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Between The Lions Gross,Grimes Voted Cage Captains
Don’t Bet On tt
If you have a nickel, don’t bet on the National Boxing cham-
pionships which begin this afternoon—either invest it in a soft drink
:;.or wait until you get another five-cent piecg'and then buy some-i
■- thing harder.
Above all, don’t wager on how the Penn State fisticuffers will
make out in the three day title : seeking grind. From 120-pound Vic
Fiore, the. Lions’ Haymaking Haircutter right up to Peltin’ Paul
•Scally in the 175 division, there isn’t too much of a chance that one
of the Houck-mentored Nittany lads will come through with a Na
tional diadem.
Fiore will be battling in the same division with Ted Kara, last
year’s titleholder and 1939 127-pound champ. Include too, little
.tough guys like Clyde Harger and Don Harper, the former LSU and
the last named from Southwestern Louisiana Institute.
Two men in the 127-pound class entries have" already shown su
periority over the Lions’ Bill Stanley in dual meets, Bill Zurakow
ski of Michigan State and Bob Sachschtale of Wisconsin. Add Tar
zan'Ourso of SW Louisiana, undefeated this year, and Andy Gen
nett of North Carolina who trounced Billy Mazzacco, Stanley’s in
eligible predecessor, and all in all, there doesn’t look like much hope
for the Nittany sophomore.
At 1353Eaptain Red, Stanko has the toughest hurdle of any man
in the tourney, namely The Terrible Trio—Johnny Joca, Joey
Church, and'Gene Rankin. Rankin beat the carrot-top in a dual
meet, while Joca is defending champ, and Church is the 1940 run
ner-up.
Captaip-elect Bobby Baird will have to riffle through 12 con
tenders for the 145 pound crown, outstanding of which are Sam
Srown SW Louisiana slugger who won four bouts by TKO’s in his
dual season, losing only once to Huck Hughes of Catholic U who is
also entered in the tourney. .
’4O Champ In Scaliy’s Class
. If you- want the best title bat for the Lions, it’ll be Jimmy Lewis
at 155. Only six others are in the weight class. Biggest danger will
be \Vjlbur Conques of SW Louisiana and Rodney Belaire of LSU.
Though he improved with each of his dual bouts, and had a lot
of tough luck in the regular season, Les Cohen at 165 for Leo Houck
is in.one of the toughest weight divisions of the tourney, and-can’t
possibly, get past such men as defending champ Laune Erickson of
Idaho',. Fen ton Somerville, Virginia EIBA champ and Eldon Sanders
OfrNorth Carolina
vSlfikewise Paul Scally will find himself buried in an avalanche
' of-temfic 175-pounders, including 1940 heavyweight king Nick Lee
trofsaSSscoiisin who ha§ moved down to. the light— heavy slot and
•CHageifAnderson, Idaho’s rugged football slugger.
.. ISH’of which leaves this corner but one choice—to pick the fol
lowinglmen to win the individual championships in the tourney:
Ted Kara, Idaho, 120; Frank Kara, Idaho, 127; Joey Church,
jMiami, 135; Sam Crow, SW Louisiana, 145; Jimmy Lewis, Penn
“State, 1_55; Laune Erickson, Idaho, 165; Chace Anderson, Idaho, 175;
add Lou Campbell, SW Louisiana, heavyweight.
But don’t bet on it.
With DICK PETERS
No Hope For Stanley
Lewis Looks Good
Grid iters Hold Daily
Scrimmage Sessions
Coach Bob Higgins’ gridders
put in their third day of scrim- '
maging on the mud-covered
Beaver Field practice gridiron
yesterday afternoon.
■ The first and third teams, and
second and fourth teams have
■been scrimmaging against each
other every night this week. On
Saturday .the first team will meet
the second team in the first real
scrimmage of the year.
Veterans Pepper Petrella and
Len Krouse were absent from
practice yesterday. Petrella pull
ed a muscle in his leg Tuesday
afternoon and Krouse is unable
to work out because of a bad
cold.
Schaefer To Speak
Dr-. V. G. Schaefer, assistant
professor of 'psychology in ex
tension, will speak at a safety
meeting in South Bend, Ind. to
day.
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At Long Last—
Billy Soose will meet Ken
Overlin for the Middleweight
championship in Madison Square
Garden on May 23. The former
Penn State boxing champ is ex
pected to attend the NCAA finals
Saturday.
