PAGE SIX Stickmen Open Against Loyola at Home Today The Penn State lacrosse team will kick off the 1959 season today at 2 p tn. when it meets the Greyhounds of Loyola on Beaver Field. The Greyhounds invade the Nittany Valley holding a 0-1 iccoid, having previously dropped their opener to Wash- ington and Lee, 15-6 Imvola will have to depend for the most part on freshmen and t.ophomore , , to bolster its team. The seining load will probably be earned by returning letter man Jerry Beck and freshman Jim Lamar Lamar and Beck each scored two goals in the opener with the Generals The Lions, on the other hand, have eleven letttermen returning. Coach Earnie Baer said that this year's team has a lot of potential and could very well better last year's mark of 5 wins and 8 losses. John Behne will take over the number one position on attack now that the Lion's greatest at tack player, All-American B ill Hess, has graduated, Behne was second man on the score sheet last year with 17 goals and 5 as sists, Backing Mine up on attack will he Bill McDonough and Jim Winpenny. Although McDonough only had six tallies last season, he copped ,coring honors in the Ohio State scrimmage with three goals. Jim Kane and Lee Herman will fill in with the second attack group. Bob Swanson will head the midfield crew and could well push Into the top scoring ranks this season. Aceordtng to Baer, Ray Tul cya, who was switched from de fense to first-string midfield berth, and Dick Bullock will round out the starting midfield. Chip Henderson, Dick Ham mond, and Dick Janda will form the second midfield. Coach Baer is also formulating a new switch where Behne and starting defenseman, Dave Erwin, will form the nucleus of a third midfield to fill in for the first and second midfields in the event of a fast and tiring game The defense, Baer said, could very well be the strongest point of the Lions' network this sea son with co-captain Dick Dill Lion Batterymen Inexperienced, But Newcomers Have Potential First of a Series on Lion Baseball Team Penn State's baseball team opens the season Wednesday with only one pitcher! But there will be several "throw ers" on hand, too. Penn State baseball lingo, ac cording to Coach Joe Bedenk and his assistant Chuck Medlar, de fines a pitcher as a person who has proved himself out on the mound A "thrower," on the other hand, has not proved his ability on the firing line. The only pitcher is Ron Riese who finished as the Lions' top pitcher last year with a 6-1 record and a 1.53 ERA. Riese's only lo's was to Lafay ette. He had gone nine innings the day before against Penn but was beaten in a relief job against the Leopards. An error nt the eighth inning allowed an un earned run to score and Riese was tagged with the loss. The only other hurler who has seen previous action with the Nittanv "nine" is righihander Larry Freedman. Freedman had an 0-1 record last year. but didn't play too much. Both Be denk and Medlar hare high hopes for him this seas o n, though. Southpaw Ed Kikla is another hurler who is held in high regard by the Lion braintrust. As a freshman he was ineligible last season, but according to the coaches, he has had a lot of ex perience. Kikla is also a fine hit ter and can play the outfield. Medlar, who doubles as pitch- By BILL BARBER Andy Moconyi . . . pushing Beattie and Mike Beattie forming the veteran nucleus and Dave Er win. a promising sophomore, holding down the third starting position. Andy Moconyi, playing his first season of varsity lacrosse, will see plenty of action in the defen sive bulwark and could easily push one of the starting three for their slot. Torn Ogden will also see service on defense. John Castella has gotten the starting nod in the nets for to day's game as Dave Wilkinson':, mimed ankle will keep him out of action. Meeting to Be Held For Sport Candidates Anyone interested in joining the Collegian sports staff will meet In the Collegian sports office at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. No previous experience is necessary, and there is plenty of room for advancement. According to Medlar, both Beans and Adams have improved quite a bit and a decision on the starter won't be made until game time. The other Lion catcher is soph omore John McSparran. "He's a Chuck Medlar ( real hustler out on the field," ... Assistant Baseball Coach IMedlar said `!and he has the po tential to make good." ing coach, thinks that Kikla might develop into one of the Lion reg ulars this season. "His fast ball and curve are pretty good," Med lar said "and he is learning to throw the change up." Speaking of fastballers, Med lar is high on Bob Amer, a big righihander. "He can really throw that fast one and could help us a lot." Medlar com mented. Medlar also said that two left handers—Bill Benton and Tom Durbin—have a good chance of cracking the lineup. "Benton has the stuff to be a THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Palmer's 70 Grabs Lead In Masters AUGUSTA, Ga rn old Palmer, a golfer with little regard for golf's tiadtions, made his bid yesterday to become the first player ever to win two Masters tournaments in a low. Palmer took over the lead at the halfway point with rounds of 71-70-141 on the wind-toughened, 6,980-yard Augusta National Course. Then he calmly said he wasn't concerned about the tradi tion that a Masters winner doesn't repeat. When he won last year with a solid 284, he was Ole youngest victor in more than 20 years. ' Yesterday more than a half dozen others had torn par to tatters before Palmer, son of a veteran Latrobe, Pa., profes sional. finally established him self as the leader. The result was probably the tightest cluster of players near the top of the scoring list that the 25- year-old Masters ever has seen. Alone in second place at 143 was Canada's Stan Leonard. the first day leader with 69, who finished with a 74. Within two strokes of him—and only three or four behind the lead er—were more than a dozen play- ers. Almost any one of them was