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Rhode Island St. Tests
Lions' Zone Tomorrow
Tomorrow night's Penn State-Rhode Island State bas
ketball game at Kingston, R. 1., will be a battle between one
of the nation's scoring leaders and an outstanding defensive
stalwart.
The Lions, exponents of the zone defense, rank 14th in
the nation in team defense, having allowed only 51.3 points
in the- first 16 games. Rhode Is
land State is eighth offensively
with an average of 76.3 in its first
11 contests.
The game will attract national
attention since State has one of
the best records in collegiate
ranks, and boasts a 13 game win
ning streak. The Lions' 15-1 mark
has given them a 17th position in
the Associated Press weekly poll.
Scoring Ace
Although Coach Robert "Red"
Haire's quintet will be underdogs,
its scoring ability could enable
it to upset .State. Twice this sea
son the Rams have scored over
100 points. This seems to be a
tradition at Rhode Island since
Ram cagers did it 13 times during
the 1944-46 seasons.
Bill Baird, five-eleven guard,
has paced the Rams offensively
the first 12 contests. Baird has
paced the Rams offensively the
the first 12 contests. Baird has av
eraged 16.9 tallies to rank 44th in
the nation in individual totals.
His scoring has enabled the Rams
to win five games, while drop
ping seven.
Fred Congleton, six-three cen
ter, is the man the Lions will
have to watch under the boards.
The tall senior is the Rams' top
rebounder and a dangerous scor
ing threat. Hellwig at six-seven
is the home team's tallest man
and starts at forward.
Lion Starters
Rhode Island still uses the fast
break which it helped to make
famous in the past. Baird and an
other senior, Chuck Stewart, are
the players who prove valuable
in the fast play. Stewart, a three
year performer, is a good ball
handler.
Coach Elmer Gross will prob
ably open with the same lineup
which has been starting. Co-cap
tain Hardy Williams and Ron
Weidenhammer will be at the
guards; Jesse Arnelle, center; and
Herm Sledzik and Joe Piorkow
ski, forwards. Freshman Jack
Sherry may get the nod at guard
in place of Weidenhammer.
Saturday afternoon the Lions
will play Army at West Point to
conclude this trip. Next week
they take to the road again to
face Penn, Wednesday, Colgate,
Friday, and Syracuse, Saturday.
Collegiate
Chatter
Despite a large demand for
tickets, Bucknell will not have
an advance sale of ducats for the
Bison-State encounter March 8.
Bucknell's athletic director, Al
bert E. Humphreys, said addi
tional seats will be installed to
increase Davis Gym's capacity to
more than 2500.
* * *
Bucknell is another college hav
ing trouble with scholastic de
ficiencies among its athletes. The
Bisons dropped varsity basketball
players Bill Strella and Ron
Reichrnan from the squad because
of grades. Strella was a mainstay
against the Lions.
* * *
Bill Hannon, Army's six
three center, leads the country
in rebounds with an average of
21.2 in the Cadets' first ten
games. Hannon, only a sopho
more, weighs 200 pounds and
hails from the rabid basketball
state of Indiana.
* * *
Penn, another future Lion
court foe, is 27th in the nation
with a 72.7 offensive average. The
Quakers are third in field goal
percentage, and eighth in free
throws. Ernie Beck, the Red and
Blue's All-American candidate,
is fourth in rebounds, and has a
18.3 scoring average.
* * *
Mark Workman, mainstay of
West Virginia's great court
power, is hitting the cords at a
25 point c"ip to rank third in
-anics. The six-nine
center is also fifth in rebounds.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNS^tLVikM/L
Ram Playmaker
Chuck Stewart
Eight Colleges
Vote to Cut
Spring Football
ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 13 (2)—
Presidents of the eight Ivy
League colleges have voted 6 to 2
in favor of abolishing spring
football practice, a reliable source
reported here today.
The source who declined use of
his name, said the vote was taken
at a meeting of the presidents in
New York City a week ago. He
said the vote was not binding on
the colleges, but probably would
lead to elimination of spring
practice.
