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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, March 12, 1959 PAGE 7 Aggie Baseball Team Wallops Texas Lutheran Bulldogs, 8-4 By BOB WEEKLEY Battalion Sports Editor The Aggie baseball team, paced by the tireless Larry Ayres on the mound, spored five runs in the seventh inning to come from be hind and post an 8-4 victory over the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs yes terday afternoon at Kyle Field. Ayres, a 6-1 pitcher from Paris, went the full nine innings to post the second win of the season for the Aggies, both of them credited to the righthander. Charles Mc Mahon was the losing slinger. Ayres, a sophomore, was also the first Cadet pitcher of the season to go the full nine innings. The Aggies scored three runs in the fifth and came back for five in the seventh after the Bulldogs had racked up four early runs in the first and second frames. Texas Lutheran outslugged the Farmers, sight hits to seven, but errors proved costly for the visi tors as they made four bobbles, one of the costing the Bulldogs two yuns on a passed ball. Th,e Lutheran’s opened the scor ing in the first frame when they pushed across one run on a bunt, walk and a stolen base. Three runs came trotting home in the next frame on four hits, two of them doubles. Ayres then settled down to his throwing job and retired the next nine men before allowing another hit in the top of the sixth. Ayres struck out eight men and gave up two walks while holding the Bull dogs to eight hits. A&M began their final rally in the bottom of the seventh. Sopho more Don Davis led off for the Cadets and was thrown out pn a grounder, short to first. Windel Reed stepped up to the batter’s box and hit a high in field fly that fell between the waiting hands of the catcher while Reed dashed around the infield to second. Byron Barber walked and then the Lutherans called time out to put another pitcher, Dick Carley. Carley couldn’t find the plate and walked the next two batters, Reed scoring and loading the Canadians Defeat Russians on Ice PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (A 5 )— The cautious but cool Canadian hockey team turned back its lead ing rival, Russia, 3-1 Wednesday in a game that most observers saw as the deciding one of the World Amateur Ice Hockey Champion ships. Taking - a 2-0 lead in the first period, Canada relied on close checking' and careful defense to gain its second victory of the fi nal round. Temporarily this meant only a first-place tie with the United States, which routed Finland 10-3 in an earlier game Wednesday, and with Czechoslovakia. Each has four points in the standing after two victories. But the Russians had beaten the U. S. 5-1 in the opening game of the final round Monday and were considered the only team which might halt Canada’s drive to a second straight world champion ship. The U. S. team has a day off Thursday before playing Czechos lovakia Ffiday. bases. Little Ralph' Plumlee pick ed up his bat next, took the sign al from Coach Tom Chandler and layed a perfect bunt out towards the pitcher’s mound. Somewhere along the way the Bulldogs got their signals fouled up and everybody in the infield charged the bunt, leaving no one to cover the bases and let Barber in. All other hands were safe. First baseman Dick Hickerson, the Aggies leading slugger, slashed a single to center, scoring Gary Herrington and J. B. Carroll. The inning ended with Clifford Davis flying out to center, allow ing another run to score, and Ayres grounding to second for the final out. Ayres kept the pressure on the visitors in the final two innings, throwing to only six batters and striking out two of the final three. Both of them went down with out taking the bats off their shoulders. The win gave the Aggies a 2-2 season record while the Bulldogs dropped to 1-2. Their lone win of the season came over the TCU Horned Frogs, a team the Aggies will meet in Southwest Confer ence play. Both teams will meet again Saturday Continued Success of Stone, Is Key in Ag Diamond Hope Texas A&M’s chances of bring ing home its first Southwest Con ference baseball crown since 1956 will depend heavily on the contin ued success of senior leftfielder Loyd Stone of Wichita Falls. Stone, who came to A&M last year from John Tarleton State Junior