FEBRUARY The Lion's Lair , Gymnastics Coach Gene Wettstone will give his new system of flashing the score of each competitor another try this Saturday against Syracuse. The new system, which allows the spectators to see just what score each judge is giving, seems far superior to the old telephone system. Under the old system, spectators were only given the total score after it had been tabulated. Under Wettstone's system, which will probably be used in the Olympic tryouts and NAAU charripioriships to be held in Rec Hall ' April 25-26, each judge's score is flashed in full view of the crowd. This way the specta tors, better understand the scor ing system and enjoy the events that much, more. Also, an inter ested spectator may judge the event and compare his score with that of the three judges. ' Wettstone is now knee-deep . in work preparing fr thi Olympic tryouts" Hundreds of f i n est gymna: in th e count are expected participate in two = day eve) which will al include the N: tional A m a te, Athletic U n i championships, Si/teen of gymnasts will ._ rept, sent th e United States in the Olympic games in Finland this summer. To make the Olympic team you must participate in all e v ents. from the exercises to tumbling. Wettstone will enter a full team in the NAAU champion ships but only a couple niem hers of the team will try for the Olympic team. Jean Cronstedt, P enn State's hopes for NAAU championships oh the parallel and horizontal bars will be ineligible for the Olympic team because he was not Mrs. Lawrence Wins 2cl Olympic Medal OSLO, Feb. 20—(—America's 19-year-old ski queen, Andrea Mead Lawrence, picked herself from the snow after a jarring tumble in the Olympic slalom today and staged an incredible comeback to win her second gold medal of the winter games. The victory—believed impossible after the daring-Rutland, Vt., housewife_ skidded and fell on the first of 'two runs down Rodkleiva's hazardous slope—climaxed th e greatest showing in history for a United States ski team in the Olympics Pick Up Points The tall, slender ' New Eng lander became the first Ameri can skier, man or woman, to win two Olympic titles and she es tablished herself as the world's greatest in her specialty. The triumph broke a three-day scoring famine for the Ameri cans. The United States picked up other precious points in the wom en's figure skating, won by Eng land's twinkle-toed world champ ion, Jeanette Altwegg. Tenley A l b r i g h t, 16-year-old schoolgirl from Newton Center, Mass., and baby of the U.S. team, won second place behind the 22- year-old British ice ballerina with a dazzling performance in today's free figure maneuvers. Finn Wins The U.S. and North American champion, Sonya Klopfer of Gar den City, N.Y., fell twice during her intricate program,and lost any •chance she might _ave had of pulling out the title. The only other championship of the day went to . Finland, its first, when Veikko Hakulinen, a YoUng woodcutter, won the gruel ling 50-kilometer (31 miles, 120 yards) ski race in three hours, 33 minutes and 33 seconds. America's other two S ski. rep resentatives--Jeannette Burr of Seattle and Katy Rodolph of Hay den; Colo.—also suffered spills and' finished out of the running. Miss Burr was 15th in 2:20.5 and Miss Rodolph was 21st in 2:24. Falls on Turn Andrea won the giant slalom last Thursday. On Sunday two bad' falls probably cost her the downhill championship. Today, however, t h e steel nerVed comet was prepared when disaster struck again. Racing down the 508-yard slope By ERNIE MOORE Collegian Sports Editor born in the United States. Cron stedt is from Finland. Incidentally, the "Flying Finn" is having trouble with :t h e pronunciation people are giving his first name. It is not pronounced as th e American name Jean but as Jon or Yon. Laz LeMon, Penn State's 156 pound boxer, really put on a show for the f ans in the first round of his bout with Syracuse's Vince Rigolosi Saturday. The way Laz bobbed and weaved his way around Rigolosi reminded us of another boxer—a fellow by the name of Herb Carlson from Idaho. Carlson, by far the best col lege boxer we have ever• seen, won the NCAA championship at 155 pounds when the nation als were held in Rec Hall in 1950. He was also named "best boxer of the tournament." Carlson would bob and weave around his opponent for three rounds and in one fight in par ticular his opponent hardly landed a punch on him during the entire bout. He did a lot of swinging but Carlson just wasn't there. The Collegian sports staff is thinking, of declaring Jesse Ar nelle ineligible from winning the Athlete of the Week award. Sin c e basketball season has started, the big fellow has al most monopolized the award. If he wins it many times more the ACE is liable to ru I e over emphasis. at blinding speed, Andrea tried to make a difficult right turn at one of the 49 control gates near the top of the hill. She skidded and went spinning into the soft snow while the crowd of 15,000, lining the hillside, groaned a sympathetic "Oh!" The- United States star picked herself up quickly and continued the run with a wild recklessness that brought cheers from the spec tators. She finished in a credit able one minute, 7.2 seconds—' good for fourth place at the half way mark, 1.2 seconds behind the leader, Ossi Reichart of Germany. Then she let fly again down the terrifyinc , 42 per cent drop, cheers of the crowd ringing in her ears. Flawlessly, she wove in an out of the turns and then skied into the arms of her hus band, David, a member of the men's ski team. She was timed in a blistering 1:03.4, a mark made up of sheer speed and cour age. Others in the field of 42 from 14 countries, representing the best feminine skiers in th e world, tried to match the pace but failed. With 14 events completed and eight to go, Norway led in the unofficial team race with 101 points while Austria was second with 51. The United States, her three-day scoring famine broken by the ladies' flashing skis, fol lowed with 46 1 / 4 . Finland came fourth with 41. Scabbard and Blade To Show Films Tonight The monthly meeting of Scab-. bard and Blade, military honor ary, will be held at 7:30 tonight at Lambda Chi Alpha. Plans for the • spring pledge class will be made at the meet ing, and Air Force training films will be shown. THE DAILY cOL,L,GIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA I:!:1 U.S. Third Gymnasts Seek Third Victory; Face Tough Syracuse Saturday Penn State gymnastic fans will probably see one of the closest gym meets of the season Saturday when Gene Wett stone's charges meet Syracuse at Rec Hall. Starting time is 2 p.m The Orange, coached by Paul Romeo, parallels the Lions in many respects. It has beaten Navy, lost to Army, and possesses the same record as that of the Nittanies, two wins and one loss. Moreover, its loss to Army was of almost an equal score., 60-37. State lost to the Cadets, 58-38. In regard to his team's strength, Romeo said: "We have a fair sidehorse team, good horizontal bar men, are weak in rings, parallel bars and in the rop e climb events, and have a strong tumbling squad." 'Best Event' The Orange possess one of the finest gym teams in the East and has one of the leading prospects for the NCAA tumbling cham pionship in Jimmy Sebbo, a fresh man. S e b b o 's performance at Rec Hall Saturday ,will offer one of the rarest, most difficult feats a tumbler can perform—the triple full twist. "This is our best event and you must have the meet won or nearly won when you hit - this event," the Orange gym coach said. Perfect Form John Barkal, Syracuse's• top man on the parallel bars 'came through with a 264 point total against the Cadets for first place. However, Romeo explains that this' is Syracuse's weakest event because of the lack of depth. ' In . the high bar event, Backal again is the Orange's ace. Against Army he took his second first of the day in the h-bar with a 265. Romeo said that Backal does a fairly easy exercise in this event, but it is absolutely perfect in form and execution. Jim Fournies heads the rope climbing,- flying rings, and side horse events for Syracuse. Phi Sig Delta, Phi Delta Theta Cop IM Titles Phi Delta Theta and Phi Sig ma Delta won the intramural cage crowns of Leagues A, and B, respectively, Tuesday night by notching their seventh straight victories. Joe Garrity and John Millen each scored 12 points to lead the Phi Delts to a convincing 35-24 decision over Phi Gamma Delta. The win left Phi Delta Theta's season