The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, January 09, 1963, Image 6

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    PAGE SIX
Capp Wi
Lions Extend
Season Mark
To Nifty 7-2
By DEAN BILLICK
Sports Editor
LEWISBURG, Pa., Jan. 8—
Penn State and Bucknell play
ed a game of Ripley's Believe
It or Not basketball here to
night in a fantastically close ..
game and when it was over
State had pulled off an 88-83
overtime victory over an inspired
Bison squad.
Led by senior- co-captain Earl
Hoffman, who dumped in 30
points, the Lions led for most of
the game, then fell behind near
the end of regulation play, only
to come charging back to a 74-74
tie with just 44 seconds remaining.
WITH A SMALL but nearly
riotous crowd on its feet, Hoffman
stole the ball for the Lions and
was fouled. He calmly dumped
in two foul shots and State held
a 76-74 margin.
With just five seconds remain:.
ing, Bison Lorry Hathaway, who
had the best night of his career
with 34 pointS, drove for a layup
that tied the game at 76-76 and
sent the game into a five minute
overtime period.
Bucknell scored first with a foul
shot, - but Hoffman put the Lions
into a 78-77 lead on two foul con
versions. Tom Johnson hit a
jumper from the corner to regain
the lead for Bucknell, 79-78, but
Hoffman returned the favor and
State led, 80-79.
HATHAWAY then hit on an
other of his patented corner jump
shots and with 3:29 left in the
overtime period, the Bisons led
81-80. Ron Aviilibn got two foul
shots for State and with 1:30 re
maining, the Lions once again had
the lead, 82-81,
State got the ball under the
Bison basket and then Bob
Frosh Cagers Win Opener, 76-59
LEWISBURG, Pa., Jan. B—The
Penn State freshman cagers over
came first:half jitters here tonight
to soundly trounce Bucknell,
59, in a preliminary battle to the
Lions-Bison varsity contest.
After being held to a 34-33
halftime lead, the frosh, behind
the shooting of' Carver Clinton
and Ray Saunders, slowly pulled
away to record an easy win.
Great defense in the second
half by the entire squad was in
strumental in the win.
Clinton and Saunders paced
State with 20 and 18 points
respectively. Bucknell's John
ruehrer led all scorers with 22
points.
This leas the opening game of
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* * *
Donato and Bob Weiss put on a
Globetrotter-like f r e e z i n g act.
Finally Weiss drew a foul and
calmly dumped in two points to
make it 84-81. With 17 seconds
remaining, Sam Penrose put the
Bisons within one point at 84-83,
with a jump shot.
With eight seconds left Donato
drew a 1-1 foul and converted
both to make it 86-83.
,DONATO THEN stole the ball
as the Bisons brought it upcourt
the season for coach Snowy Simp
son's highly-touted frosh. Buck
nell is now 3-3 for the season.
State will again see action
Saturday afternoon when they
travel to Altoona to face the Al
toona Center.
The summaries:
PENN STATE BUCKNELL
G FA FM T 4.1 FA FA! T
Neuninyr 2 0 0 4 Friend 0 0 0 0
Clinton 9 2 820 Kozella 5 I 1, 11
Saunders 9 0 1 18 Narcurn 6 1 4 11
Reed 6 2 3 13 Douglas 1 0 2 2
Roseboro 2 0 0 4 Fuehrer 61010 22
.Tedrow 2 2 3 6 Son'eman 6 1 2 11
Schiff 4 0 0 8 Sloper 1 0 0 2
Gethick 1 0 0 2
McClure 0 1 2 1
01 2 1
Bossman 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 814 76 Totals 23 13 19 59
Score by halves:
Penn State 34 42-76
Itucknell 33 26-59
n ~ Overt
808 DONATO
shifty Lion playmaker
* *
and as the buzzer sounded the
Hpeppery little field general drew
another foul. As the fans swarmed
over the floor, Donato converted
both shots to make the final score
88-83. •
Besides Hoffman's 30 points,
Avillion had 15 for State and
Weiss whs next with 14. It was
State's seventh win in nine starts.
Bucknell is now 4-6,
Bucknell coach Gene Evans
called his team's performance the
best of the season. Evans singled
out the play of Hoffman as the big
difference.
