FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1943 Lion Mittmen Against Wise JACKIE GREY Niliany Icemen Face All-Stan With, only one practice session in more than two weeks under the;r belts, the ‘varsity ice hockey team heads south this afternoon to meet two fine all-star combina tions in Baltimore and Washing tor); Idle since they twice defeated Drexel Tech early last month, the puckmen face their toughest com petition in years in these two tilts! Saturday night the Lions face off with the Baltimore All-Stars at Carlin’s “Iceland” Park* arena in Baltimore. : The following night they meet the Washington Collegi ate ■ All-Stars, at the Washington Arena. ' . Both teams are, Regarded as the top 'itv their class and Art Davis’ puck-pushers ;will have to /be in top form to top' either' team. ’ .Day is will start his regular start- 1 ingiyline, of- Cauffman, Bernbaum and;Gladstone, and will use, either Sussman. or at,' the goalie position. Undecided' about, the'defense spots, Davis said that he . would probably' alternate be tween White, Bitner, Skuta, Bach er, Williams and Burford. Wednesday afternoon, the squad traveled to Hershey Arena for a practice session with the Hershey Cubs and stayed over to witness the Hershey-Pittsburgh American League game. BULLETIN! -Penn Slate's basketball team will go to neither the National Invitation Tournament or the NCAA tourney. Washington & Jefferson and Manhattan have been chosen by the Invitation tournament committee to fill out the card for that competition. Already in line are St. Johns, Fordham, Creighton, Rice, and Western Kentucky. -In this district—District 2 NYU has been officially desig nated as the representative to the NCAA eliminations to be .held : in Madison Square Gar den the weekend 'following the 'lnvitation .playoffs. ’ The District 1 team will be 'Dartmouth's While Indians. 'Named 'from District 3 was - 'Georgetown, with whom the Nitlany courtmen split during 'the regular season. Depaul will .play under District 4 banners. Andy Levine, star of the St. John's quintet, has been named as the outstanding basketball play er in the New York City area by the Metropolitan Basketball Writ ers Association. End Season nsin Badgers Bouncing back from last week’s Intercollegiates in good shape, Coach Leo Houck’s Lion mittmen are preparing for one of their toughest matches of the season when they play host to the battling Badgers from Wisconsin tomorrow night in Rec Hall. Wisconsin has one of the most sensational winning records in the history of intercollegiate boxing. The Badger boxers boast a win streak of 18 straight victories over the top college mittmen in the na tion. * *"%r Badger Record Impressive Comparing the Badgers’ records this year with that of the Lions’, we And that both teams have met Virginia and Michigan State. Wis consin defeated Michigan State 6V2-IV2 while Penn State was forced to be satisfied with a 3V&- 3y a draw. The Badgers also down ed the Virginia men 7-1 while the Lions came through with a 4Vfe 3Vi> win. Wisconsin' defeated a combined Washington State-Idaho team last weekend by a 6-2 count. So far as it is knowm, this -is the first time in history that two ring squads •have combined their manpower resources against a single team. The Badgers were last defeated by Louisiana State 5-3 back in 1940. Twice in Wisconsin boxing history the Badgers have won four individual national intercollegiate championships. This feat was ac complished first back in 1939 and repeated again in 1942. Jackie Versus Jackie Lion Coach Houck will use Jackie Grey at the 120 slot against Badger Jackie Gibson. Grey is fresh from gaining his 120 lb. Eas tern Intercollegiate Boxing crown at Syracuse last Saturday. His op ponent,-Gibson, is one of the best boxers on the Badger team,, having won two bouts and drawing one. Glenn Hawthorne will enter the ring against Johnny Werren of Wisconsin at 127 lbs. Werren is a senior and has come out the win ner in all three of his fights this season. In the 135 lb. class, Jim Cassidy will hop through the ropes, for. the Lions to face Badger John Collen tine, winner, of two'of his three, fights this .season. Cqllentine. can, hit.hard with either his'left or hik/ right. . V ' . ..., ' ; .'V l '’ Jackie Tighe,;- who”,.went to the ( .finals ■ lastVweek' at. the. Intercol legiates is' 'Coach- Leo's choice'- to square off'.against' Don Miller' of- Wisconsin' at 15? lbs.