THURSDAY, MAY 17, 195 V
The Lion's Lair
Will Frosh Help Varsities?
Just what effect will the Eastern College Athletic Conference's
ruling declaring freshmen eligible for varsity sports have on Penn
State teams?
At the present, it's a hard question to answer. In all probability,
frosh athletes will not help the major sports at Penn State during the
one year that the ruling is in effect.
It would take, a darn good frosh footballer to break into Rip
Engle's varsity squad next year
and the same gods for cross
country's boxing, wrestling, atid
basketball.
Engle's grid squad faces one of
it's toughest schedules in, years,
including games with Michigan
State, Purdue, Villanova,, Pitt,
and Syracuse. Rip will need all
the experienced men he can get
his hands an.‘ Frosh are not
blessed with college football
experience. ,
Cross-country coach Chick
Werner and wrestling coach
Charlie Speidel are very doubt
ful whether freshmen will help
them in their respective sports.
After all, Werner is coaching the
defending NCAA. champs and
Spiedel the defending Eastern
champions.
The Lion boxing squad finish
ed second in the Easterns last
season and things look pretty
rosy for Coach Eddie Sulkowski
for the next ring season—barring
losses via the draft.
Basketball looks to be in the
same shape_ with four lettermen
and a couple of near-letter win
ners returning to the fold. But
basketball could be an exception,
if only for the fact that more
basketball players will go to col
lege than will boxers or cross
country men.
Most of the State coaches
Along The Sports Trail . . .
250 Yard Driver Can
Cash In On Pro Golf
By WHITEY MARTIN
AP Sports Columnist
NEW YORK, May 16 (iP) —So you got hold of that
tee shot real good, hey? Must have carried a good 250 yards.
Straight down the middle, too.
Well, if you did, you're 'wasting your time keeping
books (no, not that kind of books) or selling insurance
or running a bank, or even as a plumber.
You can step right out and cash
in on the golf tournaments, as
only a handful of the better pros
consistently get more than a 250-
' yard carry on their drives. :
Booby-Trapping Course
Robert Trent Jones, the golf
f architect who is booby-trapping
the Oakland • Hills course at
Birmingham, Mich.,
for the Na
f tional Open made tests recently
to determine just how long the
stars are off the tee. Contrary to
; general belief he wasn't trying
to figure just where the balls
landed so he could put a trap
there.
"I discovered that the average
carry of the entire field in the
open championships in which I
Imade the tests was approximately
,240 yards," he says. "Better than
10 players carried 250 yards, and
I scarcely anyone in the field car
ried less than 230 yards.
I Start at 230
"Therefore, trappings up to 230
t yards from the tee are of no penal
value, so at Oakland Hills' we
' have placed the traps starting at
the 230 yard mark."
Jones explains that the trap
ping is flanked on both sides of
the fairway except where natural
1 features make the trapping un
necessary.
"We also have some positional
or strategic trapping in the cen
ter or just off center of the fair
way which forms the player to
position his shot accurately from
the tee," he adds.
Those centered traps wouldn't
worry us at all, but we'd really
squawk if they started putting
• traps in the woods' and heavy
rough where we go big game
hunting after practically every
'shat
By ERNIE MOORE
• Sports Editor
agree that making the frosh
eligible for varsity competition
came just a year too late as far
as Penn State is concerned.
Just think what a pleasant
problem. Speidel would have had
worrying where he could fit in
Jerry Maurey and Dick Lemyre,
two freshmen matmen who com
peted in the Pan-Amer i c an
games.
Or what 011ie Sax, Jimmy
Finn, Red 'Hollen, Pete Judd,
John Milsom, and Dan Lorch
could have done for' Chick Wer
ner's track squad?
Or how far frosh golfer Rod
Eakin, who fired a 67 on the
college - golf course last week
could have gone 'in the Eastern
tournament?
But those are just pipe dreams.
Chances are good now that
there will be no freshman sched
ules next year in any sport. It
will mean that most of the frosh'
won't see any game competition
at all next year.
Penn State's athletic program
is rapidly approaching a par
allel of that present during the
war.
How will it affect the cali
ber of the teams?
That's a question we don't
know how and won't attempt
to answer. Only time will tell.
Meyer Leaves Hospital ,
PITTSBURGH, May 1.6 (iP)
Manager Billy Meyer of the Pitts
burgh Pirates left Presbyterian
Hospital today after undergoing
a physical checkup.
Meyer is ALI in Branch Rick
ey's book.
Speaking before the Allegheny
County Pittsburgh Medical As
sociation, the general manager
and vice president of the Pirates
termed Meyer "a good manager,
a great manager."
SPRING WEEK!
and
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Quality Favors of
All Kinds
And Metzger's Is Open for Your Conven
ience Monday Evenings till 9 and all
afternoon Wednesday.
You Can Get It at Metzger's
THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Joe Page
Released By
Ya nkees
NEW YORK, May 16 (JP)—Joe
Page, former fabulous• relief
pitcher of the New York Yankees,
was the surprise leader of a
group of players receiving the
axe today as the major leagues
rushed to 'get within the 25-player
roster limit before tonight's mid
night deadline.
