4th Annual

Interscholastic League Championships

Varsity Wrestling Tournament
Preliminaries @ Central YMCA - Tuesday, March 16, 1926
Semis @ Central YMCA - Wednesday, March 17, 1926
Finals @ Monroe Junior High - Thursday, Match 18, 1926

Final Results

TECH AND WEST WRESTLERS IN MAT VICTORIES
Both Schools Take Trio of First Places in Scholastic Meet.

Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY

Friday, Match 19, 1926

Full Text: Copyright © 1926 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Reproduced with the permission of Gannett Company Inc.

Tech High and West High divided honors in the Interscholastic individual Mat Tournament, which was concluded yesterday afternoon at Monroe Junior High. Both schools had three winners while East High and Monroe took the other two matches. Kodak and Charlotte failed to show a winner although both were represented in the finals yesterday. Gold medals will be given to the victors in each division while the men who earned their way to the finals will be given silver medals for second place.

A large crowd was on hand to witness the finals of the tournament which concluded the most successful season since the sport was introduced here five years ago. Four of the matches resulted in judge's decisions while two were by falls and the other two by default.

"Shorty" Robinson, who was forced to wrestle four times to work himself into the finals, won a decision over Joe Vallone of West High, in the 105-pound class. Robinson was ahead on points after the nine minutes were up. Ebner, another Tech High man scored the first fall of the afternoon when he succeeded in pinning Carl Brucker's shoulders to the mat after 6 minutes 35 seconds.

Sol Shapiro was the only other East High wrestler to come through with a win. Newcomb, of Tech, was Shapiro's opponent in the 118-pound class, and after wrestling even with the East High star for six minutes, an accidental fall to the mat injured his neck and he was unable to continue. The match was awarded to Shapiro by default. Magro was the first West High man to score a victory. He pinned Jardine, of Kodak, after 4 minutes and 12 seconds.

Feary By Default.

Feary, who was furnished plenty of opposition in the preliminary and semi-finals, had things easy in the 135-pound class yesterday. The Tech High representative was awarded the match by default as his scheduled opponent, Holloway, of Charlotte, was not in the best physical condition and was given orders by his doctor not to wrestle.

Jimmy Lapi, of East, and Stelljes, of West, met in one of the closest matches of the afternoon. After nine minutes of fast wrestling the judge's decided in favor of the West High man although the points were nearly even. Seibert, of Tech, lost another close match in the 160-pound class to Felli, of West, by decision. Another decision verdict was rendered in the final bout of the day when Williams, of Monroe, won from Hooker, of West, after nine minutes. The wrestlers both weighed over 175 pounds.