WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951 'ON THE BALL' " eV,0 , 1((;;; 1 • :,-4r 4:Ass N e,,, I Ccf , A;i: Ipg* • • ' s I >•. 4; , • IF EITHER JOE TOCCI or Joe Paterno, Penn State's two New York coaches, were present at the EIWA finals Saturday night they must have felt right at home when the announcer read off each team's "pernts." . . Quite a predicament for Ar] .ppleton who didn't know whom watch when chance matched lean Mulder and Al Paulekas on :parate mats . . . While State's ion Maurey and Columbia's Bob fartman were having it-out, the ig City Lions' blind Gino Man ini was being given a hold-by account by one •of the Co- Imbia managers. When Manfrini first entered the Penn State home locker room he remarked to a friend—" Gee, this place sounds crowded." HAVE ANY TROUBLE pronouncing the name of Syracuse's Lou Tschirhart? Best one we heard was "T-shirt." ... Bill Jeffrey sat in the first row of the balcony stands with his usual dour ex pression. Probably was wondering why a bunch of guys as strong as those below him were not playing soccer ... Joe Rubino, Mike's brother, became so excited after Mike's winning the 177-lb. title that at the conclusion of the bout he jacknifed over the guard rail and plummeted 10 feet to the gym floor in order to be the first to congratulate him. THE AMERICAN FEDERATION\ of Hunters has put out a booklet mentioning numerous safety precautions which the hunter might observe when in the field. We don't know whether the Federa tion was spoofing or not but one of the precautions reads: ... we suggest that every hunter study a large silhouette of a deer and a silhouette of a man before going into the field so that he will be sure he is shooting a deer and not , a man!" IN ACCEPTING the trophy for bantam Ben Hogan as "The Most Courageous Athlete of 1950" at the Philadelphia Sports' Writers dinner some months ago, Jug McSpaden, a pretty good golfer in his own right, related an anecdote which just about sums up Hogan's dogged spirit. "Several years ago," McSpade said, "Ben and I were paired as a doubles entry in a big tournament down South. We had bur oppo nents by a t pretty big lead so I suggested that we go a bit easy and then come through to nip them 6 and 4 or something like that." "Naaaaa," Hogan growled, "let's beat 'em 14 and 4 if we can. I want to get back to the club house and practice my putting." THE BIGGEST LIAR extant in the U.S. apparently is J. Neil Springer of Betteravia. Cal.—and what's more he's proud of his • prevaricative prowess. He is the first:•place winner in the First National Liars contest conducted by Sunset fishing lines of Petaluma, Cal. Springer's "whopper" related to the fish inhabiting the Amargo sa river in Southwestern Nevada. It seems, according to his year, that this fish blows a large bubble, crawls inside, lets it fill with water, then seals the opening. By swimming to one side, the fish makes the bubble roll in one direction, 'thus traveling from pool to pool. The people living in that part of Nevada, according to Mr. Springer, do their fishing with air rifles, shooting at the bubbles as they roll across the sand. AL CLARK, sports editor of the Harrisburg Patriot-News, has suggested some sort of a testimonial for Central Pennsylvania's four deans of coaching. He mentions Bill Jeffrey, 57, Penn State, who has coached soccer here for 25 years and produced 52 All- Americans in that period; Jimmy .Curran, 71, Mercersburg, who spans 41 years and three generations of track stars; Ira Plank, who, at 68, is about to commence his 39th campaign as baseball coach at Gettysburg college, and A. A. Stagg, 88, advisory coach at Susque hanna university. These coaches are not only the deans of their sports in this vicinity, but are probably the (deans of their respec- Hire sports nationally. NOW You Can Get • 1.7 Pattons Delicious Daily Until Closing Time HOAGI ES Pattons 129 S. Pugh St. At The TUB By RAY KOEHLER Sports Editor Along_ The Lions' Trail THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Bosox' Parnell Figures Fenway Park 'Just Another Ball Fi-Id' SARASOTA, Fla., March 13— (fl) Mention Fen wa y park to most American league southpaw pitchers and you start cold shivers running down their spines. But this oddly shaped Boston Red Sox ballyard