r '*OF SIX Gagers, Boxers HGopsters Meet Colgate and Syracuse; Mittmen Tackle Wisconsin Tonight Colgate and Syracuse, both easy victims of the Nittanv Lions in early season play, provide the opposition this weekend as coach Elmer Gross’ floormen go after wins 11 and 12. The Niitanies meet Colgate at Hamilton, N.Y. tonight, then tackle Syracuse tomorrow. The two New York clubs fell before the hard charging Lions, 73-58, and 77-63, at Rec Hall in earlier contests. The Lions carry a splendid 10-3 record into tonight's contest. Wins over both teams could conceiv ably open the way for an at-large bid to the NCAA district playoffs. They return home for four games beginning Wednesday, none of which should be too rough. Real Test Expected However, Syracuse and Colgate come first and both promise to give Gross’ quintet a real test, since they will be playing on their home courts. Colgate looked very poor in their first game with the Lions but have improved consider ably since. Head Coach Howard Hartman has brought his team along in fine shape in recent games. Led by forward Frank Patterson the Ma roon scored victories over Army and Connecticut. The 6-1 forward scored 22 points aaginst Penn State in the first contest. Arnelle Big Factor For the Lions, success will prob ably hinge on the scoring antics of center Jesse Arnelle. The big junior, who has been having his best season this year, is averaging 21.2 points per contest. Jack Sher ry and Jim Blocker at the for wards, and Ron Weidenhammer and Ed Haag at the guards, round out the starting five. Both Syracuse and Colgate, par ticularly the Maroon, have always been tough competitors on their home courts. Gross indicated earlier this week that he expects rough sledding in both games. The Lions have failed to win, al though heavily favored, for three seasons at Hamilton. Both opponents will throw an effective fastbreak offense at the Lions and both employ a man-for man defense. In the Rec Hall con tests the Nittanies had little trouble in handling either team. Gross used his reserves consider ably in both. However, neither one can be taken too lightly now. The Lions return to Rec Hall’s friendly confines Wednesday to meet Gettysburg. Rutgers follows Saturday night and then George town and Temple invade Rec Hall March 4 and 6 to round out the 19-game season. 1M Volleyball, Handball Deadlines Those wishing to turn in en tries for intramural volleyball or handball must do so before Tues day 4:30 p.m., Dutch Sykes, assis tant intramural director, an nounced yesterday. The handball competition will get underway March 1 with vol leyball to start approximately one week later. Triple Overtime Penn State’s triple overtime victory over Pitt reminded basket ball fans of a duel nine years be fore that stretched into five extra periods before Temple edged the Nittany Lions, 63-60. Penn State was a 91-85 winner in the 1954 marathon game. SPECIAL! Today and Tomorrow Only LUBRICATION $l.OO WASH - $l.OO Combination Price or wash-lube and oil change Don Graham's CITIES SERVICE STATION Route 322 North of State College Jesse Arnelle Lion Threat Sports B riefs SaEary Cuts Asked BARTLESVILLE, Okla., Feb. 18 (A*) —Outfielder Mickey Mantle and second baseman Billy Mar tin, youthful stars of the New York Yankees, have been asked to take 1954 salary cuts, it was reported here today. Sports Editor Lindy Davis of the Bartlesville Examiner-Enter prise, in his column prepared for Friday, wrote that he was reli ably informed Martin had reject ed a contract for $12,000. This, the writer said, was $2OOO under Mar tin’s pay last year. Mantle is asking $30,000 for the coming season, Davis reported, and has twice returned to the club contracts calling for $17,500, a $5OO cut from his 1953 salary. Yanks 1 Martin Drafted BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 18 (JP) —The day Jerry Coleman left for Marine duty in 1952 he gave his glove to scrappy Billy Martin with these words: “Use it, Billy, and make me proud of it.” Today—by the action of a draft board —the situation is reversed. Coleman is out of the service af ter many months as a Marine fly er in Korea and Martin is going in—for the second time. Code Violation? CHICAGO, Feb. 18 quiry by the National Collegiate Athletic Assn, for possible viola tion of its code today was report ed directed at Seton Hall, a con sistent basketball power. It's Coming Soon FORESTRY The All-University Dance FRIDAY, MARCH 12 with Johnny Wicolase and his Band REC HALL SEMI-FORMAL Twr haiiy COLLEGIAN ‘STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA By ROY WILLIAMS Coach Eddie Sulkowski has again juggled his boxing lineup for his ringmen’s toughest dual meet this season against the Badgers of Wisconsin tonight. Sulkowski’'s most amazing move was the selec tion of Joe Goleman, a junior, to replace Frank Della Penna who upset the Syracuse applecart last week with startling victory over Bruce Yancey, Coach Roy Simmons’ heavyweight standout. Goleman posted a 29-29 draw when he fought the, heavyweight slot against Michigan State’s Riley in the Lions’ season opener. The 193-pounder, who showed the earmarks of developing into a ring strategist against the Spar tans, will face Bob Hinds. ■ Last year Hinds, a junior, posted a 7-0 chart. In the hope of perhaps throwing the Badgers off balance, Sulkow ski has dropped Harry Papachara lambous from 132-pounds to the 125-pound slot. Bob McMath was chosen for the 132-pound berth. The sophomore dropped his Syra cuse opponent at 1:40 of the first round in the Lion’s jayvee bout Saturday. Pappy, owning a 1-2 chart, will face the 1952 NCAA champ from the University of Hawaii, Ray Kuboyama. The remainder of Sulkowski’s ring lineup will remain intact. But no weight class will be a breather for the Lions. Sophomore Don Martin will seek his first win in four starts against Chuck Magestro at 139- pounds. Magestro was defeated in the final round of the Nationals last year by John Granger of Syracuse. In 1952, he was the 139- pound Northwest Intercollegiate champ. Stokes Battles NCAA Champ Jack Stokes and Don DeMay, both sophomores, will meet the Badger ring captains. Bob Mor gan, 147-pounder has a win chart of 8-1-1 in two years of varsity meets, and was NCAA 147-pound champ in 1952. DeMay’s rival, Bob Meath, cop ped five wins in seven meets last year, but lost in the NCAA’s first round. Frank Breidor, S u 1 k o w s k i’s fourth sophomore choice, will meet Ev Chambers at 165-pounds. Chambers does not have a varsity record, but was called a “good product of the Badger’s All-Uni versity pre-season tourney” by Sulkowski. Adam Kois will meet Ray Zale, NCAA champ and nephew of Tony Zale, former world middleweight champ, for the fourth time in collegiate match. Both boxers hold a victory, while they battled to a draw in 1951. 'Kois defeated Zale at Rec Hall last year, 29-28, but then dropped the NCAA final bout for the 178-pound crown at Syracuse on a split decision. STARTING LINEUPS PENN STATE Pap'chaxTs McMaih Marlin Stokes DeMay Breidor Kois Goleman Dancing 9 to 12 McMaih Inserted at, 132 WISCONSIN 12S Kuboyama 132 Hunder 133 Magesiro 147 Morgan 156 Meath 165 Chambers 178 Zale Hvwi. Hinds BALL I • o P $2.00 per Couple Face Test "It's Here to Stay" Sam’s By SAM PROCOPIO Collegian Sports Editor For many years wrestling has been the sport with en thusiasts—the only trouble was that most of these ardent persons participated on the mats. Now the fact-finding clien tele are inclined to. reverse their charges. Wrestling, amateur, of course, as an intercollegiate and high school sport, has re cently been making its whereabouts known and has been rapidly winning the hearts of'many fans. And ii isn't surprising to note that Various teams are com peting before 1500, 2500, 3000, and 3500 spectators at a time. Those figures may seem small, ~bui what more can be expected when the seating capacity of most college auditoriums are such? We feel that in the near future this sport will capture the fancy of the college and high school students to the extent that there will be a demand for larger auditoriums. Penn State's Coach Charlie Speidel believes the unprecedented growth and popularity of schoolboy wrestling insures the future of the college sport. He attributes the sport's rapid advance to the opportunity for competition it affords the "little guy." There have been successful attempts to win the interest of sports fans. Of those who have made the endeavor, Penn State is one. To help the sport, a smoker sponsored by the Penn Slate Club of Bethlehem is one bi-annual event which precedes the Penn State-Lehigh wrestling match. The gesture is one that was in augurated several years ago and has been a "must" on the Niitany Lions alumni calendar every other year when Penn State's grap plers visit Bethlehem for a dual meet with Lehigh. As one person said: the smoker is not a stag affair or exclusively for Penn State alumni. The invitation includes your wife, girl friend, or other friends. Fred Nonnemacher, sports editor of the Bethlehem Globe Times, sums it up this way: “The purpose of the smoker is not just for the Penn State team or its veteran coach, Charlie Speidel, but rather to show the true indications that this great sport of wrestling is continuing to gain in popularty, and that its rich regards are increasingly available. "To appreciate the increase" in popularity/' he writes, really should travel the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Associ ation circuit. Member colleges that a few years back attracted scarcely more than a corporals guard are now packing 'em in, and at more meets than not, play to capacity houses." Of course, at Penn State wrestling excited -the students many years ago—like that of Lehigh— and it has held steady since. How iever, there is a difference. Lehigh’s capacity is half the size of Penn ;t|s.tate’s. At Rec Hall, Penn Stale can comfortably seat 5100. But when it's wrestling, it usually swells anywhere from 5500 to 6000—one of the spo’-t's biggest crowds, if not the biggest. ——3o— FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1954 Song
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