',GE FOUR
est Gymnasts In East To Clash for Titles
Five Colleges To Enter Tatentied Performers
In Tomorrow's Rec Hall Gym Intercollegiates
Tomorrow afternoon's Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic meet,
the 23rd renewal of this fascinating acrobatic show, will thrill a near
capacity turnout in Rec Hall with the top talent in the East and some
of the top performers in the nation.
The three-hour show, featuring as an added attraction the popu
lar organ music of George Ceiga, will get underway with the award
ing of the Eastern team champ
ionship traveling trophy to Syra
cuse and Army at 2 o'clock. .1
Those two teams clinched a
tie for team honors earlier in the
season. Charles Graydon, head
of the EIGL advisory board,
will make the award.
Since this is not a part of the
regular Rec Hall season pro
gram, student athletic books
will not admit anyone. Admis
sion is 90 cents, everyone is per
mitted to attend, and no seats
will be reserved.
SIX EVENTS
Five teams—Temple, Army,
Navy, Syracuse, and the host
team Penn State—will throw
their best performers into six
events to determine the individ
ual championships in the East.
And a couple of the events,
notably the• parallel-bars and
the rope-climb, may turn-up
some startling performances.
The parallel bars will pro
duce some of- the closest com
petition of the day with a real
contest due to develop between
two to - p-ranki n g performers,
Captain Carl Brunson of Army
and John Keossian of Temple.
Joel Baba of Syracuse and Dick
Spiese of the Lions are conced
ed chances of landing third and
fourth place medals in this
event, which coach Gene Wett
stone of State said could un
cover a performer of inter
national calibre.
ROPE-CLIMB
In the rope-climb, Leo Min
otti, Syracuse's Eastern Inter
collegiate champ and record
holder with a time of 3.5 sec
onds, is favored to win, possibly
with a new record time. Main
competition will come fr o m
Mary Schenker of Navy, and
State's Lee Perna, who Wett
stone said yesterday was much
improved.
Penn State's best chance of
copping an event will be in the
tumbling, where bouncin' Rudy
Valentino, now recovering from
a recently sprained left wrist,
will be the seeded star. Valen
tino finished second to team
mate Bill Meade in the East
ems at Temple last year. He
has taken first place in every
meet with the exception of Tem
ple this season.
Valentino's stiff es t compe
tition will come from Syracuse
stars, Norm Matthews, Jack
Bean and Hugh Goldstein, and
Army Tumblers, Webster and
Knapp. Temple's Hartmeyer, the
only man to down Valentino
this season, will also be in the
running.
BRUNSON TOPS
Cadet Brunson of Army looms
as the favorite for the all-around
championship. Besides his excell
ence on the p-bars, Brunson is
undefeated in season meets •on
the horizontal bar. The compe
tition in that later event is wide
open.
Also slated for all-around hon
ors are Wally Hayes of Temple,
and Baba of Syracuse. Hayes is
the best bet, along with Bob
Schneider of Navy, for flying
ring honors, an event that may
produce a surpri s e winner..
Hayes will give Brunson trouble
on the horizontal bar, as well
as on the p-bars. Baba is strong
on the side-horse, parallel-bars,
horizontal bar and flying rings.
State will enter no men in the
all-round competition.
Outside of Perna, Valentino
and Spiese, Dave Benner, Wett
stone's man on the sidehorse,
stands the best chance of finish
ing high. Benner will be up
against tough competition, how
ever.
NAAU VS. NCAA
Gene Babbitt of Syracuse,
NAAU and Eastern Intercollegi
ate and Joe Beranato, Temple's
NCAA champ, will be running
By 808 KOTZBAUER
Skiers Compete in 2nd Meet
At New York Intercollegiates
Coach Sherman Fogg and his
skiing team will compete, for the
second time this season tomorrow
in the Snow Ridge Intercollegiate
Invitation Meet at Turin, N.Y.
Two weeks ago in the Intercol
legiate Skiing Union Meet, against
much the same field, they finished
12th of 14 teams.
