PAGE SIX Seek Tenth Win Nittany Baseball Opposes Colgate Sporting a seven game winning streak and an overall record of nine wins and one loss, Penn State's baseball team invades New York State for a game with Colgate today. The Red Raiders have had a good season thus for, winning five and losing two. And today they will be "pointing" for the Lions. For the Red Raiders are coached by one of the greatest baseball players in Penn State history—Red O'Hora. O'Hora was * * * * * * a player here under the Lions' present coach Joe Bedenk In 1936 he led the entire nation in hitting with a .502 average. He also played on the Lions' football and basketball teams. According to Bedenk, there is nothing that would please O'Hora more than to win over the Nittanies, especially after the 8-1 drubbing his boys took from the Lions a year ago. O'Hora will send a well-bal aneed squad into today's game with the Lions. The nucleus of the Colgate team comes from nine returning lettermen and some talented sophomores. One of these sophomores, Char ley Driscoll, is the leading hitter on the Colgate team. The little flyhawk has a .400 batting aver age this season. O'Hora has named his leading pitcher, Ed Abel, as Colgate's starter for today's tilt Abel has racked up three of Colgate's wins this season and hasn't lost. But Bedenk isn't one to be outdone, and he will send his own unbeaten star—Ed Kikia— to the mound today. Kikla goes into today's game with a 4-0 record and 0.68 ERA. The rest of Bedenk's lineup will probably be the same as the one which beat Navy Tuesday. Pi tchei -turned-firstbaseman-- Bill Benton will be at the gate way, Larry Fegley will be the sec ond sacker, Bob Hoover will be the shortstop, and Dick Landis is slated for duty at third. Another pitcher, Tom Dur- 1 bin, will be the leftfielder. Dur bin has caused quite a sensa tion this year with his .900 batting average (9 for 10) and , As Ti gers Beat Red Sox, 3-1 ho and Benton were the main 1 factors in the Navy win. DE T R 0 I T (IP)—Frank Lary, innings with double plays—all of Durbin had three hits against sc attered eight Boston hits for his;them started by second baseman through the Midd with ies, w two hile important tr p p ' third straight victory yesterdaydFrank Bolling. The first Boston les which led to Penn State's last 'as the Detroit Tigers took the de-;batter up in the ninth, Frank three tuns, ciding game of a 3-game seriesliVfalzone, singled but was wiped Doug Caldwell, who broke out, 3-1 . - out on Detroit's fourth double of his slump against the Middies, The only run off the veteran!PlaY of the afternoon. will get _the nod in centerfield righthander was unearned. The Lary bested Ike Delock in a and Zeke DeLong will start inlDetroit infield pulled Lary out of ;solid pitchers duel decided on a right, Eithet Harry Beans or John three mild jams in the first fourpair of runs in the sixth inning. I Boyle Thinks Possibilities Dim For Lion Linksmen in EIGA's While thinking about thelon the way the Eastern tourney Lion linksmens chances in the,is conducted. The team cham- Easternpionship is decided on Saturday golf tourney, tomor - land medal play is used. The top row, golf coach Joe Boyle'slive medal scores for one team general opinion was that theiare the determinants of the win golfers would not fare as welli"er• as they have in the past two In individual play, the top years. , sixteen medalists on Saturday The reason Boyle feels this way! t a i re asked to compete for the ti 11. F rom . that time on. match is that he will not have a team; s used. which possesses the same amount) P " I of experience and quality that he' Boyle rates Davidson highly has had in recent years. Last', because he is the defending tour year he had five two-year letter :ament champion and has had men on the squad and he was much experience in the EIGA's. able to supplement them with. Also, Davidson is a proven med two rookie finds. alist and has shown well in match However, this year the com-;play. plexion is different,. Boyle had Altman is thought of by Boyle - only three lettermen returning— because he has carded consis- Bill D a v i d son,itently good medal scores. He has 'Mott Stultz andlais° proven himself in his match iy Altman. The this year. .her four Mem -I As far as the other five play-1 is of the team ers he will send are concerned,' e inexperien-IBoyle thinks that they are un- 1 :d in EI G Alknown quantities. Burgoon, ac burney play. {cording to Boyle, has the poten- Boyle wilt send;tial to be one of the finest play- Ividson, D i c klers in, the East. However, he has ur goo n, Alt-,not measured - up as of late. m. StUltz, Hay.' In .the two matches that he ,n Thomas, John, has .won,—Lehigh and George Morton and Ed,l, town—he:looked like a fine BOY Le Kormos to the player. In the other ones he Easterns. Boyle lists Davidson! didn't have it." Boyle said. and Altman as having the best According to Boyle, Stultz is chance to finish well for the one of the finest clutch players Lions. on the team; however he is not His reasons are based rnainlithe type of linksmaxi who excels By SANDY PADWE Larry Freedman ... possible starter Adams will be the star tin g;road trip with a doubleheader catcher. !against Syracuse. The Lion coach- This is Bedenk's "righty" es weren't sure of their pitching up The Lion coach plans to use; choices when the teani left yester a platoon system for the rest oft the campaign. When a left lander'da,Y, but they did say that Durbin is pitching against the Lions, hei( 2-0 ) would probably start one will put Ron Rinker in ( enter-, of the games. field, Larry Beighey on fir , t and Either Bob Mter, Ron Riese or Mike Hader will go to third withlLarry Freedman will get the nod Dick Landis moving back to left-;in the other game and they said field. that Bill Benton could get the Tomorrow the Lions finish their i starting nod. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Team Today ,~ t - . •=~ f a~ = - ~; ';; ~: _ , r A t 4 ~;~ ...Silk' the only Lion who stands a chance of breaking four minutes this in medal play. 'year. To sum it up in three words—watch this Engelbrink! "The Thomas and Morton also are 'Eagle" is Penn State's number one 2-miler and won the IC4-A in fine players, who up to this door crown in that event in February. time. have not proven them- I The first '4 -minute mile ever run in the United States was on selves as medalists. Both of these men have played very ; May 5, 1956, in the, Los Angeles Coliseum, where Moran will get a good rounds of golf but have ,chance to run next weekend. The picture of Oregon's Jim Bailey, scored consistently in the mid- ian Australian, out-kicking the incomparable Ron Delany to the die seventies which would seem i . to elimi te th from EIGA wire n 3.58.6 still - remains imprinted in our mind. As a witness to competition. (that first sub-4 mile in California three years ago, there is nothing Concerning Kormos, all Boyle had to say was Kormos has not seen enough competition to be able to judge how he will do in the tourney. PARADISE LOUNGE IN BELLEFONTE DANCE TO Tkik FETCH'S FOUR EVERY FRIDAY 9:30-12:30 Doug Caldwell .. . breaks slump _ I , • *41414111:014,,H: the by Johnny Black !MYSTERIOUS ACTIVITIER,ON HEAVER FIELD i. Various *ings have tali dace on the Beaver Field track and in the office of head track . 4,ach Chick Werner recently that may start some gears clicking in'the minds of even the most casual Penn State track observer. ) The Beaver Field track has been surveyed ,and checked for ac 'curacy in distance. The curves have been banked. Wind gauges are 'on the field at every track meet. The timers' watches are sent to the jeweler's to be checked and synchronized before each meet. ,Experienced, recognized and competent officials handle every meet. 'And, as if an omen, Coach Werner has already obtained official record application blanks. What does this all mean? Well, by now it should be quite obvious that local track authorities who are in a position to know. (specifically, coaches Werner and Norm Gordon) will not be too surprised it Beaver rigid is the site of a history-making event in the sport of track this spring—the breaking of the 4-minute mild. Could it be done? Here at Penn State? Only one American has broke* the magic 4-minute mark•—that elusive, psychologically deterred mark that is the goal of every top miler. Could Penn State track fans witness the second American breaking that mark? Don Bowden, University of California star, ran a mile in 3 Min utes 58.7 seconds at the Stockton Relays in Stockton, California ; 'on June 1, 1957. No American has cracked it since. I The Lions captain, senior Ed Moran came within two seconds )f accomplishing the feat when he ran a 4:01.7 mile in the ANIT Championships at Berkeley ; California, last summer. This stands as the Penn State record. Beaver Field is far from an ideal location for an assault on the 4-minute mile.- The track is average. It doesn't begin to compare with certain foreign tracks in Ireland or Australia or the superb American tracks in California, such as the one on which Moran clocked his school record in the University of California stadiuM. But Moran has been dipping off some fast times on the home cinders—for example that 4:07.5 in the Ohio State meet last week. "Earnest Ed" slices off a few seconds each time he runs and it ,should be just a matter of time and a combination of favorable weather conditions till he reaps his share of cinder glory. He ran 4:21.2 in his first outdoor mile this year at the Quantico ,Relays. The next week he crossed the line in 4:19 at Navy. Asia member of the record-breaking Nittany 4-mile relay team at the Penn Relays two weeks ago he ran an easy 4:17. Last week with 'Dick Engelbrink pushing him for three laps he traversed the dis tance in 4:07.5, his fastest time this spring. And this is still .5 of a second slower than he ran on the boards this winter in Chicago. One thing Moran seems to need to register a fast time is some. - one to push him. Pacing himself for four laps and judging his time with minute accuracy is a tough job for a runner, but when he has 'someone out there in front he can exert just a little more effort to keep up with him. That's why the world of track has been plagued ;with so many "paced races" since the advent ,of the 4-minute mite. Moran may have a good pusher this Siturday in Michigan Slate's Bob Lake, Big 10 indoor mile champ. But regardless of what type of competition is furnished by the Lions' opposition this 1 spring. Moran will always have one of the best pushers in the business right by his side—Dick Engelbrink. And don't fall prey to the faulty assumption that Moran is 'we would like better than to see the feat duplicated at Penn State. And our advice to any local track fan who doesn't want to take ithe chance of missing such a history-making feat is to be in that i grandstand for every Lion track meet this year. FRIDAY, MAY ,8, 1959
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