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tnree wresuersQualify For StateBy Snediker and Heyman, J.*Western’s casualty-ridden wrestling team went to Granite City last Friday and Saturday nights to compete in the Southern Illinois Sectional Tournament, and came away with third place. Three Western matmenqualified for the Illinois State Meet* ,at Champaign tomorrow and Saturday, namely Mayer, J., Weiner, and Broz.•Red Schmidt, coach of the RedRaider grapplers who had already completed a very successful season,did not count on losing the services of*several of his best wrestlers, Bruce Ratcliff, ace 135-pounder and captain of the /Western team, came down with the measles two days before the tourney and had no chance to compete. Ratcliff had defeated everyone in this sectional area and was expected to go far at the State Meet.John Wilson, Western’s heavyweight,■was also laid up with the three-day^ • disease and could not go to the Sectionals, .Coach Schmidt did his best to put together something in the line of a team to try to qualify as many men as possible for the State Meet. Several of Western’s top wrestlers mettough opponents in the opening matches and were eliminated from qualifying. However, the three boys named above won their opening matches to assure Western of. a few representatives at Champaign tomorrow night.Dan Weiner decisioned his first opponent in a close match in which only two points were awarded. Weiner was decisioned by a Warrior in the finals, but his second place enabled him to go to State. Chuck Broz, wrestling for Bruce Ratcliff, decisioned his initial opponent but was pinned in a final match. He also goes to State by vir-tiue of his second, as does Jerry Mayer, second-place winner in the heavyweight class. Mayer spotted each of his two opponents nearly fifty pounds apiece as he wrestled in Wilsoh’s place, and came out with a win and« loss.
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Alton Western Military Academy Shrapnel
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 24, 1949
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