The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, May 21, 1952, Image 6
PAGE SIX `' l * - ' iamondmen PlayTerripleTod4;4' Battle for 13th Victory; Bedenk to Be Honored Undefeated on its home Beaver Field in seven outings, Penn State's baseball squad is hopeful of getting back on the victory path once again when it engages Temple today. Starting time is 3 p.m. Undecided on his mound choice, Coach Joe Bedenk will have ace Bill Everson (5-1), Jack Krumrine (3-1), K eith Vesling (4-2), and John Moore (0-0) to pick from. Of the group, Vesling might get 'the starting nod, pro viding he's "ready." The game is a "victory-must" for the home forces, currently sporting a 12-4 log, as a loss will practically eliminate them from NCAA contention. Leonard to Catch With the exception of center fielder Sil Cerchie, the rest of the lineup will remain intact. Be cause, of a torn knee ligament in curred while sliding into home plate against Dickinson last week, Cerchie will be benched. Basket baller Ron Weidenhammer will sub for the righthander in center. Bill Leonard (.306) will handle the catching chores. First sacker Mike Hunchar (.218), second base man Bi 11 Mihalich (.220), and third baseman Hubie Kline (.333) will hold down, the infield posts. Carmen, Troisi (.224) will cavort at short: In the outer gardens, Captain Bill Hopper (.304) will patrol right and Chris Tonery (.292) will be in left. Coach Bedenk, in his 22d year as maestro of the Nittany forces, will receive a plaque in recog nition of his more than 25 years of service to college baseball. Robert Geasey of Temple will make the pre-game presenta tion on behalf of the American Association of College Baseball Coaches. Soph third baseman Kline is still the leading batsman on the club with his .333 mark. Although Kline leads his near est teammate by 27 percentage points, the Nittanies also boast of two other 300 hitters in Leonard (.306) and Hopper (.304). Tonery is currently leading the RBI department with 21 to his credit. Everson is the top mounds man with a 5-1 record and an earned run average of 2.19. Football First Penn State's mound ace, Bill Everson, of Philadelphia, had a college foOtball career as his goal until an injury sidelined -him. Im Track Trials Rescheduled for Tonite The rain that fell all day yesterday has forced the post ponement of the intramural track time trials until tonight. Originally scheduled for last night, the trials will be run at 6:45 tonight. The finals will be run at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow and the field events will begin at 7 p.m. At meet time yesterday, the track was completely under water, and officials were forced to make the schedule change. Gymnasts E Bob Kenyon By JOHN SHEPPARD ( Hustling 2d Sacker Bob Carey To Make Final Home Appearance When Michigan State and Syra cuse meet at East Lansing Satur day in a dual track meet, it will mark the final home athletic ap= pearance of Bob Carey, who un doubtedly will go into the record book as the greatest athlete in Spartan history. The big Charlevoix, Mich., pro duct—All-American end in foot ball and, captain of last fall's undefeated team, first str in g basketball center, and Big Ten and Drake Relays shot put champ ion—is finishing a truly brilliant collegiate career. He will be State's first nine-letter man since the freshman rule was put into effect limiting varsity sports corn petition to sophomore, junior and senior years. His accomplishments as a shot putter are remarkable consider ing the fast -he worked at it just a fraction of the time most of his opponents gave the sport. He has placed in the NCAA two straight years, sixth as a sophomore and third as a junior. In football Carey was a great pass-catching end and extra point and field goal kicker. He work concensus All-American selection. He was first regular draft choice for the pro champion Los Ange les Rams. In his three college seasons he caught 65 passes for 1074 yards, a feat the more re markable because the Spartans regularly emphasized a ground attack. act Kenyon Bob Kenyon, a tumbler on this year's gymnastic team and a for mer diver on the now defunct swimming squad, has been named captain of the 1953 gymnastics squad. Kenyon was elected by , the let termen