SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1948
Boxers Meet Orange
Minas Injured Tighe
At the sound of the opening gong tomorrow
night at 7 o’clock the Nittany Lions will be without
the services of their veteran captain, “Tiger” Tighe.
Jackie is on the-injured list and Coach Houck stated
that he is saving his protege for next week’s meet
against Wisconsin Badgers.
Tighe’s sparring partner. Alexander Alex, will
receive the starting nod in the 155-pound class.
Ring-wise Alex will give no quarter when he
squares off against Dick Prussin, Orange captain
of two seasons ago.
Johijny Benglian, Lion 130-pound representa
tive, will strive to bring home victory number four
when he meets Syracuse’s Walter Bowe. Benglian
is now reaching his mid-season peak and the for
mer Eastern 127-pound king should run into little
trouble tonight.
Houck has not yet decided who he will send
into the ring to meet'last year’s Eastern and Na
tional 125-pound king, Jerry AuClair. The scrappy
little AuClair won his first match of the season
when he knocked out the Uni
versity of Miami representative in
52 seconds of the first round and
two weeks ago, he decisioned Ar
my’s Quarstein
Dynamite - punching Ray Fine,
the Orange heavy, will tee off
against Chuck Drazenovich. Dra
zenovich lost his inaugural col
legiate boxing match but has im
proved considerably the last two
weeks and the “Battle of the
Heavies” should be one of the
main features of the meet.
Donning gloves for the first time
since he fought on the Lion ’44
boxing unit will be Hal Howard.
Howard, a 165-pound belter, is
ready to upset the dopesheets
when he steps into the ring against
IM Entries
Deadline for fraternities and
independent groups desiring to
submit -entry blanks for the
intramural volleyball and
handball singles tournaments
is 5 p.m. Monday, Eugene C.
Bischoff, director of intramural
athletics, said today.
Fencers Boinf for Win
Against NYU Opponent
The Penn State varsity fencing
team meets New York University
in Rec Hall at 4 o’clock today.
Coach Arthuh Meyer has been
holding rigid practice sessions all
week in preparation for the NYU
swordsmen, who gained the in
tercollegiate fencing title last
year.
Probable starters for the Blue
and White will be at foil David
Ozarow, Harry McCarty and
Robert Hollis. At epee will be
Rolf Wald, Arthur Ward and
Floyd Eberts. Robert Thompson.
James Stewart and Paul Youn
kin will probably start at sabre.
Runners Oppose West Point
The Nittany track team will
play the role of both participant
and spectator Saturday when it
travels to West Point for a dual
meet with the Military Academy
and then goes back to New York
that evening to root for Jerry
Karver, Curt Stone, and Barney
Ewell at the New York A. C. meet
in the Garden.
A mutual agreement between
both coaches allowed Karver, the
Penn State luminary, to go to the
New York meet. His loss will be
counterbalanced by the Cadets’
loss of Joh n Hammack who will
compete in the 600 yard run in
the same tourney.
“It’s diMJeult to say just how
strong the West Point team is,”
commented Coach Chick Werner.
“They won the West Point Relays
with no difficulty, and last week
scored more points in a triangular
meet than the combined total of
Harvard and Princeton.”
WEIGHT THROW
Fourteen events are listed for
Saturday’s meet, although four of
them will almost be gifts. No
Penn Stat.l trackman will com
pete in the weight throw since, as
Coaah Werner quipped, "Ashen
felter might as well compete in
the 35 pound weight throw; he
has as much experience as the rest
of the team—none.”
Barkley Moyer and Dan Pear
son will go into the shot put
event, Dick Reynolds and Wilbert
Lancaster in the high jump, and
Charles Willing, Earl Brown, and
AUCLAIR
the veteran Syracuse slugger, Ju
lie LeVine. LeVine will be remem
bered for the teeth-jarring bout he
fought with Virginia’s Shoaf in
the 1947 EIBA’s.
Jack Sheehe has displayed ex
cellent boxing tactics in the last
two meets and again will repre
sent the Lions in the welterweight
class. Joey Bongo, a capable ring
man, will be Sheehe’s opponent.
