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Drapcho Scheduled
For Bisons Again
The Bucknell baseball team comes to University Park this afternoon, and the Bisons
will find much more than just another win-hungry opponent when they face the resin.-
gent NittanyLions at 3:30 at Beaver Field
_ _
possible berth in the ever-so-near NCAA District Two playoffs would be enough to
team on fire going down the homestretch, but Joe Bedenk's Lions have an ad
three-fold incentive to put them at their best against the Bisons.
Improving on an already fine'
14-4 record, preserving their con
secutive game winning streak,
now at seven, and remaining un
beaten at home are the three
mountain-sized goals the Nittanies
carry into today's game.
Southpaw Eddie Drapcho has
somewhat of an incentive of his
own. The ace of the Lion mom , d.
staff, 8-1 for the season, blanker:'
Bucknell without a hit in an ear
her meeting.
The sophomore huiler wiL
probably start against the Bisons
this afternoon, and he carries no
less than 76 strikeouts in 79 1 / 3
innings pitched into the game.
Lions Want Playoffs
With the district playoffs set
to begin the first week of June,
the Lions made it known that
they're saving their pennies for
the big day when they swept all
three games of a northern road
trip last weekend. .
One of those wins came over
Colgate, at the time rated one a
the. top members of the widely
scattered District Two. The Nit
tanies, whose 14-4 record looks
better and better each day, also
downed two other favored dig;
trict nines—Villanova, and La
fayette
A
set any
d Mona'
Eddie Drapcho
May Face Biscrns Again
Frosh Nine
Win Over
Colgate, 4-2
Rob Smith pitched the Penn
State freshman baseball squad to
its third victory of the season
when the yearlings closed its i 955
card with a 4-2 win over the Col
gate frosh Saturday on the Beaver
Field diamond.
Smith won his third straight
game of the year as he scattered
five Maroon singles in the nine
inning contest. The big right
hander struck out five and walk
ed only three en route to the vic
tory.
Takes Two-run Lead
The frosh gave Smith a two
run lead in their half of the first
inning as John McMullen led off
with a single to right. Dave Wat
kins drew a base on balls and
Henry Bomberger was safe at
first when the Colgate hurler,
Tom Vitko, made an unsuccess
ful attempt to nip McMullen at
third on the bunt. Aft e r Bob
Scrabis struck out, Gary Miller
lined a single to left, scoring two
runs.
Aided by two Nittany errors,
Colgate scored one run in the .top
of the fifth without a hit. Catcher
Gene Antone reached first base
when Bomberger dropped a fly
ball to left field. Pitcher Vitko
popped out, but Tom Betts walk
ed to put runners on first and sec
ond with one out. Smith got left
fielder Bisselle to force Betts at
second, but Steve Baidy errored
on Thomas' ground ball and An
tone scored.
The Maroon tied the score at
2-2 in the top of the eighth again
with the aid of three Lion errors.
Clark led off with a hit to left
and went to second when Bom
berger let the ball go through his
legs. Smith errored on Herlin
ger's sacrifice bunt putting run
ners on first and third with none
out. Jack Michaels threw wild to
home attempting to get Clark and
the score was tied.
The Lions then turned an at
tempted squeeze play into a dou
ble play which went from third
baseman Terry Hutton to catcher
Scrabis, to second baseman Mi
cheals. Vitko struck out to end
the inning.
The frosh scored two runs in
the last of the eighth on a single
by Bomberger, a sacrifice by
Scrabis and singles by Miller,
driving in his third run of the
game, and Micheals to ice the
game.
Rip Engle, in five seasons as
Penn c" - • football coach, has
cony• ' 1 i• - cord of 30 wins, 14
defeats and 2 ties.
Ptessurs Is On
The Nittanies, knowing full
well that their showing in the
three regular-season games, in
chiding a Friday contest with L 2.-
high and a Saturday contest with
Penn in addition to today's clash,
could make or break them for
playoff consideration, will be un-
Charlie Russo
Leads in Run Department
doubtedly going all-out to better
their statistics to date.
Captain Charlie Russo leads in
runs-scored with 20. Ronnie Wei
denhammer, entering toda y 's
game with a seven-game hitting
streak, is tops at the plate with
a .431 average.
A sure-fielding outfield and ex
perienced infield add to the Nit
tanies' wares, and an improved
mound staff has done away with
one of Bedenk's major early-sea . -
son headaches.
Regular Lineup
Rex Bradley, who's gone the
distance in leftfield every game
to date, will get the nod there,
with Jim Lockerman, Bob Mc-
Mullen, Ed Thomas, or Merle
Gerdes filling the remaining two
outfield posts.
