The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1946 Page: 3 of 4
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THE THRESHES
Three
Rice Goes After A.A.U. Track
Team Title With Big Guns
Primed, Loaded, aad Aimed
Rice will be Running for team laurels in the regional A. A.
U. track meet a week from tomorrow at San Antonio. Coach
Brunson is planning to take Erfurth and Coffman from this
year's team, Donaldson and Cummin«#l;om previous teams', La-
mar's Vern McGrew, and Austin's Bill Delahoussaye (who will
t>e future Rice trackmen) and may possibly add Fred Wolcott,
John Montgomery, and Drexeli
S*>
Vincent to the team.
We ought to pick up a few points
i the hurdles. Cummins and Er-
urth should be battling it out for
: irst place in each of these two
i-vents, unless Wolcott decides he
is ready to run by then. Fred still
won't commit himself, but the fact
hat he is working out daily with
Vugie and Bill is significant. Mc-
Hrew will be another entrant in
he highs. Rowland of SMU is ex-
iected to furnish some competition
ii the lows.
We haven't heard of anyone in
his region who will give Coffman
oo much competition in his special-
y. McGrew should also place in the
igh jump.
Donaldson Going
Donaldson will be out to repeat
ast year's win in the regional, but
■ ieorge Kadera, who will be at Rice
ext year, will -be around to make
nim fight for it. If Kadera has been
orking out regularly this year,
lohn will have to be at his best to
\in.-
Delahousa.ve will be our only sprin-
er. He will have some pretty stiff
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"They Say It's Wonderful"—
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It Couldn't Be True, Or Could It"
—Les Brown
"House of Blue Lights"—Freddie
Slack
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Main
G0GGAN*S
competition in the dashes with Law-
ler, Shurr, and Martinsen around.
Perry Samuels, junior AAU 100-
meter champion last year, came
down with the mumps last week, he
may be out in time to run, but will
be greatly handicapped by two
weeks of inactivity.
Pole Vault
John Montgomery should place
high in the pole vault if he decides
he is in condition. He vaulted 13*6"
for Rice several years ago. South-
worth of Baylor promises that he
will clear 13 feet this time—so John
will have something at which to
shoot.
Coach Brunson may enter Drexel
Vincent in either the 440 or the 880,
but he hasn't said anything yet.
The 440 will be a hotly contested
event with Ray Holbrook joining
the usual fight between Kidd and
Harnden, and A. J. Frity, Galveston
high school boy, may bear watch-
ing.
Old Man Outlaw
In the distances it will be Zeigler
of A&M unless Outlaw shows up.
Outlaw is the "old man" who paced
the boys around the two mile in
the triangular meets here this sea-
son.
Turing to results of the Bin Ten
meet last Saturday, Illinois walked
off with the championship. The
most outstanding performance in
the nation this year was turned in
by Herb McKinley, Illinois sprint
star, who broke the world record in
the 440 yard dash. He was clocked
in 46.2 seconds, two-tenths of a
second under the accepted world
standard. He also anchored the mile
relay team which turned in a 3:12
mile, a new Big Ten record.
The only other world record we
have heard of being broken this
year is that in the discus. Consinlini,
an Italian, is reported to" have
thrown the platter 177.9 feet to sur-
pass the old record of 176 feet.
—Donaldson and. Langworthy
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COOK BESTS K1MMEL
Cook pitched good ball against
the Navy, allowing but three hits,
and two of them were fluke hits.
He received good support from his
brother P.E.'s who committed but
one mishap, and collected eleven
hits. Fox gathered three for four,
u double and two singles; Brown
got two hits to di'ive in three runs;
and Weatherly got two hitB. Out-
standing for the Navy were "Red"
Anderson who played bang-up ball
at third base, and got the hard base
knock.
This win put the P.E.'s a half
game ahead of the Navy. The P.E.'s
have won 5 and lost 1, whereas the
Navy has won 5 and lost 1. The two
teams will have met again Wednes-
day June 5. The outcome of this
game will more than likely decide
the championship. The P.E.'s have
four games remaining, and the
Navy has five.
