FEEfPAY, 13, 1953
Sports Thru.
The Lion’s Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Eastern hardware stores did a booming business this week.
They sold three giant-sized championship trophies, three or four
outstanding-performer loving cups, and nearly 100 individual medals
for win, place, show, and almost-show. The cause for such a bull
market in Benvenuto Cellini’s trade is the Eastern Intercollegiate
championships to be held in wrestling, gymnastics, and boxing this
weekend
Since Penn State fields teams
in all three, the Lions will be at
Princeton (wrestling), Syracuse
(boxing), and West Point (gym)
with bells on—and empty bags.
The bells won’t be needed because
the,Nittany championship seekers
are good enough to, attract atten
tion without them. As to the bags,
just how much of the above-men
tioned loot can the Lions be ex
pected to lug back to the Nittany
Mountain hideout?
Well, Gene Weftsfone's gym
' nasls have already' paid COD
charges on the EIGA champion
ship trophy. The wrestlers —
who may need an armored car
' to bring back the hardware they
have the potential to win—have
finished their third successive
unbeaten season. After the last
’ two unblemished years, Charlie
Speidel's grapplers won the
EIGA title and there is no avail
t able mathematics or logic to
disprove they will do it again.
As to Eddie Sulkowski's boxers,
they are unwinning.uniied, and
oft-scored on. However, With a
iriumveraie of potential champs.
State could win this one too for
an unprecedented Triple Crown
> (although it is unlikely).
Individual medal winners? Of
course the wrestlers could easily
make pigs of themselves. Not from
Agreed, just talent. EIWAI23 pound
king Bob Homap should repeat.
Dick Lemyre, 130 champ, doesn’t
figure to miss. Jerry Maurey, 137
pound runnerup to the great tri
ple champ George Feuerbach (Le
high), ought to win. (These three
.can be touted as “ones best.”)
NCAA arid EIWA 167 pound title
holder Joe Lemyre, who wrestled
177 all season, brightened his
, championship chances _ 50 % _ by
dropping down to IS7—if he isn’t
too badly weakened by his sud
den shift. Fifth potential begettor
♦ of a diadem is Hud Samson. Hud,
a normal wrestling 190 pounder,
has done spectacularly against the
Goliaths in his heavyweight divi
'sion. Yet, with Lehigh’s crack
Wemer Seel in the field, Hud’s
“on paper” hopes seem least
bright of the five.
* As io ihe gymnast chances to
add fo ihe Nittany jewel box.
Jan Cronstedt can hardly miss
winning the all-around gold me
* dal. The Flying Finn is both
EIGA and NAAU all-around
champ. Another excellent title
v possibility is sidehorse star Bob
Lawrence. Bob, EIGA runner-
up, is unbeaten in Eastern com
petition. Two dark horse G-men
, are A 1 Wick on the parallel bars
and Dutch Shultz in the rope.
Last week a frenzied, fired-up
Shultz climbSd 3.6 to whip
», Army's EIGA champ Ballan
tyne—who should win on' his
own rope tomorrow. Wick has a
better chance than Shultz.
*■ For the'boxers, Adam Kois, 176
pounder, is as sure a-.winner as
you dare be in sports. He’s licked
the EIBA field with his lethal fists
'and shouldn’t miss picking up
gold in those Syracuse hills. De
fending 125 pound champ Sam
.Marino hasn’t been especially
dazzling in dual meets, but he’s
like Joe Lemyre—the tournament
type. Sam could easily repeat.
JEIBA runnerup, clever, classy
Tony Flore (139) ' should match
last year’s performance with ease
and if he can whip his champion
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nemesis. Granger (Syracuse), he’s
in gold.
That's certainly a gold-tinted
picture, isn't it? But, oh brother,
what surprises and unforeseens
can happen between the predic
tion and the result in sports.
History has its lessons for those
who polish the trophies and
medals before they are won..
