WEDNESDAY. APRIL 2S, 1951
Old Coaches Never Die—They Fade Away
By RAY KOEHLER
Collegian Sports Editor
Although they may not realize it, there is a cross
section ot humanity banded together for the sake of
mutual admiration and protection which might well
bear the slogan—•".Dicers, Inc."
No business society this, however, but an intrepid
group of diehards called coaches who stand related
through this mutual "occupational hazard."
While today it is the athlete who revels in the public
eye, here is often a far more colorful figure behind his
achievements—his coach. And the shame of it is that
more of the public can not see or hear what goes on
around a varsity bench while an athletic contest is
underway. '
..What with the pressure that modern coaches are
under, it is of small wonder that so many develop
comic routines to buoy their' spirits. Those'who take
the game too seriously wind up as.a page in a psychi
atrists case-history book.
Although he may be cussed at in one breath and
then praised with the next, there is something about
the game which holds him. The average coach has no
more chance breaking away from sports than a dope
addict has of swearing off morphine.
. They couldn't give up sports even if they were
headed for the fate described in a banquet story by
LaSalle's Ken Loeffler. It seems that a coach had died
and gone to purgatory. There, along with a number'
of other compatriots in crime, he was . made to stand
in a sewer up to his chin. "What have we done to de
serve this?" he lamented to the man on his left.
"This is a horrible punishment."
"This is nothing," the other fellow told him. "Wait‘ll
the alumni come by in speedboats!"
Let's take a trip up on Beaver
Mikan Heads
NBA All-Star
Cage Selections
NEW YORK, April 23 (£>)—
Gebrge Mikan, basketball’s “Mr.
Big” in every respect, today head
ed the National Basketball asso
ciation’s all-star squad.
Mikan, the Minneapolis great,
was the only unanimous choice of
the team which was picked by
sports writers and sportscasters
throughout the circuit.
The first team:
George Mikan, Minneapolis.
Ed Macauley, Boston.
Bob Davies, Rochester.
Alex Groza, Indianapolis.
Ralph Beard, Indianapolis.
The second team:
Dolph Schayes, Syracuse.
Joe Fulks, Philadelphia.
Frank Brian, Tri-Cities,
Vern Mikkelson, Minneapolis.
Dick McGuire, New York.
Each player on the first team
will receive . $2OO. Second-team
choices will collect $lOO.
Today's Major
League Pitchers
NEW YORK; yp) Probable
pitchers for today’s major league
games (won-lost records in par
entheses):
National League—New York at
Philadelphia Jansen (1-1) ■Os
Heintzelman . (0-1). Boston at
Brooklyn (night)—Bickford (1-1)
vs Newcombe (2-0). Chicago at
Cincinnati (night)—Minner (1-0)
vs Fox (1-0). Pittsburgh at St.
Louis (night)—Chambers (1-1) vs
Poholsky (0-1).
American League—St. Louis at
Chicago (2) —Widmar (0-1) and
Starr (0-1) vs Gumpert (1-0) and
Dobson (0-0). Philadelphia at
New York—Kellner (1-0) vs Shea
(0-0). Washington at Boston —
Marrero (1-0) or Consuegra (1-0)
vs Parnell (0-1). (Only games
scheduled)
Tennis
(continued, from page six)
starting lineup will be Dick Wie
land as No. 2 man, Bill Aiken,
No. 3; Ed Davis, No. 4; Bill Wood,
No. 5; and either Gus,Bigott or
Forrey as No. 6.
Landon and Wieland will form
the No. 1 doubles combination.
Handling the No. 2 team chores
will be Aiken and Davis, while
Bigott and Wood will compose the
No. 3 twosome.
Penn State’s 58-year-old coach,
Bill Jeffrey, is earning a reputa
tion as America’s No. 1 soccer
emissary. His tour of’ Iran
with the Nittany Lion eleven
marks his fourth foreign ex
cursion since 1934. He went to
Scotland in 1934, Italy in 1945,
and Brazil in 1956.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
A pessimist by nature when it comes to basketball.
Gross usually looks on the dark side of things before
the season opens. "We'll be lucky to win five ball
games," he said at the beginning of the 1950-'5l court
season in which he. won 14 contests.
Boxing mentor Ed Sulkowski coaches like ,Joe Louis
looks— dead-panned. But just as soon as a round ends
you'll see him running up those ring steps at a
mile-a-minuie pace all the while giving- his fighter
the scoop. While on the bench you couldn't tell from
his face whether his fighter was winning or losing.
Oggie Marlella, assistant boxing coach, tells this
one on himself. It happened while he was playing
Class A Eastern League baseball for Utica. Seems as
though for several weeks during one particular sea
★★★ ’ ★
He Made If- Which Is My Man?
field to the home
★ ★
Goodness ...
Elmer Gross
Gavilctn Given
Draft Physical
NEW YORK, April 23 (JP)
Kid Gavilan, Cuban welterweight
contender who meets NBA wel
terweight champion Johnny Brat
ton May 18, was' given a pre
induction physical examination
today. He was ordered to report
tomorrow to Fort Jay Bgse hos
pital at Governors island for fur
ther medical examinations.
