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Over 100,000 Expected to See
18th Annual All-Star Classic
Chicago, Aug. 15—(A*)—The eyes
of 100,000 spectators and the tele
vision eyes of the nation will focus
on a bevy of sixty college seniors
who will collide against the Cleve
land Browns at the eighteenth an
nual All-Star football game in
Soldier’s Field on Friday night in
Chicago.
The game which will be the first
big kickoff of 1951 will feature
the awesome finesse and power of
the Browns who have lost but six
games in five title-winning seasons
and will doubtlessly be established
as solid favorites in the battle.
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Final CS Softball
Tilts Played Today
The final two games of the Col
lege Station Softball League are
scheduled to be played this after
noon with the Indians meeting the
Giants at College Hills and the
Tigers tangling with the Pirates
at College Park.
In standings excluding todays
contests, the Pirates are out in
front with a seven and one won
and lost record. Runners-up are the
Indians with a won and lost record
of four and four.
Third in the standings are the
Tigers with two won and four
lost and then the Giants with one
game won and five games lost.
sponsors the game which will be
carried by 391 radio stations and
telecast by 45 stations, probably a
new nationwide record for cover
age across the nation.
In the past the pros have won
nine, lost six and tied two. How
ever, the collegians have won three
of the last five, the All-Stars a
year ago defeating the Philadelphia
Eagles, 17 to 7.
Between-halves ceremony at the
game will be provided by the Ran-
gerettes of Kilgore Junior Col
lege who have performed before
huge crowds in the Sugar and Cot
ton Bowl games and are expected
to add glamour to what is usually
the greatest sport spectacle of the
year..
Depend On Rote
This time the All-Star hopes
center around Kyle Rote, the dash
ing Southern Methodist halfback
who weighs a solid 200 pounds, and
Whizzer White, the wraithlike run
ner from Arizona State who never
weighed as much as 160.
Rote has been the powerhouse
runner of two-a-day practice ses
sions in the collegians’ training
camp at Delafield, Wis.
Bob Williams, Notre Dame’s tal
ented T quarterback of 1950, will
lead the All-Stars as field general,
passer and kicker.
Fear Passing Attack
Coach Herman Hickman fears
the deadly accurate aerials of
Cleveland’s Otto Graham, whose
favorite targets are the speedy
ends, Mac Speedie and Dante Lav-
elli. He has been working dilli-
gently with defense in the second
ary.
Notre Dame’s Jerry Groom is
slated to start at center. The All-
Star linemen will be outweighed
ten to fifteen pounds per man by
the Browns.
“The All-Stars have shown won
derful spirit in training, “Hickman
said.
31 Swimmers Leave
For Olympic Meet
Thirty-one members of coach
Art Adamson’s Colege Station
Swimming team left this morning
for Houston where they will com
pete in the Third Annual Junior
Olympic Swimming Tournament
which they have won for the last
two years.
The swimming tournament which
is open to anyone in the nation
is being held in the Shamrock
pool.
Stiff competition in the mens
division is expected to be furnish
ed by a strong team from Ponca,
City, Okla.
In the womens division, the
roughest competition for the Col
lege Station swimmers is expect
ed to come from a girls team from
Baltimore, Md.
Louis Will Take
7th Step Along
Comeback Trail
Baltimore, Aug. 15,— (AP)
—A crowd of 25,000 persons
is expected to be attracted to
Baltimore Stadium, site of to
night’s bout, by the magic
name of Joe Louis—the 37-year-
old former champ—as he takes an
other step on the comeback trail
in a 10-round-or-less battle with
Jimmy Bivins, Cleveland veteran.
There will be no home televis
ion of this heavyweight bout, sche
duled for 8:30 p. m. (CST).
The old bomber, waiting for the
day when he’ll get a chance to
make ring history by regaining
his title, is a lopsided favorite.
The price hung around 4-5 to 1
with few takers.
