pAr4s.cix ions Cop 2,.:ci.-btraigh*, Mat Title Bob Homan, Lemyres Win Weight Crowns By JAKE HIGHTON Penn State's wrestling power house sparkled throughout two days of rugged Eastern Inter collegiate competition to score a smashing victory which gained the Lions their second successive EIWA championship Saturday in Lehigh's Grace Hall, Bethlehem. Bob Homan (123), Dick (130) and Joe Lemyre (167) turned in masterful mat performances to capture individual championships while pacing State's title defense. This champion trio from Mepham High, Long Island, personally piled up 23 of the Lions' 33 point total which overwhelmed the field. Syracuse Places 2d Syracuse finished a distant sec ond with 17 points, Rutgers was third with 16, Lehigh fourth with 15, Army and Columbia tied for fifth with 12, an d Princeton wound up seventh with ten points. Jerry Maurey (137) aided in the Penn State rout by gaining a runnerup berth, and Hud Sam son (177) and Don Frey (147) con tributed fourth places. Lehigh's George Feuerbach (137) and Rutger's Emil Perona (157) came through with victories to add the third jewel to a triple crown, and thus became the 11th and 12th men in the 48 years of EIWA history to do so. Retain Clowns Frank Bettucci (147) and Brad Glass (heavyweight) also retained 1951 crowns, while Yale's former 167 pound king, George Graveson, was dethroned by new 177-pound champ Al Paulekas, of Army. Bob Gerbino's loss to Homan thwarted the former's bid to retake his 123 pound title lost last year. Although Feuerbach won the coaches' trophy for the outstand ing performance, Nittany soph Dick Lemyre led in point scoring with nine. Dick advanced to the finals with a default and two pins for three points, and earned six more for the 130-p ound championship. D. Lemyre Narrowly Wins But first-seeded Dick , narrowly missed runnerup honors. Lehigh's Ken Faust not only scored the only takedown on Dick all sea son, but maneuvered him into a near fall dangerously close to a pin in the second period. With a champion's extra effort, Dick rolled - out of the predica ment, reversed and secured a cradle which riveted Faust to the mat. The ref banged the canvas to signal a pin, but the scorers said the bell had sounded. Starting the third, Dick re versed. Faust did also to tie at 8-8 only to have Dick come out on top for a 10-8 lead. Faust had a minute time advantage, but lost, 10-9. Frosh Homan climaxed a sen sational freshman year by aveng ing his lone dual-meet loss to Gerbino with a solid 10-4 champ ionship effort. Beats• Lee To gain the finals Homan drop ped Harvard John Lee, 5-1. With .an escape and takedown, Bob gained two more points by check ing and countering beautifully Lee's every move. Always a good tournament wrestler, Joe Lemyre pulled the surprise of the meet by upsetting both first and second seeded Gerry Tebben, Army, and Ray Vod Vohden, Rutgers, to win 167- pound laurels, and complete the first brother championship act in One meet since Yale's Dole broth ers in 1908. Comes From Behind State's an - lazing reverse artist came from behind in both the semi-finals and the finals in championship-deserving efforts. In the final, Joe, like brother Dick, was nearly thrown, but strong bridging saved him. After the near fall Joe grabbed a leg and forced out for a reverse, to trail 4-6. Starting the third from his favorite "down" position, Joe switched to tie 6-6, and after fast covering suddenly had a body press at 7:20 for the only fall in the finals. (Continued on page seven) Tim rATT , el rvr T vrIT ANI q'T ATr r••••:2( ;IMF PTIN*SYLVANIA Lion Cagers Study Kentucky Lineup JESSE ARNELLE, RON WEIDENHAMMER• and JACK SHERRY, Penn State basketball players; look over the lineup of the University of Kentucky as they prepare for their forth coming battle with the Wildcats in the NCAA Cagers Leave Thursday For NCAA Tournament By DAVE COLTON Coach Elmer Gross and a ten man traveling squad will leave Altoona by plane at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for Raleigh, N.C.; where they will battle mighty Kentucky, in the open ing game of the Eastern NCAA tourney. The Lions and Wildcats will tangle at 7:30 p.m. Friday n Field House. St. Johns and North Carolina State will play in t 5 Men Advance Into Handball Quarter-Finals Five men moved into the quarter-final round of the 1952 TM handball singles tourney in fraternity matches played last night at Rec Hall. Three others drew fourth-round byes to com plete the round of eight. Hoover, Phi Delta Theta, out lasted Ed Davis, Phi Kappa Sig ma, 20-21, 21-0, 21-6, while Art Betts, also of Phi Delta Theta, dropped Fred Leviri, Phi Sigma Delta, 16-21, 21-7, 21-14. John McDonough, Alpha Sigma Phi, eased past Ken Minchin, Phi Delta Theta, 21-18, 21-5. John McCall, Alpha Tau Omega, took three games to decision Bill Ber notski, Phi Kappa Tau, 14-21, 21- 14, 21-14. Sigma Nu's Dave Bischoff went into the quarters on an abbrevi ated one-game match, 21-19. John Wylie, Phi Kappa Sigma, was forced to default to Bischoff after hurting his knee in the second game. WRA IM's Will Make Up Lost Week The WRA Intramurals Board decided at a meeting last night that the week of intramurals lost due to sorority rushing will be made up next week, Mable Mar ple, , intramural chairman, an nounced. ' Three badminton teams re mained in first place last night. In League I McAllister won over Thompson B to remain on the top. Alpha Gamma Delta held the fort in League II by way of a forfeit from Simmons. Delta Gam ma lost to Atherton East, the top team