Aggie Baseball Team
Drubs S M U Twice
SMU Drops Second
Game Saturday
Playing steady baseball in
all nine innings, the Texas
Aggies swept clean the two
game series with Southern
Methodist by beating the Mus
tangs 9 to 3 Saturday afternoon
at Kyle Field.
Dewey Jacobs started on the
mound for the Aggies. After giv
ing up three runs in the first
two innings, he settled down to
smooth hurling and gave up only
two more hits for the rest of the
game. Jacobs farmed eleven of
the batters that faced him and al
lowed but two bases on balls.
Both Walter Willingham and
Stan Hollmig repeated yesterday’s
batting performance in this game.
Hollmig cracked a home run in
the first inning over the left cen
ter field fence at a distance of
about 360 feet. Willingham’s hom
er left the diamond at about the
same spot in the eighth inning.
All nine of the Aggie runs were
earned while one of the Pony runs
was by virtue of an error.
Hub Moon batted 1.000, getting
two singles and two walks and
Willingham cracked out three hits
for four times at bat, a single,
double and a four sacker. Alert
defense work by the Aggies pre
vented several potential Mustang
scores from crossing the plate.
Jacobs cut two runs out off at
third and Tex Thornton went deep
behind first base in the sixth to
suceesfully handle a burning
grounder in time for the putout-
For the Ponies, Doak Walker
was the top hitter, clipping off
two singles out of four ab’s. Dan
ny Lynch managed to get his
hands on a high bounder of Wil
lingham’s in the sixth in time for
a throw to first. Bob Argodine
was the starting pitcher for SMU
but was relieved in the second by
Buddy Napier after he had given
up five hits and allowed five
runs to cross the plate. Napier
finished the game, relinquishing
five more hits and four runs and
striking out four.
After an exhibition game with
the Bryan Bombers Monday night
the Aggies journey to Waco for
a two game series with Baylor on
April 25-26.
Farmers Edge Out
Ponies 9-8 Friday
Coming through with a
Hollywood style finish, The
Texas Aggies nosed out the
Southern Methodist Mustangs
in the ninth inning at Kyle Field
Friday afternoon. The final score
was 9 to 8.
Bobby Fretz stepped up to the
plate in the ninth frame with the
bases loaded and two away and
slammed the first pitch by Mus
tang pitcher Edwin Kay out along
the left field foul line with about
eight inches to spare. The ball
banged against the cyclone fence
but each runner was away at the
crack of the bat and when Fretz
stood up on second safely, three
runs were in and the game was
over.
At the start of the big ninth in
ning the Aggies were trailing by
a score of 8 to 6. Earl Beesley,
batting for pitcher Bing Turner,
struck out, as did Russell Mays.
Then Peck Vass picked up his
first hit of the game, a single
through second base- Next bat
ter, Hub Moon clipped a high
foul that was blown infield and
slipped through the hands of pit
cher Kay. In an attempt to pick
Vass off second, secondbaseman,
Burt Berry, let the ball skip into
center field and when the dust
cleared, Vass and Moon were safe
ly on third and second. Stan Hol
lmig received an intentional pass.
Then Fretz came to bat and
brought all three runners in.
SMU wasted no time in scor
ing in the first inning. They tallied
once then, waited until the fourth
and picked up four more runs and
three more in the fifth when Bing
Turner went in to replace Stan
Hollmig. They also picked another
in the seventh but that was all.
It was the fifth frame before
the Aggies came to life. Wialter
Willingham, pinch hitter for Leo
Deniels, clouted a home run 15
feet over the left center field
fence. Two more runs were driven
in by the Ags that frame, and two
more in the next inning. Stan Holl
mig knocked the second Farmer
homer in the eighth inning to
make six runs for A&M.
Mustang pitcher Erwin Kay
went all the way for the Pony
nine and pitched a fine game,
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College and Bryan
THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Tuesday, April 22, 1947:
:Page Three
Aggie Weight Star
I
GEORGE KADERA, Aggie weight man, has consistently
taken honors in the shot put, discus throw, and javelin, and has
shown continued improvement in these departments. Admittedly
one of the best in the conference, the San Antonio freshman took
second honors for high score individual in the Rice meet last Sat
urday with 11 points, a first in the discus and seconds in the shot
put and javelin.
even though his team lost- He
failed to give a hit until the
fourth inning and struck out nine
batters that faced him. The SMU
catcher, John Ligon, got three
hits out of five times at bat and
made three runs for the Ponies.
Second baseman Danny Lynch re
ceived two for four, one of which
was a double.
Relief pitcher Bing Turner bore
down on the Mustangs and gave
up three hits and one run. Holl
mig struck out four and Turner
fanned three. Besides the four bag
gers by Willingham and Hollmig,
Hub Moon hit a triple and Fretz
got that potent double.
After their game Saturday, the
Aggies will not meet the Mus
tangs until May 5 in Dallas. That
game is scheduled at Rebel Park
at night.
