PAGE SIX State Nine Tops W. Maryland Hopper Smacks Homer, Triple To Lead Lions to 9-4 Victory Coach Joe Bedenk’s diamondmen utilized 11 walks to defeat Western Maryland 9-4 in their home opener at Beaver Field yes terday afternoon. It was the fourth consecutive win of the season for the Lions. A couple of Bills—Hopper and Everson—were the stars for the Nittanies. Hopper powered a two-run triple and a tremendous home run to lead the hatting at tack while Everson pitched shut out ball the last three innings, Bedenk used three hurlers with righthander Jack Krumrine re ceiving credit for his second win of the year. Another right hander, Jack “Red” Moore, started on the mound but was taken out after two frames. ' Hopper was the only Stater to collect more than one hit. The big captain drove three runs across the platter and tallied three himself. His homer was belted past the' 323 foot mark in right field and bounced under the stands. Western Maryland jumped off to a two run lead in the top of the first. After shortstop Bill Pfiefer walked, Moore got Lowell Haines on a popper to third. But “Lefty” Kaufman, Charley VHiite, and Ira Zepp followed with suc cessive singles. Zepp’s drive to left drove in both runs. The Terriers added another marker in the third on a walk to Pfiefer, a sacrifice bunt to Haines, and a line single by Kaufman. The Lions finally got to West ern Maryland’s Don James in the third; Chris Tonery drew a walk. Second baseman Bill Mihalich struck out, but Sil Cerchie also got a base on balls and both scored on Hopper’s high triple to left center. The Crafton senior then was waved across when James committed a balk. The Bedenkmen added another run in this rally on’ a walk, a fielder’s choice and a line single by Carmen Troisi. Hopper’s four base smash in the fifth inning gave the Lions a 5-3 lead. The Terriers got an other run in the sixth on an error by Krumrine, a single, a walk, and a fly ball. The Lions clinched the contest with a four-run outburst in the sixth. A walk and a pinch single by Paul Mowry drove reliefer Don Zimmerman from the hill. His substitute, Pat Biddle, couldn’t put out the fire as the Nittanies got three more walks and two singles to conclude the scoring. W.Maryland Ab R H Pflefer.ss 3 11 Haines,2b 3 0 0 Kaufman,lb 5 12 White,c 3 11 Zepp,3l> 4 0 1 Kelly,rf 4 10 Jordan,cf 4 0 0 Urion.lf 4 0 2 James.p 2 0 0 Zim’erman,p 0 0 0 Biddle,p 1 0 Oi Penn State Ab R H Tonery.lf 2 2 0 Mihalich,2b 2 0 0 Cerchie.cf 2 2 1 Hopper, rf 4 2 2 Leonard,c 4 0 1 Hunchar.lb 5 11 Troisi,s& 3 0 1 Kline,3b 3 10 Moore,p 10 0 Krumrine,p 10 0 Everson, p 10 0 Mowry,ph 10 1 *Ol 001 000—4 7 1 >O4 014 000—9 7 1 Western Md. Penn State 3 Teams Form Volleyball Tie A three-way tie of two wins and one loss stands between the sophomores, juniors, and seniors as the result of last night’s games in the inter-class volleyball tour naments. The freshman team lost its third game last night as the result of a forfeit to the seniors. In the only other game last night, the juniors defeated the sophomores, 40-28. The schedule for the playoffs, as released by Mable Marple, WRA president-elect, is as follows Monday, 8:30 p.m., sophomores juniors; Tuesday. 8 p.m., juniors seniors; Thursday, 8 p.m., seniors sophomores. Robinson SCO's Rocky CHICAGO, April. 16 —UP)— Champion Sugar Ray Robin son, a boxer turned ferocious slugger, knocked out challeng er Rocky Graziano with a pul verizing left and right in 1:53 of the third round to retain his middleweight title before an indoor record crowd of 23,785 in the Chicago Stadium to night. By DAVE COLTON Lions Open '52 Season With 3 Wins Penn State’s Nittany Lions opened their 1952 baseball season with a bang last weekend, scor ing a total of 46 runs in three games while romping over Ameri can University and taking two wins from Georgetown. Coach Joe Bedenk’s team, which extended its streak yesterday with a 9-4 triumph over Western Mary land, smashed American U. last Friday, 20-1, in its opener at Washington, D.C. The following day found Georgetown being dumped by 18-5 and 8-4 scores. Jack Krumrine hurled three hit ball against American, and led the Lions at the plate with four hits, one a booming triple with the bases loaded. Krumrine fanned eight opposing stickmen over the nine-inning route. Sil Cerchie, Lion centerfielder, and catcher Bill Leonard pounded home runs as the Lions went on a 19-hit' spree. Chris Tonery, hustling leftfielder, had three hits for the Nittanies and came up with four stolen bases. . Keith Vesling and Bill Everson each twirled six-hit games to post the victories over Georgetown Saturday. Vesling was impres sive in his first start for the Bedenkmen as he fanned eight Georgetown batters, and contri buted two hits to the Penn State attack. Everson struck out five in the 8-4 win which went only seven innings. Huber Kline, who wasn’t ex pected to help much in the stick (Continued on page seven) Week's Athlete Award Goes To Three Lions Boxer Sammy Marino, wrestler Jerry Maurey, and baseball play er Jack Krumrine have been se lected to share Athlete of the Week honors by the Collegian sports staff for the. we.eks of March 31 and April 7. Marino and Maurey were select ed Athletes of the Week for the week of March 31. Marino, 125- pound Eastern boxing champion for the Lions, went clear to the finals of the NCAA tourney be fore bowing to champion Frank Echavarria of Idaho. Maurey cop ped second plade in the NAAU wrestling tournament at Cornell. After losing his first match, the Lion 136.5 pounder scored three straight falls and two decisions to take runner up honors in his