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Lion Thindads to Meet
Strong Jaspers Saturday
Penn State's thinclads will draw their toughest assignment of the
season this Saturday when they venture to Van Cortlandt Stadium,
N.Y., to test a "loaded" Manhattan team.
Captained by veteran miler /Pat Duffy, the Jaspers took •up
yvhere they left off in their banner indoor season and have been
rolling along 'in. high gear ever s
Engle Advocates
Quarterback Club,
For Television
Charles (Rip) Engle,-Penn State
football coach, believes a tele
vision "quarterback club" might
be one answer 'to the manifold
problems created by the advent
of video.
Under Engle's plan, TV would
choose key , games each week,
film the play-by-play, and project
them early the following week
with the two opposing coaches,
or the winning Coach alone, doing
the commentary.
"Quarterback clubs," says the
Penn State coach, • "are popular
all over the nation. These groups
meet with their coaches each Mon
day or Tuesday, study the films,
and hear the coach explain key
plays, outstanding performances,
and other inside information."
It's Engle's contention, for ex
ample, that Pitt games could be
projected on this basis in the
Pittsburgh area,' Penn games in
the Philadelphia area, and other
games in their own home terri
tory.
"The interest would be there,
certainly," Engle explains, "and
fans would feel happy and satis
fied if they had the opportunity
to view the game again and have
the highlights dramatized for
them by coaches."
Rain Reigns Over Lacrossmen
By TOM SAYLOR
Rain reigns, or if you prefer,
rains reign; over the Penn State
lacrosse team.
After three unsuccessful at
tempts to play a home match
without the elements "p o u r i n g
forth," Coach Nick Thiel's charges
will have to wait until next year
if they have any such hopes.
Jupiter Pluvius reigned on
Penn State in its home opener
against Washington and Le e.
Even so, State walked off With
a 7-6 decision.
The. rain, however, w.a s no
indication of what was to come as
State dropped the • second and
third contests—the first to Rut
gers and the second to _Cornell.
In defense of 01' Jupe, however,
it must be said that the rain let
up in the last two games, although
State probably wished that it
would have rained harder—and
. maybe have gotten colder as it
was against Washington and Lee.
Psychologically speaking, State
will act as' "escapists" when it
tries to avoid both rain and de
feat Saturday at Hobart. Last
year at Hobart, the Nittany Lions
upset Coach Fr ancis (Babe)
Krouse's men, 17-10.
It was only the second l loss in
flicted on the New Yorkers. RPI
handed Hobart its other defeat,
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ince the Penn Relays last month.
To date, Coach Ben Eastman's
trackmen have participated in
three relay meets (Seton Hall,
Penn Relays and Los Angeles Col
iseum relays) and one dual; Army,
contest.
Favorites for IC4A Title
In each outing, the Jaspers
seemed to. match or better their
previous showings, and have en
trenched themselves as the ones
to beat for the IC4A title, May
30-31.
Their glittering performances
in the Quaker City relays saw
the indoor IC4A champs , succesS
fully carry their role of defend
ing titlist and favorite, to a thrill
ing victory in the 440 relay, fin
ishing in 42 seconds flat—terrific
time under the weather circum
stances.
The foursome of Bob Carty, Joe
Schatzle, Lindy Remigino, an d
Jack O'Connell wrapped - up its
second title in its second defense
when it outran Morgan State's
entries by an even bigger margin
in the 880 than in the 440. '
Takes Army, 77-63
Manhattan also took over the
outstanding baton passing team
in the Carnival when it won the
mile relay title in 3:23.3.
Against Army two weeks ago,
the Manhattanites overpowered a
strong Black Knight team, 77-63.
The next weekend the West Point
ers took it out on State to the
tune of 115 1 / 2 -24 1 / 2 . .
'L as t Saturday afternoon the
Jaspers did - themselves proud by
repeating their 440 and 880-yard
relay victories fin 40.7 and 1:24.4 ;
which were a mere fifth and two
fifth respectively, off the world
records.
13-10, but at that the. Engineers
had to rally. As matter of cur
iosity, Hobart defeated Syracuse,
15-7, which in turn, upended
State here 13-10.
In addition to closing Penn
State's season, the game will also
bring down the curtain on Ho
bart's season. It will be the eighth
game for State and the tenth
game for Hobart, which has ten
lettermen returning froin last
year, including seven _from the
first team.
Missing froth. Hobart's 'lineup
will be third-team All-American
attackman Bob Demuth. Demuth
also participated in the North=
South All-Star game last year
and scored two goals.
Spearheading Hobart offensive
ly will be .a pair of high scoring
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, Whiff King to Be Feted
BRISTOL, Tenn : , Va., May. 20
VP) It will be "Ron Necciai
night" tomorrow night as Bristol
I baseball fans honor the 19-year
old, righthander 'who is re-writ
ing strikeout records.
Necciai, who whiffed 27 batters
Ilast week in hurling Bristol to a
no -hit, no-run 7-0 win over Welch,
W. Va., will be presented gifts in
appreciation of -the national pub
licity he has brought this city on
the Tennessee-Virginia border.
