Lion Gagers Meet Colgate,
Syracuse On Crucial Trip
By ERNIE MOORE
Penn State's basketball team left for Ham
ilton, N.Y. this morning op the first leg of
what is probably the most important trip
of the year for the Lion cagers.
Coach Elmer Gross's courtmen will play
Colgate tonight before moving over to Syra
cuse for a contest with the Or
angemen tomorrow night.
In Colgate and Syracuse, the
Lions will be up against two of
the three teams which were able
to conquer them on the Rec hall
court this year.
The Red Raiders, a smooth
passing aggregation, dumped the
Nittanies, 55-52, while Syracuse
edged by, 61-59. But since--these
losses, State has come a long way.
In fact, it was right after the Col
gate defeat that the Lions went
on a six-game winning streak and
copped eight out of their last nine
games.
Two Nemeses
On this two-game trip, the
Lions will run into two of their
worst nemeses—Dave Alton, of
Colgate, and Jack Kiley, of Syra
cuse. Alton scored 20 points when
the Red Raiders beat State, and
Kiley dumped in 17 to lead the
Orange to victory over the Lions.
Stae and Colgate will go into
the fray tonight with identical
records. Each team has won 12
.games and lost 6. Syracuse has 12
wins and 8 losses. Mentioned as
possible tournament timber be
fore the season started, Syracuse
has failed to live up to expecta
tions but are currently on a three
game winning streak. One of
these wins was a 70-59 drubbing
of Colgate.
Some Of Best
But the Orangemen can't be
taken on their record alone as
Coach Marc Guley's crew, has met
some of the best of the collegiate
crop in Kentucky, Bradley. St.
Johns, and Niagara.
However, the Grossmen are
currently riding the crest of what
could be their best season in
yews, thanks to the scoring of
Captain Lou Lamie and the new
bench strength which Gross has
moulded in Herm Sledzik, Joe
Piorkowski, Whitey Makarewicz,
and Doby Lynch.
Gymnasts Baffle
Orange Tomorrow
Penn State's gym-men will
complete the "murderers' row" of
collegiate gymnastics tomorrow
when they meet Syracuse at New
York.
The Orange also has been de
feated by the two service schools,
Army and Navy, this season,
dropping both meets by 49-47, the
closest possible score for the
sport. The Lions lost to the Mid
dies and Cadets by 15 points.
Televised Match
Tomorrow's match will be tele
vised in Syracuse as the Nittanies
try for their third win of the
year. They have lost two.
Captain Rudy Valentino will be
striving to keep his 1951 record
clean, having won all four times
that he has competed this year.
Coach Gene Wettstone will use
the same lineup that started the
season with Tom Campbell as the
key performer on the horizontal
bar and Jim Hazen the top man
on the flying rings.
Dave Schultz will be out to im
prove his rope-climbing time
again this week. Schultz's marks
have been constantly improving
this season.
Dave Benner will attempt to
repeat his last week's win in the
sidehorse event. Dave Douglas
will strive for the best perfor
mance on the parallel-bars.
South America Bound
Jerry Maurey, of Clearfield,
and Dick Lemyre, of Merrick.
N.Y., both Penn. State freshmen,
were two of four college plebes
selected to represent the United
States in wrestling competition at
the Pan-American games, Feb.
25 to Mar. 8, at Buenos Aires. The
team will be coached by Billy
Sheridan, veteran Lehigh men
tor.
THE DAILY COLLIIGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
"Sure we'd like to win both games, but I
don't know . . . we'll be out there trying,
though, and maybe we can scare them a lit
tle." Thus—on the eve of Pehn State's most
crucial basketball tour this season—did the.
Lions' tight-lipped coach, Elmer Gross, terse
ly view the climactic Colgate,
Syracuse series.
Two factors magnifying the im
portance of these two weekend
road engagements.
First, should (and IF) the Roar
ing Lions overcome Colgate to
night and Syracuse tomorrow
they will have accomplished a
feat which has stone-walled oth
er local cage teams since 1943
that of surpassing the 13-win
mark in one season's play.
Outstanding Marks
That yea r, co-captained by
John Egli, the club's present as
sistant coach. and Herk Balti
more, the Lions attained a 15 and
4 mark. The year before, again
co-captained by Baltimore and
Gross, the man who today holds
the reigns, Penn State pulled out
four aces and came through with
a heady 17 and 2 year.
