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The Penn State varsity base
ball squad will raise the curtain
on its 1951 baseball campaign
this afternoon against the West
ern Maryland Green Terrors on
Beaver Field. Game time is
slated for 2:30 o'clock.
Coach Joe Bedenk of the Nit
tany Lions, starting h twenty
first year as mentor of the nine,
said his starting line-up will re
main unchanged, which means
that six outfielders will occupy
first-line positions. Henry Al
bright, Sil Cerchie, and Bill Hop
per will be the regular outer
gardeners, while three former
outfielders will hold down other
positions.
Owen Doughety, who, started
last year's opener against the
same Terrors in right field, is
slated to toe the mound today
for the Lions. Bedenk shifted the
southpaw hurler to his pitching
corps this year because of the
shortage of capable twirlers. The
Dunmore ace has a blazing fast
ball, but still must work on his
control.
Transplanted Infielders
The two other iiy-chasers who
uere transplanted to the inner
cordon this spring will be Stan
Laganosky at first base, and
Chris Tonnery at third base. Ton
nery also was being groomed as
one of Bedenk's hurlers, but he
was called back to the hot corner
when Harry Little, 1950's regu
lar third-sacker, went overseas
with the soccer team.
Rounding out the infield will
be Bill Mihalich, who edged out
Jim Pollard for the keystone as
signment, and Paul Mowry, the
dark-haired Meshoppen speed
ster at shortstop. Both Mihalich
and Mowry were on the squad
last year, but did not see enough
service to earn varsity letters.
Bill Leonard, from State Col
lege, will be behind the plate.
He and Cerchie will be the only
newcomers to dent the starting
line-up.
Cerckeie Fa Swifty -
Cerchie is the speed merchant
from Elkland, Pa., who has. glit
tered in practices. Sil posseses a
powerful pair of wrists, and most
of his power lies in the left-cen
ter field sector.
Should Dougherty's control fail
him this afternoon, Bedenk will
have three fine sophomore con
trol artists ready for action. Jack
Krumrine, another local product,
Dick Christiansen, from Warren,
and Tom Campbell, from Potts
ville, will be in the sources of
relief.
In last year's opener, the Mary
landers dropped an 11-0 decision
to the Nittanyites in a game
halted after six innings because
of snow.
Probable Starring Line-ups
Penn State Western Maryland
Albright,lf Kaufman,lb
Tonnery,3b Aeof f,ss
Cerchie,cf Tereshenski,3b
Shook,rr
Hopper,rf
Laganosky,l b Fones,cf
Mowry,ss
Mihalich,26
Uriong
Clingerman.2b
Leonardx
Dotittherty,p
Spenceroe
Johngon,p
24 Teams Notch
IM V-Ball Wins
Eighteen independent teams
and six fraternity teams partici
pated in IM volleyball play
Thursday night.
In the independent league Nit
tany Co=op-A beat Dorm 21 two
out of three, 12-15, 15-10, 15-12;
the Marauders conquered Beaver
House-A, 15-1, 5-15, 15-6; the
Warriors eked out two wins over
the Aces, 15-4, 3-15, 15-13, and
Beaver House-B dropped Altoona
by 15-2, 14-16, 15-6 scores.
Double game winners for the
independents were the Ridge
Runners, Chem Eng, and the
Wildcats, who defeated the Be
To's, Penn State Club, and the
Gobs, respectively.
Jordan Hall had a tough time
with the Bees, but finally won
out. In the first game the Bees
scored a 15-11 dec' - ion, but the
Jordan boys rallied to win the
Southpaw Twirler And Tutors
OWEN DOUGHERTY: Penn State's lone lefthanded pitcher, will
be on the mound this afternoon when the Nittanies open their 1951
baseball season against Western Maryland on Beaver field.
All In A ony's Work .. .
Lion Golf Vets Have Won
State, Local Recognition
When Penn State's golf team open its season with Lehigh , on
April 14th., Coach Bob Rutherford's card will include several vet
eran letter-winners "who have gained both local and state recog-
nition.
Captain Joe Durniak, while in
ment at the North Park country
club, in Beaver Falls. He also
played in the finals of the Black
Hawk club championship tour
ney in Pittsburgh.
The 1950 Greensburg city
championship was won by George
Mazanowski after he earned his
first letter at State in 1949.
