PACE SIX lowa Next Lion NCAA Foe Big Ten Champs Boast Rebounding Strength Penn State will find itself in a familiar situation tomor row night when it meets lowa University in a regional elimi nation game of the National Collegiate Basketball Champion ships, at Evanston, 111. The Lions joined a field of mid-western and southern powerhouses last year in the same phase of the tourney and were upset victors over both Louisiana State and Notre Dame. The names will be different tomorrow, but the opposition promises to be just as tough as in 1954. The Nittanies, who moved into the regional finals when they tripped Memphis State Tuesday, will meet lowa, " Big Ten Champion. Marquette will fade Kentucky In the other game of the double header. lowa promises to be rugged op position for the Lions. The Hawk eyes are big, strong, consistent Scorers, and tough rebounders. The lowans, who won the Big Ten crown by bumping Minne sota, 72-70, own a 17-7 record to date, including an 11-3 mark in conference competition. Logan Leads Team Their big man this season has been 6-7 center, Bill Logan, the team’s leading scorer and re bounder. Logan has cleared the boards at an average of 10 per game, and is scoring at a 15.3 point pace. Four other players reach past the six-foot mark. Behind Logan, coach Howie Rollins has Bill Seaberg (6-0), with a 41.4 shooting percentage and an average of 13.7 per game; Karl Cain (6-3), averaging 13.7 per game; McKinley Davis, shoot ing at a 47.9 per cent and averag ing 10.9 points; and Milt Scheuer man, averaging 8.2 points a game behind a 44.9 shooting percentage. Lions Play Nightcap The two teams battle in the nightcap of the double bill to morrow at the Dyche Annex field house on the campus of North western University. The Penn State party will leave this morn ing by plane. * * * TOURNAMENT NOTES: Lions were a much better team than score against Memphis State in dicated. Penn State had complete control for the first half. How ever, Memphis’ rough tactics in the second half slopped up the game considerably. By roughing heavily the Tigers were able to crash the Penn State defense and upset its offense. It almost paid oft for the Tennessee team. Jesse Amelle collected 22 re bounds against the Tigers. Jim Blocker grabbed 14, and Earl Fields, 13. Amelle had a rough time under the boards for most of the second half. He was dou ble and triple teamed. * • * Memorial Colesium, rightfully the pride of the University of Kentucky campus, is a magnifi cent arena. Built to hold over 12,000, it is used strictly for bas ketball. The crowd of 5000 Tues day night hardly began to fill available seats. Kentucky coach Adolf Rupp and his entire team were on-the-spot scouts of the contending teams Tuesday. The Wildcats will face Marquette Friday and if they win, will battle the Penn State-lowa winner Saturday. The Lions received several f;ood luck telegrams from home ans Tuesday afternoon. The team Was besieged by autograph seek ers in the lobby of tne Hotel Phoenix when they appeared for dinner before the game. Bout May Be Canceled MILWAUKEE, March 9 (JP)— The 10-round bout between Sugar Ray Robinson and Ted Olla sched uled for the Milwaukee Arena on March 22 faded today when Olla reported down with the flu. TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING So Take Your Clothes to PORTAGE CLEANERS 118 S. Pugh (on alley) By dick McDowell Tournament Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS National Collegiate (NCAA) Regional* March 11-12 At Evanston, 111.—Marquette vs. Kentucky, Penn State vs. lows At Philadelphia—LaSalle Vs. Princeton-Columbia winner; Ca nisius vs. Villanovd. At Manhattan, Kans. Brad ley vs. Southern Methodist; Colo rado vs. Tulsa. At Corvallis, Ore. Seattle vs. Oregon State; San Francisco vs. Utah. March 19—Semifinals at Kan sas City. March 10 Finals at Kansas CltV. National Invitation (NIT) All games at Madison Square Garden. March 12—Atfernoon, Manhat tan vs. Louisville, Niagara vs. Lafayette. Night, Senton Hall vs. St. Francis Pa., Connecticut vs. St. Louis. March 14—Duquesne vs. Man hattan-Loulsvllle winner; Cincin nati vs. Niagara-Lafayette win