Bivins’ manager, Allie Zack,
trusts in a well-conditioned ath
lete and the string of 1951 fight
upsets.
Oddly enough there has been
concern in the Louis Camp about
undenveight. Yes, that’s right. Un
derweight. Joe scaled only 202
pounds after working in the sticky
heat of last Sunday. Manager
Marshall Miles laid him off Mon
day and Tuesday hoping to bring
him into the ring at 208. Bivins
will be about 181, his usual fight
ing weight.
There was a day when Louis
pointed to Bivins and said “there
is the next heavyweight champion
of the world.” But that was before
Jimmy went into the Army. He
never found the old touch after
he came out.
Adamson Efforts Produce Winners
By RAY RUSHING
Battalion Sports Staff
The College Station Swimming
Club, Texas AAF and Gulf AAU
champions, journey to Houston to
day to make their bid for the Jun
ior Olympics crown.
Coach Art Adamson’s untiring
efforts have made this amateur
club one of the best in the state,
and much of their championship
glory is credited to him.
Adamson, handsome and mus
cular, was born in London, Eng
land, Feb. 23, 1905. In 1911,
his family moved to Canada
where he spent his early boy
hood.
An air of reminiscence seemed to
settle over his face as he told of
how he learned to swim in a creek
in Saskatchewan and of his swim
ming experiences on the Souis
Itiver near Oxbow, Canada.
At the age of 15, young Adamson
gained his first public approval
as a swimmer. After winning the
hoy’s swimming race at a Domin
ion Day Picnic, he begged to be
allowed to compete with the men
in a race across the Souis River
and won the race with a margin of
about two feet.
In 1919, he went to New -Zea
land with his mother and attended
Then . . .
Art Adamson
This shot of Adamson was taken
in February, 1925 at Christ
church, New Zealand, shortly
after he won the national champ
ionship of that country while . . .
the Napier Boy’s High School,
where he participated in and won
many handicap swimming races.
As a student there, he developed a
double arm sidestroke that added
speed to his swimming.
About 1923, Adamson used his
double arm sidestroke in a six
second handicap race with Bill
Harris, third fastest swimmer in
the world, to win by about two
feet. This marked the beginning
of his career as a swimmer.
He continued to improve his
swimming techniques and in 1925
he won the New Zealand National
Championship in the 100 meter
race and repeated the same in 1927.
After winning the 100 meter
championship for the second time,
Adamson came to the United
States to study swimming. He
planned to spend a year in San
Francisco, a year in Chicago and
a year in New York.
His plans were working ac
cording to schedule as he played
water polo in San Francisco, but
the illness of his brother in
Dallas brought him to Texas in
1928,
While in Texas, he swam in the
Texas AAU and AAF meets win
ning the 50, 100 and 200 events
and set new records for all of
them.
Resuming his interrupted plans,
Adamson went to Chicago where
he swam with the Illinois Athletic
Club water polo team.
It was there that he met Johnny
Weismuller, ex-Tarzan of the mov
ies. Weismuller was also a mem
ber of the Illinois Athletic Club
water polo team.
Strangely enough, Coach Adam
son taught Joyce Reynolds, who
played opposite Weismuller in the
Tarzan movies, how to swim at
the River Oaks Country Club in
Houston.
After spending a year in New
York, where he was defeated in*
the Senior Water Bowl AAU,
Adamson returned to Texas in
1929 and coached swimming at
the Heights Natatorium and also
coached the Y swimming team
in Houston.
In 1934, Adamson was offered a
job as Physical Education teacher
in a Houston high school and dis
covered that he was ineligible for
the job because he did not have a
college degree.
It was then that he came to
A&M through an agreement with
Dean Kyle and worked his way
through school as A&M’s swim
ming coach.
Adamson graduated in 1939 and
has been swimming coach here at
A&M since that time.
His wife is the former Miss
Nora Harriman of Houston.
