TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1947 In NMU Wrestling... Ridenour Defeats Hauser For 121-Pound Championship Charlie Ridenour, three-time Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling champion while an undergraduate at Penn State, appeared slated for a Perth on the 1948 Olympic team by virtue of his victory in the National AAU championships at San Francisco Saturday. .The former Lion grappler beat George Hauser of Cornell Col lege, lowa, 9-6 in .the finals. Ridenour, who had; recently and New York state-AAU titles, stopped a winning streak of Hau ser’s at 87. He is the 1947 Na tional Intercollegiate champion at 121 pounds. Another former Penn State wrestler—Bob Morgan—p iac d d third }n the heavyweight 1 divisiori at San Francisco. Morgan had previously won the New • York AAU title and placed third in the National junior. AAU ■ champion ships before competing on the West Coast. i*-..'. . ‘ Both grapplers—now graduate students at the College—will con tinue working out under the col ors of the "New York A.C. for the coming Olympics in London in 1948, Fox- Ridenour, the NAAU title was the culmination of a long line of victories on the mat. Coming to Coach Charlie Spiedel’s team fresh from a high school cham nour won the Eastern Intercolle pionship at State College, .-Ride-; giate crowns at 121 pounds in 1941 and 1942 and again in 1943, this time at 128 pounds. Against West Penn All-Stars... Jeffrey - Coached Soccermen Battle to Scoreless Tie Coach Bill Jeffrey’s a}l-star soccer team, played a scoreless, tie with the West Penn Association, allfstarS in'Pittsburgh,.'Saturday.' The contest, was the first of a series or-preliminary Olympic tryout games to select players who will participate in the 1948 Olympics! • former Olympic teams, although selected from amateur ranks, did not include college players. The ’4B Olympic squad \vill probably feature a few collegiate standouts for the first time, . Jeffrey’s all-star team, com prised mostly of Penn. State and Temple soccermen, also included players from Carnegie Tech; Haverford, Lehigh and, Slippery Rock. Gene Graebner performed well as goalie,, making - several fine walked off with the Metropdlitan * * * CHARLIE RIDENOUR saves, while Paul Bender and John Hamilton were standouts on the offensive. Other. Lions who participated were Lloyd Black at right full back and Timmy Petroff and Dean. Witmer as: substitutes. Post. COLLEGIATES w.penn G... .Graebner (PS) ... .Brouiin RFB . .Black (PS) Bedogne (Continued on page four) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Don Stark Stars as... Lions Smother Dickinson, 19-3, For First Victory of '47 Season Paced by leftfielder Don Stark and pitcher Ken Yount, the Lion baseball team swamped the Dickinson Red Devils 19-3 to open the home season with its first victory. Stark, a newcomer to the Lion lineup this year, had a perfect day at the plate with a home run, two triples and two singles in five trips. Veteran righthander Yount batted in the Lions’ first three runs when he poled a home run into leftfield in the second inning. Yount retired from the game at the beginning of the seventh in ning because of a sprained back. Bob Gehrett then took over the mound-duties and limited the vis itors to two hits. FANS NINE Holding Dickinson to four hits in six innings, Yount struck out nine batters and kept the oppo nents hitting to the infield as only one Red Devil hit the ball into the outfield The unsteady Lion infield ac counted for six errors to bring their total miscues to 16 for three games. In their opening game, the Red Devils used three pitchers in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the Lion batting attack. Penn State started the scoring parade in the second with Yount’s home run with Gene Sutherland and Don Herb aboard. Herb was replacing Ed Holler, who discov ered he had broken several ribs in a play at the plate in last week’s VMI game. FOUR-BAGGER Two more runs were added in the third when Stark hit his four bagger with Eddie Sebastianelli on base. • The Bedenk-coached combina tion tallied four more in the sixth, with the aid of Bob Urion’s double and' continued the barrage in the seventh- with four runs on two triples-and a single. The box score: Dickinson ab r h o a. Borda, 3fb ‘5 0 11 2 Paxton, ss 5 0 0 1 3 Goale, lib 1....... 4 0 148 0 Rhodes, rC ..4 1 0 0 0 Carl, p .., 2 0 1 0 2 Holblish, p ..: '1 0 0 0 1 Crist, p, cf 1 -0011 Corribs. of - .. 2 0. '0 1 0 Abbot, cf 2 1 1 1' 0 Corson, If 1 0 0 0 0 Oyler. If 3 0 0 I 0 Overholt, 2b 1 1 6‘ 1 2 Matthews, 'c il .0 0 2 0 Cani-cci, c 4 0 K 1 0 Totals 36 3 S 24 11 Penn State ab r h a Hack-man, ss 0 0 0 0 1 Berletic, ss 3 3 '0 1 3 Sebastianelli, 2b .. 4 3 1 1 3 Stark. If 5 4 5 1 0 Ben'yish, nf 6 2 3 l 1 0 MacFarland. l'b .. 4 0 2 9 0 Urion, of >6 0 1 4! 0 Sutherland, @b ... 5 1 1 I 0 Herb, -c 4 2 -0 1-1 0 Yount, o 2- 2 1 0 2 Gelhreitt, p il 2 1 1 0 Totals 40 10 15 27 9 Score 'by innings: Dickinson .... 000 000 120-— ■ 3 Penn ' Staff. .. 032 204 44x—19 Errors: Bora, Coale, Matthews, Sebastianelli. McFarland 2. Suth erland'2. Henb. Runs batted in: Stark 7, Benyish 4, Younts 3, Urion 2, MadFarland, Gehret, Se brstmelli, Overholt 2. Paxton. Two-