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3 :oxers Enter Seme-Finals)
Gymnasts
Kois Enters
IBA Finals
Tonight
By ROY WILLIAMS
Three of Penn State's seven
entries in the Intercollegiate
Boxing Association tourney of
the East at Charlottesville,
Va., will enter the semi-final
round of elimination this af
ternoon.
Waving into the semi-finals
of the 31st IBA tourney by
virtue of byes, Bob McMath. 132-
pounder; Jack Stokes, 147-pound
er; and heavyweight Joe Goleman
will face their first tourney oppo
sition. McMath and Stokes are
sophomores; Goleman is a junior.
No points are awarded to the
particular team which has men
moving into semi-final competi
tion by route of the bye until
those same men have scored vic
tories in their first round of ac •
tual competition.
Last night Penn State's four
other entries saw action in the
first round eliminations at Vir
ginia's Memorial gymnasium.
Harry Papacharalambous. 125-
pounds, Ron Smith, 139-pounds,
and Frank Breidor. 165-pounds,
Penn State's Adam Kois ad
vanced to the finals of the Inter
collegiate Boxing Association
tourney at Charlottesville, Va.,
in defense of his 178-pound East:.
ern title with a TKO decision
over Elmer Wilson, Army, in the
third round.
The Lions netted only four
points by virtue of Kois' vic
tory. Three Nittany preliminary
entries, Harry Papacharalam
bons, 125-pounder, Ron Smith,
139-pounder, and Frank Breid
for, 185-pounder, lost.
Syracuse, making another
strong bid to cop the Eastern
title for the sixth straight time,
leads its five-team competition
by eight' points. Army is threat.
ening the Orange's supremacy,
how e ve r, with seven team
points. Maryland and Virginia
each have netted six points, fol
lowed by Penn State with four
and Catholic University with
one. City College of New York
did not enter the 31st annual
Eastern classic.
entered the preliminaries, while
Captain Adam Kois entered the
only semi-fibal bout of the even
ing.
Kois, in defense of his 173-pound
Eastern crown, was pointed the
favorite to move into the finals to
night by dumping Elmer Wilson
of Army. A victor - ' by Kois would
net the Lions three team points;
preliminary wins award one team
point, semi-final wins add an ad
ditional three points, and an indi
vidual victory in the finals awards
five more team points.
But victory hopes in the other
three preliminary bouts for the
Lions may not be as bright as in
the 178-pound division.
Pappy and Breidor face two
seasoned ringmen from Syracuse.
Breidor faces Vince Rigolosi, de
fending 165-pound Eastern champ,
who defeated him at Rec Hall.
Pappy faces Frank Guelli, the
Orange's seasoned bid in the light
weight slot.
In the 125-pound class, McMath
meets last night's winner of the
Mike Stevenson (A) - Bob Rush
(V) this afternoon. Stokes will
meet Syracuse's fourth entry, Art
Nelson, and Joe Goleman faces
the victor of last night's Bill
Creech (V)-Dick Croyne (M) bout
this afternoon. Victories in any of
these bouts will assure each Lion
a total of four points for Penn
State's total team scores, and a
try at the individual weight class
crown in the finals tonight.
Defeated for First Time
Jan Cronstedt was defeated for
the first time this year on the
horizontal bar by John Jengo of
Temple.
Seek EIGA Individual Honors Today
Adam Kois
In. Finals Tonight -
Base Citrus Dope
BRADENTON, Fla., March 12 VP)—The Pittsburgh Pirates belted
six home• runs today to rout the Milwaukee Braves, 25-11, in a major
league exhibition game.
Frank Thomas clouted two of the homers and Sid Gordon, ob
tained by trade from the Braves last winter, Jerry Lynch, Jack
Lohrke, and Brandy Davis added
the others. The six blasts gave
the Pirates a total of 15 home
runs in their last three games.
The Pirates chased three pitch
ers in a nine-run seventh inning.
Lynch, . rookie outfielder up
from the Piedmont League, led
the 19-hit Pirate attack with two
triples and a single in addition to
his homer to drive in six runs:
Eddie Mathews, the Braves
home run king, slamined three
triples but also made three errors.
Danny O'Connell, acquired in the
Gordon trade, and rookie Dick
Sinovic hit homers for the Braves.
PHOENIX, Ariz., March 12 (IP)
—Willie Mays slammed two more
homers today to spark the New
York Giants to a 13-5 victory
over the Cleveland Indians and
snap a four-game losing streak.
Mays' clouts came in successive
turns at bat in the first and third
innings. The 22-year-old center
fielder hit the first with one on
and the second with the bases
empty.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 12
(M—Del Ennis unloaded a two
run homer in the first inning
today and that served the Phila
delphia Phillies for a 2-1 victory
over the New York Yankees.
