PAGE SIX Lion -ine For Ninth First Win, The Penn State baseball team jumped back to the win ning side of the ledger yesterday, defeating Dickinson, 4-1, behind the six hit hurling of pitcher Keith Vesling. The Nittanies, who dropped two to Pittsburgh Saturday, won their ninth game of the season, but could only muster five hits themselves while Vesling, back in form after two straight losses kept the Red Devils well in hand. The Lions made their hits count yesterday, however They bunched three of them in the fifth frame, scoring three tallies. Hu bie ,Kline, leading off, walked and went to second on a balk. Rex Bradley singled through the hole at short sending Kline to third, and Bradley took second on the throw in. " Score in First Pat Kennedy lined a single to left scoring both. Kline and Brad ley and then Vesling was safe on a bunt single sending Kennedy to third. Charlie Russo hit into an inning-ending double play. but Kennedy scored on the play. The Lions scored their other marker in the first inning with out the aid of a base hit. Russo led off with - a walk and went to second on a balk. Ron Weiden hammer sacrificed him to third and he romped home on Tom Werner's long fly ball. Dickinson started the scoring in the top half of that .frame, sending across their only run of the game. Third baseman Bob Beaver singled to center and stol second. Then after Vesling got Al Barlilar on a ground out, pitcher Joe Minkevitch singled to left sending him home. Was Last Home Game After that frame Vesling, who won his fifth , of the season, was never in trouble, although Dick inson batters sent a lot of long flys to the outfield. The Lions go back on the road this weekend with a three game trip to Syracuse and Colgate. The Bedenkmen play a single game Friday with Colgate and meet Syracuse Saturday in a double bill. The rest of the contests this year Will be played on foreign, sell. A double header is sched uled for next Wednesday with West Virginia and • the season wrap up with Temple is slated for May 23. The Dickinson win boosts the Lion season record to 9-3-1. Seven of these were against District Two teams. BOX SCORE Dickinson R .,.~ AB R H Russo,2b 3 1 0 Weid'ha'r,ss 3 0 0 Weiner„rf 4 0 0 Cerchie,cf 4 0 1' Leonard,c 4 0 0 Kline,3b 1 1 0 Bradley,lf 3 .1 1 Kennedy,lb 3 1 2 Vesling,p 2 0 1 AB R Dudas,2b 4 0 2 Beaver,ss 3 1 1 Barilar,rf 4 0 0 Minkevitch,p 4 0 1 Tarr,lb 4 0 0 Mitzel,lf 4 0 1 Mauro,af 3 0 1 Anderson,c 3 0 0 Stark,3b 3 0 0 Totals 32 1 00 000 000-1 6 2 00 030 00x-4 5 1 ). LP—Minkevitch. Totals 27 4 5 Dickinson 1 Perin State 1 WP—Vesling (5-2 Tennis Upset ROME, May 13 (JP)—Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., pulled off one of the year's most stunning tennis upsets today when she conquered Maureen Connolly, American triple crown holder, in an exhausting three-set match for Rome's International cham pionship. The Milwaukee Braves and BoSton Red Sox were tabbed by rival club officials as the most improved teams in the major leagues. Soccer Demonstration At Lycomhig Canceled The soccer demonstration scheduled today by 22 Penn State players at Lycoming Col lege, Williamsport. has been canceled. With the absence of football at Lycoming College, the school was interested in the possibility of initiating soccer as a winter sport. .This past school year a few Penn State men visited Lycom!n.g and re ported an interest in the sport. Today's demonstration by the Penn Staters was to point out the values of soccer in the col lege program. Beats Dickinson, 4-1, Win; Trackmen Seek Meet * * * CHUCK RUSSO; Lion second baseman watches intently while coach Joe Bedenk gives him a few pointers at a Beaver Field practice session. Russo is one of five sophomores in the Nittany starting lineup. A smooth fielder -at the keystone sack, he's been a big help to the Lions both offensively and defensively. Midnight Is Deadline For Baseball Cuts , - NEW YORK, Mayi 12 (R)—The major league clubs were buy today pruning their rosters down to the 25-player limit before the deadline tomorrow at midnight. The New York Giants trimmed three men off their roster to reduce their total to 26 players, the number they will be