in League 111. playoffs in Raleigh, North Carolina. The tourna ment gets under way Friday night. Kentucky is rated No. 1 team in the country by the Associated Press. . Winners of the two games will meet for the Eastern champion ship at 9:15 p.m. Saturday. The losers will participate in a con solation game at 7:15 p.m. Satur day. Assistant Coach John Egli, trainer Chuck Medlar, a graduate manager, and a publicity man will accompany the team. The group is scheduled to arrive in Raleigh' about• 1 p.m. The winner of the tourney will advance to the NCAA finals in Seattle, Wash., March 24-25. Vic tors from Chicago, Kansas City, and Cowallia, Ore., will play in the Seattle finals. Kentucky Favored A limited number of tickets for the tournament are for sale at the AA office, Old Main. The cost is $2 per session, or $4 for the two nights of play. Tomorrow is the final day the tickets will be avail able. The Wildcats, defending NCAA champion, will be top-heavy fav orites over the Lions. Coach Adolph Rupp's team -compiled a 28-2 record and were voted the top quintet in the nation. Hagan All-American Winning national honors is an old story to Rupp. The Wildcats have been voted top collegiate team three of the last four years and have won the NCAA title three of the past four seasons. The Kentuckians are paced:by All-American Clif f Hagan and rank Ramsey. They led the country in scoring this campaign, averag ing about 88 points per game. The Wildcats are also a great rebound (Continued on page seven) Blue-Gray Movies Will Be Shown Tonight Color movies of last season's annual Blue-Gray f o o.t b all classic will be shown at 7 to night in 121 Sparks. Lion Coach Sip' Engle, who directed the Blue-Gray forces, will narrate the program. Len Bartek and Ed Hoover are two of State's gridders who participated in the game. The program is open to the public. ght in the William J. Reynolds e nightcap starting at 9:15 p.m. Thirteen Falls Feature. IM Wrestling Bo6ts Falls were 'the rule rather than the exception in the IM wrestling tourney last night as Delta Up silon, last year's. runnerups to Phi Kappa Psi, advanced four men in the second night of 'action at Rec HalL Mario Todaro and Bob Bru baker won by forfeit for DU, while heavyweight Cy Brown pin ned Lloyd Eddings, Theta Xi, in 5:58, just two seconds• before the final whistle. The other DU man' to win was Bob Decker, 155, who pinned Ralph DeVito, Alpha Phi Delta, in 3:45. Decker led at the time, 8-3. Other 155 action last night saw Jim Diehl, Sigma Nu, pin Bob Scollin, Theta Kappa Phi, in 5:22. Jim Fox, Phi Kappa Sigma, pin ned John Miller, TKE, and Ed Hill, Delta Chi, decisioned Stuart Allen, Phi Sigma Delta, 6-0. In the 165 class, Chet Noble, SPE, pinned Walt Redel, Sigma Chi; Joe Bonchonsky, Phi SK, pinned Lou D'Angeli, Kappa Sig ma in 3:30; and Steve Melmeck won his second victory by pinning Dick Johnson, Theta Chi. At 175, Dick Hughes, Delta Chi, defeated Jack BroWn, Beta Theta Pi, 7-2, and Andy Krassowski, Pi Kappa, Phi, pinned Morton Roth, Phi Sigma Delta, in 4:55. eClotheS and Boots Vens' April - 15th. Are YOU Ready? The Sportsmen% Shack Calder Alley SATURDAY, MARCH 102 Nittany Cheers Give Support To Wrestlers By JAKE . HIGHTON Although the majority of EIWA spectators in Lehigh's Grace Hall sentimentally wanted Penh State to lose, the cheers of Nittany rooters drowned out the Lehigh catcalls. The large State block was most evident in the Saturday 'afternoon semi-finals. Joe Lem y r e was locked in a 3-3 struggle with Ar my's' top-seeded Gerry Tebben when the Staters let loose •with the rallying chant, "Let's go, Joe." After Joe did "go," his winning efforts were rewarded with a loud Ni-double-T cheer. Sti 11 more gratifying was the same yell for Hud Samson even though he lost the evening ocnsolation match. 1::M=!= The renewal of freshman eli gibility enhanced wrestling this year, as. it did other sports, with three frosh making th e finals. Aside from State's Bob Homan, Syracuse had freshman Ed Roon ey and Lehigh, frosh Ken Faust quite conspicuous in final mat ches. Only Homan made off with the tremendous feat. of winning an EIWA title as •a frosh, but Faust ,and Rooney put up great fights against champions D i c'k Lemyre and Frank Bettucci, re spectively. riEM:=3 Three champions Was the most Penn State has gotten in a championship meet since 1937 the - Coach •Charlie Spei del's- Lions gained jive. The three swelled State's all-time total to 62, just behipd Cornell now with 65. The Lions also tied the Ithacans for second in team champions with their 11th. Le high leads with 12. DEM!=I To be sure, Dick and Joe Vern yre's Dad was a proud witness of his sons' triumph, but Mepham High Schools' Coach "Sprig" Gardner had four boys win cham pionships. In addition to the Lem yre brothers and Homan, George Feuerbach was the fourth Meph am product to win a title. Eeuerbach's and Emil Per. ones' third successive cham pionship places them in a select group which previously had only ten members. Triple - crown winners include G. and L. Dole, Yale, 1908; Boak, Cornell, 1914; Dorizas, Penn, 1916; Russel, Yale, 1926; "Doc" Light, Penn State, 1937; Eberle, Prince ton, 1941; EIWA ref Dick Dißa tista, Penn, 1943; Penn Coach (Continued on page seven) THE • TAVERN -MENU Tuesday - , Mari-h 18 HOT TURKEY SANDWICHES FRENCH FRIED SHRIMP and, SCALLOPS DINNER .517:30 p.m. Reservations after 6:30 ANGLER'S .2 N Replenish your fishing gear with the finest in °Rods •Reels State, College
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