The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1944 Page: 3 of 4
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SPORTS SI UFF
By Mildred McCall
The climax of this track season
will come Friday and Saturday
when the Southwest Conference
track and field meet takes place in
Austin. To date no school has defi-
nitely announced that it will not
compete.
In sipite of the many aparent dark
horses, little hope is held out that
Texas can be defeated. The Long-
horns have a clear numerical ad-
vantage over any team Which might
compete. The Sharecroppers could
run them a close second, and the
remaining places are very much in
doubt. Monday afternoon the pre-
viously postponed Rice-A&M tennis
matches were played. The results
were much to the Sharecroppers'
satisfaction. The lone Aggie fan in
the stands seemed to enjoy the af-
fair more than, all the rest of us
combined—and well he might. 'Nuff
ss$d.
Two B's
Baseball practice has continued
steadily this week despite adverse
weather conditions. According to
Coach Cecil Grigg, the boys are im-
proving satisfactorily.
When the Longhorns arrive in
town Friday, they may find the
Owls tougher than they had .antici-
pated.
Monday afternoon the basketball
team started spring practice.
Among those turning out are hold-
overs from last year's co-cham-
pions: Bill Henry, Grover • Noonan,
and Tommy Roach. This seems a
promising nucleus on which to build
another in the school's list of fine
teams.
Football
Signed for a game during the
coming football season is Randolph
Field of San Antonio. This, as many
of us recall, is the unit which fea-
tures the outstanding play of one
Glenn Dobbs, All-American former-
ly of the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes.
Dobbs is a fine punter, passer, and
runner. Along with him the Ram-
blers expect to have one of the best
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galaxies of gridiron talent possible
for an army air field to assemble.
Consequently, we may expect to see
another of those games featuring
the razzle-dazzle type of play so
well suited to Dobbs' particular
style.
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STUFF—
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man" light in her eyes whenever
she looks at Clint. Oh well, he af-
fects a lot of women that way.
Everyone that attended says that
the PAL picnic, Saturday, was the
best ever seen. Games were the or-
der of the afternoon, with many
new champions crowned. Ruth
French and Fred Toan had a whirl-
wind croquet game. Just ask Peggy
Weatherall whether she or the horse
won their match. Funny thing, when
she was tossed off the horse, every-
one ran to see how the horse was.
Dick Isaacs turned out to be a real
cowboy. Harold Muchmore and Eliz-
abeth Sterling screamed loudly that
they were the badminton champions.
After everyone had worn himself
out playing, food was fine for the
tired spirits. George Cook fixed the
firewood for their wieners with Jane
Farnsworth sighing "My strong
man." "Pepsicola de luxe" was
served, and there was a two foot
chocolate cake. Dave Parrish bril-
liantly blushed when Estelle handed
him a birthday cake with lavendar
sweet peas on it. Parrish turned out!
The traek team will leave Friday
morning for Austin and the Confer-
ence Track meet. Coach Wallace
plans to take a 12 man team com-
posed of: Groves, Misaimer, Good-
rich, Vilbig, Guinn, Atkinson, Par-
ker, Bryan, Malseed, Lloyd, Russ,
Donalson, and Andrews.
Groves will run the MO, 880 and
be anchor man on the mile relay
team. This gives him a good chance
at llMi points and from this corner
it looks like he will take SVz. Missi-
mer will run the 440 and another
quarter in the mile relay. The other
half of the mile relay team will be
chosen from Goodrich, Vilbig and
Guinn.
Atkinson will represent the Owls
in the broad jump and is a part of
the sprint relay team. Other mem-
bers of this team are Parker, Missi-
mer and Bryan.
Parker will "walk" through the
low hurdles and run in the highs.
Donalson has promised to avenge
himself in the discus and will like-
ly come through with those big five
points. Malseed will toss the jave-
lin while Lloyd and Russ represent
us in the high jump. Andrews will
enter the pole vault.
gett's song became "I was lying on
the blanket, all covered up with
beer," when Kathleen Carter poured
a whole glass over his face.
Some people at Rice are really
Supermen. If you don't believe it,
just ask John Van de Mark about
the ones that held on to the bumper
of his car so^'that he couldn't even
drive it off; And believe it or not,
the picnic ended at 6 o'clock. What's
the Rally Club coming to?
Lena Holm an had a fine time see-
ing her fiance, Glen, at Mission. And
if you see Martha Clarac grinning
from ear to ear, it's because her
husband is stationed at Ellington.
And this column thinks the game
"poochy-woochy" is the most juve-
nile game to hit the campus in a'
mighty long time. Don't you think
I it's rather adolescent for college
By Jack Joplin
With a brilliant Ninth inning ral-
ly in which they scored seven runs,
the PALS defeated the OWLS 21-
12 to tie up the baseball league.
