FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1950
'On The Ball'
By Ray Koehler
SPORTS EDITOR
Up around that sandy-colored
caddy house where Coach Bob
Rutherford and his links cronies
hold sway, the talk these days s
all about a 6-foot sophomore from
Hershey named Ted Robertson.
The reason for all the discus
sion?
Less than three weeks ago
when the Niiiany golfers open
ed their season at Gettysburg,
Robertson was barely clihging
to the No. 7 slot—literally the
low man on Rutherford's' ioiem
pole.
H,e had arrived on campus a
golfing unknown and only
through an accident was his pres
ence brought to Rutherford’s at
tention.
Now he’s challenging Penn
State’s little but long-driving goif
Captain Tommy Smith for the No.
1 spot.
“It’s funny about the way we
found the guy,” the junior mem
ber of the Rutherford clan remi
nisces.
"We were gasin* around the
shop just a little while before
our first match, and I happened
to mention that we were really
scraping the bottom of the old
apple barrel trying to round up
10 or 15 guys who could break
90—on the front nine.
“Someone mentioned that he
knew of a pretty fair golfer, new
on campus, who lived nearby.”
.. .Of course, not in possession of
a subsidization fund,. Rutherford
is always on the prowl for talent.
He gave the curly-headed Robert
son a phone call, thinking all the
that here was just another
publinks Sammy Snead who
would blow sky-high under the
pressure of any sort of rough op
-position;
. didn't realize at that
■ precise time was that the
Chocolate City lad had been a
former PIAA high school golf
' riinrierup and had ranked fourth
in National Junior College com
petition.
“We finally got him out on the
course and had him hit about 20
or 30 balls,” Rutherford continued.
“Although he hadn’t swung a'club
since Fall his timing was just
about perfect.
“We all knew he really had it.”
Since Ted's first match his
scores have grown progressively
better. To dale his 70 in lourna
. ment play represents Penn
State's low. His collegiate aver
age stands at 71. and he has yet
' to go over a 73.
IM Deadline
Entry deadline for fraternity
and independent IM golf put
ting horseshoe ’ doubles and
track has been set for Tuesday,
5 p.m., in the Rec Hall intra
mural office.
Intramur
Soccer
Four more first round games in
the IM soccer league were played
■Wednesday night, and two close
games featured the evening’s
play. Both wound up as 1-0 scores.
Pi Kappa Alpha eked out a
narrow win by virtue of a lone
goal in the second period, nipping
Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon
got one in the first period and
held the narrow margin through
out to edge Sigma Pi by the same
1-0 score.
In a slightly more lop-sided af
fair, Sigma Phi Sigma laced Beta
Sigma Rho, 4-0, getting two goals
in each period. Beta Theta Pi
scored two in the first period arid
then held on to win 2-0.
Three more games remain in
first round play, with the rest of
the teams bying into the second
heat. "
Chuck Bray ton, Washington
State College letterman in foot
ball, baseball, and basketball, is
trying out with the Spokane “Iri
dians” of the Western Internation
al League. Brayton is trying for a
Stickmen Meet Orange
At Syracuse Tomorrow
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The Nittany lacrosse team finished pre-game drills last
night and will leave this afternoon for tomorrow’s game with
Syracuse.
Coach Nick Thiel’s men will be without the services of
defenseman John Hagerman and midfielder Burt Raymond
who' are sidelined with injuries.
Saturday’s game will probably be the toughest for the
Lions this season. Syracuse has
20 lettermen returning from last
years squad which won 14 and
lost only 1.
This season the Orange has won
seven games while dropping one.
Penn State has won only 1 game
in four starts.
The Orange stickmen are paced
by their All-American center Bill
Fuller who teams with Bill Arch
bold and George Cody in a mid
field combination that has been
clicking for three, years.
Last year, Syracuse led the
country in scoring with 236 goals,
averaging better than 16 per con
test. With this in mind, the Lions
have been practicing a man-to
man zone defense in an attempt
to stop the C.-ange’s dodge-and
s ore tactics.
The starting-lineup for State
will have Go-Captain Ed Belfield,
Jim Reed and Ned Herring at the
close attack.
.Co-Captain Bob Louis, Jack
Wilcox and A 1 Fulton compose
the midfield. Thiel was especial
ly pleased with Wilcox’s showing
against Western Maryland. The
lanky junior played at both the
midfield and close attack and
came off the field with three goals
for individual scoring honors.
