PAGE SIX Lion *cixers. Among i-Leaders Bedenkmen Meet WVU In Twin t ell By HERM WEISKOPF Most managers would envy the record of Nittany baseball coach Joe Bedenk in his first 23 seasons at the helm. Bedenk will carry his amazing record into the season's opener tomorrow, a doubleheader, with the West Virginia Mountaineers. In alm o s t two dozen years of guiding the destinies of the Lions, he has posted a record of 257 wins, 111 losses, and one tie. This gives the Nittany mentor a fabu lous won-lost percentage of .699. All-Time Marks Penn State's all-time won and lost percentage of .674 ranks among the best in the nation for collegiate competition. Nittany teams have won 662 games and lost 320. Managers other than Be denk have posted 405 wins and 209 losses for a percentage of .643. Last season the smiling, gray haired coach led Penn State into the District Two playoffs for the third time in five years. The Lions were eliminated by Lafayette af ter taking the first game of the playoffs from Fordham. Bedenk's finest season came in 1952, when his team was the sur prise squad of the College World Series. The Lions copped the Dis trict Two title that year and went on to place third in the nation in the big tournament. Rursnerup in 1949 In 1949 Penn State was runner up in the District Two playoffs, winning three of five tournament games. The only tie game in Bedenk's 23 years of handling the Lion managerial reins came last sea son against Lafayette. With the score deadlocked at 2-2 the game was called because of darkness. Garland Gingerich had done a good job of holding the Leopards in check in the first game of a two-game trip by the Lions when the contest was called. There have been only five tie games in the history of Penn State baseball—two with Colgate and one each with Navy, Lehigh, and Lafa ette. IM Results , HANDBALL Lewis Landon over Claude Both 15-3, 15-0 Don Wallis over Al Russo 15-10, Clayton Strasser over William Kuhn 15-13, 15-3 David Girard over Thomas Blandaford by forfeit John Robinson over Bob Thom as 15-0, 15-1 Stanton Vogin over Dennis Donovan 15-11, 15-9 • - - Jerry Jayne over William Rupp Jesse Wachtel over Dick Humes Roger Uhler over Charles Gar son by forfeit Harry Carroll over Raymond McCartney Riders to Perform In Horse Show Seven student riders and six horses will depart tomorrow for Cornell University to take part in the Intercollegiate Horse Show. Riders from Penn State who will participate are Ed Brodnax, Ed Campbell, Pat Gilbert, Gail Smith. Gerry Aquise, Nancy Wild. and Bill Howell. VIO NATURAL COLOR JUMBO POST CARDS of - Old Main & Lion Shrine: at downtown stores • "Ideal for Framing" • HAWAIIAN 125-pounder, Seiji' Naya, dodges a JACK STOKES, Lion 147-pound Eastern champ, left jab from Penn State's Harry Papacahara- connects with a right to the chin of Conie lambous in the second round of their NCAA 'Stamps, Hampton Institute, in last night's NCAA bout. Naya won his fifth straight match and a preliminary action. Stokes won every round to semi-final berth tonight taking all three roundr nove into the semi-finals and snap Stamp's from Pappy with a 3-0 decision. 4-0 victory string. Stokes, Kois, reidor, Solonar into Semi-finals Tonight; Zak - Elininate; Penn State's boxing team, along with Louisiana State University and San Jose State, held the spotlight in the National Collegiate boxing tourney last night with three team points each. Five other entries of the fifteen schools whiali entered the tourney have two points each. • Tonight Penn State will enter four men into the semi-final action. Captain Adam Kois, sophomore Jack Stokes, 165-pounder Frank Breidor, and heavyweight Joe Goleman will carry the bulk of Penn State's hopes for NCAA honors. However, the Lions aren't alone. Four other schools will send four men into the ring tonight. Wis consin, still the team to beat de spite the fact that 178-pound de fending champion Ray