SATURDAY, MAY 1, .. '4° Nation's Gymnasts Vie for Honors Winners Participate In London Olympics (Continued from page one) son, viola; Frances Skillman. cello; Virgil Neilly, bass; Frank , lin Cree, flute; James Beach, clarinet; George' Ceiga, niano. The College Glee Clulb, under direction of Frank Gullo ,assist ant professor of music, will sing selections during the medal pre sentations and also for the closing •ceremony on the night program. Of international import in gym nastics, today's meet has drawn over 100 of the country's top gymnasts, both collegiate and non-collegiate. All 1947 national champions in ten events will de fend their titleo. SELECTION Spectators Will witness selec tion of the Olympic team mem bers, manager and coach who will be named to represent United States in the London Games in Ally. Olympic team members will probably be the first eight point adbrers in today's all-around com petition. A spectacular grande finale at 110:30 o'fcloCk will bring forth the first eight all-around competitors, the each and manager to the huge platform erected in Rec Hall. This group will probably make up the official United States Olysn picteam ,although final approval must come late r from the Olym pic Committee. During this ceremony, Avery Brundage, president of the United States Olympic Association, will speak and the College Glee Club will sing "The Nation's Prayer" as the audience stands. Cue for the retreat from the platform and end of the championship s will be the Glee Club's "Hail to the Lion." Both afternoon and night Pro grams will assume aspects of a three-ring circus as competitors in two or three events perform concurrently. EXERCISES Purpose of the compulsory ex ercise, which is not required in inter-collegiate competition. is to compare form and execution of different prformrs. The optional exercise makes it possible to com pare artistic imagination of the competitors. Olmpic berths for the London Games in July will be determined by the all-around scores of men who compete in six eevents—side horse, calisthenics, long horse vaulting, parallel bars, horizontal bars and rings. Any contestant who wins a single gymnastic event wins a National Amateur Athletic Union championship. Only the 2t, per formers who hav e entered each of the six Olympic events have a Music Honorary Presents Concert Phi Mu Alpha, men's music honorary, will present a program of all-American music in Schwas Auditorium at 3 o'clock tomorrow. The concert is part of a series of music appreciation programs cvon sored by the music department. The program will open with George Celga at the organ Play ing "Carillon" by Sowerby and a suite of four numbers by Borow ski. Thaddeus Komorowski, bari tone, will sing "Play Gypsies. Dance Gypsies" by Kalman. Cole Porter's "Rosalie," and Mana- Zucca's "The Big Brown Bear." George Dorrance will accompany at the Piano. Selected numbers will be played by the clarinet quartet whMh in cludes Frank Hess James Kocher. Myron Moskowitz, and Robert Skipper. Maynard Hill. tenor solo • ist, will slug Hageman's "Do Not Go My Love," Charles' "When I Have Sung My Songs to You," and Fox's "The Hills of Home." Ray mond Robinson will accompany. The orchestra will close the program with Klemm's "Three Moods and a Theme" and Rodgers' and Hatameratein's "Carousel." THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE Captain Ray Sorensen is the Lions' main hope for all-around tors in today's meet. Joining him as an •all-around competitor Bonsall, while Steve Greene will compete in side horse and gs; Bill Meade in tumbling; Joe Linn and Norwood Lawfer in rope climb, and Stanley Lourimore in Indian clubs. chance to be one of the eight United states Olympic candi dates. TEAM CHAMPS The NAAU team championship, won for the last two years.by the Swiss Gymnastic Society, Union City, N.J., will be awarded the team scoring the most points in /tine NAAU events—long horse, Indian clubs, rop e climb, side horse, parallel bars, horizontal bar, rings, tumbling and all around. Calisthenics. which is part of the 01 -around score. is excluded from team scoring. while the trampoline is a special event with no bearing on team or all-around score. I n the NAAU method of scor ing each competitor, five judges will score separately in decimals such as 7.6. 