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Can Weights Lead To Better Performances In Track? What happens when you take Ito track men of relative ability mi who perform the same event in about the identical time or dist- iace and have one of them wear [eights throughout the season? Will such a weight program lead greater performances ? This is the question Dr. Carl W. andiss, health and physical edu- ition professor and A&M Track loach Charlie Thomas hopes to aswer before the end of the 1961 inder season. At that time, Dr. Landiss and Thomas will publish the results of the experiment as performed by members of the Texas A&M Col lege varsity track team. The program was made possible iy a grant of $700 from the Col- ege Fund for Organized Research, ind will be statistically analyzed Bid its value included in the pub- ished papers. The idea of using weights in jiactice and pre-meet warmups is lot new. Ancient Olympians used them in preparation for the world [ames, and Bobby Morrow of Abi- ae Christian College, wore wrist Bid leg weights similar to those being used by the A&M athletes in training for the 1960 Olympic games. Not new to the Russians is the wearing of weights, for USSR track men have done so for years, according to Thomas. However, there are no published reports available on whether the weight program actually helps the Rus sians in their bid for world track and field recognition, the A&M coach added. Dr. Landiss explained how the weights are being used here. “Coach Thomas has divided his track team into two groups, sepa rating participants in each event by ability. In doing this we have, or hoped to have, two equal track squads. One is a control group and the other an experimental group. “We issued the weights to one group and told them to wear them at all times except when actually participating in a meet,” said Landiss. With the current track season at about the half-way mark, has the weight program helped the Aggies ? Fish Baseballers Riddle Rice, 17 - 3 The Aggie Fish baseball team ticked their second impressive win in just as many days yesterday as 4ey rapped the Rice freshmen, |H-3, in Houston. A&M jumped right in the middle ([the Owlets before the game had [one very far as the score was 12-0 at the end of two innings of |lay. Big Robert McAdams was _Bringing a hefty bat yesterday ilong with teammate, Art Uresti. 1 loth men collected two hits with IcAdams connecting into a grand slim home run in the second king. Despite the big score, Rice made mly four errors while A&M col lected aq error in the first and mother in the second. Johnny Crain started for the fish and went six innings before being relieved by Richard Beller. Besides being the winner, Crain belted a round-tripper. Beller now has two wins for the year and Crain has one. It was only two days ago that the Fish ran up a score similar to this one as they handed the Baylor Cubs a 17-0 drubbing. Yesterday’s game only went seven innings and had to be called because of darkness. The Fish will return to action tomorrow when they meet the Allen Academy Ramblers at 3 p.m. in Bryan. They have already beaten the Ramblers once this season in racking up a 3-0 record. “My high jumpers, milers, and half-milers seem to be responding to the program well, but the sprinters are not showing any noticeable results,” Thomas said. The coach added, however, that his boys had been wearing the weights only since Feb. 15. SPORTS THE battalion March 23, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 5 Cadet Frosh Meet TU, UofH Friday FROM THE •Sideli inei By Larry Smith It’s beginning to look like anything can happen at an A&M baseball game. Tuesday afternoon there was a first for many baseball fans as they saw Baylor’s coach take a seat in the grand stand after an argument with the umpire. Yesterday the Aggies took a 5-4 decision from last year’s NCAA Champions, University of Minnesota as a result of a wild pitch in the Aggie half of the ninth inning. Who knows, today or tomorrow the stands may fall down? That isn’t a joke at all. The old boards are the worse for wear, but it isn’t from wear received in the last two years, especially this year. Whether they do or not remains to be seen, but prob ably no one would want to miss such a happening. The protective screen is full of ripped places, but this shouldn’t create much of a worry either because there is some speculators who say the mesh wouldn’t stop a hard hit foul anyway. There’s no safe place to park a car behind the field and foul balls have the nasty habit of causing deep creases in the tops of cars. It was only yesterday that a College Sta tion policeman was astonished to see a brand new baseball bash in the glass of his right front window. But, you can walk to the ball game and your car damage will be over. • At the ball games, the popcorn is hot and the soft drinks are cold, and so far this season the baseball has been good. About all that is needed to create a real baseball atmos phere is some ardent fans that yell and do all those things. So, why not give the baseball team a little support in their next outing? Even if you’re not sure which will be exciting: the Ags winning another, or the extracurricular sideline action in shaky Kyle Field. Danny Roberts . . field specialist R. E. Merritt . . . 