FRIDAY. MARCH 4. 1940 Virginia's 4 EIBA Titlists Who Host Lions ---- HOLLINGSWORTH Title-Holding Virginia Opposes Lion Boxers Virginia, a team which last season equalled an all-time EIBA record by copping six individual championships, will be the Lions' opposition in the ring at Charlottesville, Va., tomorrow night. Four of the six titlists will be in Coach Al York's lineup when the Cavaliers square off against the Houck sluggers. Competing are Allen Hollingsworth, formerly 125 pounds, now 130; Grover Master ght from 130 to 135; and the two son who also has moved up a we remaining Miragliotta brothers Basil at 145 pounds and Joe at 155 pounds. Missing from the field will be Virginia's three-time champ, 135 pound Jimmy Miragliotta and Ralph Shoaf, 175 pound titlist. Miragliotta finished his four years of eligibility in 1948, while Shoaf, this season's captain-elect. is shelved by a football injury. SEASON RECORDS Both the Nittanymen and the Virginians sport a 2-3 record for the current mitt campaign and both will be out to end their re spective campaigns with at least a .500 battling mark. The Lions, victorious over West ern . Maryland, 6-2; and Army, si-2i, dropped their last three ring encounters to Syracuse, 41- 34-; Wisconsin, 6-2; and Michigan State, 5-3. Cavalier boxers copped de cisions from South Carolina, 4i 3i; and Army, 5-3. They lost con tests to Miami, 4i-3i; Louisiana State, 6-2, and then a 5-3 bout at Syracuse last weekend. None of the Virginians is in vincible as was proven when 130- pound Allen Hollingsworth and 145-pound Basil Miragliotta were held to draws by Louisian State sluggers. Grover Masterson, con queror of Lion captain John Ben glian in the Easterns last year, dropped his first of the year against LSU. BROTHER CHAMPS The Cavaliers' two brother champions, 145-pound Basil Mira gliotta and 155-pound Joe Mira gliotta are both three-year ring veterans and around them the whole team is nucleused. Drawing top billing on tomor row night's fight agenda will be the contests between 1948-champ at 130 pounds, Allen Hollings worth, and 1946-champ at 127 pounds, John Benglian. Both have moved up a weight and will battle in the 130 pound go. New addition to the Virginia squad, Leonard Coiner, will battle Fred Smith in the 125 division contest. The Lions' Smith, side lined for the past two weeks, is back and will replace John Deck in the leadoff position. Pat Heims, 155 pounder, who drew at Michigan State last week will again represent the Lions. Heims, an explosive batler, led the fighting against his Spartan opponent but after receiving a cut above the eye in the first round the contest was stopppd. HEAVYWEIGHTS Virginia's Allen Smith, a junior letterman who figured in one win ning and two losing bouts last year, will be Chuck Drazenovich's opponent. After capturing the EIBA heavyweight toga last season, Chuck has found compe tition rough this year. He sports two draws and one defeat in EIBA competition. Lou Guthrie will enter the ring in the 135 contest His assign ment will be a tough one. He meets Virginia's "Bat" Masterson. Basil Miragliotta will be no soft touch for Lion 145-pounder Jack Sheehe. Altoona's gift to Leo Houck, battling Jack Bolger, will meet Virginia's replacement for Ralph Shoaf, Lamont Atwell while the highly improved Paul Smith, Lion 165-pounder should have little trouble in adding another win to his record when he squares off against ring neophyte John Marks. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA MASTERSON Story of Two Erie Cage Stars Hastily glancing at the boxscore of the recent Penn State-Temple basketball encounter, one can't fail to notice that Milt Simon, of the Lions, scored 24 markers while Wally Hatkevich led the Owls with 16. It seems ironic that these two boys, both natives of Erie, Pa., were playing against each other on the Rec Hall boards. Usually, in their boyhood, they were on the same team. Starting on the courts when they were ten, their 90-to-120-pound team won the city champion ship. But when Milt found out that he could not make the high school team he signed to play with an Independents Win Thrillers The Warriors and Foresters won first round independent cage victories and moved into semi final playoffs in down-to-the wire, drag-em-out battles at Rec Hall last