PAGE SIY, Schwenzfeier Wins Again! Tie for First in NAAU's Provides Gym Triple-Kill Karl Schwenzfeier, who seems to make a habit of collecting gymnastics laurels, brought his tremendous career in college gym circles to a great finish over the weekend when he tied Florida State's Jack Miles for the NAAU all-around championship at Roch ester, N.Y. And due to his championship performance at Rochester . diminui- Lion Golfers Capture 3rd Start, 4-3 The Penn State golf team won its third successive victory of the season Saturday by outlasting a tough Cornell University team, 4-3. Captain Warre Gittlen once again got his mates off to a good start by outpointing his opponent, Dick Love, 3 and 1. Gittlen and Love were even after the first nine, but the Nlttany Captain poured on the coal in the back nine to cop the match. In the second match, Jim Gins berg lost his first match of the season for the Lions, but it took excellent golfing by his opponent to turn the trick. Ginsberg's op poent, Dick Peterson, compiled a respectable one under par 68 to nullify Ginsberg'3 fine efforts. The Lions returned to the win ning track in the third match, however. Jim Gerhart, the Nit tany medalist for the day, con tributed a 3 and 2 victory over Dave Stutz to vault the Lions back into the lead. Junior Jim Mayes, although 3 up after the first 9, could not protect his lead ar.d the Nittanies fell back into a deadlock. Mayes dropped, a close 2 and 1 decision to the Big Red's Owen Berry for his first loss of the year. The Lions once again forged into the lead on the strength of sophomore Leo Kukkola's 8 and 6 whitewash of his opponent, bas ketball ace Chuck Rolles. Rolles never had a chance against the (Continued on page seven) Tennis Team Nips Lehigh, 5-4 strong doubles play, copped the with a resounding 5-7, 8-2, and other two pairings as the Engi- 6-4 triumph. neers' Bill Collins and John May Doug Zuker gained his third defeated State's Bill Zeigler and victory as he dumped John May Ed Seiling in straight sets, 2-6, 4-6. in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. And Lar- Chuck Christiansen and Dean ry Adler picked up win number Mullen also bowed before Mike two when he walloped Lehigh's Wind and Jack Wright in two sets, Gene Seigel, 6-2, 6-2 2-6 and 4-6. It was in the singles play that the Lion netmen padded their , victory, sweepin,, four out of six matches. Ed Seiling turned in his. finest performance of the season and also the highlight of the af ternoon when he bombarded Le high's Mike Wind, 6-1 and 6-0. It was Seiling's first win of the cam paign and the Lion junior ably demonstrated a good, sound all around attack. Dean Mullen also collected his first smashing Lehigh's Charles Roth in the final two sets as the Lions' fourth man came through By JOHN LAWRENCE A pair of sophomores, Al Wil liams and Joe Eberly, walked off with a "Frank Merriwell" finish in Saturday' tennis match with Lehigh as coach Sherm Fogg's tennis squad registered a 5-4 win on the Engineer's courts at Beth lehem. The match brought the Lions' log to two victories and three re versals—one shy of the 500 mark. With the score deadlocked four and four, Eberly and Williams steppes: to the in the final match of doubles competition and dropped their first set to Lehigh's Charles Roth and Gene Seigel, 6- 8. However, the sophomore duo rallied in the second, applying a 6-0 whitewash and followed this with a 6-2 wallop for the match and their second win in doubles competition. Lehigh, well known for its BILL McMULLEN, Florist 121 ". • f By RON GATEHOUSE tive Schwenzfeier is probably the only collegiate performer to make a gymnastic triple-kill— capture the Eastern, NCAA, and NAAU all-around titles in a sin gle season. Schwenzfeier, competing unat tached along with Armando Vega, Lion freshman standout, is be lieved to be the youngest ever to capture the NAAU title. This was his fourth year as an NAAU entry. Teamwise, he and Vega were second behind Florida State which entered 18 men. Miles, 28, and a long-time friend of Schwenzfeier's is a veteran of the past Pan American events. May Enter Olympics For Schwenzfeier all that re mains is a possible berth on the', 1956 U.S. Olympic aggregation,' an achievement enough in itself. And as a result of a move taken by the NAAU committee at Roch ester, there's an excellent chance that the 1956 trials will be held at Rec Hall, as they were in 1952. So, Schwenzfeier may have one more opportunity to perform on the grounds he called home for four years. Schwenzfeier's first individual collegiate gymnastic triumph came last March 13-14 when he captured top honors at Annapolis, Md., site of the Eastern champion ships Tops Field Again But this did little to satisfy the gymnastic "mighty-might's" hun ger for championship perform ances. Two weeks later, at Los Angeles in the 13th annual NCAA. festival, he gained his highest achievement to date, again captur ing top individual honors. Here, as in the asterns, he eclipsed the record-high set by the Lions