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Tuesday, March 16, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 3 HI [ ti?( Wts KNows Editor chairt t from tonight the Air hi'het-d Ground Force basket- iociatffS will take 'the court in Hatter Field House in a benefit dy luj thel Campus Chest, three i, the basketball game the iStigaAi Fite Nij|ht and up- lishito'an wrestling finals will nient d'ter |the cage tilt is fin- The t re jj or ^f admission will be 3o i0l . j a full night’s sport enter- jjjj ^.ag the cage teams will be , ox' basketball lettermen, ° ore| t and LeRoy Miksch. Bar- !r 'lch, Intramural Director Don Ellis at quai’tei’, Maqouii'k and Joe Boring at half, and Don Kachtik at full. A final scrimmage is planned fox* sometime later this week. The Aggie baseball team had its two gaxnes rained out this weekend, but they will play two games Thux-sday and Friday. Thursday the Aggies will open the season hex’e against the Rice Owls. Friday the Cadets will play the Owls a second game in Houston. The same line-up that was an nounced for the Brooks Medic tilts will px-obably go against the Owls. ;e of good bouts in both box wrestling, ilchi;; body is ux-ged to come and basketball game axxd the . Tli t a ix d wrestling,” Harold >sed b one °i' the chairman, roy yerday. S y S j f iin didn’t stop (he football ctors om having their intra- 1 gy-irimmage Saturday night ' i teams played good ball, ' a : »g. “quads were so evenly l e thal they played to a i tie. -—yhite squad, however, won , e of penetrations. ^JlVhite team fumbled twice ^ Maroon goal line, which /Mem from scoring. In the V/l/ensive series of the even- White eleven held the One» four downs inside their ;ir ]y. -rd marker to bog down . II troons only threat, at tl Pete Huddleston, a fresh- j (J av >m Iraan, was the leading gainer of the evening. Hud- ^ l '' played left halfback for “ Adliite squad and racked up in Is. For the Maroons, Con- •olleriagourik, also playing left k, picked up 48 yards to Ten • ground gaining honors. Agrers for the Whites were; firs: Sinclair and Richard Vick he strs; T. K. Niland and Fx-ed to wax'd at tackles; Bob McCai*- C ( . r Bob Gosney at Guards and reenhaw at Centex - . ,h ' te backfield for the Whites lonaki Robbins at quartex- ‘‘ Huddleston and Charley , halfback and Johnny Say- fullback. My Hon starters included, Ex-ic and Noxbert Ohlendorf at j\|juawrence Winkler and Dux- Scott at tackles; Rxxy Bar- Id Sidney Theriot at guards ? r^o Marquette at center. J L s for the Maroon were im B ACE ^nZ^m ODAY thru SAT. ^TODAY & WED. -apt. Black Jack* ^ iftNE—| 'A day & Wednesday Peter Cusick presents I REX HARRISON; LILLI PALMER Cadet Riflers Capture Fourth In SW Invitation A&M’s rifle team placed fourth in the Southwestern Invitational Smallbore Marches held in El Paso Satux’day. The University of Cali- foimia’s Golden Bears won the matches which saw 24 teams shoot ing for the crown. The Bears beat the defendiing champions, the Univex’sity of San Francisco, fii'ing '7,499 out of a possible 8,000 to the 7,466 fired by USF. Texas Western College, the host school of the matches, was thix-d with 7,454, while the Aggies shot 7,438. The Bears held a slim edge over the Cadets number one team at the start of Friday’s firing with (See RIFLE, Page 4) Hooper, Ragsdale Spark Win As Trackmen Take Olympics BREAKS RECORD—Darrow Hooper, A&M’s top weig-ht- man, won the shot put in the Border Olympics, held in Laredo Saturday, by breaking a record he set last year. Hooper put the shot 54 feet three and a quarter inches for the record. Aggies, Fish Capture First Tank Win, 76-7 Aggie Vai'sity and Freshmen Tankmen swam to their first win of the year in a dual meet with Baylor Saturday. The vai-sky splashed out a 76-7 win while the Fish imshed by the Cubs 