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1. - "e.Ain State winds up its home wrestling season at Eec Hall,tomorrow night when the
Nittany Lions entertain
,the Panthers of Pitt in a dual meet scheduled for 7 p - .m.
Th:, once-beaten Pitt grapplers who will be seeking their first .win over a Penn State
wrestling team will rely on six unbeaten matmen. Despite the fact that Coach Charlie Spei
del now only boasts of two wrestlers with unblemished records, the Nittany Lions can't
be taken too lightly. Nor can the Panthers.
The Universtiy of PittSburgh wrestlers, newly admitted member of the Eastern Inter
collegiate Wrestling Association, was crowned team champion in the Wilkes College Invi-
tation tournament in Wilkes-Barre during the. Christmas hol
Virginia's
6 Ring Vets
Battle Lions
By ROY WILLIAMS
Experience will probably be the
rule of measure in figuring the
possibilities of a Lion boxing vic
tory tomorrow night. The winless
boxers will meet Virginia Uni
versity on the second leg of a
tour-match road trip which will
end the 1954 season.
The factor of meeting some ex
perienced ringmen, however, will
not be a novelty for the Lions.
Such past foes as Michigan State,
Syracuse, and Wisconsin have
served the Lions some formidable
opposition.
The Virginians promise not to
break the precedent of past Nit
tally foes who have tagged the
Lions with a dreary record of one
tie and three losses.
Tie Orange, Army
Coach Al York and his eight
men performed the same feat as
the Lions, tieing Syracuse, 4-4,
and then knotted Army's pugilists
by the same score. The Cavaliers
dropped their season opener to
Louisiana State University, 5%-
3 1 / 2 . The Lions meet LSU in the
season's final match at Baton
Rouge, La.
But Virginia was two points in
the hole before its first man climb
ed through the ropes. Virginia for
feited the 147- and 175-pound
classes.
Virginia also lost the first three
weight class decisions. Louisiana
has a potential edge over its op
ponents because freshmen boxers
are permitted to box.
Potter Dangerous
At the 155-pound victory was
Virginia's Pete Potter. Last year
Potter advanced to the finals in
both. the Eastern Boxing Associ
ation tourney at Syracuse, and
the NCAA's at Idaho State only to
loSe the decisions.
Virginia's ring experience
speaks for itself 'with a glance at
its entries in last year's Eastern
tournament. Six of the eight ring
men who will meet the Lions to
morrow night were entered. Only
the heavyweight and 139-pound
slots were bare of Virginians,
Pep, Perez Fight
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (IP)=Lulu
Perez, a flashy 20-year-old boxer
puncher who was only nine years
old when Willie Pep won the
featherweight championship fo r
the first time, - today was a slight
favorite to beat the 31-year-old
veteran in Madison Square Gar
den tomorrow night.
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In winning the team title the
Panther matmep will have to .be
considered as threats riot only in
tomorrow's dual meet but in the
Eastern t o urney to be held at
Ithaca, March 12-13. Coach Rex
Peery's grapplers fell just one
point shy of doublin g , the score
of its nearest competitor Lehigh.
Pitt won with 35 points. However,
it should be understood that Pitt
had the • biggest representation in
the tourney.
The Panthers had six men go
ing into the finals and only Ed
Peery, brother of Hugh, came out
as champion. The freshman stand
out won the 123-pound division.
Pitt wrestlers who entered the
tourney's final and who will
likely see action against Penn
State are Ron Kurtz, 130 or 137-
pounder; Bill Kozy, 137-pounder;
George Matthews, 147-pounder;
Charley Uram, 157-pounder: and
Joe Solomon, 167 or 177-pounder.
Penn State, which had only two
entries, had one crown-bearer. He
was Joe Krufka in the 177-pound
class. Sid Nodland, a freshman
and other Lion candidate, lost in
the semi-finals. Krufka, who be
came eligible for varsity compe
ton this semester, pinned George
Beresford of Pitt in 10:05 of extra
period in the semi-finals and de
cisioned Jim Woodin of Cornell
to win the title. Krufka may meet
Beresford again tomorrow.
