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More Records Could Fall
By DICK TidcDOW.E:LL
If the pattern continues in Saturday's track
meet with Michigan State, cinder fans can
expect more records of some sort to fall. In the
Lions' first two dual meets no less than 14
marks, both, Penn State and meet records,
have been erased and there isn't any sign
of a letup.
The biggest question, however, is not whether
records Will be broken, but rather who will
break them. nosey Grier and Chuck Blockson,
Chick Werner's outstanding weight men haye
been consistent record breakers and either could
sneak in a new one this week. Grier has broken
the shot put mark three times' this spring and
Blockson has smashed the discus mark twice.
Pollard is Threat
Lightning Art Pollard stands as a definite
threat to shatter the 220-yard dash mark set
by Barnie Ewell in 1942. Pollard, boardering on
greatness as a sprinter, ran the 220 in 21 seconds
against Pitt, .3 second above Ewell's mark of
:20.7. However, the Comet wasn't pushed by
anybody and he should be this week. The Spar
tans' Ed Braßham was clocked at :21.1 in the
220 last week against Notre Dame. These two
could provide the race of the day.
Pollard also shaved his 100-yard dash time
down to :9.7 against the Panthers, boardering
just .1 second above the Penn State mark held
jointly by Harry Henry (1907), Dick Bartholo
rrieW (1928), and Ewell (1940).
Sax Slipped Saturday
011ie Sax, who set a new Penn State mark
Nittany
Ettenger Boosts Average,
Leads Squad With .419
Perin State's baseball team would probably like to play Buck
nal more often. In the two meetings between these teams this sea-
Son the Lions scored 29 runs and blasted 23 hits.
The Lions defeated Bucknell last Tuesday at Beaver Field, 9-1,
ail* this Tuesday they slaughtered the Bisons 21-0 at Lewisburg.
Going into the second game between the two squads the Lions owned
a .216 team batting average. However, Penn State brought its team
average up to .235 by clouting four Bucknell pitchers for 14 hits.
Mit nine games so far this season
the Lions have picked up 68 hits,
virith more than one-third of them,
23 to be exact, coming off Buck
rseil hurlers.
Ettenger Gets Three Hits
Nittany catcher George Etten
ger got three hits in five at bats
in the most recent encounter with
the Bisons to boost his batting
Mark to a team high of .419. The
stocky receiver has collected 13
hits in 31 trips to the plate. He
has diSplayed the ability to hit to
either field.
Last year's leading hitter, Char
lie Russo, has the second highest
arerage. The Lion second base
man has colleeted nine hits in 32
swings for a .281 mark. Although
he has not equaled his .342 aver
age of last season, Russo has been
one of the most valuable men on
the team. He has been the number
one threat on the bases for the
Lions and has stolen home three
times this season—twice against
Bucknell.
"Weedy" Batting .257
Ron Weidenhammer added 57
points to his average by getting
two singles and a double Tuesday
against, the Bisons. The Nittany
shortstop is now meeting the ball
No TV for Bannister
NEW, YORK, May 12 (W)—
Great Britain's Roger Bannister
flew to New York today to tell
American television fans about
his record-smashing 3:59.4 mile
but instead found himself the
brffled center of a hassle over
amateur rules.
Three hours after the young
medical students' arrival at Idle
wild Airport, the British Informa
tion offide abruptly announced
all appearances for the great mil
ex on commercially-sponsored
programs were off
John Russell, director general
of the 810 in New York, said:
"The question was raised about
the propriety of Bannister's ap
pearance on a sponsored program.
Rather than tr-Ikm any chances
with ^o" t his amateur
standing we decided to cancel the
By HERM WEISKOPF
at a .257 pace. Weidenhammer
started the season in center in
order to make room for Francis
Bowman at shortstop. "Weedy"
has been inserted at short, where
he played regularly, last year, in
the past four games and Bow
man has moved to right.
