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THE BATTALION
Friday, March 13, 1953
Aggie Track Team Favored
In Laredo Border Olympics
By BOB BORISKIE
Sports News Editor
Col. Frank (Andy) Anderson,
Ag-gie track coach, will have his
squad in Laredo during Sports
Day competing in the Border
Olympics.
But Anderson believes his team
has a better chance of winning,
the SWC title than it does of win
ning tomorrow.
“We know Oklahoma A&M has
a strong team,” he said, “and we
should beat Texas. But Oklahoma
probably will hui't us in the dis
tance events more than it will hurt
Texas in the sprints.”
Anderson went on to say that
the Aggies should have no trouble
in the weight events, and might
even place first, second and third
in both the discus and shot.
“We’ll make a lot fewer points
than we did in the triangular
meet, because Texas will probably
take the short events and Okla-
home A&M may sweep the longer
events,” Anderson said.
He said the Cadets face the
possibility of not winning a single
first in the track events.
“However,” he said, “we’re tak
ing an entry for every event, and
I think we’ll place in 12 out of the
16 events.”
Hooper, Ragsdale Counted On
Anderson believes the Aggies
have a good chance of riding sec
ond and third places to the team
title. The only events he is count
ing on winning are the broad jump,
shot and discus. Rice and TCU
will cut into Aggie points in the
javelin and Oklahoma A&M is
strong in the quarter mile race,
the mile, the two mile and the
mile relay, he said.
The Anderson pessimism is not
shared by the sports writers. They
Track Entries
100 yard dash—Bobby Rags
dale and Bill Stalter.
220 yard dash—Stalter.
400 yard dish—James Baker,
Carol Libby, Bob Scarborough and
Gerald Stull.
880 yard run—Wallace Kleb,
Harry Whitmore and Edwin Wilm-
sen.
1 mile run—Dale DeRouen and
Charles Hudgins.
2 mile run—James Blaine.
Low Hurdles—George Hartung",
Ragsdale and Harrie Smith.
High Hurdles-— Glenn Blake,
Hartung and Smith.
Shot and Disbus—Darrow Hoop
er, Bobby Gross and Dan Pratt.
Javelin—Pete Mayeaux, Tom
Dollahite, Marvin Swink and Roy
Dollar.
Broad Jump—Ragsdale, Stalter
and Dollahite.
High Jump—Swink.
Pole Vault—Glenn Spradlin and
Malcolm Marks.
Spi’int Relay—Hartung, May-
eaux, Stalter and Ragsdale.
Mile Relay—Libby, Stull, Bak
er and Frank Norris.
Aggie Linksmen
Face Trinity
On Sports Day
James Baker
Aggie Quarter Miler
Aggie Wrestlers
In Dallas Today
To Defend Title
A&M’s wrestling club left
for Dallas today to compete in
the state AAU tournament at
the Central YMCA.
Last year, coach James
Griffith’s club took first place in
the AAU meet. The wrestlers won
four first places.
So far, the Aggies have had only
one meet, losing to the Houston
YMCA. “Most of the boys are
shot on experience and should im
prove as the season continues,”
Griffith said.
In 1951, the club won third in
the AAU tourney with two first
places.
The Aggies took second place
in district Olympic tryouts last
year. Oklahoma University edged
the Cadets by two points.
Delbert Davis, A&M heavy
weight, won the district champion
ship. He lost a split decision in
the final tryouts at Ames, Iowa.
Coach Griffith attended high
school and college at Stillwater,
Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M.
He won third place in the Oklaho
ma high school state AAU wrest
ling meet.
Griffith was elected to the All-
State football team at guard pos
ition. In Oklahoma, only one team
is selected for all divisions.
As a wrestler for the Sooner
Aggies, Griffith went to the
NCAA meet at Lehigh, Penn, In
his senior year, Griffith coached
the Oklahoma A&M freshmen to
an undefeated season.
The Aggie golf team will
play host to Trinity Univer
sity golfers in a return match
here Saturday. The Aggies
dropped the previous match
4-2.
“I feel, if we materialize, we
stand a good chance at finishing
near the top of the conference”
coach Joe Fagan said. “We hope
to beat Trinity,” he said.
Mombers of this year’s varsity
golf team are R. W. Biiggs, Bill
Granklin, Homer Calloway, J. O.
Barrett, Malcolm Douglass, W. D.
Baker, John Kubitz, Steve Row-
ley, and Wick Vennard.