! After the 1948 EIWA tourney,
Lehigh's venerable wrestling
Coach Billy Sheridan was
caught' scratching his head in
extreme disbelief and dismay.
His heavily favored Engineers
were upset by Syracuse's one
point margin. "What's the mat
ter, Doc?" Stale's Speidel asked.
“I don’t' know, Charlie; I can’t
figure out where we lost it. I
can’t figure it out.”
Pennsylvania couldn't figure
it out in 1942 either. The Penns
had skunked the field, except
Navy whom they squeeked past,
and Penn Slate, whom they
hadn't met. They were a char
ter member and were still look
ing for their first title—which
-practically everyone conceded
them. But Penn got the squeeze..
Slate's Charlie Ridenour pushed
out the Penn ace at 123. Sam
Harry did likewise at 130.
Princeton upset the favored
Penn at 137. State's third champ
Alexander bumped off the 147
pound Quaker star. Navy com
pleted the pincer movement by
stopping crack Penns at 155.
165, and heavyweight. With four
runnersup and one champion—
present- ref Dißatista (176) —
Penn took second to unheralded
Penn State.
Individual upsets? Unbeaten
sidehorseman Bob Lawrence lost
in the EIGA’s to Army’s Wheeler
whom he had licked in dual play
last year. Seemingly invincible
Dick Lemyre was “upset”, by Le
high’s Faust in last year’s EIWA’s.
Tied at 2-2 in the second period,
Lemyre was reversed, near-failed,
and pinned except for the grace
of a hesitant ref. Dick finally
squirmed out and won out 10-9
—on the bare strength of one
point riding time.
The treasures of Sierra Madre
await Nitiany ’athletes tomor
row—but they aren't gotten as
easily or as frequently as one
"figures" on.
Sinkers
For IM
IM Mat
Results
By 808 DUNN
Two quick-as-lightning pins
highlighted the action last night
as the IM wrestling tournament
concluded its fourth night at Rec
Hall.
In the opening match of the
card, 175-pounder Tom Danger
field, Delta Chi, hardly gave op
ponent Bill Bauer, Phi iCappa
Sigma, time to think up his strat
egy, as he pinned the later in 38
seconds with a body press. Later,
in a 135-pound bout, Delta Theta
Sigma’s Dave Moorhead accom
plished his purpose two seconds
faster than Dangerfield, showing
ATO’s Bob Chambers the lights
with a cradle in 36 seconds.
In other 175 matches, Andy
Stavres of Delta Upsilon won out
over Mike Hawk, Sigma Chi,
when Hawk' was unable to come
out for the 3d period. Stavres had
a 4-2 edge at the time, but picked
up five points on the technicali
ty. Tom Lewis, SAE, pinned
Chuck Samp, Phi Kappa Psi, in
4:12 -frith a body press.
In one of the best matches of
the night, 175 pounder Win Doe
derlein, Kappa Sigma, spotted
Phi Sigma Kappa’s Jay Levan a
5-3 lead, but with less than a min
ute to go, the KS grappler sprung
a quick reverse on Levan, and
pinned him with a body press.
The time was 5:29.
In the final 175-pound match,
Don McCormick, TKE, used still
another body press to flaten Har
ry Black, Phi Epsilon Pi in 1:52.
In 135-pound bouts, quick-mov
ing arid crafty John Russ, Phi Sig
ma Kappa looked impressive as
he ground his way to a 7-3 deci
sion over Alpha Zeta’s Jim Alli
son.
Another quick pin resulted
when Jack Sigworth, KDR used
a reverse nelson to clamp Bernie
Triester, Phi Epsilon Pi, to the
mats in 1:30. Bill Zeigler, Phi
Kappa Psi, worked his way to an
8-2 decision over Chuck Hender
son, Pi Kappa Phi. Completing
the 135-pound division were
matches which saw Don Holler,
Alpha Chi Sigma pin SAE mat
man Jerry Kintigh by using a
body press in 3:40. George Resh,
Lambda Chi Alpha, won a hard
earned 11-8 decision over A 1 Ba
ker, Phi Mu Delta.
