PAGE TWELVE Sports Thru The Lion’s Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sports Editor Maybe you were one of the unfortunates hole, ip m x.— >g, Montana or Twin Crossroads, Arizona during the summer. Or maybe the summer heat was too hot' to even read newspapers. Anyway, on the assumption that somehow there was a failure to keep abreast of Penn State sports happenings during the summer, let’s take an inventory of summer sports stock: ITEM—Penn State lakes third place in the NCAA World Series baseball piayoff in Omaha, Neb. in its first Series ap pearance. COMMENT—-After 22 years of coaching Nittany baseball and piling up of all sorts of honors including a preponderance of wins, 243 to IQ6 losses. Joe Bedenk finally achieved one of his biggest goals—his team made .the NCAA playoffs. In 1948 Bedenk had a club sweep past Rutgers and Seton Hall but lost to St. Johns 7-5 in the District II finals. But this year State neatly dodged St. Johns in the / District II playoffs on Beaver Field. The Lions blasted Ford ham 14-4 and then tripped Villanova, conquerer of St. Johns, 9-6. Came the Little World Series, June, and Omaha, Jack Bedenk and his Beanstalks assumed the role of giant killers. Behind the brilliant, steady hurling of Keith Vesling—currently a righthalf candidate for Rip Engle’s gridders—State knocked off Texas, one of the pre-toumey favorites and twice national champs, 5-3. The next day a bigger giant was toppled as America’s No. 1 collegiate ball club, Duke, fell 12-7. State’s reliefer Jack Krumrine (5-1) put the brakes on a Blue Devil outfit which had won 30 out of 35 regular season games while winning the Southeastern conference and the District 111 titles. With Nittany No. 2 hurler, Ace Everson (5-1), unable to make the trip,- Vesling (7-3), then only a frosh, came back with only one day’s rest to spin a neat 8-hitter. But his. mates could only garner two runs from tourney runnerup Missouri and Keith lost 3-2. That State finally ran out of gas and got drubbed by national champion Holy Cross, 15-4, was little consolation to Duke and Texas, the red-hot favorites. NITTANY DIAMOND DUST: Captain BUI Hopper led the club in slugging with six homers, three triples and two doubles . . . State's elite "300 club" included outfielder Hopper with. .325 and two men Bedenk will be glad to have back next spring—third sacker Hubie Klein, team leader with .347, and catcher BUI Leon ard with .315 . . . Captain-elect for 1953 Sil Cerchie had the best outSMding average with .956 ... Vesling hung up the lowest ERA with 2.40 por game and led the club in strikeouts with 69. BROKEN FIELD: The NCAA all-collegiate nine included Dick Groat, current major leaguer with the Pirates, who played bril liantly on defense and hit .371 for Duke . . . Rutgers’ football star who picked up eight and ten yards a clip in the 18-14 loss to State’s gridders two years ago, outfielder Jim Monahan made the first tewa with a .404 average . . . Baylor’s passing wizard, Larry Isbell, made the team as a catcher with a meal-ticket mark of .386. ITEM—Duke’s baseball Coach Jack Coombs, former Philadelphia Athletics pitching star from 1906 to 1914, retired last month at the age of 70. COMMENT The Grand Old Man of college baseball just couldn't keep up with the older Grand Old Man of college football/ Amos Alonzo Slagg. Slagg is now a frisky 90 years old and still going strong helping his son coach at Susquehanna. ITEM—lllinois drops-six players from its grid roster because of scholastic deficiency. One of them is first team offensive tackle Jim Baughman and the other Claude Taliaferro, halfback brother of Indiana’s former star, George Tally. COMMENT—The Illini should moan. Engle lost a Dream Backfield which if not Four Horsemen, could have been four terrific ponys. Wouldn't the Nittany backfield look great today with Ted Shattuck, leading ground gainer last year, at lefthalf; plowing Paul Anders at full. Bob Pollard at righthalf and either Bob Sxajna or Tony Rados at quarterback? Who could match it in the East, at the least? Second Lieutenant Ernie Moore, former sports editor of the Col legian and now with the Air Force Public Information in Texas writes his best “for Rip and the boys and hopes to see them all in Dallas come Jan. 1.” Good luck to you, Ernie! 