Whitey Ford, lefthander who
figures to be the ace of the Yan
kee staff, made his spring debut
and pitched three innings. The
two runs off him were unearned.
Ford permitted three hits.
The Yank tally caine in the
second on a hit batsman and a
single by Ford.
TAMPA, Fla., March 12 (M
The Cincinnati Redlegs, effective
ly bunching their 11 hits, downed
a makeshift collection of Chicago
White Sox rookies 11-7 today in
an inter-league exhibition game.
The American Leaguers also
made 11 safeties, including home
runs by rookies Bill Wilson and
Ed White.
Women's Golf Lead
To Suggs by One
AUGUSTA, Ga., March 12 (.4")—
Louise Suggs held stoutly to her
lead at the midway point of the
women's Titleholders golf tour
nament today despite a coinpeti
tive course record 70 turned in by
Babe Zaharias.
Miss Suggs, top money winner
last year, for the second straight
day had to pull her game togeth
er after a poor start to card her
71, one under men's par on the
course.
Wrestling Record
The last loss the Lion - wrestlers
suffered prior to their two de
feats 'by Navy arid Pitt was in
1950 to Syracuse.
Owls, Lions Tied in Gym
In a series that began in 1933.
Temph2. and Penn State are tied
3-3 in overall gym meets.
THE DARN COl.l FGI AN - I . ASTF COLLEGE PENINSYI.:,ANI,A
Newsmen Pick Annelle
For All-Tourney Team
Jesse Arnelie, Penn State's
high-scoring center, was chos
en for the all-tournament has
ketbali team by newsmen at the
conclusion of the NCAA elim
inations at Fort Wayne, Ind. on
Tuesday.
Other selections are Dick
Rosenthal and John Stephens,
Notre Dame; Bob O'Donnell,
Loyola of the South; and Phil
Martin, Toledo. Rosenthal was
voted the tournament's most
valuable player.
Middlecoff,
Kroll Tied
In PGA Open
BATON ROUGE, La., March 12
(JP)—Tournament favorite Cary
Middlecoff scored another wind
blown sub-par • round today to
draw into a tie with New Yorker
Ted Kroll for the lead in the $lO,-
000 Baton Rouge PGA ()Pen.
With most scores soaring in
the skittish breezes that buffeted
the 6411-yard country clUb course,
the former Memphis dentist post
ed a 71 alongside his opening day
67 for a total of 138 at the half
way mark.
Kroll, displaying his usual abil
ity to beat the wind with long,
low-slung drives, ran into putter
trouble and had to scramble on
the back nine to keep the pace.
The New Hartford, N.Y., profes
sional came in at 72.
A stroke behind the leaders was
sLin Ed Furgol of St. Louis, who
also had to come on with a rush
to make the regulation figure af
ter blazing a 67 in the' opening
round. He was followed by Al
Besselink of GroSsinger, N.Y., to
gether with Wally Ulrich of Ma
plewood,
N.J., for fourth place tie.
Pension Plan Gets
Owners' Approval
MIAMI, Fla., March 12 (iP)—.
Club owners of the American and
National Leagues announced af
ter separate meetings here today
that they had approved the rec
ommendations of the major
league pension committee, "sub
ject to some minor revisions."
A statement was issued jointly
after the meetings by Presidents
Will Harridge of the American
League and Warren Giles of the
National League. •
"The National and American
Leagues approved the recommen
dations of the pension committee,
subject to some minor revisions
which were referred to the corn
mittee and counsel for final ac
tion," th^ announcement said.
four of today's runs on a single,
walk and sacrifice fly.
1:!:1
Jan Cronstedt
Ace Gymnast
Cronstedt Leads Field
Of 13 Lions at Temple
The 13 members of Gene Wettstone's Eastern titleholding
gymnasts entered in the 27th annual Eastern Intercollegiate
Gymnastic Association meet in Philadelphia will seek to de
fend their old titles and pick up new ones this afternoon.
The competition, composed of individual gymnasts rep
resenting the five EIGA schools, will take to the mats and
apparatus at 2 this afternoon in Temple's South Hall.
All-around ace, Jan Cronstedt, is the number one Nittany
Vale representative performing in the melting pot of the
East's gymnastic best.
The Finnish-born junior sen
sation will be going all out to
defend the parallel bar title he
nicked up in last year's attraction.
Owns All-around Crown
The gym artist also owns the
Eastern all-around crown, and
stands an excellent chance of
keeping it among his array of
titles and honors,
Cronstedt tasted defeat only
once on the horizontal bar in the
past season's action, and looms
as a likely prospect to carry away
top honors in that department.
