;'AGAR FOUR
Lions Meet W. Va. In Road Finale Tomorrow
Marty Costa Breaks Scoring Mark
As Nittany Cagers Split Weekend Bill
Back from their two-game weekend trek to New York with a 72
to 57 win over Colgate and a 46 to 44 defeat by Syracuse, Penn
State's cagers resume practices in Rec Hall in anticipation of to
morrow's tilt with West Virginia. The game at Morgantown will
mark the Lions final road appearance this season.
The Nittany courtment have yet to record their first basketball
triumph against the Mountain
eers on their home court and a
favorable decision over the Vir
ginians would be quite a feather
in Coach Elmer Gross' war bon
net. Already this season Penn
State has defeated West Virginia
twice, once during the Christmas
season Dixie Classic semi-finals
and again, 82 to 56, at Rec Hall.
A field-goal in the final seconds
by Syracuse brought Penn State's
hopes of attaining a double win
in its last weekend foreign stand
crashing to the State Fair Col
iseum floor.
'TINY' TIES TILT
After holding a three-point ad
vantage at half-time, Syracuse
saw the Lions fight back to tie
the score at 44 to 44 on Jay 'Tiny'
McMahan's hook shot' with only
a minute to go. Down to the final
seconds the Orange's Bob Savage
hooked in the winning basket.
The defeat gave Penn State its
eighth loss against twelve wins
in addition to putting them o.ne
down in games played away from
home, its away record now stand
ing at 6 won and 7 lost on the
road.
. The same time as big Marty
Costa was breaking the all-time
one season Penn State scoring
record against Colgate, Lou La
mie ran into a hot night. The 72
to 57 triumph had Lamie tying
a Lion road scoring record with
7 field goals and 13 foul shots for
27 counters.
'ATTA BOY, MARTY'
But it was Costa who drew the
headlines Friday night as his 15
points enabled him to top by five
the former record of 260 set by
Jack Biery in 1943. The Lions'
co-captain came back the follow
ing night at Syracuse to pace both
teams with 14 points.
Penn State's win put a tem
porary damp rag on Colgate's
Winter Carnival. Over 1,300 revel
lers watched the Lions' fast break,
featured by Lamie, Costa and the
head man of "Club '5O" Joe Tocci,
riddle the cords for a 40 to 30
half-time gap and then add 32
counters during the last 20-min
utes.
Colgate sustained its seventh
loss against nine wins and it was
sweet revenge for the Grossmen
who suffered an early season
extra-period, 68 to 67, defeat by
the Raiders at Rec Hall.
LIONS PAD SCORE
With eight minutes left Gene
Cremins, 6-foot 5-inch Junior
brought the score to 57 to 52 with
three quick buckets. The Lions
settled behind their sliding zone,
however, and mechanically began
padding their score.
Ted Panoplos, who rated rave
notices before the season opened
but who has been slow in coming
around, dropped 12 points against
Colgate, added five more against
Syracuse and has probably earn
ed himself a starting berth for
the West Virginia game. •
Syracuse held a three-point
edge in the first-half with seven
minutes to go but the Lions. pri
marily a second-half club, were
content to sit back with a 21 to
18 disadvantage at intermission.
With five minutes left to play
and Syracuse ahead in the second
half Gross took his charges out
of the zone and into a man-to
man.
High scorers for Penn State dur
ing the two-day trip were Costa,
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with 29 1 points—bringing his total
to 279,—Lamie, 28-227 —Tocci,
19-150, Lee Schisler, 18-165,
and Panoplos, 17.
In another Saturday night game
at Pittsburgh, Pitt defeated West
Virginia, State's next foe, by • a
55 to 53 count.
The box scores
Penn State G F T
Costa 5 5 15
McMahon 0 1 11
Lamle 7 13 271
Schisler 4 0 81
Tocci 2 4 8
Williams 0 1 1
Panoplis 5 2 12
Half time score: Colgate 30, Penn State
Free throws missed: Colgate: Stacy,
Moore 2, Alton 2. Penn State: Lavoie 5,
Costa 4, Tocci Panoplos, McMahon 2.
Officials: Barney Hearn and John
Hamilton.