night. A desperation one-hand stab by Howard Hagler, with less than 30 seconds to go, handed the Warriors a 25-23 edge over the Q. Quintet. Larry Sloan car ried most of the load•for the vic tors as he dunked 11 counters and pulled down rebounds from his center slot. Art Benning of the Q'ers notched eight markers in the losing cause. The Foresters beat Dorm 25 in a low score encounter on court one, racking up a one-point ad vantage in the first frame and turning on more steam in the second stanza to win, 16-11. But Frank Conte of the losers won personal laurels with a perfect five-for-five foul average and a fielder that totalled to seven counters and high score. Tonight the Warriors meet the Berletics, and the Foresters tangle with Section 10 in semi finals at 9:25, immediately after the fraternity semi-final teams clear the floor. Berletics, with a seven-and-one record for the season, figure to keep the War riors stepping, but Sloan and Hagler will be back to have a final word in the outcome. Section 10 brings a string of eight straight victories to pit against the floorwork of the For esters in another semi-final clash at the same time. B. MIRAGLIOTTA Attention, IM Teams Any fraternity or independ ent organization which signed for wrestling, volleyball, or handball singles and has not yet received a copy of the mimeographed schedule for any of the three, should con tact the intramural office, Ex tension 95, immediately. Copies of the three sched ules were sent out this week, announced Eugene C. Bischoff, IM director, and should be in the hands of team managers. Erie city league team that cap tured the championship in 1942. Hatkevich went on to star for East High. His superb floor play was rewarded when he was nam ed to the AP's all-state schoolboy five in 1943. But the 102-pound Simon, too short to make the East High cage team, finally did earn a letter— for being the manager of the bas ketball team. After a vacation, for which Uncle Sam footed all the bills, Milt enrolled at the College. When his running mats, Hatkevich, was discharged, the dimunitive Simon persuaded the "Hacker" (Hatke vich) to come to State College. Both Milt and Wally made Coach John Lawther's varsity in their frosh year. Both played top flight basketball throughout the 1946 season and caught the op position's eye, although their team succeeded in winning only seven out of 16 engagements. The sharpshooting Hatkevich moved into the college picture .without too much trouble and in 16 games scored 216 points for an average of 13.5 per game. He was the first Lion player to top the 200 mark during the war and immediate post-war era. Si mon was runner-up in scoring with 108 points in 13 games, or an average of a little better than eight points per tussle. The following winter, Temple lured Hatkevich to the Quaker City while Milt stayed with Coach John Lawther to score 146 points. Last week the ex-sailor caught fire. The dynamic 5-foot 6-inch Simon exploded against Ameri can U. tossing in 23 markers to equal the Rec Hall record for a Penn State player. Last year's captain, Jack Biery, once before the war and once last year, scored the same total. 23, Ed Brett, of Colgate, holds the all-time Rec Hall record, 25 points. Brett scored his 25 tal lies this year when the Red Raid ers downed Penn State. HOT In Penn State's upset victory, 52-41, over Temple, Simon was hot. The scorebook showed 22 points for Milt, the clock showed 50 seconds left before the final gun. A last minute desperation heave by Simon and the stage was set for a dramatic finish as the ball swished through the cords. A great little floorman add ed a new record to Penn State basketball history. Hatkevich also had his eyesight focused, tallying 16 points for Temple's best effort of the eve ning. That in short sums up the bas ketball fortunes of two home town kids. Both Simon and Hat kevich graduate this Spring. J 4 MIRAGLIOTTA By George Vedas: STARS FIRST Owl Gymnasts Duel Nittanymen By Red Roth Gym fins are in for a rare treat when the Lions play host to Temple University's powerful gymnastic squad at 7 p.m. in Rec Hall tomorrow. For the Owls can boast of one of the top gym aggregations in the East, if not in the entire nation. The visitors come to State College with an impressive record of six consecutive