Coach Peery has shifted Beres
ford and Solomon in the 177-pound
class throughout the season. Beres-
IC4A Meet Called a 5-Team attle
Saturday's IC4A indoor track championship meet has been resolved into a battle between five
teams—Manhattan, Yale, Cornell, Boston University, and Penn State,
According to an article in Wednesday's New York Herald Tribune, Manhattan mentor George
Eastrnent said he felt Yale, would end the three= year reign of his Jaspers.
But, as is often the case in sports, Yale coach, Bib Giegengack, returned
stating that Manhattan was the
team to beat.
Eastment went out on the pro
verbial limb and predicted that
Yale would cop the meet with 24
points and that his squad would
get between 17 and 22. The Man
hattan coach went one step fur
ther and said the Libns would
get 18 points and Cornell and Bos
ton University would each net 15.
Any of the "Big Five" can win
the title. The winner may very
well be the team which gets the
"breaks"—that unpredictable and
vital aspect in all sports events.
Last year the Lions finished
second to Manhattan with 22 1 b.
points. The Jaspers won the IC4A
crown for the third consecutive
season last year with 36 points.
Penn State has two defending
champions—Dan Lorch in the pole
vault and 011ie Sax in the 600.
This year's pole vaulting compe
tition is exceptionally r o u g h.
Lorch, who tied for the title
with Bob Linno of Rhode Island
Tp; nit! COtLEC;IAN TtTE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
days.
ford sports a 4-0 record while
Solomon has a 5-2-1 record.
Last year Pitt gave the Lions a
scare when the dual meet went
down to the final bOut before
Penn State won out 16-12. The
four matmen who' the Lions found
troublesome will return, for to
morrow's meet. They are Hugh
Peery, Solomon, Bob Cook, and
ITrarn. Solomon scored the only
fall of the meet. He pinned George
Dvorozniak, who has graduated.
By RERAN WEISKOPF
at 13' 4", will have a tough time
retaining his crown.
Bruce Hescock, Boston Univer
sity, has cleared 13' 6" consistently
this season. Another vaulter in
this class is Penn's Bob Owen.
Yale is two deep in this event
with Bill Donegan and Harry
Work.
In the 600 Sax will be pitted
against Manhattan's Lou Jones,
one of the top runners in the East.
Sax set a new IC4A record in this
event , last year with a 1:10.4
clocking. Ross Price of Yale, Fred
Schlereth of Columbia, and Joe
Gaffney of Villanova are three
other tough opponents in this race.
Art Pollard will once again be
running against his old nemesis
Johnny Haines in the 60-yard
dash. Haines is the only national
champion in the IC4A title meet.
He copped the national title in
this event last year and success
fully defended it last Saturday in
the National Amateur Atheltic
Men, get those dates for the . . .
FORESTRY BALL
SEMI-FORMAL
Joe Solomon
Pitt 177-Pounder
The All-University Dance
FRIDAY, MARCH 12
Dancing 9 to 12
with Johnny NicolOsi and his Band
REC HALL
Rutgers Next
For Cabers
Now that the Lion basketball team has won its 11th game, it's
a good bet that number 12, 13, and 14 are in the offing. The Nittanies
skidded dangerously last week but applied the breaks in time to
whip Gettysburg Wednesday with comparative ease, 76-62.
And on paper the remaining three contests on the Nittany sched
ule should fall into the win side
of the record. A mediocre Rutgers
quintet will appear at Rec Hall
tomorrow night followed by
Georgetown; and Temple. From
all appearances only the Owls
figure to give Elmer Gross' floor
men any trouble to speak of.
The Rutgers clash is scheduled
as the tail end of a sport double
header. The two will battle after
the Pitt wrestling match.
