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VOL. 37—No. 113
Scally,
Four National
Champs Battle
In Semi-Finals
By BUD SMYSER
Prestige is no recommendation
in a national boxing tournament.
After the haze had cleared
from Rec Hall at the end of the
quarter final bouts last night, one
national champion, Nick Lee of
, Wisconsin, had been left in the
dust and of the. four kings sur
viving two were scheduled to
fight it out in the semi-finals to
night.
The battle of kings is tonight’s
set-to between Johnn3' Joca.
Florida’s 1940 winner, and Gene
Rankin, of Wisconsin, champion
of the class in 1939..
The other champions surviv
ing and favored to repeat are Ted
Kara of Idaho at 120 pounds,
who ruled the same weight last
year and the 12 pound class in
1939, and his stablemate, Laune
Erickson, of Idaho, who is seek
ing to repeat as“l6s-pound king.
The failure of Lee, 1940 heavy
weight king to win his first fight
in the 175 pound weight, was
only a part of Wisconsin’s woes.
Earlier, three other Badgers had
been eliminated from the eight
man entry.
Completely out of. the tourna
ment after the first day’s fights , , ,
were Bucknell with one entry, . Attendance at yesterday’s
Catholic University (2), Indiana reac^ a of 4,000
Teachers (2), and Michigan State a sparse - 1 ;? 00 . atte *iding
(2) CCNY (3) the afternoon preliminaries and
Colleges entering men in the 3 ’. 000 witnessing the first eve
semi-finals are Florida (2), Idaho mng session ° f the seventh an
<3), Miami (2), Superior Teachers, nual N< r AA boxm g tournament.
Wis. (2), Virginia (1), Washington . T ° nlgbt , s , semi-final bouts, 30
State (2), West Virginia W, Wis- in all > will begin at 8, as will to
consin (3),> California Aggies (2), morrow s . flna * matches.
North Carolina (2), Southwestern * 1,000 reserved
Louisiana Institute (5), San Jose s ea * s * n the balcony section of
(2) Penn. State (3) R ec ** are available for
The .only Eastern Intercollegi- botb to^, ght ’ s and tomorrow’s
ate champion entered in the tour- bopts ‘ The reserved section
nament, Fenton Somerville, Vijr- seat ® abo yt 2,40 °-
ginia 165 pounder, advanced to , Tbe balcony seats are reserv
the semi-finals with a hard won ed b °th the finals and the
victory over Howard Briggs, of s^ ml- fiuals at $l.lO each night,
the California Aggies. The only General Emission tickets to the
(Continued on Page Eight) bleacher sections cost 75 cents
tonight and 85 cents tomorrow.
First NCAA Boxing Tourney Held
Here Jo Choose Olympic Team
During the Olympic year of tracted 61 representatives of 25
1932, NCAA officials "decided to colleges, located in 18 different
conduct a tournament for college slates and the District of Colum
students so that they could Boxers were selected by the
choose a select group for the final Buies Committee to participate
Olympic trials. This firstna- 1° final tryouts for the American
tional tournament was held here Olympic team.
with 75 boxers from 30.. colleges, In-the third NCAA tournament
scattered from the state of Wash- a t Sacramento, Cal,, there were
ington to New Hampshire, and entries ■- representing the
from Florida to California, com- Southern, Southeastern, and Pa
peting in the two-day affair. cific Coast boxing groups. In ad
. Following the initial affair, no dioon 10 01656 organized groups,
tournament of national scope was 5,° 6 ® es , w^ re ,. entered from
held until 1936, another Olympic f, ou !^ W6st ' Northwest, and Mid-,
year, when the University of e/West.
Virginia sponsored the second . T ne fourth tournament return-
NCAA meet. So much.interest ed to _tiie Umversity. of .Virginia
developed in this -colorful affair Wlt , h 5 3 representehves from 21 :
that the Rules Committee decid-. C6 ° eges located-m 14, different
ed to conduct it annually; states and ihe District ofColum
, , , . , bia. competing.
h ,i OUr f * uman ? one of the most successful
have been held as follows; - 1937,. NCAA tournaments was the .fifth
Sacramento, Cal., (California Ag- meet at the. University of Wis
gies), 1938, CharlottsviUe, Va., consjn Sixty-five entries from
(University of Vn-gmia); 1938 24 coUeges , and 31 >OOO spectators
Madison, Wis University of viewe d the four sessions of the
Wisconsin); and 1940 Sacramen- tourney, held in Wisc o ns in’s im
to, Cal., (California Aggies). mense field house . The Badgers
The second NCAA meet held at monopolized the affair by taking
the .University of Virginia at- four of the. eight individual titles.
