PAGE SIX 2 Veterans Are Cornell Mainstays Already over the biggest humps of the season without loss in sev en matches, Penn State wrestlers play host Saturday afternoon to a Cornell team that is star-studded in two spots and strong enough over-all to give the Lions trouble. Headliner in the Cornell array is Frank Bettucci, Eastern Inter collegiate champion at 147 last year and nemesis of State's na tional runnerup Don Frey. Unbeaten in seven starts this year, Bettucci met Frey last year also with an unbeaten mark of 9-0. Frey took a 2-1 decision to give Bettucci his first loss of the year. Three Other Veterans CornelPs other big man is Don Dickason, co-captain with Bet tucci and 177 pound runnerup to State's Eastern champ Mike Ru bino. Dickason lately has dropped down to 167, a spot at which he took one of the big Red's two decisions in a 20-6 licking hand ed out by Syracuse. Three other veterans grace the Cornell lineup. At 137 Bill Van Gilder performs and Paul Samp son returns at 157. With Dick Clark, first man to beat Nittany Homer Barr in dual meet com petition, gone, Cornell has been using Les Simon in the unlimited class even though he is a normal 167 pounder. Syracuse-Cornell Results The rest of the probable Red starters are Bill Morgan at 123; John Haddah at 130; and Dick Soars. Results of the Syracuse match were: 123, Morgan lost 4-0 to Ger bino; 130, Haddah lost 5-4 to Campbell subbing for Tschirhart; 137, Van Gilder was pinned in 8:35 by Bury; 147, Bettucci edged Frey's conqueror Rooney, 4-2; 157, Sampson lost 5-1 to Martin; 167, Dickason licked Gobetz, 5-1: 177, Soars lost to Marinelli, 3-0; and Simon dropped a 3-1 decision to Beyer. To date Cornell has won four, lost three and tied one. The Big Red have defeated Army, Navy. Penn, and Rochester Tech. The New Yorkers have lost to 'Syra cuse, Lehigh and Lock Haven Teachers and tied Rutgers. U.S. Skaters Take 3d, 4th Places in Paris PARIS, Feb. 27—(W)—The Uni ted States placed third and fourth today in the opening phase of the world championship for ice skat ing dancers as two British cou ples took the lead. The defending champions, Law rence Demmy and Jean West wood of England, took first place in the compulsory dances, in com petition with eight other couples at the Palais des Sports. Place Third All seven judges voted for the defending champions, who thus became overwhelming favorites to repeat. Second went to John Slater and Jean DeWhirst of Brit ain. The free dancing will decide the championship on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Bodel of Berkeley, Calif., placed third, by a slim ma•rgin over Carol Peters and Daniel Ryan of Wash ington, D.C. A third U.S. couple was pre vented from competing when Lois Waring of Baltimore fell and re ceived a sprained left arm. Her partner is Pvt. Michael McGean Df Hershey. Pa., on leave from the Fifth Infantry Division at In diantown Gap, Pa. Won't Defend Dick Button, Olympic and world champion, will seek this fifth consecutive world title in the men's figure skating competi tion starting tomorrow. Button, !rom Englewood, N.J., came here !rpm Oslo where he won his sec md Olympic title last week. • Jeanette Altwegg of England, who won the women's figure skat ng title at Oslo, will not defend the world crown she won last'year n Milan. It is reported 'she will )e married soon in Switzerland. TT-TR 11 Arr .V 'Yyr S :PIM A 'rkT O ,T ATR -....:.:: LEGE -PENNSYLVANIA Third Quarter Stretch for.Ed ED HAAG jumps and reaches in vain for a tally in the third period in Rec Hall last night. Jumping with him is Ralph Holmes, Moun taineer guard, who fouled Haag on the play. State set a new Rec Hall scoring record by Cagers Down W. Va., 84-65, Break Record (Continued from vage one) had more than a two point lead during the entire quarter. Both the Lions and the Moun taineers cooled in the second ten minutes. The visitors scored 14 markers to State's nine to take a 38-33 half-time lead. The Moun taineers were still shooting well with 42 per cent at the inter mission. The Lions fought an uphill bat tle to take the edge in. the third quarter. Arnelle made a bucket• to tie•the count at 40-40. The lead see-sawed back and forth until sophomore Ed Haag sank a beauty to knot the score at 46-46. Min utes later State took the lead on a McMahan basket, and was never headed again. Workman fouled out after Mc -IMahan's two-pointer. Joe Pior ' kowski made four consecutive points at the close of the period to give State a 54-51 margin. The Nittanies got red hot in the final ten minutes of play to record 30 tallies against the hap less Mountaineers' 14. At one point the Lions chalked up 17 straight points. Haag and Arnelle paced State's four t h quarter splurge with the Crafton ,soph getting six markers in a row. The summary: Penn Sate G F W. Virginia G F T Becker 9 4 22 Isner 2 3 7 Workman 1 1 3 Moore 6 7 19 Holmes 1 0 2 Shockey 4 3 11 Steindler 0 1 1 Alessi 0 0 0 2 5 9 Piaticowski 2 2 6' 8 4 20 Williams 6 0 12 4 1 9 McMahan 7 17.5 Weidenh'mer 1 0 2 2 5 9 Makarewicz 1 0 2 Blocker Totals 23 19 65 24 9 21 30-84 24 14 13 14-65 33 18 84 Penn State West Virginia Late Sports Briefs ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. '27—(?) Reports circulated today that Hill Prince, the