Page Eight SCARLET AND BLACK Saturday. January 3|. |970 SCARLET & BLACK SPORTS 10 Against 4: Nationally Ran/(ell Holstra Defeats Grinnell Wrestlers, 46- 0 A Letter to Cl Young Man: A Letter to a Young Man: I write to you, young athlete, of something most extraordi- nary, which I feel I must share. It may not be the case, nor indeed would Iwant it to be taken so, were it not; far be that from me. But you see, my friend, a most remarkable thing, as 1 may have intimated before, seems to have happened, or not, as the case may be. I seemed to lind myself in a dank, warm, wet, and humid room, of the sort with a grimy, uncarpeted floor, quite lacking in the most elementary armchairs, and With lights in the ceiling (i). It was utterly wretched. From afar there waited towards me intimations oi steam and (could these ears decieve me?) the sound of hoarse cries. Can I properly describe to you the stench of decay, the slimey sweatsocks cast aside like so many . . . . cast off sweatsocks? Probably not. In any case it was clear to me that l Wasin No Place Meant For Man, Or perhaps in The Place of Man, depending, again, on your disposition in these matters. But peace, “Let me continue, let the tale bide its own telling." It is mine to be but an humble Vessel, Now I knew where I might be, and why Ihad come. AsI moved to the far wall, lined with steely lockers, my wretched thoughts ran frantic: ”James’ ‘Antique collossus’, perhaps? Or perhaps not. Again it all depends." (Fool that I was! i l) I reached the wall in horrors Cont. on P. 7 A tough and experienced Hofslra wrestling team came decisively defeated one senior, two freshmen, and a sophomore the Grinnell wrestling team. The 46-0 shutout was not unexpected, given a fullyrstaffed and nationally ranked Hofstra squad and one from Grinnell which spanned only four ol the eleven classes. As a matter of class, Hofstra had it. The Grinnell Wrestlers are out on the mat warming up or talking to each other and the University oi Iowa wrestler who had come to fill out the program with exhibition bouts. All of a sudden, out comes Hofstra in matched bathrobes. They're not smiling, they’re not even looking. What's more, they all have on the same wrestling shoe, and the soles curve up at the edges, and it says ”Tiger" where it ought tosay“U.S.KEDS.” Chuck Farr at 118 lbs. was Grinnell’s first entry. Although apparently matching his op- ponent in strength, and not much outclassed in speed, Farr could not avoid a pin from an obviously Skilled opponent. Grinnell forfeited the next three weight classes, losing points equivalent to pins against them in each. Iowa takes one of these on points, and Hofstra cleans up the other two. By this time the Grinnell spectators are cheering for the University of Iowa wrestlers. Grinnell’s only returning let» terman, senior Mason Klipple excited a rather intent crowd in a match, going all three rounds with a rather Wells matched opponent. Although tiring in the second period, rebounded to a position of ad- vantage in the third, moving the crowd to a round of hysteria. Klipple spent some time on the mat being choked and managed to get up again late in the period. This, sadly, was too late, and he went down on points. Alter another forfeit, Jim Weiser, a freshman wresuing abovehis usual weight class, took the floor, but was dropped by Hofstra at 2:06 into the first period. After some further defaults, out comes Washington Alston, clearly the baddest looking wrestler of the evening. Although going the full three rounds, he never quite got into gear and seemed unable to follow through on a number of potentially dangerous moves. This was far and away the most exciting bout of the evening, with the scores just about evenly matched through the second period. After this, Alston seemed to slow down, Swimmers Top Monmouth; Final Meet Next Friday For the last two years before this, Monmouth has taken the dual meet with us by winning the last relay, heating us by one point. Last June, however, it Seems that almost the whole Monmouth swimming team graduated, the only exception being David Lloyd, a cocky but good swimmer (their captain this year). He swam fairly well, but he was the only bright spot on the team. Monmouth won only the two relays and the backstroke, Lloyd being in on