THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Tuesday, May 20, 1947 zzzzzzzz: Page Three
Running Account of A&M’s
Southwest Track Victory
Shot put was the first event of the day to be announced, the Ag
gies taking an early lead on the strength of George Kadera’s winning
toss. Texas was shut out as Franklin Young placed fourth to give the
Aggies six points in the event. Score: A&M 6, Texas 0.
440 dash was the first running event. The Aggies lengthened their
lead to 16 to 1 when Harnden, Holbrook and Bilderbeck placed one-
two-three with T.U.’s Desmond Kidd placing fourth to give the ’Sips
their first point.
100-yard dash results sent the Longhorn point total soaring with
Samuels taking first and Lawler third as the Aggies failed to place.
Score: A&M 16, Texas 9.
Mile run was virtually swept by Texas, the Longhorns going into
the lead for the first time on the strength of Jerry Thompson’s record-
breaking win and second and third place finishes by Sparks and Hafer-
nick. A&M failed to place. Score: Texas 19, A&M 16.
220 dash went to Texas’ great speedster, Charley Parker. Lawler
placed second to give T.U. eight points in the event and boost their
lead to 27-16 over Aggies.
High Jump results hurt the Aggies’ cause as Art Haws failed to
place, leaving the point total at 27-16 Texas.
120-yard hurdles were taken by Arkansas’ Clyde Scott over de
fending champion August Erfurth of Rice with T.U.’s Ken Boren run
ning third and A&M’s Jim Mortensen fourth. Point totals now stood
at 29 for Texas to 17 for A&M with Arkansas moving up to within one
point of the Aggies with 16 points.
Discus results boosted the Aggies hopes as Kadera came through
with Krames of Texas placing second and Arkansas taking third and
fourth, making new point totals read: Texas, Bl; A&M 22 and Arkan
sas 19.
880 run went to Thompson, the great Texas sprinter putting on
steam in stretch to beat A&M’s Carrol Hahn for first. Hoff of Rice
was third with Vajdos of A&M fourth. Score: Texas 36; A&M 26,
Arkansas 19.
Pole Vault finish wiped out the Texas lead in one swoop as Aggies
picked up lOVs points to 1/3 each for Texas and Arkansas. Leroy
Bodeman, Leland Tate and Jack Quirey, all of A&M tied for first with
Johnny Davis of A&M tying with Burrus of Texas and Baker of Ar
kansas for fourth. Score A&M 36%; Texas 36%; Arkansas 19 1/3.
4'40 Relay win by Texas sent the ’Sips back into the lead as Bay
lor ran second, A&M third and Arkansas fourth. Score: Texas 41%;
A&M 38%; Arkansas 20%.
Two Mile Run went unexpectedly to Thompson of Texas who was
entered at last moment as Longhorns holding only a slim lead with
several strong Aggie events still to come up, got desperate. Whisenant
and Brooks of Texas and Bonnen of A&M trailed Thompson in that
order to lift Steer’s lead to 51% to 39% for A&M and 20 1/3 for Ar
kansas.
Broad Jump finish of one-two by the Aggies sent A&M back into
contention as James Hill placed first and Webb Jay second. Arkansas
got third while Texas was shut out, making new point totals: Texas,
51%; A&M 47% and Arkansas 22 1/3.
220-low hurdles went to Arkansas’ Clyde Scott with Aggies gain
ing a point on Texas’ as Jim Mortensen trimmed Ken Boren for third
place. Erfurth of Rice finished second and Boren fourth. Score: Texas
52%; A&M 49% and Arkansas 271/3.
Javelin results came in and Kadera’s winning toss proved turning
point of the meet as Aggies climbed back on top for first time in two
hours. Arkansas was second, third, and fourth as Texas failed to
scratch. Score: A&M 54%; Texas 52% and Arkansas 33 1/3.
