TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1943 Penn State Gym, Swim, Mat Stars Win Intercollegiate Honors Lebow Shares Rope Title With Teammate Young By STEPHEN SINICHAK Chick Lebow took off his shirt and shoes and then climbed to a 'world’s rope-climbing record of 3.8 seconds for the 20-foot distance from a. floor-sitting position to highlight the Eastern Intercolle giate gymnastic tournament held in Rec Hall Saturday afternoon. Teammate Freddie Young also did a 3.8 on the ropes, but the third official clocked the blonde gymnast .at , four seconds flat, thereby disqualifying him from a .record mark. Young, however, shares the rope-climbing chairi ship with Lebow. Side horse competition was very keen, with Temple’s Schabacker taking top position. Midshipman Julian had turned in the best per formance before he “broke,” and finished in the runner-up position. Penn State’s Small w£ts third. Bordo Takes Bar Title Finishing his superb .exercise with a beautiful dismount, Captain Bordo of the Blue and White claimed the parallel bar title after teammate Sol Small, who came nearest to equalling Lou’s per formance, “broke” just before the conclusion of his exercise. Szypula earned second place, while Small took the third position. >• Sensational George Szypula, the human cartwheel, was unexcelled in the tumbling exercises as he rolled his way to the mat cham pionship. Szypula regained the ' title he lost to Penn State’s Zim ' merman last season 'by an exhibi • tion that brought a great ovation • from the crowd. Lion Prey was ' second best in this event, with ; teammate l\Xeade taking third, after-falling off the mat with only ' three-fourths of his exercise com ; plete. Summaries of the events are as follows: Horizontal: First, Lebow (PS), 268;second, Bordo (PS), 252: third, Szypula (T), 242. . Side'Horse: First, Schabacker (T). 267: second. Juliah (N). 261; third. Small (PS). 255. /Rope climb’: Tie for first place, Lebow and Young (PS), 3.6: third, Rafferty (N),4.1. (Lebow's time is world's-record.) . Parallel Bars: First, Bordo (PS), 259; second, . Szypula (T), 251: third, Small (PS). 242. Flying Rings: First, Moore (A), 264; second, Parker (N), 249; third, Bonsall (PS), 234. Tumbling: First, Szypula (T), 278; second, Frey (PS), 253; third, Meade (PS), 230. . All-around: First, Szypula (T), 1086; second. Bordo (PS), 1040; ihijrd, Small (PS), 966. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir COLLEGIAN SPORTS lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIII Clinching of the 1943 Eastern Gymnastic League Title as well as three individual championships in the playoffs has brought the Pfenn State Gym squad in the National limelight. Up lo the past few years, the Lion gymnastic efforts were nothing of which Penn Staters could be proud. However, after the arrival of new gym coach Gene Weitstone' on campus, things began to perk up for the Blue and White. Gene came lo Slate-College in 1938 and immediately began to set up the nuscleus for the great Penn State teams of the past few years. It meant a lot of hard work—both for’ lh& coach and the gymnasts themselves. But hard work proved to be the kpy to success, for in 1940 Penn State, through the efforts of Roman Pieo, was able to boast of a National AAU champ in the rope climbing event.' This was the break for which the Lions had been waiting. The next few years found two Blue and White performers within the winner’s circle. Pieo had repeated his performance to clinch the ’4l climbing title, while Captain Lou Bordo, then a sophomore, pivoted into the eastern parallel bar championship. Last year found the Lions hit the "jack pot" as far as crowns were concerned. To begin with, the squad as a whole won the league title. Then in the eastern playoffs. Zimmerman tumbled his way to the) tumbling crown over favored Szypula. Hal lost to the "human cart wheel' in the National AAU a month later by a fraction of a point, but added to his laurels by taking the eastern, the National CAA and the National AAU parallel bar championships. Charles Warrington contributed the Eastern side crown, while Senft concluded the '42 triumphs with the NAAU rope-climbing title. I ’ ' J ' Chick Lebow, Lion gymnast who broke the world’s rope climbing record by hoisting him self ug to the 20-foot level with in 3.8 seconds. Lebow also won the horizontal bar championship at the intercollegiate 'playoffs staged in Rec Hall Saturday. Karver Wins K of C 1000-Yard Run Running the best time for an amateur runner in the 1000-yard competition tflis winter, Jerry KarVer, Lion track stair, took the Knights of Columbus thousand yard run with the excellent time of -2:12.5 in Madison Square Gar den Saturday night. Karver, who usually stayed be hind until the last lap and then put on a spurt for a fast finish, took over the lead from the start' and did not relinquish it until he was overcome ‘by Hulse of the New York A. C. after the fourth la P- - * . Jerry was able to pass -the, Big City star on the last lap, but had to run all the harder to keep ahead of Norwicki, Fordham entry. The race ended with Karver cross, ing ■ the finish line a scant six inches ahead of runner-up Nor wicki. By STEPHEN SINICHAK Record Breaker CHICK LEBOW. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Cowell Wins Eastern Collegiate Tank Crown (Special to The Collegian) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ "March 13.