PAGE SIX
Flying Rings Discontinued
In Eastern Dual Meets
By JIM KARL
Right now Jerry Schaefer
probably feels like a cowboy
without a horse.
The Lion gymnast was one
of the best flying ringmen in
Penn State history. That's right,
was.
For Schaefer, a junior who
still has one more year of eli
gibility, the circus is over.
No' more will he be the man
on the flying trapeze who thrills
the packed houses at Rec Hall—
the flying rings have gone out of
style.
Gene Wettstone, head of the
National Rules Committee and
Schaefer's coach, said Monday
that the flying rings, along with
tumbling and rope climbing,
will be discontinued in Eastern
dual meets starting next year.
The flying rings also will be
dropped in the nationals as will
rope climbing after one more
year. No national ruling was made
on tumbling.
Replacing these, three events
will be free exercise, still rings
and the long horse vault, which
along with parallel bars, hori
zontal bars and side horse com
prise the six Olympic AD-Around
events.
The changes governing eastern
competition actually were made
at a coaches' meeting during the
Eastern Intercollegiate Cham
pionships at Navy, March 3-4.
But Schaefer didn't find out
about the change until Sunday,
the day after he finished fourth
Nittanies Hope for Comeback
Against Undefeated Lehigh
By JOHN MORRIS
The only good thing about making eight errors in one
game is that it probably won't happen again.
At least Penn State baseball coach Joe Bedenk hopes it
won't happen to the Lions.
State played errorless ba
Gettysburg last week.
But Saturday the Lions couldn't
do anything right. The Nittany
nine booted the ball around to
hand Villanova a 9-6 win as Be
denk watched in horror.
"I don't know what happened,"
Bedenk said, "but I know we
can't afford another one like that.
"We'll just stick with our boys
and see what happens," Bedenk
said. "But Lehigh is pretty rough."
The Engineers bring an un
blemished record into tomorrow
afternoon's contest. The game is
scheduled for 3:30 on Beaver
Lehigh boasts wins over Swarth
more (12-3), Wagner (3-2), and
Bucknell (4-3).
Coach Tony Packer was faced
with the problem of replacing his
ace righthander Craig Anderson
when the season opened. Ander
son is now in the St. Louis Car
dinal chain,
'However, Bob Meyer and Dick
Ross have come along for the
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in the NCAA finals at Champaign,
111.
"It had been in the air for a
long time but I wasn't sure,"
Schaefer said yesterday. "Every
body at the nationals kept asking
me what I was going to do next
year, but the question of dropping
the flying rings comes up every
year and I didn't know there was
anything definite."
Schaefer, everybody's favo
rite to win the title before the
tourney started. suffered a break
1 in its 3-2 opening win over
Engineers and either could get the
call tomorrow.
The outfield is pretty well set
With team captain Pete Jeffers
in right, veteran Dave Seitz in
left and sophomore Bob Gifford
in center.
Lehigh has one of the top third
sackers in the East in John High
!field. A good gloveman, Highfield
!also led the Engineers in batting
;last year with a .289 average.
1 Packer can go with either Dave
iUsilton or Bob Rutledge at first.
Usilton is a sophomore and Rut
ledge played part time last year.
Two sophomores, Walt King at,
second and Pete Bennett at short,
make up the Engineers' keystone'
;combination. Veteran Don Kane!
wilLbe behind the plate.
'Non-Pennsylvanian
Second baseman Bart Brodkin
is the only member of Penn
State's baseball squad who doesn't
live in Pennsylvania. He's from
Iselin, N.J.
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in the finals Saturday and
dropped to fourth place.
In four previous encounters
with Navy's Frank Snay, the
eventual winner, he had never
been beaten. _
With his airborne days in the
past, Schaefer plans to concen
trate on the still rings, but there
is one complicating factor—he has
bad shoulders.
The still rings require much
more strength than their swing
ing cousins, and Schaefer doesn't
know if his shoulders will hold
up under the Wain.
"There are times when I can't
even stand it to hang on the fly
ing rings," he said. "I'm going to
give it a try but I can't say how
things will turn out because of
my shoulders."
If his shoulders hold up, Wett
stone thinks Schaefer can make
the transition. "A boy like Schae
fer may set a new pattern on the
still rings .not seen in the past
decade," the veteran coach said.
"Schaefer's freedom of move
ment, his grace and marvelous
balance, will enable him to do
things on the still rings that no
body else has done," Wettstone
said.
