PAGE SIX Four Teams to Fight For NCAA Gym Title By MATT MATHEWS They are Cal Girard and Stan ti A Yll)Ciate Sports Editor rarshis. Four teams are given good Girard scored 25 team points, including a third in the trying chances of winning the NCAAi all-around. Tarshis came Gymnastic Championship to- ; through with a second on the niorrow and Saturday in Belk--; high bar as he edged Lion Lee elev, Calif. Those contenders Cunningham for the runner-up tale California. Penn State. Mich-j spot. , igan State and Illinois—the latter' Although little is known about, two being the defending team ti-,California one perfoimer stands' lie holder. out as a definite threat, Art Sher-; Of the quartet, MSU and Cal lock Lion Captain Armando Ve-, are only dai k hoNes, Michigan 'ga ha , competed with the West; Sidle, the host for last years'Coast ace and rates him a defi-; lott I nc y. has mite threat in the all-around and been soundly de- ,the potential side horse chant (paled twice in pion. Sherlock did not compete - . "IP' ' 1311.! dua l meets tilts year by arch tyal Al pan, and. Hut as was the case last yea', the East Lansing st•hooi is blc•:,sed With a quarter s t e in which continu ally TARSIIIS come', to Its eid Just before the, Nationals It secm , , one semester ; terminates at the end of the dual meet station and a guy named, Ted Nicrlycvke (Mu•iee-ke) be «mies, eligible for competition— juL.t in time to aid the Spartans in the Nationals How convenient, In the 1958 tournament, the Spartan ace took firsts on the parallels and long horse and a second in the all-around. Along with his other events, he to taled 49 of his team's winning 79 points. Only Able Giossfeld, who took titre firsts and Iwo seconds, topped his team score with a 51. (In the NCAA tourney, the top ten performers in each of 11 events are awarded team points on an 11-9-8-7-8-5-4-3-2-1 basis The 11 events are free 'X', rope, high bar, parallel bars, side horse, still rings, long hone vault, tram poline, flying rings, tumbling and all-around.) Michigan State has returned from its 1953 squad two otheri Tumbler Dave Dulaney, who hit h !,coreis besides Muzyczko. tied for third last year, and a Prexy Praises Alum Aid (Continued from page one) ling to fire a coach or I have never that the reputation would over—had one (alumnus) come to me shadow the educational aims otand complain about our coaches the institution, and our athletic program." Walker complimented the i In answer to a query on future University's alumni on the fi- !gifts from alumni, Walker said: nancial assistance they give to i"They could help by giving more the athletes and said the alums !money to the Levi Lamb fund. would be helping even more in But remember, Penn State alumni the future. `are pretty young; half of them "I think we have the best group!have graduated since World War of alumni of any that I have ever 11. Most of them don't have a known," Walker said, "and Ilgreat deal of money right now, mean that sincerely. I have neverlbut in 25 years the situation will had a letter from an alumnus say-dpe different." in the '5B Nationals. Illinois is therefore the top threat to the Lions. but not just on the strength of Grv,sfeld's 51. points. They have another top all-around man, Don Tonry, who won the National title in 1956 Tonry was hospitalized with pneumonia during the '57 eham- pionships and was ineligible last He and Grossfeld give the Illini two of the top three per : formers (i.e., point-scorers) in the all-around. ! Which brings us to the Lions. Last year, an inexperienced Lion ;s quad finished third with 70 ! points. ' The major scorers, sopho mores Cunning ham and Jay !Werner, are ex :peeled to again g i v e the Lions !a high scoring punch. I Werner had 2l points with ;his highest score CUNNINGHAM a second on the flying rings. Cun lningham had 20, mainly on a third on the high bar and fourth lin the all-around. Cunningham, !who has shown considerable im !provement on the high bar, could ledge Tarshis for second and !maybe even Grossfeld for first THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA faster rope climbing trio of Don Littlewood, Vince Neuhauser and Jack Hidinger may again be good for another 20 points. Also, the Lions have a guy named Vega, who scored 58 points in his last national out ing. All of which shapes