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Tuesday, August IT, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3 \ The Babe Is Gone . . . WildcatsGrounded But Still Powerful By GUS BECKER Battalion Sports Editor After their October fourth tangle with the University of Kentucky Wildcats on Kyle Field, the Aggies will probably wish the Kentucky boys "would stick to raising horses. Although the “Sweet Kentucky Babe” Parilli is gone, the Wildcats will still be hard to tame. Since Wildcat coach Paul “Bear” Bry ant took over in 1946 his teams have won 40, lost 16, and tied two; appeared in four bowl games (Great Lakes Bowl, 1947; Orange Bowl, 1950; Sugar Bowl, 1951; and the Cot ton Bowl, 1952) and won three; of them. This record shows that the Wildcats aren’t as they say in the Bluegrass country, interested in either place or show. A lack of depth seems to be the main weak point of the wildcats team. As far as returning lettermen are concerned, eight of the returnees have won two letters and played on the winning Sugar and Cotton Bowl teams. There won’t be many passes thrown by t-h^ Wildcats quarterbacks since both Bunky Gruner and Larry Jones are converted halfbacks and haven’t had enough experience. But in case one of them should decide to take to the air lanes, they will have a capable receiver in Steve Meilinger, who led the Southeastern Conference in snaring touchdown passes last season. Bob Fry, who was converted to tackle last year, is co captain of the team along with John Griggs, who should give the Wildcats something to build on. Lettermen Back Big, rangy Frank Fuller who was one of the best defen sive men on the team last year is back and will probably see action on offense this year. Griggs looked good in spring drills and should be able to fill the center slot position left vacant by Doug Moseley, All-American last year. Two other lettermen tacklers are Chet Lukawski and John Baldwin, who should provide the needed strength in the for ward wall. Experience at guards is provided by Gene Donald son a potential All-American and Ray Correll who was named to the All-Cotton Bowl team last January. While their main strength lies in the line, the Wildcats still have some capable backfield men. Harry Jones is an expert broken field runner and on defense, teams up with his brother Larry as double safety. Hard-running Fullback Bill Farley is a letterman back on the team while Tom Pillion at fullback is the hardest runner on the team and should provide a lot of the power in the Wildcat running game. Good prospects coming up from the freshman team are Bill Simp kins, a rampagin’ center, Neil Lowry and John Bailey, guards who may receive varsity stripes. The big question mark in the Wildcats’ plans for ’52 seems to be whether a top flight ground offense can be built up to replace the aerial game and field leadership of twice All-American Babe Parilli. In the defensive department the Wildcats seem to be only a shadow of their former selves, far weaker than the standards set by the 1949 and 1950 Kentucky teams which ranked as the number one and run ner-up units in the nation in the all-around defense department. 200-pound Line The Wildcat line will average 200 pounds and will be very fast while the defensive wall will weigh around 220 pounds and be hard to move. In the Southeast Conference the boys in Kentucky Blue and White •ire rated as fifth but have been given a darkhorse chance. Against the Aggies the Wildcats are rated as favorites but the homefield advantage and the Texas heat should be taken into consid eration. Probably the heat at Aus tin last year when the Wildcats lost to Texas had some influence inscheduling the battle at night un der the lights instead of the after noon under the sun. A big difference in the game for the Cadets will be the fact that the Kentucky team will be using mostly a ground attack, while in th,eir pre- ceeding games the Farmers will be facing teams with top passers and aerial games. The Wildcats haven’t lost all their claws and if the Aggies should! happen to come out on top it will be like they say in Ken tucky, a longshot. wm At CIRCLE PHONE 4-1250 fONIGHT & WEDNESDAY ' Children under 12 FREE when accompanied by an adult. FIRST RUN ‘ItCHHC Also “The Guest” TODAY LAST DAY —Features Start— 1:33 - 3:19 - 4:48 - 6:30 8:16 - 10:00 Yvonne De Carlo • Rotk Hudson NEWS — CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY mmssi Bm V/ A U^rvegSAl CflEASE NEWS — CARTOON PALACE Bryan 2'8$79 LAST DAY “Drums in Deep South” WED. thru SATURDAY ‘ Clifton Webb —in— “Elopement” QUEEN LAST DAY “Bare Foot Mailman” WED. thru SATURDAY r HOWui*P Not This Time Ramsey Takes Over As New Aggie Sports Publicity Chief Louise Estes, number 28 (dark uniform) from Orange tries for a shot in the first period of the All Star Basketball game at) Fort Worth’s Will Rogers Coliseum. Others in the picture are Marvin Axe, number 30, and Donald McGhee, number 32, of the North Team (light uniforms). (AP Photo) Jones Ramsey, 31, has