PAGE SIX Netmen Middies A revenge-minded Penn State tennis squad will open its 1954 net season today when it meets the Middies of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. - With last year's stinging 8-1 rout at the hands of the Swabies still fresh in their'memories, the B. to open Coach Sherman Fogg's 91 victory Navy Tough "Navy is always tough," the court mentor stated, "and a vic tory over them would indiCate a very successful season for us." Fo g g earlier stated that the Lions were further advanced in their playing than ever before. The reason for this, he pointed out ,is the hard surfaced courts which the squad is playing on. Formerly, the team had to wait for good weather until the varsity courts could be put into playing condition, and as a result, was weak at the beginning of the sea son. Last year the Foggmen com piled a five and six mark which left them on the red side of the ledger. They owned wins over Syracuse, Lehi g h, Pittsburgh, Bucknell and Duquesne, and fell before Bucknell, Navy, George town, Maryland and twice to Col gate. Show Late Improvement The Lions displayed tremen dous improvement during the final half of the season, however, as they reversed an 8-1 loss to Bucknell which they suffered in the opening match. They came back in the latter part of the cam paign to defeat the Bisons by the exact score they previously lost by. In today's match, Fogg will send a formidable array of ex perienced lettermen against the Middies. These include Dick Rob inson, co-captains Lew Landon and Bruz Ray, and Bill Ziegler. Robinson, last year's number one man, will open again this year in the top position. Landon will start as number two man, and Ziegler, a junior, will hold down the third spot. Ray is slated for the fourth position and sophomores Ed Sell ing and Dean Mullen round out the team in that order. Robinson and Landon, Ziegler and Bill Wallis, and Ray and Sell ing will hold down the doubles • • sitions. IM Pro ram Students Vie in 16 Sports In 16 different sports, Penn State men students vie for honors without the least prospect of gaining off-campus recognition for their efforts. But so interested are the 3000 or more young men who compete that E. C. "Gene" Bischoff and C. M. "Dutch" Sykes, who conduct the far-flung intramural program, have to limit the number of en trants for lack of time and facilities. With the exception of boxing, few of the gram nurse any ambition to achieve varsity ever, Dick Ahern, Ronnie Smith, Don Martin, Harry Papacharalarn bous and Frank Della Penna of the 1954 squad were graduates of the intramural program. The primary purpose of the pro gram is to provide organized games for men students. Any skills acquired are purely' coincidental, but many boys show exceptional ability even though they have lit tle time for practice. Included .in the program are touch football, swimming, tennis singles and doubles, medal and team golf, boxing, basketball, wrestling, handball singles, and doubles, badminton, volleyball, soccer, horseshoes, and track. Many boys compete in more than one sport but fully a third of the male student body competes in at least one sport. Last year, more than 1700 frat ernity and independent teams, in volving some 1600 boys, competed. Of the contests scheduled, more than 93 per cent were actually played. Fraternity teams compete for cups which are retained by the winning team for the year. Inde pendents compete for silver med als, since cups would be difficult to display. Softball, which was once a top sport in the program was dropped several years ago ly?..ntule there weren't enough fields available to Battle Today By ROGER BEIDLER lue and White netters will attempt h year at the Lion's helm with a DeWitt Joins Yankee Organi7ntion NEW YORK, April 27 (.LP)—Wil liam 0. DeWitt, who rose from office boy to the presidency of the St. Louis Browns, today joined the New York Yankees as assist ant to. General Manager George M. Weiss. Roy Harney quit the Yankee post last week to become general manager of the Philadelphia Phil lies. DeWitt relinquished the vice presidency of the Baltimore Ori oles to come here. DeWitt was listed as a vice pres ident of Baltimore, but remained there for only a few weeks im mediately after the transfer from St. Louis. The Orioles were obligated un der a previous St. Louis contract to pay him through July of 1956 even though he stayed in St. Louis and merely held a title. Clyde Y. Morr i s, secretary treasurer of the Orioles, said to day, "We made a very satisfactory and amicable