WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1955
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SPORTS POTPOURRI
Penn State wrestling fans will get a chance to see what promises
to be the most exciting mat show in a long time March 11 and 12—
if they act , fast and grab a set of tickets for the EIWA champion
ships scheduled for Rec Hall.
The lineup of eastern power this year is mountainous and its
a good bet that the winning team here will be held as a strong
contender when the National championships get under way at
Cornell later in the sPring. Penn State, Pitt, Army, Navy, and Le
high pack enough muscle betlween them to give the best from the
southwest stronghold it shiver. '
•Navy has been the odds-on choice for eventual eastern honors
but there isn't a soul who is willing to toss the tough Engineers.
Pitt (defending champion), or the always dangerous Lions, com
pletely aside.
Early scores have already indicated that there probably isn't a
runaway champ around. Lehigh just barely edged the Panthers in
their early meet, 14-12, and the Middies squeezed by the Lions,
16-12, indicating a pretty 'good balance of power on at least four
of the contending teams.
Add a few darkhorse individual entries from Cornell, Syracuse,
Yale, Columbia, and a few others, and its a pretty safe bet , that
the east will have plenty of ammunition for the big show at Cornell.
Meanwhile, Penn State makes ready for its third consecutive
major tournament at Sec Hall. Two years ago the University
played host to the National Collegiate wrestling tourney. and
last year drew the NCAA boxing championships.
The two-day, three-mat circus at the Hall should whet the
wrestling appetite of even the most casual mat fan. Since the NCAA
tournament will also be held in the east, its reasonable to assume
that entries for the EIWA fling will be heavier than ever, fans who
were fortunate to witness the 1952 championships (the Lions won
that one) will attest that anything can happen end usually does.
NEW YORK SPORTS writers who cover track events at well
equipped MadiSon Square Garden ought to visit Penn State's Rec
Hall some leisure weekend. It would be well worth the trip. They
would, probably write coach Chick Werner's indoor track team
down as a miracle outfit after one look at (the make-shift apparatus
which the Lions are forced to use.
The unbanked, narrow, hard wood balcony—training grounds
for such national greats as Art Pollard and Rod Perry—would
startle the scribes who have watched the Nittanies battle with
the nation's best year after year. The Lions haven't the space or
the proper equipment to practice the high jump, pole vault, and
shot put. But somehow Werner's teams (and I think it's a great
credit to the teams and the coach) manage to stay right up among
the best in the land.
If the Garden had a cinder track, would the New York news
men call the Nittanies the "cinder-ella" team of indoor track?
FIVE MORE GAMES remain on the 1955 Penn State basketball
schedule but the Lions have already passed the scoring mark they
set last year during the regular season schedule. Coach John Egli's
quintet has scored 1674 points in 20 games. Last season the Nittanies,
under Elmer Gross, scored 1327 points in 19 regularly scheduled
contests, setting a new team scoring average of 69.8 points per game.
That's another record on its way to the books. The 1955 team is
averaging 83.7 points per game.
YES, THAT WAS a baseball uniform you spotted at Beaver
Field the other day. Despite the snow coach Joe Bedenk has called
for his pitching and catching corps. Winter, or not, the Penn State
baseball season is not so far away and the Lion coach must begin
work with his mound staff. The , annual "spring" practice calls for
work beneath the Beaver Field stands.
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By DICK MCDOWELL
Collegial Sports Minor
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Olson Favored
To Whip Jones
CHICAGO, Feb. 15 (ill—Mid
dleweight Champion Carl (Bobo)
C lson, whose hat defeat in 1952
was to Sugar Ray Robinson, to
morrow night meets a man who
just gave Robinson a good trim
ming, Ralph Tiger Jones, in a
non-title bout at the Chicago
Stadium.
In fact, two of Oison's three de
feats in 28 bouts since 1950 were
by the once-invincible Sugar Ray
whose comeback try - vrs turned
to vinegar by Jones a month ago
at the stadium.
Olson is a 4 to 1 favorite in the
nationally-televised 10-rounder at
10 p.m. (EST-CBS) which offers
the 26-year-old Jones the chance
of his modest ring career. Tiger
can ride to an almost certain title
shot at Olson if he upsets the
160-pound king in the overweight
bout.