Mile Relay win by Aggies on final event of day sewed up meet for
Col. Anderson’s squad. Texas was second by two yards with Arkan
sas third and Rice fourth. Final point totals: A&M, 59%; Texas 55%;
Arkansas 35%; Rice 18; Baylor eight. S.M.U. and T.C.U. failed to
score.
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Lamar High Takes
Swimming Crown
Lamar High School of Houston
won the annual Texas state high
school ehamipionship tournament
held in P. L. Downs Natatorium
here Saturday night. Lamar was
the first Houston school ever to
win this championship.
One record was shattered during
the meet when Eddie Gilbert of
Austin lowered the 50-yard free
style time to 24.4 seconds during
qualifying heats. Gilbert won the
same race in the finals, but in the
time of 24.9.
Van Adamson, representing A.
& M. Consolidated High School,
placed second in the 50 and 100
yard freestyle races.
Point scores were:
Lamar 30; Austin 27; Highland
Park 24; Woodrow Wilson (Dal
las) 20; Thomas Jefferson (San
Antonio) 18.
Texas Country Day School (Dal
las) 10; A. & M. Consolidated 8;
Stephen F. Austin (Houston) 5;
Milby (Houston) 4; San Jacinto
(Houston) 4; Sam Houston (Hous
ton) 3; Paschal (Fort Worth) 3.
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FRANK G. ANDERSON, Ag
gie Track coach, piloted the A.
& M. track team to victory in
the Southwest Conference Meet
in Waco Saturday. This is the
first time since 1943 that A.&M.
has won that honor.
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN
Aggie Thinly Clads Break Texas’
Three Year Monopoly on Track Crown
Last Saturday in Waco the Tex
as A&M thinly clads took seven
firsts to take the Southwest Con
ference track crown by a safe mar
gin. This was
not too great a
surprise to
most observers
who have
watched Col.
Frank Ander
son’s well-bal
anced track
squad in action
this year. This
ends a three-
year monopoly
by Texas U.
There was
some doubt
about the ’Sips with a group of in
dividual performers who have been
attracting nation-wide attention
and, following the dual meet here
on May 10 between the two top
contenders which resulted in a 61-
61 deadlock, it was hard to tell
which was the stronger of the two
teams.
Martin
It will be recalled in opening
the current season in Laredo at
the Border Olympics meet, the
Steer aggregation edged out the
Ags by a half-point margin to
take the honors. Later, at the
Fort Worth Fat Stock Show
meet, the Cadets nosed out the
Longhorns by a margin of better
than two points while in the Cor
pus meet on the following week,
the Teahounds again squeezed
out a victory by a one-point mar
gin.
Times at this meet were excellent
considering the soggy condition of
the track and the humid weather.
A soggy track also accounted for
the short distances in the shot put
and discus. A&M freshman George
Kadera’s winning throw of 188
feet one inch in the javelin event
was all the more remarkable be
cause of the condition of the
ground. Incidently, this is the best
mark the Houstonian has ever
made in competition.
The husky weight man turned in
three first places to tie with Tex
as’ Jerry Thompson for high score
man but lost out on the flip of the
coin. Kadera’s 188 feet in the jav
elin was well ahead of Rob Goode’s
throw in the S^WC meet last year of
178 feet 11 inches.
Outstanding individuals were
eclipsed by the performance of
the team as a whole as the well-
balanced squad tallied points in
place and show as well as firsts.
Jim Mortensen, number one hur
dler, placed third in the 220-yard
low hurdles and fourth in the 120-
yard high hurdles in some of the
stiffest competition in the meet.
Clyde Scott of Arkansas, August
Erfurth of Rice, and Ken Boren
of Texas are all men to be reck
oned with in any competition. Scott,
incidently, won out in the Drake
Relays in Des Moines against the
best in the nation.
Times in the 440-yard relay
event were something more than
spectacular with the Steer combine
finishing in 41.2 to break the con
ference record by two tenths of a
second. Baylor, finishing second,
tied the old conference record and
A&M in third was running in only
two tenths of a second over the
conference record.
