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BILL LEONARD (left) and Tom Werner two pillars of strength
for the Bedenkinen with Werner leading the' team with a .333
batting average and Leonard the mainstay behind the plate.
Leonard - is spending his last season at Beaver Field.
Lion Nine Battles
For Playoff Bid
The curtain comes down on the 1953 baseball schedule this after
noon when the Lion baseball team meets Temple at Philadelphia.
Gar Gingerich, with a 4-2 record and a phenomenal .92 ERA goes to
the hill for the Nittanies in what is probably the most crucial game
of the season.
Today's contest could make or break the Lions chances for a
District Two playoff bid. The
Lions own a 12-4-1 record and a
win can keep them in the run
ning. The playoff teams will be
decided Monday in Scranton by a
committee of coaches.
Bradley Out
. As it stands now, four or five
teams are making strong bids for
playoff berths. Duquesne is in top
contention. The Dukes had a 12-0
record 'at the beginning of the
week, but dropped two games to
Pitt and Colgate and still-have to
face Syracuse. Pitt is also in the
running along with Fordham,
Lafayette, Villanova, and Colgate.
HAMILTON. N.Y., May 22
(JP)---A playoff for the NCAA
Dist. . 2 championship appeared
a pcobability. today with ten
teams apparently still in the
running for the right to go to
college•basebalrs equivalent of
the World Series.
:Unbeaten Colgate, conqueror
of Duquesne yesterday, heads
Ate pack with six wins. The
Dukes from Pittsburgh have
won ten, lost' 2.
Others in the top ten are:
Lafayette: Fordham; Upsa 1 a:
Penn State: Seton Hall; CONY:
Villenova: and Pitt.
:-!The Nittanies will be minus the
services of left fielder Rex Brad
ley in today's game. The speedy
outfielder, who is batting .295,
was unable to make the trip be
cause of a final examination. Pete
Cherish is expected to get the
and at the left field spot in his
place.
".The rest of the Lion lineup will
remain intact. Pat Kennedy will
be at first • base, Chuck Russo at
second, Ron - Weidenhammer at
shortstop, and Hubie Kline at
third. In the outfield, Sil.Cerchie
Will be in centerfield,. and Tom
Werner in right, along with-Cher
igh.- Bill Leonard will do the catch
keg.
Leonard, Cerchie in Finale
The Lions go into the contest
wbith only one batter over the .300
itia" rk. Werner is currently hitting
33,, with Kennedy trailing at
Spiv terchie, hitting a solid .284,
tip ads-the RBI department with 22,
ifid has four home runs.
'The rifle armed centerfiekler,
;long with Leonard, will be play
igg his la7st game for the Lions—
unless, of - course a playoff bid is
&riding. Both are seniors.
.71,!Regardless of the - outcome of to
clay's game there is little room for
any complaints. Joe Bedenk's
siluad lost only four out of 17
gapes (excluding the Teniple
e)' ,a fine record no matter
Now one looks at it.
By DICK McDOWELL
Sigma Chi Cops Title
- Sigma Chi won the IFC men's
bowling championship Monday
night,. defeating Alpha Chi
Sigma at the Dux Club Bowl
ing Alleys.
Although losing the first
game by 20 pins, the winners
rallied to win the second and
third games, and took the
match by 58 pins.
Past Foes Leave Arm in
By TOM WERNER
From being 'the best of ene
mies, when they competed against
each other for schoolboy track
honors, to becoming the best of
friends, has been a long road
starting in Philadelphia, ending
in State College, and taking four
years for Bob Gehman and Bob
Roessler, senior varsity thinclads.
Their battle for top high school
recognition in the half mile came
to a climax in the University of
Pennsylvania Interscholastic meet
in 1949. Roessler won the event
at that time with Gehman a hot
breath-on-the-neck second. Roess
ler, at that time held the Public
league record for the half mile
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Lions Seek Win Against
To Even Tennis Slate for
Coach Sherm Fogg's tennis
Lions, with three wins in a row
and an overall mark of 4-5 under
their belts, will shoot for the game
that will bring them back to the
.500 mark today as they play host
to a potent Raider team from Col
gate.
Match tim e on the College
courts is 1:30 p.m.
The Lions have met the Raid
ers once already this season at
Hamilton, N.Y. with Penn State
ending up on the minus end of
a 9-0 shutout.
But tomorrow should be dif
ferent for the Lion band. Reason
number one—they are on their
own courts, always an advantage.
