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Lions Will Meet lowa
Friday at Evanston, 111.
LEXINGTON, Ky., March B—Penn State fought off a
second half Memphis State uprising here tonight to win its
opening test in the National Collegiate basketball champion
ships 59-55, before a sparce crowd of 5000 at spacious Me
morial Colesium.
The Lions won the second half of the regional playoff
doubleheader while favored Marquette whipped Miami of
Ohio in an overtime thriller in the first game, 95-89.
The Lions, a toss-up choi
entry moved into an apparentl;
Adds Valuable Points
Red Sox 7 Olson
Injured in Game
The Associated Press
The injury jinx which struck
the Boston Red Sox early last
year, costing them the services of
Ted Williams for the first month
of the season, hit again Tuesday.
This time the victim was left
fielder Karl Olson, who suffered
a mild cerebral concussion after
smashing into a wall in an intra
squad game at Sarasota, Fla.
Olson, who filled in some for
Williams while the latter was
out, banged into the leftfield wall
as he ran after a long fly ball hit
by Ted Lepcio. He suffered cuts
on his loft ear and hand and was
taken to a hospital. Injuries were
not regarded as serious.
Williams broke his left shoul
der on the first day of practice
last year and didn’t return to reg
ular action until May 16.
Two League Titles Won
In IM Basketball Action
Two more intramural basket
ball teams clinched playoff berths
during Monday night’s action.
The Mustangs are the independ
ent League F representatives.
Theta Xi copped the fraternity
League E crown.
The Mustangs won the hard
way. Both the winners and the
Watts Wonders entered the game
with 6-0 records, and the league
championship was at stake. For
tunately for the Mustangs, the
Wonders didn’t hit their stride
until the second half, when they
outscored the winners, 13-9. But
the Mustangs’ commanding seven
Eoint lead at the half proved to
e an insurmountable margin for
the Wonders to overcome.
Theta Xi earned its easiest con
quest of the year, 48-18, over Del
ta Theta Sigma, in capturing the
League 3 title. It was only the
second of eight victories that
Theta Xi won by more than
three pewt-; in its spirited climb
to the top. Five Theta Xi’s tallied
By dick McDowell
ice with' the small Tennessee
y safe first half lead, but almost
lost the game in a hectic finish.
Leading 33-19 at the intermission,
coach John Egli’s quintet faltered
before a rough house mdn-for
man Tiger defence in the second
half, but held on in the final
minutes when time ran out on
the Tigers.
Jesse Arnelle celebrated his
100th game as a Penn State bas
iketball player with 20 points and
forward Earl Fields, who played
a brilliant floor game tonight,
added 17 more to the Lion cause.
Penn State put together a var
ied offense and a tight zone de
fense in the first half and had
control of the game when the half
ended.
But Dr. Eugene Lambert’s team
caught the Nittany with a press
ing defense in the second' half
and then found a passage to the
basket. They pressed haird and
threatened to overtake the Lions
several times before the contest
ended.
Penn State started very slow
and trailed 7-3 with five minutes
gone in the first half. Millard
Davis gave the Tigers a quick
2-0 lead seconds after the open
ing tap off and Hover Scott’s field
goal and foul point put Memphis
ahead 5-1 following Amelle’s
charity point. Ken Caldwell
brought the score to 7-3. Then
Arnelle and Jim Blocker began
to gain control of the backboards,
Fields, Dave Edwards and |lon
Weidenhammer took command on
the floor, and the Lions began to
find themselves.
Amelie scored from the fotil
line, Fields swished a jump, shot,
and Blocker added another one
hander to give the Lions the lead
8-7 with 13:38 remaining in the
half.
Arnelle began to unload from
in the pivot and underneath and
the Lions defense tightened. Penn
State shot ahead and midway
throughout the half, led 17-11.
The Lions continued to pour it on
and with Fields’and Weidenham
mer doing most of the damage.
Fields opened the scoring in
the second half and then Mem
phis State connected for eight
points. Fields scored on a tree
throw, Arnelle added another,
and Arnold and Scott put together
three more points for. the Tigers,
bringing the score to 39-31.
Penn State was never able to
six or more points, with Mike
Meckley’s 14 leading the group.
Tau Phi Delta ended its season
with a .500 percentage by edg
ing Phi Kappa, 20-19. Bob Bom
mer led the winner’s attack with
10 markers, while Ronald Velos
ky hooped nine for Phi Kappa.
The McElwain Men’s 19-10 half
time bulge proved a sufficient
edge to stand off the Skyrockets’
belated second half rally. Three
of the winners tallied eight points
in the 33-28 upset victory.
As a result of a forfeit by the
Gophers, the Setters are now just
one-half game off the 7-0 pace
set by Hamilton Six in the inde
pendents League G race. The
first place Hamilton Six team has
one more game to play. A win
means the title; a loss would
necessitate a league playoff.
In other games, Phi Kappa Tau
smashed Phi Mu Delta, 22-11; the
Atherton Men defeated the Mibs,
12-9; and the rreeived a
forfeit decision from the Hyfliers.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Ids Pace Victory
State Inquiry
On Boxing
Is Put Off
HARRISBURG, March 8 (/P)—
The Senate Law and Order Com*
mittee today put off for “further
study” action on a proposal for a
legislative ihvestigation of box*
ing in Pennsylvania.
Such an action many times in
the past has meant the end of it
under Assembly procedure.
Chairman G. Robert Watkins
(R-Delaware) said the committee
will “make a further and thor
ough study of the proposal before
any action is taken.”
The committee discussed the
matter during a meeting. Several
committee members voiced disap
proval with the proposal iii an
informal discussion.
At the same time the committee
unanimously approved another
measure to urge state-aided col
leges and universities to with
draw from agreements restricting
telecasts of their athletic con
tests.
