PAGE SIX Nittany Lions Seek Eastern Mat Title By JOHNNY BLACK Sixteen teams and a host of individual stars will seek Eastern wrestling titles today and tomorrow at the 56th an nual EIWA championships at Princeton, N J. E'oui 1 minds are on tap for the title aspirants in the grueling 2- clav session The preliminaries start this afternoon at 1 o’clock. Qiiaiter-l'inals will be run off to night at 8 The semi-finals and finals will take place tomorrow mi the same 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. sihcdule Pitt, Cornell. Lehigh, and Penn State are expected to dom inate the team scoring, while three defending champs—Dave Auble of Cornell, Larry Lauchle of Pitt and Art Baker of Syra cuse head the list of individual stars. Lehigh is the defending team champion, but will have to rely on sophomores if it hopes to re tain the ciovvit. The Engineers! lost all three of their title-holders'feated in dual-meet competition last year. ithis year. Seekler compiled a Sl;ite was a surpiise vunnerup 9-0-1 record, wrestling at both to Lehigh last spring, scoiing 511157 and 167. Barone posted an points The Nittanies produced|B-0-2 slate at 177 and Oberly was no individual champions but had 9-0-1 in the unlimited weight thiee runners-up Sam Minor, iclass. Dnntiv Johnston and Johnston! State wound up first in league Oberly. j competition this year with a Minor lost an 11-3 decision in the finals to Lehigh's John j Driscoll, Johnston finished sec- ! ond to Lauchle at 130 and Ob- ] erly bowed, 4-2, to Baker. i Minor and Oberly get another shot this year. The rest of the Lion entry, as; announced by Coach Charlie Spei-j del, includes seniors Gordie Danksi at 130, Guy Guccione at 137 and Hank Barone at 177; junior Jerry) Seckler at 167; and sophs Tony! Scordo, 123, Ron Pifer, 157, and Phil Myer 191. I Three of the Lions are unde-i Collegian Boots One , Bedenk Takes Loss There's never a dull moment with baseball coach Joe Bedenk and his colorful Penn State gas-house gang, Take yesterday for example, it was a natural. Due. to a pressman’s error, what should have been Bedenk’s picture wound up as pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch in Thursday morning's Collegian. Bedenk didn’t hear the end of|»n the morning. When I got up to it. and its probable that he won't hiy office there it was right on foi quite a while. ■ the door.” The ribbing and practice start- J * * * ed simultaneously yesterday at i All kidding aside, though, we'd! the Penn State training camp jhke to take this opportunity tol located in the northeast corner , express our apologies to Bedenk! of the ice skaling rink. ;and Moiseiwitsch and by the "Hoy coach. - ’ Captain Dick Lnn- f. race ?/, the pressman we hope dis shouted, "where's your violin.! 1 * won * happen again you didn’t forget it did you' > "j “Violin,” someone else shouted,! ‘‘that guy played the piano.” j H. Cornell Beans, baseball clown and catcher extraordinary from; State College, was next on the! Mciif, and he had a big equipmentji bag slung over his shoulder. i "I got your instruments in , here." he said to Bedenk "and 1 there's some music too." , “It’s been like that all day,”, Bedenk said, “but I don’t mind it I never thought so many peo-) pie knew who I was. All it takes'i is one error and they'll find out.; “I knew about it first thing, Villanova Tops Detroit in Opening NIT Game NEW YORK (/P) Villanova needed two free throws by George Raveling with 21 seconds to play for an 88-86 victory over Detroit last night in the opener of a double-header tipping off the 23rd' National Invitational Tourna-; ment. Providence beat Memphis Slate. 71-70, in the second game.; The Wildcats go into the quarter-finals against second-, seeded Utah State Saturday. That will be on national television! NBC-TV 4 p.m. (EST). J JOHNSTON OBERLY . . Lions’ best hope it ★ ★ 6-0-1 mark, followed closely by Pitt with 4-0-1. The two rivals battled to a 14-14 standoff in a | thrilling dual meet at Rec Hall ! two weeks ago. For this reason many observers discount Lehigh’s sophs and Cor nell’s strongmen and predict a [two-team race between the Pan thers and Lions for the eastern tournament laurels. | In addition to defending champ iLauchle, who will run into trou ble with Auble at 130, Pitt has [four other potential champs. Dick Martin, 123, Daryl Kelvington, By SANDY PADWE THE LAUNDERETTE 210 West College Ave. Tel. AD 8-9442 9 lbs. laundry washed and dried 65c free soap and bleach washed only 35 cents Hours: 7:30 to 5:30, Wed. and Sat. close at 4 TOM & JERRY'S SUB SHOPPES THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA ★ ★ ★ maker of the PHILADELPHIA STEAK SANDWICH and the ever popular 15” SUB corner of S. Atherton and W. Beaver Over Hot Delivery . . Call AD 8-0596 137, John Zolikoff, 147, and Tom Hall, 191, should all be among the seeded entries. State will counter Pitt’s bid j with Scordo, Guccione, Minor and Myer. In the dual meet Pitt won all of these matches except the Kelvinglon-Gucci one bout which was a draw. ! The Lions will have lo count on Oberly if they are to gain the edge. Cornell has strong entries in; Auble, Phil Oberlander, 177, and! A 1 Marion, 167. Lehigh’s top threat is captain Thad Turner, 167, with Bob Gunst, 147, Curt Alexander, 137, Dave Angeil, 157, and Jim Detrixhe. 