Li • ns To Stout Looms As Major Foe In All Events By 808 KOTZBAUER A Pennsylvania young man who took Horace Greeley's "Go West" advice is expected to cause most of the rumpus when the Sartans meet the Lions in a gymnastic battle of state colleges at Rec Hall tomorrow afternoon. Michigan State's Mel Stout, a Philadelphia product, will be Lion Coach Gene Wettstone's main headache and Spartan Coach George Szypula's hope in almost every. event. Stout, who is good enough to be number one man in five of the seven events carded, won the NCAA runner-up award for all round performance last year. He was also NCAA champ on the parallel bars. PLENTY OF POWER Backed by Bob Feldmeier, Stout gives Michigan State plepty of power on the sidehorse, horizon tal bar, and parallel bars; the Spartans will be tough on the rings with Ken Cook . helping Stout and in tumbling, where John Robuck, of Ellwood Pa., backs up the all-round star. Wettstone expects Stout to be the man to watch in every event he enters. The Lion coach called the meet a "tossup," however. The first event starts at 1:30. Penn State will attempt to slam the rope-climb, and should if Lee Perna, Sal . Postich and Al Chris tie come through with their usual performances. At the same time, the Lions will be after an even break on the trampoline, an evept not usually included in Eastern competition. Cal Folmsbee is ex pected to surprise the westerners with his prowess on the unfam iliar `.`flying carpet." INTERESTING EVENT One of the most interesting events should be the horizontal bar where Captain Mike Kurow ski will vie for honors with Stout. The Michigan State ace will have his hands full with Dick Spiese and much-improved Joe Mirenzi on the parallels, and Rudy Val entino in tumbling. Though an accomplished ring star, Stout will be handicapped tomorrow on Penn State's low 'rings, and Lion Bill Hendrick son is given a very good chance "to slip into the winning role. Dave Benner will give Stout com petition on the sidehorse. Track,Team To Run in Mii!rose Meet By JOE BREU Two individual per formers and two relay teams will rep resent Penn State's track team at the Millrose Meet Saturday night in New York. Captain Jim Gehrdes and high jumper Vic Fritts will be the single entrants for Coach Chick Werner's Nittany crew. Jumpin' Jim will go after his fourth straight victory against as power ful. a hurdles field as has ever been assembled for an indoor meet. Fritts will be attempting to repeat his win in last week's Philadelphia Inquirer Meet. SAME RELAYS Coach Werner has also entered the same one and two mile re lay teams that he has used in the three meets thus far this sea son. The one mile quartet will consist of Wil Lancaster, Guy Kay, John McCall and Bill Lock hart and the two mile team of the Ashenfelter brothers, Don and Bill, Bob Freebairn and Bob Parsons. In the mile, the Lions will run in the second of seven sections, meeting Manhattan, Villanova and Morgan State. Cornell and NYU are the favorites in the field that includes 29 colleges. The winner of the Anderson Cup will be decided on a time basis, the winning team turning in the fastest time winning the Cup. The two mile foursome will be one of 12 colleges in the event. It will meet Brown, Princeton, Fordham, NYU and Syracuse in the second of two sections. Villa nova which has turned in the favorite. rme, DAILy col ',EGIAN CUE.I„.. .:/tA Open Gym Slate Aga He Flies Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease ..... \ ^ • • • . MEL'STOUT, Michign State's all-around star gymnast, dem- the first dual, meet of the season at Rec Hall tomorrow afternoon. onstrates his ability as he swings into a flying handstand.. The meet will begin promptly •at 1:30. Stout performs on the parallel bars, the horizontal bar, the Stout will be the Spartans' big gun when the green and white sidehorse, •and tumbles as well as working the rings. He was clad visitors tangle with Gene Wettstone's Lion gymnasts in• NCAA champion on the par ‘ allel bars last season. - . Lions Sharpen Claws For Vanther Grapplers . A winless Pittsburgh wrestling team makes its first appearance in Recreation Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock when it chal lenges the ferocity of Penn State's rampaging Lion wrestlers. Coach Charlie SpeidePs Nittanies seek their 'sixth straight win over a two-year span in the battle with the Panthers. The Pitt mat men are