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Wald Wins Third Place
In Epee Championships
Although Penn State finished far down in the team standings,
Rolf Wald, the Lions' fine epee entry, gained individual prestige
in the Fencing Intercollegiates Friday and Saturday as he placed
third in that event.
The meet, held in the CCNY gym in New York, saw NYU cop
the team title for the eighth time in the last 12 years. Arthur Meyer's
Penn Staate squad garnered 43
points, good for 12th place.
Wald captured nine out of 12
matches in his pool to tie John
Hughes of Princeton for first
position and thereby entered the
finals. He proceeded to win three
out of his five jousts in the finals
to insure third spot in the epee.
For the entire tourney, Wald had
a record of 12 wins and five
losses.
The Lions were fourth in the
epee, eighth in the sabre and last
in the foil. In the epee, Art Ward
split even in his 12 bouts and Bill
Fairchok won five out of 12.
Along with Wald, these men put
State off to a flying start with
20 points.
Competition in the foil proved
toe strong for the Meyermcn.
They managed to pick up only
eight points in this event as
Larry McCarty and Ralph Meier
each checked in with 3-9 records,
while ) John Kochalka had a 2-10
mark.
State came back with 15 points
in the sabre as Dick Dyer won
s van and lost five, Paul Younkin
split his twelve matches and John
Richards copped two con tests
while losing 10.
Navy we n the epee crown for
the third year in succession and
the meet champion, NYU, snared
the sabre title bcsides tieing
CCNY for the Little Iron Man
Trophy in the foil.
Final team standings: NYU 80,
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Navy 72, CCNY 67, Army 65,
Rutgers 59, Princeton 54, Colum
bia 46, Harvard 46, MIT 46, Yale
45, Cornell 44, Penn State 43 and
Pennsylvania 33.
Grid Aides
To Be Named
Two new assistants will be
added to the Penn State football
coaching staff prior to the 1949
season, Coach Joe Bedenk an
nounced today.
Bedenk. who was annointed to
the top job when Bob Hin:ains
resigned ten days ago, said the
additions had nreviously been
authorized but that Higgins had
delayed the anpointments.
He indicated that no selections
had been made yet, but said that
both men would come from
alumni ranks.
Bedenk explained that his for
mer assistant. Jim O'Hora, would
move up to the line coaching job
and nne of the new assistants
would be assigned to duty under
O'Hora.
The other new man will he
:assigned to duty under Al Mi
chaels, the backfield coach, while
Bedenk already has announced
the selection of End Coach Earle
Edwards as his first assistant.
Simon Joins 'Stars'
On 3 New Cage
'All' Teams
It may take big boys like Ken
tucky's Groza and Jones, or Yale's
Lavelli, to win national All-
American basketball honors, but
in his own back yard Lion Cap
tain Milt Simon is recognized as
a top-flight cage star.
The scrappy Nittany guard add
ed national stature by being nam
ed to three more "all" teams over
the weekend.
Jack Henry, Pittsburgh Sun-
Telegraph sports writer, named
Simon to his second Warn "All
West Penn" squad. 'Huddle' maga 7
zinc, Pittsburgh district sports or
gan, selected the set-shot artist
for honorable mention on its Pitts
burgh district All-American.
Finally, Washington and Jef
ferson's cagers gave Simon a
third-team slot on their "all-oppo
nent" selections.
Previously the Associated Press
had awarded "Little Milt," as he
is known to Lion cage fans, hon
orable mnetion on the AP All-
State lineup.
Joe Tocci, Simons running mate
at the other guard post, was also
given honorable mention in Hud
dle's listing of Pittsburgh district
hoop standouts.
Pistolmen Triumph
Over Vilic:n ova
Penn State's NROTC Pistol
team defeated that of Villanova
College, in results just tabulated
from the telegraphic matches of
March 12. Midshipmen Jerry
Barrho, Raymond George, Thomas
Grifferty, John Kemper, John Mc-
Call, Philip Monaghan and Wil
liam Nagony make up the team
that this year seeks its fourth
straight championship of the
Fourth Naval District.
In this season's firing, other vic
tims of the championship team in
clude Colorado, Notre Dame, Kan
sas, South Carolina, Alabama
Polytech, Miami, Oklahoma, Mar
quette, North Carolina while
losses have been incurred at the
hands of Holy Cross, Renssalaer,
and Illinois Institute of Tech
nology.
