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Tuesday, April 17, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Skill And Beauty Promised With Water Carnival One of the outstanding entertainment features of the year will be presented this weekend when the varsity water polo squad gives their version of the 1951 Aggie Water Car nival. The show will take place in the P. L. Downs Jr., Natator- ium and will be of both serious and comic exhibitions of swimming and diving. As a theme, the tankmen will give a satiric version of the history of swimming. The feminine touch will enter the performance with the appearance of the Corkettes. This group of girls hails from the Shamrock Hotel in Houston where they are sponsored by the Shamrock Cork Club. In the recent Women’s National AAU Swimming and Divinp Championship, held in the-t Shamrock pool, these girls were outstanding performers. Tho Corkettes’ part of the show will be a demonstration of their talent in syncronized swimming w'hich is actually a water ballet. Miss Jane Kneip of San Anton io will be another feminine addi- tidn to the Show. Jane, holder of numerous state swimming titles, will do a solo water ballet. To add to the category of fem inine beauty in the show will also be a bevy of local girls to give their yersions of the modern swim ming strokes. The Corkettes are nationally known exhibition artists and are said by many to be one of the top water ballet troups in the world. Each girl has been chosen for her individual artistry and added to this team on which everyone is a perfectionist. In addition to the squads pre sentation of the evolution of swim ming, they will have a part of the show set aside for clown diving and fancy diving as well as a skit on life saving. Master of Ceremonies for the affair will be Billy Singleton who might be remembered by his many shows in the MSC Ballroom and in • Guion Hall. There will be two performances given, Friday and Saturday nights at 8. Admission for adults is 50 cents and 25 cents for children. I Sports Editor In Need of Writers The Battalion Sports Staff is still suffering from the pangs of inadequacy, and anyone wishing to contribute to the case «f the Sports Editor may do so hy applying for a job. If you have an interest in sports and think you can write, see Roland Bing in Student Ac tivities (Goodwin Hall) or Fred Walker at The Battalion. Experience, pay and “by-lines” may be had. Netters Get 1st SWC Win With TCU Victory Coach W. H. Dowell’s Ag gie tennis team defeated the TCU Horned Frogs on the clay courts here Friday, 4-2. The match marked the first conference win for the Cadets this season. In the net singles, R. G. DeBer ry, straight from a hospital bed, came within a few points of up setting the Frogs’ Dick Osborne. Deberry ran five straight games before Osborne was able to con trol the little fellow’s shots. After winning the first set 6-2, and having Osborne at a 5-3 dis advantage in the second, the Ag gie ace could do no more. Os borne went on to win, 2-6, 7-5, 9-7. Eugene Letsos continued his win ning streak by passing James Wil son of TCU, 6-3, 6-3. Letsos took command in the early moments of the match with powerful drives to the base line. The sophomore Aggie is undefeated in conference play this season. The Aggies’ original hard-luck man, Royce Tate, lost another one Friday, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to TCU’s C. Ludwicke. Unable to hold his ground game together, Tate was hampered by a strong wind, as was Ludwicke. Dick Harden polished off Bob Thompkins of TCU in straight sets of 6-0, 6-3. Harden’s win evened the match and the Ags needed nothing more as they swept the two re maining doubles to wrap the match up. DeBerry and Tate teamed to down Osborne and Wilson in three sets, 4-6, 10-8, and 6-3. Letsosf and Harden got together and easily stopped Thompkins and Wilson in straight sets. 6-3, 6-3. Shug McPherson ... is one of the Aggie base ball team’s source of power at the plate. He should be a lead ing batter in A&M’s game with Sam Houston today. Seven Ags Head For Kails. Relays A&M will provide four entries for the spectacular Kansas Re lays this weekend at Lawrence, Kansas. Shot artist Darrow Hooper, high jumper Buddy Davis, pole vaulter Jack Simpson, and the crack mile relay team (Bernard Place, Bob Mays, Fuston McCart and Don Mitchell) will make the trip. Intramural Swimming Meet Held Tonight TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Features Start—- 1:15 - 3:00 - 4:45 - 6:30 8:15 - 10:00 \ LORETTA CAUSE! iALARM/j 1 AiONE — «ii Jin frooWei m m BERRY V w. : I - * j SULLIVAN NEWS — CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN By JOE BLANCHETTE Battalion Sports Staff The 1951 edition of the Intra mural Swimming meet will be un reeled tonight at the P. L. Downs Natatorium at 7:30 p. m. according to Barney Welch, Intramural Di rector. Events on the agenda include the 400 foot freestyle relay, 100 foot back stroke, 200 foot breast stroke, 300 foot freestyle, and the 300 foot medley relay. Softball