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Baker, Barber Dropped Early At McKinney “The fastest field in the history of the tournament,” Miller Barber called it yes terday afternoon when con tacted to find out how he fared in the McKinney Invitational tournament over the weekend. Barber and Billy Baker, mem bers of the varsity golf team, were entered in the tournament and both men were eliminated in early rounds. Baker was dropped in the open ing- round by Leonard White of Dallas, one up on 18 holes. He was shooting even par golf he said. Barber, who qualified with a 70, two under par for the short Mc Kinney Country Club course, eked out a one-up victory on the 21st hole in a first round match against Don Anderson of North Texas. An derson was already up for a shoo- in birdie four on the par five hole when Barber sank a 30-35 foot ' chip shot from the edge of the green for an eagle three to take the hole and the extended match. ^ Barber then took on White, Bak u’s conqueror, and shot two-under golf only to lose out four and three.^ The match was called be cause of darkness Saturday eve ning and continued Sunday morn ing with White holding a three hole lead for the thirteen holes played. In an all-North Texas final,. Don January and L. M. Crannell, Jr. closed yesterday with Crannell winning, one-up. 1 ‘i v -i..,' 1 -'-vjk'l ■ I* ■Ucj; k) Tuesday,^August 7,‘-1951 THI^BATTALION" JPage 3 sJ, Bennett Lines One Up T Joe Bennett, left, gets ready to stroke a putt that meant a par John Storie, right, watch Bennett line if up. All except Baker on the long number nine hole at the A&M Golf Course. Holding were playing qualifying rounds for the intramural golf matches the flag for him is Billy Baker, a member of the varsity golf which got underway last week. Bennett fired a 75, Barber a 77 team and holder of the student course record of 68. Miller Bar- and Storie 79. ber, a regular entrant in the top tournaments of the state and Koberto de Vicenzo, 28Tyear-old golf pro from Argentina, began playing the game when he was 14. Elis Go to Puerto Rico New Haven, Conn.—(A 5 )—Coach Howard Hobson, Yale basketball coach, will take ten members of last year’s squad to Puerto Rico in September for a few court games. Two of the contests will be with the University of Puerto Rico and one each with amateur teams in Ponce San Germain and the College of Agriculture at May- aguez. During the regular season the University of Puerto Rico will re turn the compliment and meet the Bulldogs Jan. 2 at the Eli gym. "Glamour Boy’ Smith Hits Covers Again “Glamour Boy” Bob Smith has done it again. By again is meant, made the cover of another nation al football magazine. This time it’s Stanley Wood ward’s Football-1951—a magazine devoted to pre-season predictions, advance All-America teams, win ners of major games for the com ing football season and action pic tures of games. Guess who gets the biggest Local Scouts Take Swim Trophies The local College Station Troop 411 sponsored by the Rotary Club won a divison trophy for the sen- . ior classs A and the junior classs A divisons at the Sam Houston Council Area Swimming meet at Camp Strake near Conroe, Friday and Saturday. - Gayle Klipple Dick Weick, Bob * Barlow, and'Tom Barlow and Tom ' Terrell composing the senior Class A team won firsts in every event including the relays. The class A junior team made up of Pete Hick man, Albert Stevens, John Robert Smith and Joe Steen also won their divison by winning every event. On Friday Troop 411 won the life saving division taking first place in every event but one with r team composed of Klipple, Bob Barlow, Orin Helvey and Terrell. Saturday in the Canoeing and Rowboat contests the local troop came in fifth. Troop 411 was the only troop to win more than one trophy in the whole meet. Dean Ploward W. Barlow who ^was director of the meet com mented on the troops performance by saying “the boys did a very fine job.” Q<mp i TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Feature Starts— 1:32 - 3:41 - 5:42 - 7:51 - 10:00 SV.' *■'’ co-stgrring Marta Toren • Lee J. Cobb a Columbia ricru*E NEWS CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN THE GUY WHOCHMEj mm : Paul Hiuda DOUGHS-PARNELL NEWS - CARTOON splash in the magazine? Why, Smith of course. Devotes Six Pages The first six pages of the mag azine are devoted to Smith and action scenes on the A&M cam pus as well as shots of the bon fire, yell practice, a shot in the MSC, skull practice, still and run ning shots and a full-page picture of the man who is destined to be come one of the Southwest’s great est running backs of all times. All the pictures and statistics of “Lone Ranger” Smith were fur nished by the College Information Office. Woodward, regarded by sports writers and laymen as well, as one of the top men in his field, spares no superlatives on Smith. The running commentary that goes with the pictures lists Smith’s accomplishments over the past two seasons, delves into his private life, his sleeping habits, h i s thoughts before a crucial game, what he thinks of when he gets the ball from the quarterback and many other interesting facts the football fan will be interested in. Makes Others Nor is this the only magazine in which long words of praise are to be printed. Sport magazine, ‘Sport Life magazine, Southern Coach and Athlete, Colliers and undoubtedly, many others will use picture and words to tell the pop ulace of the United States what a great football star “Bruisin’ Bob” really is. The San Antonio Impress plans to use Smith on the cover of their Sunday supplement section, possi bly the week before the game with Trinity, October 13. Francis Wallace, who writes all the sports for Colliers, has in timated he will announce Smith a,s his pre-season All-America full back, probably in an early edition of that weekly national magazine. Both League Leaders Win Dorm 16Snows Walton 18-5 Dorm 16 snowed the Walton Wildcats yesterday afternoon