SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17.195 S Emu Stats Sports— ONthe LINE With Christmas only eight days away, and a chubby gentleman with a round nose, bushy white beard, and flashing bright eyes probably just getting his red suit out of the dry cleaners in prepara tion for his annual world-wide visits, we thought we’d get out the paper, pen and ink and; like so many others, drop the old chap a few suggestions of what he might put in our blue and white stock ing come the Yule a.m. This is bow our letter that was shipped to the North Pole along with thousands of others read: Dear Santa Claus: We haven’t seen you for a year, but, oh, how you helped us in ’55 with those things you left last Dec. 25. You should have seen the sparkling eyes of Gym Coach Gene Wettstone when you left him such talent to take the Eastern Cham pionships. And Charlie Speidel? Well our long-time, successful mat coach told us to tell you, "Thanks, Doc,” for those two runnerup spots iii the Easterns - and Nationals last year. Soccer Coach Ken Hosterman had all his requests answered, and he took care of his gifts until this fall when his boys went out to win nine out of nine, and do all sorts of successful things with that new soccer ball that you left under the tree in '54. Joe Bedenk, your old friend, said thanks for Ronnie Weiden hammer. as did Bob Rutherford, who saw his men go on a golfing rampage to push their winning streak to 12. Another old friend. Chick Werner, leaned over our shoulder and reminded us not to forget his thanks for Art Pollard and Rosey Grier, who helped pace the *ss outdoor track team. We’ve had a good year here at Penn State, and the new one is just about upon us, St. Nick, so we thought it was time to put in our ’56 order: How about an individual championship for wrestler Joe Krufka-T He’s been knocking at the door so often he deserves one; and don’t forget Charlie, his coach. After last year’s “almost” re sults, if s bis turn this year. And while we’re on; the subject of it’s “our turn,” how about an NCAA title for Rutherford and his. linksmen this spring. And for Coach Wettstone. make the visit of the Swiss gym teem even more- successful than the Swedes* visits. He's, put a let of- work ieto ft.as usual. We’d also like to order a bushel full of paints for basketball coach John Egli. Leave him. and his cagers a few extra gifts to keep up the pre-Christinas spirit that helped them roll over the 100 mark last week. And please don’t forget Chick Werner. Our highly successful track mentor had rough sledding this year in cross country; perhaps he needed a little more snow, but please, Santa, leave no icy spots to slide on this winter in indoor track; oh, a few distance or middle distance men would help, too. * Hosterman could use a couple of boys to replace-Dick Packer, Dick Matacia, George Geczy and Ihor Stelnyk, too, on the soccer field. To Rip Englo, how about a loft half to replace Lenny Moore, a quarterback that can and will run and past, a dual win over the Mountaineers and Pitt, and a few linemen over the 240 mark. Don’t forget Coach Bedenk on replacements. He needs a whole new infield to back up Guy Tirabassi at short; an outfielder sprin kled here hr there would help, too, Santa. For Lacrosse mentor Nick Thiel, help his team over that .500 mark again as this year, and bring a satchel load of talent for tennis head Sherm Fogg. Dean McCoy could always use a money belt stashed full with crisp greenbacks to help along the athletic and recreation pro grams. and. of course, for Ike Gilbert, put 33,000 fans in our oval •very game next year. And a couple from our side, again, Santa: the continuation of Penn State’s winning performances, and the continuation of ath letes with the right attitude of knowing how to lose. Also, the continued success of the IM program handled by Gene Bischoff, Dutch Sykes, Doc Griess, and Ed Sulkowski. One note of thanks to go along with our gifts of last year, Santa. Thanks for Penn State's wonderful sports fans who have backed the'Lions' athletic ventures. And, in closing, until this time next year, there’s one thing we wanted to remind you NOT to leave. Forget the cigarettes for our trainer Chuck Medlar, he’s quit smoking. Sincerely, Roy Williams And so ended our letter to Santa for 1955. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to aIL :<«ICtC>«Ut«<«UUIC<CICU«WU<>C>C(CtCWUK««ICICI«IC«tCW«WC!