EXTRA
VOL. 28, No. 52
Between
the
Ropes •
A welterweight from the Pacific
Coast set the hall gropevage telegraph
in! action when he smashed a punch
ing bag from its moorings in a little
warm-up yesterday forenoon. Every
body in the 145-pound class was
quietly warned about that punch that
Ed Prisk of Washington State packs.
obscure bird in the sports world
who is not known by Bryan
Hayes, referee here.--He says
"Hi" to Dempsey and Tenney
and can tell anecdotes about prac
tically anyone In the boxing
world in which he and that cele
brity figure. •
The first cheer of the tournament
went to Hill Hoffman, timer extraor
dinary, who has been snapping
watches on the meeVJ.about here for
a long time. Just as he marched on
the floor yesterday afternoon for the
acme of his timing career the loyal
stands burst forth in salute.
A chap in the press row heard
someone slog out the old Bulldog
cry, "Hold 'em Yale." He glare
ed at the ring where the Harvard
captain., Ketcham, wan being bat
tered by Goldstein. "Ketcham.
Ballard," he howled hack to the
stands.
This Southern courtesy showed up
yesterday when the South Carolina
gentleman hit Tardugno of Washing
ton, D. C., while they were in a clinch.
"Oh, pardon me," he whispered in
Tardugno's car. Tardugno was not
abashed. "That's all right," he mur
mured and landed a right.
Johnny Miller looked very
small when he went into the ring
last night to battle. Ile neigh
ed in at 109 pounds, the smallest
man in the tourney, and showed
up very well in the 112-pound
class. Another hiller, Joe, sec
onded hiin.
SoinebOdy tried to tell Gentry of
Virginia that the man he was paired
up with in the original bracketings
was an easy way through, sort of a
push-over. Gentry shook his head
and said in a Southern drawl, "you all
go way with that stuff, boy. Ah
been hearing about those kind all muh
life, and Ah never met up with one
yet."
Rather a 'coincidence in the
P 3 ne-Buckner, bout yesterday
when the first man entered.
Danny Pyne, battled the man who
had come farthest, Buckner of
San Francisco University. P>ne
lists on the Atlantic coast and
Buckner is on the Pacific.
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Always with the gamey underdog
of the fights, tIM crowd had a hard
time choosing sides when Sam Zemur
ray of Tulane and Balash of Syracuse
battered each other to a standstill
last night. Someone whispered it
along that Sam Zomurray is the son
of a man who has eighty millions (or
did have.) Sam earned about half of
that last night.
Buckner just arrived yesterday
morning after taking planes to
Pittsburgh and jolting up here on
the milk train. He put up a ter-
rifle fight yesterday afternoon,
but cuuld not hold out against
I')ne, the human rock.
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Johnny McAndrews, Lion cham
pion in the 135-pound class, and 1003
captain, was unable to make the
Olympic weight 'requirement of 13510
'pounds. Usually he weighs in at
about 139 and has some trouble at
that. So he is acting as second and
coach at large for the State men and
some of the Olympic orphans.
All of the young women here
agree that the Apollo of the meet
is Breese from Kansas State.
He brought with him a tremen•
duos punch and a wimung grin,
but he lust his second bout to
Tardugnu, last night.
Ike Hutu ' , young coach of Wash
ington State boxers, who i 3 here with
his four proteges, is an alumnus of
only three years from the Coast col
lege. Ho is a former Pacific North
western middleweight champion and
this year coached has team to the
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate title at
Sacramento.
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LEWIS, STOOP WIN N.C.A.A. TITLES
Wins in Finals
'AL-WERTHEIAIER
N.C.A.A. OFFICIALS
OPPOSED TO TAX
Body ; Expresses Objections in
Amusement Measure at
National Congress
' Oppohition to the proposed federal
'amusement tax assessing a ten per
cent revenue on all athletic admis
sions was voiced by representatives
of the eight districts of• the National
Collegiate Athletic Association who
met here informally this morning.