ner. March 15—Holy Cross vs. Se ton Hall-St. Francis winner; Day ton vs. Connectieut-St. Louis win ner. March 17—Semlflhals. March 19—Finals. Freshman Baseball Freshman baseball candi dates will report between 3:15 and 5:15 p.m. Monday at Beav er Field, diamond number 2. In case of rain candidates are asked to meet in Recreation HalL 12 Advance Twelve fraternity handballers moved into the third round of play Tuesday night in the intra mural handball singles tourna ment at Rec Hall. ... . Three contests resulted in for feit victories for Walt Fresch, Tau Kappa Epsilon; Gilbert Freed man, Beta Sigma Rho; and Frank Desalle, Phi Delta Theta, over Bill Kane, Ray Alberigi. both of Kappa Delta Rho, and 'rom Ellis, Beaver House, respectively. In the other cohtests Of the evening, Walt Hochberg, Sigma Alpha Ep silon, tripped Neil Bowen, Alpha Gamma Rho, 21-10, 21-12; Vern Sones, Acacia, stopped Gary Fox, Sigma Alpha Mu, 21-17, 21-7; Ed IMF DAILY COLLCOIAN SI Alt CULLtGE. PENNSYLVANIA Tickets Still Available For Wrestling Tourney Tlckeit are still available for the East r n Intercollegiate Wrestling championships which get underway tomorrow after noon at Recreation Hall. Tickets for the two-day tour nament can be purchased at the Athletic Association office in. Rec Hall. The opening round of the tournament begins at 2 p.m. to morrow, The quarter-f in a 1 round begins at 8 p.m. The semi-finals will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday and the final round is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday. Grapefruit Circuit Open Fourteen of the 16 major league baseball clubs open the 1955 grapefruit circuit season today apd many a furrow will ruffle the managerial brow until the Amer ican and National Leaguers start playing for keeps April 11. There are six games in Florida and one in Arizona for the kick off, with only the World champion New York Giants at Phoenix, Ark., and the Baltimore Orioles at Daytona Beach, Fla., not sched uled. Only three teams are training in Arizona this spring, and'witn 13 in Florida somebody has to sit it out, because there aren’t enough to go around. The Cleveland Indians, Amer ican League champions, meet the Chicago Cubs at Tucson. In Florida, the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees play at St. Petersburg, with Washington vs. Boston at Sarasota, Cincinnati vs. the Chicago White Sox at Tampa, Detroit vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Kansas City vs. Pittsburgh at Fort Myers, and Brooklyn vs Milwaukee at Mi ami In a night game. Baltimore, which trained in Arizona last spring, opens its spring exhibition schedule Friday against Cincinnati at Daytona Beach. The Giants, who defeated Cleveland four straight in the World Series last fall, hope to make It five in a row when they open against the Indians in Phoe. nix Friday. A sprinkling of stars and rook ies will be the pitching choices in the exhibition openers, with most I tabbed for 3-inning chores. in Handball Fleming, Pi Kappa Alpha, took two straight games from Dick Rivers, Phi Gamma Delta, 21-6, 21-12; David Barney, Sigma Nu, trounced Ralph Johns, Theta Kap pa Phi. 21-3, 21-5; Don Hoffman, Beta Sigma Rho, humbled Douj Millar, Phi Kappa, 21-3, 21-6; Bil Lentz, Sigma Phi Epsilon,. beat Dick Gordon, Theta Chi by identi cal scores of 21-2, 21-2; Jim Clark, Pi Kappa Alpha, won out over Bob Thompson, Chi Phi, 21-5, 21-14; Al Balkey, Alpha Sigma Phi, defeated Don Ziegler, Pi Kappa Phi, 21-4, 21-4; and in the last match of the evening, Ron Grapsy, Theta Kappa Phi, elimi nated John Longenecker, Tri angle, 21-6, 21-1. The Associated Press Gymnasts For EIGA The Penn State Gymnastics team,-1955 Eastern Intercol legiate team champion, turns tomorrow to the EIGA indi vidual contests, scheduled- for Annapolis, Md. Gene Wettstone’s Nittany Lion forces will be going all out tomorrow and Saturday to make a deep impression in the minds of their Eastern foes that the all-winning (6-0) record ► they compiled the past campaign wasn’t a mistake. s Although the number of potential national champions that appeared in last year’s festival probably won’t be seert this year, the