PAGE SIX 'Home Sweet Home' THREE MAIN COGS in the 1952-53 Nittany bas ketball machine, Ed Haag, Coach Elmer Gross, and Captain Herm Sledzik (left to right), show broad smiles now that they're back home. The road-weary hoopmen absorbed losses to Penn. Navy, and Rutgers on their recent four-game jaunt. The Nitlany cagers will open a three- Lions Seek The Lion courtmen return to the home basketball scene tonight seeking their evasive tenth win of the season against American University. The game will immediately the Penn-Penn State wrestling match starting at 7 p.m. The Lions haven’t lost a game in Rec Hall since the Colgate contest in 1950, but the road record is a different story. All seven losses this year have been on foreign terri- Collegiate Chatter West Virginia’s lean courtman, Jim Sottile, is fast becoming un stoppable. The Mountaineer gun ner has been averaging 25 points a game. This firepower rests mainly, on the fact that he has recently improved last year’s ac curacy of 33 per cent to 41 per cent; during the last eight games, this average has shot skyward to 51 per cent. Sottile is not just a shooter, as he was once criticized. The 6-1 hustler is a rebound terror. • He has averaged four personals pec game, but has fouled out only four limes. His 73 per cent accuracy at the foul line has placed him second in team foul shooting. „ The Mountaineers were the hot test team in the nation until Sot tile dislocated his collar-bone last year. The material loss slowed down the West Virginia five so much that it never regained its winning spark. The shoulder break, however, healed imperfectly and required an operation, which rendered his right arm useless. Soitile's career could have been easily terminated because he shoots only one type of shot—the right handed jump. His markmanship from 35 feet is phenomenal. His scoring' aver age has not been .compiled against the weaker court fives. He scored 33 tallies against Penn State, 29 at Duke last week, and 27 at Madison Square Garden against New York University. Against Bethany and South Carolina he' dumped in 18 and 13 points. WRA Results BOWLING Phi Mu over Kappa Kappa Gam- ma Gamma Phi Beta over Tri Delts Alpha Epsilon Phi over Alpha Chi Omega VOLLEYBALL Leonides forfeited to Alpha Omi- cron Pi Alpha Xi Delts over Atherton West Coop over Aye-Sees Woman’s Building forfeited to lonians Zeta Tau Alpha over Delta Gam- ma Kappa Alpha Theta over Kappa Delts Meet Eagles; Tenth Win tory and the, cagers'have three more of these “jinx” games re maining. Lose to Navy A new coach, Hugo “Dutch” Schulze, took over the Eagle team this year and.,has coached the American club to nine, wins and four losses. They had a five-game winning streak stopped by Loy ola of Baltimore on Saturday, 69- 53. This was the same club the Eagles had beaten earlier in the season. The Eagles and Lions have played only one common foe— the Midshipmen squad of An napolis. Both teams went down in defeat with American U- los ing 47-69 and State taking its worst defeat of the season, 77-53. In the all-time series between the two clubs, State holds the edge, 14-1, with the Eagles cop ping their lone win four years ago on their court.'State took last year’s game, 77-52'. Win in Conference The American club has been averaging .61.4 points a game as compared to the 67.1 average of State. Up to last Saturday the Eagles were 11th in the nation among small colleges with its team defense of 58.2 markers per contest. In Mason - Dixon Conference games they have taken six of sev en contests.. Two years ago they took the league and last year were runners-up. Highest point maker is John Selby with 179 points in 12 con tests for an average of 14.9 a game. He is a junior standing six foot. three, and was second high point man last year. Close be hind him is another junior, Bud Daly, with 150 points and an av erage of 13.6. Needs Two Points High, point maker for the Lions is Captain Herm Sledzik with 271 points, averaging 16.9 per game. He has now scored 59 more points than he did last year when he ended a 24 game schedule on 212 tallies. Jack Sherry, who has b.e e n slowed up because of shin splints, has been averaging 9.8 a game for 157 points. He needs just one more basket to tie his total out put of last year. Ed Haag has 112 points—some 25 points more than last year’s total—for a 7.0 average, and Ron nie Weidenhammer has made" 32 field goals and 28 free throws for a total of 92 points and a 5.8 av erage. He is 54 tallies short of last year’s season output. THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA game home stand tonight against American Uni versity at Rec Hall. Tonight's game will be the nightcap of a scheduled double-header, with the Nittany mat team opening the evening's festivities at 7 p.m. The Grossmen will be shoot- v ing for their 21st consecutive home victory. Nat'! League Games NEW YORK (JP) —The National League, announced a 1953 base ball schedule yesterday which listed a total of 217 night games, three below last