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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. . . .
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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-
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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.
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