A two run fourth inning handed the A Ordnance softballers a 3-2 decision over A Composite after the composite men had led the en tire game. Ray Bruns turned in a well- pitched game as usual, but the Ordnance hitters, Read and Ken LAST DAY “LULLABY OF BROADWAY” g T A RTS - 1 WEDNESDAY thru SAT. Colley, teed off on his the final inning to provide the r gin of victory. A TC Wins, 3-0. A Transport turned in the only shutout of the day as they downed A Athletics, 3-0. Lane Bowdep, A TC righthander, appeared wild throughout the game, but good fielding by his teammates and poor base running on the part of the Athletics assured him of the shut out victory. The TC men jumped on Pruitt, the Athletic hurler, in the first frame for all three runs. The bases were jammed with Transport men when Pruitt finally forced the last hitter to pop out to prevent further damage. Airmen Wallop Infantry H AF hitters were held scoreless in the first inning but came storm ing back in the second and third to score four and three runs re spectively and defeat C Infantry, 7-1. John Sexton, airman hurler, re tired the infantrymen in order in the first frame but “Putter” Jarvis, the infantry pitcher, re turned the favor by setting the air men down in 1-2-3 order. Sexton allowed a walk and a single in the second but still the Infantrymen failed to find the cov eted home plate. The airman hitters found the range on “Putter” Jarvis in the second and scored four runs on two w'alks, two singles, and an error 1 In the top of the third the in fantry collected their lone run on a double and a single. In the lower half of the third the H AF hitters continued to pound away and added three more runs to their total. (See INTRAMURALS, Page 4) US THE LONG-MEG RANDALL • RAY GOLUNS QUEEN NOW SHOWING GRILL for Real Taste TREATS • Home Made Chili • Delicious Malts • Bar-B-Q Sandwiches •^ Friendly Service BO NORTH GATE ‘Off We Go...’ , .. ■'"Zm V- ^ < ■ Texas Rips SMU; Baylor Takes TCU Dallas, April 17—UP)—Texas crushed SMU 12-3 yesterday to sweep to their sixth straight South west Conference baseball victory. Outfielder Gus Hrncir and third baseman PT - ank Kana led a 12-hit attack that kept Texas’ record in loop play clean. Hrncir banged a triple, double and single and Kana collected three singles. Milton Deason, stringbean right hander from Borger, blanked SMU until the ninth when the Mustangs got to him for five hits and three runs. Fred Benners, Dick Beadle and Denny Davidson tried to quell Longhorn batters. Two Big ’uns The Steers used two big innings —the fourth and seventh—to really ruin SMU. They scored four runs in the fourth and five in the sev enth. The Longhorns only got one more hit than the Mustangs, but theirs came in bunches. Waco, April 17—(AP)—Ray Fitz patrick of Baylor pitched his sixth straight victory yesterday as the Bruins trimmed TCU 8-3. Fitzpatrick kept the Frogs’ hits spaced except in the second when they combined singles by Johnny Swaim and Mel Rose and a triple by Johnny Ethridge for two runs. Ray fanned four and didn’t issue a w r alk until the seventh. Isbell Again Larry Isbell and Ty Newton got two hits apiece for the Bears, Ken Williams hit a homer and Harry Davis a double for Baylor, which won the game with four runs in the third inning. Sloppy fielding hurt the Frog pitchers as TCU committed .seven errors. A&M Fencers Win Again Cadet fencers dominated an open meet held here Saturday as they took both first and second place honors. Curtis Wilson, captain of the team, took the number one honors, winning five bouts and loping only one. Joe Mayes carried the banner farther for the Aggies with his showing of four wins and two loss es to take second place. Goucher of Rice came in third and Galveston’s Bill Brown, 1950 state champiop, slipped into fourth place. Wilson’s and Mayes’ victories completed an Aggie monopoly in (See FENCERS WIN, Page 4) Jack Simpson ... is seen clearing 13’ 5” for the Aggies in the tri-angular meet with Rice and Texas last Saturday. Simpson will be one of the A&M entries in the Kan sas Relays next Saturday. Club Meet Contributes Four Wins Over TU By B. F. ROLAND Battalion Sport Staff In a “grand” weekend, which saw Aggie Clubs taking four of six events from their Longhorn foes, A&M emerged victorious in the 2nd Annual Recreational Club Meet which was held in DeWare Field House last Saturday and Sunday. Perhaps the biggest surprise and accomplishment of the weekend fes tivities was the 20-5 wreck of Texas strongmen by the Aggie Wrestling Club. Last year the Cadets were rip ped 37-15, but revenge was sweet this season as the grapplers won six matches, tied one and lost one. The matches were scored five points for pins and three for falls. The Soccer Club, composed on the most part of Latin-American students, trounced the Steers by a 4-0 score. Jose Cardenas entered the game for A&M at half time, after running in the track meet, and scored two goals. Led by captain Mario Hidalgo, the team scored their third suc cessive win against no losses. Handballers