PAGE SIX Cagers' 2d Stops Army Lions Notch 15th Straight Win; Play Penn on Road Tomorrow With additional confidence from their two champion ship performances over the weekend, Coach Elmer Gross' courtmen are prepared to meet Penn in Philadelphia to morrow night in the first game of the Lions' toughest week of the campaign. Besides tomorrow night's encounter with the Red and Blue, the rampaging Lions must face Colgate Friday and Syracuse Saturday in other away games. Saturday afternoon at West Point State's cagers put on one of their most impressive displays of the season as they rallied to defeat an aroused Army squad, 85-73. Arnelle Breaks Record The victory increased the Nit tanies' victory string to 15 and elevated their seasonal record to 17-1. Terrific shooting by both sides highlighted the contest, which was witnessed by 4500 spectators, plus a large television audience. The Lions broke two more records in the affair. Jesse Ar nelle, six-five frosh, continued his tremendous scoring pace with 24 points to give him a total of 327. This broke the all-time State single season record of 319, set by Lou Lamie, captain of last year's quintet. The Blue and White also scor ed the most tallies ever recorded against a West Point team. The Lions' 85 points bettered the 84 markers scored by Villanova in 1948. Army repeatedly hit with out- side shots to jump to an alarm ing early advantage. After Ar nelle opened the scoring with a field goal, Army's deadeyes. gar nered ten straight points before the New Rochelle freshman countered with a nice hook. The Cadets kept peppering away and built a 24-11 first quarter lead. Army Pours on Pace Fred Meyers, a six-foot fresh man, paced the Cadets' phenom enal shooting parade with ten points in the first quarter. The home team made 9 of its first 11 attempts and had a 64 percent shooting average at the end of the quarter. Army partisans continued their wild cheering as the Cadets maintained their torrid pace in the opening minutes of the sec ond period. Meyers made an other set shot shortly after the quarter began to give the Ca dets a 29-14 lead, their largest of the afternoon. State then began to retaliate with some of the fanciest sharp shooting of the campaign. Co captain Tiny McMahan, repeated his great clutch play of the Rhode Island contest, and sank two remarkable hooks. Meyers hooped another one hand push from the side, but Co-captain Hardy Williams drove down the middle and cut theg cords with a neat jump shot. Army now led 31-20. Sherry Comes Through Moments later another Lion, Ronnie Weidenhammer, took up the burden with three quick bas kets. The Kutztown flash's third tally narrowed the Cadets' edge to 36-28. By .this time Army's shooting percentage was dropping with their lead, and State's height ad vantage began to take its toll. Jack Sherry came through with seven points and Arnelle's five additional tallies sliced Army's intermission lead to 45-41. Williams and Sherry with sev en points each led the Lions' sec md quarter barrage as the Nit tanies outscored the Cadets 30- Z 1 in this blazing ten minutes. The West Pointers were still ;ailing along with a great 52 percent shooting average. At the start of the second half Arnelle and Herm Sledzik scor :a.d quick goals and Williams a me pointer to give Skate a t—npr , (Continued on page seven) By DAVE COLTON Aids in Clutch • „ 4 f, • „, Tiny McMahan AGD, Chi 0 Capture Third M Victories Alpha Gamma Delta and Chi Omega won their third consecu tive games in badminton and bowling, respectively, in the wo men's intramurals last night. Alpha Gamma Delta's badmin ton team defeated Simmons. Other teams losing to Alpha Gamma Delta are Co-op and Kappa Alpha Theta. On the bowling alleyg Chi Ome ga rolled over Delta Zeta, 501-473. Atherton West and Phi Sigma Sigma are other victims of Chi Omega. In the other badminton games . , McAllister swept Thompson B. Kappa Alpha Theta defeated Co op. Atherton East bettered Delta Gamma. Beta Sigma Omicron re bounded after last week's loss to Atherton East by defeating Sigma Delta Tau. Atherton West's bowlers topped Theta Phi Alpha, 543-421, an d Kappa Delta forfeited •to Leon ides. Ginny Hinner of Chi Omega and Connie Wellen of Atherton West tied for high scores of the evening with 129. Hinner was high scorer last Monday night with 139 points. The first half of