Score by innings
SMU TOO 330 100
A&M 000 032 013
Batteries: For A&M—Hollmig,
Turner, Walker; For SMU—Kay,
Ligon.
Officials: Tollar, Tucker.
Game time: 2 hours, 20 minutes.
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INTRAMURALS
By Cliff Ackerman
The handball leagues have com
pleted their rounds of play and are
now in the process of deciding a
Corps championship team.
The league winners are as fol
lows: League A—“A” Infantry;
League B—“D” Infantry; League
C—“C” Infantry; League D—“F”
Infantry.
In the play-offs “A” Infantry
defeated “F” Infantry, this puts
“A” Infantry in the semi-finaY;,
Their opponent for this match wifi
be a strong team from “C” Infan
try.
The other play-off match was
won by “G” Infantry when they
over powered “D” Infantry in their
semi-final match.
The finals will be played April
22 between the winner 1 of the “C”
Infantry “A” Infantry match and
“G” Infantry.
Horseshoes
The other play-off match was
won by “G” Infantry when they
over powered “D” Infantry in their
semi-final match.
The finals will be played April
22 between the winner of the “C”
Infantry “A” Infantry match and
“G” Infantry.
Horseshoes
In the horseshoe race “B” Air
Corps and “A” Infantry survived
the tough battles to meet in the
finals. “B” Air Corps defeated
“B” Field in the semi-finals and
“A” Infantry won from “A” Sig
nal in their semi-final match.
Softball
The softball leagues are rolling
along at a fast pace. Many good
teams are entered in this spring
tournament and a winning team
has to play heads-up ball the en
tire way;
Standings in the Veteran
Leagues are as follows:
League A
Team Won Lost Pet.
Milner 6 1 .857
Puryear 4 1 .800
Dorm No. 14 3 1 .750
Dorm No. 15 4 3 .571
Mitchell 2 3 .400
Law 1 2 .333
Dorm No. 17 1 2 .333
Dorm No. 16 2 5 .285
Leggett 1 3 .250
Bizzell 0 3 .000
Cadet Track Team Swamps Owls
92 to 30 in Dual Meet Saturday
Jay Runs 100-Yard
Dash in 9.5 Seconds
The high-flying Texas Ag
gie track team added another
conference team to its grow
ing string of victims Satur
day by crushing the Rice Owls,
90 to 30 in a dua Imeet on Kyle
Field.
The meet was originally sched
uled to be a triangular affair but
Baylor, weakened by the loss of
its crack sprinters who competed
in the Kansas Relays, withdrew at
the last moment.
The win was the second in a
row for the Farmer trackmen who
last week took L.S.U. and Baylor
into camp by a margin almost as
great as Saturday’s trimming of
Rice.
The Owls were outmanned from
the start and figured prominently
only in the hurdles, high jump and
the shot-put.
A terrific south wind produced
some startling fast times in the
sprints but played havoc with the
distance races. Webb Jay flashed
to victory in the 100 yard dash in
9.5 a feat which ties the conference
record and equals the best times
of such sprint notables as Baylor’s
Bill Martineson and Texas’ Charley
Parker.
Jay also took the 220 and an
chored the winning Aggie sprint
relay team to tie for individual
honors for the day with 11^4 points.
Joe Vajdos took the 440 (in the
absence of Harnden, Holbrook, et
al who were competing in the Kan
sas Relays), won the 880 and an
chored the mile relay team to vic
tory to notch 11% points also.
George Kadera took the discus
and placed second (to Humble of
Rice) in the shot put and second
(to Bellville of the Aggies) in
the javelin to account for 11 more
points.
Perhaps the most pleasing per
formance of the day from the Ag
gies’ standpoint was Bob Hill’s
showing in the broad jump. Hill,
who has been playing second fid
dle to Jay in the broad jump all
year, soared 23 feet 8V2 inches to
win his event easily. It was the
lingest broad jump this year in
the south.
Art Haws and Henry Koffman
renewed their duel in the high
jump and again came off with a
draw, both clearing the bar at 6
feet 3 and % inches.
Hampton scored an upset win in
the two mile, beating Jerry Bon-
nen, who won the event in the
triangular meet last week. Rice
failed to enter a man in the event.
The Owls scored victories in the
hurdles with August Erfurth beat
ing the Aggies’ Jim Mortenson to
the tape in both the highs and lows
and in the mile run in which Rice
beat the Aggies ace miler, Web
ster Stone.
Summary Follows:
Summary :
Javelin—Won by Bellville, Texas A-
&M, 178 feet, 13/4 inches;: second
Kadera, Texas A&M, 174 feet, 8 inches.
440-yard dash—won by Valjos, Texas
A&M ; second, Hoff, Rice. Time: 51.5.
100-yard dash—Won by Jay, Texas
A&M ; second, Powers, Texas A&M.
Time: 9.5 equaling Southwest Conference
record.
