,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 1952
Between the Lions
Coach Elmer Gross' cagers can still make thiS a highly successful
basketball' season by dumping the West' Virginia. Mountaineers to
night and the Pitt Panthers Saturday. Both of these quintets are
long-time rivals of the Lions and every win over them is sweet . . :
Despite the receht losing streak, the Lions will have to be conceded
slight favorites. The Nittanies downed the Mountaineers 61-60 in
Morgazitowh, and Pitt twice in its own backyard. , These triple
triumphs and the influence of Rec Hall will give State a considerable
boost.,
• The Mountaineers will be especially rough though. Mark Work
man & Company have only lost one other game besides the State
upset and have a 21-2 record. They've just about clinched the
Southern Conference title, and may go to the NCAA tournament.
.. Workman missed weekend games with Clemson because of two
fractures of the sinus bone, a black eye, a badly bruised cheek and a
chipped tooth. The all-time West Virginia scoring ace suffered these
injuries in a collision with Washington and Lee's center. He will
probably wear a specially ; designed mask against the Lions tonightl
Two members of the Lion quintet, Jim Blocker and Ron Weiden
hammer,• expect to go out for Coach Joe Bedenk's baseball team
after the hardwood season ends. Weidenhammer is a shortstop and
Blocker a first sacker . . . The Lion dribblers adopted a new name
for themselves while travelling. The new moniker is, "Ten Tall Men."
. . Chet Makarewicz had his nose broken in warmup exercises at
the second Pitt game. It has completely healed now.
One consolation to the Lions' losing streak and a 17-4 record:
Anyone who would have predicted 17, wins for Gross' outfit at the
beginning of the season would have been considered crazy._ No
one dreamed .the team would break as many school records either
. . . This year's squad has cracked the team away scoring record,
home team scoring record, one year team scoring mark, individual
player season scoring, individual away scoring record, one game
individual scoring high for Rec Hall, longest winning streak in State
history, and won the Steel Bowl tourney in Pittsburgh.
Herm Sledzik, Nittany forward is from the same high school as
Johnny Yuha, schoolboy football player, who broke his neck last
season. Yuha, Elder Ridge's brilliant halfback, who was reportedly
sought by 37 college's, will be an invalid the rest of his life , he
cause of the injury. A story about him in the Tarentum Valley
News told about Yuha watching television and getting quite, a
thrill out of seeing "Legs" Sledzik of his school 'perform against
Army at West Point. ,YUha explained Sledzik was individual scor
ing leader in Indiana County three or four years ago.
Joe Lemyre Hails
From Mat Country
There are coal sections of the country, corn sections of the
country_ and among others, there are wrestling sections of the
country
' ' One wrestling country in particular is centered in Mepham
High School, Long Island. In such a prolific wrestler-growing climate
Joe Lemyre apprenticed before coming to Penn State where he is
now contributing his second
straight year as a consistent win
ner .for : State's EIWA champion
matmen,
That the Lions are now ap
proaching a second successive un
beaten season in the second of
Joe's years here, may be partly
because of the contagious quali
ties of Mepham High.
Mepham could truly be termed
a land where - wrestling streaks
grow—big. Mephain had a 100-
match' streak broken in 1946, but
the persistent Mepham Wrestlers
today are working on their sec
ond 100, having just arrived at
their 89th in a row Mr an un
believable 189 for 190 record.
Owns Records
With such
,a Wrestling environ
ment it isn't any wonder that Joe
and younger brother Dick are
outstanding on the mats.
As might be taken for granted,
any fellow on the - Lion varsity
owns a stack of championship
high school and other records. Joe
is• no exception, The Merrik, L.I.
junior won the South Side, L.I.
and Long Island 155-pound
championships as a high school
junior.
In his senior year, with no
heavyweights available, Joe step
ped in and won the South Side
and Long Island championships in
the unlimited class. During the
summer of 1948, Joe won the, New
York State AAU 177 pound 'title.
Legendary Match.
Coming: to the Nittany Vale
last year from Dußois Center
where he was in company,,with
Don and-- Doug- Frey .and,, Hud
Samson; Joe as a soph rolled up
a 7-1 record plus a third place
in the Easterns.
