' FRIDAY, MARCH. 14, .1941 vininniiiniiiiiiiiuupuiiiiHitiijiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiit Between The Lions WITH . PAT NAGELBERG lllillllllllllllllllllUlllllllillliltllllllllllllllflllllllllllllll . Now that all the deserved fan 'fare and plaudits for our great' basketball, .team have died down, ,the wrestling and b'oxing cam paigns are drawing to a close, we would like-to dig out of ob scurity a Penn State team which has earned a.high rating among the country’s best. Strangely enough, that team has been forc ed to earn-its recognition on for eign soil, since the students here have-been' slow to acknowledge its great record. To.the-many thousands here at State ..whoi. are unaware df the fact,: the.. Lion gymnastic squad just completed its dual-meet sea son with- five victories and only two-defeats to gain third place in the.. tough Eastern Intercol legiate League. Numbered among her victims were Minnesota, Chi cago, Princeton, M. I. T., and .Navy, last year’s eastern"' title holder. ‘ The only two setbacks were Sustained- on away, trips and it took a heartbreaking 28-26 de feat toy Temple to keep the Lions fromrdaiming a share of .the title in their first year’s competition in tfie league. " Gym is a comparatively new sport_a.tzState and owes its rise to (ppaslVc Gene -Wettstone. The mentor, a national champion., while, at lowa Uni versity, started boosting his first he transferred 'his al legiSnsfc'io Penn State as a phy- instructor. By sellWygtopth himself and the Col legdtzta promising high school .'athieies, arid • going out of his wayrEo. give them a helping hand w hjehe v'eTrcpossible, Wettstone gathered aftjuStL him a group of gyrhnasts holding their own aga irisf alfccomers. ■ Wattstbne is gettihg'i‘.tiie3iaysrready for the .all4mpdriaiit3®Stern Intercol legrate, cha mpTonships at Boston nexFwaekericßyHen the individ ualities/ wilpie-'decided. With out“putting ourselves too far out on ffie Jimb, we prediot that Pieo ancEdhis cohorts will come back witEiheir share of the spoils. • CLEANLINESS ISpA, • QUICK SERVICE gglg • DEPENDABILITY IBhn state laundry 320 W. Beaver Ave. Dial 3261 Captain And Coach Of EEWA Hopefuls Frank Gleason, left, wrestling captain and Coach Charlie Spei del" will lead a full squad of Nittany grapplers in the Eastern Inter collegiate Wrestling Association tournament at Columbia Univer sity gym in New York City today and tomorrow. Grapplers In EIWA Championships At New York Today, Tomorrow Ridenour, Gleason Swordsmen To Baffle 7cLi?ued a f!om e pa g e one) Rufgers And NYU Away Army whom he trounced two Coach Harry Krutter and his weeks ago. Lion fencers face one of the Captain Bob Eberle, twice EIWA champ, and Captain Frank Bailey of Lehigh stand out as 128-pound grapplers. Clair Hess, Lion veteran who was slightly injured on Tuesday, and Jim Laggan of Penn may pull. sur prise victories. Springing back froth the set back that Levering administered last year, Captain Frank Glea son once more heads the 136- pound division, and mat experts pick Gleason to override Lever ing, Bill IVlounf- of Cornell;' and A 1 Taylor of Princeton. Gleason closed his dual meet career, with 15 straight triumphs. Pehn’s undefeated Andy Mel gard and Joe Scalzo appear to dominate the 145-pound field, with a dark-horse bid expected from Gerald Baker of Syracuse. A title battle between the two grudge teams, Army and Navy, is slated in the 155-pound di vision when Cadet Captain George Welles clashes with Mid die Captain Dick King. Glen Alexander. Lion grappler, is conceded an outside chance. At 165 pounds, Senior Chuck Rohrer is thrown against Fred Riggs of Cornell and Dick Larcey of-Yale in what may be a~toss up survival of the fittest. Rohrer trounced Riggs in. a dual bout this year. Joe Valla, 175-pounder, will smack up against a veteran packed division with Lehigh’s Dick Brenneman, undefeated Djck Battista of Penn, and Navy’s ifoagy Carmichael leading the pack. Sophomore Jack- Kerns will stack up against a 260-pound giant, Bob Wolf of' Penh, with Yale’s Captain Larry Pickett named as favorite in an experi ence-lacking heavyweight class. Referees for the tournament will be Richard Voliva of. Mon clair State Teachers College, Clifford Gallagher of Lafayette College, and Richard Cole of Brown. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Chiles £pejoei. toughest weekends in any fenc ing team’s schedule when they meet Rutgers at New Brunswick, N. J. tonight and N.Y.U. in New York City tomorrow. Rutgers has won five out of seven matches, while the Violets have dropped but one, to Navy. Navy, however, had a tough time against Krutter’s swordsmen, winning by only one point, 14-13. Boxers In Last Mee! Tomorrow Leaving at 8:30 p.m. today for East Lansing, Mich., Penn State’s boxing team will wind up its dual meet season against Michigan State -tomorrow. After the Michi gan State meet, the boxers will have a two-weeks lay-off before the Nationals here on March 27, 28, and 29. Given the go-ahead signal yes terday by Dr. Arthur H. Griess, team phj'gician, Coach Leo Houck will start Vic Fiore at his regu lar 120-pound post. Fiore has been bothered by a cut above his right eye which Dr. Griess said had healed sufficiently for the “Fighting Barber” to participate in the' Michigan State bouts. At ’ 127 will be Bill Stanley, sucessor to Bill Mazzocco. Stan ley sparred with Jesse Fardella yesterday, making a good enough showing to clinch the assignment. Captain Frank “Red” Stanko will be at ;his usual 135-pound post, with Homer Hoffman box ing 145 in place of Bobby Baird, who has been ill this week. Houck will have Jimmy Lewis at ’155, and Paul Scally at 175. Chuck Peters, Lion football back field star, has annexed the heavy weight assignment over Harry Masters. Only undecided weight is the 165-pound class. Houck had al most decided on Paul Mall to fjll the bill when Les Cohen turn ed in the best sparring session of the season to win another chance at the job. Cohen and Mall will box this afternoon to decide the issue. Condo Wins Tourney Spurgeon K. Condo ’4l, Penn State Club, defeated Thomas L. Reissmann ’42, Irvin Hall, to win the Independent Intramural ping-pong championships yester day afternoon. The scores were tiiiiitfiiiiiiiitiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiii'iiiitiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiii Iniramurals iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Results in Fraternity League intramural basketball last night were as follows: KDR 10, Sigma Phi Alpha 0; Phi Gamma Delta 14, Alpha Chi Sigma 10; Gamma Sigma Phi forfeited to Sigma Nu; Delta Theta Sigma 16, Theta Xi 4; Phi Sigma Delta 19, Al pha Kappa Pi 6; Phi Sigma Kap pa 13, Phi Delta Theta 4; Sig ma Chi 11, Alpha Chi Rho 4; Theta Kappa Phi 15, Phi Epsilon Pi 14; a game between Beta Theta Pi and Theta Kappa Phi was canceled. Intramural wrestling results in the 155-pound fraternity class were as follows: Roland Suth erland, Beta Theta Pi, defeated Mark Singley, Sigma Pi; Sam Crabtree, Phi Kappa Sigma, beat A 1 Heitner, Theta Chi; Max Peters, Alpha Chi Sigma, defeat ed Ernie Ott, Sigma Chi; Bill Horst, Delta Chi, beat E. R. Kel ler, Sigma Pi; Avery Kearney, Alpha Chi Sigma, defeated Les lie Fell, Sigma, Pi. The only in dependent match in the same weight class was Stan Marcus, Forestry Society, over Don Kim mel, independent. In the Fraternity League heavyweight class the decisions were as follows: Bill Ziegenfus, Phi Delta Theta 'beat Dick Voll mer, Alpha Chi Sigma; Len Fres coln, Alpha Chi Sigma, defeated Carl Seifert, AGR; Hank Barr, SAE defeated A 1 Dill, Theta Ohi; and Lloyd Parsons, Delta Sigma Phi, beat Jim Gunning, Alpha Chi Sigma. Only match in the same Independent League weight class was Sam Atkinson, Forestry So ciety, over Stan Goldberg, Watts Hall. * Latest intramural , handball seedings in the Fraternity League show the following re sults: John McHugh, Phi Kappa Sigma, defeated John Dorrance, Sigma Pi, 21-15, 21-19; John Greiner, TKE, downed Walt Scott, SAE, 8-21, 21-5, 21-19; James Gotwals, Sigma Pi, beat Charles Horvath, forfeit; and John McHugh, Phi Kappa Sigma, won over Larry Tate, KDR,- for feit. 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Representatives of the State Agricultural Defense Council, the State Planning Board, the State Council of Farm Organizations, Federal research programs oper ating in Pennsylvania, and the research and extension staff of the College will attend. - The research program of the Agricultural Experiment Station will be analyzed, and advice will be sought as to the lines of work Which will best serve the agri cultural interests of the state in preparation for an economic emergency. Dr. James T. Jardine, director of the Office of Experiment Sta tions, U. S. Department of Agri culture, will be present. Cleveland Orchestra Tickets Now On Sale • Single seats for the Cleveland Orchestra number of the Artists’ Course series on Monday are available for $2.25 each at the Athletic Association windows in Old Main. Seven plans for conducting next year’s ticket sale will be voted on at intermission. Artur Rodzinski, now in his eighth year as conductor, will lead the Cleveland Orchestra in the following numbers: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 (Beethoven); Suite from the Ballet, The In credible Flutist (Piston); Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (Strauss); and Symphony No. 5, E. Minor, Op. 64 (Tschaikowsky). Phi Kappas Entertain Phi Kappas will entertain Wiley Dorm coeds at a buffet supper Sunday night.
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