PAGE TWO Eastern Colleges To Slug For Boxing Crowns in This Corner . . . LEO HOUCK, host of the 21st annual Eastern Intercollegiate boxing tourney, will be hoping for his eighth team title in the 20- year-old all-East round robin. A former pro boxer, Houck started to 'coach on the Nittany campus in 1923, and during his tenure has fit 42 men into eastern crowns, and has tutored four more to na tional diadems. . BILLY CAVANAUGH from West Point has led .his cadets through many fighting seasons on the Hudson River, this year hold ing a record of three losses, against a pair of wins, and a draw. ROY SIMMONS, Houck'S major rival from Syracuse, holds one 'less team crown 'than the Lion squad, which boasts of seven ti Lions Grapple East's Best At Mat Intercollegiates •, Penn State's best chances for victory in the wrestling Intercol legiates at Lehigh tomorrow rest c,n a trio of first-year competitors. Bob Lowrie, former Teaneck, N. J. grappler, will be the Blue and White entry for the first time in the 121-pound. Bob Shadley, 128 pounder and Lynn Mcllvaine, :145 pounds, Clearfield, will carry Coach Campbell's hopes for in dividual titles against the stiff opposition provided by peren nially strong teams like Navy, Penn, Lehigh, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Army, Yale and Harv ard, Alternates for the 128 pound , spot on the Nittany card are Ray Shibli and Warren Jeffries who will attempt to dethrone Shadley as the Lion entry in final com petition before the meet. Pat Harrington will get the nod at 136 pounds and Captain Char lie Dipner will try .his luck in the 155 bracket. Chuck Hall will face a little hometown opposition from new comer Don Holmes before earning the chance to wrestle - in the 165 or 175 pound classes. Glenn Smith, frosh grappler under Coach Bob Higgins two seasons ago, has recently returned to col lege and seems likely to get the call for . the 175 slot. Another new face on the Nit tatty mat squad is heavyweight Johnny Peters, a recent acquisi tion to the line-up. Peters will probably be nominated to fill in that position at the Bethlehem competition. Under Coach Campbell's first full year of coaching, the Penn State wrestling team took decis ions from Cornell, Colgate and Temple while dropping their meet with Navy and another close con test to Lehigh. Navy grapplers are overwhelming favorites to win the majority of the individual titles and the team diadem. Erie Captures Schoolboy PIAA Swim In Glennland Gaining revenge for the mythi cal victory hung up by their York high school rivals in last year's state championships, Erie East swept two of the five individual first spots and copped top position in both relays to capture the mythical PIAA swim crown in the Glennland Pool last Saturday Team standings: Erie East 33; Academy, will enter in the side Erie Strong .Vincent 22 1 / 2 , Allen- horse and parallel bars events. town 20, York 18, Upper Darby Julian's performance at State Col-- 10 1 / 2 , Hershey 0 1 / 2 , 'Meadville • 8,-. lege • marks as..considerable Coatesville 7, Clairton 4, West competition for Nittany gymnasts. Reading 3, Butler 2 1 / 2 •and Lances- Spangler - of Navy will carry hopes ter 2. fo,r • the horizontals crown, tics. Winner of last year's tour ney, the Orange coach could not even muster a team this season, but will bring three men to fight for individual crowns tomorrow. LT. H. K. "MICKEY" McCLER NON former pro fighter, and na tionally known trainer from the Coast Guard Academy, has coach ed his squad through wins against Army and Maryland, but drop ped a return engagement to the West Point mittmen. ARCHIE HAHN from Virginia is new in the fight world, but his son Archie Jr. was three times Southern Conference champ. Hahn lost six out of eight men last week, when Navy transfers strip ped his once-defeated team. Hollywood Leo Leo Houck has' gone Holly wood! After nearly three decades of fighting, managing, and coaching in the boxing, profes sion, he has finally been asked to teach a Hollywood