The Master's crowd gives first round leader Hubert Green his due. Green's five
under-par 67, gives him a two-stroke edge.'
Smashing debut for Toronto;
Catfish, Yanks chug Brewers
By The AP
First baseman Doug Ault
paced a 16-hit attack
,yesterday with a pair of home
runs and drove in four runs as
the expansion Toronto Blue
Jays won their first American
Pirates ripped by Cards
PITTSBURGH (AP) Keith Hernandez drove in four runs
to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 12-6 romp yesterday over
the new-look Pittsburgh Pirates, who made three first-inning
errors in the teams' National League opener. '
Hernandez rapped a two-run double and a two-run homer.
John Denny and relievers Al Hrobosky and John Sutton
scattered 11 hits in the successful major league debut by new
Cardinal Manager Vern Rapp.
The game, played in a chill rain and occasional snow, also
marked the National League debut of Pittsburgh Manager
Chuck Tanner.
The Pirates, revamped for speed and occasional snow, also
new, striped uniforms, never recovered from their disasterous
defensive start in the four-run Cardinal first inning.
Snowbitten LaXers to meet Tar Heels
By JERRY LUCCI
Assistant Sports Editor
Snow in the spring time isn't one of God's
greatest gifts to mankind.
You can't run barefoot through it. You
can't lay on it and get a sun tan. But you can
go crazy waiting for it to go away. _
Lacrosse coach Dick Pencek is one such
loony because he's had a tough time prepping
his 18th-ranked, 0-1, squad for tomorrow
afternoon's match against 11th-ranked North
Carolina,
"Yesterday, (Tuesday) we tried to practice
in a torrential downpour," Pencek said.
"Today, (Wednesday) we had to call it off
because we couldn't see the ball. The snow
came down so hard we couldn't see from one
end of the field to the other. We haven't been
able to cover anything that we wanted to
cover."
One thing the Lions especially wanted' to
cover was their lack of fluidity on offense.
Pencek had installed a new offensive
strategy involving a lot of ball movement,
but the plan broke down in last week's 9-7 loss
to Drexel, a failure Pencek takes on his own
shoulders.
"I niade several errors in judgments, I
guess," Pencek said. '"We had done a lot of
things in scrimmage, but when you get into a
game it's a different situation and things
don't always work the way they should.
"I looked at the films and we weren't off,
functionally. It was just overall a really bad
game," Pencek said. "I hope we don't throw
the ball away like we did on Sunday (against
Drexel). You do that against any team and
they're going to beat you."
There's no doubt a team like North
Will interest in ice hockey team be maintained?
(Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the
possibility of Penn State's hockey program gaining varsity
status.)
By JOE GARVEY
Special to The Collegian
Proudman said he didn't think a seating capacity of 2000-3000
would bring in enough money to support the program. "If
Scannell is concerned with hockey generating enough money
for itself, the capacity should be 4000-5000," he said. The rink
should be able to expand to 6000-10,000, Proudman added.
Scannell said that the capacity shouldn't be . 6009-10,000
initially. He also said at that capacity a lot of money would
have to be spent on the upkeep of the facility and that it would
be a larger building than Rec Hall, which would drive costs up.
Scannell said Boston University, which is a big hockey area,
has a seating capacity of 4300.
Deciding on the capacity brings up another question: will
hockey draw at Penn Stater? Hockey isn't drawing well in the
pro leagues. In its Nov. 29, 1976 issue, Sports Illustrated
reported that attendance at National Hockey League (NHL)
games dropped 10 per cent in the last two seasons. This could
in part be due to a 129 per cent rise in ticket prices aver the last
10 years. Minor league teams aren't drawing well either. The
Johnstown Jets, league champs last season, after a poor start
this season are struggling for their lives.
Dean Scannell said attendance depends on several var
iables. First of all, he said there's a national phenomenon
for hockey. He said he has friends in Kansas City who drove
more than 20 miles at 3 a.m. to see and play in youth leagues.
