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visited the campus ea
the Pirates' pennant
"We should be a
feeling is that we'll f
San Francisco right i
"The fans expect
it does," Berger added,
we have a very good
tense, pitching and hi
of injuries,"
Berger gave this candid observation while speaking before
Professor Ralph Wherry's public relations class Tuesday afternoon.
It's an annual appearance for Berger, who spends a good deal of
his lecture sessions answering questions about Pirate baseball.
And this session was no different.
One of the first questions concerned the waiver purchasing of
pitcher Paul Giel from the Giants, which had hit the sports pages
just that morning.
"I don't know why the Giants gave up on Giel," Berger said.
"We really never expected to get him. A player is usually put on
the waiver list for two reasons—to get a sampling of his trading
value or to send him to the minors. When we claimed Giel, we
thought the Giants would take him off the list; but they didn't.
"We know that he's somewhat of a calculated risk, but we
know he has the ability to be a good pitcher. He was a bonus pitcher
in 1954 and because of that has not had the benefit of minor league
training. But we think he has good stuff.
"He's wild but we think we can settle him down. He's never
been more than a .500 pitcher for the Giants, and last year he won
four and lost five. But two of these four wins were against us
and he looked very good both times. That's one of the reasons
we grabbed him. We'll probably use him in long relief roles
this year."
Berger also had a defense for the shipping of hurler Curt Ray
don to the minors. Raydon, you may recall, was a standout rookie
last year.
"Raydon pitched in only a few innings this spring because of
an injury to the index finger of his pitching hand. So we sent him
down so that he could get into shape. Right now, he is in the shape
he should be for entering spring training. He'll get more work at
Columbus than if he had stayed with the team, but I'm pretty sure
he'll be back up before the season is over."
Are the Pirates satisfied with the Frank Thomas trade?
"Yes. We were very reluctant to trade Thomas but we had
certain weaknesses and we couldn't go to our farm system to
remedy them. We had to sacrifice his power, but in order to get
something you must give."
Here are some of the other Berger comments:
On Dick Stuart: "He has a lot of ability but he's very unpre
dictable. He can look good fielding—l've seen him."
On Rocky Nelson: "Rocky Nelson will very definitely stick with
the club this season and he should help us. He's the best defensive
first baseman we have."
On Hank Fan, Sm
and Danny Kravitz: '
anyone beating out F.
top catcher) for the
years. Burgess is no•
receiver as Foiles bu
ower man. I'm con
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, oiles is about the be!
catcher in the Natio
today. Kravitz has a
al ability and has
good this spring."
On the selling of be
Field: "Selfishly, v‘r;
for it. After all, it
added revenue. But,
in the park, we wou
the consumption. Yo
much beer is broug
park."
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keeping him for a nu
sons. We acquired
groomed for the sho
the future. He may
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still young and has
ise."
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limited."
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day might come in
ture where we will
major league forme
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we will make any m•
Pirate Official
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h ! d Pittsburgh Pirate fans.
ell . . • there are still 149 games to go, you
leh! heh!—we're slow starters; we just want
I. teams a chance.
, though, we have been quite surprised by
•on failure. And the Pirate management has
.ccos' public relations director Jack Berger
tier this week, he was quite optimistic about
I ances.
iirst division ball club," Berger said. "My own
nish one, two or three with Milwaukee and
there, too.
pennant but the ball club has never said that
`'That would be a false advertising. However,
hance. This is a good ball club with good de
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
By Lou Prato
Sports Editor
Gardner's
Triple Stops
Yanks, 7-4
BALTIMORE ("Pi—Second base
man Billy Gardner's first hit of
the season—a bases-loaded triple
—gave the Baltimore Orioles a
7-4 victory over the previously
terday.
unbeaten New York Yankees yes-
Gardner's blow to deep right
center was smacked off rocket
thrower Ryne Duren, who had re
lieved Art Ditmar in the eighth
It was the first setback in their
first four games for the Yanks,
who had taken a 4-3 lead in the
seventh inning on Elston How
ard's homer and the third run
driven in by Norm Siebern
Duren went in with the Yanks
leading 4-3 and two Orioles on
base, Willie Tasby by a single and
Bob Nieman by a walk.
