IRBDAY. MARCH 3. 1955 Wrestlers Seek Whirlwind Finish at Pitt By BOY WILLIAMS ' Penn State’s wrestlers, deter mined to finish their 1956 cam paign .in a whirlwind finish that will include knocking off two of the Blast's top teams—Lehigh-and Pitt—-are out to serve warning this weekend. The Lions travel to Pitt Satur day for the. annual finale at the Panther’s spacious field house—a place where wrestling gets about as much attention as geeche bird hunting in the Andes. Although the Panthers took the Eastern title last year as the as sociation’s greenhorn team, they don’t get the student backing the Lions are accustomed to. Penn State knows the boys from Sky scraper tT. know their way on the mats. Coach Rex Peery has piloted his Panthers to an 8-2 record and Relay Squad, Youkers, Pollard in K of C Meet Bill Youkers, Art Pollard, and a mile relay team will represent Penn State in the final indoor track meet of the season at Madison Square Garden. Saturday's Knights of Co lumbus meet will bring together some of the nation’s top track and field stars for the final competition on the banked boards. Last weekend in the intercollegiate championships Youkers, rated as one of the most im proved hurdlers in the country* finished third in the finals. Rod Perry, the Lions’ No. 1 hurd ler, had been slated to run this weekend, but a painful heel in jury has forced him to be dropped in favor of Youkers. At the IC4A title meet Saturday Youkers won his preliminary and quarter-final heats and came in a close second to Manhattan’s Charlie Pratt in the semi-finals. Youkers placed third in the finals, with Pratt in first, and Perry second. Youkers Impressive Youkers has seen action only twice this season, and both times has been impressive. In his only other competition Youkers placed third in the 70-yard highs at East Lansing, Mich., in a quadrangular meet with Michigan State, Mis souri, and Ohio State. He did not place in the low hurdles event during this affair. Youkers has been overshadowed this season by Perry, but has displayed .fine talent and ranks with the best collegiate timber-toppers. Pollard, the IC4A outdoor 100- yard dash king, has divided his efforts betweep the dashes and the mile relay and will probably run in both events this weekend. In last year’s outdoor title meet Pollard tied the century mark at 9.6 sec. and lowered the standard in the 220 before being injured in the finals of the latter race. Haines Edges Pollard Johnny Haines of Penn barely edged Pollard in the fight for the 60-yard laurels Saturday. Pol lard won his first three heats in this event, but was consistently getting off to bad starts. “The Coatesville Comet” did not get off to a start in the finals, and although he gained on Haines, he missed upsetting the defending tijlist by inches. The lineup for the mile relay quartet is not set. However, it appears as though John Morin and Harry Mitchell will run two of the quarter-mile laps. Among the top prospects to fill the other two slots are Pollard, Skip Slo cum, Dave Leathern, Bob Matz, and Bruce Austin./ has a triumverate of undefeated i grapplers includihg his son, Ed, I at 130 pounds, 167-pounder Ed De- Witt, and Joe Solomon at 177 pounds. Four of Peery’s five re maining matmen have cornered records that are well above the .600 margin. . _ , DeWltt was second in the East ern last year at 157 pounds and has seen action this year in both the 157 and 167 classes. One of DeWitt’s most impressive wins was against Ed Rooney of Syra cuse in the 167-pound tussle when he dropped the Orange Eastern champ, 8-7. . At 157 pound Don Huff—one of the six men Peery has had to rely on to help rebuild his team—has seen action in nine contests and has a 6-2-1 record. Huff and DeWitt can, and do, switch weight when the need arises. Injuries Dim Gym Team's Hopes for E IGA Victory The chances of the Penn State gymnasts taking the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics Association title for the third straight; year by virtue of a win over Syracuse Saturday were made quite a bit dimmer when the Lions conquered their fourth consecutive EIGA foe, Temple, last weekend. Dion Weissend, promising Lion sophomore all-around performer, suffered an ankle injury while going through his tumbling rou tine and as a result is very un likely to accompany the Lions when they visit the Orange. Weissend’s injury only added to a man-sized headache Nittany mentor Gene Wettstone possessed even before the Temple duel. Tony Cline, side horse and hor izontal bar, suffered a shoulder injury during practice last week and didn’t appear' against the Owls. And it is also doubtful if he’ll make the Syracuse trip. Two Major Obstacles So, Wettstone is confronted with two major obstacles as he goes for his third unbeaten EIGA season—how to replace