FRIDAY. APRIL 24. 195 Penn Rela Track Rare By JOHN BLA The 65th annual r the Penn Relays Si afternoon at 12:15 an, and White clad track men will try to capt the elusive trophies State—a feat the L not ben able to perfo, years. But this year shout end of that dubiousb skel ing to track writers an.] lays publicity agents. Nittany thinelads have bed as the team to be: mile, 4-mile and dista relays, and are given chance to win the spr title. Sixty-five colleges, our armed services units and h ndreds of AAU clubs, high schools and ele mentary schools will participate in the Franklin Field festival. Each year an awa • is given to the Most Valuable Performer as selected by vote o , the press. The two most o tstanding pre-tourney candidat for this honor are the Lions' Captain Ed Moran and Abilenii Christian sprinter Bill Woodhouse. Woodhouse, who inherited the Texas legacy left by Bobby Mor row, will anchor the ACC sprint relay crews that will be defend ing their 440 and 880-yard relay crowns. He is also a top choke in the invitational 100-yard dash. Moran will anchor three Nit tany baton squads—the 4-mile and both medleys. Moran's entry in the sprint medley rather than the 2-mile indicates the Lions are going to shoot the works and go for four relay titles. Only two teams—Pitt and Michigan—have Kikla Filling Gap Left by Emery For the last few baseball seasons, Lion coach Joe Be denk has had a lefthanded pitcher whom he could count on to win the "big one." 'irst it was Eddie Drapcho who won 29 games for the Lions in three years and then last year it was Cal Emery who won 18 games in two years of varsity ball. Both were good enough to sign major league contracts, Drapcho with Cleveland and Emery with the Phillies. But what hurt about Emery's signing was that he had a year of eligibility left. So Bedenk was left with one experienced hurler—Ron Riese. But Riese had his troubles early this season and Bedenk wasn't too happy. Then Ed Kikla, a sophomore lefthander, beat Bucknell and Ohio State and Bedenk relaxed a little. Then yesterday Kikla beat Bucknell again and Bedenk was pretty sure that he had found another "stopper." "Kikla could be the big man of our pitching staff this season," said Bedenk, "but he'll have to work hard at it?' "He has a lot Baltimore Rallies To Beat Re BOSTON (A") Orioles rallied for the eighth inning y choked off a bud threat to preserve Fleet center field by was the big gun come-from-behind in 4 runs on a ho gles. Baltimore Manag' ards used 22 player pitchers in taking the 3-game series. were 24 hits and 1 base in the 3 hours game. With Boston ah4l eighth, Jim Finigai Brooks Robinson Lockman stroked t i duce one run; Chi added -another aim. and Tasby product run with another a, en Toda en Aim to ' Tie inning Mark Ic'annexed a quadruplet of crowns fill Moran's position on the 2- nning o flin the 65-year history of the meet.l mile aggregation. Werner has 1• its this Coach Chick Werner has an , named abundace o f talen t available to the same foursome that p 25 Blue ran the indoor race at the Chi- and field re one of for Penn ins have m for 10 see the accord s Penn Re- For the been tab t in the 2- i ce medley an outside nt medley The distance medley will be the only "favored" Lion crew to see action today. ' Two other events are on the light opening day card. Herm Weber, Dennie Johnson, and George Jones will enter the 2- mile run, and John Tullar, Andy Ed Moran Nyce, Jon Musser and Jim , Warn .. . contender for MVP bold will throw the discus. - Cal Emery . . . former lion ace of potential to develop." In comparison with Emery and Drapcho, Bedenk said that Kikia WASHINGTON (JP) Th e Washington Senators collected I only three hits yesterday but ex ploited Yankee pitcher Bob Tur ley's seventh inning lapse of con trol for all the runs they needed in a 3-2 victory over the New Yorkers. Sox he Baltimore hree runs in' sterday then ing Red Sox n 8-7 victory. -r Willie Tas-' n Baltimore's' (fort, driving er and 2 sin- Turley, mixing his blazing fast ball with change of pace curves pitched six shutout• innings. PINE FOREST CAMP a welt-established co-ed camp in the Poconos, has openings in its staff for women in the Junior or Senior Class or for graduate students or instructors. Should be 21 years old. Interviews will be held at the Student Employment Service, 112 Old Main, on April 30 and May 1 Sign up in advance for an appointment c, Paul Rich s, including,6 _2-1 _edge in In all, there • men left on and 22 minute !ad 7-5 in the pinch hitter and Whitey ingles to pro. Co Carrasquel le to tie it up, d the winning gle to center. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 1 cage Daily News Games ,when Moran was pulled in favor of the invitational mile. The team will consist of Don Davies, Bill Schwab, Chick Xing, and Dick Engelbrink. Two other changes have been made in the normal Nittany align ment. Dave Truitt will run in the sprint relays in place of Dick Hambright who is being utilized in the medleys, and George Metz gar will join Hambright, Moran and Bob Brown in the sprint med ley, * * * The first event on today's card for the Nittanies is the 440-yard relay. Bob Szeyller, Blaine O'- Connor, Truitt and Brown will run the distance. The same crew will carry the Blue and White colors in the 880 later in the after noon. The Lion distance medley re lay team which set an eastern record at Quantico and came within striing distance vi the national standard should be in good shape to make an assault on that mark. None of the Nit tany quartet of Hambright, King. Engelbrink and Moran will run in any other event to day. was on par with them at this' stage of their careers. "Kikla and Drapcho are a lot alike," Bedenk said. "Both of them learned their baseball the same way, coming up through little league and American Le gion ball." Bedenk said that Emery could have been a lot better pitcher,l but he had his mind on! playing first base. "The scouts' told him that he would play first base when he