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Gymnasts Host North Carolina
Nitfany Lions
Open Season
At 8 Tonight
By 808 SCHOELLKOPF
Penn State’s 1952 gymnastics
team will put its wares on dis
play for the first time at 8 to
night in Rec Hall, when it en
gages North Carolina, coached by
ex-Penn State tumbler Bill
Meade.
Seven events, including the
rope climb, parallel bars, side
horse, horizontal bar, flying rings,
and the trampoline will be fea
tured in the meet. The latter
event is scheduled only for to
night’s encounter.
Coach Gene Wettstone, who
will be starting his fourteenth
season as gym mentor, announced
only one change in the lineup
that will face the Tarheels to
• night. In the parallel bars Bill
Sabo was switched to third rank
and A 1 Wick was placed second.
Jean Cronstedt, young gym
nast from Finland, will make his
debut tonight as the Lions’ top
performer on the p-bars and the
horizontal bar. The other two
Penn State entries in the h-bar
are sophomore Mario Todaro and
senior Earle Kerber. "
Shultz in Rope Climb
Bobby Lawrence will be the
main threat for the Lions on the
sidehorse event, follo w e d by
Frank Wick and Dick Shaffer.
Coach Wettstone named John
ny Baffa and Bob Boudreau as
second and third men in the rope
climbing event. Dave Shultz,
lanky senior rope climbing
specialist, is the Lions’ ace in this
event.
In tumbling, Wettstone will use
Bob Kenyon, Howdy Mason, and
Bob Kreidler against the Tar
heels. Kenyon is considered to
be the Nittanies’ top matman.
Hazen Won Rings
Owen Wilkinson, who will cap
tain the Blue and White tonight,
and Kenyon will perform on the
trampoline. The Tarheels, who ex
cel in trampolining every year,
are favored to take this event.
Led by Jim Hazen, who took
first place in the flying rings
against the Tarheels last year,
the Lions are expected to win
handily in this event. John Hamp
ford and Tony Procopio will also
perform on the rings.
Former Champ
In its meet last year with North
Carolina, Penn State’s gymnastics
squad took six out of seven first
places and swept two events com
pletely to trample the Tarheels,
74%-33i/ 2 .
Tarheel Coach Meade was a
former pupil of Wettstone in
1943, 1948-49, and a former east
ern intercollegiate tumbling
champion at Penn State. He
served five years in the Navy as
a radioman. \
Panthers Capture
First Half in AIM
Bowling League
By winning eight games over
Atherton Hall last week, the Pan
thers won the first cycle of AIM
bowling competition at the Dux
Club.
With 78 victories and 26 losses
on their record, the Panthers
finished six games in front of
the second place Plugs.
, The Plugs’ Dayton Alger, how
ever, continued his pace as the
outstanding bowler for the league
with a 173 average for 39 games.
Tom Huntley of Atherton fin
ished first cycle action with the
highest single game score, having
rolled a high 233. McElwain Hall’s
Smith was high man for a three
game set with 603 pins.
The AIM league will resume
second half activity Feb. 11 at
9:15 p.m.
Final team standings for the
first half are as follows:
TEAM W L
Panthers 78 26
Plugs 72 32
K.K/s 67 37
Keystones 66 38
Vets 66 38
Atherton Hall 64 40
Emergency Squad 64 40
Beaver House 46 58
Penn Haven 44 60 -
Nittany Co-op 41 63
Black Sheep 36 68
Eager Beavers 32 72
McElwain Hall 30 74
P«nn State Club 22 82
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Begins 14th Year
Gene Wettstone
Inquirer, K of C
Meets Attract
Lion Thinclads
Coach Chic Werner will take
a squad of 13 men to the Phila
delphia Inquirer track meet to
morrow morning. The following
night five of them will journey
to Boston to compete in the
Knights of Columbus meet at the
Boston Garden.
The mile-relay quartet will be
composed of John Lauer, Bill
Kilmer, Ollie Sax,'who competed
in Washington last week, and
Dave Thomas. Thomas qualified
for the fourth spot by turning
in the best time for the 440 in
yesterday afternoon’s time trials.
May Save Ashenfelier
Coach Werner is still unde
cided as to his - two-mile relay
squad, but will take five men,
Bill Ashenfelter, Bob Roessler,
Jack Horner, Don Austin, and
Dave Pierson, four of whom will
be selected for the race.
He may save Bill Ashenfelter
for Saturday night since Ashen
felter is competing in the two
mile invitation race at Boston.
First For Thomas
Dan Lorch, pole vaulter, fav
ored by the good weather in the
past few days, has had a chance
to do some actual vaulting in
practice for the first time this
winter. He will be competing
against at least five vaulters who
have cleared 14 feet or more,
three of them having bettered 15
feet.
This will be Thomas’ first taste
of intercollegiate competition. He
is a senior but has been a candi
date for the varsity for the past
two seasons, always being over
shadowed by such great sprinters
as Jim Gehrdes, Wilbur Lancas
ter, and Bill Lockhart.
Officials Await
Russian Entry
OSLO, Norway, Jan. 16—(A 1 )
Officials of the winter Olympics
awaited word from the Russians
today on whether the' Soviets will
send an ice hockey team to the
games next month.
It was reported yesterday the
Russians had applied for mem
bership in the International Ice
Hockey Federation and would
ask to be entered in the Olympic
tournament.
The secretary general of the
Olympic organizing committee,
Rolf Pettersen, said he would
still accept a Russian application
to participate even though the
deadline expired New Year’s-Eve.
Pettersen added, however, the
application must be in his hands
in the next couple of .days.
Walter Fyri, press officer of the
games, said he had press tickets
for the Russians and these'would
be kept in reserve for the next
few days pending word from the
Soviet about intentions.