handicap cham pion of 1951, is lame and will not run in Saturday's $lOO,OOO - Santa Anita Handicap, we r e denied by trainer Casey Hayes. CMZI DENTON, Tex., Feb. 27—(1P)— Billy Maxwell and Dizzy Dean teamed up to win an exhibition golf match from Byron Nelson and Joe Conrad - 3 and 2 today. Maxwell, National Amateur champion, led the individual scores with a par 70. The Texas Amateur champ, Conrad, followed with 71. Nelson had a 73 and Dean a 79, —Photo by McNeillEe walloping the Mountaineers 84-65. Haag, who missed this one, scored nine po:nts during the game. Unknown M an, Coach Inspired Sam Marino An unknown man in a Norristown gym and a foresighted Penn State - boxing coach are the persons most responsible for the Lion boxing team having a solid man in the 125-pound class. For it was while Sammy Marino, the Lions' bantam lead-off man, was working out in his favorite home town training place that an interested by-stander with a keen eyd for boxing talent advised him to seek a boxing career either as a pro or in. college. Sammy at the time was digging ditches for a construction com pany and didn't have to be coaxed to give up the "time-wasting" occupation. More interested in a college edu cation than a pro career, Sammy wrote to several colleges but re ceived no encouragement from any save State and the late Leo Houck, who )was boxing coach at the time. Went to Millersville Sam never got a chance to box under the man who did so much to help him get a start, for Houck died before Marino reached State. But he rates Houck's helping hand the greatest thing anyone has ever done for him. Sammy was graduated from Norristown High School in 1946 and spent his freshman year at the Millersville center. Last year, Sammy arrived on campus and under the direction of Coach Eddie Sulkowski, nailed down the varsity 125-pound berth. Junior Class Officer He boxed his way successfully through his first varsity season, winning three, losing three, and drawing in one bout. He received a tough break in the Eastern tournament, when in the prelim inaries against Len Coiner of Vir ginia, he suffered a cut over the eye, forcing , the match to be stopped. Coiner went on to win the championship. In the nationals, Sammy was eliminated, after a good battle, by Frank Echevarria of Idaho. Sammy is a junior in Labor- Management Relations, junior class vice-president, an d presi dent of Druids. He considers be ing named one of 15 top juniors his major college achievement. Shantz Plans to Use Knuckle Ball Again WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., Feb. 27—(?P)—Bobby Shantz, ace southpaw with the Philadelphia Athletics, said today he plans to use his knuckle ball aA much this season as he did last' year. The 26-year-old hurler had a disappointing start last season up to the time he was picked to pitch in the All-Star game. Until then he had let the knuckle ball col lect dust in his pitching bag of tricks. • By 808 VOSBURG Unbeaten at 125 Pounds Sam Marino THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 102 Boxers Host Giant-Killing, Virginia A young Virginia boxing team, which has specialized all season in knocking off the "big guys," moves into Rec Hall Saturday night to help the Lions close their dual-meet card. The Virginians, who show five sophomores and three freshmen in the .starting lineup, have com piled a seasons' record of two wins, two losses, and two ties. Decisioned Coulter It's in the individual upsets, however, that the story of this Cavalier team is best told. While the team as a whole has/ beaten Catholic U. and the Citadel, lost •to Miami and South Carolina, and tied Syracuse and Army, the boys have been knocking off the op positions best men. s • Virginia 125-pounder Bill Ban erdt, for instance, with a medi ocre 2-3 record, decisioned Torn Coulter of Syracuse. Bob Rush, at 132, with a 2-3-1 slate, held Syracuse? tough•;Art Nelson to , a draw, while Captain Pete Potter, at 156, scored a stun ning win over Syracuse Eastern champ Bill Miller. Potter's record is 4-0-2. Light heavyweight Bill Roberts (2-1-2) decisioned Eastern champ Jim Mclnenery of Arm y, and heavyweight Joe Mehalick (4-1-1) drew with Syracuses' George Kar talian. Other Starters Lion Coach Eddie Sullcowski has announced one change in the State• lineup for the Virginia meet. Gerry Spotts, .who started the year at that .spot, will prob ably replace Laz LeMon at 156 pounds. The rest of the lineup will prob ably remain the same, with Sam Marino at 125, Sam Butler at 132, Tony Flore at 139, Captain John Albarano at 147, Lou Koszarek at 165, Adam Kois at 178, and heavy weight Dave Yeakel. TiCkets Available For Boxing Finals A number of tickets remain for the Eastern Intercollegiate Box ing Association . championships March 7-8 in Recreation Hall, H. R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, said yesterday: About 100 tickets also remain for the finals of the Eastern Inter collegiate Wrestling Association championships March - 14-15, at Lehigh University, he added. Nearly 200 tickets are still avail able for the semi-final and pre liminary matches. The tickets are on sale at the Athletic Association ticket office, first floor, Old Main.
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