Robby All-College Champ
Ted Robertson played four
years varsity in high school. He
also appeared in the Pennsyl
vania Public links tourney and
the National Junior college tour
ney. Last year he was the win
ner of, the All-C olle g e golf
tournament.
The Centre Hills country club
invitation best ball tournament
of 1950 was won by Ray Artz
and his partner. Previously Ray
had reached the finals of the
Williamsport country club invi
tation tournament.
New York Biffer
Marvin Goldenberg played
four years of high school compe
tition and also appeared in the
Queens interscholastic tourney,
the Metropolitan New York tour
ney, and the Long Island junior
tourney.
Bob Kunkle was runner-up in
the Western Pennsylvania junior
tournament in 1948. Last sum
mer he and his brother placed
second in the Western Pennsyl
vania two ball, best ball tourna--
ment at the Oakmont country
club.
Penn State's all-winning log ;n
1951 marked the 11th unbeaten
campaign in Nittany Lion wrest
ling history.
remaining two games 15-12 Nand
16-14.
Nittany Co-op-B team won by
forfeit from the Crusaders.
In fraternity competition Beta
Sigma Rho-B topped Beta Theta
Pi-B 15-4. 15-12. ATO-B won 15-
11, 15-12 from Sigma Phi Epsilon-
B after dropping the first game
16-18. Phi Kappa Psi-B won
easily from Phi Kappa-A, 15-4
and 15-8.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE CULT GE, PEN.NSYLVANIA
By VIRGINIA MAYES
high school, won a Junior tourna-
Seven Varsity Riflers
Fire in ICRA's Today
Seven varsity riflemen left
yesterday afternoon to com
pete in the Intercollegiate rifle
tournament today at the 'Uni
versity of Maryland, College
Park, Md. Coach Felipe Vias
and Manager Joe Hartman ac
companied the team.
_Walt Beers, Nelson Bevard,
Sam Carnahan, Rod Ingleright,
John Stoud.t Fred Wessman,
and Dick White will compete
for the Nittany sharpshooters.
Individual championships will
be decided this morning. Team
champions will be crowned af
ter this morning's firings.
Because of traveling diffi
culties, tournaments will be
held throughout the country
with scores being tabulated
and exchanged.
Last year Army's Cadets
won the national champion
ship with a 1417 score.
Raidy Elected
Fencing Leader
Tall, slender, epee-specialist
Pete Raidy will captain the 1952
fencing squad for the Nittany
Lions as a result of Thursday
night's lettermen vote.
Raidy succeeds Ed Merek as
captain.
The following athletes were
awarded monograms for the first
time: epeemen, Lou Como, Bob
Whitman; foilthen, Joe Taylor;
Joe Kusick; sabermen, Jer r y
Clauser, and Charles Ricker. Re
cipients of monograms for the
second time were: sabermen, Ed
Merek, Bob Searles; foilsman,
Gene Goldbloom; epeemen, Cap
tain Raidy, and Ed Kalanik.
Pete Fairchok will succeed Don
Love as head manager for the '52
season. He will be assisted by
Joe Wirs, Bud Goldberg, and
Andy Wilson.
Gross Battles Way
Into NCAA Finals
Frank Gross moves into the finals of the NCAA Boxing tourna
ment in East Lansing, Mich. tonight by virtue of his unanimous deci
sion over South Carolina's Charlie Davis, in'the 135-Ib. class last night.
In the finals tonight, Gross will
tangle with the defending cham
pion in that weight last year,
Everett Conley of Washington
State. Conley defeated John Al
barano in last year's semi-finals.
Gfoss and Davis staged an
even fight through the first
round, with Gross turning on the
steam in the second. By the third
round, Davis had tired badly, and
Gross was landing his right with
telling effectiveness.
Gross Holds State's Hopes ,
Gross kept Penn State's hopes
of salvaging some glory from
the tourney alive by his semi
final victory last night. Previous
ly Penn State's other entries
were eliminated via decisions.
John Albarano lost a split deci
sion to Danny Orsak of Louisiana
State; Lou Koszarek was elimi
nated by Nick Diez, Sin Jose
State's 165-lb. entry; and Sam
Marino dropped his 125-Ib. bout
with Frank Echevarria of Gon
zaga university.
Gross, who is fighting his last
fight for the Nittany Lions to
night, is going all out to gain
some of the glory he could not
quite reach in the Eastern' Inter
collegiates. His only defeats this
season have been at the hands of
Virginia's Grover Masterson,
once in a dual meet, and again in
the EIBA's.
