PAGE TEN G-Men Romp Led i y Werner's Triple By LARRY ROTH Earlier this season Penn State gymnasts Greg Weiss an d Lee Cunningham scored iple victoi les Co-captain Jay Werner got around to it Saturday against Syracuse, and of the three, his was the most spectacular. The powerfully-built senior took the horizontal bar with a 267, the parallel bars with a 272. and finn,lied with a wiling * * * * * 287 on thp flying tints to lead Pt tin State to an oyeiwhelming 69-27 \ Ictoly Werner, last year's national champion on the flying rings, had a flawless handstand and a double-flip dismount on his specialty to rack up the high est score of his varsity career. But only moments before Wer net 's meet-ending 287, teammate Jerry Schaeffer confined his sen- Lqdronal improvement by scoring a 276 on the rings for second place. The dare-devil sophomore also dismounted with a double flip - In w imung their fourth meet of the season against one defeat, he defending national champs turned in their finest team per foi mance of the season before 4200 in Rec Hall Excluding the rope climb, which is scored on time, the Nittanies averaged over 243 for the other 15 routines, A 235 average in a losing cause against Army was the previous high. Cunningham won the tumb lino, Weiss the side horse, and Bill Fosnocht the rope climb to account for the Nittanies' sweep of first places in the six events, Syr acuse co-captains Ed Le vine and Walt Dodge, with 7 and 6 points iespectively, led the scoring for the upstate New York cis ho suffered their fourth set back in as many outings Cunningham, tumbling for only the second time this season, edged Syracuse junior Al Bird, 256-250, although Bird executed a diffi cult full twist on his last length Weiss captured the side horse event with a 264. The Pan- American Games champ had suffered severe breaks in his last two meets. Cunningham, t'ho took ad vantage of these breaks to score a pair of side horse victories, placed second with a score of 251. In the high bar Cunningham had a poor dismount and only received 214 which was good enough for third place Weiss, runner-up to Werner in the high bar with a 264, took an other second place on the parallel ba r s—again behind Werner, Weiss p-bar routine was high lighted by a pei feet one-handed hand stand. Fosnocht copped the rope climb with a below-par win ning time of 3.9 seconds. The Lion.' Vince Neuhauser and Bob Mumau, and visitor Bob Winter all tied for second place with a 4.0 clocking. Sviactli•e entered only two men in the tumbling, sirle horse and rope climb, and used only eight nien in the entire meet. IM Results HAFIKE'EIIAI.I, Nitttim -12 22 Nlttnns -23 IS Nlltunt•- 43. 1 , 71111311-30 12 NittanN-41 .17. NilthriN4b 22 II 'l2, Welt, II 27 lii tletr 57. 11•Illivs c o rli g , c o -„p an, Yori H.sos 16 Eo to , lime, 25, h, 11e.oe IA Allegheny }louse 111, Aeiglan 1 14 HOWLINI: League C Nlttan!, -37 4, Montromerr Lodomunria 4, Lefty's harehluen l'oPlur 'louse 4, ), tiller's Raiders 0 Nitta nv Ross 3 Lehigh House 1 Nat IC its 1, Lostist IloisNe Ed( 'Akers a. 'Bad hoes 1 Luse. I) NAtsinv-1 , 1 4. I oreeLtn 41 Natally-24 3. Dirks House 1 Knirthls 3, Nillainv-27 040 linlln 4. Alleithrn) rhlindelPhin 3, jonlan }loll 1 Mac Kay Wins-- (Continued from page nine) breaks by Mac Kay in the sec ond and eighth games. At that time, it looked as though Savitt was going to go down in a hurry He wasn't covering the court and many of his returns were mere setups for Mac Kay. TIRM ? ? ? Let Collegian Classifieds THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA —collegian Photo by Marty Scherr LION GYM CO•CAPTAIN Jay Werner displays superb form which won him a blue ribbon on the parallel bars against Syracuse Saturday. The Nittany senior had one of the best days of his career, capturing lust place on the p-bars, flying rings and hori zontal bar. * * * Syracuse Coach Paul notneo,in the Nationals, caught quite an when asked to comment on the eyeful as Werner and Schaeffer Lions' chances in the upcomingltuined in their best scores of the nationals, said "you tPenn State)lseason. should definitely win it, fff Tll5llll-IN(: I. Cunningham (PSI 256 "Although you may take only a few individual titles, I think ; 2 „2", i , 1 4 ) 2 8 5 1 0: °' Cr" e " (PSI 222 • 4 ' the thing that will win it for NIDE HORSE: : 1. l:s • \ a e ui srh as i f p e s) r 1 § . 