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for Lion Harriers
DAVE BROWN
Collegian Sports Writer
Penn State's cross country
team Is in the midst of a real
meat-grinder of a schedule.
"We can't t sit around crying
obout the §t hedule," coach
I tarry Groves said. , "Every
team we meet from here on is
Improved
"But that's the way Hike it.
I don't like to go out knowing
can %%in That's ridiculous.
But this xtay we'll be pushed
1%, end up with the best
possible performance
The Nittany Lions hit the
load to face a "good" West
Virginia team tomorrow. The
Nlountameers have a deadly
“rie-tv,o punch in Alex Kasich
.ind Bill flam.kins. Groves
aid Kasich "took Charlie
Alaguire down to the finish
I,e,t year" before settling for
-icond place in 24.45, good
'mug)) for the ninth best time
or recorded on the five-mile
White course. Hawkins
1•,uall) runs 'pretty tight
together" with Kasich.
In a quadrangular meet
v‘ith Ohio State. Bowling
reen. and Central Michigan,
11\T finished third
11,,wevt.r. Kasich beat some
Lifist runners to earn in
'dual honors. -
Against the Mounties,
o,acti Gnwes is looking for
'depth that has some
meaning
In a 27-28 loss to Villanova
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the Lioris' depth was evident
but not quite enough to pull
out the victory.
-Ws a matter of getting
ttoser to the front. We need
three guys at 25:20. And we
need six or seven men in front
of their fifth man. Against
Villanova, their - fifth man
beat our fifjh man.
"We ran a fairly fast race
on Satupay, - Groves con
tinued. very guy was put
ting out. Its just a matter of
not coming back in shape
from .the! summer. We must
build on hat we have."
Groves is counting on a
group of six or seven strong
linishecs from among team
captain Steve Gabriel, Paul
Stemmer, Paul Augustin,
George Christopher, George
Dixon, Walt Majak, George
Malley, Jim Morrison, Ron
Secord, and Ken Wilson.
• Last year Penn State
handled WVCI, 12:36, but now
the harriers , need a win at
'Morgantown just to even their
record at 11. This is indeed a
rare position for Groves, who
has never had a losing season
ui 20 sears of coaching.
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DANCING NIGHTLY
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Penn State captain Steve Gabriel
Come on out
for a nice change.
A black 'manager for baseball...
"I expect the most difficult part of liny job to be getting to
know my players. Not knowing thelitabilities I know that
already. from playing with them and against them. But
getting to know them as people. Learning what makes them
tick, how to get that something extra out of them or what
makes them slow down."
"I hope they'll feel they can come to me and think of me as a
pal," he said. "I'm not going to demand respect but I want to
be close to them'. It's a very thin line."
CLEVELAND (UPI). Frank Robinson became the first -
black manager in baseball's-105-year history yesterday, and
the highest paid manager as well when he was named playing
manager of the Cleveland Indiins.
Robinson, who signed a one-year contract and will receive
the same $173,000 next season he is getting now as a player
with the Indians, was completely composed during a heavily
attended-news conference. He said he felt he was being given'
the job "because of my ability and not because . of the color of
my skin," _
"The only reason I am the first black manager in the major'
leagues is that I happen to have been born black," said the 39-,
year-old Robinson, only man ever with the Most Valuable;
Player award in both the National and American Leagues.
"I want to be judged by our play on the field," he said after
his appointment to succeed Ken Aspromonte, who was fired.
The Indians finished fourth in the American League East
this season with a 77-85 i . cord, their best winning percentage
in six years.
President Gerald Ford sent Robinson a congratulatory wire i
stating the appointment was •welcome news not only for the
Indians, the American League and all of baseball, but also for 1
baseball fans across the nation."
Attending the news conference were Baseball Corn
missioner Bowie Kuhn and American League President Lee
MacPhail.
Mrs. Jackie Robinson, whose husband no relation to
Frank broke the color barrier in major league baseball as a
player in 1947, was also on hand and called Robinson's ap
pointment "significant and highly commendable."
The new Cleveland manager said, "If I had one wish that
could be granted right now, this is it that Jackie Robinson
would be here to see this happen today."
"I hope that baseball people are saying, 'here he is, that's it.
I think I have been hired here because of my ability and not
because of the color of my skin."
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...but he's overdue
CLEVELAND k API Baseball Commissionef Bowie Kuhn
said baseball should not be patting itself on the back over the
appointment of Frank Robinson as the game's first black
manager.
"I don't think that baseball should be exceptionally proud of
this day," said Kuhn, who attended the news conference at
which the Cleveland Indians named Robinson their manager
for the 1975 season.
"It's been long overdue, and I'm not going to pat myself on
the back for it. It's time to say we've got something started
and I'm proud of that.:' Kuhn said he has been trying to in
fluence a club to hire a black field mentor.
"I've talked to a lot of clubs," Kuhn said. "I like to call it
jawboning. Robinson was one of the players that I thought
should be named a manager."
Ironically, Kuhn said he didn't talk to Cleveland about
making such a move.
He said it is important that the first black manager be in the
right city
"I happen to be one of those people who thinks that
Cleveland is a good baseball town and this a good spot for
Robinson to be," Kuhn said.
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