honey how to throw a haymaker at a celluloid matinee idol in the forthcoming picture, "Irish Eyes Are Smiling." The honey: starlet June Hav er. The unlucky celluloid mat inee idol: Dick Haynes. Hiliany Gymnasts Seek EIGL Titles Penn State's gymnastic team will aim for individual honors ,in the Eastern intercollegiate gym nastics championships at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, to morrow, declared Nittany Coach Gene Wettstone. • Veteran Hal Frey will bid for the all-around, title; not including the rope climbing event. Frey,- who was honorably discharged from the Seaßees for defective eyesight, will compete despite a broken bone which has kept his foot in a cast for the last four . weeks. Coach Gene Wettstone's Nittany squad will compete with Army. Navy, Temple and Dartmouth. The Lions are defending national champs. Individual titles will be awarded in six events, 'including the side horse, horizontal bars, rope climbing, parallel bars, rings, and tumbling. The all-around title will be given to the man who shows the best performance on the most events. Neiger and Frey Will perform it all events except rope climbing. Their special effort will be seen on the horizontal bars and rings. Greene and Linn will enter in the side horse . competition. Greene, new sensational freshman gym nast, stands a good chance also in the rope climbing contest, along with Eddy and Mangus, accord ing to Wettstone. Johnny Valentino, last year's Pennsylvania schoolboy tumb ling champion, will strive for top honors in tumbling and parallel bars. Penn State will also have Gaumer in the former spot. Julian, top man at the Naval THE COLLEGIAN PLAYING host to the 21st an nual EIBA boxing tourney, Lee Houck is hoping for several Nit tany Lion titles • tomorrow, when the intercollegiate boxing meet returns to the campus on which it first started in 1924. Last time the round-robin was held in Rec Hall, the Lion inittmen took the team title. Between The Lions By ART MILLER, A/S Sports Writer The snows are melting. from the hills of Penn State and • with it goes the winter sports card = the first real wartime winter schedule in the history of Lion sports. Leo Houck's mittmen will hang up their gloves after • they play host to the Eastern Intercollegia tes in Rec Hall tomorrow. Coach Paul Campbell's grapp lers will travel to Lehigh hOping to place a champion on the EIWA roster—the 50th in the history of Nittany wrestling. The Gymnasts enter the Inter collegiates at Annapolis. . • Basketball, . swimming, ' track hockey squads have already ceas ed firing for the winter. All in all it has not been a bad season. The teams came out alkkiat even in the total count • but the love of competition and physical conditioning are still there. And that's what counts. ISM=I Hit Jackpot In Finale Pittsburgh's Coach Doc Carl son lost valuable ground in his argument against the zone system when State piled up 76 points against Carnegie Tech in the fin 7. al meeting of the two teams last Saturday. The low scoring game, a direct result of the zone system accord ing to Carlson, did not Material ize.. As a matter of fact the en counter, marked the highest score (Continued ,on page five) The Winnahs! The all-time record follows: Year Site of Tourney Winner 1924 State College Penn. State 1925 Philadelphia Navy Annapolis, Md. Navy Syracuse, •N. Y. Penn State Philadelphia Navy State College Penn Staet Philadelphia . Penn State 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 State College Navy Syracuse, N. Y. Syracuse State College Syracuse Syracuse, N. Y. Syracuse State College Penn State State College Penn State Syracuse, N. Y. Syracuse State College • Army Syracuse, N. Y. Army_ State..CollPge:.