The presidents of Cornell and
Princeton voted to c ontinue
spring practice, the source said.
The other members of the Ivy
League are Yale, Harvard, Col
umbia, Dartmouth, Brown and
Pennsylvania.
Previously, the Ivy League col
leges had decided to cut spring
training from 30 to 20 days and
Yale announced last fall that
they would abolish spring prac
tice.
Several college officials ques
tioned about last week's meeting
and the vote declined comment.
However, Dan Coyle, Princeton
athletics publicity director, said
the presidents did meet and that
he understood they would issue
a statement of policy on spring
football, probably next week.
Dick Savitt
May Give Up
Bigtime Tennis
ORANGE, N.J., Feb. 13—(W)—
Dick Savitt, home from a tem
pestuous campaign in Australia,
said today he plans to give up
bigtime tennis after this year's
national championships and "go
to work."
"I'll just play on week-ends and
in my spare time," the towering,
23-year-old Cornell graduate add
ed in an interview. "My tourna
ment schedule will be cut down
sharply."
Asked if he would be a can
didate for the next Davis Cup
team •and whether he would go to
Australia to help try to retrive
the trophy if selected, Savitt said:
"I don't know. That's too far
ahead. After the nationals, I in
tend to give first consideration
to a business career."
The six-foot-three, dark-haired
youth, who has become known as
the sport's stormy petrel, arrived
home by air yesterday, not
bothering to hide his bitterness
over experiences in Australia.
Loss of Lewis
Will Hinder
Navy Gymnasts
Because of the loss of Hal
Lewis, Navy's ace gymnast, the
Lions now have a good chance
to defeat the Middies at Rec Hall
Saturday at 2 p.m.
Lewis, who has been the Naval
Academy's main threat in three
events for the past two years, suf
fered a broken leg Friday, the
day before the Navy meet with
Temple
Loss Will Hurt
With the gym season but calf
gone, Lewis was optimistic about
representing the Untied States in
the Olympic games at Helsinki,
Finland this year. He was NAAU
gymnastics champion last year
and was considered the leading
contender again in 1952.
Chet Phillips, Navy gym men
tor, himself a former American
representative in gymnastics in
1936, says the loss of Lewis will
seriously i m pair the Middies'
chances for the remainder of the
year.
Lewis starred on the parallel
bars, the horizontal bar, and the
flying rings. Except for Lewis,
Phillips plans to stick with the
same lineup he introduced against
Temple Saturday.
Cronk Will Start
Rope climber Wally Russell will
be used to fill in on the rings
with Hed Shuman and Mike
Greely. The latter is now the Mid
dies top ringman.
Phillips will insert Phil Cronk
in the third slot in the h-bar
event to take up the slack and
move up Christ Walke and George
Kubal to the second arid first
positions, respectively.
On the p-bars, the Navy gym
mentor will replace Lewis with
Gus Eggert, who will be third
man in this event. Bob O'Malia
and Mike Quartararo will per
form in the first two slots.
Depth in Tumbling
The sidehorse event, probably
Navy's weakest spot, will see Jim
Munson and Bill Chambers in
the first and second positions with
Mitch Soltys, Larry Shrewsberry,
or Jim Conillard rounding out the
top three.
In tumbling, the Middies show
balance and considerable depth
with Fritz Graf heading the Navy
field of talent. Captain Jim Mc-
Neely and either Guy IVlcElroy
or Roy Crater will start on the
mats.
Navy's powerful rope climbing
team, consisting of Charlie Wise
man, Cr at e r and Russell, are
favored to defeat the Lions in
this event. Against Temple's 'un
beaten Owls, these men finished
one-two-three in the rope climb.
Salaries Should Be
Flexible -- Kieran
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—(/1 3 )—
The Salary Stabilization Board
was told today that it should use
'flexibility" in its dealings with
baseball, and that so-called bonus
es paid some young players should
be exempt from pay ceilings.
