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^ !c k •c 'c 'c Ic c George Tedford George Tedford, junior sprinter from Shreveport, La., will be carrying even more of the load now that A&M’s ace quartermiler R. E. Merritt has come down with infectious mononucleosis. Tedford will run on sprint relay, mile relay and 440-yard relay at the San Angelo Relays this Saturday.' He ran a fine 49.0 off the blocks at the Abilene cinder meet last weekend. Thinclads Travel To San Angela! Capt. Thad Crooks and weight lan Danny lioberts will head a ■7-man Aggie track squad into Tie San Angelo Relays Saturday. I Owning a sprint relay victory n the West Texas' Relays and an |pset mile relay triumph over ACC It Abilene last week, A&M is ex pected to be a strong contender in [both those events. The Aggies fashioned their one- liile win over previously unbeaten Ibilene Christian College without pe services of ace anchor man R. 5. Merritt who has been sidelined rith influenza. Thomas found needed depth last Peek in Crooks, who ran a 48.7 ;g with the mile relay team. Geor- e Tedford, who has run a 49.0 flat §ut of the blocks and Jerry Ander- on (49.1) will round out the four- ome. “We have balance on all legs pith this group and good alter atives in James King who has pone a 50.5 and Eugene Dornak nth the same time,” Thomas said. Merritt or Tedford will handle Jhe 440 duties in the sprint med- ey, Anderson and Merritt or Ted- TATTERALL CHECKS ford the two 220s and Crooks the 880 anchor. Crooks was clocked in 1:50.9 on the 880 leg last sea son. Sprinter Curtis Roberts has re turned to duty following a leg injury and, the Aggie 440-yard re lay team should be at its best for this year. Running the legs, in order, will be Tedford, Merritt, Roberts and Anderson. Thomas ex pects this quartet to run the race in under 42.0 seconds. Danny Roberts, the sehsational sophomore, is still unbeaten this spring in the shot put and will also seek points in the discuss. The A&M entries in addition to the relay groups: hurlles, Thomas Burns; one-mile run, E. L. Ener; shot put, Charlie Tiemann and Charles Hoppe (also discuss); high jump, Don Deaver and James Dan iel; broad jump, Leo Holub hnd Bill Parks; javelin, John Long. Syracuse will make one of its infrequent trips to New York to play Army in a football game at the Polo Grounds oA Sept. 29. BANGALORE MADRAS .Ifgtgfr nr liii ? ya - iliapia We suggest to gain the attention desired. Our TATTERSALL checks are much admired. They’re tapered and pleated in rich Oxford Cloth, To attract the ladies as light draws the moth. SIZES - SMALL, MEDIUM, mrnmi m The gentle sex responds with ease, To the man dressed with eye to please. Try rich muted plaids and sleeves but half, With tapered body, and box pleat aft. LARGE, EXTRA LARGE 4 .rjitlShof ^ Townshire Open Tonight Until 8:30 THE BATTALION Thursday, March 29, 1962 College Station, Texas Page 5 Texas Needs New Conference By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer Hardin-Simmons isn’t going to de-emphasize football. All that talk about doing away with athletic scholarships has died down. The alumni moved in and helped the athletic program right itself. So Hardin-Simmons will be playing a major schedule again come fall. Which brings up the question of a new conference that will take in the schools that need such an alliance in order to get football on a paying basis. There appears little doubt but that the Border Conference, of which Hardin-Simmons is a mem ber, will break up finally at the spring meeting in May. There now are only three members of the lea gue — Hardin-Simmons, Texas Western and West Texas State. Arizona State University and New Mexico State are leaving with the windup of spring sports. Arizona quit last year. So what’s to stand in the way of a brand new conference taking in Hardin-Simmons, West Texas State, Texas Western, Arlington State, Trinity, Tarleton State (which reaches foui;-year status next year), Abilene Christian and possibly Lamar Tech. Lamar Tech already has been suspended by the NAIA and may get the same treatment from the Lone Star Conference. It’s all be cause Lamar Tech went to the NCAA basketball playoffs instead of the NAIA. Lamar Tech is a big school with an outstanding athletic program. It could enter the new conference to its advantage and the advantage of the other schools that might come into the proposed league. Nothing officially has been done about such a conference but there are quite a few people who want Red Schoendienst MayTurn Active FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla. <A>) — Red Schoendienst, who retired as an active player at the end of the 1961 season, probably will be reactivated as a utility in fielder with the St. Louis Cardi nals, Manager Johnny Keane said Wednesday. Schoendienst, 39, is listed as a nonplaying coach but he has been used in a pinch-hitting capacity and as a late-inning replacement as second base in exhibition games this spring. Schoendienst appeared in • 72 games last year, mostly as a pinch hitter, and batted .300. it. Claude Gilstrap, coach of Ar lington State, thinks it would be a fine idea. He says Arlington State, which is playing a tough independent schedule, has been hurting because it has to make long trips and play schools that do not have a natural rivalry. This fall Arlington State will be playing Mississippi Southern at Hattiesburg and Memphis State at Memphis. Why wouldn’t games with Texas Western and Abilene Christian College be better? “There just isn’t any interest in a game you play 600 miles a- way with some school that has no common interest,” observes Gil strap. Also, all colleges need to be in a conference of some sort so there’ll be something to play for and some good strong rivalries. A college can’t even get publicity on its athletics unless it’s in a con ference of some kind. Its games mean nothing. 2 Tragedies Hit Ag Track Team Illness and a broken leg have dealt the A&M Track team a severe blow. R. E. Merritt of Andrews, Coach Charlie Thomas’ top-rank ed quartermiler, is sidelined with what has been diagnosed as, infectious mononucleosis. The diagnosis came just a few hours before sprinter Pat Mit chell of Columbus suffered a hairline fracture of the fibula bone in his left leg striding through a 440 on the Kyle Field track. A&M team physician Dr. Hen ry C. McQuaide said Merritt will be out of action for at least two weeks and Mitchell for the sea son. Both are hospitalized. Merritt sat out a quadrangular meet at Abilene last Saturday with what was throught to be influenza. His accomplishments this spring had included a 48.1 quartermile, 9.9 seconds one- hundred yard dash and legs on the Aggie 440-yard and one- mile relay teams clocked in best times of 42.0 and 3:16.8, respec tively. Dr. McQuaide said Merritt will not be running in meets for at least two weeks and it could be even longer depending on the severity of the illness. Mitchell has had leg trouble since he ruled the schoolboy sprinters while a junior in high school at Gainesville. He missed most of last season with a pulled muscle. Texas is big enough to support two conferences for its small col leges. The Lone Star Conference is a good one but it is so large no other schools can be admitted. 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