p'ACr-r SIX Wrestlers Capture 28th at Pitt, 16-12 By SAM PROCOPIO A champion wins like a champion! Coach Charlie Speidel’s Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling cham pionship team has done just that in three suc cessive dual meets. Saturday’s performance was at the expense of previously unbeaten Pittsburgh, where the Nittany Lions’ “pressure boys,” Joe Lemyre and Hud Samson, clinched a 16-12 victory. Going into the 177-pound class, the Panthers were carrying a 12-10 lead. Coach Rex Peery’s matmen became the only team this season that passed the 130 division with any kind of a lead. Lemyre and Samson, however, dampened the lead. Lemyre’s decision gave the Lions a slim edge, 13-12, but State’s talented heavyweight outplayed his opposition for the third straight dual meet to enhance Penn State’s lead three more points and its triumph.-- The victory at Pitt’s Field House not only ex tended State’s consecutive dual meet victories to , 28, but snapped the Panthers’ 16 win skein. Like Doc Carlson’s basketball- “freezing quintet,” Cagers/ Gym Team Post Wins Lions Romp Over Pitt By 20 Points By TED SOENS A revengeful Penn State five successfully -. closed its home season Saturday night with a 73-53 walloping of the Pitt Panthers. This was the 25th consecutive victory at Rec Hall for the cagers who haven’t lost on home territory since the Colgate game in 1951. The Panthers stubbornly clung to the tail of the Lions during the first half—which ended 26-24 but the country cousins, hitting on 60% of their shots, broke loose in the third quarter for 27 points which sewed up the game. Four State starters hit in the double figures to pull the Lions to their 15th win in 23 starts. ■ As the result of such an im pressive win, the Pittsburgh Press put the Blue and White in second place for the Tri-State college championship with only the NIT-bound Duquesne Dukes (18-7) in front. This waS the second year in a row the Lions were runners-up. Behind the cagers came West Virginia (whom the Lions also swamped by 20 points) with a 18-B record. In fourth place was Pitt, who ended their season against the Lions and now own a 12-11 log. The game started off slow and it wasn’t until two minutes' 1 had elapsed before Jack Sherry sank a foul to put the Lions ahead. Dick Deitrick, who made four of the five points the Panthers had the first quarter, put in his first foul shot for the only tie in the game. Excellent Zone But Ronnie Weidenhammer quickly countered with a long set shot for the first goal of the eve ning. The blonde-haired forward, playing one of his best games all season, had 15 points at the end of the game. 1 Excellent zone defense prevent ed the Panthers from putting in a field goal the first quarter and it wasn’t until two minutes into the second quarter that they man aged a two-pointer by substitute Chester Palesko. Thirty seconds later, Dutch Burch drove in for a lay-up to put Pitt only four points behind at 15-11. The two teams exchanged goal for goal, till the end of the half at which time the score read 26-24. State was hitting on 26% FRATERNITY PAPERS LETTERPRESS - OFFSET COMMERCIAL PRINTING Pugh & Beaver State College Run-Away Plan JACK SHERRY, Lion forward, cuts in front of Pitt's Dutcl in third quarter of Saturday's game to layup two more points for ; :he romping State cagers. The country cousins poured in 27 points n the third period to take their 15th win of the season, 73-53. This was the cagers' last appearance at Rec Hall. They will close out the season next Saturday with Temple. .vhile the visitors had 20% Three of State’s players had three fouls each and it looked like a duplication of January’s loss especially when Dietrick put the Panthers one point behind at 26-25 at the beginning of the third quarter. But from there on the .rampag ing Staters caught fire and paced by Weidenhammer, who had four for six in the third quarter, and Jesse Arnelle, with six for six, dropped in 27 points to put them 15 points ahead at the end of the third period. Arnelle, on 47 percent shoot ing, was high man with 22 points. He made eight for 17 field goal attempts. Captain Herm Sledzik, playing his last home game, Sher ry (50 %), and Weidenhammer (43%) had 15 apiece. High man for Pitt was Don Virostek with 14. The Lions made 41 percent of their shots on 27 for 66 attempts while Pitt was hitting on 17 for 56 tries for a 31 percentage. TYPING PAPER IGCpad 45c and 65c packages For every $5 you make in sales you get $1 in- Merchandise FREE SIX SnSHe TUB THE D'VTTV r-OLLEGTAN STATE COLLEGE ' PENNSYLVANIA ★ * High Percentages Pitt’s Coach Peery employs what Speidel calls a “running-away winning-plan.” “Our boys had to tackle a different style of wrestling than most schools use,” the Libn mentor explained. “Their running-away plan changed our strategy and made our boys chase them.” Dick Remains Unbeaten The Panthers’ plan had its effects shown during