SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1943
Penn State Fencers Vie Fir IFA leant,
Individual Honors At intercollegiates
Seven lions Make Trip
To New York Tourney
. The fiftieth annual champion
ships of the Intercollegiate Fenc
ing Association began yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock with Penn
State entering seven members of
its twice-defeated sword squad.
The field has been considerably
reduced this year as a result of
the war with only six of the 13
members entering full teams. Four
colleges, CCNY, Harvard, MIT,
and Yale will not be represented.
. New York University, winner
of the three-weapon crown for 8
of the last 10 years, will defend
its laurels against the spirited
threats of Penn State, Columbia,
Cornell, Navy, Princeton, Army,
Hamilton, and Pennsylvania and
will rule the favorite to repeat.
. The Violet, undefeated in dual
competition this season, has beaten
Navy, Columbia, and Penn State,
.among others. The Nittany Lions
gave the New York team its closest
•fight, bowing 14-13 as the Violet
•took the final four saber bouts.
Besides the three-weapons hon
ors, NYU will also be the defender
•in the epee and saber team divi
sions. Columbia won the foil title
last year. .
State Strong in Epee
' A strong bid will be made by
.the Blue and' White fencers to up
set the favorite in the epee divi
sion with Captain Wally Riley, Bob
Swope, and Larry Tessjer wielding
the sword. Riley is undefeated in
epee competition-this year and is
also the favorite to cop individual
honors in this event. Riley has a
win streak of 12 straight in epee
and has taken 8 out.of 12 decisions
in the saber bracket.
'■ Outstanding m the saber division
for Penn State is Tom Davenport,
who has come through with 8 out
■of- 12 wins for the Lions in that
event. Other State entrees in saber
are Bemie Hankin and Bill Bur
leigh.
Fighting with the foil are Cap
tain Wally Riley, Dave Ozeraouw,
•and either Tom Davenport or Tim
'Reid. Reid, who was out for the
last two Lion meets, will probably
break.into the line-up again.
PS£A Begins Project
Elaine N. David,-Mary E. Ro
berts, and Violet K. Siegle, repre
senting-PSC A, began a community
service project in the Patton
Township schools yesterday. They
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Delta Chi Takes Lead
Over Intramural
Bowling Competitors
Delta Chi’s powerful bowling
quintet rolled right over its arch
rival jin this week’s fraternity
league matches, taking the first
and third games and the high
point total for a 6-to-2 win over
second-place Beta Theta Pi.
Beta’s Tim Giles was high scor
er of the crucial match with a
three-line total of 559, but the
bigi three of the. league-lblading
Delta Chi’s Art Christman and
■the White brothers—all rolled over
500. Karry White totaled 513,
Christman rolled 510, while Ken
White chalked up a 508.
Theta Xi, meanwhile, climbed
three rungs in the league ladder
by sweeping' 16 points in a single
evening of bowling, shutting out
Delta Upsilon 8-0 at 7 p m. and
walking away with a 8-0 forfeit
from the Tau Kappa Epsilon squad
at 9 p. m. Tomkinson and Cher
venak shared high-scoring honors
for the Theta Xi team, with iden
tical 501 totals. Hoffman’s 198 was
the high single game.
.In -other fraternity league
matches, Theta Chi maintained its
fourth place slot by copping a'6-2
win from the cellar-dwelling Beta
Sigma Rho squad, while Lambda
Chi Alpha shut out Alpha Gamma
Rho, 8-0.
League play continues this af
ternoon, when the Theta Xi squad
seeks to continue its three-game
win streak in a match with Sigma
Phi Epsilon.. All ten teams will
continue in league competition
Tuesday.
League Standings:
W. L. Pet.
Delta Chi 62 10 .861
Beta Theta Pi 54 10 .844
Lambda Chi Alpha . .50 22 .695
Theta Chi ....... 36 28 .562
Theta Xi 34 30 .531
Tau Kappa Epsilon .. 28 36 .438
Sigma Phi Epsilon.. 24 32 .428
Alpha Gamma Rho.. 26 38 .406
•Beta Sigma Rho ....26 46 .361
Delta Upsilon 26 46 .361
provided recreation in the form of
an art lesson, a discussion on man
ners, and singing for the sixth,
seventh, and eighth grade children
of one-room Waddele school. The
project will be carried on every
Thursday in one of the three Pat
ton Township schools.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
TraineeAthleiics Out
Trainees sent here under the
Army Specialized Training pro
gram will not. be permitted to
participate in intercollegiate
athletics as members of college
teams, according to interpreta
tion ol' the War Department’s
policy by the College ROTC di
vision.