settlement of his contract" so DeWitt could join the Yankees. "It was worked out to the satisfaction of both parties," Morris said. It had been reported that De- Witt was receiving $25,000 a year under the St. Louis contract. This left the Orioles still paying salaries this year to Marty Marion and Rogers Hornsby, former man agers- of the Browns. Second Texan Jaunt For the second time in its his torY, the Penn State football team will go to Texas in 1954 to play Texas Christian University at Fort Worth. Only prior appear ance was in the 1948 Cotton Bowl. 2 Teams Win V-Ball Leagues Two independent teams clinch ed playoff berths last Monday night as intramural volleyball moved into the last few days of regular play. The Sexsy Six took the league E championship by vir tue of a 15-11, 10-15, 15-9, victory over Irvin B's, and the Iron Men clinched the league B crown by beating the Forty Niners, 15-1. 15-9. In other games Nittany Co-Op B took the Farmers, 15-10, 14-16, 15-0. Beaver House B won by a forfeit from the McElwain Men, while the Mibs took the Mighty Termites 11-5, 16-14, 15-2: The Jolly Rodgers, Hawks, 400's, Cou gars, ane. Irv in Heights won matches by forfeit. The Nighthawks took a close one from the Sixty-Niners, 15-10, 12-15, 15-13, and Jones Boys up ended the Sabitini Six, 15-5, 7-15, 15-11. play all the games. And in some events now on the program, Bis •:!b.off and Sykes are hard pressed The tourna ments are plainly popular. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANVA competitors in this pro status. In boxing, how- Baseball's Big Leagues Chicago's Don Johnson came back to defeat his former team mates, the New York Yankees, 4-3, in a game that was held up for 52 minutes by rain in the third and which was finished under the Yankee Stadium lights. Johnny Groth and Minnie Minoso spoiled Enos Slaughter's 38th birthday by driving in all the Chicago runs. Minoso blasted a two-run homer off Yankee starter Whitey Ford. Joe Collins clubbed a pinch hom er with Phi Rizzuto on base in the fifth when he went to bat for Ford. Yesterday's Results National League St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 3 (8 in.) Cleveland at Boston, ppd. Cincinnati 8, Pittsburgh 7 Phila. at Chicago. ppd. American League Cle . :eland to Boston, ppd. Detroit at Phila., ppd. Baltimore at Washington. ppd. Hasty Road Upsets Field In Derby Trial LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 27 (6P) —Hasty Road jumped into top consideration for the 80th Ken tucky Derby today as he out fought Determine in a blistering head-and-head stretch du e 1 to break the Churchill Downs track record in the $15,350 Derby Trial. The dark- brown sdn of Roman- Traffic Court, greatest money winning 2-year-old in history last year, but a bust to date in his 3- year-old campaign, snapped out of it with convincing authority in this 17th Derby Trial. He led all the way soon after Determine took a brief lead at the start of the mile gallop. At the wire Hasty Road, from the Hasty House Farm of Allie Reuben, Toledo, grabbed the ver dict by a head. The crowd gasped and yelled as the time of 1:35 was announced. Two years ago Calumet's Hill Gail broke the track clocking with a 1:35 2-5 scorcher, and became the Derby favorite which he wo n with ease. Eight Derby candidates started, and only Hasty Road and Deter mine were "big" names in the race. Correlation, winner of Sat urday's Wood Memorial in New York, Goyamo, who took the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland last Thursday, and other top derby colts will await the $lOO,OOO-add ed Roses rassle Saturday at 4:30 p.m. EST. 22 Wins Posted In Badminton Twenty-two games were play ed Monday night as the intra mural badminton season moved into its final week. In the initial contest of the night Lewis Lan don won over Jack Walls, 15-2, 15-4. In remaining matches Dave Shoop beat Don Dailey, 16-14, 15-10; Jesse Walchel beat Hyman Tabachnick, 13-15, 15-12, 15-10. Jim Brewer defeated Bob Yod er, 15-9, 15-4; Tom Strasser beat John Metzer, 15-12, 14-15, 15-14; Dave Girard beat Garry Croth ers, 15-13, 4-15, 15-2; Dick Rob inson defeated Stanton Vogin, 15- 8, 14-15, 15-1; Don Signorini won over Jack Jantzer by forfeit; Jer ry Jayne beat Charles Foelkers, 15-6, 11-15, 15-7; Roger Uhler beat George Setman, .15-6, 15-9; John Gruber shut out Ron Wint, 15-0, 15-0. _ Dale Eppingei won by forfeit over Edmund Stashak; Dave Ed wards beat Tom Ziegler, 15-9, 15-7; Joe Estabrook def eat e Geoffrey Barnes. by forfeit; Mar vin Freed beat Rog 'Beidler, 15- 9. 