intramural ac tivities ends Thursday night. Bixier Named Grid Assistant at Penn PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18—(JP) —George Munger, head football coach at the University of Penn sylvania, got another top drawer assistant today—Paul 0. Bixler, former gridiron chief at Colgate and Ohio State. Bixler resigned recently as head coach at Colgate on grounds that the athletic powers .at the Red Raider school scheduled oppo nents far too tough for his squad. Last year Colgate won four, lost three and tied one. Diamond in Rough Penn State's Olympic-bound trainer, Charles (Chuck) Medlar, is assistant coach of the Nittany Lion baseball team. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE t - OLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Half Rally Threat, 85-73 Bobby Lawrence romped to the sidehorse event as he scored 260 points against the Middies. Frank Wick added points to the Nittany cause as he racked up 241 points for second place. Dick Shaffer completed the Lion scor ing in this specialty by register ing a fourth. Hazen Takes Rings In the parallel bars event, Cronstedt took his second first place of the meet with his 277 point total. Fourth place was garnered by Dave Douglass, who made his first start of the year on the p-bars. Jim Hazen captured his second first place of the year in the rings event as he scored 269 points against the Middies. Third and fourth places were registered by Tony Procopio and Schwenzs feier, respectively. Report Walcott Agreed To Title Bout With Ex NEW YORK, Feb: 18—(J 3 )—A spokesman for the New York State Athletic Commission an nounced today it had received, a telegram from the manager of Jersey • Joe Walcott saying the world heavyweight boxing cham pion had agreed to meet Ezzard Charles in a title bout. "Walcott has complied with the commission's request," the com mission spokesman said. Bob Christenberry, commission chairman, recently gave Walcott until Feb. 17 to agree to a title bout, or be stripped of his cham pionship. With_ Feb. 17 falling on 'unclay. Christenberry extended the time to today. Gymnasts Down Navy For 2d Win By 808 SCHOELLKOPF Surprising strength shown by Penn State's tumblers and rope climbers provided a comfortable margin for Gene Wettstone's charges as they rolled to' an easy 58-38 win against Navy's gym team at Rec Hall Saturday. The win was the, Lions' second straight on the home floor and brought their season record to two wins and one defeat. Dave Shultz made a fine show ing in the rope climbing event for the Nittanies as he traveled the 20-foot distance in four sec onds flat to tie Charlie Wiseman of Navy for first place. Baffa 4th on Rope Ray Crater was the only other Navy ropeman to place in this event, which had been one of the Middies' strong . points all year. Registering a fourth with a 4.4 time was State's Johnny Baffa, who was followed in fifth place by teammate Norman Yu. As was expected, Navy's Fritz Graf ran away with first place in tumbling with a total of 282 points. His performance was easily the best seen at Rec Hall this season. Wilkinson Scores The Lions' act tumbler, Bob Kenyon, tallied 275 points on the mats for second place. It was his highest point total for the year. State's Bob Kriedler also came through with his top perform ance of the campaign. He tallied 242 to capture a vital third place. Captain Owen Wilkinson add ed another point to the Nittany cause in the tumbling event when he finished fifth. In the horizontal bar event Jean Cronstedt put on another one of his brilliant performances which was worth a 276 point total and good for first place. Lawrence Wins 3rd Little Mario Todaro 19 points belJw Cronstedt on the high bar, good enough for second place for the Lion gymnasts. Karl Schwenzsfeier placed fifth for the Nittanies. 