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Page Ci College Station, Texas Thursday, April fi, 1961 THE BATTALION Shot-Put Battle Slated At Relays AUSTIN—A terrific battle in the shot put is beginning to shape up for the 34th annual Texas Re lays in Memorial Stadium here to morrow and Saturday. Not only will the defending champion return but three South west Conference men who are hav ing a “family fight” of their own will compete. In the same ring where Bill Nieder set a world record of 65-7 last year in the Relays Open Class, Oklahoma’s Mike Lindsay will de fend his University Class title against such Southwest Confer ence hefties as Baylor’s John Fry and Buddy Tyner and Jim Allison of the University of Texas. Fry, Allison and Tyner put on the finest display ever by three Texas performers when they bet tered 55-6 at the Border Olympics. Fry won the Border with a ca reer best of 57-3% while Allison took second with his best put (56- 7%) and Tyner was third with a 55-6% effort. Fry’s toss was the best ever made by a Texas per former, topping by six and a half inches the previous high of 57-1 % made by Darrow Hooper of Texas ■A&M in the 1952 Olympic Trials at Los Angeles. Intramurals Aggie rains put a damper on intramural sports yesterday, but the managers squeezed in Class A Rifle under the stadium at Kyle Field in spite of the water drops. In the seven matches, E-l sight ed in and squeezed past E-2 for a 367-352 victory; Sq. 13 was vic torious over L-2 by the score of 395-295; D-l banged their way past G-2, 376-280: B-l boomed past C-l for a 459-428 win; Sq. 14 out- shot F-2, 476-358; Sq. 1 won an easy victory over W-Band by for feit; and C-l blasted their way over D-2, 462-275. On the agenda today, there will be one title fight whether it rains or not. Sq. 6 takes on A-l for the crown in Class A Volleyball. Poor Fustrated Bears Just Haven’t Done It In 37 Years By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer There are bound to be more frus trated football teams than Bay lor. A number of schools never have won a championship much less failed to win one in the last 36 years, as in the case of Baylor. Iowa State, Idaho, Montana, Brigham Young, Vanderbilt, Flor ida, Virginia Tech, Furman, Rich mond, Davidson, George Washing ton, the Citadel—those are teams that never have celebrated a title. But to a Baylor alumnus it also seems as if the Golden Bears nev er have taken the championship. Few remember the last time Bay lor won the Southwest Conference diadem. It has been so long even those who do are a little foggy about it. It was 1924. Baylor won the title although there was another team in the Southwest Conference that also was undefeated in con ference play—Southern Methodist. It so happened that Southern Methodist won two but tied four. That was four times as many as Baylor tied, so Baylor won the championship. Baylor took it by deadlocking, of all people, the Southern Meth odists. The score was 7-7. Bay lor had beaten Arkansas, Texas A&M and Texas. Southern Meth odist had defeated Texas and Tex as Christian, but tied A&M and Arkansas. So when Baylor tied SMU it gave the teams these rec ords: Baylor 3-0-1, Southern Meth odist 2-0-3. Baylor then beat Rice and finished with ,a 4-0-1 confer ence. Southern Methodist tied Oklahoma A&M for a 2-0-4 record. Had Baylor lost to Rice and SMU beaten Oklahoma A&M, SMU would have been the champ. Baylor won the first title of fered by the Southwest Confer ence—in 1915. But it had to foi’- feit because quarterback Thomas M. Stonerod already had played at Carnegie Tech. Then in 1920, F r ank Bridges, a cockly little fellow, became the coach. He promised a title in three years and made it, too, be cause Baylor w r on the champion ship in 1922 with a perfect con ference record. That was the year 10 of the 11 Baylor starters scored touchdowns. Russell Blailock, a tackle, made eight. But when Baylor won the title again, in 1924, nobody dreamed it would be at least 37 years be fore the Bears might take another Since 1924 Baylor has finished second five times, tied for second three times, finished third six times and tied for third twice. In 1943 and 1944 Baylor dropped foot ball because of the war. Thus in 34 years of playing the Bears wound up no lower than third -16 times. Not a poor record but try to convince a Baylor follower. Those Baptists want to make the 100-mile trip to the Cotton Bowl so bad they’d probably be willing to pay their way into the stadium at double price, and that includes the players and coaches. SPORTS Top Schoolboy Shot-Putters Will Compete By The Associated Press AUSTIN—Six of the state’s top schoolboy shotputters will compete in the 34th annual Texas Relays this weekend. The group includes Pat Patter son of Freeport, who has the state’s best effort this year, 58- 8%; Jim Lancaster of Temple, Tom Curry of Houston Lamar, Robert McGaughey of South Houston, Don Chumley of Hous ton Sam Houston and Bill Ward of Austin S. F. Austin. The relays record is 59-5%, set in 1949 by Darrow Hooper of Ft. Worth North Side. Baytown’s six-year-old 3:20.4 mile relay record is seen in jeop ardy this year f r om this year’s Baytown squad, which has already chalked up 3:20.7. In the sprints, two—and pos sibly three — of the state’s finest will be here. Boyd Timmons of Houston Mil- by has done a 9.6 century this spring. Dallas Sunset’s Billy Fos ter and Del Rio’s Jimmy Allen each have 9.7 clockings. Foster, however, injured a leg two weeks ago at Commerce and is a ques tionable participant. Ft. Worth Arlington Heights is a threat to the 8:11 two-mile relay record, established by Graham last year. Arlington Heights’ strength includes able half-milers Jim Brock and Jon Houp. 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Terry Cobb, sophomore second baseman, led the Cadet hitting at tack with two singles and a double, and drove in two runs. Jack Singley poled a two-run homer in the second inning for A&M. The Fish weren’t quite so for tunate in their out with Allen Academy yesterday on Kyle Field as the game only lasted, three inn ings. The rain started to pour in the second inning and the play ers were soaked before they called it quits. If no more runs had been scored and the game continued through the required five innings of play, the Fish would have been on the losing end of the score. Allen col lected two runs in the first and addede another in the third, while A&M had mustered only one run in the first inning. Instead of throwing yesterday’s game out of the schedule, the Fish will continue it next Thursday when they play Allen again. 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