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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1958)
I J t The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Tuesday, March 11, 1958 Emmett Smallwood Only Ag Winner As Longhorns Cop Border Olympics The Winner’s Spoils Emmett Smallwood, broad jumping ace for the Aggies, was the only thinlyclad to share # in the honors at the Border Olympics* last weekend. His jump of 23-4 bettered the second place by over six inches. Looking on approvingly is Frances Notzan, who made the presentation of his gold medal and the kiss that accompanies such things. By BOB WEEKLEY Records fell right and left Satur day at the Border Olympics in Laredo as track and field men from the Southwest broke or tied six records, but none fell the Ag gies way. The 25-man squad Coach Ray Putnam brought to the meet man aged to post only one win as the Longhorns and the M-ustangs push ed the outclassed Aggies off the track. Emmett Smallwood, holder of the SWC record in the broadjump, captured his specialty with a leap of 23-4, easily beating his nearest rival by almost six inches. The senior letterman from Galena Park was the Cadets’ top man on the track, placing fourth in the 100-yard dash, a member of the fifth place 440-yard relay team and winner of the broadjump. The Farmers placed sixth in the meet with 14^ points behind Tex as with 90y 2 ; SMU, 5iy 2 ; Houston, 42; Texas Tech, 22; and North Texas State with 21 points. Charles Merka, sophomore from Premont, tied for fourth for the Farmers in the high jump with the distance of 6-1%. Henry Bonorden Adamson’s Tankers Rip Rice In Dual Swim Meet, 56-30 Coach Art Adamson’s tankmen splashed their way to a 56-30 vic tory over the Rice - Owls in a dual meet Saturday in Houston. The day was all A&M as the Fish for ged ahead of the Owlets for a 49- ITS COMING! Save your temper... ' v<5i V. save your time! 37 win. In winning the contest Adam son’s well coached swimmers re corded two pool records and better ed one existing SWC mark while winning seven out of ten contests against the outclassed Hoot Owls. Orlando Cossani, 24-year-old ace- from Argentina, made the Aggies biggest splash as he set the pool record and bested the conference mark in the 200-yard butterfly event with the time of 2:20.5. Teammate Jim Rhodes placed 4th behind two Rice swimmers. Dieter Ufer, sophomore sensa tion from Houston, set the other pool record with the time of 2:33.1 in the 200-yard breastroke event. Jerry Mount made it a clean sweep for the Cadets by taking second in the event. The 400-yard medley relay team composed of Charles Cook, Leroy Fletcher, Paul Briggs and James Roberts outraced their rivals for a first in that race with the time of 4:30. The other relay win was posted by a foursome composed of Flet cher, Nick Kuich, Frank Holmes and Don Draper in the 400-yard freestyle relay. I did not whistle at her. I whistled because the dress she js wearing looks like it was cleaned by — CAMPUS CLEANERS captured fourth place in the 16- pound shotput event with a heave of 49-10%, one inch away from the third place winner. The 440-yards relay team com posed of Smallwood, Joe Williams, William Palmer and Emesto Uribe placed fifth in that contest. Uribe was fifth behind Smallwood in the 100-yard dash. Sophomore Freddie Dulock came in fifth in the two mile run to com plete the Aggie scoring for the meet. Swift Eddie Southern clipped a full second off the track record in the 440 with his brillian^ 46.8-his career’s best quarter-mile time— to highlight the Olympics along with Highjumper Bertil Holmgren. The tall Swede from SMU slip ped over the bar at 6-8% to set a new meet record in that event. The blond champion had the stands on their feet as he missed his first three tries at the bar, then cleared it on his last leap for the new re cord. Squat Joe Villarreal, the Long- hom flyer, raced his way around the track for a mile and a new re cord with the time of 4:13.7'. The little Latin-American junior was boxed in by several Houston run ners for three-fourths of the dis tance but broke away from the pack in the last lap to win by more than 20 yards. Sprinter Hollis Gainey tied the record of 9:4 in the 100-yard dash preliminaries but had a wind that often hit gusts up to 25 miles per hour at his back to help him along. Gainey went on to win that event in the evening with the slow time of 10:0. Smallwood ran a 9:8 in that event in the preliminaries to win his heat. Let’s discuss March 13 If you’re interested in guided missiles (and you should be because it’s the fastest growing engineer ing field today), you’ll be wise to talk to Bendix. As prime contractor for the vital Talos Missile, Bendix is big league. 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