PAGE SIX Army Hosts .' tow nament-conscious Penn State baseball team invades West Point at 2 p.m. today in search of win number seven against Army. Coach Joe Bedenk will have his second rank ing pitcher, Stan Larimer, on the mound against the Cadets. Larimer has a 2-1 record, his only loss coming at the hands of the Syracuse Orange, 5-2. Army, always an eastern power in baseball, trails in the overall series with the Nit tany Lions, 14-5. Last year the! * * * * * * two teams did not meet. i Ni ne Seeks 2d Wi n The Lions, who are oni to their: Frosh best start in the last two years,; can win an NCAA district play-I off berth if they continue their! • nst Frostburg Today winting ways in the next fewlA— ai g weeks. Last year they were defeated 1 in the first round of the Dis- 1 Coach John Egli will send his freshman baseball Lions triet 2 playoffs by Colgate. 7-4. after their second win today against Frostburg Teachers Ed Drapcho pitched a five- 'College at Beaver Field. Game time is 3:30 p.m. hitter against the Red Raiders 1 Egli will probably stick to the line-up that produced a but nine errors by his team- I, mates gave Colgate almost all ; --1 win Saturday over Kiski Prep. Once again the pitching its runs. i 'chores will be divided as Egli at- The Lions won the NCAA Dis-1 tempts to get a better idea on, rict 2 playoffs in 1952 when they 4 5 IM Keglers the talent at hand. won two games without a loss.; Cal Emery In the '52 College World Series ßo • ry, Wayne Breisch, and. the Lions won two and lost two,' WI Against Marlin Stover, all of whom saw ending in fourth place. I action Saturday, may be used in! Last year after the Lions had T p • U.S. addition to Winston Sandler on completed their first seven games' o the mound. their record stood at 4-3. This! • • eams Tom Swierczewski, who collect year. with a team loaded with ed two of the team's five hits sophomores and juniors an d against Kiski, will start behind' boasting only two seniors in the the plate. Other catchers who may starting lineup, they have swept by six opponents. The loss to Syracuse was a 10-inning affair, which was lost due to faulty base running or. the part of the Lions. In the infield Gary Miller will be at first base, Lou Schneider at second and Guy Tirabassi at shortstop will cov er the keystone territory, and Steve Baidy will be at third base. Dols Stickler, sophomore cleanup hitter, will catch. In the outfield Jim Lockerman and Bob McMullen are fixtures in center and left respectively, while John McMullen will prob ably get the nod at right. If the Cadets throw a lefthanded hurler, Bedenk will start Dave Watkins in place of John McMullen. 9 Cop Wins In WRA V-Ball Leonides, Thompson 111, and seven sororities copped victories in the coed intramural volleyball league last week in White Hall. Leonides notched the Monday night league championship by beating Atherton 54-21. Joan Koch led the independents with 12 points. Betty McKenzie led the Thomp son squad in a 36-29 victory over Kappa Kappa Gamma_ Delta Gamma edged Alpha Gamma Delta 36-31 with Marty Patterson and Gail Smith shar ing 14 points for DG. Kappa Delta slipped by Kappa Alpha Theta 26-21. Delta Zeta beat Tri Delt 35-32 despite the high total of nine points scored by the loser's Fae itiel. Pi Beta Phi hammered Gamma Phi Beta 40-23 with Katie Queens berry getting 11 points for the losers. Alpha Epsilon Phi defeated Tri- Sig 34-20. Janet Stohi's four points for Tri Sig led the scoring. Zeta Tau Alpha marred Chi Omega 50-28 behind the 13 points of Shirley Mix. Alpha Omicron Pi won a for feit over Beta Sigma Omicron. Learn Lacrosse Penn State Style By LOUIE PRATO i yards and 70 yards wide. The (This is the first of two articles goals are set 80 yards apart with to acquaint Penn State sports fans' 15 yards of playing territory be with the game of lacrosse prior hind shape objects which hind each g oaL Lacrosse goals are to Saturday's 1956 home opener , of the Lion lacrosse team.) (resemble those used in hockey. A white line known as the Although lacrosse is one of the ,i crea se' , encircles the goal. Ter- Oldest sports in the history of!,;0 extending from 20 yards in mankind, it is also one of the least!'" ,front of each goal to the end lines known. Since the days of the, is called the "goal area," and it is primitive Indian, lacrosse has imarked accordingly. been in existence, but despite this An "offside line - which runs fact there are less than 100 la- the width of the field is located crosse teams in the United States in the middle of the playing today. area. Ten yards on each side of This figure may seem high at the offside line, running parallel first glance but when it is con- to the side lines is an area sidered that there are more than known as the "wing." 1000 football teams—high Ten players make up a team: school, college, amateur, semi- •three attackmen, three midfield pro, and pro—in Pennsylvania I ers, three defensive men, and a alone, then the figure can be !goalie. The attackmen must stay judged in honest fashion. on their opponents' side of the Lacrosse is played on an area similar to a football field. It is 110 yards long and betw•eep 60 Baseball Team Nittanies Today Penn State's six top Intramural bowlers, according to Dutch Sykes, IM director, competed against 36 other university and college bowling teams through out the United States and Canada. This was the Third Annual Na 'tional Intercollegiate Bowling Tournament sponsored by the As 'sociation of College Unions. The team bowled on the new University bowling alleys last weekend with the results com piled and recorded by Sykes and sent to the national headquarters at the University of Washington campus for comparison with the other entries. Results Expected Soon The results of the standing of the Penn State representatives are expected next weekend. The squad was composed of two Independent keglers Lou Klu kosy. Dorm 14, and Chuck Bow man, Hot Rods, and four frater nity pin splitters—Ed Lyon, Beta Theta Pi; Elvin Rose, Sigma Al pha Mu; 4,lan Dash, Beta Sigma Rho; and 4 