Secondly, he said the Flyers' success has helped. The
Philadelphia Flyers went to the Stanley Cup finals last season
and won the Cup, which goes to the NHL champion, the two
previous seasons. Thirdly, he cited the growth of hockey in
Pennsylvania.
"About 100 high schools in Pennsylvania play hockey now,"
League game ever, defeating
the Chicago White Sox, 9-5.
In other games, the New
York Yankees blanked
Milwaukee 3-0, Kansas City
topped Detroit 7-4, Texas
edged Baltimore 2-1 in 10
Carolina will. Last year the Lions were
knocked off by the big bad boys from the
South. A fair amount of that squad graduated
but the void has been ably filled by junior
college transfers, according to Pencek.
"They picked up some excellent
ballplayers and they have a new goalie who's
a good kid."
Even with the new faces, North Carolina's
strategy remains the same.
"They do basically what they did last
year," Pencek said. "They're a real picking
and cutting team. There is constant
, movement. They've got some very good
athletes and they take a lot of shots."
At least temporarily Pencek said he plans
to abandon his new offensive strategies and
return to the formula that brought him 7-2
and 9-2 records in the last two seasons.
"It'll be a little more structured and we'll
rely a little more on Maut (middle Rich
Mauti), Repp (middie Paul Repp), Keith
(attackman McGuire) and Coop (middie Bob
Cooper), in individual efforts," Pencek said.
The bitter loss to Drexel which caused the
offensive changes had some good in it for it
forced the Lions to figure out what caused the
letdown.
"Well, we just said that you, the players,
have to sit down and you got to look at
yourself and find out what you're going to
contribute to the team and whether or not
you're trying to do more than you're capable
of doing," Pencek said. " . . . Just try to
regroup and get together as a team."
But there's no denying the road ahead,
starting with North Carolina, is tough.
"We can play a good ball game and lose,"
Pencek said. "This is a situation where you
have to play a super ball game."
Collegian sports
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innings, and Cleveland
nipped Boston 5-4 in 10 in
nings.
In the National League, the
New York Mets downed the
Chicago Cubs 5-3, Los Angeles
tripped San Francisco 5-1,
and St. Louis outlasted Pitts
burgh 12-6.
Designated hitter Jim
Wynn crashed a tape
measure homerun in his first
at-bat in the American
League to lead the Yankees.
Amos Otis' two-run homer
and John Mayberry's three
run shot powered Kansas
City, while rookie Bump Wills
singled home the winning run
in the 10th inning to lift Texas.
Cleveland's Frank Duffy
charged home on Duane
Kuiper's 11th-inning chopper
in the Indians' triumph over
Boston.
he said. "Five years ago, maybe five played." He said that
projecting this out over the years, there will probably be
several hundred people on campus who've played hockey and
several thousand who've seen a game. As this happens, a
following builds, he said.
The club has drawn well over the laM. couple seasons. But
Dean Scannell said, "There's a natural tendency to support a
club they worked hard, let's support them. But this
disappears quickly, as the volleyball team is finding out this
year. (The varsity hasn't drawn as well as the club did last
year. Coach Tom Tait called last year's team "the best in the
East" and this year's team has won about 70 per cent of its
games.)
"If we go varsity, with the team on a
self-supporting basis, we would have to
charge . . . . We don't feel charging for
hockey is a violation of the concept of
,giving to the student because we're adding
something to our program."
Robert J. Scannell
Dean; College of Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation
Proudman said this isn't a valid comparison because
volleyball is a different kind of spectator sport than hockey.
He said that "there's noway interest in the hockey program
would wane" if the club , goes varsity, partly because of the
advantages of a heated rink and publicity that go with varsity
status. He said that not having heat in the rink has held the
Seeks first major championship
Green leads by two at Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Hubert Green used a new
driver to pound Augusta National's par five holes
into submission, birdying all of them on his way to a
five-under-par 67 and a two-stroke lead yesterday in
the first round of the 41st Masters golf tournament.
