10—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 12,1985 collegian notes • The Conversant Program will • The American Society of Trans- • Amnesty International will meet hold makeup orientation at 2:30 this portational Logistics and Delta Nu at 8 tonight at the Wesley Foundation, afternoon for American students and Alpha will meet at 7:30 tonight in 217 at 3:15 this afternoon for internation- Willard al students in 109 Boucke • The Golden Key National Honor Society will meet at 4 this afternoon in the HUB Gallery. • The Student Assistance and In formation Center has student coun selors available at 4 this afternoon in 135 Boucke. • The Nittany Chemical Society will meet at 7 tonight in 421 Davey. police log • The College Republicans will * meet at 7 tonight in 308 Willard • The Food Science Club will meet at 7 tonight in 117 Borkland. • The Kappa Phi Christian Service Sorority will host a formal Rose Rush Tea at 7 tonight at the Wesley Foun dation, 256 E. College Ave. ,• The Earth and Mineral Science Student Council will meet at 7:30 tonight in 244 Dcike. T.V., Stereo, VCR Broken Down? Our Service is Exceplional! EXCEPTIONALLY * Competent * Fast * Economical We service all brands, j T & R ELECTRONICS 225 S. Allen St., State College (next to Centre Hardware) 238-3800 ■( CINEMLIIIj; The Talking Heads In A Film by Jonathan Damme STOP MAKING SENSE NIGHTLY: 7:45,9:45 • WED.: 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45,9:45_ Michael J. Fox BACK TO THE FUTURE i™ NIGHTLY: 8:00,10:00 WED.: 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00,10:00 QQ[°) ft® the Collegian • The Engineering Undergraduate Council will meet at 7:30 tonight at Triangle Fraternity, 226 E. Beaver Ave. • The Block and Bridle Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Meats Lab. • The Cycling Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in 265 Willard. • A $5OO pendant belonging to Mar garet Pennino, 723 Hemlock St., was reported missing Tuesday, the State College Bureau of Police Services said. The pendant was missing from Pennino’s residence sometime be tween Aug. 27 and 28, police said. • A cassette recorder and five tapes belonging to Jennifer Kwiecinski, 456 E. Beaver Ave., were reported missing Tuesday from her residence, State College police said. • The Marketing Association will meet at 8 tonight in the HUB Ball room. • The Coalition Against Apartheid will hold a candlelight vigil at 8 tonight on the Mall by College Avenue and Allen Street. • The Phi Mu Alpha Music Frater nity will meefat 9:30 tonight in 116 Music Building. • Leslie McEvoy, 518 E. Beaver Ave., reported Tuesday that someone picked between 10 and 15 bushels of pears from two trees on her property sometime between Sept. 8 and 9, State College police said. • Eileen Yarashus, 206 W. Beaver Ave., reported yesterday that some one punched the glass door of her apartment when she would not allow the person to enter, State College police said. 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EDS has invested millions of dollars in training its employees and is committed to Parents to get view of PSU By CELESTE McCAULEY Collegian Staff Writer A direct correlation between good parent-student relationships, a student’s high grade point average and better adjustment to college life has prompted the Office of Penn State Parents to sponsor the second annual Parents’ Weekend, said Pat Peterson, division director of campus life. “The intent of the weekend is to provide parents with the opportunity to meet and talk with deans, faculty and staff, and to experience the spirit of Penn State through a social environment,” said Sharon Morten sen, coordinator of Penn State Parents, which was formed about a year ago. The weekend will include activities for students and parents such as receptions, campus tours and a pre game salute with 7,000 blue and white balloons, Mor tensen said. Activities will kick off with a reception from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Intramural Building, where parents will be greeted by the Penn State Glee Club. “College deans, college representatives and mem bers from about 40 student organizations will be available to talk with parents at the reception,” Mortensen said. Peterson said the reception will give parents the opportunity to talk with other parents on subjects such as housing, financial aid and their sons’ or daughters’ majors. producing an outstanding team of tech nical and professional experts. The training is demanding, rigorous and will challenge the best that is in you. But, it will put you ahead of your contemporaries and at the forefront of your field. If you are a Business, Engineering or Mathematical Science major, you could qualify for a training program specifically tailored to enhance your college experi ence. However, we will consider any other major with a strong interest in information processing and a technical aptitude. The EDS Developmental Programs include: Systems Engineering Development (SED) Program Engineering Systems Development (ESD) Program Bring your mind to EDS. inic Data Systems iqual Opportunity Ei ~ : J L “Any concern of the student often ends up being a concern of the parent," she said In addition to the reception, other activities include tours of the College of Engineering, an engineering open house and a women’s volleyball match against Louisiana State University