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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
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By DAVE COLTON
Aids in Clutch
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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
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