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1941 I with a it. The phody in ie point, n today, ie in the here two i not in- the film hen and no long- ! a rath- 4) 1 •lace for 5 id C Vi >' % f y ir i > ♦ c * \ ¥ 4 V I* I • .• Bumpers Beats Baylor; Texas Takes Track Meet Coach Art Adamson’s Top Tank Quartet Swims In National Meet In Michigan With the preliminaries held last-f-and 440-yd. distance races and then night, the four man Texas Aggie swimming team offer their best in the National Intercollegiate Swim ming Meet today being held in East Lansing, Michigan. Harold Hensley, who won both the 50 and 100-yd. free style events in the Southwest Conference meet in Austin last week, will lead the quartet with Bob Taylor, the soph omore star who claimed the 220 WE HAVE IT! Shop and Save at the Campus Variety Store North Gate Take Advice From Those Who Know Aggie Headquarters for Confectionery Needs Cigars - Cigarettes Candy - Cold Drinks Gum - Sandwiches Pipes - Pipe Tobaccos GEORGE’S Confectionery turned around to take the 100-yd. back stroke, added his bid. In the Southwest Conference these swimmers are tops but the competition gets rougher the high er you go. Taylor has never been pushed in these parts and might give it a strain to claim a good spot. The fourteenth running of the Texas Relays will take place next weekend in Austin with Clyde Lit tlefield’s Texas Longhorns the likely team to hold the upper hand in the finals. Fred Wolcott and Boyce Gate- wood will return to the Forty Acre track for a special performance while Roy Bucek, if he shakes loose the stiff muscle in his leg, will be out to claim the hurdle event in the collegiate class. Bucek ran fourth to Wolcott, Gatewood and Ed Dreiss of the Aggies all last year. Other special eventers include Harold Osborn, who made the high jump at Memorial Stadium, 6 feet 8 15/16 inches back in 1926; Joie Ray and Jackson Scholz, U. S. Olympic stars of the 20’s; Glenn Cunningham; and Wayne and Blaine Rideout, North Texas Teach ers stars. On the surface of many bull ses sions, there’s not much going on in the way of sports, but as your scribe writes, the track team is hav ing a tough go with the Texas and Abilene Christian stars, the polo team is sponsoring its annual show, the baseball team is warm ing up for its opening fray, the fencing team is arriving in Fort Worth for the Southwest Fencing Meet, the golfers are facing the Rice linksmen in Houston, four tankers are at the nationals, and riders in next week’s horse show are preparing for the greatest show yet. Still, there’s not much going on! Our sympathies go out to the family of Bonar Law. He was a great sportsman and led his E Engineers in Intramural Athletics. Two days ago he was killed as he fell from atop a derrick at home. Change Push Buttons ... . . . on your radio. The frequency change is effective at midnight, March 29th. Make Your Appointment Now. Dial 4-4114 STUDENT CO-OP North Gate “He says he wears an Arrow Tie ’cause he meets such a fine class of people in his dreams” Don’t miss the big variety of Arrow Ties for spring . . . because Arrow gives you the smartest patterns plus a resilient lining that resists wrinkles and keeps your knot perfect. See the new Arrow Ties today $1 and $1.50 THE EXCHANGE STORE a An Aggie Institution” Aggies Come in Second to Leave ACC in Last Place Watkins Makes 10!4 Points to Place as High Man of Entire Meet Grabbing 13 out of a possible 16 events, the Texas Longhorns outdistanced all the field to take top points in the triangular meet with the Texas Aggies and the Abi- lent Christian Wildcats here yester day afternoon prior to the ball game. The Steers accounted for 91 points, with the Aggies coming in second with 51 points, and Abil ene Christian trailing the field with 28 markers. However, Pete Watkins of A. & M. took down high scoring honors for the day, nosing out Heffernick of Texas by % of a point. Pete accounted for a first place tie with Ricks and Henderson in the high jump, second in the hurdle events and a fourth place in the javelin for a total of 10 Vs points. Haffernick took first in the 1 and 2 mile runs to give him 10 points. Roy Bucek, ace Aggie trackster, participated in only one event due to an injury sustained in the San Marcos meet last week. He came through to take first place in the 120 yard