PAGE SIX Lions Win 12th Straight, 10-5 ★ ★ * - - , 1 * 'ijfer MUfitMS ? * ’ —Daily Collrrian photo by Harry Forminser CATCHER DON STICKLER scores easily from third on a wild pitch by Lehigh's Doug Koch in the Lions' big five-run fifth inning. Ren Rainey (17) is shown waving Jack McMullen in to (cor* on the same play. * . Drapcho Throttles On 4 Hits for 7th Breaking a 3-2. ballgame wide open with a five-run ex plosion in the fifth inning, the Penn State baseballers went on to defeat Lehigh University, 10-5, yesterday afternoon at Beaver Field for their 12th straight win of the year. Steady Ed Drapcho, the ace of the Lion pitching staff, posted his seventh win in as many outings, walking none, striking out nine and allowing; only two runs on four hits in ; eight innings. Coach Joe Bedeni:, realizing the game was safely in the Lion camp, relieved his southpaw star with righthander Ron Smith in' the ninth. It was Smith's first, appear -anee of Ihe season and the : young junior was not up to the i occasion, allowing two runs on 1 cne hit—a double to left—in Vi J of an inning. Fireman Lynn Harbold finished off. For the first four innings, Le high looked as if it were going to make a ballgame of it, battling back from a 3-0 deficit to score 1 two runs in the fourth. But. then came the fifth and; •the deciding five-run Lion scor-j ing parade which broke the backs' of the until-then battling Engi-t neers. This was a pattern similar! to most of the Lion home wins—• start slow and then ice the con-' •test with a mid-game big inning.j Bob Hoover opened the in ning by working Lehigh starter Doug Koch for a walk. After Jim Loekerman flied out. Don Stickler and Jack McMullen also walked. Guy Tirabassi scored Hoover with sacrifice fly. the runners advancing. With Ron Rainey at the plate. Koch unleashed his third wild pitch of the game and both run ners scored when catcher Dick: Boogstraten couldn’t lind the ball.! Rainey hit a single to center; and big Cal Emery, playing first; base because of his hitting prow-i css, homered to deep leftfield for; the final Lion runs of the inning.; With Drapcho pitching perfect l ball—not a Lehigh man reached' base—in the first three innings, ' the Lions took an early 3-0 lead,] thanks to control trouble on, Koch's part and shoddy Engineer defensive play. Hoover walked with one down College Men EARN $lOO PER WEEK DURING THE SUMMER If you live in western Penna. end have a car Gall AD 8-1 m Wed., Kay 15 Between S p.m, and 9 p.m. Thurs., May 16 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA ★ ★ Lehigh Win in the first inning and scored when righlfielder Fred Ham sher dropped Stickler's routine, two-out fly ball. A walk to Lockerman, who ad-; vanced to second on a wild pitch, and singles by McMullen and Tirabassi, coupled with a Lehigh mental error on an attempted steal, gave the Nittanies two more runs in the third. ! ! The Engineers scored their two! ; runs in the fourth when Bob Christie hit a bad-bounce single past short to open the inning. ! After Dick Roth's sacrifice ad-! .vanced the runner, Bob Harring ton followed with a two-base | blow off Steve Baidy’s glove for i one run. ' I ! Harrington scored all the way [from second when Drapcho drop ped Emery’s throw to first on a i ground ball for an error. The play ; should have been the third out of the inning. I For the Lions. Emery, Rainey, Tirabassi and McMullen led the! ! way with two- hits apiece—j ! Emery’s homerun being the big! 'blow of the group. Baidy also con-! tributed a run-scoring double to! left. I \ PENN STATE LEHIGH 1 AB R H AbRH Baidy,3b 5 0 1 Christie.lb 4 11 lloov«*r,2b 2 2 0 Roth.Sb 3 0 0 Lock’tnan.cf 3 10 Har'ncrton,2b 3 2 1 ' Stieklcr.c 3 10 Naylor.*® 3 10 : McMullen ,rf 4 2 2 Smith,ef,c 4 0 1 |Ttr*b&**i,si 4 0 2 Williams,lf 4 11 ! Rainey .If 4 2 2 Hoojrstraten.e 2 0 1 Emery ,1b 4 1 2 Runh.c 0 0 0 Drapcho.p 4 11 x-Golden,cf 10 0 Smith.p 0 0 0 Homsber.rf 3 0 0 Harbold.p 0 0 0 Korh.p 2 0 0 Reinhold.p 1 0 0 ToUla: 33 It It Tot&la: 30 5 5 x—Struck out for Hush in seventh /Mat Managers Called ,) First and second semester can didates for wrestling manager should report at 4 p.m. tomorrow the wrestling room in Recreation Hall. Bucknell Blowup Lion Netmen to A controversial line call in the first doubles match pro vided the Penn State Lions with, the spark needed to clinch its second win of the season by defeating Bucknell, 6V&-2 1 /£, yesterday afternoon on the Beaver Field courts. Ine one of the most closely contested matches of the year, the Lion duo of Fred Trust and Chuck Questa rallied from a 6-1 loss in the first set to defeat I the Bison’s Chuck Siede and John Pulizzi, 6-4, 6-4. The victory pul the Bisons out of winning dis tance, 5-2. Trust and Questa were down, 3-2, in the second set when a I high lofty shot by Pulizzi landed ;near the end line. The shot was! |so close that the point was re with the Lions scoring the tally. Pulizzi and Siede seemed to .lose their composure and the Lions swept the set, 9-7. In the third set, the score reached duce jfour times on match point I before Trust smashed a hard cross ; court shot past Siede for the win. i All totalled, the Nittany net jters swept four of their six sin- Igles matches and copped two of :the doubles play. j I doubles match be tween Chuck Bibleheimer - Joe •Eberly and John Fincke-Jim Ste wart was called to a halt by rain jwith the score knotted.’ 