with its cozy left field wall holds no 'terrors for Mel Parnell. This lefthander actually thrives on pitching there. "Other lefties often have asked me what's the secret of my suc cess in Fenway," Parnell obser ved. "My answer also has been that there is no secret to it. Just pitch like you do in any other ball park and don't even think about the wall. "But they don't do that," the Red Sox pitching ace continued. "That wall has become a mental hazard for them—especially when a righthanded hitter comes to bat. "The first mistake they make is to pitch outside to those hitters. ,Before they know it they are behind and must come through with that fat pitch or lose their man, then, barn, and up against the wall she goes." What is Parnell's secret? How does he manage to win so consis tently in Fenway park, where only two visiting lefthanders have managed to go the route and win in the last two years? "Pitch to their strength," he answered. "I know the fellow l up there is taking dead aim at that wall and he's going to try to knock the cover off the first pitch that looks good to him. So I let him have it, inside, just where he wants it. Pressure On Man At Plate "I give him that big windup for a fast ball, but I pull the string a little. So anxious is he to connect, he's swinging from the heels. Usually he just taps the ball weakly on the ground or lifts an easy • fly in the air. I figure the pressure is on him, not on me." Parnell won 18 games last year but considers it a bad season—for him. The slender 28-year-old New Orleans native registered 25 vic tories in 1949 to come within a whisker of winning the pennant for the Red Sox. All candidates for Penn Slate's golf team should re port to the caddy house today through Friday from I to 5 p.m.. Coach Bob Rutherford announced yesterday. IM Handball Entry Deadline Monday Entries for the intramural handball doubles tournament must be turned in to the intra mural office in Rec hall no later than Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. As in the singles tourna ment, each organization may en ter two teams in competition. Separate tournaments are sche duled for both fraternity and in dependent entries. There will be a $.50 fee for each entry. Here Extra Attention . . . . Costs Nothing Extra! itik?• .1"4 Our work is unhurried enough to da a careful job, yet rapid enough to get you groomed in the least time. Four barbers always here to serve you. t op HARTMAN . BARBER SHOP State College Hotel Get Behind Batter Golf Candidates Service Timed Right Intramural Volleyball Tourney Deadline Entry Set For Monday All entries for the intramural volleyball tournament must be turned in at the intramural office in Rec hall no later than 4:30 p.m. Monday, Clarence "Dutch" Sykes, assistant director, announced. Separate competition will be provided for fraternity and inde pendent entries. Any organiza tion may enter two teams, but if two are entered, one must be designated as the "A" team and the other as the "B" team. A ros ter of ten names should be sub mitted with each entry. The teams will be divided into leagues and the competition will be of the round-robin type; the individual league winners then competing against the other. There is an entry fee of $l.OO per team. CATHOLIC CAGE GAMES LITTLE FALLS, N.Y., March 13 (JP)—St. Joseph's collegiate in stitute of Buffalo is seeded num ber one in the New York state Catholic high school basketball tournament opening here Thurs day. Van Heusen PRODUCTS exclusive with HUR'S MEN'S SHOP E. College Ave. PAGE SEVEN Mangrum Up Front In Seminole Golf PALM BEACH, Fla., March 13 (W . )—While some of his opponents faltered, Lloyd Mangrum came through wind and rain and some of the toughest golf traps in Flori da to snatch a two-stroke lead to day in the $lO,OOO Seminole golf tournament. The slender Chicagoan, defin itely back in the groove after finishing out of the money in last week's Miami Beach open, judged all his shots perfectly as he whit tled five strokes off par for the Seminole seaside course for a 67 and a 36-hole total of 136. That put him two strokes up on Ben Hogan of Hershey, Pa., who is back on the tournament trail after a six weeks layoff, and Pete Cooper of Ponte Verda, Fla. State College
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