PAGE SIX independent Cage Champs pe. —ampL are all smiles after their title clinching game with the Capitols. This is the second straight championship for the quintet. Standing (left to right) are Joe Moore, Skip Siehl, Buddy Rowell, and Don Bailey. Kneeling: Joe Yukica, Jim Garrity, Don Shank, and Don Malinak. Fraternity Cage Champs >y ippi. ige ...ampiou«._ ip ji week with a 43-42 win over Sigma Phi Sigma. They are bottom row from 1. to r.—Ronald Isenberg, Mark Weiner. Leon Lefkowitz, Arnold Indelman. Herbert Vablon. Top row. 1. to r. are Robert Kauffman. Jay Poser, Robert Seigal. Warren Gitllen, and Leonard Kreiger. Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu Strengthen IM Mat Lead By ROY WILLIAMS Pi Kappa Phi strengthened its slim first place lead in the intra mural wrestling tourney last night at Rec Hall when Bill Swig ert decisioned Phi Kappa Sigma’s Jim Leslie, 4-2. Sigma Nu kept a tight hold on second place when Dave Barney downed Jim Swee ney of Delta Upsilon, 5-0. Delta Chi gained ground al though 121-pounder Steve Spen cer lost an 11-3 decision to Phi Sigma Kappa’s Jim McGraw. Rich Weaver came through for the Del ta Chis with a pin over Reaves Lukens, Phi Sigma Kappa, to even the score. Bub Phi Sigma Kappa’s hopes were dimmed when Dave Sbur was pinned by John Milson of Alpha Zeta in a quick 32 seconds. Beta Theta Pi copped one of its two mat victories when Dave Arnold pinned Mark Loevner of Phi Epsilon Pi in a bitter grapple. Skeets Haag pinned 145-pbunder John Usalitis of Phi Kappa at 1:13 of the first period. Acacia had three winners. Bill Bovard threw John Apgar of Phi Kappa Sigma in the 128 pound class for a pin at 4:43. Don Ander son won Acacia’s second pin of the night over 135-pounder Ralph Christiansen, Alpha Sigma Phi. Win number three was won by Tom Mclnt.vre’s pin of Theta Xi’s Owens. The first of three independent competitions saw 165-pounder Howard Hesketh defeat Bob Rein hart by default. Reinhart was in jured late in the second period. In the 155 weight class, Dan Knipe decisioned Buth Rossini at 3:30 of the second period. Ed Welser pinned his opponent with only 31 seconds left in the 165 pound class. Glenn Culbertson o£ Sigma Al pha Epsilon decisioned Thomas Gingerich of Lambda Chi Alpha in the third period. Another win ner in the 165 pound class was A 1 Coble of Alpha Tau Omega with the lightning fast pin of Zeta Beta Tau’s Crammer in only 39 seconds. Heavyweight Tom Schmalzreid of Alpha Zeta took his second win of the year over Sigma Pi’s Walk er with a pin in the first period. Bob Carver of Pi Kappa Alpha also pinned Chi Phi’s Reber for a win. Speedy Marty Zieve of Beta Sigma Rho pinned Jack Turnbull of Sigma Phi Epsilon 'in: the 128 pound class. Sigma Pi’s Brent Curtis pinned George Walker of Alpha Sigma Phi with • only one minute of the first neriod gone. Jack McCarthy of Phi Kappa Tau copped a victory by pinning Bob Thompson of Delta Tau Sig ma in the second period. In the 175 pound 'class Dave Simon of Kappa Delta Rho decisioned Delta Tau Delta’s Stanat by a 12-4 score THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Wettstone Puts Gym Team Through Paces for Nationals “We’re going to give trouble,” said gym Coach Qualifying tryouts will be held in the afternoon Gene Wettstone yesterday regarding his Eastern and evening sessions March 27 with the champion champs’ chances in the National Collegiate Ath- ship play in both sessions March 28. letic Association team championships which will Ten men in each event will qualify for the be held at Syracuse March 27,-28. ° championship competition. Besides the six regular Wettstone put his crew through full workouts Eastern events—tumbling, sidehorse, horizontal yesterday at Rec Hall for the second day in a row bars, rope climb', parallel: bar, and flying rings— in preparation for the biggest and last event in there will be competition in calisthentics, long the winter gymnastic season. horse vaulting, trampoline, and all-around play. Last year at Boulder, Colo., the all-mighty gym The NCAA all-around event consists of five events, aggregation from Florida State took top team flying rings, sidehorse, horizontal bab, parallel bars, honors in the country for the third consecutive and calisthentics. season. Southern California has finished second to Florida State for an equal number of straight years, dating from 1950. The 1952 NCAA team point totals were 89V2 for Florida State to 75 for Southern Cal. ' Illinois and Army finished third and fourth with 50 1 / 2 and 57% points, followed by number five and 'x teams in the country, Minnesota, with 28 points, d Michigan State, with 26. 