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| FROM THIS ANGLE—] by LARRY GOODWYN Orchids to Anderson The events of the past weeks in the major track meets in the Southwest have resulted in quite a few surprises, but one fact now stands out as quite clear: Coach Frank Anderson has done an amaz- in g job of turning out a cracker- jack track team with a minimum o f material. At the out set of the sea- GO"*™ uncertain task of trading punches with T.u. minus the services of most of the men who won SWC championships for the Maroon and White in the conference meet here last year. Gone were Johnny Ziegler, SWC champion in the mile and two mile; Bob G#ode, javelin champ; and one-half (Benson and Fischer) of the championship mile relay team. Only Art Harnden, who won the 440 dash title and Bill Napier, who ran a lap on the mile relay team, were back to de fend their titles. After several weeks of practice this year, Anderson emerged with a squad that boasted half a dozen capable quarter-milers and anoth er handful of promising contenders in the field events. All of which led this writer to make the state ment that if the Aggies were go ing to make any points in the con ference meet, they would come in the field events and in 440 dash and mile relay. And what happens? Out of the wide blue yonder, Anderson digs up some promising middle distance men, plus a capable sprint relay team. Add to this the pleasing performances of Webb Jay in the sprints, and what do we have? Brethren, we have a well-balanced squad whose chances of taking the conference title grow brighter with every passing meet. And even if the SWC pennant doesn’t come to College Station this year, Coach Anderson rates a bouquet of roses for a clever job of making “contenders” out of a group of boys who might easily have been only “also rans”. Jay Looms As Sprint Threat After seeing the 100 yard dash at the Texas Relays in Austin 10 days, ago, it seems that the publi cized duel between T.u’s Charley Parker and Baylor’s Bill Martin- s o n may soon be a three-way scramble. And, from this angle, it looks like the new challenger to the dual-reign of Mssrs. Parker and Martinson will be none other than A&M’s own Webb Jay. Jay has been shunted to the background most of the year while the spotlight played on the more widely known sprinters of the con ference but the Farmer dashman has stayed in there and pitched and it looks like his efforts are bearing fruits. Although finishing only fourth in the 100 in the Relays, Jay was not more than a stride and a half behind the winning Marten- son in a blanket finish that had the crowd standing on their heads. The first four finishers —Martinson, Parker, Cotton (of Baylor) and Jay—were so close together that one false step could have juggled the results noticeably. Jay, who is no slouch at broad jumping, pulled a leg muscle in his first jump in the triangular meet at Corpus last weekend and may not be in top shape for Saturday’s meet. (Incidentally, Jay’s one jump carried over 19 feet and won him fourth in the meet. He had previously taken first in the broad jump in the Ft. Worth Exposition Meet with a leap of 23 feet, two inches.) If his leg rounds into shape, Jay might give Baylor’s Martinson, Cotton, Inc. a real run for their dough Saturday. Farmer Baseball Team Erratic The Aggie Baseball team, which has looked alternately good and bad through early season games, looked mostly bad Tuesday, in dropping the third game of the Rice series, 8 to 4. Pistol Team Practicing The Aggie Pistol Team candi dates are getting some expert training under the direction of Lt. Col. William A. Becker, a graduate of A&M in the class of ’41 and a member of the National Cham pionship team of 39. Some 15 men reported at the first meeting and two more sub mitted their names. The team has been practicing consistently and competitive matches may be ar ranged before the end of the se mester. Rifle Team Has Twelve Wins The A&M rifle team under Ma jor John M. Cook, Infantry, has a good record this season with 12 wins and 4 losses and the possi bility of more wins when all of the match results are known. One more postal match is to be fired next week with the Univer sity of Arkansas and an interteam shoulder to shoulder match will be fired on a date to be set later by Major Cook. « Potential Dynamite DON FRYE is another reason for the Aggie track team to look with optimism at the future. An accomplished 440 man as his re cord before the war will verify and there is a good chance of his regaining his old stride. Unpublicized Frye Gains in Popularity While the rest of the Southwest