SATURDAY, MARCH ,15; 1952 The Nittany Realm According to a recent INS release, Doc earlson may soon be re lieved of his duties as Pitt basketball coach. Crediting the information, to a "reliable" source, the wire service report' said that athletic director Tom Hamilton was intent on re placing Carlson with a younger man. Since Carlson has been synono. mous with Pitt basketball for the last ,3O years, the Fans aren't taleng the.action too lightly. It seems that despite his loony antics on Ilia' • court, Carl son' has become endeared to Pitts burgh fans, even to the extent that they consider hini in the same light as Dr. James A. Naism!th, founder of . the game. There is no doubt that - many people will 'probably miss the old fellow and a lot of Pitt tradition will he gone when Doc goes, but the way the game is played at Pitt might be improved. For it looks as if Doc got Bethlehem, Catasaqua In Big Class A Battle HARRISBURG, March 14—(,P)—Bethlehem matches a keen•de fense against Catasaqua's fast-breaking offense tomorrow night in a PIAA Class A cage battle that will produce the east's top candidate. _ Bethlehem's East Penn conference champions, with a record of 21-3, go against Catasaqua's Lehigh Valley League winners, with a similar record, for the District 11 Class A title at Philadelphia, The Bethlehem-Catasaqua clash tops the night's PIAA playoff card that also includes three Class B inter-district games and re gional finals in Class C. The Class B tilts send Nesque honing (District 11) against de fending state champion Kutztown (3) at Allentown; Shickshinny (2) against Montrose (12) at Kingston, and Slippery Rock (9) against Cranberry. (10) at Sharon. The Avalon (7) vs Gallitzin (6) game has been postponed until Monday.. Playing for the Class C eastern title at Wilkes-Barre Township High School's floor will be Jen kintown (District 1) and Pringle (2). Jenkintown eliminated Co play (11), 76-68, and East Berlin, 67-52, to reach the regional finals while Pringle knocked out Way mart (12), 58-48, and Freeburg (4), 64-36, to claim its berth. The Class C finals in the west match Coudersport (9) against• Roaring Spring, (6) at Altoona. Both teams played only one inter= district game so far. Coudersport defeated Stoneboro (10), 64-57, while Roaring Spring eliminated McConnellsburg (5), 57-33. The Class C state champion ship game will be held next Wed nesday at a western site to be selected by the PIAA Sunday night. The experts are predicting that the - winner of the Bethlehem- Catasaqua game will go all the way 'to the Class A state champ ionship game March 29 at Phila delphia's Penn Palestra. The latest triumph was not as sweet for Wilt as the others,' since Gehrmann was running on a bruised muscle. He is expected to be back in shape for this run. -; ABLER ., .. __ A WOMAN WHO BRINGS DESTRUCTION TO HER MEN See her Tickets at ,7 Tonight at Suclent Union ~Center Stage or at Door By 808 VOSBURG Assistant Sports Editor .passed by the game somewhere back a • ways, and has never quite caught, up. Hamilton evidently realizes this, and despite the, wails of the public aims to see that no more good basketball talent comes to Pitt only to be kept in wraps in a deep freeze. . The Eastern boxing cham pionships held last' weekend in Rec Hall were just another ex ample of how freshman athletes have dominated sports since they have been allowed to corn-. pets. Two of Syracuse's three cham pions are freshmen. ,Art Nelson, 132-pound winner an d Johnny Granger, holder of the 139-pound crown. Gus Fiacco, another Or ange frosh was a finalist, losing to State's Johnny Albarano. Catholic Cage Tourney Starts TROY N.Y., March 14 (JP)—The fourth annual National Catholic Invitation basketball tournament gets underway here tomorrow night with Lemoyne and Provi dence clashing in the opening game and lona meeting Gannon in the nightcap. The four are in the low es t bracket of the 12-team tourna ment. Play continues through' next Saturday, with the exception of Monday and Thursday night. Scranton meets St.. Mary's of Winona, Minn., and St. Francis (Pa.) plays Loyola Sunday. Top-seeded Siena makes its first appearance Tuesday against the 'Winner of the Scranton-St Mary's clash. Fourth-seeded St. Francis of Brooklyn, the defend ing champion, takes on the win ner of the Lemoyne-Providence game. " S. 'Josephs, of Philadelphia, seeded third, collides with the winner of the St .Francis-Loyola game Wednesday. The nightcap will put second-seeded Marquette against the lona-Gannon winner. Semi-finals will be Friday and the final Saturday night. 'iron Men. Pitt and Penn State coaches scoffed at the platoon system in their now-celebrated "freeze" game. The same five men who started finished for—each of the two teams in the "slow motion" basketball game won by Penn State, 24-9. THE DALLY STA TE CPILL.EGIAN• - COLLEGE • • • . • An intramural softball league for men of the Nittany-Pol -Ipck area will shortly be or ganized, it was announced yes terday. ' Plans for the leagUe provide foi a maximum of 30 teams. The deadline for entry in the league is midnight March 18, and the first 30 dormitory teams applying before this date will, be accepted. Applications containing the dormitory number and th e name of the team representa tive (should be submitted to ath letic director Al Sternbergh, Nittany 39-14 or assistant ath letic director Bill Braun, Pol lock 11-10. A meeting of all team representatives :will be held at 10 p.m. Wednesday, March 19 in Dorm 20. 