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I Friday, February 24, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 5 RECORD BREAKERS—Power to spare can be generated by (1. to r.) Bobby Jack Gross, Herman Johnson, Tom Bonorden and Harry Cox, A&M’s mighty crew of shot putters. Gross, Johnson and Bonorden have all heaved the iron ball over 54-feet. Cox has thrown over 49-feet, and should break the 50 mark this season. They put the shot a combined distance further than any four shot putters on the same team at the same time in the world. Saturday At 3 p.m. Swimmers Host Texas By BARRY HART | Assistant Sports Editor Undefeated in seven starts this season, Coach Art Adamson’s Ag - - >ie swimming’ team faces its •oughest hurdle Saturday w h e n he always-tough Texas Long- lornM move into P. L. Downs Nat- itorium. A&M has swept past Northwest Lo.-llsiana, the Universtty of Flor ida, Florida State, v Emory Univer sity, Georgia Tech, SMU and first place in the Southwest Con ference Relays. The Aggies barely edged the Steers, 66-64, in the conference re lays, relying on Tetsuo Okamoto’s last-second spuxt on his anchor lap of the distance relay to give his team the winning margin. Texas, winners of 20 of the 24 Cadets Meet Rice Owl In Home Finale Toni We Highly Recommend To You SPRED SAT6SSS—100% Latex Paint $r.69 ^ gal. $1.79 -L qt. SPRED SATIN is the most beaju- tiful, most washable, easiest-to- use paint we’ve ever seen. Do It Yourself and get beautiful results on walls and woodwork. CHAPMAN’S PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. Next to Post Office ENROLL NOW Spring Term Opens Monday, March 5th DAY and NIGHT SCHOOL HY-SPEED LONGHAND will be offered for the first time in a special ten-week course at night. This is an ideal system for taking notes in college and for taking light office dictation. Typing will be given with this special course. 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Leading the Longhorns are Rich ard Lawler, senior two-year letter- man who easily took the conference one-meter and three-meter diving championship, Joe Lee Neal, jun ior letterman, who totaled 15 im portant points in the 1955 title meet, Fddie Johnson, junior letter- man, who plucked off 12 points last year, and junior letterman, Reece Anderson, who came up with 10 points in 1955. Okamoto, Dick Weick and Dick Hunkier have been the biggest con tributors to the Aggie win streak so far. Okamoto, swift sophomore from Brazil, won the 220 and 44- yard freestyle races against SMU; Weick holds the SWC records in the 100-yard butterfly, the 200- yard breaststroke and the 200-yard medley while Hunkier took first in the conference 50 and 100-yard freestyle events in 1955 and an chored A&M’s winning 400-yard freestyle relay. A&M Soccer Team To Meet Busy Bee By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor Trying desperately to hold onto its first division berth, A&M en tertains the dangerous Rice Owls here tonight at 8 in the final home appearance of the Southwest Con ference cage campaign. RICE, LED BY tree-top Tem ple Tucker and Joe Durrenberger, stand third in the SWC and can point to a brilliant 18-4 season re cord. Tucker, 6-10 point making specialist, leads the Owls in scor ing with 460 points over the sea son, an average of over 20 points per game. Durrenberger’, the conference leader in rebounds, has dipped 317 points for an average of more than 15 points per game. Tucker hit 43 points in leading the Owls past A&M, 110-81, in the SWC tourney earlier this year. A&M OPENED LOOP play against Rice in Houston Jan. 7 and fell before an 89-77 barrage, spark ed chiefly by Tucker’s 29 points. The Aggies have a league record of three wins and seven losses, their last game being Wednesday night’s 91-67 loss to TCU at Fort Worth. Rice was upset by an aroused Texas Longhorn quintet last Tues day night in Austin, 94-82, and lost any chance it might have had for a share of the conference title. SMU, of coarse, can become the SWC champion for the second con- sectuive year by beating Arkansas Saturday night. Sy PROBABLE STARTERS for the Aggies tonight will be George Me- haffey, Bill Brophy, Don Bilbrey, Ken Hutto and John Fortenberry. Coach Don Suman will start his usual lineup of