First baseman Kennedy cur
rently has the fourth fastest bat
ting average for the Lions. He is
hitting at a .250 clip—seven safe
ties in 28 tries. Kennedy has
picked up two of the three triples
hit by Penn Staters so far. Bow
man, a former GI, has the other.
Kennedy has, hit safely in each
of the past five contests.
Kline Gets Revenge
Hubie Kline has picked up seven
hits in 30 official at bats for a
.233 average. Although the Nit
tany third baseman had a rough
time in the first game with the
Bisons (he went 0 for 4) he made
up for that by getting two hits
in three tries in the second time
around.
Leftfielder Rex Bradley has
found hits rather scarce in the
past few games and has slumped
to .226 with seven hits, including
a home run, in 31 at bats.
engagements.,"
The 25-year-old Briton wa s
brought here specifically by the
sponsors of tonight's Columbia
Broadcasting System's network
show, "I've Got A Secret."
Originally he was booked into
this country under an assumed
name—Richard Bentley—and the
whole thing was to be kept secret
until he appeared on the panel
show. His secret: the first man to
break the four-rriinute mile.
But the story of the venture
leaked out yesterday and subse-.
quently the mile ace was booked
on other big network shows, in
cluding Dave. Garroway's "To
day" and "Tex and Jinx" tomor
row o—er National Broadcasting
Company .and a sports show over
.Asmerican. Broadcasting Com
pany.
THE DAILY COI LEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
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Chuck Blockson a.
Whose turn this time?
Maisks on Upswing
Baseball's
Big Leagues
BROOKLYN, May 12 (A')—One
pitch—a home run to Gil Hodges
in the fifth inning—prevented
Lew Burdette from pitching a
no-run; no-hit game today as the
lanky righthander pitched th e
Milwaukee Braves to a 5-1 vic
tory over Brooklyn today: to
knock the Dodgers out o.f first
place.
Burdette, a throw-in in a deal
that sent Johnny Sain to the New
York Yankees several years ago,
faced only 29 men as he registered
his third victory of the season
against two defeats. He walked
two and struck out two.
CLEVELAND, May 12 (H))—
Behind 5-0, the Cleveland In
dians jumped on southpaw Ed
die Lopat for four runs in the
eighth inning today, but John
ny Sain halted the rally there
and New York won 5-4 to move
into a third-place tie with the
Tribe.
t'ITTSBURGH, May 12 (iP)—
Wally Moon slammed out five
hits, and Red Schoendienst got
four, sparking the St. Louis Card
inals to a 13-5 win over the Pitts
burgh Pirates todce, .
It was a batmen's field day,
with the Cards racking up 21 hits
and the Bucs 14.
DETROIT, May 12 (JP)—Ted
Gray, a losing pitcher for the
laSt three years, protected De
troit's league lead today by
winning his first game of the
season—a 4-2 victory over the
Washington Senators.
The 29-year-old southpaw,
who had lbst twice, allowed
only five singles and a ninth
inning home run by Jim Busby.
CHICAGO, May 12 (/P)—Right
hander Do n Johnson's second
two-hitter 'of the season bested a
brilliant but erratic three-hit ef
fort by rookie Tom Brewer to
give the Chicago Whtie Sox a 1-0
victory over the Boston Red' Sox
today.
The 22-year-old Brewer walk
ed four of the first six White Sox
ers to face him, to force in the run
that handed him his second loss
against no victories.
NEW . YORK, May 12 (?P)—.
Bobby. Hofman's pinch horn e
run with Ronnie Samford on
base in the ninth gave the New
York Giants a 2-1 victory over
Cincinnati's Harry Perkowski
today after the Cincy lefthand
-r pitched two-hit shutout
ball for 8 1-3 innings
in MSC Meet. Saturday
Two Away Matches
Slated for Golfers
' Coach Bob Rutherford and his seven-man golf squad left this
morning on the start of a two-match weekend schedule at Colgate
and Cornell. The Lions—who slipped to•a tenth place ranking among
18 Eastern colleges in the 27th annual Eastern Intercollegiate Golf
Association tourney last• week—are undefeated in 12 dual meets..
