PAGE FOUR Grcippler, 'Gymilas -- s Test Sririni:•:.+l:l... Wettstone Readies Squad For Second Meet In Row By DAVID NEVINS Springfield should offer the Collegian • Sports Writer Lions some serious competf- Yesterday's gymnasti2s meet bon, especially since four of against an impressive Scandi- State's best gymnasts will have navian team will undoubtedly to compete in two meets in a span of 24 hours. The physical be remembered as the most condition of Bob ' - mery, Joe outstanding home meet of this Litow. Dick Swetman and John or possibly any season. Un- Kmdon could very well decide fortunately for four Penn State gymnasts, the sedond otttstand- the meet. inr , home meet of the season The side horse and the high will occur tonight against bar will be the two .vents most Springfield University. affected by performing two sue- Although. not nearly as strong cessive nights. 7 oth of these a team as the . squad that beat events are extremely easy to the Nitt-rtt T tnns I, st season. f2ll. n'f of, an , . the high bar is DELTA CHI FRATERNITY Invites all 2nd term freshmen and above to OPEN HOUSE Sunday, January 14 -5 p.m. amuh uith 4 micghuin.r, R: 4 Z7 — ( By the author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!", "Dobie Gillis," etc.) 1968: ITS CAUSE AND CURE Are you still writing "1967" on your papers and letters? I'll bet you are, you scamp! But I am not one to be harsh withlhose who forgot we are in a new year, for I myself have long been guilty of the same lapse. In fact, in my senior year at college, I wrote 1873 on my papers until nearly November of 1874! (It turned out, incidentally, not to be such a serious error because, as we all know, 1874 was later repealed by President Chester A. Arthur in a fit of pique over the Black Tom Explosion. And, as we all know, Mr. Arthur later came to regret his hasty action. Who does not recall that famous meeting between Mr. Arthur and Louis Napoleon when Mr. Arthur said, "Lou, I wish T hadn't of repealed 1874:' Whereupon the French emperor made his immortal rejoinder, "Tipi que nous et tyler tu". Well sir, they had many a good laugh about that, as you can imagine.) But I digress. How can we remember to write 1968 on our papers and letters? Well sir, the best way is to find something memorable about 1968, something unique to fix it firmly in your mind. Happily, this is very simple be cause, as we all know, 1968 is the first year in history that is divisible by 2, by 5, and by 7. Take a pencil and try it: 1968 divided by 2 is 984; 1968 divided by 5 is 39M; 1968 divided by 7 is 281 1 / 2 . This mathematical curiosity will not occur again until the year 2079, but we will all be so busy then celebrating the Chester A. Arthur bi-centenerary that we will scarcely have time to be writing papers and letters and like that. 9. 0 19 \\\\\\• s.4s VktostOzako Another clever little trick to fix the year 1968 in your mind is to remember that 1968 spelled backwards is 8691. "Year" spelled backwards is "racy:' "Personna" spelled backwards is "Annosrep:' I mention Personna because I am paid to write this column by the makers of Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades, and they are inclined to withhold my check if I omit to mention their product. Not, mind you, that it is any chore for me to sing the praises of Personna, for it is a seemly blade that shaves you cleanly, a gleaming blade that leaves you beaming, a trouble-free blade that leaves you stubble-free, a match less blade that leaves you scratchless. If you are tired of facial slump, if you are fed up with jowl blight, try Personna today... available both in double-edge style and Injector style. And if I seem a bit excessive in my admira tion for Personna, I ask you to remember that to me Personna is more than a razor blade; it is also an employer. But I digress. We were speaking of the memorable as pects of 1968 and high among them, of course, is the fact that in 1968 the entire House of Representatives stands for election. There will, no doubt, be many lively and inter esting contests, but none, I'll wager, quite so lively and interesting as the one in my own district where the lead ing candidate is none other than Chester A. Arthur! Mr. Arthur, incidentally, is not the first ex-president to come out of retirement and run for the House of Repre sentatives. John Quincy Adams was the first. Mr. Adams also holds another distinction: he was the first son of a president ever to serve as president. It is true that Martin Van Buren's son, Walter "Blinky" Van Buren, was at one time offered the nomination for the presidency, but