up as a great team battle, with the Lions and Illini rated tossups. Entries Open In Badminton, H-Ball Doubles Three new intramural tourna ments are scheduled to begin within the next three weeks. Fraternity and independent vol leyball opens first, with both the fraternies starting Tuesday and ,the indies on Wednesday. Entries are already closed, and !the schedule provides for each team to play five or six matches. The handball doubles tourney begins Monday with 4:30 p.m , Thursday as the deadline for en !tries The entry fee is fifty cents i per team. Since rope climbers are not manufactured, eagle- eye Wett stone scouted his phys ed classes and came up with two of the above three. Only Littlewood had previous 'experience. The Biz Ad Senior (with a 3.13 All-U) practiced on the rope while at Lower Merion High School. But the other two—Neuhauser and Hidinger are products of phys ed classes. Neuhauser, also known as the "Marlboro Kid," hit a 4 6 in class and Wettstone went to work with him. Last year he finished second in the East erns at 3.8 behind former Lion champion Phil Mullen. The Marlboro man attributes his lower times this year to four factors: 1— he likes his home rope, 2—he's dropped his weight to 130.135, 3—he's stu , died films of Jack Manning set ting the world record at 2.8, 4 ---the competition on the team made him work harder to lower his time. "And sometimes I get excited," !commented Neuhauser, "and r feel like I could just pull the rope down—like against Army (when .he hit 3.5 for the first time)." Littlewood also attributed his Gymnast Underwater Fan better time to less weight. "Little One of Penn State's top gym-IJohn" weighed 160 last year but nasts-1958's Eastern all-around has been below 150 this year. In champion Jay - Werner—raises fact, he lost five pounds before tropical fish as a hobby. the Pitt meet and knocked two- Each fraternity may enter only two teams, while independents may enter as unattached individ uals. The badminton singles tourney will begin April 1, the day after Easter vacation. All entries must be turned in at the intramural office, Recreation Hall, by 430 p m. Thursday The entry fee is 25 cents per man. Each organization may en ter only two players, while inde"- pendents have no limitations, Matches will be played betwen 7 and 10 p.m, Oregon Slated for '63 Penn State's football team is slated to play Oregon in 1963 and 1964. The Nittany Lions will open the '63 campaign at Oregon, and will entertain the Webfoots the following year. Jazz Stars to On Campus This Larry Coombs Octet featuring Bill Mottzing on trombone Jon Eardly on trumpet (Sunday only) Only Jazz Club members and their guests will be admitted. A azz Club membership card admits two to both sessions. Limited. number of cards now on sale at HUB—sl each. pia :Phi Delta Theta time: Saturday, March 21, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 2 p.m. Plenty of that cool amber liquid will be available free at both sessions First semester freshmen cannot be admitted. sponsored by the Penn State Jazz Club Lion Rope Climbers Called 'Best Ever' 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8---He's up! Boxing? Guess again. This time we're talking about rope climbing, and an eight-stroke climb usually puts the performer in the championship class. Penn State has two men who climb in eight strokes and that's one reason it hp the best trio in the East and pos- sibly in the nation. Although there was some doubt in the Master's mind (Coach Gene Wettstone's) that this was the hottest trio he ever assem bled, it has been eliminated, as each broke four seconds and fin ished 1-2-2 in the Easterns. In fact, senior Don Little wood, who won the Eastern ti tle with a 3.5, lied the Penn State and EIGL mark last Sat urday with a 3.4 clocking. One of the judges, Louis Bordo, even had him stopped in 3.3 seconds! Junior Vince Neuhauser, who did a 3 5 on his home rope, and senior Jack Hidinger were the two runnersup in the Easterns with a 3.7. (formerly with Kai Winding) (formerly with Gerry Mulligan) THUSRDAY, MARCH 19, 1959 Don Lit ilewood Vince Neuhauser Jack Hidinger Bill Fosnochi fastest hands in the East seconds of a second off his best time. Little John also claims the (Continued on page seven) Appear Weekend
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