8.3 and 9.4, the maxi mum not to exceed 10.0. Scorers will the„ discard the highest and lowest, and announce the total of the three "middle" scores as the official score of the contestant. Maximum individual score under this system is 310.0 points. ALL -AROUND In national collegiate all-around championships. Sorensen and Bonsai] captured first and second places. while Stout has won the Eastern championship for two suc "essive years. Bovine Bluebloods Liven 23rd Dairy Exposition One of the features to be shown at the 23rd Annual Dairy Exposi tion. May 8. will be a three-gener ation trio of purebred Holsteins, all classified as "excellent"--the only living three-generation group of excellent cows in Pennsylva nia. and probably in the world. Grandma of th:s group is Pen state Veeman Josie. 16. who has produced 24 quarts of milk daily for 11 years. Her daughter. Pen state Veeman Happy, has pro duced 22 quarts daily for the past 8 years The grand-daughter Pen state Pathfinder Happy, has pro duced 18 quarts daily for the last 4 years. The production and type of this trio Played an important role in securing for the entire College herd. the third consecutive Pro gressive Broeders' Certificate from the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. Special attraction at the Dairy Exposition will be a freak cow which is arriving to entertain the visitors. She has been one of the leading features of fairs and shows throughout the nation. This cow is unusual in that the members of her body are not found in their customary positions. Cumiskey to Defend Crown Against Star-Studded Field America's top-ranking gymnast, Frank Cumiskey, of Union City. N. J.. will seek his fourth straight National Amateur Athletic Union crown and his third Olympic team berth when he defends his all around title in today's champion ships and Olympic trials in flag festooned Rae Hall. A five-time winner in national competition. the 35-year-old rail way mail clerk will face the toughest test of his career when he launches his drive for another title against 25 of the country's foremost gymnasts who, with him, will vie for Uncle Sam's eight Olympic team posts. SIDE HORSE KING Representing the championship Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City N. J.. Cumiskey last year cooped the side horse as well as the all-around toaa. He has an nexed the all-around title for the last three years. as well as in 1934 and 19311. Pressing Cumiskey for too all around honors will be last year's runner-up, 25-year-old Ed Scrobe, of the New York Turners, Strobe Education Council Sponsors Mixer To better relations between faculty and students, the Educa tion Student Council is sponsor ing a mixer for both groups at the Pi Kappa Phi house from 2:30 to 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The council has sent invitations to faculty members. All students in the School of Education are urged to come. Henry Glass. Mar vin Fisher and Louis Goodfarb will provide entertainment. Com mittee chairmen in charge of the affair are Eugene Maethorn, en tertainment; Jean Posey, refresh ments; and Larry Sharnhach, Join! Mixer al Hillel LILO Foundation and the New man CAA) have scheduled a joint mixer at tlillel, 133 West Beaver avenue, 3 o'clock tomorrow night Refreshments, dancing, and a quiz program will be the features of the gathering. Theta Phi Alpha Eleanor Vasilich was recently pledged by Theta Phi Alpha. SYLVANIA Olympic Gym Chatter Flash from the West Coast—Don Perry, Los Angeles' Venice School rope-climbing sensation, last week defeated defending m al champion Garvin Smith in the 25-foot climb. The occasion, California's AAU championships, was the . meeting between the two stars. Perry's terrific 25-foot effort of seconds in this meet is equivalent to about 3.4 in the 20-foot All this adds up to a torrid contest this afternoon when d Smith clash for the second le. Smith's teammate at Los igeles City College, Elmer uckins, will be another strong , try by virtue of his recent 3.6 \rk in the 20-foot climb. * * Today's massive indoor gym :arnival will be aired over a na ion-wide Mutual Broadcasting took-up on Stoney McGlinn's 'sorts program at 3:30 o'clock is afternoon. Radio station /MAJ will also broadcast a 'ram-the-floor account of the 'vent at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Fox Movietone News will take noving pictures throughout to lay's double-session program, ind the event will be covered irectly by Associated Press. Lion