NWPAY: VieLY 2 ! 1952
Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
' Atop the Helsinki Olympic stadium, this summer will be a tower
ing marquis on which large, bold lettering will proclaim Olympic
founder Baron de Coubertin's creed for the competing athletes ,of
the world, "The important thing in the Olympic games is not winning
but taking part."
Ironically, Penn State gymnastic Coach Gene Wetistone will
not be taking part, but is already an Olympic "winner."
The 1948 USA Olympic gym coach is an olive• wreath winner
by virtue of a rare act of generosity and unselfishness. It took real
"bignesP to turn down the Olympic gymnastic committee's offer
to coach the 1952 acrobats, as Wettstone did in order "to spread the
job around."
Yet more astonishing is the fact that when the popular Nittany
coach pulled his Coolidge, he nominated Army's Tom Maloney—
EIGA champion rival now in his 21st year at West Point and bolder
of One of the best lifetime win-lost records in the country. (His
teams currently own a 25 straight match win streak.) '
Yes, Wettstone is an Olympic winner and although he won't
take part this summer, he'has already taken part. The job he did
a marathon of indefatigable ef
fort stretching from September
until last weekend to put over
the Olympic tryouts—borders on
the herculean. Wettstone mailed
entries, took charge of obtaining
housing for the athletes, sched
uled events, dangled on Rec Hall
girders to hang the Red-White
and-Blue, mailed publicity to
over 1000 and edited the gym
nastic news letter. As if it weren't
enough to take charge of running
off the meet, Wettstone's bound
less energy had to be loosed by \
moving sidehorses and parallel,
bars between events. With such
a drive behind the tryouts, no
wonder they were , termed "the
most successful ever contested"
by coaches and officials.
There is another story behind-the-story about the tryouts. Mark
Gilden, Los Angeles State Teachers College, was performing so sen
sational an optional routine on the still rings Saturday afternoon
that the discerning gym fans buzzed with amazed appreciation. To
-a guy who knows, the afore-mentioned Wettstone, Gilden's aerial
show was'positively the best" . • . the closest thing to perfection.
Yet the judges didn't have the courage to score him as he de
served. Only one judge had the guts to tab his performance with 100.
Another judge, with the audacity •to score him 88, received the
loudest chorus of boos heard in Rec Hall since Doc Carlson staged
his last show. The three in-between scores which counted, clearly
highway robbery, cost Gilden an NAAU championship.
No movie could correct the injustice as it did for the supposed
illegal baton pass former Nittany Barney Ewell made in a 1948
Olympic relay.
Wettstone suffered a badly bothered conscience until his brain,
still not at rest the day after the meet, came up with the solution.
He would send an unengraved cup Penn State gymnasts had won
last year in the somewhat unimportant' Allegheny championships to
Gilden with the engraving:
"Uncrowned ring champion." •
Pellone to Box Martinezli
NEW YORK, May 1 (k)—Vince
Martinez, another welterweight
Whiz Kid, gets his firgt major
test tomorrow night when he
tangles with ring-wise Tony Pel
lone, 27, of New 'York, in the top
ten at St. Nicholas Arena.
GENE KELLY
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
"SINN' IN
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. ',JAMES MASON
MICHALE RENNIE
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McLANAHAN'S
Trackmen
Tomorrow
The 'Nittany Lion's inexperienced but scrappy outdoor track
squad has been training diligently the past week determined to
make Michigan State's trek to the Seaver Field oval tomorrow
afternoon a sorrowful event.
The Spartans, who will have had two relay meets prior to to
morro'w's duel, will field a team I
paced by eight returning letter
men from last year.
State, in its opening dual meet,
will have to depend upon a squad
which is predominately freshman
and sophomore. In fact, Coach
Chick Werner has 15 frosh, 12
sophs, eight juniors, and six sen
iors performing in tomorrow's
contest.
Lorch Merits Watching
Although lacking in experience,
the frosh and soph' crops iri par
ticular have potential which with
seasoning might develop them- in
to top flight performers.
One, for instance, who merits
watching is sophomore pole vault-
er Dan Lorch. At the Penn Relays
last weekend, the wiry scaler
finished in second place, a four
way tie with entries from Army
and NYU, among others. Lorch
vaulted 12'6", which was only six
inches less than that of winner
Jerry Wellburn of Ohio State.
