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Monday, March 12, 1951 THE BATTALION ■ Page 3 Ag Track Coach Named to Teach European Area Frank Anderson, Texas A&M track coach for more than 20 years, has been se lected by the U. S. Occupa tional Forces to conduct a three-week track and field clinic for athletic officers in the Euro pean Command. The clinic will be held from April 4-25 at an undisclosed base. Barlow Irvin, A&M athletic di rector and all-around mentor for many years, will assist Ray Put nam, assistant coach, with the track squad in Anderson’s absence. Four meets will have been com pleted before Colonel Andy leaves, and he will return in time to coach the squad for the last three con tests. Coaching School Anderson has also just been se lected as the track and field in structor for the coaching school sponsored by the Texas High School Coaches Association. This nineteenth annual clinic, to be held at San Antonio July 30 through Aug. 4, will be attended by coaches from all over the na tion. Aggie track mentor from 1920 to 1935 and again from 1945 until now, Anderson has produced seven SWC championships in those years, and his teams have never failed to place in the top three. At this time, Colonel Andy is considered tops in track coaching circles. Twelve Letterman Anderson is a graduate of Miss issippi College where he won 12 college letters—four each in foot ball, baseball and track. He played centerfield in baseball and half back in football and favored the sprints on the track field. He was picked as the most valuable ath lete in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1916. The coach has been a member of the National Track Rules Com mittee for the past four years. He was instructor in the NCAA track coaches clinic in Los Angeles in 1935. 331/3 RPM • •• * . t . : ' .; ' A 1 , Classic - RECORDS - Popular SHAFFER'S Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment RADIOS & REPAIRING Call For and Delivery •STUDENT CO-OP Phone 4-4114 Ag Tracksters Win At Border Olympics Meet By JOEL AUSTIN Laredo, March 10 — Scoring points in all events except the 100- yard dash, the 1951 edition, of the A&M track squad showed its strength by breezing to a 77 Vs point victory at the 19th Annual Border Olympics here Friday and Saturday. The Aggies closest competitor was Texas University which fin ished with 39 points; Louisiana State University was third with 21 Vs points. Of the 16 events held in the Uni versity Division of the meet, the Cadets took nine first places and tied for another. In the 440-yard dash they finished one, two, and three. Darrow Hooper was high point man for the University Division with a first place win in the shot put and discus throw. It was the first varsity meet for the big sophomore who bettered the South west Conference shot put record by heaving the 16-pound weight 51 feet WVz inches. His discus throw of 157 feet 2% inches won him first place in that event also. Probably the biggest surprise of the evening was A&M’s win in the 440-yard relay. Sprint man Bill Stalter put on an amazing burst of speed after the last turn to pass Steers Helpless As A&M Set Own Style And Pace (Continued from Page 1) hold All-SWC guard Jewell Mc Dowell pointless, but they fell humiliatingly short of such recogni tion Friday, while the Aggie pace setter poured 14 points through the nets for game scoring honors. Womack was credited with only two points, both coming on char ities. Using his 6’ 5V frame to full advantage, Longhorn forward Falk showed little accuracy hitting the net four times in 17 attempts from the field. Completing Gray’s ros ter tonight should be Don Klein, 6’ 6” center. DeWare Field House was over flowing with people Friday night as over 4,000 frenzied fans stared in bewilderment while A&M’s bas ketball team ran intricate circles around the Longhorns throughout the game. Capably led by All-SWC choices McDowell and Buddy Davis and forward John DeWitt, the Cadets staged a brilliant exhibi tion of ball handling and methodi cal maneuvering that checked the Maroons Sink Whites In Scrimmage Saturday A&M’s /football team climaxed its third week of Spring practice Saturday afternoon .with an intra squad game on the practice grounds at Kyle Field. The ♦ two-hour contest, which started at 3 p.m., gave all the appearances of becoming a stale mate, but a last minute fourth quarter touchdown heave from Del- mar Sikes to freshman halfback Buck Gibson ended the tussle with a 33-21 Maroon victory. Both units ran well all after noon—as long as they had the wind at their backs. The Maroons scored two TD’s first, but as the two teams chang ed position at quarter’s end, the rest of the first half scoring—two touchdowns—was done by the Whites. Both teams started their paydirt tactics from about mid- field. 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Freshman fullback Johnny Sal yer bucked over the final for Ma roon touchdown. Little Glenn Lippman, running every play as if a championship were at stake, scored twice for the Whites aftej.’ setting up each talley with long runs. Halfback Augie Saxe grabbed the third White TD by going over from the 10. Saxe had,set up the plunge with a neat jaunt from midfield. White Scoring Directing the three White payoff drives were Dick Gardemal and Roy Dollar with the former skip pering two. End Charley Hodge kicked the extra noints. Criswell, Gibson and Pete May- eaux ran well to the outside while Lippman, Lemmons and Salyer gained big yardage up the middle. End Jerry Crossman made sev eral fine catches before being tem porarily injured in the back. Hodge also sustained a back injury and will probably not scrimmage for a few days. Linemen Shine Jack Little, Alvin Langford, Elo Nohavitza, Charley Saxe and Charles Hodge excelled in line play while center Hugh Meyer showed All-American potentialities on both offense and defense. Six Aggies did not see action in the game. Billy Tidwell, Connie Magouirk and James Prewit were all sidelined with temporary inju ries while Bob Smith, Yale Lary and Darrow Hooper are participat ing in track and baseball. I TU scoring to an embarrassing ten points in the opening period. Only a minute of play had elaps ed after the opening whistle when TU’s Falk counted for the visitors on a tip-in to start the scoreboard. Ag sophomore Leroy Miksch fell victim of an Orange foul a minute later and counted on his gift toss to give the home team their first point of the game. Aggie Machine TU’s Womack netted one of his two charities for the evening and set the Longhorns back into a two point lead at 3-1—their last time to be ahead. At this point the precision built Cadet machine meshed its gears in rhythmic perfection and the cylinders of Davis, McDowell, De- Witt, and Woody Walker fired har moniously as the net strings echoed nine points for the Aggies and a margin of six tallies at 10 to 4. Texas had little success in their field goal attempts throughout the first half as they shot. 31 times to count three buckets. The Aggie de fense was standing steadfast and the Longhorns were shooting in desperation without success. Last Half The second half opened with Orange and White taking predom- inence, as Dowies and Scaling counted quickly from the field to narrow the lead to 21-14. With only four minutes remain ing on the clock, Marvin Martin counted on a charity for the Ag gies, followed by McDowell’s field goal. Texas’ Scaling and George Cobb tossed in three buckets, while the Cadets remained in front 39-32. Cecil Morgan counted the last point for Texas on a gift toss, while Davis, McDowell, and /De- Witt shared scoring duties again to set the final score at 45-33 with over a minute left on the clock. Last Minute In the closing minutes of the game the Aggies enjoyed complete control of the ball, backboard, and game in staging one of the most spectacular exhibitions of dribbling and ball handling ever witnessed in this area. The Longhorns were without a place to turn and utilized all possible efforts to halt the Cad et wizardry, but all was in vain and the home team had won the’ first of the three game playoff. Beat TU Your Clothes Tell Olliers What you Think of Yourself. So let it be known to all that you are proud of your self and your clothes . . . Let us bring you that proud look . . . Let us give your clothes that ‘snappy’ look . . . drop them by our convenient location today . . . Don’t hesitate to tell the world you are ‘somebody’ . . AGGIE CLEANERS North Gate College Station the Texas anchor man by several inches. Other members of the team were Benard Place, William Bless, and Bobby Ragsdale. The A&M mile relay team show ed its potential strength by out running the LSU, Rice, and Texas entries and winning easily with a time of 3:20.3. John Garmany and Marshall La- zarine outsmarted Norman Also- brook of Baylor by boxing him out in the last lap of the mile run until the final turn when Alsobrook broke through, but finished fourth behind Henry Winston of Rice. Garmany was first and Lazarine second. Simpson Wins Jack Simpson, captain of the Ca det track team, failed to break the Border Olympics Record of 14 feet V/s inches in the pole vault. He took first with a jump of 13 feet 6% inches, while Don Graves was second and Malcolm Marks tied with James Lowery of LSU and Joe Rutneis of Texas for third and fourth. Cadet Edwin Wilmsen ran the half mile in 1:57.4 to win first place honors. Also scoring points in the 880-yard run for A&M was Robert Allen who came in fourth behind Bill Graf and Otha Byrd of Rice, second and third respectively. The maroon and white crossed the finish line first in the two-mile run with Charles Hudgens getting honors for this distance event. He was paced by Aggie Charles Gabriel in the fourth place slot. Usually strong in both hurdle events, the Aggies had to settle for second in the 120-yard high hur dles and third and fourth in the 220 lows. Val Joe Walker of SMU upset Paul Leming of A&M in the highs. Summary of Events Discus throw: Darrow Hooper, A&M; Harold Voss, LSU; George Donaldson, Rice. Distance: 157 feet 2% inches. Javelin throw: Ray Marek, Tex as; Sidney Steele, LSU; Robert Cone, Texas; Jack Simpson, A&M. Distance: 187 feet 8 inches. Broad jump: Charles Meeks, Texas; Bobby Ragsdale, A&M; Johnson, Texas; Lucas, Baylor. Distance: 22 feet 6% inches. Shot put: Darrow Hooper, A&M; Harold Voss, LSU; Ronnie Berger, Rice. Distance: 51 feet l§Vz inches (new record). High jump: Ray Womach, Tex as and Don Graves, A&M (tied for first); Jack Lucas, Baylor; Nor man Mullins, Baylor, Carlo Cris- tino, LSU and James Dimmit, A&M (tied for third and fourth). Height: 5 feet 9% inches. 440-yard relay: A&M (Benard Place, William Bless, Bobby Rags dale, William Stalter); Texas; Bay lor; SMU. Time: 42.7. Mile Run: John Garmany, A&M; Marshall Lazarine, A&M; Henry Winston, Rice; Norman Al sobrook, Baylor. Time: 4:32.9. 440-yard dash: Donald Mitchell, A&M; Robert Mays, A&M; Fusion McCarty, A&M; Bill Covington, LSU. Time: 49.0. Mile Relay: A&M (Robert Mays, Donald Mitchell, Benard Place, James McCarty); LSU; Texas; Rice. Time: 3:20.3. Pole Vault: Jack Simpson, A&M; Don Graves, A&M; James Lowery, LSU, Joe Rutneis, Texas, and Malcolm Marksi, A&M (tied for third and fourth). Height: 13 feet OVa inches. 100-yard dash: Ross Youngs, Baylor; Ralph Person, Texas; Joe Preston, LSU; Floyd Rogers, Tex as. Time: 10.1. 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