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
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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.