FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1050
Nine Meets
Georgetown
In 2 Tilts
By GE6RGE GLAZER
Coach Joe Bedenk came up
with a surpirse starter for today’s
game with Georgtown at Wash
ington. Merle Gunnet will be on
the mound this afternoon when
the Lions oppose the hard hitting,
veteran Hoya squad. A 1 Tkac will
hurl tomorrow’s game with
Georgetown.
Gunnet, a righthander has no
record, this year. He has been
used primarily as a batting prac
tice pitcher, as have most of the
other new hurlers. Tkac has a log
of three wins and no losses.
The Hoyas of Georgetown,
coached by Joe Judge, former
Washington Senator, Brooklyn
Dodger, and Boston Red Sox first
baseman, have been pounding the
ball and the opposition with equal
ease.
Their most notable outburst was
against Penn last Saturday when
they blasted the Quakers out of
the River Field ball park with a
20-4 win.
FIVE HOMERS
Five homeruns, two each by
outfielders George Hughes and
Frank ' Alagia and one with the
bases loaded by 1e 11 e r-winner
Dick Falvey, Hoya third baseman,
put the game on ice.
Georgetown’s record is now
eight wins and three losses. The
Lions have a slate of three wins
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AB R H HR RBI PCT.
Ondick 1 1 1 0 0 1.000
Tkac 13 6 7 0 6 .538
Dougherty 16 7 7 0 3 .437
Hopper 18 4 6 1 4. .333
Rumberger 3 0 1 0 0 .333
Wertz 21 5 6 2 3 .285
Tonery 21 3 6 1 3 .285
Kurty 20 3 5 1 3 .250
Tocci 14 5 3 0 6 .214
Little i 21 2 4 0 0 .190
Albright 17 3 2,0 0 .117
Buss 1 0 0 0 1 .000
Lagonosky 1 0 0 0 0 ,000
Troisi 3 2 0 0. 0 .000
Mowery 0 0 0 0 0 .000
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and two losses. Tkac has been the
winning pitcher in all three games
and Dalton Rumberger the two
time loser.
Probable pitchers for the .Hoyas
today and tomorrow ■ will-' be
either Bob McNabb, / sophomore
right hander, Tom Flynn, another
righty, or Dick Diebold, a south
paw.
- If Georgetown puts a left hand
er on the hill, it is likely that fhe
Nittany batting, order will be
shifted slightly to get more right
handers into the lineup.
Hen Albright, left-handed left
fielder whose hitting has .fallen
way below the .303 m*rk he
finished with last season, will
probably be replaced’ by either
Stan Lagonosky or Bill Ondick.
Bill Hopper and Owen Dougherty,
both leftharided outfielders, will
probably stay in the lineup de
spite the Hoya pitching selection.
Teams Move Up
In H-Ball Doubles
. Four fraternity duos moved in
to the quarter-finals, and four
others moved into third-round
competition in the fraternity sec
tion of the intramural handball
doubles tournament.
Delta Upsilon’s John Frassinelli
and Phil Benedetti qualified for
the quarter-finals by defeating
Duane Snyder and Bill Wilhelm,
Tau Kappa Epsilon, 16-21, 21-10,
21-17. Marty Costa and Jack
Stucher, Delta Sigma Phi, moved
into the quarter-finals by edging
Lambda Chi Alpha’s, Bob Kolarik
and Dave Harmon, 21-10, 21-15.
• Other combinations moving into
the quarter-finals were Owen
Doughterty and Fran Rogel, Kap
pa Delta Rho, trouncing Mike
Rubino and Tony DeJulius, Alpha
Phi Delta, 21-5, 21-4, and George
Emig and Art Oberg, Pi Kappa
Alpha, downing George Jacobs
and Tony Orsini, Sigma Phi Ep
silon, 21-3, 21-5.
Steve Meisel and Moe ’Levine,
Alpha Epsilon Pi; Ted Kowal and
Paul Lapcevic, Sigma Phi Sigma;
Fred Levin and' Kurt Herman,
Phi Sigma Delta; and Harry
Kauffman and Bernie Guterman,
Phi Epsilon Pi, entered the third
round with, victories.
•’HR DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Up... Up... and Away...
Vic Frills, Penn Stale's ace highjumper, doesn't possess a
growth of wings, but his gravity-defying leaps may make quite a
few birds look a trifle sheepish during the next few weeks.