Stanley, Baird In Semi-Finals
TODAY'S SEMI-FINAL LINEUPS AND TWO STARS
Captain-elect Bobby Baird,
Lion 155-pounder, who moved in
to the JNCAA semi-finals by v de
feating Jacob Finger, CCNY, and
Huck Hughes, Catholic Univer
sity, in the quarter-final and pre
lininary rounds.
4,000 See Opening
Boxing Sessions
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1941. STATE CQT.T.Fr.v pa
120 pound class Don Harper
Southwestern Louisiana vs. Bob
Webber, San Jose; Ted Kara,
Idaho, vs. Clyde Harger, LSU.
127-pound class William
Stanley, Penn State versus Ed
win Ourso Southwestern Louis
iana; Dick Miyagawa, San Jose
versus Frank Kara, Idaho.
135- pound class John Joca,
Florida, vs. Gene Rankin, Wis
consin; Less Coffman, Washing
ton State, vs. Joseph Church,
Miami;
145 pound class —Robert Baird,
Penn State, will meet Warren
Jollymore, Wisconsin; Elton To
biasson, Calif. Ag. will meet Bill
Skerpon, Lock Haven.
155 pound class Guice Tu
dor, West Virginia, vs. Rodney
Belaire, LSU; Chester Larson.
Superior Teachers Wis.t, vs. Wil
liam Roth, Wisconsin.
165 pound class —Fenton Som
erville, Virginia, vs. Laune Erick
son, Idaho; Fred Logsden, South
western Louisiana, vs. Elden
Sanders, North Carolina.
175 pound class —F. Speigel
berg, Washington State, vs. Leo
Coe, Southwestern Louisiana;
Paul Scally, Penn State, vs.
James DeCourcy, Florida.
Unlimited class Gates Kim
ball,'North Carolina, vs. Herbert
Kendrick, LSU; Louis Campbell,
Southwestern Louisiana, vs. Ed
ward Cameron, Miami.
127 pound class—Roy Amedee,
LSU, won decision over Clarence
Callahan, Virginia; Edwin Ourso,
Southwestern Louisiana, won de
cision over Lenny Bartone, Cath
olic U; A 1 Siskin, CCNY, won
decision over Bill Zurakowski,
Michigan State.
145 pound class—Jacob Finger,
CCNY, won decision over Crispin
Hernadez, West Virginia; Bob
Baird, Penn State, won decision
over Huck Hughes, Catholic U,
(bout stopped after 1:24 of first
round for Hughes with cut eye;)
Bill Skerpon, Lock Haven, won
decision over Frank Garro, Buck
nell.
QUARTER-FINALS
120 pound class Don Harp
er, Southwestern Louisiana, won
decision over A 1 Young, Florida;
Bob Webber, San Jose State, won
decision over Jack Gibson, Wis
consin; Ted Kara, Idaho, won by
TKO in 1:10 of second round
over Vic Fiore, Penn State
127 pound class William
Stanley, Penn. State, decisioned
Bob Sachtschale, Wisconsin; Ed
win Ourso, Southwestern Louis
iana,. decisioned Roy. Amedee, •
LSU;. Dick Miyagawa, San Jose,
decisioned-Alfred Siskin,- CCNY;
Frank :Kara, Idaho, .TKOed John
Chihon, Jnd. Tchr.
135 -pound- class —John Joca;.
Florida, won decision over Harry"
Deal, Southwestern Louisiann;
Les- Coffman, Washington State, -
won decision over .‘Red Stanko,
Penn State.
145 pound class—-Robert Baird,
Penn State decisioned Jacob Fin
ger, CCNY; Bill Skerpon, Lock
Haven decisioned Shelby Dupont, The surprise of the afternoon’s
LSU; Elton Tobiasson, Cal. Ag. entanglements was the elimina
decisioned Bob Farris, North Car- tion of highly seeded Verdayne
(Continued on Page Eight) John of Wisconsin in the heavy-
TONIGHT’S
SEMI-FINALISTS
Summaries Of
Yesterday's
Bouts
PRELIMINARIES
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Paul Scally, above, known in
eastern boxing circles as the man
who gave Syracuse’s three-time
175 EIBA champion ’Ricb Woy
ciejes his first dual meet beating,
came through the quarter-finals
for Penn State by knocking out
Bill Shumate, Superior Teach
ers, in 55 seconds of the second
round.
