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Preliminaries to Be Cleared

In Double S ession ; Title Bouts Saturday Night

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By GEORGE S. ALDERTON Samson and the Philistines Muscular legs and arms or some

four score college men will be locked in athletic embrace at Michjgan sune college today as U1e 15th an­nual National Collegiate ALhletlc association tournament opens over maLS spread in Jenison fleldhouse.

With we.lghlng-ln ceremorues and the draw for bracket positions scheduled for mid-day, the grapplers v.-ho come from 23 colleges and unl­\'ersjties were to get down to Ule business of preliminary competition this afternoon and then engage in quaner-!inal matches tonight. The afternoon program was to start at 2 o'clock and t.be evening ses­sion at 8 o'clock.

Winners t~night will continue into the semj-final stage of the meet Friday afternoon. with consolatlon round bouts tos...c:ed in for good meas­ure. and starting at 8 o'clock Satur­day n ight the contestants who h.ave sun-h·ed the :steady shooting will vie !or n at ional championships. The programs today and tomorrow aft­ernoon v.ill be lengthy affairs. There v.ill be continuous action on two maLS. Saturday rugbt the meet will be topped off with a 16-bout cham­pionship carnh·aL Winners of the first four places in each of the etght weight divisions wUl be deter­mmed.

Three Team Fight Oklahoma A. & M. college carried

the team championship into the Spartans' big :sporu palace today. The famous Aggles from the 'Big Slx are fa \'Ored to keep their title, but not wltilout a fight from both Purdue university and Michigan State college. The Bollermakerli, Big 10 champions. a nd the Spartans. i who were runnersup to the Agglcs a '-' ...._,_;;........;.,.. _ _;;. ___ , _,_.._.....,__ ~·ear ago and bowed to them In a dual meet tills year by a 19-15 6COre, are both well-heeled with strong grapplers.

Team championship points a re collected only for the f irst four places. A champion returns the team stx points. tile runnerup berth Is v.·onh !our, third place earns two polnLS and tounh place one.

Members or the W resWng Coach­es' association yesterday afternoon and e\·enlng held a two-session "clirlic" M the Hotel Olds. They d.lscu...c;sed holds , counter-holds and

ConUnu~d on Nut Pace

Dave Hines came aJl the way f rom San J ose, Ca l , LO enter the 155-pound division of th e N. C. A. A. tournament only to be stricken by t.be measles yesterday a nd races a five-day sojourn In the Olln Me­morial Health center at the col-

lege. The tournament will be all over when Uley turn disconsolate Da vid loose again. He Is shown here with Nurse Betty Graham who may have a little trouble cheering up her disappointed pa-

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Dick DIBatUsta. from the Univer­sity of Pennsylvania. Is the 175-pound N. C. A. A. wrestling cham­pion and has never been defeaLed. He is known in the college wres­tling world as one strong guy. Yesterday when he took n work­out. at Michigan State college pre­paratory to entering t.he N. c. A. A. tournament there today n.nd tomorrow, he was set upon by the famous Jennings twins, Michigan State's N. c. A. A. champions. Murllef t, and Berle, right. I t was all In fun, of course. for the big Penn football star, who pla ys a t 190 pounds on the gridiron. wns n little too much for Lhe S llf\rtnns . They had trouble burroundlng hhn.

Concluded from Precedinr P are

other matters or lnter~t. They learned that In some quarters the college atilleLic department is being nsked to Include j lu Jlt.,u In Its phy:.,lr nl ech1cntlon program . ror the l>t:nerlt or tho.~e expect ing to en ter rnllltury service. nnd tile wres tling coache.'i are expected to provide the 1

Inst ruct ion. Frndley Collins. vice pres iden t or the associRLion. a nd conch a t Michigan S tott . called In ~crgeaut Rk hurd Tubbs o f the Mlchigrlll State pollee, a jlu Jlt.m tx­pert, to demonst rnte ~me of the technique.

The weigh ing-In ceremony was scheduled for 9 o'clock this morning and the draw Wll.'i planned for noon. --

Three members of the United States Nn\'u l academy team. all eastern Intercollegiate champions, came Into the city last n ight via Penn.~~ l\'ania Central a irlines. The midshipmen climbed aboa rd the cra ft at Wnshington, D. C.

Ridge Riley, athletic publicity di­rector at Penn State college, found hlmselr occupying a new role -that of "coach" of t.he Nittany Lions . Riley, no expert on bar arm or half-nelson holds, v.•as merely act­ing In the absence of Coach c. M. Speidel who has been ca lled up for na vy service. _ _ I

"Corky'• Cortright wns the Mlch· lgnn "conch." Conch Cliff Keen of the Woh·erines ha.~ a !J o ans wered the ca ll to the color~; with the nan· and Cour tright brought the grap'­plers to town. Corky's own 11on, Bill. 1.~ n member or the Michigan sQuad llt. J65 pounds.

H Capt. Sid Martu or tilt Okla­homa A. & M . squad hadn't been the victim of an attack or nostalgia fh·e years ago he mlgbt be wres­tling !or Michigan State rather Ulan the champions. S id was enrolled at State as a fre.~hman but he got the yearning for his old home and re turned to Oklahoma to en ter A . & M .

Ralph H . Young. a thletic director at the college, was host last n ight at a buffet supper for the coaches fol­lowmg the evening .5ession. T hey met In the American room at the Hotel Olds. During the evening he presented coach Jnml's Reed or the P rinceton team, prc.~lden t o f the coaches' group, and Doctor Clapp, chairman o r the rules committee. wi th "loving" c ups. Appropriately, they were of tln and bore ears!

Doctor Clapp was a college a th­lete 'way back when. In J898 he act a world 's record a t Chicago by pole vaulLing 12 fee t. He still wears the medal that atlesl o; to h is reat. It Is of 24-<:a rat gold and bears the In­ter-locked irt~lgn ia of the Chicago Athletic club and the New York

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