(The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Friday, February 20, 1959
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PORT SLANT
By BOB WEEKLEY
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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
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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.
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