hurdles with a time of 15.1 seconds. A new conference record was set in the 880 yard run by Umsttadt of Texas. Even though a heavy wind was prevailing over the field, Coach Clyde Littlefield’s fast sprinter didn’t feel bothered. The University gathered quite a few points in the 100 yard dash. They took the first three places to ac count for 10 points. Terry was first with a time of 9.9 seconds. “Bama” Smith, who won the dash at San Marcos, came in fourth. Captain Jim Thomason of the Aggies celebrated his twenty- first birthday by taking the shot- put event with a throw of 44 feet, 5 % inches. The heavy wind proved to be a great asset to Hughes, Texas field eventer, who threw the dis cus a distance of 151 feet. Pete Henry of the cadets was second. Coach Dough Rollins’ thinly clads go to Houston next week for a meet with Rice Institute. Robertson Is Head Referee for 14th Texas Relays One of the most famous names in American track annals—Lawson Robertson—appears on the 14th Texas Relays program as head referee. Coach of the University of Pennsylvania team and director of the Penn Relays, Robertson will take off from his coaching duties next week-end and fly to Austin for Texas U.’s one-day track and field carnival. Robertson has been coaching Penn teams since April, 1916. Pre viously he was a great all-around track star himself. He won nu merous championships for the New York Y.M.C.A., the New York A.C. and other organizations in various events—sprints, middle distances, pole vault, high jump, shot put, and broad jump. He started his competitive career in 1901. During Robertson’s Day the Olympics were conducted biennially and he made the U. S. team three times—in 1904, 1906 and 1908. His best Olympic events were the standing high and broad jumps. He was the national 100-yard dash champion in 1904. Ostensibly Robertson was through with athletics after clos ing his competition in 1909, but the failure of a business in which he was interested turned him from the commercial world back into sports—as a coach. He was ap pointed coach of the Irish-Amer- ican A.C., a position he held until he went to Penn in ’16. His Penn teams won the national collegiate indoor championships in 1923, 1924, 1930 and 1931; the out door collegiates in 1920; the na tional senior indoor title in 1918 and the intercollegiate cross-coun try crown the same year. Robertson was an assistant coach for the ’20 Olympic team. Four years later he became head coach. He was reappointed in ’24, ’28, ’32 and ’36. Among the famous athletes Rob ertson has coached are Ted Mere dith, Abel Kiviat, Melvin Sheppard, Marty Sheridan, Matt McGrath, P. J. Ryan, Pat MacDonald, Bar ney Berlinger, Dan Ahern, Emilio Lunghi, Larry Brown and Bill Carr. BATTALIONA— MARCH 29 PAGE 3 Swims In Nationals Harold Hensley, senior, swims today in the finals of the national intercollegiate swimming meet in East Lansing, Michigan for the Texas Aggies. He won both the 50 and 100-yd dashes in the conference meet last week. Red Cross Water Safety Instructor’s Course to Open at A&M Monday Night Classes open here Monday night p at 7 p. m. in the Red Cross Water Safety Instructors Course. This course is offered by the Red Cross to train beach and pool supervis ors in the betterment of safety factors and to qualify them as Red Cross Instructors. This year Roger C. Plaisted will conduct the class and hold the fi nal examinations. There will be a meeting of the class each night next week in the Downs Natator- ium. A preliminary training period has been in progress under the leadership of Nick Ponthieux and Hervey Hutchins, but students and RED CROSS LIFE SAVING EXPERT sociated in direction of other aqua tic schools since joining the Red Cross Midwestern staff. His earl ier Red Cross work includes ex perience as a lay instructor in first aid, examiner in life saving, and conducting of swimming and life saving campaigns, the latter in Minnesota chapters. While engag ed in first aid and accident preven tion work for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, he served on the faculty of the Minnesota aqua tic school for four years during summer vacation periods. A native of Illinois, Plaisted re ceived his earlier education in St. Louis, later taking a pre-medical course at Eveleth Junior College, Eveleth, Minn. ROGER PLAISTED others interested