THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15 ,1945
THE BATTALION
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Aggie Swimmers In Dual Meet With T. u. Tonite
Thinclads To Run In Fort Worth Exposition Saturday
Henderson, Haws, and Green Spark
Workouts; Holbrook’s Ankle Injured
College Competition In Meet To Be Strong
Texas and Rice Enter; Walmsley to Run
By Sam Nixon
The Aggie cindermen are trav
eling again this week-end, this time
to participate in the Fort Worth
Fat Stock Show track meet at
Fort Worth on Saturday, March
17. The preliminaries will be run
off beginning at nine a.m., while
the real races, the finals, will he
run off at one p.m. The team is
leaving for Cowtpwn Friday after
dinner, accompanied by Coach Lil
Dimmitt and Student Track Man
ager Dick Burch. The squadmen
making the trip and their events
will be:
120 yard high hurdles, White.
Discus, Tassos.
220 yard low hurdles, White.
High Jump, White, Haws.
440 yard dash, Holbrook, Hen
derson, Alley.
100 yard dash, Wilson, White,
Zeitman.
Javelin, Tassos, Haws.
880 yard relay, Wilson, Zeitman,
Holbrook, White.
1 mile relay, Alley, Henderson,
Mortensen, White.
Pole vault, Williams, Tate.
The competition to be offered
to the. Maroon and White spikemen
will consist of track teams from
Texas U., Rice, TCU, SMU, and
Texas Tech. In their next meet,
Coach Dimmitt’s tracksters will be
at Houston with Rice Institute on
March 24.
The team showed up better than
was expected at the Border Olym
pics meet in Laredo last Friday.
According to Coach Lil Dimmitt,
the whole complexion of the meet
would have been a lot different if
the Aggie team had had another
month in which to train. Another
reason the meet turned out as it
did was that the service and col
lege teams were, running in the
same section for the first time.
The results of the meet were—
first place, Texas University; sec
ond place, Corpus Christi Naval
Air Base; third place, Texas A. and
M.; fourth place, Hondo Air Base,
and fifth place, Kingsville Naval
Air Base. The cindermen for the
Maroon and White track team took
firsts in the mile relay and the
440 yard dash. The mile relay men
were Alley, Holbrook, Henderson,
and Martensen, who rushed the
baton across the finish line in 3
minutes, 36 seconds. Holbrook took
the 440 yard dash in 50.5 seconds.
One of the outstanding events
of the meet was the breaking of
hi^ own 1:20 high hurdles record
by rangy August Erfurth, of San
Antonio’s Brackenri dge High
School. His time last year was
15.3 seconds, and Erfurth made it
this year in 14.8 seconds.
The Aggie spikemen who showed
promise at Laredo were Alley,
Henderson, Martensen, and Hol
brook.
The saplings of today are the
sawlogs of tomorrow.
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Self And Sawyer Elected
Co-Captains For Season
Maroon and White Strong In Sprints,
Weak In Distance Events; 13 Make Trip
Thirteen swimmers, accompanied by Coach Art Adam
son, left for Austin this morning to compete with T. u. tank
ers coached by L. F. Bollinger. Syfan, Geer, Escobar, Facio,
Heeman, Riley, Lea, Armstrong, Thomas, Matthews, and
Settegast, led by newlychosen Co-captains “Buzz” Sawyer
and Allen Self, are the mainsprings of a strong Aggie team
which is expected to bounce back from Austin with victory
laurels, after tonight’s meeting in Gregory Gymnasium.
Governored by dual meet rules
permitting only two men from each
team in the water, the selections
for swimmers in the competitive
Adamson Tutors
Aggie Swimmers
For Tenth Year
Aggie Swimming Coach
Made Remarkable Record
As Amateur Swimmer
isssiffifiB
Begins Tenth Year Here
By W. E. Denson
Arthur Adamson, swimming
coach of the Texas Aggies, came
to A. & M. in 1935 after a remark
able history as an amateur swim
mer. Mr. Adamson was born in
London, England, Feb. 25, 1905
and moved to Oxbow, Saskatche
wan, Canada, where he took his
first strokes in the water. He later
moved to New Zealand where his
fame as a swimmer began to grow.
He won the 100 yard freestyle
championship of New Zealand in
1925 and held it until 1927; dur
ing this period he set records in
the 100 yard and 100 meter free
style events.
In 1927, after leaving New Zea
land, he finished second in the Pa
cific coast A.A.U. championship
and swam a leg in the 400-yard
relay that won the championship
for the Olympic Club.
In 1928 as a member of the
Olympic Illinois Athletic water po
lo team he tasted his last defeat
as a player or a coach except for
a single loss in the finals for the
Junior National AAU title in 1938;
in 1939 his Texas Aggies won this
title. Since coming to Texas, he
has held the 50 and 100 yard free
style titles; the Texas Amateur
Athletic Federation swim titles;
and the Gulf AAU 100 yard free-
Although the practice reviews,
which have been held on Tuesday
and Thursday of last week and on
Tuesday of this week, have inter
rupted the 5 o’clock intramurals
somewhat since the start of the
semester, we will now attempt to
give you a brief resume of the
intramural standings in basket
ball, handball, and horseshoe pitch
ing thus far this semester.
In League A basketball, Charley
Caraway’s C Batterymen are out
in the lead with two wins followed
closely by Flores’ horn footers who
now have one win to their credit.
In gaining the top of the heap in
League A, the C Batterymen out
played the C Company infantry
men 13 to 8, and then pounced on.