«WCUW(><«tCi SEASONS GREETINGS FROMM'S By ROY WILLIAMS Ipuli fftHAflf FROM THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA $l% Million Buys Nashua Coed Keglers Place Second In Tournament While Penn State’s basketball team was hopping on and off trains from State College to North Carolina and Illinois the past twe weeks, Penn State’s women bowl ers were competing telegraphical ly with collegiate bowlers all ov er the United States and gaining second place in the nation. The seventeenth annual Nation al Intercollegiate Telegraphic American Ten Pin Tournament ended Saturday with Penn State placing second in total tourna ment team play and taking third and fourth slots in individual scoring. All results were sent to the University, the center of the tournament. Penn State’s team total of 1540 was only nine points short of the national title which was copped by Wisconsin State College. Wis consin netted 1549 points. Drum Third Barbara Drum, rolling 198, placed third in the standings among the top ten individual single game scorers for Penn State. Pat Farrell won the individual two-game series for Penn State when she netted 345 pins for fourth place. Interpreting the score by points, Penn State again was second to Wisconsin, getting 25 marks to the leader’s 37. PSU Second The top ten competitors for the two-week period in the five-man two-game series were, following Wisconsin and Penh State, Syra cuse University, University of Kansas, Cortland State Teachers College, University Of Texas, In diana University, Bowling Green State University, State College of Washington, and Temple Univer sity. R *CATHAUM NOW: 14*. lb*. *:M. 7:18, 8 :*« National Audience Awards Winner! "Best Actor of the Yew” JAMES DEAN in John Steinbeck’s "EAST OF EDEN" with Julie Harris Begins 2 P.M. Sunday Audience Awards Winner "Most Promising Male Personality’’ TAB HUNTER "BATTLE CRY" Van Heflin- Aldo Ray *NITTANY To4tejr: 1:08. 3:55, 0:40. 7:41, 1:18 "TOP the WORLD" —Starring— Dale Robertson Evelyn Keyes Frank Lovejoy Begins 2 P.M. Sunday "Zany, ribald, uninhibited” —N.Y. Times "Spicy and funny.” —N.Y. Herald Tribune "DOCTOR the HOUSE" A J. Arthur Rank Film in Technicolor Last Time Today LUCY GALLANT Starts Sunday "A MAN ALONE" Ray Mery Milland Murphy NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (/P) —Nashua, the Belair Stud’s big Ameri can champion race horse of 1955, was sold today for $1,251,200 —the greatest amount ever paid for a race horse. The successful bidder was Lesl Lexington, Ky. Combs told the executors of tb Kappa Delta Is 13-12 Winner Kappa Delta exploded in the fading minutes of the only wom an’s intramural basketball game Thursday night .o slip over Delta Delta Delta, 13-12. Tri Delt held the winners score less in the first half, took a slight 7-6 lead at half time, and were ahead 10-8 at the end of the third quarter before the KD’s let loose. Barbara Peck and Pat Barr shared eight points for the victors, with Feck hitting on two field goals and two fouls and Barr flipping in four fouls. Jane Mort and Nancy Seaman sank three and two points for the KD’s.total. Tri Delta’s Jean Bodman was high scorer for the night' when she anchored nine of her team’s 12 points. IM Bowling— (Continued from ~>age six) fors copped the three game indi vidual honors with 538 points. In League D, Howard Reich of KDR won the high single by bowling a 193. His teammate, Blaine Barron, walked off with the high triple, knocking over 517 pins. ' On the strength of its 4-0 win over Acacia Wednesday night, Theta Delta Chi emerged Intra mural first-hall champion of fra ternity bowling League B. T' *a Delt, which had . been in sc. id place for the past three weeks, ended with a 27-9 card while jits nearest opponent, Phi Kappa, finished with a 26-10 slate. -Phi Kappa also won its match with Delta Sigma Lambda, 4-0. lie Combs n of Spendthrift Farm, le estate of the late William Wood ward Jr. that if he could get Sun ny Jim Fitzsimmons, who trained Nashua for Woodward, to take the colt again, he would "send him lo Florida as fast as I can get him there.” Nashua would be pointed for the $lOO,OOO added Widrner Handicap at Hialeah in February. The . entire Belair stable was sold to three interests after the executors received sealed bids. The total realised for all 62 hones.' including Nashua, was $1,866,200. The previous record for a thor oughbred was $700,000 for Tulyar, Irish colt who was undefeated in 1952 when he won the Epsom Derby. The Irish National Stud bought Tulyar from the Aga Khan. Nashua, in two years of rac ing. has won a total of $945,145 and stands second only to Cita tion in money winnings. Cita tion earned $1,085,760. Nashua eclipsed Citation’s rec ord for single year earnings when he piled up $752,550 in winning virtually all of the classics for 3-year-olds. The bank said 11 bids were received tor Nashua, five ex ceeding one million dollars. Charles Mapes, Hanover vice president, said he had received one bid of $l.lO for Nashua. He said the executors regarded this and three other bids as jokes. There were two bids of $5OO each and one of $2OO for Nashua. Mapes said there were only two legitimate bids below ■ million dollars for the horse. The loss dropped Delta Sigma Lambda 1 into a third place tie with Beaver House. In other games, Beaver House shut out Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 4-0; Delta Theta Sigma beat Phi Epsilon Pi, 3-1; and Alpha Rho Chi stopped Phi. Mu Delta, 3-1. PAGE SEVEN
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