FACE SIX Lionymnasts Maul Terps #_ 91E42 For Second Triumph Penn State's gymnastic team captured its second one-sided victory in three days by toppling the University of Maryland, 69-42, Monday night, at College Park, keeping the 1951 record unblemished. Coach Gene Wettstone's Lions again surrendered only one first place out of the seven events. The performance duplicated Saturday's win over North Carolina when the Nit- tani.?s gained six first places., Five men retained their win ning ways, gaining first place point totals at both meets. Owen Wilkinson, second in the trampo line event on Saturday at Chapel Hill, turned in a 240-point per formance total to earn top hon ors at the Maryland meet. 273 Points Captain Rudy Valentino and Dave Benner won the tumbling and sidehorse events 'to tie at 273 for the high point total of the day. Both men won at North Car olina. Tom Campbell earned his sec ond win of the weekend with 260 points on the horizontal bar. Dave Schultz took 04:8 seconds to make the rope climb and first place honors for the second straight time. Jim Hazen was the fifth Lion to win two in a row with his 262 total on the flying rings. One Win The Terps' only individual win came on the parallel bars which was taken by Joe Herring. who also placed in two other events, the rope climb and the horizontal bar. Led by Valentino, 1950 Eastern champion, the Nittany tumblers finished one-two-three with Wil kinson second and Al Grazier third. This also duplicates the North Carolina meet. Maryland could gain only two second places in the intersection al meet in which State led all the way. Kentucky Tightens Hold On Ist Place In AP Poll. NEW YORK, Feb. 6-7(R)—Kbn tucky took a tighter hold on the No. 1 spot in tha weekly -Associ ated Press poll today by grabbing 78 first' place votes from among the 168 sports writers and broad casters who participated. Oklahoma A. and M., although keeping numerical pace with a 19-1 record, dropped_ back a bit, getting only 15 first place nods. The Aggies trailed Kentucky in the point total—based on ten for a first place vote, nine for sec ond. etc.-1239 to 1100. By BUD FENTON Four Nittany Matmen Boast Undefeated Season Strings By GEORGE GLAZER When the Lion matmen face the Cadets of Army on Saturday in Rec hall, four Nittany wrest lers will be laying undefeated season streaks on the line. Sophomore Don Frey and cap tain Homer Barr boast the two outstanding streaks of the four matmen who have perfect records this season. Frey, who wrestles in the 147 pound class. has - won all four of his matches by pinning his op ponent. Only once has he gone into the second period of a bout before downing his opposition. That one time came against Mary land last Saturday when he was forced to go 1 minute and 47 seconds of the second period be fore pinning Ken Scott. His other times were 1:25 against Lehigh, in his first collegiate appearance, and 1:50 in both the Virginia and Pittsburgh matches. Barr Has 20 Barr now has a skein of 20 straight wins without a loss in dual meets, stretching over three seasons. Thus far in this cam paign, the "People's Choice" has come up with two pins, a decis ion, and a forfeit win. In total point production, Frey leads the team with 20. followed by Barr with 18. Coach Charlie Speidel's other two undefeated charges are Joe Lemyre, 167, and Mike Rubino, 177. Lemyre ended his first appear ance in a Penn State uniform against Lehigh in the first period when he won by default over the Engineer's Ed Mahoney. Lemyre, while administering the beginnings of what might have been a pinning combination, ap parently snapped Mahoney's arm out of it's socket and the match was ended. In the Virginia match, he followed the pattern set by his teammates and pinned his man in the first period. He added '—i-ions in the Pittsburgh and COLL , .1111111 E NEW USED Bur- SELL -TRADE THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNGYLVANIA. I Maryland match e s. Lemyre's point total of 16 makes him third in the scoring race. Rubino's four victories have all been decisions, with scores of 13- 1. 