Zale was dethroned last night, Michigan State, San Jose State, and Mary land, all have four men remain ing. McMath, Fornicola Lose Last night, two Lions—Bob-Mc- Math and Lar r y Fornicola— dropped their preliminary bouts. Fornicola, fighting his second pri mary bout of the day, lost to Vic Harris of San Jose State. Harris continually jabed the tiring Forn icola to take the bout, 3-0. McMath, fighting the evening's third preliminary bout, bowed to Joe Rodriquez, also of San Jose State. McMath took the first round, 30-29, from the 132-pound er, but dropped the next two 30-28, 29-28, as Rodriquez moved in ag gressively with both boxers trad ing lefts in the final stanza. Stylish Stokes and Kois scored impressive wins. Stokes took every round from Connie Stamps, Hampton Institute, 30-27, 30-27, and 30-26. Stamps, Central Colle giate champ, put on . a pressing attack in the first and second rounds, but Stokes landed more punches in the third to score a 3-0 victory. Kois Tops Stern Kois, batling Tom Stern of San Jose State, who boasted a • one sided, 10-1-0 record, won every round from his taller opponent. Although Kois had trouble mov ing in he won all three rounds, 30-23, 30-27, and 30-25, while.land ing several telling blows. One of the biggest upsets of the night came when Don Quarles, North Carolina A&T, clubbed Zale, the only defending champ from the 1953 NCAA tourney with a 2-1 decision. Quarles took two rounds but one round scored 27-27 was award ed to Zale. After fighting only two bouts during the regular sea son, Quarles landed solid lefts to Zale's head in every round. Zale, rem-inirf4 cool dur'n. , ; the entire bout, was continually chasing THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVAMA Quarles, out the muscular 178- pounder attacked and fought Zale at-will. Last year Zale beat Quarles in the semi-finals of the same tourney. Hawaii's two entries—Seiji Na ya, 125-pounds, and Cyril Oka moto, 132-pounds, both moved in to the semi-finals. Naya took e very round from Penn State's Harry Papacharalam bOus, 29-25, 30-25, and 29-26, al though Naya lost one point in the second round for an unintentional low blow. Pappy, trying to move in, missed several punches while Naya stood out and picked him off effectively. Washington State, Hampton In stitute, Wisconsin, Hawaii, and Virginia each have two team points. North Carolina ~k&T, Syr acuse, Michigan State, Idaho State, and Maryland each have one team point. . But Penn State's hopes for NCAA laurels may not be as bright as the entry of four semi finalists may indicate. In the 147-pound class, Stokes will meet Herb Odom of Michigan State who holds a 5-0-1 record. The - Lions' Breidor faces Gordy Gladson, Washington State. Glad son, who was undefeated when he - entered the tournament last night, ran his string to 19 wins with victory over Earl Orr, North I Carolina A&T. Gladson—who owns not only a victory string—but also a murder ous attack, smashed Orr to the canvas with a blasting right hand last night at 1:55 of the first round. Maryland's Ron Rhodes (3-2-1) will meet Kois in the semi-finals. Kois previously met Rhodes at Maryland this year; the two box ers tied. 26-26 in the dual meet. Heavyweight Joe Goleman will meet Bob Hinds, Wisconsin's un defeated heavy with a 6-0-0 card. Hinds dropped Goleman in the Lions' third match of the season against Wisconsin at 1:21 of the first round. - - Penn State advanced one of its two Thursday afternoon entries into the second round of pre liminaries last night when Forni- By ROY WILLIAMS Hawaiian Entries Win cola defeated Ronald Titus, Idaho. Fornicola won the 139-pound bout by a split decision, 2-1. The first round went to Forni cola, 30-25, although both mend got off to slow starts. With the pace faster in the second, Forni cola landed effective lefts to the head of Titus to win the round by the narrow margin, 30-29. Titus came back in the third as Forni