BATTALIONiL_
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1942
PAGE 3
By Mike Maikin
Mon Sports Editor
Aggie Infield Combination Has Great
Record in Southwest Conference Competition
Have you ever wondered what
was one of the most important
contributing factors in a college
baseball team, or for that matter
of fact—any kind of a baseball
team?
The first reaction of any dia
mond fan would naturally be to
say hitting, and he wouldn’t be
far off. A hitting ball club will
certainly win plenty of games,
whether or not they have pitch
ing or fielding. But when this par
ticular ball club faces an excep
tional pitcher, and the ball game
banks on one run or so, they will
certainly have to rely on their
fielders coming through in fine
style thereby saving runs and win
ning the ole ball game.
What I’m getting at is that a
good infield is one of the import
ant cogs on a baseball team—es
pecially of the college variety.
Here at A. & M. we have a base
ball team which is now leading the
Southwest Conference race and
one reason is that Coach Lil Dim-
mitt has an exceptional infield—
one of the best fielding combin
ations that this conference has
had in many a year. Saturday,
against Rice, the boys really hit
their peak by executing six well-
timed double plays thus getting
Ag pitchers out of depressing sit
uations.
Not only does this help the mo
rale of the pitcher himself but it
helps immensely to win ball games,
and at times, decides champion
ships. The Aggies probably would
SWC Race Settles Down to Two
Team Affair; Ags Prep for TCU
have won the second Rice game
anyway, but the game, for a few
innings was close enough to go
either way, and those double plays
helped out.
The combination of Cecil Ballow,
Ira Glass, Les Peden, and Sam
Porter has been a bright spot in
the Aggie showing this year.
These four have been instrumental
in helping the Cadets get to the
top, in fielding as well as in hit
ting. The fact is that none of the
above four is hitting less than .300,
and that is an accomplishfhent in
itself. Surprise of the quartet has
been Cecil Ballow, not especially
in his fielding, but primarily in his
hitting. For two years, Ballow
floundered around the .200 mark,
but this year Cecil is hitting a re
spectable .322, a rather good mark
for a shortstop.
Another of those unheralded
players in this league is Ira Glass,
whose batting average of .342, has
had more than one pitcher on the
jittery side. Ira is the other key
stone combination with Ballow, and
his fielding work has been equally
valuable. Sam Porter, the hard
hitting left-handed first baseman,
and Les Peden, the hot-corner art
ist, have been dangerous sluggers
all year, with the latter having
three home-runs to his credit.
The Aggie infield, coupled with
that heavy hitting, has been an
ace in the hole in Aggie strategy.
If pitching and hitting is not
enough to win a conference, then
the fielding will certainly decide it.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Billiard
Expert To Give Exhibition at Y.M.C.A. Todajr
performances to the Aggie pool
and billiard sharks ... if you want
to see something remarkable just
drop over to the Y and watch Mr.
Peterson give you his cue > wiz
ardry . . . The exhibition will be
devoted wholly to billiard funda
mentals ... as a climax to the
show, Mr. Peterson will wind up
with a variety of his fancy shots.
. . . Incidentally, he started his an
nual tours of colleges way back in
1931, and has been ever popular
with his fans ... he recently ap
peared in a Pete Smith short,
showing the billiard or even pool-
minded public the best of his
abilities . . . The Aggie coaching
staff of Homer Norton, Dough
Rollins, and Lil Dimmitt all took
time off their regular chores to
register with the other young
folks yesterday . . . Looks like
Uncle Sam is feeling out our
coaching staff, and may have to
incorporate their services before
long ... If you thought it was
really fun to see Coach Emmett
Brunson of Rice squirm every time
he thought how close he got to
getting Albert Ricks to the insti
tute, then what do you think about
Coach Dough Rollins’ predicament
when he let Freddy Wolcott, one
of the greatest hurdlers ever
known in the Southwest Confer
ence, slip right through his fing
ers . . . Wolcott came here in 1937
attempting to get a scholarship
but the A. & M. athletic heads
said no soap ...
Charlie Peterson, world’s fancy
shot billiard champion will be at
the Y.M.C.A. today to give two
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Two Game Series
With Frogs to Be
Played Fri and Sat
The Southwest Conference base
ball race appears to have finally
settled down to a two team bat
tle between the Texas Aggies and
Texas Longhorns, and seems des
tined to stay that way until the
two teams meet in Austin on May
8-9. Each of the two bitter rivals
won two games in last week-end’s
battles, the Aggies taking a pair
from the hapless Rice Owls, while
the Longhorns annexed a double-
header from T.C.U.
The T.C.U. Horned Frogs come
to College Station for a two game
stand against the loop leading Ag
gies next Friday and Saturday
afternoons. The frogs still retain
a mathematical chance to win the
conference, but with a record of
one win and four losses the chance
is probably only a mathematical
one. The Aggies and Texas have
both lost two games, but the Ag
gies retain the conference lead on
a mathematical percentage by vir
tue of having played two more
games than the Longhorns.
The Aggies and Frogs have met
once before this season in Fort
Worth, and the Aggies came out
on the long end of a 12-6 score.
The Frogs have an excellent hit
ting team, and the fielding is
above the average for a college
ball club, but the pitching staff
is on the weaker side of the slate.
Outstanding twirler on the Horned
Frog mound staff is “Lefty”
Dowell, who will probably be the
Frog’s starting pitcher in Friday’s
contest. His opponent is expected
to be Charlie Stevenson, ace of
the Aggie hurlers.
