Tracksters Meet Rice,
UT Tonight in Austin
TEXAS TRACK LEADERS—Captain Bobby Whilden and
Coach Clyde Littlefield lead the nation’s second-be^t track
team against the Aggies and Rice tonight in Austin. Whil
den holds the SWC century mark and shares the 220 rec
ord with Charlie Thomas.
Aggies Meet Texas In
Crucial SWC Golf Match
By BARRY HART
A&M, Texas and Rice get to
gether tomorrow night in Austin
for the annual Little Southwest
Conference track meet with the
talented Longhorns expected to
win without drawing a deep
breath.
Paced by a quartet of phenom-
inal sprinters and a wealth of
depth and balance, the nation’s
second-best cinder team will prob
ably race to victory as easily to
morrow as they will a week hence
in the “battle” for the SWC title
on the same track.
The Steers of Coach Clyde Little
field have won this meet and the
conference crown three years in a
row, and, unless a large number
of their young athletes suddenly
quit, should outscore both the Ag
gies and the Owls.
While A&M and Rice have fought
each other to a standstill in dual
and triangular meets this season,
the Longhorns have out-gunned
everything in sight except the
University of Southern California
Trojans, perennial NCAA champs.
Texas took second behind the pow
erful coast team in a meet last
month in Dallas.
Renowned for years around the
nation for their splendid sprinters,
the Longhorns turned out a four
some in 1957 that has rewritten
the books. Holder of the world re
cord in the 440-yard relay, the
quartet of Wally Wilson, Eddie
Southern, Hollis Gainey and Cap
tain Bobby Whilden turned in a
fantastic 39.9 two weeks ago at
the Kansas Relays, another new
mark.
The same foursome get together
for the 880-yard relay and have
run a 1:25.2. Last week the four
tied both Penn Relays records
(41.1 and 1:25.4) on a slow track.
Southern, of course, is the Dal
las Sunset High School star who
took second in the 400-meter hurd
les at the 1956 Olympic Games in
Melbourne. The Texas sophomore
tours the high hurdles, the 440
and the mile relay besides his du
ties on the sprint and 880-yard
relay teams. Southern holds the
SWC freshman high hurdles re
cord, 14.1, set last year.
Jim Carrell takes over today as
BATTALION Sports Editor with
perhaps the best background of
any previous man in the job.
A graduate of Baytown’s Rob
ert E. Lee High School in 1950,
Carrell worked three years on the
Baytown SUN, two of those years
as a sports writer under Dan
Shults, now with the Houston
CHRONICLE. He had started as
advertising copy boy, then moved
up to layouts and proofreading.
The new editor attended Lee Col-
The Aggies and Rice will pick
up the pieces and try to salvage
what they can after the Steers are
through. A&M’s points will come
through the efforts of the SWC’s
finest pole vaulter, Winton Tho
mas; shot and discus man Herman
Johnson, sprinter - broadjumper-
hurdler Emmett Smallwood; broad-
jumper Dale Elmore; vaulter
James Clark; quartermilers Ed
Bussa, Andy Erisman and Robert
McKnight; and distance man Paul
Harrington.
A&M and Texas hold five meet
records each, but all of the Ag
gies’ marks were set back when
the Cadets were top dogs in lea
gue track and field.
lege while working for the SUN,
majoring first in pharmacy, then
switching to chemical engineer
ing. He was elected president of
his sophomore class at Lee and
served as state Senior Councillor
for the Order of DeMolay in 1952.
Carrell entered A&M in the fall
of 1953, majoring in chemical en
gineering, and worked with Sports
Publicity Director Jones W. Ram
sey for a year. He quit school and
was drafted into the U. S. Army
in August, 1954.
The only non-journalism major
on the BATT staff, Carrell served
18 months with the 59th Field Ar
tillery Battalion in Pirmasens, Ger
many, and was discharged last
July.
The 23-year-old junior re-enter
ed A&M in the fall of 1956 and
assumed his old job with the
Sports Publicity Office. He join
ed the sports staff as assistant
sports editor in February of this
year. He 'won the Sports Story of
the Month award given by the
A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi,
national professional journalism
fraternity, for the months of
March and April.
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The A&M golfers engage the
University of Texas in a crucial
Southwest Conference dual meet
at 2 p. m. today on the Aggie
course.
The A&M golfers need a decisive
win over the Longhorns to keep
within striking distance of Baylor,
the current leader. The Aggies,
whose schedule places them behind
the other schools in matches play
ed, boast a record of 11-7 to trail
Baylor’s 2114-8% and Texas’ 17-7.
Bobby N i c h o Is , Marcelino
Moreno, Gary Fletcher and Binky
Mitchella comprise the golfing
team for the Aggies with Nichols-
Moreno and Fletcher - Mitchella
making up the doubles teams.
The Aggies in their second SWC
dual meet with Baylor easily de
feated the Bears 4% to 1% but fell
by the same margin to Rice.
Baylor meets Rice in another im
portant meet Friday in Houston
and the Owls are tough on the
home course.
Monday A&M whipped TCU 5-1
in Ft. Worth and has only , one
match left on the road and that
with Arkansas in Fayetteville next
Monday. Saturday the Aggies try
SMU on the home course.
Baylor earlier defeated Texas,
5% to %.
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Thursday, May 2, 1957 PAGE 5
Reds Win
KANSAS CITY, (A 5 ) — Virgil
Trucks won his third game of the
season Wednesday as he stopped
the Boston Red Sox on two hits in
6 2-3 innings while the Kansas City
Athletics rode to a 7-5 victory on
the home run hitting of Harry
Simpson and Gus Zernial.
Ted Williams also hit a homer,
his fifth, in the first inning with
the bases empty.
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