PAGE SIX Bisons KM lagers" Tourney Hopes, 69.68 i t oit 2 4 4* LOSING CAUSE: John Mitchell {left) and Gene Hurls netted 19 and 17 points respectively for the Lion cagers last night acrainst Bucknell.fsul if went for naught as State dropped a 69-48 decision at LewisiDurg. Last-Second Basket Gives Bucknell Win ' 'LEWISBURG, Pa., Feb. 13—Bill Fry, showboat soph omore who bothered Penn State all night long, dropped the j Lions - out of a possible NCAA Tournament berth wheni he hit a 30-foot push shot with eight seconds left here 'tonight to give Bucknell a 69-68 victory. Fry's shot capped a, hectic game that at times resembled a barroom brawl. and More than once Fry Lion captain Gene Harris eyed each other with mayhem in mind.. l .. HARRIS COULDN ' T find the,his 15 points in the last 10 min bucket early in the game andlutes kept the Lions in the game. didn't get his first field goal un-1 STATE TOOK a 32-2 .7 , advan til 11l minutes remainod . lage into the • dressing room at halftime—but Bucknell with. Fry State fell behind 51-45 withiand Joe Steiner.hitting consistent ina ay and with seven Trunutes - 10 minutes left. The Lions pecked_ly kept pecking away and took the left tied the score at 53 all. lead at 43-42 with a little over 14 minutes left. The lead see-sawed back and' i Fry won the home town , fans' forth the remainder of the game, proval early in the game with with neither team gaining mort ia p- his aggressive pla y, but he almostthan a two-point advantage. .turned into the goat when he Harris regained his touch andelme up against State's half-court F.7epthman Wins Ski Games Slalom t Mitchell was the high scorer fm, - CRAMONDE. Fi - anoe (AP) —' State With 19 points followed by Charles Bozon of France sped:HarriW with 17 and Hoffman with through a howling blizzard in 16. masterly style yesterday to win; STEINER HAD 2I :for Bucknell. the special slaloin race of the l ls of them corning in the second World Ski Games. • shalt Bozon 'was wildly cheered by . . The Lions are new 10-8 and hundreds of supporters w•ho'nave a game against Army at braved the worst weather at a ißec Hall Saturday- Buoknell is major international ski raee in 5-12. ninny years. i PENN STATE U SECVNELI. 63 FC F TP ' EC F TP • THE SNOWSTORM got worselHarrly IS '742 It Steiner 10 1- 321 ~9 , ourt.ti .1. o- o Is Laminas 4 1- 2 1 from ,` Minute to minute as the Mart 1 41- 3 !Laminas '6 0- .2 10 racerp. e ran the two successive(mitawn ~.- s. sID FIT - 7 1- 316 heatS.- 1144111ips 6 1- 2 1114.4estibe 7 0- 0 4 liutch'son 6 1- 2 1 Hester - 16 0- 1 16 ''' Bud Werner of Steamboat . 0 0- t) • Springs, Colo.. and Charles Fez -1 Totals 21 14-24 a Totals 31 1 3-11 61 ries of Houghton. Mich., were in: third and fourth places after the' first heat. But in their second lM Handball Doubles , run they missed gates and werei - Competition in the IM frater tWqualified.. laity handball doubles gets under- Billy Kidd, the 18-year-old new: way tonight on the. Bee Hall comer from Stowe, Vt., was collrt , & ! _ , 7 - eighth and Jim Ileuga of Tahoe: A total of 122 fraternity and 48 'City, Calif., 12th. It was an out t ,lmdependent men have registered 'standing showing for the two coa r lfor the four Week, •single-elimi sidering the world calibre of thelnation tournament. Rules are the 211-mitioa field. isarne is far handball, singles. • By JIM KARL Sports Editor He threw the ball away more than once enabling State to get ilayups and keep close to the Bi sons. , int tAttif COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Swordmen Outsmart Themselves Penn State's fencers were just a little too cagey for their own good Saturday and there in lies the tale of the Nittany swordmen's 14-13 loss to Syra- "We outfoxed gurselves," Lion, coach Dick Klima said yesterday.' "We knew that they - would be expecting our pressing game. So, we switched at the last minute to a slower game, attacking and then retreating land trying to pick them up corning in. Unfor tunately, it didn't work out." KLIMA WAS 'est with. the per- formance of Chick Poole, State's three sabre man who won two of his th . ree bouts. Poole,' a sopho more, lost: only to Marty *Dako, son of the Syra- cure coach. !Toole fenced very well." said. "He showed a big improvement from last week (Poole went 1-2 in State's opening triumph over Johns Hopkins). 