the opening encounter when State’s EIWA cham pion lost to Hugh Peery, 18-8. Bob Homan got four points behind by chasing Pitt’s ace. Seeing that his only chance to win was to continue his in itiative, Homan did just that but -was continually taken down by Peery. Perry, however who won his 23d consecutive victory, was unable to hold Spei del’s sensational sophomore down for long. Of the five takedowns, two near falls, and two reverses, Homan escaped from Peery’s holds six times. Dick Lemyre, as in previous matches against Cornell and Maryland, put the Lions at even terms, 3-3. Lemyre, the only /unbeaten starting wrestler, also put on a scoring exhibition, decision ing his 130-pound opponent, John George, 15-5. ★ ★ ★ The summary: Pitt FG F Ttl. Penn State FG F Ttl. Burch.f 3 4-8 10 Sledzik.f 2 11-14 15 Zernich.f ‘ 2 1-4 5 Sherry.f 7 1-4 15 Virostek.c i 6-12 14 Arnelle.c 8 6-9 22 Boyd.gr 0 0-0 0 Wei'ha’r.g 7 * 1-2 15 Deitrick,g 2 5-11 9 Haapr.gr 2 o=*o 4 Palesko I 2-2 10 Phillips 0 0-0 0 Deussel 2 1-1 5 Brewer . 0 0-0 0 Ruschel 0 0-0 0 Blocker 0 0-0 0 A rtin an 0 0-0 0 Edwards 1 0-0 2 Totals 17 19-38 53 Totals 27 19-29 73 Score by Periods— Penn State A Vic’s Specisil From 2 p.m. to closing Today & Tomorrow Milkshake with . . Hamburger, Tuna Fish, or Grilled Cheese 50° 145 S. ALLEN ST. ; Vic's Gymnasts Record Fifth, Engage Army Saturday The weekend gymnastics activity in Rec Hall went ex actly as Penn State gym Coach Gene Wettstone had figured, but the weekend gymnastics 'activity in West Point, N.Y., home of the Army, pompletely upset the dope in EIGA circles. The Red Hall result was Penn State 65 Temple 31; at Wes' Point, Army 53—Navy 43. The Lion gymnasts' will meet the surging Cadets Saturday at •Rec Hall in the match that will decide where the 1953 Eastern crown ■ will go. A win Saturday by the Lions, and the first EIGA gym title since 1948 will make its way into Rec Hall; with a ioss t- Army, co-ownership of the crown will go into effect for a season. The West Point result thrown the possibility of a Lion-Cadet tie right into the middle of this year’s Eastern race for team hon ors. The Cadets, the three-time defending champs,. weren’t sup posed to whip this year’s Middies —at least on paper. But they did, setting ' their Eastern ' seasonal mark at 3-1. Owls Salvage 2 Firsts Against Temple Saturday, Wett stone and his crew picked up, in order: (1), their third straight Eastern win this season; (2), their fifth straight over the entire sea son: (3), their eighth straight over two seasons; and (4), their third win in three years over Temple. It was all the Lions. Temple did manage to salvage, two firsts one in the rope-climb and the other on the rings, but outside of that the meet just served as a Lion tuneup for the rejuvenated Cadets, who will come to town with all ideas of taking back half of their EIGA crown Saturday. Lion first-placers in the first Rec Hall showing this season were Captain Bob Kenyon in the tumbling. Bobby Lawrence in the 13 13 27 20—73 5 19 14 - Maurey gave the Lions their first lead, 6-3, when he decisioned George Matthews, 6-5. Mau rey’s escape in the third period gave him a 5-3 lead, but Matthews was awarded two points for Maurey’s alleged body slam. Jerry’s one-minute time advantage, .however, spelled the difference. Frey's Switch Weights With only two seconds needed for a win, Doug Frey," moving down to the 147 spot, had to settle for a draw with Pitt’s Bob Cook. His brother, Don, who moved up to meet Pitt’s fine 157-pounder, Charlie Uram, also battled to a draw: This put the score in State’s favor, 10-7. The tide changed, however, when Joe Solomon, the Panthers’ unbeaten 167-pounder, scored a.faH with a body press in 2:20 over George'Dvorozniak. The score then read in'Pitt’s favor, 12-10. Co-captain Joe Lemyre and Samson then fol lowed with their excellent performances, Lemyre winning, 4-0, over Dave ..Davis, and Samson over Pitt’s grid star, Eldred Kraemer, 2-0. In the latter match Penn State witnessed more of Pitt’s “run ning away.” »•> * T By GEORGE BAIREY TUMBLING—, (1), Bob Kenyon, Penn Gtate, 256; (2), Bob Kreidler, Penn State, 234; (3), Ben Paul. Temple, 227; (4), Bill Coco, Temple, 217; (5), Warren Hommas, Penn State, .215. ' SIDEHORSE— (1), Bobby Lawrence, Penn State, 273; (2), Frank Wick, Penn State, 271; (3), Bob Darnerjian. Temple, 243; (4), Tony Procopio, Penn State, 233; (5), Bill Coco, Temple/231. HORIZONTAL BAR— (1), Jan Cron utodt, Penn State, 282; (2), John Jengo» Temple, 249; (3), Mario Todaro, Penn State, 244; (4), Tony Procopio, Pehn State, 233; (5), Bob. McCarthey, Temple, 225. ROPECLIMB— (1), Gene Scholl, Tem ple, 3.7; (2), Dave Schultz, Penn State, 3.8; (3), Bob Boudreau, Penn State, 4.2; (4) Norman Yu, Penn State; 4.4; (5), Bill Coco, Temple, 5.2. PARALLEL BARS—(I), Ai Wick, Penn State, 271; (2), Bob Zelinsky,.Temple, 254; (3), Karl Schwenzfeier, Penn State,' and Bob McCarthey, Temple, 251