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State Cagers Entertain Tall
Georgetown Five Tomorrow
Coach Elmer Gross’ courtmen face one of the tallest
teams on their schedule when they match baskets with the
Georgetown Hoyas in Rec Hall tomorrow night.
Coach Buddy O’Grady’s cagers don’t have too impressive
a record but have shown potentialities throughout the year.
Wins over teams such as Princeton, Pitt, and Canisius and
a starting array close to an av
erage of six-feet four inches tall
marks the Hoyas as a dangerous
threat to the Lions’ 12 game win
ning streak.
State will be gunning for an
all-time consecutive winning
streak. If the Lions can topple
the tall visitors, they will snap
the former mark of 12, set by
the “Cinderella” team of 1941-42
which participated in the NCAA
tournament in Madison Square
Garden. The current hoopsters
tied that record with a 66-52 vic
tory over Rutgers Wednesday.
Walloped Pitt
Georgetown has a seasonal
record of eight victories against
seven losses, compared to State’s
14-1 chart. The Hoyas have
downed Loyola of Baltimore,
Randolph - Macon, Catholic U.,
Princeton, Wake F orest, Pitt
Scranton, and Canisius.
Winners over the Hoyas were
Fordham twice, Maryland, Navy,
George Washington, Detroit and
Dayton. But an interesting note
is that Dayton, which has been
rated above State all season, only
edged the Hoyas, 80-74. The vis
itors also walloped Pitt 74-59 at
the Pitt fieldhouse, a larger ma
jority than the Lions were able
to accomplish in the second con
test with Pitt.
O’Grady usually starts Hugh
Beins (6-7), Bill Bolger ((6-5),
Bob Makatura (5-10), Denny
Murphy (6-5), and Barry Sulli
van (6-3). All the starters are
juniors, as is the top reserve,
John Hekker (6-4). Bolger is
leading the team in scoring with
an average of about 17 points per
game.
Sullivan Hoi
Penn State and Georgetown
have met 15 times on the hard
wood. The Lions own a narrow
13-12 edge in the series. Last
season Gross’ aggregation won
a 76-70 decision.
Sullivan had one of his best
nights against the Nittanies last
season when he hit for 20 points.
Beins made 15, and Bolger, who
scored 265 during the year, con
nected for 14.
Gross will start Jesse Arnelle,
Joe Piorkowski, Herm Sledzik,
Bon Weidenhammer and co-cap
tain Hardy Williams. Every
point Arnelle scores will move
him closer to the 319 poin one
season record held by Lou Lamie.
The New Bochelle frosh now
has 245 points, an average of
16.3 per game.
Thompson Hall
Takes Lead
In Swimming
Thompson Hall took first place
with 52 points as second semester
intramural swimming got under
way last night in White Hall.
. Second and third place winners
were Zeta Tau Alpha with 42
points and Gamma Phi Beta with
29 points.
In volley ball, Alpha Chi Ome
ga defeated Alpha Epsilon Phi
27-23 in the first game of the
evening. Delta Delta Delta for
feited their game to Thompson A.
Chi Omega downed Phi Sigma
Sigma, 48-19. and Theta Phi Al
pha beat Thompson B, 34-16. Mac-
Allister Hall took a one-sided
game from Delta Zeta, 44-12. -In
the most lopsided game of the
evening Gamma Phi Beta over
whelmed Sigma Delta Tau, 64-25.
Leonides downed Phi Mu, 53-20,
and Kappa Kappa Gamma de
feated Alpha Gamma Delta, 38-31.
In bowling, Alpha Omicron Pi
beat the Co-op, 525-396. Simmons
was defeated by Atherton East,
550-445, and Alpha Xi Delta rolled
over Zeta Tau Alpha, 581-490.
High scorer of the evening was
Barbara Charles of Alpha Xi Del
ta with 141 points.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE Cr*r,LEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
'Fats' Henry
Football Great,
Dies of Diabetes
WASHINGTON, Pa., Feb. 7
(JP) — Death put an end to the
great Fats Henry’s last, fight to
day, but his football fame will
live forever.
The athletic director-coach of
Washington and Jefferson Col
lege, where he gained renown as
a grid lineman, succumbed' to
diabetes at the age of 54.
His name was Wilbur Henry
but most everybody knew him
either as Fats or Pete. He caught
a prolonged illness which dates
back to 1948, when he had to
have a leg amputated from the
disease. But Fats never gave up,
and refused a fund drive in his
behalf. .
Touch Competitor
Hailed as the greatest lineman
of all time, Henry’s agility, force,
and imagination won his many
honors in the football world. He
was named All-America tackle in
1919 by the later Walter Camp,
and placed on the All-Time All-
America Associated Press team.