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Drazenovich
One of 4 EIBA
Returnee Kings
Lion Heavyweight
Seeks Third Title
Penn State's heavyweight
champion, Charles (Chuck) Dra
zenovich, will be one of four 1949
title-winners who next year will
have the opportunity to win a
third straight title in the Inter
collegiate Boxing Association.
Only seven men have won this
distinction in 26 years of tourna
ment competition and only
Jimmy Miragliotta, of the Univer
sity of Virginia, turned the trick
in the last decade. Miragliotta
won his first 135-pound title in
1944, went to war, and repeated
in 1947 and 1948.
REPEATERS
Drazenovich, also a 60-minute
football player at Penn State, was
one of four repeaters in the 1949
championships and none of the
four is a senior. The others, all
of whom will compete again next
year, are 130-pound Allen Hol
lingsworth and 135-pound Grover
Masterson, both of Virginia, and
Jim Rollier, of Syracuse Univer
sity.
Until Miragliotta completed his
cycle in 1948, only six men had
turned the trick in 25 years. The
first three-t:me winner, 160-
pound Allie Wolff, of Penn State,
ran up a string of 28 straight
victories in the years from 1927
through 1929, Penn State's only
triple champion, 115-pound Russ
Criswell, annexed his titles in
1934, 1935, and 1936.
SYRACUSE
Syracuse boasts three of the
seven, starting with Albert Wert
heimer, who was unbeaten in 31
bouts as he won 125-pound honors
in 1931, 1932 and 1933. The other
Orange triple winners were 175-
pound Americo Woyciesjes,
beaten only twice as he dominated
his division in 1939, 1940 and 1941;
and heavyweight Salvatore Mira
bito, undefeated in 26 bouts as he
won first honors in 1941, 1942 and
1943.
The other three-time winner,
and Villanova College's only in
ter-collegiate boxing champion,
was Tony Sala, former football
great and brother of Lee Sala,
who currently is aspiring to
championship recognition in pro
fessional ranks. Tony won his
titles at 175 pounds in 1935, 1936
and 1937.
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By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
Coaches' Handball
Twenty years ago tomorrow Rec
Hall was dedicated at Penn State,
and at least one institution has
paralleled the Rec's two-decade
history. That's the coaches' per
ennial handball tournament.
At various hours during most
days, a Rec Hall loiterer can hear
the sharp bounce of a rubber ball
ricocheting off four walls in the
"handball .rooms." .Inspection
through small barred windows,
which impart a dungeon-like air
to the "rooms" to one side of the
gym floor, often reveals four ca
vorting Penn State coaches.
We ventured into Rec Hall yes
terday to discover some facts a
bout this inter-coach competition.
Who decides who will be paired
with whom each year? Are there
any squabbles about "being stuck
this year with this stumblebum"?
Who usually wins?
Our Results
We discovered five salient
points: 1) We were nuts for un
dertaking such a task in the first
place. 2) There have been many
tournaments started and few fin
ished. 3) It takes the coaches
weeks to choose partners each
year, and then nobody is satis
fied.
4) Trying to find out who has
been judged winner leaves one be
fuddled in a cross-current of
claims and counter-claims from
the coaches. 5) The whole affair is
loaded with intra-staff dynamite
that will probably explode under
us the next time we tread the Rec
Hall hallways.
Aside from that, we learned
from an anonymous observer that
the coaching clan decided this year
to jettison all previous pairing
methods and have the ten so
called "expert" players rate them
selves and a second flight of lesser
lights of the handball realm.
This seemed to work, although
the resulting bickering over who
were to be the "experts" consum
ed a full month before this year's
tourney began.
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On the Block
We have it on full-proof au
thority that Jim O'Hora, football
line coach and one of the big
handball "wheels," drew Gym
Coach Gene Wellston° as a part
ner, then promptly placed him on
the trading block.
It is rumored that O'Hora was
willing to throw a couple of paral
lel bars into the deal, but nothing
resulted. Wettstone declares 'taint
so.
According to an unimpeachable
source, when Boxing Coach Leo
"Fred" Houck drew Nick Thiel,
lacrosse coach, as his partner, he
tried to trade Thiel off with a pair
of lacrosse sticks thrown in "to
equalize the bargain." Thiel de.
vies everything.
Who the casual observer con
siders the winner of this handball
war depends largely on which
coach he asks.
Much of the infra-staff hand
ball dispute and intrigue centers
around Coach Houck, described as
a "demon on the handball court."
Aftet the games are played.
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