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-
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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
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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
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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.
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onents Tomorrow
Syracuse, Most Formidable
Lion Foe, Will Send Strong
OppositionAgainstßingmen
Houck Satisfied With Work of Nittanymen Who
Face One of Best Teams in East.
By HARRY I
After the final tapering off of ring
work yesterday, Coach Leo Houck ex
pressed satisfaction with the work of
his boxers who will fight the Syra
cuse team tomorrow night at 7 o'-
clock in Recreation hall, a meet that
is by fur the toughest one that the
Lion boxers will face this year.
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-
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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
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