Friday, February 22, 1935 Wrestling, Champion Lehigh Matmen May Hand Local Squad Its First Set-Back of Season Lion Team Weakened By Possible Loss Of Three Men. By - VANCE PACKARD Local' sooth-sayers cannot be ac cused of crying "wolf, wolf" when they predict that the Penn State wrestling team haS an excellent chance of receiving its first set-back of the year when it takes the Rec Hall mats against Lehigh, Eastern Intercollegiate Champion, tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Under normal conditions, there doesn't seem to be a team in the East that can smother the Lion grap plers—but conditions will definitely not be normal in.the meet tomorrow. Bill Cramer is still nursing his in jured elbow which was dislocated in the Cornea meet. If he does decide to wrestic, he, will have little chance of defeating Crockett, Lehigh's 155- pound power-heuse, in' his present condition. Besides this, 'Austin Eisenman will probably lie unable to make his weight in the 125-pound class, as had been hoped; and Lau • Ereizman's flickering star has still failed to ma terialize in the heavy-weight depart ment. The fact that Lehigh received a severe jolt when it collided with Navy Last week should not be taken to mean that it is impotent this year. In the first place, Captain Case was out be cause of an injury; secondly, Navy won two of its victories on flukes; and finally, the Navy has what seems to be its best team in a decade. Whew tfie Lions and the Engineers are stacked up beside each other, and the records or each man compared, it would appear that Penn State has a good chance of winning four bouts —and it also has a N:erSr good chance of losing the , other four. ' The four Lions that can be count ed on for an almost certain victory arc Jack Light in the 115-pound class, Jack Calvin or Sully Waite in the 145-pound division, Captain Red Johnston in the 165-pound clap, and Ray Yoder in the 175-pound bracket. The weights which are painfully uncertain arc in the 118-pound divi, sion where Sammy Wolfson will meet Lehigh's adolescent whirl-wind, Ash man; the 125-pound contest- where 'Scanthiy Mita (or possibly Austin Eisenman) will meet Captain Case; the 155-pouhd class where Lehigh's Crockett will be very much in evi dence; and the heavy-weight class where Scobey, runner-up in the In tercollegiates, will meet Joe O'Dowd. However, this line-up of four vic- Hillside Ice and Coal• Co. Dealers in the Highest Grades of Coal and Coke +• Call Us for Your Supply of FIREPLACE WOOD Phone 136-J • THE NEW . AND SNACK BAR Designed by Elsie do Wolfe, with original murals by Hugh Troy... Popular rendezvous for Luncheon, Cocktail Hour, Dinner and Supper. SNVOY•PINIA Homy A. Rost, Managing Director Gaon,* Suter, Resident Manager OVERLOOKING CENTRAL PARK • FIFTH AVE, 38th to 59th STS • NSW YORK Boxing, Wrestjinn Captain s f.'k* -.....".: -•"." • -..,:"....-.'z': ..... , ... • ''...i;cA4'.-:;•::.:..., ~..... .: CAPT. OWARDe-IOH. , •JSTOnI 165 POUND CHAMP/ON tories for each is obviously uncertain. Sammy Wolfson has an excellent chance of upsetting the dope and beating Ashman; and on the other hand, State may lose.one of the four bouts which it has been conceiled here. In any event, the meet will •be un comfortably close. The number of falls which each team secures will probably prove to be the deciding fac tor in determining the winner. If either Bill Cramer or Lou Kreitman were in shape to wrestle, there would be little question as to the outcome. Bill admitted last night that his arm would probably keep him out; and Lou has not felt the urge to come out as yet. lie has consistently post poned his debut for the past month. Coach Speidel said yesterday that if Lou did not get in shape in time for the Syracuse and Navy meets, he would not permit the rugged heavy weight to compete in the Intercol.: legiates, , under any circumstances. INTRAMURAL • HIGHLIGHTS By JOHN 'MILLER With the first matches scheduled for Tuesday night, entries in the In tramural Bowling tournament will close tomorrow. All fraternity and other intramural groups may enter WHEN IN :110 4 4 . . Your visit will be even more enjoyable when u stop at this renowned tel. At our very door are read the broad acres of intro! Park. Should your >petite lag, our cuisine Fers temptation irresistible . You'll be handy to the sway, buses and the finest >ps, close to Radio City id the theatres, only fifteen 'nutes from Wall Street. sme to New York and iile you're here, make Savoy-Plaza your home Basketb Lion Quintet Favored Over Carnegie Five Coach Leslie Uncertain Of Starting Squad For Tech Fray. By CHARLIE SCHWARTZ Beaten in its last two starts after rolling up six straight triumphs, Penn State's basketball team will en deavor to climb back into the victory column tomorrow eight at the ex pense of the surprisingly strong Car negie Tech quintet. The contest is scheduled for Recreation halt at 8:30 o'clock. In this twenty-eighth meeting of the two teams, of which Penn State has won twenty-four of the games, the Lions are favored—if for no other reason, then they are favored be . - cause a victory is due them. Another point in the Lions' favor is the past record: the series began