An office at the Army’s pre
induction center said that in all
probability Gavilan will be de
ferred because he is married and
has a seven-months old child. He
underwent the same tests last
Aug. 31 and was deferred until
today.
Gavilan and Bratton are sched
uled to fight in Madison Square
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baseball dugoul and look in at Coach Joe Bedenk
with his Continual line of chatter.
"Holy smokes," as his favorite expression goes, "I
don't know what it is with you guys. Second base is -
still in the middle of the diamond, they haven't
changed it for 112 years." or "Holy cripes, Howard,"
he'll chirp to an umpire he's known for years.
To an opposing pitcher entering the game in a light
spot he'll sympathize: "Hey, pitch, this is a pretty
tough spot to come into. Those men on the bases
aren't your friends. I wouldn't Jike to be in your
shoes." Then Chuck Medlar, assistant coach, will
chime in—" Ah-h-h, quit yer cryin' pitcher, you'll
know when its over by the crack of the bat."
An extreme opposite is - basketball Coach Elmer
Gross who probably wouldn't wink an eyelid if the
Rec Hall roof started caving in during a game. Indeed,
Gross is so nonchalant—even during the most exciting
moments of a game—that he gives one the impression
of his going to sleep.
Eddie Sulkowski
Pass It Laddie
garden on the 18th. The New
York commission will recognize
the winner as world champion.
Bill Jeffrey
d pop •••
son Oggie just couldn't buy a hit. This forced Eddie
Sawyer, then managing the club, to bench him.
During a closely-contested game with the score
tied, a runner on the base-paths, and the pitcher due
to hit. Sawyer elected to have Oggie pinch-hit.
As soon as he picked up "a bat the fans set up a
terrific din of booing, jeering, and cat-calling. Coming
down from the 3rd base coaches box Sawyer said,
"Oggie, don't listen to those birds in the stands.
They're not booing you—they're booing me for letting
you bat!"
Wrestling boss Charley Speidel is what is known as
a "wriggler" in trade parlance. He just can't sit still
during a match. Many fans thought he was in a trance
the time Don Maurey fought Dick Gregory of Navy
and advanced his man to a point where it was a see
saw struggle for the pin.
There sat Charley—his arms and legs straight and
stiffly held out in the air in suspense—looking for all
the world like a Yogi practitioner. Those-in the stands
held their breath and watched bug-eyed until he
finally relaxed after the referee mercifully called the
pin.
Soccer Coach Bill Jeffrey, who acquired the
monicker "Old Ironsides" because he was the only
member of the Penn State Iranian good-will tour to
escape'a food sickness, is a happy-go-lucky kind of
guy whose good spirits are contagious.
Jeffrey doesn't believe in criticizing a man in front
of the whole team, but when someone does something
especially good he'll usually offer ‘ some words of
praise. And here is one man to whom the name Bobby
Burns means more than a 25-ceni cigar. Jeff is always
reciting the poetry of this Scottish bard.
So; the next time you go to an athletic contest, keep
your glimmers peeled on the coach over on the bench.
Chances are that he'll give you a better show than the
advertised main attraction.
★ ★ ★
Holy Smokes •'
Joe Bedenk
Major League Resuits
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday's Results
Washington 7 Boston 5
'.Cleveland 6 Chicago 2
New York 3 Philadelphia 0
Standings
Cleveland
Washington
New York
Chicago
Boston
Detroit ' 2 4 .333
St. Louis / If* .143
Philadelphia 1 7 .140
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterday's Results
Boston 7 Brooklyn 4
Pittsburgh 6 Chicago 4
St. Louis 3 Cincinnati 1
Standings
* . W L Pet.
Brooklyn ' 5 2 .714
Chicago * 4 2 .GC7
Pittsburgh 4 2 .667
St. Louis 3 2 .600
Boston 5 4 .556
x-Philadelphfa 3 3 .500
x-Ncw York 2 6 .250
Cincinnati 1 6 .143
x—Playing night game.
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European King
Beats Beshore
LONDON, April 24 (/P)— Don
Cockell', British and European
light heavyweight champion,
pounded out a one-sided decision
victory over Freddie Beshore of
Harrisburg, Pa., tonight in a non
title ten rounder before a capa
city crowd of 10,400 in Harringay
arena. Beshore outweighed the
Londoner, 185 to 181.
Blonde Freddie first lost $420
in the afternoon for weighing
three pounds over an agreed 182
and then he took a good shellack
ing from the 22-year-old English
man in the evening.
There was never much doubt
in this contest from the first
round on. Cockell drew blood
from .Beshore’s nose midway in
the first round with three solid
lefts, rocked him hard through
out the bout with whistling right
uppercuts and battered him with
a tremendous body attack at the
final bell.
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G 1 .857
5 1 .833
5 2 .714
4 2 .667
3 4 .429
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