PAGE SIX Vega-Led Gymnasts Bid For NCAA Title Today Penn State opens its bid for another National Collegiate Athletic Association gym nastic championship this afternoon in Berkeley, California with its incomparable Captain Armando Vega again leading the way. The last time a Vega-led Penn State squad "entered the nationals," they made it. T zonally scored 58 of his winni Vega and Penn State are again expected to face then• toughest competition from Illinois, the only university to win the NCAA team title more than the Lions And the two individuals that should give Vega his toughest - , rripetition will be wearing ini uniforms— i6 all-around amp Don inry and 1958 - around king JIC Grossfeld. 'hich makes the -st time in the .year history of ,the National Gym Champion - ""ships that three VELA all-around cham pions will face each other for the, top honor in gymnastics. Penn State is hoping that it has the balancing score factor in its two brilliant juniors, Lee Cunningham and Jay Werner. They scored over half the points. last year as the team finished third in the championships. Illinois and the host Michigan State teams finished in a first place tie for the top spot last year. The Lions were only nine points behind the two leaders, 79-70. But the Mini did not have the, services of Tonry who was in eligible at the time. By the same token, Coach Gene Wettstone's Lquad had to compete without Vega who dropped out of school. Vega has proven to be a higher scorer than Tomy and is expected to again make the difference be tween a win or a loss. Hal Frey, gymnastics coach at the University of California and tournament director, predicted a close battle between Penn State and Illinois. He also gives his Cal squad an outside chance: "I predict that Penn State and Illinois will fight it out for first place with the University • of California breathing down their necks. I feel that we have the best gymnast in the meet (Ed. Note: Coach Frey is speaking about his own all-around ace. Art Sherlock) and he is no where in the condition he should be." Virtually nothing is known, or has been released, on the rope climbing entries for the nationals, except that one of the Cal climbers has done a 3.6 at least once. But Eastern champion Don Littlewood has topped that in his last five official climbs arKI tied (Continued on page eight) EUROPE Dublin to tins Iron Curtain: Africa to Sweden. Toter* accompanied not herded around Conoco spa only Also short trips. $724 $1390. EUROPE SUMMER TOURS 136 Sequoia (Hos Cl Pasadena, Calif Joy and Frank Lavigne of The Park Forest Village School of Dance hat was in 1957 at the U. S. Naval Academy and Vega per ng team's 881/2. HOW TO WIN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP- Don't say it, I know—Score more than the other team. But that's only the end product of the strategy. The basis is laid in qualifying more athletes in today's preliminaries and also as a major part of that process, having all your athletes qualify ahead of your chief opponents and thereby knock them out of the finals. That requires the best gym nasts in collegiate circles, their best routines and a little bit of that stuff called "luck." Captain Armando Vega, as the Lion's top point scoring threat, will play the most im portant part in knocking down the opposing individuals' scores. Take the case of Abie Gross feld, Illinois' best gymnast. Able scored 51 points last year with three firsts and two seconds. In all probability he'll win the high bar again, but should Vega beat him on the parallels, all-around, still rings and free exercise (as expected). the Illini ace loses six points off his team score from last year. And so the cycle goes as one progresses down through Jay Werner and Lee Cunningham And remember, there is no in tention of calling Werner and Cunningham mediocre, far from it. As stated earlier, all these en ti les in the Nationals have to be among the best to compete on this high level. The same goes for tumbler Dave Dulaney who should fin ish in the top three and the rope climbers who should dom inate the positions there. Now we come to my break- that the school will be closed March 23rd through March 31st to accommodate their students who are going home for the holi days. Joy and Frank will take advantage of the closing by attending the IRE Show in New York and brushing up on the latest dance steps at the Arthur Murray Studio in New York. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA As a MATT-erna-FACT Now Open 6 Full Days a Week 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Davidson's Barber Shop 145 S. Allen St. ._.llllollllce AD 8-1078 By MATT MATHEWS Associate Sports Editor down of how the top four teams should qualify: PS 111 MS Cal PS 11l MS Cal Free x 2 2 2 1 P-bars 1 2 1 1 Horse 1 1 0 2 Tomb. 2 1 1 1 H-bar 2 2 2 IFly'a r. 2 0 0 1 Rope 3 9 0 2Tramp. 0 1 2 2 Still r. 2 3 1 IAII-arn 3 2 2 1 The totals give Penn State 18 qualifiers, Illinois 14, Michigan State 11, and California 13. None of the Penn State quali fiers from the above list is im probable in fact, it may be low. Vega is expected to qualify in at least six—free "x," high bar, parallels, flying rings, still rings, and all-around. I'm not in cluding tumbling (in which he placed 10th in 1957) or side horse I (in which he tied for third in '57). Werner should qualify in free "x," still rings, flying rings, tum bling, and all-around. Cunning ham should qualify in high bar, side horse and all-around; Du laney in tumbling and all three rope climbers should qualify. Should at least these 18 qualify, the next problem is quality of finish and that is de termined in tomorrow's finals. Let's see—Vega 60, Werner 25, Cunningham's 19, the rope climb ers' 17 and Dulaney's . . . Nahh, they can't break the record of 137 points. Or can they? Kaul,Crowe,Klippenstein Advance to IM Semi-Finals By SANDY PADWE Beta Theta Pi's Bob Kaul, .Sigma Nu's Kevin Crowe and Glenn Klippenstein of Alpha Gamma Rho all turned in im pressive wins last night, and moved into the semi - final round of the IM wrestling tournament. Kaul, who has been one of the biggest surprises of the tourna ment thus far, kept up his win ning ways by pinning Jack Del lastatious of Sigma Chi in 4 47. Earlier this week Kaul pulled the tourney's biggest upset when he pinned champion Ben Amato in 0:55. His win last night established him as one of the top men to beat in the 158-pound class. Crowe, runnerup in the 167- pound class last year, didn't waste much time as he pinned Scotty Charlton of SAE in 1:55. Klippenstein, on the other hand, had to go the limit before beating Delta Theta Sigma's John May hew on a referee's decision. Klippenstein an d Mayhew gave the fans a tremendous bat tle which wound up 0.0, but the referee gave the decision to Klippenstein. Don Deckman of Delta Theta Sigma turned in the fastest pin of the evening, flattening George Layman of Alpha Chi Sigma in 32 seconds. John Black of Acacia pulled a mild upset in the 167-pound class by beating Jim Knipe of Chi Phi, 5-4. The top match in the inde pendent class saw Bob ,Okamoto Pre-Easter Specials Summer, Spring, Fall Suits lass FRIDAY. MARCH 20, 1959 squeek past Don Link, 6-5, in a real crowd-pleasing affair in the 128-pound class. WRESTLING SUMMARY 128—Bollinger (C.Phi) pinned Cunning. ham (AGR) 3:16; Laroa ( ACR) die. Thompson (DU), 6-4; Okamoto (Ind) dec. Link (Ind) 6.5; Dulany (Ind) and Anderson (Ind) double forfeited. 135—Kelly (Ind) dec. Vi'allander (Ind). 6-0: Kearney (Ind) on by forfeit. 142—Deckman (DTS) pinned Layman t ACS) 0:32. 150—Klippenatein (AGR) won referee's dec. over Mayhew (HIS); Hinkel (ASP) pinned Turd (DSP) 1:22; Stauffer (Ind) pinned Geist) (Ind) al 2:22; Dii on (Ind) pinned Stamm (Ind) 3:05; BHdge (Ind) pinned Harlow (Ind) 5:59; Wilkinson (KS) pinned Moyer (SN). 3:24. 158—Baker (Ind) pinned Berry (Ind) 3:35; Kati( (BTP) pinned Delimitations (SC) 4:47; Michell (Ind) dee. Maize (lnd), 4.0; Phillips (ASP) dec. Kum.. man (ACR), 2-0; Ottoaon (Ind) dee. Patter (Ind), 4-1. 167—Crowe (SN) pinned Charlton (SAE) 1:55: Dentinler (hid) pinned Reber (Ind) 1:45: Findley (Ind) dec. Decants (Ind). 3-0; Black (Acacia) dee. Knipe (C.Phi), 5-4. liwt.—Alleman (DTS) pinned Landherr (DU) at 5:65. PIRA Mat to Be Held Here Penn State will be in the scene of the annual PIAA wrestling championships on March 21. This year's PIAA volley ball, rifle, tennis, golf, and track tourna ments also will be held on the University Park campus. Speidel Holds 'Dean' Tine Penn State wrestling coach Charlie Speidel is dean of the Penn State athletic coaching staff and of the 53-year-old Eastern. Intercollegiate Wrestling Associa tion. The 60-year-old Speidel is in his 34th season at Penn State. 150 Trousers Regularly Priced to 14.95 Regularly Priced to 65.00 $3O 100 Sport Coats Regularly Priced to 39.95 $2O J' i: tug *hop
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