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Monday Afternoon, April 29, 1946 The Battalion Page 3 ‘Aggie Hopes Dim As Bears Split Twin Bill Aggies Invited to Attend Meetings Of Flying Farmers Aggies who are interested in the Trying Farmer program are in vited to attend the business ses sions on April 29-30, Dr. Ide P. •Trotter, director of the Texas Ex tension Service, announced today. Students with an aviation back ground and who are expecting to farm or ranch will be interested in a series of kodachrome pictures which will be exhibited at 7:30 p. SPORTS m. tonight by Dewey H. Neal of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman, he said. The Tuesdayj. April 30, meeting will start at 9:3U a. m. and will feature talks by H. A. Graham, executive secretary of the Nation al Flying Farmers’ Association and Forest Watson, president of the Oklahoma Flying Farmers. Clayton Beard of Tahoha, Texas, will preside at the meeting. All business sessions will be held at the YMCA. * Aggie Golf Team Edges Rice Owls The Texas Aggie golf team squeezed out a 4-3 victory over the Rice Owls Thursday at the Bryan Country Club, as Harwood, No. 5 player, came through in the last singles match to break a 3-3 dead lock. Don Rutan beat Roy Moore 3 and 1, while Cadet Melvin Johnston bested Frank Shelden 6 and 5 for two Aggie wins in singles compe tition. Bill Washington lost to Tom Burke 3 and 2, and Warren Qualls fell to Lymon Reese 4 and 3 to split the singles evenly. Owls Reese and Burke took Washington and Qualls 4 and 3, while Rutan and Johnston beat Moore and Shelden to split the doubles matches. Playing in the last singles round, Harwood came through with the victory which meant revenge for the Aggies’ loss earlier in the sea son to the Owls. DR. N. B. 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Earl Beesley came through with a fine ninth-inning performance in Friday’s game, fanning three Bruins with the tying runs on base to win 7-5. Beesley struck out 13 men and allowed nine hits, fanning four in the third frame when two Bears reached first on dropped third strikes by Catcher Peck Vass. In addition, he rapped out a double which drove in the two winning runs. Pressly led the Aggie attack with three hits out of four trips, while Thornton got two out of three and Vass got a single and a triple out of four trips to the platter. Secondbaseman Redding was the star of the Baylor offense, getting four safe blows out of five appearances at the platter. The Bears lost no time in the second game in getting to South paw Johnny Shuford for three runs in the first inning of Satur day’s game. A1 Newman took over in the second and pitched a cred itable brand of ball, allowing four Watch Repairs One Day Service Stems — Crowns and Main Springs One Week Service Cleaning — Staffs T. 0. HINIHAN Lauterstein Bldg. - N. Gate hits and four runs in 6 2/3 innings. Bardwell retired the last two men in the ninth without allowing a safety. Pressly’s two-bagger was the only extra base hit the Aggies could get off the offerings of Spearin, Baylor pitcher, whent the route and held the Cadets to a total of six hits. Final score was 8-5 for Baylor. The Aggies travel to Houston to morrow to meet the Rice Owls, and will square off against the league leading Texas university Long horns here on Saturday. Baylor Ab R H PO A Marino, cf 4 12 2 0 Harris, 3b 3 2 0 1 0 Redding, 2b 3 3 12 2 Szekeley, If 0 0 14 0 Burke, If 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dvreaux, rf 3 10 1 0 Chandler, c 4 0 16 0 Greenville, lb 4 0 16 0 Kimbrough, ss 3 0 10 5 Spearin, p 5 111 2 Totals 34 8 8 27 10 . & M. Ab R H PO A Lindloff, ss 4 10 4 3 Lindsey 10 10 0 Strange 0 0 0 0 0 Pressly, 3b 5 12 3 3 Vass, If 4 0 0 2 0 Moon, rf 2 10 1 0 Thornton, 2b 4 114 2 Beesley, cf 3 0 0 0 0 Arnold, c 4 0 16 0 Bradley, lb 2 117 0 Shuford, p 0 0 0 0 0 Newman, p 4 0 0 0 0 Bardwell, p 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 5 6 27 12 THE WORLD'S MOST HONORED WATCH WINNER OF 10 World’s Fair Grand Prizes, J 2 8 Go I d Med a I s and more honors for-; accuracy than any other timepiece. — fly — EASTERW00D FIELD One Mile West College Station Interstate Cadets, 65 h.p., hr. $ 7.00 Dual or Solo Flight, 10 hr. block ‘ $65.00 Fairchid M62, 175 h.p., dual or solo $12.00 Phone 4-1171 for Transportation College Owned and Operated