1: expect him to really do well in the future." Syracuse coach Alexander . Da ko was pleased with the strong performance of his !veteran epee team. Ed Siedlick and Art Hacker, the top Orange epee men, won five of six bouts between them. Last year Siedlick won the North Atlantic Conference epee title. Hacker was sixth in the. same competition, missing .third place on a count of touches. THERE WERE just three sen iors—all the rest were scrphs— on Syracuse's squad. The Seniors were Siedlick, the Orange cap tain, Hacker and Mike, Shepard, , who won two of Three foil bouts. Larry -.Chamberlain and Art Fuller will take 3-0 records into State's next meet' against Cornell Feb. 24. The Lions were original ly slated to meet Pitt Saturday but the meet was cancelled be cause the Panthers failed to field a team this year, A Schedule Opens April. 3 Penn State'S spring sports sched ule will' eet underway on April 3rd when the- Lions entertain Gettysburg in a baseball game. • • Y rlirfamtlacr. r,VALEn a SPECIAL SPRING - . FLOURS $2.40 . - FREE- FoL 1481 VANDA. ORCHID CORSAGE To The Ilst 200 Walk la Customers WOODRING'S FLOWERS 117 L Berm Aye. (Anew from Put . Offico ' 11456.4 By IBA MILLER number Box of a dozen Lack of Team Depth Hampers Gymriast.s Saturday's 54-42 loss to Army at Wes ably eliminated. Penn State from the racl Intercollegiate Gymnastics League champ Lions are still one of the favorites for the n The EIGL crown is' awarded to- the leaf the best record in league competithin, whe title will be decided in the n querque, NM., next month. Army and Syracuse, who tied in their encounter at Army tw( weeks ago, are the front-runners in the EIGL now, A Penn Stab win over Syracuse this Saturda! would practically clinch the east ern championship for the Cadets. To win a dual meet, a• team must have depth as well as , une or two outstanding performers. But a good showing by a smat number of performers can earn national championship.. • i PENN STATE HAS illustiatet this fact, winning the nationa crown for the last three years while . winning the EIGL {tab only one time. .Coach Gene Wettstone's Lion always boast the top gymnasts in the East, but not alwayS thr team depth necessary to take eastern honors. Not since 1959, and the gym• nastics triumvirate of Armand( iVega, Lee Cunningham and Ja: iWerner, has Penn State been ,able 4 to earn eastern and national 'crowns in the same year. SOME OBSERVERS felt 'that this 'Might be the • year for the Lions to turn the double:tricic but it _was the same old story •at Army Saturday. Team captain Greg *eiss , and junior star Tommy Seward turned in their usual brilliant perform ances, but Army triumphed as several of State's second-line ,per formers failed to hit their rou tines. Seward continued undefeated in . .. , , • , . .. CAMP MENATOMA Ioi,BOYS,- - • ,Kent Hills, Maine Staff Openings for —J Faculty, Graduate and Undergrad uate Students Waterfront Director - (coach or 5 yrs. experience) I , , • Arts • Speci a lty Openinge . In - _-• • • • Awls & Crafts - • Nurse, • Athletics • Photo9raphy , • Canip Craft • Riding • 1 ' • • • Drama , •0, Tennii ,- i ' • General 1 - e:Tripsl • -': : i 0 Golf - Skiing ' . 1 • Nature . \I, .• I Coubsandingriciiities'— Croup!** C.44asidsred Ipierviews Wednesday& Thunriay,' FnbrparY 14 1 'l5 Jizrange, an appointment Of fi ce of Sfudeid Aid. I . 218 Willard WEDNESDAY. IIf.KIHN MORRIS the free exercise and Weiss re mained _unbeatable on the side horse and parallel bars; but the Lion stars couldn't do it alone. Besides Weiis and' Seward, only Bud Williams ' on the still rings scored as high as third against" the Cadets. WEISS WItH 15 points and Seward with I 14 accounted foie over two-thirdl of the Lions' 42- i point-total. RUARY 14: 1962 Point. has prob , for the Eastern ,ionship, but the 4tional title. ue member with eas the national * ' * *
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