Curt Crooks, a rangy and de
ceptive fighter, received the green
light in the 135-pbund weight
class. Crooks lost'a close decision
last week against Bill Hiestand in
his first collegiate fight; Cadet
Hiestand, a week previous, had
Between the Lions
Twenty-six years ago. the bat
tle-scarred Leo Houck hung up
his gloves and decided to quit the
ranks of pro pugs and take up
the new profession of teaching
the art of boxing to collegians.
It was in a Philadelphia hotel
room that Athletic Director Hugo
Bezdek finally talked Leo into
coming up to State College. He
didn’t know exactly what the job
of a college boxing coach meant,
but he decided to give it a
chance.
In those days, boxing still
bordered on the edge of being
vulgar in some circles and few
other colleges had taken up the
sport. There was much room for
advancement and the Lancaster
slugger rolled up his sleeves and
went to work with a vigor paral
leling that dispayed in his ring
battles with Gene Tunney,
Mickey Gannon and Sailor Jack
Grady only a year or two before.
Always watching out for the
Milton Stemler will enter the pole
vault with no previous practice.
The complete list of events and
the College me n slated to compete
in them follows:
75 yard dash—Jim Robinson,
Lancaster, Rea Carroll.
75 yard high hurdles—Jim
Gehrdes, Gene Love, Steve Segal.
75 yard low hurdles—Gehrdes,
Lancaster, Robinson.
000 yard run—Mitch Williams,
Ike Evans, Jack Stevenson.
1000 yard run—Bill Shuman,
Paul Koch, Ted Hissey.
1 mile run—Lou Nicastro, Bob
Auman, Horace Ashenfelter.
2 mile run —Don Longenecker,
Joh n Bates.
Mile relay—Lancaster, Carroll,
Gehrdes, John Grey.
2 mile relay—Ashenfelter, Wil
liams, Shuman, Evans, Koch. His
sey.
Broad jump— Pear
son, Reynolds.
Sigma Nu Wins 6th Tilt
Sigma Nu, last year’s fraternity
IM basketball titleholder, made a
bid to annex the crown for the
second straight year as they cap
tured the fraternity league “F”
championship Thursday night
with a forfeit victory over Alpha
Sigma Phi.
Other scores:
Delta Upsilon 28,* Alpha Chi
Sigma 12; Pi Lambda Phi 26, Sig
ma Phi Epsilon 12; Phi Gamma
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
SECOND BOUT
By Ben French
COMPETITORS
Captain Jerry AuClair
decisioned Crooks’ opponent to
night, A 1 Sauerwine.
A definite underdog will be Paul
Smith, Lion 175-pounder. Smith
will tangle leather with Jim Rol
lier. the Orange light-heavy, who
decisioned Army’s Monfore. Mon
fore last week outpointed Smith
in a close duel.
In facing the Orange, the Houck
men will meet one of the outstand
ing mitt aggregations in the East.
Under Coach Roy Simmons’ guid
ance, the “Boys from Syracuse”
have won eight Eastern titles in
the last fourteen years. The Syra
cuse mentor also has tutored 39
individual Eastern boxing champs
in the last twenty years.
safety of the contestants, the vet
eran of over 200 pro fights helped
set up the collegiate rules and
even developed the glove that is
used. Sometimes he' looked back
to his first fight in his early teens
and the beatings he had taken.
He was going to see to it that
the next generation would have
it better.
MASTER COACH
Today many of the coaches in
college boxing give the cham
pion’s share of the credit for the
position of the sport to Penn
State’s Leo Houck. The boxing
that fans see in Rec Hall this
year is a far cry from the
matches of James Figg’s day
Last year the Houckmen met
the University of Miami and it
turned out that the 175-pouhd
er for the Hurricanes was Leo
Houck, Jr. Leo watched his son
decision State boxer Wib Greene
and send the meet into a tie
which was soon broken by Mi
ami’s victory in the heavyweight
bout. The Houck-Greene fight
was the proudest and most ex
citing moment of Leo’s career.
