PAGE SIX Nittany Sophomore IC-4A Champ Two Gymnasts Foes Seek To Halt Slide A pair of gym teams will be, working almost frantically to break losing streaks that have enveloped both since early in the season when the Penn State squad meets Temple tomorrow afternoon in Rec hall. The Lions and the Owls have dropped three meets in the past three weeks to Army, Navy, and Syracuse. The parallel becomes even closer when comparative scores are considered since the two losers were defeated by al most identical scores The meet promises to be one of the closest of the year with each determined to end' the win famine at th e expense of the other. Valentino Undefeated Rudy Valentino, captain of the team and 1950 Eastern intercol legiate tumbling champion, will be closing his collegiate career with the meet. Valentino, a. fav orite to repeat this year, will, carry an undefeated season string onto the mats tomorrow. Dave Benner, another senior winner of fourth-place hon c t'ze national collegiate tour ; last year in the sidehorse •:::i1 also make his last Rec hall ay arance. Coach Gene Wettstone's men will compete •in three more tour neys, the Eastern, National, and the National Amatedr, but all will be held at other schools. Two Wins For Both Clubs The Temple team has regis tered two wins this year, as have the Statemen. The meet will probably, provide some of the keenest competition of the year for local fans. The meet will be a warmup for the Eastern. Intercollegiate championships next week at Annapolis. Tom Campbell, horizontal-bar; Jim Hazen, flying-rings; Dave Douglas, parallel-bars, and Dick Schultz rope, will be the Nittany headliners in those events. Nittany Freshmen Face Wyo. Seminary Tonight Penn State's freshman basket ball team will try to extend its three-game winning streak to night when it travels to Kingston for an encounter with Wyoming Seminary. The Nittany frosh play host to morrow night to Pittsburgh and close out the schedule Monday by engaging the Mountaineers at West• Virginia. In nine games thus far, Joe Tocci's youngsters have netted 521 points for a game average of 58 markers, while their oppo sition has scored 514 counters, giving them an average of 57 points. Charles (Chuck) Medl6r, Penn State athletic trainer, also is an assistant coach in baseball. He is a former Lion pitcher. Joe Colone, former Penn State football captain, i 3 a graduate as sistant at his alma mater. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA State, Owls Gym Meet Will Be Open To Public Tomorrow afternoon's gym nastics meet between Penn State and Temple will be open to the public, it was announced today. The first event in Rec reation Hall will go on at 2 p.m. H. R. Gilbert, graduate man ager of athletics, said the gym nastics coach, Gene Wettstone, asked that such permission be granted in order that the public would have at least one oppor tunity to see his team in action this season. It will be the last home ap pearance of the seniors on the squad, among them the captain And Eastern tumbling 'champ ion Rudy Valentino, who's un beaten in the current campaign. Upset Likely As Fencers Till Docs The prospects of getting on the winning side of the. ledger ap pear bright for the Nittany Lion fencing team tomorrow afternoon when they face Johns Hopkins' foilsmen at Rec hall.' For the first time this season they will compete on even terms displaying their parrying and counter-attacking techniques. In last year's encounter, the Meyermen, after trailing 10-8 going into the saber duels,. forg ed ahead and captured the event, 6-3, thus enabling them to eke out a 14-13 triumph. Captain Ed Merek played the major role, in the sabers as he won two and dropped one. He will again at tempt to duplicate the feat when the two squads face each other tomorrow. Although they were defeated last week, Coach Art Meyer ex pressed satisfaction with his charges, especially the. perform ances of Ed Kalanik and Jerry Clauser. Displaying exceptional speed and good form, Kalanik sparked the foil event by striking vicious foil slashes which enabled him to cop his three duels. Swinging hard and often with his saber, Clauser, substituting for Capt. Merek, scored an upset over his veteran opponent. Seton Hall In N.I.T. NEW YORK, March I—(iP) Seton Hall college