PAGE SIX Gym Tryouts Begin Tomorrow 8 Olympians Head List Of Winners By ERNIE MOORE The 1952 Olympic gymnastic •'tryouts and NAAU championships which get underway tomorrow afternoon in Rec Hall will bring together what will probably amount to the greatest array of champions ever to assemble in Central Pennsylvania. Headed by eight returning Olympians, the galaxy of stars in clude NCAA champs, NAAU champs, and Turner titlists—rep resenting the most formidable gymnastic schools, clubs, and so cieties in the country. Since this is an Olympic year, the center of attraction will be the all-around competition. The best eight men and the best eight women in this event will be picked to represent the United States this summer in Helsinki, Finland. Six defending men’s AAU champions return to defend their crowns and try for berths on the ’52 Olympic team. Included ■in this list are three members of the 1948 Olympic team. Bill Roetz 'heim, Joe Kotys, and Ed Scrobe. A fourth returning Olympian, Vince D’Autorio, did not win an AAU championship last year. Foremost among the defending champions is Roetzheim, formerly of Florida State University, who has won the all-around title for the past three years and who is defending co-champion on the side-horse and horizontal bar. Scrobe, representing the Amer ican Turners, Bronx, N.Y., won the all-around title in 1948 and is now defending champ on the long horse. He has also won AAU championships on the high-bar and parallel bars. Kotys, formerly of Kent State and now represent ing the Cleveland Turners, is de fending parallel bars champion. Other AAU champions return ing are Gene Rabbitt, formerly of Syracuse, side- horse co-cham pion; Jack Miles. Florida State, flying rings; and Dick Browning, unattached, tumbling. Four women Olympians, Mrs. Clara Schroth Loma d y, Mrs. Marion Twining Barone, Mrs. Meta Neumann Elste, and Mrs.' Dorothy Dalton also return for another crack at the international games. Mrs. Lomady, probably the finest woman gymnast in the country today, will defend AAU titles in the all-around, calisthen ics, side-horse, flying rings, and balance beam. Mrs. Barone will defend her-parallel bars title. 12 Teams Post !M Victories Twelve fraternity teams posted victories Tuesday night to move into the second round of IM bad minton and handball tournament play. In the badminton 'games John Kauffman, Acacia, edged Rod Beck, Triangle; Bob Vanner, Sig ma Chi, felled Stan Berk, Pi Lambda Phi, Bob Hobbes, Delta Theta Sigma, beat Julian Cook, Omega Psi Phi; Bill Ziegler, Phi Kappa Psi, shutout Tom Schott, Phi Gamma Delta. Richard Robinson, Theta Xi, trounced Arhie Barnett, Sigma Alpha Mu; A 1 Freistak, Theta Kappa Phi. defeated Van Ernest, Delta Tau Delta; Horace Ray, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, won from Lou Wade, Alpha Chi Sigma; Dan Loucks, Tau .Phi Delta, beat James Kilgore, Lambda Chi Al pha. Moving into the second round of handball doubles are Ed Hoo ver-Art Betts, Phi Delta Theta,, who beat Gil Lambert-Gerry Gil lespie, Tau Kappa Epsilon; Don Frey-Bill Abbot, Beta Theta Pi, who defeated James Kilgare- Clif Hoch, Lambda Chi Alpha; and George Hamilton-Russ Prov enzano, Delta Sigma Phi, who edged Tom Fleming -Douglas Schoerke. Pi Kappa Alpha. • Harry Hammonds - Russell Teague beat Bill Brittain-Ed Gea sa in the only independent hand ball match. fHE DAILY COLLEGIAN STAT- —-_-tA,EGE. PENNSYLVANIA Former Champ Shows Stuff GEORGE WIKLER of the United States Coast Guard does a side cross on the still rings as he prepares for the NAAU cham pionships to be held this weekend in Rec Hall. Wickler was AAU flying rings champion in 1950 when competing for the Los Angeles A«C« Undefeated Bedenkmen Test Lafayette Saturday The light rain that fell yesterday allowed Penn State’s unbeaten baseball team to take a much-deserved rest before resuming prac tice for the important game with Lafayette here Saturday. The Lions, sporting a 7-0 record, will be seeking their first victory over the Leopards since 1949 when State won, 