Fielding Good
The Aggies have been looking
considerably better on their field
ing in the past few games and
have been bringing some pleased
smiles to the face of Coach Lil
Dimmitt with their display of ball
handling. The hitting has con
tinued to be the strong point of
the club with the boys swatting
the ball for plenty of markers, as
the scores of the last few games
will attest. The team is taking the
two games with the Horned Frogs
plenty seriously, for a defeat now
would not only knock them out
of first place, but would put quite
a crimp in their title hopes.
Aggies Sweep
Twin Bill From
Rice Owls Saturday
Stevenson Wins Seventh
In a Row; Cadet Infield
Shines in Both Games Sat
A great pitching exhibition by
Charlie Stevenson and an equally
great performance by the Aggie
infield combined together to give
the Cadets a double victory over
Aggie Baseball Statistics
TEXAS AGGIE HITTERS RANKED BY AVERAGES — FULL SEASON
Seay
3
1
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
.667
0
0
0
.000
4
ready heaping glories.
Scoggin ..
72
31
33
2
2
4
7
4
1
1
11
24
.458
86
10
11
.897
149
The Cadet 480-yard shuttle high
Aldrich ....
7
3
3
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
3
.429
7
2
0
1.000
14
hurdle team took the top place
Porter
65
15
27
4
2
0
8
4
2
0
10
15
.415
169
7
3
.984
140
in that event. The team was made
Peden
64
19
26
5
1
6
8
5
2
0
6
23
.406
23
36
%
.868
135
up of Truman Cox, Pete Watkins,
Stevenson
....40
5
15
2
0
1
2
3
0
1
1
16
.375
3
23
1
.963
80
Bill Mitchell and Roy Bucek.
Rogers ....
75
22
26
4
1
4
6
9
1
3
4
21
.347
21
0
5
.808
149
The high jump event ended with
Glass
79
23
27
7
1
1
5
3
1
0
12
17
.342
42
47
7
.927
133
a five way tie for first place. Pete
Ballow
59
24
19
0
2
0
13
2
5
2
9
13
.322
33
48
4
.953
133
Watkins and Albert Ricks of the
Daniels 47
Smith 13
Black 50
Carden 18
Newberry ....31
Shuford 7
Henderson .... 2
Acrey 3
Lindsey .2
.929 36
.962 128
1.000 39
.857 66
1.000 18
.000 7
.500 1
.000 6
TEXAS AGGIE PITCHERS RANKED BY GAMES WON — FULL SEASON
Pitcher
Acrey
IP
B
H
2B
3B
HB
BB
SO
...40
21
27
3
0
2
15
19
... 6
7
11
5
0
0
4
8
...74
29
61
12
0
5
15
36
...17
8
18
4
0
0
7
12
... 6
9
13
4
0
0
3
2
... 0
2
0
0
0
0
2
0
...Vs
0
0
0
0
' 0,
0
0
... 7
4
11
0
0
0
4
3
“Little Conference” Track Meet Will
Be Held in Houston Saturday, May 2
The annual triangular track
meet between Rice Institute, Tex
as University, and Texas A. & M.
known as the “little conference”
meet will be held at Rice Field in
Houston next Saturday after
noon, May 2. The meet is expected
to be one of the closest battles
in Southwest Conference track
history, with any one of the three
teams liable to cop the crown.
Tradition has it that the win
ner of the “little conference” meet
will be the Southwest Conference
champions for that season since
the victor has invariably won the
conference meet and the accomp
anying championship. In 1941 Tex
as University won the “little con
ference” meet and went on to
take the conference championship.
The Cadets have never won the
“little conference” meet, but this
year are conceded an excellent
chance to come out on top. Earlier
this season the Aggies defeated
the Longhorns in a dual meet for
the first time in a decade. Last
week in another dual meet held
here the Aggies also defeated the
Rice tracksters by a convincing
score.
Cadets Annex One
First and Then Tie
For Other at Drake
Pete Watkins And
Albert Ricks Tie For
First in Highjump at 6.4
The Texas Aggie tracksters
came away from the Drake Relays
in Des Moines, Iowa with one first
place and a two-man tie for an
other top spot to add to their al-
Aggies, Don Boydston of Okla
homa, Milton Kuhn of Iowa and
George Foeflinger of Ohio State
were tied on top at an altitude of
6 feet 4 inches. The 20-year old
mark of 6 feet 6 inches set by
Harold Osborne of Illinois in the
high jump still stands.
The Rice Institute Owls also
gathered two victories to add to
the laurels taken by Southwest
Conference schools in the Relays.
Bill Cummins pulled in one yard
ahead of Charles Hlad of Michigan
Normal to take the 120-yard high
hurdles. Roy Bucek of the Aggies
took third place. Bill Christopher,
Rice, was the victor in the broad
jump event.
Co-eds at the University of Ver
mont sewed white uniforms for
ski troops in the university’s
ROTC unit.
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Scoggin, c 3 0 0 0
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Daniels, rf 6 2 3 0
Black, cf 1 4 2 10
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Rogers, If , 4 10 0
Glass, 2b ) 2 112
Scoggin, c --3 2 3 0
Porter, > lb 3 0 3 0
Peden, 3b 2 V 0 0
Carden, p 3 0 0 0
Daniels, rf , 3 0 0 0
Black, cf 3 0 0 0
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Stevenson, in scoring his seventh
triumph of the conference season,
started the first game, limiting
Coach Cecil Grigg’s feathered
flock from the Bayou City six
hits. Four double plays by the Ag-
(See AGGIES SWEEP, Page 4)
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