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Page 4 ^ College Station, Texas .Wednesday, April 19, 1961 SPORTS SECTION MSC Announces Table Tennis Tournament The Table Tenniis Committee of the Memorial Student Center has announced that entry blanks for the First Annual Table Tennis 'Tournament are now available at the desk in the bowling and game room. Singles and doubles competition Will be featured in the tourney. Trophies will be awarded to first, second and consolation in the singles, and to first placte in doub les. The deadline for the entry is Monday, Apr. 24 at 5 p.m. Tournament play will begin Tuesday Apr. 25 at 6 p.m. The entry fee will be $ .50 for singles and $ .25 for doubles and all undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate. smart ^people arr nt-ad minded! THS BATTAHON A&M Bmvlers Hogt Weekend Tournament The A&M Match Bowling Team will host the 11th Annual Texas A&M Intercollegiate Bowling Tour nament on the Memorial Student Center Lanes this Friday, Satur day, and Sunday. Doubles and singles events will be rolled on Saturday and team events will be rolled Friday night and all day Sunday. The first Invitational Intercol legiate Bowling Tournament spon sored by the Memorial Student Center Bowling committee was held on the A&M College campus in April of 1951. The tournament has been held here each year since its beginning. This year for the first time the tournament will be sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress and trophies will be given for three places. The awards will be for the winning team’s school, each winning team member, doubles team, singles event, all events, high series and game. Returning this year to defend Match Team These are five of the six members of the the back row is Parks Mahaney and Lee Wil- A&M Bowler’s Match Team that will be in son. From, left to right on the first row is action this weekend on the Memorial Stu- Bob Korose, Bob Norris and Frank Pearce, dent Center Lanes. From left to right on Not pictured is Larry Dantzler. I Palmer Installed As Favorite at Houston Heavy Classic By The Associated Press HOUSTON—Arnold Palmer has been installed a 7-2 favorite to win $7,000 top money in the $40,- 000 Houston Classic Golf Tourna ment that gets under way Thurs day. Gary Player, the South Africa star who edged Palmer for the Masters championship Apr. 10, follows at 5-1. Both Palmer and Player toured the 7,122-yard, par 70 Memorial Park course Tuesday in a pro amateur event played for the bene fit of Porky Oliver, the 1958 Clas sic champion who is a cancer pa tient. Palmer was testing the muni cipal course's enlarger greens and long and wide fairways for the first time. Player had his first warmup Monday with a par 70 while playing in a foursome that included Frank Stranahan and Jimmy Demaret. Stranahan had eight birdies but said most of them were offset by bogies and double bogies. Odds on the pre-tournament fa vorites also include 8-1 for Billy Casper and Ken Venturi, 10-1 for Dow Finsterwald, Ted Kroll, and Doug Sanders, and 12-1 for Bill 1960-1961 DIRECTORIES OFFICES - STAFF - STUDENTS TEXAS A&M COLLEGE AVAILABLE Student Publications Office YMCA Bldg. $1.00 Per Copy Collins, Jack Burke Jr., Don Jan uary, Tommy Bolt and Mike Sou- chak. Collins will be the defending champion Thursday, having clipped Palmer, 69-71, in an 18-hole play off after they finished 72 holes in a tie at 280. Palmer won the classic in 1957, while Kroll won in 1956, Burke in 1952 and 1959, and Souchak in 1955. Twins Home To Come Thursday By The Associated Press ST. PAUL - MINNEAPOLIS— The Minnesota Twins, flashing early season power in the Amer ican League, come home Thursday to a royal welcome. If the fans are making a pre mature down payment on hero- worship you can hardly blame them. The Twins have been in sole possession of first place in the league since winning three out of four from Baltimore last weekend. Tuesday, they extended their mark to 5-1 with a 3-2 victory over Boston. They play the Red Sox in the second game of the series today. The former Washington Sena tors, transplanted by president Cal Sleeper Takes Top Honors Ralph Johnston, the only out- of-stater on the Aggie golf team, who hails from Queens Island, N.Y., came within a few minutes of sleeping through the SMU- Aggie match last Saturday morn ing on the A&M course. With only 15 minutes to go be fore the match started, Coach Hen- i’y Ransom became worried about his ace linkster. Ransom sent Jerry Holland, an other golfer, to