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:Tuesday, April 1, 1947 THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas Page Three Steers Win Texas Relays; Aggies Take Second Place Before a record crowd in the year’s first big outdoor track meet, Texas University took the unofficial honors at the Texas Relays with Texas A. & M. placing second last Saturday in Austin. An estimated 14,000 spectators witnessed teams from practically every section of the country as four new records were set and one old record tied. Texas set new records in the 400-yard football shuttle re--* —— lay and the distance medely relay but the crack Aggie mile relay team composed of Napier, Bilder- beck, Holbrook and Harnden shat tered the oldest record with an ex cellent 3:17.8 which eclipsed the time of 3:18.4 established by the University of Chicago in 1929. Art Haws of A.&M. tied with Monte Kinder of Nebraska and Henry Coffman of Rice for first place in the high jump with a dis tance of 6 feet 5 inches, his best effort of the year. Freshman weight man George Kadera took second in the discus throw with a distance of 150 feet 6 3/8 inches, less than eight in ches short of the winning mark. Kadera also placed third in the shot put against such nationally known weight men as Prather of Kansas State and Andros of Oklahoma. Feature of the meet was the 100-yard dash in which Baylor’s Bill Martineson again beat his old rival Charlie Parker of Texas Uni versity. Aggie Webb Jay placed fourth behind Cotton of Baylor in this event. Texas’ Jerry Thompson took in dividual honors turning in an un official 4:13 mile as anchor-man on the Longhorn distance medely relay squad. Baylor and Rice placed third and fourth with 15 and 12% points re spectively. Track Summary FOUR-MILE RELAY: Won by Drake (Schoeffler, Toplansky, Johnson, P r o - haska) ; sencond, Oklahoma; third, Texas, Christian; fourth, Texas A&M. Time: 18:10 (meet record—new event). 120-YARD HIGH HURDLES: Won by Erfurth, Rice; second, Cummins, Rice; third, Boren, Texas; fourth. Tope, South west Texas State. Time: 14.5. 100-YARD DASH: Won by Martineson, Baylor; second, Parker, Texas; third, Cotton, Baylor: fourth, Jay, Texas A&M. Time: 9.7. 400-YARD SHUTTLE FOOTBALL RE LAY : Won by Texas (Samuels, Tatom, Gillory, Lawler) ; second, Texas Tech; third, McMurray (only three entries). Time: 42.3 (new record—old record 43.0 set by Texas in 1945). SHOT PUT: Won by Prather, Kansas State; 50 feet 8 3/4 inches; second, An dros, Oklahoma A&M, 48 feet 11 1/ inches ; third, Kadera, Texas A&M, 46 feet 11 1/2 inches; fourth, Humble, Rice, 46 feet 7 1/2 inches. DISTANCE MEDLEY RACE: (880-440- 1320-1760, won by Texas, (Hanson, North- cutt, Sparks, Thompson) ; second, Kansas; third, Michigan State; fourth, Drake. Time: 10:11.9 (new record—old record 10: 14.4 set by North Texas State in 1938). 440-YARD RELAY: Won by Texas (Samuels, Tatom, Lawler, Parker) ; sec ond, Baylor; third, Texas A&M; fourth, Oklahoma A&M. Time 41.4 (ties record set by Rice in 1937). HIGH JUMP: Tied for first. Kinder, Nebraska; Haws, Texas A&M; Coffman, Rice, 6 foot 5 inches; tied for fourth, Knecht, Louisiana State, McGrew, Rice, Johnson, Louisian State, and Lambeth, Oklahoma, 6 feet 3 inches. 880-YARD RELAY: Won by Texas Samuel, Kidd, Lawler, Parker) ; second, Texas A&M; third, Baylor; fourth, Texas Tech. Time: 1:27.5. POLE VAULT: Won by Cooper, Ne braska, 13 feet; tied for second, Lowther, Louisiana State, Dean, Oklahoma A&M, and Ferguson, George Pepperdine, 12 feet 6 inches. MILE RELAY: Won by Texas A&M (Napier, Bilderbeck, Halbrook, Harnden) ; second, Louisian State; third. Rice; fourth, Texas Tech. Time: 3:17.8 (new record— old record 3:18.4 set by Chicago in 1929). BROAD JUMP: Won by Crowley, Kan sas State, 23 feet 5 1/2 inches; second, Roof, Oklahoma A&M, 23 feet 3 inches; third. Carter, Abilene Christian, 23 feet 2 1/2 inches; fourth, Kiser, Kansas State, 22 feet 10 inchs. DISCUS THROW: Won by Prather, Kansas State, 151 feet 2 1/2 inches; sec ond, Kadera, Texas A&M, 150 feet 6 3/8 inches; third. Graves, Louisiana State, 144 feet 9 1/2 inches; fourth, Simeroth, Okla homa A&M, 140 feet 9 inches. JAVELIN THROW: Won by Grote, Ne braska, 197 feet 4 1/2 inches; second, Lowther, Louisiana State, 194 feet 2 in ches ; third, Jones, North Texas State, 190 feet 3 inches, fourth, Ebel, Kansas, 189 feet 3 inches. *B.V.D. HOLLYWOOD BRAND ROGUE SHIRT Aces for comfort, a king for good looks—you deal yourself a winning hand with the Holly wood Rogue Shirt. Its faultless, cut-for-comfort 4< B.V. D.” tailoring and gloriously soft fabrics give you the shirt-freedom you’ve dreamed about. The Rogue can be worn inside or outside your trousers. Two roomy front hip pockets add a casual touch. Hollywood