permitted to carry this year because catcher Sam Calderone is a service re turnee. Five returning servicemen can be carried by a club in addi tion to the 25-player limit. The Giants sold southpaw Rog er Bowman to Pittsburgh for the $lO,OOO waiver price, and have asked waivers on veteran left hander Max Lanier and right hander George Spencer. Lanier will be granted his unconditional release as he is a 10-year man Senators Sell Baker The Philadelphia Athletics sold outfielder Allie Clark to the Chi cago White Sox to trim their squad to 28 men. Either Frank Fanovich, a rookie southpaw, or Don Kolloway, veteran infielder, is expected to get the axe. Washington sold utility in fielder Floyd Baker to the Boston Red Sox and optioned pitcher Dean Stone to Chattanooga of the Southern Association and must drop one more player to conform to the player limit. Besides the Giants, the Chi cago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland, Detroit and Milwau kee are within the player limit. The Phils have but 2 i players. Milwaukee has 25. Cleveland has 29 but Jim Lemon, Al Aber, Bob Kennedy and Dick Weik are re turning servicemen. Detroit has 28 with Ray Hebert, OWen Friend and Kent Fremming as returnees. The Cubs have 27 including ser vicemen Carl Sawatski and Pres ton Ward. Late Trades The Boston Red Sox sent Bill Werle, southpaw relief pitcher, on option to the Louisville Amer ican Association farm club. The Chicago White Sox bought pitcher Sandalio Consuegra from the Washington Senators a few (Continued on page seven) 1 GIRLS!! CAN-CAN!! SONGS!! DANCES!! You can't miss if you sge A 0 and SAE "rirr IDATT_,Y COLLEG Chick Werner's much-improved trackmen will try to give the Ohio State Buckeyes some "black eyes" starting at 3:30 this afternoon on the , Beaver Field track. Although the Lions have dropped their two dual meets— Navy and I‘lichigan State—Werner said he felt those two lon the ball and threw wide to First baseman Dee Fondy Junior Gilliam at,second trying blasted his first homer of the I to force Smalley. The ball sailed season in the 11th inning -today :nto the, outfield and Jackson to score Eddie Miksis ahead of i romped to third. him to give the seventh-place Chicago Cubs a 6-4 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. The blow into the left center bleachers opened the Cubs' long home stand before 8.077 paid customers in Wrigley Field. Roy Campanella, Dodger catch er on a g r eat hitting . streak, hammered a run-scoring double during a three-run sixth inning and also singled in the 10th. He collected the two hits in four of- ficial trips and ran his league pacing runs-batted-in total to 40. Brooklyn tied the score 4-4 in the eighth on George Shuba's • triple that scored Campanella, who• had walked. The 'Cubs grabbed a 2-0 lead in the fifth. Both runs were un earned. With one out, Ransom Jackson drew the first walk off Russ Meyer. Roy Smalley then tapped to the mound when Mey er's pitch/ hit his bat as he was withdrawing it. Meyer pounced naturally ... for the cleanest clothes and the best shirt service in town, it's Marshall's Laundry . . . so bring those dirty duds in today. Marshall s Laundry = 454 E. College Ave. (rear) . phone 2956 AN STATt COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Bucks Here By HERM WEISKOPF * * Basebairs` Big Leagues By Associated Press teams were playing over their heads and we r e "set" for his squad. The' Lions are improved, but they will be up against some rough competition, and Werner said that he is anticipating an other in the series of rip-roaring battles that have taken plae whenever the two teams meet. He said he felt that such factors as being at home for the first time this campaign and the support of the student body might be, enough to pull the Nittanies over the hill and into the victory column. The Lions' times in all the run ning events were better at East Lansing than they were at Anna polis, with the exception of -the 120-yard high hurdles, where the best Lion time each week was 0:15.2 and the mile, where Red Hollen was missing last week. Hollen's return to the lineup will put the Lions at full strength once again for this