(Continued on page eight)
Beat Caps
Cage Title
By TOM WERNER
The Sinkers, playing against the Capitols last night,
chalked up their twenty fifth consecutive IM win and second
straight championship in as many years by winning that
contest 49-22.
In the interfratemity crown game, at the half Phi Sigma
Delta led Sigma Phi Sigma, 18-17
BULLETIN
IM FRATERNITY FINALS
Phi Sigma Delia, 43
Sigma Phi Sigma, 42
Playing a fast game all the way
through, the Sinkers poured score
upon score with a fast break that
the Capitols were at a loss to
match or even check. The champs
scored the first basket and that
was the closest the Capitols ever
came to them for the rest of the
tilt.
At the end of the first quarter
the Sinkers were ahead 12-7. The
second quarter saw the winners
score almost exclusively by fast
break as Don Shank pushed five
of the six field goals that he
scored through the ring in this
period. The score sheet at the end
of the half read 29-13, the third
quarter, 41-20.
The joys of winning and pres
sure of iosiiig seemed to be’ too
much for both teams, as the last
quarter unveiled a series of missed
layups by the Sinkers and erratic
passes by the. Capitols. Top
scorers for the Sinkers were Don
Shank with 12 markers, Don
Bailey with four from the field
Once there was a ghost named Leroy, who lived m a
haunted cottage near a large Eastern university. Every
Friday night,. at exactly seven o’clock, he’d slide under the
door of Baskerville Hall (the main dorm), and give the
students all the answers to next week’s quizzes.
This was quite a set up. No studying, no cramming ... and
straight A’s all term long. But then, one Friday, the hour
came and went. No Leroy! And the following week, all the
Baskerville Boys got an F on every quiz!
The Friday after that, all of Baskerville Hall waited.: i
and waited. But still no Leroy! In high dudgeon, they set out
to find him. Creeping into Leroy’s haunted cottage... the
Baskerville Boys found him moaning and groaning. “What’s
the matter, Leroy?” they asked.
Leroy wiped a ghostly tear from his ghostly eye. “The weath
er’s so hot, every time I put on a shirt the collar curls and
wilts. I haven’t been out for two weeks!”
In high glee, the Baskerville Boys hurried to~the local
Van Heusen dealer and bought a dozen Van Heusen Century
Shirts with the revolutionary soft collar that won’t wrinkle
ever. 6 whites, 2 grays, 2 blue and 2 tan ... some with regular
collars, some with spread collars. At only $3.95 apiece, they
thought it was a very good investment.
Leroy was delighted. He rewarded the boys with all the
answers to the following week’s quizzes. Two months later,
all the boys from Baskerville Hall had flunked out. Leroy’s
good-looking Van Heusen Century Shirts made him so popular
with the co-eds, that he didn’t have time for quizzes or answers.
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PAGE
and five Out of eight fouls for 13
counters, and Joe Yukica with an.
even dozen, 12, to his credit.
At the half Phi Sigma Delta
managed to regain the lead in
their bid for the interfratemity
court title 18-17, after trailing at
one time during the second quar
ter, by six points. The Sigma Phi’s
scored their points throughout by
a series of fade away hook shots
and sets, for the most part anil
led at the end of the first quarter,
8-7. Both teams missed and then
scored regularly until the Sigma
Phi’s caught fire midway through
the second quarter and dumped a
fast three goals through the bas
ket.
WBA Results
VOLLEYBALL
Mac Allister Hall over Sigma Delta
Tau
Phi Sigma Sigma over Little Lions
Kappa Kappa Gamma over Delta
Zeta
McElwain-Simmons over Alpha
Gamma Delta ,
Phi Mu over Gamma Phi Beta
Chi Omega over Theta Pi Alpha
Tri Delt over Alpha Epsilon Phi
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