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Aggie Tankers To Be Strong
Again Despite 1949 Losses
By RALPH GORMAN
For the 1950 swimming - season,
the Aggies are again expected to
field a strong team, despite the
fact that six of the regulars from
last year’s second place team have
graduated.
Aggie swimming coach, Art Ad
amson, stated that Texas, A&M,
and SMU would be the top con
tenders for next year’s swimming
crown.
Missing from the tile banks
of the largest indoor pool in the
Southwest will be such stand
outs of last year as Danny
Green, the backbone o f last
year’s team, who went the route
of the degree winners.
Following Green with a degree
in hand are Bernie Syfan, Gene
Summer, Jerry Fisher, Ed Kruse,
and Scotty Potter.
Three Lettermen
To replace these valuable men,
Adamson will depend heavily on
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his three returning lettermen;
namely George Dieck, Billy Moye,
and Jimmy Flowers.
Dieck and Moye are both stand
outs in the breaststroke and show
ed considerable improvement over
the summer. These boys are sen
iors using their last year of eligi
bility, and hail from Austin and
Nederland, respectively.
Flowers, a senior from Dal
las, is another breaststroke man
and is expected to shine this
season if he isn’t held back by
his football play.
Returning squadmen are Paul
Fleming, who is a good man in
both the sprint and the back stroke;
Dave Vardanian, a letterman in
’48 who is expected to exhibit his
excellent form of two years ago;
Howell Johnson, who did both div
ing and swimming in last year’s
competition; and John Peters, who
is a promising swimmer in the dis
tance events. All of these men
are seniors.
Coming up from the sopho
more ranks to be junior squad-
men are John Roy Shepherd,
Richard Rouse, Stanley South-
worth, Tommy Butler, Ty Davis,
and G. C. Kinsey.
The strength of the team, as
with the strength of most teams
this season, will rest in the soph
omores.
Adamson Outstanding
Outstanding Aggie tankmen in
this category are Van Adamson,
son of Aggie coach Art Adamson;
and Billy Karow, son of Aggie
baseball and basketball coach
Marty Karow.
Adamson who dates his compet
itive experience back to the early
days of ’44, has a showman’s re
cord that even P. T. Barnum would
be interested in.
His most rec&nt achievements
have been in summer swimming,
in which he entered and won sev
eral honors in the Gulf AAU Meet
in Rosenberg and the Junior Na
tional Audubon Mile park in New
Orleans.
Karow stands out equally as
well in his mastery of the water
art. His experience does not go
back as far as Adamson’s, but
he has compiled a stronger list
of first places and record-set
ting achievements.
He also entered the Gulf AAU
Meet and placed first in four 100
meter events. In'his participation
in the National Invitational Audu
bon park in New Orleans, he set a
record in the 100 meter breast
stroke event.
Ranking very close behind these
two boys is Bill Sargant of Fort
Worth, who will team with Adam
son and Karow to give the Aggies
great flexibility, in that each of
these boys has the ability to en
ter any event.
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Other sophomores who show
ed up very well in freshman
swimming this past year are
Bill Hale and John Parnell of
College Station, Ralph Ellis of
Dallas, Tommy Comstock, W. S.
McKinsey, and Ray Hilton, all
of Houston.
Emil Mamiliga will assist Adam
son in his many coaching duties,
when he begins his third year as
diving coach.
He will have three very fine
sophomores to place under hiis able
wing when he begins his work with
Paul Shaffer of Big Spring, Gib
Matlock of San Angelo, and John
Mitchmore of Houston.
Good Team
Adamson says that he will have
a good team for dual meets, but
will be lacking depth in the con
ference meets. He adds that Tex
as will be the outstanding team
in the conference this season, as
they will have a veteran bunch
back that should take first in most
any event. SMU will have a strong
er team, but even at that, they
should not be too much for the
Aggies. Baylor will be about the
same at last year.
“We have a nice team coming
up, but we will not be too optimis
tic’’, Adamson said.
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949
Page 7
King Is Talent
Scout and End
Coach for Ags
To fill the position of var
sity end coach and talent
scout at the same time is a
full-time job.
As a member of the staff
of the A&M athletic depart
ment, J. T. King is respon
sible for all of this.
Born in Wilmot, Arkansas, King
began his career in Houston, when
he played football there for John
Reagan High. After graduation
from high school, he attended the
University of Texas and earned
four football numerals, including
a freshman numeral.
During his tour of duty as a
gridman for the University, he
played with the team that tied
LSU at Austin to knock the Ben-
gals out of a Rose Bowl invitation.
Upon graduation, he coached for
a while at Kenedy (Texas) High
school. He then moved to Enid,
Oklahoma and was very successful
in his coaching there. His team
J. T. KING
won three mythical scale champ
ionships during the six years that
he was head mentor.
King was at Tulane three sea
sons as asistant coach and talent
scout before joining the athletic
staff of A&M on January 1st,
1949.
King is married and has a young
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