When questioned as to why he
didn’t carry out his original
plans and return to New Zea
land after studying swimming in
Spartans Look Forward
East Lansing, Mich. — CP) — Mi
chigan State’s hockey team is look
ing ahead to better times. At
least past performances indicate as
much, - - ■ •
The Spartans renewed intercol
legiate hockey after a lapse of 20
years with the 1949-50 season.
They played 14 contests and lost
them all.
TODAY
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the United States, Adamson
laughingly admitted that she
was in part to blame.
Van Adamson, Coach’s son, has
been following in his Dad’s foot
steps as a swimmer. He has been
undefeated in the individual med
ley for the last five years. He is
a member of the College Station
Swimming Club and the Aggie
swimming team.
Adamson coaches the College
Station Swimming Club in con
junction with the College Station
Recreation Council and has served
in that capacity during the Sum
mer months since the Club was or
ganized seven years ago.
Under Adamson’s efficient
coaching, the College Station
Swimming Club has won the
Texas AAF crown twice, the
Gulf AAU four times, The Texas
AAU three times and the Jun
ior Olympics for two years.
Just for the record, he stated
that he received his United States
citizenship papers in 1939.
Aside from his swimming coach
duties, Coach Adamson is a mem
ber of the NCAA swimming rules
committee, NAAU swimming com
mittee, vice-president of the
NAAU water polo committee,
chairman of the NCAA water polo
committee and past president of
the College Swimming Coaches As
sociation.
A&M and College Station are
fortunate in having a man with
Adamson’s ability as a swimming
coach, for if -a champion can be
produced, you can rest assured that
he will produce it.
. . . and Now
. . . this shot was taken recently at Adamson’s office in P. L.
Downs, Jr. Natatorium. A man College Station is proud to call
one of it’s citizens, Adamson has led local swimming groups to
many titles in the 12 years he has been swimming instructor at
A&M.
CAMPUS
TODAY thru SATURDAY
— Two Big Features —
— Features Start: 1:30 - 4:05 - 6:40 - 9:15 —
FIRST RUN
Wednesday, August 15, 1951
Geologists Slip
Dorm 16
21-20 in Hard
On the Gridiron
Aggies Not Only
Persons to Hear
‘We’re Building’
By ANDY ANDERSON
Battalion Sports Editor
Texas A&M students aren’t the only one who have heard
the now famous words “we’re building.” Word from Texas
Tech, A&M’s opponent at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Sept.
29, shows that they, too, have uttered those
words and claim they are “definitely in a
rebuilding phase.”
“I’m pretty sure we’ll score on almost
everybody we play,” comments Coach De-
Witt Weaver, “but the only sure way we’ll
have of getting the ball will be receiving the
kickoff following our opponents’ touch
downs.”
Weaver was named earlier this year to
replace Dell Morgan who announced his res
ignation after his team suffered a 28-13 de
feat at the hands of the Hardin Simmons
University squad.
The Red Raiders should have one of the classiest coach
ing staffs in the nation with the addition of Weaver and his
assistants he brought from Oklahoma.
Weaver was associate coach at Tulsa University and
when he signed the pact with Tech last Spring, immediately
put out a call for some of. the most well-known stars of
University of Oklahoma fame.
An advocate of the Split-T formation, he will receive much as-
sistafice from Jack Mitchell, Oklahoma’s all-America quarterback of
recent years, Bobby Goad, an end and a teammate of Mitchell’s as
well as Wade Walker, a gigantic tackle most Aggies should remember
as a staunch lineman in the 1948-49 Oklahoma-A&M games.
Tech finished fourth in the Border Conference last Fall behind
West Texas, Arizona Tempe and Texas Western. They were in sixth
in full season standings.
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Weaver, who was named prior
to Spring drills at the West Texas
school, had the benefit of seeing
his future players in action and
was able to shape a squad for this
Fall.
His 1951 team will be molded
around 17 returning lettermen, of
which seven were from last year’s
starting offensive and defensive
teams which won three while drop
ping "'eight—the poorest post-war
record for a Morgan-coached team.