Student athletic fees are included
in the internal revenue bill, recently
passed by the House of Representa
tives and now before the Senate. If
passed, the bill will mean an annual
loss of about $7,500 to the College in
this respect, Dean Robert L. Sackett
of the School of Engineering, who is
chairman - of this district, claimed. In
addition, gate receipts to athletic con
tests will be taxed ten percent
Representatives attending the meet
ing this morning will make a defin
ite recommendation to the National
Collegiate Athletic Association to ap
peal to the Senate for defeat of the
Amusement Tax feature
Scholastic requirements for parti
cipation in intercollegiate sports and
improvement of "bleacher ethics"
were topics discussed at the meeting
No official action was taken.
Referee's Decision Favored
By 14 as 9 Prefer Judges
10 Coaches Cite Expenses, Lack of Officials
In Backing Present Arrangement
Fourteen college coaches and offic
ials prefer decision by a referee in
intercollegiate matches while nine fa
vor judges according to a survey of
the COLLEGIAN among eastern and
southern officials.
Probably benefitting from the pieb
ent more common usage of the referee
as only judge, the single man de-
mien is favored also because of the
slighter expense, the better position
of the referee to motels the fighters,'
and the difficulty in getting judges.
With ten men saying that there are
not enough men available for judges
and seven others believing that there
are enough available in their regions,
the solution in tins respect seems to
be mete in training men rather than
abandoning the system of judges. •
Neil N. Fleming, graduate manag
er of athletics at Penn State, shows
how originally the judges were first
intended for use in training former
college boxers for the post of referee.
With the scoring system it was com
paratively easy to secure efficient men
to do this, Ile believes But with the
change to the use of referee alone,
former college boxers have not been
trained for the referee post. Conse
quently, there has been more and more
reliance on the professionals for of
ficiating at College meets. This tends
to lend an undesirable air of mac.
sionalism to the bouts, he believes.
Officials and coaches who favored
judges said that judges mere less
STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1932
2 LIONS ADVANCE
T 0 FINAL ROUNDS
BY SCORING WINS
town Competition in Afternoon
Matches—Wertheimer,
Tardugno Place
HILL OVERCOMES FOE
WITH QUICK KNOCKOUT
Two Lion boxers battled their ways
to the finals tonight while two others
fell by the wayside in hotly contest
ed semi-final bouts this afternoon.
Captain Davey Stoop, bantam, car
ried the fight to Puglia, West Virginia
' boxer, and had him pretty well under
control -of a left to gain the decision
Al Lewis had one of the closest bouts
! of his career of wins when he took
punishment from De!gem°, Yale
welterweight. Ferrero fell before
Goldstein, Virginia lightweight, and
Pete Updegrove, although he wielded
a mean punch, lost the decision to
Flynn, genial Loyola Southerner and
one of the classiest boxers in the meet
Lewis and Delgemo went after each
other in the first round and Al soon
concentrated on the. Yale boy's stom
ach, finding his head attack futile
Delgemo landed blows to the face
throughout the rounds but in occa
sional flurries suffered at Lewis'
hands. Gaining a little advantage in
the third in several exchanges and
stomach punches, Al secured the de
cision
Moran Beats Pync
Finding the key to Wertheimer,
Syracusan, Cadet Cleveland held him
in the first two rounds but could not
keep the Orangeman from his favor
ite left. Leading in and using a
right, the Cadet weakened Werthei
mer in his decision loss Another
Syracusae, Moran, had lus own
troubles with Danny Pyne, Catholic
University Gibraltar. Giving the
knock-out specialist some of his own
medicine, Pyne landed his hard left
several times and engaged in mixes
but could not connect sufficiently for
the middleweight decision.
Tardugno, Columbus University
boxer who seems to brush off any
and every blow, eliminated Millard!,
Florida 126-pounder, after he had
made lum punch-groggy in the third
and out-generalled him all along
prone to Lome under the influence of
the crowd. Professor Frank L. Klee
berger, of the University of Califor
nia, is among those who believe that
favoritism can be shown by a referee
to the home team when the crowd is
especially aroused but that where the
responsibility is divided between the!
!judges these is less pressure from out
! side influence.
