FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1957 iir
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By MATT MATHEWS
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BELATED BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP-
It seems the NCAA likes to schedule -its College World Series
in Omaha, Neb.. after the regular college_season ends. And it just
so happens that our regular college schedule ends on 'the last week
of classes, , when The Daily Collegian terminates its publication for
the year.
Since, therefore, we were not able to cover either the Eastern
District playoffs at Ebetts Field, Brcioklyn, or the World Series in
Omaha, we will report one player's account of those championship
games. The athlete doing the speaking is 6'4", 210-pound junior
pitcher,•Cal Emery, whom we just "happened" to overhear recount
ing the tale to a group of freshmen:
"We had an undefeated season last year, we got through 19
games unscathed, but WE WERE LUCKY. You see, we had what
you MIGHT call a two-man pitching staff.
"Well. anyway, little Eddie Drapcho and I—pitched all the
_games. And one week we had three away games With Colgate (a
single game on Friday) and a doubleheader with Syracuse Jon a
Saturday). But they were rained out.
"I guess I was real lucky in one of the midseason games against
Navy. They laced me all over the place and before you knew it,
they had a 4-2 lead and reliable Eddie comes in and bails me out
(in the sixth).
• "Well, WE WERE LUCKY and got a couple of hits and tied up
the ball game for Eddie in` our half of the last inning. But Navy
came back and, before you kfioW it, they had the bases loaded on
Eddie and nobody out. '
"Eddie drew back here and WE GOT LUCKY, again. The next
guy hits one down to Steve Baidy at third and we_got the guy at
home. The next batter smashes one toward short and Guy Tirabassi
makes a great play and throws the second guy out at home. All
this time the coach (veteran Joe Bedenk), is just about given up and
ready to head for the- locker room.
"Well, Eddie, the great clutch pitcher that he is, decides to do
the job and strikes out the third guy, leaving the, bases loaded in
sudden death. We scored four runs in extra .innings. WE WERE
LUCKY again, 'cause Navy came back for one in their half o
the inning. but we won, 8-5. Eddie really bailed me out.
"We wound up the season undefeated and went up to Brooklyn
for the District 2 playoffs.
-"Eddie got the assignment to pitch the first game. It was against
Manhattan' in sudden death, and those guys were rated high. I
wouldn't say they were cocky, just real confident.
"Before you knew it, they scored a run on us in the first
inning and that's the way the game went until the last inning..
Ron Rainey (who played leftfield and was the leading hitter-on the
team, batting .350) gets a single and although it was a bunting,
situation, Joe lets me hit away. (At the time, Emery was playing
first base and was the second leading hitter on the squad at .342).
"The pitcher gets two fast strikes over on me, and I just couldn't
let the team down and strike out, so I just wanted to meet the next
ball and it lands out on Bedford Avenue and we won, 2-1. I guess
this was my most exciting moment in baseball. Me, hittin' a home
run to win a playoff game in the last inning in Ebbets Field yet.
"The next day I was on the mound against ,St. Johns and we
won the Eastern playoffs, 5-0.. And then on to Omaha . .
to get back there.
"There was this one "whoppee boy," old "horrah" alumni type.
and he said that if we win our first two games, he's going to give'
. us a free meal.
"Eddie knocked off Florida State, 7-0, for the first one and
Emery got a 4-1 win against Texas. But before the guy could arrange
for the meal, we had to play California and Notre Dame.
"We had to go with (sophomore) Ron Reise, who's got good
stuff but only 2 innings of experience all season. California gets a
couple of runs off him real fast, but it didn't matter cause their boy
shut us out, 8-0.
"Then we had to play Notre Dame the day we got the free meal
from this guy: Eddie got the pitching nod. He's a little guy, and
with only two days rest, he was just pitching on guts and gives up
six or seven walks and they shell him for 14 or 15 hits (actually 12)
but we won the sloppiest game we ever played, 5-4.
"Old 'hoorah' gives us that meal and he looks like the saddest
guy in the world• and I thought it was - because he was handing out
that dough; Later I found out why he was really sad—he was a grad
from Notre Dame!
- "Everybody, was, eliminated from the double-elimination tour
nament except California and us. With only two days rest, I pitched
the game and for some reason, I had the greatest stuff in the world
that day. Everything went great until this little guy draws a walk
from me and before you know it, he steals second and third.
"But the pitcher's up and there's two outs, so I worked on.him
and had a 2-0 count when he hits a sharp liner to left-center. Our
centerfielder and captain, Jim Lockerman, wasn't used to" playing
baseball unle the lights and he goes running to his right and the
ball shoots over' his left shoulder for a triple. Cal won the game
and we finish second.
"After the game they chose the Most Valuable Player in the
tournament and I heard this announcer say something like 'Emery,'
and all the guys start jumping around me. Well, I made some kind
of motions with my mouth and the guy hands me this ,beautiful
trophy. - ~
• "Funny thing about that trophy. The alumni held a banquet
for us and they took it from me—to have it inscribed, they said.
I haven't seen it since. Maybe they burned it," concluded MVP
Emery jokingly.
O.K. alumni, where's Cars trophy?
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLIE6E ifiThAK;
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Taylor, 3 Others Enter
Amateur Golf Semifinals
BROOKLINE, Mass., Sept. 13
Rl—Dr. Frank "Bud" Taylor, the
Pomona, Calif., dentist who plays
the game with a surgeon's sensi
tive skill, and three brash young
teammates today made . it an all-
Walker Cup semifinal in the 57th
National Amateur Golf Cham
pionship. •
Other survivors in the bitterest
and closest waged quarter-final
in modern times were Rex Baxter.
21, a University of Houston junior
from Amarillo. Tex., who was
carried to the 21st hole; Mason
Rudolph. 23, an Army private
from Clarksville, Tenn., who went
19, and Hillman Robbins, 25, a
lieutenant from -Memphis the
only player not carried the full
route.
Baxter fought off a scrambling
college teammate, Phil Rodgers of
LaJolla, Calif..•to win on the third
extra hole. Rudolph beat Dick
Yost of Portland. Ore., a former
Walker Cupper, on the 19th, while
Robbins won 3 and 1 over Dick
Chapman, the 44-year-old ex
champion making a golf come
back.
Taylor, a pug-nosed 40-year-old,
who has been picked as heir ap
parent to Harvie Ward's unde
fended title, scored a 2-up victory
over Gene Andrews, hard-fighting
44-year-old insurance man from
Los Angeles, sinking an 18-foot
sidehill putt on the final hole.
Band bay Oct. 12
Penn State will observe its now
traditional Band Day earlier than
usual in 1957. Thousands of high
school bandsmen will converge on
the campus for the William and
Mary football game on Saturday,
Oct. 12.
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