PACE SIX
''':l-. , -tate Hoss! s Pitt
Cagers Tomorrow
With hopes of an NCAA "at large" invitation given _a
shot in the arm by Wednesday's win over West Virginia,
Coach Elmer Gross" cagers will attempt to extend their, Rec
Hall superiority against Doc
,Carlson's
,Pitt squad tomorrow
night. The Mountaineer win raised the Lions' season mark
to 48-4. None of the losses has been suffered at home, where
State teams have always been
tough.
The Lions will attempt to break
the College's all-time win total.
The most victories a Nittany team
has ever compiled was during the
1941-42 campaign when the drib
blers won 18, including a triumph
in the NCAA tournament. This
years's squad tied that mark
against West Virginia)
Met T;vice
Tomorrow night's contest will
ring down, the curtain for Carl
son's ice-cream eaters. Pitt has
had .an extended rest since their
victory over Carnegie Tech last
week. The Skibo win gave the
Panthers a 10-11 record.
The Lions and Panthers have
already met twice this season.
State won both contests, taking
the first, 62-40, in the Steel Bowl
final, and the second contest, 52-
45. The Blue and White's zone
defense has always been a nemes
is to Carlson.
Zernich Top Player
Pitt has a veteran lineup which
was unpredictable this year. The
Panthers knocked Syracute from
the unbeaten ranks and defeated
Notre Dame twice. The Panthers
opened the season by upsetting
Columbia to snap the Lions' 33
game regular season win streak.
Carlson's top player is Mickey
Zernich, six-two junior forward.
Zernich usually tops the Smoky
City outfit in scoring and has
ammased over 300 tallies for the
year.
•Other starters for Pitt are Clan
. •c. Burch (6-0), Dick Dietrick
~ John Kendrick (6-1) and
Don Virostek (6-4). B u - r ch, a
sophomore, is the youngest regu
lar. Dietrick, a f ootb all end,
joined the team partway through
the season and won himself a
starting berth with his rebound
work. Kendrick is captain of the
team and a scoring threat. Viro
stek is the;tallest member of the
squad and a good defensive
player.
Clutch Play Helps
Jesse Arnelle, six-five center,
will attempt to crack the Pan
thers' defense. Pitt has held the
tall freshman to two of his low
est scoring performances of the
year. In. both Pitt games Arnelle
scored only ten points.
Gross will start Co-captain
Hardy Williams and Jack Sherry
at guards, Arnelle at center, and
Herm Sledzik and Joe Piorkowski
at the forwards. Sledzik hit the
200 mark in scoring against West
Virginia. Tiny McMahan will
again be the number one reserve.
The senior co-captain's clutch
play has been a great aid to State's
impressive record.
8 Men Move
Into 2d Round
In Handball
Eight men moved into the sec
ond round of the 1952 IM hand
ball tourney in matches played
last night at the Roc Hall courts.
Allan Pancerev, Phi Kappa Psi,
ousted Anthony Vendetti, Theta
Kappa Phi, 21-9, 21-15. William
Hamilton, Delta Sigma Phi, beat
Joseph Reed, Phi Sigma Kappa,
21-4, 21-6. John McCall, Alpha
Tau Omega, and Len Shepherd,
Sigma Nu, won forfeits.
Donald Williams, Acacia, had to
go three games to take a hard
earned win from Ralph Lauden
slayer, Phi Kappa Sigma, 21-12,
20-21, 21-13. Burton Cushner, Sig
ma Alpha Mu, won in straight
games over John Note, Alpha Sig
ma Phi, 21-12, 21-10, as did Sigma
Pi's James Clark over Dick Mc-
Quillen, Sigma Chi, 21-18, 21-19.
Bernard, Whitehill, Theta Kappa
Phi, also made his way into the
second round With a shutout win
over Marion Burton, Phi Gainma
Delta, 21-0, 21-0.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Four Schools
Accept Bids
To 'invitational'
NEW YORK, Feb. 28— (A))
Western Kentucky, LaSalle,
Louisville and New York Univer
sity accepted bids today to the
National Inv i tation Basketball
Tournament beginning March 8,
leaving only one school to be se
lected in the 12-team event.
LaSal le an d N.Y.U. were
named tonight, after an earlier
Bulletin
St. Johns 78, NYU 75.
announcement that the two Ken
tucky clubs had accepted offers
to play in the Madison Square
Garden event.
It was expected that one of the
following teams (records in brack
ets) would be chosen by tomor
row for the final open spot:
DePaul (18-7), Loyola of Chi
cago (17-7), St. Joseph's of Phila
delphia (16-5), Tex as Christian
(20-3), Villanova (17-6) and Mi
ami, Ohio (17-5).
Seven teams, already had ac
cepted invitations prior to today.