Syracuse G F TjPenn State G F T
Suprunow'z 0 0 Oi Lamle 0 1 11
Beck 0 0 01Williams ' 0 0 0
Rosen 1 0 21. - Josta 4 6 14
Jockle 3 3 93torer 0 0 10
Stark 0 2 McMahon 1 1 3
E Miller 6 1 11)Schsler • 3 4 10
Saver 5 1 11Tocci 5 1 11
Kiley 3 5 ll'Panoplos 2 1 5
Total 17 12 461 Total 15 14 44
Half time score: Syracuse 21. Penn
State 18.. .
IviatmemMaul Middies,
Snag Sixth Skirmish
With the possibility of having the most successful season since
1942, Penn State's wrestling team is eyeing its closing match with
Princeton's matmen in Rec Hall Saturday.
Michigan was the only stumbling block in the Lions' path in 1942
as the Nittanies rolled to a 7-and-1 mark. The Blue and White mat-
men climaxed that season by winn
Three State grapplers garnered
individual titles, while the men of
Nittany also copped two second
places and one third. Charlie
Ridenour (now assistant coach).
Sam Harry and Captain Glen
Alexander were first place win
ners.
Last Saturday at Annapolis,
Md., Navy's once-vaunted wrest
lers fell before the Lions, 18-6, in
a contest in which all bouts were
decided by decisions. It was Penn
State's sixth win in .seven tilts.
MAUREY-SMITH
Don Maurey, 138-pounder, grab
bed a 7-6 win from Captain
Wayne Smith,
,who was previ
ously, unbeaten. to highlight the
meet.. Smith, EIWA" 136-pound
king in 1947, rolled up a 5-1 lead
before Maurey stepped on the gas.
The first period was scoreless—
the first time this season that
Smith had not manuevered a
takedown in the initial frame.
Maurey started the second period
on top, but Smith escaped and
got a quick takedown. Maurey
pulled an escape, but two seconds
before the period ended he was
taken down again.
In the• final canto, Maurey re
versed and rode the lkiliddie team
leader until the closing seconds.
Then the fireworks began. Smith
escaped, but the alert • Maurey
flipped him to the mat for a "do
or-die" two points. Two minutes
of time, advantage gave the de
cision to Maurey.
6-0 WINS
John Reese, Jack Dreibelbis
and Captain Jim Maurey posted
indentical 6-0 victories. Reese
chalked up his fifth win over Bob
Sutley at 121 pounds, while Drie
belbis scored a quick takedown
and went on to gain the nod over
Dick Neff, a good 128-pounder.
Maurey won his sixth battle in
seven starts over glue-stomached
Bill Daniels at 145 pounds. Reese,
Driebelbis and Maurey each got
first period takedowns, second
period reverses and earned two
minutes' time advantage.
Other Nittany victors were
Mike Rubino at 175 pounds and
unbeaten Homer Barr, heavy
weight. Rubino work e d over
Archie Thompson, Navy light-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PEIqNSYLWANTh
Colgate • G F T
Norris 3 5 11
Utz 1 2 4
Stratton 0 0 0
Sutliff 0 0 0
Alton 4 2 10
I Cremina 5 1 11
Stacy 2 0 4
Kluckhohn 2 2 6
Joyce 0 0 0
Moore "
3 1 7
2 0 4
22 13 57
23 26 72
AT SYRACUSE
Hendrickson, Spiese, Valentino
Star But Syracuse Tops Gymnasts
With less than two weeks to go before the top gymnasts of the East come here for the Intercollegi
ates, Penn State fans are becoming more optimistic about the chances of several Lion performers to
place high.
They'll be expecting tumbler- Rudy Valentino, s ide-horseman Dave Benner, parallel-barman Dick
Spiese and ringman Bill Hendrickson to kick up quite a fuss in the all-star competition. And they've
a right to expect it after the job those boys did against the glittering array of Syracuse stars last
IM Results
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 12—Phi
Delta Theta 11
Acacia 16—Alpha Epsilon Pi 10
Pi Lambda Phi 17—Phi Kappa 16
Theta Chi 29—Sigma Nu 11
Phi Sigma Delta 39—Pi Kappa
Phi 9
Theta Xi 13—Alpha Chi Rho 11
Pi Kappa Alpha 23—Delta .Sig-
ma Phi 16
Sigma Chi 31—Sigma Alpha Mu
10
Delta Upsilon 22—Delta Tau
Delta 18 •
McAlly Cats 13—Foresters , 12
Brown Baggers 38—Clarkers 15
Sorry Lot 33—Navy 17
Simmons Hall 7—Murgas 4
Windcrest 25—8.T.0. 17
Jets 11—Crusaders 8.
