PAGE SIX Matmen Put SeVen in Quiirtei's 26th Annual EIGA Meet Enters 2d Day at Army By GEORGE BAIREY The 26th annual Eastern Inter- : collegiate Gymnastic Association tests for the top individual hon- ; ors of 1953 will swing into their : second and concluding day at 2 p.m. today at West Point when i tumblers from the five-school closed league take the flexor. After the tumbling will be the ■ sidehorse, horizontal bar, rope climb, parallel bars, and flying; rings events. The Olympic events, used this year for the first time in Eastern play to determine a part of the all-around championship, were run off yesterday. The events— free calesthenics, longhorse vault ing, and' stationary rings—will now' 1 be coupled with today s rou tines on the sidehorse, horizontal bar, and parallel bars to deter mine the- 1953 all-around cham pion. 50 Gymnasts Competing Penn State’s Jan Cronstedt won the all-around title last year. Over 50 gymnasts are compet ing in this year’s championships, all Eastern teams being repre sented. Army, recently evicted from its three-year stay on the EIGA team throne, is the host school, while other EIGA squads competing are Navy, Syracuse, Temple, and Penn State. Lion gym Coach Gene Wett stone has entered a team of 12 m this year’s fight for- individual crowns. They are team Captain Bob Kenyon, tumbling; Bobby Lawrence, sidehorse; Frank Wick, sidehorse; Tony Procopio, all around and flying rings; i Cron stedt, all-around;. Mario Todaro, horizontal bar; Dave. Shultz, rope climb; Johnny Baffa, rope climb; Bobbin’ Along with 608 SCHOELLKOPF —Ass't. Sports Editor. Whatever kind of abrakadabra gymnastics Coach Gene Wettstone uses on his boys, it sure gets results. The long, lean mentor who is currently at West Point with the Nittany Lion gym teapi tiying to wTnafew individual EIGA titles, thinks the 1953 Eastern gym champs’ success is due to their fine scholastic record. _ c aT c Weilsione- "These boys are thinking all the time. They keep a Y !unn£g score at every meet, revise their routines to meet new* situation.? and will gladly make any contribution to. team SU S without'taxing'our b?a “'too much, we can recall this year’s routine. qvm combine, which succeeded in restoring the East ern Intercollegiate Gymnastics Association title to the Nittany vae thf.: season after a five-year lapse by blasting the Cadets from Armv 59 Vi-36 V 2 last Saturday at Rec Hall, has nine m er raH er s. wx All-College averages of between 2.0 and 3.0. Heading the list of smarties for the regulars are Captain Bob Kenyon and the F }£?9 Fhfn, Jan Cronsiedt—both with averages of 2.51. U ' s n f io po ,J"* rtiit +l\a± unlike most sports, gymnasts usually work out J vember to the following March, which places an unusually-heavy bU The* tc?) o”verage*o 0 ”verage*on Y the team belongs to reserve tumbler Bill Sopper of AUentown, who is only .25 digits shy of a Perfect 3 0 average. Sidehorse worker Bob Lawrence ranks next •+u o o i*i mne-climbine wizard Dutch Shultz has a 2.09. WIt BONE S CHIPS— With 1 all th S e talk this week centering around Easg° foxtafc sre S «ing. and gym th e name oi one A Barcaskev has not had any mention . . . Barcaskey, a second-semester freshman at State, has won the Eastern ipffiate'Phvsiciue Title ... He came out first in the contest held last Friday at New York’s City College,, and was awarded a hand cnme tronhv for being the best muscle-nppler m the East . . . Bou Lamie one of Penn State’s all-time basketball greats, just finished a successful court season with the Brooke Medical Center Comets 4 ‘ Houston, Tex. . . . Lamie’s record three-year total of F points was broken this season by Jess Amelle, who now has 900 P ° i "nJcJ££e : “ Seri.s wm again be playea'in O* Heb.. this season - The meet will begin June 11, and will be handled the same iA pn™ years .. . Baseball Coach Joe Bedenk is hustling his 1953 diamond team into shape with oniy one month re » until the Lions open their campaign against Lehigh . . . The loss of first baseman Mike Hunchar from last year s team may not be a serious blow after all . . . footballer Don Shank a husky left handed clouter has been fearing the cover off the ball in earA . inter-squad games, and may give the Nitlanies the power they need fora su icesffvl '53 campaign . . . Don's a lefty thrower, too. and a good gloyeman at the initial sack. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Bob Boudreau, rope climb; A 1 Wick, parallel bars; Karl Sch wenzfeier, all-around and flying rings; and Jim Haz e n, flying rings. Defending champions in today’s competition will be Cronstedt in the horizontal bar, Jim Sebbo. of Syracuse, in the tumbling, and John Ballantyne of ’Army, who owns a half-share in the 1952 rope climb crown. Navy’s great of two season’s ago. Hal Lewis, technically hasn’t been beaten in the Eastern hori zontal bar championships since he won the crown in 1951. Lewis won the title as a. sophomore and could not defend last season be cause of a broken leg. This year Lewis defeated Cronstedt in their only meeting. Last Year For Shultz Ballantyne, the Cadet rope specialist, will get his second crack at Shultz, the Lions’ rope man today There wasn’t a more surprised man in Rec Hall last Saturday than Ballantyne when Shultz turned in a 3.6 to beat the Cadet’s 3.7. Shultz, working his third and last year on the Lion rope and performing before the last Rec Hall crowd of his intercollegiate gym career, had lowered his own personal record for the 20-foot dis tance one-tenth of a second on each of two previous successive Saturdays—from 4.0 to 3.8. Then came a 3.6 effort on the first crack against Cadet Ballantyhe. Shultz’s only defeat this sea son in Eastern dual meet compe tition came at the hands of Tem nle’s Gene Scholl. Scholl did. a 3.7 the week Shultz broke his own record with a 3.8. Wrestling Tickets Are Going Fast The number of reserved seals sfill available for Ihe Sat urday night's finals of the National Collegiate wrestling championships . March 27-28 at ihe College is limited. Orders will be filled as long as . the tickets hold out, Harold R. Gil der!, graduate manager of ath letics, announced. Gilbert pointed out there is a shortage of tickets only for the finals. There are still plenty of reserved seat tickets for the preliminary matches Friday afternoon and evening, and the -remi-finals Saturday afternoon. General admission tickets, for Individual sessions or for the series, are now on sale at the A.A. office, first floors, Old Main. Grappiers To Seek PIAA Titles The' ,16th annual Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Associa tion state wrestling championships will be held at Recreation Hall this afternoon and tonight. Fea tured will be 22 semi-final match es beginning at 2 p.m. and the 11 finals starting at 7:30 p.m. Local interest will be centered around Bellefonte High’s two un defeated entries, Ken Moyer and Dave Adams. Moyer, in the 127 pound class, compiled an 8-0-1 record in dual meet competition this season. Regional Mat Titlists • Adams, in the 138 pound class, will be going after' his second state title, having won the 120 pound crown in 1950. He rolled up an 11-0 dual meet record for the season. Other regional mat titlists who will see action are Phil Bock (95, Philipsburg); Ralph Clark (103, Clearfield); Dean Tripony (112, Clearfield); Dean Se.ese (120, Clearfield); Dave Bates (133, Philipsburg); Dave Johnson (145, Lock Haven); Bob Lucas (154, Red Bank Joint); Bill Thomas (165, Tyrone); and Dan Wisniewski (185, Erie East). Peery's vs Cawthorne Another matman who will be trying for another state title will be Ed Peery, 120-pound entry from Shaler Township. Son of Pitt Coach Rex Peery and broth er. of NCAA champion Hugh Peery, Ed won the 112 pound crown in 1951 and then added the 120 pound title to his collec tion last year. Ed Peery’s opening foe will be Joe Cawthorne of Shamokin. Collect iate Chatter An old acquaintance will beVe jumed when Coach Port Robert son brings his national champion Oklahoma Sooners to State Col lege March 27-28 for the NCAA wrestling tournament. The two time champs will enter eight men. ' Robertson and Penn State's first national champion, How ard "Red" Johnston of State College, clashed tin the IBS pound finals 18 years ago, the Lion entry winning a narrow decision. This .was the only Nit tany national' individual until Joe Lemyre won 167-p ou n d honors last year. Johnston still makes his home in State College and seldom miss es a home meet at the College. The forthcoming Nationals will mark the first time, however, that he has seen Robertson since their 1935 bout. Robertson's record in seven years at Oklahoma is quite im pressive. In that time, his teams ■ "ve won 41 meets, losing only ,5. The Sooners, unbeaten in >cir last 25 meets, cracked T'klahoma A&M's 76Tmaich win I streak in 1951. Lemyres, Hud Samson, Don Frey Score Pins (Continued -from, page one) Although the Penn State accomplishments were the most out standing, four other traditional Eastern powers—Cornell, Lehigh, Syracuse, and Army—are keeping in close range of the Lions, placing men in the quarter-finals. Lehigh, Syracuse and Army have six while Cornell has five. Harvard, which won four, lost three and tied two for the season, has been the surprise of the tourn ney thus far. The Crimson have advanced six men into the quar ter-finals. Bob Homan got the Lions off to their expected winning start, when he decisioned Jim Kursess of Brown, 