THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1 Grandsta, • *' What's Behind ' 4. Lions 11-2 Record By Sandy Padwo Collegian Sports Editor With only four games remaining on Penn State's baseball schedule, the Lion .coaches—Joe Bedenk and Chuck Medlar--: are in, a happy frame , pf mind . And well they might be. .Ot only do their baseballers have an 11-2 record, but they stand a pretty .good chance of landing a birth in the NCAA District II playoffs for the third straight year. And all this from a team that was labeled the "greenest" in Penn State baseball history. How did they do it? Well, there seems to be a difference ' of opinion on the matter. Some people say it was just luck. They sight the fact that the Lions committed seven er rors against Bucknell, but still' came out on top. Other people say that the Nittanies don't play such a tough schedule. They say that Gettysburg, Bucknell and Georgetown are pushovers in baseball. But Bedenk and Medlar have the right answer to thertuestion. "The boys have a lot of hustle and desire out on the field," Be denk said. Medlar voiced a simi lar opinion. "They really love to play ball and they play the game hard." And if you've seen the Lions in action this season, you know what they say is true. Because what other words than hustle and desire could explain one of Dick Landis' headfirst slides, or a diving backhand stop of a sure basehit by Larry Fegley or one of Ed Kikla's clutch strikeouts with men on base. However, these aren't the on ly reasons that the Lions are doing so well. There's the little matter of some surprise per formances by Kilda, Tom Dur bin. Zeke DeLong and Bill Benton. "If I had to pick out the most surprising thing about the team's showing this year, I would point out the way Kikla, Benton, De- Long and Durbin have played," Bedenk said. Before the start of the cam paign, Bedenk and Medlar didn't really have any of this quartet in line for a starting job. But soon after practice started things be gan to happen that made them change their minds. Kikla's fast ball moved past batters without much trouble, DeLong began to, hit with au thority, and Benton and Durbin impressed with their pitching and hitting. Still this was only practice and none of the four had any game experience. Then in the opener against Gettysburg, Ben . - fon and DeLong proved them selves, Benton by winning the Sword Dancer Favored BALTIMORE (A) Maryland ers and other assorted tourists in Baltimore for the 83rd running of the Preakness Stakes at old Pimlico Saturday are taking an other look at First Landing and Eddie Arcaro. The track dddsmake . r listed the. Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dan cer, who was nosed out by Tomy Lee in the Kentucky Derby, as the probable Preakness favorite at 2-1 odds. First Landing—third in the derby—was the second choice here at 3-1. CBS to Carry PGA NEW YORK (N)—Portions of the play on the two closing days of the annual Professional Golf ers' Assn, tournament will be covered by network (CBS) tele vision. The network will carry a one hour telecast Saturday, Aug. 1 and a 90-minute telecast Sunday. Aug. 2. both from the Minnea polis golf club. The tournament, won' by Dow rinsterwald last year; once more will be decided by medal play. Cubs Smash Reds, 10-0 CHICAGO (JP) —Ernie Banks' grand slam homer in a 7-run third backed Glen Hobble's 3-hit pitching for a 10-0 Chicago Cub victory over the Cincinnati Reds yesterday. d Views same in relief, and DeLong by getting two important hits. A week later, Kikla and Dur bin showed the Lion coaches that this wasn't going to be such a bad season after all when they beat powerful Ohio State in a doubleheader. Then last week, Durbin and Benton came through again for the Lions—but this time in dif ferent roles. The Lion coaches had been worried because some of their starters weren't hitting, so they inserted the hard hitting pitchers ] into the lineup in leftfield and first base respectively, and the result was immediate success, Durbin got thre hits at Navy, and Benton came through with two triples that eventually won the game for Ron Riese and the Lions. Right now Durbin is the lead ing hitter on the team with a .631 average in 19 at bats while Benton is hitting .333. But the most consistent hitter is right fielder DeLong. Through the first 13 games he has slugged the ball at a .392 pace and has come through with some game winning clutch hits like his 'triple at Colgate Friday. There, with the Lions behind by a run in the ninth and a seven game winning streak riding on his shoulders, he smashed a drive deep to left scoring the Lion baserunners and giving the Nit tanies the win. While DeLong is the most consistent hitter, Kikla must rank as the most consistent hurler. The sophomore port eider has a 5-0 record with 41 strikeouts and a 0.76 ERA this year. He will get a chance for his sixth win when he will start against West Virginia Saturday in one of the four remaining games. This means that he will prob ably be able to see action once more before the end of the sea-' son, either in the twinbill against Pitt Wednesday or Temple next Friday. If the Lions can win two of the last four games, there is a good possibility they will get a bid to the