meet. In the 100 and 220-yard dashes, Skip Slocum ha s drawn third every time so far, but he has also improved his times in both events. He clipped two and one h alf seconds , off his. 100-yard, ..me. At Annapolis the top quarter . miler for the Lions was 011ie Sax, who finished' at 0:50.2. In the ISpartan meet Dave Leathem turned in the best Nittany 440 time of the year with a fast 0:49.5. The spectacular half-mile by Don Austin in the Middle meet was lowered by one-tenth of a second by Roy Brunjes when he was clocked at 1:54.6. He was closely followed by Bob Roessler in this event. Bill Youkers cut his time in the 220-yard low hurdles by a full second, although he slipped from first to third in the order of finish. In the two-mile run Hollen and Lamont Smith finished in a dead heat for first at Annapolis in a time. of 9:55. At East Lansing Smith shaved 13 secondS from his (Continued on page seven) Turk Lown, the Cubs• starter, then rolled to Meyer and Jack son tallied when Smalley was forced at , second. Miksis fol lowed with a double off the left center wall, scoring Lown. Hoyt Wilhelm, the New York Giants' sophomore relief special ist, came up with a near-perfect earned run average of 0.00 in the season's first compilation of that important pitching statistic today. Wilhelm's record topped just short of perfection, after 14 ap pearances in relief roles, be cauke lapses by his teammates had cost him one _game and three unearned runs. Whitey Ford, the New York Yankee southpaw who is belat edly defying the same sophomore jinx that hasn't bothered Wilhelm so far, shares the top billing in the major leagues. Figures com piled by the Associated Press through games of Sunday show Ford as the American League WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1953 Minor League Club Owner Hits Radio Operator WASHINGTON, May 12 (JP)— The Justice Department arid ra dio man Gordon McLendon . got a rough going over today in • the wind-up of hearings on • a bill Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.) says is needed to save baseball. Nathan R. Kobey, Denver at torney who formerly operated , the Wichita (Western League) club, said of McLendon: . "Apparently what 'he wants is a complete license to steal base ball games. He is opposed to monopoly to the extent it pre vents him from stealing baseball games." • McLendon operated the now defunct Liberty Broadcasting System. He appeared yesterday in opposition to Johnson's bill, which would, permit agreements among ball clubs not to invade each other's territory with broad casts or telecasts of games. Mc- Lendon has pending in Chicago a two million dollar monopoly suit against 13 of the 16 major league clubs. Johnson and Kobey vied with each other in saying critical things about the Justice Depart ment's anti-trust division. Under threat of a criminal anti trust proceeding, the major leagues in 1949 modified and in 1951 repealed a rule-IDB which permitted restrictions on broad casting and televising of their games. "The Justice Debartinent, just like a quack doctor, is curing a disease that never existed," Ko bey commented. Rio Grande Slates Eastern Quintets RIO GRANDE, 0., May 12 (W) —High-scoring Bevo Francis and hi's basketball teammates of tiny Rio Grande College will take an Eastern - tour next December, probably including games in New. York, Boston, Buffalo and Phila delphia. Coach Newt Oliver confirmed the tour today but refused to say if his boys would play. in New York's Madison Square Garden, or if Boston and Philadelphia ac tually were on the schedule. leader with a mark of 1.20. .... A pair of young portsiders, Curt Simmons of the Phils and Wilmer (Vinegar Benz) Mizell , of the Cards, rank behind Wil helm for National League laurels. In the American League-Lefty Gene Bearden of the Chicago White Sox is runner-up to Ford in earned run effectiveness with 2.16. is It a Rabbit Bali? NEW YORK, May 12 (A)— Grand slam homers already. have played a big part in the infant 1953 major league season. To date, seven home runs have been struck with the bases ' filled and three provided the winning mar gins.
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