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by LARRY GOODWYN
Mile Relay Quartet Seeks Natfl Honors
Baseballers Down
Frogs 12-1 Monday
The Aggies go after national
honors this week in the world of
track. The occasion is the Kansas
Relays, the event is the mile relay
and the Ag-
P gies in ques
tion are Art
Harnden, Ray
Holbrook, Er
vin Bilderbeck
and Bill Na
pier.
The quartet,
one of the
fastest mile
relay teams
ever to come
out of the
Southwest, has
been making
mincemeat out of all competition
in this neck of the woods all year,
and Saturday, at Manhattan, Kan
sas, they get their chance to meet
Goodwyn
strong out - of - conference opposi
tion.
The best mile combines from
the Western Conference, the Big
Six and the Southwest will be
on hand to rival the Aggie quar
tet but none of them have match
ed the Aggies’ top time of 3:17.8,
set a month ago in the Texas
Relays.
If the Farmers can match that
time in Manhattan this weekend,
there is little doubt that they will
bring home the mile relay trophy.
Meanwhile, here at home, the
rest of the Aggie track team
will be playing host to Rice and
Baylor in a triangular meet
which should prove nothing more
than a mild workout for the
Aggies. The score may even be
more one-sided than the 96 to
48 to 25 thumping A. & M. hand
ed L.S.U. and Baylor last week.
Along the Baseball Front
Claude (Peck) Vass, heavy-hit
ting Aggie outfielder, lost his bat
ting league in the SWC baseball
race during the week. His aver
age “dropped” to a mere .458 as
Ransom Jackson of Texas, Bert
Berry of S.M.U. and Jim Barnett
of T.C.U. took over the lead, each
with .500 averages. . . . Only other
Aggie among the first ten cur
rent leaders in the league is
Charles Thornton, who holds down
the ninth spot at .428. . . . Aggie
diamond fans are still talking a-
bout the grand slam homer by
Harold (Frog) Walker in Mon
day’s game against T.C.U. Walker,
never renown for his ability at
the plate, laid into a three-two
pitch and sent it high and far over
the right-center field fence to clean
the sacks and send the Farmers
out into a 4-0 lead. . . . Another
promising note sounded in the T.
C.U. game was the hurling of
“Dewey” Jacobs. Jacobs had the
Frogs eating out of his hand most
of the way and showed promise of
providing needed support to the
Aggies ailing mound staff. The
Frogs weren’t able to score their
two runs off Jacobs until after
rain fell, making the slippery ball
hard to grip.
A lot of discussion arose over
the scoring of the Texas Aggie-
TCU baseball game here Monday
many arguing that since the ball
game was called in the seventh
with the Aggies at bat and three
men on bases, all that happened in
the inning should have been wash
ed from the books and the score
reverted to the last complete in
ning and that would have made the
score, 12-0 instead of 12-2.
Either way the Aggies would
have been the winner so there was
no benefit to the home team by
scoring that inning into the rec
ords.
The official scorer was well
within his rights in counting the
seventh and here is the rule from
the “Manual For Official Scorers
and League Statisticians” issued
by the National Association of
Professional Baseball Leagues.
The rule is found on page 10
under the heading of “ENTITLED
TO RECORDS”, and here is how
it reads.
“First half of the seventh in
ning has been completed with
the home team leading, 3-2. In
the home half of the seventh the
home club scores five more runs,
but the game is rained out before
the inning is completed. It is
not necessary to revert to even
innings in a case of this kind,
since the home team was in the
lead, and the home players are
entitled to all records during
their half of the incomplete sev
enth.”
That rule does not hold in every
case so don’t go to making bets on
it—you may be wrong. Note that
it distinctly says “seventh inning”
and that' was the inning in which
the Aggie-TCU game was halted.
The men who were on got there
via bases on balls so were not
charged with an official time at
bat, nor was the man at the plate
so charged since he had not com
pleted his time up.
Golf Team Takes On
Ponies Friday at 1
The Texas Aggie golf team
coached by Marty Karow and sup
ervised by Gather Nowell meets
the SMU squad at the Bryan Coun
try Club greens Friday afternoon,
by Andy Matula
The Texas Aggies got hot
Monday afternoon, in spite of
the chilly weather, and troun
ced the TCU Horned Frogs
12 to 2 at Kyle Field. It was
the Frog’s fourth loss and the
Aggies’ third win.
It was a big day for Aggie
batsmen as they banged two home
runs and five doubles plus eleven
other safe hits. Harold Walker
came to bat in the second inning
with the bases loaded and cleared
them with a wallop over the right
field fence. Not to be outdone,
Aggie first sacker, Stan Hollmig
stepped up to the plate in the
fourth frame and sent one of
pitcher Hubert Walters’ balls fly
ing over the same fence, driving
two runs home before him.
The Frog’s two runs came in
during their half of the seventh
on a passed ball and single. They
had ducks on the pond in every
inning but the sixth but |ailed to
push any across. Because of the
rain that started in the sixth in
ning, Umpire Tollar called the con
test after the Aggies started balk
ing in the seventh, much to the
relief of both players and specta
tors.
