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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1947 Page 5 Aggies Take Second Place In Regional AAU Tourney Texas’ AC Wins Meet; Parker Wins Both Dashes As Ten Records Fall The University of Texas’ Athletic Club consisting of their track squad and numerous other Athletes from South Texas scored a decisive victory last Saturday in winning the Annual South Texas AAU Track and Field meet. The AAU meet held at Alamo Stadum in San Antonio was featured by the numerous record breaking performan ces. Ten South Texas A.A.U. records were set and another was tied as the winners prepared themselves for the National A.A.U. Meet to be held in Lincoln, Neb. July 4-5. The Texas A.&M. athletic club-4— which consisted only of a part of the Aggie track team was second to Texas' athletic club in team standings. The Longhorns scored 134 points to only 96 for the Ag gies. Eice’s aggregation was third with 46 points while Baylor was fourth with 42 points. Crack Aggie Quarter miler Art Harnden won the 400-meter dash in 48.5 seconds to set a new re cord in this event. Harnden had set the old record of 50 seconds flat last year. He was followed by Aggie Ray Holbrook in sec ond place. George Kadera won the Shot Put with a heave of 44 feet 8Y2 inches, placed second in the Discus Throw and took fourth place in the Jave lin. The winning throw in the Discus by John Donaldson of Rice’s A.C. was 158 feet 5% inches while it took a throw of 199 feet 4 in ches by Adair of Texas’ A.C. to win the Javelin title. The third Aggie first place came in the 1600-meter relay when the team of Bill Blackwell, Jim Mor- tenson, Holbrook, and Harnden clipped off the distance in 3:24.5 to set a meet record for this event. Other features of the meet were double victories by Augie Erfurth of Rice and Charlie Parker of Tex as. Erfurth’s victories came in the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 14.8 and in the 200-meter low hurdles in the time of 24.5. Er furth’s time in the low hurdles set a new meet record while his time in the highs tied the record for that event. Parker, in winning the 200-me ter dash, set a new record of 21.8 seconds for that event. Fly- in’ Charley also won the 100- meter dash in 10.8 seconds after Baylor’s Bill Martineson was disqualified for too many false starts for the second time this year. Other new records were set by Ken Boren of Texas in the 400-me- ter hurdles (time: 55.4 seconds), Davis of Prairie View in the broad jump (distance: 22 feet 11 inches), Earl Meadows of Fort Worth in the pole vault (height: 13 feet 9 inches), John Robertson of Texas’ A.C. in the hop, step, and jump (distance: 44 feet 9 inches), Jerry ~rith Young People coast to coast iere it 4<*s the : of Beech-Nut ivor goeswitnR Thompson of Texas in the 1500-me ter run (time: 4 minutes), and T. U.’s 400-meter relay team with a time of 42.2 seconds. Other Aggies who placed in the meet were Art Haws (tied for sec ond in the high jump), Jim Mor- tenson (second in the 400-meter hurdles), Jim Hill (fourth in the broad jump), Jack Quirey (tied for fourth in the pole vault), Robert Hall (third in the 200-meter low hurdles), Carroll Hahn (fourth in the 800-meter run), and our sprint relay team that took third place in the 400-meter relay event. Jerry Bonnen Honored by Exes Jerry Bonnen, distance runner on the Texas Aggie track team, was awarded an Elgin watch last Thursday afternoon in recognition of his performance in the SWC track meet in Waco May 17 in which the diminutive Aggie crawled across the finish line on his hands and knees to place fourth in the two-mile race. Fred Hale, president of the Braz os County A&M club, presented the 125-pound two-miler from College Station with the pocket watch in scribed “The Fighting Texas Ag gie, Jerry Bonnen. Brazos County A&M Club, 1947” as special recog nition for his fighting finish. The Brazos club, in making the presentation, felt that Bonnen, in his race and his fighting finish, ex emplified the spirit of Aggieland. Southwest Conference Track Champions Aggie Track Team left to right: top row, Stegall, Quirey, Bel- ville, Guly, Hill, Mortenson, Haws, Hampton, Hahn, Byrd, and Ass’t. Coach Ray Putnam; middle row, Gilbert (manager), Garney, Lud wig, McGlothlin, Stone, White, Young, Kadera, Bilderback, Napier, Wiley, and Coach Frank Anderson; bottom row, Hall, Atkins, Pow ers, Davis, Bodeman, Vajdos (captain), Harnden, Holbrook, Black- well, Myer, and Bonnen; Not pictured are Anderson, Cardpn, Tate, Dickey, and McCauley. SWC and Big Six Track Stars Clash in Dallas Friday Night The Big Six Conference accepted the Southwest Confer ence challenge for a meet of the winners in each conference track and field event, to be held in Dallas’ Dal-Hi Stadium Friday night, June 13. James H. Stewart, executive sec retary of the Southwest Confer ence, attended the Big Six meeting and presented the challenge and in vitation. Prof. Sam B. Shirkey, Big Six secretary, announced the acceptance. Under the terms of the agree ment the first three place winners in each event in the respective con- Did you know a roomy shirt ' ERE ARE sports shirts with all the shoulder-swinging room you could ask