in a civilian softball game 18-5. Lead-off man for 16, Bill Groff, got the show, underway by blast ing out a homer. Dick Lenzen and W. A. McReynolds both scored in the first for Dorm 16 to give them a three run lead. The Wildcats couldn’t get go ing in the first as they placed only one man bn base in the inning. Blackwell was given a free, all expense paid ticket to the first marker with a walk. Four more runs were chalked up by the 16 men in the second as Groff, Lenzen, Armstrong and Pruett crossed the plate. Walton managed to push two of their runs across in the second. Willbanks and Sam Scamardo were forced across the plate when Pruett 1 , Dorm 16 pitcher, walked two in a row with the bases loaded. Groff, Lenzen, McReynolds and Pruett scored four more luns in the third to stretch Dorm 16’s lead. Walton made their last three runs in their portion of the third with just one man earning his base. Tony Scamardo, Quoyeser and Sam Scamardo all crossed the plate for the Wildcats. Dorm 16 went wild in the fourth as they garnered seven inns after blasting out a homer and six sing les. Winning pitcher was Pruett while the loss was credited to Franks. Bizzell Bears retained their share of first place by dumping Dorm 15 11-6. The Bears started like a house afire as they rapped out a triple and four singles in the first to pick up their first seven runs. Every man on the team got on base with the exception of two. Dorm 15 managed to drag three runs through the dust around home in their portion <of the first. Moten, Miller and Milligan all made the glory trip. Neil Baxter and George Gerret- son made the circuit in the third for the Bears to pick up two more runs. Baxter made it to first after getting a free ride while Gerretson earned his trip by blasting out a double. Cody Milligan was Dorm 15 hero in the fourth as he hit a triple with two men on base. Mil ligan came on in to score when the ball was hobbled on first. Dave Sheffield and Dick Edgar made the final runs for Bizzell. Sheffield got a triple and Edgar got on with a single. D Co. out gunned C Co. yester day in a freshman volleyball game.- First game went to C Co. 15-9 but the last two games went D Co.’s way 15-7 and 15-13. Swimmers Keep Gulf AAU Title at Home ■in-* Kay Parnell, Ann Copeland, Van Adamson and Gayle Klipple paced the College Station swimming team as it successfully defended its Gulf AAU district title Saturday and Sunday at Nacogdoches. The team took trophies for win ning the girls division, boys divi sion, mens division and the team championship. College Station swimmers racked up 220 points to take the team title. Cork Country Club of Houston was second with 189 points, Golf Crest third with 176 points and Nacogdoches fourth with 49 points. Parnell Cops First Miss Parnell took first place honors in the girls 50 meter free style, girls 100 meter freestyle and the girls 200 meter freestyle. Miss Copeland won firsts in the wo mens 100 meter backstroke and the womens 200 meter freestyle. Miss Copeland also placed third in the womens 50 meter freestyle and was oh the womens 400 meter free style relay which came in third. In the girls 150 meter individ ual medley Jean Penberthy was third and Beth Penberthy was fourth. Martha Ergle took third and Louise Street took fourth in the ’ womens 300 meter individual medley. Gail Edge came in third in the girls 50 meter backstroke while Rosemary Lenart came ini fifth in the same event. Marylyn Floeck won fourth place in the womens 100 meter backstroke. In the wo mens 440 meter backstroke Helene Boatner was third. Jean Penberthy was second in the girls 50 meter breaststroke. Miss Ergle and Miss Street took third and fourth respectively in the womens 100 meter breaststroke. Fifth in the girls 200 meter free style was Beth Penberthy. The girls 150 meter medley re lay team won second while the girls 200 meter freestyle relay won fourth. Third'place in the womens 300 meter medlby relay was taken by College Station. In the mens division Adamson won the 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter backstroke and was on the 300 meter medley relay and 400 meter relay both of which came in first. Klipple was first in the mens 300 individual medley and the mens 200 meter freestyle. Klipple was also third in the mens 400 meter freestyle and on the winning mens 400 meter relay. John Robert Smith, Ilave Bon- nen and Albert Stevens came in first, second and third respectively in the boys 150 meter individual medley. Tommy Butler was second in the mens 50 meter freestyle and Dick Weick came in second in the mens 300 meter individual medley. Butler placed third and Rickey Boughton placed fourth in the mens 100 meter freestyle. Boys 50 meter backstroke saw Tom Bar- low take second and Pete Hickman take fourth. Karow, Weick, Baker—3, 4, 5 Behind Adamson in the mens 100 meter backstroke Bob Karow was third, Weick was fourth and James Baker was fifth. Van Hertford won fourth place and John Parnell won fifth place in the mens 400 meter freestyle event. Bonnen came in third in the boys 50 meter breaststroke and Weick took first place honors in the mens 100 meter breaststroke with Wally Penberthy taking third in the same event. Third place in the boys 200 meter freestyle was Smith. Barlow, Bonnen and Smith composed the boys 150 meter medley which came in first. In the boys diving Johnny Lyons was second and David Parsons was third. Parsons, Hickman, Tom Barlow and Tom Terrel made up the winning boys 200 meter free style relay. Are You Hot? CILLY QUESTION, isn’t it? But you needn’t be hot. Sell that old Washing Machine or Refrigerator through a Classified Ad in The Battalion, and you’ll have money to buy a new fan or air conditioner. TJO IT TODAY! CALL 4 5324 and put your ad in The Battalion right away! Yo .ou’re looking at an average American boy- like your own, maybe, or the youngster down the block. Happy, unspoiled. 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