• Others Released
Others who were released, re
tired, optioned or sold outright
to the minor leagues incltided
Max Peterson and Billy Martin,
Yankees; Earl Mosser, Brooklyn;
Charlie Bowers, Jabk Brittin, and
Ed Sanicki, Phillies; Steve Bilko, '
Cardinals; Hal Daugherty, De
troit; Tom Saffell and Monty
Basgall, Pittsburgh, an d Dick
Littlefield, White Sox.
All but three clubs had pared
(::wn to the limit hours before
the--. -- eadline. The Philadelphia
Athletics must drop two, the
Cardinals two, the New York
Giants one.
Page's release came as a sur
prise. The 33-year-old lefthander
was released outright to Kansas
City, an American Association
farm club of the Yankees. Peter
son, a 27-year-old righthander,
was returned to Toronto, the club
from which he was drafted last
November. Neither he nor Page
pitched to a batter this season.
9 Tennis Teams
Advance In IM
Tournament
Second round tennis doubles I
play continues in high gear as
nine more teams advanced into ,
qualifying positions, needing only
one more victory to gain the
quarter finals.
Dick Zucker and Bob Kauff
man, Phi Sigma Delta, defeated
Bob Amole and. Guy Warman,
Alpha Sigma Phi, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1. Ed
Lefkowith and Stan Lustgarten,
Beta Sigma Rho, downed Al
Wright and Ted Young, Alpha
Gamma" Rho, 6-2, 7-5. Don Van
Erp and George Hamilton, Delta
Sigma Phi, beat Stan Myers and
Al Youngerman, Pi Lambda Phi,
7-5, 4-6, 6-4.
Fred Black and Kent Witten
berger, Sigma Pi, beat Jack Jant
zer and Dick Teubert, Phi Kappa
Tau, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. Vic Lynch and
Gordon Stroup, Beta Theta Pi,
beat Mike Dzurenda and Ernie
Hartsky, Triangle, 6-2, 6-1.
Gil Welsh and Dick Spare, Del
ta Tau Delta, downed Bob Patton
and Jim Huber, Phi Gamma Del
ta, 6-4, 6-3. Harry Kaufman 'and
Jerry Brand, Phi Epsilon Pi, beat
John Wagner and Jim Class, Aca
cia, 6-2, 6-2. Dez Long and Hor
ace Ray, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
defeated Jerry Weisman an d
Gene Benamy, Sigma Alpha Mu,
6-0, 6-1. Ray Koehler and Fred
Howell, Pi Kappa Phi, defeated
Wil Kephart and Bill D'Zurko,
Sigma Phi Alpha, 6-2, 6-2.
Surprise Move
Stickmen Play
At Ithaca Sat.
Penn State's lacrosse team will
seek to repeat a victory of last
year when it journeys to Ithaca
College to face the Bombers Sat
urday. ,
Last year, Coach Nick Thiel's
crew came through with a rela
tively easy 10-4 decision. Co-cap
tain Bob Louis paced the Lions
in that match with four goals.
The Penn State victory over
the New Yorkers was justified
later when the national rankings
later placed State 19th while the
Ithacan were, down the ladder in
32nd spot. Ithaca's record last
year was an unimpressive 2-3.
Seek 104th Win
The Nittany Lions will also be
after Penn State's 104th lacrosse
win. And if last week's game
with the Maryland Lacrosse
Clubs is any indication, then
Thiel's squad should win handily.
However, Penn State has been an
"up and down" team as contests
with Loyola of Baltimore, Syra
cuse, and the Maryland Lacrosse
Club have shown.
. Against Loyola, Penn State
played standout ball for three
quarters. Then the roof caved in
and the Baltimorians came from
behind to win, 14-12. In the Syra
cuse contest, State played well
except in the shooting' depart
ment where Thiel's squad hit on
only 20 per cent of its shots.
Top Form
The Lions displayed top form,
on the other hand, in last week's
game with Maryland. State clear
ly outfought and outplayed the
visitors from south of the Mason-
Dixon line.
Thus, Thiel and Assistant Coach
John McHugh will, have their
hands full in trying to keep the
Lion spirits high for the Ithaca
contest as there seems to be a
slight tendency for any ball club
Pittsburgh Sells
Dillinger To Sox
PITTSBURGH, May 16 (?P)
Sale of third baseman Bob Dill
inger and optioning of infielder
Tom Saffell to Indianapolis today
brought the Pittsburgh Pirates
within the required 25 player
limit.
Dillinger, obtained from the
Philadelphia Athletics in July,
1950, went to the Whitesox for
about $20,000. He batted .233 in
12 games for the Bucs this sea-
Ison.
PAGE SEVEN
to "slump" a little after a win
over a topflight club.
'After the Ithaca contest, State
will travel to Hobart and Cornell
on following Saturdays. Hobart
will undoubtedly give the Lions
trouble since it has already
swamped Cornell twice. Hobart
has also defeated Ithaca, 16-0.
Louis-Savold
Fight Changed
NEW YORK, May 16 (VP)
The Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight
was made a 15-round affair to
day. When the fight originally
was announced it was a 12-round
bout.
The former world champion
meets Savold, listed as the world
' heavyweight in Britain, in the
New York Polo Grounds on Wed
nesday night, June 13. The
change was made at the request
of Savold.
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