RAGE P)trit
Scramble Forecast for Upper-Weight EIBA Crowns
By George Vadasz
(Editor's Note: This is the
second half of a two-part
round-up of competition in
different EIBA weight classes.
The first part appeared yes
terday.)
Although past records show
that the boxers of the RIBA new
comer. Catholic U., sport an ap
parent advantage in the lower
The Nittany Reulm
Basketball players are severely criticized for fighting in Rec
Hall, but there's a former eager now wearing the Blue and White
who does just that to the cheers, rather than jeers, of the Penn
State audience.
John Charles Sheehe, who will aim for the 145-pound Intercol
legiate Boxing Association title, was a former basketball star at
Indiana (Pa.) High School, and led his team to the county cham
pionship, while he captured the l 'high scoring race in the league.
After high school, "Jack" served foe three years in the Army
Air Corps and added more laurels to his growing list of basketball
successes. At Scot field, the high
scoring guard played on the team
which racked up 15 straight wins
over service and college teams
besides winning the base cham
pionship
When he returned to civilian
life, Sheehe enrolled at Penn
State and naturally went out for
his specialty, basketball.
But his point-making views
didn't coincide with the Nittany
defensive idea of the court sport
and soon Sheehe was looking for
another activity.
As the senior boxer explained
it, "I come from a family of eight
brothers and had plenty of ex
perience in fighting since I was
the next to youngest."
Sheehe reported to Leo Houck
the following year, and in the
1946-47 season won his first two
fights. Sometime between his second ana broke a bone
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Since 1926
weight classes, a mad scramble
for titles in the upper weight
division is in the making .n Rec
liall tonight and tomorrow.
It is hard to pick future win
icrs and as Penn State's boxing
mentor Leo Houck puts it, "The
:hampionship is still won and lost
,n the ring."
Biggest news, as far as lineup
changes go, comes from Charlot
tesville. Last season's 155-pound
By Elliot Krane
AIR FORCE VET
Schoolboy Champs
To Perform Here
Penn State once again will play
host to the Pennsylvania school
boy track and field, golf and ten
nis championships. Harold R.
Gilbert, graduate manager of ath_
letics, said the dates selected for
the annual events are Friday and
Saturday, May 20-21.
Two Eggerts, Bill and Paul, both
of Sigma Nu, won the 165- and
175-pound wrestling champion
ships in fraternity competition last
season.
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champ Joe Miragliotta has been
scratched from th e entry list; in
stead, his brother Basil, EIBA
145-pound winner last year, will
represent the Virginians in the
155 class.
Catholic U.'s Bucky Ennis ap
pears on the inside track for the
155-pound title. The scrappy En
nis has won three of his four
starts this year by knockouts.
MALONEY OR REIMS
Rcpresenting the Blue in Whit e
in the 155 class will be either
hard-punching Jim Maloney or
lanky Pat Heims. The duo has
been trading off the starting as
ignment for the Lions and Coach
Houck is as yet undecided who
to send into the ring.
Army and Syracuse starters for
the 155 toga are also indefinite.
Representing West Point in the
ring will be either Ken Herring
(2-3-0) or Jo e Thompson (0-1-0).
Chuck Rigolioso, who held
Catholic's Ennis to a draw and
then went on to dcfeat Penn
State's Maloney, will give the
fans plenty of action should he
represent the Orangemen. Jim
Palmioto might be the alternate
Syracuse 155-pounder. Leroy
Merritt, (0-2-0), will be Western
Maryland's 155 representative.
Back to defend his title in a
rugged field of 165-pounders will
be Syracuse's dancing Jim Rol
licr. His crackerjack left jab and
Gilbert Names
Ring Referee
Three referees were named
yesterday for tonight's and to
morrow's intercollegiate boxing
bouts by Harold R. Gilbert, grad
uate manager of athletLcs.
Chosen by a vote of represent
atives of th e six competing col
leges were Victor J. diFilippo,
Henry LaMar and William (Billy)
Taylor.
According to Gilbert, the three
will take turns refereeing. When
one is in the ring, the other two
will be judges, he said.
Filippo is a Rutgers graduate.
At that university h e boxed in
intercollegiate competition, win
ning a 175-pound champkonship in
1930. He i s now director of the
department of health and phy
sical education at Seton Hall Col
lege, South Orange, N. J.
A Harvard graduate, LaMar is
now head boxing coach at his
alma mater. Taylor graduated
from Springfield (Mass.) College,
is a former member of the teach
ing staff of the Coast Guard Aca
demy and is now a faculty mem
ber of a New England high school.
TITLE DEFENDER
hard right cross make him a fav
orite with the fans. He stages a
miraculous dancing act for three
rounds which makes him a hard
target to hit.
The Syracusan owns a distinc
tive record of six wins and one
sctback. His lone loss was to Penn
State's Paul Smith. Fighting at
160 pounds this year, Smith is the
top contender to cop a title in
that weight class. Four wins in
five starts is PQ's (Smith) record
this season.
But the road to a title fight
between Rollier and Smith is not
dear-cut, for Billy Maher, of
Catholic U., will be a big stum-
P. Smith Meets
Terror's Kelly
Continued from page one
class, Al Hollingsworth of Vir
ginia will step into the ring to
night against Jay Wason of Syr
acuse and undefeated John Red
mond, Catholic U.'s fistic 130-
pounder squares off against
Medon Bitzer of Army tonight.
Top record performer for the
Nittany Lions, Paul Smith was
top seeded in the 165-pound class.
He tangles with Western Mary
land's Bernard Kelly in tonight's
quarter-finals while his nemesis,
Jim Rollier, the defending East
ern 165-pound champion, trades
blows tonight with Abe Levin of
Virginia.
Should both Smith and Rollier
win their initial two contests, the
two will then be paired in Sat
urday night's finals. The highly
improved Lion 175-pounder, Jack
Bolger draws a bye in tonight's
fistic engagements as did Army's
Pete Monfore.
FEATURE ATTRACTION
Monfore and Bolger tangle in
the semi-finals tomorrow after
noon in what is expected to be
one of the feature attractions of
the 1949 EIBA's. Earlier in the
season Monfore decisioned Bol
ger for his only loss of the season.
Since then Bolger went unde
feated while a broken nose kept
Monfore out of the ring since
the Penn State meet. Lanky Nit
tany 155-pounder, Pat Haims
also drew a bye in the quarter
finals and will meet the winner
of the Basil Miragliotta, of Vir
ginia, and Ken Herring, of Army,
contest.
CRONIN FAVORED
Only one contest will be staged
in the 125-pound division tonight.
Highly rated Tom Cronin, out
standing and undefeated Capital
slugger, trades blows with up
and coming Freddie Smith of
Penn State in the opening meet
of this year's tourney.
Also in action tonight will he
the veteran Jack Sheehe. The up
percutting Blue and White 145-
pounder opposes Dick Trumper
of Catholic University.
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bling block. The Capitol slugger
owns a 3-1-1 record.
Bernard Kelly w,ll be the
Green Tcrrors' choice to step
through the ropes at 165-pounds
while Tom Hastings will repre
sent the Cadets. Kelly owns no
wins but has suffered one loss
while Hastings came through
with three wins and an equal
number of losses.
For Virginia it will be either
165-pounder Nick Manos (0-2-0)
or John Marks, (0-2-0).
175-POUNDERS
Bunchcd at 175-pounds are at
least three talented ring perform-
Continued on page six
Between
The
OnS
By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
On Houck's Henchmen
We buttonholed Leo Houck, vet
eran Lion boxing coach, in Rec
Hall yesterday to gain an infor
mal appraisal of Penn State's
chances in today's and tomorrow's
Rec Hall fisticuffs.
"Well," said "Fred," as he's dub
bed by all his friends, "predicting
what's going to happen in the ring
is pretty uncertain business: I
can't say which of our boys will
be fortunate enough to win a title.
But I can say something about
each of them."
We asked "Fred" to run down
the list.
Fred Smith---Senior
"First there's Freddy Smith at
125 pounds. Lots of people don't
know that he's boxing under a
physical handicap that bothers
him as a result of his military
service and slows him down some
times in the ring. But if Fred fights
as he did at Virginia last week,
he'll he the surprise of the tourna
ment.
"He didn't get wild, but stepped
in and out, and even though the
bout ended in a draw, Fred had
his man practically doing what he
wanted him to do. It was the best
bout he ever boxed."
John Benglion---Senior
Moving to the 130-pound class,
Houck commented on Johnny
Benglian, team captain:
"Benglian's work speaks for it
self. One thing is the same with
him as it is with Fred Smith.
When they see Benglian win a
fight, many people don't realize
that to do it he's had to overcome
a physical handicap from his mili
tary service.
"His fight last week at Virginia
was one for the books. I thought
Benglian was the aggressor all the
way; he finally caught up with his
man twice and floored him both
times. Honestly I don't see how
Benglian lost that match." (John
ny lost, 30-27.)
Guthrie, Wallace, Sophs
We asked the Nittany boxing
skipper, oldest in the business, to
go on. _
"Well, at 135 we have Lou Guth
rie and 011ie Wallace. There's not
Continued on page six
Heavy 1M Mat King
Bob Heckel, of Pi Kappa Alpha,
won the unlimited title in frater
nity wrestling last season. Joe
Colone, of Sigma Nu, was runner
up.
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