WEDNESDAY,/MARCH. 19, 1941 !: iiiiuiii!Hii|iUHmiuuratiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin;iiiiiiiiniiiiiii 4 ilSe lions WITH DICK PETERS- lllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllll Clair Hess, Nittany 128 pound grappler, defeated Brook Parker- -of. Yale Saturday, in an EIWA.:-consolation bout, the wispy.. Lion: wrestler tossed the team, title into the joint laps of Yale and Princeton and brought back the..?tpry of a similar situ ..ati-on which won the Eastern title for Penn State in 1936 . . . That year, all the bouts had been run off but,..the. finals and the con solation second and third place "matches ... It was Friday night, . and Captain Joe O’Dowd of State and several other Lion wrestlers , werg dining with a Mr. Harkness of Harvard . . . Harkness was a 175 pounder, who was to meet the losing finalist for the second and third place points the next night ... . Said Harkness, “I don’t mind wrestling for the title, but I can’t.see wasting time on these consolation bouts. I’d rather for- feit than expend the energy . . . ” Said Captain O’Dowd, “you’re cuckoo, ,Mr. Harkness. .You may i be throwing the championship | into someone’s hands if you don’t t wrestle/ the consolation bouts.” .j. . . . Twenty-four hours , passed | and thei'e remained but 6ne bout j in the tourney, a 175 pound j match between Mr. Harkness of : Harvard and Mr.' Sterngold of Lehigh-. . . Penn State was lead | ing in team points with 31 to I Lehigh’s 30 ... A win in the 175 J consolation bout would insure ! the Engineers at 'least a tie with \ the Lions ... A fall victory by ! Sterngold would mean an Engin [ eer victory, as would a forfeit'. ..■ j And Mr. Harkness of Harvard j couldn't be found . . . A posse of j Penn State wrestlers made a hur | ried scouting trip through the [ Princeton gym and discovered ! the Crimson .wrestler in the [ dressing room, quite nonchalant- J: ly forgetting the whole thing . . . ---Combined threatening, begging,- - and brute -force finally got the uninterested Mr. Harkness onto | . the mat against the determined 1 ■ Lehigh grappler . . . 1500*people i left their seats and crowded j- around the mat, where the cham j pidnship. was; being decided on i the final match/ 1 a consolation J bout . .'. Six]minutes of furious j wrestling passed, and Harkness ; and Sterngold shook hands . . . ' Then Austin Bishop/fhe referee, i and ironically enough, a Lehigh •i man,. raised Harkness’ hand in victory .'. ./Penn'State had won the title by-one point. - Frate InlM rnity, Independent Teams Advance Basketball\ Wrestling Competition 2 Matmen Added To National Meet Chuck Rohrer, 165-pound sen ior, and Jack Kerns, Lion soph omore who placed second in the intercollegiates, were added to the roster of Captain Frank Glea son, Joe Scalzo, and Charlie Ridenour to wrestle in the Na tional Intercollegiate champion ships at Lehigh this Friday and Saturday. Coach Charlie "Speidel voiced confidence that Captain Gleason, Scalzo, and Rohrer would fare better in the nationals than they did in the intercollegiates when all three were eliminated in the preliminaries. After they had set a composite dual meet score of 20 wins and only three losses, these Lion seniors failed to get started in the intercollegiates while grap plers that they had defeated con sistently in dual competition romped away with the 136, 145, and 165-pound crowns. Little Charlie Ridenour, who copped the EIWA 121-?>ound title, will not have an easy time against his weight class which is studded with veterans this year. Ridenourwill be gunning for his second championship, the na tional, a feat rarely accomplished by grapplers. ' _ Big Jack Kerns will be out to avenge his defeat at the hands of Captain Larry Pickett of Yale who threw-the Nittany heavy weight, to take the EIWA cham pionship. Lion Racquet Wielders Foil Adverse Weather By Late Indoor Practice Not to be held up by-adverse weather, the tennis team, has been holding late sessions (10:30 p. m. to 12 midnight), -for the past two weeks, in preparation for outdoor practice and their 12 game schedule. Coach Ted Roethke has as a team nucleus five returning let ter men, Captain Mac Weinstein, Del Hughes, Chuck Bowman, John Knode, and Bill Ramsey. Others from last year’s freshman team that have been reporting jfor the late practice sessions are Bill Lundelius, Don Davis, Sam Chase, Don Parker, and Lennie Beerman. . The Lion racquet wielders have less than three weeks to round- out a team for their first meet with the' courtmen from Tufts on the Lion’s home court. Riflemen Third In Tournament Nittany Lion riflemen shot their way to third place in the Third Qorps Area Intercollegiate matched yesterday with a ten man team score of 3738 out of 4000 to qualify for the Najional Rifle Association,championships in Washington, D. C. on March 29. Maryland marksmen took first place with a 3795 tally and were followed by Virginia Military Institute sharpshooters with a 3753 count. Eighteen ' teams were entered in the tourney. Co-captains Ben Stahl and Gil Gault led the Lion attack with a 383 and 380, respectively. Bob McCoy shot a 375 as Dick Cuthbert laid down a barrage of 374 points. Bill Leworthy count ed 372 to nose out a tie between Fran Richwine and Hal Yount at 371. Fran Wallace punctured the target for a 379, and Bill Gill scored 369. Frank Shuman scor ed 368. