‘Batter Up' Calls Sixteen Big league Teams Into Pennant Contention Today It will be “batter up”'for all into high gear with a full schedul That is, if the weatherman is washed out and the other was played in weather better suited for football. ... . / The largest crowd is expected for the New York Yankee-Boston Red Sox game in Yankee stadium. Fifty-five thousand fans are ex pected to be on hand to see Bill Wight of the Sox face big Vic Raschi of the Yanks. It will be the first look at rookie wonder Mickey Mantle, by. the Yankee home fans. The big interest in the National league will be in the two games in the east where the four teams listed as contenders for the flag will clash. Top billing . probably belongs to the Brooklyn Dodgers- Philadelphia Phillies battle in Brooklyn. The Dodgers will send Carl Erskine against the National league champs’ Robin Roberts, twenty-game winner last year. Thirty thousand' are expected. Bickford To Start Boston’s Braves will send Vern Bickford to the mound against the New York Giants in Boston before an expected crowd of 20,000.- Manager Leoi -Durocher will counter with righty Larry Jansen. The other senior loop games f.i n d St. Louis invading Pitts burgh and Cincinnati traveling to Chicago. Pittsburgh will try to make it two straight, having beaten Cincy amid snow flurries yesterday. The Pirates will send ! lurry Dickson against TomPo holsky, a rookie, of the Cards. thousand are expected to be on hand. Ken Raffensberger will face the Cubs and his mound rival will be Frank Hiller. Expected atten dance is 28,000. The first night opener in American League history will pit ■the Washington Senators against he Philadelphia Athletics in the Quaker City before 10,000. Bob K.uzava will hurl for Washing ton against Bobby Shantz. Indians Meet Tigers Cleveland and Detroit will match talents in Detroit with 54,000 expected to watch the pro ceedings. Bob Lemon, top win ner in the majors'a year ago, will lace Hal Newhouser. The final contest will be played at St. Louis with the Brownies claying host to the Chicago White Sox. Ned Garver will pitch for the Browns'' against Chicago’s Bill Pierce. The attendance is expected to be 15,000. The total attendance at the eight games is expected to be close to 242,000. Both races stack up as three team affairs with one other team in each league given an outside chance. In the American loop, New York, Boston, and Cleveland figure to make strong runs for the flag with Detroit given a chance to break in. Brooklyn, New York, and Phil adelphia are favored to grab off the top three spots in the na tional. Boston is the dark horse. Mantle Still No DiMag—Henrich NEW YORK, April 16—(API- Just how good is Mickey Mantle? For the benefit of those who have been too engrossed in the President Truman - Gen. MacAr thur rhubarb to read the sports pages lately. Mantle is the sensa tional youngster who has made the big jump from class C to the New York Yankees in one season. Nearly all who have seen the 19-year-old lad from Commerce, Okla., have hailed him as the rookie of the generation. Those who haven’t seen him can’t be lieve what they’ve heard. Those who have, find it hard to believe their eyes. Henrich Tutor An opinion worth considering is that of Tommy Henrich, the Yan kee outfield coach who was some thing of a slugger in his own right. Henrich has been handed the as signment of tea'ching Mantle, a natural shortstop, all the tricks of the outfield. "l hate to disillusion you,” the over-frank Henrich said.' “Mantle is a rare youngster. He has great potential. He is one of the finest looking kids I have ever seen. But By JOE BREU . . 16 major league baseball teams today as both pennant -races swing le of four' games apiece. i ' ; in. a better mood today than he was yesterday when one game was Flag Winning Managers Casey Stengel Eddie Sawyer NCAA Committee To Study Grid TV CHICAGO, April 16 (/P)—The television committee of the Na tional Collegiate Athletic associa tion will meet in- Washington Wednesday to study proposed ex perimental football television next fall. ■ _ . The NCAA headquarters here confirmed scheduling of the meeting, but said details of the 12-man session would have to be announced by Tom Hamilton, Pittsburgh, committee chairman. Previously, it had been expect ed the meeting would be held ip Chicago following outlining of a steering committee’s plan for test