PAGE SIX Individual EIGL Up for Grabs At By MATT PODBESEK Individual gymnastic com petition begins this week with the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League Champion ships Friday and Saturday at Syracuse University. Two Lion junior s—Armando Vega on the parallel bars and the all-round and Phil Mullen in the rope climb—will be defending their 1956 Championships. But a possible Lion runaway with the mythical team title will require the talents of Captain Dion Weissend, Gil Leu and Jack Biesterfeldt and the remainder of Wettstones depth. Weissend, Leu and Biesterfeldt will be competing in their last EIGL Tourney, although this will also be the first Eastern try for Leu,.who will graduate this year. Probably the best all-round competition this year will be be tween Leu and Weissend for the runner-up spot. Leu Hopeful Leu said last night: "I think Si= take second and maybe first if Armando does not hit, and if I do not miss on anything." "I think I can do my best on the high bar: I should beat that Army guy (Bill Thomson), if I bit again because I have a more difficult routine." In the Army dual meet, Leu kit his best score of the season against the 1956 Eastern horizon tal bar champion, a 275. Leu's consistency on the high bar is proven by his scores of 260 (Navy), 270 (West Virginia), and a winning 272 against Pitt. Leu's other two dual-meet spe cialties are the parallel bars and the side horse. With the coaching{ of Wettstone and Vega. Leu hasl Pace Increases In Grapefruit Circuit FORT MYERS, Fla., March 5 (JP)—Bob Friend, Pittsburgh Pirate pitching ace, hurled one inning of baseball yester day and said it was enough to prove' to himself that he's going to be all right this season. Friend said he had been wor ried because his arm began to bother him toward the end of last season. Yesterday he picked a man off first and got two out on long fly balls. The intrasquad set to was called after the first inning because of a storm. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.. March 5 (P) Manager Casey Stengel today nominated six rookie pitch ers, including four from last year's strong Denver American Assn. club, to work in the New York Yankees' first intrasquad game to morrow. Tapped by Stengel were Ralph Terry, Jack Urban, Jim DePalo and Mark Freeman, all up from Denver, AI Cicotte from Richmond of the Inter national League and Jim O'Reilly from Birmingham of the Southern Assn, VERO BEACH. Fla., March 5 (A') Manager Walter Alston in dicated today Charley Neal again would be given first crack at the Brooklyn Dodgers• second base job this spring. "We're going to give him an other shot at it," said Alston. "We know he can do the job if he can gain confidence. Maybe the first year jitters bothered him." Neal was in the opening day lineup at second base in 1956 but was replaced by Junior Gilliam in May. LAKELAND, Fla., March 5 UP) Holdout Gil Coan, 32, has decided not to report to the De- IM Entries Due Encries for the 1957 intramural volleyball and wrestling tourna ments are due at 4:30 p.m. today in the LM office in Recreation Hal Organizations may enter the volleyball tournament as one team in leagues made up of six OT Seven teams. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN *. * * Gil Leu D They'll be filth gained a top scoring consistency with highs of 252 and 257. Weissend, who captured the ;high bar from Leu twice in six meets, enters the all-round pic ture as the defending runner-up to V^ga in the Eastern last year. And as Dion states it, "I finished second in about everything last year behind Mando." In the 1956 Eastern All-rounds, Weissend was second on the long horse, the still rings, the high bar and the free exercise. Weissend confuses the high bar picture all the more with his 281 score against Syracuse. "And I expect to ,hit a 280 at Syracuse again this Saturday and win," re lated the smiling captain. Weissend expects the toughest troll Tigers and will ask Base- ball Commissioner Ford Frick to place him on the voluntary retired list. The Tigers say they will appeal because they believe Coan knew at the end of last season that he would not play baseball this year. Detroit drafted Coan from the Minneapolis club of the American, Ernie Baer, successor to Nick Assn. this winter.,Thiel as Penn State lacrosse coach, !will field his first team this TAMPA, Fla., March 5 0") Spring tiLs iir,t , S 2 , ' , ei EXECUTIVE . or o j , 16 WANTED ‘lw---. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY) 41 liC ,-• •'!f1 ... : • t:'1 . i,.. , .- • Are you a dreamer with his feet on the ground? • Do you think "top echelon"? • Do you win and hold friends easily? • If you do and you qualify for our manage ment training program . . . 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Biesterfeldt cannot figure tout what happened last year in 'the Eastern side horse competi tion except that "I placed real low when I broke bad." • But this year may be different for the graduating New Yorker who finished one point, 262-261, !behind the top contender for side horse honors— Cadet Gar o'- ,Quinn. O'Quinn was the runner up last year. Righthander Ellis Kinder, 42, to day ended his holdout with the Chicago White Sox. Kinder, who had a 3-1 mark for the Sox last year,•agreed to terms in a long distance tele phone talk with Vice President Chuck Comiskey in Arizona. NNSYIVANIA Tarheels Still Ist In AP Cage Poll The North Carolina Tarheels will have three major ob jectives in the Atlantic Coast ' Conference championship basketball tournament which gets underway Thursday in Raleigh, N.C. They are not necessarily 1. To gain an NCAA berth by winning the tourney. 2. To continue an unbeaten season in which they've won 24 games. 3. To remain on top in the Associated Press' weekly poll of sportswriters and sportscasters. The Tarheels got a huge vote of confidence from the nation's ex perts in the season's next-to-last poll based on games through last Saturday. Collecting 55 first place votes and 711 points, they held a com fortable margin over the runner up Kansas Jayhawks, who got only eight firsts and 605 points on the isual basis of 10 points for first place. 9 for second etc. The Tarheels meet Clemson in a first round game of the ACC title com petition Thursday night. The next three positions re main unchanged with Kentucky in third place with 476 points. Southern Methodist fourth with , 399 and Seattle fifth with 331. 1 Seattle. 22-2 for the year, drew down five votes for first place from among the 76 who partici pated in the poll. The most notable advances were made by Michigan State and Oklahoma City with the Spar tans, unranked last week, moving into the No. 8 position, and OCU jumping eight notches to 10th place. These two replaced Brad ley, which fell to 13th, and Indi ana, loser last week to Michigan and Michigan State. The Hoosiers are unranked this week. Louisville moved up two places to sixth on the strength of vic tories over Depaul and Toledo. Penn State boasts four wins for every loss in 49 years of inter collegiate wrestling competition. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6. 1957 in order of importance: 7 Handballers Win, Enter IM Quarter-finals Seven fraternity handball play ers advanced into the quarter final round of the IM tournament with wins in the Recreation Hall courts Monday night. Milt Plum, Phi Delta Theta, wasted little time in disposing of Gary Zinman, Sigma Alpha Mu, 21-3 and 21-4. This was Plums opening victory and he will face Sigma Phi Epsilon's Jed Klingen smith on March 12. In another low scoring contest which lasted two sets, Jim 'Keith, Sigma Chi, won his initial match by defeating Dave Bedford, Aca cia, 21-6 and 21-8. Keith will meet Rick Lippe, Phi Epsilon - Pi, in a quarter-final battle March 12. John Wright, Alpha Zeta, scored two perfect games over Ron Kinch, Alpha Chi Rho, 21-0 and 21-0, to establish himself as a leading contender for the Flight four crown. Alpha Epsilon Pi's Monty Hal per advanced a round in the tournament with. a 21-10 and 21-16 victory over John Reilly, Sigma Phi Alpha. Halper will bat tle with Alpha Zeta's Wright March 13 for the right to enter the semi-finals. Registering forfeit wins were Jed Klingensmith, Sigma Phi Ep silon, over Ed Spondike, Phi Mu Delta; Jim Machlan, Epsilon Xi, over Dave Hambrick, Kappa Del ta Rho; and Rick Lippe, Phi Ep silon Pi, over Francis Paolone, Theta Chi.
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