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"Nice Talk!"
By SAM PROCOPIO
Collegian Sports Editor
Name a sport and you can find its errors. Name an of
ficial and you can scrutinize his mistakes. Name its critic
and more than not, the remarks come from the local sports
editor, sportswriter, or sports columnist. Once-in-a-blue
moon, however, the other side of a story is revealed.
Penn State's boxing team only has a 0-3-1 record to show for
the 1954 season, but like most won and lost records, there is more
to it than just :numbers. Just how good is Coach Eddie Sulkowski's
mittrnen?
Well, yesterday in the mail the following letter via Madison,
Wis., came this way, and speaks for itself:
To the Editor:
"Last night (Friday, February 19) a fine group of Penn State
representatives met a supposedly 'loaded' University of Wisconsin
boxing team here at Madison.
As a former Daily Collegian editor and member of the Ath
letic Advisory Board, I would like to report that the 6-2 score
does not represent a complete picture of the match.
"Coach Eddie Sulkowski's team boxed clean and hard and made
the surprised Wisconsin Badgers go the limit to salvage a part of
their pre-season buildup. From the way some of the matches were
scored, I would guess the referee had also been impressed by the
advance notices.
"Incidentally, Wisconsin fans are noted for their partisanship.
Yet, when Zale was given the decision over Kois (Penn State), the
crowd booed for almost five minutes. I am told that this is un
precedented. A number of longtime Wisconsin followers seated
around us expressed belief that if the match had been held any
where else the final outcome would have been 5-3 or possibly 4-4.
"These are the breaks of the game, however, and the match is
over. But we do want to congratulate the team on its outstanding
performance and wish it the best of luck. We'll be awaiting its return.
Sincerely, Allan W. Ostar, director."
Mr. Ostar paid the Nittany Lion boxers a fine tribute and we
would like to thank him. To show that his views were accepted else
where in Wisconsin, he enclosed the match writeup from the Wis
consin State Journal (by-lined Henry J. McCormick, sports editor).
He said:
"This was a fine meet, one in which the winners and van
quished finished with plenty of honor. It may have been the finest
lesson possible for Wisconsin. Up against a team that hadn't won a
match, the Badgers had to sweat it out for almost the full route.
The fact that Penn State hadn't won a match, of course, was some
what misleading. It had lost in rousing battles to strong aggrega
tions from Michigan State and Maryland and had tied Syracuse's
defending Eastern Intercollegiate champions."
The following is what Fred Nonnemacher, sports editor of the
Bethlehem Globe Times, wrote about the Nittany Lion wrestling loss:
"It fell to the lot of the Navy wrestlers to accomplish a feat
no other member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Associ
ation was successful in doing. That of snapping the long dual meet
meet winning streak of the Penn State grapplers' defending Na
tional and Eastern collegiate champions. The upset and it can be
listed as such, occurred on the Middies' mats last Satuiday after
noon where Navy, winning five of the eight bouts, defeated the
Nittany Lions, 19-9. Going into that meet Penn State boasted a
phenomenal string of 34 consecutive dual victories, and achieve
ment almost unbelievable."
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4th Straight 104 A Win
is Manhattan's Goal
By HERM WEISICOPF
Manhattan, the New York Yankees of the collegiate indoor track world, has reigned
supreme over the banked boards for three consecutive seasons. t
The cry to end Manhattan's domination has gone up just as the chant of "Break up the
Yankees" has arisen. The Jaspers will be gunning for their eighth intercollegiate title Sat
urday at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.
However, a talented field will be on hand to try to halt Manhattan in the 33rd running
of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletics of America championship meet,
Among the teams Listed by the'
experts as threats to remove the
crown from the Jaspers are Yale,
Boston University, Cornell. and
Penn State. Harvard is considered
the dark horse in what is expected
to be the closest battle since 1950
when four colleges finished with
in two points of each other.
Would Have Won in 1950, Too
Manhattan would have copped
the laurels that year, too, but for
some strange doings in the mile
relay. The 'Jaspers' title bid was
ended in that deciding event
when one of the Manhattan run
ners was bowled over by a Prince
ton runner as the latter wandered
across thc track.
Although the Jaspers were hit
hard by graduatibn, they are still
favored to win their fourth
straight IC4A title. Sheepskins
were awarded to Manhattan's vir
tually unbeatable sprint trio of
Lindy Remigino, Jack O'Connell,
and Joe Schatzle, plus Steve Dil
lon, ace weight-thrower.
Because of the stiff competi
tion anticipated this year George
Eastment, Manhattan coach, said
he felt 23 points would be all any
team would need to cop the hon
ors. Last season the Jaspers won
with 36. With so many strong en
trants it is figured the points will
be well spread out and, therefore,
harder to get.
Jones One of Best
In the 600-yard run Eastment
has one of the East's hottest mid
dle-distance runners in Lou Jones.
In the past two campaigns Jones
ha. 'finished second and fourth.
Lion star 011ie Sax is the defend-
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 23
(JP)—New York's five-time World
Champion Yankees sold Vic Ras
chi, holdout righthanded pitcher,
to the St. Louis Cardinals today
for an estimated $75,000 with the
announcement that "some of the
players acted as if they were the
employers and the club the em-:
ploye."
"I don't want to make Raschi
the whipping boy," George Weiss,
Yankee general manager, said,
"but there is an attitude of com
placency on the club. Some of the
players have become independ
ently wealthy through the win
ning of five straight world cham
pionships."
Raschi, whose 120 victories and
50 defeats . made him the best
pitcher in the majors by statistics,
officially became a holdout yes
terday wh en Yankee pitchers
were to have reported for spring
practice. He has been here for
some time but avoided meeting
club officials.
The purchase price was not di
vulged but it was understood to
be $75,000 with a part of it to be
paid in young, unidentified talent.
Bush Denounces Bi ll
ST. LOUIS, 'Feb. 23 (JP)--t-August
A. Busch today called hardly
proper a bill introduced into the
Senate to bring under anti-trust
laws any professional baseball
club owned by a beer or liquor
company. Sen. Johnson (D-Colo),
is author of the bill.
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CAMPUS INTERVIEWS
Wednesday, March 3
ing titlist in this event. Sax set
a new IC4A record last year with
a clocking of 1:10.4. Jones ran the
anchor , leg for the Manhattan
mile relay quartet several weeks
ago in a spectacular 0:47.8.
Bill St. Clair is Manhattan's
main hope in the mile run.- Lou.
Olive of Army •is the favorite #)
win this event. The Army star is
the IC4A outdoor mile champion.
Another Manhattan product,
Charley Pratt, has a good chance
of regaining the 60-yard high
hurdles title he won two years
ago. Pratt finished second last
season. Don Keller of Princeton
and Pratt have recorded the two
fastest clockings of the season
with 0:07.4 runs. Pratt is the de
fending titlist in the broad jump,
but he will get stiff competition
from teammate Lenny Moore who
has leaped 23' 1 1 / 4 ". Last year Pratt
won with a distance of 23'5 1 / 2 ".
Gaffney High Jump Ace
High jumper Frank Gaffney is
the favorite in the high jump.
Nittany Jim Herb captured the
laurels last year, but in a dual
me et at the University in the
spring, Gaffney outjumped the
Lion ace. Herb has since gradu
ated and Gaffney's claim tb the
favorite position was strength
ened by a 6'4 1 / 2 " jump earlier this
year.
Eastment has two fine relay
teams. The mile quartet is com
posed of Moore, Ron Lucas, Bob
English, and Vern Dixon. Jim En
right, Bob Goodwin, Bob Kubic,
and Tom Lindgren form the two
mile baton-passing outfit.
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