Saturday, March 22, 1947 THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas
Page Three
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN
Conferences Meet on NCAA Ruling
Following a ruling by the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion some weeks ago to the effect
that off-the-campus soliciting of
athletes and
- subsidiz
ing players
would be out-
law,ed, the
Southwest
Conference as
sociation, a -
long with sev-
eral other
Southern and
Midwest-
ern conferen-
c e s objected
and threaten
ed action.
As a result, a meeting is being
held in New Orleans on April 18
in an attempt to reach a compro
mise that would be acceptable to
the NCAA and the Southern Con
ferences. Dr. Gayle Scott, pres
ident of the Southwest Conference
announced that invitations had
been extended to the Southern,
Southeastern, Missouri and Big
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Martin
Six conferences and acceptances
had been received from the first
two.
With the exception of Texas
University, all schools in the SWC
opposed the ruling on the grounds
that this would be to the benefit
of the larger institutions with a
larger alumni and more active ex
students associations.
The point is that recruiting will
merely go underground should this
recommendation go into effect.
Though the coaches (legally) will
not be able to lure prospective ath
letes, nothing can be done to pre
vent school spirited exes from
charitably sending the highschool
stars through his favorite school.
Then of course, there's always the
tried and true method of betting
his protege that he can’t jump over
a book once a month.
Theoretically, the idea is com
mendable, giving each school, no
matter how small, greater incen
tive and opportunity to win but
the NCAA seems to be a bit naive
in supposing that this will alter the
picture.
Baseball coach Lil Dimmitt is
quite pleased with the Aggie base
ball team in their last week’s per
formance at San Antonio. The
Comets of Brooke Medical Center
put a strong nine against the Ags
but Dimmitt’s team won one and
lost one with the medics.
I’m quite satisfied with my
pitchers and defense,” Dimmitt
said Monday, “but we’ve still got
to improve our hitting and that’s
what we’re going to do this week.
I think that by the time we meet
Rice on the 28,,.we’ll have a strong
team.”
After batting practice Monday,
the team went through an intra
squad game. Earl Beesley and Y.
B. Johnson started on the mound
for each side. Beesley has deve
loped into one of the best hurlers
on the pitching staff and John
son is continually improving his
control.
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Aggie Bees Defeat
Comet Reserves
The Aggie Bee baseball team
brougnt a surprise ending to the
double bill affair Thursday after
noon by drubbing the Brooke Med
ical Center reserves 10-1 in a sev
en-inning tilt.
Arrangements were made for
the match only some four hours
before the game. Dewey Jacobs
was on the mound for the Ags all
the way and allowed only one
scratch hit in the second inning,
fanning some 15 batters.
Lloyd McGreve and Elmer Roel-
ling pitched for the Comets, the
latter taking the -mound after fin
ishing the game with the first
team at center field.
Upperclass Ping Pong Champs
A&M Golfers Win
Opener From SMU
In their opening game of the
season, Marty Karow’s A g g i e
golfers downed the Southern Meth
odist Mustangs 6% to 2% Thurs
day afternoon on the Dallas Ath
letic Club course.
Les Corrigan of SMU was the
highest individual scorer with 72.
The A&M golf team met TCU Fri
day and participated in the Fat
Stock Show Tourney in Fort Worth
Saturday afternoon.
Grid Applicants
Report Next Week
Head Coach Homer Norton is
sued a call for all men who are
interested in trying out for the
football team and who have not
yet applied, to report to the
Coaches Office in DeWare Field
House.
Applicants should report from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. between Monday,
March 24 and Friday, March 28,
preferably in the earlier part of
the week.
Ohio State University plants a
buckeye tree on the campus of ev
ery school they meet in football.
Championship in the upper-
class Intramural ping pong com
petition was won by A Infantry
last semester. Members of the
winning team, pictured in the us
ual order are: front row, Allen,
Simpson, Walker; back row, Fid-
ler, Dixon.
Danny Green Prepares for Seattle;
Looks for New Records to be Broken
Earl Grant
Breaking records and winning swimming championships
is nothing new to A. & M.’s free-style king, Danny Green.
The 24 year old aquatic star, who has been setting a new
record almost every time he hit the water, first put his name
in the record books back in his high school days in 1942.
Green was swimming under the" 1 "
colors of Adamson High (Dallas)
when he set a new state schoolboy
record in the 220 yard free-style
which still stands today.
Since that spring day in ’42, it’s
been just one new record after
another for Green. In his fresh
man year he virtually set the con
ference on fire with his blazing
speed, breaking nearly every free
style record in the conference
books. As a “fish”, Green was
chosen as the most outstanding
swimmer of the Southwest and was
the South’s nominee for the 1943
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year to the nation’s top swimming
star. Perhaps his greatest ac
complishment was being named on
the 1943 All-American Intercolle
giate Swimming Team.
At the end of his freshman year,
Green’s string of victories was in
terrupted by a two and a half year
hitch in the Navy.
