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Gingerich
Will Make
1954 Debut
Garland Gingerich, one of Penn
States top pitchers last season,
will make his 1954 debut this af
ternoon on Beaver Field against
Western Maryland.
Game time is 3:30 p.m.
In their only action so far this
year the Lions defeated West Vir
ginia in a home doubleheader.
Keith Vesling hurled Penn State
to a 124 win in the opener and
Dave Lucas folloWed with a 2-0
whitewashing in the nightcap.
4eopards Here Tomorroiv
Penn State will host Lafayette,
District TWo champ, tomorrow at
2:30 p.m. on. Beaver Field. Lion
Coach Joe Bedenk said either Ves
ling or Lucas will be on the mound
against the Leopards.
Bedenk plans to use the same
lineup Which rang up the tWo vic
tories over the Mountaineers.
Gingerich hurled 54;i3 innings
in 1953, Winning four and losing
three. His +rue effectiveness, how
?.Ver, is revealed by his 1.49 earned
run average. A breakdown on the
statistics also discloses that he
walked only 2.3 men per game and
struck out an average of seven
men for each nine innings of pitch
ing.
Runs to Lead Off
Charlie Russo, last year's bat
ting champ, will be the leadoff
batter for the Blue and White. The
flashy second-baseman picked up
three hits in five official at-bats
against the Mountaineers. Russo
was on base eight times in ten
trips to the plate—he got three
singles, four bases on balls, and
was hit by a pitched ball.
The biggest change in the Penn
State lineup since last year is the
shift of Ron Weiclenhammer from
shortstop to centerfield. "Weed"
has made the change in fine style.
He will bat second, and his re
placement at short, Francis Bow
man, will follow in the No. 3 slot.
Bowman got the only extra base
blow in the West Virginia twin
bill, a triple to deep left center
with two down and one on in
the eighth inning of the first game.
Werner in Right
Tom Werner will bat fourth
and play right field. He has ham
mered out only one hit so far,
but it was a run-scoring single.
Werner timed a let-up pitch and
hit it to right for his only base
knock.
The only lefty swinger in the
Penn State lineup will be first
baseman Pat Kennedy. He went
for the horse collar in both games,
failing to hit in six tries. How
ever, Kennedy is a steady per--
former and does a good job of
guarding first.
Batting sixth and doing the
catching will be George Ettenger.
He caught the first game against
the Mounties and picked two sin
gles. The first one was an infield
hit and the second a drive down
the left field line.
Thirdbaseman Hubie Kline 'ill
bat seventh. Although he did not
register a hit in four official turns,
Kline got on base three times via
a walk.
_ .
Rex Bradley got on base five
times in eight tries. The Nittany
leftfielder recorded two singles
and three free passes.
Student radio station WDFM
will broadcast today's Weitern
Maryland - Penn State baseball
game this afternoon. Since there
are no facilities at Beaver Field
to broadcast directly, the game
will be recorded on tape and
will be rebroadcast starting at
4:15 p.m. A pre-game warmup
show will begin at 4 p.m.
Steve Fishbein and Has Simm
will do the play-by-play of this
game as well as all other Penn
State home baseball games this
season.
The Giants' ball park in New
York, the Polo Grounds, got its
name because the first field they
used was an old polo field. Even
though the park has been moved
twice since then, the old name re
mains.
Baseball's
Big Leagues
PITTSBURGH, April 22 (EP)—
George O'Donnell, the Pittsburgh
Pirates 23-year-old rookie right
hander, stopped the New York
Giants 7-4 today in his first ma
jor league start. scattering eight
hits.
O'Donnell, a 20-game winner
with Hollywood and the Pacific
Coast League's 1953 rookie of
the year, struck out one and
walked two. The victory moved
the Pirates out of the cellar and
into fifth place as the other
National League clubs were
idle.
BALTIMORE, April 22 (JP)—
Duane Pillette, lanky righthander,
settled down after the first inning
and gave the Cleveland Indians
only five hits today for his sec
ond straight Baltimore Oriole
victory.
The Orioles gave him a three
run cushion in the first inning
When the first four batters
shelled Mike Garcia from the
mound with consecutive singles
and three runs.
Art Houttemar turned in a yeo
man relief job by holding the
Oriole's to four' hits and an eighth
inning run after that.
