The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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April 10. 1942
To Pass Up 440
At Triangular Meet
Coach Emmett Branson will take
21 men to Austin for a triangular
meet with the Texas Longhorns and
the Louisiana State Tigers Satur-
day.
The Rice squad features a star-
studded east, with four men who
are individually capable of picking
up 10 points or more. Captain Har-
old Hall, who holds the conference
record in the 440, will not enter that
event, but will run the 100 and 220
instead. After looking at the order
in which the events will be run,
Brunson decided that Hall would be
able to enter both of these shorter
races and would have a chance of
picking up a possible 10 points in
the two events instead of a maxi-
mum of five if he ran the 440 only.
Hall will also run on both the
sprint and mile relay teams with
Neath, Cummins, and Mattingly.
Christopher Favored
Billy Christopher is favored to
win both the broad jump and the
high jump, and will run on the 440
and possibly the mile relay teams.
Bill Cummins, versatile sophomore,
will be entered in five events, the
high and low hurdles, the broad
jump, pole vault, and the sprint re-
lay, and may be called on to do a
little high-jumping if he is needed.
Jim Deal and Bill Blackburn should
finish one-two in the shot put, and
Deal will have little competition in
the discus throw. Bob Neath and
Jim McClesky will be the Rice en-
tries in the 440, where Oris (Arky)
Erwin, national collegiate 440-yard
hurdler kiny and his teammates A1
Sanders and Felix Jumonvillc are
r r-avily favored.
Two Houston pre-meds. Bill Spil-
ler and Bob Lewis, both of whom
recently joined the track team after
having come up through intra-
murals, will face college competition
for the first time Saturday, Spiller
in the 100-yard dash and Lewis in
the 220.
In addition to Umstattd, confer-
ence 880 record-holder, Texas has
such performers as sprinter Max
Minor and pole vaulter Dave Small
and two fine relay teams each of
which holds earlier decisions over
the Owls. LSU will b r i n g along
Laguens a n d Gilliland, Southeast
hurdles champion. The Tiger relay
combination consists of Erwin, Ju-
monville, Doug Colley, and Sanders.
fennis Matches
With LSU Tigers
Here Tomorrow
Having a loss and a tie to show
for their first two starts against
Tulane and Durant (Okla.) Teach-
ers, the tennis team will play LSU
here at 2 p.m. Saturday on the var-
sity courts.
Captain Jack Rodgers, who de-
feated Tulane's Earl Bartlett here
two weeks ago to keep his record
for singles play this year unblem-
ished, will meet either Bernie Jaco-
by or Billy Umstadter in the num-
ber one singles match. Umstaedter,
who was national indoo r junior
champion in was held out of
competition last year because of a
broken vertebra.
For the feature doubles match
Rodgers will team with Rice's left-
handed sophomore Ray Gladman to
play the top LSU combination of
Jacoby and Billy Owens. Bryant
B r a d 1 e y and Jimmy Whitehurst,
who will play the third and fourth
singles spots for the Owls will
tackle Umstaedter and Jack Lanier
in the other doubles match.
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By Drew Pearson and Hubert S. Allen
Shocking!
Massingill
Declares
Everett Nominee
For Presidency
Of Baptist Group
Billy Everett has been nominated
as president of the city-wide BSU,
according' to an announcement from
retiring officers of the organiza-
tion. Other nominations include:
vice - presidents, Dorothy Lanmon,
Mary A nee Abell. Ralph Ford, Mose
Allen Treadwell, and Jimmy Cot-
ton; secretary, Lois Johnson: Local
Student editor, Bonnie Sue Wool-
ridge; treasurer. Mickey Norman; j
representatives, S a m M o s s and j
Clenna Russell; scrap book chair-j
man, Margaret Vickery; reporter, I
Betty Lee Secor; and poster chair-1
man, Elizabeth Sterling.
Baseball Schedule
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March 25—Texas at Houston
March 31—Baylor at Waco
April 1—Texas at Austin
April 2—Texas at Austin
April 9—Baylor at Houston
April 10—Baylor at Houston
April 16—SMU at Houston
April 17—SMU at Houston
April 21—A. & M. at Houston
April 24—A. & M. at College Station
April 25—A. & M. at College Station
April 30—TClT at Houston
May 7—SMU at Dallas
May 8—TCU at Fort Worth
March 9—TCU at Fort Worth
With many an anecdote showing
how easy it is to get into a shock-
ing situation in a power plant, Jen-
nings Massingill, senior electrical
engineer, e n t e r t a i n e d the Rice
AIEE branch last Monday, dis-
cussing his s u m m e v engineering
work at the Gable Street plant of
the Houston Lighting and Power
Company.
In addition to results of an effi-
ciency test on the high and low
pressure boilers in the plant, Mas-
singill explained some of the safety
rules used to avoid electrocution of
the personnel. When a workman
goes out to work on a line, Massin-
gill said, he has the operator open
the switch, and then marks the
switch himself with a signed red
tag. Nobody, for any reason, can
close that switch until he personal-
ly comes back and removes the tag.
Flaming Oil Hazard
Besides the hazards of contact
with hi.ti'h voltage, Massingill ex-
plained. men are sometimes burned
to death by flaming oil released
when a circuit breaker or other oil-
filled equipment fails.
The meeting was the first of an
AIEE series which will feature stu-
dent. faculty, and outside speakers.
The final banquet of the group will
be held May 3 in Galveston.
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TENNIS SCHEltl l.K
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April 11 LSI'. Houston.
River Oak-! Tnuinampm (if held.i
April 21 A. M.. Collate Station U-nta-
t.ive I.
April 20 Teva<. Houston.
May 1 - Maylur. Houston.
May !t Stilt'. Houston.
May 7-H ('onfi-reTH-e Meet. Dulltis.
Navy Patroling Insufficient?
Washington.— Some v e r y heroic
stories have appeared in the news-
papers recently telling how sailors
have lived for days on rafts after
their ships were sunk by Nazi sub-
marines.
What these stories do not tell,
however, is the growing unrest
among seamen because of the tre-
mendous loss of life from these
sinkings. Not only are skilled sea-
men likely to become scarce along
the Atlantic coast, but their leaders
are warning that something must
be done to remedy the tragic situa-
tion
The exact number of men lost
with each ship is published by the
Navy daily. And all you have to do
is take a paper and pencil to figure
the total losses. They are terrific.
From some ships only one or two
survivors have been picked up. This
is in contrast to rescues from Brit-
ish ships of about 42 per cent.
There are two reasons for this:
1. U. S. vessels have been chiefly
tankers, which spread oil on the wa-
ter. This catches fire and burns the
men, or else the oil dings to them,
weighing them down.
2. The Navy has not been doing a
good job of patrolling' the Atlantic
Coast.
The latter conclusion is now re-
garded in Washington as inescapa-
ble. Not only are we lo-ing more
ships t h a n we are building, hue
some steamer captains c o m p 1 u i n
that in a single, day the yhave sight-
ed only one patrol plane.
Highest complaint, however, is
that the Navy will not permit t . S
fishing vessels off the Atlantic,
coasts to carry radio sending sets.
I . S. fishermen have volunteered to
help patrol the coasts, watch for
submarines, also pick up survivors.
However, without radio transmit-
ters they cannot report submarines
it' they should see one.
British fishermen, equipped with
radios, have been the eyes of the
British navy in the North Sea. Ba-
llot American fishet men.
Meanwhile we lose an average
more than one ship a day.
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