PAGE SIX Cronstedt Wins NAAU Title In Calisthenics Jan Cronstedt, Penn State's Eastern all-around gymnastic champion, added another laurel to his collection Saturday night by winning the National AAU calisthenics champion ship in Rec Hall. Cronstedt compiled a total of 56.4 points in the compulsory and optional exercises to edge Robert Tulliver, E. Los Angeles Trackmen Fare Poorly At Relays By JOHN SHEPPARD Sophomore pole imulter Dan Lorch and Penn' State's two-Mile relay squad were the only bright spots in Saturday's finals of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, as rain, youth, and inexperience added up to a rather dismal weekend for Coach Chick Werner's proteges. Blue and White field entries and the one-, two-, and four-mile relay contingents managed to qualify for Saturday's finals, but that's about as far as they went. By virtue of his 12' 6" vault, fieldman Lorch earned a second place, four-way tie in his event, along with vaulters from Army, Penn, and NYU. Jerry Wellman of Ohio State scaled the cross bar at 13 feet to finish six inches in front of his nearest competitor. Lockbourne Wins After finishing behind Villa nova and Manhattan in the two mile relay trials to qualify for the finals, Werner's quartet of Dave Pierson, Bob Gehman, Roy Brun jes, and Bob Roessler could place no better than fifth in the final runoff. Lockbourne's top-flight four some of Tom Kirwain, former Penn star; Joe Deady, formerly of Georgetown; Mal Whitfield, world 800-meter record holder; and Hobart Jones, formerly of Nebraska, covered the distance in 8:01.6, some 15 yards ahead of second place Villanova. Lions Lose 4-Mile The Jaspers won the mile title in an exiciting race from second place Fordham'which led for the first three laps. Manhattan's win ning time was 3:23.3 seconds. The Lion foursome of Captain John Lauer, Bill Kilmer, Dave Lea them, and Skip Slocum finished in eighth place. Michigan's distance runners ran away with the four-mile re lay as the Wolverines' Aaron Gordon, Bill Hickman, John Ross, and Captain Don McEw en covered the course with a 16:23.2 clocking. Actually, the distance was 404 yards short of four miles, since authorities decided to run the event on the inside track, which was in better shape. Con (Continued on page seven) Blue Gridders Win, 18-6 Running with - hard-d rivin g swiftness behind a rugged line, Dick Jones and Bob Pollard spent a profitable ground-gaining Satur day afternoon in the White Lions secondary to deserve most of the blame for the 18-6 licking the Blues dealt the Whites in the sec ond annual intrasquad Bucket Bowl on Beaver Field. Although Jones didn't score himself, he set up the first Blue touchdown with a 53-yard scamp er in the first quarter. Pollard tallied the third Blue TD with an eight-yard sprint ' around end in the fourth period. Good quaterbacking by Don Bailey and John Dubinsky figured prominently in the Blue victory. Bailey scored on a five-yard end sweep in the first period and Dubinsky pitched a 30-yard TD strike info the hands of end Don Malinak for the Blues' second tally in the closing seconds of the second quarter. Squandering many chances to score when close to Blue paydirt, the Whites averted a blanking when, in the fourth period, their By ERNIE MOORE Junior College, by eight-tenths of a point. The "Flying Finn" suc ceeds Ara Hairabedian, who coached him for the calisthenics event, as AAU champion. Penn State's other entries in the AAU 'c ha m pionships and Olympic tryouts, Karl Schwenzs feler. Mario Todaro, Bob eidler, and Al and Frank Wick, were eliminated from competition dur ing the compulsory exercises. With a colorful and impressive ceremony, the Olympic tryouts came to a close with 16 of the country's top me n and women gymnasts being named to the 1952 Olympic team. The, team was chosen on the basis of all-around performances. The NAAU all-around title for 1952 went to Robert Stout, former Temple star now representing the Philadelphia Turners. Stout was automatically named as fir st Frank Malone, coach of Army's gymnastic team, was named to coach the men's Olympic team while Frank CumiSkey, former gymnastic great, was named as manager Mrs. Roberta Bonni well of Philadelphia was named as the women's coach-manager. She