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Lions Enter NCAA
Mat T ourney T oday
By JOHNNY BLACK
The Nations 1 Collegiate,
Athletic Association wrestling 1
tournament, which will signal|
the end of the mat season for]
Penn State, opens today at 2
ji.m. in the spacious University'
of Mai,viand field house.
Tin 1 first round piehminanes
v.ill be nm off thus afternoon and
tlie second session will start at 7‘30
tnmi'ht
The top grapplers, entered
from colleges across the country,
will have to fight through six
grueling rounds in the three
day tourney before the cham
pions are determined Saturday
night.
Penn State and Pitt, co-winners
of the KlYv’A tournament at
Pnncelon two weeks ago, carry
tlie hopes of the East into the com
petition dial has traditionally been
dominated bv Southwest schools.
Oklahoma State and Oklahoma,
fil'd and second place winners for
the last two years, are favored
to retain then monopoly on the
learn tioplnes in the 30th annual
festival
The OSU Cowboys wrapped
up their 31st undefeated season
in 40 years' competition by post
ing a 14-0 record this winter.
Two of the dual meet wins were
14-11 decisions over the Okla
homa Sooners. but the Sooners
reversed the tables by taking the
Big 8 tourney championship by
a 10-point margin over the Cow
boys.
Oklahoma State holds a wide
_Jend in team titles, having cap
tured the NCAA crown 21 times.
Penn State’s only national
ciown came in 1953 here at Rec
Hall when Hudson Samson won
the 191-pound title to lead the
host team to victory.
Nitfany coach Charlie Speidel
doesn't expect his club to be a
threat for the learn title this
year in spite of their undefeat
ed dual-meet record and first
place lie in the easterns.
The Lions’ balance which was
the most important factor in their
successful season carries little ef
fect m the national competition
where the point totals are slanted
heavily toward the the top indi
vidual place winners.
The Nitlanics, however, are still
rated along with lowa State Mi
chigan and Pitt to round out the
top five behind the Southwest
powers.
F’our individual champions will
be back to defend their titles at
Maryland.
Dave Auble, Cornell's unbeat
en 3-time Eastern 123-pound
champ, Stan Abel, twice winner
Walk in First inning
Ru ; ns Perfect Game
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (/P)
A fir.st-inning base on balls cost
two rookie right-handers a perfect
game yesterday as the New York
Yankees topped the Philadelphia
Phillies, 4-0. Johnny James and
Bill Bethel collaborated on the
no-lntter.
James walked the third batter,
Johtmv Callison, the Phils' lone
base ninner.
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★A★★ ★ ★ !
of the Big 8 title and holder of to Ellis in the semi-finals last
a 17-1 record this year at 130, year.
and two lowa State title-hold- i Seniors Guy Guccione, 137, and
ers, Larry Hayes. 137, and Ron Sam Minor, 147, and Hank Bar-
Gray, 147, will fight again for 'one, 167, are the other highly rat
the trophies they won last year, led contenders for the Lions.
Art Baker, Syracuse’s 191-1 Guccione took a third-place rib
pound titlist and Ted Ellis. Okla- bon in the Easterns this year and
homa State heavyweight, will re- 1 lost only once in the dual meet
linquish their crowns without de-'campaign.
fense. Minor, the Nittanies' captain.
Baker, who underwent kneej got la the consolation semi-fi
surgery this winter, has passed up; nals in the NCAA's last year and
wrestling for football, and Ellis is* look second at the Easterns' this
academically ineligible. 1 year.
The absence of Ellis elevated j Barone had an 8-0-2 record in
State's Johnston Oberly to one ithe 177-pound class this winter
of the prime contender spots for and has dropped to the lighter
the unlimited title. Oberly lost 'weight for the national tournev.
Meeting Coiled to Pfan iPirates Bomb Cards, 6-4
New Pro Cage Circuit {Stuart Clouts 2-Run HR
; CHICAGO (/P) Preliminaryj FORT MYERS, Fla. (/P)—The
'discussions on possible formation!Pittsburgh Pirates bombed three
,of a new professional basketball's*.. Louis Cardinal pitchers for 14
league will be held here today.[hits and a 6-4 victory yesterday.
Owner Abe Saperstein of the| Highlighting the Pirate hitting
Harlem Globetrotters called thejattaek was Dick Stuart’s two-run
meeting “just to expound views homer in the first inning after Bob
and see if its feasible to get to- skinner had cracked a double
gether ... , 'into right-center field.
Besides the independent Globe-j
trotters, Saperstein owns a parti
jof the Philadelphia Warriors ofl
i the lone current pro cage circuit, i
j the National Basketball Assn
Cities to be represented at thel
meeting, or which have expressed!
interest in a new pro circuit in-j
elude Washington, D.C, Ne\w
York, Buffalo, Cleveland. Los An-;
geles, Portland, San Francisco,. 1
Baltimore, Toledo, Honolulu, Kan
sas City and Chicago.