been se lected as A&M’s new Sports Pub licity Director. Ramsey was born at Ranger, Tex. When one month old his family moved to Ponca City, Okla. During his high school days at Ponca City, he played football and basketball and was a staff mem ber of the school paper. After graduation in 1939, Ram sey began studying business ad- ministi-ation at Oklahoma Univer sity. He attended OU for three years then served one year in the air force. Receives Degree In 1945 he continued his study in B.A. at Oklahoma A&M at Still water and received his degree in 1946. Ramsey started working for the Daily News Press at Stillwater as a cub reporter immediately fol lowing his graduation. Then he began working his way up to reporter, then sports editor, city editor and finally news edi tor. Ramsey held this position until he came to A&M. Ramsey is married and has three children, Sally Ann 9, Ralph Ed ward 8, and Mary Margarete 4% months. When asked why he became a writer after majoring in BA he stated that he had been interested Parnell As CS Wins Three Events Swimmers Take Meet Kay Parnell won the 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter freestyle and 200 meter free style events to lead the College Station swimming team to victory in the Open Cham pionship Swimming Meet held at the Crystal Pool in Houston Sat urday and Sunday. The College Station team, under the direction of Art Adamson, won trophies in the Junior and interme diate divisions while the individual winners received trophies and med als. Miss Parnell was the star of the two day meet with her three first place medals and she was also on the 200 and 150 meter relgys which placed, second. Team Scores by Divisions Juniors College Station 69 Texas Aquatic 33 Crystal Pool 29 West University 26 Cork Club 22 Lamar Aquatic 18 Golfcrest 2 Intermediate College Station 1 93 Golfcrest 55 Cork Club 44 Crystal Pool 26 Texas Aquatic 17 Senior Golfcrest 103 College Station 69 Cork Club 33 Crystal Pool 30 Texas Aquatic 16 Local Winners Junior Boys 50 meter Breaststroke 3. Albert Stevens Junior Girls 50 meter Breaststroke 2. Linda Potts 3. Beth Penberthy Intermediate Boys 100 meter breaststroke 3. John R. Smith Intermediate Girls 100 meter breaststroke 5. Jean Penberthy Senior men’s 100 meter breaststroke 2. Dick Weick Senior Women’s 100 meter backstroke 3. Ann Copeland 3. Gail Edge Aggie Coach Tutors Stars A g g - i e freshman coach, Cooper Robbins and Ted Jef feries from Stephen F. Austin College selected a strong squad of Texas football play ers to meet an Oklahoma all-star team in the 15th annual Oil Bowl charity game at Wichita Falls, August 22. Besides having two sons on the team who are coming to A&M this Fall, Robbins will have Billy Hud- leston from Iran, at Aggieland in September. , The squad was sprinkled with players who won all-district and all-state honors in 1951. Charles Brewer, Lubbock quar terback, was named the outstand ing high school player in Texas after winning all-district, all-state, all-southern and All-American hon ors. Another selection from Lub bock was Johnny Tatum, center, who was an all-state, district and southern pick. Junior Boys 100 meter freestyle 3. Albert Stevens Junior Gilds 50 meter freestyle 5. Mary Lou Ergle Intermediate Girls 50 meter freestyle 1. Kay Parnell—Time 34.6 Senior men’s 100 meter freestyle 5. Gayle Klipple '■ Senior Womens 50 meter free style • 2. Martha Ergle Junior Boys 50 meter backstroke 2. John Harrington 5. Richard Smith Junior Girls 50 meter backstroke 3. Martha Shawn Intermediate Boys 100 meter backstroke 2. Tom Barlow » 4. Joe Steen Intermediate Girls 100 meter backstroke 3. Ann Copeland 4. Gail Edge Senior men’s 100 meter breast stroke 1. Dick Weick—Time 1.17:8 Senior womens 100 meter breast stroke 3. Linda Potts 4. Louise Street Senior Men’s 400 meter freestyle 3. Gayle Klipple Junior boys 150 meter medley relay 1, College Station A Team— Smith, Leigh Price, Stevens Junior Girls 150 meter medley relay 1. College Station A Team— Shawn, Potts, and Ergle 4. College Station B Team— Judy Litton, Penberthy, and Ann Elliott Intermediate Boys 150 meter medley relay 1. College Station— Barlow, Smith and Steen Intermediate Girls 150 meter medley relay 2. College Station A Team— Copeland, Penberthy, and Parnell 4. College Station B Team— Edge, Potts, Ann Schlesselman Senior Womens 150 metei’ medley relay 2. College Station— Edge, Ei'gle and Street Intermediate Boys 100 rheter freestyle * 3. Smith Intermediate Girls 100 meter freestyle 1. Parnell—Time 1.16:7 Intexmediate Boys 150 meter individual medley 2. Smith 3. B allow Intexmediate Girls 150 meter Individual medley 3. Jean Penberthy 4. Beth Penberthy Senior Mens 300 meter individual medley 1. Klipple—Time 4.32 2. Weick Senior Womens 150 meter Individual medley 5. Ergle Intermediate Girls 200 meter fx-eestyle 1. Parnell—Time 2.57:7 Junior Boys 200 meter fx-eestyle relay 2. College Station— Price, Smith, Stevens, and Harrington ■ Intermediate 200 meter freestyle x-elay 1. College