in 1913 in Pittsburgh, Penn State winning the fast twenty-two games. Last year the Mons won, .17-21, in Pittsburgh. Coach Spike Leslie is not at all certain of his starting line-up,,but it will probably be Captain Johnny Stocker and Bar Riley at forwards, Jim Hunter at center, and Mike Kor nick and Frank Smith at guards. Skibo Coach Max Hannum is expect ed to assign Captain Ted Rigg and Andy Kritseher to forward posts, Johnny Ewalt Or Charlie Fitzwilson to the tap-off position, and Babe Patt and Simon Felsar at guards Tech, in addition to being a big team (they average over six feet and weigh 167), comes here with a fair record for this year. having defeat ed Georgetown, Geneva, Temple, W. d J., and Waynesburg, and losing extremely. close games to Westmin ster, West Virginia, Pitt, and quesne, their record stands at five victories in twelve starts, as against the Lions' eight victories out of thir teen. However, the Skibos have play ed better teams, on the whole, than Penn State has. Tech has been weakened this year by the loss of Paul Gibson, forward and leading scorer last year, who has had to drop basketball because of a scarlet fever illness that kept him in the hospital for a month. Rigg and Charlie Spisak, forwards, are the on ly last year's letter men Tomorrow night's game may bring some interesting developments in the scoring thee between Frank Smith and Captain Stocker. Smith leads the squad with ninety points regis tered in thirteen games, an average of slightly less than seven points a game. Stocker, in only ten contests because he injured his wrist and was out for almost three weeks, has mov ed up into second place with seventy four points. This is en average of almost seven and a half points per game. teams, according to Ed Lee, manager of the Dux Club, which is sponsoring the tournament. A trophy will be awarded the tourney winner, Lee said. Last year, there were eight teams entered in the contest, which was won by' the Sigma Alpha Epsilon bowlers. The tourney will be divid ed into two halves, with the first and second half winners playing off a fi nal match. 1. M. Basketball In the basketball realm, thirteen games will be played before thi, week-end is over, bringing the sixty odd fraternities entered in the com petition somewhat closer to the final division. Six games will be played tonight, while seven will clash Sun day afternoon. Delta Theta Sigma meets Alpha Chi Sigma, Delta Upsilon opposes Phi in] Delta, while Phi Kappa Psi, clashes with Pi Kappa Phi tonight at 7 o'clock. Phi Lamda Theta vs. Alpha Kappa Pi. Delta Chi against Frear Hall, and Delta Tau Delta matched against Phi Sigma Kappa make up the S o'clock schedule. Watts Hall is the team to be watched in this set, hav ing won an easy victory over the CoMmons club. At 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Phi Gamma Delta will meet Alpha Chi Rho, Sigma Phi Epsilon comes into Intra• Mural Bowling League WILL START FEBRUARY 26 Fraternities or Clubs may enter on or before . Feb. 23 at the Dux Club. THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN 11 Teams Meet Op I Lion Champs Who Will Meet Syracuse Collegiate Wrestling Rules Designed To Speed Action, Prevent Stalling in Bouts Co-eds may ask dumb questions at wrestling meets, but the men who sit beside them and have to answer their queries usually have only a Slightly less hazy idea of what it is all about. Wrestling matches at colleges would be comparatively simple things to watch and appreciate if they were run off like the professional free-for ails. In those. mauling contests, no holds are barred and there is no time limit—the wrestlers simply 101 l about until one decides to throw the other. However, professional matches are very dreary affairs to watch, and in them a wrestler's I. Q:. is an insig nificant factor in determining Who will win. .Consequently - eollege wrest- Hog officials.have attempted to elimi nate the dullness and unfairness of the professional meets. As a result, the collegiate matches are moth more eventful; but they are also vastly more perplexing to follow. The Bogey of Time The chief change which college of ficials have made is to bring the time element into the matches.. A match does not necessarily have to end in a ; fall to determine a winner. The wrestler having the biggest time ad vantage at the end of the match is declared the winner and awarded three points. However, if a fall does occur, the. winner is awarded five points. All regular meets are ten minutes long. However, there are two ex ceptions. First, if a fall occurs, the bout stops automatically; second, in case neither contestant has a full minute of time advantage at the end of the regular period, two extra per iods of three minutes each are held. These extra •periods start from the referee's position, where the wrest lers take turns going on bottom. If, at the end of those extra periods, neither wrestler has a time advan tage of thirty seconds, the referee de cides the winner on the basis of the wrestling ability and agtressiveness of • the two men. In recent years, another device has been brought in to prevent stalling, and to insure the customers of a live ly show. If