Another sophomoreL-Jim Gins
berg—has been added to the
Lions' six-man Eastern . . team.
Ginsberg defeated veteran George
Kreidler earlier this week one
down for the seventh slot on the
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1 IN rttany squad.
Ginsberg, along with two other
sophomores—Jim Bo yan owski
and Gerald Gerhart—will bolster
the bottom half of Rutherford's
squad this weekend. The Nittany
coach will again depend on his
"big four" of Captain Rod Eaken,
Gordon Stroup. Joe Webb, and
Warren Gittlen in the lead-off po
sitions.
But Rutherford will be with
out the services of his former ace
this season, Bob Smith. The flashy
senior missed the Easterns, and
will •brobably be out the remaind
er of the season because of schol
astic ineligibility.
Gittlen and Gerhart are the on
ly men who have losses on the
Penn State ledger. Eaken, Stroup,
and Webb show the best cards
with 3-0 scores; Ginsberg and
Boyanowski have 1-0 records.
Gittlen has a 1-1 record. Gerhart
lost his only match of the season
against Navy.
Baltimore Peddles
Lenhardt to Bosox
BALTIMORE, May 12 (JP)—The
Baltimore Orioles dealt outfielder
Don Lenhardt to the Boston Red.
Sox, turned loose pitcher Vern
Bickford .on his own, • and sent
two more players back to the
minors today to reach their play
er limit.
The Orioles continued to ce
ment relations with Richmond,
Va., which succeeded them in the
International League, by option
ing pitcher Mike •Blyzka ,a n d
catcher Darrell Johnson.
Lenhardt was the leading hit
ter of 1953 at St. Louis with .317.
He also was among the leading
batsmen for the Orioles in spring
exhibition games.
Correction
Acacia defeated Phi Kappa Psi,
1-0, in intramural soccer play
P.?onday. The result of the match
was incorrectly reported by the
Daily Collegian.
in the 440 against Navy, slipped last week, but
is potentially a record breaker. However, he'll
meet Al Gosper Saturday , and that could mean
trouble for the Lion speedster. Gosper ran the
quarter in :48.5 last week, .4 second better'than
Sax's mark of :48.9'.
Spartan Coach Karl Schlademan will field a
team that is particularly strong in the running
department. In the hurdles John Corbelli is a
strong favorite for first place honors. Corbelli
was timed at :14.5 in the 120-yard 'high hurdles
last week and turned in a :23.7 in a tie with
teammate Bennie Savoldi in the 220 lows.
Jarret in Half
Half miler Dick Jarret will be a big threat
for first place honors in that event. Jarret did
the 88,0 in 1:54.8 last week and leads a strong
mile relay team.
Pole vaulter Dan Lorch looks like a winner
Saturday if he matches his high of 13' against
Pitt. Michigan State's best man has been un
able to reach that mark. A wide open battle
looms in the broad jump where Ron Johnson
could get the edge. Braßham won the event
against the Irish with a 21' VA" leap. In the
high jump, surprising Rus Snyder promises to
turn a previous Nittany weak point into a pos
sible point-getter. Snyder tied for first against
Pitt with' a 6'2" leap.
Red Hollen -arid Doug Moorhead, unbeaten
in dual meet competition, are favorites in the
distances. Hollen has two wins registered in the
two-mile and Moorhead has won for two con
secutive Saturdays.
Slaughter. Treated
For Side Injury
CLEVELAND, May 12 GIP)—
Enos Slaughter, veteran outfield
er of the New York Yankees; left
the club today to return to his
Belleville, 111., home for treat
ment of an injured side. •
He will be examined and treat
ed in nearby - St. Louis and will
rejoin the team in Chicago Tues
day. Slaughter • has torn muscles
in his left side. He injured him
self by crashing into a fence dur
ing practice at Yankee Stadium
in New York Int Sunday and ag-:
gravated the injury here last
night in the Cleveland game.
TODAY !
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THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1954