SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1965 Lions' Cagers Four Seniors Make Final Appearance Before Home Fans By JOHN LOTT Collegian Sports Editor While the strains of "Sweet Georgia Brown", echo through the Rec Hall rafters, Penn State's swingin' bas ketball combo offers its final home concert tonight be fore departing to Philadelphia for a one-night stand Monday: The team facing the L: Shooters To Enter N.Y.Meet By LEW THOMPSON This season began for the Lion rifle team on Jan. 9 when In diana State failed to show for a match at Rec Hall. Eight weeks and some 1890 competitive shots later, the fin ish came the same way—with a, simple phone call yesterday notifying coach Rodney Wash burn that Lafayette could not make the match scheduled for 2 p.m. today due to bad weather. In those two months, the Lions had to endure the Indiana for feit victory, "no-contest" can cellations by Lehigh and Vll lanova, and the postponement by, the Leopards. Despite these interruptions in the 1965 slate, the State shooters still compiled a respectable 5-3 record, but coach Washburn was not really pleased with the re sults. "Our record was good," Wash burn said, "but it could have been better. We had the potential to do better than we did." "However, I don't think that you can truly put all the blame, on the team," the coach added.l "With all the trouble we had in scheduling matches, the boys never knew from one week to the next when they would be, competing. "Losing those four matches by cancellations reduced the competitive experience the team received, and this hurt us in the' big matches. Rather than dwell on the past events ,however, Washburn is now looking to next week's N.I.R.A. Eastern Sectional meet at King's Point, N.Y. Four-man teams compete in this competition, and Washburn has entered three quartets of Lion sharpshooters. The dozen designated by the coach includes Wayne Dunlap, Bob Luhrs, Gary Dunning, George Brown, George Hill and Bill Wilcox. Others corn peting will be Mike Becktneyer, Ray Oswald, Don Stoner, Rich ard Meyers, Larry Tobin and Phil Kivlin, Washburn believes the Lions have an excellent chance to take the sectional title. "We're shooting in our cate bory," he said, "so we should do well. The Merchant Marine Academy is the toughest team we'll have to face and they're a 1420 team .like us. I think we may just win this meet." Duke Beats W. Forest, 101-81 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Top seeded Duke hit 15 of 18 shots in just'over 10 minutes to start the last half and went on to trample Wake Forest 101-81 last night in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship basketball tournament. Duke, ranked eighth national ly and gunning for its third straight conference crown, had a stiff first half fight before going on to beat Wake Forest for the fourth time this season. The half ended with Duke on top 42-37. Then came the explosion Steve Vacendak, Jack Marin and Hack Tison each scored four baskets as Duke rolled for 35 points and missed only two of 18 shots to take a 77-59 lead with just under 10 minutes to play: North Carolina State defeated Maryland, 'l6-67 in the second game. The Wolfpack faces Duke tonight for the conference cham pionship. Martindale Leads Pensacola Open PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) Young Bill Martindale, whose best showing on the pro golf tour has been' seventh place, fired a four-under-par 68 yester day and jumped two strokes ahead of the field in the second round of the $65,000 Pensacola Open. Martindale capped his hot round with a 40-foot putt on the 18th hole for a birdie. It was his fifth birdie and gave him a 137 total, seven under par. Doug Sanders, among the leaders with a 68 after the first round, shot a one-under par 71 to take second place with a five- 1 • Ign Cohen Wins EIGL End Regular Seasoti:A4ohist r . Rutgers ons' music will be Rutgers, and the 8 p.m. game offers fans their final opportunity to take lin State's lively pre - game "Globetrotter" warmups. This feature, long a part of the team's practice sessions, was unveiled to the home crowd in mid-season and has been a reg ular attraction ever since. With Bob Weiss (see photo) and Carver Clinton sharing the spotlight in the pivot, and the' ,rest of the team throwing in various splashy passing antics; the drill has become a real crowd-pleaser in recent weeks. And coach John Egli believes it has its benefits to the team, too. I Last night's practice session was the most recent example. As he watched the team warm up, Egli said he has noticed the tension mounting as the Lions' NCAA tourney game with Princeton draws closer. "We're going to have to loosen up," he said. As Egli walked back to the locker after practice, he wore a big smile. "They all look pretty loose now." he said. The "post" drill seems to