PAGE sr Lions Score 8-3,5-4 Wins Over Orange With two competent pitchers and a slugging first baseman going all out over the weekend in New York State, Joe Be denk sent his Centennial Penn State baseball team a little further down the NCAA District Two playoff lane. On the strength of Eddie Drapcho's eighth win, number four for Lynn Harbold, and two home runs and a double for Pat Kennedy, the Lions swept a Saturday double.header from Syracuse, 8-3 and 5-4. Drapcho's record is now 8-1, with Harbold at 4-0. The Lions have three regular season contests remaining, all on home grounds. They go against Bucknell tomorrow and face Le high Friday and Penn Saturday to wind up the season. Win Streak Nov at 7 Saturday's double victory, cou pled with a Friday win over Col gate, made it seven in a row for the Nittanies. Undefeated at home, they're now sporting a 14-4 record, Drapcho, going all the way in Saturday's lidhfter, permitted eight base hits for three Syracuse runs. While the Nittanies col lected the same number of safe tielt, three Syracuse errors,' cou pled with Kennedy's pair of cir cuit clouts, were enough to give the Lions win number 13. In the second inning of the opener, Syracuse's Bill 'Williams, starting on the hill for the Or ange, issued a base on balls to Lion shortstop Cookie Tirabassi. Lions Go 'Ahead, 2.0 Kennedy then put his heavy bat to Use with a left-center home run that put Penn State in the lead, 2-0. , Syracuse made it 2-2 in the third but with the Lions at bat IA the sixth, Kennedy clouted horde run number two but in mach better fashion. The deep center sock came with bases jammed—Ron Weiderihammer ,on third, Jim Lockerman on second, Tirabassi occupying first. Is route to his eighth win of the year, Drapcho struck out four arid walked only two. Kennedy was two-for-four at Raiders Lion Net An upset-minded Penn State tennis squad received a tre rneddous jolt as it was completely crushed by the Colgate netmen, 9-0, Saturday on the Beaver Field courts. In going down to their second whitewashing of the catnpaign, the Lion netters were unable to win a set in all nine matches. The Maroon Raider's win boosted their mark to 13 wins and three set backs. The losses were at the hands of Virginia 5-4, Princeton 7-2, and Williams 6-3. In the number one singles en counter, Colgate's Dave Lewis had no trouble at all as he pound ed out a 6-0, 6-0, whitewash over Lion captain Bill Ziegler. The loss was Ziegler's seventh against two wins. John Cleary was also an easy Hipkins, 6-1, 6-2. The loss evened victim as he bowed to the Raider's his mark at four and four. In the Leigh Strassner 6-2, 6-2, in the final singles match, Dick Norton second spot. The loss evened got his first start but did not ex- Cleery's record at three and three. perience any beginner's good for- In the number three match, Ed tune. He was downed by Colgate's Seiling was dropped by Pete Her- Bo Meyer 6-0, 6-1. . mann. The Lion junior garnered The story did not change in the greatest ntimbor of games of , (Continued on page seven) By RON GATEHOUSE the plate, , and Bob McMullen, playing in rightfield, went three for-five. Goes the Distance In the finale, Harbold went the route behind three Lion extra base wallops, three Penn State double plays, and a pair of strike outs to hand the Lions both end.; of the twin-bill. Russo slammed a double along. with Kennedy, and Rex Bradley swatted a three-bagger for one of. his two hits in three trips. Ron Weidenhammer kept his batting average well above .400 with two-for-two performance. , Both teams scored a pair of runs in the first. With one down, Mc- Mullen walked and reached third on two passed balls by Syracuse catcher Dick Young. Bradley's tri ple scored McMullen and Wei denhammer's sacrifice fly sent 'Bradley across. Kennedy Scores Again The Nittanies went ahead in the second when Kennedy doubled and completed the circuit after Young overthrew trying to pick him off stealing third. The Lions put the game on ice in the third when Weidenham rfter drove in McMullen and Brad ley. McMullen reached first on a walk and took second on Brad ley's single. Both runners ad vaneed, setting up Weidenham mer's base hit and two RBl's. The Nittanies left eight men in the second game. Syracuse stranded eight and five. (Continued on page seven) Whitewash Squad,. 