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 , * * *
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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
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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.
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"easterns outlook bright"
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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."
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The best tobacco makes the best smoke!
Chi
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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.
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well as concrete and steel.
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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.
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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
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