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THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Saturday, April 12, 1947 Pagp. Thred INTRAMURALS cm ZL™* FREE FIGHT NIGHT ENDS CUR RENT SEASON BOXING AND WRESTLING TOURNAMENT The current season boxing and wrestling tournaments were brought to a close Monday night, March 31 when the Class A mat- men rolled and tumbled to top honors and Class B boxers punched out their victories. This has been one of the most successful seasons in the two events due to the coop eration of the contestants and to the efficient handling of the In tramural Managers. Results in Class A Wrestling are as follows: 119 lb. Wheat C Inf. 129 lb. Keeter A Cav. 139 lb. Lohn Law Hall 149 lb. Keese B Cav. 159 lb. Decker A CAC 169 lb. Roach A CWS 179 lb. Breedlove A CAC Heavyweight Bozka F FA Results in Class B Boxing are as follows: 129 lb. Moye A FA 139 lb. Taylor A CWS 149 lb. Beck A Cav. 159 lb. Hickman G Inf. 169 lb. Pollock F FA 179 lb. Watkins F FA Heavyweight Muegge F FA SOFTBALL Now that the fighting is over Intramural Managers will be free to work on the games. At least one man will be on each game whenever possible. The second um pire should be a man agreed on by both team captains. It is urged that each outfit be at the sched uled diamond and ready to go at the scheduled time so as to get each game through before the time dead line. WRESTLING RESULTS Order of Class A Org. Part. Total Finish Pts. Pts 1 A Infantry 50 80 2 B. Cavalry 40 60 3 A. Coast 20 35 4 C. Infantry 50 60 5 A. Cavalry 50 55 6 B. Engineers 50 50 6 A. CWS 50 50 8 E. Infantry 50 50 8 B. Fid. Arty 50 50 8 F. Fid. Arty. 20 20 11 A. Fid. Arty. 50 50 1 C Engineers 50 50 13 F. Infantry 40 40 13 E. Fid. Arty. 40 40 13 A. Engineers 50 50 16 C. Fid. Arty. 50 50 16 D. Cavalry 40 40 18 B. Infantry 30 30 18 D. Infantry 50 50 18 A. Air Corps 30 30 18 Inf. Band 50 50 G. Infantry 50 50 D. Fid. Arty. 20 20 C. Cavalry 10 10 j ON KYLE FIELD 1 by PAUL MARTIN Farmer Baseball Team Erratic Class A Intramural Boxing Champions Champions in their respective weight divisions in the Intramural class A boxing finals are pic tured above. Reading from left to right are: Webb of G Inf., 119 pound class; Lomax of A CWS, 129 pound class; Golden of A Inf., 139 pound class; Young of Dorm 16, 149 pound class; Bennet of Yet company Number 1,159 pound class; Cherry of Hart, 179 pound class; Holmes of F Field, heavy weight class. Absent at the time the picture was taken was Dunman of the Field Artillery Band, winner in the 169 pound class. Nominations in Order For Outstanding Aggie Swimmer Bee Baseballers Lose to Bearcats The loss, which was the second against two wins for A & M in conference play, was especially hard to take after the Farmers had such little trouble disposing of the Owls in the two-game series in Houston two weeks ago. The Ag gies, it will be remembered, won both games by lopsided scores, 25-1 and 10-4. Both Gibbons and Beesley, mainstays of the Maroon pit ching staff, have been out standing for their inconsis- tancy. One minute, they look unbeatable and fully capable of coasting along over a nine- inning route with little trou ble. The next minute they are getting pounded, but good, all over Kyle Field. Both the victories of Rice and the 7-4 triumph engineered by Bay lor over the Aggies last week came as a result of one “big” inning in which the Aggie pitching staff fell apart. For Rice, it was a five- run eighth at the expense of Beesley that turned the trick while the Bears landed on Gibbons for a three-run uprising in the fourth that knocked the slats out of an otherwise creditable pitching per formance. In the first two games against Rice, the two hurlers looked great. Gibbons was in fine form in lim iting the Owls to a single safe blow in the 25-1 route while Bees ley was quite effective in the pinches in the 10-4 win the next day. The Aggies’ only apparent chance to reap any glory from the current campaign now lies in the ability of hot-and-cold Gibons - Beesley combine t o blow “hot” when T. u. comes to Kyle Field. The booming bat of Peck Vass, 26 year-old Aggie outfielder, has been singing music to the ears of Farmer Baseball fans of late, and the figures seem to back up his record. Statistics released by James Stewart, Southwest Confer ence Executive Secretary, cov ering all games through April 5th, show Vass with the top batting average of the league. The tall slugger boasts a hot .615 to date with eight hits in 13 official trips to the plate. He picked up five of his blows in the first game against Rice, figuring prominently in the 25-1 massacre of the feather ed flock. Tex Thornton, Aggie second baseman is tied for second, ac cording to Stewart, with