Rogue comes in sev eral clear new shades. ^ _ *11X6. U.S. FAT. OFF. -•‘NEXT TO MYSELF I LIKE B.V.D. BEST’* CLOTHIERS College and Bryan Record Smashing Aggie Mile Relay Team To Texas University went the honor of breaking the most re cords at the Texas Relays held in Austm last Saturday but the Aggie mile relay team broke the oldest record. They eclipsed the time of 3:18.4 set by the University of Chicago in 1929 by running the distance in 3:17.4. Members of the team, pictured from left to right are Erwin Bilderbeck, Bill Napier, Ray Hol brook, and Art Harnden. ■ON KYLE FIELD by PAUL MARTIN Track Team Has No Weak Spot Martin Coach Frank Anderson’s track boys pretty well held their own Saturday at the Texas Relays against some of the best collegiate talent in the country. The boys are coming around and the future prospects are even brighter as some of those who have con tributed few points to date are improving. Webster Stone was showing his old form when he made his half mile of the two- mile relay in the unofficial time time of one minute and 58 seconds, his fastest to date. Joe Vajdos looks as if he is getting his old style back and is about ready to start tallying points. Joe is al ready doing as good time as he was before Christmas and can be expected to show some improve ment. Art Haws, who has yet to be beaten this year in the high jump, made his best effort at the Re lays but received his first tie. Haws has consistently beaten potentially better jumpers because he has been working hard at it this year. Webb Jay, running the 100- yard dash along with several more publicized men, proved that he was not out of- his class. Though he came in fourth, he was close on the heels of Cotton and beat such runners as Sam uels of Texas, Dickey of Louis iana State and Metcalf of Okla homa A&M. Vay is still one of the most improved men on the team. High point of the meet was the record breaking time of the Aggie mile relay team who placed first in their event. The team consists of Art Harnden, Bill Napier, Ray Holbrook and Erwin Bilderbeck. They succeeded in smashing a re cord that had existed since 1929, bettering the old time of 13:18.4 by nearly 6/10 seconds. They ran the distance in 13:17.8. On April 12 the track squad will have its first home meet. Opponents will be Louisiana State and Baylor. Bayloc’s team will include the flashy Bill Martine son who has beaten the Longhorn ace, Charlie Parker in two trys out of three. LSU has been con ference champions 12 times in the last 15 years in the Southeastern circut and includes on its team some of the best men in the country in the vaulting, jumping, and middle distances plus somf A-one javelin and weight men. Baseballers Open Lil Dimmitt’s baseball nine really opened conference play in style last week-end by literally swamp ing the Rice Owls in a night game Friday at Buffalo Stadium and just to prove that it wasn’t an ac cident did a repeat performance on the following afternoon only not with such magnitude. The 25-1 victory Friday night almost equaled the Southwest conference record baseball mar gin of 26-0 in which A&M de feated Rice five seasons ago. Roy Gibbens did the honors Fri day night, keeping the mound all the way. He fanned 10 batters, Attention Veterans Living in Munnerlyn Vill age. When your roof needs re coating use a good grade of Aluminum paint, the best for less at— CHAPMAN’S Next to Post Office—Bryan TENNIS RACKETS RESTRUNG FAST SERVICE SMITH’S North Gate retired the first 12 Owls and never was in any danger. Individual honors go to Peck Vass for the Friday performance in collecting five hits in six trips, four of which resulted in trips over the plate. Tex Thornton, in addition to be ing a very effective man with the stick, pulled the greatest fielding play of the game by racing into short right field in the eighth in ning to sack a fly with one hand. Thornton tallied four hits in six trips. Earl Beesley was on the mound throughout the Saturday affair with Hub Moon taking the scor ing honors. Moon drove in four of the Aggie tallies with a double and a single. Peck Vass and Tex Thornton ran their week-end hit total up to seven apiece. Thornton again did some neat fielding by bagging eight chances plus a sure hit with a running one- hand catch. A long single by Thornton resulted in two men across the plate. With the exception of Leo Dan iels who was struck on the left ear by a pitched ball, and had to retire, every Aggie got at least one safe hit. Baseballers Swamp Rice In Conference Openers by Andy Matula The Aggies swept clean their two game series with Rice Institute Saturday afternoon by beating the Owls 10 to 4. The game was played at Rice field and a seventh inning rain cleared the bleachers but didn’t