PAGE SIX Cornell to Greet Lions With 1-1 Card / 4 Vets Beal Yale, Trounced by Lehigh, Gratto, Jemison Top Returnees Wrestling season opens tomorrow for Penn State fans when the Big Red of Cornell helps the Lions open the 1956 season at Recreation Hall. And with it comes the usual juggling, comparing, and figuring of men in each weights, what they’ve done this year, who they met, and what they did last year Cornell has already had rough spots—a decided advan del before the Big Red even ci Lehigh, also a perennial power house in the Eastern wrestling oval, dropped Cornell 26-7 in a lopsided opening-season win. Cor nell, however, then defeated Yale, 21-5. Cornell’s opening lineup against Lehigh, evidently a hit-and-miss array to find out just what it had, changed considerably for the fol lowing Yale match. As it now stands, Cornell’s lineup against Yale will probably be most like the one the Lions face tomorrow. Ernie Boda, 130; Roger Judd, 347; and Otis Keller, 177, will be absent this year. But Cornell will have Bill Jemison, Chuck Gratto, Bob Lynch, and Steve Smethurls returning. These men faced the Lions last year when Cornell lost, 17-7. Jemison lost to ‘SS Captain Bob Homan, now graduated, 3-0. Lynch won at 157. 137- pound Gratto lost to returning John Pepe, 2-0, and Smethurls lost to heavyweight Bill Oberly. 5-1. Cornell’s lineup probably will run like this Carman Molino (123); Jemison (130); Gratto (137); Dick Vincent (147); Blair Camp bell (157); Lynch (167); Smethurts (177); and Walker Fellius (heavy weight). Coach Eric Miller of Cornell has used Molino at both 123 and 130 pounds. Molino lost to Tom Deppe, Lehigh veteran at 123, then won at Yale at 130. Veteran 130 pounder of Cor nell. Bill Jemison hasn't seen action yet in Cornell's two out ings. but is expected to be ready for the Lions. If not, Molino may then move up to 130 with Carl Schwarts, with a 1-1 record handling 123. With Molino and Jemison ex pected in that order, Chuck Grat to—brother of Joe who wrestles for Lehigh—will work at 137 pounds. Gratto’s 1956 record stands at 1-0-1, winning at Yale A lying Lehigh's Dave Bates, 6-6. At 147 pounds Miller has used two men with Dick Vincent and Glen Wise. Vincent won against Yale and, is expected to meet the Lions; Wise lost to Joe Gratto of Lehieh, bv a pin at 8:12. Blair Campbell, probably to see h>s third match when he faces Penn State, has a 1-1 card winning at Yale, and losing by a pin to 157-pounder Ed Eichel berger of Lehigh. Eichelberger, who scored the pin at 4:34 over Campbell, was both Eastern and National Champion last year and won the outstanding trophy award at the Nationals held on the Cornell campus. Lynch—making his second ap pearance in two years against Lion opposition will probably work 167 pounds. He, as five of his other teammates, has a 1-1 card, winning at Yale and losing to Lehigh’s Dick Whited, a vet eran matman, 2-1. Last year Smethurts weighed 175 pounds when he battled and lost to the Lions* heavyweight. Bill Oberly, who then weighed By ROY WILLIAMS ;wc matches to work off the :age over Coach Charlie Spei >mes to State College. KAT Captures 4th Cage Win In Coed Loop Kappa Alpha Theta smeared Atherton SE 54-15 in the women’s intramural basketball league last night to glide along as the only undefeated Thursday night team. Penny Erb once again sparked her unbeaten team, netting the high of 24 points. Erb • dunked only eight points in the first half, but broke loose in the final canto to tally for 16 of her total points. Close behind Erb and also hit ting the double deck were Pat Farrell with 16 markers, and Mary Shower with seven field goals for 14 points. Delta Delta Delta exploded in the last quarter to register a 24-16 victory and shove Beta Sigma Omicron for its first loss of the season. Blanche Kurtz and Gail Hazen shared scoring honors for Tri Delt with 11 field goals for 12 and ten