Attends Medical Confab
- -Dr. Harriet M.-Harry" College
Health Service physician, will
leave today for a post-graduate
session of the Philadelphia
County Medical Society at the
Bellevue-Startford in Philadel
phia next week. The topic of
the convention will concern
treatment of diseases.
Chi O’s Entertain
Chi Omegas will entertain
Alpha Omicron -Pi at a coffee
hour at the Chi Omega house
at 7 p. m. Sunday.
Knocking Around The NCAA
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With DICK PETERS weight class. John lost to an
We ran into Jack Heck, tour- untouted Miami mauler, Ed Cam
nament manager, just before the eron, in a thrill-jammed bout
bouts yesterday afternoon. “I’m * * *
going nuts,” Jack gurgled, “Too Freak bout was the heavy dual
darn many things to do, can’t between six foot four Herb Ken
even get time to breathe.” drick of LSU and five foot ten
* * * Don Campbell of Lock Haven.
The pudgy Lock Haven lad held
on for one round, fighting a la
Arturo Godoy, but walked into
one of Kendrick’s haymakers in
the second stanza.
Again we ran into Mike Coo
per, Penn State’s captain last
year and king of the Eastern
127-pound mitters in 1940. In
town for the fights, Mike was
happy because he had lost a
few pounds and is now down to
about 158!!!
Only boxer to fail-to make his
weight was Gerry Strang, Cath
olic U mitman, who was a lead
ing contender for the 165 pound
title.
Gates Kimball, North Carolina
heavy, who meets Herb Hendrick
of LSU in the semi-finals tonight,
was once the heavyweight champ
of Uncle. Sam’s Pacific Coast
fleet.
» * *
Neatest little gadget of the
meet is San Jose’s State’s trick
of putting the name of the con
testant on the bade of his jersey.
* * *
-From .this angle,-the best bout
of -yesterday; afternoon was the
120 pound scrap between A 1
Young of Florida , and Don Har
per of-Southwestern Louisiana
Institute. Harper took the deci
sion after three rounds of ter
rific leather-throwing, and don’t
think the crowd didn’t appreci
ate the little fellows’ works.
* * *
WEATHER—
Continued Fair
and Cool
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Ollier Lions Fall;
Fiore And Cohen
Yield To Champs
Conceded only an outside
chance to pass the quarter-fin
als, Penn State’s boxing team
scored an unexpected triumph
by placing three men in the
semi-finals.
Captain-elect Bobby Baird,
Paul Scally, and sophomore
Billy Stanley led their team
mates through the quarter-finals
and assured Penn State of re
presentation in tonight’s bouts.
Bobby Baird won his first fight
in the preliminaries over Cath
olic’s Huck Hughes by a techni
cal knockout in 1:24 of the first
round. After a rapid exchange
of blows that started immediate
ly .following the bell, Baird op
ened a cut over Hughes’ left
eye.
In his second fight, Baird won
a close decision over Jacob Fing
er, CCNY’s jabbing 145-pound
er, in a sloppy fight. A cut
above Baird’s left eye was
opened, but he was able to con
tinue the fight.
Stanley, who entered the Lion
lineup when Billy Mazzocco was
forced out by the ruling against
amateur boxers, proved his met
tle for the first time-by taking
a close decision over Bob Sach
stchale, Wisconsin 127-pounder
who defeated Billy in his first
fight.
Stanley opened the fight with
strong showing early in the first
round, but Sachtschale came
back at the end of the round,
countering with left jabs.
Sachtschale carried the fight
to the sophomore Lion in the
second round, still driving hard
with left jabs to Stanley’s head.
Stanley’s defense and counter
(Coniinued on Page Eight)
The power in the heavy
weight division this, year is out
standing. • Seldom has the un
limited division- boasted such
bombers as Gates Kimball, Lou
Campbell, Ed ■ Cameron, . and
Herb .Kendrick who get togeth
er -in tonight’s semi-finals.
Funniest little, item was the
anxiety of the Lock Haven as
sistant manager, who slid half
under the ring trying to put the
stool under his boy Bill Sker
pon- yesterday afternoon. Rea
son for his eagerness was the
fact that Skerpon had floored
Bucknell’s undefeated Frankie
Garro in the first round.