EDNESDAY MAR 1960 Eastern Individual Gym Title Quests Start Friday The Nittany Lions will have a lot at stake when they travel to Temple University in Philadelphia for the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics individual finals this weekend. The team championship has already been decided, but all the regular individual events plus the all-around cham pionship will be up for grabs on , * * * - Friday and Saturday. . Army clinched the EIGL team title by dropping Navy, 50-46, last week. Earlier m the year the well-balanced Cadets had stopped the Lions at West Point, Wit -4I 1,12 The Nillanies go into the championships fresh friom their 57-39 win over Pitt la 1 Satur day in Rec Hall. Coach Gene Wettston will en ter the big three—J:3_ Werner, Lee Cunningham and reg Weiss —in the all-around championship where he expects to see the hot test competition. The all-around events consist of the still rings, long horse vault ing, side horse, horizontal bar, parallel bars and the free exer cise Wettstone looks for Jeff Car dinelli of Springfield and }feint Briegel of Massachusetts to challenge the Lion stars for the title. The meet will get under way on Friday and all the competitors will do their routines. The top eight men in each event will. Move into the finals on Saturday. The Friday point totals of the eight finalists will be counted toward their final scores. All the Lion gymnasts who have competed this year will enter the meet with the exception of the tumblers. Bernie Buhl will be the only tumbler to represent the Nittanies, Two additions have been made to the team for the meet since each team is allowed as many as five men in an event. Ernie Lofgren will participate on the side horse and Bruce Fos nocht will join brother Bill, Vince Northwestern Votes Against Bowl Contract EVANSTON, 111. (N) North western University yesterday vot ed against Big Ten renewal of the Rose Bowl contract, virtually kill ing any chance of a conference pact with the new Athletic Assn. of Western Universities. Now five Big Ten schools will cast formal votes against the bowl contract when the conference opens a business meeting in Co lumbus, Ohio, tomorrow. A ma jority is needed for approval. Previously, Minnesota, Ohio State, Illinois and Wisconsin indi vidually voted against renewal of a Rose Bowl series which expired last New Year's Day. Schools still in favor of the Pas adena football classic include In diana, Michigan, Michigan State, lowa and Purdue. ENGINEERS also Archs, Met's, Chem Eng's; Png's Put your slide rules away and come to Triangle's RUSHING SMOKER .7- 9 TONIGHT Film and Refreshments By JOHN MORRIS "easterns outlook bright" * * * Neuhauser and Bob Mumau the rope climb. "Our outlook is bright in the horizontal bar, the side horse and the parallel bars," commented Wettstone. "We have won those events in every meet this year." The Lions will be counting heavily on Weiss, Werner and Cu ingham but are hoping for good performances from fast improving sophomores Kenny Morrow, p-bars specialist and ringman Jerry Schaefer. St. Louis Gets Spot in NIT NEW YORK (i 1") St. Louis, University will compete in the! National Invitation Basketball Tournament in Madison Square Garden, March 10-19, Ken Norton, chairman of the selection com mittee, said yesterday. The Missouri five currently has an 18-6 record with two games ,left to play. It is the ninth club chosen for the 12-team tourney. Thompson Named Cage Coach at The Citadel CHARLESTON, S.C. UP) Mel Thompson, 29-year-old assistant , oach, has been named head bask etball coach at the Citadel. Thompson succeeds Norman Sloan, who resigned Saturday to become head basketball coach at the University of Florida. Change of Plans Despite his national prominence as a miler, observers look for Penn State's Ed Moran to aim for a half-mile berth on Uncle Sam's 1960 Olympic team. THE DAILY C lAN STATE COLLEGE. PENN 'Fix' Report Discussed By NCAA CINCINNATI- VP) T h ghost of the 1951 college bas-' ketball "fix" scandals return ed yesterday with reports of heavy gambling activity on a recent game in the Midwest on which bookies took a beating. However, both school officials id high college authorities said Ley could find no evidence of ir- Lgularibes. The case arose