Tuesday, August 18, 1953
THE BATTALION
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Pne Of Wire Loops
l Hold That Fish
he leaves
''ill require/
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ions, he adc
IS sprays mr
true on
everely ski you ever been so tired of not catching fish that
eaves were 1 do just about anything to see the cork go under?
1 ncle i' ide. ( try this. Take a four foot piece of strong wire (an
■ - nt eact.tying is about right), put a small loop in both ends,
,| ' l! ion the whole length so it looks like the loop at’the
By PETE HARDESTY
lariat. Before closing the loop, bait the bottom of
•al to be
af for™ with a large minnow or a small fish. Tie the end
•; better. I'P to your line, use a large cork, and a rather heavy
Pi’ays unde
hould alsoi about two to five feet deep. Chances are good, if
When de in onr of the larger lakes or rivers, of your catching
hints are. e roughest and toughest of our fresh water fishes.
"‘ expect, of Bourse, the Alligator Gar.
'alist says. Grar is difficult to catch on the standard hook. Al-
i ,,ays | am! atching one in this fashion is not impossible, the
'ishirman will become discouraged before he is suc-
the loop method, average catches are good. Ap-
mmendnir gar °P ens bill to take the bait, the lower
t about t below the wire, the upper jaw goes through the cen-
lines wil i loo]i. As the fish slowly moves away with the bait
•Kins; if ghtJ the loop tightening around his upper jaw.
/ Good to Eat?
i ground
Of all the bad things that can be
said of the gar, certainly one can
not say that they do not give a
fisherman a real fight at the other
end of a line.
We have fished specifically for
gars on several occasions and at
one of these times on the San Ja
cinto River we spent almost an
hour trying to get laase from a gar
that tipped a pair of cotton scales
at 89 pounds.
Should such large gars infest the
* fish and will • eat any waters where you fish we suggest
sh, including game fish, tackle just a bit larger than the
scavengers to some ex- standard casting equipment. Long
er line too.
Gar Will Dive
oked the gar will react gave up his boat, all his fishing
making long bull-like tackle, and his outboard motor, af-
vill pump and shake like ter he and his fishing friend boat
ed a 50 pound gar that was not
ver hr a shot gun will dead.
andy after the fish has For some real excitement and
the light. Never pull a some tired arms and legs try
ningjy whipped gar into catching one of these monsters
even if you are sure he during your next fishing trip. They
will strike at almost any time and
ofla professional guide will serve to fill the lull between
SLake in East Texas who catches of bass or perch.
Gay Back From Colorado
Jay returned from Color- and some friends caught a stringer
a ||story about albino full of large white perch at Camp
Creek. They used minnows as bait
ve that fish are color- and fished abovit eight feet deep
near some dead willows in the up
per part of the lake.
Ed Holder and Robert George,
follow £ ato t Gar is not thought
anufactun ’ goo,i to eat ' Howe ver,
mid theu- n Arkansas trying its
nee the ; ,ve b y canning
. i '/ The! skin and scales are
i, and tales are told of
r mally, 5. 5 fariners us j ng . the skin
11 Gob material for their ploy
is been re
' Mt! ars Lttain a huge size.
unty age: u L u 4. j
in ■ th V have been reported as
f«'liantsS ,r ® f et rp f nd Weighing up
they are a very
unds.
Gray returned from Wy-
^y^eUowptone National Park and theil . wiv spent the week
1 BSHfout for us and stor- e n d at the Gulf. They did not seem
impressed with the salt water fish-
reported that he ing and their catch was not large.
jK-oleeping under blankets.
Long
.
wiraraers Win Honors
NQW'ing in the big Southern
ates Junior Division of
■jor BOlympic. Swimming
Grady Pool in Houston
|| the younger group of
ge Station Swimming
many individual honors
4th in team standing in
and under, 2nd in Girl’s
ider and 6th in Boy’s 12
divisions.
500 children were com-
this Swimming Meet,
of fthe local children are
i fine.
ndividual winners wei - e:
*i2 aid under, 50 yd free-
4 place, Jimmy Potts; 50
froke, 3rd place, Jimmy
,4 0 yd breaststroke, 6th
r ,Wl Afmistead; 150 yd indi-
edley, 3rd place, Jimmy
5th place, Howard Mitch-
d medley relay, 6th place,
Armistead, Jud Rogers, and Fred
Brison.
Girl’s 12 and under, 50 yd back-
stroke, 5th place, Sue Simpson;
50 yd breaststroke, 2nd place, Gail
Schlesselman; 150 yd individual
medley, 2nd place, Judy Litton;
150 yd medley relay, 2nd place,
Litton, Schlesselman, and Mary
Varvel; 200 yd freestyle relay, 1st
place, Varvel, Simpson, Schlessel
man, and Litton.
