srx ..rgi Saturday night which Penn State won. 64-44. The object of Carl son's squawk is Junie Moore, Lion guard. • Cagers Meet VII. Virginia, Dump Panthers, 64-44 Penn State's basketball team went out after its fifteenth win of the season last night in Morgantown, West Virginia, where the Nittany Lion cagers met West Virginia university. Lion Captain Lou Lamie needed only 14 points to break the Penn State' one season mark as the Nittanies took the floor against the Mountaineers. Lamie.'s total going into last night's game was 286. Marty Costa set the one season mark last year by scoring 299 points. In Re c hall Saturday night, Coach Elmer Gross' cagers in sured themselves of a successful season by winning their four teenth game, defeating Pitt, 64-44. The victory gives Gross' team one more win than last season's team was able to count and even if the Lions were to lose their two remaining games, they would end the camnaign with a respect able 14 and 9 record Bulletin Wont Virginia defeated Penn State last night, 72-68. in Mor gantown. Laurie, after his second Penn State scoring record, cut in half the number of points needed to break Costa's record. The Lion jump -shot artist whipped in 14 Points, just half of the 28 he needed to top Costa's 299 record. In avenging a defeat handed them by Pitt earlier in the year, the Lions outran, outshot, and generally outplayed the Panthers in every department. Using a fast break against Doc Carlson's "slow break," the State courtmen took a 1-0 lead at the outset on Ted Panoplos' foul and from then on were never headed. Only twice, in the early minutes of the contest, was the score tied. After Tiny McMahan broke the last of these with a field goal to give the Lions a 9-7 margin, State gradually pulled away and left the court at halftime with a 32-24 lead. Pitt narrowed the count down to 37-30 shortly after the half got under way, but 11 straight points gave the Lions a 50-30 bulge and from then on they coasted to vic tory. Ted Panoplos took scoring hon ors for the Lions with 16 points. But it was little Mike Belich .who won the evening's honors. Pitt's "Little All-American" tossed in 17 markers to pace the Panther scor ers. State shot at a 34 per cent clip while Pitt hit on 28 per cent. The summary: Penn State Pitt FG F Pls. FG F Pts. Lamie,f 5 4 14 BelicoM 6 5 17 Lynch 0 0 0 Zern!cli,f 1 1 3 WlManua 2 0 4 Kendrik 2 2 6 Shuptar 1 0 2 Virostek,c 3 I 7 Piorkowski I 0 2 Yurka,g 1 2 4 Philllns 0 0 0 Lloyd 1 1 3 Mehfahan.c 5 0 10 Ilromanik,g 0 1 1 Makarewicz 1 1 3 Phillips 0 1 1 Panoplos.g 6 4 16 Carnahan 0 0 0 Sledaik g 0 4 .1 Everett 0 2 2 Moore,g 4 1 9 lalmberg 0 0 0 Gibson 0 0 0 Totals 25 14 64 Totals 14 16 44 Don Maurey and Joe Lemyre, varsity wrstlers at Penn State, both hava br-!hers on the fresh man mat team. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PE.NNSyLVANIA 'Ez Fights Walcott Wed. In /th Outing NEW YORK, March 6 (in— Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles determined to be the bus iest heavyweight king of alltime, takes on 37-year old Jersey Joe Walcott tomorrow night- in his seventh title defense. The lean, 29-year old titlist won NBA recognition by outpointing Walcott in Chicago June 22, 1949 and has been busy ever since ex cepting for an eight-month lay off because of a rib and heart injury. Ezzard is rated a solid 1 'to 3 choice to beat back Walcott's fourth challenge for the crown and go on to another bout with Joe Louis in April. Louis will be an interested spectator in De troit's Olympia. The old brown bomber still thinks he can whip Charles des pite the artistic shellacking he took froni Ezzard in Yankee sta dium last September. Walcott was upset by Rex Layne in his last outing in New York in November. The Camden, N.J. veteran weighed 200 that night and claims he was not in condition. He expects to weigh around, 194, his best fighting weight for Charles. The champ ion will scale around 184. Most improved pprformdr on the Penn State boxing team is Frank Gross, of Erie, who is ex pected to make a strong bid for 135-pound honors in the coming Eastern intercollegiate champion ships. Scandal Moves West . . Authorities Find California Fixer Not Linked With New York Group LOS ANGLES, March s—(P) An accused would-be basketball "fixer" was arraigned today while authorities said they found no link with the recent wave of ar rests in a New York cage scandal. "But we're pretty sure that he's tied up with big time California gamblers," said Deputy District Attorney Adolph Alexander. Charged with attempted bribery is