Other officials favoring judges point
out that four or nix eyes are 'much
better than two and that the referee's
moving position is not always so sig
mficant in that sometimes his back is
turned to the fight whereas the judges
with their two slants on the bout se
cure the better decision.
A referee is too busy breaking and
watching the boxers so that they fight
cleanly. He hasn't a chance to really
watch them, in several men's opinion.
For this reason College boxing has
come to be more professional with de
cisions based on the amount of phy
sical punishment given and received
instead of on the basis of points for
clever and intelligent boxing shown
in the ring.
Institutions from which replies
wore received included, Army, Navy,
Pitt, Yale, Ducknell, Carnegie Tech,
New York University, New Hemp
shire, Harvard, Dartmouth, University
of Virginia, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, North. Carolina, Uni
versity of North Carolina, and Penn
State.
2:•Lion Winners in Finals
Rec Hall Echoes
At the Ringside
.It's Friday afternoon and the big
show's on . . . The newspapei boys
are' Were in full force . There's
Ed Neil of the AP, Art Daley of the
New York Tun. (Where's Bill M
ild' of the local Times?) Perry
Lewis of the Impm e; , and Bill
Parris of the Rem d .. . Little
Johnny Miller gives the crowd some
thing to cheer about . ... "Keep
your hands up, Johnny!" . He
is called winner, but Fred Winstead
read wrong . . . Just a Breese
for the Kansas boy over our Zeleznock
. Bobby Goldstein fights a
down-Dill battle .. . his towel cour
tesy of the Hotel Pennsylvania . .
Danny Pyne of Catholic looks as
though he's going to rub the sunburn
off California Buckner's back . . .
Flynn of Loyola and his colorful
couch have the crowd by storm ..
Frankle Nebel isn't quite as good as
Gold-bias . Hill sinks his fist in
Woolbort's solar plexus . . And
the crowd stagger., out for dinner.
What? They're buck again . .
Seems we've seen Werthennor
of Syracuse around here before ..
liflnardi of Florida wears a heart
locket mound his neck . Tar
clugno gazes at things from an out
side position on the ropes in a sur
prised manner . These seconds
use more vociferous than the fighters
.... The crowd goes ruh-rah the
first time tonight ❑s Ferrol, has
Watts of South Carolina bleeding
. . Feritno wins .
Al Lewis gets an ovation as he
comes on the floor ... He grins at
Osborne, an old film! front Wash
ington .... A few seconds Inter Os
borne grins at huts .... from the
canvas ... Doc Ititenour hurries
out to see if Osborne has come to
... De'gem°, a Yale boy who made
good, sees Duquesne doesn't come
back for Moore .... Pete Upde
grove has Temple's Katcher in a bad
way ... Danny's Just Pyning to hurt
Payne ... Alhe Morrison roots for
Page from Mississippi . Flynn
hangs suspended on the lopes ....
but takes the decision . Theic's
Syracuse's Tiger Joe messing up
Schricker of Pitt in his own little
Moranner .... Something seems to
be wonying Schneker besides Mor
an's punches woirying the
referee, too . . Moran looks bored
as lie takes just another victory
.... Pandemonium as Zemurray
all the way from Tulane and Balash
of Syracuse slug .. • • Zemurray's
down ... . The crowd thinks its all
over but he's taking deep breaths
. He's up .... They maul each
other again lie's down again—
and up . He drives Balash to the
ropes ... . Both seen, ready to
topple over . Syracuse's coach
tells Mash to dance around as they
wait for the decision Tulane
wins .. "What a fight."
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CAPT. DAVEY STOOP
FIGHTERS TONIGHT
HOLD 10 CROWNS
2 Lions Bear Championships in
Eastern Intercollegiate
Ring Association
Ten of the boxers who reached the
finals tonight have gained champion
ships back in their own bailiwicks.
D'Allessandro, Temple captain in
the 112-pound class, holds the 115-
pound crown in the Eastern Intercol
legiate Conference fought at Pitts
burgh this year Davey Stoop, the
scrappy Lion captain, is another
crowned head with Eastern Intercol
legiate Association championships to
his credit in both 1930 and 1932. He
lost to Al Wertheimer in 1931.