His old nemesis, Masterson,
was not elegible for the national
tourney because of the three year
varsity limit imposed by the
NCAA.
Stickmen Engage
In Intersquid Tilt
This Afternoon
Coach Nick Thiel's 1951 edition
of the Penn State lacrosse team
will hold an intersquad scrim-,
mage this afternoon at 1:30
o'clock on the lacrosse practice
field in preparation for its opener
with Western Maryland on April
13.
"We're a little ahead of our
selves at the present time as
far as development goes," Thiel
stated. "What we need now is
a few scrimmages with foreign
teams."
Starling Lineups
Thiel announced the starting
lineups for the squads that will
take the field today. For team
"A" the goalie position will be
handled by dependable Phil
Benedetti. Holding down the
close attack spots will be John
Walker, Jim Reed, and Ed Herr
ing. The last two are lettermen.
At the defense positions will
be Vance Scout, another letter
man, Dan Grove, and John Hen
ry.
Rounding out the starting ten
will be the midfielders who will
lineup with Jack Wilcox, Bud
Wolfram, and Jim Fulton. Both
Wilcox and Wolfram earned let
ters last year.
The "B' squad will open with
Dale Sheffer at goalie and Barr
Asplundh, John Amber, and Jay
Stone at defense. Starting at close
attack will be Bernie Henderson,
Dick Rostmeyer, and Don Wat
kins. Like the defense trio, all
the attackmen are nowlettermen.
At midfield will be letterman
Paul Raffensperger, Bob Koons,
and another letterman, Tony
Eagle.
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leave the pan after the start of tl-
Sox might today be redhot choi
pennant.
The Pale Hose continued their
amazing grapefruit circuit suc
cess yesterday when they staged
a two-run rally
in the eighth in-
ning to squeeze
past the Boston
Braves,' 3-2, in
Monroe, La.
En route to
their 19th win in
2 4 e x hibition
starts, the White
So x' southpaw
Bill Pierce went
the distance neatly spacing 11
Brave hits.
However, it was rookie Jim
Busby who provided the impor
tant stick work. The promising
outfielder tripled behind Zernial's
double (Gus is apparently recover
ed from his shoulder trouble),
and Ed Robinson's walk in the
2-1 deficit erasing eighth.
Manager Luke Sewell of the
Cincinnati Reds had additional
reason to smile yesterday in Jack
sonville when he found still an
other pitcher beside Blackwell and
Raffensberger stingy with the base
hits.
In the Redleg's 4-2 win over the
sad-sack Washington Senators,
big, righthanded Howie Fox al
lowed only five bingles.
Ted Kluszewski continued to
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951
By ART BENNING
Ninth Win This Season
In winning last night, Gross
brought his season's record to
nine wins as against two defeats.
Tonight's bout will be Gross'
twenty-first for the Blue and
White. His over-all record is 13-7.
Gross competed in last year's
NCAA's at 145-lbs.; and was
eliminated by Eldon Long of
Washington State in the prelim
inaries.
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that spring training flashes• soon
e regular season, Chicago's White
es to cop the American. League
Schedule Problems
Marr H-Ball Play
Postponements an d forfeits
limited action to two games in
the intramural doubles handball
tournament, Thursday night.
In the two games played, Art
Betts and Ed Hoover, Phi Delta
Theta, beat Harry Rintz and
James Harshberger, Pi Kappa Al
pha,. 21-7, 21-11, and Freeman
Singer and Israel Dinner, Phi Sig
ma Delta, beat Edward Donahue
and _Allen Marshall, Delta Tau
Deltd, 21-4, 21-9. •
Stanley Vitt and Harvey Rob
bins, Alpha Epsilon Pi, won by
forfeit from Ronald Coder and
Alan McChesney, Phi Kappa
Sigma.
terrorize opposition chuckers with
a home run (his fifth) and a single.
GRAPEFRUIT SQUIRTS:
Hoot Evers' three home runs
and Diz Trout's five hit hurling
gave -Detroit an 11-0 win over
the Memphis Chicks . . . The
Red Sox got some unusually
fine pitching to stymie Augusta,
12-0. Ellis Kinder applied the
whitewash . . Monte Irwin
crashed two homers in the
Giant's 10-9 win over Cleve
land. Feller was rudely shelled.
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