4 4 . 13 2 1. you will be your ability to have iCtinningitain IPSI 211 3. Dodge I 207 . two cr three men place in each 14* P"I"i"r I l'ls° 198 5. Levine 11.° 140. lioluzoNTAL BAR. 1. Werner (PS) events." he added. 1267 • 2. Weivg I PS) 201 a Cunningham • Ill's) 214; 4. Dodge IS) 205; 5. Orkin Dave Bust, Pittsburgh's ace ' IS) 157. I HOPE CLIMB: Ftunoeht (PS) 39: ring man, was in the audience:2 Tie between Neuhauser and Munian scouting the Lions for next week ' s ) (PS) and Winter IS) A 0; 5. Maier IS) 5.3 Penn State-Pitt meet at Rec Hall.l24AlAlMis' ItARs 1. s ilveaejneM Hirst. who won the rings i11: 258 : 4. Orkin ISI 248. 5. Dodge IS) 213 last year's dual meet and pIacedFLYING RINGS: Weiner IPSI 287 ~h aPfer IPSI 275. 3 e‘ine if'S 235 second in the Easterns and third sT(-,,‘tt‘pna. L ts, 2u,, 5 Yohn IPS) 214 CA SH Paid for Textbooks (Any College Text) Today to Friday Feb. 23 to Feb. 26 A the god exchange Offered by the Student Center, Inc., Pittsburgh 13, Pa. * * * Summaries: s Up Victor Russia Wra Heiss Nears Figure Skating Championship B/ TED SMITS Associated Press Sports Editor SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. (W)—Russia wrapped up a vic tory in the Winter Olympics yesterday and Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N.Y. virtually clinched the women's figure skating championship. France, Russia and Germany won the three gold medals that were up for grabs this sunny holiday. Thousands of automobiles poured into this 6000-foot high valley and the rugged slopes were alive with spectators clad in all the hues of the rainbow With four days of competition completed and six to go, Russia with 86 1 / 2 points had nearly dou bled the score on the closest rival, Germany. with 48—and many of Russia's strongest events are still to come. Monday's gold medal winners were: Combined Nordic ski jumping and 15-kilometer ski ra c Gem g Thoma, West Germany, 457.952 points. 1000-meter women's speed skat ing—Klara Guseva, Russia, 1:31.1. Men's downhill ski race—Jean Buarnet, France, 2.06. In women's figure skating, the contestants completed the fifth and last of the required exercises and Miss Heiss' aggregate score soared to 836.8 points. Her lead on the feld was commanding. To day comes the freestyle skating in which she is supreme. Dressed in black and with a red ribbon in her hair, the 20- year-old New York University student cut an almost perfect symmetrical "Paragraph" on the ice with her silver blades. This was the fifth and final figure—and the toughest—of the (Continued on page eleven) Get Your Eaton Paper at KEELER'S The U m niv , er c sill ge ßn i, .kstore TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1960 `MoranDefeated By Weisinger In AAU Meet / Penn State graduate student 'Ed Moran finished second to .sleeper Gary Weisinger of Duke 'in the 1000-yard run Saturday at Madison Square Garden. The race was one of the feautres in the 72nd presentation of the (Amateur Athletic Union's na tional indoor track and field championships. The former Lion miler stumbled coming around the first lap and 'never caught Weisinger, who fin ished in 2:12.8. Robert Seamon of the U.S. Army was third and Villanova's Patrick Nicastro finished fourth. Moran has been running both ithe 1000 and the mile in meets around the invitational circuit 'this year. 1 He hopes to make a decision be fore spring as to whether he will make his Olympic bid in the I glamorous metric mile or drop 1 down to the half-mile, which ( many consider his best event. CLASSIFIEDS—RESULTS 50c BUYS 17 WORDS
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