of the team at a dinner at Coach Gene Wettstone's house Sunday night. Kenyon will be a senior next year, majoring in physiCal educa tion. He hails from Watertown, N.Y. As a diver last year, Kenyon gained quite a reputation. In ad dition to piling up several dual meet victories, 'Kenyon placed third in the one-meter dive in last year's Eastern Collegiate Swim ming Association meet: FolloWing the dinner, the squad saw several movies. • 17-IE DAILY COLLEGIAN - • STA+E PEINTIITiLVANLV: Bill Mihalich Gridders to Hold Picnic On Sunday . .No scrimmages are planned, btt fun and f ant y free are promised by Penn State's head football coach Rip Engle when the Lions' old •and new grid • members ge t together for a picnic at Rayonna Park Sunday afternoon. Last fall's team and mem bers of the spring practice squad and their friends will leave from Rec Hall at 1 p.m. Sunday and go by car to the park, which is located at the top of the mountain on route 322 into Lewistown. Signs will be posted pointing the way. Games. various entertain- ments, and championship events will be held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., at which time the picnic will begin. Champion. ship contests which the coach ing sta f f will run off are planned in softball, horseshoes, volleyball, and darts. Coach Earl Bruce has prom ised to come up with some ex pert after-picnic entertainment with guitar music and other music—principally, th e basso profundo voices of Rosey Grier and Dick Cripps. Baseball Parade By BARRY FEIN At the rate baseball games are being rained out, there will soon be a backlog of doubleheaders . Cincinnati at Brooklyn, the Card inals at New York, and Chicago Cubs at Boston were postponed yesterday. Major league fielding records up to Sunday show that Hector Rodriguez of the Whit . e Sox and Clint Courtney, Brownie catch er, are leading the American League. Rodriguez, a third baseman, is gloving .980, and Courtney a perfect 1.000 . . . Dodger first sacker Gil Hodges and catcher Roy Campanella are both fielding 1.000 to lead the senior circuit. An interesting facet of fielding is that while the average of 'a second base ma n, shortstop, or third baseman is a good indica tion of his ability, it is not' al ways so in the case of a first baseman. For instance, Hal Chase, generally considered the greatest gloveman of all time at the initial hassock, doesn't hold the highest Yankee average at first base. average at first base. - Not only that, but Stuffy Mc- Innis holds the AL mark of .999 . . A more potent example is lead-footed Ted Kluszewski, the Cincinnati first sacker, who led the NL in fielding last year with a .997 "mark. This was a full .005 over classy Gil HodgeS of the Dodgers . . . An exception, of course, is the horrendous fielding of Walt Dropo of the Red Sox last year. Big Moose carded a mere .987. One reason for the Detioit Tigers poor showing goes all the way back to the retirement of the late Wish Egan. one of the top scouts in the business. No more Houttemans :or Mc- Coskys have been wrapped up for the Bengals since . . . 'A bright spot on the Brooklyn pitching staff is the showing of young Billy Loes. His classy relief hurling has given him a 3-0, record and a sensational 1.42 ERA. Ag Hill Clubs to Meet Tonight in PaNiilion J. K. Thornton, chairman of the agriculture public relations corn mittee, will meet with representa tives of all Ag Hill clubs at 6:30 tonight in the Ag Pavilion. The new officers will preSide for serve as: guides for visiting- day program tomorrow, will receive instructions and assignments at the meeting. Long Ball Hitter Bill Hopper, captain and out fielder of Crafton, is Penn State's long ball hitter with eight extra base blows. . Wet Courts Threaten Tennis Match Today As the threat of a possible washout of the Duquesne match at 3:30 p.m. today still hangs over their heads, the tennis Lions en joyed their second day off in a row from scheduled practice sessions yesterday. Coach Sherm Fogg said yesterday that the Duquesne match will be played only if the courts dry in time. Rain and unfavorable weather have hampered the Lions all year, almost as much as inexperience and ineligibility. Both the Western Maryland and Maryland matches were post poned at the