The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1947 Page: 3 of 4
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By Ralph Lindrun
SOFTBALL
The aix scheduled games were
played last Saturday bringing to a
close the playoffs to decide the win-
ners of each of two leagues. These
winners are to play in the finals
one day this week.
For the East League the South-
enders went the entire series of
games without a loss to take that
league- Bill Malseed and Bartles-
meyer comprised the original bat-
tery for the team until in the middle
CONFERENCE MEET
Sparked by Big George Kaderajp
fifteen points the Texas Aggies
broke the dominance of the Texas
Longhorns on the cinderpaths in
Waco last Saturday. The Aggies
must credit Arkansas with an as
sist in their victory, though, for
the Razorbacks came through with
unexpected strength in the field
events to take away many points
Texas had been counting on.
The final score was 69 and one-
third points for the Aggies, 55 and
one-third for Texas, and 35 and one-
third for Arkansas, 18 for Rice, and
8 for Baylor. Both TCU and SMU
failed to score.
Jerry Thompson tied Kadera for
. .u i a. it rr i i high point man by winning all three
of the game aga nst the Knockouts, " . .
" " 1 of the onger d stance races. He set
when Bartlesmeyer broke his fin-
ger skidding into second. George
Podebarac finished that game and
caught the last one against the
Science Faculty. Thu rest of the us-
ual roster includes: Bernie Duncan,
Tom Lasseter, Leon Barnes, Elmer
Manty, Louis Rubin, Joe Tamasy,
Jim Moore and Rollin Jefferies.
In the West league the Sheiks,
also winning all their games, out-
scored all opponents and have the
honor of going into the finals rep-
resenting that league. Buddy Rusa
pitched all the games with the ma-
jority of the outs being strikeouts
chalked to his credit. Russ had an
able catcher in the personage of
-Carl Schwartz and in one game
Bob Foley. The rest of their ros-
ter includes Tom Roach, Willie
Croucher, Charles Swartz, Herman
Rethmeyer, Jack Marshall, Orville
Gaither, Miles Croom, Schneider,
Ray Hilton, and Harry Hoover.
The time of the final game is as
yet not decided upon and as this is,
the last Thresher of the year, there
will be no writeup to it. The Shieks
have the faster pitcher, but Malseed
seems to have the better fielding
team behind him.
Every team in the East League
played all their scheduled games
while in the West, only three fin-
ished. The league standings are giv-
en below;
East
W
L
Pet
Southenders
. 5
0
1.000
Slippery Slimth
4
1
.800
Knockouts
8
2
.000
Science Faculty
2
3
.400
Rally Club
1
4
.200
Sock Kings
0
5
.200
West
w
L
Pet
Sheiks
5
0
1.000
Hopeful Hams
2
1
.666
R. A. N. ,
3
2
.600
Foul Nine
2
2
.500
Navy Nine
1
4
.200
Hltless Wonders
0
4
.000
Credit must
be given
to
two'
teams who were good, yet never
seemed to find the mark in a game.
These teams are the Navy Nine,
who came within one run of beat-
ing the R. A. N. and within two
runs of beating the Sheiks, and
the Rally Club who won only one
gatfte but lost to the Southenders
in a ten* inning game which saw
them go down in their first defeat
by a score of 4 to 5.
This year has seen the start of
a re-birth of an intramural pro-
gram here at the Institute which-this not happened, for he was con-
should climb back to the position of
top activity on the campus in a few
years.
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a new record in the mile by cover-
ing the distance in 4:20.4 to break
our Coach Branson's record by 1.4
seconds.
Clyde Scott, the Razorback's
great football player, was a third
versatile athlete who scored heavily.
Clyde nosed out Erfurth in both
hurdles events, placed second in
the javelin inches behind Kadera,
and ran u leg on the Arkansas
fourth place sprint relay team.
