.M 1 : 1 14Y , nBRUARY 16, 1953 The Lion's Lair By ERNIE MOORE Collegian Sports Editor Providing it wins all itsag► games from here on in, Penn State's basketball team stands a good chance of gaining a berth in the NCAA. tournament. But one losi would probably ruin any chances for a post-seasori game. There isn't much doubt that defeated team in the country, vt: However, the NCAA. selection committee will pass out fou r . representative-at-large bids to teams east of +' Mississippi a State stand: good • chance receiving one these • bids. Bi as we said • ' fOre, the will have to w• the rest, W e Virginia at hoi and Penn awz We doubt the Lions wil invited accept a bid to the Na tional Intritational Tournament in New York City. In the first place, Penn State basketball teams -never- appealed to the score-thirsty New York crowd and even though State has changed its type of play, the name of Penn State is still syn onymous with the zone defense —something that the New York fans don't go for. In the second place, the tour nament falls on, a day that Penn State is scheduled to play its last game with Bucknell. The Buck nell rivalry is one of Penn State's oldest and strongest and we doubt whether the Lions would put it in jeopardy by cancelling a game on the Bucknell c our t—especially when the Bisons will be trying to avenge the freeze-victory State scored down- there last season. Incidentally, the Bucknell Sports Flash • acks January 1941 . . . With Captain Johnny Barr bearing the brunt of tjie attack, the Nittany cagers jumped back into the winning column by trouncing a highly-touted Syracuse five, 44-25, on the Rec Hall court. Barr scored seven from the field and two from the foul line. Relying mainly on speed, the -Blue and White hockey squad trounced a favored Templd ag gregation, 6-1, at the Shaffter Ice Palace, Johnstown * * , A clean sweep in the rope climb and second place in the tumbling enabled a str on g frosh gym team. to sub du e Temple's yearlings, 34-20. An undefeated Nittany, Lion wrestling team bowed to an on slaught by the undefeated Tigers when Bart Robbins, Princeton heavyweight grappler, pinned Jack Kerns to snatch the Tigers from R near• defeat and nose out the Liont matmen, Captain Johnny Barr y came within two points of tieing the Convention Hall scoring record of 24 points as he led his team mates to a 43-25 triumph over Temple in Philadelphia. Penn State's winter track team served notice as one of -the East's best by winning the triangular meet from Army and Cornell at West Point. The Werner-coached men garnered 44 1 / 2 points to Army's 40 1 / 2 -and Cornell's 32. Johnny Glenn, sophomore high Jumper for the Nittany track team set a - new Penn State record in the event when he cleared the bar at six feet, four and one-half inches to tie for second place in the IC4A's. Captain Frank Gleason scored his 15th straight victory in two years as the Lion grapplers. closed the curtain. on a success ful- dual meet season by trim ming Army, 27-3. The Lion gym team clinched third place in the Eastern Inter collegiates at Princeton by vir tue of its ConqUests over the Tigers and MIT. • Pan-American Champ Penn State's 130-pound wrest ling star, Dick Lemyre, of Mer rick, "N.Y., o n Pan-American honors last year as a freshman. t Duquesne, the only major un ill get the bid for this district. game is the sleeper on the re mainder of the schedule. The Bisons are the ones who knock ed the props out of State's chances of going to the NCAA baseball tournament last spring. Let's hope history doesn't re peat itself. Who . says the district coaches don't look out for each other? Dude-y Moore, coach of Duquesne, who has a vote in the weekly UP poll, voted State tenth last week and ninth this week. Don't be surprised if the box ing match with Syracuse to night ends in a tie or a State win. Either bne would be an upset. The Orange mittmen beat Army, 6 1 / 2 -1 1 / 2 , and Catholic U., 7-1. Army beat State, 4 1 / 2 -3 1 / 2 , while the Lions tied with Catho lic U., 4-4 Arthur Daley, sports editor of the New York Times, in a recent column, mentioned 011ie Sax as a sure-shot U.S. Olympic entry this summer. Sax, who ran for the Lions last semester, recently won the 500 yard run in the New York Athletic Club meet. He's a regular 400 man. Penn State's only basketball loss this season came at the hands of Washington and Jef ferson. Leave it to the Presi dents to veto a perfect record. By JOHN SHEPPARD * * ** * Lahar Accepts Pitt Line Coach Job MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Feb. 15—(AP)----Harold Lahar, West Virginia University football line coach, said today he has taken a similar job at the University of Pittsburgh. Lahar has been with West Vir ginia for two years. Before that he served as line coach at the University of Arkansas, and three years prior to that helped coach the Buffalo Bills of the now de funct All-America League. Coaching the Bills at that time was Lowell (Red) Dawson, Pitt's new head coach. Penn- State's two Eastern cham pions, 147-pound Johnny Al barano, of Lilly, and 165-pound Lou Koszarek, of - Portage,' are still unbeaten as the Lion boxers gird for Saturday's duel with Sy racuse. The Orange, defending champions in the East, annually produce one of the best teams in the country. THE DAILY CI , LLEGI/01. