Perry Ties Hurcue.) ececorct, races Lion TracKmen
By HERM WEISKOPF
A string of sizzling races against the nation's
top hurdlers, including a record-tying performance
Jan. 21 in the Philadelphia Inquirer Games, cata
pulted sopohomore Rod Perry into the spotlight
in indoor track competition.
Perry's meteoric rise topped the list of achieve
ments by the Penn State indoor track team in its
first four meets of the season.
Harrison Dillard, the supposedly • unbeatable
"King of the Kangaroos," was upset by Perky in
the tatter's first action of the campaign in the In
quirer Games. Perry won his first heat of the 50-
yard high hurdles in 6.1 seconds, defeating Man
hattan star Charlie Pratt. The Nittany ace won
the second heat of the semi-finals, in 6.2 seconds.
Then came Perry's sensational upset victory of
the Olympic Gold Medal winner. Dillard got off
to a bad start, fought back, but was nipped by
Perry's lunge for the tape. Perry equaled Dil
lard's world record of 6.0 seconds to halt Old
Bones' , try for his eighth championship in nine
appearances in the Inquirer classic.
Penn State's mile relay team, which set a meet
record of 3:23.8 last season at Convention Hall,
finished fourth in the Liberty Bell trophy race.
Gymnasts' Streak Broken
Illini Stop Lions After 16 Wins,
Gymnasts Meet Navy Saturday
Penn State's gymnasts—national icollegiate titleholders for two
straight years—saw a 16-meet winning streak go down the drain
Saturday night at the hands of Illinois.
The Illini visited Rec Hall and snapped the Lion victory skein
by a close four point margin, 66-62. The Soldiers - of West Point were ,
the last to topple a Penn State gym team-58-38 in 1952.
The Nittanies travel to Annapolis, Md., Saturday for their third
outing of the season, and will carry an even I-1 slate against the
Middies. • • .
Before being set back by the
lini, last year's NCAA runnerup,
the Lions scored a 75-53 win over
West Virginia to make it 16 in a
row.
Saturday night's contest was
closely fought the whole way,
with the Nittanies jumping off to
a 9-7 lead in the first event, calisa
thenics.
Following the H-bar routines,
midway through the meet, the
score was deadlocked for the sec
ond time at 40-40. The Lions were
again setting the pace by a two
point margin, 57-55, going into the
final event, tumbling.
Win on Mils
But the visitors took an 11-5
lead on the mats to emerge 66-62
winners.
Penn State Captain Karl
Schwenzfeier, gymnastic "mighty
might" called upon to fill the wide
gap left by Jean Cronstedt's de
parture, stole the show for the
Nittanies in both their two out
ings.
His Saturday night role of all
around performer accounted for
top honors in calisthenics, H-bar,
rings, parallel bars, a second on
the horse, and fourth place in
tumbling.
Schwenzfeier's best single-event
performance so far came against
the Illini in calisthenics when he
registered 272 out of a possible 300
points. His first places on the
twin bars and H-bar were walk
aways with 270 points each.
Illinois' Jeff Austin and Tom
Gardner took respective second
and third places behind Schwenz
feier in calisthenics, with the
Lions' Dave Kennedy and Dud
Potter coming in fourth and fifth,
to give Penn State its initial 9-7
lead.
The Illini took the second event,
trampoline, by a 11-5 margin,
placing Chuck Highsmith in first
place, and Austin and Dick Jirus
in third and fourth. The Lions'
Chuck Fegley took second honors
with Jack Bevan fifth.
Haag Wins on Rope
Nittany senior Skeets Haag con
tinued his winning ways in the
rope climb, with a first place time
of 3.7. Penn State's Leßoy Fritch
was third (4.3) behind the visitors'
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Eric Stattin who made the 20-fOot
climb in four seconds flat. Illi
nois' Jon Culbertson was fourth
ahead of State's Chuck Marshall.
•At this point the score waS an
even 2444.
Gardrier's 237, was good for a
first on the horse, with Schweriz
feier capturing second honors with
a close no. However Culbertson
took third with teammate Ken
Stone fourth to give the Illini a
11-5 lead for the event. Skip tleim
fell below par due to a break .41
his routine to take fifth place.
