The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1946 Page: 3 of 4
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RHRI
THE THRESHER
Three
Sporting Around
By Bob Mivill*
Houston's city-wide tennis tour-
namrat, now in its socond week of
play, is atitl running true to form
with Rico's Sun Mwt"*1 and Ken
McCarthy sharing the spotlight
with Jay Fuller and Bobby Curtis.
The two mighty mites of the Rice
tennis teem> who paced the Owls
to their brilliant qet season, ad*
vaneed to the semi-finals Monday
by drubbing Ronnie Bunker and.
R. ,R. Cravens 0-2, 6-1.
Another former Rice tennis ace,
Bobby Curtis, now stands as lead-
ing contender for top honors in the
city tennis tourney. The former
Southwest Conference champ pro-
vided a one-two punch in the men's
doubles as he teamed up with Jay
Fuller,, last year's singles champ.
Curtis will also team up with Elisa-
beth Rby, defending woman's titlist,
in the mixed doubles which started
Tuesday, and this deadly combina-
tion should prove fatal to all-
comers.
Match, the California Flash and
one of the most popular fellows on
the Rice campus, will face a show-
down next Sunday when he takes
on Curtis for top laurels in the
finals of the tournament.
Ken McCarthy, Match's partner
in" the doubles and a fine player in
his own right, gave his room-mate
a good going in the semi-final tus-
sle before Match finally came out
on top after five sets.
COLLEGIATE ALL STAR BASE-
BALL TEAM
The names of nine players of the
mid-west squad who will appear in
the first annual Collegiate AH Star
baseball game June 14 in Boston's
Femway Park has been announced
by Coach John Kobs of Michigan
State College. „
First draft of midwest players
are: Frank Kellert of Oklahoma
A&M, Ralph Theobold of Iowa State
and James Fordon of Auburn, pit-
chers; William Collins of Wayne
University, catcher; Charles Horn,
Ohio University; Sam Pinson, Mis-
sissippi State; Keith Phelps, Ohio
State, infielders; Peter Dramer,
College of St. Thomas (St. Paul)
and Frank Gilbooley, Notre Dame,
outfielders.
Twenty-two players will be drawn
from mid-west circles to oppose the
All-East team in a game sponsored
by 'the American Association of
Baseball Coaches. Kobs is chairman
of the mid-west selections commit-
tee.
The All-Star game is a move by
coaches to establish collegiate base-
ball on a intersectional basis. A
similar contest will be played on
the west coast but no plans are
made for a meeting of the winners
in 1846.
In making the initial move to
place their sport on an intersec-
tional basis, the baseball coaches
are striving to achieve some of the
collegiate prominence already gain-
ed in football with its various bowl
and all-star games and by basket-
ball with the national collegiate and
various tournaments.
SPORTING BITS FROM HERE
AND THERE
Southern Methodist numbers
among its returning football play-
ers two lads who hope they can
match spectacular performances as
sophomores in 1942—the first time
Carroll Parker toted the ball in that
year he ran for a touchdown—Ed
Green, on his initial play with the
Mustangs, stood behind his goal
line and punted the ball over North
Texas State's last white stripe.
The ol' strike bug must be nip-
ping a lot of people these days when
some 80-odd footballers at North-
western University start campaign-
ing for shorter hours and more
p«y.
Leaders in the movement are men
released from service and not de-
pendent on the athletic department
der the GI Bill.
Local Yokel Lamkin
Makes Good Start
In "LittleTheater"
Charles Lamkin, Rice student, ap-
peared in the Little Theater pro-
duction "Kiss and Tell." Lamkin
played the romantic lead as Lenny
Archer brother of Corliss; His dif-
ferent m6ods ih the play hii>ld the
attention of the audience all the
way through.
This fall Lamkin plans to con-
tinue working with the Little The-
ater. If his first appearance is any
indication of success, local boy Lam-
kin will make good.
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More Red Tape
Necessary For
Rice Veterans
Friday night at a meeting of the
Rice Veterans' Club forms ware
filled out so that the veteran's sta-
tus during the summer may be
learned by the Veterans' Adminis-
tration. This information supercedes
that announced in a recent issue of
the THRESHER. Every veteran
now enrolled in Rice must complete
this form. Those veterans who did
not attend the meeting may secure
these forms from the Bursar's Of-
fice.
Ollie Cordell, Rice football great
of '38, 39, and 40, represented the
Veterans' Administration at this
meeting. He answered numerous
questions from the vets pertaining
to their rights under the GI Bill.
There are three possibilities open
to the veteran now at Rice who is
planning to return in the fall. He
may desire to attend another school
this summer, or take a leave of ab-
sence, or merely take a vacation
this summer for which he gets no
subsistence from the government.
,2f a veteran desires to attend ano-
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for help due to being in school un* ther 8chool thig sumjT,er, he must
COMMENCEMENT—
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music by a String Quartet from
the Houston Symphony Orchestra. | form.
apply to the VA for another Certifi-
cate of Eligibility. In this connec-
tion it is not necessary that a vet-
eran have a Supplemental Certifi-
cate of Eligibility to return to Rice
in the fall.
