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By DAVE BRONSTEIN
Delta Upsilon needed only 30
minutes last night before wrap
ping up the 1954 fraternity wres
tling championship. DU scored 103
points. Second place went to Chi
Phi with 98 points.
Third, with 73 points, was Del
ta Chi. Pi Kappa Phi copped
fourth with 64' points and Sigma
Phi Epsilon was fifth with 62.
Fi v e independent champions
were crowned with John Clark,
165-pounder, a returning victor.
Art Marks, DU, upended 128-
pound Bob Wylie, Pi Kappa Phi,
with 30 seconds remaining in the
third period with a half-nelson
and body press. Wylie, runner-up
in 1952, and 121-pound champion
in '53, couldn't solve the puzzle
of Marks' holds. Marks rode Wy
lie out the second period befor:
securing the pin in the third.
Huey Wins
Pete Huey, Phi Delta Theta 145-
pounder, defeated Bob Brubaker,
Delta Upsilon, last year's 135-
pound titleholder, 6-0. Huey
wasn't to be denied victory after
an early first period takedown.
Clark won a 5-2 decision over
Dean Crawford for his second
consecutive IM crown. Clark had
a takedown, a reversal, and time
advantage, while Crawford was
credited with two escapes.
The fraternity 175-pound title
went to Winnie Doederlein, Kap
pa Sigma. Doederlein reversed
Tom Dangerfield, Delta Chi, late
in the third period and pinned
Dangerfield, using a half nelson
and body press, with one second
remaining in the match.
Knepp Triumphs
Jim Knepp, Alpha Chi Sigma,
won the 121-pound crown with a
time advantage, 3-2 win over Don
Farmelo, Chi Phi. Knepp rode
Farmelo the third period for the
victory.
Bill Hess scored a 6-4 decision
over Roy Tait for the independent
heavyweight crown. Frank Reich,
Theta Kappa Phi, won the frater
nity heavyweight title by pinning
Bob DiJoseph, Sigma Phi Epsilon
with a body press at 4:30.
Charley Groff, Kappa Delta
Rho, 145-pound champ of '53,
came from behind to beat 155-
pound Charley Schrey, Phi Kap
pa Psi: With 15 seconds remaining
in the contest, Groff recorded a
near fall for a 10-8 decision. Tom
Larsen won the independent 155-
pound crown by pinning Sher
mann Fogg in 1:45.
Spory Wins, 5-4
Al Deamer lost to Jim Spory in
the independent 145-pound cham
pionship. Spory won 5-4 on a time
advantage point.
Armour Black, Chi Phi, scored
a close 3-2 win over Ralph Cry
der, Beta Theta Pi, for the 135-
pound championship. Dave Jones
won the 135-pound independent
crown by pinning Bob Powell in
5:30.
John Milson, Alpha Zeta, cop
ped the 165 -pound fraternity
championship by topping Bill
Caryl, Sigma Pi, 3-0. Milson was
credited with a reversal and time
advantage.
Arnelle Sets Record
Jesse Arnelle, two-sport athlete,
tightened his grip on Penn State
scoring records during the 1954
basketball campaign. He set a new
season high of 507 points, shatter
ing his two-year-old mark of 492,
and also fattened his career total
until it now stands at 1407. He
has one more year of eligibility.
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ARMOUR BLACK, 135-pound intramural wrestler representing
Chi Phi, is pulled to the mat by Ralph Cryder, Beta Theta Pi, in
last night's IM championships at Recreation Hall. Black won 3-2
on time advantage. Delta Upsilon won the, team crown, with
Chi Phi runner-up.
edenk's No. 1 Problem
Is 'Who Will Catch?'
The biggest problem facing Nittany baseball Coach Joe Bedenk
is in connection with his-catchers. Bedenk, who will be guiding the
destinies of the Penn State baseball team for the 24th season, lost
last year's three top catchers via graduation and the call of Uncle
Sam.
Bill Leonard, the No. 1 man
ceived his sheepskin in the spring
of 1953. Bill Rhoda, and Matt
Yanosich are all serving with the
Army now. Rhoda was a two-year
letterman for Bedenk's squad.
Bedenk has his eyes on four
top candidates for the catching
chores. Art Cusick and George
Ettinger, both juniors, are vieing
for the job along with two sopho
omores, Lou D'Orsano and Phil
Saunders.
Cusick broke into the Nittany
lineup several times last season
and is the only one of the four
who has had any varsity compe
tition with the Blue and White.
Bedenk said he didn't know
which of the four would be in the
starting lineup for the season's
opener April 10 against West Vir
ginia. The Lions will play a dou
bleheader on the Beaver Field
diamond with the Mountaineers
that day.
The catcher is recognized as
one of the most valuable men on
any baseball squad, and together
with the pitcher, second baseman,
shortstop, and center fielder,
forms the highly important "cen
ter line." Present-day baseball ex
perts rate this "line" as the nu
cleus around which teams must
be built.
The only weak link in the chain
forming the "line" appears to be
the catching. However, Bedenk
said he felt he had adequate ma
terial to solve this problem. Find
ing the right man for the back
stop slot will be a tough job for
Bedenk, but the Lion coach is
confident that he'll have a good
catcher on opening day.