Henry Coffman came very close
to setting a new high jump record
of 6' 8". After winning the event
at fi'fi" Hank moved the bar up two
inches in order to try for a new
record. In his first two attempts
he barely knocked the bar off, but
on his third and last try Hank land-
ed in the pit with the bar suspend-
ed above him. For a moment it .ap-
peared that Hank had again broken
the S. W. C. record, but before he
could get out of the pit the bar fell
to the ground.
Augie Erfurth was nosed out by
Scott in both hurdles, but Scott had
to chalk up remarkable time to beat;
Augie. The time for the highs was
14.2 seconds, and for the lows it
was 23.1 seconds, just a tenth of
a second off Wolcott's record. Al-
though he qualified in Friday's pre-
liminaries Bill Cummins decided
that his injured leg wasn't yet rea-
dy for anything as strenuous as
hurdling and he passed up all events
Saturday. It was a shame that had
to happen to Bill in his last con-
ference meet, for we all remember
he entered in his last meet four
years ago. He came off with high
point honors that day to go down
as one of the most versatile ath-
letes in modern track history.
Jim Hoff came through with a
fine performance to register a 1:57
half-mile. Jim was beaten by inches
by Hahn of A&M after a battle all
the way down the stretch in a race
for second place. Just a few days
before the meet Bob Porter had
the misfortune to pull a leg muscle.
'We had looked for him to upset
Thompson in the half-mile, but Bob
had a hard enough time walking
Saturday, not to mention running.
Vern McGrew tied for second
place in the high jump with two
Arkansas boys. All three of them
cleared 8'4". Weldon Humble placed
third in the shot even after hurting
his arm while qualifying on Friday.
"Doc" Wojecki worked on Weldon's
arm Friday night and had him work
out there again Saturday. Weldon
might have well won the event had
sistently beaten the 46' 1" which
took first for Kadera.
Rice also took a point in the mile
relay as the team of Spencer, Kraft,
Cox and Hoff came in fourth. This
event, the last on the program, held
the outcome of the meet as Texas
had to win in order to gain a tie
with the Aggies. At the end of
three laps Texas led, mainly be-
cause of the running of Desmond
K i d d, but Art Harnden quickly
sprinted past Monroe Northcutt and
then held his lead down the stretch
to win by two yards.
The Aggies really showed their
supremacy in the 440 dash as Ham-
den, Holbrook, and Bilderback came
in ahead of Kidd of Texas. Al-
though Kidd ran a 48.8 second quar-
ter he finished behind the three
Aggies.
Perry Samuels beat Martineson
by inches in the hundred yard dash.
Perry got away to a flying start
and held his lead although Martine-
son, Lawler, Fowler, and Parker
were almost beside him at the fin-
ish. That was the first time Parker
has ever finished out of the money
in a foot-race, but the competition
was some of the beat the nation has
to offer. Parker did get one of hit
worst starts, but when five boys
run a> close as they do, that start
means everything.
The 280 yard dash was a different
race as Parker continued unbeaten
in this event. This is
At&MkreaceGoU
Meet at Baylor
Playing hard in poor weather, the
Owl golf team was forced out of
the conference championship by
Tax#* last Thursday at Waco.
Thursday was very windy and all
scores were proportionally high, so
a few poor rounds for some of the
team gave Texas about a ten stroke
lead that Rice could not pick up
the following day. The team as a
whole turned in a much better per-
formance Friday, in spite of the
rain, but they dropped another five
strokes to give Texas the cham-
pionship.
The match was scored by medal
play with the four best men being
used for the final tally. For Rice
they were Burke, who shot the low
individual score on one round,
Garth, Plumbley, and Baird. Most)
of the trouble came the first day
when all scores were fairly high,
with the low at 69 and the high at
87. Garth had difficulty with his
puts and Baird was way off on his
first two rounds. The following day
suw much better playing all the way
around, but it was not enough to
catch the leading Longhorns.
Early in the year Coach NiSely
promised that if Rice took a high
place in the conference that he
would let them go to the National
Intercollegiate meet at Ann Arbor,
Michigan late in June. The second
place the Owls turned in should
clinch the trip for them.
