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Mittmen Defeat Cathdfjic U., 5-3
Record First
Dual Win
Of Season
By JAKE HIGHTQN
If ending well makes all
well, then so it is with the
Penn State boxing team which
closed its dual season Satur
day night by nabbing the long
sought victory number one.
Scoring wins in four bouts and
picking up draws in two others,
State’s mittmen stopped Catholic
U., 5-3, in sparsely populated Rec
Hall.
Sam Marino, Joe Reynolds,
Tony Flore, and Dick Ahern came
through with victories and Hank
Arnold and Adam Kois secured
draw verdicts to snap the Lions'
six-match losing streak.
Captain Marino, who won his i
125-pound bout in a dress suit
because Catholic refused to
meet him, received a twin
tribute before the match. In a
presentation by Phys Ed Dean
Ernie McCoy, Marino received
the Frank J. Goodman Trophy
awarded annually to the "sen
ior who Jbest exemplifies the
spirit of boxing and makes the
greatest contribution to his
team." Sam's second accolade
was an ovation from the mea
ger crowd which sounded as
loud, as a full house.
State’s other senior, Reynolds
(132) made his swan song quite
melodious with a TKO .victory
over Miles McAndrews. From the
first bell, Reynolds counterpunch
ed effectively. Then after fester
ing his foe with left jabs, Rey
nolds landed several , hard right
crosses which cut up McAndrews
and caused the bout to be stopped
after the first round.
Moving up a weight to 147 fail
ed to bother Flore as he contin
ued unbeaten in dual competition
with a 30-23 victory over CU’s
Bemie Pannone. The long reach
of the lanky representative of the
nation’s capital kept Flore in
check somewhat, but Tony’s swift,
slashing left hooks scored repeat
edly.
Ahem, winner of the Lions’
fourth victory, looked surprising
ly sharp for the second bout of his
career as he stopped Gene Ma
tecko (165) in one round. Using
a left jab with telling effect,
Ahem set up Mateckb to pound
him along the ropes once again
to land a smashing right hand.
Behind 10-7 after the first round,
Matecko was not allowed to an
swer the bell because of cuts.
A bad break kept. Kois from
gaining his sixth dual triumph
of the campaign. Leading 10-8,
Kois landed a low blow just at
the bell. First penalized a point,
Kois then got a draw when his
foe, Joe Dellaßatta, was unable to
continue. EIBA regulations rule
a draw when a fighter is injured
in the first round.
Piling up a 20-18 advantage af
ter two rounds, State’s Hank Arn
(Continued on page seven)
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JOE GOLEMAN, Nitiany heavyweight, starts a left hook to the
jaw of Catholic U.'s Tom DeCicco (right) during their bout in
Rec Hall Saturday night. Making his varsity debut, Goleman lost
a tough decision, 28-27. However, Goleman's teammates came
through with their first victory, 5-3.
Sigma Nu Advances Four
Into IM Mat Semi-Finals
The matmen of Sigma Nu took a giant step toward the crpwn
won last year by DU, as they advanced four men into tomorrow’s
semi-final round in IM fraternity wrestling at Rec Hall last night.
Walt HcJugh, in the 165-pound class, and Dave Barney at 145
showed the way for the tourney leaders, who now have a total of 78
points. Runnerup Pi Kappa Phi,
shows 53.
Hough ground his way to an
easy 9-1 verdict over Bob Thomas,
KDR, and Barney emerged vic
torious in a nip and tuck struggle
with George Walker, Alpha Sigma
Phi, 9-6.
Bob Wylie Wins
'Norm Hickey won the forfeit
from Lynn Swiegard, Phi Gamma
Delta, and Bob Abbott of SN ad
vanced into the semis.
Runnerup Pi Kappa Phi re
mained in the chase by showing
two winners. Bob Wylie eeked out
a hard-earned 9-8 win over John
Knepp, Alpha Chi Sigma, while
the Pi Kapp’s Andy Krassowski
won by forfeit.
Chi Phi, still very much in con
tention also, had two wins last
night. Bob Broomfield decisioned
Phi Sigma Kappa’s Dave Rimple
in 128. At 155 Bill Roberts,, in a
great finish, reversed Sigma Pi’s
Herb Ferguson without five sec
onds left to cop a 4-3 ■ decision,
Chi Phi has a total of 47 points.
Zieve, Baffa Win
In other. 121 pound action, Tony
Petroy pinned Ed Klose in a swift
56 seconds in an independent bout.
Morton Zieve, Beta Sigma Rho,
nipped Acacia’s Bill Bovard 6-4 at
128. Fast-moving Johnny Baffa,
DU, made short work of Dick
Kleiman, Phi Sigma Delta, pin
ning him in 1:04.
Independent Bob Evanko pin
ned Bob McMillan in 5:27 and
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Kennady applied the pressure to
Myers in 2:49 in the other 135
matches.