61-10. Fx-eshman Gayle Klipple featux*- ed the meet by setting a new Fish pool recox-d in the 200 yard fx-ee- style. The Varsity opened the meet with a near x'ecox-d bx - eaking win in the 300 yard medley x-elay. Don 15 ’Mural Fighters Cop Final Berths Fifteen intx-amural boxers cop ped berths in the finals of their divisions yestex’day as the sci’ap- pei's began slugging for keeps. At the end of today’s bouts all finalists will have been decided. Fi'eshman finals are scheduled for Wednesday, with uppei'classman champs due to be crowned on Fite Nite, March 24. Here is the way the final card looks: Freshman 123 pound—Allen, Gonzales, Co. I; Co. H, vs. Eleanor Parker “ABOVE AND BEYOND” Plus — Thomas Gomez “HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS” — Sunday & Monday — “SPRINGFIELD RIFLE” 130 pound—Pinson, Sq. 17, vs Hoxton, Co. I; 137 pound—Both semifinals to day; Gx-eer, Sq. 17-Francis, Sq. 20; Sinclair, Sq. 24-Reynolds, Sq. 21; 147 pound—Semifinals today—- Teague, Co. G-Chewning, Sq. _17i_ Dischlex*, Co. F-Powell, Co. H. 157 pound—Semifinals today— Deaton, Co. F-Pearson, Sq. 20; Geax'dina, Co. H-Adams, Co. B; 167 pound—Owens, Sq. 21- Lid- ly, Sq. 20 in one semifinal today; (See INTRAMURALS, Page 4) TODAY thru WED. —Featui'e Starts— 1:35 - 3:16 - 4:57 - 6:35 8:19 - 10:00 CIRCLE 4-1250 TONIGHT & WED. Children Under 12 Admitted FREE When Accompanied By An Adult. EXPOSING L WW Political Racketeers! Audrey Paula TflTlEiHM -ALSO- “When In Rome” Van fnlb STgj: 115N ■ j JoIUiStOl f Ms — CARTOON Starring & Paul Douglas A&M Net Team Meets SE Okies The Aggie nettei's will meet the Southeastei'n Oklahoma squad hei'e this afternoon at one o’clock. Leading the Cadets will be the number one man Eugene Letsos. Tom West of A&M will play in the second position. Aggie Ronald Wolff is in third place with Jack Jacobson in foux-th. A&M’s Letsos and West will combine to form the number one doubles team. .Wolff and Jacdb- son will foi’m the second. The Aggies blanked the Okla homa Sooners 7-0 in their fix-st match. This match with South- eastex-n Oklahoma will be the last practice match befoi’e the Aggies begin confei'ence play. The tennis squad’s fii’st confei' ence match will be against Rice hei'e Max'ch 28. Crawfox'd, Dickie Weick, and John Speich, ahd John Speich swam the distance thi'ee seconds above the pool recoi'd. A&M took first and second place in the 50 yard freestyle with Bert Koegl and Jimmy Burns finishing in that order. Baylor was third. John Beutelshies and Lee Pep ping added points by taking fii'st and second in the 440 yard free style. Baylor was again thix-d. The Varsity wound up their meet with Paul Walin, Dickie Weick, Rickey Black and Don Crawford winning the 400 yax'd freestyle relay. Freshmen Win A&M’s Fish took fii'st place in every event, piling up 61 points. Baylor could manage only one sec ond out of a possible three places in each event. Theii' second came in the 100 yai'd freestyle. Besides Klipple’s record bx-eak ing win, Eax-nest Devilbiss looked good for the Fish in his 100 yai'd freestyle win. George Pax’i- breezed to an easy win in the 100 yard individual med ley. Roland Baird showed a pi-om- isirig backsti’oke winning the 100 yai'd event. Vai'sity Results 300 yd. medley I'elay—A&M— Crawfoxd, Weick, and Speich. (See SWIMMING, Page 5 By JOHN GARMANY Battalion Correspondent The Aggie track team continued its winning ways Saturday night by successfully defending its Bor der Olympic crown for the fourth straight year. The Cadets scored 59 points while Texas garnered 44 and Oklahoma A&M 3814. Five x-ecords were set in the meet with Dai-x'ow Hooper of the Ag gies, breaking his own shot put record of 53 feet 8 and five-eights inches, with a toss of 54 feet three and a quarter inches. Hooper also won the discuss