1 The Lion gymnasts, in sweeping through to an .ndefeated dual-meet season, upended the third, fourth, and sixth place finishers in the nation last season in meets with Illinois, Army, and Michigan State. Twenty-nine schools will enter contestants in this year’s tourney. The 29 schools, if all enter gymnasts, will top by six the largest number of schools ever to compete in the NCAA’s. Last sea son’s entry of 23 schools had set the previous record. Frosfi Track Challenge to Chick Werner and his protege, Norm Gordon will be taking their track team ; QU.t onto the Beaver Field cinders one of these fine spring afternoons to begin work in earn est for the coming outdoor campaign. • Gordon, who has been assisting Werner for the past f: full this spring. The former Nittany trackman, besides handl: have charge of the freshman squad But right now Gordon is won dering just how busy he will be. It seems ' that in the past, Penn State freshmen have been scared away by varsity records, feeling that they weren’t quite good enough to be a Penn State track man. But Norm says it isn’t so. “The Irouble is,” he says, “too many boys see only the varsity records, and never get a chance to see the freshman figures.” The track mentor wants it known that all freshmen who come out for track this spring, with or with out previous experience, will get an equal chance. “The field is wide open,” he says. „ A glance at the record books shows that three of Penn State’s greatest trackmen never ran track before coming to the Nittany Vale. Yet Don, Bill, and Horace Ashen felter came to Penn State and made the headlines. Horace is still making them too.. He left Beaver field and went on to Olympic glory. Last year at Helsinki he won the 3000 meter steeplechase, and recently was ■named the outstanding amateur athlete in North America when he was given the Sullivan Award. What’s more, the freshman hope- Records Offer Cinder Hopefuls By dick McDowell fuls won’t have to spend the en tire season just practicing. Wer ner-Gordon & Co. are in the pro cess of arranging a unique series of “telegraphic” meets. At the present time the University of Michigan and Ohio State have been booked, and several more will be scheduled shortly. The meets will run like this: During the week, time trials will be held at Beaver Field. At the same time, the opposing team will hold time trials on its'field. Then the results will be each school, and times will be. com pared to determine the score. Gordon is extremly hopeful that there will be a large turnout of freshmen for the squad, and has asked that anyone interested whether he has had track exper ience or not—report to him at Rec Hall. Here are the official Penn State freshman records: TRACK 100 yard dash—9.7. (Barney Ewell, 1938) 220 yard dash—2l.3. (Barney Ewe' 410 yard dash—49.4. (Ollle Sax. 1951) I 380 yard run—l:sB.7. (Cliff St. Clair, 1942) I Transportation MSlotice^ EASTER VACATION Take A Tip an& Maife Ybur Trip BY GREYHOUND . For the convenience of PENN STATE STUDENTS. SPECIAL BUSES will be provided for the Easter Vaca tion and will leave, from'the MARKING,-LOT, SOUTH OF RECREATION' HALL" at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday April the Ist, 1953. RESERVATIONS Tor the -SPECIAL BUSES will be made with the purchase of your ticket at the GREY HOUND POST HOUSE. ALU RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY 10:00 p.m. TUESDAY,;MAI|CH THE 31st. For additional information, ca 1 f the GREYHOUND POST HOUSE, 146 North Atherton Street—Phone 4181. Pre-meet dope, calculated according to seasonal dual-meet activity, would again put Florida State in the top-seeded position, followed by Southern California. Illinois and Mihnesota, who rah one two in the ’53 Western Conference standings, along with the Lions and UCLA, are bunched up behind the year-in year-out leaders. Wettstone, though, isn’t one to sell one of his Eastern rivals short—the Orange of Syracuse. Syra cuse, he said, has a tumbler in Jim Sebbo who could go all the way plus two good all-around per formers in John Barkal and Milan Trnka. Jan Cronstedt, the sophomore stylist from Fin land, was the only Lion representative at last year’s Nationals. Cronstedt picked up a tie for third place in the parallel bars- with Navy’s Mike Quartararo. USC’s great, John Beckner won the ■parallel bars title along with - the all-around crown. Beckner also finished second in the horizontal bars. ive years, will have his hands ing the varsity thinclads, - will , One mile run—l(Jerry Karrer, 1945) Two mile run—9:3l.s. (Lament Smith* 1952) 120 yard high hurdles—ls. 6. (Jiih-Kedmitn, 1935; Hurry Conger, 1940) 220 yard low hurdles—24.4. Jngs, 1937) One mile relay—3:24.2 16 pound shot put—4 B-9%. (Rosey,'Grier* 1952) ’«t-: •» ' High jump—6-4%. (Jim Sykes, 1940) Pole vault—l 2-6. (Bob Clark, 1937) Broad jump—24-2. (Barney-Ewell, 1938) Discus throw—l 34. (Nick Vukmanic, 1937) Javelin throw—2os. (Nick'Vuknianic,.l,937) HANG PENN STATE in Your ROOM PENNANTS"-; 0n1y... 98c For every $5 in sales, you gei $1 in merchandise FREE !- BX in the TUB • >AY, MARCH 18, i*»3 FIELD
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