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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.
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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
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horseshoes, volleyball, tennis, wa
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debut.
Horseshoes may be obtained at
the Physical Education office by
Intramural managers on a $2.00
deposit.
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