Lee Wrestlers into Semifinal Round In Tourney Today

Johnny Lee moved into the semi-final round of the 47th annual eastern intercollegiate wrestling championships at Penn State yesterday with victories in his preliminary and quarter-final matches. Captain Dave Smith, the only other Crimson entry to win in the preliminaries, was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Lee pinned Ben Harer, of Princeton, with a cradle at 1:23 in the preliminaries and gained a 5 to 2 decision over Dominick Procopio, of Rutgers, in the quarter-finals. Smith scored on a default over Yale's Dave Penning at 2:54 and then was decisioned, 5 to 3, by Louis Tschirhart, of Syracuse. The semi-finals will be held this afternoon, the finals tonight.

Penn State leads in team competition with five men in the semi-finals, followed by Lehigh, Army, and Cornell, with four each. Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and Columbia qualified two each, Navy, Harvard, Temple, Franklin and Marshall one.

Results of the other preliminary matches:

137--Angus McLean (Brown) pinned Icko Iben with a sidearm chancery at 2:56; 147--Frank Scolpine (Navy) decisioned Bud Adams, 8-1; 157--Don Swygert (Army) decisioned Joe Hubbard, 9-0; 167--Murray Winer (Syracuse) pinned Neil Hastie with a sidearm chancery at 4:44; 177--Russ Schelling (Franklin and Marshall) decisioned Charlie Keith, 7-1; unlimited--Jim Hunt (Navy) pinned Jerry Blitz with a reverse nelson at 4:06.