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V ' •, pp hm y--: I r I, '■ . mi iiaiuucj ■*! 1 S p-f R T roM UT.A ?cro r..W ■Bih nden on Winning IJ. S. Relay Quartet Tf rpx Fage f ill l> 11 E > m Ab)ve is Mitchell Haul’s unbeaten volWball an w on the Intramural Championship the first t Bowers Stops T. With This and is | W to repeat this one. They are, fVom left to right, bottom row, OjUtt Brashear, A1 CirtwTight, Wally Dixon, and Arthur Wiley, p. ; ‘ L ^ f Back row, B. D. Siegfriund, Frank Hill, Nick Holland, and A. L. Von Roseiiberg. Not pictured is “Curly” Beck. (Mutter ’ 1 ^ :I : 'i J II > I I / I '! Team Law .. ^ Bizzell Milner idefeated Trailer Camp : jjji ner Fnuay afternoon ip an intrarunai Leggett sutvoail gamei to tjpke pv&r loUftn - «vt place in irte Carilpus Lea: Lene towers tiijrneti iri a hit pivchi|ng performance for mer to wip n.s tooikn gamt, one- Mu-* to 3. nan the hits i Red Fennell, atcofid base for Milner, was the star ot game as he coltocted three in iour trips to tie plate driving in three runs The outcome off the game Was Mitchell vs. Walton on dia mond 5 at 5:15. f v. nmi wl«jn pnsnoll ^row 4 ”• BizM “ heVelrin aouot atier the cm i d in hen a three runjs to fhk^ a coWma^uing 3 to 0 letad. ufStmny Seewald, jiaco pitchej* for .trailer t;amp wait crediied ’the loss. - Box.score: Milner • ;* ri 4 0 <i 3 1 1 Trailer Camp 1 , ..0 f 0 0 1 SPECIAL SALE . v. Softball Standings Entries Still Open for Batt Domino Contest Aggie Track Captain Receives Gold f As U. S. Team Dominates Olympic F t# ;i|i • J I . Mr BILL p6tt8 Aggie Art Hamden became the first man from the Southwest Conference to win a gold medal in the Olympics when the American 1600 meter, relay team, of which he was i * Four hicky people will receive prizes ranging from a corsage to a burton of cigarettes Weonesday f night at the conclusion oi the Dpm-' ino Tournament sponsored by the Batt Sports Staff. , ' The apentog round will be played tonight at 7:1S in the lounge of tne YMCA, with the final round scheduled tor Wed* neadsy night at the same time and place; Ail teams will play both nights, with the total high score to decide the winners. The winners and run* nemup will receive prises, in ad dition, a highly useless boohy prize will Dp presented to the lowest- seeing team. Flay is not expected to last over one hour on eitner night. , Sufticient tables will be avail able to accommodate All players, so players may enter tonight by ; arriving before play Starts. Players must be present both nights to be eligible for the prizes. A team of two persons is required for ai) entry. This tournament is •fhniteef to students, members of the tacultjy, and their wives. Free, cokes will be served to ii _ players during the contest. Married gjtudents are urged to ‘ .bring their wives, ojr someone pipe’s, to v this tournament. a member, scored a decisive victory in Lionaon oaiuruay. The American team, composed of Harnden, Cliff Bourland, Roy Cochran, and Mai Whitfield, finished some fifty yards ahead of the team from Prance, which was second. I SlotoH fn kn o Snnl koItt'Aon Ika4- tii « mm ...t. Won Lost Pet. s i .833 4 1 .800 4 5 2 .714 4 2 .667 3 3 .500 Trader Camp Puiyear -.aA# Walton Leggett Scolfes WinOver Puryear i Slated to be a duel between the* Jamaicans and the Americans, the' Rod, White and Blue turned it into a runaway after Arthur Wint, Olympic 400 meter champio* from lining , And ii Leggett njipped Puryear 5 to 4 oftl . ; i ART HARNDEN, blond head^ ed Aggie quartermiler who be came the first Southwest Con ference athlete ever to win a gold medal in the Olympics, will not soon be forgotten by: Aggie Track Fans for the many color ful races he ran for the Maroon and White. j*1,. j I 0 Today’s Game in a seesaw softball game last Fri day for their tjhird win of the cur-1 rent semester; The lead changed hands five 3 .'.600 times before Leggett pushed | 4 .333 across two runs in the top hail of | 5 .167 | the seventh to end the scoring. r»• ii iky iL C .000 | Bill Plagens turned in a three- JDlZZdl" W 311011 hit pitching performance for Leg- ^ ^ 1 gett to Receive credit for his third g lay 'Jl HCSCiay win qf the season. I : * i iv . Eugene, Selle pitched a good game lor'Puryear but his control with R 5 O.f OS Pv 3 Leggett vs. Law on ! diamond^ 6 at 5:15. ' I'; ; ■J* Puryear ys. Trailer Camp oh the lighted siyftball diamond at 8 KM). The champion 19.‘?9 Texas A&M football team piled up 212 points while allowing the opposition! only 31. - ' ; I Inwe _ Jamaica, went lame while ronni the third leg for Ii coUapeed in agony. the time for the;American team wni 3:10.4. Thia time wap 2.2 aoc- ouda slower than tho Olympic rec ord net, by an American team in 10.12. If tho American team had been pushed, as Was expected, by tho Jamaicans, another Olympic record might have been set. Run ning third behind France .was Swfeden after Wint fell out of the race. This event, the tenth won by the American team in track and field competition, was the last track feature to be decided. America won an outstanding victory over the othen countries in track and field by amassing a total of 188 points to runner-up Sweden’s 101. Hprnden was captain of the Ag gie jtrack team in 1948 and won the Southwest Conference 440 yard title in 1947 and 1948. As anchor-man on the Aggie mile relay team for the .past two years, Hamden did his share in setting numerous relay records | which A&to now holds. f ,P‘ j . i Harnden, who hails from Yoa kum, Texas, graduated last June with one freshman and thrfee var sity letters in track to his credit. i ' | , , l Absentee Voting Starts Next Week w T- - 1 i!3 toiletries Our enfcre stock of L’Orle and otier fine Toiletries Now 4 • ; ‘ i/ 2 Price i ' = - j .