All Big Boys
Penn State’s current basketball
team, bigger than usual, averages
6 feet 3 inches in height
Cagers Conclude Trip Tonight,
Meet Dickinson At Carlisle
Pitt Boasts
3 Unbeaten
Wrestlers
Three unbeaten Pittsburgh
wrestlers should provide stiff
tests for undefeated Nittany mat
men in three weight classes when
the Lions and Panthers square
off in Rec Hall Saturday.
Hugh Peery, son of Pitt coach
Rex Peery, appears as the out
standing grappler in the Pitt line
up. Young Peery, Pan-American
Olympic champion last March,
has won four straight matches so
far this season in the 123 pound
class.
Poses Test for Lemyxe
Freshman Bob Homan will
probably- get the assignment to
take on Peery for the Lions. Bob
is himself unbeaten, having won
the first two varsity matches of
his life in surprising fashion.
Number two man, for the Pan
thers and probably potentially as
strong as Peery, is Harold Miller
at 130 pounds. Miller is also-un
beaten in four starts this season.
Last year Miller was top man for
Pitt, piling up the creditable
record of 12-2 in dual meets.
Uram Undefeated
Miller will have his N -hands full
Saturday, as his opponent will be
the quick, skillful Dick Lemyre.
The Nittany Pan-American ban
tamweight champion is unbeaten
thus far in his first two varsity
starts.
Pitt’s third undefeated matman
to oppose the Lions will be Chuck
Uram, at 147 pounds. Uram, al
though having wrestled to a draw
once, has turned in three victories.
To meet this challenge, State
has unbeaten Don "Frey ready to
go. Frey has not lost in dual com
petition since- he started varsity
wrestling last year. He took 147
pound runnerup honors in both
the EIWA and NCAA champion
ships a year ago.
Other Starters
Joe Kane, only letterman be
sides Miller in the probable Pitt
lineup Saturday* should be Coach
Peery’s heavyweight grappler
wrestler if he has recovered from
a dislocated elbow suffered
against Michigan State. Kane has
lost three times and won once so
far.
Other probable Pitt starters are
frosh Bud Wise (2-2) at 17.7
pounds; Harven Krause (0-3-1) in
the 167 pound class; George Mat
thews (2-2) at 137 pounds; and
freshman Joe Solomon with a
3-1 157 pound record.
Penn State Grad
Charlie Ridenour, now in his
first year as University of Penn
sylvania wrestling coach, is a for
mer Penn State mat champion. '
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Penn State’s travelling cage squad concludes an abbreviated
two-day trip when it meets a winless Dickinson team in Carlisle at
8:30 tonight.
The Lions played Gettysburg last night in the first of their three
away games this week.
Coach Elmer Gross’ quintet is a heavy favorite to improve the
7-1 record which it carried into
last night’s battle with the Bul
lets. Dickinson has dropped suc
cessive games to Albright, Leba
non Valley, Western .Maryland,
Franklin & Marshall, and Wagner.
Coach Johnny Hopper promoted
two of his junior, varsity• stars,
Leroy Huber and Robert Varano,
in an effort to bolster his club for
tonight’s fray. Huber, six-two for
ward, and Varano, six-one guard,
were the leading scorers on the
undefeated jayvee team.
Zilling Top Scorer
Devils' Tap Scorer
Dick Zilling
Dickinson Forward
BUI Star]
Yanks Turn Down Bid
NEW YORK, Jan. 16— (IP) —A
bid by an unidentified Dallas
man to buy the New York Yanks’
franchise in the National Football
League and 'transfer it to Texas'
has been rejected, a spokesman
for owner Ted Collins said today.
“It is the first concrete offer
we have received,” Collins’ at
torney, Myron Engelman said.
“It was transmitted to us by Bert
Bell (NFL Commissoiner). Mr.
Collins said we should forget it.”
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md thrilling fusion of pantomime, music
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952
By DAVE COLTON
Hopper expects to stick to his
starting lineup of Bill Kinsella
and Bob Beaver, guards; Dick
Johe, center; and Bill Stark and
Dick Zilling, forwards. Zilling, a
senior, leads the team with an
average of 17 points per game.
Zilling is familiar with the
scoring leadership since he paced
the Red Devils the last two sea
sons. Stark, aggressive forward,
was runnerup to Zilling last year.
Against Juniata- last week he
tallied 28 points.
Gross will open with the lineup
which guided the Lions to con
secutive victories over Michigan,
Pitt, Colgate, Syracuse, and Car
negie Tech.
Arnelle, Sledzik Top Lions
Co-captain Hardy Williams and
Ronnie Weidenhammer, Kutz
town freshman, will start at
guards; Jesse Arnelle, center; and
high-scoring Herm Sledzik and
Joe' Piorkowski, forwards.
Arnelle is the Lions’ top point
producer with 123 in eight games.
The tall freshman has averaged
15.4 points per game., Sledzik is
second with a ten point per con
test average.
Tonight’s contest will be the
first meeting between the two
schools in 18 years. State holds a
10-2 edge in the series.. The Lions
won the last contest played in
1934, 37-21.
The Nittanies finish this semes
ter’s activity with an important
clash with Pitt in the Panthers’
fieldhouse, Saturday. After the
Pitt game they will not play again
until they travel to Annapolis to
play Navy, Jan. 30.
26th Year
Charlie Speidel, Penn State
wrestling coach, is in his 26th
year as head coach of the Nittany
Lion matmen.
VAN HEFLIN
PATRICIA NEAL
"WEEKEND WITH
FATHER"
JOSEPH COTTON
BARBARA STANWYCK
"THE MAN WITH
A CLOAK"
OPEN at 6:20
JEAN PETERS
LOUIS JOURDAN
"ANNE OF
THE INDIES"