9-0 any of his teammates as he bowed 6-3, 6-4. It was his sixth loss while he has won three. Even the Lion's top winner, Chris Christiansen, couldn't change the pace as he was defeated by Mary Pomerantz 6-1, 6-0. It was his fifth setback against the same number of victories. • In the fifth match, Larry Adler could do no better than his team mates as he was downed by Ken THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLME PENNSYLVANi Cornell Whips lion Freshmen The Penn State freshman track team closed its 1955 season on a dismal note as the Lion yearlings went down to a 70-61 defeat at the hands of the Cornell frosh. The visiting Raiders captured first place in 10 out of the 15 events to coast to the victory. Jerry McHugh won both the 440- yard dash and the 220-yard dash to pace the victors in the track events. Cornell's Dick King put on a sparkling performance in the field events as he broad jumped 22' 1" and high jumped 6' 2 3 / 4 " to finish first in both events. Ogler Norris ptoved to be the Lion star as he broke Harry Fue her's year old freshman pole vault record with a leap of 12' 10%" in his third and final crack at the mark. The Lion star also won the 120-yard high hurdles and fin ished •second in the 220-yard low hurdles, the broad jump, and the high jump in his final freshman meet. The Nittany mile relay team, consisting of Dean Rossi, Bob Koph, John Tullar, and Gus Orm rod, kept its season slate un blemished as it won its third con secutive race posting a. time of 3:27.7. Koph also turned in his best performance of the season as he won the 880-yard dash with a time of 2:01.1 seconds. Tullar suffered his first defeat of the season in the shot put When he finished second behind Cornell's Jack Garret and Dave ndries who tied for first with a heave of 45'4 1 / 2 ". Tullar won the discus and finished second in the javelin and the 440-yard dash be sides running on the relay team. Pennsylvania's schoolboy track and field, tennis and golf cham pionships will be held at Penn State, May 27-28. Sport Coats- Sharp looking linens were $16:95 NOW $ll.BB. All wool were $27.50 and $29.95 NOW 121.88 and $23.88. Dress Shirts-- Complete stock of colored shirt s, were $3.95 to $4.50 NOW only $2.88. Hose— Bur's ilint's *lmp Pollard, Youkers Tie For 2d• IC4-A's Next Penn State's outdoor traCkmen will wind up their 1955 card this weekend when they travel to Randalls Island, New York, to defend their 1954 , title in the IC4A champioriships. The Nittanies are expected to be at full force for the two-day affair with three of the men who entered the Coliseum Relays at Los Angles last weekend expected to set a lively pace for for the classy competition. A total of 519 athletes from 47 colleges has entered New York's only big outdoor track and field Carnival. Art Pollard and Rosey Grier— both out to defend their 1954 in dividual titles along with Bill Youkers, will be definite threats for Penn State on the basis of their season-long records and their recent performances at the Coli seum Relays. NEW YORK, May 23 Coaches today rated Penn State's defending champions as the favorites for the 79th IC4A track and field championships at Randalls Island Friday and Saturday. Manhattan's deep squad and Yale were rated the chief threats. Performing before more than 55,000 track fans in huge Memor ial Coliseum under a cold, stiff wind last Friday night the Lions walked off with two third places and a fourth- and • a fifth-place performance. Pollard tied for third in the 100- yard dash with a :09.8 time be hind Jim Gulliday of North- Western who took the century title in :09.8—the same time which Pollard ran two weeks ago to tie Hur'.s...Spiing into .rn.er Clearance! all you men will be going home, but before you go, )u'll want to be sure you have all the clothes you need. At Hur's Spring into Summer Clearance, you have the opporti nity to buy those clothes, and at LOW PRICE._ This is a store wide clear— ance so you'll be able to buy real values at reduced prices. 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Johnny Haines, were forced out with too many bad starts. 0 . -ne , . of the IC4A shot title and also the Penn State rec oat .vas fth in the shot and fourth in the discus event. In the shot he flipped the steel ball 53-44. Parry O'Brien—the world record holder with a 80-10 heave—took first with a 58-2% toss. Working against the nations' best discus man Des Koch of Southern Cali forma. Grier was fourth with' 154. foot heave behind Koch who 'won 't with a 170-4 1 / 2 throw. Youkers Does :144 In a torrid contest in , the 120.4 yard high hurdles, Penn State's senior ace on the high woods -Bill Youkers tied for second with Jim Ball, UCLA hurdler, in :14.2. Wilms lard Thompson, Illinois, who had never done better than :14.1, won the event in :14.0 flat. Youkers recently tied the Peian State record of :14.2 against, Navy and Michigan two weeks ago, and then set a new Lion mark when he clipped off a :14.1 time in the 120 highs against Pitt last week-- three days before he entered the Coliseum invitation relays.
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