record unblemished at 7-0. DU Takes Lead Phi Sigma Delta won its "big ones" by edging a rugged Sigma Nu team, 23-20. Sigma Icu could have thrown the League B race into a two-way tie if it had won. Phi Sigma Delta also finished its season with a 7-0 slate. The torrid League C race changed its complexion again as Delta Upsilon tripped Alpha Chi Rho, 14-12, to sneak into first place, one-half game in front of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. SAE was upset, 17-15, by Phi Epsilon Pi to conclude' the losers' season with a 5-2 mark. Delta Upsilon, 5-1, can sew up the league champion ship by beating Sigma Alpha Mu, 1-5, in its last game. Beta Sigma Rho Wins ' Sigma Phi Sigma edged closer to the championship of League D by thumping Kappa Delta Rho, 22-10. Armand Lykens Jed the winners to their sixth consecu tive win by tallying 12 markers. Beta Theta • Pi, Sigma Phi Sig ma's final 'opponent, held on to league leaders by dropping Alpha its chance of overtaking the Epsilon Pi, 25-12. Beta Theta Pi trails by one game, but can tie the league up 'with a victory March 4. Tau Kappa Epsilon, de fending champion, was eliminat ed from the race when Sigma Phi Sigma won. Allan Pancerey scor e d 12 points, but his Phi Kappa Psi team went down before Beta Sigma Rho by a 27-20 'margin. The game had no effect on any two forfeits recorded when Sig league standings. Neither did the ma Pi forfeited to Alpha Gamma Rho, and Sigma Phi Epsilon for feited to Delta Theta Sigma. Lion Thinclads End Indoor Season In N.Y. The IC4A track meet in New York this weekend will be the finale for the major portion of the Penn State track team in the indoor campaign. Coach Chick Werner has entered• ten men in six events. Jim Herb is the only one who has competed in previous IC4A indoor competition. Last year he won the high jump, clearing six feet five-and-one-half inches. Bob Roessler, Army field house record holder for 1000 yard s, along with Don Austin and Dave Pierson are the entrants in that distance in the IC's. John Chilrud, a freshman who ran a 4:25 mile at Army, and Jack Horner will go in the eight fur long event; while Lamont Smith and Red Holien will be seeking laurels in the two-mile run. In the field events Dan Lorch is slated for the pole vault and freshman Ron Johnson will try matching leaps with Cornell's Meredith Gourdine in the broad jump. PROGRAM TALENT SHOW o PEGGY MAYBERRY—Character Dancing • JIM McLAUGHAN—Baritone • ROD STEGALL—Comedy Impersonator • ARNIE PAPARAZO—Accordionist er GAYLE THRUSH—Acrobatic Dancer • ED ROLF—Baritone • EDWIN ECKL—Magical Entertainer • CHARLES CARlCATO—lmpersonator • NANCY BRADFIELD & LORETTA McCARTY Modern Interpretation • Master of Ceremonies—GENE LOVE • Guest Appearance—ROßEßT KLUG (last year's winner) o Featured Act—THE COLLEGIANS—Quartet o Music by THE STARDUSTERS FRIDAL NIGHT, 8:00 P.M. - FEB. 22 SCHW.I B AUDITORIUM RESERVED TICKETS-$.85 Tiny McMahan Makes Biggest Point Advance Co-Captain Jay McMahan made the biggest advance of the week in State's basketball scor ing totals. The six-seven senior scored 24 points in the Army, and Rhode Island State games .to move close to fifth place in total scoring. Seven members of Coach El mer , Gross' squad have now cracked the 100 mark in the 18 contests. Ed Haag, Sophomore re serve, is the' only performer of Gross' first , eight who hag not reached the century mark. Jesse Arnelle, with 18 points against the Rams and 24 against the Cadets, increased his margin over runnerup Herm Sledzik. Ar nelle has 327 points in 18 games for an average of 18, good enough for 33rd position among the country's top scorers. Sledzik, six-four forward, is nearing the 200 mark. He has 176 tallies 'for a per game average of 9.8. Co-Captain Hardy Wil liams has a 9.5 average with 162 tallies in 17 games. As a team, the Lions have scored 1,220, points for an offen sive average of 67.8, while yield ing 964 points, or a defensive average - of 53.6. The Nittanies are ranked 14th in the country in defense. .. ... ...... ENTERTAINMENT fR wrj THE PENN STATE CLUB'S 12th ANNUAL ALL-COLLEGE 9 ACTS ON SALE AT STUDENT UNION ~ . , . '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ;. rARP '~#3::
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