Last year his name became fur
ther immortalized by admittance
to the football hall of fame.
Throughout his life, Henry was
known for his affability and
kindness — attributes he learned
to forego a few hours each Satur
day afternoon during his playing
days. As a competitor, Henry was
considered touch and ruthless.
Spurred Presidents
A native of Mansfield, 0., the
big, shy 236-pound tackle made
the W. and J. varsity team in his
first game as a freshman. Henry
is the only W. and J. graduate
ever to win varsity letters in four
sports—football, baseball, basket
ball and track.
Henry’s great ability spurred
W. and J. teams to victory from
1917 to 1919. In those days W. and
J. was a football power.
Boxers Seek Ist Victory
Against Army Tomorrow
When the Penn State boxing team goes against the Cadets of
West Point at West Point tomorrow afternoon, Coach Eddie Sul
kowski will send the same eight men into action who battled Cath
olic U. to a 4-4 tie in Tuesday’s opener.
With hopes that the boys will carry a little more spirit and
confidence as a result of having one match under their belts,
Sulkowski has decided not to tamper with his first-meet selections.
In what probably will be the
match of the day and possibly
the match of the year, as far as
Penn Staters are concerned, will
be the Lions’ new sophomore
light heavyweight, Adam Kois,
and the Army’s captain and East
ern Intercollegiate 175 - pound
champ, Jim Mclnerney.
Marino vs Driscoll
Kois made a big hit against
Catholic U. with his quick dis
posal of Cliff Sisler, but in Mc
lnerney he will find a tough cus
tomer backed with plenty of ex
perience.
State’s 125 pounder, letterman
Sammy 'Marino, will take on
Cadet Paul Driscoll. Driscoll
owns a record of one win and
two losses.
The 132-pound match will find
State’s Joe Reynolds meeting
Cadet Jim McGee. McGee, a vet
eran boxer who fought last year
at 145, hasn’t been too lucky in
his new weight, and also has a
one and two record.
At 139 pounds, another Cadet
with a one and two mark, John
Poirier, will be sophomore Tony
Giles 'Amazed'
At Umpires'
View of Game
CINCINNATI, Feb. 7 —(^P) —
Warren C. Giles, new president
of the National League, is “amaz
ed at the intense desire of um
pires to do the right thing, make
the right decisions, and keep the
game moving.
“In three months as head of the
league, I have found out a good
deal more about umpires than I
knew as head of a ball club,”
Giles, former president and gen
eral manager of the Cincinnati
Reds, said in an interview today.
'Dollars and Cents'
One of the pleasant things he
has found is the ease with which
the salary problem is met with
the boys who call the balls and
strikes.
“With most ball players, it al
ways has been a matter of dollars
and cents at contract time,” Giles
said.
“With the umpires, on the
other hand, you say ‘here’s the
contract. They tell you their
views and it is only a question of
minutes before an agreement is
reached. Then they ask: ;
“ ‘What do you think of me as
an umpire? How can my work
be improved? How, with your ap
proval, can I help the younger
umpires?’ ”
Shouldn't Lose Temper
Giles, who announced that all
of the National League’s 14 um
pires of last year have been re
tained, said he had only one crit
icism of the men as a whole and
one he has discouraged—arguing
back with an irate ball player.
“Umpires should not lose their
tempers and argue back with
players over decisions,” Giles
said. “A court judge does not
argue with anyone; he maintains
his judicial attitude. That should
be the attitude of the umpires.
They should make their deci
sions, quit mask or finger shak
ing, and get the game moving
again.
“I believe that in some argu
ments in the past, the umpires
have been equally guilty as |the
players in delaying the game. I
want that stopped and the ar
biters have been so told.
Flore’s second opponent. Flore
lost his first match at Catholic U.
Captain John Albarano, at 147
pounds, will draw either Cadet
Rod Koch or Cadet Carl Crews.
Both boys are' sophomores, with
Crews having won his only fight
and Koch having dropped two.
A.pair of juniors will tangle in
the, 156 pound match, with State’s
Gerry Spotts meeting Cadet
Curt Brewer. Brewer has split
two bouts to date, while Spotts
dropped a decision in the C.U.
meet.
Yeakel at Heavyweight
What appears to be a pretty
good match is shaping up in the
165 pound match which will send
undefeated Eastern 165-pound
champ Lou Koszarek * against
Cadet Jeryl Hughes, who has
two wins and a tie thus far.
In the heavyweight match the.
Lions will pit sophomore Dave
Yeakel, who lost his C.U. bout,
against either Cadet Frank Hicks,
who has split two bouts, or Cadet
Mike Hepler, who has dropped
his only fight.
