SCHOOL WRESTLERS IN FINALS TO-DAY
Five Monroe Men Survive Semi-final Round
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY
Wednesday, March 23, 1927

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Five wrestlers from Monroe High, four from Tech, three from West, two each from Charlotte and Marshall and one from East survived the semi-final round of the local high school individual tournament at East High School yesterday afternoon and will enter the final round, to be held at the Monroe High gymnasium this afternoon starting at 3:30 o'clock. The small East gym was packed for the exhibitions yesterday.

Sammy Rosenthal, Monroe 126-pounder, sprung the surprise of the tourney yesterday when he eliminated Shaprio, East, after 10 minutes of furious grappling. Rosenthal, who is the "dark horse" of the meet, will meet DeCarlo, Tech, for the championship this afternoon.

The feature match of the finals this afternoon is expected to come when Williams, last years 175-pounjd class champion, who wrestles for Monroe, and Felli, West, who won the title in the 160-pound division a year back, come together in the heavyweight event. Both men won their matches yesterday in easy fashion, Williams downing Rogers, Tech, after six minutes, and Felli beating Dankoff, East, also after six minutes.

Stelljes Wins Three Matches

Stelljes, last season's champion in the 147-pound event, won three matches yesterday. He will meet Seibert, Monroe, in an attempt to retain his title in that class to-day.

Selkirk, Tech, and Sandholzer, Charlotte, are also expected to produce plenty of fireworks when they meet in the 160-pound final. Selkirk downed his team-mate, Zimber, after 1 minute, 25 seconds yesterday, whil Sandholzer took the measure of Aronowitz, East, after 10 fast minutes.