"He's one_ of the best shots I've
ever seen," Evans said in the
gloom of his locker room.
State led throughout most of
the first half but took only a 38-37
lead into the locker room at half
time.
Athburn Leaves Mets
'TILDEN, Neb. (AP) Richie
Ashburn, a member of a select
group with 2,500 or more major
league hits, has retired from base
ball for the broadcasting field.
The veteran outfielder said yes
terday he had been hired as a
member of - a three-man team
which will broaddast the Phila
delphia Phillies games next sea
son.
* * *
. 83me t .
Gymnastics Season
Appears Promising
Three things perennially common to Penn State gymnas
tics are (1) a strong squad of performers consistently ranked
among the•nation's best, (2) an educated, partisan and enthusi
astic audience and (3) Gene Wettstone, the Lions' excellent
coach. - •
This season a nucleus of seven lettermen return to give
Wettstone another highly-ranked
team. And again State's gym
nasts proMise to give a favorable
account of themselves in six
scheduled dual-meets and the
EIGL and NCAA Gymnastics
Tournaments.
Among the returning monogram
winners are seniors Bud Williams,
Tom Seward, ,Gene Harlacher and
Bill Schlegel, Ray Cherry, John
Bruning and F. P. Sforza, all jun
iors, are the other lettermen re
turning to perform before the
enthusiaftic Rec Hall crowds.
ONLY THREE regulars are
missing from last year's contin
gent which netted up a -respect
able 5-1 record, but those three
leave a large gap to be 'filled be
fore the Nittanies' opener at
Springfield on Jan. 19.
Among those graduated vet
erans is the incomparable Greg
Weiss, twice Easterns, All-around
champion and once NCAA All
around crown winner.
Weiss was long a favorite per
former of State followers. Last
year the versatile star executed
a near-perfect routine on the
parallel bars which earned. him a
school record-breaking score of
296 points and thrilled an esti
mated 6,200 fans in Rec Hall to
no end. - -
Also graduated from last year's
squad were Lew Capetola, a long
horse vaulter,
,and Larry Yohn, a
standout on the still rings. Yohn
NCAA, AAU Awai
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tion and the Amateur Athletic
Union are ready to begin arbitra
ti6n of the raging amateur sports
dispute as soon as President Ken
nedy gives the word.
The step toward at least tem
porary peace in the 2 1 / 2 -year dis
agreement developed at the NCAA
convention here yesterday, when
the colleges announced they were
ready to begin arbitration as a
member of the 'U.S. Track and
Field Federation and the AAU
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1963
By JOE GRATA
is presently doing graduate work
at the University.
BUT WETTSTONE and his
gymnastics proteges are well
aware that meets aren't won on
past reputations and perform
ances. For years, the Nittanies
have rated as one of the top five
teams in the nation. This year
promises to be no exception.
Besides Springfield, State will
compete against Temple, Navy,
Syracuse, Pitt and a strong Army
squad. Last year the Cadets
handed the Lions their only, set
back in six - starts and shoved
them out of the'running for East
ern honors.
In the EIGL Tournament last
year, State's delegates finished in
a runner-up spot for the second
consecutive season. In, . the 1962
NCAA's, held at .Albuquerque,
N.M., the Lions dropped to a dis
appointing ninth place ranking
following a 1961 season as na
tional title holders.
WHEN
WHEN THE Nittanies failed to
recapture the NCAA crown, it
marked the first time "a State en
try hadn't won the champion
ship since 1958.
Wettstone feels confident that
the 1963 season could prove to be
a most pleasant one.
"Our outlook is very promising
wtih a number of veterans and
plenty of reserves to battle for
positions in the lineup," Wett
stone said recently. "This should
also ease the situation when in
juries crop up."
Kennedy's Word
said in New York that it was
agreeable to them.
The President called for arbitra
tion last month, and appointed
Gen. Douglas MacArthur as ref
eree, when the battle over admini
stration of amateur sports flared
again after disagreement over
terms of a coalition plan worked
out in New York in November.
He urged both sides to submit
to binding arbritration before U.S.
sports prestige was wrecked by a
squabble that was affecting eligi
bility of -U.S. athletes for the
Olympics.