TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1952
Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Famine visited the Penn State''campus yesterday and although
his equine, buddies, Pestilence, Destruction and Death were missing,
Harry Stuhldreher—Famine is merely an alias—rode to a smashing
victory over a public relations class of economics professor Dr.
Wherry.
Stuhldreher with, his beaming smile, forceful wit and fasci
nating tales of the legendary Notre Dame Four Horsemen, made
a hit with the students just as he did with his alias-coiner Grant
land Rice who once praised the Irish's diminutive quarterback
for his "cool and crafty judgment . . . with the finest, possible
generalship."
Today Famine, like his three . other calvarymen once
.more
dreaded than the Don Cossocks—Don Miller, Sleepy Jim Crowly, and
Elmer Layden—has retired from the coaching strain and is success
ful in business. Famine is assistant to the vice president of the
industrial relations department of U.S. Steel and although trim and
athletic looking yet, his forehead has receded and his greying hair
gives him a distinguished_ businessman's appearance.
Stuhldreher's associations with Penn State and its coaches re
called to him many fond memories. He lauded his f-'dear, dear friend
Leo Houck" who did more to get
us (Wiscorsin) over the •hill of
boxing disrespect than any one
other individual. He also took
great pleasure in recalling his
friendship with State's for me r
grid mentor Bob Higgins.• Stuhl
dreher, while coaching at Villa
nova for 11 years after gradua
tion from Notre' Dame in 1925,
met Hig on the sidelines often.
Yet it was for another Penn
Stater, Earl Hewitt, captain of the
1901 Lions, to give Famine the in
spiration and encouragement to
scale the heights he did in college
football. At Kiski prep, in 1921,
after playing high school ball for
football hot-bed Massillon, Ohio,
Stuhldreher considered hi m self
too small to play college football
—a familiar cry—at 135 pounds.
But Hewitt, a constant watcher
of Kiski football, lighter than Famine - with a football uniform on,
gave him a pep talk.
"You know this story of size is overexaggerated," he said and
then proceeded to run down the honor roll of stars who could be
held _in the palm of the hand of the typical fullback of the day.
"There are always openings for small fellows," Hewitt sagely wound
up. And opening there was for the undersized "shaver" who went on
to play for Knute Rockne, the football hero whose helmet Stuhl
dreher used to carry with pride, and play with the most storied
backfield in .football history. Notre Dame's rough riders rolled
through an unbeaten season in 1924 and were picked for the first
national championship 'after defeating Stanford, 27-10, in the Rose
Bowl on New Year's Day; 1925, under the expert quarterbacking of
the "little shaver" who made All-American ('24).
Probably, everything that can possibly be said good about his
famous Coach Rockne has been said, but Stuhldreher unconsciously
added another when extolling the Rock's greatness. His inspirational
talk could make you "jump out the window." Yet, the greatest
factor behind this jumping-to-death for the Rock was his psychology.
He knew how to handle men and realized that each man was a
distinct individual and had to be treated as such.
No wonder Stuhldreher says "we've been educated by coaches."
No wonder - athletes "out-Herod Herod" to perform for such
coaches. And when athletes do reach the top, no wonder coaches
like Stuhldreher, who just left as head coach of Wisconsin in 1950,
say "that's when•we get paid off."
Sports at
Chapman Leads U.S.
PRESTWICK, Scotland, May 26
(JP) = Defending champion Dick
Chapman and the U.S. amateur
king, Billy- Maxwell, scored one
sided victories today to lead a
strong American charge into the
third - round of the British Ama
teur' Golf Championship.
Eboli Pleads Guilty
„ NEW YORK; May 26 (W)
Tommy Ryan Eboli, former fight
manager who lost his license after
a _post-fight disturbance in Madi
son Square Garden Jan. 11, today
pleaded guilty to charges of as
saulting Al !Weill, International
Boxing Club matchmaker. Sen
tence will be pronounced June 19.
'Chambers Out of Action
CHICAGO, May - 26 (W)—Cliff
Chainbers, star -"St: Louis Cardi
nal - Southpaw_ Will be out_of ac
tion a month because of a cracked
bone in the' left wrist, it was an
anounaed today by Manager Ed
die Stanky. He Was hit by a line
drive in a game at Cincinnati
yesterday.
The — first capitol building in
WilliamSburg, Va., was designed
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Wrapping up the 1952 tennis season with its fifth straight victory ,and sixth in nine
starts, the State netmen 'outshot Bucknell, 5-4, yesterday on the community courts.
The final win was even sweeter than merely the fifth triumph in a row for Coach
Sherm Fogg's hustling young outfit, for it was over the same Bucknell crew that handed
State its initial loss of the season, 7-2, at Lewisburg. 4.
Yesterday's return affair with the Bisons was originally scheduled for the college clay
courts, but early morning rains forced the transfer to the community courts.
