PAGE SIX Gymnasts W Lions Take Six Events Int Tourney (Continued from page one) long horse. still rings, free exer cise, parallel bars, horizontal bar, and side horse -- is the goal of every gymnast. In addition it is a stepping stone toward gaining a berth on the Olympic gym team. Cronstedt clinched the title Fri day night with a grand total of 1557 points, far above the winning 1275 noints he recorded last year. On the horizontal bar his 284 out of a possible 300 points tied the side horse perforinance of teammate Lawrence for the tour ney's n o i n t-scoring The nationally-heralded gym nast took his parallel bar and free exercise first place. with 230 an' 232 points. As a team, the Lions turned in its greatest performances in two events—the parallels and the TIT - - ing Surging through a field of 33 entries on the twin bars, Co-cap tain Al Wick and the 'mighty Might' of Wettstone's nationally fabled aggregation. Karl Schwenz feier, battled their way on even terms to wind up right behind their cohort in victory, Cronstedt, to capture a tie for second honors with 269 points. Dick Spiese bol stered the Lions' team total with an eighth place. On the flying rings, Procopio out-performed what Wettstone tabbed as a spectacular field of entries to register 277 points in his winning effort.. Once again is was Schwenzfeier in second place, trailing Procopio by only seven counters. However, probably the most as tonishing fact connected with the ring event was the way the Nit tang. 'surprise package' of the tourney, John Baffa, came out of nowhere to place third. Co-captain Fran Wick, who was the second half of the Nit tanies' one-two punch on the side horse over the past season, took third honors on the horse behind Michigan State's Carl Rintz. UCLA's Don Perry continued to astonish the gymnastic World with his rope-climbing antics. He gained wide-spread fame in last year's tourney when he 'es tablished the world's record by scaling the 20-foot rope in 2.9 seconds. But the world's fastest verticle climber, unsatisfied with his pre vious mark, posted an amazing 2.8 in the finals to walk away with top honors. State's Skeets Haag gained a tie for fourth place with Temple's Gene Scholl. The duo did it in 3.7, which was Haag's top perform ance all year. Baffa gained a tie for the number seven spot with a 4.1. Schwenifeier gained a fifth in free . exercise and Procopio picked up ninth place on the H-bar to round . out the Nittany places in the gym marathon. The Lions did not place in the remaining two events, tumbling and trampoline. Bill Paxton, Nit tanY entry on the mats, fell by the . wayside• in Friday's . qualify ing round. Wettstone did not enter anyone on the tramp. The Nittany Vale stalwarts com peted against a field of 23 teams, comprsincr, over 250 individual entries. _ . For Penn State, the undisputed victory it picked up in the Illini's Huff gymnasium was a great fin ish for a great season. The Nit tanles won all six of their regu larly - scheduled inter collegiate meets this season to extend their overall winning skein to 15. In addition they won the East ern crown for the second straight year, and completely dominated the Eastern meet consisting en tirely of individual competition, held at Temple University March 12-13. The Wicks. PI70000:0, Lawrence, Baff•i, and .Sp' - - rmed as Lion ,gymnasts for the last time. —Photo by Hoopes FIVE MEMBERS OF Penn State's National Collegiate champion gymnastics team pose inside Beta Theta P. fiaternity shortly after arriving from the University of Illinois at 2 a.m. yesterday. Co captain Al Wick is in the center, with his twin and Co-captain, Frank, ICarl Schwenzfeier, Skeets Haag, and Jan Cronstedt sur rounding him from left to right. The sixth member, Skip Heim, is a member of the team but did not make she trip. NCAA Sidelights When questioned as to how he fat after his team had made their fabulous sweep of the 12th an nual NCAA tournament, Lion coach Gene Wettstone comment ed, "it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. The boys didn't have a single break in two days." Jan Cronstedt's four places in one tournament was a new rec ord for the claSsic. The fabu lous Finn now has six individ ual titles to his career. This was his third year in the tourney. As a freshman he took third place on the parallel• bars, and lakt year won the all-around and parallel bars titles. Probably the biggest surprise to Wettstone was the placing of three of his stalwarts on the fly ing rings. Tony Procopio took top honors, followed by Karl Schwenzfeier, and John Baf f a with a fourth. He commented, fol lowing the meet, that it was amaz ing how all three of his ring en tries hit at once, doing routines they never accomplished in Rec Hall practice sessions. After UCLA's Don Per r y erased his old rope climb rec ord of 2.9 by posting a spectacu lar 2.8, the judges measured the 20-foot hemp to make sure of its lehgth. In last year's nation al toUrne yat Syracuse. he did a 3.0 in the preliminaries and made his 2.9 the following day in fhe finals. His latest win was his 94th straight for the verti cal climb. the 137 team points earned by the Lions is a new record for the 12 year old tourney. The Nittan ies broke the record they had set last year with 91 1 / 2 points.. The previous high was posted by Florida State with 39 1 / 2 . Penn State is noi.V second be hind Illinois in the total number 3 Top Advertising Specialists 1N... • Copy • Layout • Artwork from the Ketchum, McLeod & Grove Advertising Agency TO SPEAK AT THE ADVERTISING CLINIC Alpha Sigma Phi Sunday, April 11 7 p.m. SPONSORED BY ALPHA DELTA SIGMA National