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L941 alism is f eral r the Ca- calls the tary rad- onor snd- f t * V f ^ i v 4 > # f i ' <y V • 9 * <*> - ^ Swimmers Tackle Dallas Club Here Tonight HD."HUB" JOHNSON BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Watch for New Records and Close Races In Tonight’s Swimming Meet in College Pool Coach Art Adamson sends his tankers against the strong Dallas Athletic club tonight as the two teams offer their second showing of the year. Last week in Dallas the home town boys claimed the upper hand by a few points. To night it should be the same story —the home town boys—the Aggies should win by a few points. Five records were broken last week which means that both teams have top notch swimmers. Article on Art Adamson Quiet Arthur Adamson has been coaching Aggie swimming teams and water polo teams for the past seven years and turning in an out standing job. His water polo teams have been beaten only four times in those seven years and Northwestern and Illinois Universities were the only college teams able to turn that trick. This year’s swimming team is the best in A. & M.’s history and stands a good chance to take the conference title away from Texas University where it has always rested. The Longhorns have gone in for swimming in a big way, bringing in outstanding stars from other sections of the country. The fact that Adamson’s teams can furnish stiff competition with just ordinary schoolboys for material is a great tribute to his coaching ability. Outstanding stars of this year’s team include Harold Hensley, present 50 and 100 yard conference champion, and sophomore Bob Taylor who is breaking conference record time in the 220 and 440 yard events. The fine sport of swimming has had tough sledding at A. & M. For many years it was held alive by the personal efforts of student swim mers and volunteer coaches. Adamson has done wonders with his material in the past seven years and has placed the minor sport upon a sound basis. —Texas Aggie Cagers Face Three League Teams Here Next Week; Football or Army, Which Will It Be? The Texas Aggies went down to the S.M.U. Mustangs last Wed nesday night. How the score got into this column last issue is be yond men ,on top of that, how it got in as 43 to 39 is another ques tion. Monday the cagers fight a re turn battle with the Frogs and Tuesday they take on the Ponies; Saturday they run against the Rice Owls. So our Uncle Sam wants us in June—this puts a dark screen be fore many of the present senior and especially before two, Jim Thomason and John Kimbrough. These two can make more in three months fighting on the foot ball fields than they could make in the army fighting on the maneuver (let’s hope it won’t go beyond that) fields for three years. At least they’ll have something left after it’s all over. John left for New York again Thursday. This time he’ll sign. We said that on his last trip also, but we also said he was having too much fun “footloose.” It seems the fun is over. That camp train ing in store for him might not be too much fun either. Jim got a long distance call con cerning his contract just a few days ago, asking just what was up here at A. & M. Chances are that he’ll sign and ask for a year de ferment. Intramural wrestling is drawing near and soon boxing will be on the calendar. At this time the pressure will be taken off the Ag gie ringmen and they’ll be allowed to actually fight a few bouts. Where the difference comes in intramural and intercollegiate boxing is hard to see. For the first time the seniors will be admitted to the T Dance this year. This is a good move and allows the T men and graduat ing Aggies a chance to get to gether one more time before leav ing—probably for the army. George Grant Mason Jr., mem ber of the civil aeronautics board, received his A. B. degree from Yale in 1926. Members of the speech correct ion class at Duquesne University are presenting a series of radio programs. Ole Army We appreciate the business you have given us this year. If you feel that you are unsatisfied with your purchase, bring your books back and we will refund your money. We have the following books that you will probably need. English 203 Math. 103 History 306 Geology 205 M. E. 432 Chemistry 206, 207 E. E. 431 Ag. Eco. 312 Economics 315, 203 Entomology 301 Biology 101, 107, 111 Education 121 Accounting 