of South Or ange, N.J., was selected today as the eighth team to play in' the National Invitation Basketball Tournament starting March 10 at Madison Square Garden. Four more teams are to be chosen, but the complete list isn't expected to be known until the end of the week, N.I.T. of ficials said. Pen In F n State Cou inal Home F a k much-needed week's rest, the tomorrow night; meeting the Pitt After into action Pugilists Oppose Va. Tomorrow; Santangelo Hvgt. Boxing Coach Eddie Sulkowski is making one change in his line up for the final dual meet of the season against the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia- to morrow night in ;Charlottesville, Virginia, the scene of next week's Eastern, -Intercollegiate boxing tournament. Footballer Mario Santangelo will get a chance to handle the heavyweight chores for the Nit tany Lions, replacing Herb Kurt; who has been the regular heavy since the second meet of the sea son. Sulkowski plans no other changes. Seek 4th Win The Lions, out for their fourth win of the current campaign, leave at 12:30 p.m. today for the Cavalier stronghold. Virginia packs most of its wal lop in the first three weights, with veterans Len Coiner, Allen Hollingsworth, and Grover Mas terson back for another season in the squared ring. Countering the Cavaliers at these weights, Sul kowski will use his regulars, Sam Marino, Jim Barr, and Frank Gross. Theonly other returnee in the. Virginia lineup is 145 pounder, Vince Marshall, who was deci sioned last year by the Lions' Paul Smith at 165-lbs. Dropping two weights this year, Marshall will square off against John Al barano, who drew with Master son pt 135-lbs. last year. Heims * Meets Furrow At 155-lbs., State's Captain Pate Heims meets Ken Furrow, who has lost to Catholic U's Bucky Ennis, Army's Ken Herring, and Syracuse's Bill Miller. Heims will be looking for his third win against three losses and'a draw.- Undefeated Lou Koszarek, 165, will tangle with either Jim Fields or Bill Viar, both newcomers.. Koszarek has 'four wins and two draws this year. Chuck Wilson will seek his second win of the year against the Cavalier's Bill Burgess, an other newcomer. Santangelo In 'Debut Santangelo makes his initial appearance for th e ringmen against Bill Sinclair, who has dropped a bout at both the light and heavyweight classes. Santan gelo has worked out with the Lions since the close of the foot ball season. The top bout of the evening should ' prove to be the 135-Ib. battle between undefeated Gross and two-time Eastern champ, Masterson. Masterson did not try for his third crown last year be cause of a bad cold. Hollings worth, 130 pounder for the Ca- Naliers, is a three-time Eastern champ. Both Masterson and Hol lingsworth are undefeated this year. 12 More Handball Matches Decided Twelve matches were complet ed in Wednesday night action in the intramural handball tourna ment in both round one and two competition. In round two competition, Da vid Bischoff, Sigma Nu, beat James Clark, Sigma Pi, 21-8, 21- 19; Bernard hitehill, Theta Kappa Phi, beat Joseph Brown, Phi Epsilon Pi, 21-5, .21-4. In the remaining round one ac tion, Richard Hannah, Pi Kappa Alpha, beat Joseph Yukica, Phi Kappa Psi, 21-0, 21-2; Fred Levin, Phi Sigma Delta, beat David Bar ney, 21-0, 21-2; Robert Sundius, Theta Kappa Phi, beat Miles Gehm, Theta Xi, 21-7, 21-11; Rob ert Bunnell, Pill Gamma Delta, ittrien:,MeetTif ray Tomorrow Nittany Lion basketball team will go bacl! Panthers in the final home contest-tif the year. e The next five, days , will be th roughest the Lions have had thisi season. After the Pitt game, the, ,Nittanies must meet West Vir ginia in Morgantown Monday and then !do an about face back to Philadelphia for a game with Penn on Wednesday. • Tomorrow's game with Pitt is an important one. If the Lions can win, it will mean they have bettered last year's record of, 13 wins and 10 losses. The State cagers' record now stands at 13 and 7 losses. an's,: Here' Agai Vi;: 1 : 7 fE.Y;; ;: ;f H. C. 