signed and that's all he thought about for awhile last year," said the Lion mentor. Tile Lion coach also said that Kikla was extra valuable to this year's team because of his bat ting ability. "If he weren't a pitcher, I think he could make the club because of his hitting," Bedenk said. DUGOUT CHATTER—The Phil lies have sent Emery to their Des Moines farm club in the Class B Three I League . . . Drapcho is with Mobile in the Class AA Southern Association . . . The Lions next game is tomorrow , when Georgetown invades Bea ver Field for a doubleheader . . Navy, a future Lion opponent, beat Georgetown, 5.0, Tuesday ... Challenger Due Monday NEW YORK (VP) Ingemar Johansson will arrive here Mon-, day morning to begin final prepa rations for his title light with World Heavy weight Champion Floyd Patterson at Yankee Sta dium, June 25. Promoter Bill Rosensohn's of- If ice said yesterday Johansson [would leave Sweden Sunday night. The Sporfseer We've had a number of inquiries lately concerning the status of the Varsity "S" Club's proposed Alumni football game. That was the tilt, you may recall, featuring former Peim State gridders now playing pro ball that was being planned as a replacement for the annual Blue-White intra squad game at the conclusion of spring grid drills. Well, my friends, that game is dead—shot down, person ally, by Recreation Hall's boss, Dean Ernest B. McCoy. It met quite an unfortunate death. For such a game would have 1) given Penn State sports fans an opportunity to see some of the biggest names in pro football displaying their talents, and 2) meant a large amount of revenue for the Lion athletic scholarship program. And McCoy, himself, has admitted that more financial aid is needed if Penn State is to strengthen its varsity program McCoy's main reason for kill ing the game is obvious. He does not think that professional athletes can mix with the col legiate brand. "We do not have to bring in the pros to make our program go," he told this writer in an interview a couple of months back. "That's not within the precepts of education and besides, it leads to over emphasis." He has repeatedly denounced pro football for the "inroads" it has made, although not going into any ramifications of the subject, and has accused the pros of "run ning down" the collegiate game on their radio and TV broadcasts. Now, what inroads have the pros made? Sure, their quality of ball has improved tremen dously, and, logically, their at tendance records have sky rocketed, too. But should these factors call for quarrels. And in all of our listening and view ing of pro grid games, we have yet to hear the broadcaster say anything derogatory about the collegians. In fact, they praise the colleges for sending such outstanding players to the "big leagues," McCoy has said that the NCAA "is in a constant fight with the pros" and it has made many rules to combat them. He points to the fact that a college coach can not coach an all-star team that plays la pro team and that a college coach can not hold a scouting job i on a pro club's payroll. Well, maybe McCoy and the rest of the NCAA's "do-good ers" should go all the way. I mean, if they think pro football is that bad, why don't they pass other rules. Before granting a high school boy a scholarship, why not make him pledge that he will never play pro ball? Or why not forbid college coaches from talking to pro coaches? Or why not stop pro officials from scouting colle giate games from the press boxes? Or why not arm both sides with bazookas and have them shoot it out? Contrary to McCoy's views, I think there is room for both col lege and professional athletics. But because of my youth, my opinion on this subject is prob ably being questioned. But there are many more-qualified authori McCoy Alumni ties around the country who share my attitude. One of these men is Notre Dame's new head grid coach, Joe Kuharich, who for the past 5 years had been the field boss of the Washington Redskins. In an inter view three months ago, Kuharich I told me that high school, college and professional football go hand in hand. "All three have an im portant part in 'sports," he said, "and one is lost without the other. If it wasn't for the high schools, there would he no col lege ball and if not for the col leges, there would be no pro ball." lCuharich also said the pros and colleges both help the high schools by improving their quality of play. The schoolboys study the new styles and sys tems, he said, and become bet ter players. This in turn, means that the colleges and pros will get better. Notre Dame, incidentally, is one of several schools in the na tion that have an alumni game. And Kuharich played in the ini tial one in 1938. "I think it (the Alumni Game or Old Timer Game as it has been tabbed by the Irish) is a good thing," Ku harich said. "I know for a fact that many pro players go back to their Alma Maters every spring for Old Timer games." Kuharich said that almost every coach and owner in the league permits their men to play in an Alumni game. commenting on the subject of injuries to a star during one of these pre-season encounters, he said: "The element of risk is always there. But those things are an act of God. You can . get injured anywhere —playing football or driving a car. You can't be afraid of injuries, for it's when you become fearful of them that you usually get hurt." Getting back closer to the sub ject, the fact that the NCAA won't legislate against the Alum ni Games proves that many col lege officials sanction them. No tre Dame, Oklahoma, West Vir ginia and Virginia are among the schools that hold such games. There are many others. There is one more aspect of this subject to be discussed. Penn State is being seriously consid ered as a charter member for the new football conference, the All-American or Jet Loop, which would include most of the top (Continued on page ten) PAGE NINE Kills Game By Lou Prato Sports Editor
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