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Page 4 THE BATTALION Thursday, June 18, 1953 Ag Track Stars Enter NCAA Nebraska Meet Five Texas Aggie trackmen and their two coaches will be in Lin coln, Neb., this, week for the an nual NCAA Friday and Saturday (June 19 and 20). Coach Frank G. Anderson and Ray Putnam, assistant, left early this week along with Weightmen, Darrow Hooper and Bobby Gross; Malcolm Marks, pole vaulter; Jim Blaine, two-miler and Bobby Rags dale, low hurdler and broad jump er. One of the undefeated A&M team’s top aces—James Baker— will not enter the NCAA due to summer ROTC camp commitments. Hooper and Gross will enter the shot put and discus. Hooper won the NCAA shot title as a sopho more in 1951 but lost to Perry O’Brien, the Olympic champ and world record holder, in 1952. O’Brien has bettered the 59 foot mark twice this spring. StadiumSeating To Be Finished For Fall Games The Kyle Field seating capacity expansion program will be com pleted for the first home game, September 26, 1953, said ‘Bones’ Irwin, A&M Athletic Director. Irwin said that construction on the addition of 2,476 seats and 178 boxes to Kyle Field is on schedule, but the press box will not be completed until later in the season. This expansion will extend from 30 yard line to 30 yard line on the west side of the stadium and will be 32 rows high above and be hind the present stadium. In order to raise enough funds for the seating capacity expan sion, a 20 year registered ticket purchase option was proposed by the Athletic Council. Options are available at $50.00, per option, to former students who have first fhance until Nov. 1, at which time Ihey will be offered to the general public. TODAY Thru SATURDAY Mightiest of Motion Pictures! AfeNrv// B. DcMille's^gg TECHNICOLOR REGULAR ADULT ADMISSION CHILDREN .25 tax inch PREVUE FRIDAY OUT-OF-THIS WORLD iii MM! COST&Zg A UNIVIRSAt INTfRNATIONAl fICTURE with MARI BLANCHARD PREVUE SATURDAY SUNDAY Thru TUESDAY Myil LAMAS POWELL THE Girl WHO HAD m IVEOTHING mWM * 'am-WHITMORE Hooper’s best put in 1953 was his Texas Relays effort of 56 feet, 2 % inches. Last . year he topped 57 feet twice. Marks has done 14 feet in the vault twice this spi'ing while Rags dale has turned in a 25-foot, %- inch broad jump and a :22.6 low hurdles time. Blaine’s best two-mile time is 9:24. Coaching Staff Completed, Walls As Assistant Coach (Spl)—With the signing of Willie freshmen and will be a game Walls as an assistant coach last week the Texas Aggies now have their 1953 coaching staff at top strength. Walls is the seventh coaching aid for 1953 and the third new mentor hired since the 1952 Season closed. The former TCU great of the mid-thirties will assist with the CS Girls Reach Semi-finals In Lufkin Tennis Tourney A ME'?RC-GOlD'AJYN.U%Y6t •'CTUKE Betsy Burchard and Bob Jack- son, of College Station reached the semi-finals in the Invitational Ten nis Tournament held in Lufkin June 11-13. In the semi-finals Burchard was defeated by Ruth Harper of Shreveport, La., by a score of 6-3, 6-h. Jackson teamed with Sexton Adams of White Oak to meet de feat by the number one seeded team of Paul Wilkins and Billy Williams of Baytown by a 6-1, 6-3 score. Penny Laverty drew a bye in the first round singles. Be'fcsy Burch- :ew, a n i. Bees; ard defeated Sarah Ross of Luf kin by a score of 6-2, 6-2. Janice Latimer was defeated by Grace Ag Bowling Team Defeats Brenham The A and B bowling teams of A&M Sunday won over the Bren ham Elks Club by scores of six— two and five—three, respectively, on the MSC alleys. The members of the A team were J. A. Dudley, Pat Schuler, John Maritz, Bill Schnerr, and John Geiger. B team members were C. Hach- er, Bill Clift, B. Godfrey, J. Foster, Sonny Prewitt, and Christensen. High game of 2331 and high series of 606 went to John Geiger of A&M. Local Swim Team In Houston Meet The College Station swimming team will leave Friday for the Crystal Pool meet in Houston, an nounced Art Adamson, Aggie swimming coach. For the junior team, John Har rington, Richard Badgett, Richard Smith, Judy Litton, Mary Lou Ergle, and Beth Penberthy will be the swimmers. The intermediate team will con sist of John Robert Smith, Albert Stevens, Don Draper, and Joe Steen. Swimming