In the infield, Weidenhammer,
Russo, and Cookie Tirabassi have
been at third, Second, and short
stop for every contest, and Pat
Kennedy, Lion power-hitter, has
carried most of the chores at first
base.
Besides Drapcho's 8-1 mound
record. Lynn Harbold has picked
up four wins without a defeat,
Bill Burcin is 1-0, and Stan Lari
mer absorbed three losses against
one win.
Phil Saunders and Norm Van
Ord, along with mid-season new
comer Lou D'Orsaneo, have been
doing the majority of the catch
ing.
Van Ord will probably start be
hind the plate today.
West Virginia has beaten the
Lions twice, and Rutgers and
Tomnle have set them down once
each.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Drug Violator
Was Manager,
Probe Told
PHILADELPHIA, May 24 (A 3)
—A convicted narcotics violator
was named today as the former
manager of 22-year-old Julio Me
deros, Cuban boxer who won a
technical knockout decision over
"drugged" Harold Johnson in a
nationally-televised fight here
May 6,
Pennsylvania's Athletic Com
mission continued into the fifth
day its investigation of the al
leged doping of Johnson by ques
tioning James White, 47, of New
York and Miami, Fla., who i$
listed as Mederos' manager of
record.
White testified that Louis
Black, also known as Louis
\ Saccatoma, managed Mederos
from 1953 until this March—
about 10 weeks before the John-
son fight.
White, questioned by . Deputy
Atty. Gen. Herbert S. Levin, said
he turned Mederos over to Black
because he (White) was engaged
as a boxing promoter and match
maker in Miami.
He said that he never re.
calved any cut from Mederos'
purses while slack managed
him.
White, testified that he believed
Johnson was in good physical con
dition on the night of the fight--
"I wish I was in such perfect
condition."
White said he didn't believe
Johnson was drugged by a bar
biturate, as commission physicians
testified, but insisted he was
felled by blows meted out by Me
deros.
"I think he (Johne k on) suffered
a concussion," White said.
Sowell to Enter Only
880 at MIA Meet
PITTSBURGH, May 24 (IP)
Arnie Sowell, Pitt's top distance
runner, will participate only in
the 880 meters run at the IC4A
track meet Friday and Saturday
at Randalls Island, N.Y.
"We're not going to tfilce a
chance and burn out the boy," said
track coach Carl Olsen. "He'll
run only the 880." '
Sowell already has Won the Na
tional AAU and the IC4-A indoor
880 crowns this year. He also
whipped the great Mal Whitfield
in the 800 meters at the Pan-
American Games.
Golfers Seek Bth Win Against Lehigh
Coach Bob Rutherford's Nit
tany. Lion golf team goes after
its eighth successive dual meet
victory on Friday against the Le
high University linksmen at Beth
lehem.
The Lions will close out their
season Saturday when they host
the University of Pittsburgh golf
ers on the local links.
The Lions bested both teams
last year, beating the Engineers
8-1, and the Panthers 4-3. Three
of the Lions that contributed to
last year's victory will be present
at this year's battle. Captain War
ren Gittlen, Jim Mayes, and Jim
Ginsberg all took victories to help
the Lion cause along.
Mayes was playing his first col
legiate match when he took the
links against the Engineers last
season. But the junior blaster re
sponded to the task admirably
and poked out a decisive 7 and 6
win over Everett Schaeffer. Mayes
then won his second collegiate
start actainst th' Panthers in the
season's flnalo. He won over Jim
Zocalla 4 and 3, and also quali-
Schwenzfeier Seeks
1956 Olympic Berth
Karl Schwenzfeier, determined little captain of the Penn State
gymnastics team this season, and perhaps the Only collegiate per.
former ever to win Eastern, National, and NAAU honors in one sea
son, is right now a good bet to represent Uncle Sam in the 1056
Olympics,
Gene Wettstone, a pretty re
and 1948 Olympic coach, rates hi -
Karl Schwansfeior
Looks Toward '56 Olympics
Lion Netters
After Sixth,
Host Bisons
With the spring campaign draw
ing quickly to a close, the Penn
State tennis squad hopes to boost
its record over the 500 mark as
it will try to stage a repeat vic
tory over the. Bubknell Bisons this
afternoon on the Beaver Field
courts.
Match time is at 3:30 p.m.
• The Nittany netters boast a
previous win over the Bisons in
their fourth match of the year.
The win, which was the Lions
first, was a 8-3 decision on the
Bucknell courts.
With only one match remaining
after today, the Lions hope to end
the season on the blue side of
the ledger. By defeating Bucknell
yesterday afternoon, the Nittanies
are assured of an even split on
the season. Their record now
stands at five wins and the same
number of setbacks.
