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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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