for the senior team will be Larry Meyer, Billy Tudor, Kay Parnell, and Ann Copeland. Intramural Golfers To Begin Tourney The intramural golf tourney will be held at the A&M golf course, starting June 20. This tourney is open to all who wish to play, except varsity golf ers, and will be played by flights according to the earned qualify ing score. The contest will be by match play on either nine or 18 holes, according to Joe Fagan, pro manager of the course. Intramural medals will be given to the win ners of each flight. Only green fees are required and all entries must be turned in to the Golf Shop on or before June 19. CIRCLE 4-1250 Children under 12 admitted FREE when accompanied by an adult. TODAY and FRIDAY Sombrero « l(OT do MONT ALBAN • Pi.r ANGELI vat,™ GASSMAN • Cyd CHAKISSE r**d«gCAtW SATURDAY ONLY S Brave Warrior rvs U„_ s iajnng JON HALL Also “LOVER COME BACK” Starring: LUCILLE BALL GEORGE BRENT McMullen of White Oak 7-5, 614. Jackson won by default. In the second round singles Laverty was defeated by Ruth Harper of Shreveport by a score of 6-0,6-0. Jackson won over John Wask of Lufkin by a score of 6-0, 6-4. Burchard won by default. Jackson in the quarter-finals was defeated by Bill Dixon of Bay- town 6-2, 6-0. The best girls’ match of the turnament took place when Burchard defeated Ann Farmer of Houston, who was seed ed as no. one player, by a score of 5- 7, 6-2, 6-2. In first round doubles play Bur chard and Latimer were defeated by Jo Ann Nolen of Bryan and Pat Zuber of Lufkin 6-3, 6-2. Jackson and Adams defeated Jimmy Nolen and Bubba Stitler of Bryan 4-6, 6- 2, 6-4. The College Station players play ed under the sponsorship of the College Station Recreation Council and were taken to Lufkin by ten nis instructor, Horace Schaffei’. C. S. Eagles Play The Mexia Oilers The College Station Eagles will meet the Mexia Oilers in a Negi’o baseball game to be played to- morx-ow afternoon at 2:30 on the Travis Pax-k diamond in Bryan. Starting for the Eagles in right field will be A Harris, W. Foster in center field, and G. Philips in left field. On first will be J. Walkei’, with P. Carrol on second, and R. E. Brooks on third base. D. Parker will start at shox't stop. The pitcher will be E.- Holland, with J. Foster handling the catch ing chores. scout. Two other new staff membei’s are Line Coach Mike Michalske, fox-meidy of Baylor, who x-eplaces Paul McMurtry and Willie Zapalac, who succeeds Cooper Robbins, Sr. The hold-over coaches ax-e Head Coach Ray Geox-ge, Dalton Fair- cloth, offensive backfield coach; Gil Steinke, defensive backfield coach; and Bill Duncan, end coach. All seven Aggie coaches have played px-ofessional football, with the exception of Faii-cloth. Irvin played two years with Buf falo; George played with the De- ti-oit Lions and the Los Angeles Bulldogs; Steinke with the Phila delphia Eagles; Duncan with Long Island; Walls with the New York Giants; Zapalac with the Pittsbux-g Steelers and Michalske with the Green Bay Packers. Geox-ge will begin his third year this fall while Steinke axxd Faix-- cloth will start their foux-th sea sons at A&M. Duncan will begin his second season next September while Irvin stax-ts his fifth year as athletic dix-ectox-. He px-eviously sex-ved at A&M as line coach and freshmen coach. Zapalac, Walls and Michalske have not coached at A&M pre viously. Football Records Show A&M Power A&M has played 505 football games in 58 seasons since 1894. The Aggies have compiled a record of 305 games won, 164 lost and 36 tied against 80 opponents. Also, A&M teams have participated in six bowl games, winning 6 and losing 4. The Aggies have played in the Dixie Classic, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl and Px-esidential Cup contests once each and the Cotton Bowl twice. Fish Schedule Sets Five Games In ’53 The 1953 5-game A&M fx-esh- maxx football schedule was x-eleas- ed this week by Dix-ector of Ath letics Bai’low Ix-vin. The Fish schedule: Oct. 1 Johxx Tax-leton hex-e; Oct. 8 Baylor here; Oct. 15 TCU hex-e; Nove. 5 Rice at Houston and Nov. 21 at Austin. PA/HPERMPA Give Dad a cool sport shirt . . . One that will give that extra sparkle to his wardrobe. The best thing of all is that he can’t have too many comfortable sport