Once again, the Farmers al
most succeeded in sweeping the
440-yard dash by taking the first
three spots with Harnden, Hol
brook, and Bilderback finishing
in that order.
To little Jerry Bonnen goes cred
it for giving one of the outstand
ing performances of the day
though he finished in fourth place.
In the two-mile run, two runners
passed out as the grueling dis
tance, combined with the heat,
made the run almost unbearable.
Bonnen practically staggered a-
cross the finish line to give the Ag
gies that extra point that sould
have meant a great deal.
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C Vet Co 2 took the top position.
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hot playoff game for the Corps
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Rice Takes Honors in SWC
Tennis; A&M Places Third
by EARL GRANT
The Aggie net squad finished the current tennis season
with an exceptional showing in the Southwest Conference
meet held in Austin on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of this month.
The Aggies, coached by William Dowell, finished third in
the meet, yielding only to the crack Rice aggregation and
Texas. It was the powerful Rice team which eliminated all
but one of the Aggie contestants.
Bill Bennett, the Aggie’s number one player, defeated
Happ Manning, the number one-f
player for TCU, 9-7, 6-3, in his
second round match. Manning
had, earlier in the meet, downed
Baylor’s number one man, Emory
Gaffney, 6-2, 6-4. Bennett was
consistant throughout the match
and depended on his serve and
back line play to overcome his
opponent. Bennett went on to the
quarter-finals to meet Bobby Cur
tis, the 27 year old veteran from
Rice. Curtis’ experience and his
terrific forehand and backhand
drive proved to be too much for
the Aggie representative, who fell
before the Rice star 6-0, 6-1.
Bennie Stanford, the Number
two man of the meet for the Ag
gies downed George Martin of
TCU, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, in one of the
fastest matches of the day. Stan
ford used his experience and con
ditioning to a good advantage in
this particular match. Stanford
was defeated by Kelly of Texas
in the second round play 6-2, 6-0.
Hank Allen, Number three man
for the Cadets, bested George Mar
tin of TCU in one of the first
round matches 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Al
though the score was close, there
was never any doubt as to the
outcome of the match. Allen then
went on to take an easy win from
Albright of Baylor 6-2, 6-3. Al
len drew the top seeded man of
the day in the quarter-finals when
he came before Sam Match of Rice.
Match took Allen in straight sets
6-1, 6-1, to advance to the semi
finals play.
Bobby Curtis, Rice, was pushed
all the way in his semi-finals go
with the Longhorn star, Clarence
Mabry, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Match of Rice ran through Kelly of
Texas in straight sets of 6-3, 6-2
6-1. Curtis and Match met in the
finals of the singles division Sat
urday afternoon. Match had lit
tle trouble in defeating his team
mate 6-4, 6-2, to become the new
Conference singles champion.
In the doubles play, Stanley and
Allen of A&M were eliminated in
the first round by Rice. Bennett
and Stanford of A&M advanced to
the quarter-finals by trouncing
Manning and Baker of TCU. They
were downed by Match and Cur
tis, the pre-meet favorites, in the
quarter-finals by the score of 6-2,
6-4. This match was much better
than the score indicated. Stan
ford and Bennett played the best
tennis that they had played all
year in this match and pushed the
Rice boys to the limit.
Match and Curtis defeated the
powerful combination of Mabry
and Kelly of Texas in the finals in
doubles play Saturday by the
score of 8-6, 8-6, 6-4, in what pro
vided to be the most outstanding
match of the entire meet.