440-yd. dash Pat Mitchell . . . 220-yd. dash Wayland’s Flying Will Continue To Queens Fly High By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Editor It was good to know that Way- land’s Flying Queens will continue to fly high. Wayland’s Queens are the acme of women’s basketball. They have set records that may never be eq ualled. They have brought fame to Plainview and to Texas. A few months ago the disheart ening announcement came that the trustees of Wayland College had decided to do away with athletic scholarships, which would mean the end of girls basketball at the Baptist school. It didn’t mean that the trustees wanted to do away with the or ganization that had brought the college and the city more publicity than any other endeavor. It was a matter of finances—the j cost of supporting a basketball team ou the scale of the Flying Queens was too much. Claude Hutcherson, Who oper ates a flying service, had been wiim 11 nrrrrr re »i~» i a »i ■ ■ » ■ ■ “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sal.es—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars” 1416 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517 v MtlYEHN i#, THEATRE Years' Thursday and Friday Edgar Allan Poe’s “HOUSE OF USHER” plus “THE MATING GAME” with Debbie Reynolds PALACE bwz-tm NOW SHOWING jjfenn Donald wd & O’Connor in “CRY FOR HAPPY” NOW SHOWING 111 Passes 2 Performances Discontinued Daily 2 p. m.-7:30 p. m. ADMISSION AH Day MATINEE KITE (Sat. & Sun.) MLTS $1.00 ADULTS $1.25 CHILDREN. .50 CHILDREN 50 Students (AH Shows) 80c “Alamo” Starts April 5th h- J. Reynolds Tobacco Its what's up front that counts Up front is [ FILTER-BLEND | and only Winston has it! Rich, golden tobaccos specially selected and specially processed for full flavor in filter smoking. ;wi mmmm Mm ' transporting the team over the country and into Mexico. The team got the name of the Hutcher son Flying Queens of Wayland College. Hutcherson got busy and sold the businessmen of Plainview on the idea that they should, by all means, see that the Flying Queens were retained. It didn’t take too much convincing. Came the announcement that businessmen of the area (towns other than Plainview got in on the •deal) were underwriting scholar ships and other expense and the Flying Queens would, as was the title of Coach Harley Redin’s book, “Fly High.” The Queens once won 131 games in a row — the greatest winning streak in women’s basketball his tory. Only twice in 10 years have they lost two consecutive games. They once ran up 102 points. They won five national AAU champion ships in six years and were run- nerup twice plus the five titles in eight seasons. The United States women’s bas ketball team that won the Pan American Games in 1955 was largely Flying Queens. The team that won the 1959 Pan American Games was similar. The team went in for beauty as well as brains and finesse. The crowd liked to watch those pretty gals play. No town should let a little thing like money stand in the way of the kind of national publicity the Flying Queens brought to Plain- view. The Texas Aggie Freshman track team debuts at Austin Fri day, participants against the Uni versity of Texas and University of Houston in a triangular meet at Memorial Stadium. Coach Charlie Thomas will send a 28-man squad for the 2:30 p.m. field events and 3 p.m. races. Aggie best bets include the one- mile relay team composed of John ny Fulkerson of Baytown, Jerry Anderson of Gorman, James King of Amarillo and R. E. Merritt of Andrews which has been clocked in 3:19.5; Danny Roberts of Cleve land in the shot, discus and jave lin throw, Merritt and King in the 440-yard dash and Pat Mitchell of Columbus in the dashes. Roberts has put the shot 54 feet, has thrown the javelin 190 feet and the discus 160 feet this season. Merritt and King owp 49.5 and 49.7 clockings in the 440-yard dash, re spectively. Mitchell has done a 21.8 sec onds around the curve in the 220- yard dash. The Frosh traveling squad will include Jerry Anderson, Gorman; John Berry, Stockton; Thomas Burns, Pasadena; Larry Clancy, Houston; Tommy Crowder, Hous ton; Bill Doreen, Midland; Robert Elfont, Dallas; Charles Elliott, Temple; Dwight Griggs, Hamlin; Johnny Fulkerson, Baytown; Rich ard Hall, Houston; Michael Ke- mack, Garfield; James King, Ama rillo; Pearson Knolle, Corpus Christ!; Carl Lee, Baytown; R. E. Merritt, Andrews; Robert Martin, Houston; Pat Mitchell, Columbus; Bill Park, Pecos; Daniel Penaloza, San Antonio; Robert Peterson, Rio Grande City; Wayne Phillips, Lub bock; B. A. Puig, Laredo; Danny Roberts, Cleveland; Jerry Rogers, Corpus Christi; Otto Sladecek, Sherman; Johnny Strange, Atlan ta, Ga.; Randy Smith, San Marcos. 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