PAGE SIX Lion Gymnasts Shoot For 4th NCAA Title Tomorrow is D-Day for the Lion gymnasts who will be shooting to win the fourth National Collegiate Gymnastic Championship for Coach Gene Wettstone. The NCAA Tournament will be held Friday and Saturday at Navy. Preliminaries for the finals and competition for the all-around title is scheduled for afternoon and evening sessions tomorrow. The finals will be Saturday afternoon. Illinois will defend the team i title. The Illini are coached by a ,former Wettstone protege—Char ilie Pond. Pond's 1956 edition de feated the Lions in the Nationals, 123 1 / 2 -67v2. Florida State, third last year and perennially one of the top three gym schools in the nation. is loaded with talent and rates a CLEVELAND. March 20 (Ali —4 good chance for the team title. Irish miler Ron Delany and four' Leading darkhorses for the team other Olympic champions com- title includes Michigan, pete at the Cleveland Area Fri- ! Southern California and Michigan day night in the final meet of the State. Delaney Set As Favorite At Cleveland indoor season, and it appears De-I Illinois breezed through a tough lanv will have no one to push him.i"Big Ten" schedule to take the That means the chance for a:Western championship and boasts record mile is slim. since the 22-;such performers as Olympian year-old Villanova star admittedly Abie Grossfeld, defending all dislikes pushing himself more around champion Don Tonry, and Than the field requires. He also a compliment of other good dislikes running indoors. , "point-men." . However. in copping his 15th Leading Florida State's bid for straight mile victory last Satur-, the top spot will be Rafael Le day in Chicago, Delany did treat!couna, a top contender for all the fans by spurting on the last around honors, Ronnie Amster, lap He won by 25 yards overianother darkhorse in the all- Burr Grimm of College Park, Md. , laround and defending' horizontal who had led for four laps.--hisib ar champion, and Jamile Ash time was 4:04.8. just two-tenths of ,more, defending free exercise a second off the American indoor:ti t li s t mark Gunnar Nielsen of Denmarki .4.. wettstone is counting on Ye- set in New York two years ago.; Whether the unneeded burst of' g a ' Len and Weissend to finish speed heralds a change in Delany in the top ten in the all-arounds in order to win. Rope climber tactics or simply was due to an; Phil Mullen will also be count exuberance remains to be seen., Irishman's St. Patrick's day eve' ed on to take an important first Other Olympic champions whose place. But the 1958 National ! alread participation promises to make champio n has the Knights of Columbus meet! o f h i s cli mbing titles-- y tlost he g one ast one of the best in its 17-year his-I ern title—to Army's Paul Dean. tory are Bob Richards in the pole. Besides pointing for a first in vault: Villanova's 400-meter ti .the all-around competition, Vega' I will be out to defend his National , tlist. Charley Jenkins. in the 600- yard run: Milt Campbell. decant_ narallel bars crown. lon champion and Indiana athlete{ But, as Coach Wettstone said now in Navy service: and Lee:last night, "The all-around is the Calhoun. North Carolina hurdler.lmost interesting event in a 'tournament and the Nationals Badminton Singles, H-ball' has five top performers." The " top five" will be Amster, Doubles IM Entries Due Lecouna, and three Olympians— . Grossfeld and Ed Gagnier Entries for the Intramural hand-Vega of Michigan. Vega and Gagnier ball doubles and badminton sin- glen tournaments are due by 4:3o' are juniors while Grossfeld is on p.m. Tuesday in the IM office at ly a sophomore. Recreation Hall. Wettstone will also enter Dick The entry fee' for the handballs Rehm in the rope climb. Jack tourney is 50 cents per team. Biesterfeldt on the side horse, There is a 25-cent entry fee peri l Adie Stevens and Dave Dulaney In tumbling. Chuck Fegley on man in the badminton tourney., the trampoline and Bob Foht on the parallel bars. Tennis Managers Wanted; Since the team is limited to 10 All sophomores interested in ap-, men by NCAA ruling, the Lions' plying for assistant managers' jobs' chances of winning will depend on the tennis team should report'on how many qualify for tomor at 5 p.m. today or tomorrow to!row in the 10 final positions. To the bulletin board in the Recrea-'morrow should tell the tale, Wett . tion Hall locker room, stone said. P.I.A.A State Championship WRESTLING TOURNAMENT SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1951 PRELIMINARIES at 2 P.M., FINALS at 7:30 P.M. STUDENTS (single session) No Adults (single sessions) $l.OO Both Sessions $l.OO Both Sessions $l.BO (Please Show Metric Card) RECREATION HALL THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT KALIN'S MEN'S SHOP THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE P 8 Gain Semi's In Intramural Haridball Tilts Four fraternity players ad vanced to flight semifinals, and four entrants earned berths in the Indie semis in Tuesday's IN handball competition. Fraternity players gaining the semifinals round were: Ken Sacks, Alpha Zeta; Paul Trimmer, Phi Delta Theta: Al Jacks, Beta Theta Pi; and Joe Myers, Tri angle. Don Vinkovich, John Krall, Bob Thomas and Andy Bacik were the Indie victors. In flight 7 action, Sacks won from George Nagorny, Alpha Tau Omega, by forfeit; and Trim mer edged Fred Donahoe, Tau Kappa Epsilon, 21-10, 21-20. Jacks, a Lion quarterback, trimmed Al Rose, Sigma Alpha Mu, 21-5, 21-9; and Myers eli minated Carl Heister, Alpha Gamma Rho, 21-15, 21-5, to move to the Flight 8 semis. Independent action saw Bacik cop a forfeit decision when Joe Kunkle and Dave Saul failed to play their quarterfinals match. In other Indie tilts, Vinkovich downed Carroll, 21 -7, 21- 8; Thomas topped Fred Scheinholtz, 21-6, 21-13; and Kroll ousted Don Schmidt, 21-7, 21-5. Leonides Win 33-22 In WRA Volleyball Leonides handed Thompson II ' its first loss in the coed intramural volleyball league when it beat the freshman, 33-32. The winner's Mary Campbell and the loser's Marlene Smith each scored eight points. Mac Hall defeated Atherton, 41- 19, behind the 20-point scoring of Ardyth Phillips and Delta Zeta edged Theta Phi Alpha, 48-41. With •Helen Scholes hitting for 20 points, Alpha Chi Omega sliced . Alpha Xi Delta, 37-32. Tri Delt ' belted Thompson 111, 35-14_ Kappa Kappa Gamma chalked up another bowling victory in the coed intramural bowling league when it beat Kappa Delta, 567- 524. Carolyn Briggs again paced the KKG squad with 135 pins. Alpha Gamma Delta defeated Zeta Tau Alpha, 498-457. ZTA's Evelyn Nikitscher rolled a 122 score. NSYLVANIA Rip Engle, Penn State football Baseball was the first sport A coach, was an all-around athlete mally adopted at Penn Sta.) as an undergraduate at "Western where intercollegiate competitii Maryland College. began in 1875. cost of living...steep You won't find a bigger bargain than elec- tricity. And the men and women of your electric company work constantly to keep it the bargain it is today. P.W WEST PENN POWER THURSDAY. MARCH 21. 19 electricity...cheap
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