PAGE SIX Houck Had Long Pro Ring Career The boys call Boxing Coach Leo Houck “the honorable Doc tor” and the title is well bestow ed. Leo earned his doctorate of pugilism in the college of exper ience. He was an honor student, too, a Phi Beta Kappa in the art of boxing. Leo Fred Florian Houck start ed his professional boxing career in 1907. Before he retired from the ring in 1923, when he took over as boxing coach at Penn State, he fought approximately 200 bouts, winning over three fourths of them. Houck was never knocked out and was knocked off his feet only three times. Although he was never recog nized as middleweight champion of the world, Houck defeated both George Chip and Johnny Wils'on several times. Both Chip and Wilson later became title holders but they never gave Houck a crack at the laurels while they ruled. Houck won the middleweight title of Europe when he decision ed Harry Lewis of Philadelphia in a '2O round battle in France in 1912. He took over the Canadian middleweight crown by defeat ing Roddy McDowell at Halifax in 1919. In 1922 Leo gained the light heavyweight title of Cuba by scoring a fourth round knock-out over the Cuban Esparagara. The great Gene Tunney’s record of eight straight KO’s was spoiled by Houck in 1919 when he fought Tunney in a no-decision bout. Leo repeated the feat the follow ing year in a battle which caused Tunney to go into temporary re tirement because of a smashed hand. During his 16 yegrs of profes sional boxing Houck gained vic tories over Mickey Gannon, Gun boat Smith, Frank Mantell, Young Erne, Kid Locke, Dave Smith, Bob Moha, Jimmy Gard ner, Chip, Wilson, Lewis, and many others. “The Doctor” retired in De cember, 1922, and became boxing coach at Penn State. His teams have won seven EIBA titles since the tourneys began in 1924. Houck has developed 39 indivi dual eastern champs and three national collegiate title holders. Stahl, Gault Top Lion Riflemen Riflemen Co-captains Ben Stahl and Gil Gault have compiled the best individual averages for the Nittany Lion marksmen. Stahl has a .952 average in 29 games and Gil Gault followed him with a .944 in 26 games. Averages were figured on the basis of the number of matches each member shot and all of his individual scores, much the same as baseball averages. However, riflemen’s averages are much higher because of 300 and 400- point matches. The averages Player Stahl .... Gault ... LeWorthy Yount .. Cuthbert Richwine McCoy .. ROTC Glasses Changed All freshman students in. the Engineers will report to Room 110 EE Building for classes from 1 to 4 p. m. on Monday and Tuesday. A training film will be shown. Grade Deadline Nears ; Below grades must be hand ed in by faculty members to their respective deans’ offices before 5 p. m. Wednesday, it has beefct annouhced." ‘Doctor Of Pugilism’ Leo Houck, Lion boxing men tor and host to the seventh NCAA tournament, was the un crowned middleweight of the world. He defeated both George Chip and Johnny Wilson before they gained the title but Houck never gained a title bout. Nitfany Lions involved In First Dual r Eastern And National Boxing Meets Three firsts—the first intercol- and Leo Houck—have held the legiate dual meet, the first na- reins during the 22 years of Lion tional tournament and the first fisticuffs. Harlow started the eastern tourney-have fallen to “ V 919 T a T nd continued un the credit of Nittany Lion boxers W I ® 23 * w ? en Hou 4 f’ P resent and have brought Penn State to coach > took over the 3°b its present position as one of the Bot h men have been unusually leading colleges in fistic circles, successful. Frankie Goodman, State’s participation in the first Bou Ritzie, Billy Soose, Allie dual meet was purely accidental. Wolff, Steve Hamis, Izzy Richter, In 1919, the Lions entered a A 1 Lewis, Sam Donato and a doz tournament in Philadelphia but en other ex-Lion greats need no when the boxers arrived in the introduction to any collegiate Quaker City they found that all boxing fans, the other teams,-with the except- In W years of EIBA competi tion of Penn, had decided not to tion State has had 39 individual compete. titleholders—ll more than Syra!- Two teams can’t very well hold a tournament so 'the country’s first collegiate dual meet was scheduled on the spot. Six bouts iZir Four '40165-pound Place bS oToi S 'KK Winners Fight This Year the Eastern Intercollegiate Box- All four 165-pound place win fg J'Yf, 5 . organized in ners last year’s NCAA boxing 1921. The first EIBA tournament tournament at Sacramento, Cal., was held m the Penn State Ar- are entered in the three-day box mory in 1924, the Lions annexing j ng f es ti V al here this weekend, the first of their seven eastern Laune Erickson, the defending team championships. _ champion from Idaho; Gerry In 1932, when the National Strang, runner-up, from Cath- Collegiate Athletic Association olic University; Stanley Dila woke up to the popularity of tush, third place, • Washington boxing, the first national tourney State; and Freddy Logsden, was scheduled to select U. S. fourth place, from Southwestern Carolina, Southern Conference Olympic finalists and again Louisiana, have, all signed up for champion in ’4O and ’4l; Phil State was chosen to play host. a- crack at the 1941 165-pound Prather, Wisconsin; and Joe Ces- Seventy-five fighters, repre- crown. towski, outstanding Michigan senting 30 colleges, entered the Six other . ringmen, all with state entry. 