SPORTS DAY ISSUE
Texas A*M
The B
College
alion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947
Number 68
Grid Game to Climax Big Sports Day Show Saturday
THE AGGIE MAROONS, shooting for a win behind the big guns of fast-passing Burl Batey
and Bobby Dew, are coached by veteran gridster Tom Pickett. Members of the team, pictured
from left to right are: front row, Callender, Koomb, Dial, Sargent, Schneider, Roberts, Johansen,
Straus. Schmidt, Bozka; second row, Pickett, Settegast, Turner, Freberg, Sayers, Voiding, Overly,
Wright, Sacra, Flowers, Whittaker, Dalious; top row, Watkins, Green, Daniel, Batey, Hempel,
Torno, Boswell, Dew, Smohk, Hook, Griener, and Burch.
Track Team
To Hold Dual
Meet at 1:30
FROM THIS ANGLE
by LARRY GOODWIN
Maroon Team Shows Speed, Passing
Ability; Baty Calls Signals
by Don Engelking
The Aggie track squad plays
host this Saturday, May tenth,
to the University of Texas in
what is expected to be the
highlight of this weeks’ sports ac
tivities.
T.U. and A.&M. have met only
three times this year at track
meets in which the 16 standard
conference events have been held.
In these meets A.&M. won one
meet by two points, while T.U. won
one by one-half of a point and an
other by one point which gives
A.&M. the advantage as far as
margin of victory is concerned.
Saturday on Kyle Field these 16
standard conference events will be
run, but only first and second
places will count points toward the
teams total. A first place will
count five points, while a second
place will only count three points.
Running the 100-yd dash for the
Aggies will be Jennings Anderson,
W. C. Myers, W. R. Blackwell, and
the big question mark Webb Jay.
Jay along with Blackwell will also
attempt to gain points in the 220.
The biggest competition for these
Aggies will come from a trio of
Longhorn sprinters, namely Char
lie Parker, Perry Samuels, and
Allen Lawler.
Vying for first and second places
in the high hurdles will be Oscar
White and Jim Mortenson wearing
the maroon and white and Ken
Boren of the Longhorn squad. Bor
en and Mortenson have taken turns
in beating each other all season,
but for the past two weeks White
has been beating Jim in practice
sessions which should make this
race a free-for-all.
In the 220-yd low hurdles Mor
tenson and Boren will try again to
beat each other, but Aggie Robert
Hall looms as the dark horse. Hall,
who in the past two weeks has
been consistenly beating Morten
son in practice is considered by
Aggie track mentor Col. Frank
Anderson as the most promising
low hurdle man in the conference
outside of August Erfurth of Rice.
To cop both first and second
places in the 440-yd dash Col. An
dy will probably run Art Harnden,
Ray Holbrook, and possibly run
Art Hamden, Ray Holbrook and
possibly Bill Powers. Harnden is
capable of running the quarter
mile in less than 48 seconds, and
Holbrook has done it in 48 flat
while the best that any T.U. quar
ter miler has done was 49.1.
Carrying the hopes of the mar
oon and white in the half mile will
be Joe Vajdos and Carol Hahan.
Hahan, who ran a 1:56.9 seconds
880 against Oklahoma A. & M. last
Saturday, is the most improved
man on the team. Running the
880 for the Longhorns will be
Clarence Hafemick and Wayne
Hanson.
In the mile the Aggies will have
Webster “Bob” Stone, J. Murril
McGlothlin, and Garrett Guly.
Stone, who has run a 4.29 mile is
our chief contender. Texas with
Jerry Thompson and Don Sparks
is a heavy favorite to cop this
event. Thompson, who has turned I
Football 1947 style makes its of
ficial debut in the form of a regu
lar, full-time game Saturday af
ternoon when the “Maroons” meet
the “Whites”
[" Xi ’ on Kyle Field
“ - i n the windup
of spring foot-
fa a 11 training.
With Marion
Flanagan
operating
the team from
the bench in
unoffic-
ial capacity of
coach, the
“White” squad
represents the
pick of the
as indicated by
the individual
Goodwyn
current grid crop
performances o f
players in spring training. The
“Maroons” will be skippered by
Tom Pickett while the regular
coaching staff, Norton, James, et
al, will see the game from the
stands.
The “Whites”, principally com-
posed of the more experienced
A&M Golfers
Drub Owls 5-4;
Baylor Next
by Jack Goodloe
Following a 5 to 4 victory over
the Rice Owls in Houston Monday,
the Texas A&M golf team will
travel to Waco Friday to meet the
Baylor linkmen.
A&M won three of the six sin
gles matches and two of the three
doubles. The Friday match will
be the final meet of the Farmers
before the Conference meet on May
16 and 17 in Waco.
The Bruins appear to have one
of the weakest teams in the league
in that the first match between the
Bruins and Ags resulted in an 8
to 1 trouncing of the visiting Bap
tists. Tuesday in Houston, the
Bears dropped a dual match to
Rice 9 to 1.
