THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 19
The Sportsee
We received a letter from former Collegian sports writer Les
Powell recently and among its contents was a poetic endeavor con
cerning baseball. It's about the major leagues in general and the
Pittsburgh Pirates in particular.
Because today is the opening day of the 1959 major league
season, we felt it would be appropriate to print Les' original poem.
It's called "The Tenth Fan" and expresses our feeling as well as
Les' attitude towards the new diamond campaign,
Ask baseball fans, and nine of ten
Will say, "The Yanks and Braves again."
The latter pick looks bad to me,
And this is why I disagree:
To stay in front in a pennant race
A club needs strength at second base;
And Red's been knocked out by a germ,
Which has, no doubt, made Haney squirm
His battery's the circuit's best;
His gardeners have stood the test,
But Bushville's weak 'tween third and first;
And there have pennant bubbles burst.
It's true that pitching runs the show,
And there's no defense for a circuit blow,
But I prefer the club that has
The keystone pair of Groat and Maz.
Watch the Pirates: they're my pick,
If Friend and Haddix don't get sick.
Skinner doesn't break and arm,
Clemente's discharged without harm,
And Stuart hits like he can talk.
And Fate at Ron Kline doesn't balk,
And Donald Hoak comes through at third,
A place or show would be absurd.
Smoky's work with mitt Held mask
Should spark the drive and ease the task;
And Witt and Ilydon and Verno'n Law
Can help make Danny a John McGraw,
Virdon's presence in center field
Will minimize the pitchers' yield;
And don't forget the dugout crew,
Led by a lusty lad called Klu.
The pitching should ne'er disgrace—
Relief is there to save its Face:
From grandstand screen to bleacher wall,
The Buccaneers are standing tall.
Take Spahn and Willey, Lew and Jay,
Aaron, Mathews and Frank Torre,
Adcock, Crandal and Covington,
But watch the gonfalon . be won
By the team that hails from Smokytown;
The team of Rickey and Joe L. Brown;
A team that cannot miss the boat
With a keystone pair like Maz and Groat
While still on the subject of major league baseball, we had
another letter the other day froM our old friend "Joe, the barber."
(No, not Moe, the barber.) He's in Havana for a spring vacation
and he penned the following note:
"I know you won't have enough guts to predict the outcome
of the majors' pennant races so I thought I'd do it for you. In the
National League I pick Pittsburgh followed by Milwaukee, Cin
cinnati, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis and Phila
delphia. And in the other circut (how's that for a sports term) I like
the Yanks, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Kansas
City and Washington.
"Of course, man, I know many of your readers will disagree
with my picks. So if tere are any complaints tell them to send me
the letters at this adkress: The Havana State Hospital, Havana,
Cuba."
So, what else is new?
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irates Picked
"Tenth Fan"
By Lau Prato
Sports Editor
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Reds, Bucs
To Open
Major Play
CINCINNATI (./P)—The Cincin
nati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pt
rates get the 1959 National League
baseball season under way today
A full house crowd of 32,000 is
expected.
Except for the results of a deal
with the Reds, Pittsburgh will
start the season with a lineup
used much of last season. Ronnie
Kline is slated as the starting
hurler.
Only stranger in the lineup with
he third baseman Don Hoak, who!
is no stranger here. He was traded',
to the Pirates along with catcher
Smoky Burgess and Pitcher Har
vey Haddix for third baseman
Frank Thomas and three other
players.
Except for Thomas, the Reds,
who expect to start Bob Purkey
on the mound, also will look much
the same as at the start of the
season a year ago.
The Reds will be opening the
season with a new manager-1
Mayo Smith—although he is no:
newcomer to the league, having
previously managed Philadelphia
He succeded Birdie Tehbetts, who ,
quit several weeks before the,
end of the 1958 campaign. 1
The Baltimore Orioles. pace set
' ters in the exhibition game sea
son, play at Washington where
25,000 are expected to see the
presidential opener. They won't
see President Eisenhower, how
, ever, for he is on a golfing vaca
tion. Vice President Nixon will
throw out the first ball.
DU, SAE Win
In IM V-Ball
Phi Sigma Delta's 15-4 and 15-8'
wins over Beaver House and Nit
tany 27's 15-3 and 15-4 victories
over the Battle Wagons held the
limelight in last night's IM volley
ball action at Bee Hall.
In other action, Delta Upsilon
downed Alpha Phi Delta, 15-8
and 15-2: Sigma Alpha Epsilon
dropped Theta Kappa Phi, 15-13
and 154; Chi Phi eased by Phi
Sigma Kappa, 15-3, 14-16, 15-5:
and Tau Kappa Epsilon scored a
decisive 15-3. 10-15, 15-6 victory
over Tau Phi Delta.