• Penn 'State! Syracuse;:lkr, .Syracuse Charlottesville„ •Ifa. • Md. • Syraeusk , N;‘ , Y,•: •Syraeuset- Houck Pins Hopes For Title On Unbeaten Mike Sweeney (Continued from page one) four wins. Last Friday night be circuit this season, and holder of fore 7,500 cash customers in Mad the All-Service crown for his box- ison, Wisconsin, the hard-hitting ing debut in State College last civilian student duplicated with August. Sweeney, after drawing another win, keeping his opponent twice, floored his Virginia oppon- constantly guarding against -a ent when only 90 some seconds knockout blow. His supremacy di had ticked from the first round. his went, however, will be He followed with decisive nods strongly disputed by Virginia's' against Army and Coast Guard. Miragliotta. FRANKIE IN SHAPE New prospect for the heavy- Frankie Serago, the Lion 127- weight spot in tomorrows bouts ;IS pounder, has been moving in and Wilber Greene, Marine trainee out of the win column with who has been named to fill Pitt. rhythm this season, but is one of Jack Chabek's shoes in the final the best conditioned men on the weight class. 'Chabek was TKO!ed Nittany slugging crew. Diminutive in all of his fights this season.".: Frankie had to boil nearly a dozen Greene was a former wrestler husky pounds off early in the sea- on the Clearfield High School son to ' make the 127-pound slot, squad, and• later taught jiu jitsu out has since. strengthened his at the 'Marine boot camp on Parris shape to a sharp peak. Island. While.afloat with the Fleet Licked last Week by tough Dick - Marines, Greene was a hand7o - the national champ hand combat instructor, and• dis from Wisconsin, Frank is back with a scoreboard of four losses, against a draw with West Point, and a win over Virginia. Houck believes that his 127-pounder will find ,Coast Guardsman Joe O'Hara the man to chip for the title. Marine Private Hal Howard, Houck entry at 145, started the season. with three eye-wakening wins over West Point, Maryland and Virginia, and many fans saw the slim, raw-boned boxer as one of the Lion's best bets for a crown in March. Army broke the bubble however, when they sent Cadet Jack Bodie to Penn State to jab Howard out of a win, and out of a clean slate. Two .weeks later, Wis consin sent Glen Nording into the ring to draw with the Lion mu ter, Penn State's Howard has been improving despite the Army .loss and, mentor Houck hopes for re venge over Bociie- in the tourney tomorrow. . . SMITH DARK HORSE? Paul Smith may be the Lion dark horse, and his record at :135 since :Cochran's departure may surprise . unaware . competition. Smith was "drafted", for the Coast Guard • fight . after sailor Cochran was whisked away, and without any training .went to New London' to give the Houckmen one of •thdir Stationerk New Stock Of— ' Parchment, Vellum, and Grey •- - • Orders For Personal Stationery May Be Placed Now New Catalog of Stock and Type ~ . Samples. * • LEATHER WALLETS • ADDRESS . BOOKS & • WRITING CASES • , In Saddle Leather. Now Available. * • Keeler s Cathaum _Theatre. Bldg.. . FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944 Preliminaries and semi-finals will be'firin at 2 p.m., and, fi nals will be held at 8 p.m. played his• boxing prowess in sev 7 - eral exhibition bouts aboard ship. TUBBY ALSO LOST Undefeated Tubby Crawford, who.. had • earned wins over Vi* ginia and Army" in his debuts . of the boxing sport, was considered one of Houck's EIBA thanips this; season in the 165-pound notch'. Crawford utilized Ohio State,. Dartmouth. and Penn State cred= its, however, and 'Marine head quarters whisked him to pre-of f leer's school on Parris Island. Filling the spot vacated' by Crawford, will'. be • Spike Moran; regular on the squad for the firgt few bouts this season, - Siabstitut= ing for.. injured Mike Sweeney against Wisconsin last week, 11iloz. .ran lost a decision but Houck is hopeful that he will be able' to round into, - condition for the three= round 1 test. 'Slater Was Wrestler .In the 120-pound • competition, The Nittany mentor will use. 'Nay3i trainee Rollin. Slater, 127-pouiicl high school wrestler who has ! hal , little experipice in• .the : : _ ring. 'Army's ..Dave ,- Fink, who -TKO'ect ."; (Continued.. On Pagc Poui*)
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