Delbert Runyon’s G Company, and
to 9. Flores’ bandmen grabbed sec
ond place in League A cage play
when the horntooters, led by
Brown’s rampant play, floated to
an easy 23 to 14 win.
Cage play in League B is all
knotted up at the present time—
Relbert Runyon’s G Company, and
Bennet’s batterymen both out in
front with one win apiece. At the
bottom of the heap in League B
basketball is hapless Bob Morris’
F Company with two defeats and
no wins, while Stanley LeventhaTs
B Battery remains neutral with
one win and one loss for them
selves.
E Troop and E Company are tied
among the elite in League C bas
ketball. J. B. Kearley’s E Company
grabbed their one win when they
eked out a 25 to 23 victory over
Jim Henderson’s D Company the
first of this week. E Troop man
aged their win when they laid the
A Batterymen away in defeat.
Bennet’s F Batterymen are com
paratively out in front in League
A handball with two wins and no
losses to their credit. The battery
men in taking first place, first de
feated the A batterymen in two
out of three games and then went
on to win over Jim Henderson’s D
Company in the same manner. D
Company is next in League A with
one win and one loss for them
selves.
J. B. Kearley’s E Company in
fantrymen are first in League B
handball with two triumphs to their
credit, while Wyble’s A Company
style championship, relinquishing
it when he retired from amateur
swimming in 1935. He is chairman
of the Gulf Coast AAU swimming
committee and has served in that
capacity every year, save one, since
its organization.
Art is a member of the National
AAU swimming committee, and the
Intercollegiate National Rules
Committee. Mr. Adamson is mar
ried and is the father of a young
son who is already a polished ju
venile swimmer.
and Dorm No. 6 are tied in second
place with one win apiece. The
cellar champ in League B is down
trodden E Troop with two defeats.
League C handball is spotlight
ed this week by the F Company
infantrymen with a pair of wins
as against the horntooters and the
H Company infantrymen who have
each lost one for themselves.
In the horseshoe pitching divi
sion, that is League A, G Battery
is the only one listed in the win
column with two victories for
themselves—over B Company and
also over the C Batterymen.
In League B the A Batterymen
and the D Company infantrymen
are tied up holding the reins with
one win apiece, while B Battery
and the Second Company frogs are
in the cellar with one loss apiece.
Delbert Runyon’s G Company
lads are doing well in League C
handball, grabbing two wins for
themselves, while D Troop and A
Company are tied up for the sec
ond slot with one victory apiece.
Both G Company and the Dorm
No. 6 lads are way down in the
cellar however, both outfits losing
two tilts.
HANDBALL—
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third encounters, taking them 15
to 9, and 15 to 12, thereby winning
the match. Fincher won the first,
however, 15 to 11.
F BATTERY WINS AGAIN
Stravolimos, Bennett, Mijalis,
and Shumacher of F Battery, all
shared in victory Monday after
noon at 5 O’clock when they took
the D Company handballmen to
the cleaners with a 3 to 0 victory,
taking the doubles and both the
singles games.
In the doubles game, Stravolimos
and Bennett pounded out a 15 to
3, 15 to 5 win over Davis and
Steward of D Co. Mijalis then fol
lowed through for the batterymen
when he overwhelmed Tom, who
represented the Infantrymen, with
a 15 to 1, 15 to 6 victory.
Although tke win was now
cinched for the Batterymen, since
they now had already copped two
out of three games for themselves,
Shumacher added another triumph
for the peashooters when he down
ed D Company’s Wilson with a
15 to 11, 15 to 3 victory. Both out
fits used iron man teams in this
one sided tilt—neither side using
substitutions.
E CO. DEFEATS CAVALRYMEN
In Tuesday afternoon’s 4:15
League B handball duel, E Co.
pounced on the E Troop cavalry
men, emerging as victors for the
whole works—that is, in winning
the doubles game, and both the
singles games without a letup.
In the doubles, C. E. Washington
and H. J. Tuffly of the infantry
men rolled' over A. R. Reese and
D. A. Ballard of the cavalrymen in
taking the first and third matches
15 to 12, and 15 to 1, but dropped
the second match with a 15 to 3
count to the cavalrymen.
In first singles play of the
match, W. S. Garrett of the in
fantrymen swamped A. Celaya of
the cavalrymen winning two
games straight by scores of 15 to
6, and 15 to 12. In this defeat, Ce
laya never seemed to find the
range and therefore Garrett went
on to win.
events will most likely be as fol
lows:
440 yard freestyle: Escobar and
Heeman.
220 yard freestyle: Escobar and
Riley.
100 yard freestyle: Self and Sy
fan.
50 yard freestyle: Thomas and
Settegast.
100 yard backstroke: Sawyer and
Riley.
100 yard breaststroke: Lea and
Geer.
100 yard individual medley re
lay: Self and Heeman.
400 yard freestyle relay: Self,
Riley, Thomas, and Facio.
300 yard medley relay: Sawyer,
Armstrong, and Syfan.
Diving: Facio and Matthews,
Bill Geer, a newcomer to the
team last week, who tried out for
the team in 1941 on first coming
to Aggieiand, has shown excep
tional drive and speed in workouts
this past week, and promises to do
great things this year. He and Lea
should provide more than enough
competition against Texas’ return
ing champion Bollinger in the
century breaststroke event. Syfan,
Thomas, and Settegast have shown
that they ha'e the speed in them
to take the sp"int events, and are
expected to improve much more be
fore the Conference meet.
Co-captain Allen Self is expected
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