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Cagers Face
Raiders Average
Ninety Per Game
Penn State's undefeated and still unpressed bas
ketball team will tackle a tough assignment at
Rec Hall tonight when Coach Howie Hartman
brings his once-beaten Colgate Red Raiders in
from Hamilton, N.Y. with hopes of upsetting the
Lions' holiday vacation. The game will start at
8 p.m.
The public is to be admitted to the game for
the first time this season due to the departure of
many of the College students for their homes.
The Nittanies of Coach Elmer Gross have bowled
over Alfred and Washington & Jefferson without
much trouble while Colgate has downed Hobart,
Clarkson, St. Lawrence, and RPI quite easily and
lost a close one to Cornell.
Penn State has averaged 59 points per contest
while allowing a quota of 46.5 to the opposition
Colgate, however, - has been slightly sensational
offensively with a per-game average of better than
DU
IM
Arnold Haffner, McGraw ,
Engle, Shopa, Hickey Win
By GEORGE RAMEY 1
Delta Upsilon, perennially the kings of Penn State IM
boxing, walked away with another edition of the tourney
to the surprise of no one last night at Rec Hall as 12 new
individual champions, eight fraternity and four independents,
were crowned
DU, winners of the fall tourna
ment five times in the past six
seasons, left no doubt in the minds
of the 1500 fans as to the outcome
of the tournament when Hank Ar
nold, DU 155-pounder, puhched
his way to a decision over Alpha
Phi Alpha's Bill Matthews for the
individual crown.
Going into last night's finals,
the defending champs were four
•matches in front of three bunched
clubs, including Sigma Nu, Beta
Theta Pi, and Phi Sigma Kappa.
All the DU's had to do to Wrap
up the trophy for the fourth
straight year was merely put both
finalists in the ring for the finals
to collect the championship points.
Haffner Stops Thomas
Sigma Nu finished a distant
second in total team points, trailed
by Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa
Sigma, and Beta Theta Pi.
Warren Haffner, 165-lb. titlist,
added the second part of the DU'
double Win, following Arnold's
fight when he decisioned Bob
Thomas, kappa Delta Rho, for the
165-lb. kingship.
Arnold, after an even first
round, opened up with his big
guns in the last two, but couldn't
drop the game Matthews. Arnold
stunned Matthews in both the
second and third rounds with
booming shots to the head. Each
time Matthews kept his feet. The
decision was unanimous.
4 Independent Champs
Haffner had just too many of
fensive weapons for Thomas to
handle. The new 165-Ib. champ,
after failing in the finals last
season, was in command all the
way and never in mild trouble.
Four new independent fighters
picked up individual champion
ships last night. They - are Larry
Fornicola, Bob McMath, Howie
Pendleberry, and Paul Green.
Fornicola, in capturing the
135-lb. title, dominated. his fight
with Jack Pipa all the way for
the unanimous decision and the
crown. Fornicola se or e d effec
tively on short right shots to the
head throughout the fight.
Pendelberry Wins
Stylish McMath, 145-Ib. king,
put on one of the best offensive
shoWs of the entire 12 match card
in his fight with Charles Golightly.
McMath took part of round one
to solve Golightly's weaving and
bobbing style, but once he did,
he was master the rest of the
way.
59 Point Average
Cops 4th,
Ring Title;
Champs
121
JIM MtGRAW •
Phi Sigma Kappa
128
AL McCHESNEY
Phi Kappa Sigma
• 135
LARRY FORNICOLA
• Independent
WHITEY MESSERMAN
Delta Chi
• 145
808 McIvIATH
Independent
STAN ENGLE
Sigma Nu
155
HOWIE PENDELBERRY
Independent
HANK ARNOLD
Delta Upsilon
165
WARREN HAFFNT
Delta Upsilon
175
808 GREEN
Independent
PETE SHOPA
Kappa Sigma
Heavyweight
NORM HICKEY
Sigma-Nu •
Howie Pendleberry stroked out
an unanimous abbreviated two
round decision over Jim Laird in
the 155-Ib. class. Laird, after be
ing dropped by a sharp right mid
way in round two, injured his
right hand and was unable to
continue. Pendleberry had been
in command all the way.
-Paul Green, aggressor all the
way, scored consistently on right
hand chops to pick up the light
heavy crown over Bill Parros.
Green received the unanimous
verdict.
Hickey Wins Split Decision
Sigma Nu added a pair of cham
pions in the fraternity dealings.