Conference Track Coaches are fe verishly engaged in a hunt for a quarter-miler who can match strides with A&M’s Art Harnden, Col. Frank Anderson, guiding men tor of Aggie track fortunes, has, in reserve and quite unpublicized, the one man who has beaten Harn den in the 440 dash. The lad in question is Don Frye, current fifth-ranking member of A&M’s flashy crew of quarter- milers. Frye, who has not seen much action this season, trimmed Harnden more than once when both of them were “fish” on the 1942 Farmer track team. The track careers of both men were interrupted by the war with Harnden being the first to return to Aggieland, winning the SWC 440 championship last year. When he arrived back on the scene this year, Frye found the Maroon camp flooded with capa ble quarter-milers and his past performances have been forgotten in the shuffle of new records hung up by the current crop of Harnden, Bilderbeck, Holbrook, Napier, et al. But, the spindly-shanked little speedster is slowly coming into his own and may figure prominent ly in the Aggies’ plans for a SWC championship. If Frye can regain his old stride, the Aggies stand a good chance not only of taking Room with a view -of 11,000,000 miles! In this room, telephone circuit spe cialists maintain accurate and in stant control over some 11,400,000 miles of long distance lines. Merely by referring to this huge diagram they can tell at a glance the ■exact status of telephone circuits from Montreal to Mexico City and from Havana to Seattle. For, as quickly as new lines are added or ex tended, or as quickly as circuits reach capacity or again become avail-* able, the change is recorded on this master chart. 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Gibbons put two men away but threw his arm out of place and the mound chores passed to Dewey Jacobs, who retired the side immediately. This was the Owls big inning, and added to two runs in the seventh and one in the ninth totaled up their eight tallys. A. & M. started out with a bang in the first inning. Lead- off man, Bobby Fretz, cracked out a single, then stole second as Peck Yass struck out. Stan Holmig then stepped up to bat and lined out a home run that had yards to spare at the left cetner field fence marker of 350 feet. The Aggies loaded the bases in the second inning and Walter Willingham scored on Fretb’s flyball to deep center. Tex Thornton tagged up in the sixth frame on Willingham’s double against the center field fence. This was all of the Ag gie scoring even though they did try a desperate ninth in ning rally. Rice pitcher Ken Carley gave up four hit sand two runs before he was relieved in the fourth by Bill Bishop. Bishop went on to win the game for his teammates allow ing only four more hits. The Ag gies won 10 to 4 off of Bishop in their last game in Houston. Defensive honors for the Aggies go to Tex Thornton who only muff ed one ball in eight chances. Tex faded back to catch Lindsey Carey’s Texas leaguer in the third inning and figured in a double play in the fourth. Little Vincent Buckley spoiled the Aggie chances for base hits several times, as he deftly darted into short field for several Texas Leaguers. Careful patroling of the outgardens by fielders Costa and Sommer kept the Aggie runs to a minimum. This was the last game that the Aggies play with the Owls in Conference competition. A.&M. journeys to Austin Friday to tangle with the unbeaten Long horns. Score by Innings A&M 210 001 000 Rice 000 000 251 R H E 4 8 4 8 10 3 Batteries: For A & M—Beesley, Gibbons, Jacobs, Calvert, Walker. For Rice—Carley, Bishop, Rein- inger. Game time: 2 hours, 35 minutes. Officials: Bisbee, Tollar. Badminton Tournament Opens In the doubles open four mem bers of the Badminton Club fought their way into the finals. Haskin and Hohne made up one team while Tittle and Lander the other. In two fast games Haskin and Hohne found and set the pace to beat their opponents 15-11, 15-11 to be crowned college champions. Tennis and Golf Open Tournaments Brackets for each of these events have been drawn up and will be poste'd at the Intramural Message Center and in the Intramural of fice. Slips have been sent out for the first round of play and contes tants are reminded to bring the results of the matches by the of fice as soon as possible after a match so that tournament play will not be slowed down. the mile relay, an event in which they are clearly the class of the league, but also rack up a clean sweep in the 440 dash—placing first, second, third and fourth. So, while the search goes on in Austin, Dallas, Houston and other SWC camps for a rival of Harnden, Frye