Cress Cops Top
Honors in AAU
Gymnastic Meet

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS, April 28.—Lt. John

»| Cress, former national intercol-
legiate champion representing
the San Antonio Y.M.C.A.,
romped off with major honors
Saturday night in the South-

- | western A.A.A. gymnastic cham-

 

pionships, in. which 65 entries
competed here.

Cress won the all-round cham-
pionship and the senior title on
the horizontal bars ahd the fly-
ing rings.

Paul Chapman of the Dallas
Athletic Club won the senior
tumbling championship and
Skippy Browning of the D.A.C.| ,
-|the- trampoline crown.

Other champions: crowned
.| were Beverly Newby, D.A.C.,
junior girls’ tumbling; Grace
Buckley, Fort Worth recreation
| department, senior girls’ tumb-
ling; Frank Chapal, San Antonio
Y, junior division horizontal
‘| bars; Bill Willis, D.A.C., junior

flying rings, and Frank Stran-
sky, Dallas Sokol Club, side
horse open competition.