Billy Soose Signs Contract For Title
Match Against Ken Overlin On May 23
Unless Ken Overline catches a
cold, sprains a finger, or is other
wise disabled he will fight Billy
Soose on May 23 for what New
York State calls the middle
weight championship of the
world.
This was the word yesterday
after Promoter Mike Jacobs an
nounced he had signed the pair
for a 15-round title go in Madi
son Square Garden. It is the fight
Soose has been gunning for ever
since he edged the sailor-playboy
in a non-title match last July.
In . the event that the' former
Penn State star dethrones Over
lin, he has agreed to engage
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UfijGCKl vBls MiI" MST eleven which Will oppose the
_ .. .. New York Giants in September.
Did To Play Pa.Yi GidntS The Lion star received the bid
* from Stanley Woodward, sports
Leon Gajecki, Penn State’s editor of the New York Herald
-1940 All-American center and Tribune, who’s in charge of the
football captain, has been invited annual charity game.
EXTRA! Figh! Results EXTRA!
Two Juniors Succeed
John Barr; Banquet
Held Last Night
Elmer Gross and Dick Grimes
were elected co-captains of next
year’s basketball team at the an
nual team banquet last night.
Although no records are kept,
it is believed that this is the first
time in the history of the sport at
Penn State that the cage five has
named co-captains.
Both players are juniors and
have been regular guards for the
past two years. They succeed
Johnny Barr, captain of this sea
son’s fast-stepping aggregation,
Gross, with 114 points, was one
of the four Nittany cagers to pass
the 100 mark this year. Grimes
tallied 17 field goals and 15
fouls for 49 counters.
Gross played one of his best
games of the season when the
passers lost, 35-29, to West Vir
ginia. At Bucknell on December
11, he sank 12 points to spark the
team to an easy 55-21 win.
Grimes had his best day on
January 1-5 when the Lions ran
wild to top an experienced Syra
cuse five, 44-25. The junior
guard tallied nine points and led
his teammates in all-around floor
play.
either Overlin in a return match
or Overlin’s- stablemate, Georgie
Abrams, within 90 days follow
ing his victory. Abrams is the
gentlemen who sent Soose back
to the bushes on his first two at
tempts to scale the heights. This
time Soose came up the other
way and now he’s at the top
laughing at Abrams who’s still
waiting for him halfway up.
Soose also beat Tony Zale, the
man called world’s champion
middleweight by the National
Boxing Association. Presumably,
if Soose beats Overlin, he’ll set
out in quest of Zale.
5 Minutes After the Bouts
AND SATURDAY NIGHTS
NEWSBOY—Sc
New Electric Scoreboard
Will Be Premiered In
Recreation Hall Tonight
A new electric scoreboard, pro
vided for by funds appropriated
by the All-College Cabinet, was
installed in Rec Hall yesterday
and will be used for the first
time at the NCAA boxing tour
nament starting tomorrow.
According to R. F. Ford, rep
resentative of the National Elec
tric Scoreboard Company who
supervised the installation, the
machine can be used for all in
door sports presented in Rec Hall.
The scoreboard includes an
electric clock, places for names
of individuals and teams compet
ing, and lights for recording both
total points and individual points.
The clock, which can ba set for
any time, sounds a buzzer at the
end of each period.
Kirpatrick, Galbraith
Depart For NCAA Swim
Meet At East Lansing
Bill Kirkpatrick, undefeated
captain of the 1941 Lion tankmen,
will leave tonight with Coach
Bob Galbraith for East Lansing,
Mich, where he will compete
against the country’s best swim
mers for honors in the NCAA’s.
Kirkpatrick’s best time in the
50-yard sprint is 23.9, just eight
tenths of a second short of the
national record. Last year he was
beaten only once in his specialty,
when Komft, Syracuse, barely
edged the Lion sprint star.
This will- be the third time
Kirkpatrick has aimed for na
tional honors, and though Coach
Galbraith doesn’t expect him to
cop the intercollegiate title, he
does predict that “Kirk” will
surprise a lot of the field’s class
iest entries.
Wallace Beery, “best caballero
in all the West,” rides to thrills,
adventure and laughs, in “The
Bad Man,” film transcription of
the famous New York stage play,
now showing at the State
Theatre.
As Pancho Lopez, whimsical
bandit, he sets out to straighten
the tangled lives of a group of
“tenderfeet.”
THESE ARE LADY EVE r S
HANDS...
that tickled his
ears and made
him forget all
his good inten-
tions!
You'll be tickled pink when
you see ‘The Lady Eve' at the
CATHAUM THEATRE
Today, Friday or Saturday
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