Albert Scroggins, 31, lame self described jockey's agent and for mer paratrooper. The dapper Scroggins was sent to jail under '50,000 bail pending a prelimin ary hearing March 14. He was arrested on a tip from Matmen Top Cornell; First UnbeatenSeasonSince"3 5 lion Boxers Drop Final Dual Match To Virginia, 5-3 The Nittany Lion boxer's trip south of the Mason-Dixon line last weekend proved costly in more ways than one. The Lions lost their third dual s meet of the season. bringing the final record to 3-3-1, when the Cavaliers from the University of Virginia upset them, 5-3, Saturday night. , The Cavaliers also destroyed the only perfect record among the Nittany regulars, when the pride and joy of Charlottesville, Grover "Bat" Masterson, ended Frank Gross's win streak at six straight in the 135-Ib. class with a 29-27 decision. Gross looked good in winning the first round 10-9, and continued to make Masterson miss badly in the second, but taking the harder punches. Masterson took the sec ond round 10-9. The , Virginian finished a little stronger than Gross and took the third round 10-8. Bright Spot The brighest spot in the other wise dull picture, was Lou Kos zarek's successful defense of his unbeaten record at 165-lbs. He had little trouble in his tuneup fight for the EIBA's with new comer Bill Viar, winning a one sided 30-24 decision. The other Lion wins were re corded in the welterweight bouts. John Albarano gave Vince Mar shall a good beating. Captain Pat Heims had little trouble racking up his third win against rangy Pete Platt, taking a 30-27 decision. Heims was con tent to jab from long range while generally staying ,out of Platt's long reach. Light-heavyweight Chuck Wil son made a valiant attempt to gain a tie for the Lions and had everyone convinced he had done just that until the decision was announced. The 30-28 decision for Virginia's Bill Burgess still has the Southerners blinking. Marino Loses The Lion's sophomore bantam weight, Sam Marino, dropped a 30-25 decision to veteran Len Coiner in the opening bout. Mari no was the better man during the third round, but ,couldn't over come Coiner's lead, built up in the first two rounds. Virginia's three-time Eastern champ, Allen Hollingsworth, de feated 130-pounder Jim Barr. Early in the first round Hollings worth landed a powerful body blow that sent Barr to the can vas. The TKO.came at 39 seconds of the first round. Making his ring debut for the Lions, Mario Santangelo dropped a 30-27 decision to another foot baller, Bill Sinclair in the heavy weight scrap. Ken Flower, 19-year-old forward on the University of Southern Cal ifornia basketball team. Flower said Scroggins offered him $1,500 to see to it that the Trojans' lost their final Pacific Coast confer ence game with U.C.L.A... last Saturday night by at least 12 points. Flower, not a first stringer, said he was promised $5OO before the game, $5OO after and $5OO more to give to another player of his own selection. Instead, Flower took the offer to a coach. The Trojans went on to beat U.C.L.A., 43-41, and send the_ Coast conference race into a playoff tonight. • For the first time since 1935, Penn State will take an un defeated team into the Eastern. Intercollegiate Wrestling 'as sociation championships, to be held in Rec hall Friday and Saturday. 'Coach Charlie Speidel's mat charges ended their dual meet season with a 20-6 victory over Cornell, for their sev enth win but the win was somewhat dampened by Captain Homer Barr's first dual meet loss in three years of wrestling for the Blue and White. Barr lost a 7-6 decision to Cornell heavyweight Dick Clark, wh o now has a 7-1 record. 1, Don Frey, 147, came out of the meet with a 2-1 decision over Frank Bettticci to emerge as the only undefeated member of the Penn State tettm. Bettucci was al so undefeated in nine previous matches before he hooked up with Frey. whose record for the season is 7-0. Frey's Time Wins , Frey's match was, a compara tively dull affair, with only two escapes, one a referee's decision,, being Made: Fiey's winning point was scored on one minute's time advantage. In the first period, Frey seem ed able to take Bettucci's leg at will, but couldn't quite maneuv er him around for a takedown. In the second period, with Frey in the position of advantage, ref eree Dick Dißatista warned Frey about , carrying Bettucci off the mat while working him over, and a second time awarded Bettucci an 4utomatic escape. Frey pulled an escape early in the final per iod. Lemyre Captures Pan-Am Mat Title Dick Lemyre, a member of the Penn