Red Flashes—forfeit—Dorm 34.
Boppers—forfeit—Pie Pugh.
Jungle Bees—forfeit,—Dutehmen.
ing ,the, EIWA team championship
heavy,,to rack up a 7-3 win. The
Dormont Dandy got an escape,
takedown, reverse and two min
utes'. time advantage.lo Thomp
son's reverse and'eScape.
14th STRAIGHT
Eastern champ Barr cut Middie
Jim Hunt down to size and regis
tered MS 14th -Straight: dual meet
wino, by a 5-1 tally. Homer got a
takedown, an escape and two
minutes' time. Hunt's only point
came on a desperation escape late
in -the.final period.--% • • -
Cbc Irvin and Spider' Colman
dropped decisions to Frank Scol
pino, Navy 155-hound grappler,
and_the veteran Floyd Holloway,
representing the- Navy Academy
at 165 pounds. Scolpino broke Ir
vin's . figure four ride midway in
the second period and hung up a
7,4 triutnph—the first win for the
home team.
Holloway spoiled Carman's first
1950 start by topping the 'Lion
165-pounder, 4-2„ Holloway had
tWo• takedowns—one shortly be
fore. the first period was over—
to Carman's escape and point for
time.
The meet with Princeton: will'
close out the dual meet season for
the Nittanies. The Tigers wrap
ped up the Big. Three( Princeton,
Harvard and Yale) championship
by smacking Harvard, 20-5 last
weekend. It was the fourth con
secutive Big Three title for the
New Jerseyites.
Heading the Tiger contingent
which will invade Rec Hall will
be Dave Poor, 128-pound EIWA
kingpin in 1949, and heavyweight
Redmond Finney. Finney- recent
ly surprised Lehigh's Gus La-
Sasso, 6-4. •
The summaries: • •
121 pounds—Reese (PS) decisioned Rut
ley, 6-0.
128 pounds—Dreibelbis (PS) decisioned
Neff. 6-0.
196-pounds—D. Mum (PS) deeisioned
7laptain Smith, 7-6.
146-pounds—• Captain J. Mnurey (PS)
deelsioned Daniels, 6-0.
155 pounds—Seolpine (N) decisioned
Irvin, 7-4.
' 165 pounds—Holloway (N) declsioned
Corman, 4-2.
MEMIN=EI
By 808 KOTZBAUER
Saturday.
As a team, the Lions lost as ex
pected, 55 to 41, taking only the
flying rings event. It was the
Gene Wettstone
individual performances of the
above quartet that caused the re
cent furor.
Valentino in winning his fourth
tumbling first place of the season
easily defeated two ,tumblers to
whom a lot of people have been
prematurely handing the Eastern
title, Jack Bean and Norm Mat
thews, both former PIAA champs.
Valentino, although suf f e r in g
from a cold, scored 271 points
with his whirl-i-gig backflips and
full turns. Matthews was second
with 264.
Jciel Baba,- the Orange's all
round star and a pretty fair tumb
ler himself, questioned the .judg
ment of the officials, maintaining
that Matthews had performed
harder exercises. That's the old
question in gymnastics—Which
scores. higher, hard exercises done
fairlY well, or easier - exe — rcises
performed excellently? '
Head Judge Harry Nelson, of
Philadelphia, who gave. Valen
tino first, answered it this way
after the meet: "Matthews did the
harder exercises, true, but he was
Five Poo! anateaffi Records Fall
As. Syracuse Tankmen Triumph
ART, BENNING
Records, like rules, are Made be broken. And Penn State and
Syracuse went on a recOrd-breaking spree in Glennland pool Satur
day afternoon, churning the water for three pool records and two
team records, as Syracuee won,A3W-21 1 / 2 :
Cas Borowy, swimming !against' one 'Of' the, best all-around
swimmers in New York state, Brent Clark, set a pool record and a
Penn State record in the 100 yard
freestyle by sprinting the distance
in 54;3. He broke the pool record
set this season by Bob Kozlow
of Seton Hall in 54.5, and eclipsed
his own Penn.Siate record of .55.3
by a full seCond, set •against F
and Min 1949. •
,TWO MORE _RECORDS
Brerit' Clirk and Hal Auer,
roommates at Syracuse, each
broke a pool, record set by a for
mer roommate of theirs, Paul Mc-
Cabe, brilliant Orange swimmer
who broke a total of 20 marks
during his varsity years.
