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Tuesday, July 21, 1953
THE BATTALION
Page 3
xas Tech Moves Closer
HI Spot on Conference Slate
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OLD V. RATLIFF
Press Sports Editor
signs all along the
cate Texas Tech will
be ^admitted to the
onference.
that only one South-
fcncelmember is on the
taider schedule might
as pointing the other
that this appears no
feastlyears are studied.
when Tech played as
ir copference members,
indication whatever
fgue was even thinking
coming in.
with!only A&M on the
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l ieaV y Hi cautious opinion
IP into Hi conie a day—maybe
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g at the last meeting—-
f /Mfl/l^ort Worth—definitely
^ o adm it Tech and three
m • j ne vote was all the big
been able to
1 that time.
. ement by conference
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j‘ A ; h for broadcasting Tech
1 ‘ see ^ ts, some in direct com-
:ounty to !-jth Ithe broadcast of
by the la; Conference events, is
vetch unci i cam on that the SWC
m are also oking favorably toward
eed tested rill be welcoming them
it from P, mily soon.
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me in thfinff be ready for it.
mples for c program worked out
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ition of • a coliseum-auditorium
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Work is due to start this fall
and the coliseum should be ready
for the 1954-55 season. Some of
the top basketball schools of the
country have said they will play
in Lubbock. Tech already is play
ing a strong cage schedule.
Football Stadium Enlarged
The football stadium this fall
will seat 30,000, meaning more
than 11,500 seats have been add
ed since DeWitt Weaver came
here as head football coach and
athletic director three years ago.
The stadium will be larger than
at Arkansas, a Southwest Confer
ence member.
Tech is ready when the South
west Conference is.
Looking over the Red Raider
football prospects you reach the
conclusion that it may be fortu
nate that the conference schools
aren’t playing Tech this year—
that is fortunate for them.
That should be one whale of a
team coming up in Raiderville this
fall. Weaver has 33 lettermen and
he has some of the brightest fresh
man prospects in the country.
Freshmen can play varsity foot
ball at Tech under Border Con
ference rules, and some of those
youngsters may see action. But
it wouldn’t appear that many of
them will be needed.
Weaver, an optimist as coaches
Blahuta Tours
Stales As Cadet
Norman G. Blahuta, an Aggie-
ex from Colejnan, is making a tour
of military installations in south
ern and eastern states with his
class of West Point juniors.
Traveling by air, sea and land,
the group has visited the Quai’ter-
master School, Fort Lee, Va., the
Transportation Center at Fort Eus-
tis, Va., and Eglin Air Force Base
in Florida. They also made an
amphibious landing at Little Creek,
Va., in conjunction with midship
men from the U. S. Naval Acade
my.
Before going on leave in August
they will spend one week with the
82nd Airborne Division at Fort
Bragg. Stops will also be made at
the Engineer School, Fort Bel-
voir, Va., the Army Chemical Cen
ter near Baltimore, and the Signal
Center at Fort Monmouth, R. I.
go, says he’ll have his best team
since coming to Tech.
“I have no doubt that we’ll be
vastly improved over last season;
it’s just a question as to how much
better the other teams are than
in 1952,” Weaver says.
“If their degree of improvement
is about the same as ours, we
logically should end up with a
6-5 record. If they don’t come
along as fast as we have then,
with a fair amount of breaks, we
could have a better mark than
6-5.”
Lost Some Close Ones
Last season Tech had a 3-7-1
record but among the games the
Raiders failed to win there w^.s
only one in which they did not
either lead, have a tie score, or
come within one touchdown in the
final period.
They’re going to be much strong
er offensively, possibly weaker de
fensively. There will be more
abundant passing and Bobby Gav-
azos should be one of the greatest
running backs in America.
Tech will be two and three deep
in lettermen at all positions and
there are 14 veteran backs.
The Raiders play Oklahoma A&
M, Mississippi State, Tulsa, Hous
ton and Texas Western on the
road and they get West Texas
State, New Mexico A&M, Arizona,
Hardin-Simmons, Texas A&M and
College of Pacific at home. It’s
a tough schedule hut Tech appears
to have the bosses to breeze
through it.
Aggies Land
Outstanding
Grid Star
The Texas Aggies Monday
landed one of the country’s out
standing college football pros
pects—Bobby Karow of Colum
bus, Ohio.
The T-formation quarterback
who had offers from 17 colleges
announced he would enroll here
in the fall. All-city and all-state
at Columbus, Karow chose A&M
over Ohio State, where his dad,
Marty Karow, is assistant foot
ball coach and head baseball
coach.
Marty, a former All-America
at Ohio State, was on the coach
ing staff at Texas and Texas
A&M.
