TUESPAY, MARCH 4, 1947
Lion Gymnastsiainch League Title;
Defeat Temple, Remain Undefeated
coach Wetisione's gymnasts
the Eastern League
championship by defeating Temple
54_42. in Fier Hall 'Saturday.
Led by the s tellar performances
of Greene, Meade, Rossi and Sor
ensen, *the Lions knocked Temple
from the ranks of the undefeated
in a .contest that was close until
the Blue and White rope tqo
swept the event.
Penn State took five of six first
places, with Owl opplain Ray Reiff
salva'g'ing la Temple win on the
Ily!ng rings to hand Bonsall his
first defeat this season. Reiff
scored 12 points to spark the 'Owl
offensive.
Joe.. .Rossi again tied the world's
rope climbing record at 3.8 as
tearopolates Wiirtsehatter and Fddy
followed right behind Ifor a Lion
sweep, of the hoisting e'v'ent.
Rossi was clocked at 3'.7 by one
"Concentration on good execution won for us," said Coach Wett
stone,' "while Temple had difficulty in its exercises but lacked the
polish."
• Reiff, mainstay of the Owl squad, placed second on the high bar
and took fourth place in the side horse event. The Temple gym cap
tain- has been Middle Atlantic all-around champ for the past two
years. ' ' •
The visitors were considered on par with the Blue and White
sciirad and Until the rope event were giving the Wettstonemen a
battle for the title.
`However, our slam on the
ropes sewed up the meet," said. the
Lion coach.
The competition •with• Temple
completed the dual meet season
for the Lions. PreiriduMy the gym
nasts defeated Minnesota, Navy,
Army and Syracuse.
•With the season ended, the acro
bats are' preparing , for the East
ern .Intercollegiate Gymnastic
Lawthermn , Lose To - Hoyas
in toast Home Game SQ-42
• The offensive spark that had
enabled Penn. State's oagers
keep pace with West Virginia's
deeam team the' week balore was
just not there as .Coadh. Lawlther's
bOys closed out the home basket-.
ball season Saturday night with a
SQ-42 loss to GeOrgetown.
41thOulgh the Lions had the edge
on -the' Hoyas duping the first
quarter to lead! 1544', control of
the backboards and a Man named
KOstecka at the pivcit- position for
the visitors soon began to tell.
HOYAS LEAD
Georgeitown went into the lead
in the second quarter and held a
26-.2d 4 adMantage at halftime.' The
lead was seriously threat_
- ened only twice aster that--once
aniciWay through the second halt
when Penn State pulled to within
'three points on two fouls by Ru
sinico and a field goal by Jim
-Lawither.
'The smart ball handling of
Danny. Kraus and the pivot shots
of Andy Kostedka highlighted the
gam e and kept the H'oyas three or
four baskets ahead during most of
the ciontest.
It was a rough and tumble af-•
Maa r with a total of 38 personal
ituls being called 17 against
Penn State, $l ifor the. Visitors.
Each team c'onverteld 16.
For the Lions, Dietterick and
Ruslinko were lost via the personal
iloul roulte, Kostecka and
Brenob, had to sit out the last few
minutes cif play for Georgetown.
I M Briefs
Intramtnitait volleyball imam
ment moves into its second! night
of competition with six matches
slated on the Rec Hall courts.
'. All men entered in the infra
mdral wregAing tourney should
weigh i n at .tha ogico,
Rec Rail, lieiweori 3 fa 5 o'cicicir,
or 7 to 9 o!,elsitcic, today.
.Handball. intranThrals will be
g.nt tomorrow at 7 o'clock. Next
week will witness, the beginning,
of badminton competition.
oJrn, 3
Witch Wild.iarns won Middle At
lantic .AIAIU junior cross-country
honors in 190.
Penn State Class Rings
B. BALFOUR COMM
LOCATED IN THE ATHLETMSTOBE
°Nieto], bud the other two judges
timed him at 3.8 which stood as
the official time.
Captain Sorensen performed ex
ceptionally well on the parallel
bars and also took the high bar
event to continue undefeated in
horizontal b a r
competition. Sor
ensen placed
fourth on the
rings to account
for 14 of the Lion
points.
Steve Greene
performed skill
fully to take the
side horse event,
and then placed
third on the p
bars. Billy Meade
tumbled to a wiin
Bonsall on the mats.
play-Offs scheduled for Saturday
at Annapolis.
FAVORITES
Penn State will base its. hopes
on performers Sorensen, Bonsaill,
Meade and Rossi. Temple's Ray
4eiff is another favorite on the
p-bars and high bar events, with
Navy's HoMmlan, who elimcladd 3.8
against Penn State, expeered to
give Rossi a run for the rope
,-
Summaries
Re..? 4 i9*lorrAw's pally 9.01-
legitixt for 'cOnplete stunnwies,
of results of all Penn Atate'a
team' competition over the
Weekend.
Spartans Win 5-3
Over Lion Boxers
Michigan State's boxing team
handed the Nittany Lion mitmen
a 5-3 set-back Saturday night at
East Lansing, Michigan in the
final duel meet of the season.
- - -
Glenn Hawthorne turned in his
fifth victory of the season in a
decision over Jack Tierney in the
130-pound bout.. John. Slusser
scored a TKO in the third round
of his 155-pound clash with Spar
tan Pat Daugherty for the other
Lion win.
