I?, 1953
The Lion’s Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Boxing Coach Eddie Sulkowski’s right hand, which 'hadn’t
had a good shaking all season, was getting its circulation
revitalized Saturday night in Syracuse. Two of Penn State’s
ace leather craftsmen, Adam Kois and Sam Marino, had won
intercollegiate titles to salvage some glory for a nightmarish
season of six straight' losses. After one welcome handshake
—following a winless season a firm,’pumping handshake can
be a coach’s best friend—Eddie said to no one in particular:
“Maybe they won’t fire me now.”
: Luckily, Mount Niliany is not the Big Ten, There had not been
any Good-Bye Eddie campaigns stirring on the campus. Yet, after
you lose so often, the "mind's eye" conjures up all sorts of imagina
tions. However, Eddie's imagination heed hot have worked so hard.
He did the best he could with what he had—only three veterans
and five or six intramuralisls and beginners of varying degrees.
Wisconsin's Coach Knobby Walsh or Syracuse's Hoy Simmons, as
outstanding as they are, could hardly have done better.
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Experience in boxing probably reaps more dividends than in any
' other sport, Ring-wisdom, like gny wisdom, comes slowly and pain
fully. As far as pains go, Penn State’s lack of pugilistic wisdom
caused plenty. Ask Hank Arnold, Steve Melmeck, Stan Engle, Sam
( Butler,. Joe Reynolds, Bill Andresevic or Dick Cameron and Dick
Ahem, who took plenty of lumps this year. In a sense, these guys
are. as much heros as those who won every week.
Contrast Andresevic's seven fights, or Arnold's and Engle’s
* six, with the experience of a competitor like Maryland's Gary
Garber (who Marno licked for the title). The rugged Terp had at.
least 150 fights behind him. Among that .fantastic number, for a
j. collegian, was one with Bill Bossio, USA Olympic-performer and
now a professional. Aside from Maryland, Syracuse, too, is not shy
of boxers with lengthy experience records.-
It’s just such an "experienced” buildup which nearly killed the
> Intercollegiate Boxing Association several years ago, reducing its
membership from 28 to five teams. At one time the IB A included
Penn, Navy, Western Maryland, Rutgers, Cornell, Harvard, Yale
and several others. But certain teams got so strong that others
t couldn’t keep up and refused to take terrible clobberings.
For instance. Navy, led by its name Coach "Spike" Webb, got
drubbed frightfully fwo weeks in a row. One week Syracuse visited
the Naval Academy and quite rudely scorpd seven TKO's againsi
’ Iheir hosts. The following week Penn State dropped along the
banks of the Severn and felled five Middies.
Enough, is enough. For Navy, this was too much like meeting
4 “pros.” They dropped the sport as most of the others who refused
to undergo “legalized murder.”
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" , However, at its last meeting, the IBA wisely took measures to
prevent a repetition of the same situation. The league which is
slowly increasing its membership again—took steps to perpetuate
< itself with,a new. eligibility rule. The new ruling states that a,boy
who fights other than interscholastically or inter-preply after his
16th birthday will be ineligible. Formerly the age limit was 18—
time enough for penty of AAU, Police League and other Golden
Glove-type sanctioned bouts. (The rule, which will only affect those
who matriculate from fjlarch 14, 1953 and henceforth, will not bring
a level-off for two or possibly three years.)
A sport which has been sagging badly and. which gets un
* savory connotations from the sordid professional game, should
now live a long and healthier life.
JABS AND HOOKS— The first intercollegiate boxing meet took
place in 1919 with Penn beating State, 4-2 ... In 1921 the IBA
was made official. Actually, EIBA is incorrect since the IBA is inde
‘ pendent of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association ... By 1924
the first collegiate tournament was held hete with the host Nittanies
winning just as they did the first NCAA tourney, held in 1932, also
at State.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Ten Nittany Gymnasts
Picked for National Meet
Gymnastics coach Gene Wettstone yesterday named ten of his key gymnasts to
represent the Nittany Blue and White at the 11th annual National Collegiate Athletic
Association gym tourney next weekend at Syracuse.
Ten performers are the maximum number of entrants allotted to each school under
NCAA gym rules.
Those named by Wettstone were
team Captain Bob Kenyon, Bob
Lawrence, Frank Wick, Tony Pro
copio, Jan Cronstedt, i Dave
Shultz, Bob Boudreau, A 1 Wick,
Karl S'chwenzfeier, and Jim Ha
zen
Kenyon, Shultz, and Hazen are
the only seniors on- the 10-man
squad making their last intercol
legiate flings.
Kenyon Once a Diver
Lawrence, both Wicks, Proco
pio, and Boudreau are juniors,
while Cronstedt and Schwenzfeier
are only sophomores.
Tumbler Kenyon, who was once
a Lion diver when swimming was
in existence at State, will work
the trampoline • event along with
his regular tumbling duties.
The trampoline is not a sanc
tioned Eastern event.
Hazen will also take on a new
job for the Nationals. Besides his
flying rings position Hazen will
work the rope climb event.
UCLA Has Good Team
Three Lions will perform in
five events. They will be Cron
stedt, Schwenzfeier, and Procopio.
The events flying rings, side
horse, horizontal bar, parallel
bars, and calisthentics—constitute
the points that go to make up the
all-around championship.
In other gym circles, UCLA’s
top outfit, champs of the Pacific
Coast Conference in 1952, are
claiming the best team in years.
This season the Ulcans have
topped such coast powers as
Southern California and Stanford.
Their top threat is ropeclimber
Don Perry. Gymnastic fans at
tending the Olympic trials at Rec
Hall last April saw the amazing
Perry manage the 20-feet in a
world-record equaling 3.l—his
own record.
The Bears of California also
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The Names You Know
Boston Braves Discover
New Home in Milwaukee
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 18 (£>) The Boston Braves,
a charter member of the National League, shifted to Milwaukee to
day in the first change in the major league baseball lineup in a
half century.
The transfer, requested by owner Louis Perini after several
losing seasons in Boston, was ap
proved unanimously by the own
ers of the seven other National
League clubs.
The American Association,
whose territory was invaded by
the major league, also gave its as
sent to the move by a 7-1 vote.
The Milwaukee franchise, owned
by the Braves and operated by
them for the past several years as
a farm club, was transferred to
Toledo, now “open” territory.
The changes will become effec
tive with the opening of the sea
sons of the two leagues next
month.
The Milwaukee club, to be
known as the Milwaukee Braves,
will become one of the western
clubs of the National League, tak
ing over the schedule previously
drawn up for the Pittsburgh Pir-
will be ready with good men in
sicfehorse performer Bob Gordon
and ringman Henry Morris.
The best performers from the
coast have run out of scholastic
eligibility. Gone, through, gradu
ation are South Cal’s Jack Beck
ner and Dick Simms. Both were
U.S. Olympic performers in the ’52
gym games. .
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ates. Pittsburgh will move into
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Boston’s schedule.
The 1953 all-star game, pre
viously scheduled to be played at
Braves Field July 14, was award
ed to Cincinnati.
The National League’s action,
taken in a 3% -hour meeting here,
was directly opposite to that of
the American League, which re
fused on Monday to permit Bill
Veeck to shift the St. Louis
Browns to Baltimore.
The circumstances were differ
ent, however. Perini already own
ed the Milwaukee franchise and
presented plans by which the
move could be made with a min
imum of difficulty. Veeck’s' pro
posal was to move into a city
where he had no established con
nections and where he would have
to start from scratch less than a
month before the opening' of the
season.
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