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Thursday, March 14, 1957 ' PAGE 5
S WC Title in Houston
A&M BasebaHers Split Pair
With Bulldogs, 4-6, 4-3
By JIMMY CARRELL
The Aggie swimmers, a con
vincing 1956 Southwest Conference
swimming champion, find them
selves relegated ot the role of
underdog as the 1957 conference
meet opens at 7:30 tonight in Rice
Institute pool in Houston.
The SMU Mustangs, chief
challenger to the crown worn by
the Aggies, find themselves in the
favorite’s position after a con
vincing 50-36 victory over A&M
two weeks ago in Dallas.
Tetsuo Okamoto, holder of two
conference records set last year,
opens defense of his 1500-meter
freestyle record, the only event of
the first night. Okamoto is a
heavy favorite, placing third in
this event in the 1952 Olympics.
According to A&M coach Art portant points and the graduation
Adamson, “SMU lias a little better
balance than we do and the neces
sary depth to win.”
Adamson’s biggest concern is
his shortage of sprinters and loss
of three excellent performers from
a year ago when his swimmers ran
away from the field and set a
meet scoring record of 142 points.
Texas was second last year with
,91% and SMU third at 90%.
( ‘Our boys are as ready as I
can get them,” continues Adamson,
“They’re in a good frame of mind
and ready to go. We’re not nearly
as strong as last year, but after
getting whipped up in Dallas the
boys are really wanting to win and
will be in there fighting.”
Lack of good sprinters costs im-
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of Dick Weick, a two-event winner
last year, and Gayle Klipple, to
go along with the scholastic in
eligibility of Jose Merino, places
the Aggies at further disadvantage.
“We’ll feel the loss of Weick
and Klipple most now,” points
out Adamson, “since two new
events have been added to the
confex-ence meet, the 100-yai'd
butterfly and breaststroke.”
Weick won the 200-yard breast
stroke and butterfly events with
Klipple second in the butterfly.
Dick Hunkler’s performance has
been the problem that has plagued
the Aggie swimmers this yeai\
Hunkier was another two-event
champion last year, winning the
50 and 100-yard freestyle in times
of 23.5 and 53.3.
He has been inconsistent, losing
sevei'al times in meets this spring,
but Coach Adamson says, “Dick
has been doing just as well this
year as last. We ai'e just short of
outstanding sprint men and have
been using him in the relays.”
“When a boy swims in a re
lay,” continues Adamson, “and
then gets out of the pool only to
return a few minutes later for
a sprint, he can’t he expected
to perform as well as when he
swims that event alone.”
Okamoto, the 5-11, 170-pounder
from Sao Paulo, Brazil, is expected
to enter, and win, three events —
the 1500-meter freestyle in which
he holds the record at 19:21.6, the
440-yai'd freestyle and the record
of 4:51.5, and the 220-yard free
style in which he placed second last
year.
Norman Ufer, winner of the 200-
yaxd backstroke in 2:23.0 last yeai - ,
i-etux-ns as a strong contender fox-
victory in the same event. Ufer
placed second in the 100-yard back-
stroke.
The following swimmers will
compose the traveling squad:
Roland Raird, Lindsey Blayney,
Ray Cook, Jimmy Dye, Bill Card,
Henry Goff, Hunkier, Michael
Kuich, Jerry Mount, Wally Pen-
berthy, Jimmy Rhodes, Ross Trues-
dale, Rippy Woodax-d.
Bob Barlow, Roger Burton, Don
Demming, Leroy Fletcher, Walter
Godfrey, Frank Holmes, Joe Mid
dleton, Bruce Martin, Okamoto,
Steen and Norman Ufer.
Finally squeezing in a little base
ball between downpours, Coach
Beau Bell’s diamond men split a
doubleheader with the Texas
Luthex-an Bulldogs Wednesday, los
ing the opener in 10 innings, 6-4,
and winning a darkness-shortened
twilight affair, 4-3.
A&M, now 1-2 on the season,
journeys to Seguin to battle the
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The Aggies jumped on pitcher
Charles McMahon for a run each
in the first two innings and
pair of tallies in the third, then
stood off a late rally by the Bull
dogs to win the abbreviated, 4%-
inning, contest.
In the opener, TLC bunched four
of their runs in the first three
frames off starter Bo Paradowski
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