at 7 Saturday night in Rec Hall. On Sunday, parents may visit the University’s Par ents Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in 135 Boucke, where the free campus tours will start, Mortensen said. The weekend salute will include tours of University landmarks, sports facilities, museums and laborato ries. Schedules for all of these events will be available at the reception and will appear in Collegian Magazine, Peterson said. The College of Agriculture will also offer bus tours of its mushroom research facility, deer pens and the University Creamery, where complimentary ice cream cones will be distributed. In addition, the greenhouses, Ag Arena, flower gardens and farms will also be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. “Parents will be really impressed after they see these facilities,” Peterson said. • A Lady Lions field hockey match against Ohio State University is also scheduled for 11 Saturday morning. Parents can eat a continental breakfast Saturday morning and brunch Sunday with students in their dining halls, Peterson said. Mortensen said there will also be a special Sunday buffet at the Nittany Lion Inn on campus. Accounting and Financial Develop- ment (AFD) Program Systems Programmer Development (SPD) Program The EDS and General Motors alliance has opened a world ol new expansion and career opportunities. If you arc willing to be the best in your field and ready to take on the challenges necessary to get there come by the EDS Open House to find out more. EDS Open House Thursday, September 12 6:30 to 9:30 P.M. Presentations at 7:00 and 8:00 P.M. Sheraton Penn State sports 4,193 Rose lines single and triple to become baseball's all-time hit leader By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb’s career hit record last night, 57 years to the day after Cobb’s last swing. The historic No. 4,192 was a characteristic single, giving the Cincinnati Reds player-manager the record at last and perhaps forever. THE hit was a liner to left field on a 2-1 pitch from San Diego Padres right-hander Eric Show with one out in the bottom of the first inning. It may have been the biggest little hit in a century of baseball history. With one swing of the bat, one of the biggest records in all of sports fell to the calloused, workman’s hands of the 44-year-old Rose, in his 23rd ma jor-league season. He added a standup triple off Show into the left-field corner on his third official at-bat, giving him 4,193 hits. He also scored twice, the first time after a walk. The Reds won the game 2-0. But all that was anticlimactic, On the record at-bat, Rose took the first pitch from Show high and out side, and he fouled the second pitch straight back. The third pitch was inside, and then came what people were waiting for. The ball sliced gracefully into left center field, falling in front of Carme lo Martinez, who fielded it. on one bounce. Peter Edward Rose, the scrappy “Charlie Hustle” and future Hall of Famer, had surpassed Tyrus Ray mond Cobb, the brawling “Georgia Peach” and original Hall of Famer, as baseball’s all-time hit king. The hit triggered celebration in Cincinnati, his hometown and where he played his first 16 seasons and the last VA seasons as player-manager. His teammates streamed out of the dugout to congratulate him, and he was hoisted briefly onto the shoulders of Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. Reds owner Marge Schott led a sell out crowd, many of whom arrived too late to see the hit, in wild cheers as Rose wept on the shoulder of first base coach Tommy Helms. When his 15-year-old son, Pete Jr., came out to congratulate him, Rose told him: “I love you, and I hope you pass me.” The first-base bag was removed and taken to the dugout, along with the historic ball. All Show could do was sit on the mound until the cheering died down. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ue berroth, who watched Rose try and fail to break the record Tuesday What next for Pete? By JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI Baseball’s all-time hit record isn’t the only one Pete Rose has in his sights. Rose, who broke Ty Cobb's all-time hit mark of 4,191 last night, says he’s looking to move up in other statistical categories as well. The Cincinnati Reds’ player-man-, ager said he wants to join the elite company atop the lifetime total base category. “I’ be interested in passing some of those guys in total bases,” said Rose, who currently ranks sixth on the all time list with 5,673. “I’m right on Babe Ruth’s heels.” Ruth is Rose’s next target with 5,- 793 and Henry Aaron, baseball’s all time home run king is atop the list with 6,856. Rose is also 101 runs scored behind Cobb, the all-time leader with 2,244. Rose has been on base frequently this season, despite his .264 average. He went into last night’s game against San Diego tied for sixth in the National League with a .385 on-base percentage. His 69 walks also ranked him sixth in the league. Rose, a singles hitter, takes special satisfaction in the on-base total be cause it puts him in the company of some of the game’s most respected sluggers. “Everybody thinks I’m a ‘Punch and Judy’ hitter,” Rose said. “But there are only five guys ahead of me, and they’ve all got monuments, to them.” Rose already holds the major league records for most games pjayed, most at-bats, most singles, most hits by a