'DOC' CARL 'Clown Prince Of Basketball Unbeaten Mailmen Seek 10th Straight Against Cornell Penn State's . undefeated wrest ling team will wind up its dual meet season tomorrow as it takes on the Big Red of Cornell 'at Ithaca. The team will leave by bus this afternoon about 1 o'clock and ar rive in Ithaca about 6 o'clock. Speidel will probably stick with the same lineup that de feated Navy last week-end for the seventh straight win this sea son, and the tenth over two sea sons. ' / Barr Ends Brilliant Career Homer Barr will wind up his collegiate career as he attempts to make it 24 straight dual-meet wins' without a • defeat over a span of three seasons. As Barr sings his swan song, another Nittany matman, sopho more Don Frey, will try to follow in his steps and end his first sea son undefeated. Frey is on a streak of seven straight. , • Besides Barr—Johnny Reese, Don Watkins, jack Dreibelbis and Mike Rubino are all seniors And will graduate in June. Reese, will start in the 123- pound class, but it is still a toss up between Dreibelbis and Dean Harbold at 130. Maurey at 137-lbs. Don. Maurey will be at his usual 137-pound spot and Frey at 147. Bill Santel sticks at 157. Rubino will probably stay, at 167 for his last match, Joe Lem yre will remain at 177. While only Barr and Frey are undefeated, several others boast good season records. Santel has only, lost once this season, while winning six. Lemyre also has a 6-1 record. Following the two one-time losers are Maurey and Rubino, both with 5-2 logs for the .-,sea son. The rest of the team is spread out behind them, with quite a difference in the records. Harbold and Dreibelbis both have won two, with Harbold losing once, Dreibelbis twice. Watkins has a 1-3 record and Reese is the only non-victor on the squad, with a record of two losses and one draw. Reese does have the distinction of having the only draw of the season for the Nittanfes. beat Richard Seidel, Pi Kappa Phi, 21-18, 21-15; William Abbott, Beta Theta Pi, beat Wayne Hock ersmith, Delta Sigma Phi, 21-10, 21-2. George Ripple, Acacia, won over William Hopper, Beta Theta Pi, by forfeit; Richard Weisberg, Beta ,Sigma Rho, also won over John 'Pacuska; Phi Sigma Kappa, by forfeit; Leonard Bartek, Sig ma Phi Epsilon, beat Donald Frear, Alpha Chi Sigma, 21-3, 21- 0; Jack Dreibelbis, Sigma Phi Ep silon, beat Edward McFadden, Phi Kappa, 21-0, 21-2, and Allen Marshall, Delta Tau Delta, beat Eugene Schaffer, Sigma Nu, 21- 0, 21-1. FRIDAY, MARCH 2,19' Carlson-Coached COached by the "clown\ prince of basketball coaches," Doc Carl son, the Panthers- hold a win over the Lions. In Pittsburgh last month, Pitt snapped a six game winning streak of the k"enn..State cagers, scoring an upset victory, 60-51. _ Although 'you can't compare the Panther'S 9 and 16 record with that of the Lions, Doc Carl son's crew is one of the' most, underrated teams in the district.' Carlson's "win 'em all" team started the season with an am bitious schedule, but just didn't have the punch to • cope with teams the caliber of Bradley, Cin cinnati, lowa, California, and the like. But lately, sparked by their little ball of fire, Mike Belich, who just this week was named to the second team "Little All-Am erica," the Panthers have hit their stride. In their last two out ings, the Panthers have upended mighty Army, 48-44, and - West Virginia, 74-72. In the game against the Mountaineers, Belich smashed the Pitt one-season scor ing mark by tallying his 399th point, breaking the old record by 9 points. ON Coaches' Lamie Nears Pt. Mark - - As coincidence would have it, Captain Lou Lamie, the Lions' big point man, is nearing Penn State's one season mark of 299. Lamie needs 28 points to break it and become the first Lion eag er to score 300 points. / Coach Elmer Gross received some bad news when he learned that Joe Piorkowski will prob ably not be able to play against Pitt. The Nittany forward injur ed his knee in a tumbling class, and according to Trainer Chuck Medlar probably would not be available tomorrow. Lamie, one of State's all-time top scorers, Ted Panoplos, Junie Moore, and Torn Shuptar will make thdir last appearance in Rec hall tomorrow night. Former Lion Hurler Medalist of the annual baseball players golf tournament in Miami this winter was Ken, Yount, for mer P enn State pitching ace. Yount, who carded a three-over par 73 on opening day, was rated an outstanding golfer in his un dergraduate years but had to forego the links sport becatlse of its conflict with baseball. 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