—Bobby Cowell, serious ly ill with flu, and advised by team physicians not to enter the pool, splashed to the Eastern Col legiate swimming crown on Satur day night, as the Penn State Lions garnered 18 points and five titles in the 23rd annual meet. Freestyler Don Knoll won two medals, taking second place in the 440-yard event and third place in the 220-yard race. Jerry Levin, ace swimmer from Rutgers, bested the Nittany merman in the 440 by sev eral lengths. . In the 220-yard race, Siegel of Rutgers copped first place, and re peated his performance in the 100- yard freestyle sprint. Temple’s Robinson was second in the 220, only a short distance ahead of Knoll. . Buratii Beals Young Diver Rocky Young turned in a superb performance on the spring board, but placed second to Ralph Buratti, the Rfitgers man, who was the only swimmer to defeat the Lion tanker this year. Buratti in winning the 1943 crown ended an undefeated season and held the Eastern title he won last year. The Nittany sprinter, Bill Christy, entered the 100-yard free" style event to win a fifth place rating in a field of the meet’s top swimmers. Bill Robinson of Tem ple took another second place title in this race. Cowell Wins in Final Spurt Against the Lion’s only champ, Bobby Cowell, were entries from Temple, Brooklyn, Rutgers, and Manhattan. Hassler of Manhattan placed next to Cowell, while the Rutgers swimmer was third. Cow ell fell behind for the first 100 yards, and fans believed that his illness had used too much of his strength, but a final spurt in the last stretch brought the Nittany tanker threshing over the finish line seconds ahead of Hassler. Cowell was stricken with the flu during the New York trip of the Galbraith squad three weeks ago, and had not recovered when he left the hospital to swim in the Rutgers meet on February 24. Advised Not to Enter Doctors advised the ace back stroker to remain out of the East ern tourney to assure good phys ical condition for the National meet next week in Columbus, Ohio, but an improved state in his illness late Friday night permitted the Lion Jo board a train for Rut gers University, site of the cham pionships. Lion Fencers Drop Close One To NYU Penn State’s fencers were trip ped by NYU’s foil wielders by the closest of margins, 14-13, in a meet on the latter’s floor Saturday. After the foil bouts, the New' York team led 6-3, but the tables were turned as the Blue and White boys took seven out of nine epee decisions to put tlie score at 10-8. In the deciding saber bouts, NYU took 6 points to gain the Anal vic tory. Outstanding for the Nittany fen cers was Captain Wally Riley who extended his epee win streak to 15 and added a triumph in foil to the Lion total. Bob Swope took three bouts in epee and Tom Davenport garnered two wins in foil. Much competition in the Inter collegiates at New York City will be provided by the NYU fencers Penn State met this Saturday. Maren, foil and epee man, is a good bet to annex the foil crown, while Wally Frank is making a strong bid for the saber title. State’s Wally Riley seems to be the outstanding contender for the epee crown Champ Again! ' r , CHARLES RIDENOUR ' Wisconsin Badgers Beat Lion Mittmen In Season's Finale By BEN FRENCH Showing considerable strength against one of the best collegiate •boxing teams in the country, Coach Leo Houck’s Penn State mittmen lost their final dual meet to the Battling’ Badgers pi .Wis consin, 4VS-3Vfe, before a 'capacity crowd Saturday night in Bee Hall. Heavyweight Verdayne John’s decision over Frank Hawrylak in the evening’s final match broke the ZV2-ZV2. tie and gave the boys from Wisconsin their 19th straight victory. After a slow start, Hawry lak made a valiant comeback and even had John- groggy before the final bell. Best bout of the evening was the 155-pound match between Lion Captain Billy Richards and. the Badger national champ, Cliff Lutz. Richards, too, staged a sensational comeback and came close to scor ing a KO. Hawthorne Scores with Lefts Glenn Hawthorne with his hard hitting lefts scored an easy win over Badger Johnny Werren for Werren’s first defeat of the season. Werren tried to stage a rally at the beginning of the third round but he was no match for Haw thorne’s left which seemed to al ways find an opening. ROOMS TO RENT? 800 Penn State men students gave their Fraternities to the -Army, These men need rooms. Place a CLASSIFIED AO in the COLLEGIA! for $.35 for your room. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN DIAL 711 PAGE THREE Nittany Mafmen Take Third In EIWA Meet Charlie Ridenour, Penn State’s 128-pound wrestler and co-captain, of the grappling team, returned to State College on Sunday with Coach Campbell and the Lion squad, able to boast of his third Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship in as many years, as he captured the title in his weight class. Having won the 121-pound championships for two successive years, 1941 and 1942, Ridenour this year moved up to the 128 bracket to decision Roy Zackey of Lehigh by a 9-3 score. Sam Harry and A 1 Crabtree, State’s wrestlers who were final ists in their weight classes, were defeated in the final bouts. Harry was runner-up to 136-pound cham pion, Bob Kitt of Navy, while Crabtree dropped, down to third, place in the 145 class. Only other Lion to gain any honors in the championships was 121_pounder Kryder Mattern, who took third place in his division. The championships proved to be a little less than one-sided, with the midshipmen of the Navy win ning five of the eight champion ships. Navy’s winners were Mal colm MacDonald in the 121 class; Robert Kitt at 136; Josiah Henson at 145; Clarence Creel at 165; and. Shufford Swift in the heavyweight division. Jim Cassidy was awarded a de cision over Johnny Collentine of Wisconsin hi a fight that started, out slow. Ted Maier, fighting his first fight in Rec Hall, fought Badger fresh man Myron Miller to a draw in the 165# weight division. Oggie Mar tella put up a good exhibition with, the Badgers’ other national champ, George Makris, before losing the 175-pound match. Tighe Looks Good Jackie Tighe proved more than a match for Don Miller from Mad isofi, Wis., in the 145-pound clash. The hout was the hardest fought affair of the evening’s card. Badger Jackie Gibson proved the surprise of the evening when he bested newlywed Jackie Grey for the second sti’aight year in a close hard fight. Jackie Gets Trophy Before the bouts began, Jackie Grey, winner of the Eastern Inter collegiate boxing crown for the 121-pound class last week at Syra cuse, was presented the Goodman. Trophy, awarded each year to the outstanding senior member of the boxing team. YOU MAY NEED THE RED CROSS—GIVE GENEROUSLY
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