Professional Advertising Fraternity for Men "For People Interested in Advertising" THE DAILY COILFGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA of team championships. The Mi ni have five to their credit, while the Nittanies have copped three. The Lions won last year and in 1948. Next in line is Florida State with two, and Chicago and Tem ple with one each. The Lions set a new team rec ord with their six individual championships. Previous high was held by Illinois, who cap tured four in 1940 and '4l. Penn State had three in 1948. Wettstone has no w coached three Penn State national cham pionship teams. The only gym mentor ahead of him is Hartley Price who guided Illinois and Florida State to four. Concerning th e remarkable performance of Lawrence, who won on the side horse, Wettstone said that the childrood polio vic tim's years and years of practice finally paid off, and the win was sure to come. The Fighting Illini are ahead of the Lions in another depart ment. They sport 22 individual event winners. The Nittanies are second with 12. emple and Syracuse, the two hottest teams behind the Staters in the Eastern League the past season, tied for eighth place in the tourney with 181/2 points each. Badminton Woman's Bldg. over Mac Hall Little Lions over Thompson Pi Beta Phi over Phi Mu Sigma Sigma Sigma over Alpha Kappa Alpha Alpha Gamma Delta over Chi 0. Delta Gamma over Beta Sigma 0. Bowling Leonides over Theta Phi. Alpha Phi Sigma Sigma over Atherton Kappa Delta over Delta Zeta n NCAA Crown WRA Results 8 Lion Boxers Enter NCAAs Eight of ten Pennsylvanians scheduled to be among 60 en tries in the 17th National Collegiate Athletic Association tour ney this weekend at Recreation Hall will represent Penn State. As host school, Penn State was permitted to enter eight men out of a possible nine-man card. Coach Eddie Sulkowski has picked the following men to represent the Lions in the NCAA tournament: Harry Papa charalambous, 125, White Mills; Bob McMath, 132; Vander grift; Larry Fornicola, 139, Bellefonte; Jack Stokes, 147, Phil adelphia: Joe Humphreys, 156, State College; Frank Breidor, 165, Philadelphia; Adam Kois, 173, Uniontown; and Jo e Goleman, heavyweight, Philadelphia Penn State will not make an entry in the 119-pound class. Two Others Enter Two other Pennsylvanians en :ai.ed to swap punches, along with he Nittany Lions, against the Na ion's outstanding collegiate box :)rs are Bob Reid, of Middletown. and Leo Coyne, McKees Rocks. Reid is unbeaten in five bouts this year and owns a career record of 7 and 1. The 156-pounder will represent North Carolina A & T College of the Central Intercolle giate Athletic Association. Reid is Two last minute withdraw als today left the national col legiate boxing championship tournament with only one de fending champion. Ray Z ale, 178-pounder of Wisconsin, will be the lone title defender when the tourney gets under way. Victor Kobe, 119-pound Ida ho State titlist last year, was forced to withdraw because of sickness. Tom Hickey, Michigan State, will be unable to defend his 165-pound class crown be cause he was ruled scholastical ly ineligible by his own school. one of four CIAA champs entered from Greensboro, N.C., college. Three other CIAA champions have been entered by Hampton Institute. Maryland Enters HeaNcr From Maryland's Eastern cham pionship team is Leo Coyne. The Terrapin heavyweight has a 7-2 record, and a defeat over Penn State's Goleman. Stylish Stokes, 147-pound soph omore, and Captain Kois will car ry the main weight of Penn State's hopes of breaking. into the title circle. Kois, a rugged boxer who has dropped only four decisions in three years of dual meet and tournament competition, last year went to the finals losing to Wis consin's Ray Zale. Because Idaho State's Vic Kobe and Michigan State's Tom Hickey submitted last-minute withdrawals, the de fending champions have been re duced to one—Zale. TUESDAY. APRIL 6, 1954 By ROY WILLIAMS iviaurey Wins Fifth Place In NAAUs Jerry Maurey, Coach Charlie Speidel's outstanding 137-pound EIWA champ who competed in the NAAU three-day tournament held at San Diego, Calif., last weekend took fifth place. Maurey was sponsored by New York A.C. Maurey was eliminated in his sixth match of the tourney. He opened against Ted Gill of. San Diecro(,Navy and won by forfeit. Waldo' Sharp, also of San Diego Navy, was pinned by the Lion co captain in 2:37. Maurey's fifst loss came against a Japanese grappler, Kono Sasahara, but it took Sasa hara 11:32 before he had Maurey turned over on his back. Jim Espinge of San Diego Navy was a fall victim when he was pinned by Maurey in 1:57. Maurey then followed with another pin; this one over Nor m an Gill of Michigan State (unattached). Time was 3:34. . Maurey was then eliminated by Alan Rice of New York A.C. The Lion 137-pounder was pinned from a takedown in 3:35. Rice, for merly of Minnesota, was a two time Big Ten champ and two time Big Ten runnerup. Maurey, however, defeated him three times previously. In 1951 and twice in 1952 at the Olympic and NAAU tryouts. In NAAU competition Olympic rules are employed. Five black marks eliminates a wrestler from further competition. Three black marks are awarded for a defeat and one black mark for a win by decision. Frank Bettucci of Cornell, last year's outstanding wrestler in EIWA and NCAA tournament competition, took third place in the 147-pound class. Ed Peery, Pitt freshman, captured fourth place in the 125-pound class. Barbados in the British West Indies was the only foreign land ever visited by George Washing ton.
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