PAGE SIX Cagers Try for sth Straight Win Against Carnegie Tech Lion - Tartan Tilt Scheduled For 8 Tonight By DAVE COLTON Penn State’s cagers will be gunning for their fifth straight win of the season when they host Carnegie Tech in Rec Hall at 8 tonight. After their showings in the last four games the Lions will be fa vorites to continue their winning ways. State has a 6-1 record com pared to Tech’s 4-5 chart. Coach Mel Crastley has a vet eran quintet which started the season well, but has dropped its last four contests. Wednesday night Tech lost to Geneva, a team it defeated earlier in the year. Hot and Cold Besides Geneva, the Tartans have defeated Steubenville, Waynesburg, and Bethany. They lost to Lawrence Tech, Gettys burg, Westminster, Slippery Rock and Geneva. The Skibos have been a hot and cold team most of the season. Law rence Tech walloped them 88-61, but a good Westminster quintet was lucky to defeat them by one point. Slippery Rock upset them 57-55 Saturday night. In the all-time series between the two schools, Penn State holds a 44-10 edge. The teams last play ed two seasons ago when the Ski bos upset State, 57-42. Tech Small The visitors have two of the district’s top scorers, Tom Craig (6-1) and Fran Kuenzig (5-11). In the first eight games, Craig had 101 points and Kuenzig, 95. Other lettermen for the Skibos are Tom Beck (5-11), Bill Farbacher (6-4), Hilary Holste (6-4), and Kay Thompson (6-1). Farvaeher and Holste at six four are the Tartans’ biggest men, and they look small compared to some of the Lions’ recent foes. Jesse Arnelle, six-five fresh man, will be the Lions’ fop scoring threat. Arnelle has scored 100 points in the first seven games for a 14.2 average. Herm Sledzik has scored 22 field goals and 27 fouls for 71 markers, and is sec ond in team scoring. Co-captain Hardy Williams with 52 points, Joe Piorkowski, 48, and Ronnie Weidenhammer, 40, are State’s other, scoring leaders. Lions io Travel Coach Elmer Gross will start the lineup which opened against Syracuse Thursday. Williams and Weidenhammer will be at. the guards;. Arnelle, center; and Pior kowski and Sledzik, forwards. After tonight’s appearance the Lions will not play at home until they entertain Rutgers Feb. 6. They have two road trips this week playing Gettysburg; Wed nesday, and Dickinson, Thursday. Saturday they go to Pittsburgh to play Pitt again in the Pitt fieldhouse. The Blue and White have scored 423 points in the first seven games for an average of 60.4. Defensive ly, State has allowed 341 tallies for an average of 48.7. Co-captain Tiny McMahan is Gross’ highest, scoring reserve. McMahan has scored 32 points in five games. Pirates May Get Groat NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (JP)— Dick Groat, Duke’s baseball and basketball star, intends to enter professional baseball as a short stop in June and at the moment it appears he will cast his lot with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Gilbert Elected At the helm of the 32-member Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association for the year 1952 will be H. R. “Ike” Gilbert, now in his JSGth year as Penn State graduate manager of athletics. He succeeds Earl R. Yoemans, Temple Uni versity. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN; STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 'Roll 'em Over Hud!' —Photo by McNeillie HUD SAMSON, Niltany Lion 177 pounder, tries to roll over Vir ginia's Meb Turner in their bout in last night's wrestling matches in Rec Hall. Hud finally pinned Turner at 5:29. Slate shut out the Cavaliers 34-0. Matmen (Continued from -page o ne) decked Meb Turner in 5:29. In the second period Hud ducked under Turner’s arms for a take down and after repeated trys got his pin. Heavyweight Lynn Illingworth capped a most pinning night with a fall at 3:30 over Virginian Jack Clarkson. Lynn used a side roll, step-over reverse to start the second period and ended 30 sec onds later with an inside crotch .and chancery. Toughest Foe Freshman Bob Homan started the all-Lion show with an 8-3 decision over Pete Thomas at 123. En route to his .second straight varsity win, Bob was in complete command. He twice took down Thomas with arm drags and after a rolling reverse to start the third period, Bob tried desperately to pin the uncooperative Thomas who played dead. Doug Frey drew Virginia’s toughest foe, Captain Joe Wood 'and made off with a 4-2 victory at 157 pounds—his first of the year. With the advantage position in the second period, Doug held it throughout to get the time which earned him the win. Veteran Joe Lemyre came off with his second win of the year by 6-2 over 167 pounder Bob Big gar. Taken down by a leg pickup in the first period, Joe reversed and from then on kept charge trying unsuccessfully to roll over Biggar for a fall. Summary 123—Human (PS) decisioned Thomas, 8-3. 