Wellburn is a consistent 14 foot
vaulter,. while the other placers
have been known to hit 13'7" or
better. Lorch has never done over
12'6", but just the other night,
he scaled 13' for the first time in
his athletic career.
Body in Shot Put
Now that Dan is over the 12'6"
height that has been plaguing him
Werner says, "he could be on the
way, and could possibly develop
into a future State pole-vaulting
star."
In tomorrow's shot-put contest,
Bill Body, Dick Cripps, and Sam
Pennybacker will demonstrate
their strength for the Lions. The
pole vault , event should see Lorch,
Barney Parker, and Ben Shields
in action.
Competing in the two mile run
will be Lamont Smith, Red Hol
len, and John Chillrud.
Blood Mile Entrant
Jim Herb, Russ Snyder, and Al
Ayers will be State's entries in
the high jump, while Ron John
son, Fred Singer, and Ron Cobi
will do the broad jumping.
The mile event will have Bob
Gehman, Jack Horner, Johnny
Blood, Chillrud, 'Smith, and Jim
Hamill running the four laps.
In the 440, Captain John Lauer,
Skip Slocum,' Tom Younkins, Bill
Kilmer, Roy Brunjes, and Dave
Leathern will handle the chores.
Bill Polito, George Unger, and
Ted Mortenson will be racing the
100. The 880 will be run by Bob
Roessler, Dave Pierson, and Roy
Brunjes.
THIS WEEK
Elizabeth Arden
New York Salon
Miss Fidelis Spiker
will be at
McLANAHAN'S
Friday and Saturday
Face Spartans'
in Dual Meet
Nittany Two-Miler
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Dorm Softball
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Dorm 1 (5-0) Dorm 42 (2-3)
Dorm 21-A (4-1) Dorm 27 (2-3)
Dorm 36 (4-1) Dorm 24 (1-4)
Dorm 32 (3-2) Dorm 9 (1-4)
Dorm 13 (2.3) Dorm 38 (1-4)
League B
Dorm 11 (4-0) Dorm 21-B (1-3)
Dorm 40 (4-0) Dorm 22 (1-3)
Dorm 2 (3-1) Dorm 29 (1-3)
Dorm 25 (3-1) Dorm 35 (0-34)
Dorm 14-A (2-1-1) Dorm 43 (0-4)
League C
Dorm 14-B (4-0) Willow Cot'ge (2-2)
Dorm 39 (3-1) Dotm 12 (1-3)
Dorm 23 (3-1) Dorm 34 (1-3)
Dorm 3 .(3-1) Dorm 30 (1-3)
Dorm 37 (2-2) Dorm 26 (0-4)
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Badminton
In Frat Play
Nine fraternity badminton men
entered the third round in the
tourney by gaining impressive
victories• Wednesday night. One
forfeit victory was registered by
Joe Ruyak, Pi Kap;)a Phi.
Bob Vanner, Sigma Chi, felled
Richard Martz, 15-13, 15-7, while
Bill Wallis, Sigma Pi, scored a•
victory over Ron Thorpe, Phi
Kappa Alpha, by the identical
score, 15-13, 15-7.
Bob Hobbes, Delta Tau Sigma,
was downed by Paul Bossart, 15-
2, 15-4. Horace Ray, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon, went three matches
before beating Robert Kauffman,
Phi Sigma Delta, 15-4, 12-15, 15-7.
Richard Robinson, T het a Xi,
trimmed Joe Policastro, TKE, 15-
12, 15-7, while Rosseli, /ilpha Phi
Delta, trounced Ron Coleman, Al
pha Tau Omega, 15-1, 15-2. 'Dan
Loucks, Tau Phi Delta, after los
ing his first match 13-15, found
Smith, Zeta Beta Tau, easy in the
last two matches by winning 15-7,
15-9.
Herbert Budin, Phi Epsilon Pi,
won from Bernie Gruber, Phi
Kappa, 15-1, 15-4. James Moran,
Phi Kappa Tau, lost to Dave Bis.
choff, Sigma Nu, 15-1, 15-2.
White Sox Win
PHILADELPHIA, May 1 (IP)
Joe Dobson; Chicago White Sox
veteran righthander, held the
Philadelphia Athletics hitless for
seven and a third innings tonight
and then went on to turn in a
two bit 3-0 victory.
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