Track Banquet Today
All athletes who were out for
track this spring will meet at
5:30 p.m. today at the Corner
Room for their . annual banquet.
Awards will be handed out
and a captain for next year
will be elected.
Baseball
Parade
By BARRY FEIN
The topsy-turvy National Lea
gue standings were strengthened
yesterday as the Chicago Cubs got
a firmer grip on third place by
beating the St. Louis Cards, 3-0.
The highly-touted Vinegar
Bend Mizell lost his fifth game
against one win. It seems that
Mizell's pitching troubles spring
from three sources: he weakens
in the late innings, he isn't get
ting much batting support, and
he can't field his position.
Big Bob Rush, 6-2, got his fifth
straight victory by pitching a six
hitter. He was helped by a seven
hit attack, Which included a hom
er and a double by Billy Serena,
and -Bob Ramazzotti's two-run
single in the seventh.
Washington kept up it's in
the-mirror second-place stand
ing by knocking off the Phila
delphia A's, 5.3, on , a 13-hit
dynamiting of Sam Zoldak and
Johnny Kucab.
The Pittsburgh Pirates ar e
going to have a long pull if
they're to win the pennant as
Rosie Roswell expects. Th e
hapless Buccos are presently
playing at a "torrid" .167 ' clip
with , six wins and 30 "losses
(not including last night's game
with Cincinnati).
The Pirates stand a good chance
to beat the . Philadelphia
all-time mark for least games won
in a season, 34. This, coupled
with 73 losses, gave the Phils a
rock bottom percentage of .348.
Not even the Bucs, however, will
top Cleveland's National League
'ecord of 134 games lost in 1899.
When Baseball Parade returns
in the fall, we expect the lea
gue standings to straighten out
and look something like this:
lIL-Dodgers, Giants, Cards,
Phi's, Cubs, Reds, Braves, and
you-knew wh o. AL-Indians,
Yanks, Red Sox, Senator s,
White Sox, Browns, Detroit,
Athletics.
The Detroit Tigers, mired in
last place, are getting a nice lift
from Virgil Trucks; who followed
his no-hitter with a neat two
hitter against the A's . . . but
Trucks is 33 and can't be ex
pected to carry the club out of
the cellar by himself.
By GEORGE BAIREY
Robinson Wins
The 1951 IM doubles champs,
Bruz Ray and Dez Long, with the
score deadlocked at four-apiece,
took a long 9-7 second set to beat
the Bisons. Ray Long met the
number two Bucknell outfit of
Spencer Lenhart and Joe Battin.
Scores were 6-3, 9-7.
Down the singles ladder, Dick
Robinson won; Bruz Ray 19st;
Capt. Ed Davis, in his final match
in Lion tennis garb, won; Dick
Gross lost; Bill Forrey won; and
Gus Bigott won. The singles play
gave the Nittany band a four-two
split going into the doubles action.
The scores of the number one
and three doubles teams were
completed, both of them resulting
in Bison wins and tying the score,
when the sophomore pair. of Ray
and Long outsteadied its oppon
ents for the match and the point
that extended the Lion win streak
to five.
Davis Wins
Sophomore slugger .R ob ins on
turned in a smooth 6-3, 6-4 win
over Bucknell ace Paul Remmey
in the top singles spot. Bruz Ray,
running in hard luck in recent
matches, took it on the chin in
straight sets from Jack Laird, 6-4,
6-2.
Davis, bowing out in a burst of
brilliance, dropped Bison Al Hol
ton in three sets, 6-4, 6-8, 6-2.
Fourth-ranked Lion Dick Gross
was nearly whitewashed in his
match with Spencer Lenhart. Top
heavy scores were 6-0, 6-1. -
Bill Forrey and Gus Bigott add-
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RENI
ed wins to the Nittany winning
cause in their fifth and sixth
singles spots. Foriey, striking at
his peak, won over Al Goff, 6-3,
6-1, while 'Old •Gus' also wrote
finis to his varsity tennis career
with a three-set victory over Joe
Battin. Bigott chopped his way to
scores of 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.
Top Lion doubles combo, Rob
inson-Davis, was beaten in iden
tical sets, 6-4, 6-4, as the number
three duo of Bill Ziegler and Bill
Ray was losing a three-setter, 4-6,
6-0, 6-1.
Then came the Ray-Long win
and the match.
Ray Eill . ers I
Tennis Finds
Bruz Ray, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
won the right to meet his frater
nity brother, Dez Long, in the
finals of the fraternity division of
the IM tennis tourney when he
edged blood-brother Bill Ray, Phi
Kappa Sigma, 8-6, 6-4, in the re
maining semi-final match.
Both Ray and Long, while var
sity perhirmers for Sherm Fogg's
contingent, are eligible to. finish
out the annual fall IM tourna
ment. Sophomores Ray and Long
won last season's IM tennis
doubles crown. They were paired
in the number two doubles spot
for the varsity during the past
season.