P*f« 10 Colkg* Station, T«xa« Thursday, May 2, IMS THE BATTALION SWC Athletic Meet Starts Today At Fort Worth FORT WORTH Dafsnd- inf champions Butch Soswafsn of Rics in tennis and Robert Mc Kinney of Texas Tech in golf will be in the field that opens the Southwest Conference athletic meet Thursday. Seewagen, who beat Tod Gor- aki last year for the singles title, also is defending champion in the doubles champion in the dou bles although his partner, Mike Hamilton, is not around this time. Seewagen will pair with John Pickens, who lost in the singles finals in IMS. I In fact Rice has so many top players—it won the team title round-robin with a perfect S6-0 record—that it is entering only its seniors. They will play both singles and doubles. Tennis starts at 9 a.m. Thurs day and will run three days. It will be at Ridglea Country Club. Golf also open! Thursday but it runs only two days, with 26 holes each day. McKinney won the champion ship last year by a 10-stroke margin when he shot 276 for 72 holes. Chip Stewart of Texas, who was second with 286, and Rik Massengale of Texas, third with 292, also are back. Texas is defending team cham pion and will hare four players in the tournament scheduled for Glen Garden Country Club, which is 7,243 yards and has a par of tl. * Texas AAM will hare three as runnerup. Baylor and Texas Tech will enter two each, and Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Ar kansas and Rice one apiece. Stewart had the top record in match play when he won six of hia seven matchea. McKinney only broke even and Massengale was 4-1-2. Bill Wade of Texas AAM. who finished fifth last year, had a 2-1 match play record. The annual track and field meet, scheduled to be its closest in almost 60 yean, will open Fri day at Farrington Field. Pre liminaries are scheduled in run ning events and finals in the javelin and discus. All other finals will he Saturday, field events opening at 2:20 pjn. and running events at 4 p.m. The track meet is expected to be tight fight among Texaa, Rice and Baylor with the former a very light favorite. This is true since Conley Brown, the Rice crack quarter-miler, may not be able to run because of a thigh injury. Brown wouldn’t be th^favorite in the quarter, where Dave Mor ton of Texas is rated No. 1, but he could get some valuable points in that event plus do some top work on the relay teams. Track experts were pointing to a trend on the Southwest Con ference meet where 24 of the 62 champions have won the mils re-, lay. This has been true in 9 of the last 13. i Texas, which ran 3:06.6 last week, is favored to win the mile relay even though Brown might be running. The closest meet ever held eras in 1920 when Texas won with 36tt points, Baylor eras second | with 23 14-15 and Rice eras next with 23 1-6. Indications are that only a point may separate the three leaders this time. mm m&M m Limit One % With 35.M nr Mors Purchase Excluding Beer and Cigarettes. ''S'ttUfl' &009 WiGGlY meat fac^! 1 '. SMOKED PHMCS ' SUCED CENW-fwCTS 549 flOUF- 549 mss <3C0pith»s.-rn.-sAi> bwz,.?,4, Cock O’ the Walk / wmi-m V vMin qmo tomato (JUICE 6“ assww $Or*rlt 0 $