Hairston Rated Favorite
DETROIT, May 20 (W)—Eugene
Silent Hairston, an -on-the-up
grade 22-year-old, ranks a slight
betting favorite to whip Jake La
Motta, aging Bronx bull, in their
10-round . middleweight fight at
Olympia Stadium' on Wednesday
night.
The deaf mute Negro was given
a 6-5 edge by the betting fraterni
ty,' although he was held to a
draw - .here March 5 by the 30-
year -old La Motta, once the mid
dleweight champ.
Babe 'Net Too Chipper'
BEAUMONT, Tex., May 20 (R)
Mrs. Miliired Babe Didrickson
Zaharias, '37, voted the Associated
Press' "Woman. Athlete of the
Half Century," said today she
wasn't "feeling too chipper" after
an operation.
The hospital said she was rest
ing well, and Babe managed 'a
smile.
She said she had been found to
be "a little bit anemic—of all
things." She has been given seda
tives since the operation yester
day for removal of a hernia.
Matthews to Fight Rocky
' SEATTLE, May 20 (FP)-1— Harry
"Kid" Matthews' manager said
today "I expect to sign Matthews
for a Rocky• Marciano bout with
in five days."
Mariager Jack Hurley made the
comment after Matthews' •decisive
10-round victory last night over
Rex Layne, Utah heavyweight, at
Portland. ;
attackmen, sophomore Hoover
(Scoop) Sutton and John Snape,
a sophomore from Swarthmore,
Pa.
Sutton won honorable mention
All-American last year as did
Captain Hank Rosenberg, senior
goalie from Maryland.
Walcott-Charles on TV?
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 20
(R)—Heavyweight champion Jer
sey Joe... Walcott and his manager,
Felix Bocchicchio, conferred • to
day with promoter Herman Tay
lor and James Norris, president of
the International Boxing Club, on
prospects of televising and broad
casting Walcott's title bout with
dethroned champ Ezzard Charles
in Philadelphia June 5.
Sports
Briefs
Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Age can and has withered Joe Bedenk—slightly—since his All-
American guard days in 1923 for Nittany gridders, but custom cannot
stale the infinite variety of winning Penn State baseball teams
Bedenk has turned out since only the -record book knows when.
The fact that the Old Professor of Nittany baseball has had
only one losing season in all his years the record book says 22
—as State's head coach, will probably be overlooked this afternoon
in the pre-game warmup ceremonies preceeding the Penn State-
Temple diamond tussle.
After all, the bronze plaque Bedenk will receive from the
American Association of College Baseball is for•2s years of service
to collegiate baseball. The citation isn't likely to say anything about
won-lost records. So just for the record, it might be mentioned that
en route to having only one losing season, Bedenk's ballclubs have
hit the win column, 237 times and wound up on the wrong side of
the ledger only 103 times.
(In order to make the Silver Anniversary Club of diamond
coaches, Bedenk gained five years prior to coming to State. This
early coaching was picked up at Rice Institute, Tex., and at the
U. of Florida.)
One of the major causes Bedenk has been so "very, very for
tunate" in staying out of the red is the spirited hustle and drive
displayed by an always abundance of talent which reports every
year. Even more remarkable about the winning-ways of Nittany
baseball is the Northerly clime the team must drill in during the
early months—under, the stands in cold, cold February.
Despite the honors Bedenk has gathered in bushelfuls, one has
eluded him constantly in recent years—the NCAA playoff berth. In
1948 his club got by Seton Hall and Rutgers in District 2 play but
fell before St. - Johns 7-5 in the final.
This year it appeared as if Bedenk might make it. But after
winning 10 straight; NCAA talk sent the pressure mounting
and the Nittany nine spiraling downward fast. Although not
mathematically eliminated from NCAA contention, the noose is
just about drawn tight. By winning all three remaining games,
luckily two are on invincible-to-date Beaver Field, State can end
up with a 15-4 record—the same record Princeton owned when
chosen to play in Omaha last year.
The Lions lost only three last year to the opposition but the Rain
swept eight others and gave the Lions a 10-3 mark and the Tigers a
playoff spot. This year the rain has been extra kind, but the oppo
sition has been most unkind of late.
It is approaching two outs in the ninth—never too late—for
Bedenk to have one of his regrets wiped out this year. But Pop
Time is likely to wipe out another of the Professor's regrets:
namely, that he "doesn't have 25 more years to give to college
baseball."
Long Gains Tennis Finals
Dez Long, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, became the first man to reach
the finals of the IM fraternity tennis singles tournament by decision
ing Bill Wallis, Sigma Pi, in their semi-final round match,
Long won easily in straight sets
over Wallis, 6-3, 6-1. The varsity
sophomore performer will now
meet the winner of the Bill Ray,
Phi Kappa Sigma-Bruz Ray, Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon, Semi-final
match for the 1951 singles crown.
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IM tennis competition because the
tourney got under way in the fall
before the varsity tennis season
started.
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