'Let Me Up, Will Ya?' —Photo by McNeillie JOE LEMYRE, the ,Nittany Lions 167 pounder starts a reverse on' Syracuse's Hank Gobetz during their match in Rec Hall Saturday. Joe survived a rugged first round and went on to wn, 10-5. Charlie Speidel's matmen stretched their unbeaten dual meet streak to 17. Matmen Top Syracuse As 3 Suffer Est etbacks Proving conclusively that they are a solid, well-balanced team and not just a group of individual stars, Penn State's matmen scored a brilliant team victory Saturday night despite the fact that three previously unbeaten wrestlers were toppled from their' favored positions. In an edge-of-seat, tense duel in Rec Hall the Lions re- Three. Chosen Top 'Athletes of Week' For the first time this year, three men have been designated as "Athletes of the Week" by the Daily Collegian sports staff. Those, named were wrestler Hud Samson, gymnast Jean Cron stedt, and basketball player Jesse Arnelle. Samson ran his dual meet rec ord to 54 with a body press and half nelson pin of Chuck Dinkel meyer in 6:52. Samson's pin was the .crushing blow as far as Syra cuse was concerned. finished Up to that time, the Orange had a chance to win the match provided Dinkelmeyer could turn the tables. Samson, however, put an end to all Syracuse dreams of an upset as he stretched State's lead to 17-6. Cronstedt, the "Flying Finn," captured two first places to pace State's gym team to a 58-38 vic tory over Navy. The lanky fresh man took first places in horizon tal bar competition and the paral lel bars with point totals of 276 and 277, respectively. His per forinarices drew a roar of approv al from the large crowd. To no one's, surprise, Arnelle, one of the outstanding freshman cagers in the country, broke the individual scoring 'record of 319 set last year by Captain Lou La mie. The husky center banked in 24 points Saturday at Army to erase the old record by eight points. Arnelle's total has now reached 327 points, an average of 18.1 per dame. He zoomed over the 300 mark at Rhode Island State the night before with .18 markers. Played Baseball Charles (Chuck) Medlar, who'll cater to Uncle Sam's athletes in his newly-acquired job• as trainer for the 1952 Olympic Games, once played organized baseball in Beaumont and Buffalo. A sore arm prompted his return to col lege and, upon the death of Jack Hulme in 1946, he was named Penn State athletic trainer. He's an alumnus of Penn State. Tennis Managers Students interested in tennis managerships may sign up at the' athletic offite in Old Main. tUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952 By JAKE HIGHTON emphasized their Eastern suprem acy with a 1741 triumph over a powerful Syracuse mat team loaded for Lion 'but instead suf ferer of its first defeat of the season. The Orange, the last team to beat the Nittanies 'in dual meet competition, made a spirited at tempt to repeat its 1950 Rec Hall conquest but had to settle for the title of toughest foe yet while be coming State's sixth victim of the season and 17th in order. D. Lemyre, Maurey Win Don Fr e y 's phenomenal 13 straight undefeated collegiate dual meet mark, as well as Bob Homan's and Lynn Illingworths' five-match unspotted records fell before the power _switches and power-running escapes of Syra cuse to dampen an. otherwise striking win. But it was Joe Lemyre, Doug Frey, and Hud Samson who sup plied the Lions' "team" strength as they contributed sparkling vic tories after the match was tied 6-6 with four bouts to go and the outcome greatly in doubt. Samson's Pin Decides Taken down, by Syracuse's Chuck Dinkelmeyer, Hud es caped a cradle before the match was a minute old. Hud again nar rowly avoided a pin en route to pulling a falling reverse. Start , ing the third at disadvantage Hud squirmed loose from a near fall, escaped, scored a takedown to trail 7-8 and then as suddenly as he was so nearly pinned, end ed it with a half-nelson and body press at 6:52. The unfamiliar sight of Don Frey losing was thus quickly for gotten by the drama which fol loived. Don was upended by a tough 147 pound frosh Ed Rooney and a bad case of tonsilitis, 6-3. To get his sixth straight win of the year, 130 pound Dick Lemyre displayed great strength as well as his usual speed to manhandle the Orange's rubbery EIWA run ner and Captain Lou Tschirhart, 9-2. Gerry Maurey also got by a worthy foe in Bob Bury for his second win in as many varsity starts at 137 pounds. Gerry swift ly and adroitly danced away from Bury's leg takedown attempts. Then Gerry took the offensive to win 6-2. One of the sharpest Lion per formances of the evening was turned in by veteran Joe Lemyre who for the first time this sea son flashed the skill and form of his unforgettable duel with Navy's Thomas in the Easterns. •In a rapid-reversing duel simi lar to the Thomas fight, Joe uti (Continued on page seven)
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