Weissend and Cline Although Lion Captain Karl Schwenzfeier has been the big gun in the Nittpnies’ attack in each of their six previous outings, to fill in for both of the injured Lions and at the same time per form to his capacity in the posi tions he’s taken so far would be an impossibility. Also, an EIGA rule prevents an individual from entering more than three differ ent events in any one meet. All that remains is to juggle the lineup hoping to gain valu able second and third place points from a group consisting of mostly sophomores—some of whom have had considerable experience, but the majority of whom can’t be considered seasoned veterans. Consistent performers all sea son Skeets Haag, Bill Paxton, and Skip Heim—should be able THE P/W(.Y CQM.EGIAN. STATE COU.69E, PtNMSYIVANIA Dan Wisniewski, one of three t sophomores who have carried much of the winning brunt for the Pittsburghers has tagged a winning 7-1-1 slate against medi ocre opposition. He lost to Cor nell’s Tom Brady, 4-2, and drew with George Finck. Syracuse, 1-1. In the pre-season Wilkes tourney Wisniewski was decisioned by Werner Seel on a referee’s de cision. The Lions’ heavy. Bill Oberly, in comparison, defeated Finck, 6-4, and tied with Seel last week, 5-6, in a nine-minute thriller, Working one weight below Wis niewski is Joe Solomon, the Pan thers’ National 167-pound champ. Wisniewski has CBrded an impres sive 10-0 record. Solomon has been the second part of the Pan ther’s solid one-two punch from •the 167-pound weight to 177. to hold their own with "the Orange acrobats. Have Big Bearing But in the performances of sev eral Nittanies, including Leroy Fritch, Dud Potter, Don Rehm, Bill and Chuck Marshall, A 1 Poy dock, and Chuck Fegley will have a huge bearing on the final out come of the duel. Most of these have contributed their share of second, third and fourth piece points over the sea son, and if they can keep pace with the Syracuse performers, the Nittanies have an even chance of rolling to their third league title in as many years. Stella Walsh has won the Na tional AAU Senior Women’s Pen tathlon championship five con secutive years. Your headlight WON’T NEED GLASSES if you get the wonderful new type all-weather SEALBEAM HEADLIGHTS that cut through rain and fog and give more light than ever before! WIMMER'S SUNOCO 502 E. College Ave. Vi Block from Simmons Undefeated DeWitt has been fol lowed by Solomon at 177 pounds ip eight of the Panthers ten matches. Solomon has also shown he can slide into the 167 pound weight and win—he has done it twice this year. Ed Peel*y and Bob Cook have been Coach Peery’s two most proipisinglightweights, with 123- pounoer TBlll Hulings taking the third seat. Peery is 8-0 at 130 pounds and Cook has an 8-2 card at 147 pounds. Hulings has han dled most bf the work at 123 and has tome out with a 6-3-1 record. At 137 pounds Peery has one of the weakest links in his team with Nick Swentosky, who has jufit hit the .500 mark with a 5-5 score. Swentosky has wrestled every meet thus far, indicating that Peery does not have a sub stitute he can use to help strength en the weak spot. Spring Grid Clinic A clinic for high school coaches once again will climax spring football practice at Penn State, where coach Rip Engle will bring Ids 20 days of drills to a close April 29-30. Third Title Shot Roaey Grier, Penn State’s giant football tackle, will be shooting for his third and last IC-4A shot put title this spring. The Lin den,'N.J., senior Won Indoor and outdoor honors in his last two tries. SEE i . . Buy . . . ARROW SHIRTS STATE COLLEGE PAGE SEVEN Eight Gain In Fraternity Handball Play Eight fraternity men advanced into the second round of the intra mural handball singles tourna ment Monday night. Three of the contests resulted in forfeit victories or Stan Dore, Alpha Tau Omega, James Cald well, Theta Chi, r.nd Arthur Crum, Sigma Nu, over Herb Hol lowell, Delta Tau Delta, Russ Mandeville, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Lloyd Mengel, Delta Sigma Phi, respectively. One other con test resulted in a double forfeit as neither Doug Henderson, Phi Gamma Delta, nor Sanford Burke, Sigma Alpha Mu, appeared for their match. In the other match es, Al Hinkle, Lambda Chi Alpha, humbled Harry Lesher, 21-0, 21-1; Dave Adams, Delta Up silon, trounced Jerry Rosenberg; Phi Epsilon PL 21-5, 21-4; Paul Dierks, Phi Delta Theta, stopped Don Schwartz, Zeta Beta Tau, 21- 6, 21-16; and Norton Freedman, Alpha Epsilon Pi, easily defeated Columbus Cascio, Alpha Chi Rho, 21-1, 21-2. Blagetti Leads Golfers BATON ROUGE, La., March 2 U P) —Leo Biagetti of Sandusky, Chio, fired an eight under par 64 today to lead the qualifiers in the fourth annual $12,500 Baton Rouge Open golf tournament.
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