They included three cage outfits
ranked among the top 10 in the
nation in the last AP weekly poll
—Duquesne, No. 4, St. Louis, No.
5, and St. John's of Brooklyn,
No. 9. Also invited- were Dayton,
No. 11; St. Bonaventure, No. 12;
Setbn Hall, No. 4; and Holy Cross,
No. 17.
Asa Bushnell, chairman of the
tournament selection committee,
said four teams were seeded and
drew first round byes. They are:
1. Duquesne; 2. St. Louis; 3
St. Bonaventure; and 4. St. John's
Sweden is second to the United
States in the number of tele
phones, with 24 for 100 people.
Matmen Face
In Final Home
By JAKE HIGHTON i
Penn State's unbeaten wrestling team takes to the Rec Hall mats for the last time
this season against Cornell at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The remainder of the Lions' schedule
is strictly on the road with Princeton, the Easterns at Bethlehem and the nationals at
Colorado to follow in 'that order.
For tomorrow's match with Cornell it is dOubtful if St
lineup which rolled up most of the seven straight victorie-
Thetas Win
Coed Swi m
WRA dropped the curtain on
the swimming season last night
as Kappa Alpha Theta winning
with 148 points. McAllister and
Thompson were runnersup with
135 and 133 points, respectively.
McAllister and Phi Mu were
the only two teams who showed
up last night. McAllister captured
first place in everything but the
50 yard-front and back crawls.
Individual winners for the iea.
son and their times are as follows:
50 yard freestyle, Jan Herd, Kap
pa Alpha Theta, 30.3; 50 yard
backcrawl, Bunny Lusk, Zeta Tau
Alpha, 37.6; 25 yard crawl, Joan
Hurtle, Kappa Alpha Theta, 13.7;
25 yard backcrawl, Jane Evans,
Thompson, 17.5; 25 yard breast
stroke, Barb Benck, Tri- Delt, 18-
2; 100 yard rel a y, McAllister,
1:06.5; and 75 yard medley relay,
Tri-Delt, 56.3.
Thiel Calls
For Freshman
Lacrossemen
WANTED: AN UNLIMITED NUMBER
of freshmen to try out for Penn State's
lacrosse team. Good opportunity to earn
a varsity letter within two years. No ex
perience necessary. Interested students
contact Coach Nick Thiel at his office
In Rec
Lacrosse Coach Nick Thiel yes
terday issued a call for all fresh
men interested in trying - out for
the Lion lacrosse team.
Lost Good Men
Thiel emphasized that experi
ence is not necessary. He pointed
out that three All-American la
crosse players from State, Jimmy
Riddell, George Ritter, and Joe
Anduckitus, never had a lacrosse
stick in their hands until they
came to Penn State.
Hard hit by graduation and
the draft, Thiel's team lost attack
man Jim Reed, midfielders Paul
(Piggy) Raffensperger, Al Fulton,
and Jack Wilcox, defensemen
Vance Scout and Danny Grove,
and goalie Phil Benedetti.
6-3 Record
Wilcox and Raffensperger fin
ished one-two in team scoring
last year with the former setting
a new Penn State record. Wilcox's
20 goals broke the previous record
of 18 set in 1946 by Cliff Sulli
van. Raffensperger's 19 goals also
broke the old mark.
Last year, State's lacrosse team
won six and dropped three. In
cluded in the Lion victory log
was a 7-6 overtime win over
highly rated Maryland Lacrosse
Club. The Nittany Lions also de-
feated Western Maryland, Penn,
Ithaca, Hobart, and Cornell. Navy,
Loyola of Baltimore, and Syracuse
handed the Lions their defeats.
Jockey Takes Spill
ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 28—(IF)
Jockey Andre Kolonics had a
bad spill toddy at' Santa Anita
Park, but it wasn't the usual kind.
The little Hungarian rider
slipped on a bar of soap in the
jockeys' shower room.
He injured his side so painfully
he had to cancel his mounts for
the day.
Both Lynn Illingworth and
Don Frey, held out of the Navy
meet last week on .doctor's or
ders ,are possible but not cer
tain starters. Frey, 5-1 on the
season, has been working out
all week and wants to go against
Cornell's Eastern champion
Frank tlettucci but may not get
.a doctor's okay.
In the event that Frey doesn't
start, Bill Krebs will handle the
147 pound. job for the Lions.
Bill has started once this season,
losing by a 'pin in the Pitt meet
after cracking his head falling.
Heavyweight Illingworth's fib
injury is better but Icky still
may not start. Nittany Dick Wa
ters, substitute winner 6-3 last
week in his only varsity start,
will possibly get the call . in the
unlimited class.