Temple's John Jengo turned him
back on the bar in the latest clash
between the two teams, and
stands as the only candidate ca
pable of beating him out for top
honors.
Accompanying Cronstedt in to
day's Eastern all-arounds will be
two other Nittany artists—K ar 1
Schwenzfeier and Tony Procopio.
Both will be all out to assist
Cronstedt. in keeping the all
around crown in the confines of
Mount Nittany. In nearly every
one of the season meets the two
were found battling it out for
top honors on the flying rings.
Meet East's Best
Both will pit their routines
against those of the East's best
this afternoon in quest of attain
ing the title in that event.
Defending Eastern champ on
the side horse, Bob Lawrence,
ranks as a heavy favorite on his
speciality. He dropped only one
outing over the season, due to
a break in his routine. However,
another Lion stalwart, Co-Captain
Frank Wick, took the driver's
seat and carried away top honors.
The double-vision version of
Frank Wick, Co-Captain Al, will
be putting his parallel bar know
ledge on the line against the
East's highest ranking men in
that department. No doubt the
opposition will be led by the
Owl's Bob McCarthy. He came
the closest to upseting the Lion
ace this year, and ranked third
in last year's Eastern classic be
hind Al and Crondstedt.
Another Owl representative,
Gene Scholl, will be out to make
Quinn, Ex-Braves,
Red Sox Head Dies
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., March 12 (tP)—Baseball loSt one of its out
standing personalities today when J. A. Robert (Bob) Quinn died at
the age of 84 after a two-year illness.
Quinn, who preceded Tom Yawkey as top man of the Boston
Red Sox and Lou Perini as president of the old Boston Braves, began
his career as a catcher. He moved
into the managing and front of
fice field with Columbus, Ohio,
where he remained for 17 years
before advancing to the majors.
He leaves his widow, two sons,
John, general manager of the Mil
waukee Braves, and the Rev. Rob
ert J. Quinn, O. P., a Providence
College professor, and two daugh
ters, Mary and Margaret.
His body will be sent to Colum
bus where he will be buried in
St. Joseph's Cemetery after a
requiem mass in St. Patrick's
Church Monday.
Quinn also was business man
ager of the St. Louis Browns now
Baltimore Orioles and general
manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
After stepping out of the
Braves' organization in favor of
his son, Quinn was associated
with a sporting goods firm and
then became curat6r of baseball'sl
Hall of Fame at Cooperstown,
N.Y.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1954
By RON GATEHOUSE
it a double win against the Lions'
number one man on the rope,
Skeets Haag, Haag suffered his
only seasonal setback at the
hands of Scholl when the two
clubs met two weeks ago,
Other Nittany exhibitionists en
tered in the East's finale are Dick ,
Spiese, John Baffa, Bill Pakton,
Skip Heim. Leroy Fritch, and
Hugh Cline.
In addition to Temple, standout
gymnasts from Army, Navy, and
Syracuse are out to pit their
wares against the favored Lions.
Stagg Receives
ootba II Scroll
From Grid 'Hall'
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12
(JP) Amos Alonzo Stagg, who
will be 92 years old in August
and who is the only man who has
been honored by the National Hall
of Football Fame as both player
and a coach, has just received a
framed scroll commemorating his
contributions to football.
"You probably may remember
that in the fall of 1951 I was elect
ed to the National Football Hall of
Fame both as a player and as a
coach," the grand old man told
sports writers from his home in
Stockton, Calif.
"Last year I received a letter
from George E. Little, executive
secretary of the N.F.H.F., who
was trying to arrange for the
public presentation of the award.
In the letter he stated 'I want to
inform you that you are the one
man in the world who has a
double Hall of Fame award—one
for player as a member of Walter
Camp's All America team in 1889
as a Yale end—and one for coach-
Stokes Has Best Mark
Jack Stokes, sophomore on the
boxing squad, has the best won
and lost record with four wins in
five. bouts.
Emergency Operation
For White Sox' Groth
TAMPA, Fla., March 12 (!P)--
Johhny Groth, Chicago White Sok
outfielder, underwent an emer
gency operation for appendicitis
early today. His doctors" said he
was doing "nicely."
Groth was in - the White Sox
lineup against the Boston Red Sox
at Sarasota yesterday. He became
ill last night and was removed
from his hotel at 5 a.m., this
morning.
It was a bad day for the White
Sox yesterday. Catcher Carl Saw
atski wound up in the Sarasota
hospital when he was struck by
a pitched ball thrown by Ike De
lock.
Outfielder Jim Rivera was tak
en to a hospital after he ran into
a fence trying to field a fly ball.
He suffered chest and leg injuries.