The conference meet winds up the
season for the golf team. They won
only one college match, the last one
before the play-off against Bay-
lor. They lost the rest to Texas,
S. M. U., T. C. U., and Baylor, and
took a pre-season match with La-
mar. Despite the fact that the sta-
tistics indicate a poor season, Rice
showed up very well match for
match. They managed to pull out
of a slump at the first of the year
to come hack in a return match1,
against Baylor and then dropping
the conference championship by on-
ly 15 strokes.
race. Lawler was second, Fowler
was third, and Cotton fourth.
The Texas sprinters set a new
record in the sprint relay with a
41.2 second lap. This, cracked by .2
seconds the time established by a
Rice team back in 1938 when Wol-
cott and Harold Hall were running.
Kadera concentrated on the jav-
elin on Saturday after posting pre-
liminary marks in the discus and
shot put which were good enough
to win. He got off the best jave-
lin throw of his career, and he had
to do that to beat Scott. George's
throw of 188'1" beat Scott's best
by some nine inches, although Scott
was more consistent by placing
most of Atis efforts better than 180'.
George's marks of 148' in the discus
was lower than expected, but yet
some seven feet better than Krames
(Texas) second place.
Three Aggies tied for first in
the pole vault as no one could clear
12'6". Hill and Jay, both Aggies,
i took first and second in the broad
jump. Texas dominated the distance
events as Thompson, Sparks, and
Hafernich finished one, two, three
in the mile and Whisenant and
«ookes followed Thompson around
; eight lap-grind.
MEETS COMING
Track season is over as far as
the Conference is concerned but
there are several big meets yet to
come. This week Coffman and Er-
furth will compete in the Los An-
geles invitational meet against a
picked group from all over the
country. Rumors have it that Fitch
will be there, so the discus throw
should be worth watching.
The Southwest-Big Six track
meet will be held June 13 at Dallas.
This meet is being held for the first
this year, chiefly to bridge the long
gap between the conference meets
and the N. C. A. A. and A. A. U.
meets. All boys who placed third
or better in the Conference meets
will go to this one, with Coffman,
Erfurth, McGrew, Hoff and Humble
going from Rice. The Southwest
Conference should show the Big Six
a few things in this meet.
The next day, June 14, the region-
al A. A. U. meet will be held in
San Antonio. Some of the boys may
try to make this one too.
Next comes the N. C. A. A. meet
at Salt Lake City, and finally the
climax of the track season with the
National A. A. U. meet the 4th and
5th of July at Des Moines, Iowa,
Last year in the National A. A.
U. Rice took second place among
the colleges, finishing second only
to Illinois, and took fifth in the
overall, field. We might be up there
again this year, but the competition
will be pretty tough'. A lot will de-
pend on whether Bill Cummins' leg
ia ready.
There are some projected Euro-
pean trips for the outstanding track
men of the nation, and several
Southwest Conference boys may get
to make the trips. All these meets
are scheduled to give the trackmen
more experience, pointing toward*
next year's Olympics which will be
held in
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Three
Complete with coach, the Rice
tennis team poses for their formal
portrait. They are: back row, left
to right, Coach Quinn Connelly,
Cecil Barfield, Bob Foley and Bob
Curtis. Front row, Chick Harris,
Bob Harris and Sam .Match.
Match and Curtis
To Tour U.S. with
Big Tennis Stars
Sam Match and Bob Curtis will
have a busy summer tennis sched-
ule this year. Sam Match is rank-
ed 12th nationally in men's singles
and he and Bob Curtis are heading
for the national Intercollegiate dou-
bles crown. Their schedule is as fol-
lows;
The Texas State open tournament
at Dallas on June 2
The Southern Association meet
in New Orleans on June 9
The National Intercollegiate meet
at Los Angeles on June 23. Match
should he selected number 1 at this
meet:.