NCAA District II playoffs. But they will have to fight it out with Pitt, Lafayette. Rutgers and Delaware. Temple and St. Johns are two other teams slated for the district tourney, but they will go as rep resentatives of the Middle Atlan tic Conference and Metropolitan Conference resnectively. Right now Temple is leading the Middle Atlantic conference with a record of 8-0 and St. Johns is in first- place in the Metropolitan collegiate l'ague. JACKHARPERJACKHARPERJACKHARPERJACKHARFEIOAcKRARrERJACKHAR 9. IN purSUIT OF HAPPINESS osi" ye z 71 ).. tg IN CI at 76 Pk. et, Visit our Second Floor. Step up to an Atherton. fiCILEASPERJACKRARPERIACKWARPERIACE3LULPERJACKHAUPISJACKBAt THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 'S' Club To Give Award At Banquet Penn State's Varsity '9' Club will hold its annual banquet to night at 8:30 in dining room C of the Hetzel Union Building. Highlighting the evening will be the naming of Penn State's Most Outstanding Athlete and Personality for 1958-59. This is the first year such an award has been presented. Those previously named as the most valuable player in their sport for this year were Herb Hertner, soccer; Steve Garban, football; Mark DuMars, basketball; Arman do Vega, gymnastics; and Sam Minor, wrestling. Spring sport athletes elected as most valuable by their teammates I were Ed Moran, track; Zeke De- Long, baseball; Bill Davidson, golf; and John Behne, lacrosse. The initial recipient of this out standing varsity athlete award will be selected from this array of stars. A trophy will be present ed to the winner at a later date. Ralph Wherry, head of the Com merce Department, will be Master of Ceremonies while Cy Morgan, longtime scout for the Philadel phia Phillies and prominent ban quet personality, will be guest speaker. MAJOR LEAGUES W. L. Pet- Cleveland 16 1 .641 Chicago -16 11 .693, I -.t.Baltimore 16 12 .666 2 Washington 16 14 .517 I Boaton 12 14 .462 4 1 ,t 3 :a-Kansas City 11 14 .446 New York ______ 11 14 A4O S Detroit __ -_— 9 11 .146 7% 1:=ICII=M1 W. L. Pct. G.ll. s-Los Angeles 18 12 MO X.Milwaukee 16 10 .600 IA San Francisco 15 13 .536 it Cincinnati 14 13 .519 ZIA Chicago 15 16 316 2 . V3 it-Pittsburg - h 12 14 .462 4 Philadelphia __ 11 18 .407 5% it-St. Louis 10 16 .547 T x—Play night games Chicago at Roston--Wynn (4-2) va. Hoeft (1-2) Detroit at Washington (N)--.llunning (24) va. Kemmerer (4-1) Kansas City at Baltimore (N)—Herbert 1141 va. O'Dell (1-1) Only games scheduled National League Milwaukee at St. Louis (N)—Pizarro (04) vs. Jackson (1-4) or McDaniel (2-4) Pittsburgh at Los Angeles 114,1—Friend (0-0) vs. Poilree (4-2) Philadelphia at San Fa rnciaco—Semp melt (2,1) vs. McCormick (0-2) Cincinnati at Chicago—Nu'chall (1-2 vs. Hillman (2-1) Warriors Sign 'Stilt' For NBA's Top Salary PHILADELPHIA ('P}—Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain yester day became the highest paid player in the history of the Na tional Basket ball Association, signing a 1-year contract for more than $30,000 with the Phila delphia Warriors. Warriors' owner Eddie Gottlieb said signing of the 22-year-old 7- foot Negro ace meant prosperity for the entire league. He pre dicted a $lOO,OOO gate increase for his Warriors and said Chamber lain's appearances would pack houses all over the circuit. The surest way for you to find it is to stop in and see our Atherton suits for spring and summer. They are comfort able, shy of weight, and the cut is natural and easy. Our happiness comes from yours when you wear an 3 - Atherton suit, from $39.95 ' ..... 4 Peh . Custom Shop for Men Around the Corner from Bostonian Ltd. W. College Ave., State College AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Probable Pitebera America.~ Lea% u• .fti~i .. ~ c ~C,I. Jones Beats Phils; Chisox Top Boston SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—Fireball pitcher Sam Jones shut out Philadelphia on 2 hits yesterday and fanned 12, the most for a National League hurler this season, as San Francisco whipped the Phillies 6-0. Third baseman Willie Jones ruined Sam's bid for a no. hitter with an infield single down the third base line after two were out in the seventh. The Giants wrapped up the vic tory in the opening inning as they ripped ex-teammate Ruben Go mez for 5 runs on 5 hits, includ ing a 3-run homer by Willie Mays. Jones fanned Wally Post three times and struck out each mem ber of the Phillies' opening bat ting order at least once except Gomez who left the game after the first inning. Jones walked fire. The Giants' big right-hander, obtained from the St. Louis Car dinals in a trade this spring, pitched a no-hitter May 12, 1955. The second Philly hit came off the bat of pinch hitter Gene Freese, a sharp single to left in the eighth. BOSTON (IP) Bob Shaw, get ting a starting job after 14 relief assignments for Chicago, shut out Boston on 5 hits for a sparkling 4-4 victory yesterday. The triumph was the fifth in a ..„ ,••_ ,„ • . • . • . .• „. . . ." . •.•- .•.• • „ . • . , ~,,i i • \ i l ' , \ •,/ \ '‘ \ \ 't S‘: \ # ' ' : ':\ Q I4 j :. -: • ‘‘:: ij ......-.... . -.., .-- for perfect footwork and comfort Professionally designed by and for top-flight tennis players. 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