year’s all-time record. " The St. Louis Cardinals again qualify- as the circuit’s night owls, playing 50 of their 77 home games under the lights , and 32 of those away from home after sundown. The only team that approaches the Cardinals in moonlight activ ity is Philadelphia, which has scheduled 42 home games at night. Pittsburgh has .29 night contests at home, Boston and Cin cinnati 28 each, Brooklyn 24 and New York 16. The Chicago Cubs, unequipped for electrical lighting, play all Wrigley Field games in broad daylight.,, , Thompson Arrested NEW YORK (A 5 ) —Henry Hank Thompson, 27-year-old New York Giants outfielder and third base man who allegedly was struck on the-head with a baseball bat by a taxicab driver Jan. 31, was ar rested yesterday on a charge of felonious assault. The arrest was a counter-com plaint of the cab driver, William Winfrey, who is free on his own cognizance on a felonious assault charge. Sets Auto Record DAYTONA BEACH, Fla —Bob Pronger, Chicago race driver built like a basketball center, led a full scale smashing of the beach speed record for strictly ’stock Ameri can automobiles here yesterday. - The 6 foot 6 speeder drove a 1953 Oldsmobile an average' of 113.28 miles, an hour over the measured mile on the ocean beach. $2.00 CASH PRIZE —DAILY— LAUNDER£TT£ 210 W. COLLEGE AVE. Sports Briefs Mat men Fa c e Penn Tonight> Seek 24th Win When Coach Charlie Ridenour’s Quaker matmen wrestle Penn State’s Eastern intercollegiate champions at. 7 tonight in Rec Hall, they are not only scheduled as the Lions’ 24th dual meet victim but are scheduled to witness a lineup change. Coach Charlie Speidel, who considers his second team as good as his first, will give Penn State wrestling fans the opportunity to observe some of his capable second stringers against Penn; ... “The good men that keep our better men on the ball and in condition during the season will have the opportunity to get ex perience, the stocky mentor said. “They are just as good as our first team but need some experience.” . . Speidels power-laden grappiers, who are in excellent condition, should prove to the Quakers that they are the defending champions and determine to maintain their eastern Rrestige. P® nn State will have two men from each division weigh in. Included in the tentative lineup will be one or two newcomers In the 123-pound division, Doug Cagsel is the probable candidate. The short, aggressive wrestler who performed in the 130 divi sion, earlier this season will bat- tie a good man in George Evans. Cassel, this season, has a 1-1 dual meet record. Moving up one weight will be ?IWA champion Bob Homan. The 123-pound champion, who is among Penn State’s “unbeaten quintet of three wins this year,” will oppose Tom Jones in the 130- pound class. Bellefonte’s Larry Fornicola will be out to prove that his first victory of the season was no fluke when he moves -up to the 137- poUnd division. His Quaker oppo nent will be Len Shea, who will attempt to halt the 130-pounder’s three win streak. Another victory string to be put at stake will be that of rugged Jerry Maurey. The Clearfield pro duct will seek his ninth against Penn’s Lou Goettelman or Bill Hoffman in the 147-pound divi sion. Maurey has gained two falls this year. Either sophomore Bill Shawley or. Junior Bill, Krebs will.receive the nod in the 157-pound class. His opponent will be Captain Ed Agnew. Agnew is one of Ridenour’s outstanding grapplers. George Dvorozniak, 167-pounder: who needs more seasoning, will, endeavor to notch a match in the win column when he faces Russ" Down. Co-captain Joe Lemyre is Speidel's candidate for the 177-pound division. The EIWA and NCAA champion will ..be in search of his fifth consecutive win—eighth unbeaten dual meet win. Lemyre drew against his Cornell foe last year. Penn’s Ray Walker will oppose Lepiyre. The battle of heavyweights will include Penn State’s Hud Sam son and Penn’s Charlie Assiff. Samson in his last outing pinned his Navy adversary. Other possible State weigh-ins- are Hal Chamberlain, Don and Doug Frey, and Dick Lemyre. "HURRMPH”! trumpeted Sheedy, "What a elephant time to have my hair act up. Might as well break my date and get trunk!” Luckily he was overheard by a Pachydermitologist who, said, "Tusk, tusk! You’ve got a messy big top from pouring those buckets of water on your head. Get out of your ivory tower and visit any toilet goods counter for a bottle or tube of*”" ’ Cream-Oil, "Your Hair’s Best Friend”. Non-alcoholic, soothing Lanolin. Relieves dryness. Removes loose, druff. Helps you pass the Finger-Nail Test.” Paul g'of Cream-Oil, and now all the girls tent to him more th: why don’t you try Wildroot Cream-Oil? It only cosi 29 f. And once you try it, you’ll really have a circus. ofISISo. Harris Hillßii., Williamsville, N. Y. Wildroot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1953 By SAM PROCOPIO Twin Weigh-ins J. Lemyre Seeks sih Charlie Ridenour (War-time photo) ''V-» M." -
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