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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8, 1945
Aggie Tracksters Leave Today For Laredo Cinder Meet
Alley, Holbrook, White, Tassos To
Carry Main Load For Maroon and White
Lil Dimmit’s Aggie track team - '
left this afternoon to journey to
Laredo for the thirteenth annual
Border Olympics to be held
March 9th. The preliminaries will
take place under the hot South
Texas sun on Friday afternoon,
while the thrilling, more import
ant part of the meet will be run
on Friday night. There are four
teen Aggie thinly-clads who are
going to do their dead level best
for the honor of Aggieland on that
quarter mile oval of cinders. They
are due to leave Laredo on Satur
day afternoon to return to Col
lege, but more than likely most
of them will stop off in San An
tonio and Austin to spend the
week-end with friends and famil
ies. The squad men making the
trip will be White, Tassos, Haws,
Holbrook, Henderson, Alley, Wil
son, Zeitman, McDowell, Marten-
sen, Green and Hargis. Officials of
the college going with the team
will be coach Dimmit and Harry
Boyer, office manager of the Col
lege, and Student Track Manager
Dick Burch, who has bee work
ing his fingers to the bone getting
the team and its equipment ready
to make the trip.
The events that the Aggie cin-
dermen will participate in, and the
participants, will be:
120 yard high hurdles, White.
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Discus, Tassos.
220 yard low hurdles, White.
High jump, White and Haws.
440 yard dash, Holbrook, Hender
son and Alley.
100 yard dash, Wilson, White
and Zeitman.
880 yard dash, Martensen and
McDowell.
Javelin, Tassos and Haws.
1 mile run, Green and Hargis.
880 yard relay, Wilson, Zeitman,
Holbrook and White.
1 mile relay, Alley, Henderson,
Martensen and Holbrook.
The Farmers have had a great
deal of planning and practice for
this meet in all events except that
of the 880 yard relay—a new event
added to the tack agenda just re
cently. They have been working
out every day that the weather
and condition of the track have
permitted from about three o’clock
until six o’clock in the afternoon,
while most of them have been put
ting in a lot more of their time
on Saturday and Sunday after
noons.
All who have sized up the teams
in this years Border Olympics are
pretty confident that there will
be new records set or broken. The
college and seiwice teams will
compete in one division this year
in an effort to produce more rec
ords.
The Aggie spikemen will be
competing against Rice Institute,
Texas University and Oklahoma
University. Also there will be track
men from Southwest Texas state
in addition to thinly clads from La
redo Army Air Field, Moore Field,
Kingsville Naval Air Station, Hon
do Air Field, Fort Sam Houston
Reception Center and the San An
tonio Aviation Cadet Center.
According to Coach Dimmit, the
Texas University track team has
the best chance to win this meet
for they have practically their
whole team back from last year,
while the Aggie thinly clads will
probably take a fighting second
place. Coach Dimmit said concern
ing T. u.’s ability to keep letter-
men there year after year, “I
don’t see how they do it.” It
was just pure luck that we had a
few squad men returning this
year.
The next meet the Aggie cinder-
men will run in will be at the Ft.
Worth Fat Stock Show on March
17th.
Wharton County A&M
Club to Meet Wed.
Wednesday evening, March 14,
the Wharton County A. & M. Club
will meet to elect officers for the
current semester and to discuss
plans for a social. The meeting will
be held in Room 104 of the Electri
cal Engineering Building, and all
Aggies from Wharton, Colorado,
Austin, Ft. Bend, and Matagorda
counties have been invited to at
tend.
Trees require a period of relief
from light which may be com
pared roughly with the state of
sleep for animals.
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Thinclads Set For Laredo Olympics
Tassos heaves
Mortensen, and
a long one .
Wilson . get
must have been, you
shape for the sprints.
can hear him grunting
Holbrook,
Conference Swimming Outlook For Aggies
Bleak As Time Of First Meet Draws Near
Only 3 Returning
Lettermen On Squad
Prospects look black for the Ag
gie swimming team as they near
the time of their first dual meet
with Texas. With only one
conference champion, Facio, and
two lettermen, Manuel Escobar
and Tom Syfan returning to swim
this year, the Aggies show much
less power than the Texas team,
which has three Conference cham
pions on this year’s squad. L. F.
Bollinger, who took the breast
stroke and individual medley events
last year, is acting as student
coach, and presents a real threat
to Aggie tankers. Don Pierce, a
youth 19 years old, returns to at-
—DISTRACTIONS—
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divided in their opinion of Johnny
Cabot (Bing Crosby, idol of the
bobby-socksers. He joins the Navy,
and they join the Waves. Susie
gets Johnny assigned to WAVE re
cruiting. Meanwhile Johnny’s pal,
Windy (Sunny Tufts) falls for
Rosemary and they make it a dou
ble wedding. Crosby does some
plain and fancy spoonin’ and croon
in’ while Betty Hutton knocks her
self out as usual only in the double
this time. It’s chock full of good
music such as “Accentuate the
Positive,” “Let’s Take the Long
Way Home,” and gobs of other
jivy jingles. Strictly a jitterbug
show.
