WEPNESPAY, APRIL 2, 1952 Newcomers Strengthen Baseball Team's Outlook ■ Strengthened by the addition of some new players, Penn State s baseball team appears to be well fortified for its tough 19-game schedule which opens with American University at -Washington April 11. . Although Coach Joe Bedenk lost the services of his ace pitcher, Owen Dougherty, through graduation, he apparently has a more rounded ' staff . this spring. Bill Everson, who sported a 2-1 rec ord.. last. season, returns along with, Jack Krumrine . (1-0), and Dick Christensen. Also, Bedenk has a group of impressive new comers headed by Keith Vesling and John Moore. Other new hurl ers who figure in Bedenk’s plans are Jerry Troy, Tom Campbell, Dave Lesser, and Walt Nemish. No Outfield Worries Bill Leonard will probably be the Lions’ number one receiver, filling the vacancy left by Clar ence Buss, a .317 hitter last year. Leonard will have plenty of help from Gus Vogt, Matt Yanosich, and Bill Hirsch. Bedenk will have no worries about his outfield as he-has four veterans .returning to the outer pastures in Captain Bill Hopper (,429), Sil Cerchie (.229), Chris Tonery (.666), and Bob Schoell-. kopf (.333). Tonery worked out yesterday at third base and could be. used, there if needed. Hopper, the team’s top hitting regular last ' season, will once again be counted on to take care of the slugging department for the Nittanies. He included seven doubles and a home run in his 18 hits in 1951. Bill Mihalich (.333), a good ballplayer and smooth in the field, returns ■ to the Lions for Grid Offense Again Centers on Winged-T With spring football drills in the eighth of a scheduled 20-day session, Penn State’s gridders have begun scrimmages using the winged’-T formation which the Lions again will feature this fall as they have in Coach Rip Engle’s past two seasons. Coining to State two years ago, Rip scrapped the Lions’ conven tional single-wing formation in favor of the winged-T. In his two Nittany seasons State has won 10, lost seven and tied one. Rip said yesterday that he felt the Lion players were “gradu ally adjusting” to the winged-T which‘he brought to Penn State from Brown University. While head, coach at Brown in 1948-49, Rip’s teams won 15 and lost three. Combines Power, Speed Engle, one of the original ex ponents of the winged-T, explains the formation as merely the mod ern T-trend variation of the short punt' formation. The difference between the two is that the man who plays the tailback position in the short punt has simply moved up to play the standard T’s quar terback position up under the center. With his winged-T, Engle can get the power up the middle of the .short punt and at the same time take advantage of the T formation’s quick-opening speed. Vacation to Interrupt Drills “Bo” McMillan, former Engle coach who just died, brought In diana a Big Ten championship in 1945 using a similar, type of winged-T formation. The Lions will interrupt their spring drills after this week and will resume practice following 'the Easter vacation. Spring prac tices will end somewhere around the 29th of April. / Nearly -100 candidates have re ported for the team. With this number, Engle has been- using four separate scrimmage squads with frequent substitutions for each-. Brooklyn Tops Reds 1 TAMPA, Fla., April 1 (&) — Brooklyn belted Ken Raffensber ger early and often today to end Cincinnati’s six -game winning " streak, 7-3. Led by Carl Furillo and rookie outfielder Dick Williams, who , had three hits each, the Grape fruit League leaders piled up 17 hits as the veteran southpaw was rocked for . 13 in six frames. heavy duty at second base. Mi halich is perhaps further ahead of the other players at bat. He has been meeting the ball well,- and sending one line drive after an other from his bat in practice. Paul Mowry (.282) has npt re turned from his. practice teaching assignment, and may have a tough job winning his last year s short stop position from newcomer Ron nie Weidenhammer, Penn States freshman cage star. Weidenham mer is fast, agile, and hustles con sistently, but did -not join, the team until late due to the basket ball team’s participation in the NCAA tournament. Kline at Third First base is lacking an ex perienced performer. Mike Hun char and Alex Shalkey are new men who will vie for the position. Harry Little, who hit .260 for State last season, is gone, but Huber Kline is expected to fill in at third base. Kline is a depend able fielder, but his hitting may fail, in which case he could-be replaced by Tonery. Penn State's 1952 schedule: April 11, at American U.; 12, at George town (DH); 16, Western Maryland; 19, West Virginia (DH): 22, Backnell; 26, Lafayette; 29, Gettysburg. May 2, Rutgers; 5, at Villanova; 6, at. Navy;-9, at Pittsburgh; 10, at Pittsburgh; 16, at Dickinson; 17, at Pennsylvania: 21, Temple; 24, Colgate; 27, at Buckneil. By JAKE HIGHTON Hemus Paces Cards To Win Over Tigers ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 1 (JP) Pitcher Cliff Chambers went seven innings today as the St. Louis Cardinals scored their sixth exhibition shutout, blanking the Detroit Tigers 5-0. It was the longest stint thus far this year for a Redbird hurl er. The victory enabled St. Louis to end the Florida phase of spring training with a record of 12 tri umphs, nine defeats and one tie. Solly Hemus, batting .500 with 15 hits in 30 trips, led the Cardi nals’ "8-hit attack. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEpE. PENNSYLVANIA Smith, Flanagan Seek Title Shot WASHINGTON, April 1—(/P) Two nationally rated boxers with impressive, winning streaks clash tomorrow night in a bout that may give the winner a crack at the featherweight title this sum mer. Gene Smith, a hard-punching Washingtonian, will be gunning for his 30th straight win when le .meets smooth-working ,Glen Tlanagan of St. Paul in a 10 round indoor bout (Uline Arena). The bout will be' telecast (CBS) at 10 p.m. about cigarette irritation PHILIP MORRIS . • • Philip Morris...is a source of irritation used in other leading cigarettes! smarsfimof*v& tv® pt&mmer PHILIP MORRIS gives you MORE SMOKING PLEASURE than any other leading brand. Yes-YOU’LL BE GLAD TOMORROW, YOU SMOKED PHILIP MORRIS TODAY I Wettstone Sees Olympic Tryouts as Greatest Ever* With more entries coming in every day, Gene Wettstone, secre tary of the men’s Olympic gymnastic committee, is looking to the forthcoming NAAU championships and Olympic tryouts as the greatest ever.” The two-day gymnastic event will take place in Rec Hall, April 25-26. . Already the Lion gym coach has received entries from some of the country’s top gymnasts and I he believes that over 200 per formers will enter the tryouts before the entry deadline, April 11. The first entry to come in was that of George Wikler who will represent the United States Coast Guard. Wikler, formerly of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, was AAU rings champion in 1950. The first woman to enter the two-day event is Mrs. Marie Hoes- RIOTING Yoi LO> starring .LE BALL and DESI ARNAZ new TV laugh riot over CBS UP MORRIS ly of Monroe,’ Wisconsin. Mrs. Hoesly just missed making the 1948 Olympic team. Last year she placed fifth in the AAU women’s all-around competition. Wettstone has received three entries so far from representatives of the Swiss Gymnastics Society of Union City, N.Y. Two of these were from members of the 1948 Olympic team, Vincent D’Autorio and Dorothy Dalton. and Ml) ntirdJ fee* 0 ' PAGE SEVEN all
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