THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Tuesday, May 6, 1947 "Page Three
Over the Top
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ART HAWS, Aggie high jumper has shown considerable
promise this season and has accounted for not-a-few points for
the A&M track aggregation. His mark of 6 feet six and one-
fourth inches earlier in the season tops all his previous work and
placed him in a position to gain national recognition should he con
tinue such exhibitions.
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN
The Southwest Conference base
ball circuit took a surprising turn
this week-end as the second place
Baylor Bears were dislodged by
a determined
group of SMU
Mustangs. The
scores were
heavily lop sid-
ded, 16-3 and
4-0.
This, coupled
with two wins
by a visiting
Texas Aggie
nine over the
Froggies, re
shuffled team
standings i n
the SWC. As
Texas moved
up into an undisputed first place
by virtue of a couple of victories
over Rice, A. & M. replaced Baylor
in second place for seasons stand
ings and a tie with the Bruins for
Conference standings.
The Ponies, who have been
bringing up the rear all sea
son with one win and seven
losses, moved up into num
ber four spot above Texas
Christian and Rice with two
wins and eight losses each.
Currently, there are two ties
in the race, Baylor and A&M
in second place and TCU and
Rice in fifth. The tilts be
tween the Farmers and Poines
played Monday afternoon and
Texas Christian and Texas
Tuesday will change this how
ever.
Baylor, boasting of perhaps the
strongest pitching staff in the lea
gue headed by at least four top
notchers, should coast for the rest
of the season with only Rice and
TCU to contend with. A&M, on
the other hand, winds up the sea-
Bees Defeat
Blinn 8 to 0
The Aggie B baseball team fresh
from an 8 to 0 victory over Blinn
Junior College last Saturday meets
the Texas University Shorthorns
here on Kyle Field Thursday, May
8 to open a two-game series with
the B team.
George Brown, the freshman
mound ace of the Bees, went all the
way against Blinn J. C. last Sat
urday to chalk up a two-hit shut
out. This was the second time in
eight days that Brown has gone
the route for the Ags. He chalked
up two hits in three trips to the
plate.
During the affair, the Bees had
no errors chalked up against them
while the hosts had three. No
Blinn runner managed to get past
second base.
Ray Katt, the regular catcher on
the team was unable to be there
that day and Bill Eckles, third
baseman was behind the plate. Oth
er changes in the regular line-ups
were Bill Hilliard on second and
John Scurlock on third in place
of Eckles.
This leaves the Cadet Bees with
three games left to play. They
meet the Stephen F. Austin nine
here Friday afternoon and the Tex
as Shorthorns in Austin on May 12.
Box Score: R H E
Aggie Bees 030 300 002—8 12 0
Blinn Col 000 000 OOx—0 2 3
son with the once-beaten Texas
Longhorns who have to take only
one more of their three remaining
matches to clinch at tie for first.
Martin
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Cadet Thmly Ciads Drop Dual AggieS Tied for SeCOnd PlaCej
Meet Wuh Oklahoma .ool.oys Saturday
INTRAMURALS
by Larry Goodwyn
The Texas Aggie track team today began making final
plans for its Sports Day battle with the University of Texas
here next Saturday after losing their second dual meet of the
season last Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.
It was Oklahoma A. & M. which trimmed the Aggies,
the Cowboys winning by a margin*
of 73% to 62%.
The Oklahomans took the lead in
the first event and stayed ahead
all afternoon, exhibiting a well-
balanced squad that should encoun
ter little trouble in winning the
Missouri Valley Conference track
title this year. Credit for the
meet’s first performance went to
the Okla Sprint Relay Team which
clicked off a blistering 41.1.
For the Aggies, the meet was a
sad succession of near misses. Ap
parently affected to some degree
by the long trip, the Aggies simply
weren’t up to par in several events
—and it proved costly.
Webb Jay just missed winning
the 100-yard dash after leading
most of the race; Art Haws finish
ed second in the high jump with
the winning leap carrying only six
feet even, six inches under Haws’
best jump this year; and the Ag
gie sprint relay team fumbled away
its chances of winning by juggling
baton exchanges all around the
track; Jim Mortensen was nosed
out by inches by Oklahoma’s Neill
Armstrong in the 120-high hurdles;
and the Aggies’ trio of 12 foot pole
vaulters—Tate, Bodeman and Da
vis—all went out at 11 feet six
inches to finish in a tie for second
behind a winning jump of 12 feet
even.
Based on five points for first,
three for second and one point for
third, George Kadera of the Aggies
took individual scoring honors with
11 pSlnts. Kadera won the shot
put and discus and finished third
in the Javelin.
Other double winners were Teak-
all of the Cowboys, who won the
mile and two mile and Armstrong,
who copped the low hurdles as well
as the highs.
Art Harnden came through as
expected to take the 440 dash in
48.6 and Jim Hill took the broad
jump with a leap of 23 feet, four
inches. The Aggie mile relay team
of Harnden, Holderbeck and Na
pier, win its event by over 50 yards
in the comparitively slow time of
4:22.8.
In all, Oklahoma A. & M. won
10 of the 16 events and tied for
first in another (the 880-yard dash
in which Hahn of A. & M. and Tar
rant of the Cowboys were both
clocked in 1:56.9.)
The win preserved Oklahoma’s
record of being unbeaten on their
home track for 11 years.
By Cliff Ackerman
A Infantry Wins Horseshoe
Championship
A Infantry came through with
flying colors to defeat Dorm 17
and win the College Championship
in the Intramural Horseshoe Tour
nament. It was a retaliation for A
Infantry after Dorm 17 took a de
cisive victory from them in the
College Handball Championship
last week.
The matches went as follows,
with A Infantry on the long end
of their 2 to 1 win.
