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Penn Team
in Palestra
The Penn State basketball
team invades the Penn Pal
estra tonight seeking its sec
ond win of the young season
against a highly rated Univer
sity of Pennsylvania quintet.
The two teams will be meet
ing in the 32nd game of a ser
ies which began in 1902 and
the Lions are seeking to snap a
four game Penn win streak which
began under Quaker coach Ho
ward Dallmar in 1950. They will
also be striving for their first win
in the Palestra since 1939.
Lion coach Elmer Gross said
yesterday that he will use the
same lineup against the Quakers
that he used against Washington
& Jefferson last Saturday when
the Nittanies won their 1953-54
opener, 66-41.
Arnelle at Center
Ron Weidenhammer and Ed
Haag are slated to start in the
guard positions. Jesse Arnelle
will be at center and Captain
Jack Sherry and Rudy Marisa
will open at the forwards. Jim
Blocker and Jim Brewer will
probably see plenty of reserve ac
tion.
The two teams go into the con
test on just about even terms.
Penn has , been rated two points
ahead of State on the Dunkle se
lections charts. The rating sys
tem, one of the most highly rec
ognized charts, lists the Quakers
with 66 points and Penn State
with 64. On that basis it's just
about anybody's game.
Quakers Strong at Home
Of course the Quakers will be
playing on their home court
where they are always at their
best. However, the Lions were
impressive in their W&J victory,
displaying an extremely strong
defense and a fast, well-coordi
nated offense.
On individual terms a scoring
battle loOms between Arnelle and
Penn's Hylmun who dropped in
328 points last season and appears
to be Dallmar's biggest offensive
threat this year. Arnelle tallied
408 last year and collected 18 in
the W&J contest.
Rely on Sherry
Gross will be relying on Sherry
to carry part of the scoring bur
den also. The big forward was
the number three man for the
Lions in 1952 with 248 points and
a 10.3 average per game. He had
10 points in the opener.
Both teams will have about the
same average height. Penn's first
five averages about 6-2 while the
Lions are slightly over that mark.
The Quak e r s will be after
their thi r d win of the season.
They have downed Delaware and
Muhlenburg in their first two con
tests.
Lehigh Veep Proposes
ECAA Ban on Bidding
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (JP)—Dr.
E. Kenneth Smiley, vice presi
dent of Lehigh University and an
influential figure in the Middle
States Academic Accrediting
Agency, has proposed that the
Eastern College Athletic Associ
ation censure any college that en
gages in competitive bidding for
an athlete and that it should
set up some sort of contract sys
tem.
Wetzel Lands Hard .Left, Hook
PAUL WETZEL PUSHES AWAY his opponent Dave Mcllhenny
in a 145-pound independent intramural boxing bout in Rec Hall
yesterday with a blistering left hook in winning a three-round
decision.
Fans See Ten
IM Ring `-outs
Fought in the blue sky setting of pre-Mill Ball Rec Hall, ten mat
ches of the 13 match card were reeled off before a gathering of ex
cited fight fans who delighted in the fast, spirited action of the In
tramural boxing contests yesterday.
With the fighters eyeing lucrative semi-final berths, one frat
ernity team, Sigma Nu received
a shot in the arm with two' vic
tories ,w hile the championship
hopes of Delta Chi were all but
smothered as three losses were
recorded
Two warriors, well-versed in
intramural ring warfare, brought
the loudest cheers from the fans.
Joe Musial, Theta Xi, last year's
145-pound runnerup, battled to, a
close and hard fought decision
over Joe Messerman, Delta Chi,
who was the 1953 135-pound king.
The two 145-pounders traded pun
ches through most of the fight
but Musial's hard lefts seemed to
turn the tide.
In the 128-pound fray, Ralph
Hofmann, Sigma Pi, overcame
a slight reach disadvantage to
outpoint Larry Roman, Alpha Ep
silon Pi. Hofmann finished a Ro
man flurry with several good
rights and lefts of his own to
greatly help his cause in the sec
ond round.
In the first bout of the evening
Bill Pender decisioned Bob Car
ver, Phi Kappa Alpha, in a 175-
pound match. Pender landed good
rights in the second and third
rounds to offset a final minute
spurt of left hooks from his lanky
opponent.
