•’ A GE TWO
i HE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday
mornings inclusive during the University
year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of
The Pennsylvania State University.
Entered as second~c!&ss matter July 6,
1934, at the-State College, Pa., Post Office
under the act of March 3, 1879.
Dave Jones
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE:
Sam Procopio, Dick McDowell, Herm Weis
kopf, Ron Gatehouse, Roy Williams, Dave
Bronstein; Photographers: Jerry Cooper,
Brace Schrocdcr.
individual
Exhibitions
Thrill 6000
(Continued from page one)
gold medal winner, William Thor
esson, who earned the highest
number of points for one event,
197, with a dazzling calisthenics
performance.
There were no double winners
in the meet, showing the finesse
of each of the contest’s individual
champions.
The Nittanies showed four first
place winners over the course of
the evening, with Cronstedt, Tony
Procopio, Bobby Lawrence, and
Wick picking up the six first
place team points each.
Karl Schwenzfeier, Lion per
former in the long horse, still
rings, calisthenics, H-bar, and par
allel bars events put on one of
the most perfectly executed per
formances of the evening in his
calisthenics exhibition. TAe ova
tion delivered him by the crowd
was perhaps the biggest of the
evening for any one event.
The Swedes took two events,
calisthentics and the H-bar, in
one-two-three fashion, with the
lads of Gene Wettstone duplicat
ing their performance in one
event, the side horse.
It was in the latter event that
the Lions had the least difficulty
in winning the verdict, with their
star performer, Bobby Lawrence,
rolling up 187 points. Stattin. the
evening’s “iron-man,” came clos
est to him of the European gym
nasts, exerting a 159-point effort.
The Penn State Blue Band and
University organist, George E.
Ceiga, furnished music throughout
the warmups which commenced
at 7:30,
The introduction was presented
by Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the
school of physical education and
athletics and director of athletics.
Erik Boheman, Swedish Ambas
sador, presented the Swedish
team. Following his speech, Dave
Arnold, All-College student sec
retary, presented 16 miniature
statues of the Nittany Lion and
the same number of 1953 LaVies
to the visiting Europeans.
Judges for the event were Head
,udge, George Gulack and Olle
Areborn, both 1952 Olympic offi
cials, Louis Bordo, a member of
the U.S. gymnastics committee,
and Jerry Hardy, a performer in
the 1948 Olympics and a former
National gymnastics champ and
graduate of the University.
Long Horse: Jan Cronstcdt (PS)* 194
•joints; Borje Stattin (S), IS9 ; Anders
Lindh (S), 187; Nils Sjoberg (S), 186;
Karl Schwenzfeier (PS), 185.
Still Rings: Tony Procopio (PS)* 189;
Jan Cronstcdt (PS), 182; Borje Stattin (S),
1S1; Anders Lindh (S) and Karl Schtvenz
icier (PS)’, 179.
Side Horse: Robert Lawrence (PS), 187;
Frank Wick (PS), 173; Paul Heim (PS),
166; Borje Stattin (SI, 159; Kurt Wigartz
(S), 152.
Calisthenics: William Thoresson (S), 197;
Anders Lindh (S), 191: Borje Stattin (S),
190; Jan Cronstcdt (PS), 185; Karl Sch
wenzfeier (PS), 171.
Horizontal Bar: Nils Sjohcrg (S), 192;
Arne Carlson (S), 187: Borje Stattin (S),
185; Karl Schwcnzfeier (PS), 181; Jan
Cronstedt (PS), 175.
. Parallel Bars: Albert Wick (PS). 188;
Anders Lindh (S), IS6: Lennart Limd
gren (S), 182; Karl Schwcnzfeier (PS),
181; Jan Cronstedt (PS), 180.
GREAT TO vWllSpeiJJ WONDERFUL TO OWN
white or yellow gold-filled
WATCHBANDS
From $6.95
WATCH ÜBopl
"Swedish Rhapsody"
Sam’s Song \
Vince Drayne
Business Mgr.
In what was probably one of the most graceful, physi
cal, and ease-demanding performance ever viewed by Penn
State spectators, they found that it took a champion to beat
a champion.
The ever-colorful and creative ability of the Swedes cap
tured not only the fancy of the 6000 fans but the judges,
in easing out a 49% to 46% win over the National and Eastern gym
nastic champions. ""
11 was one of those meets where the winner can pat himself on
the back for a fine performance and the loser can hold his head
high with little shame.
The reception given the Swedish champions was one of the
finest. In fact, they enjoyed Penn State’s reception so much that
they questioned whether or not they would be leaving the campus
after the meet. They said: “We'Would like to spend two more weeks
here at the Pennsylvania State University.”
If any one is wondering who was the smallest gymnast perform
ing during warmup time, he is 12-year-old Grego Weiss, of Ridge
field, N.J., who served as Penn State’s mascot.
