Vega Aga' By MATT MATHEWS Associate Sports Editor The undefeated (6-0) Penn State gymnasts meet the un defeated (9-0) Michigan gym nasts in the final dual meet of successful 1959 seasons at 8 tonight in Recreation Hall. But, without a doubt, the num ber one drawing attraction is the last home performance of -one of Penn State's greatest athletes, Armando Vega. The 1959 team captain is a triple Eastern cham pion, double National king and a member of the 1956 Olympic team. Without making excuses, Vega will be hampered by a bad left shoulder. Usually the most dili gent worker on the squad, he has had to limit himself to light exer cise this week. Since the Easterns, Vega's shoulder has been bothering him to the extent that he lu:sn't worked it this week. Vega ' ..d he doesn't know exactly what be might do today ' but feels "the fans, who have been very nice to me during my three years here, will see a great bat tle today. But I think they know I will do the best I can for them." Still, he is entered in all six events on the special program and will ,definitely compete in the first five. With the exception of tumbling, which will be the last event on tonight's program, the events simulate the all-around at which Vega excels. Tumbling will take the place of the long horse vault but the other five events are all part of the all-around and should give Lion fans a good look at their Eastern champions before ' next week's National Championshipsin Berkeley, Calif. The events in order are free exercise, side horse and high bar. Following a brief inter mission, the. cm* Lien trio will climb the rope against time in hopes of lowering their per sonal best times of the season and will be shooting for the Bee Hall record of 3.4 seconds. The rope climb will simply, be an exhibition and will not count in the team score. Following the rope event, the program will continue with com petition on the parallel bars, still rings and tumbling. Even in an injured Vega, the Lions hold the key man in every event with strong backing from twice Eastern tumbling cham pion Dave Dulaney and the East's second and third best and men, Jay Werner and Lee Cun ningham, Lion Coach Gene W•ttstone feels confident of the op spot in most cases but fears the Wolverine depth whit makes them one of the great=st dual meet teams in the nati.n. They had to have top depth to beat Illinois, 58-54. But the Big "NI" didn't have the strength in the championship •playoffs last week and "only" finished second --to Illinois, naturally. The Illini, who are expected to be the Lions' number one - rival for ; National honors, won the Big Ten title for the tenth consecutive year. Youthful Coach NeWt Loken has come' up with another top notch Canadian find in sOphomore Rich Montepetit. The Montreal no.- tive teams with fellow Canadian, Nino Matiol3, in five of tile even ws Out Tonight Big Ten Foes ~ss.` , •, - .~;'pct ti ~'L~~ ~ 1 ~ '~. ~'~~F ~~ ~ Y: ~•<<. ~~~ , - .., ). >., ' Armando Vega ... the. champ's iron cross to give the visitors exceuenti With 8-3 Score depth. I "That's what will decide the ! FORT MYERS, Fla. (iP) The meet," commented Wellston°, !Kansas City Athletics jumped on "how many second, thirds and!southpaw Joe Gibbon for four fourths they take." !runs in the first inning yesterday 1 Wettstone's comment empha- and coasted to an easy 8-3 ex sizes the need for Werner and hibition victory over the Pitts Cunningham to be at their best burgh Pirates. It was the Pirates' for the Lions to win. Like Vega, third straight defeat, • junior Werner will work the first Kansas City 400 100 012-8 10 1 five events and possibly tumbling.pitt s b urg 000 030 000-3 8 41 Cunningham may work four K, Johnsori, Coleman 6, Brunet events with Savadove slated to 9 and House; Gibbon, Porterfield' work free "x". 4; H. Smith 8 and Burgess, Hall Either Cunningham and Sava-I5: W—K Johnson. L—dibbOn. dove may be entered on the paral-' Home run—Pittsburgh, Virdon Prompt Repair Service on Car Radios, Portables, Table Radios, Record Players, and Guaranteed TV Service KEYSTONE TV AD 74677 W. College at Frazier AD 7-4677 Have You Heard Zenith or RCA '59 Stereo? WFBG•TV • 10 SATURDAY i WJAC-TV o 6 I:00 Jr. Basketball 1:46 Pro Hockey 2:00 Ice Hockey SATURDAY 1 :00 Mr. Wizard 1 :30 Schoolrn'ter's Calendar 2:00 Ten for Sur vival 3:00 Command Performance 3 :30 Cisco Kid 4:00 Col. 