with a thx-ow of 165 feet one inch, miss ing the record by less than a foot. Ragsdale Breaks Record Bobby Ragsdale of A&M, and team captain, broke the broad jump record of 23 feet six and a half inches, held by John Robertson of Texas with a leap of 23 feet elev en inches. Ragsdale also won the 220 yard low hux-dles, beating Charlie Thom as of Texas, who hit the last hur dle, in a time of 23.5 seconds. Hooper and Ragsdale led the Ag gies with 10 points each. Oklahoma A&M broke the other three x-ecords with Frederick Eck- hoff’s outstanding runs in the mile and two-mile and Bill Heard’s run in the 880. James Baker, Cadet quarter- milei', missed another Aggies, Ray Results UNIVERSITY DIVISION Shot put —X. Darrow Hooper, Texas A&M, 54 feet 3 1 /, inches (new record -old record 43 feet 8 5/8 inches cet by Hooper in X952) ; 2. Bobby Gross, Texas A&M 48 4 3/8 ; 3. Nick Spillios, University of Houston, 48 3/4 ; 4. Dan Pratt, Texas A&M, 46 7 1/8. Broad jump—X. Bobby Ragsdale, Texas A&M 23 feet XX inches (new record old record 23 feet 6 1/2 inches set by John Robertson, Texas, in X949 and tied by Ragsdale in 1952) ; 2. S. M. Meeks, Uni versity of Houston 23-3 ; 3. James Babb, Texas, 21-11 ; 4. James Skaines, University of Houston, 21-4. High jvfmp—rV Tie between Charles Bil- feet Holbrook, record in this event of 48 seconds flat by three tenths of a second. Baker ran a beautiful x-ace all .ufmp— lings and Wayne Delaney, Texas, 6 fe 1/2 inch; 3. Tie between Roscoe Vrooms and Mickey Wilborn, Oklahoma A&M, nv*. l-yar lob i an, Cha am lurn- irles Tho- er. Bob Carson, Joe Carsoi mas) ; 2. University of Houston ; 3. Okla homa A&M; 4. Southern Methodist. 9:41.9 440-yard relay—1. Texas (William Tin , J u-si ; 4. ~ (tie record set by Texas in 1952). Mile run—1. Fredrik Eckhoff, Oklahoma A&M ; 2. Dale Deroven, Texas A&M : 3. Charles Hudgens, Texas A&M ; 4. Neighbor, Texas. 4:16.5 (new record old 7 set by J. D. Hampton, Tex- [ : 3. Don lor, T ' record 4 :18. as A&M, in 1949 ; also bettered overall re cord of 4:17. 8 set by Javier Montes, Texas Bowling Highlights THE JUNIOR BOWLING League will bowl against a five man team picked from the A&M Bowling club Saturday, March 21, on the MSC Lanes. The Junior League team com posed of David Smyth, Johnny Bax-gei', Jon Ray Jefryman, Dick ie Hickei’son and Bill Jones will bowl against the Bowling Club team with a handicap based on 70 per cent, says John M. Gugei', Mgr. of Bowling and Games in the MSC. CONWAY AND CO. are leading the All Star Bowling League with 16 won to 11 lost. The x-esults of last weeks bowl ing leagues are: Conway & Co. 16 won 11 lost. Student Co-op 14 win 13 lost, College Station State Bank 13 won 14 lost, Bryan AFB (See BOWLING, Page 4) What Dash! What Flash! IT’S TOPS IN GOOD LOOKS * Hart-Schaffner Sl Marx SLACKS Spring - and Summer colors in the most wanted patterns. * While You Ai'e in Ask to See the SUTTON SPORT SHIRTS LEON B. WEISS On Boyett Street—Just 2 Doors from Campus Theater Tie among Malcolm Marks and Glenn Spradlin, Texas A&M, and Glenn Hoffman, Texas, 12 feet .9Vj inches : 4. Tie among Gerald Perry, Okla- Western, in 1952). ~*ole and Glen len n Hoff : 4. Tie among Uerald rerry, homa A&M, and Dick Beimet, Dick Hooker and Charles Mamples, Southern Methodist, 11 9 %. 440-yard clash 1. James Baker, Texas ; 2. Gene Firth, Oklahoma A&M ; 3. Billy Ed Daniels, Rice; 4. Wesley Riehers, Uni versity of Houston 0 :48.3. 100-yard dash 1. Charles Thomas, Tex as ; 2. Paul Wells, Oklahoma A&M ; 3. Larry McBride, University of Houston : 4. Buddy Goode, Southern Methodist, 0:09.7. 120-yard high hurdles -1. Gerald Scal- lorn, Texas ; 2. Mickey Wilborn, Oklahoma A&M ; 3. Glen Blake, Texas A&M ; 4. Geo. Hartung, Texas A&M 0:14.9. 