Gene Weiisione, who deserved at least a big handshake for
his great effort to make the competition and' exhibition an out
standing success, received Sweden's Ling Award from Mr. Henry
Allard, guide and member of the Parliament of Sweden.
Hats off to the Swedish and Penn State teams, and to Borje
Stattin who participated in every event for the Swedes. He placed
in every event but one—parallel bars.
Although Penn State students will not get a glimpse of the'Nit
tany Lion great 1955 football schedule at least for a few weeks,
they can expect a news break within two days about a 1956 gridiron
opponent.
This gridiron foe, although-if will be met on foreign ground,
will find the approval of the students when released. It is a new,
interesting, and high-touted football eleven today.
5 Former Lions
In inquirer Meet
Five former Nittany track and field stars —Curt Stone,
Bill and Horace Ashenfelter, Jim Herb, and Vic Fritts—will
vie for honors Friday in the tenth annual Inquirer Meet and
Chick Werner’s thinclads will also battle for their share of
the laurels.
Competition will get underway at about 8 p.m. in Phila
delphia’s Convention Hall and by
9 or 9:30 the preliminaries should
be over and the finals should be
ready to start.
Stone and the Ashenfelter bro
thers will race in the longest event
of the meet —the Lawson Robert
son Memorial Two-Mile Run—and
Herb and Fritts will battle in the
high jump.
Horace “Nip” Ashenfelter, prob
ably the most famous of the Penn
State grads, had his collegiate ca
reer interrupted by a three-year
stint with Uncle Sam’s fighting
forces during World War 11. His
greatest claim to fame is his upset
win in the steeplechase event dur
ing the 1952 Olympic Games. He
turned on the speed in the last lap
of the famous race and edged out
Russia’s two favored stars —Vlad-
imir Kazantsev and Mikhail Sal
tykov,
During his sophomore year at
the University the slender FBI
agent was persuaded by Stone to
try. his hand at track. He won his
first title in 1948 when he cap
tured the IC4A two-mile laurels
with a time of 9:11. Nip set the
Nittany record in that event with
a 9:03.2 clocking the following
year.
The former Lion speedster also
holds the Penn State course rec
ord in the five-mile cross-country
event with a time of 25:03. Last
season Nip won nine of the 11
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
By SAM PROCOPIO
Collegian Sports Editor
By HERM WEISKOPF
./ . ....
W 0
* * *
indoor races in which he ran, in
cluding the three-mile title.
Nip is married and lives in Glen
Ridge, N.J., and is the father of
three boys. Horace IV. Nip’s four
year-old son, is called Tucker and
is the second party of the Ashen
felter Nip-and-Tuck duo.
Long-legged Bill Ashenfelter is
almost two years younger than
brother Horace. In 1951 he won
the AAU hill-and-dale crown and
(Continued on page four)
Gymnastics Review
ifil
i
' 'F
- •.;V'. jv.-
t r*vr- v
Lions Beat Lehigh
To Extend Streak
(Continued from page one)
Frey stopped Dick Waited. 4-0.
It wasn’t until the second period
when Frey escaped that a point
was scored. In the final period
with Frey at the advantage posi
tion, Whited had little say. In
fact, Frey received a predicament
point to go with his two minute
riding time.
Both Bill Krebs, 167-pounder,
and George Dvorozniak, 177-
pounder, posted impressive wins
over their Lehigh adversaries de
spite the fact that each wrestled
ten-pounds above their normal
class.
Krebs defeated Roger Taylor,
6-1; and Dvorozniak decisioned
Dave Gallagher, 4-1.
Speidel’s 167-pounder began to
master Taylor right from the start.
With a nice bit of maneuvering,
Krebs immediately took Taylor
down and had him at a near fall
position. From this point on un
til the final buzzer, all Taylor
could muster was an escape.
Dvorozniak’s excellent triumph
came as he reversed and rode his
foe throughout most of the second
and third periods.
With Penn State leading 17-5,
heavyweight Bill Oberly found
his more experienced Lehigh
grappler, Joe Comly, more than
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17. 1954
i
a real test. Unbeaten Comly was
behind 2-0 when taken down' by
Speidel’s talented' sophomore.
However, in the second period,
Oberly was reversed and held at
a near fall position. The final
period, found both matmen ex
changing reverses, with - Oberly
obtaining the first. Oberly’s time
advantage put everything at 6-6.
Speidel’s unbeaten matmen will
travel to West Point, N.Y. this
weekend where - they will meet
another tough foe in Army. 1
Exhibition by Swedes
Following last night’s meet be
tween the two championship gym
nastic squads the Swedes put on
an exhibition performance. They
demonstrated their abilities in
three of their most Outstanding
exercises—synchronized calisthen
ics, tumbling, and high table
vaulting.
Gridders Won 6, Lost 3
Penn State’s football team fin
ished the season with a record
of six wins and three setbacks.
The gridders rebounded from loss
es in the first two encounters and
ran up a three game win streak
before being edged by West Vir
ginia’s crack eleven, 20-19.
by Pete