Clark clipped two seconds off
McCabe's former Glennland pool
record in the 220 yard freestyle,
-when he finished well ahead of
Auer and State Captain John
McGrory, in 2:19.1.
Auer, pushed hard by McGrory,
stroked the 440 yard freestyle in
5:09.4. In doing so he broke Mc-
Cabe's pool record, swam the fast
est 440 time the Lions have come
up against this season, and bet
tered the time of Pitt's Jim, Zent
graf, who is already' rated as an
Olympic prospect. Zentgraf post
ed a 5:16.0 mark against the
Lions, the week before.
The 400 yard relay, won by the
Orange in a close finish, also saw
TUESDAY, FEBRiJARY 28, 1950
pushing himself and his form.suf
fered. Valentino did a slightly
easier routing, though some exer
cises were 'difficult, but he went
through with a rapid:lire, snap
snap precision. "That, to me, was
better."
Baba didn't like the decisions in
two other events, the parallel bars
and the flying rings, which he
dropped. On the bait he•lost to a
steadily-improving L n, •Di c k
Spiese, 265 to 264. On the rings
he fell to Bill Hendrickson, a Nit
tany unknown who rocketed to
stardom, 261 to 260.
About Baba, Nittany Coach
Gene Wettstone said: "On the P
bars his exercises were' difficult
but not too graceful or rhythmic.
•
He didn't have enough swing on
the rings, (the swing is supposed
to be 45 degrees), and his dis
mount was only fair." '
That's the way Wetistone ex
plains ' Baba's demise but ' the
coach and fans ' take •no - credit
away from Spiese and Hendrick
son who' proved themselves cap
able of competing in the best
company.
BENNER IN FORM
Dave Benner, too, came back
with a performance on the side
horse that wiped' out his.. bad
showing against Navy. Benner
finished a good second to Gene
Rabbitt, Syra9use's NAAU and
Eastern Intercollegiate cha m p,
'who won the event with 279
points.'
The ,Lions had little chance, on
the high bar where Lou 'Dornizi,
Les Backhaus and Ken Meister
slammed the event for the visi
tors. Ned Foster, very much im
proVed, turned in the best per
formance for State.
The Wettstonemen had a chance
to outscore Syracuse in the rope
climb when Sal .Postich and Al
Christie' climbed well, but Lee
Perna slipped twice and the
Orange took charge,-9-7. Leo Min-
EAU; Eastern record-holder, had
no trouble 'Winning the event with
a time df 3.7 seconds. -
a new team mark set for a Syra
cuse team. The previous record
for the Orangemen was 3:47.7.
Jack Faxon, Jack Watkins, Jack
Gary; and Clark went the dis
tance in 3:46.3. The present pool
record is 3:39.
Rod Waters won the only other
first place for State when he beat
Ken Heller in the 150 yard back
stroke in 1:44.7. Ken Conrad fin
ished in a dead heat with Skippy
Mullin for third place. Each man
receives 1 / 2 point for this. Earlier
in the week another . dead heat
for a third place in the 440 meant
a 37 1 / 2 -37% tie with F and M,
The Lions have swum against
many Of the best swimmers in the
East this year, including Temple's
Bernie Cheskin; Seton Hall's Koz
loi,v and Ben Kurtzman; Pitt's
Zentgraf; F and M's brothers,
Robert and Ivan High; and Syra
cuse's Clark and Auer.
Looking toward the intercol
legiates next month, Rutgers
broke Pitt's undefeated string2nt
seven straight last weekend.
State's record for the' season
stands at two wins, five.; losses,
and one tie. One dual nieet:.re
mains on the schedule. Th4:Lions
host • Virginia Saturday:',