This win splits the PAL-OWLS se-
ries and puts them far ahead of the
rest of the field. Each team has won
three games and lost one. The In-
dependents bring up third with two
losses and one win to keep ahead of
the EBLS who are firmly entrenched
in the celler.
The game was much closer than
the score indicated for the lead
changed hands five times. The PALS
started the scoring with Ann Mar-
tin's single to left field and before
the inning was over made two runs.
Not to be outdone the OWLS came
back in the last half of the same
inning with two runs to tie the
score. The score stayed two-two all
through the second, which was the
only round in which neither team
scored. In the first half of the third
the PALS scored to take the lead,
but their joy was short for *he
OWLS came back with three runs
to take the lead back. They in-
creased this lead during the next
two innings till in the first of the
sixth the score stood 7-5. Sadie
Gwin Allen tied up the game with
a home run with one man on, and
then Martin came across the plate
to give the game back to the PALS.
The OWLS never seriously threat-
ened again except in the last of the
ninth in which they scored three
runs.
Outstanding Players
Molly Alexanders OWL captain,
was by far the best player on either
team. Molly's sensational fielding
and batting played a large part in
the 11 runs which her team scored.
Margie Repass did a good job of
hurling, while Joyce Berwick and
Doris Speich looked good in the in-
field.
Joyce Pounds and Ellen Picton
formed a winning pitcher—first base
combination for the PALS, while
Kayway and Ginny Arnold played
their usual steady games.
The teams were made up as fol-
lows:
OWLSj Speich, F. B.; RauboM,
Burwick," S.S.; Alexander, S.F.;
Crossman; Repass, P.; Morrow;
West, S.B.; Fultz, C.; Duffel.
PALS: Martin, T. B.; Kayway,
S.S.; Arnold, L.F.J Pounds, P.; Pic-
ton, F.B.; Gordon, C.; Loose, S.B.;
French, C. F.; Craig, S.F.; Allen,
R.F.
Umpires: Smyth, Ligon. Score-
keepers: Monroe, Simpson.
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RICE DANCE—
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2. Girls are restricted to one date.
3. Tagging will be done exclusive-
ly by the girls.
4. Girls are urged to come "Hag"
and outshine all former staglines.
This does not mean that the boy
may not pick up the girl, That de-
pends on her, but the boys will nat-
urally have to have a date to get in,
so better get busy and make plans.
Committees
The committee chairmen in charge
of the preparations are as follows:
Decorations, Leila McConnell; Pub-
licity, Mary Jane McNair; Tickets,
Jeane Brogniez; Hall arrangements,
Lore Merten and Jocile Baggett;
Nickelodean, Billie Jo Darden; and
and Nickelodean, Billie Jo Darden.
Hamburgers, Sandwiches
and
Cold Drinks
Laioson's Drugs
1708 Sunset Blvd.
to be the "big wind" in the puff i
game, incidentally. ( 1
Dancing was next in entertain- j
ment, then home to Weatherall's for
a slumber party.
The Rally Club picnic turned out
to be another fine picnic. It started
at 2 o'clock and by 3 o'clock, every-
one was there. In the baseball game,
Murray Smythe became heartily
disliked after he hit about six balls
into the bushes. Martha Nunn
turned out to be a curve expert (at
throwing the balls) of course. When
Mary Dee fell in the mud did Gary
Corbett laugh! Billy Gerhart nearly
caused a riot when he pulled a lip-
stick covered hankie out of his pock-
et. Just what is your secret love
life, Billy?
Lene Lummis was heard remark-
ing to Bill Walker, "You know you
want to go for a walk in the woods,
Bill." During the picnic, Joe Lig-
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Darcy Reynolds is bustin'
| shirt because he plays lead sax
with Buddy Brock now. No plug in-
I tended.
It is with much interest that we
have noticed the impossibility of
ever finding Carnes Heaton without
his Virginia. The trusty trio, con-
sisting of McArthur, Mcllhenny,
and Wakeman, should really stop
being so trustworthy and should try
giving the^ girls a break. We've
heard it from all sides, boys.
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DUPRE—
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on cruisers and battleships and de-
stroyers. He graduated from the
Chemical Warfare School at Edge-
wood Arsenal and the Naval War
College at Newport, Rhode Island.
Commander Rathbun has also
taught at the Naval Academy for
several years; ordnance and gun-
nery, and mathematics.
At the time of Pearl Harbor
Comdr. Rathbun "vyas on a fleet oil-
er in San Diego. He spent six
months in the South Pacific on this
fleet oiler and then returned to the
United States for hospitalization,
after which he retired. He has been
at Rice for about a year.
Commander Rathbun has numer-
ous campaign ribbons. They include
the Navy Expeditionary, the Victory
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the Defense, the American Area,
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