®EjrtfßiSnA3f, PEgRtJARY 2|5, 1953 Owl Gymnasts Seek First Win Saturday Gymnastics Coach Gene Wettstone put his char ges through another full workout yesterday, the third of the week, ih : preparation for another “must” EIGA meet Saturday with the Owls of Temple at Rec Hall. The Owls have yet to win in Eastern play, while the gym .Lions are .well on the way to their first Eastern - crown since 1948 with two victories over toi». Eastern foes, Navy and Syracuse. Temple and once-ppwerful Army are the last two remaining EIGA clubs that the gymnasts must get byjfor the 1953 crown. The Cadets, three-time Eastern defending champs and losers of only one meet in the past three seasons, will come to Rec Hall March 7. .The Army meet will be the Lions’ second and last home meet and will wrap up the dual meet season, both in Eastern play and in the all-season meets.' The season will end with the running for the Eastern and National individual titles. The East erns will be ,held March 14 at West Point, while the Nationals wiil be held March 27-28 at Syra cuse. The comparative score department shows only ope mutual opponent of the Owls and the Lions, they being the Navy gymnasts. The Nittany forces nipped the Middies, 50%-45 while the Owls suc cumbed by ten points, 53-43. In one of Wettstone’s mid-week lineup changes for Temple, Tony Procopio will replace Karl Schwenzfeier on the horizontal bar, thus reduc ing Schwenzfeier’s jobs to two and inaking Pro Kois, Flore Only Undefeated Men on Nittany Boxing Team Adam Kois and Tony Flore, Penn State boxing aces, are the only members of Eddie Sulkowski s squad still boasting an unbeaten status as the team readies for Saturday’s en counter with Virginia University in Charlottesville. Kois, 176-pounder, leads the entire team in victories with, three in four starts. Only a draw with Michigan State’s Alex Tsakiras mars Kois’ record. Last year Kois had a 1-1 record and three draws before gaining the finals of the Eastern championships only to be kept out by a broken hand, j Flore too, has only a draw blot ting a perfect record. He has won twice and drew last week with Wisconsin’s Chuck Magestro. Last year Tony, 139-pounder, compiled a 4-1 dual record and then brought off an EIBA runnerup position Tournament Rush Keeping pace with Flore in the win column is Captain Sammy Marino. Against the Badgers last week -Sammy’ won his second straight match to bring his rec ord up to 2-1-1 on the season. Bast year Sam was unbeaten in dual competition but was held to three draws. However, he came on with , a tournament-rush to . capture the EIBA. 125-pound title and- then finish second in the 119 division of the NCAA tourney. •> Heavyweight Bill • Andresevic owns the next best record with a mark of 1-1-2 in his first season of varsity competition. State’s only other first-year mittman who has been able to win is 156-pounder Hank Arnold. Arnold won the first bout of his career \in the season opener against ' Maryland, but since has lost twice. Individual Records 125—Sam Marino 2-1 -1 132—Sam Butler 0-2-0, Joe Reynolds 0-2-0 139—Tony Flore 2-0-1 147—Stan Engle 2-0-1 15$_—Hank Arnold 1-2-0 156—Steve Melmeck - 0-2-0 167—Dick Cameron 0-4-0 177—Adam Kois 3-0-1 Hwt.—Bill Andresevic 1-1-2 Three Title Hopes • Penn State’s three veterans— Sam Marino, Tony Flore, and Adam Kois—loom as good bets for individual titles in post-sea son Eastern and National Col legiate boxing competition. NEWS LETTERS LETTERPRESS - OFFSET ★ COMMERCIAL PRINTING Pugh & Beaver State College Navy Mutual Foe Matmen Trip Terps— (Continued from page six) Maryland’s Dick’Crowley, who was seeking to halt Dick-Lemyre’s 12 dual meet winning streak, saw his plans vanish when the cool and agile Lemyre took him down and later obtain-a reversal of posi tion to decision him, 10-2. State’s 130-pound EIWA champion had his Maryland foe perplexed with his easy-moving style. In fact, Lemyre left Crowley escape from his hold in the third period. This was for a few seconds, however, for the mighty' mite took Crowley down for a 2-to-l trade. In the bout which saw two per fectionists risking excellent rec ords, Coach Sully Krouse’s Rod Norris edged State’s Jerry Maur ey, 5-3, in the last 15 seconds with a take-down. ' First Defeat The defeat was the first in high school and college dual meet com petition for the Clearfield pro duct. Norris, on the oher hand, not only was the first to win from Maurey but was the first to score a point from Maurey this season. Maryland’s 137-pound Southern champ also kept his record un blemished in 44 appearances. Gap Narrowed • Leading 6-3, Penn State went out in front five more points when Co-captain Don Frey pinned Bob Dreier with a half nelson inside crotch in 2:45. -The.gap was narrowed to 13-8 when 'Bob Fischer, part of Mary land’s accomplished brother act, Custom Tailored Officers' Uni form , Display. Army and ap proyed Air Force Uniforms and complete accessories. To be held at State College Hotel— Beaver Room—on. Wednesday and Thursday—2s—26 Febru ary 1953. Call and see' our Display and place your order. No down de posit required. No payments expected until receipt of cloth ing allowance check. the baxly copio the only triple-duty man for the Lions against the Owls. Procopio, a junior working In his second year on the squad, has shown “great possibilities,” ac cording to Wettstone. Procopio’s other two events will be the flying rings and the sidehorse. Schwenzfeier will still work the rings and the parallel bars. ' - The rope climb event, after