FRIDAY, APRIL Ti, 1953
G.OlfTeamTOa
Hosts
,Pitt
In Opener
By ROY WILLIAMS
State's seven-man golf , team
will get into the swing of things
on Wednesday as they' play host
to Pittsburgh. Pitt has already en
gaged Georgetown and Navy, but
this will be the Nittanies season
opener. The match is scheduled
to get underway at 1:30 on State's
69-par course.
Coach Bob Rutherford has six
lettermen returning from last
year's squad which posted a 3 and
2 record. The Lions defeated Pitt,
5-2, Cornell, 5-2, and Bucknell,
9-0, in rapid succession. Navy
snapped the Lion's string with a
4-3 win and. Colgate copped the
final match, 6-1. State, however,
outscored its opponents, 23-14 in
over-all season scoring.
Of the six returning lettermen,
Captain Hud Samson is the only
senior. Returning juniors each re
turning for their second year are
Rod Eaken, semi-finalist in the
Eastern Intercollegiate Golf As
sociation
competition, Gordon
Stroup, and Joe Webb. Second
year sophomores (freshmen were
eligible for match, play last year)
are Warren Gittland and George
Kreicller.
Intersquad match play this
weekend ' will decide the team
that goes against Pitt on Wednes
day. Six promising newcomers—
senior, Bob Smith; juniors, Don
Carver, Lou Riggs, and Don Car
ney; sophomores, Jimmy• Mayes
and Jeff Sawyer—and the return
ing lettermen, will vie for a slot
on the seven-man squad.
When asked about this years
material, Rutherford remarked,
"We have six returning letter-men
which naturally gives us a little
more depth than we had last year.
The six new men who have come
out this year are making the com
petition for an opening-day posi
tion, really hot. The team is by no ,
means picked and won't be until
the final match is played on Sun
day."
Rutherford stated' that the
strongest team in State's nine
game schedule—Pittsburgh, Navy,
C o r n e 11, Gettysburgh, George
town, Lehigh, Colgate, Bucknell,
and Temple will probably be
Navy, who usually gives State a
good battle. "Pitt may give us
trouble, Rutherford said, "primar
ily because they have already en
gaged in two matches." Ruther
ford remarked that the weather
has been hampering. the boys.
Seven Defeated
In - IM Handball
Seven more doubles teams fell
by the wayside Wednesday night
as play continued in the second
round of the intramural handball
tournament. In one of the top
matches played so far, the team
of Myton-Haenel, Delta Tau Del
ta, squeezed out a 21-18, 20-21,
and 21-15 win over Miller-Mil
som, Alpha Zeta. Another close
match saw partners Weiss-Dore,
Alpha Tau Omega, whip the com
bine of Poser-Siegel, Phi Sigma
Delta, 16-21, 21-16, and 21-7.
lii . other matches played, Kil
gore-Gingerich, Lambda Chi Al
pha, topped Theta Kappa Phi's
twosome of McCarthy-Doyle, 21-
5;%21-12. Riggs-White, Sigma Chi,
topped Pennebacker-Millard, Sig
ma Phi Sigma, 21-3, 21-6. Mc-
Donough-Note, Alpha Sigma Phi,
beat Sherry-Weidenhammer, Al
pha Chi Rho, 21-15, 21-20. Martin-
Brasher, Phi Kappa Sigma, beat
Veit-Cranos, Phi Kappa Phi,
21-6, 21-6. Fahnestock-Anderson,
Sigma. Nu, beat 13arr-Roan, Chi
Phi, by forfeit.
Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By JAKE HIGHTOR
Collegian Sports Editor
Sports loving sophomore and junior students who were planning
to either flunk ,or go into grad work in order to be around for the
1955 centennial year, can stop their scheming. They might as well
reconcile themselves to graduation according to dad's original plan.
There will NOT be an all-home sports schedule in '55.
This "dead for a ducat" stab comes straight from scheduling
authority Ike Gilbert. It kills instantly the rumor which has been
wriggling around the Nittany campus as long as peace has been a
standing rumor in Korea.
The whole rumor started• in 1947 when Gilbert took over as
Graduate Manager of Athletics—in charge of 'schedule making, trip
arrangements, budgeting; Penn-game 'tickets, headaches, and reci
pient of the wrathful barbs of students and sportswriters. Shortly
thereafter several members of the trustee board noticed that 1955
would be Penn State's 100th anniversary. Promptly fired by patriotic
zeal, the trustees declared that there would be a complete home
schedule in 1955—0 r, no graduate manager.
Well, a committee was formed to decide that the Centennial Year
should coincide with the calendar
year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, This was
easy. What was left was impossi
ble. To begin with, the community
pocketbook could not absorb' eight
straight home football games. Butl
worse still -was the schedule jugg
ling which would have been in
volved. Fo r instance, big rival
West Virginia is played on a two
and-one basis, the two being on
Beaver Field. In 1955 State is due
in Morgantown.