10-2, 8-3 and .10-2. Don Maurey, 137, with two pins and a decision against one loss, has 13 points, one more than Rubino. Rubino is fol lowed by Bill Santel 157, with one pin and a decision, against two losing decisions. Don Watkins, Jack Dreibelbis and Dean Harbold all have won one decision. Watkins has lost two verdicts, and Dreibelbis and Har bold have each lost one. Johnny Reese is the only Lion matman to have been pinned thus far this season. It came against Vir ginia. when Reese was wrestling with a rubber cast on his right arm to protect a broken thumb. The cast was recently removed and Reese should be ready to wrestle again in about two weeks. Former Card. Pilot Gabby Street Dies J O P L I N, Mo., Feb. 6—(M— Charles E. (Gabby) Street's color ful 50-year career in baseball ended today. The "Old Sarge," who served as player, manager and radio commentator during his years in the snort, died in a Joplin hospital at the age of 68. Gabby's career included terms as manager of the two St. Louis major league teams, the• Cardinals in 1930-33 and th e Browns in 1938. He won pennants with the Cards in 1930 and 1931 and led them to a World Series victory over t h e Philadelphia Athletics the latter year. After hi s St. Louis Cardinal job, he managed San Francisco for two years and in 1936 handled St. Paul in the American Asso ciation before being signed as Browns manager in 1938. for YOUR Cathaum Theatre Bldg. Since 1926 Poor College Facilities Hinder Nittany Trackmen As the Penn State indoor track season approaches the half way point, the results of improper facilities at the College are mak ing themselves evident, The runners are running without a proper track on which to practice. The pole vaulters are doing their only vaulting in the meets—something like preparing for a boxing match by playing golf! In spite of this, Soph Jim Herb leaped i 6'7" in the Washington Star meet, the Lion's opener. The mile relay team came in second to the great Seton Hall outfit. 3 IM Teams Win Fourth Cage Tilts After a two-week lapse because of the mid-year holiday, intra mural basketball resumed play Monday night as Sigma Chi of league F, Pi Kappa Alpha of league A, and Theta Chi of league B became the first fraternity fives to win their fourth straight with out defeat. Sigma Chi, led by Don Zinn, posted their fourth triumph over Kappa Sigma, 24-9; other contests in league•F saw Sigma Alpha Ep silon edge Alpha Gamma Rho, 12-9; Delta Sigma Phi rally to down Phi Kappa Psi, 14-9; and Kappa Delta Rho top Alpha Phi Alpha, 17-12, as Owen Dougherty paced the winners with 6 points.. In league A, Pi Kappa Alpha drubbed Phi Epsilon Pi, 27-6; Sigma Pi knocked Pi Kappa Phi from the unbeaten list with a 26- 13 triumph as Owen Landon buc keted 6 markers; Theta Xi rolled over Omega Psi Phi, 19-6; and Don Mercer and Dick Horikawa combined for 8 tallies apiece to lead Sigma Phi Alpha to - a 20-6 decision over Delta Theta Sigma. The only league B game was Theta Chi's forfeit victor over Alpha Epsilon Pi. Holahan Named To Athletic Board HARRISBURG, Feb. 6—(PP)— Governor John S. Fine today nominated John D. Holahan, Pittsburgh, as a member of the State Athletic commission for a two-year term. Holahan was named to succeed John Montgomery, of Pittsburgh. Former Governor James H. Duff dismissed Montgomery last spring during the bitter Republican pri mary. The commission has since con sisted of Chairman George J. Jones, of Williamsport and John (Ox) DaGrosa, of Philadelphia. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1951 By BARRY FEIN Inquirer Meet Th e highly-touted Inquirer tournament next on the sched ule, offered very little solace to the high jumper. The contestant was expected to land on two very hard mats. Vic Fritts and Jim Herb (competing unattached) took the risks. Both the mile and,the two-mile relay teams finished second by inches to Villanova's outstanding aggregations. The following day, Jan. 20, the Nittany mile relayers competed in the Boston Knights of Colum bus meet. They finished second to Fordham. Moving along to West Point, Penn State was whipped 75 1 / 2 - 33 1 / 2 . Healing balm was applied, however, by Bob Freebairn, who set a new fieldhouse record of 4:15.8 in the mile. Somewhere along the line mis fortune in the form of a broken foot overtook the promising sonh omore Bob Roessler. He will be out for an indefinite period. Graduates of Penn State are making quite a name for them 3elves in the track world., too. Curt Stone , was selected as a member of a team representing the United States in an interna tional meet and a New Year's Eve street race in Sao Palo, Brazil. Street Race The street race was done up in story book style. Some 2400 (that's right) contestants found themselves running through Tour and a half miles of streets. Keeping in the mood of the eve ning, Stone broke his glasses and, in order to keep from running in to a building, he followed the fastest moving white shirt he could find. The shirt finished eleventh and Stone fini s he d twelfth. The following week, however, he beat out a Finnish runner in a , Tv) meter event: Freebairn Wins
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