switch-hitter, most total bases by a switch-hitter, and most seasons with 200 hits, among others. Rose’s 4,192nd hit made him base ball’s unparalleled hit producer. He joked yesterday that he’ll use his imagination to set more hit goals when he surged ahead of Cobb. “I’ll make somebody up who’s got 4,300 hits or so,” Rose said. “I haven’t decided his name yet." Red’s first baseman Pete Rose; left, celebrates with second baseman Ron Oester after Rose made a diving stop of a line drive from Padres’ batter Steve Garvey to end last night’s game in Cincinnati. night, was in New York when the big moment came. “All of baseball salutes Pete Rose for breaking a record experts said would never be broken,” Ueberroth said in a statement. “His 4,192 hits is a tribute to his great talent and strength, his indomitable spirit and his iron will. Not only has he reserved a prominent spot in Cooperstown, he 'Charley Hustle' returns home in grand style By JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI Pete Rose figures he has at least three things in common with Ty Cobb: a high regard for his father, a hatred of losing, and a love of hitting. More than any other qualities, those three sum up Rose’s odyssey from a scrappy little ballplayer in a Cincinnati public school to the player who broke Ty Cobb’s all-time hit record of 4,191, established in 1928. Rose’s father taught him the aggressiveness and hustle he needed to overcome his size and average talent early in his baseball career. His love for the game which he translates into winning has kept him sliding head-first through 23 major league seasons that included nearly 2,000 winning games, more than any other big leaguer in history. His intensity as a hitter kept him churning toward Cobb’s mark, a milestone that seemed to be slipping out of reach just a year ago. “Pete is a self-made person," said Paul Nohr, his high-school baseball coach. “What he’s done has been through hard work, hard practice and hustle.” Hustle. More than any single word, hustle sums up Rose’s approach to the game. As a youngster, he had to hustle in order to succeed. “Pete will tell you this: he was an'average ballplayer,” said Nohr, who coached 11 even tual major-leaguers, including Rose, at West ern Hills High School. “He was not exceptional. “I don’t think there’s any question that his desire is what put him ahead. And one of the big influences on Pete was his dad.” Pete calls Harry Rose the “King of Hustle.” His father, a banker, played semi-pro football into his 40s with the same intensity that burns in Rose. “One day my father broke his hip on a kickoff and then tried to crawl down the field and make a tackle,” Rose recalled in his book on hitting. “That’s dedication. Another night I saw him coming off a field with a knot in his arm as big as a softball. He took a handkerchief, put three pieces of ice in it, tied it to his arm, went back in and made an interception on the next play. “Dedication was not something I read about. I lived with it.” Another relative helped Rose get his start in the Cincinnati Reds’ system. His uncle, Buddy Bloebaum, was a Reds scout who helped get him a $7,000 contract out of high school. It was a very modest beginning, but Rose was thrilled. “They were going to pay me $4OO a month to has reserved a special place in the heart of every fan alive today and every baseball fan to come.” It was Rose’s 95th hit of a season highlighted from the beginning by a day-by-day countdown of the biggest record chase since Henry Aaron passed Babe Ruth in career home runs in 1974. It was the 3,162nd single of Rose’s * SfTf’XR r ■ - . V< • . > f. .c.'-ff play basebell,” Rose said. “I thought I was Jesse James I was stealing.” He spent three years in the minors at Geneva, N.Y., of the New York-Pennsylvania League, Tampa of the Florida State League and Macon, Ga., of the Sally League before being installed as the Reds’ second baseman in 1963. Rose won National League Rookie of the Year honors by hitting .273, and five years later won the first of his three league batting titles with a .335 average. Rose followed that with a league-leading .348 average in 1969, and won league Most Valuable Player honors while winning the batting title with a .338 average in 1973. Along the way, he established his “Charlie Hustle” reputation (the nickname was given by the New York Yankees’ Whitey Ford during Rose’s first spring training) by daily belly slam slides and sprints to first base on walks. Two incidents on national television added to the growing legacy bowling over Cleveland Indians catcher Ray Fosse to score the winning run in the 1970 All-Star game at Riverfront Stadium, and scrapping with the New York Mets’ Bud Harrelson after a hard second-base slide in the 1973 playoffs. “I wish it hadn’t happened,” he said of the collision with Fosse, whose career was wrecked with a shoulder injury. “It ruined that kid.” At age 44, Rose still goes into base head-first and throws his body into breaking up double plays. It’s the only way he enjoys playing. . “I just try to play hard every day,” Rose said. There have been plenty of milestones for Rose World Series MVP honors in 1975, 17 All-Star Game and six World Series appear ances and three titles, and a long list of major league records including most games played, at-bats, singles, and highest lifetime fielding percentajge by an outfielder. He collected his 