putting his charges through pre-season sessions to prepare for the baseball opener with Temple April 13. Faced with one of the toughest schedules since before the war, Bedenk anticipates plenty of trouble from Nittany diamond foes. The veteran Nittany mentor, beginning his 19th year at the helm of the Lion baseballers, must select an array of starting pitchers to combat the loaded schedule, which lists four games in one week several times. REGULARS Only five regulars return to the fold for this year's edition, and thus Bedenk has the task of molding a new outfit. Cy Miller, Dick Wertz, Gene Solomon, Cap tain Hal Hackman and Al Tkac are the returning first-teamers, while Bill Benyish, outfielder pitcher, is also back for duty. Outstanding catching potentials are Clarence Buss, Dick Ford, Jim McCarthy and Art Mengel. Last year's varsity backstop, Ed die Holler, graduated. Candidates showing promise on the pitcher's mound are Miller, Tkac (a rightfielder last season), Bill Bair, Jim Masticola, Warren "Lefty" Travers, Amy Jurin, Jim Townsend, Joe Kelvington, Bill Hill, Bill Benyish, Bill Clark and Jack Koons. FIRST BASE Newcomer John Shaffer is pushing letterman Wertz for the first base post, while little Joe Tocci and Harry Little are seek ing Solomon's spot at second base. Captain Hackman, Bill Ondick The Nittany Realm Continued from page four turned to college. Despite the layoff, he fit in fast with Wettstone's schemes. Last season he hit his peak, winning the EIGL tumbling championship, snaring the runner-up position in the national inter collegiates, and copping a fourth place in the NAAU for all amateurs. This season, Bill repeated as Eastern Intercollegiate champion in tumbling. Meade has tried his hand at about everything on the gym floor, working the horizontal bar, the flying rings and the rope climb at one time or another. But he judges tumbling to be the hardest. "That's the event to try first if you're going out for gymnastics," he says. "Learn to tumble well, and the others come a little easier." Asked which he thought were the most difficult tumbling maneuvers, he answered quickly: "The double and triple full twists, and the double backflips." Incidentally, it was a well-timed double full twist he performed when fans saw him rack up 277 points and first place against Temple in his last dual meet here. Bill has his future and that of next year's Lion gymnastic squad pretty well figured out. "I want to coach gym at some college," the physical education major said about his plans. "Next season's squad here should be better than average. We'll have strong tumbling with Rudy Valentino back, and the parallel bars and rope climb should pan out okay. I think Syracuse will be rough, however." All this tumbling and gymnastic work hasn't hurt Bill, who's built along the lines of the proverbial Mr. America. He laughs at that. "Buying clothes is a problem," he said. "I need a 42 coat and 29 trousers; most of my suits come from the tailor, or if I'm lucky, I catch an odd lot somewhere. "My wife went to buy a shirt and belt for me one day, shirt size, 16} neck, with a 31-inch sleeve. The clerk finally found one under a shelf, but he was flabbergasted when my wife asked for a 29 belt to go with it. He wouldn't believe it was for the same guy." But that's the same guy all right tumbling Bill Meade. Follow The Contour Lines ~------ . A .°%.. s , X " ' 411 40 Of The Spring Hair Styles. s - ' Make An Appointment tie a .. —' - .414 To Have Your L i < Hair Cut Today • Hotel Beauty Salon Above The Corner Phone 2286 By Ed Watson and Jerry Vesling lead the fight for the berth at shortstop, with Bill Tegtmeyer and Red Mayer battling for honors at third. Outfield prospects are Hen Al bright, Stan Laganosky, Clarence "Pete" Gorinski and Steve Vargo. Bedenk has built up a winning percentage of .679 in the 18 years he has tutored Blue and White baseball hopefuls, by winning 182 games out of 268. His best years were in 1940, when the Lions triumphed 14 times and lost but twice, and in 1946. In the latter year, ,the Bedenk charges won 10 out' of 12 games, with one of the skirmishes end ing in a tie. Last year's squad boasted a 'l2-and-4 record. Schoolboys Clash In Rec Hall Altoona and Westmont high schools will battle for the Dis trict 6 PIAA basketball cham pionship in Rec Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow. AA books will be void for this schoolboy court attraction. Tick ets will be sold for 85 cents at the door. TOUGH TWISTS LAUGHS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Soccer mentor Bill Jeffrey urges all men interested in playing on the varsity soccer team to take their physical ex aminations this week. Organ ized spring booting drills are slated to start next Monday af ternoon on the soccer practice field on the golf course. Lion Riflemen Set New Mark, Register 1404 Firing a new record score of 1404 points, the Nittany Lion Rifle team topped three opponents and dropped one meet in telegraphic competition last week. Queens College, Stanford, and Lawrence Tech fell before the eagle-eyed Lion lifters while only the University of San Francisco, firing a remarkable total of 1412 points, could edge the home team. Two other rivals, Syracuse and Princeton, have not yet reported their scores from last week's matches. The sterling week's perform ance, best of the current season, gave Capt. Carl Unrath's squad a, season record of 15 wins and 12 defeats, exclusive of the unre ported Syracuse and Princeton matches. Gerry Prnage led the indivi dual riflemen with a score of 290 points. Close behind were Rod Ingleright with 285 and Jack Hepfer with 277 points. Members of the team are now sharpening their eyes in prepar ation for the National competition later this month. Cage Thrills Continued from page four number of markers against Penn State by scoring 67 points at its New York gym, while the highest scoring duel involved American University at Rec Hall which end ed in a 63-50 State win. West Virginia's smooth home court man-to-man defense baffled the Lions to the extent that the Pennsylvanians scored only 28 points—their lowest amount of the season. Following are individual scor ing records for the '4B-'49 season: FG F TP 69 41 179 46 39 129 36 34 106 32 32 96 19 50 88 33 21 87 19 4 42 10 9 29 5 7 17 8 1 17 3 13 2 10 Milt Simon Marty Costa Joe Toed Lou Lumie Carl Nordblont Terry Kuhlman Ken Weise Syl Sozin.ski Jick Storer Will Parkhill Lee Schialer Robert McKowa Lloyd Amprim Mike Deßone George Lawther John Apichella Tom Shuptar Soccer Call 2 1 O 2 1 0 O 0 O 0 At Your Warner Theater NOW! Cathaum John Wayne Pedro Armendariz "Three Godfathers" in Technicolor State Burl Ives Bobby Driscoll "SO DEAR TO MY HEART" in Technicolor llittany Cornel Wilde Ida Lupine "ROADHOUSE" Blue and White Fencers To Compete in Easterns Penn State's fencers invade New York today to compete in the fifty-second annual Intercollegiate championships today and tomor row at City College of New York. A field of 13 Eastern schools is expected for the program. Be sides Penn State, such colleges as Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Army and Navy have submitted entries. Hamilton and MIT are representing the smaller institutions while NYU, Columbia and host CCNY are participants from metropolitan New York. Preliminary sessions are sched uled for this afternoon and eve ning, and tomorrow morning and afternoon. Finals will be held to morrow evening. PRELIMINARIES In the preliminaries, each event will be divided into three pools with 13 men entered in each one. Each entry in a pool will face all the other men in his group. The two top men in each pool will be eligible for the finals. This meet will round out Penn State's 1949 campaign. The Lions won contests over Lehigh and Temple while dropping decisions to Army, Philadelphia Fencing club, NYU and Cornell in dual competition this season. Despite the mediocre record, State pro vided stiff competition for all its rivals. Proof of this is the fact that, out of 162 matches this sea son, the Lions managed to win 76 1 / 2 while losing 85 1 / 2 . Of the nine men who will com- Personal Stake Nearly one out of every 140 PessimAratgess either works for this company or has mosey invested in Bell Telephone seeuritie . . . . and nearly 99 out of every 100 Penney& vanians rely upon telephone service for eow venience, pleasure,emergencies,or Almost every Pennsylvanian has a pa& sonal stake, directly or indirectly, in ths welfare of the telephone busnme. The Bell Te'epitomic Company pete for State this weekend, Coach Arthur Meyer loses three —Rolf Wald, Art Ward and John Kochalka—via graduation. Wald and Ward, both top performers in the epee event, receive their diplomas in June while Ko chalka, foil standout, graduates at mid-semester of next year. Meyer announced that Co captain Harr y McCarty, Ko chalka and Ralph Meier will see action in the foil, with Wald, Ward and Bill Fairchok taking part in the epee. Dick Dyer, Co captain Paul Younkin and John Richards will be State's sabre contestants. Back in 'B2 Penn State's first intercotlegial► baseball game was played against Bucknell at Williamsport, June ne 1882. Brothers Victors The Drazenovich brothers, Joe and ChUck, were intramural horseshoe pitching champs last year. Your A 1 of Peassylvaaia PAGE FIVE
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