14-2. The wiry, 123- pounder scored a takedown and near fall in the first period, and continued piling on points in the second and third with an influx of reversals and near falls. Fast and slippery Dick Lemyre proved once again that he was too much for Ed Morri son in the 130-pound go. Lemyre pinned with an arm lock and body press in 3:44. The flashy Lion started fast, scoring a take down in the first period. In the second frame, the defend ing champ scored a quick reversal, and a few' seconds later walked off the mat with the first of five Nittany "pins. The win was Lem yre’s second oyer Morrison.. ;this year, Jerry Maurey was sporting a 4-1 lead over Dave Dibbel of Yale when he scored the second Lion pin. Maurey pulled a reverse nel son and body press in 2:44 and Dibbel saw the Dillon Gym lights. Don Frey found himself in a real nip-and-iuck baffle before he could score his pin. The 145- pounderj wrestling Frank Bros sier of Navy, scored a fake-down in. the first period, but lost a point in an escape. Brossier wasn't loose for long, however, as the aggressive Frey had him flush with the mat at 5:45. He scored the pin with a reverse nelson and body press. Brother Doug had a little more trouble with Rutgers’. John Dram esi. Doug scored the second of the two Lion decision wins, with a 4-0 tally. The first period of the close contest went scoreless, with the only scoring coming in the second frame on a reversal. Doug picked up the two remaining points on time advantage. Back- in the 167-pound class — and also defending titlist position —Joe Lemyre found little diffi culty in pinning Bill Marchio of Franklin and Marshall. Wrestling from the referee’s position, Lem yre reversed Marchio and scored on a body press and bar arm m 3.33 ■ , The only Penn State new comer in Eastern championship compeliton, George Dvorzniak, lost a hard-fought 4-2 decision to his Cornell opponent, Dick Soars. Dvorzniak, wrestling at 177 for the first time this sea son, dropped two points behind in the second period when Soars reversed him. The fast-coming junior came back quickly, how ever, scoring a reverse himself, but dropped behind again in the third—this time for good—when Soars scored an escape. Soars also added another point on time' advantage. Strongman Hud Samson, out manuevering Bob Ride of Rutgers, scored a pin in 6:39 after piling up points on two takedowns and a reversal. The Nittany heavy weight almost got a pin m the second period when he scored a takedown at the bell. Samson’s win came with a double bar arm. - With, the first round now completed, indications are pret ty clear as to who will be giving Charlie Speidel's grapplers their biggest, trouble in the quarter- Attention Army, Air Force, Navy Graduating ROTC Seniors I. GOLDBERG & CO. Philadelphia, Penna. will display military uni forms at the NITTANY LION INN on March 16th and 17th from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on both days. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953 Pins Marchio in 3:33 finals. In fhe 123-pound bracket, Jim Karns of' Army and John Lee of Harvard both scored impressive first-round pins. Art Jessler of Navy looks like a championship contender in the 130 division. Kessler . whipped Penn's Tom Jones, 6-1, in his opener. Ken Faust of Lehigh looks as a big threat in the, 137-pound class. Faust scored an impressive win in the first round of his match, nailing Joe Bohock of Virginia; Defending 147 pound king, Frank Betucci of Cornell is a good bet to give Lion Don Frey a good bat tle, should the pair tangle. Betucci scored a 7-2 win over Frey in dual meet competition this sea son. Betucci got his first tourney win tonight, pinning Tom Lorenz of Temple! ■ In the 457-pound class, two possible Lion opponents served notice that they will not be pushovers. Ed Rooney of Syra cuse and Cornell's Ken Hunt both scored opening-round wins. Rooney pinned Loren Samsel of Brown, and Hunt decisioned 'Ed Abdelnoor of Yale. 9-2. Two Army grapplers displayed standout wins as the quarterfinals got under way this evening; 167- pound Gerry Tebben - went into the second round of matches af ter pinning Joe Scuddeds of Rut gers. The big man, however, is A 1 Paulekas, defending 177-pound champ. Paulekas pinned Joe Har rett of Rutgers in a -“no-match” i contest to gain his'opening win. Two other 177-pounders also loom as big threats. They are Bill Downey of Yale and Pete Blair of Navy. In the heavyweight division. Hud Samson will probably be facing Werner Seely eventually. The big heavy from Lehigh is a high school rival of Samson's and each hold one win apiece. Seely had no trouble in deci sioning .Navy's Hugh Webster tonight, 6-0.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers