Tuesday, March 19,1939 Between The Lions By 'HERB CATIAN, Sports Editor Before we give vent to out feelings, and similer reactions voiced by others who attended the iefeleeing fiasco at Syracuse this past week-end, we offer a well-earned token of congratulations to a gallant bunch of wiestlets who came through with a surprising second-place in the mending intmcollegintes, which added another notch of lICCOIII - to an inspning and talented coach Gaining only one championship-1m unexpected victory for Sopho more Frankie Gleason in the 136-pound class—Chathe Speules cour ageous hand of grapplers deserve much commendation fei coming through with enough fulls and second places to put the State team just. behind Lehigh's goat egg' eget= A mete seven, points sepal nted these two well-balanced and capably-handled outfits. While Champ Gleason receives the matneloi his individual con quest, n ringing tiibute gbes out to Capt Don Bachman, John Cling bead, Roy Gensler, Ernie Boitf, Ay. ten Elliott, Joe'Sentro, and Davn Waite fm coming through with enough points-22 in all—to come dangerously close to upsetting the favored Engineers. No written or verbal praise can truly pay a just ti Mute to a weal team and its great coach Those Boxing Intereollegiates—Add 1937 Aftei d seemed that the boxing/Intel collegiates were going to be conducted wide' an immOved system, the official thaw dashibutang the byes and seedlings very fan ly, the whole affair 'eve' ted to a dupli cation of the setback that was handed collegiate boxing at Syracuse to 1937—a1l due to a fan (teal display of lefeieeing and judging, and the unspoi tionanithe ct owd reaction Two of the three iefeiees—Ed Biockinan and Jim Clowley, in pai ticulM 7 -seeined utteily ignoiant of how to score an inteicollegiate Match, besales displaying a flagiant'violition of one of the most im .portMit points in - any kind of sports judging—being swayed in their decision by a pin Ligon eidwd This latter point was especially apparent in the decision that awsuded the 175-pound title to Syi scow's popular and pi eviously un defeated Rican Wysegis - If eves - a man outbmsed a wild-swinging, in fermi opponent that man was Johnny Patisck Sentm Not only did Johnny jab the Syrucusan's face into a fiery led hue, but he (Antll ., wally heat Wysegis to the punch and caught most of Wysegis' sledge bemuse) swings on Ins gloves and shoulders Brocicman's and Ca owley's slips showed a slight edge Cm Wysegis, by some uncanny, method of sensing—while Charley Stant, the thud sefesee, voted fm Planck ' Penn State was not-the only victini of poor officiating Among other suffelets wet e Geotge 7ataides, Daitmouth's all-American girl guard, and Bobby Staubei of Syiacuse True, refeiees ale human beings and not infallible, but, then supposedly better knowledge of the sport and its ienunements,for declaiing a victor;-should place them in a position whole their judgement is leSpected rathei than contin ually One male violation, which mobably cost Al Tapman the 127-pound championship, was completely disiegaided by the referee The lilies state that when a clinch is hi oken by the iefeiee each man must take one step back In the first mound of then championship bout, Tapman jail Coinell's Moe Goldbas wele sepinated by the mefemee Tupman Stepped back Goldbas did not Instead, the Cottlellian rushed in and 'lugged the defenseless Tapman with a poweiful left hook that Pooled the Nittany Lion , Gentleman Al, who seemed dazed for the remainder of the wand, was again (looted, but he came back sttong in the second and third stanzas to have Goldbas on the gel ge of unconsciousness at the final bell. Had it not been foe Goldbas' failure to observe that megulatmon in the heist round, and the White on the part of the official to warn him --And justly discount the knockdown,-Tapman would now„be,l27-pound' champ ills comeback was such , a gallant one that even the nnti-Pemi State crowd showeied him with sounds of deserved applause. Another courageous little Nittany Lion was Mike Coopei who, in losing to the string-beany Cadet Walt Lavendusky, made a superb showing that he can well be proud of Mike was'just top short to be able to outwore 'his jabbing opponent, but his ability to absorb so much punishment and still finish strong—left hand out, right cocked in true Houclian style—was really an astonishing feat Tust as the 135-pounder was the sole wrestling title-winndl, so it was in boxing Capt Roy Hanna was the essence of intescollegiate (Continued - On Page Folir) Courtrnen Write Unusual Chapter In Record Book By 808 WILSON Viewed loin any angle, even through rose-colored glasses, Penn Stab's Official 13llsketball Scoiebook (Spaulding No , 11-810) is a highly unnr,plied piece of litelatuie ( It. is ' absolutely devoid of verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adveibial tl LIM% dangling paltatiples ot what have you All that is embodied in this weather-beaten, paper-bound notebook are , names and numbeis—but what a story they tell , And yet that stay.. is hut a thapto in ‘43 yeahs a basketb.in histni y at Penn State Let's take a look at the ledger. In.