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
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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
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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
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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?
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Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
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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
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Cleveland _ 022 NO 0911---4
Bo,ton 000 010 002-v
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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 ?
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