in position to bid - for the title in the remaining two rounds and even such old gallery favo rites as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, U.S. Open champion Tommy Bolt and PGA cham pion Dow Finsterwald weren't clear out of it. They were in another big group at 147. Only the 40 low scorers for the first two rounds and those tied for 40th place will continue in the last two rounds of the tournament today and tomorrow. Ed "Porky" Oliver, former Open champ Julius Boros, Paul Harney, Dave Thomas, the big Welshman; Angel Miguel. the tiny Spaniard; and U.S. pros Mike Souchak and Billy Maxwell were clustered at 144 over the par 72 layout. - 0 - winner and Durbin needs work on his control," the assistant coach said. "Both looked good in their last practice outings." Fred Wolfe. Bob Knepp and Zeke DeLong are the others fight ing for slots on the pitching staff. The other end of the battery finds a battle going between Harry Beans and John Adams for the starting catcher position. Adams was a topflight pros pect last season, but a broken leg a week before the opener forced him to miss the cam paign. Now his leg is complete ly healed and he is pushing Beans for the starting berth. Beans was the number two man behind captain Don Stickler last year, but he only appeared in two games. Weiser Imported tars • Gala Spring Sale Prices Slashed up to $2OO per car Come Early and take your pick 3 mi. north of State College on route 322 AD 7-4171 The Sportseer r:1 1 ,v , Spiing, according to the doctrine of Pope Gregory, has been mingling with us for two weeks now—give or take a few cloudbursts. But the apple blossom season won't be officially recog nized by Penn State baseball fans until Wednesday afternoon. That's the day ole Joe Bedenk's Diamond Follies of 1959 opens at Beaver Field. Bedenk has been producing his diamond show for 29 years but it's been a good many seasons since he's had such an inexperi enced ca't to work with. "I'm building character this year," Bedenk quipped recent ly, echoing the refrain used by many contemporaries when a gloomy season seems to loom ahead. And Bedenk has reason to rnoan, for he has only three regulars re turning from last year's team—a club that went to the District Two playoffs. These • three hold overs include Captain Bob Hoov er, shortstop, junior Larry Fegley, second baseman, and pint-sized Ron Riese, a right hand hurler. Part-time starter Doug Cald well, who shared the centerfield role with the graduated Joe Moore, is also back. Caldwell led the Lions in hitting last spring with a .333 average. _ Fegley and Hoover were also among the top batters in 1958 with averages of .324 and .320, respectively. Fegley, who is a very polished fielder, was also a heavystick standout, leading the club in doubles with five and triples with two. Reise, better known to his team mates as "Wimpy" because of his affinity towards hamburg sand wiches just like his cartoon char acter featured in "Popeye," was I Bedenk's most effective mounds man last year. He won six and lost one and had a 1.53 earned run average. That lone defeat, in lcidentally, was in a relief stint the day after he had tossed a two hit victory. From all these figures one The problem was not that Marty had fallen in love with a shirt. After all, he was a Philosophy major. The trouble was ... Marty was in love with two shirts. With Shirt No. 1, the Van Heusen Century, the serious Marty spent hours in heaven ly bliss. He worshipped the revolutionary soft collar that won't wrinkle ever. It was Century's one-piece construe-' tion that drove him wild. (Other collars never did any thing for our boy Marty, ex cept wrinkle madly. You see, other collars are three pieces, fused or sewn together.) With Shirt No. 2, the amaz ing Van Heusen "Vantage," the gay, frivolous Marty lived the life of carefree abandon.lle SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1959 Joe Will Build Some Character would tend to feel that Bedenk's plight isn't as bad as he says. But let's go a little further For the first time in three years, Bedenk will be entering the diamond season without the services of five performers— first baseman Gary Miller, third sacker Steve Baidy, outfielders Ron Rainey and Jack McMul len and catcher Don Stickler. All five were three-year regu lars for Bedenk and were very instrumental in the undefeated regular season (19-0) and sec ond place finish in the NCAA College World Series posted by the 1957 aggregation. In addition, Bedenk will also miss his southpaw pitching ace Cal Emery, who signed a bonus contract with the Philadelphia Phillies last spring although he had another year of college eli gibility left. Emery had an 8-2 log last spring and a 10-1 mark the previous year. That single setback in 1957 was a 1-0 decision in the final game of the collegiate champion ships against California. So you see. Bedenk does have trouble. He has a plentiful sup ply of talented rookies available but they have to be proven. "At this moment there are only six starting positions that are set," gag-man Bedenk cracked when queried on that subject earlier in the week. "And that's Hoover, Fegley, Bedenk, (Chuck) Medlar (assistant coach), (Lamb) Hood (the head manager) and the sportswriter." L fr v4l4'' 4'-‘1 47 (1n.5 could wear it and wear it— wash it—drip-dry it, or have it tumble-dried automatically —and wear it again in a matter of hours. It was the most mon ey-saving love he ever had. But when Marty was with one shirt, he missed the other. It was terrible. Like so many others with the same problem, Marty wrote to us. And so it came to pass that the Van Heusen " Century-Vantage" was born. This shirt combined theadvantages of each into one great shirt—awash and wear, no-iron, all cotton broadcloth shirt with the soft collar that won't wrinkle ever! And just $5l Have you a problem? Write Phillips -Van Heusen Corp., 417 Fifth Avenue, New York 4.6. New York. By Lou Prato Sports Editor
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