FRIDAY. FEBRU RY 7. 1953 Gymn sus in Title Defense Cadets avored At Wes Point MATHEWS st seven years, Intercollegiate gue Champion iwon by one of rmy or Penn eet at 2 p.m. to- IPoint in a meet ecide the title— By MATT During the p the Eastern ship has been two teams— • State. The two ,1 morrow at West that will again for the winner. Although Coa h Gene Wett stone's Lions h ye won four of, the last five titl s (Army won iry '56), the Cadets a e a slight favor ite to dethrone tie Nittanies. Be sides competing in their own friendly gymnasi m before a sell out crowd, the Cadets have a bet ter record and experience in their favor. The nucleus of that experi ence is veteran Gar O'Quinn who is considered to be Army's best all-around competitor. The redheaded athlete has taken a first in each of Army's four winning meets to date and is their highest scorer. Q'Quinn's specialty is the side horse. Although he won the EIGL• individual title, he had a difficult time defeating the Lion's Jack Biesterfeldt in the dual meet corn petition last year, 262-261. Besides the horse, O'Quinn is Army's top man 5n the parallels. And according to his'accumulated scores this season O'Quinn has improved about twenty-two points, over his average performance last. year. .He is now hitting around , 268 while his 1957 routine against the Lions earned him only f.',46, points and a third place in the' event. But the two Lions who: beat him on the p-bars—Armando Vega and Gil Leu— are gone. Another top-notch perform er, considered one of the best the Academy has ever pro duced, is Bill Gillourakis. "Gill" has been averaging 276 points in his specialty, the flying rings. He would particularly like to win this event and wipe off a bad black night against the Lions last year. The script ran something like• this: The Lions had a seven-' point lead going into the final' event—the rings. Gill was the: last competitor of the meet. Bill .Clark sewed up a first (and 6 team points) for Army with a 257. Vega held a weak second for the Lions with 252 (4 team points).. followed by Cadet Jack Hanford: with a 251 score. All anchorman Gillourakis needed was a 253 and a second place routine to finish ahead of • Vega. Thereby the. Army would win the event by eight points and the meet by one. But Gillourakis, Army's best Gym Captain Foht Recalls 'First' Meet By CARMELLA LaSPADA experience came the night of the "When I saw my first gymnas-!preliminaries for the Olympic try-' tics meet, I was like a little kid,outs when he came in second to in a candy store, I just didn'tihis former teammate and Olym-' know which way to look first; I:pian, Armando Vega. was so amazed." Fohtie received his second-great-'. Four years later, this amazed:est honor when he, along - with' youth by the name of Bob Fohy the other Penn State athletic cap who had never worked on thei tains, signed the Christmas card, parallel bars before he came to' to Larry Sharp which went along , Penn State, became the 1958 cap- with a T.V. set given by the Ath-• tain of Penn-- 1 letic Association. State's gymnds-1 , When asked about the future tics team. As of the gymnastics team, Captain' such, he is • Foht said: "If we can get by longer an 'Army, we can take the Eastern' mazed spectate championship." He went on to -- now he's say: "I'd like to do as well as last amazing co m. petitor. "Fohtie," as is known all his friends placed third on the p-bars in the - Eastern gymnas- Foht tie finals last year ,and is rated as one of the top contenders in the East thiS seasoh. Fohtie's first meet was against the Swedish gymnastics team which was touring the U.S. in 1954. Bob was a freshman, Rec Hall was jammed, and he admits, he was a little scared. He believes that first meet prepared him for; his sophomore year when he finished fifth in the nation in his' specialty. modeSt gymnast's greatest Gar O'Quinn ... Army's big gun ring man, broke and finished with a losing 226 score—far be low his normal. The parallels will again be the last event of the meet tomorrow. And the way it's figured, the meet should be just as close as last year, with just as much pres sure. 'year's team did, and you can be sure we will put up a good fight for nationals." You can bet on that. RADIO &vie* and Sapptioi •Car Radios •Portable Radios *Phonographs , • Batteries -' _ . • •••, State College TV 232 S. Allen St. THE DAILY'COLLEGLM, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Lions to Enter Milrose Game Penn State will enter a 2-ithe 1000 Moran won the mile in 4:24.7,; the two-mil* relay. mile relay team and an indi-in 2:16 and anchored the, Last year in the Milrose gat .vidual participant in the an- Lions' winning two-mile relay.the Zslittanies—consisting of !team with a 1:59.4 half-mile. :jars Don Woodrow and aon L nual Milrose Games this Sat-.! Schwab, who ran his first 'is and sophomores Moran urday at Madison Square Gar-1 varsity track meet against 'Fred Kerr—placed second in 'den. Navy, turned in an impressive two-mile relay, 2.1 seconds 1:57.5 on his half-mile leg of hind St. Johns. Bob Brown, tall, muscular freshman sprint star, will he coach Chick Werner's solo entry in the individual events. Brown. wlll run in the 60-yard dash against such sprint stars as Dave. Sime, world record holder in the' 100 and 220, Chunky Ira Murchi son and Mel Barnwell, promis ing sprint star from Pitt. Brown has already run a 9.5 hundred yard dash and two weeks ago finished second to Murchison in the 80-yard dash in the Inquirer Games at Philadelphia, The two-mile relay team will be comprised of Dick Ham bright, George Jones, Bill Schwab and Ed Moran in that order. Two weeks ago Moran set two Navy field house records and an chored a Nittany relay team which set a third record when the Lions opened the indoor sea son against the Midshipmen. *Hur's Are Ready With The Biggest Values Ever - For State College's CREWNECK One Group TOPCOATS Were 29.75 SWEATERS Sport Coats '19.88 were 7.95 Can be used as raincoats Were 39.95 25.88 NOW 5o 88 1 / 2 Price NOW All others reduced Were 45.0019 88 NOW L. 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