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Strong Contenders for NAAU Gymnastic
ARCHIE DURHAM, Pasadena Ciiy College, shows good form
as he lakes a practice vault over the long-horse during a workout
in Rec Hall. Durham will be a strong contender for the AAU title
when the long-horse finals get underway this afternoon.
Olympic Tryouts Eegin Today
Men, Women Gymnasts Vie
For Team Berths, NAAU Titles
1 By ERNIE MOORE
( Over 140 of the nation’s top gymnasts will'begin a two-day quest
for 16 coveted Olympic team berths and 16 AAU titles when the
National Amateur Athletic Union-Olympic tryout tournament gets
underway today in Rec Hall.
The men’s long-horse finals, including both compulsory and
optional exercises, will begin the
colorful tournament at 2 p.m. The
long-horse will be the only cham
pionship decided today. Only com
pulsory or preliminary exercises
will be run off in the other events.
The tournament will continue to
night and tomorrow afternoon,
with the finals tomorrow night.
Gymnasts from all sections of
the United States will compete for
the AAU titles, with berths on the
Olympic team going to 16, eight
men and eight women, of the best
all-around performers. Of the to
tal entries, only one-third will'be
trying for the Olympic team.
Seven Lions Entered
Those men trying for the Olym
pic team must compete in six
events; the long-horse, side-horse,
still rings, calisthenics, parallel
bars, and horizontal bar. Women
competing for the Olympic team
will perform on the side-horse,
balance beam, uneven parallel
bars, and in the calisthenics. The
eight men and eight women total
ing the most points in these events
will represent the United States
in the Olympic games this sum
mer in Helsinki, Finland.
Eight Olympians Back
State’s “Flying Finn” will com
pete in the horizontal bar, parallel
bars, and calisthenics events.
Frank Wick will perform on the
side-horse. A 1 Wick on the paral
lel bars, Mario Todara on the hor
izontal bar, Bob Kreidler on the
long-horse. and Bob Kenyon in
the tumbling.
Eight members of the 1948
Olympic team head the field of
champions which begins competi
tion today. The four members of
the men’s tearp are Ed Scrobe,
American Turners, Bronx, N.Y.;
Joe Kotys, Cleveland Swiss Turn
PEHN STATE DISHONORARY
Due to the large number of applications for admission
received for Saturday’s rushing, the Chairman wishes
to point out that anyone with an all college average of
2.5 or over, who is a council member, club president or
vice president is not eligible for admission except
through special petition—and please, no faculty mem-
—Photo by Fraser
Olympic
Schedule
NAAU Gymnastic championships and
Olympic tryouts.
Starting time: 2 p.m. in Rec Hall.
TODAY’S SCHEDULE
AFTERNOON
2 p.m.—Men’s long-horse finals (Optional
and Compulsory exercises—Groups
A and B)
2:30-^—Women’s side-horse vaults
(Compulsory)
3:15—Men’s side-horse
(Group A—Compulsory)
3:ls—Men’s still-rings
(Group B—Compulsory)
3:3o—Women’s calisthenics
(Compulsory)
3:4s—Men’s side-horse
(Group B—Compulsory)
3:4s—Men’s still-rings
(Group A—Compulsory)
EVENING
7:3o—Men’s calisthenics
(Group A—Compulsory)
7:3o—Women’s balance beam
(Compulsory)
B:oo—Men’s calisthenics
(Group B—Compulsory)
B:3o—Men’s parallel' bars
(Group A—Compulsory)
B:3o—Men’s horizontal ‘ bar
(Group B—Compulsory)
B:3o—Women’s uneven parallel bars
(Compulsory)
9:oo—Men’s parallel bars
(Group B—Compulsory)
9:oo—Men’s horizontal bar
(Group A-Compulsory)
9 :3o—Women’s tumbling (Preliminaries —
highest five to qualify for tomorrow’s
finals)
ers; Bill Roetzheim, Florida State
Gym Club; and Vince D’Autorio,
Swiss Gymnastic Society, Union
City, N.J.
