PAGE SIM Quick Action H• pound er... 7, is .awn —..,..az to -agt... _'s .:se . during the preliminary round of the opening of the . champion ships yesterday in Rec Hall. Frey won this bout, 8-0. However, he lost his next preliminary match to Syracuse's Ed Rooney, 4-3, in a match involving some highly questionable calls by the referee. The Lion's Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sports Editor Barnum and Bailey's three-ring circus has nothing on the Na tional Collegiate wrestling championships which opened in Rec Hall yesterday. For the afternoon preliminary round fans, it was like trying to watch two tennis matches at the same time. Four mats were in simultaneous use and the grand spectacle of the nation's best wrestlers actually was Mass confusion. But if fans thought it rough trying to keep watch on the repre sentatives of 25 states in the Union, they should have tried to keep the reporters' tabs on the progress of the meet. Three assistants per man would not have been too many. The worst of it all was that after five and one-half hours. from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and 86 bouts, absolutely nothing was decided. For those who like to figure which way the wind is blow ing, the afternoon was a dismal disappointment. At the end of- the marathon sessions, Penn State held the lead, 3-2 over Michigan U. by virtue of fall points gained by messieurs Dick and Joe Lemyre and Hud Samson. But this mere "pin-money" score was about as important as the same tally would be in the first two minutes of a basketball game. And, by, the same token, the fact that the Nittany Lions matched defending champion Oklahoma's feat of advancing six men into the evening quarter-finals raised no eyebrows. The results of the evening quarter-finals alone could give everyone the tipoff they were eager for. But the fact that State did advance six, one better than 1952 runnerup Oklahoma A&M and two better than third finisher last year, lowa State Teachers, showed that the East would make its most serious bid for the NCAA title in history. (No Eastern team has ever won the title and Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M have hogged if 19 of the 22 times.) Although the Sooner State monopolists advanced 11 men be tween them, at no time did they giv,e the impression that they were world beaters. They did not fill viewers with the awe you might expect from fellows who do nothing but eat corn, wrestle, and win titles. They wrestled close to the vest; a possession, one-point style of wrestling without brilliance, but with an eventual winning ring. San Diego State's Dick' Robinson, 130 pounder, offered the tourney's study in complete frusfration. Robinson , traveled ap proximately 2600 miles from the Pacific Coast only to lose his _ very first bout, 12-3. Nittany Dick Lemyre flashed some of his typical razzle-dazzle in his first bout against Michigan State's Eddie Casalicchio. Dick can-...1L;-backed the Spartan, who boasted an excellent 8-1 record, in exactly 49 seconds—the afternoon's fastest and quite probably the -tuickest showering the tourney will see. Four of the East's biggest guns look to have excellent chances for indiv•clu.al championships on the basis of the preliminary sneak previews. Cornell's Frank Bettucci, 147, easily out-bullied, out powered, and out-sped two opponents. Gus DeAugustino, Lock Haven S.T.C. and Four-I champ, triumphed without strain at 137 pounds and looks to be the man to beat. A third Easterner wii excellent title chances is Army's 177 pound EIWA champ, Al '7 ..ulekas. The Cadet scored impressively, 13-4, over• Toledo's Ee. rill:11, brother of last year's 191 pound champion Harry. And of course, Pitt's defending charrip Hugh Peery has the class for another East crown. By the time the long-awaited 6:30 happily arrived, those who ha. n peering intently for five hours had headaches as bad as thos - ... wrestlers who lost in the first round. State's Coach Charlie breeze(' cheerily past and advised, "go , out and clear your mind. You can't absorb it all anyway." Amen, Charlie. Sports Thru THE DA TLY cor.T,EaTAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA hii (COntinued from page one) Penn State's hopes for national honors were shattered somewhat by the latter defeat but Don Frey kept the light shining when he