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Meet Carnegie
In First Game
High-flying Penn State moves into the first of five con
secutive road games tonight, and it could be the tell-tale
segment of a so-far highly successful basketball season.
The Lion cagers, carrying an impressive 9-3 record, travel
to Carnegie Tech tonight and then battle Pitt tomorrow night
in the first of the five away games. Lehigh, Temple, and
West Virginia will round out the tour.
The Nittanies, currently averaging more than 88 points
per game (they ranked tenth officially before Wednesday
night's 107-85 victory over Syracuse), have won eight of their
nine gaines on the Rec Hall boards and are 1-3 on the road.
And head coach John Egli is the first to admit that the out
come of the coming five-game stand will make or break
the Lions as they Move into the
second half of their .schedule. A
good showing on the road will be
a valid test of their over-all team
strength
Was Earlier Victim
Tech, one of several hot and cold
opponents remaining on the Nit
tany 25-game card, was an earlier
victim at Rec Hall, 91-75. But de
spite a 5-6 record, the Tartans
have shown plenty of scrap% in the
past and recently whipped fav
ored West Virginia at Morgan
town.
Pitt' has been another unpre
dictable team this season. The
Panthers have won only five of
13 contests but displayed a flash
of brilliance during a three-game
win streak two weeks ago When
they dropped Fordharn, Colgate,
and New York University in suc
cession.
At Best Form
The Lions, however, are prob
ably at their best form of the sea
son and move into the Steel City
carrying a three-game streak. The
continued excellence of Jesse Ar
nelle, Ron Weidenhammer. and
Bobby Hoffman, and an added
boost from guard Dave Edwards
have put the Nittanies back on
sure footing after a hurting lull
during the holiday action.
Arnelle, ranked sixth among
the nation's point-getters before
his 38 point output Wednesday
night, leads the Lion scoring with
344 points, an average of 28.7 per
gable. The big center is closing
the gap on a four-year. total of
2000. He has 1753 points with 13
games remaining this
_season.
Valuable Floormen
Weidenhammer and Hoffman,
along with Rudy Marisa, have
been consistant scorers all season,
but the two speedy guards have
been most valuable for their floor
work, both offensively and defen
sively.
Edwards, a dependable reserve
for four seasons, has been a stand
out all year, and particularly in
the last two games. He tossed in
12 points against Syracuse and
had a big hand in the Lion fast
break attack.
The cagers will not be home
again until they meet Lehigh at
Rec Hall, Feb. 5. The Engineer
contest in the current trip. is
scheduled for Wednesday. The
Lions meet Temple Jan. 29, and
West Virginia, Feb. 2.
Boyer's Talk Cancelled
A talk by Benjamin F. Boyer,
dean of the Temple Law School,
scheduled for 8 Tonight in 217
Willard and the banquet for mem
bers of Pi Lambda Sigma, nation
al pre-legal honorary fraternity
has been cancelled.
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Design Contest Winner
Donald Lenker, ninth semester
architectural engineering major,
has been awarded the $5O Emei
son prize of the Beaux-Arts Insti
tue of Design.
The competition involved the
design of a chancel and altar for
a small chapel.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
&.'IIV YORK, Jan. - 13 (FP)—The
Rev. • Robert Richards, Olympic
pole vault champion, found him
self in the middle
. of a controver
sial question on amateurism to
day . after a surprise appearance
on a television program, on which
Le received keys to a new car
ar various other gifts.
The affair was somewhat sim
ilar to the rhubarbs of recent years
over the presentation of a car to
skating champion Barbara Ann
Scott and the appearance on -a
commercial TV show of four-min
ute miler Roger Bannister.
Richards was th:: central fig
ure on the TV Program "This Is
Your Life" last night. At the end
h - was given the keys to a new
car, a motion picture camera and
projector, and other gifts. The
sponsor also announced a $lOOO
donatic n to the Olympic fund.
Dan Ferris. secretary-treasurer
of the AA . S, said today that Rich
r ds probably will have to return
the car in order to retain his
amateur standing.
Mays' Tussle
Is Minimized
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 1
13 (.zP)—The Willie Mays-Ruben
Gomez incident was passed off
today by Pedro Zorrilla, president
of the Santurce team of the Puerto
Rican League, as ccone of those
incidents arising every day on
every club because of horseplay
among ball players."
Minimizing the reported fight
between the two New York Giants
stars, who are playing with San
turce, Zorrilla said, "Once in a
while somebody gets mad at a
teammate and fists fly, but every
thing is forgotten as soon as the
game gets under way."
Zorrilla said the incident was
"completely overplayed and, if it
had been any other players but
Mays and Gomez, would have
gone . unnoticed." He said he had
been present at the practice ses
sion Tuesday in which Mays and
Gomez scuffled and saw all that
happened.
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Lions - ill Appear
At Swes ish Show
When the touring Swedish National teams and Penn
State's gymnastic squad invade Rec Hall tomorrow night,
they won't be competing for team honors as they did last
year when the Scandinavians defeated Coach Gene Wett
stone's national titlists, 491/2-461/2.
But Nittany Lion gym fans will get their first look at
Wettston.e's` present crop of gymnasts in at least one of
the exhibition's ten events.
The 6000 capacity crowd's urge
for competition will be satisfied
when this year's outstanding
Lions participate with the Swed
ish men's team on the apparatus
performances, sixth on the pro
gram of events.
The audience will be able to
evaluate the two groups as they
perform alternately on the various
events, including the side horse,
horizontal bar, trampoline, paral
lel bars and still rings.
Cronstedt First Performer
Jean Cronstedt, former Penn
State star who is now studying
medicine in Stockholm, Sweden,
will open the event with a naral
lel bars routine. Last year he took`
first honors dn this event during
the NCAA meet at the University
of Illinois.
Captain of this year's gym team,
Karl Schwenzfeier, will follow
Cronstedt on the twin bars.
Next, in order of their appear
ante, will be Reijo Nieminen,
Sweden, on the horizontal•. bar;
Jack Biesterfeldt, Penn State
freshman on the side horse; Rune
Erickson, Sweden; Dion Weissend,
Penn State: on the horizontal bar;
Skip Heim, Penn State, on the
side horse, Lennart Lundgren,
Sweden; Charles Fegley, Penn
State, on the trampoline; Hugh
Cline, Penn State, on the hori-
FRIDAY. JANUARY 14. 1955
zontal bar; Arne Carlson, Sweden;
Don Rehm, Penn State's most im
proved gymnast, on the parallel
lbars; Lennard Malmlin, Sweden;
I Schwenzfeier. on the still rings;
and closing the apparatus display
!will be '54 Collegiate champion
Cronstedt, on the horizontal bar.
Following the entrance march
and introductory remarks, the
;program of events will get under
' way with the Swedish Women's
team presenting group free,stand
ing calisthenics.
Tumbling Routines
Both Swedish teams will then
present a tumbling routine. fol
lowed by a balance beam and un
even parallel bars routine.
The Swedish men's team will
put on a synchronized calisthenics
display, followed by a jumping
and tumbling exhibition by the
Scandinavian women.
After a short intermission; the
apparatus performances by the
two male teams wilt take place.. .
Eighth on the program of events
s a novelty number.
Individual free standing, calis
thenics, performed by three Swed
ish women and three visiting male
gymnasts, will follow.
The final two events inclUclE`:the
Swedish women's synchonized
ball routine, and high table vault
ing by the Swedish men.