The recommendation was made
by John Kieran, onetime sports
columnist for the New York
Times and a member of the sal
ary board panel on pro sports.
Kieran said the money paid a
youngster to get him to sign his
first contract "is, in effect, an out
right sale of a property right,"
not a payment for his services.
Therefore, he reasoned, such
bonus payments shouldn't be con
sidered when a club is calculating
how much its total payroll can be..
BULLETIN
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13—
(W) —Unbeaten Rocky Marci
ano won his 39th straight fight
tonight as he stopped the vet
eran Lee Savold in the seventh
round before an estimated 13,-
000 fans at Convention Hall.
Referee Pete Tomasso stopped
the fight at the request of Sav
old's manager, Bill Daly. It was
a technical knockout victory
for the Brockton, Mass., heavy
weight.
'Get Your Left Up, John'
COACH EDDIE SULKOWSKI gives boxing Captain Johnny Al
barano a few po:nteri in preparation for the match with Syracuse
Saturday night in Rec Hall. The Lions have one tie and one loss,
so far this season.
Laz Le k on to Replace
Spotts in Boxing Lineup
The first of several changes in the Lion boxing lineup which
Coach Eddie Sulkowski hai promised for Saturday's Syracuse meet
came yesterday with the announcement that Laz LeMon will take
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over the 156-pound spot.
LeMon, who was the intramural 155-pound champ last year, is
sure to find his first assignment as a Lion regular a tough one. If
the Syracuse lineup remains the
same as in their first two meets,
Laz will be called upon to face
Eastern 155-pound champ, Bill
"Hooksie" Miller, probably th e
Orange's best man.
In breaking into the starting
lineup, Laz will be replacing
Gerry Spotts, who dropped deci
sions in the Catholic U. and Army
meets.
Three Lions Unbeaten
Coach Sulkowski said that one
or two more changes would prob
ably be made in order to strength
en the team for the powerful
Orange squad.
Eastern 165-pound champ Lou
Koszarek sports a unbeaten dual
meet string of eight which dates
back to the 1950 season. Three
ties, however, mar a perfect rec
ord.
Four-in-Row
Lou is scheduled to meet one
of Syracuse's four frosh, Vince
Rigolosi, if a blood clot on the
Orangeman's nose, which kept
him from the Catholic U. meet is
healed.
Captain and Eastern 145-pound
champ Johnny Albarann is work
ing on a string. which is now at
four. Johnny will attempt to keep
his streak going against another
Syracuse frosh, Gus Fiacco, in
the 147-pound clash.
The other unbeaten Lion is 125
pounder, Sammy Marino. Sammy.
with a win and tie thus far to
his credit, was scheduled to meet
the veteran Tommy Coulter, but
the Syracuse star has decided to
take up track instead of boxing
this winter, and sophomore Ray
Terranella has replaced him as the
Orange lead-off man.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14; 195 Z
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Second Forfeit .
Drops Champs
From League
Leonides, defending badminton
champs, were automatically
dropped from league compeOtion
after forfeiting fo r the scond
time last night. Two other bad
minton teams, Women's Building
and Thompson B, were also elim
inated for the same reason.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Zeta Tau
Alpha, and Phi Mu claimed their
second wins and are leading in
their leagueg after taking Kappa
Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, and Chi
Omega. Gamma Phi Beta, Theta
Phi Alpha, and Alpha Omicron
Pi recorded their first wins of the
badminton season. The losers to
these teams were Delta Zeta,
Delta Delta Delta, and Alpha Ep
silon Phi. Alpha Xi Delta and
Pl 4 Sigma Sigma each got wins
by defaults. •
In the closest bowling game yet
this season. Sigma Delta Tau
edged out Town, 445-438, • with
Elinor Forman high for the win
ners with 135. Beta Sigma Omi
cron dropped its game to McAllis
ter, 504-481. McAllister's Chick
Johnson rolled 130 to take her
team's honors. Alpha Gamma
Delta trounced Thompson A • 555-
391 with Dotty Rose claiming 124
of the winners' points.