1932 nationals. Penn State play- impressive records, will- battle ed the perfect host, walking off with last years place winners ih A novel honor system of con with the unofficial team title. this division. They include Fen- ducting matches, without a ref- Only two coaches—Dick Har- ton Somerville, Virginia, EIBA eree in th e ring, was introduced low, now Harvard grid mentor, champion; Elden Sanders, North at San ■ Jose ' State College last 1 ■ year. Avg. .952 .944 .935 .934 .932 .931 .928 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Leon Gajecki's Picture Placed In Pec Halt With 5 Other Greats All-American Leon Gajecki, 1940 grid captain, entered Penn State’s hall of fame in Rec Hall yesterday when his picture was placed among other Nittany Lion greats. , Gates’ full-length picture took its place beside All-Americans William T. .Dunn ’O6, Robert A. Higgins ’l9, Charles A. Way ’2O, W. Glenn Killinger ’2l, and F. Joseph Bedenk ’23. The Lion captain was given his place in. Rec Hall after he was named All-American on teams of the National Enterprise Associa tion, Liberty magazine, and was chosen to play on the All-East team. Kate Smith also selected him for her All-American team. Phi Kappa Elects Newly-elected officers of Phi Kappa are William F. Finn ’42, president; Raymond F. Bednar ’43, vice-president; Adrian'” J. Krebs ’44, secretary; and George B. Kaiser ’43, house manager. cuse in second place: Navy is third with 19 and Western'Mary land ranks fourth with 12. Another McAndrews . Johnny -McAndrews, one of three brothers who were on the boxing team continuously for nine years. . ★ ★ ★ McAndrews Brothers Boxed 9 Straight Years; Fought At Every Weight For nine consecutive years— from 1928 to 1936—there was not a single Penn State boxing team withoua a McAndrews. More over, the McAndrews boy fought just about every weight-they had in those days; seven in all. This pugilistically inclined clan consisted .of three brothers, Marty, John, and Francis. Marty, the-oldest, is still here, coaching the freshmen football squad. Marty McAndrews boxed 160, 175. and heavyweight in his three years on the varsity, from 1928- 1930. ,He was captain of the. team ano EIBA 175 champ in his senior year. John followed Marty in his path of glory at Penn State. He fought 135 and 145, and was cap tain in 1933. John captured the EIBA title at 135 in 1932 and 1933. Francis, the' youngest of the three brothers, was the “black sheep’ of the family. He was unable to win an EIBA cham pionship nor become captain of the team. The last and lightest of the McAndrews fought 115 and 125 in his three seasons here, 1934-1936. \ SATURDAY, MARCH Charlie Short Ist Leading Referee Among the * many., -.familiar men who will; take, partthe seventh annual National Colleg iate- Athletic Associatiom.boxmg tournament this weekend wHI-fee the well-recogliized ligufe of a man who is said, to have partici pated in moire boxing matches ; than any other living man. ’ He is. Charley. Short, nation ally known' professional, colleg iate, and amateur boxing referee,, who has been the “third rtifeh” in well over 20,000 bouts, and has boxed in 300- professional-bouts. Having spent over half, of ; his - 46 years officiating, Short ire i - J fereeing career antedates by, a short time the rise of organized* ’ collegiate and amateur boxing. His yearly .officiating : average, counting collegiate dual meets and tournaments, amateur.-tour- . naments, army tournaments, and professional bouts, adds .up _to : about. 1000 bouts, 0r,20 a week. His great reputation and pop ularity among collegiate boxing / fans and participants lies in. the fact that he is one of the quickest referees to save - a beaten ■ man from punishment by stopping the - fight and rasing the hand;of the . victor in recognition of a tech nical knockout. Because of his swiftness in halting a ■ bout -in which a contestant is injured, he has never had a fatality in any . fight in which he has officiated. Born in Galena, Mo.,‘ Charley s.tarted to box when he was about 15 years old' and : still iri high school. He entered the Un iversity of Missouri, but stayed only a short time and didn’t bother with other colleges to which his parents tried to send him. He boxed on the Pacific Coast with varying success until 1917 when he enlisted in the army. .Ending- with a second lieutenants commission, he went" to', work; in the Philadelphia' after his discharge. In 1822 he began; his officiat- ing career and "is'mow -listed as the premier referee on the staff of the Maryland' Athletic Com mission. He has refereed be tween. 12,000 and 14,060 bouts in Maryland alone. Hew Hospitalization Plan Defeated By Faculty The proposed plan for extend ing group hospitalization to de pendents of College employees has been defeated according to. John. T. Law, secretary of the American Association of Univer sity Professors. Failure to adopt the plan was based on the results of a faculty questionnaire'which showed that the project is not favorable to the necessary 75 per cent-of Col lege employees.
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