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Mat, Ring Easterns Tomorrow*
Syracuse Is
El BA Site
For Boxers
By JAKE HIGHTON
Undaunted by a six-time
winless dual meet boxing rec
ord,. Penn State’s seven-man
fistic team departs for Syra
cuse, N.Y., this morning with
designs on the Eastern Inter
collegiate Boxing championship
which is up for grabs tomorrow
and Saturday.
Excepting Syracuse’s four-time
successive defending champs, who
are currently unbeaten in EIBA
competition, the league has been
wide open. Without any team
showing any overwhelming pre
dominance of strength—Syracuse
only defeated the Lions 5-3—a
team which gets three indiyidual
champs could conceivably take
the title.
And if three champs is the for
mula, Penn State has an excel
lent chance to solve it. The Lions
will enter four men, Sam Marino,
Adam Kois, Tony Flore, and Bill
Andresevic, who have shown
EIBA championship possibilities
throughout the season.
Possible Point Getters
Defending 125 pound titlist Ma
rino has only lost once—a split
decision —in EIBA matches. Kois
(176) is unbeaten in four Eastern
starts. Flore (139) is undefeated in
two EIBA dual meets and heavy
weight Andresevic is 2-1-1 against
Eastern foes.
In addition, State has three en
tries, Sam Butler (132), Stan En
gle (147), and Hank Arnold (165)
who could pick up points under
the new scoring system. (This sys
tem allows one point for prelim
inary victories, three for semi
final wins, arid five for a cham
pionship.)
Coach Eddie Sulkowski is not
taking a 156 pounder because his
regular, Steve Melmeck, is 0-4 on
the season, and the division is
loaded with three potential cham
pions. Melmeck’s class will in
clude Army’s defending champ
Carl Crews, former 156 v champ
Bill Miller, Syracuse, and Vir
ginia’s favorite to win the title,
unbeaten Pete Potter (6-0).
Marino's Two Antagonists
But for that matter, every class
will find opponents with hotshots.
The lone exception is the 176
pound class, where State’s sledge
swinging Kois is the favorite.
Kois has stopped every Eastern
foe, whipped a Wisconsin light
heavy and been drawn by a non
league Michigan Stater for a 5-0-1
record.
As for Captain Marino, he will
have to get by his two antagonists,
Gerry Garber, Maryland, and Bill
Banerdt, Virginia. Garber edged
Sam 29-28 and Banerdt held Sam
to a 29-29 draw. Sam is 3-1-2 on
the season.
. Although Flore is unbeaten
against Easterners and 3-0-1 in
cluding tough Wisconsin and
Michigan State, he has not met
Syracuse’s defending champ John
Granger. The Orange 139 pounder
defeated Tony in last year’s cham
pionships to revenge Flore’s dual
season triumph.
. State’s final chance for a title—
Engle and Butler are winless and
Arnold has only won once—lies
with Andresevie. Andy’s l'on e
Eastern defeat came at the hands
of Army’s Frank Hicks last Sat
urday.
Looking Ahead
Ollie Sax, Penn State’s rookie
sensation, is rated a hot prospect
for Uncle Sam’s 1956 Olympic
track team.
Attention
Army, Air Force, Navy
Graduating
ROTC Seniors
K GOLDBERG & CO.
Philadelphia, Penna.
will display military uni
forms at the NITTANY
LION INN on March 16t:
and 17ih from 10 a.m. tc
10 p.m. oh both days.
COACH EDDIE SULKOWSK? delivers ihe or
der of the day io his seven-man Penn Slate
leam , competing this weekend in the Eastern
Intercollegiate Association championships at
Syracuse. N.Y. From left to right are Captain
Sam Marino, defending 125 pound champ; Sam
Butler. 132 pounds; Stan Engle. 147 pounds;
12 Lion Gymnasts to Compete
For Eastern Crowns at Army
By GEORGE BAIREY
Twelve men from the Lions’ ace gym aggregation have been entered in the 26th an
nual Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association tests for individual honors to be held
tomorrow and Saturday at West Point. ' •’ - •
The Nittany crew will be represented with at least one man in each of‘the six pre
scribed Eastern events and three men in the all-around competition.
The Lions entered are Captain Bob Kenyon, Bobby Lawrence, Frank Wick, Tony Pro-
copio, Jan Cronstedt, Mario To
daro, Dave Shultz, Johnny Baffa,
Bob Boudreau, A 1 Wick, Karl
Schwenzfeier, and Jim Hazen.
