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(The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Friday, February 20, 1959 PAGE S I s PORT SLANT By BOB WEEKLEY S Yesterday an Aggie left a note on my desk. Now this isn’t unusual because lots of people passing through drop occasional pearls of wisdom, and this is a veritable gem. The good Aggie who left the note was one Larry Wal lace who serves as a player and publicity manager for the A&M soccer team. I like publicity managers since they are the gentlemen who bring in loads of news that my assistant and I would not normally know about. I wish there were more of them on the campus. But back to Wallace. What he would like to spread around is that we have a No. 1 soccer team on the campus and he asked for a little publicity. I’ll let Larry tell you what he has on his mind. “The soccer team, like last year, is going down to the wire in the state championship play-offs which the Cadets won the previous season. This year the game, which will be played in Houston, will be televised by a Houston station in an effort to promote soccer in general. “The A&M team needs publicity for two reasons: (1) It needs money which the physical education and athletic de partments have been a little stingy in dishing out, and (2) Soccer is an exciting sport that should be supported here at A&M.” Whether you know it or not the soccer team and Mr. Wallace have a pretty good point. In the past two years the Aggies have won 20, lost two and tied one game. What other sport at A&M can boast such a record ? Wallace had another good point in saying that soccer is a pretty exciting sport. I watched one once and I guarantee you the way those boys gallop over the field and throw blocks into each other without much padding makes football look pretty tame. So here’s some of that publicity you wanted, Larry, and we’ll be more than glad to print any stories of merit that you or any other publicity manager wants to bring in. ★ ★ ★ This little bright appeared in the Dallas Morning News the other day. It seems Buddy Dial, the All-American end from Rice, was about to give a speech at a church social there in the big city. As an introduction Buddy was given a rather lengthy build-up about football prowess and the good old days at Rice. Before Dial had time to get a word out after the intro duction a small girl stood up right in front of the speakers table and give the athlete the old raspberry. “Boo,” she shrieked, “my dad’s an Aggie!” She doesn’t have far to go herself. SATURATED MOUNTAIN HONOLULU <A>) — Rainfall at Mt. Waialeale on the island of Kauai dropped 148 inches last year. No drhught is in sight, howevei'. The mountain is one of the wet test spots on earth, and the rain fall was still 323 inches. Over a 38 year period the average annual rain was more than 471 inches. You are invited to hear Charlie Milstead Sunday Morning at 9:40 Freshman Department First Baptist Church College Station Man Defeats Angry ‘Gator’ YAOUNDE, French Came- roOns (AP)—> Armand Setter, a 25-year-old European, battled an alligator barehanded in the River M,’ban and lived to tell about it. He was attacked while tying up a ferryboat Sunday at Bafia and badly mangled before he forced the ’gator to let go by grabbing its throat membranes Setter was flown to a hospital where he is recovering. Dine in style at. .. HOTARD’S Cafeteria Congratulations to • Scholastic Officers • Faculty Advisors • Students A&M Has Lost 37% LESS Students Than At This Time Last Year JE. LOUPOT 32 HOLIDAY George Washington’s birthday, falling on Sunday, the undersigned will observe as a holiday, and not be open for business, Monday, February 23, 1959. First National Bank City National Bank First State Bank & Trust Co. College Station State Bank Bryan Building & Loan Ass’n Community Savings & Loan Ass’n Ags Tackle Arkansas In SWC Till Saturday Arkansas’ Pesky Razorbacks come rumbling back into the A&M picture tomorrow night when the ambitious Hogs try to break the Aggies’ 2-game home winning streak at 8 p.m. in White Coliseum. There will be no preliminary game. The Razorbacks will be fresh from their upset victory over the Baylor Bears Tuesday night and hoping to improve on their 4-6 conference record that has lodged them in sixth place in the SWC standings. A win by Arkansas could move the visitors up into a tie with the Cadets for fifth place. A&M is batting .500 in their conference games with a 5-5 mark. It will be the second meeting of the year for the two teams, with the Aggies winning the first con test in* Fayetteville by a scant point, 63-62. Arkansas is paced by two sopho mores and a senior. Soph Clyde Rhoden leads the Hogs in the scor ing parade with 158 points, an avei'age of around 15 points per game. The 6-3 athlete is consid ered an All-SWC nominee his first season in varsity competition. Rhoden is something of a crowd attraction with his unorthodox off- the-rhoulder shot that has proved to be very effective as attested by his scoring average. Second in scoring for the Hogs is senior Jay Carpenter. The 6-6 athlete is a 2-year letterman. The other sophomore and a high