130—D. Lemyre (PS) pinned Bowden with reverse cradle in 1:53. 127—Maurey (PS) pinned Williams with cross-crucifix in 4:17. 147—Don Frey (PS) pinned Dorman with cradle in 1:23. 157—Doug. Frey (PS) decisioned Wood, 4-2. 167— J. Lemyre (PS) decisioned Biggar, 6-2. 177—Samson (PS) pinned Turner with body press in 5:29. Uwt.— lllingworth (PS) pinned Clarkson with inside crotch and chancery in 3:30. Perni State 34, Virginia 0. Robinson's Charity Rout Canceled; Mother 111 NEW YORK, Jan. 11—(/P) Manager George Gainford said to night that middleweight champion Ray Robinson’s charity title fight with Carl (Bobo) Olson has been called off because the champion’s mother is seriously ill’. The 15-round bout for the bene fit of the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund was to have been held in San Francisco, Jan. 24. 'lke' Gilbert Named To Advisory Committee Harold H. "Ike" Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, yesterday was named to the advisory committee of the newly organized Association of College Athletic Business and Ticket Managers. A. J. Lewandowski of the University of Nebraska was elected president of the asso ciation, the Associated Press reported. Tryouts Slated For Gym Team Next Week Eliminations for the special evens in preparation for the com ing gymnastics meet with North Carolina, will take place during the early part of next week "Lion gym mentor Gene Wettstone an nounced yesterday. The Nittany gymnasts have been steadily out in Rec Hall combining exercising with their regular special events work outs. Each man practiced a num ber of exercises, and then se lected the five in which he be lieved he could do best.. Competition is still vigorous in the individual events, and the outcome of several specialties is certain to be close. Coach 7/ett stone said that he would probably be able to announce starters of the six gym events by Tuesday or Wednesday. The Lion tumblers have fotflr men running neck and neck for r e starting position. Bob Kreid .ler, Howie Mason, Bob Kenyon, nd Kermit Frey have all shown promise on the mats. Mason is currently sidelined with a pulled muscle in his ankle. He is ex pected ic return to action shortly. In the rope’ climing event, Dave Shultz is leading the field. He has cut his climbing time to 3.8 sec onds. Johnny Baffa, Bob Boud reau, Johnny Hazen, Norman Yu, and Pete Longmire round out the field. His Third Year Eddie Sulkowski, a Pittsburgh native, will be at the helm of Penn State boxing for the third time in 1952. Brazil Track Fans Watch. Midnight Race A‘ recent guest of the Gazetta Esportita in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bill Ashenfelter, has returned to Penn State and will complete his collegiate running career on Friday night in the Philadelphia. In quirer track meet. He will run tonight for the Lions in the Wash- ington Star meet. Bill reached the pinnacle of his success last fall by upsetting some of the nation’s best harriers to win the six-and-a-quarter mile Middle Atlantic AAU cross-coun try championship. On the basis of this he earned an invitation from the Ameri can AAU, on be half of the Bra zilian a m a teur organization, to compete in their miniature olym piad. Bill, along with Curt Stone, left New York on Christmas day, and arived at Sao Paulo on Saturday night. They had no chance to work out prior to the four-mile ARROW PRODUCTS - Featured at KALIN'S 130 S. Allen Street SATURDAY. JANUARY 12. 1952 By FRED SINGER toad race which was held on New Year’s Eve. As Bill puts it, “Those track fans down there are insane. Two million of 'theln lined the roads at midnight to watch 2000 equal ly fanatical runners race through pitted cobblestone streets in a driving rain, with fire crackers being set off all around us. They were the worst conditions under which I’ve ever run.” Bill fin ished in 24th place, while Stone came in eighth. “Then on Jan. 3,” continued Bill, “9000 spectators packed the stadium to witness just four run ning events. Stony got a fifth in the 5000 meters,. and I finished third in the 1500 meterS.” Bill’s time was 4:01 as compared,to the winning time of 3:59,
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