-23 games, Soul mine than they hate ever played in a single tvin, the Lon eagers 'molded 1; wattles against 10 defeats, N.. More setbacks than they'wele th-iged with last yeni The Nit tanymen amassed 790 - points , dat ing ,those - 23 games, neatly 150 more than , any Penn State quintet has ever piled up an one campaign Significant ‘jilelf - ghtt. on the season ,lust passed show that the Lawthei men, in then' finale, whip ped Temple fin - the first time in Easteili' Ciprfetence , histin y, that `Pitt was tiammed twice -in the 'ame season iii the first time in 12 yea! rtiKl an 11 . -year Lion, , coring recold:Avas, shattereewhen West Vatginiti'w"-is beaten, sd-4O and that it was' .the fist time an John Lawthin . % gollege coaching ~%careet that his festni lost foul ganies in a low' 11.11appened on SLil Chi Islam , : trip ,west One id - talent that wall always tenni= among the season's en :o)T getables Was Max; -Cm bin's oncmin-allifetime shot , that tiny: three-quatteis the length of -the ,floor,qo tic West Virginia at Morgantown as the final min sounded It was the year's. No 1, ,Conference thriller -State won '46-43 in three overtime periods , ;Another unusual occurrence was States partacmatin in a "spec- „ THE' ENGINFERK HOP 11 ay,. arc 17 9-12 se A m t i T .-F h o e r A m r a rry BILL BOTTORF Adm $l.OO (Incl. Checking) , r Winless" contest with, Carnegie Tech's 'quarantined Tartans at Pittsburgh I ,Pans -were bat red .be. cruise of a flu epidemic raging on the Tech' campus at the time It was believed to be the first "fan leiis" game in Intercollegiate cage history Aside from 'these features the reason 'was just another chapter, Nn '93 to be exact, in Peon State curt Instal r. fid fls tls Pt os.er ' 72 51- 68 195 3topper _ 30 28- 18 106 4161'111'nm ____ 34 25- 34 93 :".4.lbm , 83 24- 85 '9O 3.0. r 33 22- 90 88 ;WO 23 8- 12 54 34pp 10 11- 19 49 ,Christman 15 9- 17 39 Itneusin , 15 G. 15 35 a.ha ulson ' 8 1.- 4 17 Dawes 8 2- 1 8 itlannles 1 4- 5 6 Chalmers 1 2- 4 4 Crowell 2 - 0- 0 4 Kniva 41 1- ,1 1 Totals 298 194.205`700 Eugehe B. Lederer • ItRAI, ESTATi 114 E. Eleayep Ave. Dial 4066 StateiCollege Hanna Is Only Lion Titlist As Army Boxers Repeat Matmen 2nd; Gleason Lone Champion Orange 2nd; Nittanymen, Cornell 3rd By BERNIE NEWMAN Capt. Roy Hanna was the lone Lion boxes to be crowned an Intercollegiate champ last Saturday night when Army's gold and black-clad mitmen i etained the Eastern Inter collegiate Boxing title at Syr acuse by taking three indi vidual titles, one second and three third places for a total of 21 points Syracuse placed second with 'l7 points, and State and Cornell tied fot thud with 15 each. Amy, Syracuse and State bat tled neck and neck up to the fin als, with each sending in four i epi esentatives Cornell vs as next with three But the Cadets clinched the tom nainent berme the evening bouts were half com pleted when Cadet Hull defeated Stan 'Cashman of Syracuse in the 155-pound meeting, to give Ai my its thud clown of the evening With Lions Frank Silvestii and Hank Schweitrei eliminated in the melimintuiesiday night, and Boma Sandson and Johnny Patrick, Sophomoie, ousted in the semi-finals,-Penn State had rYI Ilse Cootie', Al Tapman, Johnny Pat : ick Senior and Minna in the fin al- Saturday night Cooper Loses in Finals Cooper went into the semi-finals atm. outpointing Wood of Dart mouth in the pieliminaries Fii day night He met a tough op ponent in Mink - Teiziev of Syia acuse the next afternoon, but gained the decision after - thee gruelling sounds Although tired horn his after noon bout, Cooper was pitted in the hnal's against Cadet Leven- Alusky, krmy's defending champ, andTaveVm one of the - toughest fights of , einem The little Lion sailed into his much taller opponent and kept after him for three sounds, mak ing heroic effort to hang one on the Soldier's chin and end the fight, but the long-aimed Cadet was able to stave him off with long left jabs and get the nod Tapman Loses Tough One Al Tapman defeated Clement of Army in the semi-finals, but diop ped a heal tbseaker in the finals to Moe Goldbas, Cornell's defend ing champ. Goldbas knocked