PAGE SIX Lions Vega By MATT PODBESEK "And in this corner, that! 142-pound Olympic mar ve l and double-winner of the! Eastern all-around, that two-' time Eastern and National ) parallel bar champion and; most recently, record-smashing i NCAA all-around king, Mr. Col-f legiate Gymnast—Armando Vega of Penn State. "Mr. Vega singlehandedly scored! two-thirds (54 1 / 2 ) of the Lions; 138'!2 winning team points that' gave Gene Wettstone his fourth, National Collegiate team title.' And rightfuly gained the Lion ace recognition as the best col-! legiate gymnast in the nation." That would probably be a sports announcers spiel on in troducing Armando Vega after the Lion gymnast carried Penn State to its fourth National Col legiate gym title Saturday at Navy. But Coach Wettstone issued a much simpler statement and prob ably the highest compliment in the eyes of the 1956 Olympic coach when he said yesterday: "He performed like a Russian." And then he continued his praise of Vega: "Never was he so superior. He was even more superior than in the Olympics. This time he did everything right. Never once did he show signs of insecurity. "Two great days," Wettstone said in his happy flow of compli ments, "One right after another." And Vega really had two great days against the best in the na tion. He amassed his 54'/ team points with a first in the all arounds and parallel bars (22), second in free exercise (9), third place on the horizontal bar (8), third place tie on the side horse (7%). fourth on the flying rings 47) and tenth in an event in which he does not compete in regular competition—tumbling (1). Weitsione had issued a state ment before leaving for the nationals Thursday in which he said: "We will win if we can do as the wrestlers did." And he did. Wettstone was referring to the fact That the matmen won the Eastern title the previous week by having only two athletes elim inated in the preliminaries. The Lion mentor said that his personal statisticians—headed by side horse competitor Jack Bies terfeldt—informed him that the trophy was "in the bag" before the last two events began. "That was really a relief. - . Take National Title; Scores 54 1 / 2 Points —Daily Collegian Photo by Sam Price THE NATIONAL CHAMPS are represented in the above photo (left to right) by Captain Dion Weissend with the National trophy. Coach Gene Wettstone behind the huge Eastern team trophy and Armando Vega with his Eastern all-around cup and National all around plaque. Wellston. said. "The pressure 'Dick Rehm on the rope with a had been building up since Fri- !seventh Gil Leu with a tenth in day. We had every possible way :the all-around and a seventh on, figured how we could lose-,,the !the high bar, Bob Foht on the meet, and then we had it won. :parallels with a ninth, and, Adie even if Illinois slammed theiStevens in tumbling with a sev tumhling:' lenth. Illinois did more than slam the; tumbling, they finished 1-2-2, but: still picked up only 2,8 points and! a second place with 80 1 / 2 points.! Florida State, second to the Lions after Friday's preliminaries,! slipped to third. Sam Baillie! scored 34 of lowa's 50 points, put-: ting the Cornhuskers fourth. Ar-1 my was fifth with 36 and Plitt sixth with 17. The Lion's only - medal-winners beside Vega were Captain Dion Weissend and rope climber Phil Mullen. Weissend finally came; through on his specialty—the high,: bar—arid earned ' points .for his fourth place finish. Mullen, with a 3.7 clocking, lost his NCAA title to Garvin Smith of Los Angeles State • College who had an amazing • 3.1 second climb. Making the victory complete; was the scoring of Biesterfeldt-on: the side horse with an eighth,, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PE Haspel Cords This is the Suit that has become a summer tradition with well-dressed men everywhere. 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