fabulous Jean Cron stedt in 1954. _ Then there was nothing to do but go through the paces in daily Rec Hall practice sessions, prep ping for the past weekend's NAAU classic. ..glower .1 /or Tad Cr Whether Mom's here or at home, be sure to remember her with flowers. Choose from our wide selection of corsages, potted plants, and freshly cut flowers. We Wire Anywhere THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PtNII4SnVAPIIP4 Pirates Down Cards, 5-1 PITTSBURGH, May 2 (iP)— Pitcher Bob Purkey of the Pitts burgh Pirates gave up only seven scattered hits to the St. Louis Cardinals today while his team mates were lambasting three Card hurlers for 14 hits to chalk up a 5-1 victory. The Cards only run off Purkey was an unearned tally in the fifth inning when Pirate centerfielder Ramon Mejias dropped Harvey Haddix' fly ball, allowing Ken Boyer to score from third. Indians Beat Boston, 4-2 CLEVELAND, May 2 (/P)—Ear ly Wynn hurled his first pitching victory of the season today as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-2. Dave Pope hit a three run homer for the Indians and Jackie Jensen horn ered for the Red Sox. Tigers Defeat Yanks, 7-1 DETROIT, May 2 (W) Steve Gromek, who has made a career of beating the Yankees, did it again today with a six-hitter that gave the Detroit Tigers a 7-1 vic tory over the New Yorkers. TATE NOW Anne Steve Baxter Forrest "BEDEVILLED" —FeatureArne-- 2:12 - 4:04 - 5:56 4:48 - 9:43 AD 7-4994 Baseball Briefs Richard Todd - Jean Peters "A Man Called Peter" Feature 2:08. 4:35, 7;03, 9:30 Next Attraction 'BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" * NOW * Doors Oyes 6 p.m. Lucky 13 Hit Number 8 COMEDY PLUS MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT S 7, B:QS, 9:43 =EI Nittariies Cop Drapcho Shines Joe Bedenk's Nittany Lion baseball nine seems to be stressing the fact that it does a better job on the Beaver Field diamond than on the road. behind the two-hit shutout pitching of sophomore sensa tion Eddie Drapcho yesterday, the Nittanies put on a 5-0 win over Dickinson together with a 10-5 Saturday romp over Gettysburg to bring their season log to 5-3. Stan Larlmer (1-2) picked up Saturday's win and southpaw Drapcho fanned 13 yesterday to tie a Penn State record and bring his season card to 4-1. Drapcho, who only last week -igned his name to the first Penn State no-hitter since 1911, saw only one Dickinson batter hit past the infield, an outfield fly, while Red Devil shortstop Ray Weaver squeezed out tvYo infield bingles. Three Walks Each Drapcho allowed only three walks, as did Fred Specht, on the mound for the losers. Specht, re placed in the ninth by Bob Brown, Manned seven Jim Lockerman: resuming cen ter field duties after a four-game absence, was the big man at the plate for the Lions, banging out three of their 13 safeties. The first four men in the Nit tany lineup, Captain Charlie Rus so, Bob McMullen, Ron Weiden hammer and Pat Kennedy each collected two, end Cookie Thebes si and Norm Van Ord accounted for one each. One of Kennedy's pair of bin gles was a first-inning triple •to chalk up one of two RBIs and Russo illammed out a fourth-inn ing double to end the game's ex tra base smacks. Top Lion Baiter Weidenhammer, a fine perform er at third base and currently leading the Lion pack at the plate, tallied two Nittany runs, with Russo, McMullen and Drapcho each crossing home. once. Van Ord, although accounting for the only two Nittany errors in his second start behind the plate, was on the front end of Penn State's third double play of the season. Weidenhammer-Russo- Kennedy also accounted for a twin killing. • With two out in the first, the Lions got off to an early scoring start when Weidenhammer was hit by a pitched ball and came home on Kennedy's three-bagger. In the third two more Nittany TUESDAY, MAY 3. 1955 scores were chalked up. McMul len was issued a free pass, took third on Weidenhammer's single, and scored on Kennedy's base hit. Kennedy was thrown out going into second, but Lockerman scored Weidenhammer a f ter Bradley grounded out. /him Scot's in 4th In the Lions' fourth Russo slammed out a, down-the-line dou ble and took third on a rightfield error. With two out, IVlcMullen's base hit scored the Nittariy cap tain. The scorebook was "losed in the Penn State sixth with Drapcho scoring run number five. The Lion hurler walked after Van Ord went down on three strikes. He took third on Russo's second hit and a fielder's choice and went home when Weaver muffed Ken nedy's ground ball. Weidenhammer was Saturday's big man at the plate, going four for-five, scoring, three runs, slam ming out a double, and accounting for four RSl's. Larimer fanned nine in relinquishing 10 hits. GETTYSBU G. R Ab R 111 lendley,2b 4 0 1 Duka,rf 2 0 0 a-Foulk 1 0 0 Heidelbercrf 2 0 0 Schalish,lb 6 1 8 Folak,el 4 0 0 ISwenita 6 0 1 Allcehs,e 4 2 2 Gilcherist,Bb 4 0 '1 b-Hadley 1 0 0 Blerlerm 4 1 1 Woodlng'n,ss 4 1 1 eldelberg is 4th. 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