- Miller won' his only fight this year from Char lie Moots of Michigan State, while fighting in the 16p lb. class. ftichards'to Meet Badger Champ Billy Richards is the Lions’ hope of stopping Wisconsin’s national champ Cliff Lutz in the 155 lb. division.- Lutz has won all three of his fights this year, two by knock outs and the other by an easy de cision, while fighting in the 145 lb. notch. He is described as a very hard hitter with either hand and the best boxer on the team. In the 165 lb. class, it will be either Kaveney or Maier for Penn State against freshman Myron Miller for the Badgers. Houck may move Maier up to the 175 lb. rank to meet the Badgers’ other National Champ, George . Makris, winner of two while fighting to a draw in the other. Frank Hawrylak will meet Wis consin’s 6 foot, 4 inch captain, Verdayne John, in the heavy weight division. fencersMeetfYUin last Season Ilf With only a close 15-12 loss to Navy marring an Otherwise per fect season, Penn State’s fencers travel today to New York to en gage undefeated NYU. The same squad that outfought Temple 20-7 and whipped the Philadelphia Fencing Club 14-13, will take the floor against the New York ream, which is reputed to be one of the best in the East. • THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Lion Wrestlers, Mermen, Gymnasts Prepare For Intercollegiate Meets Grapplers Begin Competition Today (Special to The Collegian) PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 11.— Lion Coach Paul Campbell and eight Nittany grapplers arrived here today ready to participate in the 1943 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association’s champion ships to be held in the Palestra to. morrow and Saturday. Ten college teams have entered the competition which will deter mine the East’s outstanding wrest lers for 1943. Included among the squads entered are Penn State, Army, Columbia, Syracuse, Har vard, Princeton, Penn, Lehigh, Navy, and Cornell. Favored to take the team winning honors are. the midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy, with Penn State and Lehigh running as close competitors. Men who .arrived here with State Coach Campbell include Kryder Mattern at 121, Co-captain Charlie Ridenour at 128, Co-cap tain Sam Harry at 136, A 1 Crab, tree at 145, Charlie Dipner at 155, Ogden Samler at 165, Warren Con rad at 175, and Bob Morgan in the heavyweight spot. Winners in the 1942 EIWA championships, Riden- AL CRABTREE our at 121 and Harry at 128 will each move up one class to compete in the 128 and 136 pound brackets respectively. The favorites in the various classes and possible runners-up in the competition are as follows: In the 121-pound class Navy’s Malcolm MacDonald is the favor ite with Sheridan Bannon of Le high and State’s Kryder Mattern battlihg it out for second place. At 128, the Lion’s Ridenour, who was voted the outstanding wrest ler in last year’s championships, is favored for first place. Fred Bar kovich of Penn and Bob DeLong of Lehigh are also expected to score in this weight class. Navy’s Bob Kitt, who was unde feated this year in dual meet com petition, is favored in the 136 class. Strongmen facing Kitt will be -1942 champ Warren Taylor of Princeton, Sullivan of Penn, and Harry of State. Undefeated in the 145 class this season, Lion Crabtree is favored to cop five points for Penn State in this division. Josiah Henson of Navy and Joe Mount of Cornell are rated as second and third re spectively. Ralph James of Princeton, al though favored in the ,165-pound group, will find stiff competition in the form of John Stockbridge of Lehigh and Sander of the Blue and White. Bobby Cowell Likely Backstroke Champion Penn State’s four top swimmers enter the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Tournament in New Brunswick, New Jersey, tomorrow afternoon, favored to cop first place in the backstroke race and take high honors in the fancy div ing competition. ■Bobby Cowell, current back stroke sensation, is the Lion hope ful for a championship berth, while Rocky Young is expected to rank high on the springboai-d. Don Knoll, distance freestyler, and Bill Christy, sprinter, complete the list of Nittany title seekers. Undefeated in Six Meets Undefeated in six straight meets, Cowell has registered wins over Carnegie Tech, Westminster, Syracuse, Cornell, Temple, and Rutgers. In the initial meet of the season, the frosh backstroker set a new Eastern Collegiate record for the 150-yard course, and twice shattered his own mark in follow ing weeks. Lion diver Rocky