Rallying from two very close
rounds, 121-pounder Chuck Fry
tabbed Sigma Nu's first win with
a decision over scrappy Steve
Spencer of Delta Chi. Steve Haky,
fighting in the 165-pound class,
scored a third round TKO over
crouching Bob Kerr, Phi Kappa
Psi. Haky chopped two good rights
off the head of Kerr and followed
up with a flurry of punches until
the referee interceded.
In other 165-pound events Ed
Kittka, Theta Kappa Phi, pound
ed out a TKO over Delta Chi's
Joe Stefanelli and Wally Cook,
Phi Kappa Sigma, took a decisive
three-rounder from Dick Lewis,
Theta Chi.
Southpaw stylist Kittka ended
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a short barrage of leather with
a hard left that sent Stefanelli
to the mat and a referee's deci
sion. Cook nut up impressive ral
lies in each round to defeat Lewis
in the other battle of the 16gers.
Cook's superior reach enabled him
to stab through Lewis' defense.
Ed Jordan, Phi Kappa Psi,
scored a technical knockout over
Sigma Pi's Ed Suley :n another
175-pound contest. Ed Suley piled
up points with rights in the first
and second rounds but was over
taken by punches to the body and
an upset stomach. By winning this
match, Jordan gained a semi-final
berth against Bill Pender.
There were two independent
fights on yesterday's card. In one
of th s 3, i aul out
a decision over Dave Mcllhenny.
Wetzel felt the sting of Mcllhen
ny's punches in the first round
but fought back• gamely to win
the fastest match of the evening.
In the other independent fray,
Dave Laird, 155-pounder, repeat
edly used a right to the body and
left to the head combination to
mark up a decision over Satch
Carpenter.
Garrity Boots Field Goal
Jim Garrity, Penn State's No. 1
receiver, kicked the f i rs t field
goal of his college football career
as the Lions beat Pitt, 17-0, in
the season's finale. The Monaca
Madcap also booted 17 of 19 ex
tra point attetnpts during the
1953 campaign. Three touchdowns
gave him a total of 38 points.
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ON GYMNASTICS
It's amazing what men can make their bodies do. Sprinters rip
up the tracks at almost unbelievable speeds. Football players Pound
each other to pulp. But yet nothing quite matches the actions of a
gymnast. Here is the prime example of what the human body is
capable of accomplishing mechanically.
From the spectacular performances on the horizontal bar to
the delicate precisions of the calesthenics this sport is wonderful
to watch.
Actually the sport, although not so popular in this country, is
the grand daddy of all athletics. In ancient Greece where athletics
began the word gymnastics applied to all types of athletic feats •in
which the individual participated. The term carried through to the
present age and the sport still embraces the exercises that were
included in it during the !Greek era. •
To be good in any event—tumbling, flying rings, horizontal
bar, side horse, rope climbing, or calesthenics, the individual has
to possess perfect coordination. And he can achieve this coordination
3nly through years of practice and patience.
Jan Cronstedt, national amateur athletic union all-around
champion last year, and the big factor in' Penn State's outstanding
success under Gene Wettsfone, began to practice as a 12-year old
in Finland. Today he is the picture of beauty when he is in action.
We watched him practice calesthenics, before the NAAU cham
pionships and Olympic tryouts in 1952 and stood almost unbelieving
as he paced his body through movements that made him look like
the Indian rubber man. His plastic muscles will permit him to do
just about anything with the body.
Probably the sport's only downfall lies in the fact that the
spectator doesn't understand the technical points. Either he doesn't
understand or he cannot recognize them.
Scoring, for instance. This is done by three judges, with each
judge awarding a contestant a maximum of 100 points. The three
totals are added together to tabulate the individual's score.
But what Joe fan might not know for instance is that the con- ,
testant's approach in beginning the event is considered in the scor
ing, as well as his form in ending his event. More important, it
takes a trained eye to pick out these flaws that the average fan
can't see. However, this may stem from the fact that few opportuni
ties are available for the public to see such an exhibition in this
country. In Europe they thrive on the sport, as is indicated year after
year in the Olympics.
We are fortunate here at Penn State. Students here have the
opportunity not only to witness a quantity of gymnastic's meets—
but quality as well, the very best in quality. Gene Wettstone has a
national champion show for Rec Hall. fans this winter, beginning
with a meet that will be almost an Olympic show in itself, when
the Swedish gyrimastics team appears here in January.
True-the sport doesn't present the fan with the dynamic impact
of a come from behind football victory or the photo finish in the
100 yard dash, but for a show of sheer skill and dazling body ma
nueverability, the ancient sport of gymnastics can't be beat.
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