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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1947)
=THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947: Page Three Football Aspirants To Report Tuesday Head Coach Homer Norton has issued a call to all men interes ted in football spring training to report to the lecture room in DeWare Field House at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 8. Also, all those who participa ted last year may begin drawing their equipment immediately. Football spring training starts Friday, April 11. Track Team Places Second In Corpus Christi Meet Saturday For the second time this year Clyde Littlefield’s Texas Longhorn track and field squad squeezed out a strong Texas Aggie combination by a close margin. The final count was 66!/^, A. & M. 6514 and Rice placing third in the triangular meet with a total of 35 points. High scorer in the meet was - Charlie Parker of Texas with 11% points with Bill Cummins of Rice second with 11. Steer distance ace Jerry Thompson set a new mile record at this affair, besting the old time of 4:21.8 with an easy win in 4:19.2. The Aggie 440 squad again came through in good style, copping the first three slots in the time of 48.7. Finishing in this order were Art Hamden, Ray Holbrook and Erwin Bilderback. Art Haws took the high jump easily with a height of 6 feet 6% inches. His nearest competitor, McGrew of Rice, came only up to 6 feet. Webb Jay, the Aggie’s fast im proving dash man won over Tex as’ Samuels to place third in the 100-yord dash and came through with a fourth in the broad jump with a distance of 19 feet 7% inches. George Kadera, ace Aggie weight man placed first in the dis cus, second in the javelin, and sec ond in the shot put. This is the first time this year that A & M has placed in the javelin. Jim Mortenson of A&M placed fourth in both the 120-yard high hurdles and the 220-yard low hur dles. Also in the weight division, Frank Young came through with a fourth in the shot put and Bee- ville placed fourth in the Javelin, gave the Cadets two of the four places in the latter event. The Aggie pole vault team of Bodeman, Davis, and Tate tied for first, second and third berths in that event with a height of 11 feet. Bill Napier, Ervin Bilderback, Ray Holbrook and Art Harnden copped first place for the Farm ers in the mile relay, doing the distance in 3:19.3. The Aggies stage their first home meet next week-end in a tri- angular affair with Louisiana State and Baylor. Track Summary: 440-yard dash—Won by Harnden, Texas A. & M.; second, Holbrook, Texas A. & M.; third, Bilderback, Texas A. & M.; fourth, Northcutt, Texas. Time. 48.7 sec onds. High jump—Won by Haws, Texas A. & M., 6 feet, 6 1/4 inches. Second, McGrew, Rice, 6 feet; third, Coffman, Rice, 5 feet, 10 inches: tied for fourth, Underwood, Texas, and Cardon, Texas A. & M., 6 feet, 8 inches. 100-yard dash—Won by Parker, Texas; second, Lawler, Texas; third. Jay, Texas A. &M.; fourth, Samuels, Texas; Time, 9.8 seconds. Mile run—Won by Thompson, Texas; second. Spark, Texas; third. Porter, Rice; fourth, Hafernick, Texas. Time 4:19.2. Javelin Throw—Won by Guess, Texas 168 feet, 3 inches; second, Kadera, Texas A.&M., 168 ft., 2i in. Third, Lewis, Texas, 167 feet, 10 inches ; fourth, Beeville, Texas A. & M., 166 feet, 10 inches. 220-yard Dash—Won by Parker, Texas; second. Jay, Texas A. & M.; third, Tatum, Texas; fourth, Kidd, Texas. Time: 21.6. 120-yard High Hurdles—Won by Er- furth. Rice; second, Cummins, Rice: third. B Baseballers Play Ramblers Wednesday The Aggie B Baseball team is slated to take on the Allen Acad emy Ramblers, its fourth opponent of the season here next Wednes day at 3 p.m. On Thursday the Bees have a tentative game sched uled with Sam Houston College of Huntsville. The latter date has not as yet been confiremd. Boren, Texas; fourth, Mortensen, Texas A. & M. Time 14.4. Shot Put—Won by Humble, Rice, 46 feet, 2 inches Second Kadera, Texas A. & M., 46 feet; third, Dannelly, Texas, 43 feet, 3 inches; fourth, Young, Texas A. & M., 43 feet. 880-yard Run—Won by Thompson, Tex as 1:56.4. Second, Hahan, Texas A. & M.; third, Hoff, Rice; Fourth, Hafernick, Tex as. Pole Vault—Bodeman, Davis and Tate of Texas A. & M. tied for first, second and third. 