Coach Sherman Fogg plans to
start one of his strongest singles
combinations of the season. Cap
tain Bill Ziegler will appear •in
the number one spot and will be
followed by John Cleary. Junior
Ed Selling is set for the third
position and Chris Christiansen
will get the nod for the fourth
slot.
Dean Mullen, making his first
singles appearance in several
weeks, will be number five per
former and Doug Zuker will
round out the singles lineup. Zieg
ler and Rhymes Humphreys will
team up in the top doubles posi
tion, Seiling and Christiansen will
be in the second slot, and Al Wil
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fied as the Lions medalist for the
day, shooting a four-over-par 75.
Gittlen and Ginsberg won easily
over the Panthers' Don Garber
and Bill Stockdale. Ginsberg won
6 and 5, and Gittlen 4 and 3.
The weekend engagements will
be the farewell matches for Lion
captain Gittlen. ;In his four years
as a Lion linksman Gittlen has
compiled a remarkable won-lost
record. Up to now he has won
twenty three out of twenty eight
dual matches. He has absorbed
only four losses and one tie and
is unbeaten so far this season. He
registered the best won-lost rec
ord on the team ever since his
sophomore year. In each of the
past two seasons he has suffered
only one loss.
The Lions were forced to trim
their q uad for Friday's hassle
with t he Engineers. The match
will be played on a six-man team
—best ball basis. That is, there
will be six individual matches for
which the winning team will re
ceive one point each; and a bonus,
best-ball point, going to the low
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1955
iable source since he's the Lion
1955 captain a top contender for
the United States Olympic team in
1956.
"He can't miss," Wettstone said.
"He graduates next February but
plans to stay on to do graduate
work and to prepare for the 1956
Olympics. His' work is already of
Olympic calibre and ,there's every
reason to believe he'll improve
in the next 12 months.
To be Host Again
Penn State, for the third time,
will be the site df the National
AAI.I championships and Olympic
trials in April of next year. Wett
stone master-minded the trials
here in 1948 and again in 1952.
Schwenzfeier, who understudied
the Finnish-born Jean- Cronstedt
in his first three seasons at Penn
State, became captain and, took
over the team's number one spot
when Cronstedt suddenly decided
last Spring to return to his native
land and begin medical schooling.
Paces Winning Season -
Taking. up the challenge posed
by his predecessor, Schwenzfeier
paced his team to a 6-1 season
and Eastern title honors, and even
surpassed fabulous Cronstedt's
stunning perforthance in the 1954
Nationals. Thereafter, the diminu
tive Philadelphian went Cron
stedt one better by adding Na
tional AAU all-around honors to
his Eastern and NCAA laurels.
Wettstone, who credits Sch
wenzfeier's advance to unusual
strength and a burning desire to
succeed, said no collegian ever
before had won Eastern, National
Collegiate and NAAU all-around
honors in the same year.
Tied for First Place
Schwenzfeier, who set new
scoring marks in both the Eastr
erns and Nationals; shared top
spot in the AAU championships
with one of his personal .heroes,
Jack Miles, now a graduate stu
dent at Florida State College.
Wettstone' said a first-place tie
never before occurred in NAAU
competition.
First Reminder- ,
Did You Order
Your Sports Book?
Have you put your order in for
the first issue of Penn State's rec
ord book of sports? This is a re
minder to students who will want
to be sure they leave their. name
and 'deposite of $1 with Edward
Czekaj, assistant business man
ager of athletics, in the new wing
of Recreation Hall.
James Coogan, sports publicity
dircc:or of the 'University's public
information service, has empha
sized only enough books to meet
the demand will be published. He
said that the books are being sold
at cost.
The booklet will consist mainly
of statistical material concerning
Penn State during the last cen
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sewer on each hole.
In order to get his squad to the
legal limit, Rutherford had sopho
more Leo Kukkola and junior Jitn
Ginsberg play an elimination
match. "Kook," who hasn't been
up to his usual standard lately
came out on top, just edging Gins
berg in a 19 hole thriller.
The remainder of the team will
be composed of the usual combin
ation. Rutherford's golf machine
worked to perfection in the Col
gate match; and he has only to
keep the gears meshing as smooth
ly to keep the win streak intact.
The team, .in the order it played
in the Colgate encounter will
probably be Gittlen, Mayes, Boy
anowski, Gerhart, Kukkola, and
Branish.
If the Lion linksmen triumph in
the two weekend matches they
will be the second golf team in
University history to capture all
its dual meets. Even more impres
sive is the fact that Coach Ruther
ford will have a record of win
ning 25 out of itc 19Nt 26 dual
matches