"A very enjoyable round," Green commented of
his loose-gaited stroll through a sunny, Southern
spring day, then added in typical self-deprecation:
"It-was a very nice way to play Augusta National. I
didn't have to play out of the water like I usually
do." '
The lanky Green, one of the game's more popular
performers, admitted to a certain fascination with
this tournament, the first of the year's four major
tests of golfing greatnesS.
Trackmen to
By RICK WEBER
Collegian Sports Writer
The Sixth Annual Nittany Lion
Relays get into full swing today at
Beaver Stadium with the decathlon
and 110-meter hurdles slated for 1
p.m. starts.
More than 40 university and track
club teams plus nine high school
teams are scheduled to compete this
year in the event, which is expected to
be the top spring sports attraction at
Penn State.
"If the weather breaks," said meet
director and Lion coach Harry
Groves, "it will be the best track
meet ever held here because of the
number of good teams entered.
"If anybody interested in track is in
town and doesn't bother to see it,
they're crazy."
Top teams such a Villanova,
Cornell, Essex County College,
Pittsburgh, Bucknell and the
...Lady Lions eye Pitt, others on
By DARLENE HROBAK
Collegiao Sports Writer
When the Lady Lion
tracksters host the Nittany
Lion Relays this Sunday at
Beaver Stadium (yes, that's
Easter Sunday), the meets
will be held regardless of the
weather. ,
Lion lacrossemen Jack Barry (13) and Gary Alex (19) will try to help even the
team's 0-1 mark tomorrow against 11th-ranked North Carolina.
Philadelphia Pioneer Track Club will
compete. Top individual performers
include half-milers Tom McLean of
Bucknell and Mark Belger and Don
Page of Villanova, and Bruce Track
Club's Tony Hall, the top javelin
thrower in the nation. Other top stars
are two-miler Mel Boyd of Pittsburgh
and former Penn Staters Greg
Fredericks and Charlie Maguire of
the Pioneer Club.
"If the weather is conducive,"
Groves said, "practically every meet
record will be in jeopardy. There will
be no less than eight guys here who
will be on the 1980 Olympic team.
There'll be somebody entered in
every event better than the record."
Groves expects the meet record of
253 ft., three inches in the javelin to be
shattered, noting that one club has -
entered six performers who have
thrown between 244 and 285 feet.
Last Saturday's tri-meet
with Pitt and Towson ended in
a Towson no-show and the Pitt
and Penn State harriers
running a few events in
doors. Outside, a steady rain
was falling on Pitt stadium.
Now, the Pantherettes say
that they won't count the meet
crowds down. He also said that he thinks hockey appeals to the
football fan, who likes action sports but has none at Penn State
in the winter.
How well hockey will draw is vital to the club's varsity
hopes. Because hockey is expensive, some of the cost would
probably be passed on to the students.
"If we go varsity, with the team on a self-supporting basis,
we would have to charge," Scannell said. "We have to do it
with a carefully developed logic. We don't feel charging for
hockey is - a violation of the concept of giving to the student
because we're adding something to our program."
Much of this hinges on what kind of varsity Penn State has.
Dean Scannell defined two kinds. One is like gymnastics,
football and basketball where "we do what we have to to be the
best." This means going for a national title, a national
schedule and recruiting, especially from Canada. On
recruiting Canadians, Scannell said, "I don't want it, the club
doesn't want it. This type of commitment is "a trememdous
financial drain."
The other kind of varsity is similar to fencing, which in
volves "doing the best we can with our resources." This
means a regional schedule and no scholarships. Scannell cited
Lehigh as a hockey club that followed this route. This conflicts
with Kurtz's belief that given the scholarship, Penn State
could compete with anybody.
Following this path would be less expensive than the other
kind, which brings up the possibility of having a varsity on the
basis of its own income (self-supporting). Scannell said this
me ,ms that revenue from other sports won't go to hockey and
revenue from hockey won't go to other sports. '
Brownschidle said he'd like to see a program similar to the
one at Notre Dame, which was gradually built up over five or
six years. He said that Notre Dame played an independent
schedule for a couple of years before joining a league.
Luongo said he thinks Penn State should gradually build up
Green, who has yet to win one of the game's Big.. leading money-winner Tom Watson, i njury-
Four events, said, "this is a very important part of troubled U.S. Open champ Jerry Pate, Hale Irwin,
my life. It's a goal I want to achieve." Tom Kite and Rik Massengale, the winner of the
His four birdies on the par-five holes, a key factor Bob Hope Desert Classic earlier this season.
in his two-shot advantage over 24-year-old rookie Ben Crenshaw and South African Gary Player,
Bill Kratzert and old pro Don January, served as a the only foreigner ever to win the Masters, headed a
big step in the right direction. group at 71 that also included Mark Hayes, the best
The 47-year-old January, the first man off the tee, of the young men who have dominated the tour this
pampered a chronically ailing back in his solid 69. season.
He often had his caddy pick the ball out of the hole. Jack Nicklaus, hungrily eyeing a sixth Masters
Kratzert, who shared a victory in the National green jacket and another shot at the unac-
Tea m Championship that closed the 1976 season, complished Grand Slam, ran into putting problems
was the last man on the course and tied Janaury in in his round of par 72. He took 37 strokes on the slow,
the gathering gloom of late afternoon. grainy putting surfaces, three-putted twice and
He was followed by a starry group at 70 including missed two others of four feet or less.
host top field
or the times.
"Track meets can't be
rained out," said Lady Lion
.coach Chris Brooks. "They
can't not count the times."
"It was a lousy meet," she
continued. "The kids were so
mad and frustrated. I 3 itt
wasn't scoring efficiently or
Friday, April 8, 1977-9
The meet record of 9:08.4 in the
3,000-meter steeplechase should also
fall; Bruce Baden of Penn State has
already recorded a sub-nine-minute
time this year (it came in last
weekend's Colonial Relays).
Records should be set in at least a
few relay events, where Villanova,
Essex C.C., Bucknell, and Mt. St.
Mary's boast strong squads.
Groves doesn't expect one team to
dominate the meet.
"Because of the large number of
entrants," he said, it is highly
unlikely that anyone will win much of
anything, save Villanova which is
geared toward the relay events."
Last year, Villanova won the in
vitational two-mile relay and took
third in the invitational sprint medley
relay.
Individually, Penn State's top
hopes include Baden (steeplechase),
even trying hard."
The scene shifts this Sunday
back to University Park and
the emphasis, as the name
Nittany Lion Relays reveals,
is on relays.
Coach Brooks cited the 4 x
110 relays as one event in
which to watch out for those
girls from .Penn State. Four
out of the following five Lady
Lions will run the relay:
Regina White; Tina
Leatherman; Patti Knighton;
Lea Ventura; and Cathy
Boyanowski.
Another relay race which
Coach Brooks says will be
good for the Penn Staters is
the Distance Medley Relay.
Donna Gardner will run the
880, Lea Ventura will follow
her in the 440, Hilary Noden
will race the three-quarter
mile, and captain Kris
Bankes will run the last leg,
the mile.