victories, three of them over Eastern Intercollgiate foes. Syracuse, Navy and Army, all conquerors of the Lions, have bowed to Coach Max Younger's gymnasts. Last Saturday's win over the Military Academy, 56-40, assur ed the Cherry and White gym nasts of at least at tie for the 1949 Eastern Intercollegiate title. Only stumbling block in their path to undisputed possession of the crown is Coach Gene Wett stone's team. FAVORITE On paper the Templars look like odds on favorites to vanquish the Nittanies and tack the East ern crown to their string of Pi KA's Upset Phi Delt Cart Chalk it up in your book that records mean nothing when the all-fraternity championship is at stake. Phi Delta Theta found it out. Wearing their seven and nothing season-record like a chip on the shoulder, the Phi Delts came to swift destruction at the hands of Pi Kappa Alpha on the Rec Hall boards last night. The Pi Ka cap ers slapped them down, 24-12, in one of those contests the experts figured to be tight. Jack Platt of Pi Kappa Alpha, pounding the hoops for a full doz en of tallies, was the man who made the difference. Platt helped his mates to a 9-8 first half mar gin, then really caught fire as the superior floor-work of the vic tors wilted Phi Delta Theta. Pi Kappa Alpha will have to do it all over again tonight, with the exception that Sigma Pi will be the opposition, this time with a record of seven and nothing. The semi-final contest is listed for 8:45. Tau Kappa Epsilon earned it self a berth in the victory train with a 33-14 rip-roaring triumph 'over Theta Kappa Phi. They whistled to a 13-3 first half ad vantage and as Bob Pee kept up the tune to snag 12 points, easily snared the plum. TKE'S tangle with Sigma Nu, in a court-one semi-final encounter tonight at 8:45, and Pee and company will have to stop the shots of John qmidansky, and the Sigma Nu er's, who won seven and lost one during the season. achievements. Their lineup is studded with high school cham pions from the freshman squad in addition to such standout hold overs as Wally Hayes, Eastern and National flying rings cham pion; Bob Stout, Eastern Inter collegiate all-around, parallel bars, and horizontal bar title holder, and Joe Bernardo, whom Lion Coach Gene Wettstone des cribed as "another Steve Greene" on the sidehorse. But Lion hopes of upsetting the highly-favored Philadelphians are not as remote as some fans might believe, in the opinion of Wett stone. The Blue and White gymnasts have been Temple's "jinx" team since 1943. Not since a winter day six years ago have Coach Younger's men emerged victori ous over a Wettstone-coached gym team. FACTORS In addition to the hoax they seem to have over the visitors the Penn Staters will have at least two other factors in their favor. One is that the meet will be held in Rec Hall or equipment fa miliar to the home team. The sec ond is the pressure the Owls will have on them. The Lions, who as a team are not going anywhere this year, have everything to gain and nothing to lose tomorrow. On the other hand Temple needs tomorrow's meet badly. A loss to the Lions would send Army, heavy favorites to swamp Navy tomorrow, into a tie for the Eastern crown. Such a setup is psychologically favorable to the Nittany Lion gymnasts. "If we have a good day and they have a bad one. there is an excellent chance we may pull a surprising upset," Wettstone said. "Still there's no sense in hiding the fact they have a much better balanced team than we have," he added. BONSALL "Our hopes of beating the Owls will rest chiefly on Bill Bonsall, who must take first in at least two of his three events,' the bespec tacled Lion mentor went on. A big break for the Nittanies is the fact that Temple is weak in the event that has given them more trouble than any other this year—the rope climb. The Owl's best man in that event is Stan Robinson. His best time on the hemp was 4.4 seconds against Army last week. Salvester Postich, chief Lion threat in the same event, record ed a 4.5 second time against the dame team. Thus there is a good chance the home team may place higher than third in the rope com petition for the first time this year. Probably the closest event in the meet will be tumbling, where five top-notchers will compete. 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