—U. S. Army Photo
808 KARNS
Gerry Maurey to Start
Against Army Wrestlers
With Gerry Maurey the only new man on the squad which made
Maryland the Lions’ fourth straight victim of the season last week,
Penn State’s wrestlers head for West Point this morning for to
morrow’s match with Army.
Sophomore Gerry, the youngest of the Clearfield trio of out
standing Lion wrestlers, replaces captain and brother Don Maurey
for the Lions at 137 pounds.
With only one official defeat in
his career, the brother of EIWA
champions and Nittany captains
Jim and Don will be making his
varsity debut. Cagey and fast,
Gerry was unbeaten in high
school, PIAA champion, undefeat
ed as a State frosh last year and
suffered the only recorded de
feat of his career in the feather
weight finals of the' Pan-Ameri
can tourney last year,
Homan Faces Karns
Maurey, the third man to start
for State in the keenly contested
137 pound class, meets Army soph
Roger. Kolker, of unknown cali
ber.
Leading off for Charlie Speidel’s
unbeaten crew at 123 is Bob Ho
man. Without defeat in four
straight matches, the State first
year man faces a rugged foe in
EIWA runnerup Bob Karns.
Freshman Homan has looked bet
ter’ every match and holds a win
over Pitt’s Hugh Peery, who de
cisioned Karns 9-3 this season.
Another' unbeaten Lion, Hud
Samson will try for number five
in his first varsity season against
Army’s top-flight 177 pounder A 1
Paulekas. So far this season Hud
has shown the strength and speed
which can lick Paulekas as Cor
nell’s Don Dickason did in the
Eastern semi-finals, 6-1, a year
ago.
Frey Seeks 13th
Dick Lemyre, who has had only
one point scored against him in
four straight wins this year, meets
Cadet Grey Vigilar at 130 pounds.
State’s swift soph has won 6-1,
1:53 pin, 5-0 and 6-0.
Durable Don Frey, - who still
hasn’t lost a dual meet match in
12 straight trys, tangles at 147
tomorrow with Karn’s brother
Jim, a soph who is untried but
could be tough. The Lions’ habit
ually winning Don has three de
cisions and owns the team’s fast
est pin, 1:23. ,• _. \-. ;
Lemyre Tries Comeback
Heavyweight Lynn Illingworth,
who has handily won four in a
row to make the loss of Homer
Barr hardly noticeable as yet,
meets Cadet Gerry Lodge, 205
pound soph. Lodge, also of un
known ability, takes the place of
scandal-removed J. D. Kimmel.
Joe Lemyre, hoping to rebound
from the first pinning of' his
career last week, will be stacked
up against a strong Army frosh,
Gerry Tebben at 167 pounds.' Joe
in one of his three decision wins,
beat Pitt’s Kraus 10-2, two points
better than Tebben’s win over
the Panther.
State’s Doug Frey, swift pin
winner over a crack Maryland
foe last week, has Cadet Captain
Don Swygert to challenge his 2-1
record. Don Frey’s twin brother
has consistently run into some of
the opposition’s best men so meet
ing EIWA third-finisher Swygert
shouldn’t phase him.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1852
808 HOMAN
Replaces Brother . , .
GERRY MAURE'
Boxers Savold,
Marciano Hear
Pre-Bout Advice
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7—(£>)—
John (Ox) Dagrosa told Rocky
Marciano and Lee Savold today
that he expected them to show
the public “why this fight?”
Dagrosa, Savold, and Marciano
talked as the two boxers under
went physical examinations for
their scheduled‘lo-round fight at
Philadelphia’s Convention Hall
Wednesday night.
The commissioner looked at
Savold and said:
“You were knocked out by
(Joe) Louis.”
’Why This Fight?'
Turning his head quickly, he
informed Marciano:
“You knocked out Louis.”
Addressing both boxers:
“So people are asking, why
this fight? I expect you fellows
to show them why this fight. ' ,
“This commission is clothed
with the public interest and ex
pects a hard, clean fight all the
way.
“If there’s any loafing, I’ll stop
the bout and hold up both pur
ses.”
Everybody showed up for the
examinations, managers, trainers,
reporters, and some fans who just
wanted to see the famous Rocky.
They all crowded into the smoke
filled commission office.
Hope's For. KO
“Both men are in good shape,”
he said. Nobody looked surprised.
In customary fashion, both
fighters predicted victory, al
though neither would forecast a
knockout.
Marciano said, “I hope it won't
go the distance.” It was safe to
assume the Brockton, Mass., gol
den boy was referring, to . his
hopes for an early knockout win
by Marciano. - ' -
•Savold said he had fought many
fighters with Marciano’s style and
didn’t expect to have any diffi
culty coping with the unbeaten
Rocky.