PAGE SIX Lehigh Cagers Feature High Scoring Sophomore By SANDY PADWE Thanks to sophomore Norm Nand], Lehigh s basketball u‘mpaign hasn't been a total loss A 5-14 record isn't much to 11 to Clow about, hut when it «ma s to Nand) Lehigh fol (an') se em to find enough , ilpl , l ivi" , Brandi, you see, is the highest scoring sophomore in the East, and has broken almost every Lehirli scoring record in the books. }le ianl,‘ I Ith in the nation with 417 punt , in 19 games, an average of '2-f ;t a game At (1-I, Brandt is another little ro.in who is doing quite well in a 1,,e, man', game, and he'll be at It«• ff.lll tornoilow night to show wliN deadly, ~ ,, f t jump , hot from almoq any spot on the Brand) 1 , , hitting 41 per cent or hic a good shooter eithcr hand and gets mdny on di ive , , oft the fact break In addition to ranking 11th in the national scoring race, Brandt is the top scorer in the State and the Middle Atlantic Conference. NORM BRANDL ()iv. of he, best nights came 11th in country againq St. Josephs in Plidack * * phia ein her this winter when he muttered a much relieved Jack seined 33 points as the EngmeeTs M.rusey after watching Brandt c. 0 .! led the highly rated Hawks rip thi ough his Hawk detense light don i to the wn c helm e with ease losing In Allentown a few weeks "Ile's an amazing shooter," back he put on another great Dream Comes True As Carol Wins Title By TED SMITS Associated Press Sports Editor SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. 01 Dazzling Carol Heiss fulfilled a 4-year-old promise to her dying mother and won the women's figure skating championship yesterday for Uncle Sam's first gold medal in the Winter Olympic Games. Whirling through her freestyle routine with near flawless pt ecision, the 20-year-old New Yolk Unix ersitv coed gave a dem on, nation which completely shad- Phils, Bucs Begin rd her competitors "It was for my mother I only wish she was with me to Spring Training share it," Carol said in her By The Associated Press dressing room afterward. Four more advance big league baseball contingents are expect- Mts. Marie Reiss, Carols moth-ed to arrive at their spring train-, cr, died shortly after watching the irv ., sit - es today, bringing to sev-I daughtet lose a heartbreaking de- `' en the number of camps already! cu!ion to Tenley Albright of New ton Gentle. Mass, in the 1956 o pened. g:noes at Cm tma, Italy. , The clubs starting practice to clay nci co G iants, G: Cain!, from prone Park, N.Y., pi l. are . San 11 aC e the p Phil Fra hes, Pittsburgh nigh.. going into Pirates and New Yolk Yankees. cite , pins and jumps. The Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles * Dodgers and Detroit Tigers open ed camp earlier this week. Boston, Washington and Mil waukee will have their pitchers and catchers in town tomorrow , St. Louts opens Friday, Cincin-, nati and Baltimore Saturday and! Kansas City Sunday. For the second time, Penny Piton of Gilford, N.H., won a sil ver medal, failing by the nar rowest margin to win the gold. Yvonne Ruegg of Switzerland captured the women's giant sla lom with a time of I minute, 39.9 seconds, Just one-tenth of a second faster than Penny. who also was second in the downhill. The race was hazardous. Linda Meyers of Bishop, Calif., fell at the start and broke her shoulder. Other gold medal winners Tues day were Lidia Skoblikov of Rus sia in the women's 3,000-meter speed skating, and Haeaon Brus veen of Norway, who upset the great Sixten Jernberg of Sweden in the 15-kilometer (9 32) miles cioss-country ski race. Russia has the team title sewed un with 104 points to 49 1 / 2 for Germany. VINVIVIAAAMIL DON'T CUT IT I let us de It— Catherman's Barber Shop basement of the Corner Room daily 8-5:30: Sal. 8-12 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA * * * Combined Jam Session THETA Xi and CHI PHI at THETA XI Music by The Rock-a-Fellers Saturday Afternoon 2.5 Saturday Night 9.12 Second Semester Freshmen and Fraternity Men invited show even though the Engin eers lost 10 Muhlenberg, 86-74. "This boy Brandi of Lehigh," wrote Sports Editor Dave De- Long of the Allentown Call- Chronicle, "Just about captivated everyone He's beyond question one of the finest shots this area has ever seen." After Brandt, Lehigh's man power is spread pretty thin. Bob Happ with an 8.5 average and Kenny Weaver with 8.2 are the other top scorers. Veterans Jack Palfi (7.6) and Ross Culligan (5.3) round out the starting five. Culligan, only 6-2. is the top reboundei with an aver age of 10 a game. The top reserves are Jay Ang lada and Barry Lindenbaum who Joined the team at mid-semester. Lindenbaum had a 7 2 average as a reserve last year. Lehigh's five wins have been over Dickinson, Delaware, Rut gers. Bucknell and Franklin & Marshall. Buckeyes Gain In AP Cage Poll By The Associated Press Ohio State, headed for its first Big Ten title in a decade, is top ranked Cincinnati's new challen ger in The Associated Press bas ketball poll, Jumping past both Bradley and California. Cincinnati still has