Coach Charlie Speidel has list-.
ed two possible starters in hi,s
keenly competitive 137 pound
class. Either Don Maurey or,
Jerry Maurey, will hold down
the nost. Soph Jerry has not lost
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Lions Peril Virginia's
Winning-Season Bid
An unpredictable array of freshmen and sophomores, making
up the University of Virginia boxing team, move into Rec Hall to
morrow night with hopes of pushing their season record over the
.500 mark.
The Cavaliers show an even
with wins over Catholic U. and
Cavalier Captain
Pete Potter
Virginia light-Heavy
Bill Roberts
Cornell
Match
ate will present the starting
. to date this season.
Sports
Briefs
BATON ROUGE, La„ Feb. 28
(IP)—Tack Burke, a dead-eyed
Texan who uses a driver with the
accuracy of a six-shooter, fired
a four under par 68 to take the
lead today in the first round of
the $lO,OOO Baton Rouge Open
Golf Tournament.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28 --(2EP)—
Track fans will be seeing double
tomorrow, and Won't have a com
plaint about the cause.
For the first time on record,
two championship meet s—the
tenth Metropolitan Championship.
and the fifth Heptagonal (Ivy Lea
gue) Meet—will 'be held simul
taneously. Not only that, but• the
two meets will be run off in two
sections in two different cities and
one University, Columbia, will
take put in both.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1952
By 808 VOSBURG
row of Two's on the record book
the Citadel losses to Miami and
South Carolina, and draws with
Army and Syracuse.
Top man from the record stand
point in the southerners' lineup
is Captain Pete Potter at 156
pounds. The first sophomore ever
to captain a Virginia boxing team,
Potter has a 4-0-2 record. His
most notable win was a 28-27
decision over Eastern champ Bill
Miller of Syracuse.
Caine Off Floor
Next in line is heavyweight Joe
Mehalick with a 4-1-1 slate, Also
a sophomore, Mehalick lost to
Chuck Spann of South Carolina,
and drew with George Kartalian
of Syracuse.
He tangled with Charles Har
vey of Citadel in a rollicking af
fair, coming off the floor twice
in the opening
,round to beat his
opponent.
Light heavyweight Bill Roberts
of Pittsburgh is also a man to be
reckoned with. Also a sophomore,
Roberts turned in his best per
formance in beating Army's East..
ern 'champ, Jim Mclnenery. His
only loss came to ,John Mahar of
Syracuse. He has a 2-1-2 record.
Drew With Nelson
Leading off for the Cavaliers
at 125 pounds will be freshman
Bill Banerdt. Though Banerdt's
record of 2-3 is unimpressive, he
holds a decision over Tom Coul
ter of Syracuse.
Following Banerdt will be Bob
Rush at 132 pounds. Rush, a fresh
man, also has an uninspiring 2-3-1
record, but his potentialities were
proved by a draw with Syracuse's .
rugged Art Nelson.
Another Soph
A third freshman is John Fite
at 139 pounds. Fite has a.l-1-3
record, decisioning Joe Incarnato
of Catholic U. and losing to John
ny Granger of Syracuse.
At 147 p
.pounds is.a sophomore,
Grice Whitely; wit a 1-4-1 rec
ord. His only win, was over Rod
Koch of Army.
Either Estel Nichols (1-2) or
Bill Burgess • .(1-1) will go in at
165-pounds, a with Nichols most
likely to get the nod. Nichols de
cisioned Vince Rigolosi of Syra
cuse in his best performance. Bur
gess, if he fights, will be the
only letterman in the lineup.
Marion Dons
Brownie Togs
For First Time
BURBANK, Calif., Feb. 28--
(1 3 )—Marty Marion, a hero in St.
Louis when he starred as • Mr.
Shortstop for 11 years with the
Cardinals, put on the uniform of
the rival St. Louis Browns for
the first time today and declar
ed he intends to wear it in 100
or more games this year.
As a coach, as he is listed on.
the Browns' roster?
The query was put first to
Rogers Hornsby, the new Brown
ie manager?
Snapped the Rajah, almost
brusquely: "Hell no, he's a ball
player. There are my coaches,
over there." He pointed ,to Bill
Norman and Bob Scheffing.
Nearby, loosening up-that long,
pipe -slender frame, was Martin
Whiteford Marion.
"Sure, I'm out to play," said
Marty. "If I can't play 100 games
I won't be worth much to the
Browns. I think I can gO in 125,
130 games. Maybe more:'
What about his year-long non
active status as manager of the
Cardinals last year?
Said Hornsby: "Did him good. -
But ask Marty."
"As a matter of fact, it did,"
Marion agreed. "You know my
knee, the right one, was what
kept me out last year.
"But I played basketball
,all
winter and it held up fine, I
worked hard for this new job. I
think I gave it a pretty good
test."