always do the trick. Last night the chatter was louder than ever, the passing crisp, and the clowning of Clinton and Weiss at its best. More of the same is in store to night. Clinton's travel-worn record player also helps keep the learn loose. Before -and after each game, at home or away, the phonograph blares out pop tunes of the past and present. "You know, I really think it helps loosen us up," Egli said last night. "I used to sit in the locker room and figit and fume before a game and the players felt the same way. But every body's a lot more relaxed now." Tonight's regular season fi nale winds up what is probably the Lions' best season ever. State will be out to match the all-time victory total of 20, ac complished only once before. The Lions are now 19-3 and have won their last 12 in a row. This year's squad also is the first in 10 years to reach tournament status. The Lions leave campus tomorrow morning for Philadelphia, where they'll battle Prince ton in the NCAA Eastern re gional game Monday at 6 p.m. Making their final appear ance before the home folks will be co-captains Bob Weiss and Ron Avillion in addition to Terry Hoover and Dan Cam. Weiss, averaging 16 points per game, has been a starter for three years and this week gained honorable mention on the Associated Press' All- America team. Avillion, a rugged rebounder and defensive stalwart, has an 8.2 mark. Hoover started for the injured Ray Saunders dur ing one stretch this season and filled in capably. Carn has been a reserve for three sea sons. Egli indicated last evening that Hoover might well get a starting shot in his final home game. Saunders sprain ed his right ankle in practice Wednesday and although he has improved. Egli wants to rest him for the big one in the Palesira Monday. Egli said Saunders' spot could go either to Hoover (6-'7)' or 6-9 sophomore Paul Mickey. The rest of the lineup re mains the same, with Weiss, Avillion, Clinton and Jim Reed getting the opening nod. Although assistant coach Joe Tocci scouted Princeton Wed nesday, and Tiger coach Bill van Breda Kolff and several players are supposed to be here tonight, Egli said the immedi ate worry is Rutgers. "We're not even going to talk about Princeton until Sun day," he said. "But we aren't going to get fancy tonight, either. We're just going to go out there and try to beat them I with hard-nosed basketball." Rutger's big gun is Bob Lloyd, a 6- 1 sophomore who's averaging 25.1 points per game. The .other Scarlet starters, are Roger Shutack (6.1), Dennis Earl (6-1), Phil Robinson (6-4), an d Jim Clark (6-5). ' Robinson, wh o weighs 220 ,pounds, is a rugged rebounder and owns a 14.8 scoring mark. Earl has a 12.2 average. NITTANY NOTES: State will be shooting for its ninth iwin without a loss in Rec Hall , this season . . . Should the Lions beat Princeton Monday, they'll face the Atlantic coast Conference champion in Col lege Park, Md., next Friday ... Win or lose, the Lions' rec-' ord will give them the best percentage since the 1923 team went 13-1 . . Princeton's All- Everything, Bill Bradley, re portedly will be at tonight's game , . . Clinton's record player has .been his basketball traveling companion since his high school days . . ,The Lion- Princeton game will be tele .:;.•••• +,, ignlAr York BALL-HANDLING WI - .Z: Penn State's Bob Weiss gives Rec Hall to wind up the regular season. They move on to a preview of what's in store for fans during pre-game Philadelphia Monday night to open NCAA tournament warmups tonight. The Lions (19-3) take on Rutgers in competition against Bill Bradley and his Princeton mates. Strayer, Windfeider, Erber Bow Out p , ;4- • ,' . .6 • .., . .'rU t • • ers , . ....., By ALEX WARD since therm met and Igen (4-1) has y been e idle since 1 As far as dual-meets are „„„„ and concerned, Penn State's wrest- `""' The : irest of State's lineup ling team will call it a se.ison will be unchanged. Windfelder today and three of the Lions', , 8 _ 1) will be at 123 Erber ' " top performers will call it a ; ,i....,) at 130, Glenn Thiel (0-4) career. 1 at 137, Jerry Seaman (5-3) at State, (5-4-1) 'will still have 157, Strayer (10-0) at 167, a chance to show off its stuff', Eu er y Seitz (2-5-1) at 191 and in post-season tournaments but, weight. Don McKenna (1-2) at heavy a successful season depends on ; how it fares today at 2:30 p.m.i Rutgers, like State, is not against Rutgers. strong all the way through Lion fans will get their last' their lineup, but the Scarlet look at Marty Strayer, Jay, boasts some strong individuals Windfelder and Steve Erber,', who have been able to offset a trio of seniors who have the lack of depth. been the team's most consist-1 One of these individuals, ent wrestlers all year long.] John Welch (8-1) will go at it Their combined record of 25-4) with Strayer in what points has been a major in