top- man Dave Schultz, is a case of three men after two jobs, the number two and three positions. Johnny Baffia and Bob Boudreau, who have been the Lion two three men the past two meets, have been joined by Norman Yu in contention for the two jobs. Light Practice Today Wettstone will announce all starting positions today. The gymnasts will undergo a light session today and lay off completely tomorrow because of pre parations for Mil Ball. In other events, Jan Cronstedt will probably be in his top spots fin the horizontal bar and the par allel bars. Cronstedt took two firsts against Syra cuse last week. Ropeman Schultz will put his undefeated slate on the line when he tangles with Owl ace Gene School., The Temple speedster has traveled the 20 -foot distance in 3.8. Schultz has turned in 3.9 clockings the past two meets. Jim Hazen, Bobby Lawrence, and team Captain Bob Kenyon wilLprobably work in their customary number one jobs. Hazen will be on the rings, Lawrence,- the sidehorse, and Kenyon, tumbling. SPECIAL NOTICE TO ROTC GRADUATES F. STATS eoLLEGB. Hazen on Rings drew with Doug Frey in the 157- pound class, and Jack Shanahan decisioned George Dvorozniak, 2-0. The latter battle was an ag gressive nip-and-tuck affair until the second period when Shanahan gained a near fall. Ernie Fischer made the dual meet even more interesting when he added three points to Mary land’s score, decisioning Co-cap tain Joe Lemyre, 7-1. It was at this point—-Penn State 13, Mary land 11—that Samson won his fifth consecutive dual meet win and his sixth of the campaign. He has one loss. Ollie Sax, Penn, State’s sopho more swiftie, and his wife, a coed, are;, classmates at the College. Sports Thru The Lion’s Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sports Editor Travel has long been recommended as one of life’s most broad ening experiences. Certainly Penn State’s gymnastics Coach Gene Wettstone would have to agree with the educational value of travel. From Wettstone’s travels to Helsinki, Finland, last summer for the Olympic games stems part of the reason for the current successes of State’s unbeaten gymnasts. As a judge of the gymnastic competition, Wettstone wasn't merely an Innocent Abroad. He was a Student Abroad. And what he learned from the gym-sweeping Russians has been paying off for the Lions this year. . Wettstone says the Soviet gymnasts were not the most beautiful performers, nor did they perform the most difficult routines. But, the Russians did employ the correct techniques with the exactness and precision of a finely-jeweled watch. In gym parlance, the Rus sians used the “security”~method to score romping victories in both men’s and women’s gymnastic events. (With such predominant gym strength, the USSR practically beat out the United States for the unofficial Olympic title.) . Russia's Security Plan is simply the constant repetition and drilling on exactness in more ordinary routines. It is what Welt stone terms ."rigid discipline." This is exactly contrary to the American idea of performing the most difficult routines—which is less conducive to perfection of the more basic exercises. Although Senator McCarthy and numerous subversive commit tees may eventually get on Wettstone’s neck, the hustling Nittany Coach is using this lesson learned from the Russians. This lesson should be in much evidence Sat urday night in Rec Hall when the Nittany G-men make their first home appearance and con tinue their assault on the EIGA title. State’s NAAU calisthenics champion and EIGA all-around champ Jan Cronstedt possesses “The Golden Body.” His build is perfectly proportioned in classic Greek style and gives him a tremendous natural advantage. Jim Hazen, flying ringman, has such powerful shoulders that he is called “The Wedge.!’ Captain Bob Kenyon, tumbler, owns the diver’s grace for somersaulting, twisting, and turning routines. The Wick brothers, A 1 and Frank, are both tall and thin and are hardly towers of strength. But they have an at tribute of smooth, free-swinging style which is winning. Ringman Tony Procopio is midget-sized, yet is well-proportioned throughout to get top ability. (2) Depth. The rings show the gym team's depth. For example, Hazen, Karl Schwenzfeier. and Procopio slammed the first three spots in the Syracuse meet. Cronstedt and A 1 Wick took one-two in the parallel, bars against the Orange. (3) Intelligence. Although Wettstone doesn’t say you need brains to be a 1 winning gymnast, you can be sure that commodity doesn’t hurt any athlete. Eight gymnasts have better than a 2.0 average and five are on the dean’s list. (4) Spirit. That old intangible with which no winning team can be without. For the last four years Wettstone has tried to stir up wild-eyed spirit. But such stuff usually has to come from within as is the case this year. The all-season come-from-behind habit of the Lions typifies their spirit. Against Navy with two events left, Wettstone had given up the ghost—"but the kids didn't quit" and State won. ★ ★ ★ Despite the value of Russia's lend-lease, it doesn't begin to an swer the question. What makes the gymnasts so good this year? Some of the more obvious rea sons to Weltslone are these: (1) Factors Over Which. A Coach Has No Control. It is typi cal of the unassuming character of the relentlessly driving Wett stone to discount his own coach ing skill. However, he does have a squad which has individuals with outstanding physical attri butes. PAGE SEVET?
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