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Temple To Give Lions
Final Test Before NCAAs
The basketl:•all Lions bow out of the local sports scene
tonicfht when they battle a tough Temple Quintet at Rec
Hall. The Lions will be reaching for their 14th win of the
season as their la-game schedule comes to a close.
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Carne time is B p.m.
Win, or lose, though, Coach Elmer Gross
men won't he putting away their uniforms for
move on to Fort Wayne, lnd
Toledo University in the openh
Tonight's contest with the Owls
proinises to be one of. the finest
home attractions of the campaign.
The Philadelphia quinte t was,
rated as an eastern power in pre-,
season selections and although it,
hasn't lived up to expetatirins,i
it has ::hovin ;that it can be a
tough club to beat. Carrying a
15-10 record, the Owls boast wins
over Seton Bail, 1952 NIT cham
pion, Santa Clara, and LaSalle,
one of the top teams in the east
this season
Temple Won Last Year
Last season the Owls came
from behind in the last 90 sec
onds to top the Nittanies, 56-54,
in Philadelohia, In 32 games that
the two teams have played, Tel-h
-ole holds an 18-14 edge.
Temple coach josh Cody has
the bulk of last season's squad
back this year. His two big men
point-wise—forward Harry Sil
cox and guard Al Didrikson.
These two were key men in the
game played last year and have
been playing the same role for
Cody this season. Rounding out
the Owl first five will probably
be John Kane, Sam Sylvester and
Charlie Mohr.
Lineup Changes Listed
Gross indicated yesterday that
he will make two lineup changes
tonight. Ed Haag will move back
onto the starting five and Jim
Brewer will get the nod for a
starting berth. Bob Rohland, Jesse
Arnelle, and captain Jack Sherry
will round out the first team.
Two of the Lions, Ed Haag and
Jim Brewer, will be making their
last appearance before Rec Hall
fans. The pair will graduate this
June. Sherry is in his seventh
semester and may have one se
mester of eligibility left next
season.
The Lion captain is the num
ber two scorer, trailing behind
Major Leagues
Open Citrus
Circuit Schedule
NEW YORK (.4')—Muscles that
have been toned the past two
weeks in exercises and calisthen
ics will be flexed in earnest to
day with the opening of the ma
jor league spring exhibition base
ball games.
All 16 clubs spring into action,
including the Baltimore Orioles
who will be returning to the big
top for the first time in half a
century. The St. Louis Browns
were moved to Baltimore after
the 1953 season and the American
League's newest member quick:-
ly adopted the nickname of the
oldtime Orioles, famous since the
days of John J. McGraw.
Today's schedule is as follows:
Pittsburgh NL vs Boston AL
at Sarasota, Fla.
Baltimore AL vs Chicago NL
at Mesa, Ariz.
Cincinnati NL vs Chicago AL
at Tampa, Fla.
New York NL vs Cleveland AL
at Tucson, Ariz.
Detroit AL vs Philadelphia NL
at Clearwater, Fla.
St. Louis NL vs New York AL
at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Philadelphia AL vs Washington
AL at Orlando, Fla.
Brooklyn NL vs Milwaukee NL
at Miami, Fla.
RESULTS OF
FRATERNITY SEMI-FINALS
Phi Sigma Delta 23, Alpha Phi
Alpha, 20
Sigma Chi. 30, Sigma Nu, 26
Fraternity finals will start at
a p.m. Monday.
By DICK McDOWELL
, Thesday where they meet
g round of the NCAA playoffs.
Arneue. His 2:::3 points give him
a 12.1 average in 18 games. Ar
nelle is almost ,certain to bring
his total over the 400 mark for
'the third straight season tonight.
He needs only eight points to
reach - that . mark.
Team-wise the Nittanies are
still ahead of their scoring aver
age set last season. Currently
scoring at a 70-point per game
pace, they should eclipse the old
mark of 67.3.
Gross and his ten-man travel
ing squad embark for Fort Wayne
tomorrow where they will enter
NCAA play. Toledo, Mid-Ameri
can Conference champ stands as
one of the biggest tests of the
season. The winner in the open
ing round will qualify for the
eastern' regional playoffs and a
crack at either Kentucky or Lou
isiana State, depending on which
wins the Southeastern Confer
ence title. The NCAA entry will
mark the third time in Penn State
history that a Lion basketball
team has competed in the tour
ney. The winner is recognized as
the official national champion.
Lions . ..,,can't :;< t:
In EIWA Tournament
When your wrestling team
loses two matches in succes
sion against two of the East's
best and is defending its title
for the third consecutive time,
you're inclined to question
what are its chances.
Well, it just so happens that
Penn State's grapplers are con
fronted with this situation. And
there is only one answer: Penn
State, despite its losses to Pitt and
Navy, are far from out of the race.