409 Agronomy 315 LOUPOrS North Gate A&M Out to Redeem Self For 1st Meet Feature Swimmers Are Hensley of A&M And Sinclair of DAC With their sights set on the Dal las Athletic Club, the Texas Ag gie swimming team will try to redeem themselves and “torpedo'’ the Dallasites tonight in the P. L. Downs, Jr., Natatorium. This is a return match with the D. A. C., having dropped their first encounter to the tankers last week in Dallas. Feature of the meet will be the contest between Harold Hensley of the Aggies and Bob Sinclair of the D.A.C. Their event is the 100- yard free style. Hensley and Sin clair are probably the fastest men in the Southwest and have met twice before, Sinclair coming out the winner by a close margin each time. In the second contest, Sinclair broke all existing pool records for the D.A.C. and cut one minute from the conference record. Hensley saved his name how ever by lowering the 50-yard free style record and claiming the event . Bob Taylor will pace the Ag gies in the distance races and should leave the pool first in the 220 event. Sporting four ex-Aggies in their squad, Joe Cockrell, Chic Denny, Ty Hall, and Cecil Crow, the Dal las Club is represented by a strong swimming team and water polo teams. The line up of the Aggies is as follows: Medely relay—Conway, Stevens, Davis. 220 yd free style—Taylor, Keil. 50 yd free style—Hensley, McKee. Diving—Reeves. 100 yd free style—Hensley, Ste vens. 100 yd breast stroke—Ponthieux, Davis. 100 yd back stroke—Conway, Jap- het. 440 yd free style—Taylor, Good man. " Free style relay—Hensley, Taylor, McKee, Davis. Starting line up for the water polo team will be as follows: Japhet—center back Ponthieux—right back McKee—left back Hensley—center forward Conway—goalie Renaud—right forward Davis—left forward Officials will be P. L. Downs, Jr., honorary referee, Dough Rol lins, Ned Dwelle, C. W. Crow, E. J. Smith, W. S. McCulley, T. A. Reiner and W. L. Penberthy filling the executives capacities. BATTALION. FEBRUARY 15, 1941 PAGE 3 Splashes for Ags Tonite Robertson of Penn U Made Head Referee For The Texas Relay AUSTIN, Feb. 14—With Law- son Robertson, famous Universi ty of Pennsylvania and three-time Olympic coach, installed as head referee, the 14th Texas Relays are beginning to shape up. Date of the University of Texas’ annual track and field extravaganza is April 5. Special events this year will in clude another hurdles race between Fred Wolcott of Rice and Boyce Gatewood of Texas, hot rivals dur ing their three varsity seasons, according to Director Clyde Little field’s preliminary plans. First Call for Fish Tankers Answered; Adamson Needs More Coach Adamson’s first call for freshmen swimmers was answer ed by a large number of first year men last Wednesday night, but there still remain a few places on the squad. In the past years, the Aggie tankers have lacked top divers, and the coach is quoted as anxious to see anyone proficient in this class of sport. All freshmen desiring to talk with Coach Adamson about partic ipating in the various meets may get in touch with him at the P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium any day between 4 and 5:30 p.m. 'fLJ! ^ 'T ! << p* V' J * < v , |§53!|J Cage Team In Preparation For Game with TCU Jaunt Past Weekend Will Have Aggies at Their Best for Frogs Coming through with a .500 rec ord on their northern jaunt the past week, the Texas Aggies came back to their own hardwood floors with determination to prepare for the coming game with the cel lar-dwelling but dangerous T.C.U. Homed Frogs Monday night at the DeWare Field House. It will be the second meeting of the two teams, with the first end ing in favor of the cadets. How ever, it was not until the final gun that victory was assured to the Aggies. The Frogs went on their wildest scoring sprees of the year and only the timekeeper’s gun saved defeat for the cadets. It was T.C.U.’s seventh straight loss of the season, and definitely strengthened their hold on the con ference cellar. However, the Frogs do not intend to get nosed out all the time ac cording to their genial coach, Mike Brumbelow. He insists that one of these days his team is bound to spring an upset on somebody after all those close games the Frogs have lost. T. C. U. will bank all their chances of upsetting the big Aggies on Gloseclose and Barron, their two leading offensive spark