The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1951 Page: 7 of 10
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Variety tf Sports Programs
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by Nick Athas
With attention focused on College
Station and Justin, this week end
will see the curtain dramatically
run down on three of the four spring
sports in the Southwest conference
for the 1951 season.
College Station draws both the
SWC track meet and the SWC golf
meet, while Austin plays host to
the Conference tennis meet.
A&M virtually is assured the
track championship, with Texas
conceded a weak second. The other
places won't be decided until to-
morrow afternoon. In tennis, Texas
has already won the team champion-
ship, with SMU second, but at-
tention will go with Rice's out-
standing tennis, star, Jack Turpin in
his attempt to win the SWC singles
crown up in Austin today and to-
morrow. As a team the Owls fin-
ished the tennis season in fifth
place, with a percentage of .400.
Baylor was last.
SMU has the best record in golf
for the season in the conference but
Rice has a chance to repeat with
the individuals champion in defend-
ing champion, Buddy Weaver who
has established a fine medal aver-
age for the year.
At least four records are in dang-
er at the Conference track meet.
Darrow Hooper, Aggie weight man
is nearly certain to top the shot put
record of 50 feet 2% inches set in
1934 by Boyce Irwin of A&M. Rice
holds three records that are in dang-
er of tumbling. These' are in the
broad jump set by Mike Hale of
Rice in 1932 with a jump of 24 feet
nine and three fourths inches, the
pole vault record held by Dave
Weichert of Rice, set in 1936 with
a vault of 13 feet ten and one eight
inches, and in the half-mile run.
The record set in this event is 1:53.6
set by Otha Byrd for the Owls last
season. Byrd, who is a senior this
day. This time Byrd's strongest com-
year will be out there again Satur-
petition will come from teammate
Bill Graf, who has been top man in
the half-mile for the Owls most of
. the season.
Walt Davis, giant Aggie high
jumper is. due to crash the high
jump record 6 feet 8 and five eighth
inches set by Walters of Texas in
1S50. Jack Simpson of A&M who
has done two inches better than the
record in the pole vault several
times this season is another pos-
sible breaker. Charlie Meeks of Tex-
as is the outstanding possibility of
a new record in the broad jump.
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Baseball moves into its final
stages this week and next. Texas
dominates the scene for the second
season in a row. Last Friday the
first-place Longhorns defeated the
Rice Owls here on the Owl diamond
11-1. The Longhorns can cinch the
crown by winning all three of their
games this week. Rice will finish in
the conference cellar for the second
consecutive time in two year despite
a win in both of their last two re-
maining games today and tomorrow,
here against A&M. In conference,
play Rice has a record of three wins
against ten losses. The Owls play
hosts to the Aggies in the last two
games of the season for the Rice
nine. A win by either team in either
game will have no affect on the con-
ference standings, although a win
by the Owls might keep them out of
the cellar as far as the season in
the conference is concerned. That is
the full season's standings. A&M is
second in the conference baseball
race.
Other baseball games in the con-
ference this week show Baylor
against SMU, Texas versus TCU
and two games with SMU, TCU
plays Baylor, while Rice has two
games with A&M.
Last Saturday the Owls broke the
win column, defeating a fighting
Sam Houston State team 3-2, when
Windy Wright stole home in the
eighth inning. Devine and Bob Ken-
nedy led the hitting for the Rice
nine in this game with two hits
apiece out of four tries at bat.
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Gym Closes May 29
Students are reminded that Tues-
day, May 29 is the last day that the
gymnasium will be open this semes-
ter. All personal equipment belong-
ing to students must be taken out
of the baskets by May 28, or it will
be confiscated.
All students who expect to use
the facilities of the gym during the
first week of school next year must
report, to the Physical Education
office immediately, to sign up for
next semester.
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Big: news came this week about tearing down the old Rice
stadium, that is all but the north stands which will be left
for track meets. The rest, the big south stands and the end zone
stands, will go as soon as someone to purchase the materials
in them can be found. —
The present old Rice stadium 000 fans saw the Owls play at home
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was built in 1938 to fill the de-
mand for a large size stadium
due to the increased interest in
football. Rice won the SWC in 1938.
On completion the old Rice stadium
held 30,000 spectators. A few years
latex-, however, the end zone and box
seats were added boosting the total
capacity of the stadium to its pres-
ent size of approximately 35,000
seats when packed.
In 1946, in six home games, 169,-
in the old Rice stadium. That year
the Owls were co-champs in the
SWC. In 1949 with the Owls win-
ning the SWC outright 149,132 saw
the Owls play at home.
With greater things for the In-
stitute just around the corner, one
of its landmarks will bite the dust,
It is significant in the fact of the
progress that it shows through the
years at Rice..
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As an extra note to the tearing
down of the old stadium at least
part of it will come the demolition
of the elite Tortallia Flat, former
home of Rice athletic greats. The
Flat which was ultra modern in all
respects occupies the section of the
South stands just beneath the press
box. It was built to house about 20
athletes during the war and was
used as a dormitory until recently.
This is just a sentimental item for
those athletes.
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The SWC track meet seems to hold
the spotlight of events in sports
concerning the Institution this last
week of sports in 1951. The meet
at College Station is not in decision
(that is who will win the SWC track
title in 1951 is not a questionable
fact); it has long been known that
Texas A&M will run away with the
track championship this year. The
question remains to which school
in the conference will take the third,
fourth, fifth, and sixth spots. Even
the second spot is pretty well de-
cided. Texas can almost lay claim
to the second slot before the meet.
The question is, where will Rice
come in? Here is one writer's opin-
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