Toriy Cline's third and Al Poy
dock's fourth along with Schwenz,
feier's winning routine on the H
bar accounted for the 40-40 dead
lock. Jirus placed, second with
Gardner fifth to give the Mini
five points against the Lions' 11
for the event.
Schwenzfeier's first on the par
allel bars ,wasn't good enough to
keep the visitors from taking the
lead as they placed Jirus, Gardner,
and Culbertson in respective sec
ond, third and fourth places for a
9-7 lead. Harry Calley took fifth
for the Lions.
First and second by Schwenz
feier and Cline on the rings gave
the Nittanies their two point lead
going into the final event. Gard
ner, Jirus and Culbertson took
third, fourth, and fifth.
Austin and Dan Lirot turned in
spectacular tumbling routines to
walk away with top honors on
the mats. Austin gained 273 points
on his routine to earn individual
point honors for the evening. Bill
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Villanova cracked the Lions' meet record with a
3:22 clocking. Charley Jenkins, Villanova's highly
prized sophomore flash, sped to an unofficial
sub-48.0 second running in the final quarter mile
of the race.
Dillard regained his winning form the following
night in the Washington Evening Star meet. Jack
Davis of the Armed Forces Track Squad edged
Perry in the second heat of the 70-yard high
hurdles with an 8.6 seconds running. Dillard won
the final race and Perry, who hit several hurdles,
finished fifth. The mile relay team placed fourth
in the Evening Star meet.
Perry won the first heat of the 45-yard high
hurdles in the Boston A.A. meet Jan. 29. Penn
State's ace timber-topper defeated Willie Stevens
of the Armed Forces Track Squad in his next
race of the night. Perry won both races with 5.7
second clockings. The indoor record for this race is
5.4 seconds, and the meet mark pf 5.5 seconds was
set in 1949 by Dillard. Last year Dillard won the
event with a time of 5.7 seconds. Dillard won his
first two races with clockings of 5.6 and 5.7 seconds
respectively.
Dillard and Perry dueled it out in the final,
with the former Baldwin-Wallace whiz barely
Not Good Enough
Catchers, Pitchers
Will Meet Tomorrow
Spring will start early this
year for some of Penn State's
baseball team. Baseball coach
Joe Bedank has announced that
candidates for pitching an d
catching positions will meet to
morrow at 5 p.m. in 241, Rec
Hall. .
Paxton was third for the Lions,
and Schwenzfeier fourth.
Gardner was fifth to give the
Mid-Western foe an 11-5 victory
for the event, and the Illini were
the first team to defeat Penn State
sin,ce army did the trick in '52.
The summaries:
,• WEST VIRGINIA
CALISTHENICS-1. Schwenfeler (PS.
246; 2. Solly (W), 234; 8. Kennedy (PS ,
228; 4. Lilly (W), 222; 5. Potter (PS .
195.
TRAMPOLINE-1. Pegley (PS). 225;
2. Patrick (W), 214; 8. Black (PS), 159;
4. Spellm n ( W), 150; 5. Lilly (W).
ROPE a l. - Haag (PS), 8.8; 2. Gluck (W),
4.0; 3. Frltch (PS), 1.2; 4. Marshall (PS),
5.4; 5. Spellman (W), 6.3.
SIDE HORSE-1. Helm (PS), 240; 2.
Schwenzfeler ( PS). 216; Heiler (PS),
165; 4. Solly (W) 156; 5. Gluck (W), 150.
HORIZONTAL BAR-1. Schwenzfeier
(PS). 246; 2. Gluck (W), 234; 3. Cline
(PSPS), ), 2
204.19; 4. Solly (W), 210; 6. Poydock
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PARALLEL BARS-1. Solly. (W), 225;
2. Gluck (W). 165; 3. Calley (PS), 135; 4.
Rehm (PS), 105: 6. Stanislawski (W). 75.
FLYING RINGS-1. Schwenzfeler (PS),
240; 2. Lilly (W),234; 3. Gluck (W),
226: 4. Cline (PS), 210; 5. Solly (W), 180.
TUMBLING-1. Paxton (PS), 268; 2.
Solly (W), 234; 8. Kennedy (PS), 180: 4.
Patrick (W). 174; 6. Spellman ('W), 166.
