TUBOAY. APRIL TO. 1962 i • ! t Rain-Soaked Baseballers Host Ithaca Nine Today By JOHN MORRIS j Sport* Co-Editor Pain States rain-dreni ! !' ! } baseball team returns to : ver Field this iaftejmoon to traditionally jtough. Ithaci 3:3o.j"With a!break from weatherman, the Lions wil after) their thirds win against defeats. ! State defeated Lehigh, 7-3, day for its second win, buv game was played in a const drizzle. The rain turned V nova’s field into a quagmire, 1 ing the concellation of Saturi scheduled contest against Wildcats. Sophomore Jeff Spanler w: the starting pitcher for the tanies this afternoon. The righthander has shown /ive! practice, earning the third tion jin the Nittany rotation. Coach Joe Bedenk’s Big „ Marlin Biesecker and Bob Fenton, have! each notched a victory to accoimt for the Lions’ 2-0 log. Both 1 men will be ready in the bullpen if Spanier runs into trou ble this afternoon. . ANOTHER CHANGE ;in the State lineup will see Roger Koch man| replacing A 1 Gursky in left field! Giirsky, the Nittanies' regular left fielder last year, has’had dif- Majors Ready for j * By JACK HAND , Associated Press Sports Writer President Kennedy has’thrown out the first ball at Washington’s new; $2O million D.C: Stadium and Cincinnati has held its traditional opener but the bulk of the major league baseball teams open the season today. • t The 11-game program, spread over two • days, ‘ is expected to attract a total of more than 340,000 fans if the weatherman is agreeable. The largest turnout is due at the hew $lB million Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine where Los Angeles will meet the Cincinnati Reds this afternoon be fore 56,000 people. ■ With . each major league now expanded to 10 clubs, the 20 open ings days spread iover a two-week period. Seven more will make their home bow Friday but the Los Angeles Angels won’t be home until April 17 and the Milwaukee graves play their first home game April 18. 'THE ADDITION of the twb new clubs, New York Mete and Hous ton j Colts, to the expanded Na tional League generates new in terest in thfe older league which New College Diner ■2c ■vr.rs th'/.MsvK-v . SHELTERS ARE HO ANSWER—- SAY 8 TOP SCIENTISTS ■ : ln a recent Post-series,. Edward TeKer claimed 9 out of 10 Americans could live through an atomic war: His - titan for survival: a mammoth shelter ; program. But in this week's Post 8 -^ell-known' experts disagree sharply, Teller. They explain, why they - ''believe there is ho real protection from a bomb blast Tell bow modern ; are-already becoming out anoded. Aed give their plan for avoid-' .fog wortd-wide destruction.!' *' * ★ ROGER KOCHMAN * * * ficulty firiding his batting eye so far this season. Kochman was the Lions’i regular- center fielder two years iago and Bedeiik hopes he will put some punch in the stut tering: State attack. | The‘Nittanies have a 2-0 mark mainly on the efforts of Biesecker and Fenton. Biesecker has given jip seven hits in his’ 11 innings of 2nd 'Openers' experienced a drop in attendance last season. 1 Although, the New York Yank ees are odds-on favorites to win another American League pen nant, , the league counts on an other home run binge by the M&M boys, plus challenges from Harmon Killebrew, Jim Gentile, Rocky Colavito and Norm Cash to keep the turnstiles whirling. Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland all hope to press the Yanks. • Billy Hitchock at Baltimore and Mel McGaha at Cleveland are the new managers in the American League with eight holdovers. In the National the “new” faces are Casey Stengel, returning from re tirement at 71' to boss the Mets, and Harry Craft, formerly at Kan sas. City and now with Houston. In addition to the new parks at Washington and Los Angeles, there will be a new temporary stadium in Houston to be used un til, dhe domed park is finished in 1964. The Mete, also awaiting the finish of their new park at Flush ing Meadows in 1963-~or 1984, will open in the histpric Polo Grounds. IBM . > * ; _ .. Invites PhD. Degree Candidates in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry v « to meet l i Dr. M. W. Shafer, Mr. G. E. Sitnaltes Representative of IBM Research and Development Laboratories • 'h - . - on April 16, 1962 j ‘ ‘ ■ ' i - » • . I *. For information, please call or visit the Campus Placement Office for appointment m'•✓ a i V THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA j work and Fenton allowed only two hits in his seven-inning stint in the Lions’ opener. Shortstop Johnny Phillips Is the leading hitter among the Lion regulars, boasting four hits in eight trips for a .500 average. Sec ond baseman‘Don Robinson has two hits in seven trips for a .288 batting mark. The rest of the Nit tanies can't seem ,to find the range. The remainder of the Lionup will be the same as the one that started against Gettysburg and Lehigh. THE LINEUP: Dick Pae, center field; Robinson; Fred Light, third base; Don Jonas, catcher; Koch man; Dick Anderson, right field; Pete Liske, first base; Phillips, and Spanfer. This will be Ithaca’s first regu lar season game, but the Bombers have just returned from a nine game exhibition tour of the sunny southland and are raring to get their campaign underway. - Coach Bucky Freeman’s Bomb ers slipped to .a 6-5-1 record last year after an 11-1 log in 1960 and a 13-2 mark in 1959. “Ithaca is a baseball school," Bedenk said yesterday. “They al ways have good teams.” Freeman has If lettermen re turning to form the nucelus of this year’s Bomber squad. - Co-captiins Bob Christina and Bob Valesente are expected to provide the power in the Ithaca attack, but promising sophomores will play a big role* in the Bomber fortunes this season. Thirteen sophomores are bn,the 25-man Ithaca roster, and several of them could break into the start ing lineup today. This afternoon’s game will be the Nittanies’ last home game un til they meet Bucknell on Beaver Field April 24. The Lions travel to Rutgers and Army this week end and Pennsylvania a week from today: ' SUMMER | GIVE BLOOD NOW! JOBS Tto Bloodmobllt Will Be at «■* NUB in April 24 aod 25 _ ■ ■ ah mm Registration for Blood Donors at HUB £ y P . Across from BX April 4 thru 11 _ Parents' Release Forms For Students Under 21 Years of Age Contact:; International Student , Available at the HUB Desk How! Travel Center, 39' Cortiandt St., Sponsored by Alpha phi Omega and N,Y. 7, N.Y., _BO 9-8902 Gamma Sigma Sigma Let Collegian -Classifieds WORK FOR YOU Lion Golfers Win Opening Match, 4-3 ARLINGTON, Va., April 9 Penn State's golf team opened its season by edging Georgetown, 4-3, on a wet and soggy course here. Coach Joe-Boyle's linksmen were greeted by a heavy' rainfall when they arrived at West Briar Country Club yes terday afternoon. By this morning, the heavy downpour mada play Tat West Briar practically impossible because of laying water. But good fortune hit early for the Lion golfers and the meet was switched to the Congres sional Country Club across the river from Washington, ' D.C, where crews were busy trying to {clean up from the weekend Cherry IBlossom Festival GOLFERS FROM both sides had trouble finding the range oh the professional course, known also for.its swank clubhouse and “19th hole.” To add to a steady rain on the front nine and Inter mittent showers on the back nine were the exceptionally long fair ways. ' * Sophomore Bill Robinson turned out to be the key player for the Nittanies. The .team score was knotted at 3-3 when Robinson and his' Georgetown opponent, Tom Kirer, came off the. front nine tied. Despite the heavy going, the young State golfer remained calm enough to turn in a hefty 4 and 2 margin on the back nine. The-loss was the first for the Hoyas, who scored wins over George. Washlrtgton University and American University in other outings this year. The victory got the Lions off to a much better start than last year when they lost their first-two encounters before defeating West Virginia. Jim Tabor defeated John Vali ulis, 3 and 2; captain Bob Swahn downed Vladimir Blazek, 4 and 3; and .Paul Hummer decisioned John Cooney, 2land 1, to account for the rest of the Lions’ scoring. Meanwhile, State golfers Roland Gartner, Joe Baidy, and Dick Gilison. were gowned by their Georgetown opponents. GILISON AND Robinson were the low scorers of the day for the Special to the Collegian Lions with 78, six over par per formances. “This match was too close for Comfort,” Boyle remarked after wards. "It jg a very beautiful course to play on, but it’s too long for college boys.” The summaries: MNN STATS 4 GSORC.KTOWN 1 Jim Tfctoe tPSI 4ff. John Vnliulin. I nn4 t. Tim Byrnn (<:C| mlow*kl (CO 4*f. DIA Gilt***. 1-Op. Paul !fumm«r (P 3» A*t. John Coon*?. t and t. Frfd Unit In* (GO