The National Clay courts Tourn-
ament in Salt Lake City on July 1
And the final clay courts meet,
the Western Clay Courts Tourn-
ament at the Beverly Tennis Club
in Chicago on July 8.
After completing the clay court
schedule they go east for the grass
court tournaments beginning on Ju-
ly 20 at Seabright, N. J. followed by
meets at Southampton Long Island,
N. J., Orange, N. J. and New Port,
R. I. The national doubles meet will
be held in Boston, Massachusetts,
and the circuit will be completed
Rice Fencing Team
To Go to Austin (or
Last Meet of Year
Members of the Rice Fencing
Team will attend the three weapon
meet in Austin June 7 and 8. This
is the final event of a series of
tournaments sponsored by the Tex-
as Division of the Amateur Fen-
cers League of America for all
amateur fencing clubs in the state.
Hetty J. Fox will represent Kice
in women's foil. E. Stamm, W. L.
Cherico, and C. Holland will enter
in all three weapons, saber, epee,
and foil; and J. Albright will enter
the foil and epee competition.
"Though the Rice team will lose
No. 1 Man Stamm through gradu-
ation, the team next year should
show up exceptionally well in in-
ter-college competition with four
experienced men back at work," said
Holland, forecasting next year's
team. "Due to the late organization
of the team this year the main
emphasis has been placed on devel-
oping fencers already having had
some training. We plan to get an
early start in the fall in the funda-
mentals under the coaching of Mr. j
H. Van Buskirk and will thus be
Owls
Season with Win
Over TCUNine
The Owl nine ended the 1947 con-
ference season with a 4*8 win over
the T. C. U. Horned Frogs in Fort)
Worth last Saturday. This game
rounded out* a three day swing
through Dallas and Fort Worth.
Friday's game with the Mustangs
was rained out, but it will not be
played because of conflicting exam
schedules.
The game with S. M. U. was prob-
ably one of the weirdest contests
in the annals of Southwest Confer-
ence baseball. The Owls outhit their
oponents by the tremendous margin
of 18-8 and still came out on the
low end of the score. If this weren't
enough to satisfy the statisticians,
the Mustungs made 7 errors to
Rice's 4. The Owls made five hits
in the first inning but they only
counted for one run. In fact the
boys seemed to hit SMU's pitchers
whenever they wanted to but could
not round them into runs
The Mustangs big inning came in
the fifth when several concentrated
hits and an error tallied four runs.
Rice Tennis Team
Sweeps Conference
Meet at Austin
The Rice Tennis team made a
clean sweep of the Conference ten-
nis meet. Sam Match, number 1
man on the Rice team and seeded
1, won the singles event. Bob Cur-
tis, the number 2 man on the team
and seeded 3rd, took the second
spot. The two combined to win the
doubles. The Rice team consisting of
Sam Match, Bob Curtis, Chick Har-
ris and Bob Foley advanced to tht*
quarter-finals in singles and to the
semi-finals in doubles.
In the first round of singles,
Chick Harris beat Bogart of Baylor
fi-8, 6-0, 6-0 with the others drawing
a bye. Then in the second round,
Match defeated Jack Blanton of
Texas U, 0-2, 0-3; Foley defeated
Christian of Baylor 6-2, 4-6, 8-6:
and Harris defeated Stanley of A.
& M. 61, 6-0; Curtis defeated Bob
Goldfarb of Texas U. 7-5, 6-1.
In the quarter-finals, Match de-
feated Allen of A. & M 6-1, 6-1,
Mabry of Texas seeded second in
singles, defeated Harris 6-1, 5-7,
6-1; Kolley of Texas defeated Fo-
Cary, Stodkbridge, and Buckley j U-y 8-2, 63, and Curtis defeated
held the big stick for Rice, each j Bill Bennet 6-0,6-1.