Of these seven returning start
ers, two were starters on both of
fense and defense. They are tackle
Jerrell Price and center Aubrey
“Red” Phillips. Quarterback Pete
Edwards is the only offensive
stai’ting back returning. Returning
backs who started on defense last
year are Junior Arterbum, quar
ter and Frank Graves, halfback.
A line which should average
about 192 will be led largely by
Price, Phillips and guard Buddy
Barron.
Arterburn is tentatively tabbed
as starting offensive quarterback,
but Edwards, Techs’'chief passer
last season, will see a lot of ser
vice. .Graves is the fanciest, stepper
of all the returning lettermen
backs and will play offensive ball.
Much help is expected from Bob
by Cavazos, rated the best back
in last Spring’s Red Raider Round
up game at the end of Spring prac
tice. Cavazos was a member of
the 1950 freshman team. The 1951
backfield should average about 175.
Texas Tech, who for many years
has been, asking permission to join
the Southwest Conference, will
play two other members of the con
ference other than A&M. Those
two games are, with TCU in Lub
bock Oct. 13 and with Baylor, the
following Saturday in Waco. ,
1951 TEXAS TECH FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date
Team
Time
Place
Sept. 22
*West Texas State
8 p.
m.
Lubbock
29
Texas A&M
8 p.
m.
Dallas
Oct. 6
Houston
8 p.
m.
Houston
13
Texas Christian
8 p.
m.
Lubbock
20
Baylor
2 p.
m.
Waco
27
* ! Arizona H C
2:30
p. m.
Lubbock
Nov. 3
*Texas Western
8 p.
m.
El Paso
17
Tulsa
2 p.
m.
Tulsa
24
*New Mexico
2 p.
m.
Albuquerque
Dec. 1
*Hardin-Simmons
2 P.
m.
Lubbock
*—Border
Conference games
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Fought Battle
By TOM ROUNTREE
Battalion Sports Staff
After the broken and bleeding
bodies of the players were carried
from the field last night, it was
found that the Texas Rockcrushers
had defeated the Dorm 16 Mullets
21-20.
What a game! Never before and
probably never again in the annals
of A&M intramurals will there be
such a meeting of giants.
Texas Has Only Six Men
At game time, Texas showed up
with only six men and so Chief
Umpire Bert Littlejohn told the
men from the land of the twilight
tea that if they could beg, borrow
or steal another player in three
minutes the game would be played.
The Rockcrushers located their
Holy Grail in the prescribed three
minutes and triumphantly re
turned with the missing link.
Dorm 16’s Mullets came to bat
in the first with blood in their
eye. You could almost see the do
or die spirit in their pupils. Like
the red blooded American boys
they were they came, through with
three runs for the ole home team.
Groff, Harris and Hovel crossed
the plate like conquering Caesars.
Like well-oiled machines the team
functioned while at intervals you
could hear the war cries of the
Rockcrushers—“my fault team” or
“nobody hurt team.”
“We Won’t Fail”
In the Texas portion of the
first they too vowed that they
should not fail. They were fighting
for the right of every man to be
served tea and crumpets in the
Fountain Room and you could see
the determination in their atti
tude. It was easy to see that they
had no intention of letting the
Yearlings, yet unborn who would
be forced to sojurn in Aggieland
in the Summertime, go without
their tea and crumpets. Though
they failed to make the grade in
the first, as they returned to the
field Jistil was heard to remark,
“We shall return.”
The second inning saw neither
of the Colossues score. When the
third inning dawned the Mullets
came to bat with new determina
tion in their hearts and the War
Hymn on their lips. Hovel walked
to the plate and carved his nitch
in history by slugging out a, home
run. The other Mullets, though
just as determined, couldn’t come
up to standard set by Babe Hovel.
Had The Spirit
The bloody but unbowed Rock
crushers came in to bat with that
do or die spirit shining in their
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