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/ Week-end Happenings Chicago, Boston Win Streaks End (Editors Note). This column, appearing for the first time to day, will be a weekly feature of the Tuesday sports page. It is hoped that the roundup will fulfill the desires of the many readers of The Battalion on the happenings of the major leagues during the previous weekend. By ANDY ANDERSON Battalion Sports Editor Probably most significant in the majors this past week was the termination of two long winning streaks. The heretofore weak sister of the American League, the Chicago White Sox had a 14 game streak halted by the Philly A’s behind the five-hit hurling of Bob Hooper. Hooper won his first game after dropping two in previous outings. The Boston Red Sox’s 10-game skein was lopped off by the lowly St. Louis Browns behind the eight-hit, 4-0 hurling of Ned Carver, the only consistent winner for the other doormat of the junior loop. Carver’s win was his seventh of the year. The Browns have won 12 all told. Brooks Beat Phils 4-3 Last Thursday there was only one game scheduled. That was be tween the Dodgers of Brooklyn and the Philadelphia Phillies which tfcas won by the Brooks, 4-3. Friday saw almost a full schedule in both leagues, except for two games washed out in the American. Tilts postponed were between Philly and Chicago and New York and Detroit. Other results saw Cleveland trim the Washington Nats 2-1 as Early Wynn won his fourth against five losses. The other game in the American was the previously mentioned 4-0 shutout by the Browns over the Bosox. ^^In the senior circuit, Sal Maglie of the New York Giants let the ttHkh place Pirates of Pittsburgh down with but five hits as he ]SBned and batted his/ New York Giants to an 8-2 win for his eighth straight success of the season. Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves won his third triumph by scattering nine hits among the Chicago Cubs as the Braves won the game, 3-2. Jim Konstanty made his umpteenth appearance in relief as the Phillies tripped the St. Louis Cardinals 7-3. Brooklyn, with Don Newcombe trying his hand at relief work, was stopped by the relief work of Herman Wehmier of the Cincinnati Reds as the Redlegs won the contest 6-5. Full Schedule On Saturday A full slate was on tap Saturday in both leagues. Notable was the 12-4 win of the Indians as Lou Brissie and Steve Gromek combined forces to scatter 10 hits among the Wash ington nine. Gromek got credit for his first win of the year. Good relief work by Willard Nixon enabled the Red Sox to stamp a 6-4 pasting on the Browns and gave starter Harry Taylor of the Red Hose his fourth win against three losses. Bob Kennedy was the loser for the Brownies. Yogi Berra's homer in the 12th inning gave the Yankees an 8-7 Triumph over the Detroit Tigers. Other action was the 5-1 win by the A’s to snap the Chisox’ winning streak at 14. -Ralph Branca won his third against one defeat as the Brooklyns defeated the Reds 2-1 on Duke Sniders homer in the sixth inning of Saturday afternoons contest. Willard Ramsdell, former Brooklyn hurler suffered his sixth loss against three wins. Knuckle-bailer Dutch Leonard saved Johnny Klipsteins 7-5 victory as the Cubs halted the Braves. Big Jim Hearn helped his own cause with a round trip per as the Giants walloped the Pirates 14-3 in Saturdays play. Ralph Kiner git his 11th. Ken Heintzelman got his second victory against five defeats when the Phillies trounced the Cards 5-2. Heintzelman set the Redbirds down with four safeties as the Phillies collected 10 at the expense of loser Tom Poholsky whose record is 4-4. (See SOX SPLIT page 4) Tuesday, June 5, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Robinson Gains First Place Among Hitters New Yoi'k, June 5—OP)—Jackie Robinson has taken over the Na tional League batting lead with a .403 average while his Brooklyn teammate Cal Abrams skidded 118 points from first to' seventh. Abrams, leading at .451 a week ago, hit safely only twice in 31 at bats during the week. His aver age is .333. Robinson slipped nine points' but moved from second to first. Stan Musial, the defending champ, moved from seventh to sec ond at .370. Pee Wee Reese of Brooklyn is third at .357 or 13 points behind Musial. Then comes Richie Ashburn of the Phils, .351. Bob Elliott of Boston is fifth at .350. Frank Baumholtz of Chicago is sixth at .338, followed in order by Abrams, A1 Dark of New York, .331, Red Schoendienst of St. Louis, .330 and Roy Campanella of Brooklyn, .327. Chicago, June 5—(TP)—The New York Yankees, owners of a fear ful reputation with the bat, have faded out of the American