served in the saine capacity for the 1948 Olympics. choice to the men's Olympic team. Th e women's all-around title went again to Mrs. Clara Schroth Lamady, also from the Philadelphia Turners. Other gymnasts chosen to the men's team on the basis of their all-around performances were Ed Scrobe, American Turners, Bronx, N.Y.; Walter Blattmann, U.S. Navy; Don Holder, Florida Gym kana Club; Bill Roetzheim, Flor ida Gymkana; John Beckner, U. of Southern California; Charles Simms, U. of Southern California; and Vincent D'Autorio, Swiss Gymnastics Society. Union City, N.J. Besides Mrs. Lamady, the wo men elected to- the team were Meta Elste, Chicago; Ruth Topa (Continued on page seven) IM Entry Deadline The deadline for intramural soccer, tennis doubles, golf, and horseshoe doubles entries is 4:30 p.m. today, Dutch Sykes, assistant director of infra murals, announced yesterday. Entry fee is $1 per team for soccer and golf and 50 cents per team for tennis and horse shoe doubles. fleet lefthalf Buddy Rowell took a pitchout and raced 50 yards down the sideline stripe for a six pointer. On the opening play of the game, from scrimmage on the 35 yard line, left halfback Jones streaked up the middle untouched, burst to the outside and raced to the 12 before being hauled down. Pollard battered to the 6-yard stripe and Jones bucked to the fourth. Then on the fourth play of the game, Bailey, stepping:back to pass, was trapped, but darted around right end for the score. Lightining struck the Whites unexpectedly on the last play of the first half. After Jones had dashed across the midfield stripe to the 45, Dubinsky heaved a 'Ring aerial which found to the arms of Malinak on the 15 from which point the Steelton soph lugged it over. Following a scoreless t h i r d period, the Whites got back into the game with Rowell's tight-rope dash down the sideline. With THE DAILY • COLLEGIAN. STATE cOttiEGE. PENN§YLVANIA Athlete of the Week JAN CRONSTEDT has been named by the sports staff of The Daily Collegian as The Ath lete of the Week. The "Flying Finn" won the honor on the basis of his NAAU champion ship performance Saturday in Rec Hall. Rain Cancels Tennis Play At Maryland Old man weather scored its second win in two days over the State tennis team when Satur day's match , with Maryland ,at College Park, Md. was canceled due to rain. As a result of the unfavorable weather, Coach Sherm Fogg's seven-man traveling squad re turned from its two-day excur sion to Maryland neither winner nor loser as the Western Mary land match on Friday was like wise washed away. Neither match will be rescheduled. 'The Lion netmen will try again tomorrow to acquire a win-lost record when they take to the road to meet Bucknell at 3 p.m. at Lewisburg. The Bucknell match is the final away game before the Lions put in their initial appear ance on the home courts at 1:30 p.m. Saturday against• George town. - The 1952 team will put on the line an impressive five-match win streak over the Bisons that carries over three seasons. Last year the Lions turned back the Lewisburg crew, 6-3, at Bucknell, and 7-2 at home. The Bisons, according to Fogg, will field a better-than-average team Wednesday. Fogg announced that he will stick with the same crew that made the trip to Mary land. Bruz Ray, Capt. Ed Davis, Bill Zielger, Dick Gross; Bill For rey, 'and Gus Bigott make .up the first six while Ray-Davis, Bill Ray-Zielger, and Forrey-Bigott round out the doubles combin ations. fourth and a yard to go, the Whites decided to run and the runner Rowell went all the way with the aid of 'a great two-man removing block thrown by full back Pete Shopa, who along with Rowell bore the brunt of the White attack. Late in the final period the Whites gambled again on fourth down but lost badly as the Blues took over on the White 22. Pol lard powered through the middle for 8 yards. Bob Rosebaugh ram med over tackle for a first down on the eight and from there Pol lard scored. Midway in the second period thet;Whites got a scoring •oppor tunity handed them but couldn't do, anything with it. After the Whites' defensive tackle Captain Joe Gratson had thr e e times stopped Pollard inside the Blue 20, Pollard fumbled and tackle Rosey Grier took over the Whites on the 23. White