&ATM IrOVEMBEIT 22, 1952 Between the Lions Mistakes are made every day and are quickly forgotten by the few people who hear them, but pity the •poor sportscaster whose radio voice is heard all over the country by countless numbers of people. Their glaring errors occur in all radio sports coverage and particularly in football where the action is so swift and often time so tricky that the announcer has a difficult time telling who has the ball and who hasn't. • Probably everyone can recall a particularly .amusing ) error that has occured over the years. One that sticks in our mind as a good example happened during the 1949 football season. Bill Stern, famous commentator, had spent a greater part of the year telling his listeners how great Notre Dames' Emil Sitko was. In a late season game, a forward pass play developed in which a Noire Dame player received the lateral in the flat and took off down the field. "It's Sitko," Bill yelled. "He's on his , own forty-five—he's at midfield—he sidesteps a player— he's past the forty—he's over the thirty—the twenty-five—" Just then a frantic assistant shouted in Bill's ear who quickly picked up his field glasses and looked at the field. Then, without interrupting his speech he whoo ped: "_;_and Sitko, on a beautiful bit of fast thinking; laterals' to Zilly, who takes it across for the Notre Dame touchdown!" It had been Zilly who had caught the pass instead of . Sitko, and it had been Z illy who had MMOMEM of the field. Dur ing this spectac- ular run, and practically fo r the whole game, Mn Sitko had sitting on the bench. Then on an other occasion, Bill solemnly told his listeners during a World War II broadcast, how the former heavyweight box ing champion, Primo Camera, had been put to death by the Italian Facisti as an Allied Collaborator. Then the War ended and the _so-called dead Mr. Carnera re turned to America to enter the sports world as a wrestler. Bill had him an his program but made no reference to the super natural feat that had occured. But was his face red! In another of "was my_face red" episodes, a commentator on sports by the name of Ted Husing was telling his audience about a par ticularly good schoolboy sprinter named Bob Rodenkirchen who Husing thought had the makings of a great runner. In the Junior National AAU meet of this certain year, Rod enkirchen had won the 200- meter dash, and Husing decided he was unbeatable. Rodenkir chen entered the 100-meters the following day and Husing was at the mike as Bob' toed the mark for the qualifying heat. "Rodenkirchen breaks at the top Campus capers call for Coke The hour hand moves fast the night before exams—lots of ground to cover and panic setting in. To relax and refresh? That's easy. Have a Coke ...it's delicious "Coke" is a rogisfartal trade-mark. By TED SOENS Assistant Sports Editor of the field," Ted told his audi ence at the gun. "Rodenkirchen leads at the twenty five—it's Rod enkirchen at the fifty—he breaks through the bunched runners— what form that boy has—Roden kirchen at the seventy-five—Rod enkirchen at the tape—" A moment of stunned silence followed then in a meek voice, Husing continued, "Ahhh—Met calfe wins by 10 yards, with John son second, - Glickman third, Dai gle fourth—", After that meet Husing never again touted another human animal as a sure winner. On the other hand, is the an nouncer who has the players all mixed up. Take the Pirate game announcer, Rosey Rosewell. In a rather sunny day at Forbes Field last season, Rosey , was describ ing a hard fought baseball game between the Pirates and Cincin nati. The Pirates were at bat. "Now Kiner's at the plate-- he looks at the first one for a called strike—here comes the next pitch and Kiner swings— and there goes a hard hit ball deep into center field—Kiner is chasing it—he's on his pony— Kiners going back and grabs , it to retite---er----" Ralph must have a twin some where along the line! Then we turn to the other part of the State where Ernie Harwell is broadcasting. Ernie's a histor ian and presupposes that all lis teners are ignorant of, but deeply interested in the minor details of sports history. He announces that Whitey Lockman has hit a double which struck on the left field foul line—so far so good but then he begins his history lesson— for after that he'll go on to re late who the first player was ever to hit a double that struck. on the left-field foul line and that was Oswald Shanahan of the old Baltimore Orioles in 1872. • Harwell continues with a bio graphical sketch, explaining that Oswald had a son who• became chief of police in New Mexico, and a daughter who is currently librarian in such and such a place and raises hamsters as a hobby. And so it goes! BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OP THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Altoona TA DAILY sT47, COLLEGE. PI7N.§YI.