SATURDAY, MAY 16. 1959 'Nine' Plays Mounties At Morgantown Today By SANDY PADWE When Penn State's baseball team (11-2) plays West Virginia (15-8) today at Morgantown, the Lions will find themselves facing one of the most unusual collegiate athletes in the na tion. For Marvin D. Bolyard—better known to Penn State fa n s as Bucky—will be the starting pitch er for the Mountaineers. Bolyard, for those of you who don't remember, is the fellow who finished with one of the highest field goal percentages in collegiate b a s-k e t ball this year and also averaged 10 points per game for the highly ranked Mountaineers. But Bolyard's baseball record is a Lm o s t as amazing as his basketball record—if not more. The 5' 10" wonder is leading the Mounties in hitting with a .369 average, plays five different po sitions and just a short time ago took up pitching. So what's so unusual about Bolyard—he's blind in one eye. But as his record shows, he hasn't let this handicap hold him back throughout his college career. Today the little righthander will carry a 1-1 record into the game against the Lions. Bolyard, who used to primarily be a catch er among other things, only took up pitching just a short time ago, and has come along very fast. - But he won't have such an easy opponent this afternoon when he goes against Joe Be denies high-flying Lions, Bedenk's boys will carry an 11-2 record into today's game and will be going all out to beat the Mounties because a possible bid to the NCAA district II playoffs awaits the Nittanies if they do all right in their last four games. After today's game, the Blue and White return home for a twinbill against Pittsburgh Wed nesday and close out the season against Temple Friday at Phila delphia. With a bid to the districts pos sibly awaiting the Lions, Bedenk Isn't going to take any chances on losing it, and will pitch his Stickmen End Year at Rutgers For eight long years thelrector of Sports Information at year while • ustin was awarder an Rutgers, the Scarlet probably honorable mention position. Penn State lacrosse team has * * * The trio has speed, scoring seen trying to beat Rutgers, power, and stamina, linger said. . Austin, of football fame, has de and today the Lions will once evloped his stickwork to a point again make an attempt to where Burger's coa c h, Al break the eight year hold the Twitchell, thinks he'll be, along with Naso one of the best mid- Scarlet have over them. fielders in the Sy Miller Divis ion, encompassing the nation's Only once in the past decade top 12 lacrosse teams. has a Nittany lacrosse team come The second midfield, is centered close to stopping Rutgers. In 1952 by Lloyd Seaman, a two-year vet the Lions fought to a 14-14 tie. eran. On the wings are Vin Togno, But in an overtime period, Rut- and Jay Hunton, Twitchell has a dependable gers slammed one through the threesome in Dick Pencek, Nick Lion defenses in the closing min- Neiley, and Dick Abidin, on de utes to nab the victory, 16-15: fense. • Unger lists Pencek as the Somehow, Rutgers has always top defensive player in the Rut come up with a tough squad, gers lineup. and this year appears to be no The goal-tending chores will fall exception as three lacrosse All-• to sophomore Ted Koch. A 6-5 Americans have berths- on the veteran of Sewanbaka Hi g h Scarlet's starting team. School play, Koch is considered Co-captain John Howland, a by Twitchell to be a top notch second string All-American choice goalie with a lot of potential. last year, heads the list of return- The strength of the team, ing lettermen. Howland and Dick however, lies in the scoring Nicklas form the nucleus of the Dick Bullock power of Howland (43 goals, a powerful Rutgers attack. ' .. . aggressive midfielder new record, last year), Nickles, Both have atcumulated 25 goals Nam and Austin. to date between them. Junior Ed For the Baermen, leading scor have one of the country's best Wiesmeier fills in the remaining midfield units in co-captain Bob er John Behne will head the list, slot in the highly touted Scarlet Naso, Bill Austin and Bill Fleisch- of attaekmen. Second high scorer on the attack unit, Jim Winpenny, attack. - man. Naso was named to the third along with Jitn Kane, will fill out According to Leslie Unger, Di- string All-American team last the Lion attack. In the midfield, versatile Bob Swanson will lead the at tack. Swanson was high scorer 1 in Wedneiday's game with three goals and two assists. Chip Hen derson and Dick Bullock will take over the remaining spots. The defense, which showed great improvement against Swarthmore, will be headed by co-captain Dick Dill. Mike Beattie and Dave Erwin will hold down the remaining slots and Dave Wil kinson will start in the goal for the Lions. Major Leagues By Tim Associated Prima AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. Cleveland 111 9.654 Chicago lit 11 .821 Baltimore _____ —__ 16 11 .552 2 1 Washington 15 ,16 .454 44, Kansas City 13 14 .461 4 Boston _____ _____ 12 16 .422 1 NM* York 11 16 .423 II Detroit .....