League’s list of hitting leaders. Larry Doby of Cleveland put together a .317 average through games of Sunday and took over tenth place among the batting leaders from Gerry Coleman, who held down that position a week ago. It was the first time since April 29 that the Yanks were unrepre sented. Ferris Fain of Philadelphia con tinued in the No. 1 spot with a .366 but was being pressed by Nelly Fox of the league leading Chicago White Sox. Fpx had .362 and was followed in third place by a teammate, Orestes Minoso, with .359. Others in the select circle were Verne Stephens, Boston, .357; Ed die Robinson, Chicago, .345; Dom DiMaggio, Boston, .344; Jim Busby, Chicago .333; and Ray Coleman of St. Louis and Gil Coan of Wash ington, tied for ninth place with .331. /(Major League, 1 ManWWi AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 203 000 000—5 11 0 Detroit 400 000 002—6 9 1 Wyse, Consuegra and GraSso; Newhouser and Ginsberg. WP— Newhouser (5-4). LP—Consuegra (3-4). 'First Game Boston 120 000 020—5 11 1 Chicago 110 130 OOx—6 10 2 Scarborough, Kinder (5), Mas- terson (7) and Moss; Pierce and Masi. WP—Pierce (7-2). LP— Scarborough (2-3). Second Game Boston 000 000 000—0 7 1 Chicago 000 002 OOx—2 8 1 Wight, Egans (7) and Rosar, Moss (7); Rogovin and Niarhos. LP—Wight (1-4). WP—Rogovin (3-1). New York .... 200 000 000—2 12 0 Cleveland .... 510 Oil OOx—8 12 0 Lopat, Byrne (3) and Berra, Sil- vera (7); Garcia and Hegan. LP— Lopat (8-1). WP—Garcia (5-3). HR—Kennedy. Philadelphia 000 141 100—7 12 1 St. Louis 002 103 000—6 13 2 J. Coleman, Shantz (5) and Tip- ton; Widmar, Pillette (5), Ken nedy (6). Mahoney (8) and Batts. HR—Limmer. WP—Shantz (4-4). LP—Kennedy 1-3). NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 220 120—7 12 2 New York ....000 000 101—2 8 1 Presko and Rice; Jansen, Spen cer (7), Gettel (9) and Westrum. HR—Musial 2, Thompson, Rice. WP—Presko (5-2). LP—Jansen (5-5). Cincinnati ....000 000 037—10 12 2 Boston 020 031 100— 7 14 2 Wehmeier, Erautt (6), Byerly (8), Smith (9) and Scheffing. Sur- kont, Donovan (9), Schacht (9), Estock (9) and Cooper. HR—Coop er, Gordon, Ryan. WP—Byerly (1-0). LP—Schacht (0-1). Pittsburgh ..203 010 051—12 17 0 Philadelphia 000 000 301— 4 12 3 Friend, Dickson’(7) and McCul lough. Meyer, Candini (3), Cris- tante (7), Miller (8) and Seminick. HR—Westlake, Bell, Hamner, Ash burn. WR—Friend (1-1). LP—Mey er (3-4). NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE W L PCT. GB W L PCT. GB Brooklyn .. 27 16 .628 Chicago 29 11 .725 St. Louis .. 24 20 .545 3% New York 27 16 .628 3y 2 New York ... ... 24 23 .511 5 Boston 26 17 .604 4y 2 Cincinnati ... ... 22 22 .500 5!4 Cleveland 24 19 .558 6y 2 Chicago .. 20 20 .500 5V 2 Detroit 19 22 .463 10 y 2 Boston ... 22 23 .489 6 Washington ... 17 24 .415 12 y 2 Philadelphia .. 21 25 .457 7 Vs Philadelphia.... 14 28 .333 16 Pittsburgh ... ... 16 27 .372 11 St. Louis 13 32 .289 is y 2 i g|l ^ . vlff': % Henry “Hank’' Foldberg . . . former Army grid star and assistant coach at Purdue Uni versity, will handle the coaching of A&M’s ends this Fall. “Hank” was named to the Aggie coach ing staff early this month but will not report to duty until the early part of July. < CS Softball League Begins Play Friday The Pirates and Yankees and the Cubs and Giants get together for games in College Hills and Col lege Park Friday afternoon at 5:45 and the Tigers and Indians get together Monday at College Park. The teams mentioned are not ones you’re familiar with, yet, but teams made up of citizens of Col lege Station to form the College Station Softball League. Play will be divided into two sessions with each team playing five games each half. First round play will end June 25 and the sec ond half on July 11. Ags Prepare for NCAA With Game Tonite at 8 In preparation for next weeks encounter in the NCAA playoffs in Omaha, Neb., the Aggies are meet ing the Bryan-College Sports to night at 8 in what was formerly Bomber Park. The Aggies pitcher or pitchers, as the case may be, have not been announced but it is probable that several hurlers will see duty during the contest. Some Aggies Play Composed of Bryan citizens and some A&M students, the Sports will play several more games this season. Members of the Sports that are familiar to many Aggies are Wally Moon, former Aggie var sity player on last season’s nine, Charlie Russell who started this season in left feld for the Farmers, Don Heft, a member of the tri champion basketball team and others. Ag Coach Beau Bell is in Austin where the state high school tour nament is now being played. He will return in time for tonight’s game. Both Loops Show Drop In Attendance