Big Dewey Jacobs drew his first
starting assignment for Monday’s
game and pitched fine ball in the
seven innings of play. Jacobs fan
ned seven of the TCU batters that
faced him and allowed seven bases
on balls. The Frogs sent three
hurlers to the mound but none of
them seemed able to stop the Ag
gie slugging.
With this win the Aggies break
even in conference play, having
lost three and won three. The Ags
play a two game series on Friday
and Saturday with SMU at Kyle
Field.
Score by Innings R H E
A&M 0 5 3 3 0 1 xx 12 16 1
TCU 0000002 250
Batteries: For A&M—Jacobs,
Walker, Calvert. For TCU—Bar-
net, Walters, Plank, Mullins.
Officials: Tolar, Tucker.
Game time: 2 hours, 10 minutes.
Game called middle of seventh in
ning on account of rain.
April 18 beginning at 1 p.m.
This will be the fifth dual match
for the Ags and the second against
the Ponies, the first of which was
won by the Farmers in Dallas by a
score of 6-1.
Thus far, the Cadet linkmen
have a clean record with four wins
in four starts in dual affairs but
one loss charged against them
when they placed fourth in the Fat
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THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Thursday, April 17, 1947 Page Three
Bonnen Cops Honors in Two-Mile Run
JERRY BONNEN, Aggie distance ace, is shown as he crosses
the finish line after finishing the 2-mile run in the time of 10:4.4
in the triangular meet with Baylor and LSU here last Saturday.
In this race, A&M copped three of the four places, J. D. Hampton
finishing second and Jesse Hargis taking fourth.
INTRAMURALS Cliff Ackerman
INTRAMURAL SWIMMING
CHAMPIONSHIPS GO TO D
CAVALRY, AIR FORCE. AND
WALTON HALL
In the final of the annual Intra
mural Swim Meet D Cavalry won
the upperclass crown, the fresh
man Air Force team won in Class
B competition, and Walton Hall
was winner from the vet entries.
Individual results are as follows:
Class A Finals
400 ft. Relay—Dorm 14, C Cav.,
Dorm 17, B Air Corps. Time
1:11.8.
100 ft. Back Stroke—Womack, A
Cav; Morrison, G Inf.; Bulter,
B Air Corps; Epps, E Inf.;
TiixiG 21*9
200 ft. Breast—Shiels, F Inf.; Shel
ton, D Cav.; Klein, Walton;
Torres, A QMC; Time 51:9.
Diving—Pate, C Field; Wilson,
Walton; Holleman, D Cav.;
Garrett, Vet. No. 1.
300 ft. Free Style—Janowski,
Dorm. 15; Cargill, D Cav.;
Pate, C Field; Burch, Dorm.
14. Time 1:06.2.
300 ft. Medley—Walton Hall, D
Cav., Dorm 17, Dorm 14. Time
1:04.5
Class B Finals
400 ft. Relay—B Air Corps, A
CAC, G Inf, FA Band. Time
1:20.3.
100 ft. Back Stroke—Dealey, FA
Band; Anderson, B Inf; Klapp,
F FA; McCullough, F Inf.
Time 23.0.
200 ft. Breast Stroke—Rodgers, A
FA; Newberger, Inf. Band;
Imhoff, B Eng.; Williamson,
G Inf. Time 48.9.
Diving—Bennett, FA Band; Hueb-
ner, A Air Corps; Williams, B
FA; Imhoff, B Eng.
300 ft. Free Style—Klatt, F FA;
Anderson, B Inf.; Simoneaux,
B Air Corps; Schrader, A C.
W c; . Time 1*11
300 ft.’ Medley—B FA, G* Inf., Air
Corps, B-C-D Cav. Time 1:11.
Intramural Track Meet
The Intramural Track Meet will
be held at Kyle Field April 26 and
27 with events in the following:
440 yard dash, 100 yard dash, 880
yard run, 120 yard hurdles, 440
yard relay, 880 yard relay, shot
put, high jump, broad jump, and
pole vault. For freshmen only there
will be a 1.7 mile run.
WRESTLING RESULTS
Class A
Vets
Order of
Org.
Part.
Total
Finish
Pts.
Pts
1
Puryear
40
65
1
Law
20
45
3
No. 14
1
15
4
Hart
20
30
No. 16
10
10
No. 17
30
30
No. 5
10
10
Walton
10
10
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Aggie Thinly Clads Favored To
Win in Triangular Meet Here
by Larry Goodwyn
Stripped of its crack mile relay team, the Texas Aggie
squad goes after its third meet win in six starts Saturday af
ternoon when the favored Farmers play host to Baylor and
Rice in a triangular meet on Kyle Field. Field events start at
2 :30 p.m. and running events start at 3.