quarterback Bob Szajna, definitely rusty from lack of prac tice, twice overshot end Joe Yu kica in the clear to end the threat. Batsmen Nip Bullets, 21,fr, For 9th Consecutive Winv Coach Joe Bedenk's Lion nine had "one of those days" • yesterday ag a ins t Gettysburg College, but managed to' squeek to a 2-1 victory, the ninth straight for Penn State. The Bullets collected ten hits off Lion hurler Jack ; Krumrine, but never could get -more than two in one inn ing as the unbeaten , Nittanies displayed a tight defense. Krumrine got himself in and out of trouble in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings mainly by some fine clutch pitching. In posting his third victory of the season, Krumrine did not issue a base on balls and struck out four Gettys burg batsmen. The Bedenkmen started lik e they were going on a scoring spree by tallying a run in their half On the first frame. With two out, Sil Cerchie doubled to center. After Captain Bill Hopper walked, catcher Bill. Leonard slapped a single to right-center to score Cerchie, and give State a 1-0 lead, Leonard Singles • The Bullets tied • it up in the fifth on a single by Sam Shaulis and a hit-and-run double to the stands in right-center by Chick McClennan. The Lions came right back with what proved to be the win ning tally in the lower half of the same inning. Leonard got his second base hit, a single through the pitcher's box. With two out, Leonard, stole second and ad vanced• to third on catcher Ray Reider's throwing . error. Carmen Troisi jumped into the hero's role by dumping a single into short left-center, scoring Leon ard easily from third. Box Score Penn State could muster only seven hits off the Bullets' Hare and Mowery, but tagged the lat ter for three hits and one loss. Gettysburg Ab R H Penn State Ab R H Bixby, cf 4 0 2 Tonery,lf 3 0 1 Dudley,2b - 4 0 0 Mihalich,2b 2 0 0 Owings,lb 4 0 1 Cerchie,cf 4 1 1 Keller,ss 4 0 1 Hopper,rf 3 9 0 Hare,p-lf 4 0 1 Leonard,c 4 1 2 Shaulis,lf-rf 3 1 1 Huncharab - 3 0 1 Relder,c 4 0 2 Troisi,ss 4 0 1 Shaffer,3b 4 0 0 Kline,3b 4 0 1 McClennan,rf 2 0 1 Kruttrine,p 1 0 0 Mowery,p 1 0 1 Schalley 1 0 0 Totals 33 1. 10 Gettysburg 000 Penn State 100 Public Reading 010 000-1 10 3 010 00x-2 7 0 H. R. Gilbert, graduate man ager of athletics, left today for Rochester, N. Y., where he will address the Penn State Alumni Club tonight. He also will appear on a radio-television program titled "How. . A Major College Conducts Its Intercollegiate Ath letic Program." i'UE§DAY, APRIL 29;11952 By JIM PETERS Vesting Shuts Out Lafayette With Keith Vesling pitching a six-hit shutout, the Lion base ballers rolled to t heir eighth . straight win of the year Saturday by smacking Lafayette's Leopards, 5-0. Vesling struck out six and walked only two. in racking 'up his third win of the season, and his second six-hitter. Only in the seventh inning, when he was touched for three singles, ,did the sophomore fireballer get in any trouble. On that occasion, with r the aid of some top-flight defens ive work by the LionS„ Vesling managed to escape unscored upon. Bill Hopper, the Nittanies' cap tain and rightfielder, cracked his second home run of the season in the fourth, a'34o-foot drive that i t carried in under the football stands in right field. The Lions, who gained revenge , for the two setbacks handed them by Lafayette the last :two, years, scored a pair of runs in the third on singles by Carmen Troisi and Chris Tonery, and a double by sec ond sacker Bill Mihalich. After Hopper's roundtripper to lead off the fourth, State added another on a walk to Bill Leonard followed by a wild pitch, a pasged ball, and a single by Huber - Kline. State scored its final -run in the seventh on a walk to Kline, a sac rifice by Vesling, an ae single 'by Tonery. 28 2 7 Lafayette Ab R 11 Vercelli,sa 2 0 1 Hunt,2b 3 0 1 Angle,3b 4 0 0 Richardson,H 4 0 1 Leslie,cf 4 0 1 Stedge,rf 3 0 1 Dill,c 3 0 1 Eyer,lb 3 0 0 Kroog.P 2 0 0 Gordon,p 0 0 0 Quigg 1 0 0 29 0 6 MEM Penn State 002 Penn State Ab It IT Tonery,lf 4 1 2 Mihalich,2b 2 0 1 Cerchie,ef 4 0 0 I HaPper,rt 4 1 1 Leonard,o" 3 1 .0 ' Hunchar,lb • 4 0. 0 Troisi,ss - 3 1 1 Kline,3b 1 1 1 Vesling,p 2 0 0 27 5 6 000 1300-0 6 3 200 10x-5 6 0
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