3?, i'f§4. Giants, Tribe Open 1954 Series Today NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (iP) —The Cleveland Indians and New York Giants will meet in the first game of the 1954 World Series tomorrow at the Polo Grounds with Bob Lemon scheduled to pitch for the American League champions and Sal Maglie for the National League pennant winners. . It was perfect Indikn summer weather today but the forecaster looks for increasing cloudiness tomorrow followed by rain .in. the evening. That Wouldn’t affect the crowd-of 55,000 expected for the cry “play ball”-at 1-p.m. The weatherman said the temperature would-be about 70-75-tomorrow afternoon, The second game of the series also is scheduled, for the' 'Polo Grounds, with the teams going to Cleveland’s' Municipal' Stadium for the third, fourth and fifth, if necessary, games Friday, Satur day and .Sunday. If the series goes the full seven games, the teams . would be back in New York Monday and Tuesday. TV, Radio io Broadcast ..AH games start at 1 p.m. EST, with television (NBC) and radio (Mutual) at 12:45 p.m. Managers A 1 Lopez of Cleve land and Leo Durocher of New York did the expected in picking two right-handers for the opener. Lemon has a 23-7 season record and'Maglie 14-7. For the second game the Giants will use Johnny Antonelli (21-7) against Early Wynn (23-11). This will be the third series for Cleveland, and the Indians are ’ the 9-5 favorites to make it three world championships' with out defeat. The Indians are the 6-5 choice in the opening game. Topped Bums in 1920 Cleveland defeated Brooklyn 5 games to 2 in 1920 and the Boston Braves 4 games to 2 in . 1948. The Giants will be playing in their 14th World Series, but the Polo Grounders haven’t won the fall classic since 1933 when they polished off the Washington Sen ators 4 games to 1. New York played its first series in 1905, the Giants defeating the Philadelphia Atheltics 4 games to 1. Their last series appearance was in 1951 When they were beat en by the New York Yankees 4-2. The other two Giant series vic tories came in 1921 and 1922, the Yankees being -the victims on both occasions, 5-3 and 4-0. Yankees Missing This is the first time in six years that the Yankees are miss ing from the series .scene. Under Casey Stengel 1 the Yanks won five straight world championships. With the huge Cleveland sta dium seating' more than 80,000, a record player cut is expected. The winning team may split up around $lO,OOO per man and the losers about $BOOO. Last year'each Yankee got a record $8280.68 and the losing Brooklyn players re ceived- a record $6178.42. The player pool comes only from the first four games. The TV rights were sold for $1,000,000. with radio adding an other $200,000. x This goes into the Central - Fund. out of which the player pension program- is sup ported. Both teams had batting practice at the Polo Grounds'today in sun ny weather and the temperature near 80 degrees. Grid Dope Sheet RUSHING Tries .Gain Loss Net Ave. 5 80 0 80 16.0 17 126 2 124 7.3 6. 14 2 12 2,0. 6 / 14 1’ IS 2.2 > 3 46 •0 . 46 15.3 . v 1 2 0 2 2.0 1 2 0 2 2.0 PASSING Att. Comp!. Intc. Yds. 4 11 7 7 2 2 32 2'o 0 0 PASS RECEIVING Player Bailey Moore Younker Blockson Straub Kane Blum Player Hoffman Bailey Plum Player Arnelle Garrity PUNT RETURNS Moore Younker -Kane 2 34 2 24 1 19 KICKOFF RETURNS Straub ' 1 20 Younker 1 19 Moore 1 - 17 INTERCEPTION RETURNS' Moore 1 0 PUNTING - Number Avaro"' 1 a 33.7 1 31.0 1 . iB.O Player Bailey Hoffman ?l«m 4 Fraternity Teams Win IM Openers Four fraternity teams won opening games in the intramural touch, football league last night under the' Beaver Field lights. The winning teams, Theta Chi, Sigma Pi, Delta Chi, and Pi Kappa Alpha advanced into the second round of the 47-team tournament. Four games: are on .tonight’s agenda: Beta Theta Pi meets Sigma . Phi Alpha; Alpha Zeta plays Phi Mu Delta; Delta Sigma Phi goes against Sigma Al pha Mu; and Phi Sigma Delta versus Sigma Nu. Theta Chi’s double trouble backfield' combination of r ßob Baker and Chuck Leech provided the nucleus for a - Theta Chi 6 to 0 victory over Tau Phi Delta. Baker, on third down with only eight game • minutes remaining, gracefully threw a 50-yard pass to Jack Miller, who was standing unguarded- in touchdown terri tory. The play, which was set up by Phil- Chapman’s interception Of a Tau Phi Delta pass,' complete ly caught the losers off guard. Leech Stands Out " Grid Foils Rate Lions in Top Ten Notre Dame, a familiar figure, rules the roost as the number one college football team today in the weekly Associated Press poll, but there are enough newcomers among the next nine -to require introductions all the way around. Coach ,Terry Brennan’s Irish, who rocked Texas 21-0 in _ their opener, replaced Oklahoma in the first spot. Oklahoma, top team in the first regular poll last week, had its difficulties in “defeating Texas Christian 21-16 and drop ped to second place. But among the others in the honored group only the name Penn Stale was rated ninth tin the