Next Tuesday the Aggies meet
the University of Houston golf
team at Pine Forest Country Club
in Houston. On Wednesday, March
18, the Aggies will be at home to
the Hardin-Simmons golfers. All
matches start at 1 p. m.
Fagan is a graduate of the
class of 1942. While a student, he
majored in Aeronautical Engin
eering and was a member of “C”
Chemical Warfare.
Ag Netmen
Try Cougars
The Aggie Tennis team will play
the University of Houston squad
tomorrow afternoon on the college
courts.
Coach Dowell has a squad of ex
perienced players, and should be
a contender for the conference
crown.
Wednesday, A&M swept a meet
from Oklahoma University 7-0.
Eugene Letsos has gained the
number one spot for the Cadets.
Letsos beat the top Oklahoma man
Kenneth Taylor 5-7, 6-3, and 6-4.
In doubles competition, Letsos and
West of A&M downed Taylor and
Clark of OU in straight sets 6-3,
and 6-4.
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have picked the Cadets to cop
their seventh Border Olympics
crown in nine years.
Olympic runner-up
Hooper is favored to
own records in the shot put and
discus, while James Blaine in the
Baylor Swimmers
Test Ags Saturday
Darrow
break his
Col. Andy Anderson
Track Coach
two mile, Dale DeRouen and Char
les Hudgins in the mile, and Bob
by Ragsdale in the broad jump will
be leading contenders.
Anderson, Assistant Coach Ray
Putnam and Patrick Wheat, team
manage* - , will be in Laredo with
26 Aggie tracksters.
The Aggie Tankmen will meet
the Baylor Bears in P. L. Downs,
Jr. Natatorium, at 3 p. m. Satur
day.
Coach Art Adamson is getting
his boys ready for the conference
meet which is only six days off.
A&M Freshmen will meet the
Baylor Cubs in a preliminary meet
at 1:30 p. m.
Dick Weick has been the star
for A&M this year. He has taken
first place in the 200 yard back-
stroke and 150 individual medley
in every meet this year.
Weick is a sophomore from Col
lege Station. Coach Adamson
thinks Weick has a good chance
to break the conference backstroke
record.
Don Crawford, team captain,
specializes in the backstroke and
is counted on for points by coach
Adamson. Crawford has been
hampered by injuries and hasn’t
shown his best form for this
year.
John Cameron is the leading
high board diver. He is a junior
letterman from Greenville.
Earnest Devilbiss has been lead
ing the freshmen swimmers this
year. He swims in the freestyle
events. Devilbiss hails from Rosen
berg.
Gayle Klipple has shown fine
form for the Fish also. He swims
in the freestyle and medley events.
Klipple comes from College Sta
tion.
Varsity Lineups
300 yard medley relay—Craw
ford, Weick, John Speich.
200 yard freestyle—Don Horne,
and David Gajewsky.
50 yard freestyle—Jimmy Burns,
and Bert Koegle.
200 yard individual medley—
Wayne Snoots and John Daven
port.
Diving—Jerry Johnson, John
Cameron, and John Malcolm.
100 yard freestyle—John Speich,
Jimmy Burns.
200 yard backstroke—Sherwin
Rubin, and John Davenport.
200 yard breastroke— Frank
Snell, and Wayne Strickler.
440 freestyle—Lee Pepping, and
Beutelschies.
400 yard relay—Wayne Snoots,
Dick Weick, Don Crawford, and
Byron Black.
Freshmen Lineup
40 yard freestyle—Theisen, and
Sherwood.
100 yard breaststroke— Goff, !
and Allen.
200 yard freestyle—Klipple and
Parr.
100 yard backstroke—Kirkpat- ;
rick and Baird.
100 yard freestyle—Devilbiss,
and Barlow.
Diving— Sfawicki, Percificld,
Satel.
120 yard individual medley—
Parr, Klipple.
180 yard medley relay—Kirk
patrick, Rand, and Thessen.
160 yard freestyle relay—Sla-
wikie, Povafield, Allen, and Bar-
low.
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PITCHING ACES—Ed Hennig, left, Jerry Nelson, center, and Joe Hardgrove, right
sophomore pitchers are counted on to bolster the Aggie hurling staff this season. Hard
grove is a lefthander, while Nelson and Hennig are righthanders. Hennig is a quar
terback and is still working out with the football team. Nelson and Hardgrove are pos
sible starters for one of the two contests with the Brooks Comets.
highlighting the action i
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