TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12,1946- Harry, Dixon Win EIWA Titles Steel Takes Third Place; Navy Captures Team Title Captain Sam Harry and Freshman Grant Dixon copped the 128- pound and 155-pound titles ol the 42nd annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tourney held at Bethlehem Saturday. • For the ease in which he overcame his opponents, Captain Harry was voted “the outstanding wrestler of the tourney” by the nine team coaches. - Dixon, on the other hand, 'became the first freshman in the history of Penn State wrestling to win an EIWiA crown. Harry-regained the title he held in ’42. His..first match of the tour ney was with Princeton’s Gilkeson, which he won by default after five' minutes of' wrestling. In the semifinals he - pinned. Hetherson of Penn in 2.99 with a cradle’ hqld, and outpointed. Cornell’s' Hunting ton; 6-0,“.f0r the‘crown,. Dixon,' , who ' now: -holds . the crown that Glenn Smith won last year,. faced only two. foes in. the. SAM HAKRX Tourney's Outstanding * Wrestler tourney. His,first meeting was with Penn’s Welling,, whom he pinned in 8.30 with a reverse cradle hold. His final, test was with Hathway of Navy,.whom,he outpointed, 3-0, in a close match.. • The Lion 136-pounder, Joe Steel, outpointed Rynick to place third in the lightweight class. Earlier in, the meet he„had blanked Army’s 'Robertson, 4-0, ibut was finally; eliminated from top 'con sideration when he was defeated by . Navy’s Greene,' the present champion. . , Navy, copped the team title for the fourth consecutive year, nosing out Army by one point, 21-20. Other team scores were Cornell 19, Penn State 14, Penn 10, Lehigh 9, Princeton 7, Coast Guard 4, Co lumbia 0. ./ ■ Magazines—Candy ■ Tobacco ■■-■' Lion Gymnasts Outclass Navy Showing , .hhgtppionship form, Penn State’s .gym team outclassed the.U.,S. Naval Academy.ini Reef reation HalY Saturday , night by copping five of six. first places during a rout.''''' ' Veteran Greene again, proved to be tlie outstanding per former of the meet, talcing top honors, in rope " climbing, side horse, and paralleYbars. His rope climbing mafk'of 3.9 seconds was only one-tenth of a second short of the record set by another Penn Stater, ChaflieLetoowl in ’43.. Rating a ’ close second to his teammate, Captairj. Hal Frey out shone the field in tumbling with the high score of '277, and also placed-high 'in.the horizontal bars and the parallel' bars.' Promising 'gymnast' Wally Glo ver led .both teams in the hori zontal bar event with a score of 276, dnd finished a close second to Greene on the parallel bars. -The Middies were' superior in only .one event,. placing first: and second on the rings. . Summaries - 1.. Side • eHorser'-Greene CPS), 277;'Brandt ON), '240; Neiger (PS), 223; Glover (PS), .193; Menk (N), 189. '2. Horizontal Glover (PS), 276; Frey (PS), 259; Neiger (PS), 250; Rogers ON), 222; Day (PS), .202. ' 3. Rope Climb—Greene (PS), 3:9 seconds; Wirtschafter . (PS), 4io; Hoffman (N), '4.0; Hobart (PS), 4.6; Meginhis ON), 6.8. 4. Parallel. Bars—i Greene (PS), 260; Glover (PS), 256; (Frey (PS), 240; Carlisle (N), ‘226; Billingsley .GST), 205. *. 5. Rings—Pitt CN), 270; Feeney (N), 244; Neiger OPS), 237; Glover (PS), '226; Bacon (N), 210. 6. Tumbling—Frey OPS), 277; Petroff (PS), 250; • Freeman (N), 231; Fenn ON), 199; Fries (PS), 180. Baseball Review : . . . will ibe held in Recreation Hall, 7 to 8 p. m., February 18 to February. 23, Coach Joe Bedenk announced today. lAll candidates are to report to Coach Bedenk anytime tois week. (Navy Trainee Johnny Hamil ton, 1945 all-America, has been awarded the Captain Edward S. Mandel Trophy as Penn State’s lost valuable player. THE COLLEGIAN Cagers Edge Colgate , 46-44 Nugent Scores Winning Goa! With less than 30 seconds re maining. in the game, ©ill Nugent, one of two starters on the court, tossed in a goal from in close to give the Nittany Lions an upset victory over Colgate’s Red Raid ers, 46-44, in Recreation Hall Sat urday night. The Lions end their home season tomorrow night when they v/ill attempt a second win over Car negie,: Tech. They already own a decisive-win .which was played on lhe Skibo's floor. John (Lawther’s boys, playing again the role of underdog, took a lead early in the first quarter and remained well in the van until three Lion mainstays were ejected in. the final period with five minutes playing time remain ing. The Lions started off like a “ball of fire” asi they surged to a 19-19 lead at the end of the first quarter, tout the (Red Raiders came hack strong in the next two per iods and the score read, 39-33, as the final period began. . Giant Center Herb Currie, al- Penn State fg. f. ft. tl. Simon, f 3 1 2 7 Nugent, £ 2 1 2 5 Currie, c 6 4 4 16 Hatkevich, g 4 6 8 14 Rusinko, g l 2 4 4 Light, g 0 0 0 0 Funk, .c 0 0 0 0 Masticola, g 0 0 0 0 Denniston, f 0 0 0 0 Total 16 14 20 46 Colgate fg. f. ft. tl. Vandeweghe, f 1 2 5 4 Aery, £ 1 0 0 2 ißraun, c 7 6 3 20 Plunkett, g 0 1 2 1 Sullivan, g 0 0 0 0 Cox, .g 2 2 4 6 Rice, g 2 0 1 4 Gilles, f , 0 3 3 3 Hoffman, f „ 2 0 0 4 Grygill, f 0 0 0 0 Total iHS 114 23 44 Boxers Lose Penn State’s, boxing team drop ped its fourth straight dual meet decision, 51/2-2 V 2, to Coast Guard) Saturday night. Johnny Benglian, . promising featherweight, won his second straight, while veteran Jack Seit chik pounded out an impressive win in the 155-pound class. Light weight Jim Cassidy racked up the other Lion score, as he drew with his opponent. 120—Rodger (CG) decisioned Po- lansky. 127—Benglian (PS) decisioned • Lemly, 135—Cassidy (PS) drew with Sie phany. 145 Tannell (CG) decisioned Bondi. 145 Kelsey (CG) decisioned Smith. 155—Seiichik (PS) decisioned Neuman. 165—Raes (CG) won, TKO, 1:59 of first over Christmas. 175—Wright (CG) decisioned* Slu sarczyk. ANCHORAGE COFFEE SHOP .210 W. College Ave, - STEAKS . . . CHOPS .... SEAFOOD . . . SANDWICHES . . . CATERING TO BANQUETS M 0 PRIVATE MIITIEO though he was ejected early in Hatkevich garnered 14, while the fourth quarter, played one of Carl Braun, Colgate center, was his better games and led the Lions high man for the night with 20 m scoring with 16 credits. Wally markers. PAGE THREK
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