what suc-1 up to be the best bout of the cess the Lions have had. 1 afternoon Coach Bill Koll's team has been unexpectedly stung a few times this season but win today would certainly' ease some of the pain. Rutgers comes in with an impressive record of 6-2-1, butt the calibre of competition the Scarlet has faced cannot match], up to that of State's oppo-1 nents. Lehigh is the only squad' that both Rutgers and the] ILions have met, The Engi neers whipped State, 17-11 and Rutgers, 20-9. Rutgers' wins have come' against Yale, Princeton, UCLA, Colgate, Harvard and Colum-' bia. Besides Lehigh, they lost, to Temple and the tie was • with Hofstra. State, on the other hand, has run in with some real powerhouses. Their losses were dealt by Michigan, Army and Maryland. But the Lions have beaten some good ones too. Syracuse,' Pitt and Cornell have been victimized by State along with VPI and West Vir ginia Koll will rub the dust off a couple of his wrestlers for to day's clash. Dick DeWalt and Roger 'Olesen, starters in the 147 and 177-pound berths will be seeing their first duty in some time. DeWalt (3-2) has not started NEW COLLEGE:I)INER Downtp\dyn Befititen the(Yl9vies - •: J •ALWAYS OPEN t:r• C; ' " -;0 - AUTO - PARTS e ACCESSORIES Western Auto t ,t II?. .1. FRAZIER ST: 1" Unitarian Fellowship 709 Ridge• Ave. 10:45 . A.M. Sunday Services Edward Buss will discuss; "Genetics and . the Nature of 'Mae , For transportation call the Savages at 238-6642 by 10 A.M. on Sunday morning. ENE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Pepper Martin Dies at 61; 13-Year Star for Cardinals MCALESTER, Okla. (10— John Leonard (Pepper) Mar tin, 61, firebrand and base stealing member of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang of the 19305, died yes terday of a heart attack. The former baseball star was stricken at his ranch near here Thursday night and died a few hours after being admitted to a Mc- Alester hospital. Martin. called the Wild Horse of the Osage because of his daredevil recklessness on the baseball field, vaulted from obscurity to fame by a dramatic one-man show in the 1931 World Series. His hitting and base-run ning exploits were respon sible for an upset victory over Connie Mack's great . Philadelphia Athletics. Martin pounded out 12 hits, tying a Series record, against such Athletics' pitch ing aces as Lefty Grove and George Eaznshaw. He hit IR\. • OPEN. BOWL FOR FREE GREEN STAMPS oEvery afternoon and All Day Sunday armenara, plaza o e. beal;er at sowers 0 237-7968 Other good matches will pit Ron Geiser (7-0-2) against Ole sen and Paul Goble (1-1) with McKenna. Similar perform-t ances against big John Meng-I warth of Lehigh indicates al good scrap at heavyweight. McKenna lost to Illengwarth, 3-2 while Goble dropped a 4-1 decision to the giant Engineer, The remainder of the Scar let starters will be John Bren-; Irian (2-7) at 123, Sam Gramic- I cioni (5-2) at 130, Gunnar , Askeland (2-2-3) at 137, Gene O'Donnell (4-3) at 147, Tony! I Peters (5-3) at 157, and either Ron Grimm (0-2) or Jim Hackett (2-1) at 191. This year has been a strange ;one for State. A few of the wrestlers have done outstand ling jobs but a shortage of four doubles and a home run, scoring five runs and bai ling in five four in one game. - He stole five bases against Mickey Cochrane, the Ath• letics' catcher who was rated one of the best of all time. The Cardinals won the Series, four games to three. In 13 seasons with the Cardinals, from 1928 to 1944, Martin had a lifetime bat ting average of .298. He never made baseball's Hall of Fame. The tough, raw-boned son of a Temple, Okla., prairie farmer. never lost his ag gressiveness.' He was con stantly in hot water with baseball officials during his managerial days, receiving fines and suspensions for his conduct. The Student Union for Racial Equality Presents . . . FREEDOM MALCOLM BOYD Miss Sandy Hershm4n The Film: "A Study in Color" (Writteiz and Produced by Mateo/in Boyd) SCHWAB AUDITORIUM (FREE-EVERYONE INVITED) overall team strength has proved too much of a burden to overcome. An inability to win in the heavier weights cost the Lions wins against Army and Navy and possibly a tie with Lehigh. As a result, a 5-4-1 record might well have been a 7-2-1 mark. A win in today's match, though, could go a long way toward healing those wounds. MAT BRIEFS . . . Strayer, working on a 22-match win ning skein, closes out one of the most illustrious careers in Lion mat history . . . Lehigh's paper, the Brown and White claims that the school has got not only the best, but the TWO best 123-pounders in the East. Both of them, Mike Caruso and Rich Warnke, will have a 4rd time proving that to Windfelder in the Easterns . After last week's' exciting, come-from-behind win over Pitt, maybe there will be a few more fans out today. There were only 2200 on hand to wit ness the Panther clash. Intramural BASKETBALL DORMITORY Behrend 45, McKeesport 18 Hershey 29, Union 22 Elk 40, Ogontz 25 Bradford 32, Clarion 16 Columbia 49, Juniata 2S Harrisburg 29, McKean 19 Perry 24, Venango 19 Somerset 30, Crawford 27 Clinton 26, Armstrong 2S Scranton 37, Butler 29 Allentown 28, Indiana 24 , Nittany 39.40 25, Nittany 36-37 10 Fayette 28, Luzern 22 Schuylkill 38, Somerset 13 ,Poplar 41, Venango 20 Venango 37, Harrisburg 33 Nittany 41.42 41, Nittanv 43-44 31 Nittany 25-26 22, Nittany 23-24 19 Nittany 33-34 29, Nittany 31-32 21 Nittany. 