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. •A Infantry in Handball Win A-Infantry blanked B-Composite 3-0 in freshman handball last night. Tom Johnson and Bill Cor nelius sparked the infantry wall- smackers in their bid for a league championship. Randy Curtis and Gene Beyer provided additional “push” for the infantry team and Len Lane team ed with Mike Henderson to com plete the winning line-up. Squadron 1 drew a forfeit fi'om Squadron 11 in another freshman tilt. Wayne Smith and Frankie Wheeler were listed to play for Squadron 1. Others scheduled for action were LeRoy Herren, John Campbell, Mike Farmer, and Ben Williams. A-Signal went on the record with a forfeit decision over D- Field’s freshmen handballers in the night’s final game. FRIDAY The most ruthless ROBIN iON of all time! Edward g. Robinson M All HIS njRYIII — THURSDAY & FRIDAY — “TEN WANTED MEN” with Randolph Scott — Plus — “THE BIG HEAT” with Gloria Graham The Day The Killers Die! SATURDAY M-G-M’s MERRIEST MUSICAL! \\Jf FRANK SINATRA i KATHRYN GRAYSON 1 GENE KELLY ' starring IPA LUPINO • JAN STIRLING CLIO MOORE • AUDREY TOTTER PHYLLIS THAXTER S n,i HOWARD DUFF Screen Flay by CRANE WILBUR and JACK DeWin Produced by BRYAN FOY • Directed by LEWIS SEILER PREVUE SAT. 10:30 P.M. Also Sunday & Monday 20lh Century-Foi presents ■ Jennifer Jones In good Morning, jMissDove/ IINemaScopE n^> COLOR by DE LUXE W Directed by HENRY KOSTER In the wonder o< STEREOPHONIC SOUND Peter GRAVES loan VOHS ..TECHNICOLOR BElEASEO THRU UNIYEO AKTlSTS CLIFTON WEBB GLORIA GRAHAME TTI-B EE I IVIAISI WHO IME\/ER was PALACE TONIGHT PREVIEW—11 P. M. GLENN ERNEST ROD FORD • BORGNINE * STEIGER Cinemascope Color by TECHNICOLOR COLUMBIA PICTURE TODAY & SATURDAY IT’S TOUGH!. IT’S TENDER! IT’S CLARK AND LANA! IVI - G-JVI-fyesmts CLARK GABLE • LAHA TURNER Cinder Men Battle RicelnRunner-upRace The Battalion College Station (Brazos CounfyJ 9 Texas Friday, May 11, 1956 PAGE 3 By MAURICE OLIAN Battalion Sports Staff With defending champion Texas rated a solid favorite to capture the championship in the varsity divi sion of the Southwest Conference track meet in Fayetteville, today and tomorrow, the main interest is focused on the battle for second place. A&M, expected to dominate the field events, and Rice should wage a mei'ry battle for the runner-up spot. Baylor, Arkansas, Southern Methodist, and Texas Christian do not appear to have the strength needed to pose as a serious threat to any of the top three teams. “Baylor could take some points from Texas, especially in the sprint relay,” said head track coach Frank Anderson, “but I don’t think they’ll do enough harm to keep Texas from win ning.” The top varsity performances of the 1956 season show that the Ag gies’ best chances of winning gold medals are in the low hurdles, shot put, discus, bi-oad jump, pole vault, and javelin. Emmett Smallwood has the con- CIRCLE FRIDAY ‘Not As A Stranger’ Robert Mitchum — ALSO — “Case of The Red Monkey” Richard Conte SATURDAY ONLY “Southwest Passage” Rod Cameron — ALSO — “Spy Chaser” Bowery Boys Adamson Devoted To Ag Swimmers By ROY CARPENTER Battalion Guest Writer Swimming may be considered a minor sport by some, but to Art Adamson, head coach of the Aggie swimming team, it is not only a major sport but also a way of life. Having swum since he was sev en, Adamson spends an avei’age of 12 hours a day at the P. L. Downs Natatorium. This devotion SATURDAY PREVIEW Sunday thru Thursday CHS Athletes Feted Saturday By CS Kiwanis The Kiwanis - sponsored CHS Athletic Banquet is scheduled for 6:30 Saturday night in the A&M Consolidated Cafeteria. The ban quet will honor all boys who par ticipated in athletics at Consolidat ed during the 1955-’56 school year. Jim Bevans, ex-Tiger coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track, will be the master of cere monies. A total of eight awards will be presented during the evening. Four awards will be given in football— most valuable player, co-captains, best blocker, and best