The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 27, Ed. 1, Friday, May 4, 1956 Page: 3 of 4
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BONNIE HUCKABEE junior from Andrews sails his lariat over the head of one of Goat Mayo's
xodeo calves in the Saturday afternoon performance of the Hardin-Simmons Intercollegiate Rodeo
held in Myers Arena.
Sul Ross Wins H-SU's
10th Annual Rodeo
Sul Ross cowboys and cowgirls
rolled up 405 points to Hardin-
Simmons' 350 to take top honors
in the 10th annual Hardin-Simmons
University Rodeo which
closed Saturday night at Carl
Myers Arena.
Third and fourth place honors
went to Texas Tech with 255
points and New Mexico A&M
with 250.
Judged as the rodeo's All-
Around Cowboy was University
of Arizona's Jim Shupe.
The final performance opened
Saturday night with approximate-
ly 2000 spectators in the stands.
First event of the evening was
the bareback bronc 'show "which
found Gene Graham Sul Ross;
Dave Hopper Texas Tech; Bran-
don McReynolds and Jim. Sealy
both of San Angelo Junior Col-
lege; and H-SU's Bobby Wede-
king turning in the top rides.
Shupe Top Man
Second go-round in the bare-
back riding went to Sealy Clay
Evans and Buck.McGonagill both
of Sul Ross and Hopper. Jim
Shupe of the University of Ari-
zona was top man in the aver-
age. He was followed by Sealy Bob
Powell Sul Ross and Hopper.
Two H-SU Cowboys set the pat-
tern in calf-roping. Scottie How-
ard tied his calf in 13.9 and Bill
Gray's time was 14 seconds flat.
Second go-round in calf-roping
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was won by Gerald Leonard
Texas Tech Howard Gray and
Ronnie Huckabee of H-SU. Leon-
ard was also the top man in the
average with .Huckabee Howard
and Johnson following.
Pat Dunigan of New Mexico
A&M and Pat Merriott of ACC
turned in the best time in the
flag race with marks of 14.1 and
14.4 seconds respectively.
Sims First
Betty Sims of New -Mexico
A&M was tops in the barrel race
with a time of 21.1 seconds.
ACC's Merriott was second with
21.6 and Miss Dunigan followed
with 21.7. Fourth best time was
posted by Peggy Tate of H-SU
vith 23 seconds flat.
Miss Sims was the winner of
both the second go-rounds and
the average in the barrel race
Poke Netters Beat
Buffaloes 6-0
The H-SU netters warmed up
for the Border Conference tour-
nament next Saturday as they
whitewashed the West Texas
State Buffaloes 6-0 in a match
played last Saturday on the H-SU
courts.
In winning the Pokes brought
four losses and two ties. '
Herring continued his fine play
as he downed Bill Nichols 6-2
6-3 in the No. 1 singles "match.
Donnie Campbell defeated Ronnie
Smith 6-3 6-4.
Freddie Kniffen won the No.
3 singles with a 7-5 6-4 win
over Joe Dickerson and Jerry
Goad defeated Ray Graham 6-2
6-0.
Herring and Campbell won the
.No. 1 double match over Nichols
and Smith 6-3 6-4 and Kniffen
and Goad beat Dickerson and
Graham 6-1 6-1.
The Pokes will play a return
match with the Buffs Thursday
and Friday will meet Texas Tech
at Lubbcck.
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and was also named the best all-
round cowgirl.
In the flag race H-SU's Betty
Osborne was ffrst in both the
second go-round and the overall
average.
Poss Pollard Win
The goat sacking contest which
incidentally seemedt to be the
highlight of the evening for about
half the fans was won by Delnor
Poss and Jo Ann Pollard for the
third straight time.
Buddy Cockerell of H-SU won
first place in the second go-round
of the bulldogging with a time
of 5.5. Jody Jones of Sul Ross was
second jind H-SU's Gip Lovejoy
was xnira.
Jones won the average Cock-
erell was second Hopper was
third and Wedeking was fourth.
A&M Capture First Second
Pete and Buz Fredericks of
New Mexico A&M placed one
two in both the average and the
second go-round in the saddle
bronc.
Tom Pterez of New Mexico
A&M won Saturday night's rib-
bon roping contest with a time of
14.3. Huckabee was second with
15.8.
The cowboys and cowgirls par-
ticipating in the rodeo represent-
ed nine colleges and universities
of the Southwest District of the
National Intercollegiate Rodeo
Association.
Co-sponsors of H-SU's rodeo
team are Bill Ledbetter Athletic
Director and Sam Baugh head
football coach.
