PAGE STX ,'' . 7 writ'. State SwiM rriers• Tr:96.0c0-:F4.1%;.....52.4•3. Merman Complete Dual Meet Card; Waters, Valentino Star Penn State's swimmers closed their dual meet season with a rush by taking their second in a row with a 52-23 trouncing of Franklin & Marshall last night in Glennland pool. Only a handful of fans witnessed the Lions display their best team balance of the season by capturing first place in every event .vage some glory after losing their first eight of the season. Co-captain Ro d Waters made his final Glennland appearance a bright one as he led the 300-yard medley to victory with a' good backstroke lead . which breast stroking Burt Bronk and free styler Dick. Wilson easily held. Then Waters, in the 200-yard breaststroke with winner George Hamilton pacing for him, fought a stirring duel the entire distance before ousting the Dips from the runnerup spot.. Valentino Wins except the two dashes and thus sa BULLETIN The University of Pennsyl vania's basketball team defeat ed Penn State last night in the Palestra in Philadelphia, 61- 58. No details of the game were received by Collegian before it went to press. Full details will appear in tomorrow's paper. sth Alleged Cage Fixer Captured By N.Y. Police NEW YORK, March 7 (/P)—A young Brooklyn button manu facturer sought for nearly two months as the "myste‘rious Stan ley" in the--Madison Square Gar den basketball scandal was charged today with conspiracy and bribery. Bronx District Attorney George B. De Luca identified him as Soil Leon Rappaport, 25. He' is the fifth alleged fixer to be accused of bribing college cage stars to "lay down" so gambl lers could clean up on game results. A detective spotted Rappaport 12tting out of a car in the mid iowe district last night. He had been hunted since Jan. 10 when an alleged attempt to rig the Manhattan college-De Paul of Chicago game touched off the greatest scandal in college athletics. So far - investigators have ar rested 13 players, ca - former play ers of four local colleges and accused them of rigging the re sults of at least 16 Garden games during the last three seasons. Bronx county Judge Samuel J. Foley today ordered five of , the accused•to trial April 9. They are: John A. Byrnes and Henry Poppe, co-captains of last season's Manhattan team; Irving Schwartzberg and his brother, Benjamin, and ornelius Kelleher, an alleged associate of the Sell artzbergs. Tly.ity are charged with attempt '• . 1 to fix the De Paul game and N bribery in Manhattan games =son with Siena, Bradley Santa Clara. PM Handbaliers Continue Action Eight fraternity and two inde pendent matches were decided in round two play in the intramural handball tournament Tuesday night. In fraternity games, Joseph Ru yak, Pi Kappa Phi, beat Donald Maurey, Delta Upsilon, 21-18, 12- 21, 21-13; Allan Pancerev, Phi Kappa Psi, won over Robert Kray er, Delta Chi, by forfeit; Fred Lev in, Phi Sigma Delta, beat Robert Sundius, Theta Kappa Phi, 21-4; 21-4; Richard Weisberg, Beta Sig ma Rho, also won by forfeit. Jack Dreibelbis, Sigma Phi Ep silon, beat Eugene Schaffer, Sig ma Nu, 21-12, 21-2; Arthur Betts, Phi Delta Theta, beat John Hoov er, 21-4, 21-5; Pat McPoland, Kap pa Delta Rho, won by forfeit over Harry Kauffman, Phi Epsilon Pi; and Robert Kolarik, Lambda Chi Alpha, beat Richard Floum, Pi Lambda Phi, 21-1, 21-3. In the independent action, Ches ter Kisiel beat Robert Mays, 21-7, 21-17; Robert Ingram beat Lewis Shallcross by forfeit. Penn State wrestling teams won 114 meets while losing 37 and tying 8 in 24 years under Charlie SpeideL By JAKE HIGHTON Tumbling champ Rudy Valen tino came to the rescue of Gut teron's blood-poisoned ace diver Bob Kenyon as dramatically as in any movie script. Without prac tice since the second meet Of the season, Rudy played johnny-on the-spot to win the one meter dive. Seasonal observers must have doubted what they saw in the breaststroke because the Nittan ies won that event for the first time all year. Soph Jim Davies is the boy who neatly pulled the' trick with a 200-yard timing of 2:49.8, a mark only .7 from the Penn State record. Threaten Record Bo b Long, Dick Wilson, Cas Borowy, and Gene Kolber failed to break the Penn State record set last Saturday in the 400-yard relay by .4 of a second despite the fact that Wilson and Borowy both ripped 100 yards beneath 55 sec onds. In the 440, Kolber and Bronk easily rolled th e quarter mile close enough for quiet conversa tion with Bronk going under the pennant first with Kolber next. Earlier in the 220, Kolber had a terrific fight before winning by a half-stroke. Former Nittany Mentor Says Lamie's Eye Best Since '36 Former Penn State basket