In this case, however, better than
a psychological one because only
the Lions seem to know how to
cope with the slippery footing. By
the same token, today's match
will get Colgate off their own
courts. Colgate almost never loses
on its own courts. And reason
number three—the Lions are roll
ing. They have won their last
three without losing, including an
8-1 swamping over Bucknell on
the Lions' courts. Bucknell was
the outfit that halted last season's
five-match win streak at the start
of this season with an 8-1 stop
ping.
In- the singles Fogg will start
with Dick Robinson, number one;
Bill Ziegler, number .two; Bruz
Ray, number three; Lou Landon,
number four; Captain Bill Forrey,
number five; and Dick Gross,
number -six. Ziegler and Landon
are trading positions for the
match.
,The doubles will remain the
same combinations that worked
the Bucknell match. They will be
Robinson and Landon, number
one; Bill Ray and Bruz Ray, num
ber two, and Forrey and Ziegler,
number three.
Colgate will lead with its ace,
Ben Bishop, who will meet Robin
son. The Bishop-Robinson match
will be the top singles attraction
of the day. Bishop won their last
meeting.
Bill Leonard, with two field
goals and 21 of 23 extra points,
was Penn State's leading football
scorer in 1952_
in Philadelphia
Neither ' knew that the other
was coming to State to further
his career and education. How
ever, the discovery of the fact
led to their profitable friendship
and teamwork on the Lion cinder
squad.
Although neither pretends to
play up his value to the Nittany
track records., imposing as they
are, a look at the score sheets of
any track meet over the past
three years will prove their
worth to the team. Running be
hind the Ashenfelter brothers
throughout both their careers at
State, and then behind, Sax and
Pollard, they piled up the place
ment points that no team can do
Captain Bill Forrey . . .
Consistency
Tennis Captain Bill Forrey is not the type player that gets
headlines through his spectacular play, his spectacular temper, or
any other spectacular tennis attribute. The only characteristic of
Captain Bill is that he is the type player that turns in consistent
single wins. And what more do you need?
The type single wins that
. Forrey scores in his number fi ve
singles slot count just as much
as if they had been scored in the
top single spot. Forrey, a three
year letterman, has played over
.500 tennis (in the won and lost
column) since his first start with
the Nittany tennis team in his
sophomore. year. His record this
season, like the entire team's sea
sonal mark, is 4-5.
Forrey plays his full share of
tennis in an • intercollegiate meet
as •he usually teams with Bill
Ziegler in the doubles play.
Forrey readily admits he likes
singles play better than doub
les, although it was his doubles
play that sent him to Kalamazoo,
Mich. for the boys' nation al
championships in -1945. Forrey,
then 14, won the boys' Pennsyl
vania state doubles championship
in Philadelphia whieh earned him
the trip to Kalamazoo
Forrey's first venture in the ten
nis world was at the age of eight.
After that, he built a tennis court
behind his house where he did
most of his playing ~when he
wasn't too tired from "keeping
the court in shape," he says.
"The main thing in tennis," he
claims, "is getting started. After
that, the rest comes natural."
OFF THE RECORD . . . eighth
semester landscape hort major
. . member of Phi Gamma Delta,
Skull and Bones, and Pi Alpha
Xi, hort honorary . . . spent his
freshman year at Swarthmore af
ter being captain of his Lans
downe H.S. tennis team for three
years . . . will graduate in June
with. a commission in the Navy
after four months training at New
port, R.I. . . . wants to do land
scapework after stay in the Navy.
without
Roessler probably reached a
high. point at West Point this
year when he broke the record
for the thousand yard sprint at
12:14.9, at the Army field house.
Gehman has placed consistently
throughout his three year term
with the Nittanies, sometimes
providing the margin of safety
behind the big boys. In 1953
Roessler was elected co-captain
of the team along with Jim Herb.
In the New York Athletic Clubs'
meet in 1953, the Penn State rep
resentatives set the unofficial
record for the two mile relay at
746. Bob Gehman was the starter
in that race and handed the baton
to Bob Gehman.
By GEORGE BAIREY
'Dancer' Faces
Muddy Track
BALTIMORE, May 22 (A)--
Rain today turned Pimlico's rac
ing strip into a gooey mass of
mud with the prospect of an "off'
track for Native Dancer, Dark
Star and five other colts in the
77th. edition of the $lOO,OOO-add
ed Preakness Stakes.
The weatherman promised some
sunshine for tomorrow, however,
and unless there is heavy, con
tinuous rain through tonight the
track condition should be no
worse than "good" when the sev
en flashy three-year-olds break.
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