points, respectively. Jean Bodman sunk two fouls for the winner’s remaining points. Beta Sigma Omicron’s three forwards, Barbara Cox, Pat Bar nitz, and Elaine Alexander dunked the loser’s total points with seven, five, and four mark ers, respectively. Phi Mu and Kappa Delta won forfeits over their rivals—Phi Sig ma Sigma and Sigma Delta Tau— handing them their fourth con secutive loss. 190 pounds. Smethurts has wrestled twice at 177 pounds this year. At Yale he won 2-0 over John Kohr. and at Lehigh he pinned Larry Sheridan at 8:10. Coach Miller, with Smethurts sliding down to the 177-pound bracket, will bring up sophomore Walker Fillius, who was highly regarded as a frosh matman. Fil lius is 1-1 on the season. FOR A CHECKUP Stop in and fill up with that Good GULF gasoline. A quick checkup at no charge will keep your car running longer. Make Bathurst Gulf you regu lar stop. BATHURST GULF SERVICE Open 24 Hours W. College and Atherton THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Zaharias Recovers From Pneumonia GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 5 (£>) —Mildred Babe Zaharias left the hospital today for the first time since she re-entered it Dec. 28 with pneumonia and went for a half-hour car ride with her hus band, George. The great woman golfer be came ill while visiting Fort Worth friends, Mr. and" Mrs. R. L. Bow en, during the holidays and was rushed back to John Sealy Hos pital. MEN’S SHOP Opens 30th Year Ultra Opposite Old Main Cagers Visit Lehigh Tomorrow, Seek sth Penn State’s basketball force, winner of four games, with nearly one third of its 1955-56 season already in the books, moves to Bethlehem tomorrow night for contest number nine against Lehigh University. The game will mark the fourth time the Lions hare seen action away from the Recreation Hall boards; Three of the Nil tanies' four losses to date have come on the road. Coach John Egli will probably go with the same starting five he has selected in most of the Lions’ eight games thus far. This quintet includes Co-Captains Bobby Hoffman and Earl Fields at guard, Bob Ramsay at center, and Norm Hall and Steve Baidy at forward. However, a hand injury suffered yesterday may keep Fields on the bench and Rudy Marisa could get the nod over Baidy at one of the forward posts. Baidy, in somewhat of a scoring slump partially because of a toothache suffered during the vacation period, and Fields at the present are in a second place deadlock for Penn State individual scoring honors. Hoffman leads the pack with 135 points on 58 field goals and 19 of 26 foul attempts. Baidy and Fields each hare contributed 92 points for a 11.5 I»oints per game average—s. 4 short of Hoffman's percentage. Fields has outshot Baidy from the floor, 35-33, but has been less success* ful on four attempts from the foul lane. In free throws, Baidy stands 26 of 36 and Fields is 22 of 42. Fields’ 35 field goals is second to Hoffman's first place effort of 58 and Baidy’s 26 is tops in the free throw department. Ramsay has clicked for 30 field goals and 20 of 31 foul attempts for 80 points—an even 10 points per game average. Marisa, the only remaining player to see action in all of Penn State’s eight games, has an 8.3 average and a 66 point total. He’s made 28 field goals and 10 of 21 fouls. Hall, in seven games, is even with Marisa at 8.3. He has scored 58 points. As a team the Lions have scored 218 field goals, 131 of 215 foul attempts, and a total of 567 points for a 70.1 per game aver age. Opponents are nine short of the Lions in shots from the floor, but have gone ahead in total points on 189 successful tried in 273 free throws. The eight foes together have scored 607 points —a 75.9 average. This is a REAL Clearance Sale, with prices slashed on all popular items. Don’t miss this once-a-year chance to improve your wardrobe—at near cost prices. 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