1-1, in I sets and, 6-6, in match play. Each jteam was credited with % point. | Joe Galiardi, playing in the {fourth spot, won his fourth con jsecutive singles match of the sea json when he defeated senior let terman, Fincke, in straight sets, .6-1, 6-1. Although forced to three sets ito win. Questa defeated Jim Ste jwart Questa scored a 11-9 open ling set win. Stewart rallied for a {6-4 victory in the second set, but !Questa scored a 6-1 triumph in {the deciding set. ! Siede lost his opening set to Fred Trust, 6-4, in the number ione singles match, but rallied to {score two 6-2 victories in easy {style to sweep the match. Teammate and captain Pulizzi followed Siede with a 6-4, 6-3 vic tory over the Lion’s Chuck Bible heimer. 1 The final two Nittany singles wins were scored by Pete DeDad, [who defeated Doug Grigg, 6-4, [9-7, and Dick Jacobs, who downed ;the Bison’s Ben Hollander, 6-0, 6-2. I The Lion’s Craig Moseback and DeDad teamed together to score a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 uphill win over Grigg and Don Rintelman. Bums Top Braves; Yanks, Bosox Win i The Brooklyn Dodgers threw a [temporary roadblock into the [pennant-bound express of the [Milwaukee Braves yesterday by [scoring a 3-2 victory of the “chiefs” at Milwaukee. ' In other afternoon Major League action, the New York Yankees ‘scored all their runs in the first [inning to grab a 3-0 win over Kansas City and the Boston Red Sox copped an 11-8 decision over the Detroit Tigers. Penn State averages better than 25,000 a game for four home foot ball games each fall. ROTC... Buttons and equipment will shine with our i Brozzo Polish -49 c or Blitz Polishing . Cloth -25 c G. C. MURPHY The Complete Variety Store By BILL JAFFE Sigma Chi Tops Pi Kappa Phi For Keg Title Sigma Chi won' its third frat ernity Intramural'bowling cham pionship in the last six years with a 4-0 victory over Pi Kappa PHi last night at Recreation Hall. The Sigma Chi keglers rolled up a total of 2362 pins for the three-game match, while Pi Kap pa Phi connected for 2160. Ed Lynam sparked the winning quintet with a 555 series, while teammate Phil Reese backed him up with a 499 effort for the set. In the opening contest, the Pi Kapp keglers threw three strikes in a row for a 3-2 first-frame lead, but Sigma Chi came back with four marks in the second stanza to tie it at 6-aIL After six frames, the sharp shooting Sigma Chi quintet had built up a 26-17 advantage in the mark column. Lynam paced this drive with four straight strikes from the third through the sixth. By the ninth frame, Sigma Chi led, 34-26, and went on for an 809-720 decision. - The Pi Kapp five started to roll in the second match. Trailing hy one mark in the sixth, they surged ahead, 18-17, when Gordy Pollard and Tommy Holmes dou bled on strikes. Then Sigma Chi went ahead to stay in the sev enth and copped a 760-712 win. The third game'count was 793- 728. A Chi Sig Paces IM Golf Action Alpha Chi Sigma, defending champion, advanced to the quar terfinals of Intramural golf play, along with six other fraternity teams who scored wins in this week’s action. Alpha Chi Sig, making a de termined bid to repeat as title holder, defeated a strong Sigma Chi team. Phi Gamma Delta downed Alpha Chi Rho; Beta Theta Pi defeated Phi Sigma Delta; and Phi Delta Theta turned back Kappa Sigma. Sigma Nu defeated Delta Up silon; Sigma Alpha Epsilon downed Alpha Tau Omega; and Delta Sigma Phi beat Beta Sigma Rho. I—lur 0 Ita fljup THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1957 Sparks Victory * * ¥ r' * ' v • *vi n “j Photo by Horry Furraing«r Fred Trust WRA to Sponsor Coed Sports Day Here Saturday The Women’s Recreation Associ ation is sponsoring its first spring sports day Saturday afternoon on the Pehn State campus. Gettysburg, Shippensburg and Bucknell will be guests of _ the Penn State coeds. The following schedule has been planned: , 12:30 p.m.—‘Registration White Hall Lounge 1:60 p.m.—Softball Holme* Field 1:30 p.ra.—Tennis Tennis Courts 1:30 p.m.—Golf Golf' Course 3:00 p.m.—Free Swim White Hall swimming pool 4:31 p.m.*—Dinner ______ White Hall playroom Don Stickler, Penn State catch er,, is a product of sandlot base ball in the college community. Service and Supplies •Batteries' •Car Radios £s} •Portable Radios nj •Phono^jJ^V State Cpllege TV 232 S. Allen St. A suit that makes summer heat a-fall breeze «.. Tropical Worsted . . Because it’s cool and porous. A combination of balanced tailoring and 50% dacron -50 % wool blend make this suit ideal for the slimmer. All its features are dressy Ivy cut . . . lacking none of the trim Ivy lines. Select from a number of famous makes in reasonable price ranges. In char-grey, olive green, char-brown, navy blue . rushes the net
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