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
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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
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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,
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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
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lel bars, mainly to give Savadove
another taste of competitio'n be
fore the nationals,
The Vega-Werner and Marion-
Montepetit battles will end with
tumbling. Although either of the
Lions may enter the event, the
Michigan tumbling trio is usually
composed of Bill Skinner, Al
Stall and Jim Hayslett. The latter
is also the Wolverine's top threat
in free "x".
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.
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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
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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-
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Tabbed 'Nuts'
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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._
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