5-2, behind the six-hit hurling of A 1 Tkac. Lafayette won, 3-1, in 1950, and repeated last year as George Davidson held the Nittanies to five singles in a 5-0 whitewashing. Bill Everson, this year’s pitching star with a 3-0 record, was the loser in that game. ' Both the Lions and Lafayette are still very much in contention for the NCAA District 2 playoffs to be held at Omaha, Nebraska in late June. The Leopards boast a 5-1 slate this spring with the only loss coming at the hands of Colgate last week. Coach Joe Bedenk’s nine dished out a 15-4 shellacking to Buck nell Tuesday for its seventh straight triumph. Everson, work ing with only two days rest, con tinued his dependable early, sea son showing by handcuffing the Bisons, setting ten of their hitters down on strikes. ' Chris Tonery, whose bases loaded home run beat West Vir ginia, 6-2, In last Saturday’s sec ond game, was. the only Lion player to go hitless in the Buck nell game. The Nittany leftfielder entered the game with a .393 aver age, but saw it drop 60 points during the three-hour marathon. State’s hustling second base man, Bill Mihalich, collected four hits in the last three games to boost his unbecoming .067 average to .185. Mihalich, _ batting in the number two position, is generally considered’ as a sure man for hits of the single and double var iety, and is one of the most im portant cogs in Bedenk’s ma chine. Tennis Team Begins Season Tomorrow Tennis coach Sherm Fogg has rearranged his starting line-up for tomorrow’s 1952 opener at 3:00 p.m. with Western Maryland at Westminster, Md. The Lions will complete a two-day tour with a match Saturday against unbeaten Maryland at College Park, Md. Sophomore Bruz Ray and Cap tain Ed Davis will remain at the first two singles positions, and freshman Bill Ziegler has landed the number three job. Veterans Bill Forrey and Gus Bigott will handle the number-five and six jobs, respectively for the opener. The number-four singles slot is still in the deciding stage. An elimination match between Dez Long and Charles Gross is sched uled for the remaining position. Ray, IM doubles champ, has been teamed with Davis as the Lion top doubles combination. Fogg named Ziegler and Bill Ray to work the number-two doubles chores, with Forrey and Bigott forming' the number-three dou bles team. •The , Lion netmen will be look ing for a repeat win over the Ter riers of Western Maryland. Last year, Fogg’s charges dumped the (Continued on page seven) Bob Bowers your represent ative for the Athletic Association A. A. Secretary- Treasurer He Flies Through the Air. —Photo by Fraser FRANK LA DUE of the University of lowa does a back flip on the trampoline during a workout in Rec Hall. LaDue is ex pected to make a strong bid for the NAAU trampoline'title when the .championships get underway tomorrow afternoon. Red Sox, Giants Win Boston’s Red Sox moved into a virtual tie for first place in the games won column of the Amer ican League pennant race with a 3-1 victory over the World Champion New York Yankees yesterday in Boston.’s Fenway Park. Veteran relief specialist Ellis Kinder, in his third starting as signment since 1950, spun a five hitter for the Sox while his mates hammered No-hit Allie Reynolds for eight safeties, five of them for extra bases. The “Miraclemen” New York Giants closed ground on the Na tional League pacesetters by let ting loose four home runs which SMlDllltm sets the pace in sports _ j all uewmmsmwMm . of Myllin Cartoons published in this book only, WRITE TODAY TO SPALDING—DEPT. C-S2 Chicopee, Mast. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1952 -M :iv? dropped the Boston Braves, 9-5, and stretched the Giant’s win streak to four straight yesterday in the Polo Grounds. • A 1 Dark, Don Mueller, Wes Westrum-and winning relief pit cher Hoyt Wilhelm all .struck homers for Leo Durochers’ de fending champions. ■ ATTENTION! LADIES' Plain, Dresses and Sweaters 77c PORTAGE CLEANERS through Student -Dry. Cleaning Agency FREE
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