shirts. Choose here from an eye-taking array of sure- winners, featuring breeze-cool fabrics in solid colors and woven patterns. Only 2.65 to 4.95 Conway & Co. 103 No. Main Bryan Phone 2-1497 Awards Given 109 Athleit >rer For Work. In Spring Spot Bshii ng dex-b 11 be he. the Sou Island, One hundred and nine athletes at A&M have been awarded spring sports letters by the athletic coun cil. The list includes 18 iix varsity baseball; 19 in fx-eshxxxan baseball; 24 for varsity track, 29 for fresh man track, four golf, five tennis and 10 in fencing. Followixxg is the list of lettex-- men by spox-ts: Vax-sity baseball: Rugh Les Byx-d, James C. Dishmaxx (maxxa- ger), Don Ellis, Robert Tex Farm- ex-, Joe Haxdgrove, Don Heft, Ed gar Hennig, Jerry Lastelick, Charles Leissnex-, Lou Little, Ex-ic Millex-, Bill Munnex-lyn, Gerald Nel son, Jimmie Parx-ish, Jerx-y Rob- inett, Sam Rowland, James Wil liams and Melvin Wox-k. New Press Box Will Be Ready On Turkey Day Tux-key Day is the date set fox- completion of the new press box for Kyle Field Stadium, announced ‘Bones’ Ix-win, A&M Athletic Di rector. An improved stx-uctui-e xvill sex-ve as the px-ess box during the 1953 football season until the new press box is completed said Irwin. The accommodations for the px-ess box will cost in the neigh borhood of $80,00. Funds for tlxis stx-ucture will be fux-nished by the A&M Athletic Department, which has pledged itself to fux-nish the money needed. The new press box will be xnodern in every respect and will be modeled after those px*ess boxes at Baylor and the University of Oklahoma. Equipped with an outside ele vator, the px-ess box will be 140 feet long and will fui-nish accom modations for 108 wox-king news paper men. Composed of three levels of booths the new press box will give A&M px-ess facilities and ac commodations that will compare with the best to be found any- where in the country, Ixwin said. Fx-eshxxxan baseball: Cax-1 Wen dell Bakex-, Homer Collier, Kexx- neth Hankins, Billy Tom Helton, Milton Hickman, Lawx-ence Hill, James Howell, Behxx Franklin Hub- bax - d, Bobby Venxon Iivixx, Geox-ge Johnston, Sammuel Kiker, Lynn Dennis Monical, James Mox-x-isoix Fxank Pattex-son, Robext Pender, Bill Strange, John Stocktoxx, Rod ney Bx-uce and Elo James Zatopek. Vax-sity txack: Jaxxxes Bakex - , Jaxxxes Blaine, Glemx Blake, Dale DeRouen, Thomas Dollahite, Roy Dollar, Bobby Jack Gross, George Harley Hax-tung, Darrow Hooper, Charles Hudgens, Wallace Kleb, Cax-ol Libby, Malcolm Max-ks, Hayden Pete Mayeaux, Fx-ank Nor- x-is, Robex-t Dan Pratt, Bobby Joe Ragsdale, Harife Smith, Glenn Spx-adlin, Bill Staltex-, Gerald Stull, Marvin Swink, Edwaxd Thomas and Patrick Wheat, (manager). Fx*eshixxan tx-ack: Robert Boles, Bobby Byx*d, John Cain, Jex-x-y Cashion, Jimmy Cavitt, James Clark, Bill Cocke, Hax-ry Cox, Fx-ed Hax-tman, James Hollingsworth, Bill Holloway, Bill Pete Huddlest on, Donald King, Gerald Leighton, John Mcllhenny, Jimmy Moser, Philip Peai'se, William Post, Ed ward Reedex-, Bobby ft ^ Jaxxxes Stansel, Thomas Stir s " 1 . Tedder, Jex-x-y Thomas, Ter 1 e ‘" 1 ° tex-s, Don Watson, Jay W: le ll ' RIS ' 1 (manager), Carl howevex lin Wright. Golf: John Briggs, Hoxxier colm Douglas. Teixnis: Jack for 50c, i Callaway;. ol . it , , said. Besselliei. rday ove Jacobsoix, Eugene Letsos.A-- ■ West, Ronald Wolff. nd Fencing: Bob Bi-aslau,Trig by exp< Fields, Ax-thur Gamer, Rig pan ties Jones, Jr., Aden Magee, ly monxinj ford, Jaxxxes Pigg, Jerry ihurch, w Bill Willmaix, Gus Willmarton Ski T’gBlemixxsti-a ea Rescue Bryan’s Muni To Come To iTJ i Dick Munday, outstaiidfcixxxied fre an athlete, has announced accept a football scholar 11 , 1 1 1 a - Texas A&M college, Head A" 1 Ray Georgd announced thi; . Incubatu Munday also will be a ta>f iFort pect for the Aggie basebai ax. IPiopex having been chosen for a Diseases, honors the past two yearsi:, ‘Tixlloxu high school playoffs. xultxy Flc - axxd “T1 of Poult r. ■f the lepurtmexi .y rftenxo and axnsw gxve him gift of Lasting Beauty JEWELRY THAT HE WILL KEEP FOREVER Caldwell’s Jewelry Store levelopmex Egg Sup U-ajxer ope sioSn. At i^fsc lectio stock, woi staff inen P< axltry by Dx-. R. Vetei-ina Pul loruxxx t 2: p. 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