A&M’s Handball Club beat Tex as 3-1 as they won two out of three single and one doubles match. All-Conference basketball guard Major League Manduq#' mm Cincinnati, April 17—UP)—Cliff Chambers and Willie Werle were the best Polar Bears yesterday as they hurled Pittsburgh to a frigid 4-3 victory over Cincinnati in the opening game of the National League’s 75th season. An overflow crowd of 30,441, overcoated and blanketed, saw the Pirates tee off on Ewell Blackwell in a hurry and then nurse their margin all the way. The temperature was in the low forties but a brisk wind made it seem even colder. There were snow flurries and the only time the sun peeped through the clouds was just before Bobby Usher, the game’s “goat,” flied out to end the contest with two Redlegs on base. Chambers had the Reds well sub dued through four innings but he began to weaken—or maybe it was freeze up—in the fifth. He finally had to be relieved by Werle in the seventh when the Reds pulled with in one run of a tie. Werle’s only trouble came in the ninth when the Reds had those two men on base with two out. Blackwell, on whom the Reds count on for 20 victories, just did not have it. He was shelled for a run in the second and three in the third before being taken out for a pinch hitter. The game marked the unveiling of home-i'un hitting Ralph Kiner as a first baseman. He did al right except for one play. Aside from the two pitchers, other standouts were two newcom ers in the Pirate line-up—shortstop George Strickland and center field er George Metkovlch. Hi-PHCHtD ALL the games played BY BGSTOK IN 1871 (JO 4AMK) AMD AGAIN 1M Ig74 (71 GAMlS) ... IN 1975 SflAUXSO PITCHED , S$ WlNNIHj GAMES tCC-BOSTON- b/AMOND JUBILEE FOR WO/ The National League was founded 75 years ago (1876)—the year that Al Spalding started the company that has always set the pace in fine sports equipment. The Spalding base ball has always been the Official ball of the National League. 1951 marks the Golden Anniversary of the American League, which has used only the Spalding-made Reach ball al! of its 50 years. SPALDING JIH THE FACE (jM! SFOSii WINS OF THE MAJORS Today’s Starters: AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston at New York— Wight vs Raschi. Washington at Philadelphia (night) —Kuzava vs Shantz. Cleveland at Detroit—• Lemon vs Newhousei’. Chicago at St. Louis— Pierce vs Garver. NATIONAL Philadelphia at Brooklyn— Roberts vs Erskine. New York at Boston— Jansen vs Bickford. St. Louis at Pittsburgh— Poholsky vs Dickson. Cincinnati at Chicago— Raffensberger vs Hiller. Jewell McDowell was the star of the day as he defeated TU’s num ber one man, 21-6, 21-4. In the weight lifting matches, the Aggie muscle men would have swept the tournament had the two teams kept score, but as both squads had only four men entered, it was decided not to total the points. Little Man, But . . . Frank Thurman, a small 148- pounder, totaled 600 pounds in three lifts to star in that particular event. A&M suffered defeats in gym nastics and ping pong. Out of seven matches in ping ’ pong, the Cadets failed to win a single match. The Gymnastic Club was tramp ed by a superior Texas team 106- 36. Darrell Williams of Texas was the honor man as he took seven of nine places. Great Success Barney Welch, Intramural Di rector, said that he felt that “all in all, the meet was a success and even greater things are expected in future meets. “It is hoped that one day every SWC school will be entered in meets such as was held hei’e last weekend,” Welch concluded. Wrestling: Rivera (A&M) tied Metcalf ( T U )—123 lb. division. Larrig (A&M) beat Roark (TU)— 130; Turner (A&M) beat Jind- rick (TU)—137; Bradford (A&M) beat Jindrick (TU)—147; Battin (A&M) beat Caryhhn (TU)—157; Pierce (A&M) beat Liddell (TU)— 167; Gilmore (TU) beat Patut (A&M)—177; Maxwell (A&M) beat Kacir (TU)—hvt; Soccer: (Team members) Feet, Or tiz, Moline, Barragan, Aretcona, Sol, M. Hildago, A. Hidalgo, Aris- mendi, Cardinos, Marentes, Score: 4-0. Handball: McDowell (A&M) beat Cobb (TU); ,Harris beat Wood (A&M); Balderas (A&M) beat Hampton (TU); McDowell and Balderas beat Cobb and Harris (doubles). Weightlifting: Thurmond, 148 lbs, total of 600 lbs. in 3 lifts; Thomp son, 148, total 495 lbs. in 3 lifts; Fletcher, 132, total 495 lbs, on 3 lifts; Nurkirk, 123, total 325 on 3 lifts. Ping Pong: (team members) De Berry, Adams, Dunros, McConnell, Letsos, Berry, Goodlet. Gymnastics: Darrell Williams (TU) 7 out of nine first places. Patton high point man*for A&M. TODAY & WEDNESDAY UliUMMI WOMAN on ifA&W with ROBERT KEITH A FIDELITY PICTURES PRODUCTION • A Universal International Release Ask ^ KIWI Texas A&M College . . . Commemorative Plates Delivery Within Six Months Assured* 300 Dozen Regular Edition Gathright Hall 1876 $42 per dozen • Manufactured by Josiah Wedg wood & Sons, Ltd. of Etruria, England, makers of distinctive china since 1760. • Full size 1014-inch dinner plates toned in College colors fac-sim- ilied on ivory Queensware. 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