Bill Gardiner, Sigma Chi. Four games of 763-805-837-867 gave the IM team a 3272 total. Rose had the best totals with a 190 single game high and a four game high of 676. Dorm 14 Wins Title In regular bowling competition Monday night, Dorm 14 followed up its fall championship in Indie Loop A with the spring title, d°- feating the sixth place Enginee 4-0. Dorm 14 registered a 36-1 season record. The runnerup Benyo's Boys (32-8) won 3-1 from the fourth placed Hot Rods (21-19). The Choppers finished third with a 21-16 scorecard, when they de feated the eighth place Watts Rollers (16-24), 4-0. Dorm 23 outrolled the Mogam bos 3-1. The Dorm 23 team fin ished sixth with an 18-22 record and Magambos were ninth at 'B-32. The Weathermen blanked Jor dan 11, 4-0, in the final contest of the evening. The Alley Cats were inactive Monday night and finished fifth in Loop A with a 1 19-21 record. offside line while the defensive men are forced to remain within their own half of the field. The THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA see action are Carl Royer, Irvin Smith, and Charles Welsh. The infield array will be com prised of Tom Botlock at first, Frank Hocking at second, Bob Hoover at short, and John Yeo sock at third. Hocking will bat in the lead-off position, where he was able to draw two walks Saturday. Pat Kinney, Doug Caldwell, and Don Meyer will make up the out field. By far, the outstanding fea ture of the freshman team has been the pitching. Emery, who pitched hitless ball during his four-inning stint Satur day, showed mild streaks of wild ness, but proved he could get the ball across when the chips were down. Breisch, who followed Emery, displayed a fine curve and good control. Breisch, a lanky right hander. had great success in catching the outside corner of the plate on_ the right-h4nded batters. Fighting Frosh Win V-Ball Title The Fighting Freshmen became league F champions Monday night at Recreation Hall when they won tiAr sixth straight independent int-amural volleyball match. The Fighting Freshmen defeat ed the Jordan Jacques, 15-4, 15-4, to enter the play-off round sched uled to begin next Wednesday. Other league F winners were the Eight Angels and the Studs. Co-op of league G gained its fifth victory in a row by edging the previously unbeaten Barfers, 15-10. 11-15, 15-11. The Atherton Hall Men and Taormina were oth er league G victors. The Pistons gained leadership of league H as the Bullets lost to the Rowdy Nine. The Iron Men won by forfeit. Nick Thiel, Penn State lacrosse coach, twice won "Man of the Year" recognition for his contri butions to the sport. midfielders have the run of the field. This setup may be varied somewhat, but a team must al ways have four men in their own territory and three men on their foes' side of the field. An infraction of this rule would re sult in a penalty being called. When a penalty forces the re moval of a player from the game for a certain length of time, his team may not substitute for him. ELLEFONTE Adults 55c • Child. 25e LAZATODAY & THURS. Jane Ram.ell - Cornel Wilde "HOT BLOOD" - in Cinesnaseope! Last Times TODAY "Rebel Without Cause" - Color! also— "Texas Uprising" Thurs. . 'Rork Around Chicle' SHARON PHELPS, Sandra Ruddick, and Muriel Davis, are three of the earliest arrivals for the AAU championships and Olympic trials at Recreation Hall. The tournament will run its preliminaries on Friday with the finals on Saturday Gym Final Men and women gymnastic competitors from all parts of the country will flock to University Park this week to run through final preparations for the National AAU championships and Olym pic tryouts Friday and Saturday at Recreation Hall. Major attention will be centered on the all-round entries—both male and female—vying for births on the United States Olympic gymnastic team. Individual and team AAU championships will al so be at stake. Defending Champ Florida State Gymkhana of Tallahasse, Fla., will send 18 entries into the coin— petition, including defending all round co-champion Jack Miles and Don Holder, one of four 1952 Olympians still in competition. Holder finished fifth in last year's all-round battle. Penn State will enter a 12-man aggregation headed by AAU all round co-champion Karl Schwenz feier and sophomore Armando Vega, NCAA parallel bars cham pion. The Lions tied with the Cleveland Swiss Turners for sec ond place last year. Ernestine Russell, Windsor, Ont. defending all-round wo men's champion—will head the women's entries. Arendine Osten dorp, New York 'runners, is ex pected to be the number two com petitor in the all-round. She fin ished second to Miss Russell last year. Ed Scrobe, St. Mary's Recrea tion center, will be seeking his third berth on the Olympic team. He was a performer on the 1948 and 1952 squads. Jack Beckner and Charlie Simms, both representing the Los Angeles Turners, are two - other BELLEFONTE STATE Stars Run Through' NAAU Workouts 1952 team members seeking an Olympic berth. Joe Kotys, Cleveland Swiss Turners, is the fourth former Olympian to enter the competi tion. Kotys was a member of the the 1948 squad but failed to gain a spot on the 1952 team. The only former woman Olym pic performer to enroll in the wo men's test is 39-year-old Marie Hoesly of Monroe, Wis. She is the oldest entry in the women's divi sion. Barbara Galleher will be out to win her fifth consecutive tumb ling title. Miss Galleher won her first championship in 1950 at Recreation Hall when she was 15. Lion mentor Gene Wettstone, 'tournament director, expects the male entries to total approxi mately 120-30 of which will be all-round competitors. Approxi mately 65 women have entered the tourney with 20 scheduled to vie for all-round honors. 15-Year-Old Titlist Southern Methodist University's Barbara Gallaher, who won her first title in 1952 as a 15-year-old, will be seeking her fifth straight National AAU tumbling diadem in the 1956 championships here, Friday and Saturday. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1956
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