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7e« r (: Football Powers ^in Knocks Tuesday Tuesday, August 25, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 3 Later, Ljf, vith Nell “For aw rom soldiPLD RATLIFF hey’ve stop ,ress Sports Editor rood to be’Conference football Jeorgq and L be teams this time lew house ads^with the scrap- enough fjxjfWo-platoon system— ^ march next Tuesday, '.ficial practice starts. ////I'O'fi.e weeks five of the their first game. /'iff /O—Rice, Texas and * ,/ among those open- ign Sept. 10. In all I'he third trio is selected to elopment - lampion, it Texas A;? schedule has A&M >-4. Sessi: ucky at Lexington, Memorial bg California at Ber- Top-fligb nd Florida clashing in active Texas Christian and ncluding yg together at Fort 'ice presidfXas swiping at Loui- md Lighti- Baton Rouge. President'S we<'k finds Arkan- will i first game, meeting tress and at Littie Rock, ’ice presic Oct.|3 before South- ional Ban! under its new coach, ide at ; inrd, moves into ac- i a.m. lethodists picked a Speakers °P en against—Geor- tj rcne pi' -tlunla. )ow Chen s ^ s Lettermen ort- H E ,lent y of experienced he East Tt cam P but Texas and icrce off 2 ^be most lettermen >aine i- e ^ Southern Methodist idustrialc w 21 each ’ thei ' e Nvi11 ion in it 3 Christian and liice, lent Staf '' S f ( j 1p ( ! air 'hampion Texas, mi- t \&M C( exce 'i en l footbalU‘rs __?e pfeembers of one backfields the league ntrailltt with a great soph- • J -J nd the nucleus for ;i jDV defense, looks like With ti' ,ea f Since more. uggld intersectional 0110*1 ip ni r e gotten out of the roJectHot start pl ; iyin f for r ii; _ cas may not make an lowing at the begin- "wn the stretch the 1S sewr ‘ould be hard to han- ! mies throi ulli| >ur 1 osscs itcholl. • / TT ' eject Holt- las 15 Seniors etterlnen include 15 , ;he “ team shapes up 1 ' er , ' v ^’ 1949 Owl outfit that 'c wins, h championship and !‘big, who: h ‘Carolina in the Cot- " ioU’ Sach Jess Neely says — bestlteam since 1949 mostlas good as that We won't he as well balanced,” says Neely but doesn’t appear to be worried about it. Baylor boasts what it confiden tially thinks .will be the best back- field in the country. They’re call ing them—Jerry Goody, L. G. Du pree, Cotton Davidson and Allen Jones — the Fearsome Foursome. And Baylor anticipates a good line. Southern Methodist gets some backing as a championship con tender as Jerry Norton, Frank Ei- dom and Don Miller head a veteran studded backfield corps. Woodard says he has eight or ten backs of top grade and while his line won’t be too big it should be mobile and much stronger than the leaky for ward wall thrown up last season. Texas Likes Massey Texas thinks it will have the na tion’s best end in Carlton Massey and looks for outstanding play from Buck Lansford, a great tackle, and Phil Branch, a terrific guard. The backfield will be led by Billy Quinn, the lone returnee from the top-flight 1952 quartet. Among the sophomores are Delane Womack, an explosive runner, and three fine quarterbacks—Pat To lar, Charley Brewer and Dick Mil ler. Bunny Andrews, who second- fiddled T. Jones last year, may be the regular quarterback but he’ll have to really step. Texas has plenty of two-way performers and . will be helped more than hindered by abandon ment of the two-platoon system. Other conference teams also appear to face no handicaps from the change. Rice has 11.regulars back from last season, all able to go under one-platoon football. Rice’s ponderous line will be led by Dick Chapman, who was all conference last year as a defensive guard, Leroy Fenstemaker, a sen sation at quarterback in the last half of the 1952 season, and Kosse Johnson, a runner, punter and line backer, are keymen of the back- field. MSC Bowling Alley To Open August 25 The MSC Bowling Alley will be re-opened on Tuesday, August 25, after having been completely re finished. The alleys were first levelled and then sanded. Five coats of resur= facing compound were used to complete the job. J—Alfred Classed, Jr., Houston, big game fisher- J§Is beside a 1,560 pound Black Marlin he caught at jP^co, Peru. Certified by Glassed and submitted to jassall has caught three fish weighing more than |nds|in the past 16 months, including a 1,025 ^•1 in also caught in Peru. DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTERS Tffi 1C 1 fill ^tosrapttiiA’* PraiK.Jt'y!’"' Bryan Pho. 2-1584 Texas Christian’s backfield will feature Ronnie Clinkscale, the speed demon, and Mai Fowler, who is going to be the regular quarter back—after the first game. Fow ler is sitting out the Kansas game because he suffered a knee injury in the opening game of 1950 and missed the remainder of the sea son. The conference ruled that he could have another season of eli gibility minus one game. Short on ends and centers, the Frogs should be strong enough elsewhere. A&M expect a better backfield but is doubtful of its line and just what Arkansas will do is indeed problematical. There is a new coach, Bowden Wyatt of Wyoming, at the helm of the Razorbacks and he’s installing a new system, using the single wingback instead of the T. Arkansas has 15 seniors among its lettermen and again has Lamar McHan, who was an outstanding quarterback in 1951 but was han dicapped by injuries much of last year. FOOTBALL TIME IN WEST TEXAS—These three girls brought their cots and got some sleep as they joined football-hungry fans at Kermit who waited in line all night Aug. 18 to get season football tickets to see the local high school team play in District 7-AA this fall. The tickets went on sale at 8 a.m., Aug. 19, but the first person got in line at 5 p.m. the night before. By 5:30 a.m. the following morning 114 fans were in line. The girls are Betty Holt, Marvett Holt and Sandra Hixson. Hunters Gird For ■Heavy Dove Crop By PETE HARDESTY September 1 will be the opening day of the hunting sea son. In the north this date usually means the end of the fishing season except for those who like to take their fish through a hole in