To date this season the Cadet
linkmen have been enjoying a win
ning streak, losing but one dual
meet in nine starts. The single
loss was the Pony golfers on the
Bryan Country club greens while
Texas Christian, Baylor, Rice,
Southern Methodist, and North
Texas State have all bowed before
the skilful swings of the Maroon
and White.
in a 4:11.5 mile this year, is a de
cided favorite.
Running the two mile event for
the Aggies will be J. D. Hampton,
Jerry Bonnen, and Jesse Hargis.
The Longhorns’ best entry in this
event is Dickie Brooks; however,
should the ’Sips decide to gamble,
they may run Thompson again in
the two mile which is his specialty.
In the shot put the Aggies will
be depending on their work horse
George Kadera to come through
with first place. Kadera can us-
(See TRACK on Page 4)
players in camp, are generally
conceded the edge in Saturday’s
fracus; but this writer, long ah
admirer of the underdog, is string
ing along with ..Pickett and his boys
to upset the dope bucket and take
the first-stringers to the cleaners.
Burl Baty, the Sophomore
passing flash of last year, will
call signals for the “Maroons”
from the tailback slot in the
new double-wing set up. Ralph
Daniel has drawn the fullback
assignment while Bobby Dew
and Frank Torno, a pair of
speedsters will be on the wings.
The line will have Charley Wright
at one end while a newcomer, Hall
mark, a freshman who has been
making daily trips to practice from
the Bryan annex, will hold down
the other flank in the absence of
Wray Whittaker, who is out with
an ailing ankle. Marion Settegast
and Jim Flowers will be at the
tackles; Dick Overly and Joe Sacra
at the guards and Dick Callender
at the center spot. Reserves will
come from the ranks of the fourth
stringers while the whites will
draw their replacements from the
gridders currently running with
the third team.
Baty to Prove Difference
The reasons why we’re sticking
our necks out and picking the
“Maroons” to come through are
several. Primarily, Baty’s pass
ing arm will be a contributing fac
tor. We remember seeing just
enough of Baty’s work in bom
barding Baylor and S.M.U. with
passes last year to be convinced
that he might easily make things
rough for the first stringers come
Saturday. In Charley Wright,
Baty has one of the most capable
receivers on the squad, and the
two might easily develop into an
aerial combine that would spell
misery in capital letters for the
“Whites”.
In addition, Ralph Daniel, tl
big 200-pound fullback should su
ply enough power into the line
make the “Maroon” attack a we
balanced one. Frank Torno’s brea
away ability also may help
make the “White’s” defensive a
signments a little hard. And wh<
offense is discussed, Dew car
be left out either. The veter:
wingman should be able to should
his end of the offensive thrusts
good shape.
All in all, it shapes up as quite
ball game with Batey’s passing b
ing the backbone of the Maroon o
fensive power. The admitted
better balanced first team can a
on anyone of several stars to fu
nish the offensive spark, but u
less at least one of them is hittir
on all cylinders, the “Maroon:
may easily walk away on the lor
end of the score.
“Maroons” by One T.D.
If a means can be found to st<
Ed Dusek’s bull-like rushes ai
flag Cashion’s passes, the “Ma
oons” will be hard to beat. (
course, they’ll have to keep oi
eye on Pee Wee Smith all afterno<
for he, like Torno, can go all t]
way when given half a chanc
Bobby Goff, another scat-back w
complete the first string backfiel
Athletes To
‘Strut Stuff
For Visitors
by .
Battalion Sport Staff
For the first time since the
spring of 1942 Texas A&M Col
lege will observe Sports Day on
the campus Saturday accompan
ied by a full afternoon program
that includes a dual track meet
between Col. Frank Anderson’s
Aggie thinly clads and Clyde
Littlefields Texas University
Longhorns, a baseball game, and
a football game.
Sports Day was, before the
war, an annual celebration at
A&M to mark the end of foot
ball spring training with a scrim
mage game between the Maroon
team and the White team and a
time to give recognition to the
Aggie athletes.
May 10 is expected to be the
biggest Sports Day celebration
ever held here with myriad ac
tivities and a fitting climax to
30 days of hard training for the
football squad.
Events on that day will begin
with the track meet which is
significant in that the winner
will probably enter the Confer
ence meet at Waco as a heavy
favorite. Field events are slated
to start at 1:30 p.m., running
events at 2 p.m. and ending at
3:30 p.m.
★
An exhibition baseball match
between Lil Dimmitt’s charges
and the visiting Brooke Medical
Center Comets of San Antonio
will get underway at 3 p.m. on
the Kyle Field diamond.
The Maroon and White teams,
piloted by Tom Pickett and Mar
ion Flanagan respectively, will
lock horns beginning at 4 p.m.
on Kyle Field. The game will
proceed for a full hour and be
played according to official rules.
Tickets for the game are now
on sale and may be purchased for
the price of one dollar from any
member of the T Club, from any
First Sergeant in the Corps, or
at the gate Saturday afternoon.
This program is sponsored by
the Texas Aggie T club, an or
ganization made up of letterman
in the major sports on the cam
pus. Proceeds will be used to
finance the annual T club ban
quet to be held May 19.
★
Coupon books will be valid only
for the Texas A&M vs. Texas
University track meet held on
Kyle Field on Sports Day. The
The track meet starts at 1:30
p.m. and immediately afterward,
all persons admitted only on cou
pon books will have to vacate the
stadium.
