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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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