11 feet; fourth, Barrus, Texas, 10 feet, 9 inches. 440-yard Relay—Won by Texas (Perry Samuels, Charley Tatum, Allen Lawler, Charley Parker; second, Texas A. & M. Time: 42.9 seconds. Two-mile run—Won by Brooks of Texas; second, Stone of Texas A. & M.; third, Ranery, Texas; fourth, Bonnen, Texas A. M. Time: 9:66.7 seconds. 220-yard low hurdles—Won by Erfurth, Rice; second, Cummins, Rice; third, Bor en, Texas ; foruth, Mortensen, Texas A. & M. Time 23.9 seconds. Mile Relay—Won by Texas A. & M. Napier, Bilderback, Holbrook, Harnden; second, Texas. Time: 3:19.3 seconds. Broad jump—Won by Cummins, Rice, 21 feet, 6} inches; second. Hill, Texas A. & M., 20 feet, 7 inches; third. Porter, Texas, 20 feet, li inches, fourth. Jay, Texas A. & M., 19 feet, 7 i inches. Discus throw—Won by Kadera, Texas A. & M., 147 feet, Hi inches; second. Humble, Rice, 137 feet, i inch ; third, Clay, Texas, 136 feet, 1 inch; fourth, Anderson, Texas A. &M., 134 feet. Class B Intramural Wrestling Champs Winners in their respective weight divisions in the class B Intramural wrestling finals are pictured above. Reading in the usual order are: Colson of E Inf., 129 pounds; Freed of D Field, 139 pounds; Coley of A Ord., 149 pounds; Harrison of D Inf., 159 pounds; Cleveland of A CWS, 169 pounds; Rogers of B Cav., 179 pounds; Rogers of F Field, heavyweight. ■ON KYLE FIELD by PAUL MARTIN Col. Andy’s Aggie track squad once again tasted defeat at the hands of Clyde Littlefield’s Long horns by the slenderest of mar gins that might very easily have been the other way. Several members of the team are still showing rapid improve ment and may yet place A & M in the na- t i o n a 1 spot- light. Art Haws, starting this year in the high jump at a fraction over six feet, outdid himself at the Fort Worth Meet in gaining six feet and five inches to place in a three-way tie for first place. At the Corpus meet last Saturday, Haws did six and one quarter inches, a height that is attracting much attention. The mile relay team is an- Martin other that stands to make its presence known among any kind of competition. This combina tion, consisting of Art Harnden, Bill Napier, Ray Holbrook, and Ervin Bilderback, is consistenly beating all comers and should continue to improve. This group is Ray Putnam’s baby and Put nam, an old track man who has broken some records himself, is putting a lot of fire into the team. Aggie pole vault combination of Bodeman, Davis and Tate is also counting up the points, all three taking a easy win over the near est competition at the last meet. For the second time this season the Steers eaked out a victory over the Cadets, the first being by one- half point and this time by one point even. In our sole win over the ’Sips, the margin was two and three-fifths point, a substantial lead in total points. Had only Texas and ourselves been in the Corpus Christi meet, we would have won by a consid erable margin. Rice, even though they took but 35 points, took them from events we might oth erwise have won rather than Texas. Our close second was made de spite the fact that Texas has run ning for them not less than ten former state champions and one Southwest Conference champion, while George Kadera was the only state champ to represent the Ag gies. Judging from past records, the Aggie squad made up primarily of average men. However, Harold Hahn, whose experience is limited to P. E., took second in the one- half mile, beating a state champion and Webster Stone did the same thing in the 2-mile, placing second. Jerry Bonnen beat two state mile champs in the 2-mile affair. In the mile event alone, the Steers have five state champions, four from Texas and one from Louisiana. In sprints, they have two champions and one South- western Conference sprint champ. The Longhorns also have state champs in the weights, in the half mile, aqd in the quar ter mile. Why Be a Tight Collar Worker? 