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The performer to beat, how ever, is one Dave Dulaney, twice Eastern tumbling cham pion. Dulaney, a senior, threw his best stuff into his tough routine last weekend, and from this angle, it looks like he's nearing his peak just in time for the Nationals. The other competing senior is Savadove, who will he out to re deem himself after a disappoint ing Eastern showing. Two of the "exhibitionists," rope climbing champion Don Littlewood and runner-up Jack Hidinger, will al so be performing before a Rec Hall crowd for the last time. And this writer, who covered the 1957 National champion Lions, has watched the improvement of these seniors( and the improving juniors) and feels that this is a stronger team than the 1957 squad. It should be great to watch them for the last time tonight. KC Hands Pirates 3rd Straight Defeat WJAC•TV • 6 SUNDAY 1:00 Industry on Parade Red Wings Se Bruins 1:15 Heav'n Sn'lol 1:80 Oral Roberta 2 :00 Wisdom 2:30 Pro Basketbl 4:34 Ask Wash'ton 5:0 Omnibus G :00 Meet the press G :30 Casey Jones 7:00 Saber of Lod. don 7:34 Steve Allen 8:00 Steve Allen All Lions Victorious In Prelims; ITHACA, N.Y., March 13 Penn State shot into the lead at the end of the EIWA preliminaries with 11 points as all 8 entries picked up victories. Three of the advancing wins were via pins by Sam Minor, Hank Barone and Johnston Oberly. Barone recorded the fastest pin when he threw Syracuse rookie John Nichols at the 2.40 mark with a half-nelson and body',thn quickly reversed and rode ' press. It was short but rough as out the rest of the period. Barone piled up two reversals ands Johnston broke through for , Nichols recorded a takedown and another reversal in tlo open l ing second for the next period a reversal before the big pm. I and picked up riding time for The other falls came in the 1 the rest of the bout, second period. Minor pinned j Guccione had a breeze in his Yale's Bob Schoenemann —in afternoon match with Navy's Scot -4:33 with a guillotine and Ober- `afternoon Boyd. winning 9-1, ly flattened Temple's Ted Que- I , Turner was penalized twice for denfeld in 4:40 with a nelson and crotch. stalling in his preliminary frame 'with Penn's Al Schantz but he Don Wilson decisioned Army's still managed a deeisive G-4 vic- Bob Protman, 5-1, in his prelim-'tore. nary match. He led all the way,! Gray barely missed a fall in grabbing a takedown in the first, his initial match against period, a reversal in the third,l Brown's Terry Chase. Gray and and more than three minutes of, his foe locked in a half nelson time advantage. and arm bar and was applying . . Danny Johnston fell behind 2-01 Chase's shoulder to the mat in the first period of his first round when time ran out in the final encounter with Penn's Al Black,l period. He was leading 6-3 at but came back strong to win a 5-21 the time and picked up three decision. Black got Johnston's leg` j more points on a near fall and for a takedown with 30 seconds! another marker on riding time gone in the first frame, but Johns-; for an eventual 10-0 conquest. Profs Over That was how Eugene C. Bischoff, professor of physical education, described the reactions to his program of "mild physical education" for faculty members. The program, which was designed primarily for professors who want to lose that "too pooped! to pop" feeling, meets every Tues day and Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. in Recreation Hall. It was originally started as a thesis project by a graduate stu-1 dent working for his master's de-, gree and was continued mainly, through the efforts of Bischoff.'. It is- now in its third year. Be-; tween 20 and 30 professors report ,regularly for the physical work-' outs. Bischoff said "there is a defi nite need for this sort of thing" and described the program as being "very successful." The program includes badmin ton, squash, paddle-ball and exer cises. According to Bischoff, bad minton is the most popular form of exercise because most of the professors don't want to do any thing "too strenuous." "This stuff doesn't do anybody any good unless they take it in ternally, externally and eternal ly," Bishchoff said. He described Alfred F. Dom- WFBG-TV • 10 i SUNDAY 1:00 Life of Triumph 1:30 Bozo The Clown 2 :00 What's Your Future 3 :00 Last Word 3:30 World of Ideas 4:00 Tugb't Annie 4:30 Behind The News 5:00 (.E College Bowl 6:30 Amateur Hr. 6:00 Jack Benny 6:30 20th Century 1:00 Lassie - 1 :30 Maverick Tabbed 'Nuts' PhysEd Class By BILL MAUSTeLLER "They're nuts about it." 3 Pin browski, the oldest participant in the program, as being "the young est 66-year-old man I ever knew.' Dombrowski, a research. assist ant for the Bureau of Business Re search, said his reactions to the program are "very favorable" and that he considers it a necessity. Robert D. Pashek, associate professor of transportation, said that one of the reasons he en joys The program is that he doesn't have to worry about not finding enough room to do any thing. The program provides a "proper time and place" for the activities. he said. Max D. Richards, associate pro fessor of management, also en joys the "nice program" because "it's something you can do at a specified time." According to Bischoff, the only casualties so far have been an occasional twisted ankle or a bump on the head from a stray badminton racquet._ PAGE ELEVEN
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