Syracuse swept the meet, taking
first place in every event, both in
dividually and as a team. The
Orange finished well ahead of the
next two teams, Paul Smith's Col
lege and Union.
Tomorrow the same teams will
close for the top award. Beran
ato was second in the compe
tition last year.
With all five teams entering
full slates, about twenty gym
nasts will compete for the gold
silver, and two bronze award
in each event. The medals wil:
be awarded to *fur places in al'
six events, while cups will go
the all-around winners.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEUE, PENNILVAI.4IA
individual Record
Ed Stickel, forward on Syra
cuse's 1948-'49 cage: club, holds
the school high scoring record for
one game. He tallied 38 points
against Canisius, Mar. 2, 1949.
Cadet Can Brunson
conipete, and also St. Lawrence
University, Royal Military. Aca
demy, Queens College, and
Hams College, making `a: total of
18 teams. Coach Fogg was pessi
mistic about finishing - better than
last, but with one meet under
their belts perhaps the Lions can
look forward to a better standing.
Roy Jansen finished 21st in sla
lom, and Jim Raymond captured
24th in classic combined and 27th
in jump for the next best Penn
State performancees. - Raymond
fell on one jump, which prevented
him from scoring higher.
Other competitors for Penn
State were Ed Drennan, Chuck
Suitch, Paul Friese,,Jack , Kirch,
David Bischoff, ad Ed Van
Sickle. The same nine men will
compete in tomorrow's. meet.
All of the team's dual meets
were cancelled because of the
scanty show this winter. Colleges
farther to the North, in northern
New, York and Canada, . have .an
advantage over skiing teams:from
his area, since they, get . : more
practice and competitiorw
Wanna Keep Score? It's Easy
Once You Learn How To Do. It
If you want to keep track of
your favorite performer's points
in the Eastern Intercollegiate
gym meet at Rec Hall tomorrow
afternoon, remember a few things
about the formula used and you
won't have any trouble.
The gymnasts will be graded as
they have been. all season. After
a performer completes his exer
cises, each of the five judges grade
him on the basis of . 100 points, the
perfect score. The highest and
lowest scores are deleted, the
middle three are added and the
resulting total is the performer's
score in that event. The 'highest
and lowest aren't used following
international•.style of scoring for
these championships.
JUDGMENT
Judgment is based on difficulty
of exercise, speed and rhythm of
action, seeming ease of effort, dis-
Mount, and general appearance of
competitor. A judge makes up his
mind from the overall impression
he gains from the performer's ac
tions.
If a judge scores a performer
between 50 and '7O, the exercise
was considered fair; between 70
and 80, good, between 80 and 90
excellent, and above 90, excep
tionally outstanding. These limits
are not exact, however. A gym
nast is judged in relation to what
his predecessors have done—if he
is slightly better he gets a slight
ly higher score.
HIGH TOTAL
First place_in an event goes to
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the competitor showing the high
est total, second place to the sec
ond highest and so on down the
line. In a dual meet, each place
in an event is worth a certain
number of team points, but no
team title will be at stake tomor
row: Syracuse and Army have
already tied for that honor.
For the all-around awards, a
performer's totals in four events,
the sidehorse, ' horizontal bar,
parallel bars, and rings '
are add
ed up, and the gymnasts with the'
most meet points is the all-around•
champ.
Handball Play
Begins in IM's
Two forfeits marked the first
evening's play of the intramural
handball tournament in the fra
ternity division.
Dick Hoover, Theta Xi, took his
match from Fred Rogers of
Phi Gamma Delta by default, as
did John Wallach, DTD, over My
ron Lamont, Chi Phi:
In other matches, basketballer
Marty Costa, Delta Sigma Phi;
squeaked by' Fred Black, Sigma
Pi, 21-19, 21-20. John Frasinelli,
DU, defeated Joe Ruyak, Pi Kappa
Phi, 21-18, 21-15; Bill Wilhelm;
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