after their initial , victory of the campaign, having suffered four consecutive reversals thus far. Gettysburg, Ohio State, Indiana Teachers and Lock Haven Teach ers, the perennial S.T.C. cham pions, have captured wins at the expense of the Panthers. The Lions have trampled Virginia and Cornell and edged Lehigh this season. FIRST YEAR This is the Panthers' first taste of intercollegiate competition, for it is the first year of wrestling at the school. Coach Rex Peery was secured from Oklahoma and op posing teams can expect plenty of trouble in future engagemy,ts with the Pitts. Captain Jim Conklin of Wayner , - burg brings an undefeated slate into tomorrow's meet. The Pitt leader was a four-year champion in high school.• His match with the Lions', unbeaten Bill (Rusty) Santel at 165 pounds should be one of the high lights of the a:6 r noon's program. THREE UNBEATEN Three Speidelmen in addition to Santel will be out to protect their unbeaten strings. Don Mau rey, 136 pounds, tackles Frank Clark, while• Musclin' Mike Ru bino wil fight it out with Al Man tini at 175 pounds. Both Maurey and Rabino are after their fourth victories. Heavyweight Homer Barr, the "Peoples' Choice" lays his dual ineet log of ten straight triumphs on the line when he tangles with John Masarik. Johnny Reese will be at his usual 121-pound post, and he will meet Dan Richards. Reese appar ently has hit his winning stride once again, as evidenced by his upset of Mike Filipos, Lehigh's Eastern champion last week. The 128-pound division i s -°rambled at present, but Dean 'Thrbold will . probably don ;the ''l„e and White mat togs against "M.'s Ray Cappelli. Harbold has a 1-1-1 record. Captain Jim Maurey and Frank By ED WATSON Shirpan will meet at 145 pounds, and Maurey will try to get back on the winning side of the ledger after his surprise defeat by Le high's John Mahoney. Maurey has lost only three times in sev enteen bouts for the Lions, losing to Navy's John Fletcher twice his sophomore year—in the _tug meet and in the EIWA finals. Flecther, incidentally, was named the "outstanding wrestler" of the 1948 tourney. and went on to place second in the Nationals that same year. At 155 pounds, Cec Irvin. win ner of one out of two bouts. faces off • with Morris Shratter. The wrestling meet will begin; immediately after the gymnastics' team goes against Michigan State. • See 808 IRVIN for that NEW OLDSMOBILE CONVERTIBLE STATE COLLEGE AUTOMOBILE CO. Phone: 3451 • The 'PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Frazier St., Beaver Ave. Morning Worship 10:45 "God Designs: Youth Builds" Rev. Wallace Robertson 'Evening Service 7:30 Our Church's Growth in 1949 Rev. Andrew E. Nowcomer Jr. h'stSoortan Tankmen Meet Penn State's swimming team, rated as one of the . most prom ising in recent years in pre-sea son reports, will have to go all out to bring its season rec ord to the .500 mark this' after noon at 3:30 when they meet the Pirates of Seton, Hall in Glenn land pool. The results of time-trials earlier in . the week show that not only will approximately the same - team that swamn last week 'be rep resenting the Lions, but also that their times are improving stead ily. The Pirates, in beating CCNY early in the season,. turned in some excellent times. Seton Hall promises to , be strong in the sprint ,events and relays. State should come back' strong in the diving and ,possibly the backstroke and 440 yard re lay. Much depends on the eciridi: tion of • Bill Schildrnachev, who lost some valuable practice .time and missed the first • two ,meets because of illness. • . . . . The First • National Link Of State College Member of Federal Deposit insurance Corporation Federal Reserve System • . KIM-% 14' JANUARY 27.. 1050 Ofon . Hail Tectin If he is back in top shape. he could thwart the Pirates' strength in the 100 and -220 yard freestyle events and help the relay to vic tory. Cas Borowy, who, like Schildmacher, hails from meets tough competition in- the sprints from Bob Koslow, Pirate ace. • The facilities of Glennland pool do not permit spectators at, .the meets. The pool was - recently-re modeled slightly to make it con form more nearly -to most pools throughout the East. A barrier was erected at one end which makes the, actual course of the race 25,yerds in length. The pool is 4,0 by 90 feet. COLLECT ON LOVEI SEE PAGE 7
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