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Lions 'Rule' EIWA Tournament
Johnston, Pepe, Adams
Emerge as Champions
Where would the Lion wrestling team have finished
Saturday night if it hadn't been for Earl Poust and LF
Walters?
This is what the 15,000 fans who witnessed Penn State'
thrilling victory at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling
Association tournament at Recreation Hall over the week
end are asking themselves. _
It was only a month and a half ago that the Penn State
Inatmen were on the verge of recording one of their w
,seasonal marks in .history.
Today they are the kingpi
bilrghls three-year claim to the;
title by beating the deflated Pan-i
thers, 74-61.
It was the first EIWA title for,
Penn State since 1953 and brought)
the Lion Eastern crown total to 13,.
the highest in the league. They'
first won the honor in 1918.
Pitt's captain Ed Peery, the 123-
pound champion, hauled in the
highest individual honors of the
tourney - when he received the
Most Valuable Player Award, se
lected by the coaches. and the,
John Fletcher Award, given to the,
man who has accumulated the:
most points in three years of com
petition in the tournament
Peery's total was 25. three bet
ter than the Lions' Sid Nodland.
Johnny Johnston. 130, Jo km
Pepe, 137. and Dave Adams, 147,
claimed three of the individual
championships in the tournament
hut it was the Poust-Walters com
bination which directly led to Ml
tam? title.
Between Them, the "Cinderella"
duo chalked up 19 points toward
the team championships—Walters
recording 11 and Poust eight.
Without those unexpected points.
the Lions would have lost the
crown to the men from Skyscrap-
-
er U., 61-55. i Johnston clinched the te a m,r23—_, creuz;;;L - srmett.... a.i.uoned c.-•
Of course credit must be given:championship when he decisioned Lehinrr,r'iLrAown .3. decisioned Weisen.
to Johnston, Pepe, Adams, and:Pitt's Vic DeFelice. 6-3. The 1956 1 30 arid, '4l igh '
Sid Nodland—who was runner-up champ completely outclassed De-, l37— Bienhowski. Pitt, der-Waned Smith. I
at 128. But the surprise .perform-;Felice whose points came late in i „ ti r'""L D ",,, 64- h ,„, i ,,,,„ 1 , I , , A.
ances.of Poust and Walters had a,the third period when Johnston' - -.7 y;;,;. -- iiin - k - it; - .i . I‘ll - rh;,ll. c T5'.7,,.i on e d
large bearing. was playing it safe. 137—Poust, Penn State, won by forfeit
Before the tourney opened, thei Pepe avenged a defeat to Joe r &al "tt '
final
whenl l67 R -- utg. W e h r i s t h e, 7 t '
I:yracus Pi e, decisioned Lecher,
Lions were given an outside Grail° in last year's
chance of stopping the favaredbe Beat the Lehigh 137 pounders 17—Volgena - u, Navy, won by forfeit over
:Nett ell. Colgate.
Panthers. but most Observers felt,4-2. Pepe scored all of his points
Pfrom
that Coach (Marley Speidel's 1957,0 n two takedowns in the secorni, ll "n r l t e7. D-n ra i nkli c l r fr il . e s!;;trst c ali i° 4 n -i!
mat version lacked the strength iii"period while the Engineer cap- S n EAII-FiNALS
the upperweights. But th at 's•tabi bad esc ap es i n both She m i d- , 123—Peery decisioned Cummings, 6 . 0; Nod
land deciaioned Creason, 7-6.
where Poust and Walters upset die and final stanzas. 13U—Johnston pinned klarbold, 4:23; Be
ttie dopesters. Poust finished third: Two unbeaten marks were pit-J Felice decisioned Weise tell. 8.2.
in the 157-pound division and;ted against each other in the 147-;137 7 - m Gratto pinned .. Smith. r 2:52 ; Pepe de-
Waiters was runner-up to Ron pound title scrape when Adams.l47' ra ed ntoro . k iecisio -' l l. Dauglienbau b.
Flemming of Franklin & Mar-!met Dick Santoro of Lehigh. Ad-' r 3. Ad decisioned
1 ...,,- . asns Yeats, 4-1. g
Shall at 177. lams topped the sophomore San-1154—Vincent decisioned Poust, 3-1. over-'
i Liner; Hamer won by forfeit over scimit_'
Besides Penn State's tb r e e.toro 4-3. on the basis of a three- 167—Jakinson elecisioned Leaber, 6-1; Fried
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champions and F & M's lone t i tle- ( minute time advantage. it wasi man elechtioned White, 7-6.
bolder, three 'Pitt grapplers andtsweet revenge for Adams, who 177—Flemming deci s ioned v4Cem "' 6-3;
one Lehigh matinan grabbed top:lost the 1956 title to another Le-1
Walters won by default over Newell, Col
honors. ate-
Pitt had Ed Peery at 123,1 high star, Ed Eichelberger. Hwt—Sehirf decisioned Pfrommer, 3-0;
Dave Johnson at 167, and Ron! Walters almost pulled off a vic-1 strwmie decisioned Dunlop, 3.2-
'SEAM 'TOTALS
Schirf at hernyweight while Le-story over Flemming before losing
high's Ed Hamer won the 157-'to the F&M matman, 5-3. The i nerr37. S tat e ,,.. 74 ,
28 Pitt L eta h rstll c 2r4 - .
pound crown. Lion footballer had a takedown s Navy
.