177, also highly rated. j Lehigh is tied with Penn State for the lead in the number of team championships won through out the history of the EIWA. Each has captured the team title 13 times. The Lions last won the crown in 1957. That victory ended a 4- year dearth after State had held sway for three years from 1951- 53. State won its first EIWA title in 1918 in its first year of compe tition. NCAA Tourney Moves Into 2nd Round Tonight By HUGH FULLERTON JR. Associated Press Sports Writer Oscar Robertson begins his third and final effort to win the na tional collegiate basketball cham-l pionship for the University of Cincinnati tonight. The “Big O” is the most widely known and probably the most [skilled of about 160 players who I will engage in the second stage of NCAA tournament action on four fronts. If he isn't the most skilled. West Virginia's Jerry West de serves the designation. But they're not far above three or four other outstanding players who help man the 16 teams. Four regional tournaments to night and tomorrow will reduce the field to four teams which will! play in the final rounds at San! Francisco March 18-19. The line-! up goes this way, Tonight: East, at Charlotte, N.C.: West Virginia (25-4) vs. New York University (20-3), Duke (16- 10) vs St. Joseph’s (20-5). Mideast, at Louisville, Ky.: Ohio University (17-7) vs. Geor gia Tech (21-5), Western Ken tucky (20-6) vs. Ohio Stale I (21-3). I Midwest, at Manhattan, Kan.: Texas (18-6) vs. Kansas (19-8), Depaul (16-6) vs. Cincinnati (21-5). Far West, at Seattle: Califor nia (25-1) vs. Santa Clara (21-8), Oregon (18-9) vs. Utah (25-2). Friday night’s winners will dash in the regional finals tomor row while the losers will meet in consolation games. the TOURNEY MAY BE TOUGH FOR "BALANCED" LIONS The Nittany Lion grapplers roared-through the dual meet season undefeated, racking up one of their best seasons in recent years, but they will have more than a little trouble in trying to add the Eastern crown to their list of laurels this weekend. The Lions disposed of all course rather handily and al-j lowed only two victims to come! within seven points. Indeed, the! Lions registered a staggering total! of 206 points to 67 for their op-1 position. I Coach Charlie Speidel was ! blessed with a "well-balanced" [ team. There was strength in ev- ! ery weight class and no indivi dual star stood out above the others. It was a great team for dual meets. But in a tourna ment things are different. Tournaments are catered more! to the individual star. The winner] ;in each weight class scores 10! points for his team. Second place I is worth seven points, third place, four, and fourth place, two. [ In addition, each time a wrest-i 'ler advances to the next round by [winning a decision he scores one [team point. If he advances on a [fall or default ,he scores two team points. Thus the emphasis is on the individual stars who can grab the top places in each weight class. These are the boys who are going to add most heavily to their team’s score. Therefore, it is conceivable that a team with a couple out standing boys, such as Syracuse with Art Baker, Les Austin and Harry Poliak, could amass more points than a team like Penn Slate with nine good men, each of whom may go far without taking a top spot. Another factor that can affect team scoring is the procedure of “seeding.” The top four men in each weight class, according to previous record,' are spaced throughout the bracket so that they will not meet until the. semi final and final rounds. This, and it is only right, gives the top-rated men a chance to score more points by advancing through the rounds, rather than slitting each other’s throat at the beginning. The Nittanies’ balance will cer tainly not be a detriment in the eastern tournament but the more important test will be, how strong is this balance in each Tmportant We know that careful companion will ihow that Travel and Cultural Exchange offers a unique opportunity tor enjoying Europe at an unusually low. rate • • • • See Europe as few travelers see it. Once again the Famous Student European Tour . 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Stale's best bet for taking an individual title is probably hea vyweight Johnston Oberly. The bouncing 25G-pound junior is unbeaten this year and pinned 7 of the 10 men he faced. Pitt's Bob Guzik was the only man to give the "Big O" a workout and Oberly looked worse that night than any other night of the year. Sam Minor is another potential champ at 147. Three tough men loom in his way, however, two of whom he has beaten before. Lehigh’s Bob Gunst (9-1-1) who bowed to Minor in a dual meet !this year and F&M’s Neil DeLo [zier (8-1), who lost to the Nittany captain in last year’s EIWA semi ifinals, are two of the top threats. |The other is Pitt’s John Zolikoff, jwho switched Minor in the last 116 seconds to gain a 4-3 win two i weeks ago. | Hank Barone should fare well at 177 where the other three top | boys are Cornell’s Phil Oberland |er (7-0-2), whom Barone held to ja draw, Army’s A 1 Rushatz (8-1) and Jim Detrixhe of Lehigh. Bar jone did not meet Rushatz or De- Itrixhe during the regular season. .Rushatz was beaten by Thad .Turner of Lehigh and Detrixhe .lost to Oberlander. I It should be an old-fashioned I dog figKT at 137 between Lea Austin of Syracuse, Tom Grifa, Rutgers, Daryl Kelvinglon, Pitt, Curt Alexander, Lehigh, and Stale's Guy Guccione. Guccione beat Grifa, tied Kel vington and Alexander and lost to Austin this year. He rates Grifa and Austin on a par but says he has more trouble with Austin, an old high school buddy from Long Island. But Guccione’s tour nament record is better than his dual-meet slate and this may be significant. Phil Myer may go far at 191, but stands little chance of win- (Continued on page seven) TOUR PRICE IKCUIOESI Write of call, Open Daily 9:30-5:30'• Sat. 10-4 by Johnny Black Assistant Sports Editor
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