Fiti!MY MAY 21. 1954 sport t o "49°1 LIONS IN BASEBALL PLAYOFFS? Carl Hughs, Pittsburgh Press sportswriter; who makes it his business to find out what is going on in district colleges—and usually does a good job of it—wrote in the Press yesterday, that Penn State stands an outside chance of entering the District Two baseball playoffs. . In the past Hughs has come up with some pretty accurate pre dictions concerning Penn State sci" it's natural to put a little stock in what he has to say about Joe . Bedenk's uprising Lions. It was Hughs who - fizstinentioned a:possible NCAA bid for the Lion basketball team last winter and the same Mr. Hughs was one of the first to break story• of Elmer Gross' resignation. When Penn State officials denied any coaching changes, Hughs plugged away in his column "Sports Stew." Of course there is strong suspicion, since the gentleman is a Pittsburgher, that his story about the basketball bid, was saved for a special time. The story broke on the day Elmer Gross' Lions were scheduled to meet Pitt , at the Pitt Field house. The Lions had beaten the Panthers earlier at Rec Hall in a triple overtime thriller, 91-85. According to the Press, Penn State, apparently in full steam, had the bid in the bag IF they beat the Panthers in the second contest. The big if never Materialized. Pitt whipped Penn State by 12 points. The bid eventually came but for a while it looked as though the loss was going to, hurt. Getting back to the latest bit of Hughs •wisdom. The Lions, from all appearances could be picked for the district eliminations. Six con secutive wins have brOught their • record up to a sterling 9-3 mark. But rain erased six contests scheduled earlier in the season and the best mark the Nittanies could hit now would be a 13-3 record, if they should win their remaining four games. Still a very fine record, but six cancelations dug a big hole •in the schedule. However, on the basis of their play of late, it looks from this corner as though Joe Bedenk and his crew might well be contending for the district championship' early next month; The Lions have been tremendous since they snapped an early season hitting slump, and Keith Vesling and Garland Gingerich have, provided gilt-edged pitching. . A 7-3 win against Villanova Wednesday was the latest victory in the six-game streak during which Navy, Temple, Rutgers and Bucknell all fell. The Bisons were double victims. West Virginia added two more to the list earlier and Dickinson was also a second best. On' the other side of the Column, Lafayette, _Gettysburg, and Lehigh all turned the trick against the Lions. The Bullets had to go 1-1 innings before winning the contest, 1-0. But of late, Penn State has been a hitting team, and, combined 'with almost flawless pitching has played like a championship club. :In their last six wins, the Lions haye scored 53 fat runs while Gingerich and Vesling have held the opposition to only five. However, four big games remain 'and their outcome will um , ioubtedly be the deciding factor. Should the Lions sweep the quartet it wouldn't be surprising to see them in the playoffs again, which incidentally would be the third consecutive year. Last year Lafayette knocked themout in the district finals and iri 1952 Bedenk took his team clear to the semi-finals of the "College World Series" in Omaha, Neb.He settled for third place that year. Precikness Field is Set • BALTIMORE, May 20 'Wl—Eleven three -year-olds were entered today for the 78th and richest of all Preakness Stakes as rain blown in on a Nor'easter pelted ancient Pimlico and left the track resem bling a one mile oval of good old Maryland.soup. Thes second jewel of the Ken tucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Triple CrOwn lacks the presence of Determine, the Derby winner three- weeks ago, but the Mary land Jockey Club's great sopho more classic has turned into a *hale of a horse race n, Correlation, the long-1 egged California colt who was the 3-i derby favorite but got banged around in that roughhouse at Louisville and finished sixth, is ekpected to •be the favorite of a crowd of some 35,000 at the 5:45 p;m. (EDT) Saturday postime. The race, will be televised and broadcast by - CBS from 5:30- 6, p.m. (EDT). Hasty Road, who finished sec ond in the Derby, and the next four 'finishers in the Churchill Downs gallop, are here. for the Preakness. CARNIVAL NIGHT at the TOWN HOUSE with CHUCK TORRENCE QUARTET Sat. Night, 9 p.m. By DICK McDOWELL Collegian Sports Editor cptl.EpleN qou.EpE PENNSYLVANIA Lion Golfers Meet Lehigh Tomorrow Penn State's golf team returns to the local greens tomorrow af ternoon to meet Lehigh Univer sity after a three-match road trip through the East. The Lions meet Lehigh in the seventh' match of an eight-game card. The Nittany squad is currently carded with a 5-1 slate, losing only to Colgate by a slim 4-3 margin. The' Lions ho 1 d victories over Cornell, 5-2, Gettysburg, 9-0, Bucknell, 9-0, Navy, 5-2, and Tem ple, 8-1. Lions Outscore Opponents In winning five of its six con tests this season, Penn State's powerful squad have far out sored its opponents. In six match es the opposition has scored only eight points against the Lions; the Nittany squad has tallied 39. The Lions have defeated Lehigh both on the Penn State course, and on the Engineer's Saucon Val ley Country Club. Last year, Penn State traveled to the Engineer's home grounds to drop a highly-touted Lehigh squad, 6-3. Lehigh had previously commanded a victory string of 37 matches on its home course .until the Lions and Rutgers University stopped the Lehigh squad at home last season. 