The resolution, adopted a short
time later by the Senate, was
changed to read that the schools
should be “urged” rather than re
quired to withdraw from the
agreements. '
The boxing resolution would
set up a nine-member group to be
known as the Boxing Investiga
tion Committee. Members would
look into what sponsors of the
resolution term “evidence of fraud
and fixed fights” in Pennsylvania.
shake the Tigers after that and
held a 59-47 lead with three min
utes remaining. Suddenly the
scrappy Tigers caught fire, while
Penn State threw several scoring
chances away.
Memphis collected a rapid eight
points and were closing the gap
when the final bell sounded.
MEMPHIS STATE PENN STATE
FG F Ttl
Scott -2 2-15
Davis 4 8-4 12
McClain 2 0-0 4
Ballard 0 0-0 0
Winn 1 0-0 2
Arnold 6 6-2 12
Fortner 1 1-0 2
Caldwell 8 2-2 18
Totals 28 19-9 55
Halftime Score
Fenn State 38, Mi
'Strongest Man
Challenges Reds
TORONTO, March 8 W—A
Canadian wrestler who claims to
be the world's strongest man pro
poses to prove it in a challenge
match against Russian weight
lifting specialists.
Doug Hepburn, formerly of
Vancouver, today issued a chal
lenge to the “nine strongest men
in Russia.” Each of the nine
would be a specialist in one of
the main weight lifting classes.
Hepburn, who holds the world
and British Empire weightlifting
titles, said he feels it’s time “the
Russians stopped getting away"
with claims that they are the
world’s strongest men.”
STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
FG F Ttl
Blocker 3 3-2 8
Edward, 2 0-0 4
Hoffman 1
0 0-0 0
Arnelle 6 12-8 20
Weid’h’r 4 0-0 8
Fields 5 8-7 17
Rohland 0 0-0 0
Ramsey 0 0-0 0
Totals 21 28-17 59
rniphls State 19.
Indoor Track Team
Set Eight Records
There have been some changes made—especially by the
Nittany Lion indoor track squad. Although the thinclads saw
only limited action in most of the meets this season, they ac
counted for eight changes in the record books.
Art Pollard, Rosey Grier, Rod Perry, and the mile relay
quartet were in charge of the "revising.” ~
Michigan State played host to the Lions and teams from
Ohio State and Missouri in a quadrangular meet Feb. 12 at
East Lansing, Mich., and though the Blue and White track
men finished second, they smashed seven records. Pollard
was the main “offender," rewrit
ing one Penq State and twp field
house standards and lending a
hand in the record-breaking mile
relay.
"The CoatCsville Comet" top
bled the Michigan State field
house mark in the 60-yard dash
when .he covered the distance in
6.3 sdc. and also ran one of the
fastest 300-yard races ever run
on the banked boards. Pollard
trailed teaimmate John Morin for
fibout me first 200 yards of the
race and theh spurted into the
leadi finishing in 30.6 sec.
Betters Baker's Time
This time eclipsed the field
house mark set two years earlier
hy Thane Baker, Olympic star
from Kansas State, by two-tenths
of a second ahd also bettered the
Penn State mark.
Qrier twice set new Nittany
standards in the shot put, climax
ing the campaign With a 53’4%”
heave on. his final effort to cop
the intercollegiate championship.
In the quadrangular meet Grier
erased the Penn State mark set
indoors last season by Charlie
Blockson with a throw of 51’
10%”.
P4rry Trips Dillard
Perry set a new field house
mark at East Lansing when he
ran the'7o-yard high hurdles in
0.6 sec. However, his finest effort
cahae in the opening meet of the
season—Jan. 21 at the Philadel
phia Inquirer Games—when he
upset Harrison Dillard, the world’s
No. 1 timber topper. Perry
(Continkied on page seven)
Nittanies May Rule
Eastern Gym. Meet
As has been the story for the past three years, this week
end’s Eastern gymnastics tourney will be 1 well saturated with
a host of Penn State acrobats who have demanded season-long
rpspept in every Eastern gym circle.
The gym festival, this year to be held on the home grounds
of the Midshipmen of the U. S. Naval Academy, is the post
season chatice for eaich of the East’s gymnastic best to show
its wates in a gathering that provides nothing but competi
tion plus.
Everything is scored on
team scoring involved.
Although the Lion entries can
not be expected to provide the
show that was performed by last
year’s Nittariy NCAA champs,
Gene Wettstone’s performers will
probably once again be looked
upon as the ones to stop.
For the third straight year, they
ran roughshod over their five
EIGA opponents, showing little
mercy in compiling an unblem
ished 9-0 record. The Lions also
went outside of Eastern competi
tion to score a win over a South
western Conference foe, West Vir
ginia f and the Big Ten’s NCAA
runnerup, Illinois, gave the Lions
their lone loss this year—that one
by a slim four point spread.
So, teamwise, the Penn State
entry once again has to be con
sidered the pre-tourney favorite,
but individually, it’s a different
story. *.
Almost invariably, the Nittanies
EIGA foes each possess at least
one standout who could provide
a Lion performer a good fight in
an individual event.
Last year Wettstone sent 13 Nit
tanies to the Easterns at Temple
University, and six of the 11
events were won by Lions.
Jean Crons tedt, nationally -
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9, 1955
Leads Record-Breakers
an individual basis, with no
famed Lion performer, took three
individual honors, in addition to
winning the Olympic all-around
event last year.
This year’s tourney Will get un
derway Friday night with the all
around performers, who must
compete in six events, going for
the much sdught-after title.
Saturday afternoon and early
evening action will be the main
attraction however, with a wide
field of the East’s top performers
going all out to keep the Nittanies
from once again dominating the
Eastern classic.