; AXT 3 FOUR. State Pen Blue Band lo Play a! I (Championship Meet Appearance of the Blue Band, .Advanced ROTC students and En. rugns will present a military back ground to the Eastern Intercol -1 igiate Gymnastic Individual Championships scheduled to take 'place at Rec Hall, 2 o'clock this cCtevnoon. Admission for the meet is 55 cents per person. Naval Ensigns on campus will provide the cheering for the com -5 'eting Midshipmen while ROTC ( indents will cheer for the Cadets from West Point. Penn State and Temple will receive their moral rapport from the students of both schools who will attend the meet. ) .ions to Receive League Trophy Penn State, which won the Eastern League title by trouncing a 1.1 competitors during the 1943 reason, will be awarded the tro phy before competition gets under way. Fifty-three .contestants from four squads will attempt to gain honors in this afternoon’s meet. Army will have 18 performers par ticipating, while Navy, Penn State and Temple will enter 17, 12 and 7 men respectively in t'he six events. Three Winners from Each Event Three winners for each of the rix events will be chosen, together with an all-around performer who sms garnered the highest score in live events, the rope climb being excluded. Entries in the horizontal bar competition include Schatz, Nolan and Gross for Army; Herlong, ,Partes and Vaughan for Navy; Bordo, Sorenson and Lebow for the Lions; and Reiff, McKinney end Szypula for the Temple Owls. Favorites in this event are all three of Penn State’s entries, Vaughan of Navy and Szypula of Temple. Climbing May Be Keen Young, Barclay, Wirtschafter and Lebow, Lion rope climbers, nre undefeated this season and will provide plenty of competition for Rafferty of Navy and Wear of the Cadets. Temple has no entries in this event. Barclay, Lion number three climber, eliminated Wirtschatter in a practice climb and will start tor the Blue and White. Wirtschaf ter will also compete, but his score will not be tallied. Best on Parallel Bars Parallel bar competition will no doubt dominate the event, with Temple’s Schabacker and Szypula, Penn State’s Small and Bordo, Navy’s Julian and Army’s Gross fighting it out for the top three positions. “Breaks” will decide the win ners of the flying ring event, with Navy and Army performers being particularly strong. Parker, Mid shipman with the National and Eastern championships under his belt, will pit his skill against Wat kins, Moore and Boruski of Army; Litvin and Patterson of Temple; and Small and Bordo of Penn ,'itate. Szypula Standout Tumbling standout of the tour i lament will probably be Szypula, National champ. Frey and Mead of the Lions, however; are expected to give him a run for mat title honors. Captain Lou Bordo of Penn State is favored to pull an upset win over defending all-around winner Szypula, provided he gets a few breaks. Small of the Blue and White and Owl Patterson will also try for honors in this compe. rt i tion. Judging System "Three judges, Head Judge Wit •/ig, Harry Nelson, Homer Fleming, Homer Wilbur and Dr. Atwood, will select the winners of each event by scoring exercises on the basis of 100 points, 40 for form and continuity and 60 for diffi culty. Three medals will be awarded ■to the three individual place win ners in each event and the first ■lbree winners in the all-around (competition will receive trophies. Plays Host intercollegiate Host Gene Wettstone, Penn State gymnastic coach, will serve as host to the three visiting squads com peting in the Eastern Intercol legiate Championship playoffs set for Rec Hall, 2 o’clock this after noon. Sickness Forces Cowell lo Withdraw from Tank Intercollegiates Today BULLETIN! LEWISTOWN, Pa., Mar. 12. —Bobby Cowell, sensational Penn State backstroker, left here late tonight for New Brunswick, where he will en ter the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Meet, after doc tors found his physical condi tion improved over an after noon examination. Penn State’s swimming hopes suffered a crushing blow yester day, when champion backstroker Bobby Cowell was unable to leave with his teammates for the Inter, collegiates being held at Rutgers University this afternoon. ' Cowell was stricken by the flu epidemic which swept through the team several weeks ago, but got out of a hospital bed to take first place in the Temple'meet on Feb again won top honors in the Rut gers swim, but was further weak ened by his activity. During spring vacation, the freshman sensation was warned by doctors to remain out of the Eastern meets to prevent a serious relapse in his condition, but Lion Coach Bob Galbraith was hopeful that the unbeaten merman would be able to make the trip. In the past few days, Cowell’s illness has become gradually worse, until local doctors advised him to remain out of the tourney. Last night the Nittany tanker was resting, attempting to recover for the National Intercollegiates scheduled for Columbus, Ohio, on March 27. Cowell said that he had received a bid for the Harvard Invitation Meet, but turned it down due to his physical status. Only a few weeks ago, Cowell was accepted for admission to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapo lis, and will leave Penn State for his midshipman’s training in early June. Rocky Young, Bill Christy, and. Don Knoll are the Lion entries in today’s tourney, and are favored to cop several high places in the rankings. Young offers stiff com petition to Ralph Buratti for the diving title, while Knoll should place second in the distance free style races. Christy enters the 50 and 100. yard sprints against a very fast Penn State Fraternity Kings i&9 S. Allen Si., in THE DAILY COLLEGIAN To Gym Intercollegiates Lion Pugilists Face Unbeaten Wisconsin In Season's Finale Champ Jack Grey Meets Gibson in Return Bout Penn State’s boxing team dons the leather gloves for the final time this season when it plays host to the Battling Badgers of the University of Wisconsin in Rec Hall, 8 o’clock