There is nothing to report on
other Karnes for they have all been
rained out and are scheduled for
later in the week. All team mana-
gers are urged to take a look at the
revised schedule on the bulletin
boards at the Field House and West
Hall.
TABLE TENNIS SINGLES
Sam Match winner of the Amer-
ican League will play Tommy Burke
winner of the National League for
the Intralmural table tennis singles
championship. Both champs of their
leagues have gone through unde-
feated winning six games each.
0
Rifle Team Season
Ends With Victory
Over Michigon U.
Rice's NROTC Rifle Team ha#
continued to match its marksman-
ship with that of other NROTC
Units through out the country. On
May 25 the team closed its season
of pistol matches with a victory
over the NROTC team of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
The scoreboard of challenges
given and accepted discloses four
victories for the Rice team during
the season:
Opponents Rice
Alabama Polytcehnie 750 845*
Univ. of New Mexico 1736 1669
Northwestern Univ. 915 845
Oregon State Coll. 826 886*
Rensselear Polytechnic 881 890*
Univ. of Michigan 889 898*
A. H. Beck proved to be the
team's outstanding sharpshooter for
the season. He averaged a score of
180 out of a possible 200. He did his
best shooting in the match against
Michigan, firing 188.
Relative firing averages for the
team:
A. H. Beck—180
D. D. Spoon—176
A. Vonderesch—176
R. F, Spees—175
J. F. Jensen—175
W. A. Boelter—173
The termination of the wartime
V-12 program on July 1 will result
in the loss of all old rifle team
members. The peacetime NROTC
rifle teams will be composed of new
sharpshooters from those members
yet to be enrolled.
Sporting Around
By Bob Miville
When the club foot comet from
the wide open spaces—lanky, sizz-
ling Assault-waltzed to become the
seventh triple crown King of the
Turf on June 1st he brought to a
close a Memorial Day Week un-
paralleled in sportdom since 1941.
Not since the hell of World War
II is supposed to have ended have
the sports hungry fans of this fair
land- been treated to a calendar of
sports such as this.
It seems like the good old days
are back when you can rejoice over
a triple crown winner in horse rac-
ing, a 500 mile Indianapolis Speed-
way automobile classic, an inter-
national golf match, a multitude ot'
varied and interesting situations in
baseball, not to mention a number
of other outstanding events—all in
a single week.
In many ways, it seems as though
the country had held its breath ever
since V-J Day, for just such a blow
off that came last week to usher in
the "Diamond Decade."
Some 43,000 fans roared Texas
horn, bred and trained Assault to
the finish at Belmont last Saturday
afternoon. The fabulous King Ranch
3-year-old colt with the deformed
foot came breezing into the wire a
good three lengths ahead of Natchez
in a mighty show of running power.
No doubt every Texan's heart
stopped beating for the few minutes
the race took to be run—and un-
doubtedly the entire citizenry would
have been broke if Bold Venture's
son hadn't come thru.
Joe Robson Wins) Race
The fans' frenzy was whipped up
to a fever pitch last Thursday as
Joe Robson of Los Angeles roared
across the finish line in the always
thrilling, spectacular, pulse-quick-
ening 500 mile auto race at Indian-
apolis. Fortunately no one was kill-
ed this year in this classic which
inevitably plays host to spills and
unfortunate deaths. That's one of
the saddest things about this race,
but what can you expect when a
man gets behind the wheel oJ u
4-cylinder jolt and drives like a but
out of heli.
The Byron Nelson-Richard Burton
golf duel which pits America's wiz-
ard of the fairways—Lord Byron
(who is originally from Texas, by
the way)—against Britain's pride
and joy, didn't come off as schedul-
ed and will be resumed this week.
Baseball, aside from the continu-
ed exhibitions of greed and stupid-
ity by the higher-ups, saw the for-
mal announcement of two new
American League managers. It was
Joe McCarthy of the Yankees who
handed over the managerial reins
to his ace catcher, Bill Dickey. Over
at Chicago White Sox quarters
came the ntAvs that veteran Ted
Lyons had been appointed manager.
This is just touching the highest
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