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THE BATTALION Page 3 < Friday, February !2, 1954 Mexico Track "One of Most Meet Called Interesting 11 Aggies who attend the track and field meet between A&M and the National track team of Mexico here next Saturday will witness one of the most interesting* meets they have ever seen, said A&M Track Coach Frank Anderson. “Mexico is becoming track con- cious” said Anderson, arid “they are working to become an out standing competitive figure in the world Olympic games.” “I hope that the Aggies will en courage their efforts by coming to the meet Saturday”, he said. The meet is sponsored by the College Station Kiwanis club. Ad mission will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. “Less than the price of a picture show,” said Anderson, “And should prove to be far more interesting.” Evets in Metric Distances All events in the dual meet will be in metric distances. Field events begin at 2:30 p.m. and the first running event at 3. The meet will be over by 5. “We don’t know much abolt in dividuals”, said Anderson, “But they have a pole vaulter who has vaulted over 14 feet, and a shot and discus man who has hit 46 and 150 feet in these two events.” The meet will feature Jorge Aq- uirre, who holds the Mexico re cord in the high jump at 6 feet, the broad jump at 22 feet, 6 in ches, and the hop-step and jump at 46 feet, 8 inches. Ags Hurt by Injuries “They will have a good chance to win the meet, since we aren’t used to events like the 400 meter hurdles and the hop-step and jump,” said Anderson. “We will also be handicapped by the loss of Glenn Blake in the hurdles and distance runner James Blaine, who are out with injuries.” An adder attx*action will be a dual between the national women’s team of Mexico and the Texas Am ateur Athletic Union girls. The girls will hold the same events as the men, with the exception of the pole vault, broad jump and track events over 100 meters. Each wo men’s event will be run after the men’s. The two girls teams have ENDS TODAY JAM SU9SSEU HoBfaaa ! i* co-i>o r nng GEORGE BREW /ft •'SP-V;} TR.OCOLOR. m(s$t ■ yh 1. ning in Mexico City and the Texas girls in San Antonio. The gate receipts will go to the Mexican team to help defray ex penses. Members of the Mexico team are paying their own way down in order to participate, but will be guests of the school here. The Mexico team plans the lar gest track program in their his tory this season. The meet with A&M is their first of the season. This summer the Cadets will com pete in the Pan American games to be held in Mexico. Low-Ebb Aggies Will Meet High-Tide Mustangs Saturday By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor After a two hour practice session yesterday, the A&M basketball team will taper off today for Sat urday’s home game with highscor- ing SMU. Game time is 8 p.m. in DeWare field house. No freshman games will be played. John Fortenberry, a starting for ward who sat out the Rice game height advantage Saturday night, with a chest injury, will be ready, said Coach John Floyd. Forten berry worked out at full throttle last night and showed no after effects of the injury. Floyd said after the practice that the. squad looked “pretty sharp.” He said Harry Hearne, sophomore center*, showed a lot of improve ment. The Aggies will have a slight Farmer Baseball Squad Starts Practice Monday The Aggie baseball team begins its spring workouts Monday with lettermen returning at every po sition except shortstop. Coach Beau Bell is starting the season with a 45 man squad, includ ing 12 lettermen. The pitching department was the mainstay of last year’s sophomore met before, the Mexico girls win- loaded team. Ace of the Aggies fine Klipple, Horne Lead Swimmers in UT Dual Gayle Klipple and Don Horne lead A&M’s varsity swimmers against the University of Texas at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in P. L. Downs, jr., natatorium. No admission will be charged for the meet, which will be preceded by a freshman contest at 2:30 p.m. Klipple, a sophomore, won the 150 yard individual medley four ti hies and the 440 freestyle three times during a five-meet Cadet tour of the Southwest. Horne won the 100 yard freestyle three times. A&M defeated Emory university, Georgia Tech and Northwestern Louisiana State, but lost to tlie University of Florida and Florida State on