Coach Gene Wettstone, 'retary of the United States Lympic Gymnastic Committee id director of today's champion ip meet, has already received a Atery of plaudits for his mam- outh job of host. He's respon• ble for planning extensive de vations in Rec Hall, for super- is defending horizontal bar cham pion. Another top challenger will to Vincent D'Autorio. of Union City. a teammate of Cumiskey. In the 1947 championships at Dallas. Texas. D'Autorio finished fourth behind Col. Robert Sears. of West Point. Sears will not compete this year because of Army duties. Of the collegiate entries, the Lions' Ray Sorensen and Bill Bon sail. Temple's Bob Stout, and Bill Roetzheirn, of the University of Illinois at the Chicago Pier, are conceded good chances of finish ing among the eight Olympic all around candidates. Bill Meade, ace Lion tumbler. is conceded a chance of finish. ing within the first six point. getters in this event of today's NAAU's. NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL 244 William Street, New York 1, N. Y One Block East of Municipal Building T•lephon•: Court:a:ldt 7-261• Day a nd Evening (lases leading to LL.B. and LL.M. Dogmas Accelerated Course Still Available No other law rchool occupies its own building and leases offices to active lawyers who will give employment and practical experience to law students. Nu other school la located so near the courts, state and federal, where law students may observe practice and procedure as actually administered or so near to New York's civic center where the actual operation of public officer and bureaus of state and city may be noted. Nu other law school is so convenient to Now York's tranportation lacintios. EXPERENCED FACUL'T'Y AND DISTINGUISHED SPECIAL LECTURERS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR Applications for Summer Terms beginning June 21 and Yell T. beginning October lg, row being considered Send for application form and catalogue By Torn Morgan wising and finding• rooms more than 200 contestants, coa es and fans, and for tackling 100-odd little problems that company such an event as fans will witness today. One of the most colorful tries today is one-legged W mir Baskovich, of Chicago, • defending rings champion. ty-four years old, Baskovich his leg in a railroad sadden, a boy, and for many years been head salesman and owner an artificial limb company Chicago. His dismounts from the rig are better than the average t , legged performer. As Co Wettstone describes it, "Hef the impression of a pen ki thrown in the air and len& blade in wood." • . * What might have thrown bombshell into the chances Lion Captain Ray Sorensen curred last week when he spra, ed a neck muscle while working out in Rec Hall. The mishap kept him from prac tice four days, but he's now back at peak of condition with no ill effects. Sorensen, an all-around con estant, will defend his 1947 calisthenics title in the first event this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scha backer, of Philadelphia, will stage their acrobatic adagio at 9:10 o'clock tonight with background music. This popular specialty number will be staged to accom paniment of "Jealousy," "My Shawl" and My Hero." For the benefit of coaches and contestants attending the meet, the Fred Medart Manufacturing Company of St. Louis will de monstrate new gymnastic equip ment in Rec Hall this morning. Medart apparatus has been selected by the United States Olympic Gymnastic Committee for use in training here, on board ship and also in the London Games in July and August. National all-around champion Frank Cumiskey has spent 24 of his 35 years in a gymnastic at mosphere. He practices about twice a week the year-round and keeps in top physical condition. Although currently suffering from his only cold in the past year, he is not expected to be hampered by it in defending his crown today. With three gym cohorts—Ed Strobe, Vince D'Autorio and Joe Sabatini, Cumiskey arrived in State College last Monday and has since 'practiced only once in Rec Hall. As Cumiskey puts it, "There's no use wearing yourself out practic ing everyday on the apparatus. We exercise outside the gym daily to keep in shape. One ses sion is all we need to get the fee! of the equipment here." With 24 years of gym experience behind him, he can say it! ESTABLISHED 1891 PAGE THREE
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