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Gymnasts Only One Coach Gene Wettstone will make only one change in the start ing lineup of the Lion•gym team for today's meet with Navy at Rec Hall. Starting time• is 2 p.m. The Nittany gymnastics mentor said yesterday that he would move up Bill Sabo to second man on the parallel bars and drop Al Wick to third position. Sabo looked good on the p-bars in the Army meet last Saturday as he regis tered 233 points for a fourth place. Jean Cronstedt, the Lions' ace on the parallels, who registered a first in this event against North Carolina and a second in the Ca- I det meet, is a good bet to lead the field on the p-bars. Favorite on H-Bar No. 2 Man on Rings C:!!1 Olympics -- (Continued from page six) quishing Norway, 3-2. Arnold Oss, a 23-year-old forward from Minneapolis, scored two of the goals and rang in the winning one with a deft shot in - the last four minutes. Statisticians, figuring team points after the first three cham pionships, found the Americans still ahead in the standings with 171 points. Austria, which furnished the second and third finishers in the men's giant slalom, was second with 17 points, followed by Ger many 14, Norway 11, Switzerland 9, Italy 3, France 2, Belgium 1 and Sweden z. The U. S. may have a hard time holding its advantages to morrow when the schedule offers championships in th e men's downhill ski race and 500 meter speed skating and compulsory figures in women's figure skating. Also four hockey games are on tap, with the U. S. meeting Ger many. By 808 SCHOELLKOPF ' Tony Procopio Sizes 29-42 Alterations at Cost 2,,r° Meet Lineup In the high bar event Wettstone is undecided whether to use Earle Kerber or Karl Schwenzsfeier in the third position. The latter made his first start of the season last Saturday against Army and scored 217 points for fifth place. _ Cronstedt, who does his best work on the horizontal bar, is "a heavy -favorite to cop this event. Cronstedt, • who has been nursing a sore hand since before the Army meet, scored 267 points against the Cadets to place, first. Mario Todaro will again be' secpnd man in this specialty. After Third Straight • Jim Hazen will lead the Lions in the rings event, with Tony Pro copio and Schwenzsfeier rounding out the starting threesome: Pro copio will make his second start of the season as second man in the flying rings. He placed third in the Army meet Jack Kleberg and Hazen. Sophomore Bobby Lawrence will attempt to extend his win. ning streak on the sidehorse to three straight against the Middies. He took an easy first place win in the Tarheel meet and scored 260 points against Army to beat out Bob Wheeler for first. Strong in Tumbling Dick Shaffer and Frank Wick, who placed fourth and fifth, re spectively, in the Cadet encount er, will perform behind Lawrence in the sidehorse event. Bob Kenyon, the Lions' flashy tumbling artist, will be out to im prove his third place showing of the Army meet in which he regis tered 245 points. Owen Wilkinson and Bob Kriedler will be the sec ond and third men for the Nit tanies on the mats. Same Trio Navy's tumbling team, one of the best in the East, is favored to cop this event. Its combination of Fritz Graf, Captain Jim McNeely, and - Guy McEl.roy has ' been al most unbeatable this year, and is certain to give the Lions a lot of difficulty. - In the rope climbing event, Wettstone plans to stick with his starting trio of Dave Shultz, John ny Baffa, and Norman Yu to cop some points for the Nittany cause. However, Navy's strong rope team is favored in this event. Penn State Product Columbia University's mat coach, Dick Waite, wrestled at Penn State under the present mentor, Charlie Speidel. CKS $l. n You Buy One Pair or $7.95 You Get A Second Pair. For My $1 More! „ • .FAC T O RY T els 9 Ed,- • ' ' • , Q. 14 W. COLLEGE AVENUE cross from Engineer. Bldg. Navy Today; Change Made TKE's Keep IM Cage Hopes Alive Tau Kappa Epsilon, defending fraternity cage champion; kept alive its slim hopes of repeating this season Thursday night by dumping tough Pi Kappa Phi, 32-- 20.. The win for TKE was its fourth as against two setbacks, and enabled the winners to move within ...ne and one-half games of unbeaten Sigma Phi Sigma -in League D. Tau Phi Delta hung up its third victory by trouncing Theta Chi, 31-12. Important Win Phi Sigma Delta, leader in League B, notched its sixth con secutive triumph by a 29-23 mar gin over a good Phi Kappa _ Psi team. Sigma Nu romped to a 22-5 halftime lead and then coasted to an easy 39-8 win over Sigma Phi Alpha. Sigma Nu trails Phi Sigma Delta by only one game, with its 5-1 record. Sigma Alpha Epsilon won its ' most important victory of the season by handing Sigma Phi Epsilon its second straight set back and, in so doing, moved into undisputed possession of first place in League C. The game was a natural and the score was 25-23. Hugh Carr and Wayne Hooker smith each scored nine points to lead SAE. Sigma Alpha Epsilon needs only to beat Phi Epsilon Pi, 2-3, in its final game to be assured of ieast a tie for League C. Alpha Phi Delta put on a' de termined second half scoring splurge, but still lost out to Delta Theta Sigma, 25-24. Frank Rich's 12 markers led Sigma Chi of League E to a 37- 29 triumph over Phi Kappa. The victory assured Sigma Chi of at least a tie for League E honors as it was its sixth win without a loss. Only Triangle and Delta Chi, both with 4-1 slates, have mathematical chances of overtaking Sigma Chi. Alpha Tau Omega posted its fifth victory in League A to move within one-half game of league leading Phi Delta Theta, 5-0. ATO, with a record • of 5-1, trounced Sigma Pi, 25-13. Paul Stefanik was high for the winners with 10 points. Alpha Gamma Rho won its sec ond game- of the IM season by smacking Phi Gamma Delta, 35- 19. Penn State's erstwhile football coach, Bob Higgins, lives in re tirement on the edge of the cam pus. WENDELL COREY 'VERA RALSTON "THE WILD BLUE YONDER" RICHARD WMMARIC CONSTANCE SMITH "RED . SKIES OF MONTANA" PAGE SEVEN Tie At Least Whip Wilson Andy Clyde "SILVER RAIDERS"
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