• • • ; tg Comfort, for ;mo ti , ^ ■ 1 ■ ill 'I l '. If. M.y Double . - I • i- iij. • Here's a temveflimt, tnanaioh kit cofatalniog the ftmew LOSLE LODORANTE, the W dec dor res—and coolibg, soothing t’ORUB 4 i* ■», . j 1 • \ 'yti. •••• ki- . J-.9 CLOTHIERS College and Bryan •» Applications for absentee voting will be accepted today, but no ab sentee ballots may be cast until the "latter part of next week, Coun- ' Bizzell Hall and Walton Hall f ty Clerk A. B. Svptak said Sat- «• -JS Fr"S urdi1 '- SSlfcoTSe^ ™re! he ^ ^ Box score: * | Ihe Bizzell team made the re- . I quest because some of their key Leggett 1000 2 02Ko pi a y C r S were plbyiiig in a softball Puryear 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 K 4 | tournament in Calvert, Teias and could not be on hand last Friday night Aggie So: In Practi For State Tourney » Agg!< ged by Fresh i Taylor W|1 practici 0 Softball team man Bngketbal Wilkins win pl«> n hero on thi The Tex** managed Coach 1 two practice gunwi lighted softball diamond on Mon day and Tuesday night* In prepar ation for the State Softball Tour ney on August 14i-16-l6. Barney Welch, director of in tramural athletics stated that the Aggie nine Would play a team composed of outstanding softball players from the intra mural leagues. The games will be the night-cap of a double-header, each night. The first game of the double-headers will be the regularly scheduled in tramural softball games. All Aggie softball fans are urg ed to attend the two double-head ers. 1_. • BM w All Aggie Coaches Back From Abilene try Sti> BUBBA WILLI, Law Han softball holding down first I 1 I m rj f V IF -1 1* one {[of la tho l r for the team Is .TJ with Pete Tremont second Coach Harry Stiteler and Ath letic Director Bill Carmichael ar rived back in College Station I game when he singlet tb center ft Thursday after having attended field in the last of qheS iwventl the Texas High School Coaches Conference in Abilene last week. Because of the limited time be fore football training starts, they were not able to stay in order td witness the annual high school itclrll 1 to 0 To in Softball Race i4 ■' : F 1 DON HN’GELKIN( IT • . . 1.. j,j . - ■t • Law Hall took ( Ver first Waco in the hotly contested ln- tramural Softball llpjlgiie rale last Friday when it nosed- pxcitirig seven inning game, 1 to 0. out Mitchell Hall in Don Fisher, .ftasriy pitclfer fbr Law, won his own ball Leading Pitchers Won Lost Burch, Bizzell Johansen, Puryear Fisher, Law Wiley, Mitchell .... Bowers, Milner all-star football ! game Friday night. f| Other members of the coaching staff stayed in Abilene and re turned Saturday. Since the State-Democratie com-1 Stitelec. atated-tbat 4nember»-of According to Intramural j Direct or Barney Welch the game has been rescheduled for j Tuesday night. j * | ' THE LARGEST ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STORE IN BRYAN- Come in and Me us for large or small appliances: RADIOS, ELECTRIC IRONS STUDENT LAMPS. 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The durability record for Rose Bowl play is held by Robert Rey nold*, of Stanford, who played in every one of. the ! 180 minutes in the three conscciitives games in notification by the State Demo-j w hj c h Stanford figured, 1934, 1935 ci atic Committee. j I and 1936. j ,. , Wiley allowed only th: ee issued no bases on >a' Fisher allowed four hit i [nine passes. - • 1 , . Fisher, regardless <f fiis wild ness, was exceptioualjl) the clutches, ianinfs Mitcii load the buses Tremont came home w thjthe bnlj run of the contest to en i tpc game Neither team, com nitlted an error as the two tei reek'd off one of the best | layed ball games that has been ie< n in in tramural competition this sum- ■Mr. ■> A, P. Wiley,* hurler uk niianag cr for Mitchell, turned in the bos pitehing performance w ve i tbougl he was credited with {[he loss hilts am whil id !is*uc< eptionallly [good in In lbret: different H 1 ®‘ l cd t tO BM® were down, but Fishir land the Your Life I • • Returns Bii •... When you buy Life Insurance, you m for Future Delivery ' ^ ....Send the LITTLE Dollars on sure the BIG DollarsAvill be there are needed most. Law infield managed to retire 4h> side each time without a hn being scored. 11 the finst inning Mitchell load ed the bajsus with none out but plaV at home on a groun|; bal got the firat one and Finhe struck out the next two to retii the side, j quUh Jii. mrir jamn. The best of these came in the seventh inning when Mit chell again loaded the bases, this time with 'only on<* out Fisher then threw three straight balls to put himself in tho hole. He set- Si ■ JL nc> l pitch was Similar to tho last but it wjiis belted-into a screaniing lin^ (iriv^ toward sepond baseman wo dcjuble plays by Law’s in field pulled Fischer out of two tied down and fogged one past tho but)ter for ih called strike one, The (See LAW NIP Page 4) i-*. ■j-' fi !l I ASSOCIATES: H. E. Bm^egs, ’20 H. H. Hooker, ’35 M. U. (Rip) Entoe Weldon L. 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