FRIDAY. MARCH 3. 1961
Grandstand Views
During the winter months, the back room of Frankie
Gustine's Pittsburgh beanery is inhabited by a dieting P.R.
man named Carroll Hoff Cook and his basketball writing
friends.
Between mouthfuls of waffles and wheaties, Cook re
ports that Mark DuMars, Penn State’s basketball captain, has been
a hot conversational piece of late.
It all started at one of the back-room sessions when someone
asked Lenny Litman if he would draft DuMars for his Pittsburgh
entry in the new American Basketball League.
"Never heard of him," barked the baggy-eyed promoter.
"Never heard of him?" came a roar from the assemblage.
Cook, although he is Pitt’s sports publicity director, also is an Paul Winder.
astute judge of basketball talent and could not believe his ears. Track coach Chick Werner
So he went to his office in the Pitt Field House and in the! W a a _ n p^ 4 J° A l }. 16 * Melz *
i gar m the 600 and Dick Camp
great tradition of peaceful co-existence sat down at his tvDewnter.: bell j n jh e high jump but he
“If Lenny Litman hasn’t heard of Mark DuMars, it’s apparent; was turned down,
somebody doesn’t know a good basketball player.” Cook wrote. ' “I requested Metzgar for the
"This kid is dying to play in Pittsburgh. If Litman is smart ar ! cl Campbell for the high
he will get DuMars. He s the best backcourt player to appear in the , g(?t some expe rience for the
Field House all year. ,104 A’s,” Werner said.
“His passing was of the fantastic variety. If he had any luckj He said the lineups for Ihe
he would have been an All-American.” Imeet were announced at a sports-
The Pittsburgh writers picked up Beano's words of wisdom
and Wednesday night when State played Carnegie Tech in Pitts
burgh there was Litman seated in the front row.
He had been convinced by halftime and then headed to the
Field House to watch St. Bonaventure’s All-American Torn Stith.
Before he left, he had plenty to say about DuMars. the All-
American who never was.
"He's the kind of guy we're looking for," Litman said. "He
has everything but size. But then size doesn’t matter in our league
because of the three-point rule for outside shooting." (The Ameri
can League plans to give three points for any basket scored from
21 or more feet.)
DuMars, a tricky ball-handler and a dead-eye from the out
side, would like to give pro basketball a whirl.
West Virginia Coach George King, a former NBA star with the
Syracuse Nats and Cincinnati Royals, thinks DuMars has a good
chance to make the big time.
‘•The kid can shoot well, he's smart and is a tremendous play
maker," King said. “He definitely has the moves for it.
“Whether or not he makes it in the NBA would depend on
the club. I think he would be better off in the new league. They
don't give a little guy much of a chance in the NBA anymore.
“It should just be a question of his size (5-10, 150). The pros
play an awfully tough schedule."
DuMars seems to prefer the new league over the NBA.
"I would like to play for the new hasketball franchise in
Pittsburgh. I heard Don Hennon might play and I would love to
play on the same team. He’s one of the best,” DuMars said.
“I figured I didn’t have much of a chance when I read the
owner never heard of me but I really want to play professional
basketball.”
Lenny Litman knows about Mark DuMars now, the rest is up
to him
Russian Hockey Team W
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (/P)
—A sharp-shooting, hard-check
ing Russian team overpowered
the flu-riddled and battered Unit
ed States’ defending champion
13-2 yesterday before a crowd of
13,500 in the first round of the
World Ice Hockey Champion
ships.
The Russian sextet scored five
goals in each of the first two pe-
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’allops U.S., 13-2
riods in coasting to victory. The
United States averted a shutout
with a pair of goals in the third
period.
The United States won the
Olympic and world championship
last winter at Squaw Valley, Calif.
Only three members of that squad
played in yesterday’s game
against the Russians.
RUSHING SMOKER
THETA XI
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Relay Team,
Norman Will
Run Tonight
Penn State sophomore Ger
ry Norman and a two mile re-
lay team composed of Don Da
vies, Howie Deardorff, Mike
Miller, and Steve Moorhead
will run in Madison Square
Garden tonight in the 42nd an
nual New York Knights of Col
iumbus Meet.
| Bob Brown, another Lion en
trant, had to withdraw because of
:the death of his grandmother.