With both required to enter the
ring over 160, Olson is expected
to weigh 166 and Jones about 161.
The scrap should be a good
y...rdstick for Robinson to learn
whether he is hopelessly over the
hill, or made the mistake of grab
bing a Tiger by the tail while still
rusty from his song and dance
fling after abdicating as middle
weight champion in 1952.
Baseball Managers
Sophomores interested in be
coming second assistant mana
gers in baseball are requested
to sign up at the Athletic Of
fice at Rec Hall.
Handball Entries
Due Tomorrow
Entries for this year's intramural
handball tournament are being ac
cepted at the intramural office,
202 , Recreation Hall. Deadline for
the entries is• tomorrow.
Plans call for the'tournament to
be conducted on single elimination
basis for fraternity entries but a
round robin system of elimination
may be employed in the indepen
dent action.
Fraternities will be able to sub
mit four entries, each one eligible
for the singles championship.
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Hurdlers, Sprinters
Pace Track Team
Hurdler Rod Perry and sprint ace Art Pollard have blaze.
a fiery path across the indoor track horizon this season, and
with the help of several other record-smashers have helped
earn Penn State the ranking of one of the top squads in the
nation.
In their lone intercollegiate meet of the campaign, held
Saturday at East Lansing, Mich., the Lions erased seven
records.
Chick Werner's team is at its best in the hurdles and
sprints mainly because of Perry
and Pollard, but there are other
hurdlers and sprinters to back up
these two aces.
Behind Perry are such topflight
timber-toppers as Bill Youkers,
Gary Seybert, and Don Winston.
Youkers finished third in the 70-
yard high hurdles in Saturday's
quadrangular meet with Michigan
State, Missouri, and Ohio State,
not more than a yard behind win
ner Perry. Seybert came with an
eyelash of getting into the finals
of the high timbers. Winston, wno
is rated very highly by Werner,
has been ineligible so far this se
mester.
Morin Led 300
Jack Morin, Bruce Austin, Har
ry Mitchell, Dave Leathern, and
Bob Matz form a speedy 'quintet
of sprinters to back up Pollard.
In .the quadrangular Meet Morin
led the pack for better than half
of the 300-yard race. 'Morin faded
and finished fourth. Howbver, it
was only his first race of the in
door season and it showed that
the Nittany sophomore has defi
nite possibilities in future compe
tition. Werner said that Morin
was "as close as possible" to a
fourth place berth in the 60-yard
dash as he could be and still not
finish in the scoring.
Austin won his heat in the 440,
but two faster times were record
ed in the other heat and he placed
third. Mitchell is ineligible at the
present but has shown a lot of
promise on the banked boards.
Leathem missed fourth place by
one-tenth of a second, Matz fin
ished fourth in the 600 and ran
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the second leg for the record
breaking mile relay quartet. Mori.
in, Leathem, and Pollard ran the
other three laps and helped set a
new field house and Penn State
criterion of 3:19.5 for the event.
Pollard's blazing 30.6 sea
clocking in the 300 was one of
the finest performances of this
season's indoor competition. It
eclipsed the 30.8 sec. running by
Kansas State's Thane Baker in
1952. Baker, an Olympian in the
1952 Games at Helsinki, held one
of the top spots among the na
tion's dash stars and his record
for the 300 at the Michigan State
field house was expected to stand
for many years. But Pollard shat
tered the mark and earned him
self an enviable spot in the record
books.
Perry's Top Rap
Perry's finest race of the indoor
campaign came on Jan. 21 in the
Philadelphia Inquirer Games
when he defeated Olympic Gold
Medal winner Harrison Dillard in
the 50-yard high hurdles, equal
ing the world's record for that
distance in the process.
Werner's talented group of
hurdlers and sprinters have paced
the Lions so far during the pre
sent indoor action and should be
the team's main strength in the
IC4A championships on Feb. 26.
One NCAA Title
Penn State, many times Eastern
champion, won its first National
Collegiate wrestling team title in
1953.
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