Tuesday, August IT, 1952
THE BATTALION
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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.
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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.”
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