121',1 LaSalle, Dayton In 'Dark Horse' Finals Tonight NEW YORK, March 14 (?P)— The forgotten men of LaSalle were picked today to carry on the longtime underdog, tradition and win.the championship in the 15th annual National Invitation Bas ketball Tournament. The inspired • Explorers, un ranked in the nation's top twenty and ignored by the NCAA selec tion committee, meet Dayton's dashing Flyers in an all-"dark horse" final tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden. The tournament, as customary in the last few years, has been swept clean of seeded favorites and two of these, top-placed Du quesne and third-rated St. Bona venture, clash for consolation honors at 7:45 p.M. (EST). - The championship game is at 9:30 p.m. A seeded team hasn't won the Invitation since 1948 when St. Louis Unive;sity prevailed. Out siders stealing the show since then have been San Francisco in .1949. City College of New York in 1950 and Brigham Young in 1951. In the abgenCe of the point spread, Which went underground after the basketball scandals, it's necessary to depend •on .the word of spectator Coaches to arrive at favorites. Visiting mentors have swung overwhelmingly to the side of the red-hot Explorers. "LaSalle has the greatest mate rial I've ever seen on a college team," said Ed Melvin, coach of the 'St. Bonaventure team which lost 69-62 to Dayton in last night's semi-finals. Niagara's Taps Gallagher and Long Island University's Clair Bee were other specialists who regis tered a strong vote for the Phila delphians. CLEVELAND, March 13 (2 1 1") Fred Wilt,. the fleet FBI miler, goes after his third straight vic tory over Don Gehrmann tomor, row night at the Knights of Col umbus track meet. NITTAP Y Plan to Start Softball League THE PRIZE WINNING The. champagne bubbles of a picture! A merry musical ruizup of girls and their guys in the theatre and cabaret life of Paris todoyl "Jive" Ses sions 'by CLAUDE LUTER AND HIS ORCHESTRA. •, dou . • ezvs Wll - 1 m 0 rTo w Daniel Gelin • Brigitte Auber • Nicole Coorcel French Film . . . English Titles ENNSYLVANIA Coleman, Klaus Return To Olympic Tryouts Eight Pennsylvania College representatives, including center halfback Kurt Klaus and inside right Ron Coleman of Penn State, will be members of, a hand-picked collegiate team which will play a selected •New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland club team to morrow in the continuation of the Olympic soccer tryouts. Top Schoolboy Matmen Start Matches Today The best high school wrestlers in the state will begin the scram ble for PIAA titles in Rec Hall at 2 p.m. today. The affair, the semi-final round in the tourney,' which will crown the best in each weight as the Pennsylvania Champion is t h 15th annual state wrestling cham pionship round. , Bellefonte's Davey Adams; 127, who is seeking his second PIAA title, was among the 44 conten ders chosen in regional meets at Lancaster, Wilkes-Barre, Clear field, and Washington. Three other defending title holders will be out to keep their crowns. They are: Manuel Piha kis, 103, Canonsburg; Ed Peery, 120, Shaler ' Township; and Ed DeWitt, 154, Trinity-Washington. Four men from the 6-9 district won top honors last year, and with nine entered in this after noon's scramble, the chances of equalling or surpassing that num. ber are good. Grapefruit Games FULLERTON, Calif., March 14 VP) —The Chicago Cubs picked on . their Los Angeles cousins for a 12-7 win today but-came uncom fortably close to being smacked down by Stan Hack's Pacific Coast League team. * * ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 14 (11 3 )—The Bt. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Senators played 5 1 A innings today to a 6-6 tie. Rain interrupted play in the third and fifth innings and the third shower made the field un playable after Washington's sixth inning. SARASOTA, Fla., March 14 (A') —The - Boston Red Sox suffered their sixth straight defeat in the Grapefruit League :today . as the Detroit Tigers counted clusters of three runs in the sixth and sev enth innings for a 7-5 victory. PHOENIX, Ariz., March 14 (/1 3 ) The New York Giants, receiving topnotch pitching from 23-game winner`Larry Jansen and bullpen ace George Spencer, won their second straight game today, turn ing back Rogers ' Hornsby's St. Louis Browns,• 6-1. MONDAY and TUESDAY ... reaturetime .._. 6:30, ,8:13, 9:56 01:*isg€ 4 PAGE MEN The match will be part of a doubleheader in which a selected New York club team will clash with a selected New England club team in the other game. The games will be played in the Eintracht Oval, Astoria, L.T. 3 Owls Besides Coleman, who was State's captain and leading scorer this • year, and Klaus, soccermen from Temple, West Chester, and Penn will also participate. Temple will send Eddie Tatoian, inside left; Jack Dunn, inside right; . and Len Oliver, center halfback And one of a long list of soccer stars in that family. Dunn scored the lone goal against State as the teams tied, 1-1, in the final game of the year for both clubs. Tatoian, on the other hand, scored both goals for the Owls in their 2-0 conquest of the University of San Francisco in the Soccer Bowl at Kezar Sta dium in San Francisco. 'Frisco previously had not been beaten in 40-odd matches over a period of several years. Maryland Goalie West Chester will have outside left All-American Tony Puglisi and Bill Engard from its team, while Penn will place center for ward Joe D e van ey, who also doubles as an outstanding player. Also included on the collegiate team is ' Eric " Baer, Maryland's All-American goalie. State de feated the Terps, 1-0, in a rain marred game at College Park earlier in the season. But for some outstanding goal tending by Baer„ State's score might have been Sykes Taking V-Bali Entries Entries for 1952 intramural vol leyball competition are now be ing accepted at the IM office in Rec Hall, according to "Dutch" Sykes, assistant IM director. The deadline for entry blanks is next Wednesday afternoon. Separate competition for both fraternity and independents will be run off in round-robin league style. Leagues will consist of ei ther five or six teams, with each scheduled to play four or five matches. Ea c h organization can enter two teams, one of which will be designated "A" and the other "B." A man can play with only one team. All matches 'are scheduled be tween the hours of 7 and 9:30 p.m. A match will consist of the best of three games. The entry fee is $1 per team. 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