Tap man to the canvass in the first JOUIId with haul left hooks to the head But he got up and, aftei a clinch Goldbas did - not step back but hit Tapman with anothei left. hook to send him down again This blow weakened Tapman and it wasn't until late in the second sound when he was fully iecovei ed He gained the plaudits of the crowd-by - has gi eat come back, when he punched away at Goldbas continually for the te maindm of the second and the ca use thud stanza Tapman had Goldba4 out on his feet and would have knocked out thC t tleholde: ...had the sound gone another few seconds Poor Decision For Patrick Johnny Putt ick, Serum, Ica; victim of the worst decision hand ed down in the entree tournament when he met up with an old Nu Irt SvincuseN Arne! ico Wysegis l'ataitk made up 'for a TKO loss lie suffeied at the hands of the Sylacusan in the dual meet by outboxing and outpunching ham fm the entree bout The decision was given to Nyy (Continued on Page Four) / PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Fencers Trim Owls To End Season A decisive 12 1 / 2 -4.4: vietoiy over sip-man temple squad ended the season foi Lion swordsmen in Ree Hall Saturday Margins wei e gained mall di visions of the match which con tained only 17 bouts insteod of the usual 27 .. Scotty Rankin showed-himself in top form, defeating all three of his opponents, including Owl Cap tain Huber, who downed Co-cap-, tam Dean Pohl and Lester Kute for then only losses , of the meet Doug Adorns , moted wins in both his epee bouts, while Roger Kul lost one and shared one In the sabet division, Coach Homy Kt utter used foul differ ent men qn the four bouts Co-cap tain John Lipeczky, Ed Zanget and Dan Lyons registered wins Jack Good lost to Peilstem This was the last meet for sen mt,, Foltv, Lipeczky, Rankin, and Knk These, along smith Earl Strunk, another semoi, were the backbone of the team this season The summai les FOILS—Foltz, P S defeated Goldberg, 5-3, Rankin, P. S., de feated Petlstein, 5-2, Huber, T, defeated Kut7, 5-2, Folte, P S, defeated Peiktein, 5-1, Rankin, P S, defeated Hubei, 5-4, Kutz, P S, gefeated Goldberg, 5-3; 'ru bel, T , defeated Foltz, 5-4, Ran kin, P. S, defeated Goldberg, 5-0, and Hute, P S, defeated Pell ,,tein, 5-1 Stole PS-7, T,2 EPEE—Knk, P S, and Davis, T , shamed the point, Adams, P S, defeated Lapinsohn, 3-1; Ad anr-,, P S, defeated Davis, 3-0, and Lamnsolm, T , defeated Knit, 1-2 Some P S-2%, T-1 1 / 2 SABER—lapetyky, P 5, de feated Kesslet, 5-2, Perlstein, T, defeated Good, 5-3, Zat get, P S, defeated Kesslei, 5-3; and Lyons, P S, defeated Perlstem, 5-2 Score P S-3, T-1. ---„Sportograpjiy,, Shy Frankie Rubs Lucky Nickel, Gets Medal- By GEORGE,SCHLESS Lust Wednesday afternoon Char lie Speidel untangled himself long enough to 'scratch his sparsely thatched head and make, for the first time In Ills Li years as Lion mat coach, a last-minute choice of an Intel collegiate tourney entry Only then did shy blue-eyed blond Flank Anhui Gleason know that after a not-too-hot dual meet season that Included sessions on the bench he would N4lemtle In the annual tournament at Yale Thies dot, Intel the still-shy sophomore %Ins the proud poises sor of a first-place medal and the title St Eastei n Intercollegiate estling Champion the only - Nit tanyman to gain a clouts All the sins' to Neu Miser', ultile championship chances were being discus , ed tot almost everyone on the team but Cleacon he had toyed with a luck) nickel and mused n bunch that he uould conic tio °ugh A (hot ongh student of the short Gleason Icnous almost every exist ing' hold, and Is mastering them one by one under Speiderx u etch ful oyes "I Still hose a lot to learn - In fact I don't tenon enough yet to enter the Nationals, 0114 eekend." 4113,4 the champ "I felt like shoot ing ntvselt fm n chile I wns do (ming 'myself Ihr using holds I I.neu but hadn't mastered' I (Continued on Page Four) Fleming Elected MBA Head; Boxing Tourney Slated Here For MO Neil M Fleming graduate manager of athletics, %cm+ elect ed president of he Eastern In. tmcollegiate Boxing Association ,at Syracuse Satuiday He sue. CePIIS Di Leslie 4 13ivan of Syracuse - Penti State null be the scene of the 17th annual Intercollegi ate tournament, It \%11 , 1 decided by association allicials The 1940 •championships are scheduled for the second ueek in Mauch Olhet acts olnceth of the as sociation are Charles Havens, Western M.uyi nd, vice piesi dent, and Asa Bushnell, Neu York City, ceci °tam -ti eayuret _ ' Officials also voted Cornell Ihthersit‘ - into the association 'The Dig Red flagmen, mrest competitory at tile (-intent In let collegiate tout ney, tied Penn 'State for thhil place Membership in the association mots include; Army, Sylactuse. Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, West ern Maryland, anti Penn State Leopards Face Rinkmen AWay Retaining to the ice after a month's layoff, Penn State's hoc key Lions face Lafayette's Leop ards in a return match in the lletshey Ice Palace at 5 95 p m today Still rankled by memmies of a pi evious 5-9 defeat, the Lions will be fighting fm a, chance to turn tables on the Easton puck-chasers In that defeat the State men were beaten by a mystery player when :in the midst of a set amblm before the goal, the puck eked its way through the net to spell yictoi y dot Lafayette ' Since then the Lions downed Le high 7-1. in a fast game played in Henhey Because of the absence of ice, coai.h Arthur Davis has not been able to hold outdoor practices for 4tvel al weeks and is undecided about his _stating lineup, but twelve-players will-make the trip 4 Lions Are Runners-Up; Lehigh Retains Team Title Making the trip only on a last-minute decision of Coach Chin lie Speidel, modest little sophomore Frank Gleason, with a tar from outstanding dual meet i ecord, fought his way thi oug,h the stag-studded 35th annual Eastern Wrestling In tercollegiates at New Haven Friday and Saturday to win the 136-pound ci own, only individual title for the Nittany men, who fought their way to a runner-up spot seven points behind Lehigh's powerful Engineers. Placing five nien in the semi-, fi ta y bo in u g t to c i n g}hzi decas nals and thi ee in the finals, the I e a ri nt o m f ; :he a at the Nittanymen amassed 22 points, coned Zaiet of Columbia while Lehigh's defending champ- to cop „ tom place ions won foul titles and the team Masem Takes Scalzo crone with 29 points Humid Stalzo lost the 145-pound final and Yale, far out of , the cunning, ' tied fat thud place with 9 points each, followed by Syiacuse, Prsnceten, Penn and Commu bia John Craighead and Toe Seal in lost in the finals to Lehigh men and took second places while IST poundet Captain Don Bachman and 155-poundet Roy Gensler lost in the semi-finals, but each won consolation bouts and then took decimons Item the defeated final ists to end up with second-place medals Einie Boi tz took thn d place in the 175-pound class Engineers Win Four Titles Both Lehigh and State sewed in every weight but tuo, but the Lions had no chance of catching up with the Engineers aftei four of their five finalists non champ ionships, giving them a 16-point lead at the end of the title bouts Gleason won his title in an ovei tune fi.iy with strong Waldo Bud, Yale veteran After a close nine minutes in which be seemed to h.ne a slight edge, Gleason turned on the heat in the extia pci iods to uin on the basis of agglessii,e ness Aftei inning his way tin ough a strong field to leach the finals, Craighead lost a deal decision to Plinceton's Bob Eberle After po-, salons ieveised twice in the that two minutes, noWelful Eberle took Cie:ahead down with a leg - hold, to Lehigh's liaiola Illasem, 135- pound title-holder last yea) and the only man to beat the Lion sophomore ace this season Tnice :Ilasem v.as on the verge of pin ning Scalzo, but, although ob siou4ly humpeied b 3 painfully in jured iibs, Stalin's amaiing strength enabled him to ci awl out of danger &aim beat Chatlie. Holt of Columbia foi second place Bachman lost a close semifinal bout to champion Tommy King of Lehigh, then decisioned Phil Rey nolds of Cornell and finalist Bill Daughaday of Harvaid fm sec ond place honors Gensler lost in the opening Sound to Gus Engelman, 145- pound champ in 038 who this yews won the 155-pound title The State junica knocked off Jim Tiousdell of Cornell and hnalist If II Is Fresh Fruits and Vegetables You Want, Think of McKEE'S MARKET ARRIVALS ARE DAILY—VARIETY COMPLETE "If It Is to be Had, We Have It" Free Delivery Opposite Post Office Jim End of Yale to end up 19.: pound tunnel -up , Bortz lost a heal t-ln caking e 4-1 tra-petiod battle to Columbia'si gtal star, Bob Taylot, to the semi finals Aftet T.tylot lost in the finals to Lehigh's Mathes, BoaL deeistoned Stickney of Penn snip Hanel of Yale to take thud plaw Strong In Opening Round The Linn, stinted out Stiong Friday after noon's opening yes smn, placing five men in the ~ em finals Gleaqon won by folfett over Ed Gteeg of Cornell, then threw .flin: (Continued On Page Four) PRINTING for FRATERNITIES AND CLUBS LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES STATEMENTS Nittany Printing & Publishing Company 110 West College Avenue Mal 4921
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