Al Wertheimer is now champion in
the 126-pound clasp of the Eastern In
tercollegiate Association and is an
other finalist who fought tonight
Seeking a new title tonight was Bud
Taylor of Washington State who al
ready has been crowned Pacific Coast
Intercollegiate champion this year in
the 135-pound outfit.
Hill Holds 2 Crowns
That terrific slugger, Goldstein, is
captain-elect of the Virginia boxers
and holds the title of Southern Con
ference Intercollegiate champion in
the 135-pound class Al Lewis, an
other finalist for the Lions, bears the
crown of Eastern Intercollegiate
champion in the welterweight class
and held the same title in 1931
Gaining the finals by the forfeit
mute, Ed Prisk of Washington State,
is the 145-pound champion on the
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate confer
ence
Moran, fierce Syracusan middle
weight, is the top man in Ins weight
in the Eastern Intercollegiate Asso
ciation He has a string of sonic
twenty knockouts to his credit
Joe Remus, Cadet captain-elect who
injured his hand this afternoon, holds
the 175-pound title in the Eastern In
tercollegiate Association while Doy
le, Hill, TuLine heavy who packs
that terrific belly left, has reigned su
preme among the Southern Confer
ence heavies for the lust two years.
TO END WEST POINT DUTIES
Major Philip B. Fleming, graduate
manages of athletics at West Point,
who is attending the boxing tourney
here, will leave the Militaiy Acad
emy in June, 103 J. His place in the
athletic department will be taken by
Major L D Worsham, now district
engineer at Memphis
Gleemen Place Third
In St. Louis Contes
St. Loans, Mu April 9 —The
Penn State Glee club won third
place in the national meet at St.
Louis last night, according to a
telegram received by the COL
LEGIAN this mining Pomona
College won the tom 'lament, while
Yule's singers took second place.
The winners were given 218 4
point, by the judges. Yale re
ceived 209 2 points, while the Penn
State club wiled at 200. The glee
men sang uncles the direction of W.
Jay Kennedy '32, and competed
against eight other disti let cham
pions
Nittany Boxers Gain
National Crowns in
118, Welter Classes
D'Allessandro; Wertheimer, Goldstein, Flynn,
Wageman, Hill Survive Final Bouts
TO Take Championships
Two Lion boxers reached the
tonight as Lewis knocked out Pri
minutes and twenty-two seconds
pound class, and Captain Davey
Marmel of Columbus University i
Six other collegiate battlers f
gained championships in Recrea
N.C. A.A. tourney came to a
close.
Opening the program for the night,
D'Allessandro, Temple flyweight,
gained a knockout oser Snell, New
Hampshire boxer, after one minute
and twenty seconds of the second
round. A long left to the jaw floored
the New Hampshire boxer after he
had taken punishment in the first
from D'Allessandro's long straight
punches. Snell replaced Miller, of
Penn State, in the finals, following a
check on the judges' votes in the pre
, limmaries yesterday afternoon when
Miller was declared the winner
Starting in with terrific rights and
lefts to the jaw, Captain Dm ey Stoop,
rushed Marmel, Columbus University,
to gain the bantams eight title. In
the first round Stoop used his favor
ite straight left to put himself way
in the lead in what is considered his
finest exhibition in the Recreation
hall ring. Early in the second, af
ter Stoop had landed a right to the
Jaw, Marmel took a count of eight
and was up again to mix things wills
the Lion captain
Goldstein R ins
Gaining more headway in the thud,
Manuel punished Davey in the face
with repeated head punches As cool
as the rang posts, Stoop egeaped most
of the blows which the Columbus bas
er launched in his final and best round
of the fight early in the third.
Al Wertheimer, Symcusan, received
a forfeit from Tardugno, Columbus
University feathers eight who pulled
a ligament in his shoulder in the
fights this afternoon. Al gained the
crown after his startling left and
generalship laid low Cleveland, Army,
and Dormer, Bucknelhan, in earlici
bouts. Putting up excellent exhibi
tions of boxing In his preliminary
bouts, Tardugno was expected to niake
things plenty hot for the Syracuse
champion..