ball Coach John Lawther yes terday called Lou Lamie the most accurate shot he has ever seen in a Lion uniform. Commenting on Lamie's new one season State scoring rec ord, of 308 points, Lawther, who came here in 1936, also praised his unorthodox style as a big factor in reaching the goal. "Lou's style of shooting is so different that it catches the defense off guard," he said. "His fakes and hesitations con fuse the men guarding him. The fact' that Lou did almost all of his scoring from the in side makes the record all the more remarkable." L a mie scored 22 points against West Virginia Monday night to eclipse Marty Costa's mark of 299, 'set last year. St. John's Seeded No. 1 In Tourney NEW YORK, March 7—(4P)-- St. John's (22-3) of Brooklyn, was seeded No. 1 in the National In vitation Basketball tourney which starts in Madison Square Garden Saturday, selection committee chairman Asa Bushnell said to day. The Brooklyn Redmen were fol lowed by North Carolina State (28-4), Brigham Young (24-7) and Arizona (24-4). The field for the tourney was completed late last night when Cincinnati was named as the twelfth team. Bushnell said that on Monday night St. John's would play the winner of Saturday's Cincinnati- St. Bonaventure game and that Brigham Young would oppose the LaSalle-St. Louis victor. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE CC:LIE Wrestlers To Arrive Today; Hold Mat Seedings Tomorrow Fifteen member teams of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling association will begin arriving in State College late this afternoon in preparation for the 47th t annual EIWA championships to be held in Rec hall tomorrow and Saturday. The teams will all be quartered in the Nittany-Pollock area for the entire weekend. ' As the teams arrive, they will go straight to Rec hall to register. Members of Blue Key, junior men's hat society, will wait for ;the teams at the registration booth ,and act as guides. Seedings Tomorrow EIWA Attraction Has 14 Unbeaten Athletes in Field Fourteen wrestlers, none of them defending champions, will put unbeaten records on the line tomorrow when the Eastern In tercollegiate wrestling chathoion ships get underway in Penn State's Recreation Hall. Homer Barr, Penn State heavy weight, was the last of the de fending champions to taste defeat when Dick Clark, Cornell's / all- East football tackle, decisioned him last Saturday. It was Barr's first licking in dual meet competi tion. One Unbeaten Heavyweight Bard Glass, Princeton giant, is the only unbeaten heavyweight in the field but he was stalemated twice—by Jim Hunt, of Navy, and by Art Merriman, of Yale. His most notable victory was a deci sion win over Don Berndt, of Le high, last Saturday. Like Barr, Syracuse's Bob Ger bino, Lehigh's George Feuerbach, and Rutgers' Emil Perona each has known defeat this season. Gerbino will defend at 123 pounds, Feuerbach at 130 pounds, and Perona at 157 or 167 pounds. Perona, beaten only by Don Thomas, of Navy, won top honors last year in the heavier weight. Filipos Undefeated There are unbeaten threesomes at 130 and '177 pounds, two at 123 and 147 pounds, and one in each of the other weight classes. The undefeated at 123 pounds are Mike FilipOs, Lehigh, who won this crown in 1949, and John Lee, of Harvard. The 130-pounders who enter the tourney with cle4n slates are Lou Tschirhart, Syra cuse; Cal Engle, Temple; and Dave Smith, Harvard. Some of the 47th annual tour nament's toughest grappling is anticipated in the 177-pound class, where Al Paulekas, of Army, Marc Rowe, of Brown, and Ray Vohden, of Rutgers, are un beaten. Don Thonias, Navy, is the only unbeaten entry at 167 pounds, while Dave Michael, Brown, is unbeaten at 157 pounds. Fred Pettit, Yale; and Don Frey, Penn State, are the unde feated 147-pounders, while Bob Hartman, Columbia, claims a per fect record in - the 137-pound divi sion. Only four coaches in Penn State history, Mat Coach Charlie Spei del included, have spent 25 years at the helm of an athletic team. Past Records Offer Proof -BREU Of Nittanies' Mat Strength Penn State's grapplers will be trying this weekend to match the performance of the first Penn State team ever to compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling tourney. That first team, in the war year of 1918, .entered a group that captured six out of seven individual titles. This still stands as the most decisive victory in the tour ney's history. The previously unheralded Nit tany team went on to .dominat6l the league for four years ; winning t h e team title each year from 1918-1921. Won Again In '25-'26 State relaxed a bit in '22 and '23 but returned to form in '25 