TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1952 bilaM The Lion's Lair ' Some days you can't - make a niqkle. Take the case of Penn State's basketball team. Last Wednesday night, the Lions defeated West Virginia on the Rec Hall court, 84-65. The loss was only the third suffered by the Mountaineers all season, but it was the second defeat hung on them by State On Saturday, the Lions hardly wor,ked up a sweat in 'turning back Pittsburgh 24-9 for their sec ond win of the week. The Associated Press came out with ' their final weekly basketball poll yesterday and what happens? State drops two ,places to 23rd. Virginia moves . up a notch to .9th. A West Virginia fan would say, "Well, State was lucky because Workman didn't play much. West' Virginia . has a better team than Penn State." So what. Like the guy from Missouri, you have to show us. You've heard the phrase, , "A man is innocent until proven guilty." "Well, in 'our way of thinking Penn Staie • has.. a better basket ball team than' West Virginia until West Virginia' proves dif ferently. ' Remember, Penn State defeated West Virginia twice— once in Morgantown. Yet in the poll, West Virginia is 9th, Penn State is 23rd. There's no justice in basketball polls. But,. there's , method behind this poll" madness. The AP ra tings are determined by votes of member newspapers Mor gantown is a fairly big city, and there' are a good many large towns in the vicinity. Therefore, a lot of• newspapers. Besides, West Virginia has one big basketball school—West Vir ginia University. The local votes aren't distributed among a lot of schools. The result? West Virginia U. has a large vote backing. Who votes for Penn State? The Centre Daily and possibly a few newspapers around the central part of the state. What about Pittsburgh and Philadelphia papers? Pittsburgh worries about Duquesne. Philadelphia worries about St. Joseph, Villanova, Tem ple, and Penn. Wilat's the result? West Vir ginia,. 9th; Penn State 23rd. There's no justice in basket ball polls. Three-Way Tie Concludes Hot League J Race League J; the most hotly con tested IM cage, league of the sea son, wound up in a three-way tie for first place Friday night as the Sinkers, Dorm 23, and Dorm 36 posted victories. The Sinkers, who are easily the most impressive of the trio, romp ed. to their. seventh • conSecutive win by a 51-17 score over the Hawks. Dorm 23 holds the only victory over the Sinkers, a for feit in the first game of the sea son. Joe Garrity and Renault De- Salle scored 12 and 10 points, re spectively,, to lead the winners' high powered attack. Wins Seventh Dorm 23 notched its seventh win against one setback by tramp ling the Mercuries, 46-19. George Bairey's 12 markers paced the small but speedy winners as they stayed even with the Sinkers and Dorm 36. Dorm 36 had no trouble posting- its seventh win , as• its scheduled game with -Dorm 24 never materialized. Dorm 24, by forfeiting its game, finished . the season with a'3-5 record. Palmerton, who had previously clinched the - title in League K, posted its seventh victory by tak ing a forfeit over Dorm 35. • Stais Win The Triple' A's and Dorm 28 scored victories to tie for second place behind Palmerton with .5r3 slates. The Triple A's dumped Ford City, 28-22, as Howard Hal lett garnered 12 points to lead the way. Dorm 28 countered with a 16-10 conquest of Dorm 41. • The Stars rounded .out their play in League F by scoring a 49- 10 victory over Altoona for their sixth win as against one loss. Dorm 5 forfeited to: the Penn State Club. The Foxes pounded the Alcbholics, 38-12,' 'after. lead- ply 12-9 at halft' By ERNIE MOORE Collegian Sports Editor Gridders Begin Drills on 24th Penn State's football team will begin spring football practice March 24, Carl P. Schott, dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, announced yester day. SChoti says the spring program will be in strict compliance with the new NCAA ruling which al lows only 20 sessions in 30 cal endar days. The training pro gram will exclude spring vaca tion. The date spring practice will end will depend on how soon the - gridders complete the allowed 20 sessions of practice. However, accbrding to the ruling of 20 ses sions in 30 days, excluding spring vacation, practice will have to end before April 30. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Miss Carole . Campbell !MME Miss Marian Gray We Invite Comparison Kois' Fine Shov✓ings Indicate Trouble for Eastern Boxers By 808 VOSBURG Gather together the showings made so far this year by Lion • light heavyweight Adam Kois, mix in experience gained plus a touch of luck, and one is sure to come up with a concoction labeled trouble fo r Eastern tournament opponents. Kois, a sophomore, has com pleted this season in a weight class loaded with more top oppo sition than any other, and has done himself proud. Adam started off his first sea son as a varsity boxer in whirl wind style. It took him only 35 seconds to stop Catholic U's Cliff Sisler in the opening match. Then came his anticipated meeting with Army's Eastern 178- pound champ Jim Mclnenery, and Adam went all out. Though weak ened by a cold, he fought Mclnen ery, on even terms in the first round. Then in the second and third rounds his condition began to take hold, and he tired badly to drop a 30-28 decision. The team then moved back home to Rec Hall against Syra cuse, where Adam met the Or ange's ex-heavyweight Whit e y ' •14.1 5 4 , ''' v•ii.v ., •' 41 ' ' •,• • • ,ar,:i3.-; ~..'•:. • ' i••• 1 ''' ' • ;',4.....,'"4 •*• ,, •i...z ' ....;;41:• , ;444 '' i.g ,110 ~, ...11 ; • , -;"" w; 4 ~....fr,,....: ....„,. . ~"••, _....,..„,.... , ...,.., , .. • . ~A hf ~. "~r» -. ~M ~ysa 0~.~.e THE STUDIO WITH THE CRIMSON DOOR Lion Light-Heavy, Adam Kois Mahar. Kois started out as if he meant to finish Mahar off quickly, and built up a big first-round The Lion Studio lead. But Mahar had other ideas, and in the 1a t t e r two rounds, landed• with enough leather of his own to tie things' up. At Wisconsin, Adam met his toughest match of the season in Ray Zale, nephew of former mid dleweight champion Tony Zale, and once again the bout was called a draw. Says Adam, "Zale was better than any of the boys I had met in the east, and I drew with him, so I'm looking forward to fight ing him again." Against another tough man in Virginia's Bill Roberts, Saturday nigh t, Adam didn't get much chance to prove his stuff. He opened a cut over Roberts' eye in the first round, and according to EIBA rules the bout was called a draw. Adam grew up on his father's large farm south of Pittsburgh around Uniontown, and gradu ated from German Township High School in 1949. He went out for football and made the freshman team. His father made him quit the football team, however, and it was then that his interest turned to boxing. Miss Rose Gai PAGE SMM
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