SATURDAY, MARCH 21> 1953
Baseball Vets Prep for
ACj JH these holdovers from the 1952 The six vets are getting all their seasoning in
?j lh - e baseball *® ar ” *k ai . f 1 * 1 * this pepper game in preparation for the Lion's
ished third m the College World Series last '53 campaign. Left to right, they are Captain
June arent going to be farmed out to the, Sil Cerchie. Bill Leonard, Keith Vesling. Jack
Salt and Pepper League for more seasoning. Rhoda, Dewey Krumrine, and Bob Schoellkopf.
Record Entry for NCAA's at Rec Hall;
Joe Lemyre Among Defending Titilsts
Unlike the 'Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling Scrutinizing the record books, however, one
tournament, the NCAA tourney will possess only would observe the fantastic monopoly held by
three . 1952 titlists in the starting field when a Oklahoma University and Oklahoma A&M
record entry of 210 of the nation’s top collegians T . . , _ , „
from 57 colleges vie for individual and team honors , .7 1 out of the 22 natlonal championships, the
in Rec Hall next Friday and Saturday, latter Blg Seven teams have shared the crown 19
times. Oklahoma Aggies copped the title 16 of the
19 times.
Returning 1952 winners are Hugh Peery, son of
the Pitt coach, Rex Peery—a three-time titlist in
the ’3o’s—Gene Nicks, Oklahoma A&M, and Penn
State’s Co-captain Joe Lemyre. Peery, who has been
wrestling in the 123-pound class this season, won
the 115-pound championship last year, while Nicks
carried the 130-pound honors.
State's First Champ
Coach Charlie Speidel’s 167-pounder, who last
brought the Nittany Lions their first NCAA
crown in 17 years, will endeavor to become the
third Penn State matman to achieve this honor
since the Lions organized wrestling.
Penh State’s first national champion was How
ard “Red” Johnston. To win, he faced Port Robert
* son > coach of Oklahoma’s champions. Johnston
clashed in the 165-pound finals 18 years ago and
scored an early takedown to win a narrow decis
ion over Robertson.
The fact that the Nittany Lions have not won an
NCAA title and have had only two individual
champions may appear illogical since the Lions
have captured 12 EIWA championships and are
well-known in the ’ wrestling circles as “the team
to beat.”
Indiana Named
Top Hoop Team
* ■' NEW YORK, March. 20 *(/P)
The Hoosiers of Indiana Univer
sity, victors in the finals of the
NCAA basketball tournament this
* week at Kansas City, were voted
the No. 1 college basketball team
■of the 1953 season today in the
.final weekly Associated Press
I poll. j
F Coach Branch McCracken’s
Bloomington team, champions of
, the Big Ten and a 69-68 winner
I over Kansas in the NCAA cham
pionship game' ran away with the
; 14th and last nationwide poll of
\ the season.
Of 159 ballots received from
ports writers and sportscasters,
pdiana received 128 votes.
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'Big. Seven' Winner Four Times
Robertson’s Oklahoma Sooners, twice defending
national champions in the last two years, are cur
rently sporting a 25 consecutive dual meet winning
skein. (Penn State has the biggest consecutive vic
tory mark today with 29.)
Then too, the Sooners, who won Big Seven hon
ors four of the last five years, boast one champion,
one runnerup, and a third-place winner from lasi
year’s title team.
Robertson, who returned to his alma mater to
coach in 1947, has won 41 meets while losing only
16. His team cracked Oklahoma A&M’s winning
streak of 26 straight matches in 1951 and now owns
six successive dual meet triumphs over the once
unbeaten Aggies.
Nevertheless, the Sooners wiU be without the
services of his 147-pound champion, Tommy Evans,
who was forced out of competition early this sea
son because of a knee injury. Evans was voted
as the tourney’s outstanding wrestler last year.
The NCAA’s defending 157-pounder, Bill Weick,
of lowa State Teachers, left college to enter the
armed services.
Kentucky's Rupp in Federal Lawsuit
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 20 (JP) —A Federal Coiirt lawsuit ask
ing triple damages of more than half a million dollars for alleged
gambling losses today named as co-defendants University of Ken
tucky basketball Coach Adolph
Rupp, gambler Frank Costello and
Ed Curd, reputed former Lexing
ton bookmaker.
Rupp, Kentucky’s coach for 24
years, immediately branded the
suit a “smear campaign” and as
serted his innocence of any con
nection with gambling.
Costello, spotlighted during the
Senate Crime Committee investi
gation, is now in the federal cor
rectional institution at - Milan,
Mich., serving 18 months for con
tempt of Congress. He also is un
der indictment i for income tax
evasion.
Gernert's Blast Helps
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,
March 20 (A») Dick Gernert’s
two-out home run off pitcher Joe
Coleman tied the game in the
ninth and then two errors by the
Philadelphia Athletics in the 10th
handed the Boston Red Sox a
5 to 4 Grapefruit League victory
here today.
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Sports Briefs
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March
20 (JP) —The New York Yankees
shelled three rookie hurlers for
16 hits today and trimmed the
Philadelphia Phillies, 8-3. The
champs, in enjoying their best
hitting afternoon of the spring,
blasted a total of 27 bases.
Gene Woodling led the attack
with three safeties and Yogi Ber
ra boomed a homer.
Milwaukee Wins First
BRADENTON, Fla., March 20
(A 5 ) —WmmHg their first game as
the Milwaukee Braves, Manager
Charlie Grimm’s lads swung
away for 17 hits today to hand
the St. Louis Cardinals their worst
defeat of a losing spring, 11-2.
Biggest blow in the Braves’ at
tack was a three-run home run
hit by rookie Bob Mainzer off
pitcher Bob Tiefenauer in the
eighth inning.
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Yanks Top Phils, 8-3
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