defensive player. Two awards, most valu able player and captain will be given for basketball. Following the banquet, the ath letes and their dates will transfer to the Activity Room for several hours of dancing. Consolidated coaches for the past school year were Horace Schaffer, football, track, and tennis, Larry Hayes, basketball and track, Edsel Jones, baseball, William Miller, golf, and Art Adamson, swimming. SATURDAY NITE PREY. M-G-M presents The Love Story of a Princess in Cinemascope and color P. M GRACE KELLY • ALEC GUINNESS rT) LOUIS JOURDAN. (j) ^ Nfe-V_—“T H E SWAN”^ — SPECIAL SHOWING — COMPLETE BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1956 Q See America’s No. 1 T.V. Boy . . . GEORGE GOBEL in his first movie. FUNNIER AND AS CRAZY AS ONLY GEORGE CAN BE. N O W SHOWING - *■ Paramocmt present;* - GEORGE GOBEL MlTZI GAWOR DAVID NIVEN tbfodS’S - ! flNbMSj Color by # TECHNICOLOR • to his job has paid off, for last March the Aggie swimmers cli maxed an undefeated season by winning the SWC championship for the second time under Adam son’s leadership. Coach Adamson says, “A boy may want to swim, but it doesn’t do any good if he does it wrong. That’s where I come in.” Adamson, who was born in Eng land and became famous as a swim mer in New Zealand, is recognized as one of America’s top swimming coaches. He is widely known for his ability to take a young swim mer and develop him into a star. Indeed, Jose Merino, free-style and backstroke star from Lima, Peru, came to A&M because his dad had heard of Adamson’s coaching skill and wanted Jose to swim for him. THIS REPRESENTS a great ad vancement for Coach Adamson since he came to A&M in 1934 as a student as well as a coach. With little formal schooling behind him, Adamson came to Aggieland de termined to receive a college edu cation. He worked his way through school by coaching the swimming team, and now holds a Masters de gree in physical education. Throughout the school year in addition to his duties as coach, Adamson carries a full teaching load, being swimming instructor in the physical education classes. During the summer Coach Adam son gives swimming lessons to children from Bryan and College Station. He is quite a favorite with the youngsters, who call him “Uncle Art”. COACH AND MRS. ADAMSON live at 201 South Grove. Their son, Van, followed Adamson to Aggie land and was Southwest Confer ence swimming champ in different events for three years, showing that swimming talent seems to run in the Adamson family. ference’s second best time, 23.1, in the low hurdles and his 23-11 /i is tops for the broad jump. Tom Bonorden, who is the only 1955 winner expected to repeat this year, has the top shot put mark— 54-4 The best discus throw, 170-2, has been tumed in by' the Ags’ Bobby Gi'oss. In the pole vault, are two Cadets, James Clark, with 13-8%, and Winton Thomas, 13-8, own the year’s best heights. The SWC’s leading javelin throw this year has been Oran Helvey’s 199-5. THE CONFERENCE RECORDS that appear to be the most serious ly threatened are in the 100-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, one-mile run, 440-yard relay, one-mile relay, and the discus. Texas’ blazing Bobby Whilden, with a 9.4 and a 20.4 in the 100 and 220, could lower the marks of 9.5 and 20.4 in those two events. A bevy of Longhorns and a Razor- back, Ed Morton, are all capable of breaking the 4:17.2 record in the mile run. The 440 relay promises to be one of the highlights of the meet with the 40.8 loop record almost certain to fall. Texas has done a 40.1, a new world record, and Baylor 40.2. In the mile relay the record is 3:13.9, but Texas has been clocked (See THINLYCLADS, Page 4) , v -A rtV’tV'X* * ART ADAMSON—Aggie Swimming Coach JARROTT’S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST Dial TAylor 2-1511 Main at 26th BRYAN, TEX. from our complete selection of COSMETICS priced for your budget. SEE US TODAY! ■ ■ v ■ ■ n nr u rx c? 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