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Tennis Team Ties
ETS Lions 3-3
The Hardin-Simmons tennis
team rallied behind the fine
nlavinc of Bill Herring and Jerry
Goad to tie the East Texas State
Lions 3-3 in a match played at
Commerce last Wednesday.
East Texas was shooting for
their 13th consecutive match vic-
tory having been last defeated
by the Pokes on the H-SU courts
early in March.
Herring used a powerful serve
in taking the No. 1 match from
Melvin Setzer 6-0 6-2. East
Texas's Barry Pelton .defeated
Donnies Campbell in the No. 2
match 6-1 6-4. Mac Bane defeat-
ed Freddie Kniffen 6-0 4-6 614
in the No. 3 match.
Jerry "Goad gave the Pokes
their second singles victory as
he defeated Bob" Brackeen 6-3
In the No. 1 doubles the top
Hi in of Peltonvand Bane defeat
ed Herring and Campbell. 7-5
6-3. Kniffen and Goad defeated
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After a very brief four or five
week vacation the "coin" has re-
turned to the ranks to continue
his obliterated inconsistent au-
dacious and incomparable poison
penmanship.
First of all the "coin" would
like to clear up some unfinished
business pertaining to a state-
ment made on the spur of the
moment in connection with the
golf team. It seems that the "coin''
told several members of the links
squad that if they could beat
TCU 6-0 in a dual match played
in Fort Worth he would retract
all the unfavorable remarks writ-
ten about them this year.
So in light of the circumstances
the "coin" feels that it is his duty
to do so as of now. (The fact
that all five of them are standing
here while this is being written
has absolutely nothing to do with
the "coin's" decision.)
Blair Wins
While on the topic of golf it
certainly should be pointed out
that Duane Blair senior from
Vernon captured top honors last
weekend at the Cisco Invitational
Tournament with his 1-up cham
pionship victory over Weather-
ford's Fred Winstead.
The stocky three year letter-
man also won the medalist hon-
ors prior to the actual match play
with a one-under par 69.
Meanwhile at Sweetwater Ar-
lyn Scott Henry Whitley and
Jimmy Dixon were participating
in the annual Sweetwater Invita-
tion. Scott bowed out in his first
match Dixon in his second and
Whitley went on to the finals of
first flight before he was elimi-
nated. Bubba
Also at Sweetwater was John
(Bubba) Markham of Stamford
who is a transfer "stadentfrom
TCU. Markham dropped out in
the quarterfinals of the champion-
ship flight after carrying his op-
ponent to the 20th hole.
Frank Freer ex-Cowboy golfer
and last year's BRAND Sports
Editor won the tournament by
beatfng Texas Tech's John Paul
Cain 6-4 in the finals.
H-SU's first annual All-Letter-men's
banquet held Tuesday night
in Rose Field House resulted in
a tremendous success. L. R.
(Dutch) Meyer Athletic Director
at TCU proved to be an extreme-
ly capable and entertaining
speaker.
Interview
Tn a nprsonal interview nre-
ceding the banquet Meyer stated
that this year's riomea uxog ioot-
ball squad will be one of the
strongest and well rounded in the
school's history. He replied "With
Chuck Curtis and Jim Swink in
the backfield and linemen like
"Norm TTnmiltnn and .Top Williams
spearheading up front we might
just move ngnt oacK into tne toi-
ton Bowl."
When asked his opinion of H-
SU Coach Sammy Baugh he re-
marked "Old Sam was one of
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the greatest players if not the
greatest that the game of foot-
ball has ever seen."
Congrats
Meyer said in closing that it
would be appropriate to point out
the fact that he (Meyer) is prob-
ably the best dominoe player in
the Southwest. This statement
could probably be contested but
we'll print it anyway.
Congratulations to Whatley
Poss Owens and Cleckler upon
their "outstanding player" awards.
Apparently they were worthy re-
cipients of the honors.
NEKI HOKEY
Poke Nine Knocks
Red Raiders 5-4
The H-SU baseball showed
marked improvement as they
knocked of the favored Texas
Tech Red Raiders 6-4 in a tilt
played last Thursday at Blue Sox
Stadium.
It was the second victory for
the Pokes and the seventh defeat
for the Red Raiders.
A big four-run uprising in the
seventh was the turning point
with Lee McLaughlin's double
and Carlos Berry's triple being
the big blows.
Berry only Cowboy hurler to
win this season got his second
victory. He allowed 11 hits
struck out 10 and walked five.
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The Pokes closed the home
baseball season on a disappoint-
ing note last Friday as they
bowed to the Raiders 11-6.
For seven innings it looked as
iftbe BoJces owpuld hand the
Raiders their second straight de-
feat but the Raiders tied the
score in the eighth and then ex-
ploded for five big runs in the
ninth.
The Pokes put on their best
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