ILLINOIS
FREE EXERCISE-1. Schwenzfeier (PS)
272; 2. Austin (1), 268; 3. Gardner (I)
248; 4. 'Kennedy IPS), 216; 5. Potter (PS)
202.
TRAMPOLINE-1. Highsmith (I), 264
2. Fegley (PS). 236: 3. Austin (I), 187: 4
Jirus (I), 181: 6. Black (PS). 160.
ROPE CLIMB-1. Haag (PS), 3.7; 2.
Stattin (I), 4.0; 8. Flitch (PS), 4.3; 4.
Culbertson (I). 4.6; 6. Marshall (PS), 5.0.
SIDE HORSE-1. Gardner (I), 237; 2.
Schwenzfeier (PS). 280; 3. Culbertson (1),
226; 4. Stone (I), 210; 5. Heim (PS), 203.
HORIZONTAL BAR - 1. Schwenzfeier
(PS), 270; 2. Jirus (I), 245; 3. Cline (Ps),
284; 4. 'Poydock (PS), 224; 6. Gardner
(I), 214.
PARALLEL BARS - 1. Schwenzfeier
(PS), 20; 2. Jirus (I), 245; 8. Gardner
(I), 224; 4. Culberston (I), 196; 5. Calley
(PS), 172.
FLYING RINGS-1. Schwenzfeier (PS),
267; 2. Cline (PS). 209; 3. Gardner (I),
200; 4. Jirus (I), 163; 6. Culbertson (I),
151.
TUDIBL-NG-1. Austin (1), 273: 2. Lirot
(I), 284; 8. Paxton (PS), 246; 4. Schwens
feier (PS), 216; 5. Gardner (I), 180.
copping the victory with a 5.6 showing. Pratt was
third and Stevens fourth.
Pollard competed in the sprints for the first
time this season, placing second to Art Bragg of
Baltimore, Md., in his initial effort. Bragg won
the second heat of the 50-yard dash in 5.5 sec
onds. Rod Richards of the Armed Forces Track
Squad defeated Pollard in the second semi-final
sprint with a 5.4 second performance, just one
tenth of a second off the meet record. Pollard
placed fourth in the finals, with Richards finish
ing first.
Richards has taken command in the sprinti this
season, dethroning Olympian Andy Standfield.
The mile relay quartet posted a 3:25 running
but was defeated by Morgan State, Pitt, and Vil
lanova.
Perry came in.third in the 60-yard high hurdles
in Saturday's running of the Millrose Games at
Madison Square Garden. Dillard recorded his
ninth straight win in this event. Pratt was second
and Davis, the only other runner besides Perry
who has beaten Dillard in the past two years, was
fourth.
Pollard grabbed a fourth place berth in the
sprints.
Pros Pick 3
Lion Gridders
Three of Penn State's top grid
ders have been selected by pro
fessional football teams.
Tackle Rosey Grier and end Jes
se Arnelle were picked by Na
tional Football League teams in
the annual draft of college grid
players Jan. 27. Another tackle,
Gene Danser, was signed by the
Hamilton, Ontario, club of the
Canadian Big Four League.
Grier was diafted by the Los
Angeles Rams in the third round
and was immediately traded to the
New York Giants. Arnelle was
chosen in the tenth round by the
Baltimore Colts.
Danser reported that he signed
with the Hamilton team during
the Christmas recess.
°* 0 • 11 "tr-AY IL 1955
Leads His Team
Then Sweeps Gym
CHARLESTON, W.' Va., Feb. 7
(/P)—The nation's highest scoring
college basketball play e r is a
young man who sets a new na
tional record every time he shoots
—then goes back to the gym the
next day and sweeps up the floor.
He's Carl Hartman, a 21-year
old senior at Alderson-Broaddus
College, a private college at Phil
ippi, W. Va., with an enrollment
of about 225 students.
Hartman has scored 2623 points
in his career against four-ygar in
stitutions. This is 86 more than
Johnny O'Brien of Seattle set ia
1953 for the all-time small col
lege record and 85 more than the
major college mark set by Fur
man's Frank Selvy last year.
Hartman had been given a job
scrubbing floors in the school's
hospital affiliate, not unusual as
most A-B students hold part-time
jobs. After his initial success on
the basketball floor, he was aided
by local boosters and got the gym
sweeping job.