school running mate for Rhoden is Ronnie Garner. Garner is three inches taller than his buddy, 6-6, and doesn’t possess the weight to maintain the aggressive pace of his teammate, but he’s a fairly smooth player and is rapidly de veloping a hook shot that is very effective from 15 to 20 feet out side. Garner is presently shooting The Fish basketball team will jump back into action Tuesday night when it meets the unde feated Texas Shorthorns in Austin. The Shorthorns are the only SWC frosh team to drop the Aggies this year. ai'ound the .455 mark from the field. The other probable starters for the Hogs could be senior and 2- year letterman Harry Thompson and another sophomore, Brice Sneed. Guard Tommy Rankin, a 6-2 letterman, could see a lot of action for the Hogs. For the Aggies it will be Archie Carroll, the sharpshooting senior from Redlands, at center. • Carroll is leading the team in conference scoring with 165 points, a 15.6 point per game average. . Carroll also leads the Ags in rebounding with 72. Neil Swisher, old faithful for the Farmers, will be ready at his guard ^position with 152 points, good for a 15.2 average. Opposite Swisher at the other guard position will be Wilmer Cox, the fast moving junior from Hous ton. Cox has scored 87 points and is second in rebounding with 51. Jim McNichol, the big redhead from Philadelphia, could start at either center or forward for' the Farmers. McNichol has 64 points in conference play and 43 re bounds. Rounding out the starting five for the Cadets is Jack Collier, the crowd pleaser from Amarillo. Col lier has 24 points to his ci'edit. Ags, Raiders Tangle Here In Saturday Swim Contest The Aggie tankmen tangle with the Texas Tech Red Raiders Sat urday afternoon in P. L. Downs Natatorium. Two months ago the Farmers dunked the Raiders in the South west Conference meet by some 20 points and Coach Art Adamson feels the Cadets will repeat the performance. Adamson said he had chosen the tankmen for the various events, but also added that in a dual meet the coaches often tend to conduct .he contest similar to a chess game. Swimming for the Ags Saturday are: Medley Relay—John Harrington, Dieter Ufer, Orlando Cossani and Jackie Scholl. 200-yard freestyle—Dave Wood ard and Frank Holmes. 50-yard freestyle—Ronald Reitz and Don Draper. Diving—Johnny Lyon and Wal ter Godfrey. 220-yard butterfly—Cossani and Marc Powe. 100-yard freestyle—Scholl and Reitz. 200-yard backstroke—Harrington and Frank Rohrbrough. 400-yard freestyle—W o o d a r d and Holmes. 200-yard breaststroke—Ufer and Cossani. Freestyle relays—Draper, Scholl, Reitz and Alfred Hooks. Ace Adams, Army’s lacrosse coach, captained the Johns Hop kins 1950 lacrosse team. Cadet Golf Team Qualifying; Billy Martindale Leads Pack Coach Joe Fagan’s golfers head into their final rounds of qualify ing this week on the A&M golf course with sophomore Billy Mar tindale leading the pack. Martindale, one of the top col legiate golfers in the nation, is a transfer student from SMU. When the young golfer came to A&M the Mustang hiearchy refused to release the athlete from his obli gation to that school. Aftef the haggeling was finally over A&M and Martindale won out with the result that the Aggies, with the Jacksonville youngster pacing the crew, have been placed in the role of favorite for the con ference golf crown. The Aggies return three letter- men from last season’s squad that finished third in the conference be hind the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Ponies. Bobby Nichols, the 1956 Southwest Conference champ ion, is the lone graduate from the 4-man team that competes in con ference matches. Martindale is considered Nich ols’ equal on the course. The chunky Ag has won many amateur contests in Texas, the top ones be ing the Texas Junior golf champ ionship in 1956, state runner-up in 1955, third in the national Jaycee matches and a quarterfinalist in the national juniors. Returning lettermen for the Farmers are Binky Mitchella, sen ior from Fort Worth; A1 Jones, junior from Harlingen; and Buck Prewitt, junior from Temple. Sophomore prospects include Mai’tindele; Ralph Toland from Jacksonville;' Thomas Fonseca, a veteran from Mercedes; Ed Trip lett from Conroe and Arthur Hull from Fort Worth. Out of this group of golfers Fa gan will choose six for competi tion in non-conference matches and four for conference matches. Members trying out for the Freshman squad are Jim Fetters of Port Arthur; Dick Duble of Galveston; Johnny Johnson of Har lingen; Tudy Belmares of Mer cedes; John Lively of Athens; Wayne Stroman of Mission and Jerry Holland of College Station. Lamar McHan of the Chicago Cardinals, threw the longest touchdown pass of the 1957 Na tional Football League season. It, went 83 yards. Five* All-Star baseball games have failed to produce a home run. The 1958 test was the first homer less game in an American League park. It was played in Baltimore. WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU’RE DESIGNING? What engineer doesn't! Seeing finished hardware is a special kind of satisfaction. 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