the trip. The Aggie freestyle relay team of Horne, Klipple, Frank Gajewsky and John Speich set a pool record in that event in the NLS meet. Last season’s Southwest confer ence runner-up, Texas will be sparked by All-America diver Bob by Brodnax, Charleton Hadden and Alberto Yriart. The Steers have won the SWC title from 1946-52. Hadden won the 1,500 meter freestyle and the 440 at the last conference meet and set a record in the 1,500 meters event. Yriart last year placed second in thp ,1,500 meters and third in the 440. Texas was outscored, 145-111, in the ’53 SWC meet. PALACE COMING— WATCH FOR DATE — A L S O — The Roaring iom&nc® ©f BwffaSo iiii’s Sharpshooting Star? mound staff is unanimous 1953 all- conference choice, Jerry Nelson. Nelson, 6-3, 200 lb., junior from Beaumont was an all-stato high school performer. ‘Outlook Good’—Bell Bell thinks the outlook this year is good. “I think we can hit”, said Bell, “and I’m looking forward to a good season if we do.” Weak hitting was the main handicap which plagued the Aggies last sea son. Returning lettermen are pitch ers-—Nelson, Joe Hardgrove, Ed Henning, and Lou Little; first base — Sam Rowland; second base — Charles Leissner; third base—Jim Parrish; outfield—Lester Byrd, Don Ellis, arid Eric Miller, and catch er—Jim Williams and Jerry Robi- nett. but Floyd called the Mustangs “a real bunch of jumping-jacks.” The Mustangs will counter that height advantage with speed and a great scoring punch. In their last game, six SMU players scored over 10 points in a 92-68 victory over Arkansas. The Mustangs had bombarded the Ag gies under a 92-48 score last week. Squadron 22 Wins Horseshoes Title Squadron 22 edged squadron 21, two matches to one, to win the freshman intramural horseshoes championship yesterday. Paul Helpers, Bernie Spath, George Pyland and Jerry Warren won their matches for squadron 22. Squadron 21’.$ Dudley Swofford and Gene Tongatc won a match for their unit. The second semester of intramu ral athletics will begin Monday with ping pong and handball. Wrestling will start Tuesday. Other sports beginning soon arc rifle and open badminton. Volley ball and softball will begin April 7. W JAMES STEWART -s JUNE ALLYSON f* GLENN MILLER , STORY" C4MUS 0U«l -GIORM TOMS'KMT MitUI W* rw* MwlwrO**”#. m# uwroRMim umsuom-kk imm-boi rauct-m mxms CIRCLE LAST DAY with -X. V PRESTON FOSTER ' Mim DOUGIAS MORON! OISEH.PEJTKEUON ANDT CLYDE j DuBet'id by Owes Stonn : / Cliff R»4 Assorts Pittl'IMf / 0 Re-releossd by RKO Radio Picture!. Inc. BRKVIEW SAT. 10:UK) P.M. Also Sunday and Monday Bros. Lsttf- rjpMN Swedes To Shoiv Gymnastics Here The Swedish National gym nas ties team will give an exhibition of tumbling, high vaults, group calisthenics and apparatus work at 7:30 p. m. Feb. 28 in DeWare Field house. The group's performance will be sponsored by A&M’s gymnastics team, and tickets will cost 50 cents a person. The Swedish team, rated as the “number one gymnastics exhibition team,” is now on a good-will tour of the United States. Miclialske (Continued from Page I) heesaid. Earlier, ho had said, “I will he here until Aug. 31, any way.” Dayton said at that time that he had talked to Bryant last night, but that he didn’t know what his status would be. Yesterday morning Bryant an nounced the following assistants— Barlow (Bones) Irvin, former A&M athletic director, Jim Owens, Phil Cutchin, Willie Zapalac, Jerry Claiborne, Pat Jones and Charles (Smoky) Harper. Irvin will be an administrative assistant. Owens and James will work with the line. Cutchin, Clai borne and Zapalac will work with the backs, and Zapalac also will be the chief scout. Harper will be the trainer. There will be no freshman coach, but all members of the coaching staff will work with the Fish. Fish Baseball Prospects To Report to Bell All candidates for the Fish base ball team are to report to Coach Beau Bell at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on the south side of DeWare field house. Returning squadmen include Tex Vanzura, Claude Northrup, Fred Ablon and Frank Pollard. There are several promising players f rom last year’s Fish squad who might see varsity action this season. Pitcher Carl Baker, in fielders Jim Howell, Bob Pender and James Morrison, outfielders John Stockton and Bon Hubbard are all “good prospects,” accord ing to Bell. The only major change in posi tions thus far has