Invites Ph.D. Degree Candidates
in electrical engineering, mathematics, physios,
mechanical engineering, statistics ami physical chemistry
Messrs. G. C. Anthony, G. K. Brock and G. E. Simajtis
Representatives of IBM Research and Development Laboratories
on march 38, 39 & SO
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
★ ★ ★
Guy Guccione
IBM.
to meet
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League A
Alpha Rho Chi 3. Alpha Chi Sis 1
ATO 3. Alpha Phi Delta I
DTD 3. Delta Phi 1
rhi Mu Delta 4. Sigma Chi 0
Delta Theta Sir 3, Tau Phi Delta 1
.Beta Theta Pi 3. Lambda Chi Alpha 1
—Grandstand Views
Last year they were saying that Penn State basketball
was a lost art. That’s wrong. Penn State’s athletic administra
tion is the lost art.
From Old Main to Rec Hal
tors may be, they've created a
! State basketball the laughing;
’stock of the country.
How? It's simple. Football pays
the bills, therefore football is
king and everyone knows how
demanding a hungry king can be.
Because football is king, it gets
most of the money allotted for
intei collegiate athletics around
here.
As a result the other sports are
suffering, despite a "helping
hand,” and basketball seems to be
suffering the most.
Penn Stale's aid program is
divided into three different
parts, the athletic budget given
by the University, the Levi
Lamb Fund (alumni donations)
and the work program sponsored
by the Department of Physical
Education and Athletics.
In many cases an athlete’s help
comes from a combination of the
After football gets its take,
track comes next followed by
basketball, wrestling, baseball and
gymnastics. The other sports re
ceive financial help too.
Football, of course, gets the
highest percentage and track is
nearly 70 per cent lower. You can
, figure out what the rest get.
This is a serious problem that
will lake a few years and some
big football crowds to straighten
out. but by then It might be too
late.
The argument from the higher
echelons is that there just isn’t
enough money to suit everyone.
But we argue that the percentage
can be divided differently without
hurting football too much.
The extra money would benefit
any team, especially the bask
etball squad.
Track, gymnastics and wres
tling have been pulling in the
trophies regularly with their fi
nancial help, but in the basketball
field, Penn State’s aid is almost
worthless.
It all boils down to the fact that
the track, wrestling and gym
teams win because their help is
sufficient in their individual fields
But basketball recruiting it
as tough as football and the
competition for top-flight boys
1 is just as demanding.
\ John Egli doesn’t have much to
| offer and the big name stars go
.where they get the best deal.
jWe’re not calling for an overem
phasis, we’re only suggesting that
more help be given to basketball
iso Egli will have a fighting chance
Ito land some of the better boys.
Penn State can hold its head
high because it has never been in
volved in any “dirty recruiting”
like the cases at Southern Cal,j
Auburn and UCLA in football, and
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Let's Help The
Basketball Team
11 or wherever the administra
situation that has. made Penn
North Carolina State in basket
bail.
There is no need for that, but
a better proportioned financial
set-up would go a long way to
ward improving things.
If this can’t be done there are
other measures that could be
taken. One would be to swallow
some pride and move into the
Middle Atlantic Cage Conference.
That way those "sure losses"
that dot the Penn Slate schedule
. would be avoided and the team
would be playing competition of
its own calibre.
A look at this year’s .record
proves this point. The Lions were
6-2 against Middle Atlantic foes
and 5-9 against other competition,
including such powers as West
Virginia, Navy, North Carolina
State and Purdue.
Since football crowds pav a lot
of expenses, there’s a drastic way
that basketball could pay for it
self too.
State could always play its
“big” home games against West
Virginia, Pitt and Syracuse at
the Farm Show Arena in Harris
burg or the Jaffa Mosque in Al
toona.
Or maybe they could even
play in doubleheaders with
Pitt and Duquesne in Pitts
burgh.
Sure the students would
scream, but most of them never
go to a game anyway. When they
do go it’s only to boo or because
wrestling or gymnastics is on the
other half of the program.
That's pretty severe, but it’s the
truth, and the Penn State players
and coaches deserve a better fate.
Maybe heln is coming and may
be it’s not, but it’s a downright
shame to sit in different press
rows and hear the remarks.
Typical is one made bv George
[Kiscda, basketball writer for the
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph.
Kiseda, who has seen them all,
watched Mark DuMars come off
the floor after fouling out against
Pitt. Shaking his head in disbelief,
he said, “If DuMars played at a
school where they didn’t consider
basketball a bush-league sport,
he’d be an All-American.”
Graham to Get Post
As Athletic Director
NEW LONDON. Conn. UP)
Cmdr. Otto Graham will become
director of athletics at Coast
Guard Academy at the close of
the academic year in June.
Graham, the former Cleveland
Browns football star, will succeed
Capt. John H. Forney. Graham
will continue in the post of head
jfootball coach, which he assumed
lin February 1959.
By Sandy Padw*
Collegian Sports Editor