competition will be just as keen. None of the pest season's EIGA' contests were won or lost by ex tremely wide margins, showing a fairly well balanced list Or teams and individuals. From the Nittany Vale will be all-arouhd Lion captain, Karl Schwenafeier, rope climber Skeets Haag, Skip Heim on the side horse, and Bill Paxton on the mats. A host of other Penn Staters Will be fighting for honors, but season-long this has been the quartet of Lions that have brought home the biggest share of the winning points Other EIGA Entries From the five other corners of the league there’ll be such stand outs as Army's Captain Bob Car oenter, John Funkhoufcer. Don JelHson, and Dick Adams; Navy’s Captain Burt Munger. ahd Bill and Steve Arnold; Pitt's Joe Ray, Don shlma and Joe Lamartine; Temple’s Bob Zelinsky, Bob Damerjlan, Ken Minyard, Tom Lieberman, and Chuck Neeiy; and Syracuse’s Corky Sebbo. Milan Trnka, and Ferdie Fourmes. Quite a list—and there’ll be a host of others always looking for a break in a routine that would give them a chance to spring into contention for an individual title. Will Enter 3 Events The Lion captain, after enter ing Friday night's all-around fray, will take his turn on three events during Saturday’s session—hori zontal bar, parallels, and flying rings. Enemy performers tabbed him as the one to stop in each of the Lions’ seasonal outings, and it looks as though the Story will be pretty similar come Saturday. In dual-meet competition he’s gone undefeated on tne H-bar, has four firsts and a fourth on the parallels, and four firsts and a second on the rings. The Orange’s Trnka will probably be his big gest threat. Trnka will enter the same three events. The Panther's Ray, seeing his first year in EIQA competition, owns a slim eight point decision over Schwenzfeler on the rings. One of Nation's Best Sebbo, one of the nation's best tumblers, has taken the EIGA mat title for the past two years, and there’s no apparent reason why he shouldn’t make it a tri ple-kill Saturday. Most of his competition will probably come via PaXton and Navy’s Munger. Haag, undoubtedly the best the EIGA has to offer on the rone, looms ob a sure winner for the Lions. He established a Rec Hall record for the 20-foot jaunt by doing it in 3.4 against Temple, and Army’s Funkhouser, prob ably the best second-choice fpr rope climbing hasn’t been able to pass the 3.7 mark. THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1955 Prepare T ourney By HON GATEHOUSE 10 More Teams Clinch IM Cage league Crowns The fourth independent teams and the last of six fraternity teams clinched their league titles to qualify for a playoff Tuesday night's intramural bas ketball action. The Geeche Birds ran off with their eighth consecutive Win to . grab the Independent League J itle. Jim !rb r s 18 points was ilgh for the night as ha led the Birds to a 29-14 victory ovarCody Manor. , ..'-.r . Delta Chi copped theFyatermty League D crown by pasting Theta Delta Chi, 28-17. Charles StaOhel and Tom Ceraso netted -11 ,ahd ten points for the winners. - v Beta Theta Pi's 28-23 conquest of Alpha Chi Sigma proved to; be a hopeless effort in .the Frater nity League D battle. The Beta’s entered the game with a 5-1 slate, while Delta Chi played its con test with a. 6-0 record. Only a Delta Chi loss and a Beta win would have allowed the Beta’s to earn a league playoff. Lead’ng the Independent Lea gue A race through most of the season, the Ag Hill Diners lost its second straight contest to wind up a half game behind the Vikings. The Spartans dumped the Diners, 20-12. In an overtime thriller, Delta. Sigma Phi came from behind to upset Alpha Epsilon Pi, 25-21. The AEPl’s led 11-8 at halftime. In other games, Phi Delta Theta edged Alpha Gamma Rho, 28-20; Phi Kappa Psi upset Sigma PI by the same score; the Snooks drop ped Wesley Five, 30-26;/ ahd tne Vets won a forfeit decision frohv the Cougars. Those independent teams that ended their schedule in a tie for frist place will play tonight. The championship eliminations for both fraternities and independent ; teams will begin March 14.
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