decisioned lani.,MacEwan, Kent State, 6-0. A takedown and escape gave Dona 3-0 lead. His fourth _point. was obtained on a predica ment. Mac Ewan was almost pinned but was able to slide off the mat before State's 157- pounder could place him flush with the mat. inations yesterday after no on when it' took the lead with three pins_ Michigan secured two pins. Showing their foes what sunny side up is for the Nittany Lions were Dick and Joe Lemyre, and Hud Samson. Penn State's third runner-up last year, Dick Lemyre put on one of the finest wrestling perform ! ances seen at Rec Hall when he made Ed Casalicchio, Michigan State, observe Rec Hall's' lighting system with a double bar arm in 0:49. Lemyre wasted no time in taking down his Michigan State adversary when he grabbed Ca salicchio's arm and rolled him ov er his back. The colorful Lemyre put his Spartan opponent flush with the mat within a split sec ond but couldn't keep Casalic chio's shoulder blades on the can vas. Then with his legs, straight in the air, the slick 130-pounder gave his foe the needed pressure for Penn State's first point of the preliminaries. In the 177-pound battle George Dvorozniak, Penn State, f o and himself two points behind when Dick O'Shaughnessy. Michigan, took him down near the edge of the • mat. Dvorozniak, however, escaped. In the second period O'Shaughnessy received one point for predicament when he had his Lion foe sliding off the mat on his back. O'Shaughnessy, Michigan's football captain-elect, followed in the next period with an escape and near fall to wirt 9-1. It was Hud "Pressure Bo y" Samson who gave Speidel's EIWA champs an early lead in fall points when he became the second Nit tany Lion to pin his man. Lewis Williams of Oregon state was his opponent. After three attempts in HOME- ; -'`' . . BAKED , ' ....:,. COOKIES -' - .... -..-.-;- ,h d nffeerw3'..-.. ' o chocolate ' '.; `,. l ' • ,;.:... K ,t. 10C . .• .."; '' . i ".,.. Served Daily ‘ - 1.., lil midnight t.„ DUTCH 1,.... , ..; N. , .. PANTRY ' .;. / 7:-.4 230 E. College ik4--: hts Mat NCAA's at Rec Hall a me . E n t er • : Semis, 'finals Today Penn State's bid for national honors seemed well on its way in the preliminary elim- .g ROD NORRIS, of Maryland Univerety, and Clefts Blegen, of -itankato State, seem to be in a gooey mass in their 137-round io on the Rec Hall mats last night in the NCAA's. Norris had the edge for the day, however, as he decisioned Blegen, 8-6, in a real tight match. the first' period for a takedown, Hud was finally successful in his two-point endeavor. Then in the next period State's talented 191- pounder scored his fall with a body press and half nelson in 3:40. In the 123-pound class Bob Ho man was decisioned by Al Cran cer, Arkansas St., 10-2. The Ark ansas St. matman took down Ho man early in the first period and and had control for the remainder of the period. Wrestling from the referee's position Homan could not hold onto the Arkansas St: grappler. Homan strived for a trip takedown. Crancer however, landed on top of Penn State's,l23- pounder, gaining control once again 2 Homan reversed Crancer in the final period for his two points. It was at this time, however, that Crancer played posgum and Would not wrestle. Bill Bock, Springfield, was no match for Speidel's 157-pounder, Doug Frey, in the latter's first of two bouts in the preliminaries. Frey won, 8-0. Wrestling Ed, Roo ney, Syracuse, however, Frey was eliminated on a 4-3 decision. As the score indicates the battle was a close one and it wasn't decided until the final second when the referee gave an "unbelievable" escape. Two other debatable calls by the referee were made, but one was for State and the other for Syracuse. CCATHAUM' .:: NOW S HOINING JOHN'. F 4 Am/ - {fi r A /4744 DONNA: " vo io2lo. isa" . # o , e „ OBIJRN ig474' 4/A WARNER s BROS. HAPPILY PRESENT • Itouble Along the Way` SATURDAY, MARCH 28, '1953 I State's recent EIWA 137-pound er, Jerry Maurey, continued his winning ways when he decision ed Sam Ruzic, lowa State, 3-1. Maurey's scoring was done in the first and second periods when he gained a takedown and an escape. Ruzie escaped from Maurey in the final period. Don Frey becaine one of Perin State's quarter final entries when' he defeated Jerry Bains, Alabama Poly., 6-1. 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