Al Pilarcik rifled a Duren fire
ball right back at him. It bounced
off the pitcher's glove for single
to fill the bases. Pinch hitter Gene
Woodling sent a bounder to sec
ond which Gil McDougald was
unable to make a play and Tasby
scored the tying run.
Gardner then sent his long jack
pot hit to deep right center field
New York 000 002 20-4 11 1
Baltimore 100 101 04x--7 0 1
Ditmar, Duren S end Howard. Ramber
ger. Portocarrmo 7. O'Dell l.—Ditmat.
Home run , , —New Yotk, Howard 1. Balti
mole, Tasby 1, Nieman 1.
ATO Keglers Win;
'Remain Undefeated
Alpha Tau Omega made it 32
straight yesterday by b e a tin g 1
Kappa Sigma, 4-0. The league B 1
leaders were paced by the twin)
500 series of Richard Bohner and
John Neifert. Second place Delta
Sigma - Phi, headed by Gary Hale,
Ronald Moore and Robert Stern
er held their spot by shutting out
Phi Kappa Sigma, 4-0.
Other league B action saw Al
pha Phi Delta, led by Gene Ger
easi's high game of 220, down
Theta Delta Chi 4-0. Dave Down
ing's high game of 183 failed to
save Tau Phi Delta from losing to
Delta Chi, 4-0, in another match.
Also in league B, Zeta Beta
Tau defeated Alpha Gamma Rho,
3-1, and Lambda Chi Alpha
downed Delta Theta Sigma, 3-1.
KC Beats White Sox
On House, Cery HR's
CHICAGO UP)—Kansas City's
34-year-old Ned Garver scattered
five hits and was backed by a
pair of 2-run homers for a 6-0
victory over the Chicago White
Sox yesterday.
Chicago's Early Wynn, who
last weekend won his 250th ma
jor league victory, was chased in
the seventh inning after yielding
a 2-run homer to Frank House in
the second and another 2-run ho
mer to Bob Cery in the seventh.
Wynn, 39, also was nicked for
two runs in the sixth inning on
four singles as he suffered his
first defeat against one victory.
Search
Looms
The search for a quarterback to play behind Richie Lucas
still looms as the main problem to be solved before Penn
State winds up spring football drills, May 2.
Right now Penn State football coach Rip Engle and his
assistants have six candidates fighting for positions on the
alternate and third units. Among * *
these are Galen Hall, Pete Brew
ster and Bill Peters who all quar
terbacked the freshman squad last
fall
Also on hand are John Black,
Bob Jennings and Bob Kramer.
"It's a little too early to make
any decisions," said Engle. The
boys need more time to show
us what they can do." But both
Engle and quarterback coach
Joe Paterno said if none of the
newcomers came through, half
back Dick Hoak would have to
I move back to quarterback.
Hoak was an all-I.IIPIAL guar-
Iterback during his high school
Id ay s at Jeanette, but was
!switched to halfback last year.
He turned in a good showing there
last fall and it would be better
.for the Lions if he could stay at
half.
But Engle has been working
with Sam Sobczak at halfback
for insurance. Sobczak was a
fullback last season, but played
a little bit at left half.
Another Lion switch which
working out well, according tol
Engle, involves Stu Barber. Bar
ber played end last year but is'
working at tackle now. I Title Fight Scheduled
"He's been doing real well !
there." Engle said. "If that ST. LOUIS (4 3 ) —The twice
switch works out it will help us ! postponed welterweight title fight
a lot." !between champion Don Jordan
Last night's practice mark ed iand dethroned Virgil Akins be
the sixth workout since spring
drills began two weeks ago. The came official yesterday with the
Lions still have 14 days more left signing of a contract.
because the NCAA allows a school Athletic Commissioner Charles
twenty days for practice. Right W. Plan watched as both fighters
now the drills will end May 2.,
!affixed their signatures. The fight
with the annual Blue-White gamel.
played on Beaver Field. is April 24.
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