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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
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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,
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Syracuse
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on Weissend
ing for second
"outside competition" to come
from Charles Neely of Temple,
Lowell Meier of Syracuse and
John Hammond of Pitt.
Biesterfeldt Dark Horse
Jack Biesterfeldt could be the
big surprise package on the Nit
!tally list by winning the side
horse. 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.