FEBRUARY 8, 1953
The Lion's Loir
Someone on campus has come up with a new
ning basketball games, or at least'he thinks he has.
make no mistake, about that. The new formula
speak to your wife during the season.
Whether this will work is still very much
through some strange logic, some-1
one seems to have attributed
Cpach Elmer Gross’ success with
this year’s basketball team to
exactly that reason.
The rumor as Gross has heard
it is that he hasn’t spoken to his
wife in three weeks, which would
date back to the point where the
Lions were beginning to develop,
a sizable winning streak.
Someone evidently believes
that women kr '■’Oihir about
basketball a n
to have a gof
team, a co a c
must hibernal
, duripg the cour:
of a winnin
streak.
Gross, amust
at the rumo
says that the n<
formula is an i
teresling onebv
he wouldn't ad
vise any basket
ball coach to use it.
“With the ‘ team playing the
way it is, I’m satisfied with the
system I’m.using now. And be
sides, I don’t think my wife would
let me use the other one,” he
chuckled.
Incidentally, Mrs. Gross is an
avid basketball fan and attends
all the games in Rec Hall.
Such is the price of success.
When a coach is winning only
half the games, all anyone
wants to know is who he's going
to start in the next contest.
But just get a winning streak
started, especially one about 12
games long. Then they even
WRA Needs V-Ball,
Bowling Squads
A request has been made by
WRA,intramural chairman Mabel
Marple for any group of coeds
who would be interested in form
ing either a bowling or volley
ball team to compete in the tour
nament, now being run.
Teams composed of women
who were living in the cottages
have been dropped from the
schedule since no women are
residing in the cottages this se
mester. This leaves vacant spots
in the planned schedule. For a
bowling team five girls are need
ed, with eight required for volley
ball. Those interested are asked
to . contact Miss Marple at ext.
898.
Best Zone Defense
Pitt’s Dr. H. C. Carlson re
gards Penn State’s basketball zone
defense as one of the best in the
country.
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Collegian Sports Editor
want to know what he eafs for
breakfast and what color socks
he wears to the games. .
Keep an eye on the result of
the Adam Kois-Jim Mclnerney
boxing match tomorrow at Army.
Mclnerney is the defending East
ern 175 pound champ and his
only loss this season has been to
Chuck Speiser of Michigan State,
defending national 175 pound
champ.
Lion boxing fans will remem
ber Speiser as the fellow who
TKO’d Chuck Bolger in a dual
meet two years ago in Rec Hall.
Later in the nationals, which were
also held in Rec Hall, Speiser
went to the finals before being
eliminated.
Kois, in his first collegiate
fight at Catholic U. Tuesday
night, TKO'd his opponent in
35 seconds—just about enough
lime to dance to the center of
the ring and throw a punch.
The boys at Army are getting a
real treat this weekend. They’ll
get to see the Kois-Mclnerney
and Lou Koszarek-Jeryl Hughes
boxing matches; thefflud Samson-
A 1 Paulekas, Doug Frey-Don
Swygert, Bob Homan-Bob Kams
wrestling matches; and a gym
meet between two of the Easts’
top teams, Army and State.
Elmer Gross will take his
basketball team to West Point
for a game with the Cadets
next Saturday afternoon on the
way back from Rhode Island
State.
Law to FSuorinate
State Waters Sought
HARRISBURG, Feb. 6—(/P) —
Pennsylvania’s health secretary
said today he. would renew efforts
to have the 1952 legislature pass
a law providing for addition of
fluorine in public water supplies.
“This practice has proven to be
a good preventive of tooth decay
for children,” Dr. Russell E.
Teague told the Pennsylvania
health council. . \
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Gymnasts Leave for Army Today
■With the Army gymnastics
meet but one day away, Penn
State’s gym squad is bringing its
weekly exercises in preparation
for the engagement to a close.
The Lions will leave for West
Point today.
formula' for win-
And it’s original,
is simply not to
Tom Malonej, coach of the Ca
dets, will throw a tantalizing 19-
meet winning streak at the Lions.
The West Point aggregation will
be gunning for its fourth straight
conquest of the season tomorrow.
Last year, the Cadets ended a
Penn State two-meet win streak
at Rec Hall, 55%-40%.
Biggest Test
a question, but
Lion Gym Coach Gene Wett
stone believes this will be the
Nittanies’ chief test of the cam
paign, but thinks that Army is
not unbeatable and feels that the
Blue and White gymnasts have
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an even chance of coming out on
top.
“This is undoubtedly one of our
biggest trials of the year, and if
we can get by the Cadets we will
have cleared our biggest hurdle,”
the Lion gym mentor said.
The gym team, however, has
several more rough opponents on
its schedule. After its meet with
the Cadets tomorrow afternoon at
2 p.m., the Lions, will entertain
Navy and Syracuse on successive
weekends at Rec Hall. Both rank
near the top of the ladder in the
East. Wettstone’s charges conclude
their dual meet season March 1
at Temple. The Owls will not be
a pushover 'either as they are
currently undefeated, having won
their last three meets.
Army’s gym team, with many
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seniors, will present such vet
erans as Bob Wheeler on the side
horse, Johnny Ballantyne on the
rope, and Jack Kleberg on the
flying rings. Wheeler and Ballan
tyne have yet to lose this season,
while Kleberg has lost only to
Jack Miles of Florida State, NCAA
rings champion in 1951.
So far this season, the Cadets
have beaten North Carolina,
69-40; the New York' Turners,
75-22; and Florida State, defend
ing NCAA and NAAU gymnastic
champions, 49-46.
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for “Her”
ON VALENTINE’S DAY
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