Sending his opponent, Taylor, of
Washington State, to the boards with
hard lefts and upperuits, Goldstein,
Virginia boxer clearly gained the de
cision in the lightweight class. Gold
stein, captain-elect of the Virginians,
min the first round with a safe nun
gin, sending Ins opponent against the
ropes at the bell. Using long rights
and lefts, Goldstein gained the advan
tage in blows to the face and body
although Taylor stood up well in the
attack. Early in the second and
again in the last, Goldstein sent the
Coast champion to the floor for a
nine count. Sending blow after blow
for a knockout, the Virginian bad his
opponent down repeatedly near the
gong.
MEM
Taking his opponent's measure Cann
the first gong, Al Leans knocked out
Prink, Washington State, atter two
minutes, twenty-two seconds, of the
first round.
Flynn, Loyola Southerner. defeated
Moran, Syracusan, for the middle
weight title Keeping intelligently
clear of the Syracuse slugger, Flynn
and Moran fought the first fairly
dose, both fighters landing hard
blows. In the second Flynn penetrat
ed with his repented lefts to the face
to win the round clearly from the
terror of Eastern middleweights.
Moran sent Flynn against the ropes
with a right early in the third but
the Southerner continued to contact
his straight left to gain the decision.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
. peaks of the college ring world
isk of Washington State in two
of the first lolled in the 147-
Stoop gained the decision over
n the 118-pound class
lom all sections of the country
ition hall tonight as the first
N.C.A.A. Champions
112-pound
D'Allessundro, Temple
118-pound
Sloop, Pcnn State
126-pound
Werthemer, SYrneu.o
115-pound
Goldstein, Virginia
117-pound
Lewis, Penn State
160-pound
Flynn, Loyola of the South
175-round
Wag,einan, New Hampshire
Hen, 3 I, eight
Hill, Tulune
Wageman, New Hampshire, light
heavyweight, secured the title over
Zemurray, Tulane boxer who reached
the finals after brilliant fighting in.. ,
the preliminaries Rushing in with
terrific lefts, Wageman slugged his
title over the Southerner after hold
ing Ins sight in check.
Hill, Tulane champion, received the
heavyweight title after Remus, of
Army, fondled, following hand in-
Julies which he received in his hard
fought win from Gentry, Virginia
stalwart
112-pound—Vitulla, Duquesne, fur
felted to Miller, Penn State.
118-pound—Puglia, West Virginia
forfeited to Honcho's, Loyola
Maryland ,
125-pound—Cleveland, Army, forfeit
to Minardi, Florida.
1:35-pound—llagen, Army, forfeited
to Ferreio, Penn State.
147-pound—Freyer, Georgia Tech,
forfeited to De!genie, Yale.
160-puund—Pyne, Catholic, forfeited
to Upilegiove, Penn State.
175-pound—Depiei o, Duquesne, for
feited to Coldblas, Cornell.
Ileavyneight—Gentry, Virginia, for
feited to Panora, Western Mary
land.
118•puuad—Marmel, Columbus, do
tented Honcho., Loyola of Mary
land, decision. Stoop, Penn State
defeated Puglia, West Virginia
decision
L(•pound—Werthenner, Syracuse
defeated Cleveland, Army, deca
sloe Tardugno, C01=1,119, de
- tented Millard!, Florida, decision.
1:35-pound—Taylin, Washington State,
defeated Hagen, Army, decision
Goldstein, Virginia, defeated Per
ron', Penn State, decision.
117-pound—Freyer, Georgia Tech,
forfeited to Peak, Washington
State. Lewis, Penn State, defeat-
ed Delgenio, Yale, decision.
100-pound—Moran, Syi Reuse, defeat
ed Py ne, Catholic, deemon. Flynn,
Loyola of the South, defeated Up-
degiove, Penn State, decision.
175-pounds—Wagetnan, New hemp
shire, defeated Delmore, Duquesne
Zeinurrny, Tulane, defeated Gold
Was, Cot nell, decision.
Heavyweight—Remus, Army, defeat
ed Gentry, Virginia, decision. Hill
Tulane, defeated Pineura, West
n Maryland, knockout in first.