neither man has taken the other to the mat at the end of the first two minutes, the referee stops the match. The remaining eight minutes of the bout are divided contact with Sigma Nu, while Watts Hall clashes with Chi Phi. All these teams had difficulty in previous games. Theta Kappa Phi vs. Theta Epsilon Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Tau Phi Delta, and Theta Nu Epsilon vs. a non-fraternity unit will occupy the floor at 3 o'clock. into two .four minute periods. The reforme tosses a coin, and the winner of the toss has his choice of taking, the bottom or the top in the refer ee's position for the lint period. For the second period, the situation is raversed. Going Ott the Mat The one occasion where the ref eree is usually booed more lustily than in any other meet, is when cer tain portions of the audience dis agree with him as to his decisions in bringing the wrestlers back when they go off the mat. In his decisions, the referee follows three very defi nite rules. First, if neither nine had the ad vantage immediately before leaving the mat, the bout shall he resumed with both on their feet in the neutral position. Second, if one wrestler had a posi ' tion of advantage immediately before leaving the mat, he is given the top position in the referee's position when the bout is resumed. Third, in case a fall is imminent and the man underneath . intentionally leaves the mat, the referee gives the contestants, as nearly as possible, the same position which they held when they both went oil the mat. Final Week of Om Clearance Sale Just another week and then back tq regular prices. 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Syracuse, which has held the in tercollegiate championship for three years, is bringing one of the strong est and best balanced teams in the east here. The Orange boxers have built up a staggering reputation in thelr meets so far this year, regis-1 tering knock-outs in practically ev ery weight. However, Syracuse has one weak spot in its team line-up. That is the light-weights. Last Thursday they beat Springfield, 0-2, losing their only bouts in the 125 and 125-pound class es. State is especially strong in the lighter weights and should register a lead there. But it will be up to 'States heavier weights to carry this lead if the Lions are to register a victory over the Orange outfit. To accomplish this will be no little gesture; Mike Button, at 145 pounds, is no slouch, ringing up a first round K. 0. in the Springfield meet last week along with the first round K. o.'s of Jefferies in the 175, and Jim Brown in the unlimited. Besides this the Syracuse team carries a dcfi- Cite threat towards the present 135- , pound intercollegiate crown in Art McCivern, Orange sophomore. The battle between Izzy Richter and .Jim Brown, Syracuse's great heavyweight sophomore, should be the top-notch bout of the evening with the bout between Lou Ritzie, State's 1 155 -pounder, and Regan running a close second. Brown is a giant in the real sense of the word. He has it all over Izzy as far as weight goes, tipping the beam well above the 200 mark, while Richter doesn't weigh IN. However, Izzy has such a wealth of experience and skill to draw upon that the big Orange box er will find himself running into all sorts of trouble that he hasn't met so far in his brief intercollegiate ca reer. Russ. Criswell will probably be fighting in the 115 pound class while Francie McAndrews will open his sec ond fight in the 125 pound belt. Cap tain Mike Zeleznock will be fighting Ted Bardacke. Syracuse, in the 135 pound class. These bouts should pro- , . • -e)'4 . :S . : ' ' ., :: ji ----,'• _ i ,.. :;•,; , -,.. 4 .4 ..„--, i 7 !i• , •.•: s, ''' ---- " , ' • .7-0 --, --,.." . 4 7 f , v,-.' - :::-. —..—>---, c;o ' ' ' ... i - ", (Frot)t o,l)—Thankg, Mike "Say. Sam. let's hefid South." "Nope, I'm a headtn' for Penn State and Soph Hop—Hope I get there by March Sth for Freddie Martin's Band is supplying the music" MEMIEMEI vide State with a grip on victory. What happens in heavier weights will depend a great deal on the breaks and who takes advantage of them. Either Bachman, who after a start led two rounds at Navy last week came back in the third to all but K. 0. his man, or Frankie Goodman will light the Syracuse 145 pounder. Mike Button. Regan, who made his debut as an °rang:, boxer last week, will probably be fighting in the 155 pound class. Regan is a southpaw with a lot of skill packed away in that left. Whitey Rhoda will be having a tough time in the 175 pound class when he tangles with Ray Jefferis, one of Syracuse's K. 0. kings. Trait Mogan may get thy nod from Leo that will send him into the ring to morrow night against Captain Tony Bulash, who held the intercollegiate title in that weight two years ago. It'll be the team that gets the breaks that will win this meat. And no matter who wins, it's going to he tough going for both teams. The freshman wrestling team will meet Wyoming Seminary in Recrea tion Hall at 1:30 tomorrow after noon, closing their regular season. Frank Medico Pipes Sold in State College by REA & DERICK, Inc. "ef'zerc., Page Three
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