The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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Page 3 Friday, September 18, 1942
s, Gladman Are
mer Sp
Owl track and tennis stars, paced by lanky Ray Gladman
and timber-topper Bill Cummins toured the circuit of summer
meets in competition with some of the best athletes of the na-
tion and emerged with a very creditable record.
Cummins, conference hurdle champion, was undoubtedly
the Owls' brightest star as at
the national A.A.U. meet in
Lincoln, Neb., on June 20, he
bested Ohio State's Box Wright and
Arizona's colored star, Joe Battiste,
in winning the 110-meter high hur-
dle championship which had been
held previously by another Institute
great, Freddie Wolcott. He also fin-
ished a close second in the 400-
meter hurdle event.
A week later, at the National In-
tercollegiate meet in New York,
Cummins found Wright a little too
tough as the Buckeye flash nosed
him out in the 120-yard high hurdle
championship. Cummins wound up
his summer activities by running
off with high point honors in the
annual Corpus Christi meet, held
late in July.
Christopher Is Honored
Captain Harold Hall, conference
quarter-mile champ and record hold-
er, failed to live up to expectations
when he did not place in either the
AAU or the Intei-collegiate meets.
Broadjumping Captain-elect Billy
Christopher of Baton Rouge was
honored with a berth on the all-
America track and field team by the
National Intercollegiate Committee,
although a leg injury prevented his
competing in any of the major sum-
mer meets.
The Owl tennis duo composed of
Jack Rodgers and Ray Gladman be-
gan its summer barnstorming rather
auspiciously at Golfcrest Country
• Club where the Texas state amateur
championships were held. The sixth
seeded Rodgers advanced to the
quarterfinals where he was elimi-
nated by Stanford's Ted Schroeder.
Schroeder has since gone on to take
both the National Intercollegiate
and National Amateur champion-
ships.
Gladman in Finals
Gladman, completely overlooked
in the pre-tournament handicapping,
went all the way to the finals where
he too fell before the faultless
stroking of the great Schroeder.
Rodgers and Gladman teamed up in
the doubles and won their way to
the semifinals. But here again they
ran into Schroeder and when it was
all over they had dropped a tough
five-set match to Hhn and his team-
mate, Larry Dee.
The next week end found the pair
in New Orleans where the National
Intercollegiate championships were
held. In the singles they met with
little success, Gladman bowing out
in the first round and Rodgers fall-
ing before the championship onrush
of the unconquerable Schroeder. In
the doubles the Owl duo again
yielded to the Stanford team in a
great first round match.
Rodgers quit the tour in New Or-
leans but Gladman went on to the
Southampton exhibitions. Later he
competed in the Eastern grass
courts championship at Rye where
he and his new doubles partner, J.
Greenberg, lost in the semifinals to
the South American sensations,
Pancho Segura and Alego Russell.
From here Gladman moved over to
Rhode Island for the Newport Ca-
sino invitation and wound up the
season at the Longwood Cricket
Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Tall, good-looking Bob Tresch,
who will captain the 1942 Owls on
their gridiron jaunts, is one of the
most personable and well-liked men
on the campus. Friendly, sometimes
rather bashful, he promises to make
an ideal leader for Neely'g charges.
And there's" good reason for his
promise, too. Leadership is nothing
new to Bob Tresch. When he was
only seven he was presented with
his first pair of moleskins and his
first football from his father. He
promptly proceeded to organize his
second grade into a team and led
them to a victory over the fifth
graders. It's been the same story
ever since!
Is Honor Student
After an athletic preparation and
schooling in junior high Bob entered
East Cleveland High School, where
he proceeded to grab all the honors
available. He was, believe it or not,
president of his class, captain for
two years of the football team, of
the basketball team for one, vice-
president of the Student Council,
member of the National Honor So-
ciety, and voted the most popular
boy in school!
Coming to Rice completely un-
heralded in 1993, Bob soon rectified
the situation by becoming one of the
most promising of Bill Wallace's
freshman candidates. Since that
first silent introduction Bob has be-
come just about the best end around
the Institute. His fine defensive
play, precision-like blocking, and
capable pass receiving have kept
him in the limelight.
Determined to make a good job of
his captaincy, Tresch works hard, is
conscientious, and performs well
that most important job of the cap-
tain, keeping the team cooi-dinated
and in good spiris. He means it
when he says, "This is Rice's year."
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First Intramural
Matches Are Set
One, two, three, four . . . eleven, and sophomore Pel ton Whitlow,
Intramural activity for the year
will get under way September 28,
when the opening round in singles
tennis matches will begin. Entries
for this division of the intramural j tough, very fast ordinary 200-pound
guards. Then there are lettermen
yes sir, count 'em yourself, and all
of them tough as the last. We can't
win them all, we're bound to lose a
few of them, we may lose a lot of
them, but win, lose, or draw the '42
Owls should be an awful lot of fun
to watch. Neely's teams always are.
We've got eleven lettermen back,
nine in the line and two in the back-
field, and backing them up will be
most of the stars from last year's
unusually large and very classy
freshman squad.
The addition of these sophs should
give us a more interesting club even
than last year's colorful outfit
which won six, lost three, and tied
one. We're stronger this year in
every position with the possible ex-
ceptions of end, center and fullback.
