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.
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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.
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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.
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