4 Teams, 6 Win '5l-'52 Four championship teams plus six individual titlists established the 1951-52 sports season as one of the best in a decade at Penn State. Cross-country led the way by duplicating its team victory- of the year before in IC4A competition, while Charlie Speidel’s wrest lers also repeated in the annual Eastern tournament. The basketball team won a berth in the NCAA play-offs on the strength of its 20 and 4 season record In baseball, Joe Bedenk’s Nit tany Lion nine went to the “Col lege World Series” for the first time by topping St. John’s, Ford ham and Villanova in the District Two play-off. The Lion batsmen finished third in an eight-team field at Omaha, Neb. Wrestling led the way in indi vidual titl'=ts when Joe Lemyre, of Merrick, N.Y.. won Eastern and National collegiate honors as ★ ★ ★ Individuals Sports Titles his brother, Dick, and Bob Ho man, of Wantaugh, N. Y., won Eastern titles. The title-winners in Eastern boxing competition were John Albarano, of Lilly, and Captain elect Sam Marino, of Norristown. A Finnish-born freshman, Jean Cronstedt, won horizontal bar and all-around titles in the East ern gymnastics ch a m pionships, took cahstkonics honors in National AAU competition. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Jeffrey's Enviable By TOM SAYLOR The next time you stroll over the golf course, notice, if traffic, weather, and your date permit, the vast and varied number of athletes. They’re golfers, naturally, and not only that but wrestlers, trackmen, lacrossers, and cross countrymen. , But there’s another gro to the left. See those men ri Bootin' Halfback (Standings of the first two teams in both leagues include yesterday's results). W L Pet. New York 83 57 Cleveland ...... 83 58 % Chicago 74 65 8% Boston 72 66 10 Washington 72 69 11 % Philadelphia 72 69 12 St. Louis 57 83 26 Detroit 47 91 35 Today's Schedule New York at Chicago (night) Washington at St. Louis (night) Philadelphia at Detroit Boston at Cleveland (night) Brooklyn New York, . St. Louis j.. Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati Boston ... Pittsburgh Pittsburgh at Boston (2-twi-night) St. Louis at Brooklyn Cincinnati at Ne-> York (2) Chicago at Phila., (2 twi-night) Follmer Major Leagues AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pcf. 88 50 83 • 54 3% 80 58 8 75 63 13 68 73 21 Vz 62 77 26% 60 78 28 39 102 50% Today's Schedule Soccer Squad Has Quarter-Century ip, too. They’re up at the far end of the field. Look, there nning up and down a field about 100 yards in length? That’s the soccer team. It’s won 144, lost 21, and tied 26 over a period of 26 years. Not bad. There’s the coach, Bill Jeffrey, standing along the sidelines giv ing the boys the eagle eye. He usually participates in these scrimmages, but today he’s tak ing it easy. “Ol’ Jeff” has been around in soccer—since 1902 to be exact, the first year he began playing and he came to. Penn State in 1926. He’s, forgotten more about soccer than most people know. What’s State have this year? Just about everyone back from last year’s club except inside left Ron Coleman and left fullback Jay Simmons. State lost two more men, temporarily at least, when the freshman rule gobbled up Charlie Helenius and forward Dick Matacio, two men from the vicinity of New'York City. They’ll be on the freshman team and Jeffrey is thinking of entering the frosh team in' the county league which starts to morrow a week. Defensively, State’s loaded, or should be. with only, the hole left by Simmons to fill up. Jeff in dicated he might place Hap Ir vin, a former, forward, there. Out side of that particular spot, every thing seems to be hunky-dory. SSKMfI JAMES CAGNEY CORINNE CAL VET "WHAT PRICE GLORY" y iii.il i ~tBS LAURENCE OLIVER JENNIFER JONES "CARRIE" SIMONE SIMON EDWARD ARNOLD "DANIEL AND THE DEVIL" FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1925 Paul Dierks is the other full back and what he lacks in ex perience he makes up in power. He circumnavigates the globe everytime he boots the ball. The halfbacks—Jack Charlton, Captain Kurt Klaus, and Frank Follmer more than hold down their end of the bargain. Follmer was an All-American last year and can run like the wind. Klaus always gives a good, consistent game while Charlton, often over looked, possesses a wicked left foot. .*4 Up front, it might be Jack Pinezich’s year. Pinezich had a wrenched back last year that kept him on the bench most of the time. If his hand holds up, look for some great things from the dark haired New Yorker, who will see action at center. Then there’s Bill Norcik and Charlie Snyder at wings and El lis Kocher, Don Shirk, baseball man Hubie Kline, Ralph Hoffman, and Geriy Gillispie—all fighting for positions at the inside posi tions. Hey - - PENN STATERS! Come down soon for a delicious sandwich and a creamy milkshake! Known for those Delicious Kosher Corned Beef Sandwiches NITTANY DELL E. College Are. (Across from Atherton Hall)
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