telecasting last week at New Haven, Conn. Earlier this month, the steer ing committee had met in Wash ington to explain the status of the anti-video football ban voted by the NCAA at its annual con vention in Dallas, Tex., last Jan uary. The convention ban, however, left an opening for experimental televising. In the wake of con stant pressure by state legislators and other factions, the NCAA has turned more and more attention to the experimental possibilities. this stuff about his being another Joe DiMaggio at the plate, another Ty Cobb on the bases and a future Tris Speaker in the outfield is just so much bunk. “It just goes to show you what publicity can do. Only a iew months ago, Mantle was playing at Joplin. He was doing the same things he is doing today. But no body ever heard of him. Just be- THE DAILY CO- r '' T • '■' r \’ n £ State Linksmen Defeat Lehigh In’ Steady Rain Penn State’s golf team cap tured it’s opening- match Satur day with a win over Lehigh, 5% to 3%. A surprising number of,, fans braved a cold wind and steady downpour to watch the Blue and White golfers conquer a, pre viously undefeated Lehigh team on the Nittany links. The visiting team brought only six men, thus requiring the match to be scored on a nine point basis instead of the usual seven 'pc'..its. Three points are for best ball and the remaining six were individual. Number one man for Penn State was Ted Robertson who defeated Dave Baldwin six and five. Jack Wylie, in his first ap pearance with the Nittany var sity, lost to Larry Carpenter who topped him six and four. Lehigh won the best ball one up. Tom Crampton secured a point for the Brown and White by de feating State’s Captain Joe.Dur niak two and one. George Maz anowski defeated Lehigh’s Bob Kiesling five and four. Both Crampton and Mazanowski bird ied the eighteenth hole to tie for best ball. Ray Artz scored another point for State by defeating Larry Lund six and five. A newcomer to Pehn State’s squad, Hud Samson, de feated Cliff Lasto six and five. Penn State won the best ball six and five. In spite of the unfavorable conditions remarkably good scores were turned in. Robert son’s medal score—7o—was only one over par. Larry Carpenter, of Lehigh, came very close with a 71. Phils Sell Donnelly To Boston Staves PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (AP) Blix Donnelly, veteran righthanded pitcher, was sold by the Philadelphia Phillies today to the Boston Braves. The purchase price was not dis closed but it was understood the figures were in the neighborhood of the $lO,OOO waiver price. Donnelly, 36, came to the Phils in the middle of the 1946 season from the St. Louis Cardinals. He was used chiefly in relief roles, appearing in 14 games last season for a record of two victories and four defeats.. cause he’s with the Yankees, he becomes the marvel of the age. Such stuff may hurt the young ster. ' “Sure, Mickey has a lot of power and he runs like a scared rabbit. But nobody knows how good he is. Why not wait until he faces big league pitching when it counts. What everybody forgets is that he hasn’t played a major league game iyet. “Mantle has lots to learn. He hits with amazing power but he can be fooled by certain pitches. Maybe not too often, though. And he has more to learn about out fielding. He must learn how- to Adapt himself to different situa tions.” How does Mantle compare to DiMaggio when Joe broke in 15 years ago? “There is no comparison,” an swered Henrich. “Mantle is a raw youngster who appears to have a great future. Joe was a finished player when he came up. Not only in the field but at the plate. There was only one Joe DiMaggio.” Robby Tops Baldwin Lois lo Learn :t t t t sylva;?2A Lacrossers Whip W. Md., Fall Before Navy, 10-1 Amig Defaults In IM Wrestling Don Amig, Tau Phi Delta’s de fending 145-lb. ; champion, unex pectedly bowed, out of the IM wrestling tournament in last night’s action at Rec hall. V Amig defaulted midway in the second period to John " McCall, ATO. Before the default, it look ed like a battle between Amig and A 1 Pancerev, Phi Kappa Psi, for the 155 honors. Pancerev' re mained unbeaten last night when he pinned Jim'Miller, KDR, in 4:46. Other action in the 155 class saw Bob Pawloski, Kappa Sigma, pin Carl Liachowitz, ZBT, in 3:30; and Vic Straub, Phi Kappa, won by forfeit over Bob McFadden, Phi Kappa Tau. 165 Class Three decisions and a pin regis- :ered in the 165-pound class, Bob Gower, ATO, decisioned Rich Style, SAM, 9-1; Joe Policastro, TKE, defeated Dick Cameron, Beta Theta Pi, 5-0; Marv Bor ing, Phi Psi, defeated Sam Sand ers, Triangle, 7-4; and in the lone fall of this division, Bob Far quhar.