Even Ripley Questions
Vic Fritts'Track Feats
By GEORGE VADASZ
A skyscraping athlete had just
com'e out' of the post' office.
“Look,” he said, “a letter from
Ripley, believe it or not,” he add
ed jokingly.
He opened the envelope. “We
understand that a 30-year old
Penn State junior who had nine
operations performed on his leg
high jumped six-feet five-inches.
Please confirm that statement.”
■ “It’s true,” Vic Fritts, gangling
Nittany high jumper, answered,
“with the exception of the age
that is. I’m only 20-years old in
stead of 30;”
. Vic's life biography, is a true
Horatio Alger epic. Vic is crip
pled, but not in the true sense
of the word. When he was born
doctors found his right foot
turned completely backwards.
The foot is still not normal.
To correct this defect, Vic un
derwent a series of nine opera
tions covering a period of 13
years.
Looking back, Fritts figures
getting started was the hardest
thing he had to do.
“Those days were really rough,”
he recalls, “but I never gave up
hope.”
Finally, after the ninth opera
tion, Vic was ready to start out
on his athletic trail. On that
path, a; very successful one,, he
had to start by exercising his
weak right ankle. When it be
came stronger he tried out for
the Hatboro, Pa., basketball
team.
He made the varsity as a high
school sophomore. As a senior he
crowned his high school career
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To further overcome his physi
cal handicap he tried out for
track. He won the PIAA state
title by clearing the bar at five
foot-ten-and-one-half inches in
1947.
“All during that time my moth
er was unaware that I was out for
track,” Vic says, “but after she
found out that I was a state
champ she encouraged me to con
tinue in college.”
His right foot and ankle is
still much weaker than his left
foot. It is also much smaller,
necessitating two different shoe
sizes. At present it's sizes 9 and
11.
Not long ago at Madison
Square Garden, the nation's
showplace of athletic champ
ions, he' became the first Nii
iany trackman to cop IC4-A
high jump laurels in the 42 years
that the Lions have participated
in that, competition.
This past winter he set a new
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Lions Drop
Navy Golf
Match/ 7-0
By RUDY MION
The Middies of Annapolis were
too strong for the Nittany golfers
Wednesday afternon, winning the
match by a 7-0 score. The Penn
State linksmen will meet Syra
cuse on the college course at .1:30
p.m. tomorrow. |
Following the games. Coach
Rutherford remarked, "Navy
was just too good for our boys
who, while losing, still played
their best golf of the season. Al
though Navy had a fine team, I
believe we should have won a
few of the matches anyway."
The Midshipmen started their
scoring when A 1 Williams posted
a low score against Captain Tom
Smith, 4 and 3. Dennis Sullivan
came in low against George Ste
.wart, 4 and 3. The score of 4 and
3 really became catching as both
Dick Fontaine and Dick Wiseman
showed these scores against Ted
Robertson and Ray Artz of State.
Lee Baggett, Navy’s captain,
took Jim Yerkes by a 3 and 2
count and John Inman shot a low
score, taking Joe Durniak, 3 and
1. The scoring ended a clean
sweep when Si Hart took over
Alex Monro, 5 and 4.
Challenging for play this week
will be Monro against Durniak,
Pete Klondiak versus Artz, and
Stewart against Bob Kunkle. The
winners may start against Syra
cuse who State will host tomor
row afternoon.
The qualifying rounds for the
All-College Championship will
close April 30. To date, Coach
Rutherford reports only 35 under
graduates have posted qualifying
scores.
Penn State indoor record by clear
ing six-foot five-inches in the In
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H-Ball Tourney
Ends 2nd Round
Two rounds have been com
pleted in the round robin tourna
ment in the independent section
of intramural handball doubles
competition.
In the opening round Rudy
Federicci and Mike Callahan
easily defeated Gerald Truitt and
Dick Hart, 21-3, 21-9. Singles
champion, Milt Silberman team
ed-up with Joe Minarovich,
singles runner-up, to bowl over
Chester Kisiel and Rudy Ralff,
21-8, 21-1.
Kisel and Ralff, after their first
round defeat, decisioned Federic
ci and Callahan, 21-4, 21-12, in
second round play.
Silberman and Minarovich re
main the only unbeaten combina
tion following their easy second
round win over Dan Rauscher and
Albert Fegly by the score of 21-2,
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