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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1W0
Top Tennis Stars In Action Here
Owls Absorb First Loss,
Aim For Second League Win
By Wayne Terwilliger
Thresher Sports Staff
The Rice Owls went down to
their first defeat of the young
baseball season Tuesday after-
noon, hung with a 9-3 loss by the
always troublesome Bearkats of
Sam Houston State.
Friday the Owls tangle with
Tech on the Rice diamond before
journeying to Austin Saturday
for a conference tilt with the
Texas Longhorns..
Profitable Weekend
Dell Morgan's crew enjoyed a
very profitable weekend by chalk-
ing up victories over Texas Lu-
theran and Texas Christian, but
suddenly went sour during their
visit to Huntsville. The Owls
committed seven errors afield and
could show only six hits for the
afternoon.
However, it was a much dif-
ferent story on last Friday and
Saturdav. The Owls blasted 15
hits off of three TLC pitchers
while posting a 12-8 victory.
Richard Kristinik led the attack
with four hits including a double
and Lee Raesener added three
singles.
Jim Brock worked the first five
innings and allowed nine hits al-
though he fanned seven. Bill Don-
aldson finished up and struck out
six in a four inning stint. Brock
received credit for the win, his
second in the Owls' first two
games.
TCU Thriller
On Saturday the Owls provided
a Frank Merriwell finish to gain
a 10-9 victory over TCU in their
conference opener. Trailing 9-8
going into the last of the ninth,
Kristinik led off with his first
home run of the 1960 campaign
and Jim Fox followed with a
double.
Al Hartman sent Fox home
with the winning run as he shot a
single into left field. Hartman
was the hitting star of this ball
game with three singles. Kris
tinik, Raesener, and captain-elect
Bobby Moy all chipped in with
two hits.
Lefthander Paul Timme was
the winning pitcher although he
pitched to only one batter.
Overrated Pitchers?
The Owls' highly-rated pitch-
ing staff has not lived up to its
advanced billing thus far. They
have allowed 26 runs and 34 hits
through the first four games
while the bats of the Owls have
accounted for 32 runs on 45 hits.
Next week will be a busy one
for the team as they have a
Tuesday meeting with the Ag
gies, face Oklahoma State, last
year's NCAA champions, on Wed-
nesday and Thursday, and en-
counter a tough Baylor team on
Saturday. All of these will be
home games for the Owls.
A Campus-to-Career Case History
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Trinity, Pan Am Lead Strong
Field in 2nd Rice Tournament
Some thirty of the finest tennis players in this part
of the country will be on display at the Rice courts this
weekend, as the Owl netters host the second annual Rice
Institute Invitational Collegiate tennis tourney on Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday.
Chuck McKinley, famed fresh
man from Trinity of San An-
tonio, heads the formidable list
of competitors for the varsity
singles trophy. The teenager
from St. Louis is a member of
the U.S. Davis Cup squad, and in
New York last winter won the
national junior indoor singles and
doubles.
Foust to Repeat?
McKinley will have strong
opposition from Rice's Art Foust,
the defending champion, Paul
JUNIOR ACE—Paul Como,
former Texas High School
net champion will be one of
the prime contenders for the
singles title in the second
annual Rice Invitational Ten-
nis Tournament.
Como, last years runner-up in
SWC singles action, and stellar
sophomore Neal Marcus, who
played the top singles match
against Pan American last week.
Other schools will also be well
represented with such outstand-
ing players as Pan American's
Aussies John Sharpe and Don
Russell and Californian Jim Wat-
son; Texas' able sophomore pair
of Mac White and Neal Unter-
seher; McKinley's Trinity team-
mates John Newman (a finalist
last year) and Rod Susman; and
SMU's strong quartet of Willie
Wolfe, Bill Dixon, Bill Wright,
and Tommy Howorth. Entries
are also expected from Texas
A&M, University of Houston, and
possibly Baylor and TCU.
Greer, Kamrath Head Frosh
In addition to varsity singles,
there will also be competition in
varsity doubles and freshman-
junior college singles and doubles.
Pan American's Sharpe and Rus-
sell will be defending their
doubles title, and Jack Kamrath
of Texas and DeEdward Greer of
Rice head a promising field in
the freshman division.
The overall winner of the meet
will take home the giant silver
bowl of the Wilbur Hess-Frank
Guernsey Challenge Trophy do-
nated by the Sorg printing com-
pany of Texas in honor of two
Rice exes who won the national
collegiate doubles championship.
The trophy is currently on dis-
play in the lobby of the Rice
Memorial Center.
All partisans of good tennis
are urged to attend the three-day
tourney which will see action all
day, every day.
In the master control room of San Diego TV station KFMB-TV, Max Deere
discusses a new studio-transmitter linl. with chief engineer C.harles Abel.
His "temporary" job became a career
Max P. Beere spent two years at the Uni-
versity of Hawaii while with the U. S.
Navy, then earned his B.S. degree in
Engineering at the University of Utah,
where he served as technical lighting di-
rector for numerous campus theater and
television shows.
On graduating in 1055, he fancied a
television career for himself, but felt that,
being married, he couldn't afford to serve
a TV apprenticeship.
Max had an interview with the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Company in
Los Angeles. "I was offered a position in
transmission engineering," he says. "It
sounded great—but I really thought of it
as a 'temporary' thing until I could get
into television."
Max's TV career came sooner than he
had hoped. Assigned as telephone com-
pany liaison with the TV networks, he
was soon surveying microwave relay
routes for the '"Witle^Wide World" show,
and working on "remote" and mobile
telecasts from such interesting locations
as Death Valley and rocket-launching
sites deep in the desert.
In August, 1958, he was transferred to
San Diego, where he took on full respon-
sibility for TV-and-radio Special Serv-
ices. This led to a particularly satisfying
assignment in early 1959 —the develop-
ment of a new and successful closed-cir-
cuit educational TV system for 18
elementary schools in Anaheim.
"The telephone company really
opened my eyes," says Max. 'it's a fine
place to work, where new ideas are wel-
comed and recognized and chances for ad-
vancement are excellent. I'm sold on it"
Max Beere is one of many young men with varied college back-
grounds who are finding stimulating careers in the Bell tele-
phone Companies. Learn about opportunities for you# Talk
with the Bell interviewer when he visits your campus—and read
the Bell Telephone booklet on file in your Placement Office.
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Cindermen Win First
Track Meet Since 1956
Winning eight of ten running
events and scoring points in all
but two events Saturday, Rice's
1960 track team won Rice's first
track meet in three years, as the
Owls outscored a game but out-
manned A&M squad 65-58%.
High point man for the Owls
was Mickey Hollingshead, junior
sprinter who accounted for 12Vz
points with firsts in the 100 and
220, along with a fine anchor
leg on Rice's winning sprint re-
lay team and a 49.5 lap on the
Owls' victorious mile relay four-
some.
Next hiph for the Owls was
Norman Charlton, winner of'both
the high and low hurdles, fol-
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eight points. Weber won the mile
in 4:20.8 and then returned to
capture second in the two mile.
Aggies, Bears Saturday
This Saturday the Owls jour-
ney to College Station to take on
the Aggies and Baylor in g. trian-
gular meet. This will be their
last encounter' before the Texas
Relays April 1 and 2.
The Owls' chances for a first
Saturday will again depend on
their showing in the running
events, as the Cadets and Baylor
are expected to dominate the
field events. Despite a 41.0 clock-
ing by Baylor in the sprint relay
last week, the Owls should win
all running events except the 880
and two mile. However, the only
two field events in which the
Owls have much hope of blue
ribbons are the broad jump and
the javelin.
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