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2 Additions Bolster
Trackmen's Card
Sy ROY WILLIAMS
Two additions to the 1955 sched
ule for 1 cnn State's Centennial
outdoor track season have sprin
kled the Lions' coming card with
the possibilLN of being the best
in the history of the Nittany sport.
The additions were announced
yesterday
Head track coach Chick Werner
said yesterday that the Drake Re
lays in Los Angeles, Calif., on
April 29-30, and the Coliseum Re
lay sin Los Angeles ,Calif., on
May 20 have been added to the
Lions' four-meet card.
The insertion of the coliseum
race necessitated shifting the date
of the Pitt meet at Pittsburgh
from May 20 to May 18. The
Drake Relays set for April 29-30
will fall on the same day that
the Lions had originally been
scheduled to travel to Philadel
phia for the Penn Relays. Wer
ner said, however, that the Lions
will have men entered in both
meets.
Werner, who recently returned
Lion Nine Prepares
For April 13 Opener
Little observance of the forthcoming Easter vacation will
be made by the 1955 Penn State baseball team.
With a strong-as-ever 21-game Centennial card awaiting
the Lion nine, Joe Bedenk will put his charges through daily
paces the remainder of the week and next Monday and Tues
day in preparation for the April 13, Western Maryland opener
at Beaver Field.
Little has been provided as to what the Nittanies
pect in their initial foe, other than that the Green
dropped a 10-4 decision last week
to Randolph Macon.
Charmed with good weather the
past few days, Bedenk has had a
good opportunity to decide who
will start in at least seven posi
tions when he opens his 25th year
as head baseball mentor.
Only pitching and catching still
remain question marks. But a de
ficit in either of these positions
alone would be enough to lower
any team's chances of a good sea
son, so Bedenk still has a major
headache on hand.
Three Mound Hopefuls
On the mound juniors Stan Lor
imer and Lynn Harbold and soph
omore Ed Drapcho lead a list of
10 pitching hopefuls. Bedenk will
probably call on one of these three
for opening-day mound duties.
Behind the plate Phil Saunders,
Norm Van Ord, and Wally Mrasz
all are shooting for a starting
berth. Bedenk must decide be
tween the three, but as yet has
given no indication as to who will
get the nod.
Whoever the Nittany mentor
decides on to compose the battery,
they'll be backed up by seven
front-runners who own quite a bit
of experience, better than aver
age fielding ability, and hitting
from an armed services track
clinic in Japan, said that the sche
dule changes had been in the plan
ning stage for some time and had
jt been• completed after a day
of long distance telephoning.
The Lions, who have been prac
ticing for four weeks in prepara
tion for their season opener at
Annapolis April 16, in a triangu
lar meet with Navy and Penn
will have a busy season ahead
of them. Seven of the nine en
counters will be on the road and
will take the Lions from one
end of the country to the other
including a stop in the Midwest.
Although the Lions will have
only two home meets, Werner is
enthusiastic about the triangular
meet between Navy, Michigan,
and Penn State set for May 7 on
Nittany cinders. The meet, which
already has the indications of
possibly drawing one of the larg
est local crowds for a track meet,
was giver , added importance by
Michigan's victory over Stanford
at Palo Alto over the weekend.
power in several spots.
Captain Charlie Russo, Pat
Kennedy, Guy Tirabassi, and Ron
Weidenhammer seem to have the
four infield posts pretty well
wrapped up. Three of the four are
at least two-year Lion diamond
veterans, and newcomer Tirabassi
has greatly impressed Bedenk at
shortstop.
Kennedy and Russo will be
spending their third seasons at
first and second, and Weidenham
mer will be seeing his third year
in the infield and his first at third
base. The Lion senior was at
shortstop during his freshman
and sophomore campaigns, and
moved to center field last year.
Outfield Problem in Hand
The outfield, pretty much of a
problem when pre-season pr dctice
got under way, is at the present
just about set. Rex Bradley seems
to have left field under control
for the t h i r d• consecutive year,
and sophomores Jim Lockerman
and Sam Valentine have caught
Bedenk's eye at center and right.
However, juniors Bob McMul
len and Merl Gerds and sopho
more Ken Mally are still pressing
for a berth patroling the outer
pastures.
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Werner said yesterday that he
had bee n counting on a good
schedule for the Centennial year
and had gotten it. "We have the
schedule that we've been counting
on for the past couple of years,"
he said, "and now we have topro
duce a team that is worthy of it."
Here's the -evamped 1955 card:
Navy-Penn, April 16, at Anna
polis; Ohio State Relays, April 23,
at Columbus; Penn Relays, Phila
delphia, and Drake Relays, Des
Moines, April 29-30; Michigan-
Navy, May 7, at home; Boston
University, May 14, at home; Pitt,
May 18, at Pitt• Coliseum Relays,
Los Angeles, May 20; and the
IC4A championships in NeW
York, May 27-28.