Boy’s 10 and under, 75 yd indi
vidual medley, 5th place, Tom Fer
guson, 75 yd medley relay, 2nd
place, Jack George, Bob White, and
Ferguson.
Girl’s 10 and under, 25 yd breast
stroke, 2nd place, Linda Chalk;
75 yd medley relay, 3rd place,
Mary Ann Kk'kham, Chalk, and
Sally Lehr; 200 yd freestyle relay,
3rd place. Lehr, Sandra Covey, Sue
Howell, and Chalk.
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Made Ready
For 1953
The Texas Aggies will open the
1953 season in a somewhat larger
and more modernistic Kyle Field.
By scrapping the old press box
and expanding the stadium an ad
ditional 2,500 new seats will be
added. This includes 178 box seats
which will be in the area of the old
press box.
Some 2,500 option rights have
been made available for these new
seats. According to Pat Dial, busi
ness director of athletics, only
about 1,500 of these had been sold
up to the drawing held recently.
After completion the stadium’s
seating capacity will be 41,594
seats including 2,400 temporary
seats. However these temporary
seats are usually only put up for
the Thanksgiving Day game.
Razorback Troubled When
Boys just Don’t Want to Play
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press
Just what Arkansas will have in
football this season is hidden by
pessimistic statements both from
Coach Bowden Wyatt and the Ar
kansas publicity department.
You actually feel sorry for the
Razorbacks after reading these
laments. The football booklet that
has gone out says it will be a
year of change and that it must
be devoted to player-experimenta
tion, a situation not conducive to
winning football with the advent
of the single platoon.
It quotes Wyatt as saying there
are not enough top-flight boys to
win in the Southwest Conference.
Spring training, comments the
coach, was too short for the job
demanded. He spent most of the
time, he says, in seeing “which
men really wanted to play foot
ball, and not where they could
play.”
Otis Douglas, when he resigned
as coach at Arkansas last winter,
declared the main trouble he had
run into was finding boys who
actually wanted to play football.
It’s a strange situation and causes
you to wonder just why boys in
Arkansas are so different from
those in Texas as far as football
is concerned.
Since Wyatt has gone to Arkan
sas, 13 boys have been lost to the
squad, most of them because of
scholastic difficulties. But quar
terback Bob St. Pierre signed a
baseball contract with the St. Louis
Cardinals. Little was heard about
St. Pierre, and 1952 season statis
tics don’t indicate he did very
much for the ball club, but now
that he has gone, his loss becomes
as acute as if he had been All
America. Football is like this: a
boy is most valuable indeed when
he leaves.
“The morale of the squad was
very low, and I assume that this
will account for several of our
good boys failing to pass the re
quired numbei - of hours for eligi
bility,” Wyatt says.
The record of two victories and
eight losses in 1952 undoubtedly
acounted for the drop in morale.
Anyway, there appears nothing
that a few victories won’t cure—
Arizona State on Probation
iVotre Dame andMichigan State
Receive Stiff Warnings From J\CAA
CHICAGO — (A>) — Notre Dame
and Michigan State received a
sharp slap for violations of the
athletic code Monday night and
little Arizona State at Tempe was
placed on two year’s probation by
the powerful policy-making group
of the nation’s colleges.
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association’s 17-man council meted
out no specific punishment to the
two larger universities but, in ef
fect, warned them to be good
henceforth—or else.
Notre Dame was “severely cen
sured and reprimanded” for per
mitting ’ tryouts of prospective
football and basketball players.
This is a violation of the NCAA
constitution.
L.4-
CATCHES BIG FISH ON FLY
ROD—Jack Means of Denison,
proudly holds up this 54-pound
catfish that he caught August 9
below the Denison dam on Lake
Tfexoma. He caught the big fish
on the fly rod shown beside him,
on a worm-baited No. 2 hook
and 25 yards of line. After fight
ing the fish for an hour and ten
minutes, he maneuvered him into
a rock shelf and when another
angler tried to gaff him he miss
ed and the cat snapped the lead
er. Means dropped his rod and
dived for the fish. With the help
of two other nearby fishermen
he managed to wrestle him on to
the bank. Affidavits of the
catch ai’e being rushed to various
national sources to check the
record, believed to have broken
existing fly rod marks.
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As for Michigan State, the coun
cil said it supported the action of
the Big Ten Conference, which
placed the Spartans on Probation.
MSC had the nation’s Number 1
football team last fall.
The Spartans, also charged with
giving tryouts to three basketball
players not named, were given un
til next Feb. 22 to explain opera
tions of the so-called Spartan
Foundation, which the council
charges has been giving aid to
athletes.