Second, the two-day trip offers
Lou Lamie his second chance to
have his name enscribed among
the immortals in Penn State's
basketball book of fame.
The rangy "hesitation shot" art
ist from Arnold, Pa. passed the
Nittany 3-year scoring mark
against Pitt last week and is now
rapidly approaching . Marty Cos
ta's I:year standard of 299 set
last year. Lamie's 19 t allies
against American U. left him only
41 points from becoming the new
titleholder.
Not since the Lions' "Golden
Era of Basketball"—in those tur
bulent early 1940'ties—has "hoot,
fever" hit the College with such
a resultant contageous effect.
When Gross took over as State's
boon boss last winter the trade
locilly was in the doldrums. Since
then basketball has threatened
to burst from its sliding-zone
bindin Ps and appears about ready
to hit the national spotlight.
Pivotal Nemesis
Dave Alton
Records Favor
Orange Mermen
Jubilant Pitt swimmers heaved
their manager into the pool fol
lowing a victory over State last
week, but Lion manager Bill Gor
don• isn't likely to get dunked for
at least another week as the Nit
tany mermen face unbeaten Syra
cuse tomorrow.
Doubt of the soaking stems
from the opposite and unequal
records of the competing teams.
Piety Hill tankmen have won six
straight while the -Lions own a
string of seven—all in the loss
column.
Beat Rutgers, Columbia
In their headlong dash toward
an all-victorious season, th e
Orangemen have knocked-off
strong Rutgers and just last week
broke a 25-25 tie by virtue of
sweeping the last three events to
trip Columbia, 46-29.
Although Coach Ted Webster,
twenty years at the Hill swim
helm, has lost most of the vet
erans who wreaked havoc with
Glennland pool records last year,
his squad balances seasoned
swimmers with promising sophs.
Last season Syracuse trounced
the Nittanies 53 1 / 2 to 21%, but
Cas Borowy grabbed the head
lines for State with a great 54.3
record-breaking effort in the 100-
yard freestyle.
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There was an indication yesterday that baseball's greatest nat
ural hitter, "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, might be reinstated into organ
ized baseball.
The action was taken by the South Carolina Senate in an
effort to bring back into the
annals of baseball the name
and records of the famous
outfielder.
Jackson, who patrolled the gar
den for the Chicago White Sox
for 13 years before his expulsion
from the national pastime in the
famous "Black Sox scandal" of
1919, rates with Ty Cobb and
Rogers Hornsby in top lifetime
batting averages.
General Manager Hank Green
berg failed again to sign the
Cleveland Indian's ace righthand
ed pitcher, Bob Lemon. to a 1951
contract.
Greenberg pulled into the
Indian training camp at Tuc
son. Ariz., yesterday after
By RAY KOEHLER
Frosh Cagers Play
In Altoona Tonight
Having broken its three-game
losing streak by tripping Bucknell
last Saturday, Penn State's fresh
man basketball team will try to
bring its winning percentage up
to the .500 mark tonight when it
travels to Altoona Center.
Joe Tocci's youngsters current
ly sport a three-won-four-lost
record. In their first encounter
of the season with Altoona Cen
ter. the Lions won, 53-38, as Ted
Jackson took scoring honors with
16 points. Jackson, at present,
leads the freshman scorers with
an overall total of 86 counters.
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By 808 SCHOELLKOPF
spending much of the pre
vious night at San Diego
"talking turkey" with Lemon.
The strapping slider artist,
who was converted from an
infielder to a pitcher, said
that he was asking for $50,-
000 this year. The Tribe is be
lieved to be offering him $40,-
000.
Other Indians unsigned are
pitcher Mike Garcia, second base
man Bobby Avila, and outfield
ers Dale Mitchell, Thurman Tqck
er, and Allie Clark.
The Chicago Cubs yesterday
announced the signing of star
outfieldei Hank Sauer. thereby
completing the list of Bruins to
come to terms.
State Trackmen Compete
In N.Y. IC-4A's Saturday
After a two-week layoff from competition, Penn State's
indoor track team. will compete .in the IC-4A championships
at New York's Madison Square Garden tomorrow. ,
They will leave from Rec hall at 10:45 a.m. today.
More than 65 schools have been entered in the event.
