PAGE SIX 8 Lions Will NCAA Gym Due. for the most part, to the dominating role it played in the EIGA individual competition meet at Annapolis over the weekend, the Eastern champion Penn State gym team will enter the NCAA tourney March 25-26 at UCLA in top potential strength. Eight Nittany Lions will travel to Los Angeles in defense of the title the Lions have captured the past two seasons. Captain Karl Schwenzfeier will be the top Lion entry, shooting for the coveted all around title, which he won with ease in the Easterns. Don Weissend, promising Nittany sophomore, will also enter the all-around competition, which consists of three Olym- pic, and three standard, events. Individual event entries, Skeets Haag, Skip Heim, Bill Paxton, Don Rohm, Leroy Fritch, and Chuck Fegeley round out the Penn State aggregation. The Lion's, who won the East ern title for the third straight year by virtue of an unbeaten season against Eastern foes, will be the top representative from East and will probably visit UCLA with the largest single unit east of the Mississippi. Thirty teams, including over 100 individual performers, are ex pected to enter the annual gym festival, with the majority of top flight gymnasts coming from the west coast. Wettstone, whose Lion team last year shattered all tourney records by scoring an unprece dented 137 team points, picks Il linois, Florida State, Southern California, and the host team as the major obstacles to clear if the Nittanies are to succeed them selves as national kingpins. Three of these, the Illini, Flor ida State, and UCLA were last year’s runner-ups in that order, and have a host of veteran per formers set to make it rough going for the Nittanies. Wettstone also looks in Michi gan State, lowa, California, Tex as, and Louisiana State as poten tial title-threats. Gone from last year’s undis puted winners, in addition to the fabulous Jean Cronstedt who took the spotlight with six individual first places, are Bob Lawrence and Tony Procopio. individual event winners, and Frank and A 1 Wick, second and third place fin ishers. Thmclads Propping For Season Opener Four weeks from tomorrow Penn State’s defending IC4A track champs will get their initial test of the 1955 season when they enter a triangular meet including Penn and Navy at Annapolis, Md. The Lions’ mentor, Chick Werner, will not return from Japan where he is conducting track and field clinics for the Far East Com mand until April 1, but the bulk of the Lion squad has already opened practice. Although the thinclads will boast a crop of exeprienced re turnees, the next four weeks will be packed with a heavy practice and training agenda. Because of the uhpredictable spring weather, the Lions will have to capitalize on favorable outdoor conditions to work off the extrs winter poundage and prime themselves for the season opener. The Lions will run in a seven meet card. After an expected tough tussle in the triangular meet with Penn and Navy in the opener, they will compete in the following meets: Ohio State Relays (Columbus); Penn Relays (Philadelphia); Michigan -Navy (Home); Boston University (Home); Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh); and the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletics Association of America (IC4A) meet in New York City. The Lions are expected to draw much of their strength from their record-breaking captain Rosey Grier, a three-way man in the weights with the shot, javelin, and discus plus seniors Skip Slo cum, Art Pollard, Bill Youkers, Rod Perry, and footballer Charlie Blockson. Grier and Blockson, a junior, THE PERFECT PIZZA SALLY’S WE DELIVER AD 7-2373 Colorado Unnoticed Contender in NCAA Final Pairings ’ KANSAS CITY, March 16 (JP)— Colorado’s Golden Buffaloes can be the relaxed “spoilers” of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn, basketball tournament Friday and Saturday nights. Nobody seems to take much note of the Big Seven champions, who meet the nation’s top-ranked team, San Francisco’s Dons to morx-ow night. lowa’s Big Ten champions, on the other hand, are given a fair chance to spill defending cham pion LaSalle in Friday night’s other semifinal. But Coach Bebe Lee’s Colorado team, winner of 15 of its last 16 games, may surprise the capacity 10,000 at the Municipal Audi torium. Sports Illustrated, TV Will Spotlight Gymnastics An article on the Penn State gymnastics team appears in to day’s edition of Sports Illustrated magazine. A composite color picture of the top members of the team is feat ured in the story. Photographs were taken a few months ago by Fernand Fonssgrives, world fa mous photographer. Lion