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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1946)
Monday Afternoon, April 8, 1946 The Battalion Page 3 Aggies Outlast TC U, Meet Bears Tuesday Beesley Slated To Face Baylor The Texas A. & M. baseball team will journey to Baylor tomorrow to play their third game on the Southwest Conference schedule. Earl Beesley is expected to start .on the mound for the Aggies after winning two from the T.C.U. Hom ed Frogs last week.- Diamond fans are expecting to 'use tomorrow’s game as a basis -for comparing the Aggies’ strength with that of Texas university. The Longhorns defeated the Bruins in both games of a series last Thurs day and Friday 7-6 and 5-1, and are considered as - the principal stumbling block in the Aggies’ bid AGGIE SUBS BEAT AUSTIN NINE, 13-0 Houston’s Stephen F. Austin high school baseball team dropped its game to the Texas Aggie B team here Saturday afternoon, 13-0 with Billy Hill, Bill Warrier and Walter Deaken on the mound for the losers. Walt Bard well and A1 Newman pitched for the Aggies allowing six hits while the Aggies collected 13 off the opposing trio. For the Aggies Zeke Strange and De Lafosse both tripled while Jack Watson, Russ Mays and Bill* Hartley doubled. for the Conferepce crown. Tuesday’s contest at Waco is a one-game stand. SPORTS Aggies Win Two First Places at Texas Relays Two first places were garnered by the Texas A. & M. track team at the Texas Relays Saturday, as well as several other places. The Aggie firsts were won in the mile relay by Benson, Napier, Fischer, and Harnden, with a time of 3:22.0 and in the broad jump with a leap of 24 feet, 9 5-8 inches by Tate. Other places were as follows: 120-yard high hurdles, fourth place by Oscar White. High jump, third place Haws, 6 feet, 2 inches; and a fourth-place tie, Underwood, 6 feet. In the University-Service Divi sion: Distance Medley, A. & M. placed fourth. 440-yard relay, A. & M. placed third. 880-yard relay, A. & M. placed second. 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Scorekeepers for the game add ed up a total of 25 walks, 13 errors, 25 hits, 35 runs, one hit batsman, and three runs scored on wild pitches and passed balls. Climax of the free-scoring fracas came when the Horned Frogs went into the first of the ninth trailing by seven runs and managed to tie up the ball game. In the last inning Hub Moon cracked out his fifth hit of the day to score Bob Little, who was pinch running for Henry Lindsey, who was pinch hitting for A1 Rettig. Both teams used up five pitch ers. Newman started for the Ag gies and was succeeded in order by Bardwell, Shuford, and Purtle. Earl Beesley, who had pitched a one-hit game on the previous day, was called in to relieve in the ninth. Ditto, D. Thompson, P. Thompson, Noah, and Conrad hurl- Ags Defeat Ponies In Net Play, 5-1 Texas A. & M.’s tennis team won its first start of Southwest Con ference play Saturday, defeating the S.M.U. Mustangs 5-1. 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