PAGE Htipi, I Weatherman—So Far—Aids L;ons rep For '5l Baseball Opener This is the first of a series of pre-season articles concerning the 1951 Penn State baseball squad. These articles will attempt to give "spring training" notes and .a position by position prospectus of Coach Joe Bedenk's diamond strength. Coach Joe Bedenk, who is starting hi 9 twenty-first campaign at the helm of the Nit tany baseball squad, has a lot to be thankful for this season as far as the weather is con: DOWN THE "T" ZONE—Henny, Albright, veteran Penn State outfielder, shal , -:ens his batting eye on the "tee" under the stands at Beaver field. Coach Joe Bedenk's charges are gett:ng set for their season's opener with Western Maryland, April 7. SPE Eliminates Phi belts; Creates 'lt' Cage Play-Off Sigma Phi Epsilon eliminated Phi Delta Theta from con tention in fraternity basketball league D Monday. night by posting a 26-10 victory. By winning, SPE tied Beta Sigma Rho for first place, and the play off between these two fives will decide t h e league D champion ship, Another important contest saw Phi Kappa Psi top Sigma Chi, 22-17, and deadlock Alpha Phi Alpha 'for the top spot in league F. In league D, Alpha Sigma Phi turned back Zeta Beta Tau, 25-7, and Delta Tau Delta downed Theta Kappa Phi, 15-6. In league C, Sigma Alpha Mu lost to Phi Gamma Delta, 16-13, Triangle de feated Acacia, 14-12, and Sigma Nu whipped Delta Chi, 26-15. KDR Wins Kappa Delta Rho edged Kappa Sigma, 20-13, in league F, and Tau Phi Delta wo n by forfeit from Alpha Epsilon Pi. The Night Hawks walloped Simmons Hall, 43-9, in indepen dent league D. League E: the Col legians beat the Hawks, 22-9, and the Dogs won by forfeit from the Flunkies . League F: DIR swamped the Warriors, 39-14. and the Crusaders lost to the Phils, 12-9. League G: the Draft Dod gers triumphed over the Screw balls, 14-13, and Englert's 22 points led the Oilers to a 39-10 victory over Ath Hall. The Hes sians of league F bested the Ham ilton B's, 16-7. Conference Group To Weigh TV Ban NEW YORK. March .13—(eP)— The Eastern Collegiate Athletic conference, embracing 91 institu tions, is meeting today to dis cuss television, eligibility and other problems. The group is expected to ex press itself on the NCAA decision in Dallas to ban live television of football games for one year on an experimental basis. Another problem to come up is whether to make freshmen eli gible for the duration of the pre sent emergency. Asa Bushnell, commissioner of the ECAC, said he expected some action on outside athletic competi tion during vacation periods. Basketball play in the Catskill summer resorts drew criticism in the recent widesnread basketball scandal. Sonic of the players in THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA By LOWELL KELLER Raiff Cops H-Ball Sectional Crown In intramural handball action Monday night Rudolph Ralff won the Section "A" championship in the independent league when he beat Daniel Farrell by a score of 21-2, 21-2. He will meet Ross Keith, winner of Section "B", for the independent title this Thurs day. In the fraternity division, five contests were completed between the individual flight winners. Owen Dougherty, Kappa Delta Rho, beat Robert Ward, Theta Kappa Phi, 21-20, 21-17; Edward Hoover, Phi Delta Theta, beat Clarence Buss, Tau Kappa Ep silon, 21-17, 21-8; Arthur Oberg. Pi Kappa Alpha, beat John Wy lie, Phi Kappa Sigma, 21-3, 21-9; Fred Levin, Phi Sigma Delta, beat Allan Pancerev, Phi Kappa Psi, 21-4, 9-21, 21-20; Robert Kol- PIAA Hoop Competition Sends Classy Dist. 7, 11 Teams Into Action HARRISBURG, March 13 (R)— The Class A titles of Districts 7 and 11, two of the largest districts in the State, will be decided to night in the PIAA basketball eli minations. A close battle is expected in District 11 when the Allentown high Canaries defend their Class A title against the surprising St. Clair Saints, winners of the North Schuylkill loop. The Saints beat