The Battalion
PAGE 4
College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, March 14, 1957
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By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Editor
The buck has been passed again! In typical A&M fashion, Dr.
Chris Groneman, chairman of the Athletic Council, refused to let the
exact figures on hoyi much money the Athletic Department made
during the 1956 football season be published. As a private citizen, it
is my privilege, and anyone’s for that matter, to ask to see those
records, but the way has been blocked—as it has been so often.
Barlow (Bones) Irvin, assistant athletic director, told me Tuesday
that the figures would be available to me, but . . first check with
Dr. Groneman or Coach Paul Bryant, just to be sure.” Bryant is out
of town, so I called Dr. Groneman. He said he had no authority to
allow me to see the books, but suggested that I “. . . . submit a letter
to the Athletic Council asking permission to see the figures.” This
meant only one thing to me—NO!
What sinister fears cloak A&M with its dark veil of secrecy ?
Why don’t they publish the facts ? Are they afraid people will find
out how much money they’ve made? Are they afraid people will ask:
“You’ve got all that dough, why don’t you get busy and repair some of
the college’s sorry athletic facilities?”
It doesn’t take a Charles Van
THE ATHLETIC DEPT.
jeSUMfS
NO RESPONSIBILITY
LOST OR STOlfN
PiRSOML PROPERTY
WARNING TO ATHLETES—meaning- “Don’t let anybody
steal your equipment because we can’t be responsible for
it—we can’t keep people from breaking in as our facilities
are so poor.”
a
Doren to figure it out.
money goes for football
else counts.
As was indicated in this column
yesterday, the immediate need for
athletic money is in the facilities
of minor sports. Three weeks
ago a person or persons as yet un
known bi-oke into the Aggie base-
ballers dressing room and made off
with an estimated $200 worth of
personal equipment. It wasn’t hard
to do. Many of the windows were
already broken; all that was need
ed was to reach in, open a win
dow and climb through. Since then
signs have been put up in both
baseball and track dressing rooms
saying: “The athletic dept, as
sumes no responsibility for lost or
stolen personal property.”
Rather than build new quarters
or repair the ones now being used
to such an extent that further van
dalism would be impossible, the
Athletic Department simply took
the easy — and cheap — way out.
Both track and baseball dressing
rooms are in old DeWare Field
House—itself in tenement-like con
dition, but capable of repair, as
seen by the new windows being
put in.
A trip through these dressing
rooms is appalling, but the worst is
the horrible shower rooms (as pic
tured on page one of Wednesday’s
BATT). Ten showers in two, 8 by
12 rooms are all that is furnished
for 100 track and 40 baseball men.
Not only are they too small, they
lack ventilation, lighting, foot
baths, soap dishes and cleanliness
in general.
There is one latrine serving 140
men, with one wash basin—sans
soap or towels. An ancient drink
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Five Aggie bowlers will partici
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Series of Bowling”—the American
Bowling Congress Tournament ih
Ft. Worth.
The tremendous meet, which is
in progress from March 9 to
April 27, is being held in mammoth
Will Rogers Memorial Building.
Thirty-two alleys have been in
stalled for the first ABC tourney
ever to be held in Texas.
The building will accommodate
3,500 spectators with parking area
for 3,000 cars. The Aggies will
bowl March 18 and 19, along with
Bryan’s Park Cleaners team. The
Bryan AFB Jets are slated to roll
March 24 and 25.
Bowling for A&M will be John
Redden, Dick Dres, Bob Wilson,
Bob Brown and Fred McDonald.
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Cadet Fencers 2nd in Meet
The Aggie fencers took second
place in a four team meet at the
U. S. Air Force Academy, Denver,
Colo., Saturday.
The Aggie team took off into
the chill morning air from Easter-
wood Airport last Friday morning
for Denver. They arrived on sche
dule only to be outgunned by the
cadets from the Academy.
The Academy swordsmen out
pointed the Aggies 51-44 to take
first place in the meet. However
A&M tumbled both the University
of Colorado and the University of
Nebraska for an easy second.
Joe Elliott, Desie Trevino and Ce
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fense for the Aggies. Elliott won
over half his duels in both foil and
epee divisions. Trevino was vic
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in sabre, and Hill won seven and
lost two in epee.
Nelson Bourn, Robert Coker,
Bert Klopfenstein, Len Layne, Don
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