-44Ms'l Quakers to Host Booters Today Eleven Nittany Lion hooters will roll a log of 6-1-1 onto River Field, Philadelphia, today and attempt to record their fourth straight victory of the campaign against a strong Penn soccer squad. The match, the finale for the Jeffreymen this season, gets Lion Hoopmen Lack Polish in Practices By the way the scrimmages and daily practices have been going the Lions' basketball team will have a lot of polishing to do if it hopes ,to have a successful season. Up to date the Lions played, four tilts and although they copped three of them, their playing was anything but satisfactory. Its superiority in foul shooting and boardwork was the only fac tor that have kept the scrimmage slate, on the winning side. But more time will have to be spent on the ball handling and defen sive work b e for e they can be brought up to par. Blocker Impressive Wednesday night's game re sulted in a 56-45 win over Lock Haven State Teachers College, the second time the Nittanies have beaten them. The score was tied at half time, 25-25, and only a strong second half pickup saved the game for the Lions. The teachers put on a fast dis play of passing, but the advan tage in height lay with the Lions and that proved to be the winning factor. Jim Blocker especially looked fine under the boards. He has shown a lot of aggressiveness in the practices and his board work and playing have improved tremendously over that of last year. The Lions also beat Juniata in a practice tilt last week by 25 points. This time, the margin of victory was accurate foul shoot ing. Making full use of the new foul rule which gives two shots for every offense in the first 37 minutes, the Lions sank 17- of 23 shots while their opponents sank only 11 out of 27: December 6 Clinic Big Maurice Stokes and lack of experience in the sliding zone technique were too much of a handicap for the Lions as they dropped a 85-61 contest to St. Francis last Friday. Without the services of their big gun, Jesse Arnelle, the Staters didn't have the height to cope with the 6-6 Stokes who, incidentally, Elmer Gross thinks will be one of the top players in the country. The Lions will get another look at St. Francis on . December 6 when Penn State holds sa basket ball clinic in Rec Hall and St. Francis will provide the opposi tion. The sliding zone is a difficult © 1952, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY By TED SOENS defense to master and with only two weeks practice the quintet didn't ha v e the experience to cover the basket adequately. The Lion's guards failed to move to their positions fast enough leav ing holes in the defense which the St. Francis pivot man used to full advantage. Short accurate passes from the pivot man to a player left free under the basket resulted in most of •the points. In an effort to correct this mis take, Gross has been spending much time on defensiVe work. Only two more weeks of practice remain before the opener against Alfred College and it will be one big race against the calendar to see if the Lions have mastered the zone in time. Today's Rooters Lineups Penn State Penn Harris G Youngblood Dierks RF Bruno Irvin LF Tucker Follmer RH Wilmeth Klaus CH Anderson Charlton LH Hallenbeck Norcik RO Palm Kocher RI Yarnell Pinezich CF Devaney Shirk LI Wardle Thomann" LO Alexander Mijares IM Mitt Pairings All fraternity and independ ent IM boxing pairings an d bout times have been mailed by the Intramural office. As sistant Director Dutch Sykes says that any participants who haven't .received the pairings through the mail can pick them up in the Rec Hall office. Why NOW, Mr. Smith? The Manager of College Sportswear Says: The local Friends Organization of State College has•started a drive with College Sportswear to collect clothes for needy people all over the world. College Sportswear -- Right now will give you $lO on any old suit or topcoat -- toward a new one , bought at the store: "State College's Friendly Store" BEAVER and ALLEN Open, Fri. Nite 'til 9 Help yourself and the world —Bring your old suit to Coriegx Sporbwear underway at 2 p.m. The Lion booters, hungry for a Soccer Bowl bid, hope their "log" will be a battering ram to day for them, for the Quakers are by no means an easy touch. Despite the fact they have lost to Army and Cornell and barely squeezed past weak Haverford, 3-2, the Red and Blue toemen have compiled an impressive 5-2-1 record this year. The Quakers' forward line in cludes two highly capable men in center forward Joe Devaney and inside right Chuck Yarnell, both native Philadelphians. At center halfback Penn boasts a fine ball-handler on defense as well as on offense in Bill Ander son. Thomann or Mijares at OL Today's tilt with Penn will be the last game in a Penn State uniform, excluding the possibility of a Soccer Bowl bid, for six Nit tany booters: Jack Charlton, Don Dutrow, Frank Follmer, Kurt Klaus, E 11 i s Kocher, and Jack Krumrine. Jeffrey will stand pat on his usual winning lineup, except Lynn Thomann will start at out side left instead of Joe Mijares if the Philadelphia weather is in clement. The line again will shape up with Bill Norcik and either Tho mann or Mijares at the wings, Kocher and Don Shirk at- inside left and inside right, and Jack Pinezich at center forward. The halfbackfield of Charlton, Klaus, and Follmer remains intact. Paul Dierks; who was a defen sive standout in last week's Owl- State clash, will return to his customary right fullback posi tion. Hap Irvin will be his run ning mate at the left fullback slot. Pinezich After Record Red ,Harris will start at the goalie position, with Krumrine in ready reserve. Other than the fact that the Jeffreymen must win today to stay in contention for the Soccer Bowl New Year's Day, today's tilt will also see Pinezich try to break the Penn State seasonal soccer scoring record of 21 goals, set in 1935 by Bill McEwan. The New York City booter needs two goals today to break the mark. PAGE SEVEN
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