a favored Mahoney City quintet, GO-58, last week, while the Can aries turned back Palmerton, 74- 55. The Farrell Steelers, beaten only twice this season, will be out for the District 7 title they missed out on last year when they lost to Homestead. Opposing the Steelers will be the polished Monessen Greyhounds, coached volved said they were contacted while working at resort hotels. Last year at this - time there was at least two inches of snow on the Beaver field diamond, and on the first day of spring, Old Main Winter shed four more inches of his snow coat. Season Opener Close So far this season, Bedenk's charges have been out on the field almost every day, and with Penn State's opener with Western Maryland only a little more than three weeks away, the Lion tutor realizes that every day of warm weather will aid his green pitching staff loosen their arms for the twenty-one game grind ahead. Among the veterans Bedenk is counting on this year from the 1950 nine who captured 15 out of .21 tilts, are Captain Bill Ondick in the outfield; Owen Dougherty, pitcher - outfielder, Henry Al bright, outfield; Stan Laganosky, outfield; Chris Tonnery, outfield; Bill ,Hopper, outfield; Carmen Troisi, shortstop, Harry Little, third-base,, Clarence Buss, catch er, and the only returning start ing pitcher, Bill. Bair. Dougherty On Mound From the looks of things, Coach Bedenk will have many a gray hair contending with first base, second base, and the ever-present hurling problems. Owen Dough erty has been working out in this latter capacity along with Bair, and Dick Christensen, a sopho more newcomer. Bair had a per fect 5-0 record in 1950. Of late, Bedenk has been ex perimenting with some of his veteran outfielders at the initial sack to make up for the heavy loss of last year' captain first sacker, Dick Wertz. Wertz led the regulars in hitting with a lusty .356 average. Bill Leonard, varsity footballer, John Vogt, and Bill Hirsch have been working well behind the plate along with Buss, while the remaining infield and outfield slots are still to be filled by the bulk • of candidates. Penn State 1951 Schedule April 7—Western Maryland—home 13—Georgetown—home 14—Georgetown—home 19—Ithaca—home 21—Gettysburg—home . 27—Rutgers—New 13tunswick 28—Lafayette—Easton ➢fay I—Dickinson—home s—West Virginia—(two games) Morgantown B—Navy—Annapolis 11—Colgate—Hamilton 12—Syracuse—(two games) Syracuse 16—Villanova—home 19—Pitt—home 22—Bucknell—Lewisburg 25—Penn—Philadelphia 26—Temple—Philadelphia 29—Bucknell—home arik, Lambda Chi Alpha, beat Arthur Betts, Phi Delta Theta, 21-20,• 21-18. by Frank Janosik The winner of the District 7 finals meets Somerset's Eagles, District 5 champions, Saturday night in the Western Inter-Dis tricts. The Allentown-St. Clair survivor enters the eastern Inter- District competition Satur da y night at the Penn Palestra against the District 1 champion. The Class B district title is also at stake tonight as McAdoo op poses Luzerne at Hazleton. Three Class C regional contests are also on tap for the night. Mt. Joy, District 3, opposes Coplay, District 11, at Slatington while Waymart, District 12, meets Prin gle, District 2, at Wyoming in the East. Coudersport, District 9, takes on Fredonia, District 10, at Brookville. The other Western team, South mont4 of District 6, draws a bye into the western finals on Satur day BALL N. v 4 O NI A BOT Itsr, -- " %kAJAPa rSAI) 0 16 IN - WE cost4o 9 AT 56 100 E sE psot47 1958 NA- w:N r!i The combined hitting 5f Boston Brave outfielder Willard Mar shall and the tight pitching of Max Surkont, Dick Donovan, and Jim my Wilson handed the National league champion Philadelphia Phillies their first exhibition game defeat, 5-3, yesterday at Brandenton, Fla. Marshall, whose season-long batting slump hurt the Braves' pennant hopes last year, pounded two doubles and a single for a perfect day at the plate. The Phils got two runs in the first inning off , Surkont on a walk, a