The only game won by Dorm 17
was the 21-7, 21-17 defeat of Aus
tin and Bell by Hearn and Walker.
The other victories went to A In
fantry. Drozd and Dixon over Car
rington and Yantis 21-8, 12-21, 21-
13. The other game was Babbitt
and Walker defeating Zummo and
Warner 21-19, 15-21, 21-8. Com
bined Intramural Athletics Stand
ings of Military Units as of May 1,
1947:
Place Organization
1 A. Infantry
2 G. Infantry
3 B. Field Artillery
4 D. Infantry
5 C. Field Artillery
6 E. Infantry
7 C. Infantry
8 A. Chem. Warfare Serv.
9 A. Signal Corps
10 A. Field Artillery
11 1 B. Air Corps
12 D. Cavalry
13 B. Engineers
14 F. Infantry
15 E. Field Artilery
16 ....: A. Cavalry
17 C. Cavalry
18 B. Infantry
19 .... A. Coast Artil. Corps
20 D. Field Artillery
21 B. Cavalry
22 C. Engineers
23 A. Air Corps
24 F. Field Artillery
25 .... A. Quartermaster Corps
26 A. Ordnance
27 Field Artillery Band
28 Infantry Band
29 Vet Company No. 1
30 Vet Company No. 2
by Andy Matula
With a veritable barrage of
base hits, the Texas Aggies
swamped the TCU Horned
Frogs, 11 to 5, Friday after
noon in the first of a two-game
series held in Ft. Worth.
Dewey Jacobs went all the way
for the Aggies on the mound. The
big six foot three-inch pitcher al
lowed only five hits as he appeared
before a hometown crowd. Jim
Barnett is credited with the loss
and was replaced by his team mate,
Hubert Walters.
It was a big day for Aggie bat
ters, as they cracked out 14 hits
and scored 11 runs. Peck Vass
came through with a home run
and Stan Hollmig, Bob Wasson, and
Cotton Lindloff each pounded out
a triple. Doubles were wracked
up by Bobby Fretz and Hub Moon.
Starting out in the first inning,
the Aggies scored three runs, only
to have the Frogs quickly even the
score and go ahead by one run
in the second inning. The Ags tied
it up in the fourth and surged a-
head with two more in the seventh
and five additional runs in the
eighth frame. The Frogs added
their last tally in the ninth.
This is the third win of the sea
son for Dewey Jacobs, his second
against TCU, and makes him the
leading Aggie hurler. Besides these
two wins over the Frogs, Jacobs
has another over the SMU Mus
tangs.
Score by Innings: R H E
A&M 300 100 250—11 14 2
TCU 310 000 001— 5 6 2
A&M Netters Lose
To Rice Friday
The highly-regarded Rice tennis
team defeated the Aggie net squad
here Friday afternoon in six
straight matches. The Owls, led
by Sam Match, the number 12 net-
ter nationally, swept four singles
matches and went on to take both
doubles matches.
Bill Bennett, the Aggies’ num
ber one player, carried Match to
the limit, forcing the Owl star into
three sets before bowing, 7-9, 6-4,
6-2.
In other singles matches, Bob
Curtis, Rice, beat Benny Stanford,
A. & M., 6-4, 6-1; Chick Harris of
the Owls trimmed Hank Allen of
A. & M., 6-3, 6-4, and Bob Foley,
Rice bested Rod Sellers, 6-1, 8-6.
In doubles play, Match teamed
with Curtis to blank Bennett and
Allen, 6-0, 6-1, and Standford and
Stanley lost to Harris and Foley,
6-0, 6-3.
Players on both squads were
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RAY HOLBROOK, a member
of the crack Aggie mile relay
team, has been in on all the races
of the record-breaking quartet
this year. This combine clocked
3:17.8 to win the Texas Relays
in Austin and bettered this time
at the Drake Relays by running
the distance in the unofficial
time of 3:15.8 to place second
Ray has also been placing in the
440-yard dash.
hampered by the bad condition of
the courts, termed by the Rice
coach, “the worst I have ever seen
in a state supported school.”
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by Andy Matula
Outslugging the TCU
Horned Frogs 16 to 12, the
Texas Aggies swept clean
their two games series, Sat
urday afternoon in Fort Worth
and tightened their grip with a
third place in the Southwest Con
ference Baseball race.
Bobby Fretz changed from short
stop to pitcher in the fifth inning,
after the Frogs had blasted both
Y. B. Johnson and Bing Turner off
the mound. The Aggies were lead
ing until the fifth frame when
TCU pushed eight runs over the
plate and took the lead for a short
time. Fretz finished the game to
get credit for the win and struck
out five of the remaining batters.
Hubert Walters was the losing
pitcher.
Again, it was the Aggie heavy
hitting that put them out in in
front, as in the previous day’s
game. Russell Mays picked up a
double and both Bobby and Hub
Moon blasted out triples (In Fri
day’s game Fretz and Moon got a
double each). Both Moon and
Fretz had the best averages of the
afternoon, Moon getitng four hits
out of five ab’s and Fretz taking
three out of five. Together they
accounted for nine of the Aggie
runs batted in. i
TCU batters were by no means
idle either. Both McClure and
Mullins hit triples and Benjamin
slammed a double. TCU used three
pitchers, Cloate, Walters, Barnett,
in an effort to stop the deluge of
Aggie runs. Both Walters and
Barnett had served in Friday’s
game. :
Score by innings:
A. & M 240 100 513
T. C. U 200 081 100
R H E
16 16 5
12 10 6
Batteries: For A. & M.—Johnson,
Turner, Fretz, Calvert. For TCU—
Choate, Walters, Barnett, Mullins.
Officals: Short, John.
Game time: 2 hours, 54 minutes.
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