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ROPED IN BY WASHDAY WOES? LET US SET YOU FREE! Thanks to our quick efficient service, your laundry is done in a jigtime. Athletes Set 880 Mark Squadrons 15,18 Win ‘Mural Titles By JOE BOYD Battalion Sports Staff John Crow, Lloyd Taylor, Rob ert Marks, and Bobby Conrad ran the 880 relay yesterday in a rec ord time of 1:33.0 for B-Athletics in upperclassman intramural pre lims. The speedy B-Athletics tracksters smashed the six-year old mark of 1:34.4 set in 1950 by Hart Hall. Squadron 15 defeated Squadron 14 2-1 last night romping to an upperclassmen volleyball champion ship. Gerald Scucchi, Jack Wilkin son, Arvill Newby, Thomas Todd, Jack Brown, and Jesse Jefferies composed the winning lineup. Be Proud, Ole Army . . . of your school. Show it by selling the idea of coming to Aggieland to at least two hometown- buddy high school graduates. We want the best!! LOU, Class ’32 wumm Q Qdksi <x In the nmner-up roster Ed Mi- kulenka and Bobby Bowen saw plenty of action. Jerry Gleason, Ronnie Briggs, Marcus Crow, and Roy Powell completed the list. Squadron 18 blasted into the freshman rifle limelight annexing the Corps championship with 592 points. Clifford Lane fired high for the day scoring 134 of a pos sible 150 points. Lane’s best shoot ing was in the pi-one position with 47 points. He amassed 45 kneel ing and 42 standing. Henry Koster was credited with 120 points for the champions and Robert Lyon’s 117 was good for third on the winning card. Rob ert Royal and Richard Myers fired 115 and 106 to complete action for the Sqd. 18 team. D-Infantry was the second place team with 582 points. Bob Wat kins and Bobby Wilkins paced the infantrymen with 130 each. Jack Sackett fired 112 for third place honors and teammate Ben Wool- verton chalked up 106. Rene Vela fired 104 for the second-place team. B-Infantry’s 557 points were enough to hold down the third place notch and B-Engineers com piled 540 for fourth place. 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BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. “Colt®** is a registered trade-mark. © 1956, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY I Sport Shorts By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sugar Ray Robinson of New York remains the general favorite to knock out Carl Bobo Olson of San Francisco and hang on to his world middleweight championship tonight. ★ ★ ★ WACO—Wayne Connally, a .333 hitter for the second-place Baylor Bears this spring and an all-Southwest Conference short stop for the two seasons, Thurs day signed a professional base ball contract with the Chicago Cubs. ★ ★ ★ TUSCALOOSA, Ala- — Alabama basketball ace George Linn Thursday said he has signed a con tract with Phillips 66, winner of the U. S. Olympic basketball trials. ★ ★ ★ PITTSBURGH—Outfielder Bill Virdon — the 1955 National League Rookie of the Year Thursday was grabbed up by the Pittsburgh Pirates in a two-for- one player swap with the St. Louis Cardinals. Barbecue Planned For A&M Athletes The annual spring sports barbe- que honoring Texas Aggie athletes will be held Tuesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Kyle Field Stadium. Ray Putnam, cross country coach, will be master of ceremon ies for the affair at which time members of the Aggie basketball, swimming, baseball, track, golf, tennis, fencing, pistol and rifle teams will be feted. UP AND OVER—No, it’s not Buddy Davis, but A&M’s own Jack Pardee clearing - the bar in the Intramural high, jump. Boring Ends Career As Ag Batting Champ Joe Boring, the-Aggie baseball team’s answer to Ted Williams, wound up his college career as A&M’s top hitter with a fine .341 average and led the Southwest Con ference in homeruns with eight. Boring, this year’s team captain and the Cadet’s best bet for all conference honors, Tuesday signed a contract with the New York Giants and will report to the Giant’s Muskogee, Okla. farm club May 26. The Aggie shortstop also paced the club in hitting against SWC pitching with a .327 effort. Elo Zatopek, senior pitcher and first baseman, was second in stick work in SWC games with a -316 average, while outfielder Phil New port ranked next with .290. John Stockton, who also signed a contract with the New Yoi'k Giants, was second behind Boririg in runs batted in this season with 15. Boring knocked home 20. Juniors Paul Lang and Doug Mullins finished the season with the best pitching records, gaining 2-2 and 1-1 records respectively. Sophomore Toby Newton was the club’s strikeout artist with 76 whiffs in 64 and two-thirds in nings. 77/r ftaItalian .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas Friday, May 18, 1958 PAGE 3 Aggie Field Men Meet Best In Southwest Saturday Nile Six A&M tracksters meet South west’s best Jn the Southern United States Track and Field Champion ships at Houston, Saturday night. Although the Aggies can not compete as a team representing A&M, Bobby Gross, Tom Bonorden, Oian Helvey, Winton Thomas, James Clark and Fritzie Connally will enter unattached. With not a runner in the bunch the Aggies hope to sweep some points in the field events. Gross, who was a double winner in the Southwest Conference meet last Saturday in Fayetteville with vic tories in the shot put and discus will be the favorite to cop the disc, his specialty. OPEN FOR ALL BANQUETS, DINNERS RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS AND LUNCHEONS MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL TA 2-5089 “The Oaks” — TA 3-4375 BRYAN USED BOOKS WANTED The Exchange Store is In the market for your used books Check our iJirces boi'oiv . THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving - Texas Flowers for the prom See Your DORM REPRESENTATIVE or come by Student Floral Concession Across From the Main Entrance to New Area. Run by Aggies For Aggies ‘One-Fifty” 2-door Sedan—with beautiful Body by Fisher! Two-Ten” 2-door Sedan—one of 20 frisky new Chevrolet^! 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