According to Mr. Cordell the vet-
eran accrues leave of absence time
at the regular GI rate of 2V6 days
per month. So if a veteran requests
a leave this summer, it will be for
the number of days leaye time ac-
cumulated. This leave is at the regu-
lar rate of $65 or $90 a month, de-
pending on the veteran's marital
status. However, his period of en-
titlement for training will be re-
duced by the number of days of
leave approved.
It is not necessary for a veteran
who is not planning to attend ano-
ther school or take a leave this
summer to apply for a new Certifi-
cate of Eligibility. However, he,
like all other vets must fill out the
The public is invited to attend
these Exercises, but admission until
7:50 o'alock will be by tickets held
by the guests of the graduating stu-
dents. After 7:50 general admission
will be free.
Info FREE
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Fly
AT REDUCED RATES
Ml Nierth on
RICE FLYING CLUB
MAIN STREET AIRPORT
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BILL NIERtH AERO SERVICES
One Mile Out South Main From Campus
M-2-0141 M-2-5470
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Answers to any other questions
may be secured at the Houston reg-
ional office of the VA, now located
at 4600 Clinton Drive.
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HE HELPEDL-
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Goodhue, and Ferguson, where he
began work of the greatest impor-
tance. Successively he *desigfied
Staff Headquarters at West Point,
the graduate school at Princeton,
and the commencement hall at Will-
iams College. In 1909, he worked
on preliminary plans for Rice In-
stitute.
As more buildings were added to
the campus, Mr. Watkin designed
the Chemistry Building, the Facul-
ty Club, and Palmer Memorial Cha-
pel. He specialises in school and
public buildings. Among his work
is the auditorium at Texas A&M
College, the general plan and first
building of Texas Tech., the Hous-
ton Art Museum, the Houston Pub-
lic Library, and the South Texas
Commercial National Bank.
He has designed many of Hous-
ton's finest residences.
Mr. Watkin became full professor
of architecture, in 1922. He is a
member of the Philosophical Society
of Texas, the Faculty Club (presi-
dent, 1980), the Houston Philoso-
phical Society (president, 1981),
the American Institute of Archi-
tects, and the Houston Country
Club.
Nine Man Track Squad Will
Go to Regional A.A.U. Meet \
In San Antonio Friday
By Donaldson end Langworthy
Coach Brunson is taking a nine man track squad to San
Antcpiio for the regional AAU meet Friday night. Arrange-
ments to enter as a team didn't pan out, so the boys will all be
running unattached. But we will try to beat Texas unofficially,
even if our points will not be
officially totaled.
Bill Cummins is entered in all
three hurdles events; the lows, the
highs and the 400 meter hurdles.
Augie has entered the lows and the
highB; Coffman the high jump;
Montgomery the pole vault; Don-
aldson the discus, and Carr the hop,
step and jump. Three high school
boys are on the team: McGrew from
Lamar, entered in the high jump
and the high hurdles; Delahoussaye
of Austin, running both sprints;
and Hollister from Beaumont, who
will try his hand at the hop, step
and jump.
Tony Carr's name was added to
the team last week when he covered
44 feet nine inches in a hop, step
and jump. Coach had a couple of
boys working on that event when
Tony came around and wanted to
see what he could. This Carr is a
versatile guy, and will try almost
anything. Well, Coach blinked a
couple of times when he saw where
Tony landed, and asked him to try
it again. It seems that 4l\.>feet two
inches won the national title last
year!
Freddie Wolcott has withdrawn
from the meet. He isn't at all sat-
isfied with his progress. He says
it is doubtful whether he will enter
the national meet in two weeks, but
ho> will continue working out as
often as possible until then.
WORLD'S RECORD BROKEN
Last week we reported that the
world discus record had been broken
by an Italian named Consilini. Sat-
urday this record was topped by
three feet as Bob Fitch, ex-Minne-
sots track man sailed the platter
180 feet 2% inches at the rfbrth-
west regional AAU meet. It looks
like Donaldson will have a little
competition in that event this year.
Over in Cleveland, Harrison Dil-
lard, Negro sprinter and hurdler
from Baldwin Wallace College, put
on quite a show. First he tied Wol-
cot's world record in he low hurdles
cot's world record in the low hurdles
spectacle 14.1 second high hurdles,
and finished out the day with a 9.6
hundred. It looks like he will give
Bill and Augie some competition in
a couple of weeks.
In the middle Atlantic regional
meet, Braney Ewell, ex-Penn State
Njgro star, proved he is ready to
defend his 100-meter crown. He bet-
tered by a tenth of u second Ralph
Metcalfe's world record for a 220
dash around a curve, and then ran
a 9.6 hundred. Ewell is the fellow
whv. beat Peiry Samuels in the hun-
dred meter sprint last year.
Eddi- Walso, distance runner for
Fordham University recently ran a
4.12 mile. This is the best time
turned in for that distance in this
country since Gunder Haegg went
back to Sweden three years ago.
And speaking of Swedish runners,
we see Lennart Strand, who re-
cently ran down both Haegg arid
Arne Andersson over in Sweden,
will be entered in the national meet
June 28-2!> at San Antonio.
We just noticed that Pete Wat-
kins is entered in the regional. Pete
is the boy that beat Hwnry Coff-
man's conference record in the high
jump in 1943. The high jump should
he a nice battle.
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