The four women Olympians are
Mrs. Clara Schroth Lomady, Phil
adelphia Turners; Mrs. Marion
Twining Barone, Philadelphia
Turners; Mrs. Dorothy Dalton,
SGS, Union City, N.J.; and Mrs.
Meta Neumann Elste, unattached,
from Chicago. .
HE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE CT" LEGE PENNSYLVANIA
ED SCROBE, American Turn
ers, a member of the 1348 Olym
pic team, does a hand stand on
the parallel bars. Scrobe is de
fending AAU long horse champ.
11 Trackmen
To Begin Trials
In Relays Today
Eleven young and inexper
ienced Penn State trackmen will
match strides and strength with
some of the country’s top Olym
pic hopefuls on Franklin Field
this afternoon and tomorrow
when the 58th annual Penn Re
lay Carnival begins activity.
Coach Chick Werner, starting
his 19th campaign, and Co. left
for Penn’s yearly show of track
shows at 6 o’clock this morning.
State’s entrants are scheduled
to perform in the 440 and 880
yard relays, the 21-mile distance
medley trials, and the two mile
run.
Bill Polito, Dave Leathern,
Skip Slocum,' and Captain John
Lauer will each sprint 110 yards
in the 440 and 220 yards in the
880 relay. The distance medley
will have Bob Roessler running
the 880 leg, Roy Brunjes the 440
leg, Bob Gehman the three-quar
ter mile length, and Jack Horner
the mile. Freshman Lam o n t
Smith and sophomores Bob Hol
len have drawn the two-mil© as
signment. N
A pre-meet scanning of to
day’s opposition doesn’t give any
indication of the Lions copping
top honors.
Manhattan .which is defending
both titles-r-the 440 and 880 re
lays—should retain them,' with
Seton Hall, Michigan, and Lock
bourne Air Base - striving for
runnerup p 1 aces. Manhattan’s
four seasoned holdovers, John
O’Connell, Joe Schatzle? Lindy
Remigino, and Bob Carty ran 42
flat in last week’s Seton Hall Re
lays, which is only .9 more than
the Carnival standard recorded
by Texas in ’36.
. All .eyes will be focused on
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TAVERN
MENU
Friday, April 25
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DINNER 5 - 7:30 p.m.
Reservations after 6:30
By. JOHN SHEPPARD
MRS. CLARA SCHROTH, a member of the 1948 women's
Olympic team, does an abdominal balance on the uneven parallel
bars while preparing to defend her five AAU titles. Mrs. Lomady,
Philadelphia Turners, is considered one of the country's top women
gymnasts.
Lacrosse Team Rallies
To Defeat Wand L 7-6
Penn State rallied for three goals in the final period! against
Washington and Lee yesterday and then held on precariously to
win, 7-6, its lacrosse home opener. The game was marred by rain
and raw cold. 1
Entering the final period. Stete trailed. 5-4, but a goal by attack
man Dick Rostmeyer on a pass from Bob Koons'tiea the score after
27 seconds
Then midfielder Wayne Hocker
smith went to work and tallied
36 seconds later to give State the
lead for the second time in the
game, 6-5. Hockersmith’s third
goal of the game at 52:00 put
State ahead, 7-5, but the Lions
just about lost the lead in the
final eight minutes.
At 53:00, W&L midfielder Tom
Robbins scored when State's* de
fensive signals got crossed and no
one guarded him.
With 5:21 remaining, State could
have sewed up the game, but
Hockersmith, after dodging two
men, blew an easy shot. Fifteen
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952
Crowns
By TOM SAYLOR
seconds later,- £lion Tony Eagle
missed-another easy shot as State
tried to increase its one-goal lead.
After those calls, Coach Nick
Thiel’s crew played- it safe and
controlled the ball most of the
time. *
The game, in spite of the cold
weather which hampered play
ing conditions, was extremely
rough, especially in the first half
when 16 penalties wjere called by
referees Bill Hickman and Joe
Proska. The game / settled down
in the second half with only nine
penalties being called.
The Lions scored quickly in the
first quarter when John Yohman
took a pass from Captain Bud
Wolfram and scored at 1:45.
—Photo by Fraser