FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948
Boxers Prep for Season;
Benglian, Drazenovich
The 1949 boxing team, on paper at least, should outshine its
predecessor, the ’4B mitt unit which turned in three victories, three
defeats and one tie to conclude the best ring season for the Lions
since the pre-war golden boxing era.
Although the loss of former Eastern champ and team captain
Jackie Tighe will be severely fel
pion, John Benglian will lead the
ringsters this season.
Benglian, captain elect, started
his Penn State ring career in 1945,
That year as a freshman sensa
tion, he climaxed his inaugural
boxing season by copping the
Eastern 127-pound title at West
Point.
Because of a back injury he was
unable to compete in the ring two
seasons ago but last year the vet
eran southpaw won six fights and
tied one on dual competition: He
was defeated by Grover Master
son in the first fight of the East
ern finals at Virginia and after
winning his first contest at the
NCAA tournament in Wisconsin
he lost a much disputed decision
in the semi-finals.
SHOULDER INJURY
Hard luck once again struck
thi* summer when Benglian in
jured his shoulder in a sandlot
baseball game. It is gradually
healing now and Johnny hopes to
be in top shape by the time Coach
Leo Houck unveils his fighting
Lions at Rec Hall in January.
The veteran Lion mentor is
counting heavily on his heavy
weight protege of last season,
Chuck Drazenovich. The 210-
pounder, will return to the ring
wars to defend his Eastern heavy
weight championship which he
claimed at Virginia last year.
Chuck knocked out his opponent
in the finals after only 20 seconds
had elapsed in the first round.
Drazenovich retired from the ring
after the EIBA’s tp give his full
attention to Coach Higgins and
the football team. His return to
the team bolsters considerably
the Lions’ future.
Besides these two mainstays of
the boxing machine, five more
lettermen are returning with
Jack Sheehe, veteran 145-pound
er, and Paul Smith, lanky 175-
pounder being counted upon
heavily to cop the bacon for the
mittmen.
SMITH AND KELLER
Although weighing close to 165
pounds all last season, Smith was
moved up one weight class to give
the team better all-around
strength, and toward the end of
the season Houck considered ’PQ”
(Smith) the most improved fight
er on the team.
Bob Keller, aggressive slugger
By GEORGE VADASZ
It, another former Eastern cham-
in the 165-pound class, has been
working out daily and is already
reaching top fighting strength.
Keller starred in the IM boxing
tourney last season although be
ing defeated by Fritz Lennox in
the hottest slugfest of last season’s
intramural bouts.
Two 125-pound lettermen are
returning, Fred Smith and John
Deck. Deck competed in the EI
BA tourney but was defeated in
the first round while diminutive
Fred Smith was victoryless all
season. It is unlikely that Deck
will be able to compete in the 125
class since he gained over 20
pounds since last year’s season.
Curt Crooks, last season’s 135-
pound battler, has dropped out of
school but aggressive Oliver Wal
lace, a promising looking Negro
contestant, seems to be the top
man in that weight class.
Regular practice sessons are
slated from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
every afternoon and Coach Houck
urges all sophomores who are in
terested in the manly art of self
defense to report to him at the
boxing ring at that time.
For those students who are in
terested in boxing instructions
now or for those who want to
work out for the forth-coming in
tramural boxing tourney captain
John Benglian will be around the
boxing ring every afternoon this
week.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Goodman Returns;
'Fred! Puts Him
To Work Pronto
One of the greatest Lion ring
artists, Frank J. Goodman, win
ner of the Eastern Intercollegiate
135-pound boxing title in 1936
and 1937 as well as the NCAA
crown in ’37, stopped at Rec Hall
yesterday to see his old mentor,
Leo “Fred” Houck.
Houck immediately put his
former protege to work referee
ing the current intramural box
ing tournament. Four hectic fist
ic duels opened the IM tourney.
Said Goodman: “Those boys sure
went at it. It reminds me of the
good old days here at Rec Hall.”
Goodman, an athletic trophy
salesman in New York City, pre
sents the Goodman Trophy an
nually to the graduating Lion
boxer who had done the most to
further the-fistic sport at the Nit
tany institution. Last year’s win
ner was 155-pound ring captain
Jackie Tighe.
IM Fighters
Gain Triumphs
Continued, trom page four
tied past his shoulder into Griffer
ty’s chin. Grifferty was on his feet
immediately, ready to continue,
but judges Leo Houck and Chuck
Drazenovich, along with referee
Glenn Hawthorne, stopped further
damage.
Cat-like Edward Datz, Phi
Gamma Delta, pounded out a
135-pound decision over Charles
Brown, Pi Kappa Phi, through
three rounds of a fast-stepping
lightweight bout.
In a slam-bang finish, slick Rob
ert Blum, Phi Epsilon Pi, came off
the ropes in the third round to
protect his two-round advantage
and win the decision over Joseph
Young, stocky battering-ram from
Kappa Delta Rho.
Robert Tscherfinger, Phi Sigma
Kappa, decisioned Robert Von
Storch, Delta Chi, in another flashy
exhibition of boxing skill in the
145-pound class.
Richard Dum, Alpha Gamma
Rho, outlasted Sheehan, of Theta
Kappa Phi, in another slugging
bout in the 165 devision.
Forfeits were won by George
Kline, Zeta Beta Tau, over John
McCall, Alpha Tau Omega; Rich
ard Evans, Delta Tau Delta, over
Lewis Cohen, Phi Epsilon Pi; Wei
denman, Sigma Nu, over Ralph
Swan, Omega Psi Phi; James Hu
ber, Phi Gamma Delta, over Fred
Schutzman, Phi Epsilon Pi.
CAT LIKE
Theta Chi Cops Second
IM Tilt, Dorm 41 Wins
Catching their second wind after faltering to a 15-15 tit ia
regulation time, the independent Dorm 41 intramural basketeer*
slapped through three quick field goals while holding Dorm 47
scoreless in an extra period to win their first cage victory, 21-15, at
Recreation Hall Wednesday night.
Theta Chi meanwhile on another court, led by high scorer Sam
Kurtz who tallied 10 points, an
nexed a 25-11 victory over Alpha
Phi Delta. The win was Theta
Chi’s second straight in the fra
ternity “A” league.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fielded
another strong offensive to romp
to its second win also, defeating
\lDha Zeta. 16-5. in one of the
'ater games of the night.
In other gam°s. Dorm 33 shel
lacked Dorm 43. 28-9: the Whiz
Kids eked out a slim 19-14 win
over the XM Bovs: Dorm 40
wreaked havoc on Dorm 39, 17-4.
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Delta Sigma Phi upset Omega
Psi Phi, 14-8; Phi Epsilon Pi
bruised its way to a 23-20 victory
over Tau Kappa Epsilon; Nittany
Co-op doubled the count on the
Penn State Club, 19-7.
Games tonight are:
8:45 p.m. Delta Upsilon vs.
Phi Delta Theta, court one; Alpha
Chi Rho vs. Alpha Tau Omega,
court two; Zeta Beta Tau vs. Sig
ma Alpha, court three.
9:2s—Tau Phi Delta vs. Pi Kap
pa Phi, court one; Alpha Phi Al
pha vs. Delta Theta Sigma, court
two; Sigma Pi vs. Sigma Phi Sig
ma, court three.
10:05 p.m. Phi Kappa Sigma
vs. Alpha Gamma Rho, court one;
Acacia vs. Alpha Sigma Phi,
court two; Pi Kappa Alpha vs.
Phi Kappa Psi, court three.
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