This is noteworthy in that the great number of contestants
have necessitated preliminary
heats in the mile run and the mile
relay
Heavy favorites in the classic
are Cornell, Manhattan, and
Georgetown. Penn State is class
ed as a dark horse, along with
Army, Villanova, and Seton Hall.
Vic Fritts, defending IC-4A
high-jump champion, will be out
to defend his crown. Fritts will
be hobbled because of a badly
bruised heel which was received
at the triangular meet with Mich
igan State and Northwestern two
weeks ago.
Herb Also Injured
Jim Herb, a sophomore who
jumped 6'7" at the Washington
Star meet earlier this year, is
also on the medicine shelf and
has been receiving steady treat
ment in the training room for a
bruised heel and a bad shin splint.
Herb will accompany Fritts in the
meet.
The crack mile-relay team of
Guy Kay,' John Lauer, Bill Lock
hart, and John McCall are in their
usual good shape. The quartet
finished first in their last event,
the three-way meet at Micl47,an
State. •
Bob Freebairn, who ran a classy
4:22 mile on the balcony track
at Rec hall last week, and Don
Ashenfelter represent Penn
State's hopes in the single-mile
event.
Doubling the distance are Bill
Ashenfelter, who turned in an
equally classy 9:21 for two-miles
under the same conditions as
Freebairn, and Jack Homer.
Bladesmen Eye
Cornell Victory
Victims of undefeated Navy
last Saturday, the State blades
men return home tomorrow af
ternoon when they engage the
Cornell fencers from Ithaca, N.Y.
The Lions, winless in their
three previous starts, will eve the
Big Red with stern hopes of
breaking into the victory column.
Following last week's devasta
ting defeat by Navy, Coach Art
Meyer's aggregation surprisingly
feel "up" for the duel.
The spearhead of the State con
tingent will again be Captain Ed
Merek in the saber event, accord
ing to Coach Meyers. Merek, who
suffered his first setback of the
campaign last Saturday, will be
seeking revenge 'for the two loss
es he incurred last year at the
hands of the Cornell swordsmen.
In th saber, Merek; Bob Searles.
and Jerry Clauser will fence.
Foining in the foils will be Ed
Kalanik; Joe Kusick, and Tom
Taylor. In epee, Pete Raidy, Lou
Como, and Bob Whitman.
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Wrestlers Engage
Navy Grapplers
in Sal. Matinee
Penn State's wrestling , team,
top dog in Eastern wrestling_ cir
cies this season, will go to the
mats with a determined Navy
team that has lost only Once this
season tomorrow afternoon in
Rec hall.
Coach Charlie Speidel's men
now have won six straight this
season, and have a streak of nine
over two seasons.
A victory for the Lions to
morrow will put them at least
on a par with the championship
team of 1942 and last year's team,
both of which posted-seven dual
meet wins during the • season,
while losing one. The Lions have
one more match (with Cornell)
after tomorrow's fracas.
Two Maimen -Undefeated
Two of Speidel's outstanding
wrestlers, Captain Homer Barr,
two-time Eastern champion, and
sophomore Don Frey, 147-pound .
grappler, are undefeated this sea
son. Barr will be after his 23rd
consecutive victory in dual meets
without a defeat. six - wins com
ing this season, while Frey pin
ned his first four opponents of the
season, before settling, for two
wins on decision. He has no losses.
Starting off for the Lions will
be Johnny Reese, who last week,
in the .17-9 victory over defend
ing EIWA titlists, lost 'a decision
to EIWA champ Bob Gerbino.
Reese has wrestled in only two
meets this season. He lost his
other match by a fall to Virginia.
Following Reese will be either
Dean Harbold or Jack Dreibelbis.
at 130. Dreibelbis also lost his
outing last week; In 137, Don
Maurey, who has had his ups and
downs this season, tries to get
back on 'the winning side of the
ledger.
Powerful. Bill Santel goes after
his sixth win of the campaign
against, one loss. Santel now has
three straight wins since losing
to Jim Conklin at Pitt.
Joe Lemyre will be back at 167
after one win at 177 last week,
and Mike Rubino returns to his
old stand in the 177-pound class.
Both Lemyre and Rubino have
5-1 records for the season. -
Penn State's Charlie Speidet:
rates his freshman coach, Charlie,
Ridenour, one of the best wrest;, , ,.,,
lers he ever tutored. ' ,
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