4 - ■ \ C- oti %^Track Prowess At Baylor Can H Replace Football Title vote lay, By HAROLD V. RATLIFF race Associated Press Sports Writer cam Baylor won the Southwest Con- ;rence track and field champion- ■ the iip and there were thousands to ustneer. But ask a Baylor fan which U'e le’d rather do—win the track ^arhampionship every year or the "I'ibotball title just once. His stony ’wiioarp will make you feel stupid -tcatijr even asking. ve ' Baylor has made this football I ! ling an obsession. Unless the jeneniears can win a Southwest Con- ie ' s; erence championship soon there ould be an epidemic of nervous y rostrationS'. (1 ! The last time Baylor won the '■ ^ itle was 1924. That is 37 years tke a ' inished second six times and tied ■' or second three times. They have :ome as close as possible not to " ll j;;ither tie for the title or win it II outright. For instance, in 1951 they '.j/'inished second by one-half game. i of i >r'piE r anfE ;k the: Cl the f. It is even more frustrating than Sam Snead’s failure to win the Na tional Open because Sam never has had the glory and Baylor has. When you win something it’s tougher on you not to ever win again than it is to have never won at all. Why hasn’t Baylor been able to win the title in 37 years? Frank Bridges, the little man who coached the Bears to their last championship, doesn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings and hopes Baylor folks take it only as con structive criticism since he has nothing to gain by even express ing an opinion. But Bridges says the reason there hasn’t been a winner at Bay lor is because the coaches haven’t been tough enough. “Football is a rough, tough game where a fellow has to make his boys realize that the team that hits hardest is the one that’s going to win. There have been none of the so-called tough guys coaching at Baylor. Perhaps the Bayl'or administration wants it that way. But it won’t win a championship.” Bridges hastens to explain that he isn’t advocating dirty football but football as it should be played —hard, tough but clean. “I had- 60-minute men when I coached at Baylor,” he says. “They were rough and tough and they played the game the way it is intended.” Bridges came to Baylor as coach in 1920. He openly boasted that he would give the Bears a cham pionship in three years. He did just what he said—Baylor won the title in 1922 with a perfect con ference record. In 1924 Bridges sent his Bears to the championship despite a tie with Southern Methodist. It so happened that SMU also was un defeated by won only two games while tying four. SPORTS SECTION IN REVERSE NORFOLK,. Va. >—Charles N. Nohava, 13, took out a war surplus parachute he had bought to let it fill up in the breeze. A gust of 30 to 35 miles per hour caught it and lifted him 20 feet to the roof of his house, then dragged him into electric power lines where he hung suspended before dropping to the ground. He was treated for electric shock in the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth. CHE BATTALION Thursday, May 81, 1962 College Station, Texas Page'. Roger Ward Wins Indy 500. Outlasts Younger Favorites INDIANAPOLIS (A 5 ) — Veteran Rodger Ward displayed superb control Wednesday and outlasted a pair of younger favorites for his second victory in the Indian apolis 500-mile auto race. And he did it in record time. Right behind Ward was his tearpmate, Len Sutton of Port land, Ore., driving the second of two cars entered by Bob Wilke of Milwaukee. Ward completed the torturous 200-lap grind at an average speed of 140.292 miles per hour. The old record w’as 139.130, set last year by A. J. Foyt Jr. of Houston, Tex., his first time out. Eddie Sachs, Coopersburg, Pa., runnerup to Foyt last year, fin ished third, after working his way up from a starting position of 26th. The curly-haired, mild-mannered Ward, 41, made his 12th success ive Speedway start a methodical conquest of time and the early pace setters, Parnelli Jones of Torrance, Calif., and Foyt. Jones, who started in the pole position after a record qualifying run of better than 150 m.p.h., lead nearly all the time until brake trouble forced him out temporar ily just past the 300-mile mark. Foyt was knocked out when his car lost a wheel in the back- stretch shortly before Jones ran into his trouble. The yellow caution light flashed five times, but a series of spec tacular spins produced only one multiple wreck—a four-car tangle on the 20th lap. The pileup sent Jack Turner of Seattle to the hos pital with a broken pelvis and left big toe. Turner was the only dri ver hurt. Turner escaped with only bruises last year when his car flipped end over end in a six-car tangle. Ward now owns an amazing rec ord of two victories, a second and a third in his last four Speedway starts—his first victory coming in 1959. He thrilled the mammoth Memorial Day crowd of some 250,000 with an 11-second fin ish ahead of Sutton. He will collect some $120,000 from an approximate pot of $400,- 000 to be sliced at a victory dinner Thursday night. COLLEGE MASTER VI 6-4988 ASH 8 ■t 33 eaf :0m* vork- Is !o[ ■inal road rabla od in cat -r of <1 on a on tiirrt 1 3 Big", i 3 THANKS! to the HAM BUYERS 1962 HAM SALE GRAND CHAMPION HAM_„ EDGAR J. BROWN. JR. $250.00 ABILENE Mack Eplen Restaurant Gooch Packing Co. AUSTIN Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Whitley BAINBRIDGE IS., WASH. Mrs. John Neitro BEAUMONT Zummo Meat Co. BISHOP Bishop Elevator & Storage Co. H. M. Campbell BOERNE James Grote, Fair Oaks Hereford Ranch BRADY G. R. White BROWNWOOD Anson Oden BRYAN Acme Glass Co. 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