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Slaughter was leading in the third and final set, five games to two when Stanley staged a ter rific rally to come from behind and win the set and match. Thomson, the Aggies fifth singles entry, de feated McDowell of East Texas in a run away 6-2, 6-2, affair. The Aggies, however, didn’t fare so well in the doubles play. Mc Dowell and Hoover of East Texas beat Thomson and Bennett 7-9, 5-7, and Stanley and Sellers then fell before Fox and Harry 6-8, 6-4, 2-6. Ben Harry, the East Texas flash, proved to be the star of the day. He won his singles match and then teamed with Fox to take one of the doubles matches. His terrific service and net play haunted the Aggies throughout the day. Aggie Baseball Squad Drops Baylor Opening Tilt Here The Texas Aggies dropped their third Southwestern Conference Baseball game to Baylor Bears at Kyle Field Last Wednesday afternoon by the score of 7 to 4. + The Aggies didn’t give up with out a struggle however. Coming to bat in the seventh inning and trailing six runs behind the visitors the Aggies dubbed pitcher Ricky Rowe for two hits and two runs. Rowe’s relief, Leroy Jarl gave up another hit but finally stuffed out the Aggie rally. Another run was racked up in the eighth when Bob Wasson con nected with a single to score Bob Fretz. In the last frame, the Ag gies made another desperate at tempt to even the score. With two away, catcher Cal Calvert put one out into right field that fielder Devereaux couldn’t handle. Calvert went all the way to third and scored when Earl Beesley made it safely to first on an infield error. Aggie errors at critical times gave the Bruins a boost on their win. Left fielder Peck Vass had three charged against him. Baylor took five errors, two of which re sulted in runs. Three Baylor players clipped doubles off of Roy Gibbons. They were Harris, Chandler, and Pear son, who played shortstop, first base, and catcher, respectively. Left fielder Szekley of the Bruins, cracked a home run in the ninth inning, sending it out of the park in center field at the farthest dis tance from home plate, 358 feet. Leroy Gibbons struck out six men before he was relieved by Earl Beesley in the seventh. Bees ley fanned three men after he came on the mound. t Pitcher Ricky Rowe, in his sev en innings of pitching, gave up only three Aggie hits. Rowe pitch ed a good game but the weather was working against him and he was relieved by Leroy Jarl. For the remainder of the game Jarl gave up one hit and one run. The Aggies meet Baylor again on April 25 and 26 in Waco. Score by innings: R H E A&M 000 000 211—4 6 3 - .mr o l Baylor 010 300 201—7 12 5 Aggie Netters Show „ Batteries: For A&M—Gibbons, Beesley, Walker, Calvert. Nani') ImLirnnemont For Baylor: Rowe, Jarl, Pearson. new impTUVerneni Officials: Bisbey, Tollar. , _ . „ Game time: 2 hours, 15 minutes. by Earl Grant Throughout the past two weeks before the Easter holidays, the Aggie netters have been using the newly remodeled clay courts. There are four very good courts at the present time. The Aggies will use these for all practice sessions as well as all meets which will occur throughout the season. The squad will consist of eight returning lettermen. Among these are Allen, Sanford, Stanley, Ben nett, Baron, and Gilbert. They have all done exceptionally well in recent practice sessions and should continue to do so' throughout the season. An elimination tournament was held today and yesterday to boost four more prospective netters to the present squad. The Aggies have good material this year and should do well in the Southwest Conference meet to be held later this season at Austin. ALWAYS BETTER... 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