halt the game. Earl Beesley did the pitching chores for the Aggies, giv ing up seven hits and four runs/* Beesley’s' pitching was tight for the early innings but he gave up on run in the fifth frame and the others in the last two innings. Earl contributed two hits and two runs to the Aggie score. Bill Bishop, who had played right field for the Owls in the previous night’s game, was the losing pitcher. It was not until the third inning that A&M started putting the runs across. Beesley, Fretz, and Vass knocked out singles to load the bases. Then lefthander Hub Moon stepped up and banged a double into center field that scored Bees ley and Fi*etz. The scoring didn’t stop there. Pressly singled to fill up first and third and both tallied when Stan Hoimig slammed a single through second base. Rice picked up a run in the fifth but the Aggies evened that in the next inning. A&M added three more in the eighth as Rice racked up two more runs. Both teams scored one more in the last inning. Leo Daniels was hit by Bishop on his first trip to the plate in the second inning. Leo suffered a possible jaw fracture and was relieved by Walter Willingham. The entire Rice lineup was chang ed from Friday night’s game to Saturday. Only Willard, the catch er, and Powell, the firstbaseman kept their original positions. Floyd Sommer, Rice center fielder, scor ed two of the Owl’s runs and pick ed up two hits out of four trips to bat. Every Aggie batter, excepting Daniels, got a hit in the game. Tex Thornton pulled the heaviest aver age, getting three hits for five times at bat. Tex also played ex cellent defense, drifting back into right field, at one time ,to catch a Texas Leaguer hit by Lindsey Carey in the third inning. The Aggies play Baylor on Wed nesday afternoon at Kyle Field and meet Rice here again on April 8. Score by innings: R H E} A&M 005 001 013 10 15 3 Rice 000 010 021 4 7 4 Game time; 2 hours, 3 minutes. Batteries; For A&M—Beesley, Calvert. For Rice—Bishop, Wil lard. Officials; Tollar, Bisbey. Cadets Down Owls 25-1 in Runaway by Andy Matula The Texas Aggies got off to a healthy start in their Southwest Conference com petition by swamping the Rice Owls 25 to 1, Friday night at Buff Stadium in Houston. Roy Gibbens went all the way for the Ags and gave up but five hits in the nine frames. Blasting away with sixteen hits, A&M wore out four Rice hurlers and failed to score in only three innings. The Owls accum- mulated eight errors which help ed the Aggies considerably. The Rice field generalship was notice ably poor in this first game as well as their ball handling. Peck Vass wielded the big stick for the Aggies getting five hits out of six trips to the plate. Two of Vass’s hits were doubles along the third base line. . . Tex Thorn ton was next in the hitting de partment, batting .800 for the evening. Both Julian Pressley and Leo Daniels cracked out doubles to bring a total of four two-base hits for A&M. Roy Gibbens’ pitching was ex cellent, in spite of the fact that a cool breeze prevailed during the game. Rice managed to chip off five scattered hits from him but the game was never out of his control. Vahldick of Rice finally managed to score in the ninth in ning on his teammate’s, Keltys Powell’s hard hit single through shortstop. Eleven batters were fanned by Gibbens in the game and seven of these went down swinging. The Aggies shortstop and second base combination turned in some beautiful fielding and were charged with only two errors. In the fifth inning, Bobby Fretz went deep in the infield to pick up a hard hit grounder off of Vincent Buckly. The ball appeared to be a certain hit but Fretz picked it up back handed on the run and threw Buck ly out at first base. 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Bob Southall started on the mound for the Ags and held it un til Dewey Jacobs took over in the sixth. Southall gave up only two hits, striking out seven batters while Jacobs held the visitors to two hits also, striking out four batters. G. W. Watson for the Cadets got four hits in six trips to the plate while Gaskamp for the visitors got three of his team’s four hits. The Hosts scored two runs in the second inning, two in the fifth and one each in the eighth and ninth. of the two Aggie double plays. The game had its exciting mom ents too. Bobby Fretz took a big lead off of third base in the fourth inning and became involved in a hot box, between the. catcher, Will ard, and third baseman Carey. Fretz played it carefully and scor ed, along with Peck Vass, when the catcher’s throw went over Car ey’s head. Score by innings: R H 13 A&M 212 600 2012 25 16 2 Rice 000 000 001 1 5 8 Batteries; For A&M: Gibbens, Walker, Calvert. 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