7 Post Wins
In IM H-Ball
Seven handball doubles were
played Wednesday night in Rec
reation Hall. Jack Sherry and Ron
Weidenhammer, Alpha Chi Rho.
defeated Joe Adams and. Ray
Crahen, Kappa Sigma, 21-5, 21-18.
Anthony Van Detti and Tom Rich,
Theta Kappa Phi, won over John
Milsom and Don Miller, Alpha
Zeta, 21-7, 21-7. •
Stan Engle and Bill Fahnestock,
Sigma Nu, beat Jim Lessig and
John Cooper, Chi Phi, 21-5, 21-1.
Herb Hollowell and Howard
Moore, Delta Tau Delta, won two
of three sets from Pete Huey and
Joe Garrity, Phi Delta Theta,
11-21, 21-17, 21-19.
Jim Scott and John Williamme,
Pi . Kappa Alpha, defeated Stan
Dore and Al Coble, Alpha Tau
Omega, 21-10, 21-4.
Jim Garrity and Gerald Maurey,
Delta Upsilon, won a forfeit from
Claude Boni and Bob Pearlstein,
Alpha Epsilon Pi. Mark Lesher
and Bob Seibel also won a forfeit
from John Chilirud and Vernon
Sones, Acacia.
Intramural Office
Sets Deadline
The deadline for intramural
tennis-doubles, team golf, and
soccer tournaments is 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday. All entries must be
submitted to the intramural
office in Rec Hall.
Tourn am en t competition
will get under way Friday. The
soccer tournament will be run
off in round-robin leagues in
which each team will play at
least two games. League win
ners will play for the cham
pionship.
The tennis doubles and golf
tournament will be single
eVrnination competition an d
opponents will arrange for the
time of their matches.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNISYIS/AtolA
Penn Relays Begin Today;
Seven Lions In Opening Events
Seven members of Penn State's 19-man entry go into action today as the 60th annual
Penn Relay Carnival opens at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The Lion contingent arrived
in Philadelphia yesterday afternoon along with some 3000 college and high school stars, all of
whom will be competing in the 91-event show today and tomorrow.
Musclemen Rosey Grier and Chuck Blockson will be the first to enter competition for
the Nittanies. Both will enter the discus eliminations this morning. In other action today
Bill Youkers will be running in t the Invitational 120-yard high hurdles.
Undefeated
Golfers Set
For Bisons
Undefeated in eleven matches
over two seasons, the Nittany golf
ers will meet the Bucknell Bisons
tomorrow afternoon in their sec
ond home match of the week, and
the last performance at home un
til May 26.
The Bucknell contest will be
the Lions' final encounter before
leaving for the Eastern Inter
collegiate Golf Association tour
ney at Hanover, New Hampshire,
on Dartmouth University's course,
May 8-10.
After the Easterns, Penn State
will start a three-match road trip
to Colgate, Cornell, and Temple.
Lehigh will visit the Lion greens
May. 26, and the season finale will
be at Pittsburgh.
Last year the Lions continued
their mastery o'cier:. • BUcknelPs
linksmen, after whitewashing the
Bisons in 1952, 9-0.
Bucknell and Penn State have
both met Navy, considered a
powerhouse in Eastern golf. Al
though the Lions dumped the'Mid
dies, 5-2, in the season opener at
Annapolis, Navy clubbed the Bi
sons with a 6-1 attack this season.
Coach Bob Rutherford is ex
pected to count on the same line
up that has extended the Lions'
victory streak to eleven, including
last,,year's spotless card of nine
wins in as many tries.
Mushrooms., or toadstools, - Which
often grow from the ground like
small umbrellas, are amOng the
best known of the plants called
fungi.
No Secrets in Slau
ST. LOUIS, April 22 (IP)—The
faithful of the St. Louis Cardinals
who still are ,tearing their hair
over the Enos Slaughter deal were
assured today that—honest and
truly—there was no hidden rea=
son for the trade.
The furore touched off here by
the surprising trade that sent the
old war horse to the Yankees con
tinues in full swing.
And August A. Busch, the Car
dinals' brewer president, is con
cerned about suggestions, b 0 t h
numerous and bitter, that there
was something mysterious about
the deal.
Why, the fans have been de
manding,, should the veteran 37-
year-old outfielder be swapped for
By DICK McDOWELL
Coach Chick Werner will also
put the first of four relay entries
to the test today in the College
Distance i‘ledley Relay Champion
ship of Ainerica: Speedster Art
Pollard, winner of the 300-yard
run in the Ohio Relays, and Don
Austin are definite starters on the
quartet. The other two will be
either Bob Matz or Roy Brunjes
and either Doug Moorhead or Bob
Hollen.
