THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1952 The Lion's Lair The same weekend Penn State plays host to the Eastern boxing tournament, March 7-8, Coach Gene Wettstone's gymnasts will vie for Eastern supremacy in the intercollegiate championships at Syracuse With one of its strongest teams in years, Penn State should make a strong bid for the Eastern Crown. So far this season only Army has been able to defeat the Lions, L— and the Cadets will probably be the: pre-tourney favorites, to win the Eastern diadem. HOWever, since the Army meet at West Point, the Lion gymnasts have shown a marked improve ment and seem to be getting stronger every week. This is due mostly to the improved per - formances of the No. 2 and 3 men in each event. This is espe :daily true on the sidehorse and the parallel bars. Prank WiCk and Dick Shaffer have combined with the Lions' ace, Bobby Lawrence, to giv e State a strong trio• on the side horse. Weitstone can boast two crack performers, on the parallel bars in Jan Cronstedt and Bill Sabo. Cionstedt will be a strong favo rite to cop honors in this event. Sabo, witti hit his peak against • Syracuse last week, will give the Lions added strength in the tournament. Along with Lawrence and Cron stedt, Jim Hazen is another pos sible winner for State. Hazen has been the Lions No. 1 man on the flying rings. Last season in the Crusaders Capture League B Ca ie Title With only four more nights of IM basketball remaining, seven independent leagues are still without champions, although the Cru saders clinched the League B crown Tuesday night. The Crusaders, undefeated in seven games, finished their reg ular schedule by dumping the Beaver House, 34-19. Glenn Goss led the new champions with 15 points. The Epars and Sea Hawks both notched victories to close their seasons in a two-way tie for first place in League A. The Mustangs fell before the Epars, 50-18, while the Sea Hawks, dropped Dorm 39 by a 21-13 score. The Epars and Sea Hawks have 6-1 records. Still in League A, the Fireballs finished their league activity with a 5-2 slate by smashing the Blues, 48-23. Dick Mohan became the night's ,high scorer as he scored 22 points for the winners. The Radads forfeited to the Puddy Cats. Dorm 26 romped over Marilyn Hall, 31-18, to notch its third con secutive win after four early sea son setbacks. Harold Warner and James Good tallied 12 points each to pace the winners' attack. The Pythons forfeited to the Cats to set the Cats' record at 4-3. , Two games were played in League F that had no bearing on the league standing as the For esters had' already clinched the league championship. G.F.O. won its third game by thumping Dorm 27, 33-15. The Crusaders, Trace A.C., For esters, and Palmerton are the only teams already crowned in their respective leagues. Dorm 11, Dorm 4, and Edinboro are only one win away from the League C, D, and I championships, re spectively. Three other leagues, A, G, and H are in two-way ties. A three-way tie for first place in League J prevails between Dorm 36, Dorm 23, and the Sinkers. LIKE SP G ETTP , . You'll enjoy our ,4::; . ;::-.1: . ' - '.:1F f p ,, ... i.. : ,.,. Thursday night special itri.4,:i.:,;....:!?":0:5t.0,:11.,:t.z., —real Italian spaghetti Ifo' 7 : l..'',:''>.' ' A ' with meat balls. 44,4?:'tV0%"*44::.''1?;ka . •.:,'wt.fi:.''4]W.4..elio. CAMPUS RESTAURANT 124. E. -College Avenue By ERNIE MOORE Collegian Sports Editor National Gymnastic Champion ships in Detroit Hazen tied for fifth place, I.t points behind the champion. Cronstedt, who has be e n a tower of strength for Penn State's team this year, could be a double-winner for the Lions. The "Flying Finn" is unbeaten on the horizontal bar. He will be backed by Tony Procopio, State's jack-of-all trades this season, who will also be No. 2 man on the flying rings. Dave Shultz in the rope climb and Bob Kenyon in tumbling will vie for honors in their respective events. - All in all, State's chances of placing high in the tournament are good, exceptionally good. Lawrence, Cronstedt, and Hazen should be the big point getters, with Cronstedt having a good chance of copping individual hon ors in two events. The chances' for a Penn State championship will depend a lot on how high Kenyon and Shultz can place in the tumb ling and rope climb, and the performances of State's No. 2 and 3 men on the apparatuses. . Should State's "big three"- cop first places and Sabo and Pro copio make good showings, the Lions could cart the Eastern crown back to the Nittany Vale. By JIM PETERS 5 More Reach Second Round In 1M Handball The 1952 IM handball tourney completed its third day of frater nity competition Tuesday night with five more men moving into the second round on late matches played at the Rec Hall courts. Robert McFadden and Bill Bar notski, both of Phi Kappa Tau, turned in straight set wins. Mc- Fadden eliminated Joe 'Policas tro, Tau Kappa Epsilon, 21-8, 21- 11, while Barnotski ousted Pi Kappa Phi's Richard Blythe, 21- 5, 21-9. Robert Goodell, Tau Kappa Ep silon, advanced to the second round by dropping James Kilgore, Lambda Chi Alpha, 21-11, 21-4. Other first-round action fou n d Jerry Maurey, Delta Upsilon, and Kenneth Newman, Phi Kappa, moving up. Maurey took identi cal sets from Dave Simon, Kappa Delta Rho, 21-6, 21-6, and 'New man , decisioned Alpha Epsilon Pi's Stanley Vitt, 21-6, 21-15. No matches were scheduled at the Rec Hall courts last night due to the conflicting State-West Vir ginia basketball game. Manila, the capital of the Phil lippines, is the largest city in the islands. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Boudreau Thinks Sox Contenders SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 27 (R)— Ted Williams or not, Manager Lou Boudreau rates his Boston Red Sox a pennant contender in the American League. It's a strange switch from other years. The experts who have been crowning the Red Sox as pennant winners in April, now are con signing them to the second divi sion, Some put them as deep as sixth .place. Boudreau isn't picking his club to win the pennant, but says, "I don't see how we could finish out of the first four." The new Red Sox boss gives Cleveland a slight edge over New York in the pennant race with Chicago, Detroit and Boston up close. "I think we have enough to be a contender, even if we lose Wil liams," said Boudreau. "I'm bas ing that on my pitching. Bill Mc- Kechnie has been working hard with Willard llixon and Maurice McDermott. I'm hoping both will come through for us big. Either could be the stopper we need. Our new catcher, Gus Niarhos, _should help both of them. "Of course Mel Parnell, our 18- game winner, will be taking his turn. Otherwise, we have 24 or 25 pitchers and it's wide open." Boudreau professes to be as much in the dark about Williams as the next person. Even if Ted does report for spring training, there can be no positive word un til his April 2 physical examina tion by the Marines. Waits for Stephens "I'll just have to shuffle my outfielders around to see who can play left," he said. "In addi tion to Dom DiMaggio in center, we have Don Lenhardt, Clyde Vollmer and Charley Maxwell." Boudreau is waiting on Vern Stephens before he attempts to set up his infield. Stephens miss ed the last six weeks of the sea son because of a leg injury. "If , Stevie shows me he can play short," said Boudreau, "I'll let Johnny Pesky have a whack at second base with Billy Good man. "Whether or not I play, de pends on Stephens, too. I might have to two-platoon third base with Fred Hatfield or first base with Walt Dropo and Goodman. And maybe alternate Wood and Vollmer in right field." Mintz Will Manage Canonsburg Boxer PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27—(W)— Don Alderson, 20-year-old welter weight from Canonsburg, Pa., to day became a member of the growing stable of fight manager Jake Mintz. Alderson, who has won 25 of 30 bouts since turning pro, has done most of his fighting lately out of Miami, Fla. Pitching Open MICHAEL RED GRAVE "THE SMUGGLERS" WALTER PIDGEON ANN HARDING "THE UNKNOWN MAN" o. OPEN AT 6:20 AUDIE MURPHY "THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE" s in the Arm Don' BIG DON NE ...tyn towers over other inductees as he is sworn into the Army at Newark, N.J., Tuesday. Lt. James R. Huey (back to camera) administers the oath. The 6-4, 240-pound pitcher who won 20 games for the Dodgers last year, signed a $25,000 Brooklyn contract Feb. 5. WDTV Will Carry Duquesne Games PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27—(IP)— Station WDTV, Pittsburgh's only television station said today it will carry all National Invita tional T our n a ment basketball games in which Duquesne Uni versity plays. The Dukes, boasting a 19-1 rec ord. have accepted an invitation to the tournament which opens March 8 in Madison Square Gar den at New York. The program will be sponsored jointly by the Danforth Company, Westinghouse Electric Supply Company and Westinghouse deal ers in the .Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio area. SHOP AT THE Young Men v s Shop and SAVE more for dates A M .. ,...„ , •t\x \\ . \\ ,s. 4 . 1?§10 t ~ • : \ si \,\ ~ , , , 1111 1:: : : 1\1 :;:04; : . ".":":::; - , ''' ' .. 7!•••••••>. ::..j THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL ramous Harwood $4.95 PAJAMAS s A to D • Sanforized 2 67 . Fancy Stripes .... .,„„e.- d e- V:J, , Rea. $1 Otis if T-Shirts : ',i....? 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SERIES TICKET for all three sessions Reserved . . $ Individual Sessions (in their order): $1.20, $1.20, $2.40 Plus 25c Mailing Charge Unreserved $3 Individual Sessions (in their order): .90, AO, $2.00 Plus 25c Mailing Charge Send Check or Money Order to PENN STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 107 Old Main, State College, Pa.
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