The independent league action
was close as the McElwain Men
held off Grace's Gladiators for a
15-13, 16-14 win; Nittany Co-op
tripped Hanna's Horrors, 15-11,
15-13. and the Inebriates stopped
the Goopers, 15-13, 15-10 Round
ing out the play,.the Push Overs
came from behind to whip the
Lower Deletion Boys, 11-15, 15-12,
16-14. and Nittany 36 surprised
the Hi Spikers, 11-15, 15-12, and
16-14.
Holds Booting Record
Ed Czekaj, Penn State's busi
ness manager for athletics, holds
the University record for most
extra points kicked in one season.
Czekaj booted 32 (in 46 attempts)
as a member of the 1947 Penn
State Cotton Bowl team.
Here is only 1
of the more than
34 organizations
which will be here
for the
All-University
Career Day
April 15, 16
HUB
all welcome!
Werner Optimistic
About Spike Season
Coach Chick Werner was a tower of confidence yesterday
as he spoke of the upcoming spring track season and reviewed
the potentialities of his men.
"The selection of men for events is more difficult this
IYear than it has ever been," he said. "In leaner years I could
select the boys without time
trials." And with a gleam in his :the shot and discus and Jon Mus
eve he added in his own pro-iser and Jim Wambold are de
phetic manner, "This is not a lean
iveloning platter throw
year for us."
Nyce and Musser al: h
Depth is the keyword for the- the javelin along with sopho-
Lion varsity this spring In some more Jim Schwab. All three
events there are as many as 10 , have thrown over 200 feet.
or 12 performers competing for, Senior letterman Sam Rich
the same position. "The worst guy( ards, junior Stratton Schaeffer
we've got in our group could! and sophomores Bill Avery.
:make any college team in they Paul Bohn and Gerald Ruffner
country," claimed Werner. ' will be pushing the top three
The Nittanies boast a run- hurlers.
ning corps strong enough to Numerical-winner Dick Gross
make them one of the track and sophs Ron Beard and Dale
powers of the East. They are ',Peters have all cleared the 13-
particularly potent in the mid- ifoot crossbar in the pole vault
die distance events indicated
Viand high jump hopes rest with
the veteran spike mentor.
j unior letterman John Fareira,
I, The field events do not mea-,who is a 6'4" or better jumper.
sure up to the superlative run-( The biggest weakness on the
ning but they are by no means team is the broad rump. Pole
'weak. ;vaulter Dick Gross doubles as the
Senior John Tullar heads theilone entrant in this event.
weight men backed up by Andy' The thinnest running event
'(Nyce and Wayne Smith. Tullari will be the hurdles where the
!has thrown the shot over 50 feet( experience is provided by Far .
in practice and has exceeded the; eira and Bob Szeyller, who let
-160-foot mark with the discus.; tered in the lows last - rear.
I Nvce is number two man in both( (Confirmed on page eight)
Defending Champs Triumph
In Intramural H-Ball Doubles
Defending champions Don Har-,uy Bozick respectively, to *in.
nett and Bob Campbell of Taut In other matches, Jim Burke
Kappa Epsilon advanced in the and Ron Pezzoni, Theta Kappa
fraternity handball doubles tour-'Phi, upended John Love and Dick
nament last evening by trouncing,Platta, Sigma Tau Gamma, 21-5,
Brinton Haddock and Dick Ohl-'2l-5.
,son of Phi Sigma Kappa, 21-8 and' Tom Edwards and Dick Ham
,mond, Delta Upsilon, smashed
In the evening's closest contest,'Neil Corselius and Don Tuttle,
former soccer captain Howie2l-4, 21-0; Denny Uhrm and Art
Maierhofer and partner Don Pratt,lßorezon, Phi Kappa, beat John
iPhi Kappa Psi, were edged by:Hoffman and Leroy Fetterman,
IBob Gross and Vern Zeitz of Phil Theta Xi, 21-4, 21-7; Chet Blank
lEpsilon Pi, 21-10, 15-21, 21-20. and Sam Githens, Kappa Sigma
1 But other soccer players fared:defeated Cap VonDrele and Joe
(better as 1959 captain Bill Fied-iSynkonis, Alpha Chi Sigma, 21-3,
iler, Sigma Nu, and Pete Wads-'2l-11 and Walt Scott and Terry
Iworth, Sigma Pi, teamed with Ritter took Don Zepp and John
!Ron Griffith and footballer John- Miller, 21-7, 21-13.
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