On the
Exhibition
Circuit
Bums Top Braves, 10-8
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 4 (JP)
—Ed Mathews drove three home
runs out of Sulphur Dell today
and also connected for a single
but the Milwaukee Braves came
out second best in a 10-8 slugging
match with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Brooklyn's victory evened the
spring series at four victories each.
Zernial Hits Sth Homer
COLUMBIA, S.C., April 4 (JP)
Big Gus Zernial smashed out ,
his fifth home run in as many
days today to lead the Kansas
City Athletics to a 7 to 1 win
over Columbia of the South At
lantic League.
Indians Trip Giants
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 4
(JP)—Home runs by Wally .West
lake and Vic Wertz powered the
Cleveland Indians to a 9-5 victory
over the New York Giants today,
giving the American Leaguers a
lead of eight games to seven over
the world champions in the ex
hibition series this spring.
Pirates Defeat Orioles
BRUNSWICK, Ga., April 4
(A)) The Pittsburgh Pirates,
collecting all their runs in two
big innings, defeated the Balti
more Orioles 9-8 in a homer
laden exhibition baseball game
today.
can ex-
Terrors
Tigers Shatter Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga., April 4 VP)—
The Detroit Tigers defeated the
Atlanta Crackers 13-4 today in a
game played in the Federal Peni
tentiary here.
Stickmen to Open
3-Game Road Trip
Embarking on the roughest schedule in its history, Penn States
lacrosse team opens the 1955 season against Adelphi College Thtars
day in the first of three away games to be played over Mister yaps,:
tion,
The 26 man squad will leave Rec Hall at 1 p.m. Wednesday
, by
bus. They will stay at Hofatra College for the entire road flip..
Following the Adelphi contest, Coach Nick Tillers stickijAqn
Lace New Hampshire and then Hofetra. The New Hampshire game
will be the second game of a doubleheader, with the first - game
pitting Army against Hofatra.
Will Play at Hoistra
The Lions will play two games
at Hofstra's field and the Adelphi
contest in Garden City, N.Y.
Trying to counter for the lack
of exprience in the midfield, Thiel
will employ a new riding zone
Gefense in an effort to hold the
ball and make the opponents play
the Nittanies' type game.
The defensive lineup will' con
sist of Herb Horikawa, Bob Bul
lock, and Evertt Weidner. The
three men, Thiel said, are very
fast, adept passers and good stick
handlers. They give us the most
aggressive
. defensive team • in a
number of years, he said.
Hansel Leads Offense
Leading the offensive pack will
be Bob Hamel, who was runnerup
in scoring in 1954 to all-Amerida
Jim Fulton. Thiel said thaUiamel
could possibly be the greatest
player he has ever coached. He
added that Hamel has the ability
and team spirit that Fulton had,
but said that he lacks the exper
ience. Jinl Hay and Frank Lo
cotos round out the mid-field.
On the attack will be Ron
Youtz, who supposedly has the
hardest shot on the team, George
Bicklehaupt, and possibly Dick
Klein or Joe Erwin.
Kent Chestnut, a sophomorP,
will also see action on the attack.
Thiel said that the team's over
all shooting and passing has ini
proved, and said that captain Don
Bell has improved considerably
in the last week of practide.'..4`:
Steve Friedman, who diSloPtited
his shoulder in practice, will he
in top shape for the Adelphi
game, Thiel said.
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DT FRAN FANUCCI
DiaMarco, Basilio
Title Fight Set
NEW YORK ,April 4 (W)—Ne*-
ly crowned welter Weight chant.-
pion Tony DeMarco df Boston wilt
defend his title against top-rank
ing challenger Carmen Basin° -in
the Syracuse, N.Y., Mein9o4l
Auditorium June 10.
The 15-round bout
broadcast and telecitst civet Nlso'
with Syracuse blacked Out of the
TV. Rochester, Binghamton an 4:
Utica, nearby upstate °MethK-.
ably will be blacked out of 'the
telecast, too, said Harry Markson:'
rnanagink director of thd Inter. , ‘
national Boxirlff Club. The MO
wiU co-promote the scrap with
Syracuse promoter Norm Roths-,
child.
DeMarco won the crown haft
Friday night b3t stopping Johnns ,
Saxton in the 14th round in the
oston Garden.
"Band Day," a fixtute of the
Penn State football season, will
be held on Nov. IS ft 1955.
SOMmer 1935
EuroPean auto-`four
combined with a Mediterran
ean cruise i arranged by Co
lumbia Educational Travel
Association, conducted by . . .
Dr. V.l. Marto
Associate Professor.
Pennsllloania State Univeraitii
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