get him out of the sack. After about five min utes of coaxing, Holland managed to get him up. Johnston, a sophomore, barely reached the first tee in time and still looked rather sleepy. His first two holes were bogeys, but the longer he played, the bet ter he got. After 18 holes, Johnston was the top man on either team with a fine four overpar 74. The over-sleeping didn’t seem to bother Johnston in the least. He is like many great golfers in this fact—never get rattled! Griffith last October, will fly in Wednesday night for their first home game Friday, against the new Washington club. No elaborate ceremonies are planned at Wold-Chamberlain Field, but the cities, usually bitter rivals, in sports and everything else, will link arms in new-found friendship to toast the team Thursday. . . St. Paul gets the first chance with a breakfast at a downtown hotel and a musical salute from the police band. Then the 36-car motorcade, with officials and players waving from convertibles, will wind through city streets and across the Mississippi River to Minneapolis. Among those in the party will be American League President Joe Cronin, Gov. Elmer L. Andersen, manager Cookie Lavagetto and Griffith. League Chairman William Har- ridg-e will be on hand later in the day and Baseball Commission er Ford C. Frick is expected for the opening game. With a 10-mile route between the cities, thousands of fans will get their first chance to see the likes of slugger Harmon Kille- brew, Bob Allison, Pedro Ramos and Zoilo Versalles. It shapes up now as a probably sellout crowd by game time Fri day (1:30 p.m. CST). their titles won last year will be four champions. The Texas Ag gies, who shot 2818 to run away with the team championship last year, will be seeking their second straight crown. Also, A&M’s Larry Dantzler will be trying to maintain his hold on the singles anl all events trophies. In addi tion to those events, Dantzler will be after that high series trophy, too. Last year he shot 649 in the. singles and 1822 in the all events, The tournament this year prom ises to be the largest ever. Be sides the schools throughout the Lone Star State, schools from as far as New Mexico and Mississippi will be entered. Once every year some of the finest bowlers in the Southwest meet at the Student Center Lanes to participate in one of the most popular events of the season. All people in the Bryan-College Sta tion area who are interested in collegiate bowling are invited by the Bowling Committee to drop by the Memorial Student Center Lanes. The Aggies will be led by Larry Dantzler, Parks Mahaney, Lee Wilson, Frank Pearce, and Bob Korose. This is the same team that has won the Texas Intercol legiate Bowling Conference for two straight seasons. Intramurak There wasn’t too much activity in intramural sports yesterday as only 10 games were played in four leagues. In the only game scheduled in Class C Softball, Milner Hall behind the pitching of “Goat” Da- vis, squeezed past Puryear Hal] 12-11. D-2 smashed A-2 by the scon of 18-3 in the only game sched uled in Class B Softball. In Class .A Softball, A-2 won a slugfest over F-2, 13-11 and B-2 blasted H-l to win, 15-6. In Class B Tennis, G-3 downed 1-2 2-0; B-2 edged B-l for a 2-1 victory; F-l blanked Sq. 14, 2-0; E-l shut out A-2, 2-0; M-Bandwon over C-l, 2-0; and W-Band won a close one over Sq. 11, 2-1. Massive voice for a missile base In America’s space-age defense system, the order of the day is total, high-speed communications. And at Vandenberg Air Force Base, as elsewhere, General Telephone & Electronics is carrying out the order with efficiency and dispatch. Here the link to the system that mans the mighty Atlas missiles is a fully automatic 5,000-line dial telephone exchange. The “out side voice” that links the base with alert and command posts throughout the world is a multichannel microwave radio relay system capable of handling hundreds of telephone conversations, teletype messages and early-warning radar data simultaneously. The communications equipment connecting Vandenberg Air Force Base with the outside was designed, manufactured and installed by our subsidiaries, Automatic Electric and Lenkurt Electric, and is operated for the government by General Telephone of California. This advanced high-speed system is expressive of the way General Telephone & Electronics strives to serve the nation through better communications — not only for national defense, but for homes, business and industry as well. GENERAL TELEPHONE ^ELECTRONICS W