TUESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1960 Gymnasts Mounties, By DICK GOLDBERG One of the , most one-sided slaughters since Samson mas sacred the Philistines took place in West Virginia last Saturday when the Penn State gymnasts wrecked the Moun taineers, 73-23, missing a com plete sweep by just five points. Lee Cunningham, showing a marked improvement over last week's Temple performance, starred for the Nittanies by card ing firsts in the side horse and horizontal bar and taking second in the parallel bars. Cunningham's showing on the high bar was highlighted by a special maneuver L-giant swings. In this maneuver, the gymnast performs a giant swing but when he comes over the bar, his legs are perpendicular to his body. The L-giant swing is one of the most difficult gymnastic maneu vers to perform correctly, but Cunningham came through in style Cunningham's first on the side horse was earned due to his ele gance of form on the difficult piece of apparatus, said Jack Bie sterfeldt, the assistant coach who took the team to West Virginia In place of the ailing Gene Wett stone. "His routine possessed dif ficulty but his form really clinched it," Biesterfeldt said. Jay Werner also came through, taking firsts on the flying rings and in tumbling. He also took a third on the high bar. Blesterfeldt said Werner's routine on the rings was one of the safest he could per form, but his form was near per fect and as a result he racked up a 268 from the judges. On the mats, Werner scored a 246 to cop the first position by 25 points. Soph star Greg Weiss took a first on the parallel bars and seconds on the horizontal bar and sido horse. Weiss used the same routine on the p-bars that he used against Temple last week. But the judges evidently didn't think as much of it, because they awarded him a 257, 19 points un der his Temple mark. His exercises on the high bar and side horse were just five and eight points, respectively, under STILL GOING ON ... HUR'S CLEARANCE SALE ilur's 'I: ruff ,Cluict 114 L COLLEGE AVE. • STATE COLLEGE LEE CUNNINGHAM is performing a difficult maneuver on the horizontal bar on which he placed first against West Virginia. Cunningham also took a first on the side horse and a second orf the parallel bars. * * * * * * ' Cunningham's marks.,273: 2. Weiss (PS). 268; 3. Werner (PS). 1232; 4. Jones (WVa), 222; 5. Crlgger The Nittanies' other win cameo wva). 203. in the rope climb where Vincei Rope Climb: 1. Neuhauser (PS), :04.0; Neuhauser led a clean sweep as ,2 . W. Fosnocht (PS). :04.2: 3. Mumau et ydg. 4. ( 4 v : vv. 4. ), (WV.), :04.5; he scaled the rope in four seconds flat. Right behind were Bill Fos- Flying Rings: 1. Werner (PS). 248; 2. notch, 4.2, and Bill Mumau, 4.4. Schaefer (PS). 240; 3. Jones (WYO. 232; Bfesferfeldt was very pleased 4. Parallel Bars: ( 11 W ar V e a : ) '1 217 We 5 1;5 1( 1%) ( 94 L 21 2 . . with the performances of some Cunningham (PS). 223; 3. Crlgger (WVa), of the Lion sophomores. The 219; 4. Morrow (PS), 184: 5. Jones (WV's). best routine turned' in by a 170, yearling, was ferry Schaefer's 240 on the flyiag rings. Wettstone, at the beginning of the season, said Schaefer showed a great deal of potential and should be a good rings performer. In the Mountie meet, he justified Wettstone's optimism by complet ing his routine with just one minor break. The Summaries: Tumbling; 1. Werner (PS) 244; 2. Cri. ley (PS). 221; 3. Long (WVa), 267; 4 , Buhl (PS), 202; 5. Cianettina (WVa), 180 Side Horse: 1. Cunningham (PS), 253 2. Werner (PS). 245; 3. Schweiker (WVa) 132 k 4. Palmer (PS). 