Although Washington officials
have not made a definite an
nouncement regarding advanc
ed ROTC men who will be call
ed to active duty soon, Third
Service Command Headquarters
have notified Colonel E. D. Ar
dery that the same orders will
apply to this group.
COLLEGIAN
SPORTS
By ART MILLER
__ Sports Writer—.
Penn State’s fencers have turned
in another creditable season. In a
four-meet year they walloped
Temple 20-7, outfought the Phila
delphia Fencing Club 14-13, but
lost two very close decisions to
powerful Navy and NYU, reputed
ly the cream of the Eastern crop
of swordsters.
Watch for Captain Wally Riley
to bring home the bacon in the
epee division. Wally has not drop
ped a bout in that bracket this
season.
A special communique from
Leo Houck’s headquarters reveal
ed today that 175-pounder Oggie
Martella fought Wisconsin’s Na
tional champ George Makris with
a fractured jawbone received in
in the Intercollegiates at Syracuse.
Remember how he kept shielding
that chin with his right shoulder?
Gymnasts John Teti, Lou Bordo,
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Waynesburg, Clearfield
Lead State Matmen Race
By REM ROBINSON
Waynesburg High school loomed
as potential holders of the mythi
cal PIAA wrestling title last night
after qualifying six grapplers for
the second round of the State
championship meet to be held in
Rec Hall this morning. Closely fol
lowing the Yellowjackets is the
heavily favored team from Clear
field, who placed five men in the
semi-finals.
District 5 will send five men in
to the battle, four of which come
from the Boswell High team. Pow
erful Forty Fort, holder of two
crowns in the 1942 meet, also
placed four men in the semi-final
leg of the tourney, while Tyrone
and Shamokin each took three
bouts.
Another team to place four mat
men in this morning’s session, is
Grove City High school, who won
berths in the 95, 120, 154, and 165
pound classes.
Beers Gels First Pin
Jimmy Beers of Clearfield High
School scored the first fall of the
1943 tournament when he pinned
Dominic Russo of Farrell in 52
seconds of the second pei-iod with
a reverse chancery and crotch.
Beers’ teammate, Bob Thompson,
took an easy 6-0 win from Bamo
of Jefferson in the 95-pound show.
Defending titlist, from Grove
City, Steve De Augustine, was
nearly the victim of the meet’s
first upset, when he saved him
self from disaster in the last half
minute by pinning his foe from
Forty Fort, after trailing by the
score of 4-2. DeAugustine holds
the 120-pound crown for the 1942
season, and is attempting to re
take it this year.
Little Lion Loses Decision
Roger Johnson, State College
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High's lone entry, was defeated,
by George Halas of Haverford,
who is the only Philadelphia su
burban District One representa
tive in the tourney. Halas is the
nephew of Lieut. Cmdr. George
Halas, former coach of the Chi
cago Bears.
Waynesburg’s 120-pound sensa
tion, Jimmy Conklin, submerged
Meyers of Boswell under an aval
anche of points, taking a decisive
8-0 victory. Conklin has copped
the PIAA crown for three years
straight, and will become the first
man ever to win the title four
times if he defeats the remainder
of the entries in his class today.
In the 103-pound quarter-finals,
Spory of Boswell gained a berth
on this morning’s card via a bye,
while Harold Hill, fighting for
Muncy High won over McNellis
of Kingston in the same weight
class. Other winners in the 103
were Nelson Gault from Tyrone,
and Charles Patterson of Waynes
burg.,
Defending Champ Drops Out
Elias George of Canonsburg,
winner of the 120-pound crown in
the 1942 championships, was
forced to give up his 1943 quest
for the 138-pound title last night,
when a severe case of tonsilitis
forced him to remain at his home.
George has previously copped the
championship in the Western
Pennsylvania meet several weeks
ago.
Jimmy Riss, who wrestles with
the Dußois High School mat team,
took a close 4-1 win from Nick
Osso, the first Waynesburg man
to lose a match in the meet. Riss
is the brother of Temple’s grap
pler, Lloyd Riss, who wrestled at
Penn State last month.
This morning at 9:30 a. m., the
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