triple by Del Ennis and an error and didn't score again ' until the ninth when they com bined a brace of ,singles with an infield out. * * * * * * * * * The Brooklyn Dodgers over came an eight-run lead to edge the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-10, in an exhibition game at West Palm Beach, Fla. Rookie Rocky Bridges - smacked a three-run homer in the seventh inning to provide the winning margin. Rex Barney, one of the Dodger pitching problems, started for the Bums, but after walking seven, making a wild pitch, and hitting a batter was relieved by Clem Labine. He got only two men out. * * * * * * * * * The - Boston Red Sox exploded for eight runs in. two inninzs to, trample the Detroit Tigers. 11-4, in a pre-season exhibition game at Sarasota, Fla. It was Boston's first victory in three spring exhibitions. The Red Scix mixed ten base hits with nine bases on balls for their runs. Rookies Jim Piersall and Fred Hatfield each slammed doubles with the bases full against the second of three Tizer pitchers. Teddy Gray. * * * * * * * * * Despite two windblown home runs by the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Cardinals sent. the Rhinelanders down to their sec ond straight exhibition baseball defeat, 7-3, yesterday at Tampa, Fla. Rookie Don Richmond, who topped the International league last year in hitting, led the Cardi nal attack by cracking a two-run homer. Grady Hatton and Ted Klus zewski both hit wind -guided fourmasters for the Reds. Ted Wilks, who hurled the first three frames for the Cards, was the winning pitcher. EMI= Eddie Stanky will be in the lineup for the first time this year when the New York Giants meet the Philadelphia Phillies in Clear water today. The veteran second baseman missed his club's first two exhibition games because of a flu attack. For Best Results Use Collegian Classifieds WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951 /MEN Taw 33 COMPLETED PASSES IN ONE GAME WHEN WITH THE PHILA. eLPHIA EAGLES IN 1940. WHO SIGNED A DETROIT . CONTRACT LAST SUMMER, PITCHED A PREP GAME AGAINST HARTFORD HIGH AND &PRICK OUT EVERY' Mir OPy ?WS 27 BATTEX'S 712 r4CI MM. The Ci r c iCS Dope By 808 ScHOELLKOPF NC Compels Basketball Draw NEW YORK, March 13 ViD)-- , The draw was completed today for the National Collegiate Ath letic Association basketball tour nament, opening next week with most of the . nation's ranking teams on the firing line. Seven of the top ten teams in the final associated press poll and 11 of the first 20 are in the field of 16 which will begin play at Raleigh, N.C., and New York March 20 and at Kansas City March 21. The final placement of the six "at large" teams added to-the ten major conference champions was made in a pre-noon trans-contin ental telephone conference of scattered tournament committee members. March 20, at New York—Col umbia (22-0) Ivy league cham pion, vs Illinois (19-3), Big Ten; St. John's (23-3) vs Connecticut (22-3). March 20, at Raleigh, N.C.— Kentucky (27-2), Southeastern, vs Louisville (19-6); North Carolina State (28-4), Southern vs Villa nova (24-5). All Games At Kansas City March 21—Kansas State (21-3), Big Seven, vs Arizona (24-4), Bor der; Brigham Young (24-7), Sky line Six, vs San Jose (18-11). March 22—Oklahoma A. and M. (27-4), Missouri Valley, vs Mon tana State (22-12); Washington (22-5), vs either Texas A. and M. (15-11) or Texas (13-11). Kentucky, No. 1 team in the country in the Associated Press poll, ' probably will go into the tournament a strong favorite. IM:= Out. of the estimated 2000 vet erans enrollbd in the spring se mester of '46, only 59 withdrew before the completion of the term. Of these, 29 left College for hos pitalization in connection with war injuries, 20 left for various reasons, hone of which was poor scholarship, and only ten depart ed for academic failures. e . I `>>s><~<C'f> ' ~'i~>r~ s Ted Wilk* Eastern 'Tournanlent
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