15-7; Dick Goldbeck beat Jos eph Van Tassel, 15-1, 15-4: . Bob Bischoff won from Tubby Notari by forfeit. In independent matches Karl Segner beat Carl Riss, 15-0, 154; James Bowers defeated Marvin Leach, 15-10, 15-14; Bill Worley beat Norm Bailey by forfeit; and Lloyd Mengle beat Dick Gray, 15- 7, 15-8. Coach's Fifth Year • Charles A. "Rip'.' Engle, former - of Brown University, will be -t the helm of Penn State foot ball for the fifth year in 1954. Ettenger, Bradley, Russo Pace Hitters While chemistry and physics majors try to master:the application of the theories and laws of such men as Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton, baseball Coach Joe Bedenk's batters are attempting to perfect Wee Willie Keeler's theory on hitting. Keeler's immortal words of "Hit 'em . where they ain't" are con- Penn to Revise Ticket Prices For Football PHILADELPHIA, VP; The University of Pennsylvania an nounced yesterday, it was revis ing prices on 1954 football tickets. "We're rounding out our ticket prices, either downward or up ward—to the nearest 25 cents," Penn Athletic Director Jerry Ford announced. Penn plans to reduce its prices from 5 to 20 cents for certain seats to three games—Duke, Washing ton and Lee and Penn State—but will increase them by 10 cents for such attractions as Army, Navy, and 2.ornell and by 5 cents for Notre Dame. Last year, box seats were $5.20 and all other seats were $3.90 for the Army, Navy and Cornell games, Ford said. This year they will be $5.25 and $4.00. The latter reserve seat prices also will ap ply for the Penn State game, but seats in the east stands will cost only $2.50 this year for the Nit tany Lions compared with $2.60 in 1953. Penn season ticketS will cost less because only seven home games are on .the schedule as com pared with eight last year. Golf Over Baseball Ken Yount, who stuck to base ball in college even though, he was good enough to play on the golf team, has since reversed his field. The former Penn State pitcher abandoned professional baseball in favor of a golf pro's job at Niagara Falls, N.Y. ~. ,~~~:. ".:'`.,t longer, straighter, consisatentV CHANGE TO THE SPALDING BALL POWER-RATED FOR YOUR GAME SPALDING AIR-FLITE® The perfect compression for the hard-hitting, low-scoring golfer. Tru-Tension Winding assures absolute uniformity, consistent maximum distance with sweet "feel." Its Lifetime White Cad well cover—resists scuffing, bruises. SPALDING KRO-FLITE® If you require a ball with extra du rability, play KRo-Futz. Powered for maximum distance, fortified with special, rugged Cadwell cover. And it's Lifetime White Spald ing's tough, high-gloss permanent whiteness. Won't chip or yellow. SPALDING MORE GOOD GOLFERS PLAY SPALDING THAN ANY OTHER BAIL WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28. 1954 By HERM WEISKOPF sidered to be the key to Keeler's record as one of the finest 'hitters who ever donned a major league baseball uniform. Penn State's three leading ex ponents of Keeler's theorem so far are George Ettenger, Rex Bradley, and Charlie Russo. This trio is currently pacing the lTit tany offense. ' Ettenger Hitting .417 Ettenger presently is leading the "hit parade"' with a .417 bat ting average. Bradley and Russo are both sporting .357 marks. Be denk's No. 1 catcher, Ettenger, has pounded out five hits in 12 official. trips to the plate. Left fielder Bradley and secondbase man Russc have each hit safely five times in 14 at bats. In the three games in which he has done the catching Ettenger has picked up five singles. In the season's opener against West Vir ginia he got an infield single and a bingle to left. Ettenger's other three hits have all been to the opposite field—right field for a righthand batter. Against Lafayette's much talked about Ron Owen the e Nittany catcher belted a solid single just inside the right field line to score Pat Kennedy from third. Ettenger blasted his second single to right in the eighth inning of the same contest. In Monday's 14-2 slaugh ter of Dickinson Ettenger added another run-scoring single in the first inning assault. In his firk trip to the plate this season Bradley singled to left to bat in the first run of the year for Penn State. Bradley picked up one of the two hits which the ' Lions got in the second game with the Mountaineers. His best perform ance came against Dickinson. Bradley collected a double and (Continued on page seven) r; ' How to hit 'em Drove in First Run : •c ~~? ....f%:,..- , :`
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