Developing Distance Duels
Will Bring Out Track Fans
AP Newsfeatures
NEW YORK—The promot
ers of the big eastern indoor
track carnivals are rubbing
their hands in gleeful antici
pation. For competition has
come to the distance races. That
means crowds are in the offing.
. Duels are developing in both the
mile—long the fans’ favorite race
—and the two mile. At the longer
distance the battle may rage hot
test, for two of the cleverest in-
»vaders ever to hit the boards seem
certain to make a specialty of that
grind.
Erik Ahlden of Sweden and
Gaston Reiff of Belgium are the
pair that figures to revive the
pulse-throbbing finish. It doesn’t
look like any American can
stay close to them. Track ex
perts are predicting the fastest
two mile races indoors si^ce
Greg Rice hung up his spikes.
In the mile, Ingvar Bengtsson
t)f Sweden and Willy Slykhuis of
Holland figure to hit the tape
stride for stride. Bengtsson meas
ured Slykhuis in their first meet
ing at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Tiames by a scant yard. But the
Swede had a couple of weeks of
training in the country whereas
Willy was just off the plane.
Now that the Dutchman has had
a chance to round into shape the
duel is getting hotter. Willy had
trouble on the turns in the Philly
meet, kicking his calves black and
blue when he tried to negotiate the
banked curves.
Bengtsson considers Slykhuis the
most dangerous miler around to
day and Slykhuis returns the favor
claiming that Ingvar now is the
finest man at the distance’ in Swe
den. This includes both Henry
Eriksson and Lennart Strand who
finished one, two at the Olympics.
*' It is a tribute to the versa
tility of the two runners that
they are rated so high at 1,760
yards because it is not the nor
mal distance for either runner.
Bengtsson is the Swedish 800
Erik Ahlden
Gaston Reiff
meter champ and showed his
ability at less than a mile when
he ran away from a 1,000 yard
field in the Boston K of C
games.
Slykhuis is rated one of the
greatest distance running machin
es in history. He finished third in
both the 1,500 meters and 5,000
meters at the London Olympics
and is generally considered strong
er at the longer run.
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Actually, two miles also might
be a little short for both Ahlden
and Reiff. They are primarily
5,000 meter men, which is right
around three miles. However, Ahl
den calmly chopped nine seconds
off his winning Philadelphia time
when he led the way in Boston,
and both the invaders expect to be
running under nine minutes before
the season is out.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1949
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Page 3
Aggie Leighton Lomax Wim
Regional Flyweight Title
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
Aggie Leighton Lomax, that
fighting little flyweight from Odes
sa won the Regional Championship
in Temple last Saturday night by
defeating Robert Reeves of Temple
in the finals of the three day
Golden Gloves Regional tourna
ment.
The talented young ring special
ist has his toughest fight Friday
night in the semi-finals. His op
ponent was the favored Cornsweet,
and enlisted man stationed at
Camp Hood. Cornsweet, also a
featherweight, won the Feurth Ar
my Championship, the TAAF tour
nament, State Diamond Belt tour
nament in New York, 'and is a
former Golden Gloves Regional
champ.
It was a slugging dual all the
way with Lomax coming out on
The milers conservatively es
timate that they will be striding
the distance in around 4:10 be
fore they go back home. If they
do they’ll be loaded down with
silverware, for that time will
gain them most of the mile cups.
How about the . Americans?
Things look mighty dreary for the
local boys. Don Gehrmarin of Wis
consin is the only miler with a
chance and it is unlikely that he
will be even close when Slykhuis
and Bengtsson reach top form
later in the campaign.
At two miles, Curtis Stone and
Fred Wilt look like the best bets,
but a better bet is that they will
eat a lot of Swedish and Belgian
dust before the runners adjourn
to the cinders and the invaders
return home.
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top by a unanimous decision of
the judges. His fight Saturday
night in the finals was a breath
er. He won an undisputed bout
against Bob Reeves, a Temple lad
who was supposed to be a real
match for the tough Aggie box
er.
The crowd favored the rough
and fast Cornsweet, but when the
little Odessa ringster let fly with
a flow of hard punches to his op
ponent’s stomach in the third
round, the picture changed and
the young Aggie flyweight, cheer
ed by the crowd, went on to take 1
the decision.
The rest of the district boxers,
mostly from Allen Academy, did
exceptionally well in the rest of
the classes by taking four titles,
six individual trophies, and a group
of individual medals.
Along with these honors the
Bryan squad took the regional
team title. The boys from this
area won two novice titles, and
four titles in the open class divis
ion. The trophy is being displayed
in the Allen Academy Gym.
The State Meet is to be held in
Ft. Worth in the very near future
and the lads who win state titles
will go to Chicago to represent
Texas in the National Golden'Glov
es Tournament.