he, alas, had already accepted a bid to become Mad Ludwig of Bavaria. James K. Polk's son, on the other hand, be came Salmon P. Chase. Millard Fillmore's son went into aluminum siding. This later became known as the Mis souri Compromise. . In Missouri, or anywhere else, there is no compromise loith quality in Personna or in Personna's partner in shaving pleasure—Burma•Shave. Burma-Shave comes to you in regular or menthol. Try it. You'll find it soaks rings around any other lather. c Og - rg.R. A.QTRime = EMMI ®l. Max Shulman especially gruelir on t hands. Just about all the events a meet necessitate the, use , the hands in some manner, put ting tremendous stress upoi them throughout the entir meet. l3y the time the night over many gymnasts may ha' difficulty merely opening ai closing their hands. Fortunately for the Lions II high bar is probably one their strongest events, so ev( with the extra strain Stal should still win hands down. The all-around performer-ft the Springfield meet has ni yet been decided, but ' wi be the man who scores ti highest total in Friday's me( Should Emery gain the honor Lion fans will not have" to wt long to see how his injure knee will hold up. If He Can Get Through "If I can get through tl long-horse and free exerci without hurting my leg I this I'll be alright," said Emer "The other events rea 1. shouldn't put very much strat a'. all upon my knee." Penn State alumnus and two time NCAA all-around champ Steve Cohen has already seen Springfield perform this season and thinks the Lions should have no trouble winning. "The final score for Penn State will be less due to the Scandinavian meet the night before, but we should still win without any trouble:" said The woin e n's gymnastics Cohen. "This year's team has team plays host to the Maroons an unbelievable amount of po- of Springfield in Penn State's tential, but they are young and first meet 4 - ti the 1968 season, still have to prove themselves. today at 2 p.m. If they all click in one meet, Coached by Kathy Corrigan, and this meet happens to be the team will take to the White the nationals, they could con- Gym floor in its third year of ceivably win." competition. A graduate of The Brothers of DELTA. PHI host a jainmy to WELCOME BACK . their housemother, MRS. YOUNG featuring DENNIS & THE MENACES 9:30 - F:00 OPEN TO PLEDGES-HAVE A RUSHEES NICE' WEEKEND! INVITED GUESTS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Women Gymnasts Open Season RICH LORENZO . . . Wrestling Captain Springfield Collego, Miss Cor rigan is a veteran of the Olym pic Games and various other international competitions. Dur ing her undergraduate days at Springfield, she competed in the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1963; the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, and the Gymnastrada exhibition in Vienna in 1965. Kathy Corrigan said she is looking forward to meeting her former teammates. "Though Springfield boasts one of the nation's top two women's teams, I feel that my girls are in fine shape and have an excellent chance to win the meet," she said. "Last year we lost a heart breaker to Springfield by one and a half points," the coach added. "I'm quite confident that this year will find Penn State on the winning end." Among the girls seeing action today are Colleen Vlachos and Linda Harkleroad, co-captains competing as all-around per formers. Both girls are juniors. Freshman Ginger Hettema will also be competing in the all around div,sion today. The remaining five girls in Wrestlers Freshmen Judgement Day has yet to arrive for have been to top notch Eastern schools Bill Koll and his Nittany Lion wrestlers. Navy, Lock Haven and East Stroudsburg, Yesterday, Athletic Director Ernest B. while the wins have been over New England McCoy informed Koll that the status of his schools, RPI, C. W. Post and Wilkes. freshmen wrestlers would be decided by an The highlight of the 2 p.m. meet at administrative board in the future, and gave Rec Hall will be the meeting of unbeaten no indication as to what the decision might Joe Porrell (5-0-1) and State's Wally Clark be. at 130 pounds. Porrell will have his hands The decision is not expected until after full with Clark, who lost his only match to the Springfield match, so this afternoon the national champ Doug McGuire of Oklahoma Lion grapplers will be all upperclassmen. by one point. Fielding the Best Koll has thus had his maneuverability The other featured event will have hindered for the Springfield match, but is Lion captain Rich Lorenzo, unbeaten in one "concentrating on fielding the best possible match, tangle