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THE BATTALION rhursday, July 20, 1967 College Station, Texas Page 7 THEY BEAT THE PROS ill Willis (left) of Beaumont accepts a set of woods from ravis Bryan Jr. as winner in a “Beat Our Pros” golf tournament sponsored by the Texas A&M Association of Former Students. Gary Sorensen (right) of Bryan placed second. Willis fired a 65, Sorensen 66. Tourney proceeds go to the A&M golf team. Aggie Swimming Coach Named To Swimming Pool Of Fame ? S Texas A&M’s swimming coach of 34 years, Arthur D. (Art) Adamson, has been named to Texas Age Group Swimming’s Pool of Fame. TAGS President Wally Pryor presented Adamson among the first four honorees at a swim meet in Austin last weekend. Inaugural Pool of Famers in clude Adolph Kiefer, Texas All- America backstroker; Jane Dil lard, national champion in the ’80s, and Skippy Browning, Texas diving great. | Adamson’s accomplishments in Jjwimming are numerous and in- Iclude a citation from the King of England. But his most worthy BcWev-ements, according to par ents of children in the program, Have been the teaching of thou- nds of boys and girls to swim rough College Station Recre ation Council and other programs. The A&M coach was a New aland national champion in the 100-yard freestyle three straight !/ears as a young man. After his family moved to Chicago, he be came the Illinois state 100 and 220 freestyle champ. Watson Sets New jPan-Am Record I Two world record holders, shot putter Randy Matson and long jumper Ralph Boston, headed an impressive show of American Rack and field power in last Saturday’s opening trials for the jjPan-American Games. ■ Existing Pan-Am records were buttered in five of the seven men’s [finals and in five of the six women’s finals contested before 1,726 at the University of Min nesota’s Memorial Stadium, i Matson, Texas A&M’s strong ■an, hurled the shot 68 feet, 7% pches, some six feet better than (the Pan-Am record of 62-514 set ; by Parry O’Brien in the Chicago fan-Am games of 1959. | Boston, who holds the world ■mg jump mark of 27-4% and ■an-Am record of 26-7%, won f berth in the impending Pan-Am ! pames at Winnipeg with a good ap of 26-2%. Closest to an outstanding rec- IN on the hard, crushed clay ■opher Track came in the 400- Bieter hurdles, won by National |AAU champion Ron Whitney in [ |S.6 seconds. The world and American record is 49.1, held by - Hex Crawley, while the Pan-Am ark is 50.2 owned by Argen- ina’s Juan Pablo Dryska. Other Pan-Am records surpass- in the men’s competition were for the hammer throw, javelin fnd 3,000 meter steeplechase. iT'errell Sets Up iCanip In Houston I Ernie Terrell returned to Hous- Fu Tuesday and set up camp Ipr the first doubleheader world |eavyweight boxing elimination Pries scheduled in the Astro- 0 me Saturday afternoon, August j This is the same Ernie Terrell po lost a 15-round decision in |he controversial “undisputed «avyweight championship” fight Nh the deposed Cassius Clay pst February 6 in the Dome— ■xcept for some minor changes. 11 Terrell, who will fight Thad llpencer in one of the 12-round ■jMnination bouts, felt his camp Backed something” when he was ■Sparing for the Clay bout. B So, Big Ern (he’s 6-foot-6, too PH for Army induction) cast h F‘de trainer Sam Solomon and ai >ded the duties to Wade Bol- P®, a Chicagoan who has been rith Ernie since 1962. Adamson was swim coach and instructor at the Houston YMCA before moving to A&M in 1934. Aggie swimmers John Harrington and Tetsuo Okamoto became All- Americas under his tutorage. The A&M mentor is past pres ident of the College Swimming Coaches Association and serves on the TAGS advisory board. Beat The Pros Golf Tourney Won By Willis Bill Willis of Beaumont, a Ph.D. candidate in education at Texas A&M University, won A&M’s “Beat Our Pros” golf tournament with a sizzling 65. The former Lamar Tech golf team member ripped the A&M course with a five-under-par round to edge second place win ner Gary Sorensen of Bryan and third finisher Dewey Hoke of Navasota. All three scratch golfers bet tered the first round score of former Aggie golfer Bobby Nichols in this year’s Houston Champions Tournament. Nichols carded a 71, several strokes bet ter than another Aggie golfer of yesteryear, Billy Martindale. Sorensen, a summer school stu dent in civil engineering at A&M, toured the Bryan municipal course in 66 strokes. Hoke, last year’s top performer in the tourney, posted a 67 at the Bryan links. He is a spring accounting gradu ate of A&M. Travis Bryan Jr. of Bryan, tournament chairman, presented prizes to the winner in behalf of the sponsoring Association of Former Students. Willis won a set of irons. Sorensen earned a set of woods and Hoke received a pair of golf shoes. Richard Weirus, executive sec retary of the Association of For mer Students, said $308 netted by the tournament will be con tributed to the A&M Golf Team. It’s Football Time In Texas Again By JERRY GRISHAM The 1967 “Texas Football” magazine hit the news stands Tuesday and like the first Robin of Spring it heralded the beginning of the football season in Texas. Now for a glorious two months before the first kick off in September, proponents of each and every school throughout the state can either crow or rant and rave about the treatment given their team in this “bible” of Texas football. These pre-season dramatics are as much a part of the football season as the pre-game coin flip. Southwest Conference teams rate the most attention in the magazine and since this year is considered by some bumper sticker buffs and the majority of sportswriters (Batt writer excepted) in the state to be the “year of the horns” (ho ho ho) a large number of pages and a lot of words are devoted to explaining why t.u. should win the SWC this year. But this year. Aggies who want to read about A&M’s chances on the gridiron don’t have to thumb through half the magazine to find something near the back like “Aggies Just Might Come On Strong If . . . .” Instead, the first thing you notice about the publication is the rather grim cover photo of the Aggies’ Mighty Mo Moorman glaring defiantly at the lettering in the upper right hand corner, “A Longhorn Stampede, or a Towering Upset?” It’s not too hard to figure what the big Aggie’s answer would be. The sportswriters voting in this issue have picked the Aggies as third place finishers behind Texas and Arkansas, but as the magazine freely admits the Aggies are quite capable of playing an upset hand. For the first time in the history of “Texas Football” the Aggies received a vote for a first place showing. It was only one vote out of 28 with the other 27 going to Texas but it was a beginning. And like the magazine says, in 1964 the Arkansas Razorzbacks got only one first place vote and then went on to win the national championship. In the next two months Aggies across the state will point this fact out to others and then with a shrug of the shoulders and a gleam in the eye say, “Who knows ?” On page 43 “The Aggies Are Back,” the rallying cry of the third Gene Stallings crew leaps off the page and provides a perfect backdrop to the article on the Aggies by Houston Post writer Mickey Herskowitz. And two additional features on Edd Hargett and Ross Brupbacher and his fellow sophomores provide plenty of pleasurable reading for Aggie fans. Like we said, there’s a lot of orange between the covers of the ’67 “Texas Football” but there is just enough maroon and white to keep it from looking all pumpkin- colored. C-77M* JHh>. 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