State freshman wrestling team, defeated Plores Lucas in the finals of the bantamweight .divis ion of the wrestling tournament at Buenos Aires, Argentina, the scene of the Pan-American games. Dick Lemyre Another Lion freshman wrest ler, Jerry Maurey, saw his un beaten streak go by the boards as he - dropped the title match to Omar Blebel, of Argentina. in the featherweight division. Maurey previously had a winning streak that extended over a four-year span. Another freshman w r e s t l e r, Hugh Peery, of Pitt, defeated M. Varela, Argentina, in the finals for the flyweight crown. Terps Outshoot Nittany Riflers Maryland's ' crack rifle team fired a 1428 score to easily down Coach Felipe Vias' Nittany rifle men in shoulder-to-shoulder com petition in the Armory Saturday morning. The Lions shot a 1390 total. The defeat lowered Statq's sea son record to 23 victories against 16 losses, but this defeat did not cause much loss in 'prestige. The Terps have been averaging 1427 points per match, compared to the Lion's season high firing of 1410. Last year Maryland finished second to Army in the Inter-col legiates and if they maintain their present average should be at the top again in the Nationals. Sam Carnahan 1e d State's scoring with a 281 total, closely followed by Nelson Bevard with a 280 total. Other top firers for the Lions were Walt Beers, 278; Clarke Young, 276, and Rod In gleright, 275. Usually high-scoring John Stoudt, captain of the team, failed to place in the scoring. Maryland's high firer had a 289 score, while their lowest man had a 284. Lion Grapplers Mauled By Big Red Frosh, 26-5 Coach Charlie Ridenour's fresh man wrestlers closed their season last Saturday as they dropped a 26-5 verdict to the Cornell fresh men team. The loss gave the Little Lions a final log of 1-2. They previous ly had defeated Lehigh, 23-11 in their opening match and then dropped, a 19-11 match to, Pitt in their second meet. Doug Cassel, who drew at 123 pounds, , and Bob Winters, who decisioned Bill Ebel, 6-5, were the only point-getters for Penn State. The other bouts were all won by Cornell with two of them coming via falls. Cornell won these falls in the 137 and 167 •pound classes. TUESDAY, MARCH 6; 1951 Barr's match was reminiscent of the legendary battles of tim berland strongmen. It was evi dent that. Clark's first takedown took something out of the two time EIWA champion. It was the first time that Barr had been taken down in Eastern competi tion. Barr said that he felt tared even in the first period. "But don't underestimate Clark he put on a good fight," Barr said later. Waited For Barr Clark said that he stayed out of competition last year so that he could meet Barr later when he had improved. He is a five year engineering student. This is his last year of eligibility. He ordi narily weighs in at about 220 for a match, but tipped . the scales at 203 for. Saturday's engagernitnt. Bill Santel, 157-pounder, had the only pin of the battle, catch ing Paul Sampson in a cradle at 2:16 of the second period, after taking a lead. Santel finished the season with a 7-1 mark. Don Maurey and Bill Van Gi lder, at 137, put on the best show of the evening, with Maurey win ning, 7-5. Van Gilder twice tied the count, once in the second r-o -iod and again in the third per iod, but was never ahead. A re verse late in the third period iced the decision for Maurey. Reese Gets Ist. Call Johnny Reese started.the match off with a 7-6 decision in 123 over Dick Delgado. Reese got the win on a point for time. Cornell Cap tain Pete Bolanis whitewashed Dean Harbold in, the 130-pound encounter, 7-0, for his eighth vic tory against one loss. After Maurey, Frey and San tel had won, Joe Lemyre didn't have too much trouble taking his seventh win, a 6-2 decision from Les• Simon. Lemyre has lost only once this season. Mike Rubino took a 5-2 verdict from Cornell's Don Dickason, and pulled an escape that gave the crowd of 1500 a laugh. With Dick ason in the position of advantage in the second period, and Cor nell Coach Jim Miller tellincr Dickason to watch out for a step over, Mike stood up and walked straight away from the surprised Dickason. Owns All-Time Mark Lou Lamie is the proud owner of a new three-year scoring rec ord in Penn State basketball. The Lion captain already has topped 600 points, whereas .Tack Biery set the previous high of 576 dur ing the 1940'5. Also within La mie's grasp is a new single sea son high of 300 points or more. Mary Costa enrolled 299 points last year.
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