Cronstedt will be defending a
pair of EIGA titles, picked up
last year as a freshman. The Fin
nish stylist beat Temple’s John
Gallante in the all-around com
petition and then John Jengo, also
of the Owls, in the horizontal bar
event.
All-Around Tests Tomorrow
Cronstedt is joined by Jimmy
Sebbo of Syracuse, and Army’s
John Ballantyne as the only 1952
champions back to defend their
titles. Sebbo, a freshman last
year, took an easy first in the
Eastern tumbling and finished
second to Illinois’ Bob Sullivan
in the NCAA’s. Ballantyne shared
the rope climb crown with team
mate John Claybrook with a 3.6
time.
The all-around competition,
scheduled for tomorrow after
noon, will attract the 'most ver
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satile gymnasts in the East. Be
sides the Lions’ Cronstedt,
Schwenzfeier, and Procopio, the
field will include John Jengo and
Bob McCarthey of Temple, John
Barkal and Mike Trnka of Syra
cuse, and Hal Lewis of the Naval
Academy.
The Orange’s Trnka finished
third last year, Schwenzfeier
fourth, and Jengo, fifth. Lewis
did not compete last season be
cause of a broken leg. The Middle
great will be a carry-over cham
pion from 1951 when he took the
EIGA horizontal bar crown.
Lawrence 2d Last Season -
Other top. contenders from Rec
Hall will be Lawrence on the side
horse, Shultz in the rope ciimb,
A 1 Wick on the parallel bars, and
Hazen on the flying rings.
- Lawrence was nipped by three
points last year by Army’s Bob
Wheeler for the Eastern sidehorse
crown. This season Lawrence has
beaten all of his EIGA foes. His
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Tony Flore, 139 pound runnerup; Adam Ko.'
176 pound ’ runnerup"; Bill Andresevic, heavy
weight; and Hank Arnold, 165 pounds. AlthougL
winless all season. State has the potentiality for
at least two and possibly three individual cham
pions.
only loss in six meets came in the
season’s opener at Michigan State.
Cronstfedt and Shultz will carry
all-win and one-loss records into
the Eastern championships.
Cronstedt’s defeat came' at the
hands of Lewis on the H-bar at
Navy. Shultz was beaten by Tem
ple’s Gene Scholl in the rope
climb.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1953
3d Unbeaten
Mat Team
Since 1935
For the third time since
i 935 Coach Charlie Speidel
will take an undefeated ;mat
team into the Eastern - Inter
collegiate wrestling' 'tourna
ment.
This time the defending East
ern champs will travel, ..to, Dillon
Gymnasium at Princeton, N.J.,
where wrestlers of 16 Eastern As
sociation members engage ip-, a
total of 92 matches. 1,
The Nittany Lions 11-man con
tingent leaves this 1 morning l for
Princeton where. they will battle
in'the preliminaries and quarter
finals tomorrow. and the semi
finals and finals Saturday.
Syracuse, Army Are Threats
. Penn State’s power-laden mat
men, undefeated for the -third
straight season and who claim
the “winningest” collegiate record
to, day with .29, will be favored to
'tain their championship honors.
In a recent article, however, it
, ; stated that Syracuse and Ar
• will have much to say in
termining the EIWA winner
is season.
The newspaper’s assumption,
nevertheless, which is based on
the results of. the dual meets
waged over—Army defeating Le
high and Penn State defeating
Syracuse—may be said to contain
an invalid premise. That is, Penn
State’s win over Syracuse.
Individuals to'Decide
If the Nittany Lions had no
trouble besting the Orangemen,
28-5, why would Syracuse pre
sent a problem? The fact is that
Syracuse has three potential
threats and possible champs. Since
points are scored according to the
number of individuals entered
into the semi-finals and finals, the
Orangemen should have some
say. - /
It will, not be any specific team
that will, have the final say to
whether or not the Lions will cap
ture their third title, but the in
dividual grapplers from the 16
EIWA teams.
Some of these individual adver-,
saries the Lion mataien will have '
to defeat are Frank Bettucci (147)
of Cornell; Bob Bury (147), Ed
Rooney ' (157) and Dick' Beyer
(Hwt.) of Syracuse; Ed Mahoney
(157), Ken Faust (130), and Wer
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