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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
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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
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