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.
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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.
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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.
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