with Springfiled's John Glas team." sock, who posts a 4-2 mark at 191 pounds Hopes had been raised earlier in the and.has the second best record on the squad. week that Clyde Frantz, a freshman and Other pairings will be Harry Weinhoffer two-time, 138-pound state champion, might (0-1) against Jim Mathias (0-0) at 123 pounds, possibly wrestle in varsity competition due Dave Spinda (0-1) at 130 facing Cam Sin to an NCAA ruling earlier in the week, clair (2-4), and Vince Fitz (0-1) and Bob which would permit freshmen to participate Serrano (2-4) at 145 pounds. Bob Abraham in certain varsity sports. This possibility for (0-1) meets Al Nero (0-1) at 152, Lee Smith Penn State frosh is now in the hands of the (0-0) and Steve Porto meet at 160 pounds, administration. Matt Kline (1-0) faces Bill Sidoti (0-0) at Doug Porter, Springfield mentor, brings 167. Bob Funk (1-0) squares off against Bill a fine 13-year coaching mark of 121-27-3 to Barges (2-4) in the 177 pound class and Larry Rec Hall with his Maroon squad, which has Holtacker (0-0) meets Will Thayer (1-3-1) in posted a 3-3 mark thus far. The three losses the heavyweight bracket. this afternoon's competition will be Carol Feldman, balance beam and floor exercise; Bette Jo Spangler, side vaulting; Sue DuVall, vaulting - and tineven parallel bars; Joan York, floor exercise and balance beam, and Judy Spatz, side horse vault. Coach Corrigan said that the team's strongest divisions are the balance beam and the un. even parallel oars. "I'd have to say that vaulting is about our weakest event," she said. "I feel that Penn State is among the top ten teams in the nation. We do have one thing against us and that is that most of our upco...ing competition stages exhibitions at least twice a week, whereas we don't." Last season the women gymnasts posted a 6-3 record, having lost only to Springfield, team defeated Michigan State, Kent State, and Centenary. The West Chester, Slippery Rock, Pitt, and Ohio State (twice). Two new teams were added to this season's schedule, Ithaca College and Towson State. The next women's gym nastics meet will be held Jan. 24 at' White Gym. Go For First Win; Won't Participate Improved Lions Make Pitt Stop Possessing perhaps the greatest momentum they've enjoyed all season, coach John Egli's Nittany Lion basket ball team will try to push over the .500 mark today when they battle arch-rival Pitt in Pittsburgh. Game time is 3:30 p.m. The Lions are coming off an impressive 84-47 win over hapless Gettysburg Wednesday night, when they played some of the best defense seen in Rec Hall in many games. If that seemed hard to figure after the team played sieve-like ball earlier in the year, Pitt's Panthers will seem even more puzzling. It was during Christmas vacation when the Temple Owls, boasting one of the best quintets in Philadelphia,. confidently rode into the Steel City, expecting an easy night's work. Following the Pitt rout that followed, those same confident Owls sat in the locker room for over an hour still trying to figure out what hit them. They re covered enough to win the Quaker City Tournament. Things looked bright for Pitt, a team that had bungled. its way through several seasons since Brian Generalovich roamed the court. Then last Wednesday, while Penn State was humbling the Bullets, Pitt faced little Westminster College and lost decisively. What made Pitt even more red-faced was the fact that Westminster had lost recently to Gettysburg, and the Lions laughed. However, Egli has no reason to laugh today. When it comes to intangibles like rivalry and home court advan tage, he plays the cards straight. Today's game will be the 110th meeting between the two squads, the longest series in Penn State history. In the first meeting in 1906, State won it, 30-4. Basketball's come a long way since then—like about 100 points further. . The Panthers have an unimpressive 2-5 record this year, while State is presently 4-4. Egli beamed after his team's performance and hustle this week, and he hopes it will last through today and the rough weeks ahead. He's got West Virginia (twice), Army, Temple, Syracuse and Navy in succession following Pitt. State's scoring punch has been well distributed throughout the year, with team captain Jeff•Persson lead ing the charge, averaging 19.1 points per game. Torn Daley (Continued on page five) ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA Fraternity WELCOMES ALL WINTER TERM RUSHEES TO ITS OPEN HOUSE Sunday, January 14 2-5 p.m. SAtuxbAY, JANUARY 13, 196 ti Lorenzo Featured
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