weight. For the week of April 7, the Collegian sports staff has selected Maurey and Krumrine. Maurey won the 136.5 pound -title at the Olympic wrestling tryouts at Amityville, Long Island, and .a trip to Ames, lowa for the final tryouts. Krumrine opened the 1952 base ball season for the Nittany Lions by hurling a three-hitter against American University at Washing ton, D.C. Krumrine also contri buted four hits including a triple with the bases loaded as the Lions beat the Eagles, 20-1. Major League Results American League New York—B Philadelphia—l Si. Louis—s Detroit—-4 Cleveland —1 Chicago—o National League Brooklyn—l 4 Boston —B ■ Philadelphia at New York (night) Pittsburgh at St. Lduis (night) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Safe by a Mile OUTFIELDER CHRIS TONNERY slides safely into second base during the fourth inning of the Lions' 9-4 victory over Western Maryland on New Beaver Field yesterday. The Green Terror second baseman, Lowell Haines, waits for the throw while teammate Bill Pfiefer backs him up. Lacrossemen Lose Two Matches On Ist Trip •Penn State returned from the lacrosse wars south of the Mason- Dixon Line over the Easter vacation and no doubt the Lions were glad to escape with their shirts. The Lions dropped a 5-2 decision to Loyola of Baltimore and then were outclassed by Navy, 21-0, two days later, State lacked a definite scoring punch. Although it would no-t have made any difference against the Middies, a scoring punch was all State needed to overtake Loy ola, Penn State fell behind in the first half, 3-0, and even when Captain Bud Wolfram scored two goals in the second half to narrow the count to 4-2, it just wasn’t in the books. Sophomore Don Bell played a commendable game around the net, but State’s shooting and ball handling left a lot to be desired. The loss added salt to the wounds Loyola inflicted on State last year, when Loyola rallied from a six-goal deficit in the final period to win, .14-12. Navy, on the other hand, gave a simple demonstration on how lacrosse should be played. The Middies, a team loaded with men from the lacrosse hotbed of Mary land,' were big, fast and just about rode State off the field. The Middies showed why they are rated No. 1 in the state of Maryland as they played flawless Dionysius Cato prescribed: JN&ingle your cares "witli plea. now and tk en Dislicha. De Moribus By TOM SAYLOR ball'both offensively and defen sively.- Navy took 73 shots at the State net. connecting on 21 of them and at the same time limited the Nittany Lions to a mere eight shots. Both clubs used substitutes freely with Thiel employing his entire squad of 21 players while Navy alone had ten men in the scoring column. Thiel used the same starting lineup in both games and even though the results don’t show it, the Lion coach had some consol ation in that the defense stood up fairly well.. It was. the attack men that caused Thiel the most headaches with their faulty stick handling and poor shooting. Thiel started John (Doak) Wal ker, Bob Koons, and Dick Rost meyer at attack; Wolfram, Wayne Hockersmith, and John Yohman at midfield; Barr Asplundh, John Henry, and John Amber at de fense; and Bell at the goal tend ing spot. Make that pleasure an ice-coli Coca-Cola and you'll tip the scales from care to cheer. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY . COCA COLA BOTTLING COMPANYjOF ALTOONA , | © .1952, .THE COCA-COLA COMPANY THURSDAY, ARRIL 17, 1952 J. Maurey, Barr Gain Mat Finals By JAKE HIGHTON Jerry Maurey, current Nittany sophomore mat star and Homer Barr, former Lion great, go against the cream of- the nation’s .amateur wrestlers today in the opening round of the final Olym pic tryouts in Ames, lowa. ; First and some second-place winners in the three-day tourna ment ending Saturday will rep resent the United States in the Olympic games at Helsinki, Fin land. this summer. Jerry, lone member of Coach Charlie Speidel’s recent Eastern Intercollegiate champions, bi d - ding for an Olympic berth, quali fied for the final tryouts by sweeping top honors in the 136.5 pound class last Saturday in the Amityville, Long Island, district trials. . Injury, Sickness Hurl Barr, captain of the 1951 EIWA champion Lions and Speidel’s choice for his all-Penn State first team, gained a shot at / the USA team by winning the unlimited division in the Pittsburgh district tryouts last Friday night. Other Nittany wrestlers trying for coveted Olympic spots ran into, misfortune in the form of injury and sickness. EIWA champion Dick Letnyre had to withdraw from, the Amity ville trials with ah infected hand. NCAA champion Joe Lemyre was hit by the flu and could do no better than, fourth at Amityville. Former Penn State captain <1950) Jim Maurey was forced' out of the Amityville trials with a dis located knee when he seemed on the - way to victory. Homer Twice EIWA Champ Youngest of the Maureys, Jerry, in his first year of college wrest ling, was undefeated in five dual meets. Jerry’s further sophomore achievements include a runnerup in the EIWA tourney, a second in the National Amateur Athletic Union championships two weeks ago, and now an Olympic prelim inary tryout, victory. Heavyweight Barr ruled as Pehn State’s “Peoples’ Choice” for three years during which time he lost only one dual meet after 20 straight victories. Homer twice copped EIWA heavyweight cham pionships in 1949 and 1950. More than’ 160 wrestlers, quali fiers from the 14 district elimina tions held throughout the coun try. will be seeking positidns on the Olympic,team.'
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