Rutgers' chief claim to fame
this season was an upset victory
over Princeton two weeks ago.
Outside of this win the Ivy Lea-,
guers haven't had much to boast
about,
However, they can't be counted
.out altogether, Two of its indi
vidual per for mers will bear
watching Saturday night. Forward
Jim Gorden is currently ranked
43rd among the nation's scorers,
by, the INCAA, Gorden is aver- I
aging 20.5 points a game.
But probably the man who will
give the Nittanies the most trouble
will. be center Frank Sundstrom
who is running among the leaders
in the rebounding department.
The big pivot man ranks fourth
in the nation with an average of
21.3 recoveries off the boards,
For the Lions. Jesse Arnelle con
tinues to Lead the individual
scorers. His 17 points against the
Bullets boosted his season total
to 351 points. The - towering cen
ter was ranked 25th in the scor
ing department prior to the
Gettysburg contest.
Georgetown comes to Ree Hall
Thursday and the Owls will be
in town next Saturday to close
out the 19-game schedule,
Lion Scoring Ace
Jesse Arnelle is the first basket
ball player in Penn •State history
to top 1000 •points in three years
of varsity play.
Union run. The defending IC4A
king' is Bob Keegan of Seton Hall,
Both Haines and Keegan have
eqtialed the IC4A record of 0:06.2
this season.
Nittany Coach Chick Werner
has entered Bill Youkers in the
60-yard high hurdles. Manhattan's
top hope in this event - is Pratt.
The Jasper ace copped the title
in 1952 and placed second last
year. Dick Mathewson is another
threat and so is IC4A outdoor
champion Wally Monahan of Pitt,
Darthmouth's Pete McCreary,
runner-up in the outdoor high
hurdles last season rounds out the
star-studded field.
Don Austin will run the mile
for the Lions and Red Hollen will
be in the two-mile run. In the
shotput Werner has entered Rosey
Grier and Charley Blockson and!
in the broad jump Pollard and
Ron Johnson ,will try to pick up
some points for the Nittany har-
$2.00 per Couple
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1954
Penna. Boxing
Commission
Bans Bratton
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25 OP)—
Johnny Bretton, former welter
weight champion accused of an
"unsatisfactory showing" it ictS.•
ing a one-sided decision to John
ny Saxton in their nationally tele
vised fight last night was suspend
ed today by the Pennsylvania
State Athletic Commission.
At the same time, Boxing Com
missioners George Jones and John
Holahan tied up $4,770 of Brat
ton's purse pending a full-dress
hearing March 10. when Chair
man Frank Wiener will be back
from a winter vacation.
Bratton and his • manager, Hy
mie Wallrnan, admitted it was "a
bad fight,"
In New York, J.m Norris, presi
dent of the International Boxing
Club whi c h co-sponsored the
fight, said Bratton will have to
prove his fittness !`in other rings,
not ours"—before he is employed
by the IBC again.
1M Milt Entries
Due March 4
E'ntries for th e- intramural
wrestling tournament, which will
begin March 17, must be turned
in at the intramural office in Rec
Hall, by 4;30 p.m. Thursday.
An organization may enter one
contestant in each weight. Inde
pendent students may enter as
individuals and need not be mem
bers of a team,
A team may have three alter
nates although the alternates'need
not specify a particular weight
class, and may wrestle- as a sub
stitute for the regular entry in
any weight. All other contestants
must compete in the clasS they
enter.
comment by
The contestants will be per
mitted a three-pound allowance.
That is, a man may weigh in at
124 pounds for the 121 pound
class.
Bouts will consist of three two
minute p. erio d s. No overtime
periods will be' wrestled, The ref
eree will render a decision in cases
where the match cannot be de
cided on points. Under intramural
rules any time advantage scores
one point.
Champions of any previous IM
wrestling tournament must move
up at least one weight from that
in which they won a champion
ship.
The entry fee is 25 cents per
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