a comforta ble edge. however, as the Bear eats retained their season-long No. 1 ranking with 66 first place votes and 1560 points. Bradley dropped from second to third, with 1324 points, and California slipped to fourth, with 1283 points. There was a shakeup through out the top 10, although there was only one new entry. Utah climbed three notches to fifth, leap-frog ging Tech, which remained sixth despite a loss to Tennessee. West Virginia dropped from fifth to seventh after losing to George Washington. Utah State, upset by Colorado State U., slip ped one notch to eighth, while Miami (Fla ) went up one to ninth. St. Bonaventure made the top 10 in a move from 14th to 10th as Villanova, beaten by the Bon nies, dropped from ninth to 12th. Cincinnati 66 (20-1) 1,560 Ohio State 40 119-2) 1,357 Bradley 23 (21-1) 1,324 California 10 (20-1) 1.203 Utah 1 (20-2) 632 Georgia Tech 2 (20-4) 559 West Virginia 3 (21-4) 443 Utah State (19-3) 356 Miami Fla. 2 (21-3) 317 St. Bonaventure 2 (15-3) 230 Basketball Scores NHA Cincinnati 135, S)racu..e 133 Philadelphia 12 ti, Boston 108 COLLEGIATE Nu. y SO. Delaware 52 Pitt 87, Carnegie Tech 74 Nuith Carolina 81, Mai ylaml 64. Pros Mence 80. Holy Cross 68 Rhode island 76, Maasachuaetta 75 Connecticut 96, CRIII4IIII 6$ Hamilton 66, Union 57 Clarion 75. Grape Cits 69 Texas; Teel] 68, TCU 61 DePaul 65. Mai quette 63 Dickinson 69, Johna Hopkins 61 W. ADI 82, F&11 7.1 Boston Unix. 92. liontun Cull. 79 Ringman Schaefer Is 'Classroom Find' Penn State Coach Gene Wettstone first spotted ringman Jerry Schaefer as a freshman in a physical education tumb ling class. Now, just one year later, Schaefer is one of State's most promising gymnasts. "He was a rank beginner when he started," said Wett. stone. "But he sure had the ability and most of all. the enthusiasm." In his only freshman meet last year he scored 233 against the Navy plebes to win the flying rings As a varsity performer, Schae fer must perform in the shadow of the national flying rings champion, Jay Werner. But this has in‘pired the ever improving sophomore. In Pern State's five dual meets this season. Schaefer has im proved steadily with scores of 196, 240, 254, and 261. Then last Satuidav he came up with a Tar Ming 276 and placed second to Werner who had a 287. "Potentially. Jerry has the moves and ability to be the best rmgman in the country next year," said Werner. "There are just a few things he has to work on plus developing a good hand stand " . . Armando Vega, national all- 1 Jerry Schaefer around champ and Oly mpic i per- Salurdav, he smiled and said, former, commented, 'Jerry is "I'll really have to work hard to good now, but when he gains 'beat that 276." more strength he'll be terrific." ' Before coming to Penn State, . • Schaefer had a taste of gymnas- Nittany Stickmen tics in his home town of Tunk— hannock in the northeastern part Card 10 Contests of the state. Tunkhannock had just built a An ambitious 10-game schedule modem gymnasium with gymnas- is on tap for Penn State's 1960 tic apparatus and Schaefer and, lacrosse team. a few friends decided to give it' The Nittany Lions, who last a whirl. year posted a 5-4-1 record for He liked the sport and, be- their first winning season since ' cause the high school had no :1956, will play five contests at gym team, he joined a gym club lhome. One of coach Earnie Baer's where he learned the funda- ,road assignments is against Mary mentals of working the flying iland, which shared the national rings. Ititle with Army and Johns Hop- "Mr. Wettstone and Jay hayOtins in 1959. taught me just about everything! The schedule• April 2, at Loy- I know." said Schaefer. "As forlola (Baltimore); 6, at Navy; 20, Jay—l've seen other ringmen inlCornell; 30, Rutgers; May 6. at person and in movies, but he's!Hobart; 7, at Syracuse; 11, Le the greatest." ! high; 14, Swarthmore; 18, at When asked about the Pitt meetiMaryland; 21, Colgate. This Program is designed to develop young, inex perienced men for careers in life insurance sales and sales management. It provides an initial train ing period of 8 1 / 2 months (including one month at a Home Office School) before the men move into full sales work. Those trainees who are interested in and who are found qualified for management responsibility are assured of ample opportunity to move on to such work in either our field offices or in the Home Office after an initial period in sales. A limited number of attractive opportunities are also available at the Home °Mee for Actuarial Trainees and Administrative Trainees. The Connecticut Mutual Is a 114-year-old com pany with 500,000 policyholder-members and over four billion dollars of life insurance in force. Aggressive expansion plans provide unusual oppor tunities for the limited number of men accepted each year. Arrange with the placement office for an inter view with: Connecticut Mutual Life WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1960 By LARRY ROTH INSURANCE COMPANY• HARTFORD
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers