PAGE FOUR
Draz Captures
Second Crown
"Well planned, well staged and well managed—a great show."
That was the opinion of over 5000 fans who witnessed Saturday's
finals of the Intercollegiate Boxing Association in Rec Hall.
Chuck Drazenovich, giant Nittany heavyweight, was the only
if a title for the Lion boxers. After.
namite-punching Draz avenged an
Penn State representative to garn
a med4ocre season's record, the dy
early - season dual - meet setback
when he decisioned Syracuse's
Marty Crandell in the 1949 EIBA
finale.
On the basis of his season's
mark, the lanky Orange boxer was
top seeded in his class, but, de
termined to defend his crown suc
cessfully, the Draz used we ll
aimed uppercuts for the first two
cantos and then staved off a third
period barrage to get the judges'
nod and his second EIBA title.
BENGLIAN LOSES
Coach Leo Houck's other hope
for a title was blown into the
winds when Penn State's popular
captain, Johnny Benglian, lost a
decision in his title fight against
Virginia's Al Hollingsworth.
Although the veteran Lion bat
tler chased his opponent for a full
six minutes, the clever back-track
ing of the Virginian made Beng
lian's blows ineffective. Although
Benglian took the offense for three
rounds, both judges voted for Hol
lingsworth while Referee DiFillipo
declared Benglian the winner.
The total tally showed 87 points
for Hollingsworth and 86 for Beng
lian but according to EIBA tour
nament rules the two judges ren
der the decision, so the contest was
not considered a split decision.
Jack Sheehe, Lion finalist in the
145 division, after a hectic two
rounds of slugging, dropped the
third round by a close margin,
thus enabling Tim Curley of Syra
cuse to annex his first title in a
fast moving contest.
Last year's 165 champ, Jim Rol
her of Syracuse, won his second
consecutive title when he deci
sioned Paul Smith in the 165-
pound finals. Displaying an Ar
thur Murray-like dance step, the
clever Syracuse boxer used left
jabs to keep Smith at bay.
DUAL MEET
Earlier in a dual meet at Syra
cuse, Smith decisioned Rollier. It
was the only loss this season for
the veteran Orange slugger whose
excellent sportsmanship and ring
ability was awarded at the con
clusion of the tournament when
he was selected the outstanding
boxer of the tourney.
The Frank J. Goodman trophy
presented annually to the senior
Lion boxer who has done the most
to promote boxing at Penn State,
was awarded to southpaw Captain
John Benglian.
Syracuse, coached by Roy Sim
mons, won the team championship
with a 24-point total while Penn
State with 14 points was runner
up. Virginia placed third with 13
points, Army next with eight,
while the pre-tourney favorite,
Catholic U., had five tallies. West
ern Maryland failed to break into
the scoring column.
FOUR REPEATERS
Four of the five 1948 champions
who returned to compete in this
year's tourney returned home vic.
Continued on page five
By George Vedas:
Meade Retains Gym Title
Bill Meade, ace tumbler, became the Nittany Lions' lone Eastern Intercollegiate gym titlist
when he successfully defended his tumbling crown at Philadelphia Saturday.
Participating in the individual championships, Meade nosed out teammate Rudy Valentino to
annex his second consecutive Eastern championship.
Meade's performance climaxed an uphill fight after early-season losses in dual meets to Valen
tino. Two weeks ago he finally won his initial tumbling first of the year, outpointing the sophomore
Tiny Puffs Cigar
To Prep for Tiff
With Lions' Barr
Eric "Tiny" Larson, Pennsyl
vania's 280-pound heavyweight
wrestler, knows a good man when
he sees one.
After pinning his opponent in
the preliminaries of the EIWA
tournament at Cornell Friday,
"Tiny" found that his next foe
was Penn State's Homer Barr, the
favorite.
Larson returned to the hotel
where the Penn matmen were
staying to rest for the big bout.
Shortly afterwards, the Quak
ers' trainer entered the room and
saw th e gargantuan "Tiny" re
clining on the bed and puffing
on a cigar.
"Hey, what are you doing with
that cigar?" the trainer said.
"You're a wrestler."
"Yeh, I know, but the season's
over for me. I wrestle Homer
Barr tonight."
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Candidates for assistant golf
manager should sign up at the
office of the Graduate Man
ager of Athletics, Room 102,
Old Main, anytime today.
There will be a meeting of
prospective golf managers at
the Caddy Shop at 5 p.m. to
day, according to Tom Yemm,
head manager.
The meeting will be devoted
to orientation, Yemm said.
flash in the meet with Navy. This
performance was followed by an
other win over Valentino against
Temple here last Saturday.
Captain Bill Bonsall, a repre
sentative on the 1948 American
Olympic gymnastic squad, bet
tered his last year's finish in the
all-around competition but still
finished behind Temple's Bob
Stout who retained his crown
with 1050 points. Bonsall's total
was 1029 points.
The Lion captain also copped
a third place on the horizontal
bar and finished in a tie for fourth
with Ackerman of Temple on the
flying rings.
Mike Kurowski, who finished
fourth in the all-around compe
tition behind Joel Baba of Syra
cuse, was the only other Lion
representative among the nine
participating to place in any of
the events.
Gene Rabbit, Syracuse, parti
cipating in his first year of var
sity gymnastic competition, won
the sidehorse event with a sterl
ing 286 points to outpoint Tem
ple's Joe Berenato. Baba of Syra
cuse was third.
Cadet John Hodes grabbed first
place in the horizontal bar, fol
lowed by Stout and Bonsall.
The only new Eastern record
established at Saturday's meet
was set by another Syracuse first
year man, Leo Minnotti, in the
rope climb. Minnotti flashed up
the 20-foot hemp in 3.6 seconds,
bettering the old record by .2 of a
second. The National mark is 3.1
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EASTERN RECORD
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Homer Barr today can boast of being Penn State's first EIWA
heavyweight wrestling champion since 1937, and the first Nittany
mat crown winner since 1947.
In the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament
at Cornell University Friday and Saturday, the Blue and White
heavy swept past four opponents and copped the unlimited title
seconds, set last year in Rec Hall
by Bill Perry of California.
As expected, Stout repeated
last year's title-winning perform
ance on the parallel bars. Army's
Brunson was second and Baba of
Syracuse was third.
Wally Hayes, former national
flying rings champion, lost his
Eastern title to Lou Jamison of
the Military Academy. Jamison
amassed a total of 281 points.
Stout finished second. Hayes was
third and Bonsall tied with Ack
erman for fourth.
The summary:
Sidehorse—Won by Cene Rabbit, Syra
cuse; second, Benrenato, Temple; third,
Baba, Syracuse; fourth, Grayson, Navy.
Winner's points, 286.
Horizontal bar—Won by John Hodes,
Army; second, Stout, Temple; third, Bon
sai!, Penn State; fourth, Willard, Temple.
Points 261.
Rope climb—Won by Leo Minotti, Syra
cuse; second Schenker, Navy; third, Hayes,
Army; fourth, DeMuro, Army. Time, 3.6
new league record).
Parallel bars—Won by Bob Stout, Tern
pie; second, Brunson, Army; third, Baba,
Syracuse; fourth, Koessian, Temple.
Points 286.
Flying rings—Won by Lon Jamison,
Army; second, Stout, Temple; third,
Hayes, Temple; fourth, Tie between Ron
son, Penn State, and Ackerman, Temple.
Points 281.
All-round— Won by Stout. Temple
second Bonsai!. Penn State; Third, Baba
Syracuse ; fourth,
.Kurowski, Penn State
Points, 1050.
Tumbling—Won by Bill Meade, Penn
State; second Valentino, Penn State; third,
Matthews, Syracuse; fourth, McKinney,
Temple. Points, 267.
Cherundolo Named
To Steckler Staff
Chuck Cherundolo, form e r
Penn State center, and veteran
Pittsburgh Steeler mainstay, has
accepted an assistant coaching
berth with the Steelers.
Cherundolo. a standout regular
for the National Football league
entry for years, will coach the
Steelers' centers next fall.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1949
By Ed Watson
with little trouble
By knocking off Lehigh's un
beaten Gus LaSasso by a 10-2
count in the finals Saturday
night, Barr enabled Syracuse to
capture its first team trophy in
history with 35 points. Lehigh,
tallying 34 points, was second
and lost its hold on the team
title which it had won in 1947 and
1948.
Navy was third with 16 count
ers, followed by Penn State and
Cornell, who tied for fourth
place by chalking up 15
markers.
Barr pinned Yale's Bayard Fox
in 1:04 in the preliminaries, and
flipped 280-pound Eric "Tiny"
Larson of Pennsylvania in 1:36
in the quarter-finals Friday
night. Fourth-seeded Howie
Houston, Harvard, fell before the
Lion heavy in the semi-finals.
The score of the bout was 6-0, but
Barr was in complete control.
Against LaSasso, Barr earned
a first-period takedown, and
when the Lehigh grappler es
caped in the second stanza, Barr
immediately took him down
again. LaSasso was awarded a
point for alleged stalling by the
Nittanies' titlist, but was taken
down for the third time shortly
after. Barr worked Lasso into a
pinning position and was award
ed a near-fall as the buzzer
sounded. Two points time advan
tage gave the Lion star a 10-2
decision. The points scored by
LaSasso were the only tallies
earned against Barr during the
entire tourney.
One hundred seventy-five pound
Bob Markle won fourth place in
his class. After pinning r t
mouth's Austin Tobin in the pre
lims, and decisioning Lou Farrier,
F&M, in the quarter-finals,
Markle lost by fall to George
Gebhardt, the eventual cham
pion, in tne semi-finals.
Yale's Jack Downey, seeded
third, won by 3-0 over the Nit
tany Lion luminary in the con
solation bouts Saturday night,
and thus Markle was an automa-
I tic fourth.
All other Lion matmen fell by
the wayside in the quarter-finals.
George Schautz, Jack Dreibelbis,
Don Arbuckle, Larry Shallcross,
Bill Corman and Bob Hetrick
were eliminated in their second
bouts.
Dreibelbis, 128-pounder, and
second-seeded Shallcross at 145
pounds, were victims of upsets.
Dreibelbis, ranked third in his
weight, was caught by cradle
crazy Tim Mahoney, Navy, and
pinned in 5:43, after leading the
entire way.
F&M's Bob Wendell came back
strongly in the last period to edge
Shallcross, 8-5. Wendell and Ma
honey both captured fourth-place
spots.
Mike Filipos, Lehigh, 121; Dav
ie Poor, Princeton, 128; Dick Kel
sey, Lehigh, 136; Bart Downes,
Navy, 145; Hunte, Syracuse, 155;
Pas Perri, Syracuse, 165; George
Gebhardt, Syracuse, 175, and Barr
won the individual titles. Kelsey
and Perri successfully defended
their titles, but F&M's Bobbie
Schell and Jim Jackson, Lehigh,
failed in their bids to retain their
honors.
121 pounds— Filipos, Lehigh, defeated
Fogarty, Syracuse, 6-5.
128 pounds—Pour, Princeton, defeated
Raabe, Army, 6-3.
136 pounds—Kelsey, Lehigh, decisioned
Settanni, Syracuse, 4-2.
145 pounds—Downes, Navy, deeisionsd
Adams, Cornell, 5-3.
155 pounds—Hunte, Syracuse, deck
cloned Randall, Princeton, 7-0.
165 pounds—Perri, Syracuse, dechtioned
Wishard. Navy, 3-0.
175 pounds—Gephardt, Syracuse, acct.
cloned Jackson, Lehigh, 10-4.
Unlimited—Barr, Penn State, ilea
cloned LaSasso, Lehigh, 10-2.
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