The true answer, however, will
be told at Ithaca, N.Y., March 12-
13, when the Lions compete
againt the other 15 EIWA league
squads for team and individual
championships. Penn State will
host the Eastern Intercollegiate
tournament in 1955 at Rec Hall.
Why can't Penn State be ex
cluded?
Coach Charlie Speidel possesses
two defending Eastern champions
Sports
By The Asshciated Press
WASHINGTON— Major league
baseball was dealt one defeat yes=
terday by the government in a ra
dio broadcast ruling, and two of
ficials of the national pastime
were summoned to a hearing on
a bill designed to force beer-mak
er AUgust A. Busch tc, sell the
St. Louis Cardinals.
The Federal Communications
Commission denied a petition of
the New York Yankees, Brooklyn
Dodgers, and the Cardinals who
sought to compel th e Trinity
Broadcasting Corp. of Texas to
stop alleged unauthorized broad
casts of games.
The ball clubs claimed the ra
dio company "appropriated and
pirated" information from au
thorized game broadcasts then re
created then for rebroadcasting
over stations in Dallas, El Paso.
and Houston.
A decision on whether the re-
ryF DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
and his
a while
floor-
They
Paddy DeMarco scored a
unanimous 15-round decision
over Jimmy Carter last night
to gain the world's light heavy
weight championship, accord
rl.g to an Associated Press no
tice.
—co-captains Dick Lemyre, 130-
pound class; and Jerry Maurey,
137-pound class; one champion
who was upset in last year's tour
ney—Bob Homan, 123-pound di
vision; and one who could carry
the banner in his first season—
Bill Oberly, heavyweight.
Although two or three individ
ual champions do not necessarily
say, that Penn State will cop its
fourth straight title, it does reveal
the fact that the Lions will be a
contender. Last year Cdrnell sur
vived with three individual cham
piens, but lacked the necessary
depth to dethrone the Lions.
The teams which will be press
ing the Lions for honors are Pitt,
Navy, and Lehigh. Teams which
will attempt-to eliminate possible
individual champions for the
aforementioned schools will be
Cornell, , Franklin and Marshall,
Army, Temple, Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Columbia, Rutgers,
Brown, Syracuse, and Penn.
Penn State has had only two
rriatmen who have won three
broadcasts appropriated any prop
erty rights as the complaint al
leged was sidestepped. In its' de
cision, the FCC declared the re
broadcast rules do not attempt to
define property interests in broad
cast material. Trinity claimed that
once the news was broadcast, it
was not copyrightable and could
be picked up by other stations.
NEW YORK A triplehbader
starting at 6 p.m. EST today ,ush
ers in the 17th annual National
Invitation Basketball Tournament
at Madison Square Garden but
the favored team Duquesne--
won't see action until next Tues
day night. . .
One of the best balanced fields
in the oldest of the post-season
college tournaments promises an
interesting duel for champion
ship honors which will be decided
in the finals on Saturday. Last
year Seton Hall defeated St.
John's of Broo' -1, -n in the finah - %
Of the 12 teams invited, Brig
Close `schedules .-.;'.onight
Karl Schwenzfeier
Versatile Gymnast:
BULLETIN
orld at a Gls lice
Gym Win Would Make
2d Undefeated Season
The Nittany Vale's high-riding gymnasts will be striving
to make it six in a row tonight when they invade the Hill
Country to battle the Mountaineers of West Virginia Univer
sity.
Gene Wettstone's defending NCAA titleholders will also
be seeking to complete their second consecutive season with
an unblemished record and add number 15 to their winning
skein which had its birth in 1952.
The Lion gym mentor plans
to send a juggled line-up into the
skirmish in order to furnish some
of his sophomores with valuable
experience to c arry into next
year's campaign.
Competing in their final dual
meet will be Co-Captains Frank
and Al Wick, Bob Lawrence, Tony
Procopio, John Balla ; Warren
Hommas, Dick Spiese, and Ken
Parker.
In addition to the above seniors,
most of whom have been main
stays of the Lion all-winning ag
gregation, the Nittany mentor has
talents to offer in the form of Jan
Cronstedt, Ka r 1 Schwenzfeier,
Skeets Haag, Bill Paxton, and
Skip Heim.
Cronstedt, who as national all
around champ, has spearheaded
the Lions the past two years, is
currently topping the list in the
point-scoring r.department with a
grand total of 58 1 / 2 in the previous
five outings.
He has racked up 28 points and
taken first place five out of the
six times he has appeared on his
specialty, the horizontal bar.. The
Nittany ace has also accounted
for 18 points on the parallel bars
EIWA titles ; Jack Light and Char
lie Ridenour. Lemyre, who is un
beaten in dual meet competition
for three consecutive years, will
make his third try +his . year.
