1950 IM Mat Tourney Attracted Many Entries The 1950 intramural wrestling tournament drew 15% more. entries•than it did last year. Figures released by Clarence "Dutch" Sykes yesterday indicated that nearly 18% more bouts were sched uled this year. Fraternity wrestling was won by DU with a total of 106 points, but 75 was added to their IFC competition tally for their victory. SAE's 103 points was boosted to 148 for runner-up honors. Tau Phi Delta picked up 71 in team scoring. Fourth-place Pi Kappa Phi earned 58 points, Sigma Chi got 53 and Phi Kappa Psi finished with 48. Other groups that earned 25 r r . , oints or more were ZBT and Tau Kappa Epsilon, 40; Phi Delta Theta, 38; Alpha Sigma Phi and Chi Phi, 37; Theta Kappa Phi, 36; Sigma Nu, 33; Phi Kappa Sigma, 30; AGR, 29; Sigma Pi, 27; Alpha Zeta and Phi Sigma Delta 26. SECOND TITLES The 1950 champions were crowned Wednesday night in eight fraternity and three in dependent contests. Two men earned the top spot for the sec ond straight year. Vince Cavan augh, DU, who won the 155- pound title this year, was the 145 winner in 1949. Charles Ha zen, 1949 champion ot, the 145- Houck Trophy Will .. Be Given To Lion Boxing's First Year Star A new trophy, to be known as the Penn, State Leo Houck Tra p:it:, will be presented for the first time at the conclusion of the current NCAA boxing tournament. It *ill go to the member of the current Nittany boxing squad who, during his first year of competition, best exemplifies the stand ards of character and skill as taught by the late coach. This new trophy will be award ed annually. It was tendered the College by John R. "Whitey" Horn, of Allentown, a , long-time friend and admirer of. Houck. Also awarded at the conclu sion of battling tomorrow night will be the Frank J. Goodman Trophy. •It is named in honor of the one-time Eastern and Nation-. al champion. It will be awarded for the 11th straight year to the senior boxer adjudged the most valuable member of the Penn State team. Also booked for presentation at the close of the Nationals • are gold' and silver medals' for the individual champions and run nersup The John J. Walsh Trophy will go to the team champions while the John" S. Laßowe Memorial Trophy will be presented to the outstanding boxer of the 13th NCAA tourney. Boxing,- (Continued from page one) ed up an early point lead and although Huba stepped up the pace in the final round, Amos won a clearcut verdict. . OPENING BOUTS In the evening's opening bout, Milton Paster, of L.S.U., a lad with. plenty of ring know-how and a murderous right to go with it, pounded out an impress ive win over Catholic Univer sity's scrappy 125 pounder, Tom Cronin. First and only defending na tional champ to fall by the way side was 155-pound Cody Connel of Minnesota. Wisconsin's ag gressive Dick Murphy, after scoring a third 'period knock down, won handily. At 130-pounds, Jim Sreeran of Wisconsin won a 90-79 decision from DeForest Tovey of Idaho. In the 135 class, Syracuse's Eastern king, Tim Curley, was eliminated by Paul Kostopoulos of Maryland. L.S.t.'s third man to enter the semi-finals, was 145-pound Alfred Bourgeois who copped a one-sided bout from U.CL..A.'s lone entry in the tourney, Floyd Wilson. In a 165-pound prelim, Lloyd Jones .of L,S.U.' annexed an easy victory over Ed Williams of Minnesota. HERB CARLSON Two-time NCAA king, 165 pound Herb Carlson had little trouble copping ' his ninth of the year, a '9O-74 affair over Paul Diez of San Jose State. pound independ en t division, made a 20-pound leap this year and emerged on the top •of the 165 independent section. Kip Sieber, SAE, won his sec ond crack at the 165-pound fra ternity title. He lost in the fit nals last year. Don and Alden Aniig won two championships for Tau, Phi ,Del ta in the 128 and 145 