Back at Aggieiana in ’46, Green
lost little time in regaining his
old stride. In addition to pacing
the ’47 Aggie squad through an
unbeaten season, Green has rack
ed up almost every individual hon
or possible. He has beaten the
existing Southwest Conference
Record in all four individual free
style events and has anchored the
Aggies’ formidable 440 yard free
style relay team, which is unbeat-
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Cadet Baseball Club Defeats
Brooke Medics 6-3 Thursday
Playing for the first time on Kyle Field this season, the
Texas Aggies beat the Brooke Medical Center Comets of San
Antonio, 6 to 3, Thursday afternoon, before a medium sizedj
crowd under perfect baseball weather.
Roy Gibbens racked up his second win against the Com
ets. The ambidextrous hurler gave"
up but six hits to go all the way
for the Aggies, and struck out sev
en of the medics. Simpson the
losing pitcher, fanned eight Ag
gies in seven innings.
The first A.&M. rally occurred
in the first inning, when Frietz,
the first batter, got a double and
Vass walked. Hub Moon tried to
stretch a single into a double but
was tagged at second, allowing
Fretz and Vass to score.
The Comets wasted no time in
scoring during the first inning.
Gillis, who walked, tagged home on
Tortoreillo’s single through the
box. In the third inning, the Com
ets went ahead of the Aggies. With
the bases loaded, center fielder
Roelling cracked a single to push
in two more runs.
Then Walter Willingham got
the hit of the afternoon when he
tripled in the Aggies’ half of the
third. Coming to bat with the
bases loaded and two away, he
hung onto one of Simpson’s pitch
es, sending it out near the new
cyclone fence. Left fielder Tor-
toreillo, of the Comets, couldn’t
handle it and the ball bounded
against the fence, Willingham
stood up at third and the Aggies
were three runs to the good.
Tortoreillo was the best bats
man for the visitors, getting three
hits for four trips to the plate.
The Comets’ shortstop, Andrews,
drew the crowds’ applause when he
went behind third base to stop
Pressly’s hard hit single in the
third inning. Andrews had to leap
for the ball and felj, flat on his
face to stop it.
Pressly, Fretz, Holmig, and
Willingham were the big guns for
the Aggies. Pressly hit two for
three, both Fretz and Holmig
cracked out doubles, Willingham’s
tripple accounted for three runs
and Floyd Walker’s Texas leaguer
in the sixth inning brought in an
other run.
It took Roy Gibbons three inn
ings to settle down to steady ball
handling but after that, the game
was completely in his hands. Gib-
en for the season. He has yet
to meet defeat in a free-style race
this year.
At the present time, Green’s
string of records is amazingly
long, and growing with every
meet. He holds the Southwest
A.A.U. indoor 100, 220, and 440
free-style records; the Southwest
A.A.U. outdoor free-style records
in the 100, 200 and 400 meters;
Southern A.A.U. records in the
100, 220 and 440 free-style; Mid-
South free-style records in the
100, 200 and 400 meters, and the
National Y.M.C.A. records in the
100 yard free style.
This week-end in Austin, Danny
gets his chance to put his name
in the record books again when the
annual Southwest Conference
swimming meet is reeled off in
Texas’ Gregory Gymnasium.
Thanks to his presence, the Ag
gies are decided favorites to lift
the crown, captured last year by
Texas. However, the meet will not
ring down the curtain on Green’s
’47 season, as he has accepted an
invitation to compete in the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion meet in Seattle, March 28th
and 29th.
If Danny’s past x-ecord is any
indication of what might take place
when he runs up against the na
tion’s best in Seattle, Green not
only will win his events—he’ll
probably set a new record in the
process.
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bens pitched with his left hand on
two batters in the first, Andrews
and Zedalis, but without too much
control and from then in, he relied
on his right arm.
This is the second game the Ag
gies have won from Brooke Medics
by the score of 6 to 3. The Com
ets return to Kyle Field Monday
for the last game of the weekend
series.
Score by innings:
A&M 203 010 000—6 8 2
Brooke 102 000 000—3 6 2
Batteries A. & M.—Gibbens, Walk-
ex’, Calvert; Brooke — Simpson,
Schnopp, Zedalis.
Officials; Tongate, Pugh.
Steers Weakened
By Injuries, Flu
Texas Longhorn Track Coacl
Clyde Littlefield predicted Thurs.
day that his track squad woulc
have rough sledding for the Fai
Stock Show Tourney held in Fori
Worth this Saturday.
Due to an unprecidented num
ber of injuries on the team and th<
illness of a couple of his top con
tenders, the Longhorn squad woulc
be unable to retain its place a?
favorites.
Particularly serious is the loss
of two ace sprinters, Charlie Ta
tum and Allen Lawler, the forme
suffering from a pulled muscle an
the latter not yet fully recovere
from an attact of flu.
Other losses to the squad ar
broad jumper Coy Porter and Ji
Dannelly, shot putter and discu;
thrower.
Littlefield is expected to sub
stitute Bryon Gillouy and Billy
Pyle, two grid membex-s, on the re
lay team.
When a foul was committed in:
the early days of basketball the
injured team called on a specialist
to make the point. One such spe
cialist once shot 28 fouls in
game for Fordham.
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