THWWJAY, MAY 3. WS3
Paces Lions at
With eight games and probably what will prove to be the toughest portion of the
10S5 21-game card under its belt, the Penn State baseball squad is slowly overcoming a
man-sized early season deficit—lack of power at the plate.
The Lions’ fielding average is good in most spots and pitching, to date anyway, has been
far above average.
Catching, still Joe Bedenk’s biggest headache, will probably
progresses and the three top back
stop candidates pick up always
valuable experience
Third baseman Ron Weiden
hammer is far ahead of the pack
in the batting department, sport
ing a fine .500 average on 15 hits
in 30 trips.
Centerfielder. Jim Lockerman,
sophomore with five starts ,to his
credit, is the only other Lion hit
ting away above .300. In nine at
bats he’s batted .333.
, The three remaining regular in
fielders are Widely scattered in
the .200 bracket. Going the whole
way in the eight contests to date,
shortstop Cookie Tirabassi, cap
tain Charlie Russo, and Pat Ken
nedy at first base are sporting
respective .267, .250, and .228 av
erages.
In the - outfield, left fielder
and three-year veteran Rex
Bradley is hitting .218. Off-and
on starters Pete Cherish and
Merl Gerdes are at an even .200,
with Ken Malley, Dick Surov
chak and Sam Valentine below
that mark. Bob McMullen,
serving mostly as a pinch-bat
ter, has slammed a .375 clip in
eight official try*.
The Nittanies have connected
fbr 14 extra-base clouts in eight
games, with doubles grabbing the
Spotlight. Bradley has accounted
for three two-baggers, Weiden
hammer a pair, and Malley, Rus
so and McMullen one each.
Kennedy, ( undoubtedly Be
denk's number one power man
at the plate, has slammed two
triples and a like number of
circuit clouts. Surovchak and
Weidenhammer have connected
tor one three-bagger each.
In the field, only one of the
five Nittany regulars, Bradley,
owns a perfect 1.000 mark. The
remaining four, Kennedy, Wei
denhammer, Russo, and Tirabassi
own down-the-line marks of .988,
.893, .875, and .702.
Kennedy tops the put-out de
partment with 77, and Russo is
four ahead of Weidenhammer’s 18
assists.
Russo and Tirabassi have each
committed five of the 'Lions 19
miscues in the field.
The Lions have made four
twin-killings. Kennedy has
been on the final end of three.
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Russo in the middle of two,
and Tirabassi and Weidenham
mer have each gotten a double
play under Way.
Eddie Drapcho, Bedenk’s ace on
the mound, is far ahead of the
other two Nittany hurlers to see
action thus far. He sports an
earned run average of .93. Be
denk’s number two starter, Stan
Larimer, has allowed 5.72 and re
liefer Stan Szymanski haspermit-
In 39 innings pitched Drapcho
has given up only four earned
runs. He’s been tapped for ten
bases on balls, but has set down
no less than 47 via the strikeout
route.
Larimer has walked nine and
fanned 21, with Ssymantld
performing at a respective eight
seven pace in eight innings.
Drapcho, author of a no-hit-
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ter and two-hit shutout sports
a 4-1 slate, with Larimer at 1-2.
Bradley
Cherish
Drapeho
Gerdes
Kennedy
Larirtler
Lockerman
Malley
McMullen
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taunden 18 4 2 2 4 .154
pringer 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Surovchßk 8 0 1 0 1 125
Saymanski 4 0 2 0 2 .500
Ttrabaasi 30 4 8 2 8 .287
Valentine 8 2 0 2 1 .000
Van Ord 7 0 110 .143
Weidenhammer 80 9 15 7 5 .500
TRAM 287 53 71 82 80 .248
Pitcher IP B R KR BRA BB SO
Drapcho 89 16 7 4 0.98 10 47
Larimer 22 26 16 14 6.72 9 21
Szymanski 8 5 5 8 3.88 8 7
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batting
Ah R H BB RBI Are.
1 2 .218
2 0 .200
82 6 7
5 11
1 2 .187
2 1 .200
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0 2 .200
16 2 8
10 1 2
85 5 8
10 2 2
1 0 .333
0 1 .187
1 1 .875
2 1 .148
4 4 .250
9 2 8
IS 2 8
8 8 3
7 8 1
86 7 9
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against on- loss this season by
rolling up a 5 and 4 win over Get
tysburg’s Don Cole. Branish was
the Lion medalist for the day,
posting an even par 70. He went
two over par oh. the front nine,
but wo birdies, a 6 and
a 4, on th- back nine to finish up
even. Branish and Mayes also won
the best ball for the Lions, 5 and 4.