Celtics Win
NBA Crown
BOSTON—The Boston Celtics
are making a habit of winning
the pro basketball championship.
The Celtics won their third
straight title last night and their
fourth in five
years with a 121-
112 victory over
the St. Louis
Hawks.
Center Bill
Russell paced the
Celtics with 30
points End 28 re
bounds.
Boston held a
slim 62-61 half
time edge, but
reeled off eight
straight points Bfll Russell
at the start of the third quarter
Tom Heinsohn tallied 19 for the
Celtics while veteran Bob Cousy
had 18. and Sam Jones and Frank
Ramsey 16 apiece. Cliff Hagan
was high for the Hawks with 26
and Bob Pettit netted 24.
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Same Old
Bucs Win
SAN FRANCISCO (W) Bill Virdon slammed a three
run homer with two out in the ninth inning yesterday, boost
ing the 1960 world baseball champion Pittsburgh Pirates to an
8-7 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
An opening day throng of 41,423 watched the Pirates
rally after their first two batters'
went down in the final frame.
Then pinch hitters Dick Scho
field doubled and Dick Stuart
walked. Lefty Mike McCor
mick relieved Stu Miller for
the Giants and Virdon smashed
McCormick's first pitch over
the right field fence at Candle
stick Park.
The victory went to Elroy Face,
the Pirates' veteran reliever who
was their third pitcher.
Until the ninth, the Giants were
in command. Orlando Cepeda
knocked in three runs, Willie Mc-
Covey two and they hit successive
solo homers in the fifth. •
NEW YORK (/P) Home runs
by Bob Allison and Reno Bertoia
plus Pedro Ramos' shutout pitch
ing and hitting got the Minnesota
Twins away to a flying start in
their American League debut
yesterday with a 6-0 victory,oVer
the New York Yankees.
Ramos and Whitey Ford were
locked in a scoreless battle un
til the Twins, the old Washing
ton Senators, broke loose with
three runs in the seventh
inning.
MILWAUKEE (JP) St. Louis
shortstop Daryl Spencer cracked
Warren Spahn's first pitch in the
10th inning for a homer boosting
the Cardinals to a 2-1 victory over
the Milwaukee Braves yesterday
in a National League opener.
' Spencer's blast dealt Spahn
a heartbreaking loss before a
chilled crowd of 33,327.
BALTIMORE (IP) Ted Klu
szewski socked homers in his first
two times at bat yesterday to ac
count for a total of five runs in
powering the Los Angeles Angels
to a victorious 7-2 American
League debut over the Baltimore
Orioles.
Bob Cery smacked a home run
right behind Kluszewski in the
first inning and Albie Pearson sin
gled in the other run in the sec
ond to complete the Los Angeles
scoring.
Veteran Coaches
Joe Bedenk will celebrate his
31st season as Penn State base
ball coach this spring, track coach
Chic Werner his 28th.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12. 1961
Ending,
in Ninth
MAJOR
LEAGUES
By The Associated Press
National League
W. L.
Cincinnati 1 0
St. Louis 1 0
Pittsburgh --- 1 0
x-Los Angeles 0 0
x-Philadelphia 0 0
Chicago ..0 1
Milwaukee 0 1
San Francisco 0 1
x—Play night game.
American League
W. .L,
Chicago -... 1 ' 0
Los Angeles 1 0
Minnesota 1 0
Clevelaud 1 0
Kansas City 1 0
New York 0 1
Detroit 0 1
Boston 0 1-
Washington
Baltimore
9 1 .000 1
0 1 .000 1
Probable Pitchers
(1060 won-lost records In parentheses)
American League
Los Angeles, Garver (4-9) at Baltimore.
Barber (10-7), night
Chicago, Pierce (14-7) at Washington,
Daniels (1-3). night
Only games
National Lost(we
Pittsburgh. Law (20-9) at San Fran
cisco, Loea 13-2)
Philadelphia, Sullivan (1-16) at, Las
Angeles, Podres (14-12), night
Only games
A's Trip Boston, 5-2
BOSTON (IP) Kansas City
was staked to four unearned runs
by a chilled and uncertain Boston
infield yesterday and went on to
beat the Red Sox 5-2 in each
team's American League opener.
Pitcher Ray Herbert, who op
erated effectively for six innings,
drove in a pair of runs both
unearned in the second. The
A's pushed the lead to 4-1 in the
sixth and were home safe.
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