-Phi Gamma Delta, pinned Ed Barber, Delta Chi, in 2:30.. In the 175 class, • only two matches .were Scheduled. Will Luridgren, ATO, ’ edged' Ted Geary, Phi Gamma Delta, 4-2. In, the other bout Jim Diehl, Sigma Nu, won a forfeit- over Phi Psi’s Link Van Sickle. •Heavyweights . The heavyweight class saw Les Burdette, Delta Theta. Sigma, and Bob Smith, -Beta Theta'Pi, ad vance to the semi-finals, in this, class:. Bufdette>'pinned'* Pat Mc- Poland, KDR, ih : 2:sB while Smith did the same to. Allan Weise, Phi Kappa Tau.. 1 :, Tom Runyan; Delta Chi, and John Baffa, DU, also advanced to the semi-finals in the 12! class. Baffa pinned Charlie' Webb, Tri angle, while. Runyan decisioned Fred Fieni, Theta Chi, 5-3. ::.;In the; 128 • class,. Tom Lukas, Phi Kappa Sigma, edged Frank Randazzo, Alpha Phi Delta, 2-0; and George Hamilton, Beta house, pinned Ed Smith, Phi Delta The ta, 1 in 4:51. In the 145 class, Dick Rost meyer, Phi Psi, pinned Dick Mc- Quillen, Sigma Chi, and Jim Han cock, Phi Sigma Kappa, also pirn ned Norm Gage, Phi Delta Theta. In the other match of the eve ning, Bill - Sundius, Theta.-Kappa; Phi, edged Dave .'.CoTtori; - TKE, ' Only two matches were run off in the independent section. John Clark, 145, pinned John' Note, three seconds before, the final whistle to’register a victory over his opponent Ron Miller, 135, won his second straight match when he decisioned. Patti 'Whip key, 9-2. In another bout ,in the same class, Frank Wallis decision ed Doyle Corman, 7-4. TUESDAY, APRIL 17. 1,95! Penn State’s lacrosse team split its opening tw;o games , with West ern Maryland and Navy this past weekend as Coach’Nick Thiel opened his 17th season as lacrosse coach at Penn State* - v The Lions literally wiped West ern Maryland off the'field, 17-0, at Westminster, Friday, afternoon. However, State fared badly at Annapolis against the en Middies as the Midshipmen bounced them, 10-1, Saturday. State opened'up with three goals inside three minutes against the Green Terrors. Midfielder Bud Wolfram scored two of. these; one came, at 2:59 While the' other crashed the nets, at 4:35. John Wil cox sandwiched, the other goal be tween Wolfram’spairat 3:12. John Walker and Bob Koons also tallied in this period as the Lions led, 5-0. The second quarter told the same story for the Lions as they pounded six more shots into the Western Maryland nets. All of\the" State scores came within three minutes of each other except the first.., Epenshade Hurts Leg Jack Espenshade, of Phila delphia,,was lost to .the Penn State lacrosse team for the season when he suffered a leg fracture in the opening game, against Western Maryland. He was admitted to the Union Memorial Hospital, Bal timore, after the game, where he will remain .until; later,' in the week. . Dan Grove, of State College, also suffered .m cheek injury in the opening game but is ex pected to return to the lineup in another week. State also began second-half scoring in quick fashion when John'‘Walker tallied just. 30 sec onds after the-face-off,. Three more goals by Paul; KaffShsperger and W.ayne .Hockersmith, who .tallied twice; gave the Lions a 15-0 lead at: the three-qparter: mark. Two additional tallies in the last quar ter gave Penn State its 17-0 vic tory. Against the Middies; Thiei’s team didn’t play too badly. State made the grave mistake at the start ;of haying its midfielders come out-to meet the attacking Navy team. This opened up a gap in the defense which the'Middies promptly took advantage of. / Navy Scores First Navy’s Charlie McDonough pushed the first one through at o:ss:.This counter was quickly fol lowed by goals by Bob Burch and Larry-Treadwell. After a lapse of 17 minutes, in which the Lion de fense tightened, Treadwell scored again. Bill Earl then finished up the first half scoring with a goal at 26:12. . State showed some signs of com ing back in the second half when Bud Wolfram took a. pass. from John Wilcox to register for the Lions. Phil Benedetti, goalie for the Nittany Lions, gave a superb dem onstration at that position as he turned away no less than 33 Navy shots.
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