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Six Former EIWA Champs
To Defend Titles Saturday
In what will probably be the biggest , array of champions ever
to defend titles at one time, six former EIWA champs from six
different colleges will wrestle in the Eastern Intercollegiate cham
pionships this weekend in Bethlehem.
Aside from six' champions, Coach Charlie Speidels' Penn State
aspirants for a second consecutive Eastern title will have to meet
three 1951 runnerups.
Two champions, George Feuer
bach of Lehigh and Rutger's Emil
Perona, will be seeking the cov
eted "hat trick" of winning three
successive crowns. If successful,
Feuerbach and Perona will join
a select group of only ten wrest
lers who have been triple-win
ners in the 48 years of EIWA
championship history.
Bettucci Defends at 147
Lehigh's Captain Feuerbach
copped Eastern honors at 130
pounds the last two years but
will move up to 137 this Friday
and Saturday. Perona will at
tempt to continue his hold on the
157 pound class.
Cornell's co-captain Frank Bet
tucci will return to the 147 pound
division where he won the title
last year. Bettucci has gone un
defeated in dual meet competi
tion this season.
Yale will be represented by its
167 pound champ of a year ago,
George Graveson. Voted the out
standing wrestler of last year's
tournament held at State, Grave
son has been wrestling at 177 this
year, so will probably be in that
class Friday. Graveson's only loss
was at the hands of Army's un
defeated Al Paulekas.
Gerbino In Comeback
Brad Glass, another Eastern
champ in 1951 and the only one
to go on to win the national cham
pionship, will be back to defend
his laurels. Glass has not been
defeated in dual competition to
date this season.
Although the sixth of last year's
titleholders, State's Don Maurey,
will not defend, a sixth former
champ will be in action. Syra
cuse's Bob Gerbino, 1950 cham
pion at 123 slipped to .fourth in
the Easterns last year but is back
in form with an undefeated dual
season record. Gerbino slapped
the only defeat on Lion Bob Ho
man's eight-victory season.
Tschirhart Probably Out
Among the runnerups last year,
three will be back this year in
addition to the Lions' Don Frey.
Army's Bob Karns returns at 123;
Columbia's 6-4 finals loser to Don
Maurey will be back at 137; and
Dickason of Cornell will be in ac
tion at either 167 or 177. Dicka
son lost to Nittany champ Mike
Rubino in the 177 finals.
An o t h e r runnerup last year,
Syracuse's Lou Tschirhart has not
wrestled since his loss to State's
Dick Lemyre and will probably
not be in the 130 pound seedings
on Thursday.
Mahoney, Swygert at 157
Among third place winners last
year, Nittany Joe Lemyre will bey
attempting to move up in the
167 pound bracket along with Ar
my's Paulekas, also a third fin
isher a year ago.
Other third placers back for
the Easterns are Lehigh's Ed Ma
honey and Army's Don Swygert,
both 157 pounders this year. Two
of the top men in Eastern circles,
these two last week fought to a
2-2 draw.
Gene Manfrini, Columbia, and
Bob Bury, Syracuse,
finished
fourth in the Easterns last year
and will be attempting to move
up this year. Manfrini, if his leg
is all right, will go at 157 and
Bury will be at 137. Nittany Jerry
Maurey hung a 6-2 loss on Bury
this year.
Williams Wins British
Heavyweight Title
LONDON, March 11 —(1?)
Johnny Williams won the British
national and empire heavyweight
titles tonight by outpointing Jack
Gardner in 15 rounds.
Gardner weighed 214 3 / 4 to 194 3 / 4
for Williams.
A capacity crowd of 18,000 at
Earls Court Arena booed and
jeered as referee Jack Hart held
up William's hand as winner after
the bout, which was full of hold
ing and clinching by both fighters.
By JAKE HIGHTON
eeks Another Title
Arnelie Wins
Additional
Cage Honors
Additional honors have been
given to members of Coach Elmer
Gross' record-breaking basketball
team. Freshman star, Jesse Ar
nelle, received two votes for the
United Press' "Player of the Year"
award, and also was named to
the Pittsburgh Press' second string
All-District team. Dick Groat of
Duke was named "Player of the
Year."
Lion Co-captain Hardy Williams
was selected to the Press' third
team. Another freshman, Ron
Weidenhammer, was included in
the honorable mention list.
Arnelle easily paced the Lions
in scoring. Big Jesse was one of
the few cagers to play in all 24
games this season and finished
with 448 points for an 18.7 aver
age. Runnerup Herm Sledzik had
212 points.
The closest races in individual
scoring honors were for fourth
and fifth places. Co-captain Tiny
McMahan finished strong to cap
ture fifth with 150 tallies. Weiden
hammer followed with 146 and
Joe Piorkowski had 140.
In compiling a 20-4 seasonal
record, best in the school's his
tory, Gross' dribblers set a new
team scoring total. This year's
squad rolled up 1595 points for an
average of 66.5 per game.
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Final Scoring Totals
Fg f Total
Jesse Arnelle 168 112 448
Herm Sledzik 75 62 212
Hardy -Williams 82 91 205
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Jay) McMahan
Ron Weidenhammer 63 20 146
Joe Piorkowski
Ed Haar
Chet Makarewicz 14
Carter Meets Rawlings
CHICAGO, March 11 —(2EP)—
Jimmy Carter, world's lightweight
champion, will meet Luther Raw
lings, Chicago, rated No. 1 con
tender, in a ten round non-title
bout tomorrow night. with Raw
lings attempting to prove . that he
can make the lightweight limit
of 135 pounds.