a .517 average. Now if only the Aggies had a couple of more Vass’s in the outfield and about four more infielders with batting averages like Thornton. . . . MINUSA DRAWING INSTRUMENTS $34.50 — $36.50 A Few K & E Slide Rules LOUPOT’S TRADING POST North Gate By Don Engelking Nominations are now in order for the outstanding man on the swimming team. Let’s all get be hind our swimmers and pick the man we think was most outstand ing of all the Aggie tankers. Sub mit your nominations to The Bat talion office, Room 5 Administra tion building. The outstanding athlete at Tex as A. & M. College for the school year ending with graduation in May is still to be decided. So far nominations • h a v e been received football, basketball, cross country and now swimming. As each sport season ends, nom inations will be received for that sport and at the end of the school year these nominations will be sub mitted to the coaching staff. The coaches will decide from your nom inations who they think is the out standing athlete at our college. The outstanding athlete will be chosen not only on the basis of his ability in his sport but on his qualities of cooperation, leadership, enthusiasm, and other important factors of an all around athlete. The winner of this title will be awarded The Jack Dempsey-Adam Hat Trophy, a beautiful trophy which will be suitably engraved. This trophy will become the per- DOLLS Dy-dee Dolls All rubber-washable Candy Kid Dolls Sweetie Pie Dolls Movable eyes and washable hair. Joyces Toy House 608 S. College Ph. 2-2864 manent possession of the athlete chosen. The Jack Dempsey-Adam Hat Trophy is now on display at Doc Lipscomb’s Pharmacy. This is the first year such a tro phy has been awarded. Jack Demp sey, former world’s heavy weight boxing champion and commander in the Coast Guard during World War II, who is awarding the tro phy says that he intends to make the trophy an annual affair. VOLTEN BALL The new sport of Volten Ball went through the final wind-up when B Eng. beat B Field for the championship. Volten Ball was introduced here by Herman Segrest, head of the required Physical Education Pro gram, and was brought into the Intramural program for the first time this spring semester. The test tournament proved very suc cessful as a mid-winter activity. Back in the 1850’s the “thrower” wound up and took a 12 foot run to the pitching line—BUT — he had to put the ball where the striker called for it. There was no such thing as a called strike, and the scores ran into telephone numbers. . The A. & M. B baseball team lost its first game of the season Thursday afternoon when the Sam Houston State Teachers College Bearcats tallied 7 points to A. & M.’s 6. All of the scoring in the game took place in the fourth inning. The Cats started the fourth with their first man up, R. B. Moffeflfc, making an out with a line fly to Moe Baber, A. & M.’s third base- man. Bobby Southall walked Don Duncan, while Bob Nelson got on base when Jack Watson errored. With two men on, Leo Chaney drove them in by hitting Southall for a two bagger into right field. Chaney came in when Frank Wol- chik hit a single to third. Earl Key walked and Billy Vaughn drove a single to right field after which Bing Turner took over the mound for the Aggies. “Rosey” Roren- feld hit Turner for a triple but D. H. Watkins was thrown out at first and Moffett then tenth bat ter was called out when Turner put a fast one over the plate. The Aggies were not to be out done so they played the last half of the fourth in a similar manner. Don Clark was first up and out with fly to third. Raymond Katt hit a double into center field and came in when the next man, Zeke Strange, hit Billy Vaughn for a single into center field. Jim Wink ler brought Strange in when he hit a triple into right field. Moe NOMINATION BLANK FOR OUTSTANDING ATHLETE OF A. & M. IN 1946-47 Name of Athlete Swimming Name Address Aggie Baseball Club to Play TCU Frogs Here Monday Getting well on into the middle of the season, the Texas Aggie Baseballers will take on the TCU Frogs here Monday, April 14 starting at 3 p.m. Excluding the tilt with the Uni versity of Texas yesterday, the Ags have broken even to date with two wins and two losses. 