880-yard run—1. Bill Heard, Oklahoma A&M; 2. Ed Davis, Rice; 3. Tom Roge Texas 56.4 (heard in preliminari- old Tarrant, Oklahoma A&M, in university class ; 1 :55.6 by Blaine Rideout, North Texas State in 1938, and tied by Sam Volpe, Abilene Christian, in 1952, in ; 2. Ed Davis, Kice; d. lorn Rogers, ; ; 4. Wallace Klcb, Texas A&M ; 1 : (heard set overall met record of 1:55 preliminaries—old record X :56 by Har- 1 Tarrant, Oklahoma A&M, in 1950, in jllege class Discus thi row (final)—1. 146-5. Hayden Mayeaux, Tex- 2. Wes Darrow Hoop er, Texas A&M 165 feet .1 inch; 2. Nick Spillos, University of Houston, ItO-O 1 /”- 3. Bobby Gross, Texas A&M 148-1 ; 4. Jim Samuelson, Texas, Javelin throw—1 as A&M 185 feet 6 1 /. inches; Ritchey, Texas Christian, 182-1 ; 3. Roy Dollar, Texas A&M, ISO- 1 ^ I 4. Tom Dollo- hite, Texas A&M, 178. 220-yard dash—1- Charles Thomas, Tex as ; 2. Paul Wells, Oklahoma A&M : 3. Buddy Goode, Southern Methodist; 4. Bob Carson, Texas, 0 :20.6. Two-mile run 1. Fredrik Eckhoff, Okla homa A&M ; 2. James Blaine, Texas A&M ; 3. Elbert Spence, Texas; 4. Lenroy Lowe, Southern Methodist, 9:27.9 (new record— old record 9:36.0 set by J. D. Hampton, Texas A&M in 1949). irdles—1. Boby Ragsdale, Charles Thomas, Texas ; 3. Gerald Seallon, Texas ; 4. Mickey Wil born, Oklahoma A&M, 0:23.5. Mile relay — Oklahoma A&M (Brooks Rice, Bill Heard, Gene Firth, Fred Ash more) ; 2. University of Houston ; 3. South- ern Methodist; 4. Rice, 3:18.7. Texas ■yar A &M Aggie Wrestlers Grab AAU Second The Aggie Wrestling team won second place in the Southwestern AAU meet in Dallas over the weekend. A&M won six second places, three third places, and one foux-th. John Huff was the lone Aggie to fall below third place. Huff lost to Bill Calhoun of the Dallas “Y.” Calhoun weighed 419 pounds. Conx-ed Webb won a trophy for the fastest pin of the tourney. Webb pinned John Pipkin of the Foil Worth “Y” in 49 seconds of the fii’st x-ound. In one of the best matches of the tournament, Jamie Gonzales of A&M pinned Cook of the Houston “Y”. Cook, one of the state’s best wrestlei's in the 128 pound class, reduced to 121 and was pinned by Gonzales. Tulsa, Oklahoma’s “Y” bx-ought a team of state high school champs, ex Oklahoma Aggie and Oklahoma University wi'estlers to win fix-st place with 39 points. A&M scox-ed 36 points in taking second place. Results of Aggie wi'estlers wei'e: 121—Jamie Gonzales, 2nd, 128— Robert Beattie, 2nd, 136—Billy Gilbert, 3nd, 145—Jerry Pyle, 2nd, and 145—Rudy Henson, 3nd. At 155—Conx-ad Webb, 2nd, 165 —Raul Loustannau,3rd, 175—Al Perkins, 2nd, and Heavyweight— Huff, 4th. the way and finished virtually un challenged. Pole vaultei's, Glenn Spradlin and Malcolm Marks, of the Aggies tied for first place at the height of 12 feet nine and a half inches. Pete Mayeaux led the Aggie jav elin thx-owex's with a throw of 185 feet, six and a half inches. Roy Dollar and Tom Dollahite placed thix-d and fourth behind Wes Ritch ey of TCU. LeRouen Loses Shoe Although during the first lap of the mile run, Dale DeRouen’s shoe was x'ipped off his foot, the Cadet miler px-essed Eckhoff to his 4:16.5 record run. Charles Hudgins, an- other Aggie miler finished a strong third. James Blaine, A&M’s prize distance runner was edged at the end of the two mile run by Eck hoff who set a record of 9:27.9. Blaine, ill all day with an aching wisdom tooth set the pace all the way and not until Eckhoff put forth a supreme effort did he ovex - - take Blaine. Othei-s Scoring Other Aggies making points were Bobby Gx-oss, sophomoi’e weightman, taking second in the shot and third in the discus and Dan Px-att, foux-th in the shot; Glenn Blake and Harly Hartung, third and fourth in the 120 yard high hux-dles; and Wally Kleb, fourth i nthe 880. The Aggie mile relay team did not compete this week. 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