Still another obstacle was the
ugly head of money. Penn and
Pitt of necessity are always played
in the cities where there are large
concentrations, of Penn State al
umni and student's homes. Beaver
Field can't be gin to net what
Franklin Field and Pitt Stadium
do: Neverthless, Pitt 'did agree to
leave the skyscrapers. But not so
Penn. The only way to vamp the
Quakers from Franklin Field
Ike Gilbert would be with a guarantee of the
entire Beaver Field gate receipts.
Hence, an all-home schedule is a fantastic dream. Even so,
the 1955 schedule, as yet unofficial and incomplete, should be at
tractive. Navy—always restricted in its rovings from Annapolis—
has agreed to come to State College. In additicin, another colorful
rival, SYracuse, will be at home., Still - in the -offing is a "name"
team for the opening date. But here too is trouble for Gilbert.
He cannot get Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan State or Illinois be
cause Big Ten schedules are already drawn up through 1955 and
1956. On the other hand, a highly desirable Ivy League opponent
like Cornell cannot work schedules further ahead than '53 and '54.
In all other sports the same situation will hold. Naturally there
will not be all-home schedules. But the attempt will be made to
bring outstanding institutions to Rec Hall; especially in sports like
basketball which ordinaxily can't support name teams on the home
schedule.
What about the trustee's threat? Already Gilbert is no longer
Graduate Manager of Athletics. Hs official title is now Associate
Director of Athletics ... "A rose by any othqr. smells as sweet."
Cronstedt in Pre-Med
Jan Cronstedt, Finnish orphan
and outstanding Penn State gym
nast, has given up a projected
career in foreign service to study
medicine. The 20-year-dld is a
top-ranking student and National
AAU calisthenics champion.
Golf Managers
Candidates for assistant man
agership of golf should sign up
at the Athletic Association of
fice in Old Main, and then re
port to the prO shop.
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Baseball's Big Leagues
By Associated Press
• Billy the Kid Pierce of the Chi
cago White Sox pitched a one
hitter, but needed a gift run to
beat a two-hitter by 38-year-old
Harry. Brecheen for a thrilling 1-0
home opener victory over the> St.
Louis Browns today.
The only run in the scorch
ing duel between Pierce, now
victorious nine straight over the
Brown s, and Brecheen, the
Cardinal castoff making his
American League debut, came
in the seventh on a walk, sacri
fice, error and an outfield fly.
President Eisenhower got the
Griffith Stadium baseball season
'off in fine style today with a
strong, righthanded opening pitch
but the Washington S en a t ors
missed the cue and dropped a
sloppily-played game to the New
York Yankees, 6 to 3.
The Yanks piled up four runs
in the first inning on three hits,
only one of which was of the
solid variety, a triple to deep
right center by Hank Bauer. A
. pair of walks and a pair of
singles which just eluded first
baseman Mickey Vernon com
pleted the damage.
The 25,122 opening day fans
watched the Senators struggle for
the rest of the afternoon against
Johnny Saran's tantalizing assort-1
ment of curves and slow stuff.
Larry Doby knocked in fiv e
runs —. two of them on a tower
ing 400-foot homer off the' right
field roof—as the Cleveland In
dians outslugged Detroit to spoil
the. Tigers' home opener, 11-8, to
day before 25,253 well-chilled fans
at Briggs Stadium.
Doby drilled his homer - while
the Indians were scoring six
times in the• third inning. Then.
Physicists
in the six t h, he hammered
across the tying and winning
runs with a hot single to cen
terfield that almost decapitated
losing pitcher Ray Herbert.
Walt Dropo, the Tigers' big first
baseman, also knocked in five
runs with a double and a base
clearing triple.
The Roston Red Sox, after
having their American League
inaugural delayed twice by
snow and wintry weather, made
up for lost time today by
pounding four Philadelphia
Athletic pitchers for 19 hits and
an 11 to 6 win at Connie Mack
Stadium.
Big Gus Zernial gave the A's
what little consolation was avail
able by slamming his first homer
of the new season onto the left
' field roof in the fourth inning.
The Sox' third baseman, George
Kell, collected four` RBl's with a
double and three singles.
Danny O'Connell's three-run
homer in the fifth inning broke
up a slugfest and gave the
Pittsburgh Pirates a 14-12 home
opening victory today over the
Philadelphia Phillies.
O'Connell's blast climaxed a 13-
run assault in the fourth and fifth
innings to the delight of 16,220
rain-soaked fans.
Connie Ryan, 32-year-old sec
ond sacker for the Phillies, col
lected six straight hits, two of
them doubles, to tie a maj or
league record for one ga me. .
The record is held by several
players.
Rain washed out today's sched
uled Polo Grounds opener be
tween the New York Giants and
Brooklyn Dodgers, forcing a post
ponement until tomorrow after
noon.
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will interview
on the campus
Monday. April 20
For exact time and location
consult your
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