tonight. Coach Leo Houck’s Lion mitt men, who captured second place in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Syracuse last weekend, will be facing their toughest opponent of the season as they try to stop the Badgers’ 18-straight win streak. Wisconsin Coach John Walsh and his boxers arrived in town early yesterday afternoon and soon be gan to work out in Rec Hall. Walsh’s two national champs, Cliff Lutz at 155 lbs. and George Makris at 175 will be fighting them last Fights before they leave for the Army next week. Already Wisconsin has lost two of then best men to the armed forces this year. EIBA champ Jackie Grey will be fighting his last fight for Coach Houck tonight When he meets Jackie Gibson in the evening’s first bout. Gibson met Grey last year and won out by a close de cision/ This year, however, Grey is a much improved fighter and is favored over his Wisconsin oppo nent. x Tonight's Lineup Penn State Wt. Wisconsin Grey 120 Gibson Hawthorne 127 Werren Cassidy 135 Collentine Tighe 145 D. Miller Richards 155 Lutz Maier 165 M. Miller Marietta 175 Makris Hawrylak Heavy John Sixteen Basketball Squads Chosen To Compete in IM Cage Tournament Following the end of the regular IM basketball schedule on Thurs day evening, the outstanding teams of the eleven intramural basketball leagues have been de cided and will participate in the playoffs to start the first part of. next week. This information came from Leon W. Reinheimer ’44, IM basketball manager. The sixteen top teams to play include: INDEPENDENT Grubersville J. V. Lions Den The Vagabonds • Ingleside Club Allen Co.op Podunk Prep Fletcher House Bell A. C. FRATERNITY Sigma Nu Sigma Pi No. 1 \ Beta Theta Pi No. 1 Phi Kappa Psi Sigma Chi Kappa Sigma. Phi Sigma Kappa No. 1 Beta Theta Pi No. 2 The first games, according to card of opponents, but should place near the top in one of the two events. Siegel of Rutgers is now favored to take high honors in the back stroke race, since Cowell is not able to compete. The Rutgers man was beaten by ten lengths when he raced the N’ttany tanker in-the regular season meet. IL. G. Balfour Co, ’harle's Fellow Shop Badger Heavyweight Verdayne John, hard-hitting- Badger heavyweight, who- meets Penn State’s Frank Hawrylak to night in -Rec Hall. John has won both of his fights this year by knockouts—against Henry Stew art of Virginia in second round and Max Nichols of Washington State in the third. Reiriheimer, -will begin Sunday af ternoon with sixteen independent and fraternity teams dividing a double bill. The fraternity competition will match, Sigma Nu with Beta Theta Pi No.- 2 and Sigma Pi No. 1 with Phi Sigma Kappa No. 1 in the opener at 2:30. Following at 3:50, Beta Theta Pi No. 1 will meet Kappa Sigma and Sigma Chi will • play Phi Kappa Psi. Independent competition will begin at 3:10 when Allen Co-op and the Lions Den are scheduled to meet on one floor while The Vagabonds and the Ingleside Club battle on another. At 4:30, Grubersville J. V.’s will be matched with Fletcher House and Bell A. C. will be challenged by Podunk Prep to complete the afternoon. Aimeir&e<u*B Jbest-iMtedf HAUL BNAMEI. .. . .LIPSTICK..'. Wor/d-famous for “stay •aa” quality. World-famous ■ for high-fashion colors . . . “Mrs. Miniver Rose,” for example. That’s why.ouc best customers swear by Revlon Nail Enamel ■ and Lipstick. Get your pet Revlon colors today. Nail Enamel, 60c .... Lipstick, 60c; also $l.OO size, s. 40 e]ti st. Mclanohoil’s state C«Hege SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1943 Ridenour, Harry* Crabtree to Enter Grappling Finals Lions Are Only Squad Able to Defeat Navy (Special lo The Collegian) PHILADELPHIA, March 12. Co-captain Charlie Ridenour, Co captain Sam Harry and A 1 Crab tree of Penn State’s varsity wrest ling squad will enter the final bouts in the 1943. Eastern Inter collegiate Wrestling Association’s championships to be held in the Palestra here tomorrow. With these three men in the final round, Penn State is the only member of the Eastern Intercol legiate Wrestling Association that has a chance of'upsetting the fa vored Oklahoma - studded Navy outfit. The Lions actually finished the semi-final round ahead of the rest of the competition on points. State has four points on falls to three each for Navy and Pennsyl vania. Navy will be hard to beat as they have five finalists. Army, Penn, and Cornell each have two, and Cornell, and Princeton have one each. In the 121-pound class, State's Kryder Mattem defeated A 1 Mc- Nulty of Princeton, but lost his semi-final match to Navy’s Mickey MacDonald by a count of 7-1. Ridenour handed in impressive victories, defeating Tom Moore of Princeton with a short arm scis sors, and Joe Sullivan of Penn, an. old rival of Sam Harry from Du- Bois, by a score Of 8-5. The bout with Sullivan found Ridenour win ning the takedown and keeping ahead of his opponent throughout the progress of the bout. Scoring two falls, one in the preliminary bout and the, other in the semi-finals, Sam Harry ad vances to the finals. Harry threw Bob Shanley of Columbia in both the second and third periods of the preliminary bout and tossed Nick erson of Cornell for the first time in the latter’s career in. 8:50 with a cradle hold. Crabtree defeated his first op ponent, Frank Adamson of Colum bia, ■with a head scissors in 2:42 of the first period. He decisioned Hal Ayares of Penn in the semi-finals with a score of 12-4. The remaining State lineup, Dipner, Samler, and Conrad, are out of the running for second place, with Mattern and Bob Mor gan still having chance to take runner-up. honors. In the finals, Ridenour will meet Roy Zackey of Lehigh, Harry will meet Bob Kitt of Navy, and Crab tree will meet Joe Henson of Navy. T2TT7TC! FOR ■' JDIJCsJIiQrent; Miles Street :prhviewhd means that every single color of Revlon Nail Enamel is. pretested *l6O times on busy fingertips,- before it .is bottled *3* ior you!
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