beginning of the season, and just previous to the Bucknell meet, the squad was idled for six days. The Juniata match . was set back a day due to the rainy weather. Ziegler Ready In event that the weather clears and the courts become playable, Fogg announced that he will stick with his top three stand bys, with sophomores Dick Robin son and Bruz Ray in the one and the two spots and Capt. Ed Davis in the number three position Bill Ziegler, out for two weeks with an injured right wrist, is ready to go, and will probably see service in the number four sin gles post. Juniors Bill Forrey and Bill Ray will probably work in the fifth and sixth singles slots. Own 4-3 Log Fogg said that he was very pleased with the .reports on the doubles outfits at Pitt and that he will start all three without change. Fogg was not able to ac- Hubie Kline Paces Team Leading the current 300 hitters of Penn State's baseball team is Hubie Kline with an average of .333 for 51 times at bat. Twenty seven points from him comes teammate Bill Leonard with a .306 for 49 times at bat. Captain' Bill Hopper is next with .304. Chris Tonery, leading ,in the RBI department with 17, is also the player with the most hits-21. Bill Hopper has knocked in 16 runs with 17 hits; and Sil Cerchie; is next with 16 hits and 14 RBl's. In the home run department, Hopper is leading with foUr homers, Cerchie has two, Leonard and Tonery one apiece. Hopper also lead in triples with 3; Everson, Troisi, and Krumrine are next each having one. Cerchie and. Tonery. ; are tied. r in doubles with 3 apiece; Kline, Mihalich, and Leonard are nest with two each. In the pitching battler, Bill Everson leads with 5 wins and 1 loss, Keith Vesling has 4 'mini. and 2 losses, and Pitcher Jack Krumrine has 3 wins and '1 loss. Both Everson and Vesling have played eight games. Baseball Statistics (16 Games) Batting Fielding .' AB R .• 11 AVE. RBI PO A E AVE. Mowry, Paul . 1 , 0 1 1.000 1 0 0 0 .000 Krumrine, Jack 10 2 4 .400 4 2 10 1 .923 Kline, Hubie 51 15 11 .333 11 ,20 32 2 .963 Leonard, Bill 49 13 15 .306 12 91 5 1 .990 . Hopper, Bill 36 17 17 .304 16 16 4 1 .953 Tonery, Chris 72 17 21 . .292 'l7 27 1 3 .903 Cerchie, Sil . ...., .67 - 16 -- 16 .281 14 29 3 - 1 .969, Rhoda, Jack 7 1 2 .286 3 15 0 0 1.000 Vesling, Keith 19 , 2 5 .268 1 5 18 1 .958 Everson, Bill 19 . 6 5 . , .263 3 1 8 2 .909 Troisi, Carmen 58 14 13 .224 9 33 • 48 12 .871 Buuchar, Mike 55 ~, 8 12 .218 7 140 G 1 .993 Mihalich, Bill •-: 60 '. 15 13 .220 ' 2 27 41 . 5 .032 Weidenhammer, Ron ' 6 0 1 .107 2 1 0 0 ' 1.000 Moore, John 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 .000 Troy, Jerry ' 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 .000 Team 620 126 142 .273 102 410 116 31 .960 Extra-base hits: doubles-Cerchie 3, Tonery 3, Kline 2, Mihalich 2, Leonard 2, Rhoda, Troisi, Everson, Hopper.; triples-Hopper 3, Everson, Troisi, Krumrine; borne. runs-, Hopper 4, Cerchie 2, Leonard, Tonery Pitching Everson. Bill Krumrine. Jack Vesling, Keith Moore; John Troy, Jerry Team Enjoy -Summer School . • Only $17.00 per week • Maid service • Delicious meals AT • Clean linen each week , 1 4. Parking space • • Living room with equipment for leisure living PHI SIGMA KAPPA CALL 4939 FOR RESERVATIONS , WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1952 By GEORGE BAIREY company the team to Pittsburgh. R o b ins o,n -Davis, Bruz Ray- Long, and Gross-Bigott will re main as the Lion doubles teams: The squad, possessor of a cred itable 4-3 seasonal slate, will be after its fourth straight win in the Dukes match. The season will be wrapped up with two final home matches, both return en gagements, one with Colgate on Saturday and the other with Bucknell on Monday. Starting times both days is 3:30 p.m. Boyle Ties for Second In LOcal Golf Tournament Joe Boyle, assistant golf coach; finished in a second place tie Monday in the Philipsburg ?golf tournament. Joe shot a 79 to tie with .Archie Van, from Dußois C.C. Winner of Ate tournament was Harold Harrison, the Centre Hills Coun try Club pro. In the pro-amateur tourney, in which teams are composed of •one pro and three amateurs whose names are drawn from a hat, Boyle and Harrison led their teams to second place ties. • ERA 2.19 2.90 2.20 6.00 0.00 2.88