At the close of last season it
looked as though good ends would
be a dime a dozen, what with five
lettermen returning and at least two
very promising wingmen coming up
from that freshman team, but the
war and scholastic pitfalls have tak-
en some four of these boys from us.
Ray Zimmerman, Clark Wells, Ver-
lan Prichard, and freshman Bill
Brazle all fell by the wayside leav-
ing us only lettermen, Tresch and
Scruggs, squadsman Gayle Mc-
Glaughlin and sophomore Windell
Williams to hold down the ends of
the line.
Center is another weak spot, Buck
Sloan having graduated, Gene Hale
having gone into the service, and
sophomore Mike Jones having got-
ten married during the summer. It's
really too bad Mike chose the Insti-
tute for his school. He should have
gone to Texas where the players
are more mature and where the of-
ficials feel that it is only right and
proper for their middle-aged ath-
letes to take unto themselves a wife.
However, when you consider that
Blackburn is back it hardly seems
right to call center a weak spot. He
spent some of his time at blocking
back last year but Neely will prob-
ably use him exclusively at center
this year, as squadsman Jack Dear-
more is the only center replacement
of proven ability.
Guards? Well, we've got Humble
who in the most conservative of es-
timates is worth at least three very
program will close September 22
and entries are now being taken by
John Fox or Kenneth Kridner. En-
tries may be made by students who
are not attached to a club or or-
ganization. Anyone who has had
previous tennis experience is urged
to participate.
All clubs and organizations on
the campus are encouraged to enter
representatives in each of the con-
tests, as there will be a certificate
of achievement awarded at the end
of the year to the organization com-
piling the best record for the year.
A new plan has been decided upon
this year whereby each organiza-
tion or group will select a sports
manager from its group to meet
with the intramural board composed
at present of G. L. Hermance, facul-
ty director, Kenneth Kridner, stu-
dent representative, and John Fox,
athletic representative.
In keeping with the physical
training of national, defense, a more
active program is being arranged
by the athletic department for this
year. It will be a program that,
while allowing the person compet-
ing to enjoy himself, will also sup-
ply a well-rounded out physical pro-
gram.
There will be a boo.th set up in
the Sallyport from 10 until 12 Mon-
day morning for the purpose of tak-
ing entries in the tennis contest and
also to answer any questions as to
the coming program for the year.
Entries will be taken for touch
Bill Bagwell and Stone Quillian,
both of whom played lots of good
football for the 1941 club. Supple-
menting these three hold-overs will
be sophomores Magee and McVick-
ers, starters on the 1941 slime crew.
Ted Brannon and Charley Malm-
berg will probably be our regular
tackles but they will have to keep
on hustling to stay ahead of fellow
letterman Lindsey Bowen, squads-
men Noble, Nowlin, and Armstrong,
football starting September 22 and
closing September 25.
All teams interested in entering a
touch football group should get in
touch with Kridner or Fox imme-
diately to secure cards to be filled
out showing their class program.
This is necessary in order that
games may be arranged when both
teams are free to play. Fox may be
contacted at the intramural desk at
the field house or Kridner may be
seen at his room in east hall.
brother of our own inimitable Ken-
neth (Tuffy) Whitlow, captain of
Mr. Neely's first Rice team. Bowen,
incidentally, is being used to help
alleviate the shortage on ends and
will probably play a lot at both po-
sitions. .
Our backfield will have every-
thing but experience. They have
speed to burn, accurate passing and
two of the best punters in this or
any conference. Speed and passing
ability, by the way, are characteris-
tics which Neely's first two Owl
teams sadly lacked, and it should be
interesting, though slightly painful
to the opposition, to watch air and
flank attacks in operation along-
side of the straight power stuff
which has carried him successfully
through Southwest Conference play
thus far.
Stoop Dickson, one of the two let-
termen among our ball carriers, will
probably start at tailback although
he has been spending a good deal of
his time learning blocking back du-
ties. Just where he finally settles
down depends on who needs the
most help: sophomores Eikenberg,
Prosser, and Jacob at tailback or
blocking backs Nail and Sultis.
On the wing we have speed and
then more speed. Sophomore Jack
Creager has looked like the best of
the bunch in practice thus far, but
it was disclosed Wednesday that he
was married and has withdrawn
from school. This leaves us with
squadsman Bud Ely and sophomore
Pete Odom, spring training sensa-
tion and the fastest man on the
team.
Fullback may be a little weaker
this year with Brumley and Zander
gone, but Dick Dwelle, shifted from
tailback, may go a long way to-
wards making us forget, all-confer-
ence Brumley. Dwelle has teamed
with Brumley this past two years to
show one and all some of the slick-
est ball handling seen in these parts
in many a moon. Working from the
key fullback spot this year it will
be up to him to show his inexperi-
enced tailbacks how he and Brum-
ley kept that ball so well hidden.
Behind Dwelle there is sophomore
Edgar Cain, a phenomenal kicker
and a hard runner.
Well there they are, the 1942 edi-
tion of the Rice Owls. They may not
win the conference, although you'll
never convince Captain Bob Tresch
that they won't, and it is not at all
unlikely that they may lose more
games than they win. But they have
all the necessaries to make up an
interesting- football team : speed,
hustle, and enthusiasm, and our
first prediction of the season, and
one we know we are right on, is that
you all will get a kick out of watch-
ing: them operate.
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