continues to quietly pedal around Kyle Field every after noon with his eye on the SWC meet. ‘Pe*4*«uiliject MEN’S TIE CLASP A '■DANNE' PRODUCT ACTUAL SIZE 2'/j INCHES Styled and hand wrought by the finest craftsmen, your name becomes the theme of a handsome Tie Clasp. Particular at tention is given to the legibility of your name. Tie Clasps are plated with brilliant 18 Icarat gold and polished to a gleaming finish which is guaranteed against tar nishing Send your name, address and "the name" you wish to appear on the Tie Clasp. Mail check or money order $3.50 ea. A W F Co- &20 West 170th Street, New York 32. N. Y. Track Team in Triangular Meet Here Saturday at 2:30 The Aggie track squad will stage its first home meet of the year next Saturday in a triangular affair with Bay lor and Louisiana State. The first field events will begin at 2:30 p.m. and the running events will begin at 3, ending Broad Jumper VERNON HILL, Aggie broad jumper is giving the SWC com petitors a run for their money. Hill is getting upwards of 21 feet, getting a flat 21 feet 10 inches at the Fort Worth meet. Golfers Meet TCU Linkmen Friday Marty Karow’s golfers will be swinging their clubs again Fri day April 11, when they meet TCU on the Bryan Country Club greens for the second match with the Frogs. The Aggies beat TCU 6 to 3 when they journeyed to Fort Worth with Gayther Nowell, golf pro, on March 21, but the Frogs won the Fat Stock Show Tourna ment (a non conference play) on the windy day of March 22 with the Ags placing fourth. Three conference teams, SMU TCU, and Baylor, have been played so far this season with A&M on the winning end each time. They gained the greatest number of points last Wednesday when the match with Baylor ended 8 to 1. Johnny Henry moved up to num ber 6 man on the team when Nor man Freeze dropped out of school at mid-semester. Freeze plans to enter A&M again next fall but in the meantime is getting some good practice while working for a golf pro. at 4:30. Play Texas Friday With two wins and two losses to their credit, the Texas Aggies hit the road to Austin Friday after noon to play the Southwest Con ference champion Longhorns. Texas is slated as the team to beat in play this year. The ’sips have taken on SMU and Rice and beaten them both to hold second place in conference standing be hind the Baylor Bears. However, Tu plays the Aggies only once this season on home grounds and that is considered a disadvantage in competition between the Aggies and Varsity. Bobby Layne, who hasn’t dropped a conference game this spring, will probably pitch against the Aggies. Coach Lil Dimmitt of the Aggies will start Earl Beesley against the Longhorns Friday. The Aggies are holding third place in the con ference with a .500 rating, having dropped a game apiece to Rice and Baylor. Spring Football Workouts Friday Football spring training in the Aggie camp begins Friday, April 11 at 5 p.m. officially. Head Coach Homer Norton is expecting a large squad of candi dates to be present and intends to make his first team of 70 of the most promising prospects. A sec ond team will also work out and those left who wish to do so will be issued equipment as far as it goes until such time as the squads are definitely drawn up. Coach Norton stated that the team was better equipped this year at the beginning of the sea son than at any time since the war. Louisiana State is expected to field a strong combination both in the track and field events with ex ceptionally good men in middle dis tances. Also on the Tiger squad are reputed to be some of the na tion’s best pole vaulters, javelin throwers, jumpers and weight men. The LSU aggregation has been conference champions 12 times in the last 15 years in the Southeast ern circuit. Baylor boasts some fast dash men and distance men, including in the dashes the speedy Bill Mar- tineson, the runner who has beat en Texas’ Charlie Parker two times in three trys this year. The Bru ins also boast of another boy, Cot ton, who has consistently finished among the first in the 100-yard dash. To contend with these favorites, Coach Frank Anderson has his fast improving sprinter Webb Jay who has been winning points consis tently in the 100-yard dash, big George Kadera who is winning na tional recognition for his perfor mance in the field events, and Art Haws who has improved his stand ing in the high jump some four in ches already this year. The Ag gie 440 men, Bill Napier, Art Harn den, Ervin Bilderback, and Ray Holbrook are more than holding their own and these same runners are favored in the mile relay. 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