The NCAA constitution states
that athletic aid must be admin
istered by the college.
If Michigan State fails to meet
these demands before the deadline,
the college then would be subject
to more severe punishment. The
council can forbid other colleges to
play a member not in good stand
ing, as in the recent case of the
University of Kentucky’s basket
ball team.
Arizona State on Probation
Arizona State got the roughest
treatment, being placed on proba
tion for the two years, beginning
Sept 1. Also Arizona State’s ath
letes were ruled ineligible for
NCAA championship events for the
college year of 1953-54. The Ari
zona State can continue to play
football.
The Arizona institution was
charged with permitting pay to
athletes and transporting prospec
tive players to the campus for
tryouts. The NCAA’s amateur
code forbids payment to athletes
above tuition and reasonable board.
The council said Notre Dame,
one of the nation’s football pow
ers, conducted tryouts for pros
pective athletes in both football
and basketball over an extended
period of time.
These tryouts, the council added,
consisted of wind sprints, calisthe
nics, reflex tests, running and
passing in football, and basket
shooting in basketball. The action
by the council failed to mention
the case of Charlie Sticka, a stand
out Trinity College freshman, who
showed up on the Irish campus but
later left when Trinity officials
raised a furor. Tr inity is in Hart
ford, Conn.
Commenting on the NCAA ac
tion, a Notre Dame official said
coaches had used a “modified type
of try-out” but that the university
stopped the practice orr learning
of it last January and invoked
“disciplinary measures” against
the coaches.
Added a statement by the Rev.
Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, executive
vice president:
“It is ironic to be subjected to
public opprobrium for a minor
offense which was decisively han
dled on the university level. There
are many areas of really serious
abuses in the intercollegiate ath
letic world toward which the
NCAA could have much more prof
itably turned its attention.”
Held Basketball Tryouts
The powerful 17-man council said
Michigan State held tryouts . fox-
three prospective basketball play
ers, one in 1951 and two in 1952.
The players were not named.
The council also found that there
existed in Lansing, Mich., fx-om
September 1949-November 1952,
an incorpora ted organization
known as the Spartan Foundation
and another organization known as
the Century Club.
These organizations, the council
added, collected ' funds in the
amount of at least $55,090, “osten
sibly for the purpose of assisting
talented and worthy young per
sons to attend Michigan State Col
lege.”
The report added that these
funds were not administered by
the college and that evidence be
fore the council was that the
monies x’aised by these organiza
tions were used to aid these ath
letes. The council asked Michigan
State authox-ities to provide a com
plete accounting of the funds not
later than Feb. 22, 1954, the tex’-
minal date of the conference’s ac
tion.
In the case of Arizona State,
the council also cited a founda
tion known as the Sun Angel Foun
dation, a non-profit corporation
with offices in Phoenix, Ax-iz. This
group was said to be made up of
friends and alumni of the college
living in Phoenix and the sur
rounding area.
that is, if Ax'kansas can get a full
complement on the field this fall.
The way the folks at Fayetteville
talk it would appear that a return
to one-platoon football is the best
thing that could have happened.
Arkansas ought to be able to get
11 boys out there who do want to
play.
23 Letternxen Return
A glance at the squad roster in
dicates that Arkansas isn’t any
where as bad off as anticipated.
Surprisingly, Arkansas has 23 let-
letrmen, which is as many as any
other team in the conference. There
are four ends, five tackles, thx-ee
guards, two centex- and nine backs.
In this group are 15 seniors.
If all of these fellows want to
play football they should be able
to make a respectable showing.
There are no more talented play
ers in the conference than Lamar
McHan, the quartex-back. He was
great as a sophomore, didn’t do
very well last year, mostly because
he was injured much of the time,
but he’s sound now.
McHan Leaves Wyatt Cold
They say Wyatt doesn’t think
too much of McHan as yet. That
is understandable in view of what
he accomplished last season. But
McHan can play top-flight foot
ball. Obviously Wyatt won’t take
any other kind from his boys. He
moves on the theory that boys in
the peak of condition will play
coxxsistent football and he’s going
to drive the Razorbacks hard.
John Baxuxhill tied for the cbn-
fex-ence title in 1946, his first year
as coach at Axkansas, because he
had the team in top condition. The
boys didn’t like so much hard
work —— there were x-eports that
some x-ebelled—but when it was all
over, they probably thought it Had
been worth it.
Arkansas will be the only team
in the conference using the single
wing this seasoxx. Southern Meth
odist and Texas Christian gave it
up for the T. If Arkansas could
make a good showing it would x-e-
tux-n the single wing to favor. Cex--
tainly it ought to be a real test—
one team against six.
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