New York, June 5—(TP)—Big league baseball attendance is about eight per cent behind last year on a per game basis although the total draw is'97,585 ahead of the 1950 figures. The difference comes from the games played, 297 this year compared to 269 last year. Conse quently ,the American and Na tional have drawn 4,315,634 to 4, 218, 049 in ’50. Despite the larger ball parks in the American, the National is showing the way with 2,297,367, well distributed among all eight teams. Figuring an average home attendance the National for ’51 is 14,822 to 15,338 last year—a' decrease of three per cent. Philadelphia and St. Louis are the weak sisters of the American, both running behind last year’s sorry figures. As a result, the American has drawn 2,018,267 paid or 14,213 per home date. The 1950 average at this time was 16,100— a drop of 12 per cent. A full list of the teams the Aggies will compete with in the national meet in Omaha is not available at this time, but the Oklahoma Sooners will represent District 5 as they trimmed the University of Houston in a two- game playoff in Houston Friday and Saturday to gain the right to represent their district. They will play the winner of the Big Ten. Other teams that are scheduled are Southern California represent ing District 8; Princeton from Dis- Texan Tops List Of Qualifiers For Nat’l. Open New York, June 5—(AP) — Jack Harden of El Paso, rip ped six strokes off par to lead scattered sectional qual ifying trails yesterday for next week’s U. S. Open Golf Tour nament. The open will be at Birmingham, Mich., June 14-16. Harden fired rounds of 68-66 over the par 70 Amarillo country club course to post a 134 that out shone the efforts of some of the biggest names in golf. Playing over the same course, Charles Klein of San Antonio turned in a 66-70—136 for second best among the early returns from 29 regional centers. The largest list—132—sought 16 places in the New York Metropol itan Trials, staged over two cour ses—Quaker Ridge (par 70) and Fenway (par 71). Two veteran barnstorming pro fessionals — Herman Barron of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Clayton Heaf- ner *of Charlotte, N. C.—paced these tests with identical par 141’s. Argentina’s professional champ ion, Robert De Vicenzo, qualified for the New York area, with 71- 76—147. Other qualifiers included Claude Harmon of Rye, N. Y., for mer masters champion, with 73- 70—143 and Ed (Porky) Oliver of Wilmington Del., with 75-69—144. The competition at Quaker Ridge and Fenway was so keen that a number of outstanding performers were left outside looking in. trict 1 and Ohio State from District 4. Leading the Aggies into the round-robin type of playoff will be pitchers Pat Hubert, winner of 12 while dropping only one over the season, Bob Tankersley with a 5-4 record and shortstop and team captain Guy Wallace, who topped the Aggie batsmen over the season with a .348 mark. Right behind Wallace in the hitting department is A1 Ogletree with a .313 mark and bunched at • around .300 a,re Yale Lary with .307, Joe Ecrette, hitting .306 and Shug McPherson, an even .300. Aggies topped the conference or were high in several departments during the regular season. Wallace led in the run-scoring department with 22; Lary was second in total number of hits at 23; first in doubles with nine to his credit and second in home runs with three. “Yogi” Candelari was the top base swiper with seven while Lary whs one of the top in the RBI depart ment with 17. DallasWidensLcad With 2-1 Victory Tulsa, Okla., June 5—(A 5 )— Southpaw Ralph Albers pitched a two-hitter last night as Tulsa com mitted six errors and the Dallas Eagles edged the Oilers 2-1. Houston, June 5—(TP)—Houston’s Buffs won a double-header from Shreveport last night, 2-1 and 3-2. Billy Costa, sparkplug short stop, went out of the second game with an injured foot. X-ray’s show ed Costa had a bad sprain and Buff team physician Dr. Carl Young said that normally he would be out for about 10 days. Fort Worth, June 5—(TP)—The Fort Worth Cats, getting a start on Mickey Livingston’s two-run homer in the second inning, erupt- etd for four luns in the fifth and eight in the sixth here last night as they smothered Oklahoma City 16-5. TEXAS LEAGUE Team San Antonio Houston Tulsa W L Pet. GB ..34 20 .630 .31 23 .574 3 .30 24 .556 4 ..31 25 .554 4 ..28 27 .509 6y 2 23 31 .426 11 ..22 34 .393 13 ..23 38 .377 14 y 2 ' WELCOME TO AGGiELAND NEW AND OLD AGGIES See Us For BOOKS DRAWING EQUIPMENT ANY AND ALL SUPPLIES SP< )RT SHIRTS and SLACKS MILITARY UNIFORMS TENNIS SHOES SPORTS EQUIPMENT Your Campus Headquarters THE EXCHANGE STORE “SERVING TEXAS AGGIES”