1- Bee Baseball Team Swamps Allen 16-0 The Aggie B baseball team, be hind a brilliant three hit pitching job by John Scurlock, massacred The Allen Ramblers to the tune 16-0 Wednesday afternoon on Kyle Field. It was the fourth win in as many starts for the Bees. Scur lock went the route for the Aggies striking out 16 batters. The Bee sluggers picked up one run in the second inning, two in the third on a home run by Ray Katt with one man on, and one in the fourth. In the sixth the Ag gies jumped on the Rambler pitch er, Bob Johnson, for five runs and in the eighth inning the Aggies made seven runs on four hits and four walks sending Johnson to the showers. As Scurlock held control of the situation in the defensive depart ment, Jim Winkler paced the Ags in the hitting department, getting three hits in three trips to the plate, one of them a two-bagger. Allen Garner also got a perfect percentage with two hits in two trips while Bill Eckles, Ray Katt, and Scurlock got two for five. Moe Baber got only one hit but scored three times and Baber, along with Winkler and Zeke Strange tallied two base swats. Hits for the Ramblers were col lected by Charles Russell with two for two and Ray Clemmons got the other in four trips. Score by Innings Aggie Bees 012 105 070 Allen Ramblers 000 000 000 Batteries: For A&M—Scurlock. For Allen—Johnson, Beech. Game Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes. Officials: Pugh. Baber followed Winkler and got on base when Leo Chaney errored. Bill Eckles and Bing Turner both hit singles to right field and were driven home when Jack Watson put a single into center field. Mau rice Hobbs then took over the pitch ers box and walked three men, Al len Garner, Don Clark, and Ray Katt but Watson was put out on base, so three men died on base when Zeke Strange was struck out on a call strike. Bill Eckles dodged a pitched ball and in the process of getting out of the way his bat hit the ball into playing field between the mound and the third baseline. Bill had fallen to the ground in this freak play but in spite of his efforts he was thrown out at first. In the last of the ninth, with two outs, Jim Winkler got on sec ond by an error on a throw from third to first but the efforts of Moe Baber to get him in were use less as he struck out and ended the game with Winkler on second. The teams were working along the same pattern it seems as Vau ghn and Southall both pitched three and one quarter innings, both teams had one hit in the firgt in ning and none in the second and third, both teams scored their only points in the fourth inning and both batted around in the fourth inning. The first batters up in the fourth inning for both teams were out on caught flys. Rosenfeld made a beautiful catch in short left field and re tained it even though he fell to the ground. Bob Nelson also made a beautiful catch for the Cats in left field in the last of the ninth when he went all the way to the fence to catch a fly hit by Ray mond Katt of the Aggies. Republic Picures To Film Life of Babe Ruth Republic Pictures of Hollywood, California announced recently that final arrangements had been made to film the life story of Babe Ruth, America’s home run king. It was not known as yet whether or not Ruth would appear in the proposed film, but it will be re called that the swat king starred in a silent film during the height of his playing career and also ap peared in the more recent “The Pride of the Yankees”, a movie version of the life of his former teammate, Lou Gehrig. Both wins have been over Rice Institute in Houston while both losses have been in games staged here. Baylor and Rice have one victory each over the Farmers. Probably slated to start on the mound Monday will be Earl (Kid) Beesley but there is a possibility that Dewey Jacobs, the former B team whiz kid will hurl in the opening frames. Roy Gibbons, the Aggie’s ambidextrious miracle man injured his right arm in the Rice tilt and his appearance will be problematical. He still has his left but to date, he has not gotten full control of this wing. TCU’s Horned Frogs have got ten off to an even poorer start with losses to both Baylor and Texas. Left for the Ags after this tilt will be two matches with Southern Methodist here, two with Baylor in Waco, Texas Christian in Fort Worth, Southern Methodist in Dal las, a night game, and two clos ing tilts with Texas here on May 14-15. Red Cross Life Saving Course Begins Monday It has been announced that a senior Red Cross life saving course open to anyone living in Brazos County is to be offered and ses sions will be held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thurs days at 7:30 p.m., beginning Mon day, April 14. DOLL HOUSE ACCESSORIES Rugs—Pictures—Disks Alarm Clocks JOYCES TOY HOUSE 608 S. College Ph. 2-2864 Records and Players, Paints, Varnishes, Wall Paper. CHAPMAN’S Next to P. O. Bryan TENNIS RACKETS RESTRUNG FAST SERVICE SMITH’S North Gate DR. N. B. McNUTT DENTIST Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas WATCH REPAIRS FAST WATCH REPAIR SERVICE 4 Day Service on Cleaning and Staffing. 1 Day Service on Main Springs and Crowns. 2 Hour Service for Crystals. T. C. HINMAN North Gate ■ LEON B. WEISS --