plugs. Meanwhile Coach Hub McQuillen was taking the Frogs none too lightly. He is working hard to Fish Basketeers ^eek First Victory Against Rice Slimes Suffering three straight setbacks this season, Coach Manning Smith’s Aggie fish quintet will attempt to salvage their first win of the season when they meet the pow erful Rice Slimes at the Colesium Monday night in Houston in a pre liminary match to the Rice-Baylor fracas. The Fish showed a smooth-work ing cage squad in the first half of their losing battle with Allen Academy last Wednesday night, but went to pieces in the final per iod. Webb and Parker showed to a great advantage as offensive sparkplugs of the team, and should be ready and in top shape for the slimes. Probable starting lineup for the fish will include Webb and Parker at forwards, Dawson at center, and Robinson and Clifton at the guard posts. strengthen the cadet’s defense which let T.C.U. filter in a total of 60 points in their last meet ing. Bill Dawson and Bill Hen derson, the Aggies’ two scoring leaders, should be in top shape for the coming fray, as both have vastly improved their “shooting eyes.” Henderson’s one-handed shots from any point of the court and Dawson’s alertness under the basket should give the Frog’s plenty of gray hairs before the final gun goes off. The probable starting line-up for the Aggies will include Hen derson and Jarret at forwards, Dawson at center, and Stevenson and Nabors at the guard posit ions. Harold Hensley, who broke a pool record in last week’s meet with the Dallas Athletic Club will again try to shave off a few more seconds in the 50 yard free style tonight. He swam the event in 23.2 seconds. Intramurals Instructions Will Be Offered in Handball, Water Polo and Wrestling -By Bob Myers Weigh-ins for wrestling are progressing slowly. All interested men are reminded that the dead line for this process is 6:00 p.m. today and entries will not be taken after the deadline. "'took A Troop 9-7 and 4th Corps Headquarters came out to win over Headquarters Troop 6-4. Instructions in Hand ball, Water Polo, and Wrest ling will be given for the benefit of freshmen and other interested parties beginning Monday afternoon. The pur pose of these ins tructions is to bet ter acquaint the Mrm players with each particular sport. On Monday and Tuesday after noon at 5:00, Spike White will give handball instructions in the main gym. Monday night, immediately fol lowing the basketball game, Swim ming Coach Art Adamson will ex plain the finer points of water polo and at the same time Tuesday night, Mr. Penberthy will hold a wrestling class. All Freshmen who attend these meetings will be given credit for an intramural participation for each class attended. This is a splendid opportunity to learn the basic fundamentals of these sports and at the same time pick up four points toward the completion of the requirements for intramural physical education. E Field Artillery scored a touch down and capitalized on a touch- back to down D Field Artillery in a clean-up game of football. The game ended with a score of 8-6. Some postponed speedball games were played in a howling gale that did some funny things to the ball until the players got the drift of the thing. F Coast Artillery came out win ner in two games by downing B Chemical Warfare 12-3 and then taking D Infantry 16-7. G Coast Artillery won one and tied one. 2nd Headquarters Field Artillery held them to a 5-5 score and they towered over D Coast Artillery 9-3. A Engineers stopped E Field Artillery 5-3 while the Cavalry dropped a couple. B Coast Artillery Assembly Hall YOUTH AND PEP ON JOYOUS WING- SOARING TO COLLEGIATE SWING! From the Long-Run B’way Musical Comedy Sensation! Everything will be in full stride Monday when Speedballers take to the field for regular games and horseshoes, volleyball, tennis, wa ter polo, and handball have their debut. Horseshoes may be obtained at the Physical Education office by Intramural managers on a $2.00 deposit. Produced and directed by GEORGE ABBOTT LUCILLE BALL • RICHARD CARLSON • ANN MILLER EDDIE BRACKEN • FRANCES LANGFORD • DESI ARNAZ HAL LeROY Plans have been approved for a $100,000 R. O. T. C. armory at City College of New York. St. Mary’s of Texas has an or ganization for Spanish-speaking students, called the Circulo Ibero- americano. Hot nr E. 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