Delta Chi Gains
The 145 pound section found
Miller winning 6-0 over Doug
Fennimore. Charlie Groff, KDR,
won out over Phi Kappa Phi’s
Buzz Pierce, while Salty White
house, Sigma Phi Epsilon won by
the same count over Willie Noyes,
Phi Gamma Delta.
Delta Chi picked up three
points, but fell from third to
fourth. Ed Hill picked up the win
in 155, decisioning Palmer Felix,
Alpha Chi Sigma, 2-0. Delta Chi’s
other entry last night, Ed Knapp,
was stopped by Tom Lozaw, Delta
Sigma Phi, in 1:28 in a .165 pound
bout. In another 165, Phi Delta
Theta’s Jay Barclay scored an im
pressive 4-1 wiii over Glenn
Grove, Chi Phi. Bill Tyson, AGR,
beat Belford Thompson, Delta Sig
ma Phi, 2-0.
One-hundred-seventy-five pound
man Win Doederlein, Kappa Sig
ma, beat Tom Lewis, SAE, 5-0,
with Dave Simon, KDR besting
Beta Theta Pi’s Daye Arnold, 7-2.
Independent Heavyweights Bob
Barcaskey and Mike Sorokach
copped their bouts to round out
the night.
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Sports Thru
The Lion’s Eye
By JAKE HIGHTQN
Collegian Sports Editor
At last are bringing the Mountain to Mohammed,
and depositing •it in Rec Hall this weekend. The Mountain
is the National Collegiate Athletic Association wrestling
championships and of course Mohammed is Penn State. All
this mountainous Mohammendanism stems from the wrestling
crime of 1952.
Last year Penn State's mat team whizlwinded through' its
second straight unbeaten season and then added the copeslone
with a second successive Eastern Intercollegiate championship
team title. Quietly at first, but gradually louder, it was whispered
that the Lions might have a chance to win the NCAA title. .
But just as quickly the whispers were changed to groans. Penn
IL-te didn’t have a chance; The team was licked in its own'.back yard
by the College Senate committee on athletics. In an unbelievable
paradox, Penn State was defeated by Penn State. The committee
ruled that only the Eastern champions, Joe Lemyre, .'Dick Lemyre,
and Bob Homan, would be allowed to take the trip to Fort Collins,
Colorado, for the tourney.
Thus a ihree-man team was sent to do a job of prodigious pro*
portions when th_e lesser EIWA job required eight men. It didn't
make sense strategically or mathematically.
But then, on second thought there was mathematics involved.
For financial reasons pure and simple, a better representation wasn’t
sent to the Mountain. However, it was necessary that the Senate
committee be set up as the scapegoat to set a policy—a heck-with
the-team-title policy. A policy that could shift with the wind and the
tournament site.
• Bitterly sympathetic reaction set in. ltd wonder. Jerry Maurey,
one of the nation's—not simply the East's—best wrestlers wasn't
allowed to compete because he wasn't an EIWA champ. Yet,
subsequent events made Jerry's abandonment more unfortunate.
George Feuerbach, the three-time champ who beat him in' the
v Eastern finals, wasn't going fo compete. Then the week after, the
NCAA's, Jerry took runnerup honors in the NAAU's—second only
to one amateur in the country.
Is it a -wonder then that Delta Upsilon. fraternity offered to pay
the expenses of Maurey and heavyweight Lynn Illingworth, 'to
Colorado. Or that Penn’s Coach Charlie Ridenour, former Nittany
assistant and three-time EIWA champ; offered to drive Jerry out in
his car.
__ Or that students' righteous ire was so strong that: if solicitors
were stationed on the campus corners with hat-in-hand bearing
the. label. "Money to Send Wrestlers to NCAA's," the . shekels
would have been raised. However, the College couldn't sanction
such embarrassing proposals and protest was to no avail.
The Lions went to the Mountain inadequately equipped. Okla
homa, loWa State Teachers College, Oklahoma A&M, and Toledo
had it easy. The Lions’ were a distant fifth with eight points, the
Sooners had 22. State got one champion and one third-placer.
Maybe the full team would have done little better. But the fact
remains: losing is jhard enough to take, but never to have been
given a chance to win is far tougher.
The Penn State athletic crime of 1952 came to its unfortunate,
but not unexpected consummation. However, after the tourney,
State “won” the site for the 1953 Nationals. Whether it was “luck”
or simply Penn State’s turn, doesn’t matter. It was a Pyrrhic, hollow
victory to be sure, but still a victory.
Coach Charlie Speidel's comment on the 1953 selection? A
literary gem. to whit: 1 "If Mohammed won't go to the Mountain,
they'll bring the Mountain to Mohammed."
Now that the Mountain is coming, you can’t safely bet that it
will'be climbed. It’s as rugged a test as the Matterhorn and it won’t
be entirely a surprise if Penn State doesn’t scale the peak. Neverthe
less, they will have honest climbing-equipment.
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