—__... 10 18 ' .952 $ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA * * * Vir - „ ; --A •-,;•,,-; • ONE OF THE TOP HITTERS in Penn State's lineup for the West Virginia game at Morgantown this afternoon will be Lion short stop Bob Hoover who is pictured above. Hoover is hitting the ball at a .327 clip this season and has 15 runs batted in and two homers. southpaw ace—Ed Kikla—this af ternoon. Kikla goes into today's con test with a 5-0 record and 0.76 ERA in 41 innings. His wins have come over Bucknell twice, Ohio State, Syracuse and Penn. The rest of the Lion lineup is the same one that Bedenk has used for the last two weeks. It finds Bill Benton (.333) at first base, Larry Fegley (.340) at sec ond, Bob Hoover (.327) at short and Dick Landis (.159) on third. The Lions' leading hitter, Torn Durbin, (631) will be in ler tfield. Charley Caldwell (.258) will start in center and Zeke DeLong (.392) will be in his usual rightfizid slot. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. 0411waulcee 17 10 .630 Loa Anaeleo 18 14 .662 1 ily ir-51a. Francisco —l6 16 .652 2 x-Citteinnati 16 13 .626 2'/ Chicago 16 16 .500 3Vs Pittaburgh _____—.. 14 14 .500 3% Philadelphia 11 18 .flit 7 St. Louis 11 20 .355 II .I—Night gams * * * Although Durbin is the lead ing hitter on the team, he hasn't been up enough to qualify for the collegiate batting champion : ship. The converted pitcher has only been up 19 times this year and has 12 hits. Benton, the first base man, is also a converted pitcher and he has 5 fpr 15 this season. West Virginia has quite a group of hitters to match the Nittanies this afternoon including Bolyard (.389), centerfielder Frank Pac zewski (.363) and another basket baller, Ronnie Retton (386). In addition to being the leading hitter, Bolyard leads the Moun ties in runs batted in (21), dou bles (6), and homers (2). Pierce Beats Yanks On Six-Hit Shutout NEW YORK M—Little Billy Pierce blanked New York on six singles last night as Chicago's second place White Sox whipped the Yankees 6-0 and stretched their winning streak to seven games, longest of the season in the American league. It was the third shutout of the , season suffered by the Yankees, and the first time they've been' blanked by a left-hander in a reg-: ular season game since Cleveland's Herb Score did it Aug. 2, 1956. Pierce, who has allowed only one run in his last 16 innings, walked but 2 and struck out 7 for his fifth victory against 2 defeats. If was his second suc cess over the seventh-place world champions, who haven't scored against the stubby south paw in 13 innings. Yankee starter Whitey Ford was given a quick nudge toward his second defeat in five decisions. The Sox scored once in the first inning and then got rid of Ford after scoring 3 runs in the sixth one of 3 Yankee errors, a walk, Earl Torgeson's single and a 2- run double by Bubba Phillips. The White Sox scored their oth er two in the eighth against right hander Jim Coates. Indians Top Red Sox BOSTON (iP)—Jim Perry re lieved Jim (Mudcat) Grant in the ninth inning and preserved a 4-3 victory over Boston and Cleve land's half game lead in the American League last night. I • . .: 44 4-14 4 > p..r.* .3g , • . 4 :49 490. Would you call this Umpire gives "Visitors" a special advantage by tagging out a "Home" team runner at the plate. "Home" team has to play by the regular rules. Would you call this fair play? Hardly—yet you and most Americans face that same kind of unfairness all the time with some of your taxes. About 23 cents out of every dollar you pay for electricity goes for taxes. But be cause of present tax laws, several million families and businesses escape paying _most of the taxes in their electric bills that you pay in yours. They are people whose electric ity comes froin federal government systems. And you have to help make up the taxes they escape. Most Americans think everyone should pay his fair share of taxes. Don't you agree? th„„N r. WESTPBII4 PO - WER Late Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE _ _ 010 ido-1 MESE Mne.i and Herbert Walker, Lees IR) arid Triando4 WP—Lacy (3-11 ,LP—Moixi I 1-2) Ka mists City - 000 WO ::1 0-4 ti'axhington _ Old (Mt Olld-2 Herbert and Heusi. Kemmerer and PO. lei WP--Herbert 2-3) ; Ll' --Keninierer Cleveland _ 022 NO 0911---4 Bo,ton 000 010 002-v C Pant, Plit y rind Nixon Brewer, Walt and White, Dal••y (di Chicago _ _ 100 on 020-1; New York 000 000 000-0 Pierce and Lollar Ford, Coates 171, Kuck (91 and Berra WI , —Piet ce A5-'_l . LP—Ford 13.2 ' NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia _ _ 000 020 000-2 4 0 St. 'Ands . 141 010 10x-8 It 1 Hobert-, Hearn 12), Meyer 17) and Ilearan Mizell and Smith WP—MI 14-li I.P—Roherti 12-2 , eincinnatt at San Francisco— late nnctit game, A's Beat Senator's, 4-2 WASHINGTON (lI)—A three run homer by Hector Lopez in the seventh inning last night gave the Kansas City Athletics a 4-2 victory over Washington. fair play ? PAGE SEVEN 000 000 002---2
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