Two-time Eastern champions on
the Penn State record books num
ber ten, Johnston and Lemyre in
cluded. First to achieve the feat
was Ivan Brown in 1918 and 1919;
followed by Frank Watson in 1921
and 1922; Leonard Cary and Bill
Black in 1924 and 1925; Te Wilson
in 1928 and 1929; Bob Ellstrom in
1933 and 1934; Sam Harry in 1942
and later, after war service, in
1946; and Homer Barr in 1950 and
1951.
Penn Staters who will be seek
ing their second titles will be Ho
man and Maurey.
Among Speidel's one time cham
pions are Clyde "King" Cole, now
head . coach at Gettysburg Col
lege; and Dick Waite, head man
at Columbia University and past
president of the Eastern Intercol
legiate Wrestling Coaches Asso
ciation.
ham Young University is the only
former NIT winner in the tour
ney. Nine of the title contenders
have played in the event before,
the newcomers being St. Francis
of Brooklyn, St. Francis of Lor
etto, Pa., and Wichita.
BERLIN German Middle
weight Champion Haps Stretz,
162 rebounded from three
knockdowns to gain a 10-round
draW with Emile Delmine, 162%,
former Belgium titleholder, last
night._
KIEL, Germany Belgium's
ex-European heavyweight cham
pion, Karel Sys, last night out
pointed Heinz Seelisch, Kiel, in a
10-round fight before 8000 fans.
Sys weighed 202 3 ,4, Seelisch 194.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Bennie
Borgmann resigned as head bas
ketball coach at Muhlenberg Col
lege today in order to devote full
times to his expanded duties as a
scout for the St. Louis Cardinals
of the National League.
SATURDAY, Ati-Cr..m.-ri v. 1954
By RON GATEHOUSE
and 12 1 / 2 on the mats.
Cronstedt will face a Mountain
eer standout in at least two of
the aforementioned events at Mor
gantown today. Bob Gluck will
put all he kno'Ws against the Nit
tany ace on the H-bar, while Bill
Solley will be striving to exhibit
his wares on the mats. ..
Right behind Cronstedt in the
point-scoring department is Karl
Schwenzfeier, one of the most ver
satile of the Lion performers. He
has captured 24 points on the fly
ing rings, 12 on the parallel bars,
and four on the H-bar to account
for his total of 40.
The Wicks have done their
share in aiding the Lion cause,
securing victories and valuable
second-place points in their re
spective events, Frank m the
horse and Al on the P-bars.
Lawrence has failed only once
to earn first honors with his bril
liant routines on the horse. He
owns 28 points in that event.
Along with Cronstedt and
Schwenzfeier in the role of the
and H-bar.
versatile, Procopio has demanded
respect over the season with his
outstanding routines on the rings
Haag has suffered only one set
back on the rope. His best time,
which he recorded twice for the
20-foot climb, is 3.7.
Rifle Team
Out to Upset
Lehigh Streak
Penn state's rifle team bumps
up against its roughest opponent
of the year this. afternoon when
they meet the Engineers of Le
high University. The meet, which
will be played at Lehigh, is rated
a tossup although Lehigh sports
a victory string of 34 straight.
The 34 wins • stretch over a
three-year period with 12 each
for the two previous seasons and
a ten straight record thus far this
year.
Penn State has won one meet,
that against Dickinson College by
the score of 1862-1569. It was the
only meet the rifle team has tak
en part in this year.
Penn State and Lehigh have
met, along with 18 other teams,
in a post season National Postal
Meet. State placed eighth in this
meet while Lehigh took tenth
place.
Big gun for the Lion rifle team
is Jon Thalimer, who compiled
379 out of a possible 400 points
last week against Dickinson.
Penn State's remaining games
are with Gettysburg, and John
Hopkins University. All will be
played during March:
Lehigh won their 34th in a
row last Saturday, winning over
Temple, 1380-1329.
The probable lineups for, to
days meet are for Lehigh: Arnold,
Lovell, Hower, Hartshone, and
MacDonald; and for Penn State:
Thalimer, Charles Hayes, John
Ifft, James Ifft, Lester Staruch,
Dale Fenstemacher, James Byrne,
and Don Greth.
York to Defend
PIAA Swim Title
HARRISBURG, March 5 (R)—
Hundreds of schoolboy athletes
compete tomorrow in regional
meets for places in the Pennsyl
vania Interscholastic Swimming
an d Wrestling Championships
next week.
York, although outpointed in
Dist 3 title swimming, will de
fend its eastern team champion
ship in the Franklin and Marshall
pool tomorrow and its PIAA state
crown at State College next Sat
urday.