TITUUMPAY; FEDII,IIARY 217 3 1947) Undefeated Teams Vie Lions To Meet Owls Capitain Ray Sorensen will have another personal duel on his hands Saturday When The Lion gymnasts play host to a strong and unbeaten Temple scruiad Both teams are undofeated and both have scored Triumphs over the tWo service academies. The match is expected to deternline the ID-17 eastern intercollegiate league chaMpionship. • Temple's Ray Reiff, Middle At: will strive to overcome Sorensen',. The stellar Owl captain wall o::mpete in the WO bar, flying; rings and side horse events in an j attempt,— to outsdore the Nittany captain who iSislated to perform on the •horiiontal bar, parallel bars and rings. Sorensen wild be looking for-' ward to his fiftb win on the high bar. having subdued his Minne sota, Navy, Army , and Syracuse opponents. The Nittany captain bested o.3dat Cronin, undefeated in the high bar prior to the Lion-Army meet, in , a dose contest at Rec LIONS FAVORED ON ROPE Penn State is favored to ciapture the rope climbing event with the Lion trio of Rossi, Greene; , ; : lk . g. ~, 1 : 1-V and Wirt E ohaf- 1 - :' , &.•,;;,::'4:.Tr - . I- , -';';' , / • 'l , ' '..."- ka,, ter. Navy's Hoff- , '7'o.l'" >:..1 , 5 - f,.• man is the only.rt „ • ,. . ,p opponent to grab l iks lA, .i.',' , 4 firq place in the i - „s t .l. A''' 4 hoisting event a against the Wett- ~...,. 4. 'i stonemen. ,r Ar Othe r Owl aces • t in clVde Clhl n k ; ",,,„ Ackerman, Art 1 \ti.,"•>, , Rfebter, Bob Mc- ~. Kinney, Warren Conrad, Bob Sorensen Navy Comes To Rec Hall Sporting 3 . 6 Straight Wins Navy, riding the crest of. 36 straight wins, brings its wrestling team to Rec Hall Saturday to face the. Lion _grapplers. Coached by Ray Schwartz, the 41idshipmen'have won the last ibur• Eastern Intercollegiate team chaMiplonships. With four mem bers 31' last year's championship team returning they will be hard to stop, Speidel said. At 121 pounds, Coach Schwartz has been alternating George De- Long and Don Mclver. •DeLorfg placed second in the intercollegi ates last year. Chuc.k. Chandler ill probably wrestle at 128. The • classiest wrestler on the Nsvy team, according to the "Log," is Wayne Smith, probable starter in the 136-Ipound FLETCHER VS. CLOSSER ; Ernie Closser, undefeated Lion, will face a, tough assignment in Captain Jon Fletcher. Fletcher placed second in the intercollegi ates last year and is undefeated this year at 145 pounds. Don Tardiff will probclbly gain the nod at 155, while Coach Schwartz will probably start Hank Settle for the 175 weight. " At. 165 pounds, Schwartz has a w'calth of Material in Chuck Hathaway and Bob Wisherd. Bath:way placed second in the thtercollegiates in '46 and Wisherd was third in 1942 when he wres tled 'under Penn State colors. Both men have been alternating It 165 all year, i f. The only weight in which Nay TRU BLU QUARTET FRIDAY and SATURDAY RITES PARADISE CAFE ALL-AROUND CHAMP antic AAU all-around champion mastery of the horizontal bar Stone Honored Curt Stone was selected by New York sports writers as the second outstanding athlete at the recent NAAU indoor track meet. Herb Dillard was chosen for the top spot. Stout and Vic Mitthelotti Lion s,t'a l . Greene defeated Ack_ erman in a side horse match prior to his r eturn to the College for the spring , semester. Richter may give the Blue and White rope trio a battle for one of the top positions. McKINNEY, MICHELOTTI McKinney will probably per rum in the high bar and tumbling events, with Mrldhelotti competing ;rlor honors on the parallel bars, rope and mats. Temple, coached by Max Younger, caPtitred the intercolle giate crown in 1939 and 104 1 1. The meet Saturday will be the the last for the Lions this season. Next week the gymnasts will jour ney to Annapolis for the intercol legiate playoffs. Kappa Delta Rho 'recently pledged Leo. Nobille, Lion gr;id star. St. (lair . Sels Record During Bowling Tourney A new record Was set at the State College Bowling alleys by curf St. Clair Tuesday while bowling for Beta Theta Pi in the fraternity competition. In rolling his record of 286, St. Clair threw •a spare in the first frame, followed up with ten strikes in a rcw, and then threw a six on the last ball. (Continued on page four) is weak is the unlimited class. Newib o 1 , d Smith, outstanding heavyweight, is . o n the injured list and; in his place Ken Shiweck or Bill BlEick will wrestle. 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Lion Mi ttf yen To Meet Spartans With the Eastern Intercolleg iates a week away and a tough dual meet with Michigan State scheduled for Saturday night, Leo Houck's I:oxers are intensi fying their nightly :workouts, in Rec Hall. Houck has two excellent pros pects for the Rec Hall tourna ment in Captain Jack Tighe and; Glenn Hawthorne. Hawthbrne Rates High Hawthorne, at 130 pounds, has held•hi s own against the best in the country this season in a class that has at least two other strong contenders.. Basil Miragliotta of Virginia and Syracuse's Vinnie Byrne both hold one-point decisions over the Lion prospect. . Both fights were clo.p with Hawthorne's two-fisted attiack puzzling his oponents. All three contender s will watch the first round drawings as a preliminary match bet Ween two of the three would eliminate an outstanding prospect on opening day. Tighe Leads 165-Pounders Jack Tighe's lefi-pound boasts two other strong boxars. Hary Ball of Army, last year's 175-pound titleholder, lost a de cision to Tighe last month in Rec Hal]. Jim Bonier of Syracuse managed to score a draw against the Lion !capta!lin, last weels at• Syracuse. Both men will be tough oppo nents far Tigh, in tihe intencol legiates. State Ski Competition Switched To Ligonier Pennsylvania's ski champion ship meet, to he held this week end, has been transferred groin the Tussey Mountain trail to the Lau r(2 I Mountain Slopes near Lig onier. according to :Henry Thurs ton, President or the Penns Valley Ski Club. The s c g hane in site, resulting from the recomendations of 51:1 club officials to the Pennsylvania Department was deemed 'locos_ nary because of the rocky convic tion and lack of snow on the Boalsburg trail. About 14 entries have been re ceived from the State ailliage area icW the annual event. Both men and women are to compete. The ski meet will be directed by George M. Musser, a student at the College. 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