two of their three wins. ‘ The meet was almost boringly victorious (such a new thing tor Grinnell athletics rendered it exciting however). “Jolly Rally” Bruce Rollins’ 200 breaststroke pleased the crowd immensely, as he would push off, coming out of his turns. and not come up for his first breath until he was halfway down the pool. Since Bruce had never swum the breast stroke in competition, his win was very impressive. A stroke behind Bruce, Mike Bye turned in his best time of the year in that event. In the 200, Kelly swam a 1255.0, for a new school and pool record. Daley swam his usual great and Mike Burkle did an excellent job in the last relay, turning in his fastest time this season. Done Linke scored his best ever in the diving, and I turned in 231.50 points for mine. No one was really pushed in this meet, so overall we had a strong but not tremendous showing. Today we are at Lawrence, in Wisconsin, lacing our toughest competition of the year. Tomorrow we are up against Beloit, which shouldn't pose as much of a threat. Our only remaining home meet is next Friday. Olaf will be here, and it promises to be a good meet. We have put together a good team but we need support. Come watch a winner for a change. and he folded on points. Then followed the final, but inevitable forfeit, this time of the heavyweight class. Then it was all over and they were folding the chairs and putting the scoring machine away, Washington Alston took off his shoes and iay down for a while on the gym mat as the crowd trailed off. This had been a match that Grinnell could not really lose. We were expecting an unmitigated stomp, We could have fulfilled this expectation, or bettered it, but in no way could we have done worse. Of our (our losses two were on pins, but two got away on points. More importantly the team” can now forget about the Great Upcoming Hoistra Stomp and work for good individual records in the Midwest Con- ference. They escaped a difficult business with some honor, and they can go on to some more reasonalbe com petition. Grinnell Blades Tie State Icemen; Hoopslers Split Two Road Games The Grinnell Hockey Club tied a previously undefeated and untied Iowa State team 44 last Sunday at the Des Moines Ice Arena. Behind 472 with one minute remaining in the game, Grinnell slammed home two goals within 15 seconds of each other to earn the tie. The first was placed on a rush by the “Zippy Line" with Captain-Coach Mike Schafler Scoring on a 15 foot rebound shot. Bruce Graham and John Omstad earned assists on the goal. 15 seconds later the tying goal was scored by Steve Leighton with an assist by Schaffer. Leighton put Grinnell out in front 1»0 in a breakaway in the first period. Iowa State then scored three consecutive goals, but Graham brought Grinnell to within one by evading the lowa State defense to fire a ten foot slap shot past their goalie. Although Grinnell was outshot 26-16, goalie Jeff Dick, who is averaging 29 saves a game, kicked out 22 shots to preserve the tie. Ina game marked by excessive roughness, a total of 26 minutes in penalties was awarded. The third period featured a fight between Hemmingway of Grinnell and Scheveny I.S.U. Returning from a slew of road games, Grinnell’s basketball squad stands now at 274 in Mid- west Conference play and 377 overall. The Pioneers divided 3 pair of games in Wisconsin last weekend, topping Lawrence so 60, but losing out w a strong Ripon team 90-73. Grinnell put in a lesthhanA superb performance at Law- rence, although denting the Vikings badly in the second half with a strong front line. Behind 32730 at intermission, Grinnell put in its best shooting display of the season: Mout 0(54 from the field, and 20 out of 23 from the line. Sophomore Bob Burnett came through with an especially imr pressive showing, bagging 26 points and Zl) rebounds, 0n the other hand, Ripon out performed the Pioneers. The Redmen put on an outstanding offensive performance in the first half, hitting 21 of 33 attempts from the field and building a vir» tually unassailable 4977.7 lead. Greg Bombinski led the Grins nell team with 22 points, his high for the season, while Burnett and Hanson claimed 15 and 13 scores respectively. Grinnell‘s basketball team starts a five game home stand tomorrow night against Cornell.