High jump—Tie between Haws, A&M,
and Coffman, Rice. Height: 6 feet, 3 %
inches.
Shot put—won by Humble, Rice, 46
feet, 11 inches ; second, Kadera, Texas
A&M, 46 feet, 10 inches.
Mile run—Won by Porter, Rice; sec
ond, Stone, Texas A&M. Time: 4:40.0.
220-yard dash—Won by Jay, A&M;
second, Blackwell, A&M. Time: 21.3.
120-yard high hurdles—Won by Er
furth, Rice; Second, Mortensen, A&M.
Time: 14.5.
Pole vault—Tie between, Davis, Bode-
man, Tate, A&M all tied, 12 feet. (No
Rice entry).
880-yard run—Won by Hahn, A&M ;
second, Atkins, A&M. Time: 2:02.0.
440-yard relay—Won by A&M (An
derson, Meyer, Blackwell, Jay). No sec
ond place. Time: 43.7.
Broad jump—Won by Hill, A&M, 23
feet, 8% inches; second, McCauley, A&M,
21 feet, 10)4 inches.
Hampton,
(No Rice
Two mile run—Won by
A&M ; second, Bonnen, A&M.
entries) Time: 10:20.5.
220-yard low hurdles—Won by Er
furth' Rice; Mortensen, A&M. Time:
23.1.
Discus—Won by Kaedra, A&M, 154
feet, 11 inches; second, Nowlin, Rice, 139
feet, 10 inches.
Mile relay—Won by A&M (Wilson,
Powers, Frey, Vajdos). No second place.
Time: 3:31.5.
Final score: Texas A&M, 92; Rice, 30.
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Arkansas - - - the Deciding Factor?
As the conference meet gradual
ly draws nearer, the situation is
slowly clearing up with definite
favorites already having been es
tablished in almost every event.
But one important riddle still
remains unsolved.
The Razorbacks, who seldom en
gage in competition with other
Southwest Conference teams be
fore the conference track meet
each year, were completely over
looked when they came to College
Station last year for the league
squabble. Yet, the Porkers came
up with some outstanding men in
several events to take away points
that other teams had confidently
counted on.
This year, the Hogs are again
an unknown quantity. Rumors
currently flooding the campus
of most conference schools indi
cate Arkansas has something in
the way of sprinters and also a
pole vaulter or two of note. This
much is certain: The Porkers had
no trouble at all in mercilessly
drubbing Tulsa University last
week in a dual track meet by the
score of 119«/ 2 to ll>/ 2 . If that
score is any indication of things
to come, Arkansas may be the
deciding factor in the outcome of
the expected two-way battle be
tween A&M and Texas for the
league crown.
Longhorns Blank
A&M Netters 9-0
The Texas University Longhorns
handed the Texas Aggie Netters
a 9-0 whitewash job here Sat
urday afternoon, taking all nine
matches of their dual meeting and
allowing only* three Aggies to
score as many as four games in
the 18 sets played-
Aggie Golfers Lose to SMU
Friday by Score 5 to 4.
The Aggie Golf Team lost 5 to
4 to SMU Friday afternoon on the
Bryan Country Club greens.
Gerald Joyce defeated Travis
Bryan 2 and 1, Lee Corrigan fin
ished 1 up over Bill Compton, and
Ed Revss beat Don Rutan to give
the Musangs three points on two-
soms. SMU received their other
two points when Joyce and Corri
gan won over Bryan and Compton
3 and 2 and Revss and Phil Dar
by shire beat Rutan and Johnny
Henry 2 and 1 in the foursoms.
Bill Washington won 2 and 1
over Bob Henry, Lawrence Four-
aker beat Matt Roberts 4 and 2,
and Johnny Henry outplayed Phil
Darbyshire 2 up to give the Aggies
3 on twosoms and fourth point
came on a foursom with Washing
ton and Fouraker beating Bob
Henry and Roberts 3 and 1.
Football Banquet To
Be Held in Dallas
At YMCA April 25
All head football coaches of the
Southwest Conference have been
invited to attend a banquet hon
oring Bobby Layne, 1946 South
western Amateur Athletic Union
nominee for the Sullivan Award,
Friday evening, April 25, at the
Central Y. M. C. A. here.
Blair Cherry, head football coach
at the University of Texas ( will be
the principal speaker. Rusty Rus
sell, Layne’s coach in high school,
will present the great Texas ath
lete with a life membership in the
National A. A. U., as a gift of
the Quarterbacks’ Club.
The Southwestern A. A. U. also
will present Layne with a plaque
indicative of the Sullivan award
honor. The University of Texas
football and baseball star was chos
en last year by sports editors as
the most outstanding athlete in
the S. W. A. A. U. area. Reserva
tions are being taken by Tom J.
Carter, 1114 Liberty Bank Bldg.,
Dallas 1, Texas. Checks or money
orders should be enclosed. Student
tickets are $1.50, and adult tickets
$2.50.
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