At defense, the Lions will have
Vance Scout, Joe Drazeriovich
and Jack Amber with Mervin
Snyder also a possible starter.
Five-foot-four inch Phil Bene
detti will do the goal tending.
Champs Crowned
In H-Ball Finals
John Frassinelli and Phil Bene
detti, DU,'won the interfraternity
handball doubles championship
Wednesday night, defeating Steve
Meisel, and Moe Levine, Alpha
Epsilon Pi, 21-2, 21-10.
Milt Silberman and Joe Mrn
arovich won the independent
handball doubles crown through
default. They were the only team
still in the double elimination
tournament not to have been de
feated.
Trassinelli and Benedetti, upset
Pi Kappa Alpha’s Art Oberg and
George. Emig, 21-17, 21-20 to
qualify for the finals.
Meisel and Levine came from
behind to defeat a favored Phi
Delta Theta duo of John Hager
man and Bill Luther, 17-21, 21-15,
21-16, to reach the finals.
Silberman and Minarovich
clinched at least a tie for the in
dependent doubles crown by
downing Rudy Federicci and Mike
Callahan, 21-10, 21-9, in the
round-robin tournament.
I Results
Delta Chi and Tau Kappa Ep
silon came through wih first
flight victories in the fraternity
intramural softball tournament,
while the Brown Baggers sur
vived their test on the indepen
dent side 'of the ledger.
Delta Chi did a 13-0 white
wash job on Theta Xi, and Tau
Kappa Epsilon slugged out a 14-
3 victory over Triangle. . The
Brown Baggers rang up a 6-3 tri
umph over the Penn State Club.
A scheduled third game be
tween Theta Kappa Phi and Phi
Kappa Sigma was called be
cause of darkness with the teams
tied at 17-apiece. The game had
been rescheduled for last night.
Phil- Benedetti, who at 5 feet
4 is the smallest irian on the
squad, looms as the prospective
star of the 1950 Penn State la
crosse : team. The Philadelphia
goalie’ was cited ‘by his coach,
Nick Thiel, for outstanding play
against Loyola and Navy.
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Starting Lineup
Softball
Lion Co-captain
Photo by Ken Carter
Bob Louis
Major League Results
American League
• Yesterday’s Results
Chicago, 15; New York, 0
Detroit, 8; Philadelphia, 5
Cleveland, 5; Boston, 4
St. Louis at Washington (night)
Standings
Standings:
W L Pet. W L Pet.
7 3 .700 Cleveland 5 5 .”00
6 4 .600 Chicago 3 5 .375
7 5 .583 St. Louis 3 6 .333
9 7 ,560Phila. 4 9 .307
National League
Yesterday’s Results
Breokyn, 10; Chicago, 2
Pittsburgh, 3; New York, 1
Boston, 12; Cincinnati, 6
Philadelphia at St. Louis, (night) '
Standings:
Detroit
Wnshint’n
New York
Boston
W L Pet. W L Pet.
Brooklyn 9 4 .G 92 Chicago 4 4 .500
Pittsburgh 8 G ,571 Philn. 7 .500
St. Louis 7 6 .538 Cincinnati 4 8 .333
Boston 8 7 .533 New York 2 7 .222
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'Some Changes Made'
If you wander out to Beaver Field one of these afternoons
to take a look at Penn State’s 1950 football team running
through Spring drills, you’ll see there’s been a change. It’s
more than a change to Rip Engle and the winged-T.
There’s a new spirit out on the field, And that’s the
change that has given birth to a revival of hope for the forth
coming Fall grid season.
“We’re going to surprise a
lot of people this Fall,” com
mented one observer who but a
few weeks ago took a dark out
look on the 1950 grid campaign.
It goes almost without saying
that Engle has been the torch that
has lit up the Lions. The gray
haired gridiron sage is a livewire.
And whatever he touches can’t
help being magnetized
Enthusiasm
Engfe’s enthusiasm is such that
sometimes while explaining a
play to one of the assistants or a
ballplayer he gets out of breath
and has to stop to catch up. He’s
so anxious to get close up on a
play that just the other day a back
going in motion bowled him over.
Picking himself up from the
turf and dusting himself off, En
gle moved back a little further
and told the boys to run the play
over again.
“This time I won’t get in the
way,” he said.
Engle himself is. happy about
the spirit of the squad. The team
had practiced for six weeks be
fore I came here, he said, and
now they’re putting in two extra
weeks.
Thanks The Boys '
Turning to a reporter, Engle
commented, “I’d like to thank the
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