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Semi-final wrestling elimina tions in -both intramural leagues took place in Rec Hall yesterday as fraternity and independent grapplers met in preparation for the finals next week. Basketball competition also decreased the number of contestants-with seven games played last night. Wrestling Fraternity and independent wrestlers met in semi-final com petition yesterday and will enter finals Monday, March 24. 126-pound: Richter, Alpha Gamma Rho, pinned Snyder, Tau Phi Delta, 2:21; Ritz, Kappa Delta Rho,. decisioned 'Briggs, Alpha Chi Sigma. 135-pound: Miller, Alpha Chi Sigma, pinned Baldwin, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 3:55: Kramer, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, pinned Keller, Phi Kappa Sigma, 46 sec. 145-pound: Emmons, Pi Kappa Alpha, pinned Charles, Kappa Delta 'Rho, 3:04; Roy, Phi Sigma Kappa, decisioned Anderson, Alpha Gamma Rho. 145-pound independent: Mc- Naul decisioned Schadel; Mar ford forfeited to Metzler. 155-pound: Peters, Alpha Chi Sigma, pinned Sutherland, Beta Theta Pi, 3:32; Horst, Delta Chi, pinned Jimeson, Phi Kappa Sig ma, 1:49. 155-pound independent: Giet chelor forfeited to Faylor. 165-pound: Pond, Phi Gamma Delta, decisioned Ziegler, Sigma Pi; Phillips, Tau Phi Delta, de cisio'ned Hildendrand, Sigma Pi. Unlimited: Parsons, Delta Sig ma Phi, defeated Barr, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, fall in extra per iod; Ziegenfus, Phi Delta Theta, decisioned Frescoln, Alpha Chi Sigma, extra period. Unlimited independent: Atkin son, Forestry Society, forfeited to Sloviter, Watts Hall; Monwiller pinned Thompson, Penn State Club, 43 sec. Basketball In the fraternity league Tau Kappa Epsilon No. 1 33, Alpha Gamma Rho 12; -Phi Ep silon Pi 27, Pi Kappa Alpha 14; Phi Delta Theta 13, Alpha Kappa Pi 6; Beta Theta Pi 35, Kappa Sigma 19; Delta Chi 18, Tau Phi Delta 15. In the independent league Colonial Hotel 25, Nittany Co- Op 3: Freshmen 2-Year Ags 23, Comets 6. Freshman Schedules '■ Freshman Baseball April 30—Kiski May 3—Cornell _. 7—Mercersburg 14—Colgate 10—Syracuse 14—Colgate 17—Bucknell Home 21—Mont Alto Home 24—Army Away 30—Wyoming Seminary Home Freshman Track 'May 10—Cornell 17—Mercersburg Freshman Lacrosse May 3—Pennsylvania 17—Cornell Freshman Tennis May 10—Cornell Freshman Golf May 10—-Cornell 17—Army Intercollegiate Boxing Discarded At Cornell Boxing has been discarded as an intercollegiate sport at Cor nell, according to an announce-, ment released yesterday. - In place of intercollegiate box- j « |i'j ing, Coach Allie Wolff, former! ; Penn State mit champion, will s expand the Cornell intramural p boxing program. Provision will ti be made for intramural cham-! t 'f pions to meet intramural title- [ 1 JLiLx-.J'V ‘VT2TBI holders of other schools. Starts Practice Football Coach Bob Higgins, above, has been putting a squad of 60 gridmen through their paces in indoor spring practice with hopes of topping last~year’s record of one tie and one defeat. Football Squad Enters Third Week Indoors Coach Bob Higgins’ 1941 foot ball aggregation—6o strong—en tered their third week of spring practice indoors yesterday, with hopes of taking to the field with in the next few days. No actual combat work has be gun as yet, but the squad has been holding regular “skull” practices in the afternoons. Lec tures and pictures of last year’s games supplement the daily quizzes given the squad by the coaching staff. Home Away Home Home Home Home Here's IM <«< res * M Away Away upat uou really or delicious ooublemuk gum Home Away that's DOUBIEM N to chew **• class, dunng b/eath. Helps bii<3W® n sweeten youtb' co sts so Mle your smile, ‘°° v^Ußl£ MWT <f« \ you can ® n > oy , pac hages | daily- Buy several P “Jg —«w«ii!4!CS!S®^e Home Away National Boxing Tourney Entries Break Record With an expected entry list of 89 boxers, representing 22 schools, the seventh annual NCAA boxing tournament, to be held in Rec Hall, March 27, 28, and 29, promises to be the larg est of the tourneys ever held, topping the record set at the first tournament, held here in 1932. Penn State’s entries, announc ed yesterday, are: 120-pound, Vic Fiore; 127-pound, Bill Stan ley; 135-pounder, Homer Hoff man or Capt. Frank Stanko; 145- pound, Bob Baird; 155-pound Jim Lewis; 165-pound, Les Coh en; and 175-pound. Paul Scally. No heavyweight entry has been listed for the Lions. Other entries so far include Virginia (3), Indiana State Teach ers (2), North Carolina (4h Lock Haven Teachers (2>, Michigan State (5), an Jose, (6), Florida (3), Bucknell (1), C.C.N.Y. (3), Columbia Cl), Rutgers (1), Lou isiana (5), Wisconsin (7), West Virginia (4), Idaho (6), Catholic U. (5), Southwestern Louisiana (8), Washington (6), Superior Teachers (3) and The Citadel (1). Syracuse, not officially enter ed to date, is expected to enter six of its EIBA champion team. Al Lewis, Former EIBA Champ, Gets Army Post Lieut. Alfred E. Lewis, Penn State’s 145 pound Eastern Inter collegiate Boxing champ in 1931 and 1932, and national champion in 1932, was named supervisor of athletics at the Army’s 110th Infantry cantonment yesterday. - - PAGE THREE I' * ' p 'V P'"i ! ' < > '' : > . I ' v: t ' 'v.l ( i ' ' • l s \ t :■
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