Stan Engle, last year's 135-lb.
king, collected title number two,
this one in the 145-Ib. division;
when he decisioned Theta Xi's
Joe Musial.
Sigma Nu heavyweight Norm
Hickey gathered in a split-deci
sion over Harry Carroll, Phi Sig
ma Kappa, to clinch matters for
second place.
Pete Shopa, Kappa Sigma,
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* * *
Jack Sherry
(Starts. at Forward)
LARRY FORNICOLA, (right) independent 135-Ib. champion, con
nects with a potent right to Jack Pina's right jaw, sending the
latter pugilist against the roves in the 1952 IM boxing finals yes
terday. Fornicola gained a unanimous decision from Pipa with
hard lefts to the head.
spoiled Beta Theta Pi's Dick Cam
eron's second attempt for the
lightheavy crown. Cameron was
ousted last year in the semis, af
ter taking the 165-lb. title two
years ago. Shopa banged out an
unanimous decision with no
knockdowns.
Little Jim McGraw preserved
Phi Sigma Kappa's hold on third
place when he rushed, pushed,
and shoved, an d sometimes
punched his way to an unanimous
verdict over Bob Wylie, Pi Kappa ,
Phi. McGraw, finishing much
Tough
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stronger, was all over Wylie all
three rounds for the 121-lb. crown.
Al McChesney, Phi Kappa Sig
ma, outshot Barton Fields, Kappa
Alpha Psi, in nothing but three
rounds of pure infighting to , pic.4
up — the unanimous nod and the
128-Ib. class championship.
Delta Chi's Whitey Messerman
-aptured a split decision over
Evankovich, Phi Kappa Sig
na, for the 135-Ib. crown. Messer
-lan found himself about halfway
'n the second round after losing
'e first. After that it was all the
..)lond Delta Chi's way.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1952
Colgate
90 points. The Raiders' latest conquest was a 94-59
mauling of RPI Tuesday night. .
Center Bill Dodd; forwards Frank Patterson and
Dick Osborn and Captain Dan Warren at guard
have been the big guns in the Raiders' shoot-and
run attack. Hartman's big problem has
_been - to
bring along a fifth man to round out the otherwise
veteran team. Sophomore Bill Johnson has been
patioling the other guard slot and seems to have
an edge on the other contenders.
As for the Statemen, Gross' lineup has been
pretty well intact in both games thus far. The
Lion mentor had worries at first about suitable
reserve strength this season, and especially after
guard Joe Piorkowski leaves in January.
Twin Scoring Threats • 0,, •
However, young Jim Brewer has come along fast
and looks to be the Lions' No. 1 utility man.
The big scoring weapons of the Lions, as was
expected, in the Alfred and W&J gables
,were. 6-5
Jesse Arnelle and 6-4 Herm Slediik, Penn State's
greatly improiied captain. Arnelle has scored 38 -
points to 34 for the sharp-shooting Sledzik. ,
Other Lion starters will probably be 'Ed Haag,
who hasn't yet hit his stride, at guard along with
the steady PiorkOwski, and Jack Sherry at forward.
Ron Weidenhammer, 6-1 sophomore, is the final
member of the Lions' "big six" this year.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (4P)—Mid
dleweight champion Sugar Ray
Robinson positively retired from
the ring today to devote , his time
to his business and dancing career.
,
He made the announcement
through Abe Greene, commission
er of the NatiOnal Boxing Associ
ation in a backhanded pundh .at
the New. York State Athletic
Commission.
Sugar Ray was one of boxing's
all time greats with only three
defeats in a' brilliant career .of
137 pro fights.
"I don't want to be like a lot
of others who didn't retire in
time," Robby said.
Robinson won't • have to worry.
He has a bar . . and grill, a beer and
ale distributing agency, a lingerie
shop, a barbershop, a cleaning
establishment and a ;al estate of
fice in Harlem. He started a new
career as a night club entertainer
Nov. 8 and is booked for a long
tour that will take him to Detroit,
Chicago; La p -. Vegas and Miami
Beach after , the holidays.
Charged With Theft
RALEIGH, • Dec. 18 (W)—Police
have charged two North Carolina
State College football players
the theft of
,$77.50 worth of
thing from three Raleigh stores.
They are Don Langston, 19, star
'back of Lexington, Ky. and
'ercy Harper Riden, 20, tackle of
Lewistown, Pa. They were re
teased 'yesterday under bonds of
! 4 200 each.
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