3,000 th hit and put together a modern-day league record 44-game hitting streak in 1978, before leaving the Reds as a free agent for Philadelphia. Ever the battler, Rose even complained about how that hitting streak ended. He crit icized Atlanta reliever Gene Garber for throw ing him only offspeed pitches instead of challenging him in the final at-bat of the streak, which ended as Rose fanned. “Garber was pitching like it was the seventh game of the World Series," Rose said. “He had a 16-4 lead.” When he moved to Philadelphia, Rose also moved to first base, his position ever since -/* f A*. r tf+f'v , v»: > v ; • V'- »’ : \ -• career. He also has 738 doubles, 133 triples and 160 home runs. Cobb had 3,052 singles, 724 doubles, 297 triples and 118 home runs. Rose’s return to Cincinnati, where he got his first hit on April 14, 1963, was the final stepping stone to his assault on Cobb. “If the Reds hadn’t needed a man ager, he might not have gotten the chance,” former teammate Johnny Bench said. “Maybe it was fate or destiny.” If it was his destiny, at least Rose has tried to keep it in perspective of his dirt-to-diamonds career. “When I get the record,” Rose said, ‘ ‘all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I’m also the player with the most at-bats and the most outs. Pete Rose Is congratulated at first base by his son, Pete, after he collected his 4,192 base hit last night In Cincinnati!. Rose added a triple In the fourth as the Reds went on to win 2-0, except for short stints back at second with the Phillies in 1979 and in the outfield with the Montreal Expos in 1984. Rose’s 1978 free agency was something of a media event. He traveled to the cities of the teams bidding for his services and held a news conference in each. “When I left Cincinnati and went to Philly,” he said, “I went for half the money I could have gotten other places, particularly in Atlanta for Ted Turner. But money wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted to go to the team with the best shot at the World Series. .. We go in to see Turner and we say that we really are kind of embarrassed because we don’t know exactly what to ask for or where to start. And Turner says, ‘How about a million a year for four years?’ “Well, I didn’t know whether to scratch my watch or wind my butt. We leave and my agent Thursday, Sept. 12, 1985 The Daily Collegian ... I’ve never said I was a greater player than Cobb." Indeed, Rose never expected to supplant Cobb, who built his record in 2,339 fewer at-bats over 24 seasons and compiled a .367 career average, 62 points higher than Rose’s. Cobb, who died in 1961, ended his career on Sept. 11, 1928, popping out as a pinch-hitter for the Philadelphia Athletics at Yankee Stadium. “No other record in no other sport has the impact of this,” said the Padres’ Steve Garvey. No one playing now is anywhere near Rose. The closest active player is Rod Carew of the California Angels with 3,030 hits, 1,162 back and 13th on the all-time list. And Carew is in the twilight of his career. , Rose tied the record last Sunday in Chicago, going 2-for-5 against the Cubs for career hits No. 4,190 and 4,191. He returned home Monday night, much to the relief of Reds owner Marge Schott, thousands of fans who wanted to take their part in history and to Rose himself. They all wanted the record-breaker to come in Cincinnati. But Rose did not play in the series opener against Padres left-hander Dave Dravecky. Tuesday night, Rose started against Padres right-hander LaMarr Hoyt but went hitless in four at-bats. He hadn’t had a hit in his last ' six at-bats and, for the fifth time in the past nine games, he had gone hitless. Cobb was the son of a teacher who became a Georgia state senator, Wil liam Herschel Cobb. Rose was the son of a banker, Harry Rose. Both men were heavily influenced by their fathers. In each was instilled a fierce competative spirit. In Cobb, it festered. In Rose, it matured. Rose grew up watching his father play semipro football. He remembers his father once breaking a hip in a game, then crawling downfield to make a tackle. It was typical of Rose’s dad. “Dedication was not something I read about,” Rose once said. “I lived with it.” And he turned it into a style of play that made him unique. Although he did not invent the head-first slide, he made it a trademark, hurling his body through the air only to skid to the ground as he neared his destina tion. Not only has he run out every ground ball of his career, he still runs fullspeed to first base on walks. And while other players aged, he kept going. leans over to me and says, kind of quiet, ‘Pete, this might not be so hard after all.’” As it turned out, Rose signed with Philadel phia. And in 1980, his play spurred the Phillies to the first World Series championship in their history Rose takes particular pride in his consisten cy over the years and playing in nearly 2,000 winning games. “I’ve never approached baseball as a job. It’s fun,” Rose said. “The only way to have fun is to win. “When I take the field I think I’m going to win. I’m not one way or the other I think I’m going to win. But I’m not a sore loser. You’re going to lose some games in baseball, but you don’t accept it.” He also hasn’t accepted the popular wisdom that 44-year-olds should take it easy and leave sports to the younger set.
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