3 Seniors to Start Rod Eaken, captain, seniors Joe Webb and Gordon Stroup, and junior •Warren Gittlen are the only' Lions slated definitely to start as part of the Lions' six , man team. All have played against the Engineers. . Only Eaken and Webb took vic tories last year at Lehigh. Gitt len and Stroup lost; George Kreidler. a junior, was defeated by last year's captain, Hud Sam son, for the sixth-place slot for the Lehigh match. Coach Bob Rutherford is still undecided about his lineup for the Lions' final home match of the season. Intrasquad playoffs today will decide the final two men who will round out the team to be fielded against Lehigh to morrow. Warden° k Favored Over Longlois Tonight " NEW YORK, May 20 (W)—Joey Giardello, disappointed because he was bypassed for a summer shot at Bobo Olson's .title, is a solid favorite to end the wave of French upset victories tomorrow night when he boi.es Pierre Lang lois at Madison Square Garden. The. ten-round match, sched uled for 10 p.m. (EDT) will get the usual Friday treatment, net work radio ABC and television I ' NBC. As usual in New York, the scoring will be done on a round basis with two judges and a ref-1 eree calling the shots. 3 Lion Stickmen To Play Last Game Three seniors will play their last lacrosse game tomorrow when the Lions host Cornell University at Beaver Field. Center Al Fulton, creasenian Jim Reed, and reserve midfielder Edward Jones will not return next year. Another senior, Dave Arnold, will not play tomorrow. Arnold is recovering after a recent apen dectomy. Fulton and Reed have been mainstays on coach Nick Thiel's first-team. With one game re-' maining, Fulton has scored 22 goals, a Penn State record, and Reed has scored 12 times. In the last several years, the careers of the two men have paralleled each other. Both were members of the, crack team of 1951. They then' went on to spend two years in the service together, returning to' Penn State last fall. Fulton and Reed are each 24 years old. Fulton lives in •Phila delphia while Reed makes his home in Towson, Md. The loss of the two stickmen is naturally re garded' byThiel as a great one, although the likeable mentor looks to the future with a certain degree of optimism. STRAY SHOTS —yThe annual North-South lacrosse game is scheduled to be played June 11 at Floral Park, N.Y. Head coach for the North will be Roy Sim mons of Syracuse. He will be as sisted by Babe Kraus of Hobart. '* Coach Thiel has recommended Al Fulton to play in the classic. No word. has yet been received. Wayne Hockersmith was the Lions' contribution to the game last spring. A vastly-improved freshman la crosse team bowed to the Cornell frosh Wednesday, 7-3. Yesterday the team, coached by John Mc- Hugh,,traveled to Bucknell where they met the Bucknell Lacrosse Club. The Lions have - scored 68 goals to the opponent's 113 in the eight games played for an average of about 14-8 a game with the Lions rt. in top tournament play;And here is the clinching proof: The Wright & Ditson is the only official tennis ball used in all U.S.L.T.A. National Championships (since 1887). Official, too, in all U.S. Davis Cup Matches. Official adoptions of its twin, the Spalding, in other leading tournaments assure their championship stature in American tennis. Play the championship twins to your own advantage. - SPALDING Sets the Pace in Sports By EARL KOHNFELDER 6 Wins Recorded In IM Soccer Six victories were recorded in intramural soccer games played W ednesday. In the first game of the evening Sigma Phi Epsilon defeated Sig ma Chi 1-0, James Fulton scoring the goal. Beaver House won the next game from the Bull Dogs by forfeit. The Hy-Flyers took the next game from Joe's Boys by, a forfeit. Alpha . Chi Rho won the fourth game from Sigma Alpha Mu 1-0. Kenneth Bevan smashed the win ning goal for Alpha Chi Rho. Tri angle took the next game from Lambda Chi Alpha 1-0, John Bricklemyer scoring the deciding gdal. In the last game of the eve ning Theta Xi crushed Phi Gam ma Delta 2-0. James Kennaday and Glynn Moyer scored th e goals. - As a result of their win over Sigma Alpha Mu, Alpha Chi Rho broke the three-way tie in league G. Triangle won league J by vir tue of their victory over Lambda Chi Alpha. on the short end. Goalie Don Bell. cannot 1,4 praised too !highly for his per formance against Swarthmore last Saturday. Bell's remarkable split second judgement saved many a score against the Lions. Fulton's second goal Saturday, the one that tied the record, was' really a beauty. The versatile cen ter took a pass behind the Gar net cage ,and fired a left-handed bullet past the Garnet goalie while falling to the ground. PAGE: sEm
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