Football Meeting
There will be an important
meeting of •the football squad
at 6:30 tonight in 110 EE.
Coach Rip Engle extended a
special invitation to all stu
dents who have had previous
football experience but who
have noi yet been out for the
team.
All members who have not
yet turned in schedule cards
are requested to bring them to
the riaee.ting.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATh. ',ZOLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Charlie Speide
56 47 159
57 36 150
59 22 140
30 23
9 37
Dayton Upsets
St. Louis Five,
68-58 in NIT
NEW YORK, March 11—(1P)
Fluid-moving Don Meineke and
driving Chuck Grigsby provided
Dayton with a killing one-two
punch tonight, to upset second
seeded St. Louis, the Sugar Bowl
champion, 68-58 in the quarter
finals of the National Invitation
Basketball Tournament at Madi
son Square Garden. The hustling
Flyers, last year's finalists, play
St. Bonaventure in Thursday
night's semi-finals.
The graceful Meineke, utilizing
an almost unguardable pivot shot,
and Grigsby, the six-foot-five sen
nior who specializes in driving
layups, tallied 38 points between
the m. The six-seven Meineke
scored 16 and Grigsby netted 22.
The fa s t-breaking Billikens,
champions of the Missouri Valley
Conference and shooting for a
basketball double slam this year,
couldn't crack Dayton's picket
fence zone defense and didn't
threaten after seven minutes of
the last half. It was the second
worst beating of the year for St.
Louis, fifth-ranked nationally,
which lost to Oklahoma A: and M.
62-45, last week.
Top-seeded Duquesne made its
debut against Holy Cross in the
second game of the evening's
quarter-final double-header, with
the winner qualifying to meet La-
Salle Thursday. Finals are sched
uled Saturday night.
Phi Mu Takes
WRA Bowling
League Lead
Phi Mu and the Tri Delts bat
tled over a tie for first place in
League 2 of WRA bowling last
night with the Phi Mu's coming
out on top ,by the score of 549-
482. Rhea White of the winning
team was high scorer with 137.
Ann Chandler of Tri Delt was
runner-up with 135.
Alpha Chi Omega forfeited to
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha
Epsilon Phi forfeited to Gamma
Phi Beta.
In League 1 of volleyball, Delta
Gamma upset first place, and pre
viously unbeaten, Alpha Xi Del
ta, 39-23.
Simmons held first place in
League 2 of volleyball and re
mained by thrashing Women's
Building, 60-8. Kappa Alpha The
ta also remained in first place in
League 3 and unbeaten by .win
ning over Co-op, 42-29. In the
other volleyball game, Zeta'. Tau
Alpha d e f eat e d Kappa Delta,
60-23.
2d Round Play
Ends in H-Ball
IM handball singles competi
tion completed second round play
last night at Rec Hall with the
final six men advancing into the
third round.
Lou Gomlick, Alpha Tau Ome
ga, scored a top-heavy 21-1, 21-1
win over Joe Bonchonsky, Phi
Sigma Kappa, while - John Wylie,
also of Phi Kappa Sigma, easily
ousted Bill Harral, Pi Kappa Al
pha, 21-5, 21-5.
Sigma Nu's Dave Bischoff,
downed Art h u r Smith, Alpha
Sigma Phi, 21-7, 21-5, and Bob
McFadden, Phi Kappa Tau, elim
inated Don Michelsen, Alpha Chi
Sigma, 21-12. 21-14.
Carmen Troisi, Sigma Phi Ep
silon, and Emerson Knyrim, Del
ta Chi, alskwent into the third
round. Troisi eased by John Al
barano, Theta Kappa Phi, 21-5,
21-7, and Knyrim dumped Rich
ard Colloci,. Delta Upsilon, 21-3,
21-12.
Wildcats Fall, 44-3 g
To. .Edinboro .-Cagers
Edinboro's red-hot IM cage team, after its close shave 'with the
Epars Monday, looked more impressive last night in . smacking the
Wildcats, 44-30, to move into the semi-final round of the independent
playoffs.
The defending champions, who are also competing in the 'Clear
field Gold Medal Tournament,
rolled up a 13-0 lead before the
losers' Don Port pushed in a one
hander from the corner. Edinboro
led, 25-9, at halftime, and never
was in serious trouble. Don Gad
dess, Edinboro reserve, paced the
winners to their effortless victory
with 12 points.
Jim Garrity once more led the
Sinkers to a lop-sided triumph by
scoring 18 points in a 47-21 romp
over Palmerton. Not until the
second half, however, was the
game's outcome decided as Pal
merton trailed by only 22-13 at
the intermission. Joe Yukica and
John McAvoy tallied 14 and 11
markers, respectively, to collabo
rate with Garrity for 43 of the
Sinkers' points.
Trace A. C. advanced into the
ARROW PRODUCTS - Fea4ured at
IN STATE COLLEGE FOR ARROW
KA.II I I
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952
By JIM PETERS
semi-finals against Edinboro by
making short work of Dorm 11,
42-15. The winners led, 18-6, at
halftime. Bob Vanner, with 14
points, and Gesar Garcia, with ten
markers, led Trace A. C.'s fast
moving attack.
Dorm 4, which had drawn an
opening round bye, rallied from
a 15-13 halftime deficit to edge
the Crusaders, 36-32, and move
into the semi-finals tonight
against the. Sinkers.
Charles Stroup paced the win
ners' •big second half with his
deadly left-handed • jump " shots.
Stroup, who had only three points
in the first twe l v e minutes,
pumped in 14 in 'the second half
to become Dorm 4's high• scorer.
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