f / Wednesday, August 8, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 r Tankers to Bid For Texas AAU Crown By RAY RUSHING Battalion Sports Staff Coach Art Adamson’s trium phant College Station tankers journey to San Antonio tomorrow afternoon to make their' bid for the Texas AAU swimming crown. The annual event, slated to last Friday and Saturday will be held Texas to Have 43 Colleges On Football Field By The Associated Press Texas will have 43 colleges playing football this Fall. This is a decrease of 11 from last year and the small- t est number since the war. Eleven colleges discontinued football this year. Reasons includ ed loss of manpower and patron- ^^Ahc biggest decrease was among ^We junior colleges. There will be 26 senior colleges playing the game—four fewer than last year. Junior colleges playing football number 17—seven fewer than in 1950. Lamar Tech was added to the Lone Star Conference and the Pion eer Conference, made up of Junior Colleges, took on Ranger College. Among the senior colleges, Southwestern of the Texas Confer ence has suspended football. The Gulf Coast Conference lost Univer sity of Houston, which entered the Missouri Valley Conference. Three independents gave up football— University of Corpus Christi, Dan iel Baker and East Texas Baptist. Among the junior colleges the Texas Junior College Conference fe*ll from 10 to six and the South Texas Conference from seven to three. t Lost in the shuffle were Odessa, Weatherford, Panola, South West Texas, Edinburg, Regional, Laredo and Texas Southernmost. ip the Alamo Heights Swimming Pool. Adamson plans to enter nine members of his College Station amateur swimming club in this year’s spectacle, that will include five diving events and 18 swim ming events. In Friday’s events, Kay Parnell will swim the women’s 220 yard freestyle. Gayle Klipple, Tommy Butler and Ricky Boughton will comprise the men’s 220 freestyle relay team also scheduled to swim Friday. Martha Ergle will enter the wo men’s 110 yard breaststroke, while Dick Weick will swim the men’s 110 yard breaststroke. Ann Cope land, outstanding performer at the recent Gulf AAU meet held at Nacogdoches, is scheduled to swim the women’s 110 yard backstroke Friday. Baker in 110 Backstroke In the men’s 110 yard backstroke, James Baker will represent College Station, while Miss Copeland, Miss Ergle, and Miss Parnell will swim on the women’s 330 yard medley relay team. The men’s 330 yard medley re lay team will be made up of Van Adamson, who is Coach Adamson’s son, Dick Weick and Klipple. In Saturday’s events, Miss Par nell is scheduled to enter the wo men’s 110 yard freestyle, while Boughton and Butler will swim the men’s 110 yard freestyle. Martha Ergle in Medley Miss Ergle will swim the wo men’s 165 yards individual medley as the men’s 330 yard individual medley relay team composed of Adamson, Klipple and Weick make their bid for first place. The men’s 440 yard freestyle re lay team composed of Butler, Klip ple, Weick, Adamson and Boughton will also swim Saturday. Miss Copeland and Miss Parnell are scheduled to enter the stren uous women’s 880 yard freestyle. Competition will be stiff for the College Station tankers in this year’s meet Coach Adamson stated, because no divers from here will be entered, thereby eliminating the possibility of added points. Aggies Drop Deciding Game of 7-Game Series The home-field jinx held last night as the Madisonville All-Stars eked out a 3-2 sev enth inning victory over the Aggie Softball- ers in a game played at Madisonville. In the rubber game of seven played thus far this Summer, the All-Stars scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh af ter two were out. Bryan Beard, erstwhile Aggie mounds- man, got the first two batters of the inning Sqdn. A, Co. C Take Volleyba ll Ma tches Sqdn. A walked away from D Co. yesterday afternoon in a freshman volleyball match. The A Men took two games in a row to win 15-6 and 15-12. C Co. won the other freshman game by downing B Sqdn. 2-1. Scores on the games went 15-7, 14-16 and 15-9. Matches have been scheduled in both singles and doubles open in tramural tennis. There have been nine singles entries and six doub les entries. Finals in both divisions will be played August 21. A revised schedule in non-mil itary softball call for five of the remaining seven games to he played under the lights of the diamond by The Grove. The lid lifter of the revised slate calls for Dorm 15 and Texas to clash there tonight while tomoi’- roW night finds Dorm 15 playing again, this time against Dorm 16. Monday night at 7:30, Bizzell tangles with 16 and on Tuesday, Texas and 16 get together for a go at each other. The only two remaining games which won’t be played under the arcs are slated for next Wednes day and Thursday with Walton meeting Dorm 15 on Wednesday and then Bizzell on Thursday. The Walton-15 game will be played on Diamond 5 while the Prep Stars Get Paid Vacations To Vie w West Point Grid Set-Up Chicago, Aug. 8—OR)—The Chi- >ago Tribune said today that a Vlint, Mich., high school football player told in an interview that he and 22 other prep grid stars spent a six-week, expense paid va cation at West Point this Summer. The Tribune, in a copyright story from Flint, said the “high pressure recruiting of football t players for West Point” was re lated by Duncan MacDonald, 18- year-old 180 - pound quarterback. He was described by the Tribune as one of the nation’s outstanding high school athletes and one of the