Station— Steen, Don Di-apex-, Smith and Bai'low Intermediate gixds 200 meter fx-eestyle x-elay 2. College Station— Penbex-thy, Schlesselman, Parnell and Copeland Senior mens 400 meter fx-eestyle x-elay 2. College Station^— Weick, Klipple, Geox-ge Boyett and James Skelton Junior girls 200 metex* fx-eestyle x-elay 1. College Station— Litton, Ex-gle, Penbex-thy and Shawn in spox-ts all his life. “I always kept a spox-ts scrap book and thought I’d like to be a sports wx-iter,” said Ramsey. “I got my first job as a writer by answering Yet Village Leads In Intramural Race Bob Womack’s Vet Village team continues to lead the 2nd six weeks softball race which has narrowed down to a race between Vet Vil lage, Mitchell, and Puryear. Al though Mitchell has dx-opped two games and Puryear three, there is still a possibility of either cap turing the championship, but from this point it looks like Vet Village all the way as they have not lost a game. Leggett and Law are nearly out of the x-ace since both have lost half of their games. Texas was forced to dx-op out because of in- tex-ference with their geological woxk. Vet Village and Mitchell have met twice, with Mitchell losing by a close score. Both meetings have been very hard fought games. The last game went to nine innings with Vet Village winning 11-8. Standings Won Lost Forfeit Vet Village 9 0 0 Mitchell 8 2 0 Pux-year 6 3 0 Law 4 4 0 Leggett 3 4 1 T^xas 0 3 12 an ad in a college newspaper.” “This past year I’ve been news editor sitting behind a desk and I like spox-ts and saw this job open as spox-ts publicity writex- so I left Stillwater to come to A&M.” “I like A&M—everyone seems to be extermely friendly.” Davis Wins In . London Meet Big Walt “Buddy” Davis, star Aggie tx-ack man and Olympic high jump champion scox-ed another first in a track meet held in Lon don, England, Saturday. Davis jumped six feet seven and a quax-ter inches to take first place as the returning American Olym pic stax-s won the meet. In a meet held in Bex-lin, Ger many, earlier in the week, Davis won the high jump but cleax-ed the bar at six feet three inches. Davis said he had strained a thigh muscle, but he was in fine shape for the London meet. Aggie Darx-ow Hooper was also in the meet but had to settle fox- second place in his specialty, the shot put. Hooper finished behind his arch cinder rival from Southern California, Parry O’Brien. O’Brien put the 16 pound shot 54 feet six and a quarter inches, while Hoopex-’s best effox-t was 54 feet three and three quarters inches. Miss Locke Of Bryan Wins Ticket Drawing Dx-awings for tickets to A&M athletic contests for the 1952-53 season have been completed for all px-iority gx-oups according to C. D. Ownby, business manager of the Athletic Department. The first name drawn was Miss Jo Ann Locke of Bx-yan who will have one of the better seats fox- the Texas Univex-sity game. She was in priox-ity group one, com posed of A&M employees head quartered at College Station and residents of Bryan and College Station who desix-ed season tickets. Eugene Wilder of Beaumont was the lucky winner of gx-oup two composed of former students and general public not included in group one who wanted season tick ets. Group three winner for the Thanksgiving game was Hugh R. McNiel of Crystal City. This gx-oup was composed of former students, faculty, and employees of the college not desiring season tickets. Howard Speer of Houston was the lucky man in gx-oup four which was made up of the genex-al public. For the Michigan State game the winner in group one was M. S. Bex-inger from Tox-onto, Can ada. The gx-oup thx-ee winner for this game was Lt. Paul V^xod from Columbus, Ohio. D. C. “Spike” Ax-nold, f o r - mer student from Houston dx-ew the placings in the presence of Ownby. An individual drawing was held for each game. Actual tickets will be issued in the order of priority immediately after those of the student body, The Aggie Club, team, legislatux-e, and Athletic Depax-tment have been issued. Ownby estimated that a total of 5,000 ticket applications were x-e- ceived which is one third less than last yeax-s total of 7,500. “When Texas plays here, we have a larger advance sale,” said Ownby. “We know from past ex perience that this years sale would be off a little.” only V ,M*._ fl Pioneer Pacemasters Covering the Southwest at 270 Miles Per Hour! Now, winging their way across the Southwest at express speeds...Pioneer’s powerful Pacemasters get you to your destination ... 100 miles an hour faster than the reliable DC-3! Far faster flight *times, far greater comfort and convenience, greatly increased pleasure ... all are yours when you fly PIONEER PACEMASTERS! E’lOAIEBn • afefs. - - . ,• . ' AIR LINES Timed b> Bovlor Watches From College Station to: New Pace- master Times One Way (Plus Tax) Houston 87 minutes $ 6.30 Austin 55 minutes $ 7.90 Dallas 34 minutes • $12.50 For inlormation and reservations call your Pioneer ticket office ... Phone 4-5054 Finest. 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