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PAGE 4 Tuesday, March 12, 1957
Yankee pitchers Bob Turley
and Don Larsen played for the
1950 Wichita team when it was
in the Class A Western Assn.
Wichita now is in the AAA Amer
ican Assn.
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SWC Starts Thursday
Swimmers Crush
Texas Tech, 60-11
Warming up for their Southwest Conference title defenst
Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Houston, Coach Art Adam
son’s Aggie swimmers mauled Texas Tech, 60-11, in Downs
Natatorium Friday night.
Scheduled for Saturday, the Red Raiders showed up 2
day early, so the meet came off at night. A&M’s Fish, whc
had downed Houston’s Lamar High, 45-32, Friday afternoon
went back into the water to sweep all four events with a 28-S
victory over the Tech frosh.
Only Tech’s Bob Shackleford broke the Aggie monopoly
on firsts, winning the 200-yard backstroke with Joe Steer
and Jimmy Dye right on his heels. A&M captured seven o:
he eight events.
By A1 Capp
GRUNT-’N-GROANERS —
A1 Chachara, Walton Hall,
pins “D” FA’s Jim Terry in
the 123-pound division of
Intramural Wrestling last
week. Chachara moved into
the finals in the upperclass
men grappling.
Adamson swam almost ev
ery man in his squad, but the
youngest member of the SWC
couldn’t keep pace with the
league champs.
The Fish took sev^n of nine
events against Lamar High in the
afternoon swim fest, losing only
freestyle relay.
Orlando Cossani won the 100-
Corps Baseball Starts
Monday for 1st Time
By FRED MEURER
Grab your gloves, sharpen your spikes, and loosen up
your “soupbones”, for on Monday, March 18, umpires arbi
trating baseball games in four Bryan ball parks will bark
“Play Ball”, and Corps League baseball will be officially
touched-off for the first in the history of A&M!
Though attempts to start such competitive programs
among Corps units have been made in the past, none have
ever succeeded. This year,
yard breaststroke and the individ
ual medley against the Redskins
then swam to a first in the 100
yard butterfly against Tech.
Besides winning seven of eigh
firsts, the Aggie varsity swept tb
second-place points.
VARSITY SUMMARIES
220-yard freestyle—-1) Tetsuo Okamotc
A&M; 2) Dick Hunkier, A&M; 3) Garol
Henning, Tech. Time: 2.22.3.
50-yard freestyle--!> Roger Burton, A&M
2) Jimmy Dye, A&M; 3) Bob Shacklt
ford. Tech. Time—:25.4.
200-yard butterfly — 1) Don Demming
A&M; 2) Jimmy Rhodes, A&M. (No othe
entries. Time: 2:59.3,
One-meter Diving — 1) Bruce Martin
A&M; 2) Bruce Gard, A&M; 3) Chuc
Strehli, Tech. Martin had 212.70 points.
100-yard freestyle -— 1) Dick Hunkier
A&M; 2) Skippy Fletcher, A&M; 3) Bf
Lewis, Tech. Time—:52.6:
200-yard backstroke—1) Bob Shackleford
Tech; 2) Joe Steen, A&M; 3) Jimmy Dye
A&M. Time: 2:37.5.
440-ya,rd freestyle.-l) Jerry Mount, A&M
2) Roland Baird, A&M; 3) Garold Hen
ning, Tech. Time: 5:33.2.
2O0-yard breaststroke—1) Ross Truesdah
A&M; 2) Wally Penberthy, A&M; 3
Bill Pittman, Tech. Time: 2:54.1.
PEANUTS
By cartoonist-of-the-year Charles M. Schulz
FAMILIES ARE GETTING TOO
BIG! THERE ARE TOO MANY
BABIES BEING BORN !
Melvin Driskill, senior B.A
major from San Antonio ob
tained the support of the mil
itary departments, intramural
athletics, faculty members and all
other influencing factors, and
league play will soon begin on
Bryan’s diamonds.
Two leagues have been formed,
one composed of Air Force groups
md the other made up of A r m y
battalions. Each league will have
seven teams, with each team sched
uled to play 21 games.
PEANUTS
* By cartoonist-of-the-year Charles M. Schulz
(hi,fuzzy-faceT)
A A FEU) YEARS. AGO
SOMETHING LIKE ' AT NEVER
WOULD HAVE BOTHERED ME l
3^-/2.
Competition will be kicked-off on
March 18 when four scheduled
games will be played. During the
season games will be played either
in the evening- or at night on Tues
days and Fridays, with make-up
to be played on Mondays.
The regular season will end on
May 14, and a ‘‘Little World Series’
or a baseball “12th Man Bowl” will
climax the program on May 16.
This contest will probably feature
a battle between the winner of each
league.
SMU Fourth as Tar Heels
Top Final AP Cage Poll
The Associated Press
The North Carolina Tar Heels,
unbeaten in 27 games, Monday
broke the two-year hold of the
San Francisco Dons by finishing in
first place by an overwhelming
margin in the final Associated
Press college basketball poll of the
1956-1957 campaign.
The Tar Heels, winners of the
Atlantic Coast Conference tourna
ment last week, were given the No.
1 distinction by 55 of the 76 sports
writers and broadcasters who par
ticipated in the final vote.
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with 479, Southern Methodist with
437 and Seattle, 302.
In the final voting, West Vir
ginia and St. Louis moved into the
top 10 replacing Michigan State
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