classes. • The new 121-pound title-hold er is John Allison, Phi Kappa Psi, while the 135-winner is Ed England, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Joe Hess, won the 121-pound title in the independent section, and Will Kraybill took the 145 division. . Chuck Meyers, SAE, carried the second individual champion ship to his fraternity by winning the 175 group honors. Heavyweight victor was Dick Waters, Sigma Chi, who had little trouble wading through the un limited - competition. * LEO HOUCK Carlson was explosive in spurts, and his ring experience paid rich dividends..; Another NCAA champ, .I.7sLpotind Carl Bernardo, a hectic performer from Miami U., showed Syra cuse's George Kartalian who was boss. Trying to outwrestle gernardo, Kartalian had little luck. Both contestants went through the ropes in the third round but there was never any doubt about the final outcome. In the day's lone heavy scrqp; Gabby Marek, of Michigan State,• won handily from his much heavier ring opponent, Jack Scheberies, a slow moving bath, ler from San Jose State.- "17044," ON APRIL 15 gemoll4u 'll Catch Your Limit When You Buy Your Fishing . Tackle Here! Rods •, Reels "*7 Liam • Hooks Fly-Tying Material • Fishing Licenses MAX E. HARTSWICK'S SPORTSMAN'S SHACK CALDER ALLEY STATE COLLEGE Balcony Jumper Just Elated Fan Spectators at the intramural wrestling finals were quite alarmed when they saw a body fEillihg, from the balcony in Rec reation Hall. Their fears were .dispelled however, when the "body" got up and walked away unhurt. Later investigation proved it to b@ Jim Ewing, SAE, who was merely taking a short-c_ut down to the gym floor in order to congratulate Chuck Meyers for his winning efforts in the 175 match. Ewing had been elimin ated in the semi-finals of the tournament. Milt Silberman Wins Second Handball Title Milt Silberman, senior in the dairy husband r y curriculum, captured his second successive intramural handb all singles championship as the indepen dent campaign came to a close Wednesday night. Silberman easily defeated a game, but inexperienced foe, Joesph Minarovich, 21-10, 21-10 to annex the title. The superior floor game of Silberman was too much for Minarovich to cope with as the champ ran Minaro vich into the floor in the latter stages of the contest. Inter-flight play began in the fraternity section with 14' flight champions seeing action. A match between Elliot Krane, Zeta Beta Tau, and John Frasin elli was postponed until a later date. George Freeman, Phi Kappa Tau, flight 4 winner defeated flight 3 champion Fran Rogel, Kappa. Delta Rho, 21-12, 2140. Tournament favorite Art Oberg, Pi Kappa Alpha, flight 6 titlist swamped flight 5 champ Dave. Harman, 21-2, 21-3. Flight 7 winner Owen Dough erty, Kappa Delta Rho, moved by flight 8 king Dave Biscoff, Sigma Nu, 21-8, 21-9. Joe Lane, Delta Upsilon, flight 10 • champ topped the flight 9 winner Geo-I rge Jacobs, Sigma Phi Epsilon, 21-10, 21-12. Ed Hoover, Phi Deltb. Theta, flight 11 titlist, , edged George Emig, Pi Kappa Alpha, flight' . 12 Victor 21-14, 21-18. Steve Mei sel,/ Alpha Epsilon Pi, flight 14 champ came from behind to nip the flight 13 honor carrier Ray Ulinski, Kappa Delta Rho, 20- 21, 2145, 21-15. In the final match of the even- College Sportswear ' SECOND FLOOR MEN'S SUITS Have to Be Good BECAUSE WE WILL GIVE A NEW SUIT FREE IF YOU CAN BEAT OUR PRICE ANYWHERE Economy *29.50 Grade • All Wool Gabardine Better Grade $3 A. 50 Gabardine "T. and Worsted Plus Alterations SECOND FLOOR BARGAIN ROOM 103 E. BEAVER Wettstone, Gymnast Quartet Leave for Nationals at Army Gymnastic Coach Gene Wettstone and the Nittany Lion quartet —Dick Spiese, Lee Perna, Al Christie and Dave Benner—leave today for West Point and tomorrow's N'zitional Collegiate gymnastic tourney. Wettstond will meet