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SWINGERS Intramural softball competition sometimes gets hot and heavy at the diamond next to the Grove Theater. Here a “Compadres” batter hits one to center field in a game against the “Statistics” this week. Intramural contests will continue the rest of the summer session, Ray Fletcher, director of intramurals says. Carter Says Everybody, Not Columbus, Discoverer Dr. George F. Carter, Texas A&M geographer, doesn’t buy the theory that Cblumbus dis covered America. He says Christ opher missed the boat about 4,- 500 years. “Everybody discovered Ameri ca,” Dr. Carter contends. He cites evidence that the Ro mans. Irishmen and Norse visit ed America via the Atlantic long before Columbus, and the Chi nese, Japanese and Hindus cross ed the Pacific ages before the Europeans ventured over. “The best you can say for Columbus is that he re-discovered America,” observes Carter, who holds the rank of distinguished professor of geography and is author of the widely used col lege textbook, “Man 1 a n d the Land.” Dr. Carter believes the Span ish of Cblumbus’ era simply for got that the Mediterranean peo ple had previously been to the “New World.” He also suspects that Chris was cheating—that he knew the Americas existed all the time. “The chances are good that he had been here before his so- called 1942 discovery,” Dr. Car ter points out. He notes that the famous voy ager had earlier written of en countering 60-foot variations in high and low tide on one of his trips. The only place in the world with such variations is the Bay of Fundy in Newfoundland, the professor concludes. Carter and a handful of au thorities in other fields have had a running battle for several years with anthropologists over the question of pre-Columbian voyages to America. Most anthropologists believe “our” Indians came here by cross ing the Bering Straits about 10,- 000 B. C. and that everything they did afterwards was on their own, Dr. Carter points out. He contends, however, the In dians came over much before 10,000 B. C. While they did some things on their own, he adds, people began to cross the world’s great oceans about 3,000 B. C., bringing with them all kinds of ideas. He says there is no question that the Norse visited America around 1,000 A. D., bringing with them their wives who had ba bies in America. “The Norse tell you in their sagas that the Irish beat them to America,” he continues, “and the Romans tell you they knew about Iceland and Greenland— and when you are in Greenland, you can see America.” A pot of Roman coins of the 125-175 A. D. era has been found in Iceland, relates the professor. Carter, who received a B. A. de gree in anthropology but switched to geography for his Ph.D. at the University of California, cites an array of other pre-Columbian evidence, ranging from plants to art, architecture and a radioac tive dating system. Carter notes the major break through in the theory of pre- Columbian voyages to America I came within the past five years when some buried pottery was discovered in Ecuador. Carbon 14 dating (a radio-active analy sis technique) established its cre ation at 2500-3000 B. C. “With its distinct appearance,” Carter quips, “it might as well have been stamped ‘Made in Ja pan’.” DeWare Field House and the handball courts housed there have been closed for a two-week per iod beginning this past Monday. Boundary lines on the main floor of DeWare and the hand ball courts are currently being repainted and a floor finish will be applied. 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