“Lowdown: “Spreads joy up to
the maximum and brings blues
tempt another season of consecu
tive victories in the 220 and 440-
yard freestyle events.
The Navy V-12 unit is changing
the colors of maroon and white
for the orange and white of Tex
as, and will probably compete
against the Aggies in the back-
stroke and medley relay eyents.
Another misfortune is the an
nouncement of the ineligibility of
Paul Fleming, ace sprinter upon
whom Coach Adamson was depend
ing for the 50 and 100-yard free
style events. On top of this, the
3-meter diving board at the pool
has been split, halting all diving
woi’kouts. Until the arrival of the
new boards, the diving squad will
be working under a definite handi
cap.
Last year in dual meet compe
tition, the Aggie tankers were de
feated both times by a strong Tex
as team. The first meet was taken
last by a score of 46-37, and
the second by 45-39, being led by
down to the minimum!”
Showing Sunday is “The Master
Race,” with George Coulouris and
Stanley Ridges. (I never heard of
them either). It is set in a Belgian
town occupied by Allied troops
who are trying to restore order
from chaos. This story takes place
just before Germany’s surrender.
It deals with a Nazi-inspired plot
to keep alive the master race and
prepare for another war which is
revealed and destroyed along with
its instigators as Germany’s de
feat is heralded throughout the
world.
Lowdown: A show, no mo’!
Ed Seidel, an excellent sprinter.
This year, however, Seidel is ab
sent and they are expected to be
short in both the sprint and diving
departments. In these events, the
Aggies expect to win the major
portion of their points.
By Ed Wendt
Battalion Sports Editor
OFF TO LAREDO
Off to the Border Oympics go
Coach Lil Dimmit’s cindermen to
face their initial test of the sea
son, March 9 and 10. The only other
Southwest Conference teams com
peting is the Texas Longhorns, de
fending champions of last season.
The Maroon and White will com
pete only with service and col
lege teams.
Weak in all the dashes and
sparking no i-ecord speeds in the
relays, the cadets are up against
a critical situation. Competition
will be pressingly stiff, because
Oklahoma A. & M. boasts Bob
Fenimore, All-American full back,
as a dash man that is going to be
hard to beat. Texas University, too,
boasts the return of the greater
portion of their 1944 spikemen.
“Greek” Tassos will be the main
stay for the Aggies in Field
Events. Bettering his distance of
last season by several feet, Da
mon stands a good chance of tak
ing the discus contest. He will, al
so throw the javelin for the Farm
ers against odds that stand high
and many.
Even though the outlook for
copping the Laredo title is gloomy,
the spirit that the men have been
showing at workouts nearly paral
lels it. The high-spirited, warm-
chattering, conscientious group of
cindermen that have upheld the
Aggies in meets in the past has
disappeared from within the walls
of Kyle Field. Now and then, may
be, an onlooker will hear an occa
sional word of encouragement or
see a spikeman go out of his way
to add that little bit of spirit that
is so necessary for the develop
ment of a smooth-clicking, title
winning team. From a bystander’s
view, the team has an attitude
that is visually pessimistic. Per
haps, the new men on the team do
not fully realize their responsibil
ity as a member of that team; not
withstanding, the school they rep
resent. Here’s hoping that in work
outs in the future that familiar
chatte, those words of encourage
ment, and the signs of optimism
will again persist and that the
gloomy atmosphere will cease to
haunt the bleachers of Kyle Field.
WE ARE HOSTS TO
SOUTHWESTERN
Continued work-outs and gradual
improvements seem to set forth
a team that is comparable of tak
ing the crown this season. True,
the competition will be stiff, but
some outstanding talent has shown
up at the practices on the Kyle
Field diamond. By the time of the
season opener, “Pete” Jones is
scheduled to have a squad lined
up that should show up as well or
beter than last season’s. An in
terview of one of the returning
squadman brought forth this opin
ion; “I believe that the team
looks better this year than it has
in several seasons. The outlook for
a pitcher isn’t so good, but equal
to that of last year.”
AWAITING NEW SPRING
BOARD
The high diving tankers are
patiently awaiting the arrival of
a new spring board to replace the
old one that has become “un
sprung” in recent weeks. Diving
has been confined to the low spring
board which direly handicapped the
practice of Aggie divers. With the
first tank meet only one week off
this group is keeping their fin
gers crossed, hoping that the re
placement will be made soon.
Other action continues as usual
under the roof of the P. L. Downs
Natatorium. Allan Self, persistently
leads Aggie swimmers in their
daily workouts. Riley and Lea are
diligentl yworking to cut down on
their times in free-style and back
strokes. Manuel Escobar looks
better than he did last season
which means that he’ll, probably
give the “teahounds” something to
swim against in the dual meet
there March 15. The Aggie tank
men all have plenty on the sur
face, but Texas, again, insists that
their competition is enough to
sink our hopes.
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