=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.
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Netters Turn Back
ETSTC in Opener
The Aggie tennis team overpow
ered a strong East Texas State
squad in the season’s opener last
Monday. The Aggies showed up
well in the single divisions, win
ning four out of five matches, but
were upset in both doubles match
es.
Allen, the number one man on
the Aggie squad, was defeated
12-10, 6-4, by Ben Harry, the spark
plug of the East Texas club. Har
ry’s service and net play proved
to be too much for the Aggie star.
Red Bennett, the number two man
on the Aggie team, defeated Hoov
er of East Texas 9-7, 6-2. Stan
ford, the Aggies’ number three
man of the day copped an easy win
from Fox 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
In what proved to be the thrill
er of the day, Stanley, the Aggies’
fourth singles man, eaked out a
victory over Slaughter, 5-6, 4-6,
7-5. 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.
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