Young Karow scored 31 points
in his team’s final game of the
season, and was also one of the
state’s outstanding punters.
Only Mosquitoes Active
Loss Of Experienced Players
Crea tes A rkansa s Problems
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., July 21
.(Spl.) Athletic fortunes in the com
ing year at Arkansas have never
appeared to be too encouraging,
but the loss of a trio of experienc
ed hands—two in football and one
in basketball — has the Porker
coaching staff considerably dis-
turbed.
Especially on the gridiron where
Coach Bowden Wyatt has already
been assured of thin ranks in his
first year at the Razorback helm
have the losses been felt keenly.
The most recent—that of southpaw
tailback Bob St. Pierre, Salem,
Mass.—was ninth football player
to be eliminated from the 1953
playing picture in the past four
months. Of those nine, at least five
had considerable playing ex
perience.
St. Pierre’s loss (he signed to
play professional baseball with the
St. Louis Cardinals) followed by
only a few weeks the report that
end J. W. Lpudermilk of Stigler,
Okla., had failed to meet scholastic
requirements. Loudermilk’s loss
has been termed by Wyatt as “the
most serious of all.” The Oklahoma
flanker was rated high as a pass
receiver by Wyatt;
Other football players who have
bid the Razorbacks adieu—most be
cause of scholastic difficulties—
who would have been eligible for
play in ’53, include tackles Tom
Garlington and Jim Callahan,
guard Sammy Dumas, end Pat Per
ry, center George Moranz and
backs Carl Mazza and Earl Kaiser.
22 Lettermen Return
The cutback leaves Wyatt with
22 letter - winners, only three of
whom have played on both the of
fense and defense. Eight letter-
men, listed as “backs” for the 1953
single wing include two converted
ends, two alternating quarterbacks
of 1952, one offensive halfback
and three defensive specialists—a
makeshift alignment at best.
Though Wyatt’s tactical pro
blems must await the September
1st fall practice start, it’s no secret
that the ex-Wyoming 'coach is al
ready worrying about personnel
problems in the coming season.
“It’s going to be a matter of
borrowing from one position to
take care of another,” hfe said. “We
simply don’t have enough ex
perienced men to go around—and
frankly we haven’t even had time
enough to test the many shifts
which are necessary, to fill the
gaps. The loss of St. Pierre and
Loudermilk makes the situation
even tougher. Now we’ve got to
Fisherman's Utopia
Casting To Avoid Fish
Was MigdalskPs Pastime
New Haven, Conn.—CP)—You do
a double take and stammer: “How-
zat again?”
“You’ve just spent a day on one
of Connecticut’s trout streams and
feel pretty good about the three
nice 15-inch brown trout you’ve
hung.
Personable, youngish Ed Mig-
dalski, with a job that is at least
a sinecure, smiles understandingly
and repeats:
“For x'ecreation we used to go
out a nd see who could toss a lure
longest without catching anything.”
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Ed wasn’t talking about Con
necticut, where trout fishing is
pretty much a put-and-take pro
position, but about Alaska.
Specifically, he was discussing
a trip he made with Larry Sheerin,
youthful oil and cattleman from
San Antonio, to the Kobok River,
up beyond the artic circle.
Purpose of the trip was to gath
er specimens for Yale University
famed Bingham Oceanographic
Laboratory where he is more for
mally known as Edward C. Mig-
dalski, an assistant in ichthyology.
Angler's Utopia
Alaska, he has no doubt, is an
angler’s Utopia, whether one
quests for tackle-smashing king
salmon fresh run from the sea in
the coastal streams, or the beau
tiful arctic grayling of the more
remote inland waters.
Being a sort of “angler by ap
pointment,” to Yale, Migdalski
speaks with authority on the fish-
ability of many of the streams and
ponds and oceans of the world.
He said what was true of the
Kobuk is true of literally every
other Alaskan stream, whether on
the mainland or in the fog-shroud
ed Aleutian chain.
It doesn’t matter if you are after
salmon, big, belligerent 18-pound
rainbow trout or dainty dolly var-
dens, you just can’t miss^—if you
stick to lures with a red and white
color combination.
Spoons And Streamers Are
Effective
These, can either be spoons or
streamers fished behind Colorado
spinners.
Of the scores of lures Ed and
Sheerin carried, these were the
fish producers, he said.
It is possible you’ll never get to
go on a fishing trip to Alaska.
Unless a well-heeled sponsor is
picking up the tab, such a jaunt
is likely to make a considerable
dent in one’s liquid assets.
Like, for instance, the $70 or
more a day for the bush pilot who
flies you and your party in to,
say the Bristol Bay area at the
base of the Aleutian chain. Ed
says this area has the finest rain-
bow trout fishing in the world.