College, batted .306 in con ference play and was honorable mention for the All-Southwest Conference team. But he made it the hard way. Starred in Wichita Falls Before coming to A&M, the 5-10, 165 pound righthanded slug ger was a catcher. He started his catching some ten years ago in the YMCA league in Wichita Falls. He worked behind the plate through high school and two years at Tarleton. But when he came to A&M, Stone faced the obstacle of hav ing to compete against an 1 All- Southwest Conference catcher Gary Herrington. Stone was cer tainly too good a hitter to be warming- the bench, so former Coach Beau Bell, quickly and wisely moved Stone into leftfield. There he stayed and developed in to one of the best in the confer ence. Three Letters, All-District Stone,, the son of Mrs. Jewel Stone, 606 Lee St., Wichita Falls, was born in Wichita Falls on Feb. 22, 1937. He was a three-year let- terman in baseball at Wichita Falls High School under Coach Dick Moss. In his senior year, Stone was named to the All-Dis trict team as a catcher. Following high school, he enter ed Tarleton College on a baseball scholarship. He played under Coach Cecil Ballow, who, Stone says, “is the best coach I ever played for.” As a freshman he quickly established himself as an outstanding ballplayer. He set an all-time Tarleton record that first year by hitting seven home runs in one season and batted .297 that first year. In his sophomore year, he hit four homers and batted a respect able .372. “I quit swinging for the fence and just tried to meet the ball,” he says. Stone says he picked A&M be cause he had a lot of friends at the college. He likes the school, but is still not set on becoming an out fielder. Outfielding Is Easier “Outfielding is a lot easier, but it is not as much fun as catch ing,” he says. “When you do one thing for ten years you kind of get used to it.” After college Stone hopes to try his hand at professional baseball. “I’ll give it a try for about three years and if I don't get anywhere, I’ll teach baseball somewhere as a coach.” Possessing a . throwing arm respected by all opponents, Stone has bated .200 through four games this year under new Coach Tom Chandler. And the southpaw fiy- chaser has yet to commit a miscue as the Farmers have rolled to a 2-2 season mark. Ag Rifle Team Wins Triangular Meet The A&M varsity rifle team de feated Texas Western College Un iversity of Arizona and the Uni versity of New Mexico x-ecently in shoulder-to-shoulder competition while participating in the South west Invitational Small Rifle Tournament in El Paso, Texas. The Aggies scored a 5541 to their opponents 5256. Highest pos sible score that could be attained was 6,000 points. High scorer for the Cadets was Otis Fine; sopho more from Houston, who fired a 1128 out of a possible 1200 points. The Aggie riflemen journey next to the University of Texas March 21 where they will compete in the NRA National Intercollegiate Rifle Championship Matches. .U'l..' NOW» TIME/ When it comes to opening a savings account, there will never be a time as good as NOW. Nothing is easier than putting it off. But nothing is better (for your financial future) than getting started at once upon a program of systematic saving. Don’t waste precious time. Open a savings account here NOW! 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Saturday night Bradley, seedbd No. 1, plays the Fordham-Butler winner and St. Bonayenture, No. 3 opposes the St. John’s-Viilanova victor. St. Louis, seeded second, and Oklahoma City, No. 4, make their debut Tuesday night. Fleet Farmer Flychaser Loyd Stone, Ag leftfielder, is expected to be a key factor in the Cadet diamond success this year. The 6-1 senior was an honorable mention to the All-Southwest Conference team last year when he batted .306. HOW THAT RING GETS AROUND! Tareyton Here’s Why Tareyton’s Dual Filter filters as no single filter can: 1. It combines an efficient pure white outer filter ... 2. with a unique inner fi ler c f ACTIVATED CHARCOAI which h S been definitely proved to mp!«.e m smoke of a cigarette milder smoother. Notice how many Dual Filter Tareyton smokers you see around campus these days? Why so? Just try the cigarette yourself. You’ll see “why so”! THE TAREYTON RING MARKS THE REAL THING! new dual filter Tareyton tf 'Jol&whour mWUnon f © 4, T ‘ Co -J