Saturday's schedule of events
lines up this way:
10:00 a.m. Shotput trials and
javelin trials. Grier and Blockson
in the shot. Grier and Dan Hutch.
enson in the javelin.
10:30 a.m.—First heats of the In
vitational 100-yard dash. Pollard
will be
_running for Penn State.
Noon—Pole Vault. Dan Lorch
for Penn State.
1:40 ollege Freshman
Mile Relay. Lineup for this event
has not been annotinced.
2:00 p.m.—Javelin finals.
2:50 p.m.—C o 11 e g e Four-mile
Relay Championship. Ted' Garrett,
Austin, Hollen, and Moorhead will
he entered for Penn State.
3:00 p.m.—Shot put finals.
4:05 p.m.—College twO-mile..re.7
lay. Werner did not announce his
lineup for this event. It will prob
ably be determined by the lineup
used in the medley relay.
s:2s,p.m.—College one-mile Re
lay Championship. Pollard, 011ie
Sax, Skip Slocum, and Dave Lea
them get the nod in this fast baton
passing event.
Whitfield in Mile
One of the big feature events
of the Saturday program will be
the Benjamin Franklin Mile Run.
Mal Whitfield will make his 'first
try in a mile run and has flatly
predicted that he will reach the
coveted four minute mark.
Former Penn Stater Horace
Ashenfelter will, also be making
a bid in th. mile. Ashenfelter, one
of the outstanding distance run-
four minor league players, three
of them unnamed?
Busch broke his silence today
in a letter to the Globe-Demo
crat.
"I don't know that anything I
might say could make .Enos'
friends feel any better, but I as
sure them that there is nothing
hidden from them," Busch wrote.
"The reasons I have given are the
only ones and there is nothing
mysterious about them."
The reasons Busch gave in a
formal statement at the time of
the trade April 11 were, briefly,
these: The Cardinals are trying
to build a young ball club and,
with several promising rookie
outfielders knocking at the door,
room had to be made for them.
Perhaps the most widespread
rumor stemming from the trade
ners in the world, won the Olym
pic Steeplechase championship in
1952. -
The Lions will be facing the
best competition available in the
two-day extravaganza. Eastern
powers led by Manhattan, and
Morgan State, appear as early fav
orites in the relay events along
with Michigan. Powerful Indiana,
Notre Dame, Marquette, and , the
Wolverines ead the mid-west:en
tries.
Entering their second week of
competition, the Nittany thinclads
still haven't met a team in dual
competition. However, they battle
Navy at Beaver Field next Satur
day and will remain on .home
grounds for three weeks with
Pitt, and Michigan State follow
ing on successive Saturdays.
Bevo Denied
Pro Chance
NEW YORK, April 22 (A—
The National Basketball Associ
ation's directors ruled today' that
Bevo Francis, th e high-scoring
Rio . Grande college star, will not
be eligible for pro basketball for
two more years.
Francis, expelled 'from 'Rio
Grande for failure to attend class
es, has shown interest in pro bas
ketball and Leo Ferris, vice pres
ident of the NBA Syracuse Na
tionals had said he was I ready
to negotiate with the 6 foot 9
sharpshooter.
The NB A directors, opening
their three-day annual meeting,
voted unanimously -to abide by
the league rule which says a play
.di is not eligible for the draft and
may not be signed until the class
with which he originally entered
college has been-graduated.
Since Francis was in his sopho
more year at Rio Grande, he can
not go on the draft list until 1956.
titer Deal
was that actually it was part of
the deal that brought pitcher Vic
Raschi to the Cards from the Yan
kees two months ago. -This pre
viously was denied_by .the Cardi
nal management.
In his letter, Busch cited as
typical of complaints by many
fans a letter signed . by a "Hot
Cardinal Fan," who asked for "the
story behind the Enos Slaughter
deal."
If Busch is building a yOung
ball club, the fan asked, why did
he pay out an estimated $75,000
in cash in the deal that brought
the 35-year-old .R asc hi to St.
Louis?
Said Busch:
"We are doing what we think is
best for the team. Only time will
determine whether our judgment
was good or bad in this case."
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r - RIDAY, APRIL 23
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Low am 394.
1954