gym coach Gene Wett stone and Karl Schwenzfeier, cap tain of the 1955 team, will travel to Altoona this afternoon to ap pear on the Ted Reinhardt sports show at 6:45 p.m. on WFBG-TV. have been the Lions’ one-two punch in the weights division. In the middle distances Slocum and Pollard have been valuable mainstays. Pollard was the IC4A outdoor 100-yard king and set the 300-yard indoor record last year. Slocum, in addition to the relay and 880 chores, has been best in the 440. In the hurdling department the Lions will be tough to beat with Perry, Youkers, and possibly Gary Seybert. Perry tied the world mark of 6.0 seconds and beat Har rison Dillard in the 50-yard high hurdles in the Philadelphia In quirer Games in January. Complete Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service High Quality 2-Day Service REEDS Laundry and Cleaners Established in 1912 109 S. Pugh St. Phone AD 8-8981 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Enter Meet KDR, SN Set for IM Cage Finals Sigma Nu and Kappa Delta Rho meet at 8:30 tonight for the IM basketball fraternity champion ship. The two cage teams earned their way to the finals as a re sult of wins over Delta Upsilon and Theta Xi Tuesday night. The independent playoff will start at 7:30 tonight. The DU’s led Sigma Nu at half time, 17-16, and built up a four point margin with less than sev en minutes remaining to play in Tuesday night’s action. Then Sig ma Nu poured 10 straight markers through the hoop and was never headed after that. Two main rea sons accounted for Sigma Nu’s 38-31 victory. The first was the brilliant scoring duel between the winner’s Ed Ritter and Ed Bar reird of Delta Upsilon. Ritter out scored his opponent, 16-15. But their value to the teams did not end with total points. Both men accounted for several more tallies with their sensational feeding. Meek Scores Eight Ritter’s winning the individual scoring duel, coupled with DU’s Jim Garrity’s three quick per sonal fouls, told the tale of the game. In the first half, Garrity held Richard Meek, Sigma Nu’s big center, to one point, but be cause of the danger of fouling out, Garrity had to “keep hands off” in the second half. Meek poured in eight points and that was the difference. Theta Xi, for its tense one- and two-point wins, had Kappa Delta Rho on edge until late in the game. At the half, KDR led 19-18. But with only a few minutes left, KDR, paced by Billy Kane’s 15 points, broke away and won, 36-28. In the independent quarter finals, the Geeche Birds and Chug-A-Lugs advanced one step further. Win With Four Men The Birds held the rare dis tinction of finishing and winning a playoff in overtime with just four men. The Greensmokers bat tled the Birds to a 21-21 tie at the end of regulation time. In the overtime, Barry Schriver drop ped in a two-pointer to clinch the game for the Birds, 24-21. Late in the game one of the Gee che Birds fouled out, but that didn’t help the plight of the Greensmokers. The Chug-A-Lugs easily whip ped a tall Topper team, 50-24. Six membe rs of the winning squad netted at least five points. John Farls and Emil Caprara each tallied 11 markers for the winners. Alum to Be Honored For Athletic Service Hundreds of sports-minded Penn State alumni ahd friends will gather Tuesday in Pittsburgh to honor B. C. “Casey’' Jones at the first annual Penn' State Sports Banquet. The banquet, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Wil liam Penn Hotel, is expected to draw many alums and former Penn State athletes from the Tri-State area. A large delega- tion from the University—includ ing former football Coach Bob Higgins—is slated to be on hand. Hig, who coached football for 19 years at State, will speak. “Casey” Jones is being honored, according to banquet chairman David B. Ludwig Jr., “for his un tiring, effective service to Penn State athletes over a span of 35 years.” In that time, Ludwig said, “Casey” has been directly or in directly responsible for raising money to send over 300 athletes to Penn State. Many of them, in cluding some of the greatest All- Americans turned out by State, have shown their intention to be present. Jones plans to retire soon from his position as assistant manager of lines for the West Penn Power Co. and move to State College. Sponsoring the banquet are the Lion Scouts of Western Pennsyl vania, newly-formed sports-mind ed group bent on helping Penn State athletics. Robert B. Davis, sportscaster and former football SEE . . . Buy . . . ARROW SHIRTS STATS COLLEGE ARROW BUTTON-DOWN SHUTS... JUST THE TICKET FOR ANY OCCASION! 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