Yesterday’s loss was this year’s
fourth for the Bullets, who have
won only one match so far. They
won their opener against Western
Maryland, 5% to 3Ms, but have
not been able to dent the win col
umn since. They lost to Juniata,
3-1; Franklin and Marshall, 7-2;
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On Campus
>fexshulman I
(Author a/ "Bar* foot Boy With Cketk,” *te.)
Many of our friends will soon be graduating. What kind of
gifts should we give them?
Here is no simple question. It is never simple to find gifts for
people who have everything, and college students, as everyone
knows, are the most richly endowed of mortals. They’ve got
beauty and truth. They’ve got rhythm. They’ve got stout hearts.
Willing hands, and a clear vision that dispels the miasmas of the
future as the morning sun sears away the last wisps of a cool
night’s fog. They’ve got heaps and heaps of money, as who would
not who has been receiving such a huge allowance over four
years of schooling?
What can we give them that they don't already have?
One infallible gift for the person who has everything is, of
course, a stethoscope. New models, featuring sequined earpieces
and power steering, are now on display at your local surgical
supply house. Accompanying each stethoscope is a gift card with
this lovely poem:
When you hear your heart beat.
When you hear it pound,,
Remember me, your buddy,
William Henry Round,
If, by some odd chance, your not happen to be
William Henry Round (you’re laughing, but it’s possible), here
is another dandy suggestion for the person who has everything
-? a gift certificate from the American Bar Association.
These certificates, good at your local lawyer's, come in three
convenient sizes: small, medium, and large. The small certificate
covers title searches and writs of estoppel. The medium size
covers torts, claim jumping, and violations of the Smoot-Hawley
Act The large one covers kidnapping, murder, and barratry.
If, by spme odd chance, you don’t know what barratry is
(you’re laughing, but it’s possible), it is arson at sea. This inter
esting crime is called after Cosmo “Bubbles” Barrat, a captain
in the British navy during the last century, who was addicted to
burning his ships. One man o’ war after another fell victim to
his incendiary bent. The Admiralty kept getting crosser and
crosser, but every time they called in Captain Barrat for a
scolding, he would roll his big blue eyes and tug his forelock and
promise faithfully never to do it again. Oh, butter wouldn’t
melt in his mouth, that onel
So they would give him another ship, and he would soon reduce
it to a scattering of charred spars. He burned more than 120,000
ships before he was finally discharged as "doubtful officer
material.”
After his separation from the navy, he moved to Vienna where
he changed his name to Freud and invented Scrabble.
But i digress. I was listing gifts for the person who has every
thing, and here is another one. This gift, in fact, is not only for
persons who have everything, it is also for persons who have
nothing, for persons who have next to nothing, for persons who
have next to everything, and for persons in between. I refer,
of course, to Philip Morris cigarettes. Here is the cigarette
for everybody-for everybody, that is, who likes a mild relaxing
smoke of fine vintage tobacco in a handsome brown package
that snaps open with the greatest of ease. For those, if such
there be, who like dull, nondescript tobacco in a package that
requires a burglar’s kit to open, Philip Morris is definitely the
wrong gift
Among the newer gifts that warrant your attention is a revolu
tionary development in the enjoyment of recorded music. This
is the Low-Fi Plmnograph. The Low-Fi, product of years of
patient research, lias so little fidelity to the record you put on
it that if, for example, you put Stardust on the turntable,
Melancholy Baby will come out. This is an especially welcome
gift for people who hate Stardust.
Finally there is Sigafoos Shaving Cream, a brand new kind
of cream that makes whiskers grow in instead of out. You just
bite them oif in the morning.
GMiS Hhulukto,
To Mao’s suggestion to give PHILIP MORRIS for graduation, the
makers of PHILIP MORRIS, mho bring you this column, add m
hourly amen.
Fourth
and Johns Hopkins, 6%-3%, be
fore meeting the Lions yesterday.
Coach Rutherford was pleased
with the outcome of the match—
except for Gittlen’s performance,
cf course. But. as the Lion mentor
expressed it, "I would rather War
ren get the bad scores out of his
system against the weak teams, so
that he’ll be ready for the tough
matches.”
The linksmen return to action
on Saturday in a triangular meet
with Penn dnd Navy. This is the
first year for thi3 match, and it is
also the first time the linksmen
will be meeting the Quakers. The
match will be held on the Nittahy
greens. f
THE GIFT HORSE
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