when officials If Xavier (Ohio) University re- Anted receiving an anonymous :elephone call from New York saying the "fix was on" for last Wednesday's game between Xa •ier and its rival, Dayton. Day con won 91-82 in an upset. Xavier officials turned the mat >r over to the National Collegiate thletic Association. In Kansas City, Walter Byers, 'CAA executive director, said the tatter had been discussed but Ided, "Other than that, I have comment." Jimmy Breslin, a member of to sports staff of the New York urnal American, said he had re- ived word of the "heavy betting action" from a bookmaker in Newport, Ky., across the river from the Cincinnati Gardens where the game was played. Redskins Lose Coach Then Sign Another WASHINGTON (RI The Washington Redskins lost another assistant coach, Joe Tereshinski, to the college ranks, but added veteran Abe Gibron from the Chicago Bears. Gibron, 35, ending a 10-year playing career, replaces Line Coach Ernie Hefferle, who recent ly became head coach at Boston College. Indiana Star Suspended BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (W Herbie Lee, sparkplug guard of the Indiana University basketball team, has been suspended from school for the rest of the semes ter. Lee has averaged 10.7 points a game with a 43 per cent shooting average. Dean of Students Robert H. Shaffer said Lee was suspended because of "misconduct and vio lation of critical disciplinary pro bation." Have a real cigareße-have a CAMEL The best tobacco makes the best smoke! Chi IM Phi, DU Win Swim Contests Chi Phi ran away with Alpha Epsilon Pi and Delta Upsi lon had little trouble with Sigma Nu in TM swimming meets last night. Chi Phi won every event and took seconds in all but one in splashing to a 34-7 victory: Buzz Bardsley 'won the free-1 style for the Chi Phis, beating! teammate Tom Clarke by a stroke in 35.5. Joel Holden and Ken Hall fin ished 1-2 in the backstroke as Holden came home with a 47.6) Chi Phi continued on its merry way in the 60-yard breaststroke when Cliff Nichols grabbed first place. Chuck My ers and Wayne Amuth finished second and third for AEPi when Chi Phi's Al Larson was dis qualified, Hall and Ken Comly outclassed the rest of the diving entrants to take the honors in that event. Hall compiled a 13 2 to win. Bardsley, Larson, Clarke and Nichols combined to win the 120- yard medley relay for Chi Phi in a slow 1:14.3. In the other meet, Delta Up silon's team superiority wa s enough to overcome some strong individual performances by Sigma Nu for a 26-15 win. Bob Fedderoff of Sigma Nu won the freestyle in 38.5 with Jeff Crunden and Jack Melchior of DU second and third, re spectively. Butch Weaver won the back stroke for DU in 49.0 and Dave Olympian May Join New York Rangers MINNEAPOLIS (JP) Jack McCartan, goaltending hero of Uncle Sam's olympic hockey champions, says he is definitely interested in joining the New York Rangers this week. ENGINEERS Building a City's future re quires young, vigorous minds as well as concrete and steel. You are looking for a chal lenge to your ability. Detroit is looking for the ability that can meet the challenge of tomor row. Graduates in Engineering we would like to tlk to you about both our futures. See your Placement Officer or write Ralph Mueller Detroit Civil Service Commievion 612 City-County Building Detroit 26, Michigan, ilk I. WNW* Totem Co.. Wiestorredyi. N. O. Young splashed to a 53.5 victory in the breaststroke. Kevin Crowe racked up a 20.3 total in winning the diving for Sigma Nu. DU's Dick Hammond finished a close second with 17 points. Fiitz Crombie of Sigma Nu was third Grunden. Melehoir, Hammond and Bud Albright took the med ley relay for DU in 1:08.3. Yankees Sign Three, Montle Holding Out ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. RI Outfielders Roger Maris and Hec tor Lopez, along with first base man Kent Hadley. signed with the New York Yankees yesterday, cutting the holdout list to five. Maris and Lopez each got raises and both will collect about $lB,OOO. Hadley will earn $9,000. Outfielder Mickey Mantle is No. 1 on the remaining holdout list. It also includes pitcher Ryne Duren, infielders Tony Kubek, Andy Ca rey and rookie outfielder Kent Hunt. 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