THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1950 Nine Wins Opener, 11-0; Snowstorm Halts Game In Top of sixth Inning Coming up with five runs in both the second and third innings, Penn State's diamond forces opened the season yes terday afternoon with, a ; six-inning 11-0 win over. Western Maryland. The game was called in the sixth because of a small snow storm. Starting Nittany pitcher Al Tkac gave up three hits, walked two, and struck out four. Dalton Rumberger, who pitched the snowy sixth, 'struck out two. At no time did either of the State hurlers even come near anything resembling trouble from the visitors. DOUGHERTY STEALS HOME The Lions used hits by right fielder Owen Dougherty, Tkac,' and second-baseman Toe Tocci, a walk to sophomore shortstop Carmen Troisi and an error by the Western Maryland catcher for the first five runs. Dougherty stole home to score the first counter of the season. Stolen bases, walks, errors, and even a few 'hits figured in the third inning scoring. Catcher Jack Kurty, who came up twice in the rowdy third, belted a 400-foot homer straight down the left field foul line to start things moving. Captain Dick Wertz, Dougher ty, and Tkac all had singles, Tro isi, Hen Albright, and Tocci were issued passes. Dougherty, Tkac, Troisi, and Albright added stolen bases to the fun; Troisi setting sail from third on a slow-windup by the pitcher. WERTZ HITS HOMER" Wertz ended the game's scoring in the fourth with a four-bagger over the left-fielder's head. Heavy rains halted the fracas in the third, but play • was re sumed ten minutes later. In the fonith inning, eagle-eyed watch eis spotted heavy clouds moving in over first base, and an im mediate howl for the boys "to hustle it up" came from the State dugout. , . Try as they - might, the Nittan coudn't'seem to let the rather timid Terrors get them out. , The laughing Lions swung at everything and Troisi finally struck out, only to hav,e the visit ing, catcher err on the play. As the skies darkened, Troisi cautiously tiptoed down the first base line lest he be called safe. After what seemer like an eter nity, he was tug out a foot from the bag. TROISI SHOWS WELL Nature came to the" aid of the Blue and White, and under clear in skies,' Western Maryland was forced to take their bats and make it, a legal game. • espite. the somewhat hectic conditions the 'game was played under, the Lions may .have given some indication of how they will show against rougher opposition. Newcomers Troisi and third baseman Chris Tonnery did wall the field, Troisi using his rifle like 'arm to good advantage and Tonnery figuring in a fast double play. No real indication of the team's hitting power was in evidence. Kiirty's homer was a solid smash, but the Terror hurler made th t e mistake of grooving a fast ball for the husky receiver. Wertz's hit was a double in any league, and a high hop carried it far • out of the reach of the left-fielder . Only better pitching and tight er fielding will tell just how geod the Lions really are. . , .. . . . . Let It •Snow! -. .1.- - --:..-!. • Penn State Ab R'll West. Md. Ab R H Albrighta 1 1 0 Gianelli,rf 3 0 1 Tocco.2b . 2 1 1 Spencer,c 1 0 0 Tonery,3b 4 0 1 Douglass,a 1 0 0 Little,3b - 0 0 0 Phipps,2b 3 0 0 Kurty,c 4 1 1 Shook,H 3 0 0 Busa,c 0 0 0 Tereelc'i,3b 3 ,0- 0 Wertz,lb 3 2 21 Urian,rt 3 0 2 Hopper,el 3 0 01 Kaufman,lb 2 0 0 DouglOrty,rf 3 2 2 Docld,ss • 2 0 0 Troial,aa 1 2 0 Bartl,p 1 0 : 0 Tkae,p . S 2 2lHallmarek,p 0 ,0 , 0 Rumb'ser,p 0 0 OlGordon 1• 0 0 ILa 0 0 0 Totals 24 11 91Totabs throum,p .23 0 8 By GEORGE GLAZER Golfers Await Spring's Debut; Rain Halts Drills tii Whether Bob Rutherford, , Jr., will be' able to display a success ful season in his first "at bats" as Penn State's varsity golf coach appears• to boil down, to the amount of cooperation he'll re ceive from a mischievous rain cloud which seems to be making its base of, operations over the Nittany campus. Needless to say that following an allowance of only three or four days of good golfing weather dur ing the past month and with his first match with Gettysburg only 11 days off, the junior Rutherford COACH 808 RUTHERFORD Jr will attempt to wring every min• ute out of the remaining time in preparation for the opening of his 10-match campaign. "I'm forced to keep the team here over Easter," he said re cently. "All drills held% so far have been purely on the play- • er's own initiative as the spora dic rain and snow have com pletely blotted out chances of a formal workout." .NINE GOLFERS REPORT To date nine golfers have re ported for varsity drills. Seven regular positions (plus an alter nacy) will have to be filled. Last year's letter-winning re turnees are Captain Tom \ Smith, Jim Yerkes, Joe Durniak and Bob Kunkle while Pete Kalandiak and Alex Monroe are also back. New comers include Billy Albert, Jerry Drenan and James Mullard. Pins have not yet been placed in the greens, however, the. Col lege groundskeeprs have already begun "spring cleaning" duties in anticipation of the official course opening scheduled for somewhere between the 20th-25th of April. Practice putting difficulty looms as Rutherford's major problem child. Because of recent "dewey" conditions the putting area gener ally used beside the caddy house is , still in a spongy, unkempt state., And as the old story put it, "Three-fourths of the golfing matches are won or lost on the greens." Schedule: April 15 Gettysburg, Gettysburg 21 Georgetown • State 22 Georgetown State 26 Navy Annapolis 29 Syracuse State May 1 Westminster , State 5-6 E.I.G.A. Round Robin West Point • • 13 E.I.G.A. Finals (Site Pending) 20 Colgate Hamilton, N.Y. 27 Bucknell State THE 'DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Starting His 20th Season . . . . Lacrosse Team Meets Loyola Tomorrow, Annapolis Saturday Coch Nick Thiel's Nittany lacrossemen will get their last work out today before leaving tomorrow for Baltimore where they will meet Loyola and then take on the midshipmen from Annapolis on Saturday afternoon. "We'll have to be at our best like to beat Navy since we have don't want to be optimistic. It looks like a tough spring ahead," said Thiel. The Lion 'practices have been concentrated on scoring plays al though some defensive work has been done. Thiel explained that with the "green" squad he has, he must stress both offense and de fense and the best way to do that is under actual game ,conditions— intra-squad scrimmage. • Against Loyola,' • the starting Lion lineup will remain practic ally the same which started against the Annapolis Lacrosse Club. At the close attack will be Ed Belfield, Bud Wolfram and Jim Reed, but Jim Case has been giving Reed competition l and might cop the starting berth. Probable mid-fielders will be Bob Lewis, Paul Raffensperger and Al Fulton. At the defensive posts, will be• John Hagerman, Mervin Snyder and Don Copelin. Joe Drazenovich has looked good in practice and will probably see a lot of action at defense, along with Vance Scout. Phil Benedetti will again handle the net chores for the Nittanies with help from Dick Hannah and Dale Sheffer. NM V-Ball Teams Notch 2nd Wins Play was resumed in the frater-, nity IM volleyball league this week as Delta Upsilon-A, Alpha Sigma Phi-A, Theta Chi-A, Alpha Chi Rho-A, Delta Sigtha Phi-A, and Beta . Theta Pi-A notched their second league wins with out a loss. The powerful Beta Theta Pi-A sextet easily rolled over Theta Kappa Phi-A squad 15-0. 15-6, DU-A scuttled Lambda Chi Al pha-A 15-8, 1-15. 15-8, Alpha Sig ma Phi-A came back to top 'Sig ma Pi-A, 9-15, 16-14, 15-9. Theta Chi-A turned aside Chi Phi-A. 15-7. 15-12, Alpha Chi Rho-A won handily from ZBT-A. 15-1. 14-16, 15-1, while Delta Sigma Phi . -A was carried to three games before dumping Alnha Chi Siarna-A, 15-8, 10-15, 15-4. In other games, the Alpha Epsi lon Pi-A team won a thrilling contest from Acacia-A 13-15, 18-16, 15-10. Si cima Phi Sigma-A rapped Tau Kappa Epsilon-A, 15-1, 16-14. Phi Delta Theta-A ontspikeci Kappa Delta Rho-A. 15-5, 15-12, Alpha Tau Omega-A t downed Alpha Phi Delta-A. 15-9: 15-10, Aloha Gamma Rho-A trounced Sigma Phi Alpha-A, 15-0, 15-4 and Delta Tau Delta-A lost +n Pi Kappa Alpha-A by a forfeit. JOE BEDENK LOYOLA LINEUP to beat Loyola and .I really would never beaten them before. But HEINE'SeLeNo • _ ... L JActti rl ilk PIPE TOBACCO SUTLI FF TOBACCO CO., 45 Fremont; S.F.. Calif. PAGE THREE Four Remain In Handball Four contestants moved into the semi-finals in the fraternity section of the intramural handball singles race in matches played at Rec Hall last night. George Freeman, Phi Kappa Tau, entered the semi-finals by defeating Elliot Krane, Zeta Beta Tau, in a hard-fought match. The scores of the match were 21-20, 21-16. Owen Dougherty, Kappa Delta Rho, dropped his quarter-final match by forfeiting to Art Oberg, Pi Kappa Alpha. Jo Lane, Delta Upsilon, moved by Bob Hoover, Phi Delta Theta, 21-20, 21-10 to qualify for the semi-finals. In by far the outstanding match of the evening Phil Benidetti, Delta Upsilon, edged Steve Mei sel, Alpha Epsilon Pi, 21-13, 5-21, 21-18. IM Handball Entries for intramural hand ball doubles and badminton must be turned into the Intra mural office by 5 o'clock to night said Gene Bischoff. Mimeographing All Types of Printing CommercialPrinfing Inc. Glennland Bldg., State College NOW! At Your Warner Theatre Cathaum JOAN DAVIS ANDY DEVINE Traveling Saleswoman ate DOROTHY McGUIRE WILLIAM LUNDIGAN . Mother Didn't Tell Me nittany DAN DAILEY CORINNE CALVET When Willie Comes Marching Home
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