There is some controversy over
the eligibility of Leighton Lo
max. The flyweight ring special
ist has only a thumb on his
right hand, being minus the rest
of his fingers because of an ac
cident during childhood.
Director Flem Hall of the Ft.
Worth Star Telegram is in charge
of the Golden Gloves competition
in the state. He has not made a
definite stand as to the eligibility
of Eomax. The rule book states
that a man is eligible only if he is
physically fit, but whether Lomax,
who has a permanent physical de
fect, will be able to continue. in
Golden Gloves Competition is not
known at the present.
Three SWC Cage Tilts
On Slate This Weekend
Frogs and Ponies Resume Play!
In Conference Friday Night jJP.,
By LEON SOMER
Texas Christian and Southern Methodist resume South
west Conference play tomorrow night in Dallas in the first
of three basketball games to be reeled off this weekend.
Along with A&M, the Frogs and Ponies are all tied up
at the bottom of the conference race with one win and
four losses. Tomorrow night’s game-f
will find one of the two teams ers thi s season, has dropped to
climbing into fifth place while the
other will take sole possession of
seventh place behind the Aggies.
These same two teams opened
the conference race last month
with TCU upsetting the Mustangs
58-52 in Ft. Worth. However, the
Ponies will be favored to trim the
Frogs on their home court in Dal
las.
Against SMU the Frogs will
depend upon their 29 year old
center Julius Dolnics who is pre
sently leading the Southwest
Conference in scoring. Dolnics
has scored 20 or more points in
three of the five conference
games in which he has played
so far this season.
SMU’s hopes to avenge their
earlier defeat to TCU will rest
mainly on the shoulders of for
wards Jack Brown and Bob Prewit.
These two players have scored over
half of the Mustangs’ total points
in conference play this season.
Saturday night will find Texas
coming to College Station to meet
the Aggies and Arkansas going to
Waco to meet the Baylor Bears.
A&M has played all but the
Longhorns so far in the confer
ence race. In their first five
games the Farmers have been
able to defeat only TCU, how
ever, the Aggies expect to be
much tougher since guard Jewel
McDowell moved up to the var
sity squad. McDowell, along with
the ever-improving Aggie center
John DeWitt, hope to form a
combination that will upset the
Longhorns when they invade A
&M Saturday night.
Texas will be led by their guard
combination of Slater Martin and
A1 Madsen. Martin, who was ex
pected to lead the Longhorh scor-
third place behind Madsen and cen
ter Tom Hamilton.
Baylor and Arkansas will clash
in Waco in the other conference
game Saturday night. The Bears
are now on top of the conference
race with five wins and one loss
while Rice an^ Texas are close be
hind with three wins in four games
played.
Baylor defeated -Arkansas in
their first meeting but the team
has been considerable weakened
for this game by the loss of
guard Bill Johnson who was in
jured in an automobile accident
last week.
Arkansas has won three games
and lost two so far this season. In
G’7” Bob Ambler the Razorbacks
have a center who has shown con
sistent improvement. In Monday
night’s game against A&M Amb
ler scored 24 points which nearly
matched the 26 points made by
John DeWitt of the Aggies.
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Team
W L
Pet
Baylor
5 1
.833
Texas
3 1
.750
Rice |
3 1
.750
Arkansas
3 2
.600
Texas A&M
1 4
.200
T.C.U.
1 4
.200
S.M.U.
1 4
.200
LEADING SCORERS
Player
Pts
Ave
Tom, Rice
67
16.8
Dolnics, TCU
80
16.0
DeWitt, A&M
74
14.8
Ambler, Ark.
71
14.2
Hamilton, Texas
55
13.8
Prewitt, SMU
65
13.0
McDowell, A&M
13
13.0
Heathington, Bay
74
12.3
Brown, SMU
56
11.2
Madsen, Texas
43
10.8
BOBBY FARMER, long range
shot specialist from Amarillo
will be counted on heavily in the
tilt this Saturday night with the
Texas Shorthorns. With the loss
of Jewell McDowell, who moved
up to the varsity squad, Farmer
will take over the hard task of
moving tho ball downcourt.
Lyford High Signs
The Other Rideout
RAYMONDVILLE, Tex., Feb. 3
—(#)—Lyford High School, peren
nial powerhouse in class 44-B ath
letic competition, will have a form
er world record holder as coach.'
The school yesterday signed up
Wayne Rideout, who with his twin
brother Blaine established world
track records while with North
Texas State. The new Coach will
be permitted to retain his Willacy
County Insurance Agency. The
agency has kept him busy since he
resigned as assistant coach at
Raymondville High School last
year.
The first meeting of Athletic
Officers and Intramural Offi
cials will take place at 5 p. m.
today in the Intramural Office.
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