FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 1961
Grandstand Views
The soundest prediction I heard in the past few years
came from Chuck Medlar during one of those famed
"state of the athletic department" bull sessions.
It was three years ago on the way back from a basketball
game at Navy when Medlar told me: "Your education won't
come from the classroom, it's going to come from these games, these
trips and dealing with all the people you meet."
To Chuck Medlar, Penn State's head trainer, I tip my hat in
admiration. The prediction was 100 per cent true.
Monday the new regime officially takes over at Collegian
and then they'll inherit all the problems and headaches of the
business.
It won't be easy and they'll find the going rough at times
solely because they're doing the job correctly.
The new editors will threaten to quit once a week, they will
damn the administration five times daily and they will curse the
staff when all the letters to the editor arrive. But when the end
rolls around next spring, they'll leave with the knowledge that the
newspaper business has its rewards.
To set the records straight Collegian is not an activity. Officially
it is listed as one but the administrators and the so-called student
leaders don't regard it as one,
So in order to please all the small-people who abound on
this campus you have to put forth twice as much effort. That is
why Collegian is so worthwhile and such good experience.
Thanks to Collegian, I've met my share of these people and
just as Medlar predicted I've learned something different from
each one.
In two years as sports editor I've encountered liars, egotists and
an over-abundance of "yes men," so when I start working pro
fessionally in June I'll feel prepared for most situations.
Right now both time and room are running out and there are
a lot of people to thank—the coaches, the managers, the PI peo
ple, the athletes• and . all of Oscar Buchenhorst's boys in the back
room at Bee Hall,
The trainers are a great bunch too and the same
. goes for Bud
Dreibelbis and Ralph Linker who have the tedious job of trans
porting Penn State teams around the country.
But special thanks have to go to John Egli, State's basketball
coach, and Medlar.
For the last three seasons I've "made the circuit" with Egli
and Medlar and through these two men I have come to understand
the sports world.
Like the newspaper business it's not all glamour. Ask either
one. If you want to check for yourself. just stand up at Rec. Hall
sometime next winter about 4:30 a.m. and watch the Penn State
bus pull in from some place like West Virginia.
Watch the bleary-eyed athletes as they straggle off the bus;
watch Egli and Medlar as they pull their collars higher; and then
think how it feels when you do your best against superior odds
and still lose.
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McCormick
Hurls Giants
To 2-1 Win
SAN FRANCISCO (iP)
Mike McCormick pitched a
!four-hitter for San Francisco
(yesterday beating Cincinnati
2-1.
McCormick didn't allow that
single run until the ninth inning.
He had pitched 17 straight in
nings of scoreless ball before the
Reds scored.
Giant Manager Alvin Dark
drastically revised his lineup yes
terday and the players starting
for the first time Joe Amal
fitano, Bob Schmidt and Jim
Davenport all contributed to
the Giant victory.
McCormick is now 2-1. Left
hander Jim O'Toole, who started
fo'• Cincinnati, allowed the Giants
just five hits in the seven innings
he worked and was charged with
the loss. He is now 1-2.
McCormick wrapped up his
sharp victory in just 1 hour, 51
minutes.
The Reds managed to get only
two runners to second base until
the ninth when Vada Pinson led
off with a double, moved to third
on a wild pitch and scored on
Wally Post's sacrifice fly. But Mc-
Cormick got Gene Freese to tap
back to him for the final out.
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Yanks Beat Angles, 7-5
NEW YORK (W) -- Mickey
Mantle drove in five runs yester
day with his second and third
11Gmers in leading the New York
Yankees to a 7-5 victory over the
Los Angeles Angels in the first
game of a doubleheader. It was
the Yanks' third straight triumph
and the Angels' third consecutive
defeat.
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Freshmen Welcome
All Night
Friday, April 21
Starting Tonight
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Track Managers
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men interested in becoming as
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sign up at the Athletic Associa
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AD 7-6851.
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