in taking the instructors course are urged to at tend. Completion of the course will confer on the student the Instruct or’s Certificate if he previously holds a Senior Red Cross Life Sav ing Certificate. If no certificate is previously held, it will be conferr ed at the end of the week’s train ing. Plaisted is the first aid, life saving and accident prevention field representative of the Midwestern Area of the American Red Cross. He has been connected with the service since 1927. Since 1937 he has been respon sible for training of volunteer leadership and otherwise assist ing chapters in Texas in standard ization of their water safety pro grams. Plaisted was director of the Red Cross national aquatic school held at Camp Mystic, Huntsville, Texas, in 1928 and 1939 and has been as- Aggie Fencers Participating in League Meet Today Off to a slow start, the Aggie swordsmen left here early Friday to participate in the Southwest Fencing League Meet in Fort Worth today. Taking part in both the confer ence and league meets, they climb ed many top places among the fencers of the southwest two years ago but graduation and loss of their coach caused interest to fall. This year however, they have their sights set on the banner once more and will use the league meet for the warm-up in preparation for the conference matches. Southern Methodist University, the Dallas Y.M.C.A. and Texas Uni versity will be strong contenders for the league title. The meet will be held in the Texas Hotel and will last through Sunday. The Aggie party consists of team captain Tom Akarman, Jim Rom- inger, Leroy Everett, W. F. Swi- gert, and team sponsor Lieut. C. G. Sory. Since the beginning of 4-H Club work on a nation-wide basis, it has reached over 8,000,000 rural young people. An average of 42 cents of each dollar spent for food by the Amer ican housewife in 1940 went to the farmer. The pro rata was 41 cents in 1939 and 53 cents in 1913. Bears Limited to Two Hits As Aggies Capture Opening Game 10 to 0 Rothe and Buchanan Turn in Afternoon Of Sparkling Field Play By Mike Haikin Sparked by the two hit twirl ing of “Lefty” Bumpers and some brilliant support from his mates, the Texas Aggies completely anni hilated the Baylor Bears here yes terday afternoon, 10 to 0, in the first of a two game series. The teams conclude their ser ies today, with Charlie Steven son or Roy Peden starting for the Karowmen, and Frank “Lefty” Golden being the choice of Coach Lloyd Russell. Game time is 2:30. Bumpers started on the mound for the cadets and pitched superb ball during his time on the mound. With an insurmountable lead in front of him, he gave way to Bill “Jitterbug” Henderson in the eighth frame. The Houston youth then proceeded to shut out the Bears without allowing one hit. Some sparkling fielding by Joe Rothe and Bill Buchanan helped Bumpers considerably in checking the Bears. In the second inning with a man in scoring position, Rothe went far to his right to make a brilliant catch of Rad- ney’s foul fly. Buchanan’s con sistency at fielding grounders was a big asset to the Aggie cause. However, the fielding gem of the day went to Rex Francis, aggres- ive center fielder, who made a beautiful catch of Haley’s liner to retire the side with the bases load ed in the fifth inning. Bob Miller started for the Bruins and but for some erratic fielding of his mates, would have had a well pitched game. He was replac ed by Jack Harvil, who allowed only three safeties. After being held to a lone hit in the first two frames, the Ag gies finally broke the ice in the third inning. Bumpers opened with a walk, went to second on Rothe’s il " ' ' - — -■ n By financing your new car with us you can al ways talk the matter over should difficulties arise later on. A. J. TITUS, Jr. 215 S. Main - - Bryan sacrifice, and scored on Francis’ single to left. Miller's wildness and a costly error by Don Haley, Baylor first baseman, aided in giving the cadets four runs in the fourth in- (Continued on Page 4) W. J. Douglas, Jr. INSURANCE AGENCY General Insurance Commerce Bldg Phone Bryan 2-6605 A Short Story About Our New Shorts! You’ll cheer the freedom-giv ing comfort of *B.V.D.’s fam ous shorts, for they boast the exclusive “All-Ways Stretch” seat that’s as flex ible as your own skin! 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