It was in this EIWA tourna
ment that Joe tangled iri.the now
legendary. semi-final - duel. with
Navy's top-seeded Don .Thomas.
This, unforgettable .m a t all will
By DAVE COLT6N
Assistant. Sports Editor
By JAKE HIGHTON
probably be hashed over the Nit
tany hot-stove league, forever.
The two 165-pounders reversed
and near failed with lightning
rapidity until the stronger-closing
Thomas finally pulled away from
a 10-10 deadlock to win 17-10.
Although the Lemyre-Thomas
scrap had the most spectator ap
peal, of all Joe's matches: the one
he's proudest of he also lost. It
was in the New York Metropoli
tans that'Joe lost 4-3 to Rutger's
Lee Merrill who went on, to finish
runnerup -to the world's best in
the 1948 Olympics.
Briefs: A Sigma Chi, Joe is ac
tiVe in 'Ft . . . norma]ly 205
pounds, Joe stands five-ten . . .
a -C&F major, Joe is pinned to
hometown girl Pauline Karbel
eleven on the 19-man Syracuse
roster come from Joe's section of
Long. Island .
THE DATL:It , COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE.
Joe Lemyre
Kentucky Caters Convicted
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (A')—
Three former University of Ken
tucky basketball stars, members
of the great teams that won the
National Collegiate A.A. champ
ionships in
.1948 and 1949 and
went on to win Olympic fame, to
day pleaded guilty to a charge of
conspiring with gamblers to shave
points in a National Invitation
Tournament game here in 1949.
Dale Barnstable, Ralph Beard,
and Alex Groza were permitted
to plead to a conspiracy charge, a
misdemeanor for which they may
be sentenced to serve up to three
years in the New York City peni
tentiary. A more serious charge
of accepting a bribe was,- in ef
fect. dropped. Bribery, a felony, is
punishable by a state prison term.
General Session Judge Saul S.
Villanova and Illinois in the East
HO WA NY TIMES A DAY
[5O. 1100?
IF YOU'RE A AVERAGE SMOKER
THE RIGHT ANSWERAS OVER 200!
•.a,.:k; t i;' ' ,~,~• • L: moo::
E X T R A I ATTENTION ALL COLLEGE STI
Every Sunday Evening over CBS
THE PHILIP MORRIS PLAY
ern regional tournament and Ok-
Streit paroled them until March
28, when sentence will be pro
nounced.
The three pleaded guilty of
conspiring to influence the result
of the invitation tournament
game with Loyola of Chicago in
Madison Square Garden, March
14, 1949. Loyola won the game, 67
to 56. After that surprising "up
set," Kentucky went on to win
the NCAA championship, beating
lahoma A. and M. in the East-
West final.
Indicating that the investiga
tion of games played by Ken
tucky teams has not ended, As
sistant District Attorney Vincent
A. G. O'Connor told the court
that Barnstable and two other
players, Walter Hirsch and James
Presents an Outstanding College Student
Featured with Famous Hollywood Stars
in the PHILIP MORRIS Intercollegiate Acting Competition
Mit
/,,„ :„;„ „„,,„00 , ;°; ; ° °°.
. .
~.„
CALL `; A
FOR
'Yes, 200 times every, day
your nose and throat are
exposed to irritation ...
200 GOOD REASONS WHY
YOU'RE BETTER OFF SMOKING
PHILIP MORRIS!
PROVED definitely milder . . . PROVED
definitely less irritating than any other
leading brand . . . PROVED by outstanding
/nose and throat specialists.
PAGE sEral
Line, had "done business with
fixers" during the 1949-50 sea
son. -
Still another Kentucky star, Bill
Spivey, visited the district attor
ney's office today for a confer
ence. Spivey, who has denied any
connection with the fixing of
games, asked to be declared in
eligible this season until his name
was cleared of suspicion. He re
cently sought reinstatement. Spiv
ey will appear tomorrow before a
grand jury which is investigating
cage fixes.
Hirsch, captain of the .1950-51
team, has appeared before the
grand jury investigating the scan
dal and is under $5OO bond as a
material witness.
200?