TIGHE DRAWS AGAIN
Captain Jack Tighe won the
first and third rounds of his 165-
pound fight but ended up with a
draw from the referee. Jim Cas
sidy came from behind to win in
the third round in the 145-pound
class and was awarded a draw.
Lion 125-pounder Red Cramer
lost his final dual \meet bout to
Spartan Ernie C,harboneau . ' in a
close fight. Joe Bondi lost all
three rounds and a decision to un
defeated Chuck Davey in the
135.-pound class.
Two ions suffered TKO's, Pat
Conlon was technically knocked
out in the first round of his 175-
pound bout with Spartan Hill
Richey. Jerry • Sitkin, answered
Houck's last minute call for a
heavyweight and; fought .Michi-
On State's Art Hughlett a Slug
&lg. first 'round befOre the lack
of training skewed him doWn. The
fight was stopped in the second
round.
Won EitatQ'S J e re, y
coached #l,e wining team in col
lege soccer's first all—tar game
ixt 19441.
THE DAILY COLT.F.GLAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Mailmen Lose 21-3
As Navy Wins 371 h
A strong Navy wrestling team
annexed its 37th consecutive vic
tory by trouncing the Lion grap
plers. 27-3, at Rec Hall Satuiday.
It was the last dual meet of the
season Cm' the matmen and it
brought their record to three vic
tories and four defeats.
They will continue working
out, however, in preparation for
the Eastern Intercollegiate Cham
pionships at New Haven, Conn.,
March 14 and 15.
The Midshipmen scored three
falls and four decisions. Penn
State's only victory came when
Aubrey Melly ain decisioned
Chuck Hathaway in the 155-
pound class, 6-5.
Bob Wisherd, ex-Penn State
wrestler, was impressive in out
pointing Long 4-3.
Midshipman Chandler pinned
Vigilt.tte in 8:44 with a half nel
son and crotjth hold. Wayne
Smith scored a • fall over Jim
Mohney in 7:01 with a bar arm
chancery.
Ernie Closser lost his first de
cision of the season to Captain
Fletcher of Navy, 7-0. In a high
scoring match. Navy's Settled out
scored Lion Conrad 12-6.
In the 121-pound class George
Schautz lost to •George DeLong of
Navy, 12-4. Red Moore, Lion cap
tain, was pinned by Newbold
Smith in '7:41 with a half nelson
and leg hold.
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Graham Bell • March 3, 1947
He gave
the world
a new voice
Alexander Graham Bell was a teacher
of the deaf. He was also a trained
scientist who made it possible for
millions upon millions of people to
hear each other by telephone.
The telephone brought something
into the - world that had not been
there before.
For the first time people were able
to talk to each other even though
separated by long distances.
Ilgrizgns b i roadetned. A new indus
Karver Wins K4A Mile as - -
Stone Takes 2-Mile
Curt Stone. NAAU 3-mile champion. and miler Gerry Karver
added the 1.C4-A crowns to filch growing list of track honors by
virtue of victories at Madison Square Garden. Saturday.
The 40-school event, in which the Penn State squad placed
third, saw Karver become the fifth Penn Stater to capture the mile
title.
Stone, in taking his race, ran
history. His time, 9:17.4, compl
runners, some of whom he lap
ped six times, and put him well
ahead of Manhattan-ace Ed
O'Toole, who placed second.
IC4-A defending champion I
Frank Martin of NYU, didn't
compete because of sickness.
The mile, In which Karver de
throned defending champion
Frank Walsh of Manhattan; saw
Nittany Lion Horace Ashenfelter,
after starting the last place berth,
take advantage of a pile-up and
finish in fifth place.
In the 1000-yarddash Bill Shu
man finished second behind win
ner Atkinson of Manhattan who
was clocked at 2:16.8. Mitch. Wil
liam& failed to qualify in the fast
1000 that saw favorite Stan Cal
lander of NYU finish fourth.
New Hampshire's Bob Morcom
took the pole vault competition
with a vault of 13 feet, six inches,
while Penn State's Chuck Will
ing tied for fourth with 12 feet six
inches.
Johnny Grey reached the semi
finals in the 600 yard dash won
by favorite George Guida.
Penn State's two mile relay
team—Shuman, Ashenfelter, Wil-
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM !JELL
SYSTEM
. .
N'e44
the fastest two-mile in Penn State
lely outclassed the field of 30
barns. and Karver—placed sixth
and Charlie Krug just missed
qualifying in the shot-put event
by a half-inch.
Team champions New York
University took the title with 34
points, followed closely by Man
hattan. second place winners with
30 points.
Penn State, with 16 points,
topped Harvard's 12 and defend
ing champion Army's 10, to take
third place.
FencersLoseToNYU
Coach Meyer's Nittany fencers
were defeated, for the second_ time
this season when the New York
University bladesmen handed
them a 21-6 defeat in New York
Saturday.
Bob Swope, Lion captain. lost
his first..epee bout of the season
as he captured only once pee bout
of three for the day.
Foil man; Bob Thompson, scor
ed an upset win over NYU Olym
pic star, John Balk, 5-3, in one
of the 'two State foil victories.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
by Moffett, 1918
try was born, destined to employ
hundreds of thousands of men and
women and be of service to everyone
in the land.
Alexander Graham Bell was a great
humanitarian, not only, as a teacher
of the deaf, but in his vision of the
benefits the telephone opuld bring
to mankind.
Belt's vision has come true. It keeps
cu being all essential part of this
nation-wide -public service.
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