Young boasted a perfect season until Buratti of Rutgers, the EISA champ, scored a win over him by the slim margin of four points. Although the Rut gers swimmer is hopeful of retak ing his crown, the event will prove stiff competition. Christy Speedy Sprinter Bill Christy, Lion entry in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle races, captured top honors in the short sprint against Carnegie Tech, and repeated his performance in the following meet with a stubborn Westminster opponent. The same day, he took second place in the 100-yard races, losing to speedy Jim Rush by several seconds. In the .Cornell meet, Christy failed to appear on the card in the 50-yard event,' but came in. second again, in the 100-yard sprint. Hit by the flu epidemic the next week, Christy .was unable to swim in the Temple meet, but placed third in the 50-yard freestyle against 'Rut gers in the season’s finale. Knoll in Distance Events Don. Knoll will race the .distance events for Penn State,'and is ex. pected to., place'high in the'Eastern tourney.' Knoll garnered, top posi tions in both the .220 and 440-yard freestyles against > Carnegie Tech and Westminster in the first two meets of the year. ' When the tankers journeyed to New York State last month, Knoll took second places in the same races against Syracuse and Cor nell, and followed with two wins in the Temple meet. In the Rut gers race, he again dropped to sec ond place in his events, but ended the season scoring more points for the Galbraithmen than any other merman on the squad. The Payoff If Sammy Harry meets Penn’s Jack Sullivan tomorrow in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrest ling tourney at Philadelphia, both grapplers will be looking for more than a mere win. Back in 1940, when Harry was wrestling for Clearfield High School, and Sullivan was on the Dußois mat team, the present Lion captain was defeated in a still-disputed bout. Several weeks later, they bat tled to a standstill in two extra periods, but Harry evened the count in the championship play-off when he won a close decision. Now—three years later—they step on the mat again—one win, one loss, and a draw to their credit, with the memories of a high school feud still fresh in their minds. BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS PAGE THREE Four Squads to Compete For Gymjjastic Honors Four squads, the Penn State Lions, the Army Mules, the Navy Midshipmen, and Temple Owls, will compete for honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League Individual Championship tournament scheduled to take place in Rec Hall, 2 p. m. tomor row. Over 50 contestants Will try for winning positions in the six events. Army, with 18 men, leads the list of entries. Navy follows close behind with' 17 participants, while Penn State and Temple will get in the thick of it by using 12 and 7 men respectively. Penn State, undefeated so far this season and winner of the Eas tern League trophy, is rated high ly to score well in the tournament. However, individual performers for the other competing teams are expected to provide much opposi tion. Three winners will be chosen for each event. An all-around, champion will also be chosen, with Szypula defending the title he copped .last season. Top performers who will com pete in the horizontal bar event include the unbeaten Lions, Le bow and Sorenson, Vaughan of Navy, Szypula of Temple and. Bordo of Penn State. Side horse entrants in the tour nament are undefeated Julian of Navy and Small and Greenly of Penn State. Patterson and Scha backer will carry the Temple col ors in the competition. Alex Jul ian, former Pacific Coast champ, is slated to take top position in this event. Penn State’s four rope climbers, Lebow, Wirtschafter, Young and. Barclay, undefeated this season, will battle it out against Rafferty of Navy and Wear of the Cadets, Lebow, climbing around the four second mark all year, is expected, to lead- the Lions to a high score in this match. Parallel bar competition will, find seven entrants providing probably the best exhibition of the tournament. Schabacker and Szy pula of Temple, Small and Bordo of Penn State, Julian and Butner of Navy, and Gross of Army have maneuvered excellently in pa.lt dual meets. Keenest competition o£ the tour nament will undoubtedly take place on the rings, where four teams will enter three good men. Navy and Army are exceptionally (CoiUimii’d On Pup- Tour)
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