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SJSU Wrestling Archives The Spartan Daily 2-27-63 |
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Heavy-duty Workouts Keep King Slender |
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by Dave Newhouse |
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| The best thing to do upon spotting Warren King, San Jose State's undefeated wrestler, when he's running through
the streets of San Jose is just to wave and drive right on by. For to stop and offer him and lift would make SJS coach Hugh Mumby's grey-thatched hair stand up on end. King, who's untouched so far this year in ten meets has found that wrestling interferes with a definite person handicap, as far as wrestlers are concerned, eating. His weight soars like a balloon if he doesn't watch it, and he generally doesn't. And so explains why the stocky Santa Cruz junior has to wrestle seven to nine minute rounds and run an average of two miles daily. With all this strenuous exercise, he still refrains from eating the night before a match in order to scale 147 pounds at weigh-in time. King took a fourth at last year's PCI championships. His only reason for going back this winter, in his words, is to win the 147-pound division. "I feel i have the necessary strength to take my division," admits King, who emphasized that good reflexes, desire, and knowledge of many holds are far more important to a wrestler than just brute strength. King's match plans always call for a quick takedown early in the first period. This early advantage, according to Kind, forces opponents into taking the offensive and thereby committing errors through over-anxiousness. "It gives me a stronger psychological advantage to work up an early lead. Once ahead, i have a chance to slacken my tempo and pace myself against my opponent." King points out from experience that the wrestler's desperate moments come when he's behind and striving to regain lost ground. The 21-year-old accounting major turned to wrestling as a sophomore at Santa Cruz High School. He explains it this way, "I couldn't make the basketball team." Todd Likens, his high school tutor, worked long hours with King, who responded by winning two CCAL-A 137-pound title. King was a defensive halfback in football and kept his springs busy as a high jumper (5'10" was his best) and relay man on the track team. Mumby, SJS varsity coach, waited patiently as King traveled through his freshman season with only one blowout in dual meet activity. He has wrestled almost exclusively as a 147-pounder since arriving at San Jose State. "I was younger than most on the team and therefore had to work that much harder to prove myself," is how he explains his successful transition from frosh to varsity competition. "Coach Mumby helped me iron out most of my mistakes, the biggest fault being my escape from underneath an opponent." King has only a draw to mar his 1962-63 record, which came out of his weight class (157) against Oregon State. King combines wrestling and studies with a 20-hour work week. After graduation in June 1964, he plans to tour Europe and complete his military service before settling down in the Bay Area as an accountant. |
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