55; Crigger (WVa) 20. Horizontal Bar: 1. Cunningham (PS) Yes, this big event of the season is continuing. There's still plenty of time during finals week to get your share of the bargains. Top coats, suits, sport coats, jackets and hats . . . all dras tically reduced. Sweaters, shirts, pants and ties . . . the latest in fashion for the college man, both for school wear and dress. January isn't over yet, and neither is Hur's gigantic January Clearance Sale. Come in and see for yourself why this is the long awaited sale of the post-holiday season. "GET HIS AT HUES" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Wreck 73-23 O'Connell Resigns DES MOINES, lowa (IP)—Tom my O'Connell yesterday an nounced his resignation, effective Feb. 1, after one year as head football coach at Drake. He said he plans to return to pro football. Don't make a move toward Europe COMPARE! Don't short change yourself on any trip until you know the many opportunities COMPARE! Come in and learn about the variety of European tours which we have, at medium and very low prices, with many special features. For instance: • A wide selection of going and returning dates. A wide selection of length of stay. A selection of price some as low as $12.50 per day including transportation. A selection of mode of travel (both ways plane, both_ ways ship, one way by each and we have the space.) A wide variety of sight seeing, including arrangements to attend Oberammer• gau and the Olympic Games. University Above the Corner Room Cagers' Homestand Opens with Panthers Penn State opens a four-game homestand Saturday when the Nittany Lions meet Pitt in the nightcap of a basketball wrestling twinbill in Rec Hall at 8:30. Games with Carnegie Tech, (Jan. 30), Bucknell, (Feb. 2) and Gettysburg, (Feb. 6) round out the .homestand. Pittsburgh, with two of its top players still trying to shake off_ the effects of an attempted bribe, brings a 6-7 record Into Satur day's game. The Panthers had a respec table 4-2 mark when news of the bribe broke. Since then they've been on the skids, but have won their last two against William and Mary and Westminster. Last Friday, an Allegheny County Grand Judy indicted a former Pittsburgh University dental instructor on charges of attempting to bribe Dick Falenski and John Fridley, both starters for coach Bob Timmon's crew. Fridley at 6-5 is averaging 11 points a game and leads the_team in rebounds with 105, while Fa lenski, an outside man, has a 13 point average. Two other Pan thers, John Mills and Bill Mauro, are scoring at a 13 point per game clip. Mills has been improv ing steadily and had a 27-point outburst against William and Mary. Bob Sankey a nine - point per game man is the fifth starter. Penn State coach John Egli who has seen his Lions win three of their last four, will go with his usual starting lineup of Mark DuMars and Wally Col ender out front, Gene Harris at center, Paul Sweetland at one forward and either Jake True blood or John Phillips at the other forward. don't know whether I'll start Phillips or Trueblood," said Egli. "Phillips sure did a good job at Bucknell." The Lions beat the Bisons 71-56 in their last outing. After the Pitt game, the Lions take a week's break until Car- until you see us. which we can offer. Travel Bureau negie Tech, with little Bill Soffa, rolls into town. The Lions beat Tech, 76-66 in Pittsburgh Jan. 5 but the Tar tans are having a fine season and pulled one of the biggest upsets of the year Saturday. beating Duquesne, 58-52. Soffa IS one of the best little men in small college ranks and netted 27 against the Nittanies. SET SHOTS—After their home stand, the Lions travel to Navy for an all important battle with the Middies . . . Navy knocked the Lions out of the running for the NCAA tournament last year with a 68-58 overtime win in crabtown . Gettysburg, whict appears here Feb. 6, has a 7-6 record to date ... If you haven't heard, West Virginia's Jerry West scored 21 points in the second half to lead the Mounties to a 89-81 win over, previously unbeaten Villanova last Saturday . . . West had 30 for the evening and held Villa nova's leading scorer Hubie Hubie White to 15 points ... Basketball Scores NBA no willies scheduled COLLEGE Wake Forest 84, Tennessee 57 Toledo 82, Findlay 47 Maryland 63, North Carolina State 50 Georgia 97, Stetson 72 Florida Southern 83, Mercer 77 Oklahoma State (2, Kansas 49 Ohio University 82, St. Francis (Pa) 70 Xavier (Ohio) 80, Miami (Ohio) 71 Grove City 81, Waynesburg 64 Kansas Stale 68. lowa State 66 Oklahoma 64, Missouri 62 Minnesota 77, Illinois 70 E. Kentucky 76, Tenn. Tech 67 Factory Authorized • VOLKSWAGEN Sales—parts—Servie• Deluxe Sedan_ ___sl62s. WINO SALES CO. MO E. 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