Kathy Mills, recovering
from a bug she picked up in
National League
EAST
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N York 1 0 1.000 Toronto
S Louis 1 0 1.000 Cleve
Montreal 0 0 000 -' .! N York
Phila 0 0 .000 - 1 2 Detroit
Chicago 0 1 .000 1 Milwkee
Pitts 0 1 000 1 Boston
WEST Balt
1 0 1.000
1 0 1.000 Calif
0 0 .000 - 1 : Texas
0 0 000 -' 2 Kan City
0 1 000 1 Minn
0 1 000 1 Oakland
Los Ang
Atlanta
Houston
San Fran
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Wednesday's Game Chicago 0 1 .000 1
Cincinnati 5, San Diego 3 Seattle 0 I .000 I
Yesterday's Games Yesterday's Games
St. Louis 12, Pittsburgh 6 Toronto 9, Chicago 5
New York 5, Chicago 3 Kansas City 7, Detroit 4
Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 1 Texas 2, Baltimore 1, 10 innings
Only games scheduled New York 3. Milwaukee 0
Today's Games Cleveland 5. Boston 4, 11 innings
San Diego (Strom 12-16) at Cmcinnat California at Seattle, night game
( Zachry 14-7). Only games scheduled
Atlanta (Messeramith 11-11) at Hous Today's Game
ton (Richard 20-15). California ( Hartzell 7-4) at Seattle
Only games scheduled. (Mac Cormack 0-5), night
to Division I hockey. He said he thinks Penn State could play
Division II hockey right away and the rise to Division I "could
be fast, depending on how much interest in the program there
is." He also said a $lOO,OOO-$150,000 budget is _high for a
Division II program, but could be that much for a Division I
program.
Proudman said that the club wants to get to the point where
the move to varsity status "is a smooth transition." He added
that the program should gradually build up to Division I, not
jump right into it.
Proudman also said that if the seating capacity is 2000-2500,
"there's no way the program could pay for a $lOO,OOO-$150,000
budget." He also said that Penn State wouldn't have to recruit
Canadians because of the improvement of hockey in the U.S.
He said some Division I teams are starting to get away from
recruiting Canadians.
The administration and the club seem to have gotten along
well. Kurtz feels the administration has been fair with the
club. "We didn't have a five-year program to get varsity
status," he said. "We tried to upgrade the program through
increasing the caliber of our players and with an attractive
schedule. With that ? we tried to get a following."
But Kurtz did make motes to "stimulate interest in the
administration" to go varsity. He fielded an NCAA eligible
team and used publicity to let people know about the team.
Proudman said, "The University has been very generous
with us. Our relationship has come 400 per cent in four years."
He said the University subsidizes about 50 per cent of the
club's budget, mostly through supplementing ice time.
Proudman said when he was a freshman, varsity status was
his immediate goal, but now he's "mellowed out" because he
feels varsity status is inevitable.
Scannell said hockey is here to stay. But what form it's
going to stayin, and what to do about a rink, are questions that
must be answered.
in Relays...
Joe Batteer (triple jump), Bill Austin
(400-meter intermediate hurdles),
John Sallade and Jim Greene (long
jump), Gary Greaser ( discus,
hammer throw), and Jay Behm and
Tim Bowers (javelin). ,
Although members of the Lion
squad are entered individually,
Groves said "the biggest thing is that
we are still concentrating on relays
rather than individual events."
MEET MEMOS: All of today's
events will be held at Beaver
Stadium. Tomorrow, morning events
are slated for Beaver Stadium and
afternoon events will move to the
eight-lane resilite track at Westerly
Parkway Junior High School . . . The
intramural eight-man mile relay
finals, an event of particular interest
to Penn State students, will be held at
4 p.m. today. Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity won the relay in a meet
record time of 3:20.2 last year.
Major league standings
Sunday
the Women's Cross Country
Championships in Germany,
will be back and running.
She'll compete in two events,
either the mile, 4 x 880 relays
or half-mile.
"She ( Mills) is still feeling
tired," said coach Brooks.
"But she has been training
hard."
Among the other teams
competing in the event are
Pitt, Club Keystone,
Bucknell, Delaware Sports
Club, Central Jersey Track
Club, Youngsville, Clearfield
and numerous independent
runners. Some ot the teams
are AAU clubs.
"We're hurting for com
petition in the mile and some
other distance events," said
Lady Lion coach Brooks.
"We'll have some good
times in the meet. Some other
times will not be so good,
because we are giving some s
of our young people exper
ience," she added.
American League
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