: able to develop several new pros-
svith the national singles contest, peets for the team us well as
at Forest Hills, N. J. This schedule : start a general fencing cluli for
is a strenuous one and should be men and women,
very interesting for every Riceite ( "Several of the Texas colleges
to follow. ' ; are planning to enter womens'
0 teams for A.F.L.A. competition and
DR. FREUND — | we expect sufficient interest at Rice
(Continued from page 1)
languages to go abroad while they
are undergraduates and their minds
are young and 'optti. Students will
then realize that ail men are hu-
man brothers, a little different in
language and dress perhaps, but
still brothers.
Dr. Freund was born in Haimi-
chea, Germany. He was educated
In the Realschule, Realgymnasium
and the University of Leipzig in
Germany and at the Sorbonne in
Paris, France. He received his M. A.
and Ph. D. at the University of
Leipzig in 1802.
His lecturing career has includ-
ed work at University College in
Liverpool, England from 1903 to
1009. In 1909 he was made profes-
sor of German and Teutonic phil-
osophy at Queen's University, Bel
to be able to do the same."
getting three hits for five times
at bat. A triple by Willard was the
longest of the day. Bartlett, even
though he was the losing pitcher,
had u good day on the mound, walk-
ing only four and striking out sev-
en.
Rice 4, T. (. U. 2
At Fort Worth Saturday, the
Owls again outhit the opposing
team but this time they came out
on top side of the score too. The
final tally, Itice: -1 runs, 10 hits,
no errors. TCU: 2 runs, 7 hits, 3
errors.
Rice scored once both in the first
and the third, but the Horned Frogs
tied it up in the last of the third.
The score remained two-all until
the seventh when the Owls drove
the winning runs across. At the
plate for Itice, Buckley got three
hits for four t i m e at bat and
Stock bridge two for four. Bill Bish-1 and Curtis defeated Bei
op did a fine job on the mound for Stanford of A. & M •
the feathered flock. 1 In the wml fin«ls„ M.«i i and Kel-
The praise for the week should ' ley defeated Harris and Foley
go to Hal Stock bridge and Vincent !"■'• 6-3 and Jjhtefvund Curtis de-
Buckley for their wonderful hitting. leafed Bra .well and I'ioldfarb 6-1.
and errorless play. Buckley, who '' '
just recently broke back into the! In the finals. Match and Curtis
line up at second base, also was tho j defeated Ktdley and Mabry i.e. K-0,'
keystone man in three double plays,' 6-4.
In the semi-finals, Mutch nevei
let Kclley of Texas who seeded
fourth in singles, get to the net to
win 6 :1. (1-2, 6-1. Bob Curtis, cram*
living oversize foe I into average -izr
siioes, defeated Clarence Mabry. de-
fending singles winner 1-0, <! 2, 2-6.
6-3, Thee in the finals, Match of
Iticedefeated Curtis of Rice. 6-4, 6-2.
In doubles, Match anil Curtis
were seeded first. Mabry and Kef-
ley of Texas were seeded second,
Bars well and Goldfarb of Texas
were seeded third and Foley -,t>d
Harris were seeded fourth In the
first round, Harris and F.,1--. de-
feated Stanley and Allen of A. itlr
M. 6-e, and Match and Curtis
defeated .lonps and Martin o! S.
M. 1', 6-1,
In the quarter-finals, Harris and
Foley defeated Haffney and
bright of Baylor 3-fi. 6-3. n..: v,;. ,
•tr..'
1
position in modern English lan-
guage and literature at the Univer-
sities of Giessen and Marburg. He
served in this capacity until he re-
ceived the call to be professor of
German at Rice Institute in 1925.
Dr. Freund belongs to Man Mod-
ern Language Association of Amer-
ica, Sodth Central Modern Lan-
guage Association, American Asso-
ciation of Teachers of German, and
Texas State Teachers Association
(president of the German section
in 1938). He is also the author of
several German books.
He is untried to the former Miss
Anna Regina Keck. The Freund*
were married on July 28, IH27.
They have two children. Helene Ha-
sel Heidi and Margarete Anna R«-1
fast. Then in 1915 he acepted the, gina.
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