United Press' weely foot ball poll. The Lions, who were not mentioned in the top 20 in a pre-season poll, edged in from the outside with their upset vic tory over Illinois, Maryland has a familiar ring. The top ten is completed with lowa third, UCLA fourth, and. Wiscon sin fifth. Then come Maryland, Duke,. Mississippi, Southern Cali fornia, and Penn State. With 159 ballots in the nation wide poll of sports writers and sportscasters, Notre Dame receiv ed 94 first place votes and 1438 points based on ten for first, nine for second, etc. Oklahoma got 24 first place votes and 1224 points. All of the top 10 teams except Oklahoma will see action this week and old man upset is always lurking just around the corner. • Notre Dame meets Purdue, ra ted 19th, at Notre Dame Saturday, and Maryland goes to Los An geles for a game with. UCLA Fri day night in the only head-on clash of teams in the top ten this week. • Five of the toj> ten teams a week ago are missing this week, and two of them—Georgia Tech and Illinois disappeared from the first 20. Penn State, not even among the first 20 a week ago, jolted Illi nois 14-12, while Florida shocked Georgia Tech 13-12. Tech was fifth and Illinois sixth last week. Only Army boasts a better won lost decord than Penn State in Eastern football for the eight sea sons from 1946 through 1955. Number Yards 2 31 1 S TfcH BAftY CGILEGJE, PENNSYLVANIA By Associated Press Leech, who kept Theta Chi- in Tau Phi Delta territory through out the first half with his piston like passes, stood-out defensively in the 1 final minutes of the con test. Leech intercepted a Dave Marquis-pass on his own 20 with time running out. The Tau Phi Delta line, led by blond-haired Dave Allison, mo nopolized the line-play of the two squads. Sigma Pi started off fast in its game with Phi Kappa Tau, aim ing to turn the contest into a rout. After intercepting a stray pass on its own 30, Sigma Pi moved quickly into touchdown land. A pass play starting with Ed Redfiel4 and : going to Dave Steltz to Ray Carlin to Joe Fred rick, scored for the visitors. Phi Kappa Tau Phi Kappa Tau failed to pene trate deeply into their opponents territory in the second half. Final score: Sigma Pi '6, Phi ’ Kappa Tau 0. The Delta Chi-Kappa Sigma tussle wasn’t decided until the final two minutes. With the score 0-0, Kappa Sigma found itself back on its own 7 yard line. Try ing desperately to move out, a Sigma back got caught for a safety in the endzone. Art Win terbottom tagged the loser’s back for the sriore. Six-pointer With 25 seconds remaining, Tom Ceraso threw t.o Fred Evans for a six-pointer. Pi Kappa Alpha ran rough shod over Theta Delta Chi, win ning 32 to 0. All touchdowns were scored as a - result of passing. John Willamee passed for 3—one each to Lloyd Hughes, Andrew Schoerke and John Leone. Scho erke passed for two scores to John McNeill. A's Fate Postponed NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (#■)—The American League tonight decided to sit back and wait to see what happens in the next two weeks or so before • reaching a decision on what to do with the Philadel phia Athletics. Series Regulations Set by Commissioner NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (/P) Lights may be turned on any time the umpires decide they are needed during the World Series that starts today at a meeting of the two rival managers and Com missioner Ford C. Frick. All' games are scheduled to start at 1 p.m. In case of rain, the commission er will decide .if the game is to be played if the batting orders of the New York Giants and the Cleve land Indians have not been hand ed to the umpires. If the game has started, the umpires will decide When to halt play. Penn State will host- the East ern intercollegiate wrestling championships during the Univer sity’s Centennial observance in 1955. Advertisement o|L.GblfQSj£&*« , I have a cousin named Haskell Krovney, a sweet, unspoiled country boy, who has just started college. A letter arrived from him this morning which I will reprint here because I know that Haskell’s problems are so much like your own. Haskell writes: Dear Haskell (he thinks my name is Haskell too), I see that you are writing a column for Philip Morris cigarettes. I think they are keen cigarettes which taste real good and which .make a pleasant noise when you open the pack, and I want to tell you why I don’t smoke them. It all started the very first day I arrived at college. I had just gotten off the train and was walking across the campus, swinging my cardboard valise whistling snatches of Valencia, Barney Google, and other latest tunes, admiring statues, petting dogs and girls, when all of a sudden I ran into this fellow with a blue jacket, gray pants, and-white teeth. He asked me was I a freshman. I said yes. He asked me did I want to go places on campus, make a big name for myself, and get pointed at in fashionable ballrooms and spas. I said yes. He said' the only way to make all these keen things happen was to join a fraternity. Fortunately he happened to have a pledge card on him, so he pricked my thumb and I signed. He didn’t tell me the name of the fraternity or where it is located, but I suppose I’ll find out when Igo active.’ ’ Meanwhile this fellow comes around every week and. collects his dues which are $lOO. Lately he has been collecting $lO extra each week. He says this is a fine because I missed the meeting. When I remind him that I can’t go to meetings because I don’t know where the house is, he twists my arm. I have never regretted joining the fraternity because it is ray dearest wish to be somebody on campus and get. pointed at in spas, but you can see that it isn’t cheap. It, wouldn’t be so bad if I slept at the house, but you must agree that I can’t very well sleep at the house if I don’t know where the house is. I have had to rent a room. This room is not only hellishly expensive, but it isn’t the kind of room I wanted at all. What I was looking for was someplace reasonably priced, clean, comfortable, and within easy walking distance of classes, the downtown shopping district, the movies,' and my home town. What I /found was a bedroom in the home of a local costermonger, which is dingy, expensive, uncom fortable, inconvenient, and I don’t even get to use the bed till six o’clock in the morning when my Landlord goes off to mong his costers. Well, anyhow, I got settled and started going to classes. But first I lio.d to pay my. tuition. This came to a good deal more than the advertised rates. When I asked th 4 bursar wha.t the extra money was for, he told me lab fees. When I said I wasn’t taking any labs, he said I was taking psychology which countejd as a lab because they used white mice. When I offered to bring my own mice, of ■which there are plenty in my room, he twisted my arm. So I paid the man and went to my classes where I found that all my professors had spent busy summers writing brand new text books. Over to the bookstore I went, saw the prices on the text books, and collapsed in a gibbering heap. At length I recovered and made indignant demands to speak to the proprietor, but they told me the Brinks truck had already taken him home for the day. There wsis nothing for it but to buy the books. Next I turned to romance—and found it. Harriet, her name was—a great, strapping girl. I first spied her leaning against the statue of the Founder, dozing lightly. I talked to her for several hours without effect. Only when I mentioned dinner did she stir. Her milky little eyes opened, she raised a heavy arm, seized my nape, and dragged me off to a dimly lit place called The Trap where everything was a la carte. She ordered cracked crab ($1.75), sirloin Chateaubriand ($7.00), a scuttle of french fries (18<i the french fry), an artichoke (30(i the leaf), and compote (80tf the prune). After dinner she lapsed into a torpor from which I could not rouse her, no matter how I tried. I banged my glass with my fork. I did bird calls of North and South America. I pinched her huge pendulous jowl. I rubbed the legs of my corduroy pants together ... But nothing worked, and finally I had to sling her over my shoulder and carry her to the girls dormitory, to the vast amusement of everybody along the route. But it was not the jeers of bystanders that bothered me. It was the hernia. Fortunately, medical care for students is provided free at the college dispensary; all I had to pay for were a few extras, like X-rays, anaesthesia, operating room, forceps, hemostats, scal pels, sponges, catgut, linens,-towels, amortization, and nurses. They would not, however, let me keep the nurses. So, dear, cousin, if you see me these days without a Philip Morris cigarette, it is not because I don’t like Philip Morris cigarettes. I do. I flip when I taste their mild rare vintage tobaccos. But I can’t afford I can’t even afford matches, what with.fraternity dues and room rent and lab fees and textbook prices and my girl Harriet and medi(cal care. . 6 Well; I’ll write you again soon. Keep ’em flying. This column is brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS who think you would enjoy their cigarette. Reich Gains UP 'Unsung Hero'Title The United Press has named Frank Reich, Penn State’s substi tute center, as their Eastern ‘Un sung Hero’ for the week.' The six-foot two-inch 205-pound pivot man from Steelton earned the title with his sterling grid performance_ in the Lion’s 14-12 win over Illinois Saturday. / >. Nittany mentor Rip ■ Engle played the junior standout' the entire sixty minutes of the con test. Last year Reich saw scattered action behind this season’s co captain, Don Balthaser, who was out of Saturday’s game because of a leg injury suffered in pre season practice. Bob Higgins, former Penn State coach newly-inductedinto Foot ball’s Hall of Fame,' lives in re tirement in State College. (Author of “Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” ete.) MY COUSIN HASKELL PAGE SEVEN Advertisement Yr. Cousin, Haskell ©Mai Shttlmaa, 1999
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