been Don Ellis’ shift from shortstop to the out- filed. Jirii Dishman, last year’s manager, will compete with vet eran Claude Northrup for the srort- stop berth. The Aggies open the season March 8 against Sam Houston State at Huntsville. They play their first home game the following day concluding the two game series with the Bearcats. / Fencers, Riflers Leave By Air Today Six A&M riflers and nine Cadet fencers left with sponsors this morning from Bryan air force base for Charleston, S.C., and Coral Ga bles, Fla. The rifle team, undefeated for the season, will consist of Howard Minims, David Allen, Guy Andrews, Sid Ferrell, Fred Galley and Dan Grissom. It will meet The Citadel in South Carolina. Members of the fencing squad, which will meet Miami, will be Bob Braslau and Gus Wulfmau, co- captains, Ken Jones, Jerry Ram sey, Jim Pigg, Bill Huettcl, Bill Fink, Rob Ruiz and Walter Ander son. Col. John A. Way, PAS&T, and Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T, will pilot the C-47. Others who have gone arc Capt. T. H. Libby, Capt. Merlan P. Mitchell and M/Sgt. J. P. Collins. The group will .return Sunday evening. Band Holds Dance In MSC Tonight A&M’s Consolidated band will hold its annual formal dance in the Memorial Student Center ball room from 8:30 until 12 tonight. Music will be furnished by the Prairie View Collegians. Entertainment to be presented at intermission will be a dancing act, the Kelly Sister’s singing and Dean Duncan in his comedy magic ian act. Honored guests will include band director Col. and Mrs. E. V. Adams, Chancellor and Mrs. Tom Harring ton, President and Mrs. D. H. Morgan, Col. and Mrs. Joe Davis, Col. and Mrs. J. A. Way, Col. and Mrs. S. P. Meyers, Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. (Spike) White, Dean and Mrs. J. P. Abbott, and others. Unless one of them suffers an injury in practice today, Floyd will start the following lineup—Forten berry and James Addison at for wards; Roy Martin at center; and Joe Hardgrove and Pat McCrory at guards. SMU will start Derrell Murphy and Ronnie Morris at forwards, Tom Miller at center, and Richard Bryant and Art Barnes at guards. Murphy is the leading scorer with 247 points. Morris and Barnes have 226 and 214, respectively. This will be the next-to-last conference game at home for the Aggies. They take on Arkansas here Feb. 22 and have a non-con- fex’ence game here with the Uni versity of Houston. The Cadets still have road games left with Texas, TCU and Baylor. The Fish will not play again un til Tuesday, when they meet the Texas Shorthorns in Austin. Un defeated at home, the freshmen have a 6-3 season mark. Kiitach Resigns For Insurance Job W. Dee Kutach, Basic Division vocational counselor, has resigned to become associated with the Great Southern Life Insurance agency. Kutach received his B S degree in Education from Texas A&M is 195 f and received his Master of Education from A&M in 1952. WHAT, NO EARTHQUAKE? HARTFORD, Conn. </?)—Trinity college officials said a new fresh man dormitory wasn’t ready for the start of the now form because: The excavation crew unexpected ly ran into a big boulder. Heavy rains held up the work. Mason’s helpers went on a five- week strike. A 14-car freight train carrying furniture for the dormitory was derailed. Window washers went on strike. Tigers Play Bellville In Second Game The .sharpshooting A&M Con solidated high school Tigers meet Bellville tonight in Bellville, and a win gives Consolidated a crack at the district 25-A basketball title. A 47-38 victory here Wednes day night gives Consolidated the chance to cinch the western zone championship tonight in the se cond of the Two - out - of - three series. If needed, the third game will be played at Navasota Mon day night. The west zone champ will play Tom ball, the east zone title - holder, for the district crown. The Tigers carry a 19-12. season record into the game. If tonight’s game follows the pattern of the last one, the con test will be a close defensive bat tle. The Brahmas are expected to be even tougher to take with the home advantage than Wednesday night. Coach Jim Bevans will go along with his usual starting lineup of Bobby Jackson, David Bonnen, Pinky Cooner, Fred Anderson and J. B. Carroll. DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTERS merican 210 S. 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