STRESSES FITNESS
Conditioning is a big thing to
Leo. No matter how tired a Lion
boxer may be, he always runs to
his corner at the bell. The coach
is soft-spoke n as he watches his
boys sparring. Now and then, he
interrupts to explain the science
of the sport, “keep your left in
his face and your right ready
for the opening the left is bound
to create,” over and over.
Houck has a habit of calling
everyone “Fred” and he often
gets it right back. You can tell
the varsity boxers on campus for
invariably they call their friends
Fred.
Long words are Leo’s hobby.
He loves to toss around such
gems as prestidigi
tator and obstreperous to the
amazement of his listeners.
Leo’s now only a year shy of
60, but from his activity he seems
to be back in his ring days.
Questioned on this, he replied,
"I keep fit, that’s all. A daily
turn in the handball court does
the trick.” So Leo continues to
lead college boxing with a tra
dition behind him as strong as
the Nittany Lion itself.
Delta 25, Alpha Phi Delta 20;
Delta Chi 23, Zeta Beta Tau 10;
Phi Kappa Sigma 30, Delta Tau
Delta 18.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 17, Alpha
Tau Omega 6; Phi Sigma Kappa.
19, Phi Sigma Delta 11; Kappa
Sigma and Tau Phi failed to ap
pear.
Tankers Engage Dickinson
In Glennland Pool Match
The Nittany Lion swimmers are
“up” for today’s tussle with Car
lisle’s Dickinson College, accord
ing to Coach Bill Gutteron. After
successive losses to Franklin and
Marshall and to a strong Syracuse
squad, the Blue and White tank
men will be relying on their rapid
improvement over each meet.
Jnyvee Ringmen
Bottle Syracuse
The curtain will go up on the
Blue and White “Junior Lion
Ringsters,” when they match their
boxing skills with the Orange jun
ior boxers at Rec Hall at 4 o’clock
today.
One of the standouts of this
winter’s intramural boxing tour
ney, Bob Keller? will receive the
go-ahead sign in the light heavy
weight class.
Bob Bolger, a newcomer to the
Lion boxing ring, is the heavy
weight contender while A 1 Koorey
will receive the nod in the 135-
pound class.
Johnny Deck, who last week
lost a heartbreaker at West Point
in the 125-pound class, will rep
resent the Junior Kouckmen in
the 130-nound division.
Walt Wheelock will step into
the ring for the Lions in the 145-
pound class and Yar Chomicky
is Houck’s choice in the 155-
pound division.
“Buzz” Fahringer, who two
seasons ago donned gloves for the
Lions, will box in the 165-pound
class. The 125-pound class is un
decided. j
UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTS SHIRTS
Charles
Exclude* Arrow Agency in Stale College
The contest, to be held at the
Gleen Pool, 2 o'cloA this after
noon, was not included in the
schedule, and it was not known
that it would take place until early
this week.
The probable lineup for the
Dickinson meet is as follows:
220-yd. free-style: Dave Hughes
and either Jim Reasman, Joe Win
ton or Don Peck.
50-yd. dash: John McGrory and
Bill Schildmacher, who placed
first and second last Saturday in
the Syracuse meet.
Fancy diving: Cal Folmsbee,
who took first honors against the
Orange, and Mike Kutsenkow,
back in the lineup after a tonsil
operation.
100-yd. free-style: Bill Schild
macher and Don Peck, first and
second place winners last week.
150-yd. back stroke: John Bruck
ner and Jim Woodworth.
200-yd. breast stroke: Bob Gross
man and Don Baker.
440-yd. free-style: Dave Hughes
and Micky Becket.
400-yd. relay: John McGrory,
Irv Tenzer, Bill Schildmacher and
Don Peck, the combination which
clipped eight seconds off their time
against Franklin & Marshall while
beating Syracuse last Saturday.
Penn State’s wrestling team has
a record to shoot at when it
tangles with Navy at Annapolis
on February 2il. The Midshipmen
are the holders of a string of 42
consecutive dual meet victories...
Jim Maurey. undefeated 145-
pounder. had a record broken in
his win over Syracuse’s Ken Hunte.
Maurey had won all of his pre
vious dual meet bouts by falls
-10 of them at Lock Haven Teach
ers.
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