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behind the plate last season, re
Topping Says
Ya n keel Are
Over-Confident
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April
1 (W) Co-owner Da n Topping
sharply criticized the attitude of
veteran members of the New
York Yankees today, saying the
world champions had become "ov
er-confident."
"They think nobody can beat
them," he adde d. "The five
straight pennants have got them
to thinking that way. Well, they'll
have to get that idea out of• the
back of 'their heads."
. Topping held a long conference
with general manager George
Weiss and manager Casey Sten
gel last night to discuss the Yank
ees' miserable showing in spring
training. They won only eight of
24 games and dropped the last
five in a row.
The Yankees head north tomor
row and don't play any more ma
jor league competition until they
meet Brooklyn April 9 at Ebbets
Field.
Asked if he was concerned over
the Yankees' poor spring record,
Topping shrugged his shoulders
and replied:
"Stengel isn't disturbed' so why
should I be?"
Sixty. to Fight.::
In . Rin:•: NCAAs
Six NCAA. champions will pace the field next weekend in the
three-day National Collegiate Athletic Association's 17th tourna
ment at Rec Hall. But only eleven of the 60 collegiate boxers tenta
tively scheduled for entry will go into the tournament unbeaten.
Of the six champs returning, three copped 1953 honors, .while
the remaining three won laurels
in the 1952 tourney..
Wisconsin, which has submitted
entries with three National titlists,
leads the fourteen schools. Ray
Zale, 178-pounder, won NCAA
honors last year for the Badgers.
Returnees from 1952 from Wis
consin will be Ray Kuboyama,
119-pounds, and Bob Morgan, 147-
pound crown winner. Kuboyama
won the 112-pound honors in the
Olympic year tournament, but
will move up to the 119-poun
lass this year.
Vic Kobe, Idaho State's 119-
pound 1953 champ, Tom Hickey,
Michigan State, and 165-pound
Gordon Gladson of Washington
State, round out the list of six
veteran champions. Kobe and
Hickey are 1953 titlists; Gladson
won his title in 1952, but passed
up the 1953 entry.
Wisconsin's Kuboyama suffered
his only defeat at the hands of
Michigan State's .Choken Maeka
wa. But Michigan State, previous
ly counting on Maekawa and
Hickey to bolster their attack in
an outside chance to defeat fa
vorite Wisconsin and dethrone
defending champion Idaho State
College, received a severe blow
recently; both Hickey and Mae
kawa have been rated scholastic
ally ineligible for NCAA compe
tition by Michigan State authori
ties
Favored Wisconsin, Maryland,
and North Carolina A&T each
have six entries; San Jose State
will enter five. Syracuse, Idaho
State, and Hampton Institute
have entered four each. Idaho,
Louisiana Sta t e, Washington
State, and Michigan State each
have three entries; University of
Virginia has named two, and Ar
my has one.
Representing the East, will be
two champions each from 'Penn
State, Maryland, and Virgirr.v.
and single champions from• Syra;
cuse and Army. Three of the eight
—Adam Kois, Penri State 178-
pounder, Pete Potter,l.s6-pounder
from Virginia, and Garry Gar
ber, Maryland 119-pounder—were
runners-up in the Nationals last
year.
Other champions from the -East
are Gerald Jafee, Syracuse, 132-
pounds; Tony Mansell, Army, -139;
Jack Stokes, 147-pounder from
Penn State; Estol Nichols, Mary
land, 165; and Leo Coyne, Mary
land heavyweight. Stokes was
voted the most valuable entry
in the 1954 Eastern tourney. .
From the Pacific Coast Inter
collegiate Boxing Association
three champions and two runners
up have been entered both by
FRIDAY. APRIL 2, 1954
An Ineligible Champ
Torn Hickey
Washington State and San Jose
State.
Washington has entered - these
champions: Eddy 0 1 s o n, 125--
pounds; Gladson, 165-pounds; and
Gil Inaba, 132 pounds. San Jose
State has entered Vic Harris; 139
pounds; Dick Bender, 156-pound
er; and Tom Stern, 178 pounds.
Also from the Pacific Coast
IBA, Idaho State has entered
heavyweight champ Mike Mc-
Murtry, while Idaho entered Lynn
Nichols, 147 pounds.
The East trails the Pacific
Coast by one . entry with eight
champions in the NCAAs,, seven
- central intercollegiate, and two
northern California champions are
scheduled for competition.
"Spring, Drills Spat
Penn , State's Spring football
drills for the second year will be
split in two. Coach Rip Engle
hopes to complete ten days of
practice 'prior to Easter, and the
last ten after the holiday. Only
20 days are permitted under the
NCAA code.
Entry Deadline
Entries for th e intramural
badminton singles and hand
ball doubles tournaments must
be turned in at Rec Hall by 4:30
p.m. today; according to Dutch
Sykes,• assistant Intramural di
rector. Entry fee for badmin
ton is 25 cents per man and the
fee for handball is 50 cents per
man.
The tournaments will ge t
under way Wednesday at Rec