Brown won the tiO-yard dash in
the K of C meet last year, defeat
ing national A.A.U. champion
writer’s luncheon on Monday and
that no changes could be made
after that date.
When asked what section
State’s two mile relay would run
in, Werner replied, “There’s only
one the hot one.”
The Lion quartet will run
against Manhattan's world rec
ord-holding team and Holy Cross,
the national A.A.U. champion.
The Jaspers ran a 7:32.8 in
the Millrose Games to set a new
world indoor mark, then Holy
Cross edaed them for the A.A.U.
title in the Garden last week.
Fordham, St. John’s, Villanova
and NYU also have entered teams.
Ed Moran, a former Lion star
now doing graduate work at the
University, will defend his title in
the Columbian Mile.
Moran finished 12 yards ahead
of Georgetown’s Bob Vinton to
win in 4:11.8 last year. Istvan
Rozsavolgyi of Hungary, Evgeni
Momotkov of Russia, Deacon
Jones of the U.S. Army and Ter
ry Sullivan of Rhodesia will op
pose Moran.
Lion G-Men-
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Temple, Francis Snav and Jim
Sloat and Weiner of Temple.
Wettstone also said that George
Sayre and Kenny Morrow have a
chance to reach the finals in their
specialties.
Morrow, a steady junior, has
been pressing Weiss and Seward
for p-bars honors all season.
‘‘He could reach the finals,”
Wettstone said, “and he might
even place.”
Sayre, who performs on the
side horse, is only a sophomore,
but Wettstone is enthused about
his progress.
‘‘George is strong and should
be in the finals if he hits his
routine,” the veteran coach com
mented.
FRATERNITY
507 LOCUST LANE
UPI Honors DuMars, Harris ;
Lions End Season Tomorrow
Mark DuMars and Gene Harris, Penn Slate’s leading
scorers, have received honorable mention All-American hon
ors from United Press International.
This is the third straight year DuMarshas received such
honors but it marks the first for Harris.
After 23 games, Harris leads the Lion scorers with 342
points in 23 games, an average : ~
of 14.9 per game. -i j j
DuMars, who missed two CICISS6S SUSDOnCIGCI
games due to a flu attack two _ . ~
weeks ago, has scored 323 points Aft© l’ UUKGS Win
in 21 games for a 15.3 average.
The Lion captain is the second PITTSBURGH Wh Classes
leading scorer in Penn State his- Duquesne University were
tory with 1128 points. called off yesterday so students
He closes out his Penn State could celebrate their basketball
career tomorrow against Rutgers team's 79-74 victory over St.
in the second half of a wrestling- Bonaventure.
basketball twinbill at Rec Hall. The overtime triumph
Harris is Wednesday night heightened
junior and U \ fans' hopes that the Dukes, de
coach John E ) spile their 12-7 record, might
is predicting get a bid to the National Invita
things for 1 i tion Tournament.
Pittsburgh 1 1 The D u k es play Fordham in
live next ver ; New York Saturday and an im«
The Lions ( pressive win could help their
13) 1 0 s t a ‘ cause considerably,
chances for ! The NIT has selected nine
winning sea: | teams, including Niagara, an
when they drc j 87-77 upset victor over the
ped a 70-57 c 1 Bonnies last Saturday In Oleen,
cision to Car- u«»« **«">* | N.Y.
negie Tech in Pittsburgh Wednes-;
day.
“We just didn’t have it," Egli
groaned after the game. "I guess
we gave too much against Tem
ple the night before.”
Egli was referring to Penn
State’s 63-56 upset victory over
Harry Litwack’s HIT entrants in
Rec Hall Tuesday.
23 Cam# Statistics (10-13)
G Fg F . l*ln.
Harris 23 143 56 342
DuMara 21 114 95 323
Mitchell 23 117 39 273
Truehlnod _.23 91 60 244
Hoffman 22 79 19 177
Phillip? ...21 32 11 7 n
Wilson 11 15 0 30
StHub (i 2 3 7
Serafin 2 2 9 4
Witmer 5 10 2
Hutchinson __.4 0 1 1
Others 7 1 10 12
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