Yracuse 15, B ro wn 16, Colgate 9, Army 5,
All af the champions with the,and penalty point but the F&Mi Harvard 5, Rutgers 4, Penn 3, Columbia.
Pineeton,each,
Springfield and Temple, 2
exception of .Hamer was seeded scored two reversals and
a•s Dump Bucs
WEST PALM BEACH, F1a.,1
March 18 (?P)—A tenth trining,
triple by Mike Baxes scored;
Johnny Groth and gave the
Kansas City Athletics a 43i
- victory over the Pittsburgh
l
Pirates in an exhibition base-'
ball game today.
Croth had re - ached first on a
fielder's .choice.
'The Pirates held a 3-1 advan
tage going info The 'bottom belt
of the eighth, thanks to borne
runs by Dale Long in the sixth
and Sill Virden in the eighth.
both off Eddie Blake.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 18
(—Whitey Ford and Art Ditmar
combined to pitch their club's sec
ond straight shutout today as the
New York Yankees stopped the
Philadelphia Phil if-s, 5-0. They
allowed but three hits in extend
ing the staff's run of scoreless in
nings to 24.
BBADENTON. Fla., March 18
(in Andy Pafko's three-run hom
er in the eighth broke a 3-3 tie
and sent the Milwaukee Braves
off to a 1-3 Anchibition game tri
umph over the St. Louis Cardi
nals today.
Eddie Mathews, making
. first slot for the Bram Ya
By LCJ PRATO
of the East, snapping Pitts-
either one or two in his weig,
by the seeding committee. Har
, was picked for third.
Pousi was the only Lion who
;had reached the semi-finals that
was absent from the Saturday
night sessions. He lost a 3-1 over
time decision to Cornell's fop
seeded Sieve Vincent. in the after
'noon matches.
Vincent, who lost 7-0 to Hamer
in the finals. had beaten the Lion
iinnior 11-2 in a dual meet, but he
'didn't find the going easy this
time. A reverse and riding time
!in the two two-minute extra ,2 point for riding time for the win.
!periods provided the final ad- I Pitt's Dave Johnson, last year's
!vantage for Vincent after the 157-pound champion, added the
!regulation match had ended in a1 1 67-pound crown to his laurels by,
6-6 deadlock. !stopping Steve Friedman of Cor-1
Nodland finally met his match:nen, 8-1. Johnson, who mowed
in the 123-pound title bout wheniclown all of his opponents with
'Peery dethroned the 1956 c h am _irelative ease, made no exception
ipion, 5-2. The Lion captain scorediof Friedman, limiting the pre
ionly a second period takedown Iviously unbeaten Cornell grappler,
against the two-time National! to a third period escape.
champ, who picked up his points! Pitt's Ron Schirf copped the
t on two 'escapes, a takedown, and heavyweight crown for the first
- time advantage. time in his career by topping
llt was a double dose of bad Navy's Tony Stremic, 4-3. Last
,medicine for Nodland to swallow year Schirf was second to Penn ,
,for a victory would have given State's Bill Oberly.
:him the Fletcher award. CONSOLATION ROUND _
four gamer., bit safely twice in ;
three trips, each time dropping i
his hit into the "opposite*" field.
Iris initial hit. In the first in
ning, went for a ground rule
double.
SARASOTA, Fla., March 18 (2)
—Don Hoak, battling for the Red
legs' third base job, singled home
DAILY COLLEGIAN ' STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
in 10th, Yanks Win
* 4 4
--Daily Collegian Pboto by Dave Rarer
LION MATMAN Earl Poust applies a half nelson and crotch pinning hold to Cornell's Dick Vincent
in the waning moments of their regulation 157-pound semi-final match, but he could not gain
the tall. Seconds before. Palos' had reversed Vincent to tie the score 6-6 and send the match into
overtime. Poust lost in the extra session 3-1 but finished third in the division.
his third run of the game in the
! tenth inning today as Cincinnati
t-alliPd for a 7-6 eThilition base
:hall victory over the Boston Red
,Sox.
Pinch hittcr Jerry Lynch tripled
!and Johnny T-ernple walked in the
tenth before Hoak punched his tie
breaking single. •An infield out
added another score.
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LES WALTERS, Lion's 177-pounder, grabs leg of Ron Flemming,
of Franklin & Marshall. in an attempt to take him down during
Saturday's final action. Flemming edged out Walters, 5-3, to min
the title. Walters was the big surprise for the Lions advancing
into the finals when Colgate's Pete Newell seperated his shoulder
in the senlifinalc and had to default. Walters was leading at the
time of the injury. 2-0.
National Mat Tickets letic Association's office in Rec-
Tickets for the National Col- reation Hall. Individual and ser
ilegiate wrestling championships ies tickets, both reserved and un
-IMarch 29-30 at Pittsburgh, will i reserved, will be available daily
,go on sale tomorrow in the Ath-(through next Wednesday.
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