cola began to tire to win it, 29-23. Joe Humphrey, pitted against Wisconsin's un d efe at e d 156- pounder Bob Meath, dropped his preliminary bout by the split de cision vote, '2-1. Meath took the first round, 30-29, as both boxers slowly felt out each other's style. Meath, being slow to mix; also took the faster second round, 30- 26. In the third, however, Hum phreys opened up with solid lefts. Tiring in the final seconds, he managed to win the round, 30-29. Fornicola's victory placed him in last night's second round of preliminary eliminations against Harris, Pacific Coast champ from San Jose State. Thursday afternoon preliminary results: 125-Ibs.—Hernandez, San Jose State, de feated Eddie Olson, Washington State, 3-0. - 125-lbs.—Bob Freeman, Louisiana State, defeated Jim Hrr-ell, North Carolina A&T, 3-0. 132-Ibs.—Stio,ts, Louisiana State, de feated Terry Tynan, Wisconsin, 3-0. ' 132-lbs.—Palumbo, Maryland, defeated Wadsworth, Idaho, 3-0. 139-lbs.—Fornicola, Penn 'State, defeated Ron Titus, Idaho, 2-1. 139-lbs.—lnaba, Washington State, de feated 'Tony Hansen, Army, 2-1. 139-lbs. Pickens, Hampton Institute, de feated Parker, N. Carolina A&T,' -0. 147-lbs.—Lundgren, Idaho. State, defeated Theofield, Maryland. 3-0. 156-Ibs.—Meath, Wisconsin, d efea t e d Humphreys, Penn State, 2-1. 165-lbs.—Alvarez,. Hampton Institute, de feated Rigolosi, Syracuse. 2-1. STARTS TONITE at Center Stage PLAYERS Original Musical Revue PICK UP STICKS - TICKETS at S.U. or DOOR FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1954 Stickmen Face Kenyon Tomorrow The Kenyon College Lords will furnish the opposition tomorrow when' the Penn State lacrosse team raises the curtain on the 1954 season. The game, slated to start at 2 D.X11., will be played on Beaver Field. Kenyon, having al ready opened its season, shows one defeat—a 12-6 loss to Wash ington College. The Lords, who hail from Gam bier, Ohio, are the Mid-Western Champions. They were beaten 15-6 in their opener last year by Washington College, but went on to win eight games in a row, re taining their championship in the wocess. Among the teams the L,ords defeated w e r e Denison, Dberlin, Ohio State University, and the Cleveland Lacrosse Club. The Lords, coached by Bill Stiles, will bring an All-Midwest All-Star player. He is attackman Tookie Cole. Cole tallied four of the six goals registered by Ken yon in the Washington College opener. - Lion coach Nick Thiel said that George Bicklehaupt, junior letter winner, will replace injured cap tain Dave Arnold in the starting midfield. Andy Bergesen will 're main on the second line at center and will be flanked by Allan Le- Chard and Frank Locotos. Loco ' tos was moved to the midfield line from the attack. Arnold, who is recovering from a shoulder separation, is expected to resume practice after the East er vacation. He should be able to see action in the Hobart game Ap ril 30 if things turn out as ex pected. Arnold, therefore, will def initely miss games with Kenyon, Navy, Loyola, and Pennsylvania. A temporary captain has not been , named. Thiel will probably choose I a senior to act as captain before each game. Tomorrow's opener will be the last game at home until May 8 when Rutgers will provide the opposition. Starting with the April 14 encounter at Annapolis, the Lions will play five road games in succession. Loyola of Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Hobart and Syracuse will follow Navy in that order. The Lions will close out the season with three home contests. Swarthmore and Cor nell will appear for games on May 15 and 22-respectively. The aforementioned ,schools, except for Kenyon which is a new opponent, were all met by Penn State last year. The Lions' Ibne victory came against Loyola of Baltimore, 43-8. The eight schools totaled 121 goals against the Lions' output of 63.' LAST WEEK APPEARANCE
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