First Round Singles:
Jack Blanton, Texas, defeated Jimmy
Roberts, TCU, 6-2, 6-3 ; HANK ALLEN,
A&M, defeated George Martin, TCU, 6-3,
3-6, 6-4; BENNIE STANFORD, A&M, de
feated Bob Morrow, SMU, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3;
J. B. Christian, Baylor, defeated Cary
Knox, TCU, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4; Bill Barnes,
SMU, defeated John Baker, TCU, 6-2, 6-2 ;
Chick Harris, Rice, defeated Bill Bogart,
Baylor, 6-8, 6-0, 6-0 ; Bobby Goldfarb, Tex
as, defeated Frank Jones, SMU, 6-0, 6-3;
and Happ Manning, TCU, defeated Emory
Gaffney, Baylor, 6-2, 6-4.
Second Round Singles:
Match, Rice, defeated Blanton, Texas,
6-3, 6-3; ALLEN, A&M, defeated Albright,
Baylor, 6-2, 6-3; Kelley, Texas, defeated
STANFORD, A&M, 6-2, 6-0; Foley, Rice,
defeated Christian, Baylor, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6;
Mabry, Texas, defeated Barnes, SMU,
6-1, 6-2; Harris, Rice, defeated Stanley,
A&M, 6-1, 6-0; Curtis, Rice, defeated
Goldfarb, Texas, 7-5, 6-1; and BENNETT,
A&M, defeated manning, TCU, 9-7, 6-3.
Singles Quarters-Finals:
Clarence Mabry, Texas, defeated Chick
Harris, Rice, 6-1, 7-9, 6-1.
Bobby Curtis defeated BILL BENNETT,
A&M, 6-1, 6-0.
Sam Match, Rice, defeated HANK AL
LEN, A&M, 6-1, 6-1.
Felix Kelly, Texas, defeated Bob Foley,
Rice, 6-2, 6-3.
Singles Semi-Finals:
Sam Match, Rice, defeated Felix Kelly,
Texas, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1.
Pappas Wins Tennis
Championship Here
The College Singles Tennis
Championship was won by A. T.
Pappas from Galveston and a
freshman in A Signal Corps. Pap
pas went all the way through the
tournament with ease and skill to
defeat five determined opponents.
The first win was over Hurst
came stronger, but in the semi
finals he eliminated Webster of
Dorm 1 8-6, 6-4 to go into the fi
nals undefeated in match play,
of Dorm 14 6-3, 6-1. Next Pappas
beat Greenes of B Engineer 6-1,
6-2 to go into the quarterfinals a
big favorite. In the quarterfinals
his victory was over Grant of B
Field 6-1, 6-0. Competition be-
The final match was a thriller
with Waide of Dorm 7 giving the
champ plenty of trouble, but the
final score went to Pappas 6-3,
8-6, 8-10, 6-4.
Bobby Curtis, Rice, defeated Clarence
Mabry, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Singles Finals:
Sam Match, Rice, defeated Bobby Cur
tis, Rice, 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles, First Round:
Harris and Foley, Rice, beat STANLEY"
and ALLEN, A&M, 6-3, 6-3 ; Gaaffney and
Albright, Baylor, defeated Morrow and
Barnes, SMU, 6-1, 6-8, 6-2 ; Match and
Curtis, Rice, beat Jones and Martin, SMU,
6-3, 6-1 ; BENNETT and STANFORD, A&
M, beat Manning and Baker, TCU, 6-4,
6-4.
Doubles Quarter-Finals:
Harris and Foley, Rice, beat Gaffney
and Albright, Baylor, .3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Match and Curtis, Rice, beat BENNETT
and STANFORD, A&M, 6-2, 6-4.
Mabry and Kelley, Texas, bye.
Goldfarb and Braswell, Texas, beat Bo
gart and Christian, Baylor, 6-0, 6-2.
oubles Semi-Finals
Mabry and Kelley, Rice, beat Harris
and Foley, Rice, 6-4, 6-0, 6-3.
Match and Curtis, Rice, beat Goldfarb
and Braswell, Texas, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles Finals:
Match and Harris, Rice, beat Mabry
and Kelley, Texas, 8-6, 8-6, 6-4.
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