Then, too, there’s such items as
$2 haircuts, beer at 50 cents a
can, breakfast of two eggs, orange
juice, toast and coffee at $1.75.
However, if you are delaying
that trip for, say, big rainbows
because of the financial consider
ations involved, you needn’t. Ed
says the rqinbow fishing is almost
as good and a lot less costly in
New Zealand. He’s been there,
too.
There are few places in the
Western Hemisphere between the
Arctic circle and Tierra Del Fue-
go at the southern most tip of
South America where Ed hasn’t
wet a line in the interest of add
ing the sum of human knowledge
concerning fish.
Bermuda, Bahamas, Mexico, the
Humboldt current of Pern, India,
Nepal, Kenya, Zanibar and Pemba
island off the coast of Africa, all
are noted in his meticulously kept
log which covers his years of angl
ing for Yale.
Fishing Good In Africa
Africa, he thinks, rates with
New Zealand as a less costly angl
er’s paradise than Alaska.
Migdalski has been fishing since
he can remember. He has kept a
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look around for an end to fill J.
W.’s shoes.” He added, “the tail
back spot has been a question-
mark since I came here, so we
won’t know what St. Pierre’s loss
will mean.”
Wyatt Needs Top Performances
Wyatt repeated an earlier state
ment by noting that “only a maxi
mum performance by everyone—
especially the untested sopho-
mores—can give us hope to hold
our own.”
The basketball player loss over
the summer was Manuel Whitley,
third top scorer of last year and
the leading point-maker scheduled
to return in 1953. His loss, coupled
with the graduation of Walter
Kearns and Lambert, has already
been summed up by Glen Rose as
a “serious setback.”
Of less importance — though
undoubtedly a loss to be felt—was
the graduation of Miler Rick
Heber this past June. Heber had
used up his track eligibility but had
a season of cross country remain
ing this fall. Together with Jim
formed the nucleus of the Razor-
back runners. All are now gone.
Fiish ing Is Slow
During Past Week
By PETE HARDESTY
In this issue of The Battalion we are starting 1 a column
which we have been wanting to for a long time. For the rest
of the summer we are going to devote some space which will
be of interest to the outdoor sportsmen of College Station.
Those readers who like to hunt and fish are invited to
write to the Sports Editor of The Battalion concerning their
luck at their favorite fishing hole or to write in and ask
questions which might be of interest to other fishermen. If
we do not know the answers we will find them for you.
Generally, fishing has been rather poor for the last week,
A few small catches were reported by fishermen at Camp
Creek. Harry Boyer said he caught one of the largest bream
that he has seen come out of Camp Creek. Bass just were not
interested over the week end. Local showers did not prove
to be of much help to the lake fishermen.
Night Fishing Should Produce
Night fishing for Bass with artificial bait should he
good during the rest of the warm weather. Fishing Editors
for some of the monthly fishing and hunting magazines main
tain that during the hot summer months the big ones feed
at night.
It is recommended that fishermen try shallow water and
use a black lure that floats and disturbs the surface, prefer
ably one that makes a plunking noise. Quiet is all important,
lights should not be burned except to untangle snarled or
tangled lines.
Before going out on the lake, take a walk down to the
waters edge and listen carefully for strikes and disturbances.
If the little fish are active, chances are good that the large
ones are moving too. Don’t forget the mosquito dope.
We tried night fishing this last week-end at Camp Creek.
Nothing seemed to be active except the mosquitos. However
previous night fishing has proven its value with us.
Once you have enjoyed the thrill of catching some of the
big ones in the dark we feel sure that you will want to go
back for more.
CS to Play Killeen For Title
The classy College Station Jun
ior American Legion baseball team
will play the Killeen team Wednes
day in the first of a two out of
three game series for the cham
pion of Division 5.
The College Station team trim
med Bryan two straight for the
district title and took Silsbee two
out of three for the bi-district ti
tle. The scores in the Bryan se
ines were 5-3 in each game and
Sunday they took Silsbee 7-1 in
the final and title game on Kyle
field.
They had already taken Silsbee
in the first game and were sched
uled to play a double-header here
Saturday. One game was played
Sunday.
Jim Bevans is coach of the team
and Ralph Rogers is business man
ager. David Bonnen is shortstop,
Jimmy Bond, outfielder; Dick
Hickman, utility; J. B. Carroll,
shortstop; Travis Engelbrecht, out
fielder; Jack McNeely, outfielder;
Pinkey Cooner, pitcher and third
base; Manuel Garcia, third base
and outfield; Norman Floeck, first
Base; Melvin Free, catcher; Pete
Hickman, pitcher and outfielder.
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