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PAGE 2 Thursday, August 2, 1956
Room for Improvement
Our registrar’s announcement that he expects the en
rollment for the fall to be around 7,400 students reminded us
of a chance the people of Texas have to do something for
themselves, and our schools, when they vote November 6.
On the ballot in the fall will be a space to either approve
or disapprove Amendment 3 — just how many students our
schools can handle in years to come may depend upon the
mark you make on your ballot that day.
This amendment, endorsed by the Committee for Higher
Education, will go a long way toward providing for added
classroom space in the years to come WITHOUT an increase
in our present school tax. The amendment will do this by
increasing income earnings from the Permanent University
Fund by broadening the investment base of the fund.
At present the fund is invested in government securities
only. The amendment proposes to invest a maximum of 50
per cent in securities other than Federal, State or Municipal
bonds. Only stocks listed on exchanges registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission will be purchased and
only those stocks of companies which have paid dividends
for at least ten consecutive years immediately prior to the
date of purchase may be acquired.
Inform yourself about this vital Amendment to our
constitution, then remember how crowded our schools are
now, and think what the situation might be in 1976—how
about it?
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Wayne Stark Heads
Nat’l B&B Tourney
A&M students will have an op
portunity to participate in the Na
tional Intercollegiate Bridge and
Bowling Tournament which is to
be held next spring, according to
Wayne Stark, director of the MSC
and chairman the games com
mittee of the National Association
of Student Unions.
The bridge tournament will be
held in February 1957. On Febru-
ary 13, prepared hands, score
sheets and instructions will be
mailed to all student unions that
are to participate in the tourna
ment. The tournament will begin
on February 19 and last through
the 25th. The score cards must be
mailed before midnight the 25th
to the tournament director, who is
Mr. C. C. (Jitter) Nolen, director
of the student union at the Uni
versity of Texas. The scoi'e cards
will be evaluated and the winners
announced.
“To qualify for the tournament,
a student must be enrolled in un
dergraduate school, take not less
than the minimum number of class
hours, be in good scholastic stand
ing, and pay a fifty cent admission
fee, which is used to help pay the
expenses of the tournament,”
Stark explained.
The bowling tournament will be
held April 16 through April 20.
Each team will bowl four games.
The score cards will be mailed to
the tournament director, where the
scores will be tabulated and the
winners announced.
(See STARK X Page 5)
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Barbara Paige .. Woman’s Editor
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Vol (Smokey) Davis, D. G. Gilleland, Shirley Gumert,
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Senators Tie for First;
Beat Out Red Sox 12-8
SOMETHING NEW IN BERMUDAS—W. E. (Woody)
Briles, center, was awarded the prize for the best Sport
Shorts at Monday’s Kiwanis meeting. Charles Richardson,
right, winner of the best Sport Shirt award is shown hold
ing Briles’ prize. Russell Couch, left, was runner-up in the
shorts contest.
The Senators pounded out a 12-
8 win over the Red Sox Monday
night to jump into a first-place tie
with the White Sox, opening half
champs, in the College Station Lit
tle League.
Owning a 5-4 mark, the Senators
pulled out of their temporary sec
ond-place deadlock with the Red
Sox, with the latter falling into a
third-place tie with the Orioles,
both clubs having 4-5 records.
Monday’s game definitely was
not a pitchers’ battle, as the Sen
ators scored four times in each of
the first two innings, while the
Red Sox dented the plate three
times in the bottom of the first
and a similar number in the sec
ond. The Red Sox tied the fracas
in the fourth inning by scoring
twice, but the Senators, not to be
denied, tallied twice in the fifth
and sixth innings to achieve the
victory.
Through Monday’s battle, the
Senator’s Joe Olian and the White
Sox’ Danny Feldman continued to J
wage their fight for the loop bat- j
ting championship with the mar- '
gin separating them being very
thin. Olian is clouting .442 and
Feldman is at .440.
Following those two are the Ori
oles’ Larry Randolph, .383; Jimbo
Bevans, of the White Sox, .375;
the Orioles’ Bill Berry, .358; Jody
Rush, of the Senators, and George
Outlaw, of the Orioles, both .353;
the White Sox’ Hal Delaplane,
.311; the Orioles’ Jackie Ross, .296;
and the Red Sox’ Charles Gandy,
.283.
In slugging percentage, Feld
man’s .640 is tops; he is trailed by
Randolph, .617; Outlaw, .588;
Berry, .566; and Olian, .558. Ran
dolph still has the most total bases,
37, with Feldman next at 32.
Outlaw leads in homers, with
three, and Randolph holds his
lead in doubles, 11. Feldman mov
ed into the top run in stolen bases,
having 12 to Berry’s 11.
Randolph and Olian are tied for
the lead in base hits, each having
23. In runs scored, Feldman’s 22
is barely ahead of Outlaw’s 21.
Randolph’s 23 RBI are leading and
Delaplane is next with 17.
Based on earned run average,
the Senators’ Johnny Williams is
the leag’ue’s top hurler with his
sparkling 1.03. Trailing him are
the White Sox’ Ozzie Burke, 1.42;
John Stark, of the White Sox, 1.64;
Olian, 2.37; and the Red Sox’ Ricky
Howard, 2.53.
Stark has the most wins, five,
and the best percentage, a fine
.833. Burke and Williams both
have 4-2 records for .667. Howard
has the most complete, six, and
Stark and Williams each have five.
Howard also has toiled the most
innings, 45. In strike-outs, the
leaders are Feldman, 61, and Olian
and Randolph each fanning 46.
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