Durrenberger, 6-7, Fred Woods, 6-3, Tucker, 6-10, Dale Ball, 5-11, and Gerry Thomas, 6-2. Sophomore Ken Hutto continues to lead the Cadets in conference scoring this week with 157 points chalked-up in 10 games. Senior Bill Brophy pulled ahead of George Mehaffey for second place honors in scoring by hitting a total of 38 points against SMU and TCU. Brophy has 140 points while Me haffey boasts 132. Coach Ken Loeffler’s Cadets have already assured A&M of its finest season in over three years on the hardwood court. In the past two seasons A&M had managed to gar ner only two victories against SWC competition. The Aggie Fish own a 3-6 sea son record after Wednesday night’s 86-110 shellacking at the hands of Tyler Junior College at Tyler. Neil Swisher, leading freshmen scorer, hit his highest single game total of the year, sinking 26 points. Alex Roberts, fourth among Fish point makers, dunked 20 against Tyler. The Fish close out their season, as does the varsity, against Texas Feb. 28 at Austin. Sport Shorts By The ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS—Texas Tech is expected to be voted into the Southwest Conference Conference in May but even if it is it will have to wait five years before it can get on the schedule of every other member. If the conference should make a special provision and allow Tech to play for the championship with less than a round-robin Tech could be competing- by 1958 because that year the Red Raiders could be on a majority of the schedules. A survey showed that Tech can’t get on the Southern Methodist schedule before 1961, the Rice and Texas sched ules before 1960 and the Texas Christian schedule before 1958. ★ ★ ★ BERLIN—Olympic figure skating champions Hayes Alan Jenkins and Tenley Albright and 13 other Ameri cans were held for five hours by Communist police yes terday on their arrival in East Berlin from Prague. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Peter Waterman, British weltei*weight, angrily offered to put up $1,400 yesterday in a return bout with former world champion Kid Gavilan. Tickets On Sale For Sports Day A & M’s annual “Sports Day” highlights High School Day Saturday, March 3, as five sports compete for the attention of more than 1,000 high school seniors that will be visiting Aggieland on that day. Tickets are now on sale at Stu dent Activities office, MSC, Ath letic Office or “T” Assn, member. The Aggie golf team opens the athletic events at 1 p.m. as they entertain Lamar Tech of Beaumont on the A&M course. High school seniors and A&M students get a prevue of track at 1:30 when the Aggies match pace with the University of Texas and University of Houston on Kyle Field. Tennis gets underway at 2 as the Cadets, hit heavy by losses to the books, meet the Houston Coug ars on the clay courts west of the MSC. A&M’s SWC defending baseball champions open their home sea son on Kyle Field baseball dia mond, clashing with the Cougars of Houston at 3. Football winds up the action- packed day as Coach Paul Bryant’s gridders battle each other in a full scald intrasquad game under the lights of Kyle Field at 7:30. M c CALL’S Humble Service Station “Where Service Is First” East Gate VI 6-4922 Hy 6 k HIT PARADE OF FOODS . . Fit For A King Full Course Meals For Noon & Evening 85c Lunches Served From 11-1—Fast Service TRIANGLE DRIVE-IN & DINING ROOM The Aggie soccer team meets Busy Bee of San Antonio Sunday afternoon at San Antonio. After opening the season with a crushing 7-0 win over Chance Vaught Aircraft of Dallas last weekend in Dallas, the team is looking forward to a good season. Goals scored against Chance Vaught: Carlos Salinas,, three Roberto Ildarraz, one, Jaime Ques- ada, one, Enrique Endara, one, and Gerardo Pena, one. Other out standing players were Chuck Mor gan and Miguel Muyshondt. LEADING FISH SCORER is Neil Swisher (above), 6-1 basketballer from Victoria. Neil has pushed 149 points through the basket so far this season. In the fresh men’s 86-110 loss ta Tyler Junior College last Wednes day night he hit the indi vidual single game high for the Fish five this season by sinking 26 points. The Fish wind up their season play Feb. 28 against the Texas Shorthorns at Austin. 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