the ice. Here in the south where our sum mer days often reach into October and November there is really never a a close of the fishing season. By fishing during the middle of the day, southern fish ermen have about five months added to their time for going after their fine finned friends. Except for January and Feb ruary (and oftdn even during these two winter months) ; warm days will appear giving the fisherman sufficient time to try his luck in relative comfort. However, fish being fish, it is not always a good idea to count out the cold days. We have caught fish when the tip of the rod would become icy. Fishing in that kind of weather requires a bucket full of glowing charcoal and a real desire to fish. Back to hunting, hunters in this area have the advan tage of an extended Dove season. Just across the Old San Antonio Road, the North Zone dove season begins September 1 and closes October 10, both days inclusive. This side of the Old San Antonio Road, the South Zone dove season begins on October 1 and closes November 9. By paying the $2.15 hunting license fee, the hunter can legally hunt doves for two months and 9 days simply by driving from one zone to another. Shooting time is from noon to sunset and the bag limit per person is 10 doves. The hunter must not have more than one day’s kill in his possession. We asked an old timer of this area and he said that the dove crop was good this season. They seem to still be nesting around the campus. This raises the question of whether or not those doves on the north side of the San Antonio Road (about six miles west of Bryan) know its time to get off the nest and start flying for their lives. That is a question for the Game and Fish Commission to decide and since they have ruled that it is okay to shoot doves in the north zone on September 1 we are not going to worry about the bad timing of the doves. Whether you walk them up out of the goat weeds or wait for them in the evening near a water hole or both, remember to use the same caution you used last year in handling that gun. The fact that you are here to enjoy another season speaks well for your watchfulness while hunting. College Station Sivim Team Scores In Junior Olympics In the closing meet of the sum mer season swimmers of the Col lege Station Swimming Team won a number of places in the big Ju nior Olympic Swimming meet held at the Shamrock Hotel pool Wed nesday and Thursday nights. The finest swimmers in the Southern United States, over 700 boys and girls in two age groups from 12 through 16 years, fought it out for honors in the finals and competition was keen as seven new Southern U. S. records were set. Local place winners follow: Boys 15 and 16—100 meter back- stroke, 5th place, Albert Stevens. 150 meter individual medley, 3rd place, Stevens. 200 meter freestyle relay, 7th place, Stevens, Joe Steen, Don Dra per, Johnny Lyons. 150 meter medley relay, 7th place, Steen, Draper and Lyons. Girls 15 and 16—100 meter back- stroke, 2nd place Jeri Lapham. 5th place, Linda Potts. 100 meter individual medley, 4th place, Nancy Hale. 1-50 meter medley relay, 3rd place, Hale, Edge and Lapham. Boys 13 and 14—100 meter breaststroke, 6th place, Richard Badgett. 100 meter backstroke, 4th place, John Harrington. 150 meter individual medley, 5th place, Harrington. 150 meter medley relay, 7th place, Harrington, Badgett and Dick Lepham. Girls 13 and 14—100 meter back- stroke, 4th place, Martha Shawn. 150 meter individual medley, 6th place, Mary Shawn, Lou Ergle. 150 meter medley relay, 6th place Shawn, Judy Litton and Ergle. 200 meter freestyle relay—6th place, Shawn, Litton, Ergle and Mary Varvel. Fish Restoring Program Given Federal Aid Texas will receive $191,741 in Federal aid funds for fish restor ation during fiscal year 1954. An upsurge in the purchase of sport fishing equipment during fis cal year 1953, attributed in part to the growing popularity of spinning tackle, has made the sum of $4,299,916 in Federal Aid funds available for apportionment to the 48 States for sport fishery restor ation projects during fiscal year 1954, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay announced. This amount is an increase of $1,791,389 over last year’s appor tionment of $2,508,527. These Federal funds become avaikible to the States under the terms of the Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Act of August 9, 1950, probably better known as the “Din- gell-Johnson Act.” This program, now in its third year of operation, is enabling the States to create new public fishing lakes, restore many unproductive waters, and put research findings to better use. The revenue for the Federal share of the program comes from the 10 percent excise tax on fishing rods, creels, reels, and artificial lures, baits, and flies, paid by the manufacturers of those products. To provide a fair distribution of Federal funds, each State’s share is based on the relation of the num ber of its fishing license holders to the total in all States, and the ra tio of each State’s area (including coastal and Great Lakes waters) to the area of the entire county. LUBBOCK Tex.,—Collier Parris, Amarillo public relations man, then sports editor of the Lubbock Ava lanche-Journal, first called Texas Tech’s athletic teams the Red Raid ers, in 1934. His inspiration came from Tech’s solid red uniforms and a schedule that invaded California, Illinois, and North Dakota. Offi cially, Tech teams are the Mata dors. It is now time to take and mail to the A&M System Soil Labora tory samples of soil from the field on which small grains and legumes will be planted this fall. The an alysis could become the foundation for a soil building or improving program on your farm or ranch. YOUR MKIY LINE 1. Space your calls. Leaving a 5 minute interval allows others to use the phone. the line in use. ^ Hang up quickly and quietly when you find i M Release the line for emergency calls. Always remember to replace the receiver when nr« you’ve finished your calL ^ THE SOUTHWESTERN ijg ^STATES TELEPHONE CO.