The Aggies, victorious in the - *
Ft. Worth Exposition Meet and in
a triangular meet here last week
end, are expected to encounter lit
tle trouble in disposing of the two
invaders, both of which have failed
to show the all-around strength
necessary to cope with Col. Frank
Anderson’s well-balanced squad.
The mile relay quartet of Na
pier, Bilderbeck, Holbrook and
Harnden, will be in Kansas Sat
urday where they will battle
with the nation’s top mile com
bines in the Kansas Relays.
Anderson will enter a complete
new mile relay team against
Rice and Baylor headed by Bert
Frye. The team ran against
L.S.U. and Baylor here last week
and were giving a creditable ac
count of themselves until a drop
ped baton on an exchange ruined
their chances.
Baylor, too, will be weakened by
a loss of stars to the Kansas Track
carnival. The Bear’s ace sprint
duo of Bill Martineson and Stoney
Cotton will make the trip along
with the Baylor sprint relay team.
Martineson and Texas’ Charley
Parker are expected to add anoth
er page to their book of photo
finishes when both run in the 100-
yard dash in the Kansas affair.
The Aggies, strong throughout
the year in the field events, en
countered severe opposition last
week in the form of L.S.U. in gen
eral and a tall, lanky all-around
athlete named Bob Lowther in
particular. Lowther beat all four
of the Aggies pole-vaulters in win
ning that event, nipped the Aggies’
Vernon Belville and George Ka-
dera to take the Javelin and waged
a merry battle with Jim Hill before
bowing to the long-striding Aggie
in the broad jump.
The Farmers may find the go
ing tough in some of their fa
vorite field events again this
week. Rice, with defending con
ference champion, Henry Koff-
man on hand to lead the show,
will offer strong competition in
the high jump, an event in which
the Maroon’s Art Haws has been
picking up points with pleasing
regularity all year. Vern Mc-
Grew, the ’46 Texas schoolboy
high jump champ, also will be on
hand in Rice uniform to make the
going especially tough for Haws.
In addition, George Kadera, the
Farmer’s conference hopeful in the
shot put and discus, will have to
beat the Owl’s giant All-Ameri
can tackle, Weldon Humble, to win
his specialties Saturday. Kadera
and Humble have met twice in
meets this season, each holding a
win over the other in the shot put
and the competition should be hot
again this week.
The Owls also boast strength in
the hurdles where August Erfurth
and Bill Cummings both appear to
be the class of the conference.
Otherwise, the going should be
relatively easy for the Aggies.
With a little luck, the Aggies can
expect wins in both dashes (with
Martineson and Cotton gone, Jay
should have a field day); the 880
(Vajdos); the mile. (Stone); the
Ponies in 2-Game
Baseball Series
Friday, Saturday
The SMU Mustangs journey to
Aggieland this week-end for a
two-game series with A&M on the
baseball diamond at Kyle Field. It
will be the seventh and eighth
games for the Aggies this season.
The Mustangs have only played
three games this spring and have
failed to win any of them, but
despite this poor showing, the Pon
ies are reputed to be a strong
team. SMU was scheduled to play
Baylor at Dallas last week in a
two-game series, but both games
were rained out. The Mustangs will
be shooting for their first victory
Friday and Saturday.
After their win over the out
classed and hapless TCU Frogs, the
Cadets are anxious to improve their
.500 mark in conference standing.
Probable starting batteries for A.
& M. Friday will be Earl Beesley
pitching and Frog Walker catch
ing. Outfielder Hub Moon is now
recovering from a touch of flu
and got three hits in Monday’s
tilt.
Game time Friday and Saturday
is 3 p. m. and will be broadcast by
Radio Station WTAW.
Netters Drub Sam
Houston 6-1; Play
Ponies Saturday
The Texas Aggie tennis team
tangles with Southern Methodist
University here today in the first
meeting of the two teams this sea
son.
The Farmer netters scored a 6
to 1 triumph over the Sam Hous
ton State Teachers College squad
in a match in Huntsville Tuesday
afternoon.
The Aggies will meet the Uni
versity of Texas here Saturday af
ternoon. t
Summary: I
Singles—Allen, A&M, over Man
ning, Houston State, 6-4, 6-3;
Smith, Sam Houston, beat Bennett,
A&M, 6-3, 6-4; Stanford, A&M
downed Parkhill, Sam Houston, 6-1,
3-6, 6-2; Stanley, A&M over Tay
lor, Sam Houston, 6-0, 6-2; Seller,
A&M, beat Mann, Sam Houston,
6-4, 6-3.
Doubles—Bennett and Allen, A.
& M. over Smith and Manning,
Sam Houston, 13-11, 7-5; Sellers
and Stanley, A&M beat Taylor and
Bushwall, Sam Houston, 6-2, 6-3.
two-mile (Bonnen) the sprint re
lay; the shot and discus (Kadera);
the high jump (Haws); the broad
jump (Hill or Jay); the pole vault
(Bodeman, Tate or Davis); the
Javelin (Belville) and possibly the
440 dash (with Frye).
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