for. They’re Arrow’s version of solid comfort! Expert cutting gives them trim lines as well. Whether you button up the collar or leave it open, they’re hard to beat for good looks. No .fussy handling needed in the washtub! Arrow Sports Shirts behave like your regular Arrow Shirts. That’s because they’re San- forized-labeled for fabric shrinkage less than 1%. See them here. A grand selection of Fine Sport Shirts by Arrow, B.Y.D., Marlboro and other famous brands. $2.75 to $7.50 CLOTHIERS College and Bryan C -A/tJiO IV- „ ference meets will be eligible to enter. Missouri University won the Big Six meet for the first time since 1941, and the Aggies copped the SWC title this year with their last conference win being in 1943. Those eligible in each event from the Big Six and Southwest Confer ences respectively are: Mile run—Bobby Ginn, Nebras ka; Bosworth, Missouri; Leasure, Kansas State, time 4:19.3. Thomp son, Texas; Sparks, Texas; Hafer- nick, Texas; time 4:20.4. Shot-put—Prather, Kansas State; Andros, Oklahoma; Quirk, Mis souri; best distance 51 feet 1 inch. Kadera, Texas A&M; Baker, Ar kansas; Humble, Rice; best dis tance 46 feet 5 inches. 440-Yard Dash—Ault, Missouri; Jackson, Kansas; Alexander, Iowa (See TRACK-MS ET on Page 6) ON KYLE FIELD By DON ENGELKING'” Big Six Tracksters Show Power But SWC Stars Can Win Duel of Champs Ten Aggie track stars will jour ney to Dallas this coming Friday night to compete against some of the roughest competition they have seen all year, namely, the Big Six track and field winners. Outside of Art Harnden in the quarter mile event little chance is given Aggie entries to win their events. Running the 440 with Harnden will be Aggies Ray Hol brook and Erwin Bilderback. In the weight events George Kadera has a real chance of winning the Discus throw. George has thrown the platter well over 160 feet this year while 153 feet 3% inches won the event at the Big Six,meet. In the broad jump Jim Hill will really have to take off if he wants to cop this event. It took a leap of 23 feet 8% inches to place first in the Big Six meet, while Hill re corded a jump of only 22 feet HV2 inches in winning the S.W.C. broad- jump title. The bright side of the broad jump picture is that Hill re corded a jump of 23 feet 8 inches earlier this season, and Webb Jay, the other Aggie entry in the broad jump, is also capable of leaping 23 feet. Other Aggie tracksters who will be after second, third, and fourth place points are Jim Mortenson in the 220 yard low hurdles, Carroll Hahn in the half mile, and Jack Quirey, Leroy Bodeman, and Le- land Tate in the pole vault. Three members of the crack Aggie mile relay team, namely Bilderback, Holbrook, and Harn den, will combine with T.U.’s ace quarter miler Monroe North- cutt to form an all Southwest Conference mile relay team. This team will run against the best that the Big Six can offer. Their time should be no less than spec tacular. The University of Texas will send a twelve man aggregation to vie for points for the Southwest Conference. The Texas sprinters, Allen Lawler, Perry Samuels, and Charlie Parker will (See KYLE FIELD on Page 6) Aggie JNetters Under Dowell To Play Year ’Round By R. P. Ingram W. M. Dowell, varsity tennis coach, will start the ball rolling early this year with practice and matches with other schools during the summer months. Since Dowell is the first coach in a long time able to devote most of his time to tennis, this should bring dividends. Pre-season practice will start the first day of the fall se mester, with a round robin and varsity ladder matches scheduled. Tennis players interested in forming a team to play a few matches this summer should con tact Dowell June 11. This early start will not only improve the Aggies’ chances at the Southwest Conference tennis crown, but also will keep the clay courts in playing condition the year round. The courts, left to disinte grate after each season until a few weeks before the first match, are in fair condition only toward the end of the season. It was the Rice tennis coach who said that the Ag gie courts were the worst he had ever seen. Valuable time is lost in repair ing and conditioning these courts for varsity play. By keeping them up all year, it will not be neces sary for the squad to alter their game from the fast, low bounce of the cement court to the slow, high bounce of the clay courts. Dowell, looking ahead to the future of tennis, a minor sport, believes that more attention will be given it by the Athletic Coun cil next year. Hank Allen will be the only loss from this year’s squad. ' Beginning next year, the squad will travel to Arkansas to play the Razorbacks as part of their schedule. Summer ’Murals Start Thursday There will be a meeting of all Unit Athletic Representatives at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, June 12th in Kiest Y.M.C.A. Lounge in Dorm 2. Representatives from all dormitories, vet. village, trail er camp, college view apartments and Hart Hall are urged to at tend. Sports for the summer will be softball, volleyball, team ten nis, open golf, and open tennis. Langford to UT Parley Ernest Langford, head of the A.. & M. 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