WEDNESDAY.! FEBRUARy 28. 1962
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Lion' GymnOstit--,•:',repare
For EIGL 'Championships
• By JOHN MORNS •
Penn State's gymnastics fortunes are following 'a remarkably familiar pattern so far
this year.
For several seasons in a row now the Lions have beei i i hailed by one and all as the
pre-campaign choke for the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League championships.
And for several years in a row the Lions have lost 'one mee t that -cost them the title.
But while they have lost the EIGL crown, the Nittanies have established an almost
unprecedented three-year claim to national honors. They also have dominated the. EIGL
Individual championships. .
This year the EIGL team title went to Army (5-0-1) while the Lions finished second.
only a half-step back at 5-1. - * * * I
Led ,half-step
defending eastern all
around champion Greg Weiss,
State's top 11 gymnasts should as
sure ,continued Nittany 'dominaa ,
tam of the EIGL individual com
petition at West Point this week
end.-
WEISS IS ALSO the defending
eastern titlist on the parallel bars,
still rings and in the long horse
vault. •
The Lion captain and teammate
Tommy Seward, defending east
ern champ in the free exercise,
will compete in all six events of
the ail-around competition.
Weiss was Undefeated on the
aide horse and parallel bars In
dual meet competition this season
and is an overwhelming favorite
to retain the ali-around title he
won last year.
' State coach Gene Wettstone ex
pects Seward to be Weiss' main
competition in the all-around.
"It looks like a battle between
Weiss and SeWard in the all
around," the veteran coach com
mented recently.
SEWARD 'TASTED defeat_ at
the bands ,of Pitt's Earl McCon
nell for his first loss of the cam
paign in the free exercise last
week. The stocky junior still ra
the favorite's role in the event.
Wettstone believes his still rings
duo of Larry Yehn and • fast
improving Bud Williams will be
,in the -running for the title in
their. specialty.
Yohn, a= senior, has been the
Lions' number one man all year,
but Williams has come along in
recent meets to challenge his
teammate.
Junior Gene Harlacher will
compete in the free exercise, side
'horse and parallel bars in ,-the
Easterns. •
HARLACHER HAS been over
shadowed by Seward in the free
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"X" and by Weiss on the side
horse and parallel bars, but he
has been a steady point-getter for
the Lions all year.
Other Penn . State entries are
Bill Schlegel in-the free exercise;
F. P. Sforza in the long horse
vault and still rings; Ray Cherry
on the side horse; Lew Capetcf
and Dave Heilbrun in the loi
horse vault; and John Brunt
on the horizontal bar.
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NEW YORK (AP) Jo,
Uelses, the 16-foot pole vault ,
returns to action in' the Knigi
of Columbus Games at Madisi
Square Garden Friday night.
Uelses had betn bedded by
fluenza. '
EGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
Lion 9 To Play
Twenty Games
Penn State will play 20 base
ball games this spring.
Included on the schedule are
doubleheaders with Syracuse and
Pittsburgh.
The Nittany Lions will open
coach Joe Bedenk's 32nd cam
paign April 3 against Gettysburg
in the first 10 home gimes. Other
home opponents are Ithaca. Buck
nell. Maryland. Navy. Colgate.
Syracuse. West Virginia and
emple.
Penn State, traditionally an
Eastern power; ran into weather
trouble last year and started
slowly. Rain or snow wiped out
six of "the first 10 games of the
Lion? schedule and they finished
'with a IV. record.
This year's Schedule:
April 3. Gtttystirre; 4. at Latch; T.
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If. •t Army: 11. at ritutattvemia; U.
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High,Jumper's Start
Hurt by Poor Form
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Sy DENNIS KNECHT
Before last week's indoor track meet with Ohio Statak
Penii State coach Chick Werner predicted that high jumper
Jerry Wettstone was going to do much better than he had im
the Lions' two previous meets.
Although Wettstone had cleared B's" last year, the Poll
senior was having trouble getting'
started this season, and couldn't'
get over six feet.
Against the Buckeyes. however,
Wettstone came through with fly
ing colors; setting a new Penn;
State record with a jump of
6'6% - . The old mark was sell
in 1960 by Dick Campbell. a
jumper who was largely 'respon
sible for Wettstone's succtss last,
year.
IT SEEMS STRANGE that a
man who at one time jcmped
61", and 'tht:n couldn't get
,over
6'. suddenly jumped almost trr'.
"Last Year Wettstone
Campbell and learned by imita
tion, but now that Campbell has
graduated, Wettstone has no one
to follow and has picked up some
bad habits," was ihe way Werner
explained the sudden turnabouts.
Bad habits are easy to come
by in high jumping where moat
movements are unnatufal and re
quire perfect skill and co-ordi
nation. And it took some time for
Wettstone, the former State Col
lege high jump record-holder, to
iron out his difficulties.
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Walter Bortree of. Acacia. '214.
21-15. Vernon Zeit: and Philipp
,Sky of Phi Epsilon Pi took two
Istraight from Don Caum andlHar
ry Streamer of Phi Gamma belga.
21-2 and 21-17. and John Snod
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Kappa Epsilon defeated John
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"I knew the form would come
sooner or later." Wettstone said,
"but I was getting frantic 'wait
ing." However, Wettstone and his
coaches didn't exactly sit around ,
and wait.
"HE WORKED HARD.' Werner' .
said. "A high jumper shouldn't'
jump more than two or three
times a week besides his regular'
meets, but we had Wettstonel
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practicing his jump every night to
,try and perfect his form." • •
Wettstone's main obstacle was
the approach before his jump.
In a normal seven-step approach.
the speed and the length of the
stride increase with each step.
But he was doing just the op
posite, starting out fast, then slow
ing down before reaching the bar,
thus throwing off his timing.
Now that Wettstone has gotten
back to winning form. he hopes
to keep it and add a few more
incho his record.
"I hope to add two inches."
the modest thinclad said. "but
don't want to set a limit. If I add
two inches, 111 want to add three,
and then keep right on going." t
Now that the regular season is
over, Wettstone and the relit -of
the track learn are setting their
sights on the ICAA championships
to be held in New York's Madison
Square Garden, March 10.
'The eizafi
other men
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