27-28 60, Elk 37 Schuylkill 53, Nittany 41-42 43 Maple 43, Poplar 24 Fayette 33, Beaver 15 RALLY Featuring: TONIGHT 8 P.M. All-Around Soph Standout Nips Jacobson by .65 to Take High Honors PHILADELPHIA For the 14th straight year a Penn State gymnast has won the Eastern Intercol legiate Gymnastics League all-around title, an-I the way things looked here yesterday there could be a 15th and 16th year before the string runs out. State's senior co-captain Mike Jacobson, who was the defending Eastern all-around champion and who many felt was the man to beat, came away with a 55.75 total for the six Olympic events—. 7 higher than he scored last year. But it wasn't good enough. ' The major title for. the two-day competition went to Lion sophomore Steve Cohen. The 5-8, 140-pound Cohen completed the six events with a score of 56.4 for a 9.40 average per event. The total is the best all-around score by a Lion performer this year, the previous high being Jacobson's 56.00 against Army. It was a nip and tuck battle between both com petitors and it wasn't until Cohen's fly-away full twist dismount from the still-rings that the title was decided. The evening competition began with the point spread between the two Staters closer than the next second. The Nittany, sophomore led his senior team mate, 28.30 to 27.85, and the eyes of the capacity crowd were focused on the battle. Many will contend that Cohen won the title in the long horse event where he beat Jacobson 9.25 to 9.00. This may have been the case, but the latter picked up some valuable ground in the parallel bars, winning by .15 of a point, 9.65 to 9.5. That then set the stage for the sixth and final event, the still rings, from which . Cohen came away with a .1 victory, 9.35 to 9.25. The immediate future is nothing but bright for Lion coach Gene ,Wettstone and his contingent, for junior Ed Isabelle finished the first day's competition with a third place finish in the all-around. Last year's runnerup in the event, Isabelle scored a 53.70; more than two points ahead of Army's Tad Ono, who recorded a 51.30. Those will be the four all around performers who will represent the E.T.G.L. in next week's regionals against the four top all arounders from the Southern League. That meet, which will also pit Penn State against the S.I.G.L. team champion, is scheduled for the University of Virginia. The Lions showed the fans early that they in tended to live up to their billing as one . of the top teams in the nation. Their first showing.xame in the afternoon preliminaries where in the four events floor exercise, side horse, high bar and trampoline ,they had a total of twelve qualifiers. State's best events came in the free ex and high bar where all four entrants qualified for today's finals. Without a doubt, the best event for the EIG.L. team champion during the afternoon competition was the horizontal bar, where . the Lions swept the top four places. Jacobson, who is the defending Eastern cham pion in the event, came through with a 9.55—,1 of a point ahead of teammate Jim Culhane. Both Cohen and Isabelle tied for third with a 9.4. , In the free-ex Jacobson, and Cohen paced al] competitors with identical scores of 9.55. Isabelle fin ished Sixth with a 9.30, while co-captain Pete Saponaro just made the cut-off with a score of 9.25 to tie with Army's Gerry Dufour. The Lions came to town billed as one of the best all-around teams in the nation so the 'final results didn't surprise too many people. The performances of some of the 111 entrants, though, weren't quite what everyone expected. - Temple's Jim Petrino,, who is the defending East= ern champion in the free-ex, finished only in a tie for third place with Springfield's Jay Otto. The Temple senior suffered a deduction from `his total for stepping off the mat but still finished with a 9.4. (Continued on page six) Results FRATERNITY Delta Upsilon 27, Sigma Alpha Epsilon 13 Acacia 40, Tau Kappa Epsilon 24 Acacia 47, Sigma PI 26 Acacia 28, Phi Epsilon PI 24 GRADUATES Marginallsis 32, • Physicists 21 Irvin Hall 28, Communicators 18 Nut. Eng. 20, Bombers 18 Animals 3.5, High Hoopers 26 N.S.F. Math 34, Hurst Horrors 28 • Biophysics 1, Zoology 0 Agronohorts 29, Irvin Rogues 6 M.l. 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