The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 07, 1951, Image 6
St tte at erg Open Against W. Marylon 0 D'_nigherly Slated Ito Open On Hill; Two Rookies Mad 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. ~ `:~< ........... ......":~r::........,......,,"'.:`?t~`5ki:~N~:`>`X.3k~....`i<a5"'~.<%ti'M ip.Ui.!'!is...:i:i .• , , •i;fiii . k • . 1 ‘\ ' , . Illav '' ‘-- C;i If it wasn't a well-known fac 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. The CirVO S Dope IGHTON By JAKE 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. lii= Cli):a.M!ngi.N