and 0 26, winning two more team championships. A slight famine then struck the Nittany valley -but things were righted again in 1936 and 1937 ' VI. AN IA tate's 167-Ib; C Lion Mat Team Seeks 10th Title IN 33-Yr. Span When-the Penn State matmen step into the big blue circle this weekend, they will he seeking their tenth team championship since entering the league in 1918. Ranking third in team titles, the Lions hold second place jn garnering individual champion ships. Cornell is the No. 1 team with 63 individual crowns, while the Nittanies have won 57. Of the Big Red's' 63, however, 31 were taken before, 1918, wher) the State team entered the cir cuit. Lehigh Is Team Champ Leading the 16-team league with 12' team crowns is. Lehigh, a team that came into the Eastern Intercollegiate picture in 1927. The Engineers also have earned 56 individual championships since that time. Records show that the Nittany Lions have been in the thick of the battle for team honors many times. Besides the nine first places in the tourney, they have finished in the runner-up pbsition six times, and in third place in an other half-dozen instances. This totals 21 times that State has finished in one of the top three spots in 33 appearances. The "Golden Era" in Penn State wrestling was the period following World War I just after the Lions entered the league. Their debut was so successful that they won the team title for four consecutive years, 1918-21. By BUD FEN - TON when Charlie Speidel's aggrega tion brought two titles home. The most recent of the nine championships to be won by Blue and White squads was in 1942. Ridenour's Heyday • One of the bulwarks of that team was Charlie Ridenour, three time Eastern champion, and now coach of the State freshman team/ He won titles in 1941-42-43. Ridenour was the second Spei del wrestling man to captuk:3 three consecutive tournament tit- ntender Joe Lemyre Ti:l7ll . 37)iii`i.. MARCH 8, 1851 Seedings for the tournament will be held tomorrow morning. at 10 o'clock at the Nittany Lion Inn. All teams will weigh in sometime tomorrow morning. . Penn State, of.the sixteen teams in the league, is the only squad bringing an undefeated,record into the tournament.. Only one team, Lehigh, has won more than the Staters. The Engineers have a 9-1 log compared to the Lions' 8-0 rec ord. Penn, according to the team rec ords, will present the weakest team: The Quakers have won only one match, losing six and tying tine. The distinction of having, lost the most goes to Columbia, with a_3-7 record. Team Records . The team records for the season: Team - • ' W L T Army 5 3 0 Brown a" 1 0• Columbia 3 7 0 Cornell 6 •4 0 F&M, 6 2 0 Harvard 4 4 0 Lehigh 9 1 0 Navy 6 2 0 Penn 1 6 1 Penn State 8 0 0 Princeton 3 4 0 Rutgers 7 1 0 Syracuse 3 4 0 Temple 3 3 '1 Virginia 8 3 0 Yale 5 3 1 2 Squads Cop IM Cage Title's PottsVille,, - of league E, and the Ridge Runners, of league G, - won seventh consecutive victories Tuesday night to capture the crowns in 'their respective inde pendent loops. Pottsville edged previously Un defeated Beaver House, 22-20, while the Runners had a much easier time walloping the Penn State Club, 43-7, as Paul Corazza rimmed 15 points. Edinboro Wins Again In league D, Edinboro posted its seventh straight win in the final game to smother the Gunners, 54- 19. Bill Mihalich was high scorer with 14 markers. The Allentown Aces stayed one-half game behind the Radads in league C by topping Dorm 25, 2221,, when the loser's rally fell short. Dorm 2 won over Dorm 11 by forfeit in league B, and Dorm 26 won the same way from Dorm 43 in league A. -' Rubel Paces Mates Two tilts played in the fraterni ty part of the circuit saw Buddy Rubel's 7 tallies lead Phi Sigma Delta to its sixth straight win in league E over Pi Lambda Phi, 18- 13. In the same league, Beta Theta Pi dropped a 22-18 contest to Chi Phi. A deadlock for first spot in this league could only come about if Sigma Phi Sigma upsets Phi Sig, and Alpha Tau Omega wins its remaining . game with Pi Lamb Tuesday night. Penn ,State's individual East ern wrestling champions number 32 in 24 tournaments under Coach Charlie Speidel. les, the .first being Jack Light, now a State College physician, Both men spread their cham pionships between two weight classes. Light won top honors in the 135-pound class in 1935-36, but went up to the 145, division for his third championship ,in 1937. Ridenour won his first two at 121-pounds and his third at 128. Should Homer Barr win his third Eastern title this weekend, he would be the first Penn State wrestler to win all three crowns in tb • rviike weight.
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