with NCAA officials tonight in a confer ence that migh*.rdsult in:the changing of collegiate gymnastic rules to conform more nearly to Olym pic rules. Competition fot individual and team honors begins tomorrow. At least• 23 schools from as far west as California and as far south as Florida will send gym nasts into%competition. Favored to come off''With:„Ahe team title are llinois, Michigan , State, Kent State, Syracuse and Arxny, while Temple, the defending team champ, is. rated-Va "dark-horse." Syracuse and - Army tied for Eastern.. Intercollegiate 'honors. Michigan... State is: given the nod because of its'all-round star, Mel Stoit,, arid .Kent Stata is rated Team Champs .Get Walsh Cup, Permanent_Plaque Also Given To the team walking off with championship honors goes' the John J. Walsh .Trophy, named for the veteran Wisconsin boxing coach. A plaque is also awarded for permanent pdssession. The official scoring method for the trophy follows: ' One point for each victory prior to the semi-finals. Three points for each semi-final victory. Five points for each victory in the, finals. An individual champion under this system; can account for eight to ten points for • his team . Two individual winners, on this basis, could conceivably win first place for their team. Wisconsin, in 1948, piled up 48 mints to set a new high for a t"am champion. The first two tournaments. at Penn State in 1932, and at Virt ginia in 1936, were held primarily to qualify college boxers for Olym - pic tryouts. In 1937, how ever, the. NCAA Boxing Rules Committee decided to conduct a tourney annually and 'place it on the same basis as other na tional championship meets. Team winners follow: 1932—Penn State 13 points 1936—Syracuse . 17 points 1937—Washington State 16 points 1938—Catholic University, ing flight 15 king Phil Benidetti, Delta Upsilon, came back to whip flight ,16 champ Bob Ward ? Theta. Kappa Phi, 5-21, 21-6, 21-7. • INIIIIIIIIIIIII 1111111NIMI lIIMININIII • 1111111111111111111 WWI IT'S LATER THAN SENIORS 'and JUNIORS Order NOW fer'Sktiiiiier'Delivery So ....'.llriaicliOlo,Esster and dirigri to RALpOpR'S to see and order your NEW,OEFICIAL PENN STATE CLASS RING for Summer delivery. P.S.—Tear out this ad and takfili hornito Mom and Dad .... !hey will want to see the new ring too. "BALFOUR • , , . . FitIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950 high on the merits of its. Olym pic star, Joe Kotys. ' Penn ,State, entering 'only four men; will not be a strong con tender, for the team title. The Lions last won the National' title in 1948.. paired - this week when Wett parred this week when Wed stone announced that Easterft Intercollegiate tumbling champ ion, Rudy Valentino, would not make the trip. Valentino is still suffering from a wrist injury in curred more than three weeks ago. Virginia and West Virginia (3-way tie) • 10 points 1939—Wisconsin .25 points 1940—Idaho 17 points 1941—Idaho .... . . 15 points 1942. = Wisconsin '2Bpoints 1943—Xisconsin points 1947—Wisconsin ' 24 points 1948—Wisconsin 48 points 1949 7 Louisiana ' 20 points Rifleis TO Fire In National Meet Penn State's varsity rifle team will compete in the National In tercollegiate sectional tournament tomorrow at Annapoliq,-Md..; Tearns from Maryland; Dela ware, Pennsylvania, Virginia 'and West Virginia will vie for the sec tional championship. The' Scores of sectional champions in differ ent parts of the United 'States will then be compared to • deter mine the national champipn. Last year's defending national champion, Maryland, will com l . pete in the same sectional as Penn State.•Sevdral weeks ago the Ter-, rapin's. barely edged out thd ..Ist tany Lion riflers• in a four-team meet at Maryland. YOU' THINK ! ATHLETIC STORE
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