?ase 8
College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 4, 1961
THE BATTALION
TIL Track And Field Meet
Together For 51st Time
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Texas Intercholastic League
track and field meet goes on for
the fifty-first time this week.
The sport always has been
looked upon as a step-child. It
had to be carried on although it
is a dead loss financially. It is
the best sport for development
physically of any of them. It also
has a certain glamor about it.
Fred Wolcott, once the greatest
hurdler in the world while run
ning for Rice, sized it up like this:
“You can gain more fame and visit
more places and leave more lasting
glory in track than in any other
sport.”
There is no sport show greater
than the Olympic Games. No ath
lete can think of greater attain
ment than ti win in that interna
tional track and field carnival.
The Texas Interscholastic
League’s first sports were track
and tennis. Both were put in 10
years before football and basket
ball.
The Interscholastic League track
and field meet has grown so large
there had to be some cutting down
measures instituted, such as lim
iting the number of boys who can
come to Austin for the big show.
It now is a five-division affair and
has to be run off over a period of
two days and one nig-ht.
Records of the Texas Interschol
astic League track and field meet
are sensational. There are 20
recognized records in national
scholastic track and Texas owns
four of them. The only other
state that has more records is
California. That state boasts
eight.
Ted Nelson of Andrews ran a
46.5 quarter-mile two weeks ago.
That wdll become a national schol
astic record.
Andrews already held two na
tional records—41.5 in the 440-
yard relay and 3:15.2 in the mile
relay. Few colleges can do that.
Texas hold one record and a
tie for another that are not now
included in the official list be
cause the events have been dis
continued.
hurdles in 21.4. That still stands
as the record. It probably would
have been broken had the event
been continued.
In 1940 Max Minor of Tahoka
ran the 220-yard low hurdles in
23.5 That tied the national rec
ord. This event, also, has been
discontinued in high school track.
Back in 1953 J. Frank Daugh
erty of Olton ran the 220-yard
dash in 20.5. That is a tenth of
a second under the national record.
However, it never was recognized
because there was an aiding wind.
Eddie Southern of Dallas Sunset
set a national record for the quar
ter-mile around two turns in 1955
when he ran the event in 47.2.
But Nelson not only wiped that
out with his 46.5, which also was
Sports Highlights
Back in 1948 Paul Leming of
Beaumont ran the 200-yard low
By The Associated Press
Doug Moe, star basketball play
er at the University of North Car
olina, was indefinitely suspended
from school Wednesday for failing
to report bribe offers in the cur
rent basketball fix scandal.
Moe, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was
suspended by Chancellor William
B. Aycock for not reporting that
he had accepted $75 last Septem
ber from a New York gambler
now under indictment in the na
tion’s latest basketball point-shav
ing scandal.
The 200-pound, 6-6 Moe admit
ted last week he accepted the
money but did hot agree to be
come involved in point-shaving.
★ ★ ★
Charges that President Maurice
Podoloff of the rival National
Baskeball Assn, was conducting a
“vilification campaign,” were made
Wednesday by the board of di
rectors of the new American Bas
ketball League.
The directors voted full powers
to league legal representatives to
contest any and all litigation by
the NBA arising from a suit
against the San Francisco ABL
entry.
Podoloff declared in New York
Monday that action will be taken
against hn^ players of his league
who jump to the ABL, or any
team trying to lure NBA players.
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run around two turns, but beat
the record of around one turn of
46.6 set by David Miles of Lake-
wood, Ohio, in 1958.
Texas produces some great
trackmen. This year appears to
be the best yet. A good indica
tion. of it came from the Kansas
Relays two weeks ago when Texas
colleges almost swept the boards.
SPORTS
SECTION
INTRAMURALS
L T pperclassmen intramural ath
letes bowed out to • the Fish in
yesterday’s action that was slight.
All the contests that were played
yesterday consisted of five tennis
matches.
All the scores came out 2-1 with
three Air Force units taking wins.
Co. A-2 topped Co. B-l; Sqd. 7
blasted Co. B-2; Sqd. 1 beat Co.
E-2; Co. D-2 rapped Sqd. 2 and
Sqd. 13 won over Co. C-l.
All intramuials that were slat
ed today have been cancelled be
cause of the senior barbecue, which
will be the second time the prog
ress has been hampered this week.
Earlier in the week the troops
had to stand federal inspection.
Even though the tallies aren’t
up to date, at the last count Co.
A-l was leading the Class A in
tramural division with 701%
points. Co. F-l was in second
with 646% and Sqd. 1 was in third
with 641%.
The Class B leader was Sqd. 3
who had 671%. Again Co. F-l
was in second and Co. G-3 was in
third with 633 and 625 points re
spectively.
Nine Delegates To Represent
A&M At Sportsmanship Meet
A&M will have nine representa
tives at the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship Meet on May 11-13
in Houston, the same time and
place of the SWC Track Meet.
Heading the nine representatives
will be Dr. Chris H. Groneman,
chairman of the A&M Athletic
Council and SWC faculty repre
sentative. Other members of the
group will be James A. Myers,
athletic director and head football
coach; Barlow Irwin, assistant ath
letic director; Pat Dial, athletic
business manager; Charlie Thomas,
track coach; Henry Ransom, golf
coach; Omar Smith, tennis coach;
Bob Rogers, basketball coach; and
Tommy Blake, sports publicity di
rector.
Sixteen Horses Going After
1st Place At Kentucky Derby
By The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—S i x t e e n
horses may be entered Thursday
for the $125,000-added Kentucky
Derby, and with a lot of speedy
colts on hand one trainer predicted
Whirlaway’s 20-year-old Churchill
Downs track record might go by
the boards.
Chuck Parke, who trains Cro-
zier for Fred W. Hooper, said the
winner of Saturday’s 8-year-old
classic might shatter Whirlaclay’s
derby and track mark set in 1941,
Whirlaway skipped the mile and
one-quarter in 2 minutes, 1 2/5
seconds.
C r o z i e r whipped Four-and
Twenty, one of the two Alberta
Ranches’ derby horses, in the
Derby Trial Stakes Tuesday. The
winner stepped the mile on the
lightning fast downs’ strip \ in
1:34 3/5. Parke based his record
prediction on hopes for a contin
ued fast track—no rain.
As derby fans poured into Louis
ville, interest was fanned by Cro-
zier’s speed display. Most Ken
tucky hardboots thought the per
formance set up the derby fqr
Mrs. Jack Price’s Carry Back.
Carry Back, winner of the Fla
mingo and Florida Derby, is a
come-from-behind runner who by
passed the Derby Trial. Leonard
P. Sasso’s Globemaster, another
speed demon, upset Carry Back
in the Wood Memorial Apr. 22 at
Jamaica.
Carry Back is quoted as the 8-5
favorite. Four-and-Twenty lost
support after he set the trial pace,
wag 8 **’
wmm
then wilted in the stretch. He had
been the co-favorite at 3-1 with
Carry Back.
The entry box closes at 10 a.m.
EST Thursday when owners must
pay $250 to officially sign in for
the 87th derby. If they choose to
start Saturday at 4:30 p.m., they
kick in with an additional $1,250
apiece.
With 15 going to the starting
gate to the strains of “My Old
Kentucky Home,” CBS-TV from
4:15-4:45 p.m., EST, the jackpot
would gross $163,000. The win
ner’s share wouldr be $120,500.
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