Tickets for all three Sports
Day events will cost only a dol
lar, and will be good for each or
' all events. They can be pur
chased from any “T” Club mem
ber and they will also be on sale
at the gate. After the track
meet, the baseball game between
the Aggies and Brooke Medics
will start at 3 p.m. and the intra
squad football game between the
Maroons and Whites commences
at 4 p.m.
STARTING LINEUPS
Whites
Maroons
81—Howell ...
..LE Wright—85
76—Tulis
..LT ....Flowers—75
67—Stautzbgr
LG Sacra—61
58—Gary
C.. Callender—55
65—Turley ....
-RG Overly—62
71—Winkler ..
..RT.. Settegast—78
84—Higgins ..
..RE.. Hallmark—19
28—Goff
-LH Torno—24
22—Smith
..RH Dew—11
37—Dusek
..FB Daniel—37
19—Cashion ..
~QB Baty—42
A three-ply athletic show fea
turing a track meet, an intra
squad football game and an ex
hibition baseball contest will
usher in the 1947 edition of
Sports Day on Kyle Field Sat
urday afternoon.
Sponsored by the “T” Associa
tion to raise funds for athletic
scholarships, the annual event
this year offers the most well-
rounded program in the short
history of the undertaking.
★
Beginning at 1:30 Saturday
afternoon with a dual track meet
matching the Aggies with Texas,
the schedule of events will pro
vide sports action in one form
or another for almost five hours.
Vying with the track meet
for the day’s top attraction wil
be the intra-squad football game,
pitting Marion Flanagan’s
“White” team against Tom Pick
ett’s “Maroon” squad. The two
senior lettermen will have full
control of their teams as the
coaching staff will see the game
from the stands. The game starts
at 4 p.m.
The Baseball game brings to
gether the Aggie nine, current
ly in second place in the South
west Conference, and the Brooke
THE TEXAS AGGIE WHITE TEAM, composed of the first and third squads, is made up of
many veterans from last season as well as returned gridsters from ’44 and ’45. Members of the
"earn, pictured in the usual order are: front row. Smith, Welch, Cashion, Bennett, Burditt, Hall
mark, Burnell; second row, Flanagan, Tulis, Bates, Dupree, Leguenec, Holmes, Gary, Ballentine,
Stautzenberger; top row, Davidson, Higgins, Dusek, Goff, Winkler, Howell, Pollock, and Turley.
The Whites are made up primarily of what will probably be the starting line-up for next fall.
Bobby Goff, and Jimmy Cashion are returnees from the ’44 squad and Paul Yates, not pictured
will more than likely find a place on this squad. Yates has been out with an injured ankle and
has not been able to work out this spring. #
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN
Power and Versitility of White
Team Should Give Them Easy Win
Saturday afternoon will be the
first and only opportunity to see
the ’47 version of the Aggie bid
for grid supremacy in action. At
that time, the
Cadet squad,
now composed
of some 60
hopefuls, will
be divided as
equally as pos
sible and stage
what promises
to be one of
the best exhi
bition matches
of the year.
For this
game, the reg
ular coaching
staff will be only spectators as
Marion Flanagan and Tom Pickett
pilot their respective squads
through a full-time game. Flana
gan has drawn the White team
which is made up of the first and
thii’d strings while Pickett will
warm the bench on the Maroon side
of the field.
Though the Maroons are sub
stantially better off in the way of
B Baseballers
Play Pirates
Here Friday
Nearing the end of a successful
season, the Texas Aggie B base
ball team meets the Stephen F.
Austin nine here Friday afternoon
beginning at 2 p. m.
This will be the final home ap
pearance of the Bees this season,
as they wind up play on the follow
ing Monday with a match against
the Texas University Shorthorns
in Austin.
Slated to start on the mound for
the Ags will probably be Bob
Southall, with Ray Katt behind
the plate. Probable starting line
up for the Cadet Bees is as follows:
C, Ray Klatt
P, Bob Southall
IB, John Scurlock
2B, Bill Hilliard
3B, Bill Eckles
SS, Jack Watson
LF, Allen Garner
CF, Zeke Strange
RF, Don Clark
and the Aggies taking the Ft.
Medical Center team from Fort
Sam Houston. The contest will
begin at 3:30, about the time the
track meet comes to a close.
The track meet, involving the
Aggies and Texas, brings to
gether the two top teams of the
conference and should serve to
establish the winner as distinct
favorite to win the Southwest
Conference cinder crown in Waco
next Saturday.
The two squads have met on
the cinders in regulation meets
three times this season with the
Longhorns scoring narrow wins
at the Border Olympics (51-50
and at Corpus Christi (66^2-65’/D
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reserves, Flanagan’s charges have
the advantage of more experience
and have a power-house in the
form of big Ed Dusek, Jimmy
Cashion, and Bobby Goff to fur
nish the horse-power.
All-in-all, the White team
starting line-up looks like the
cream of the ’46 line-up plus a
liberal sprinkling of the ’44 aces.
Cotton Howell and Norton Hig
gins will probably start at the
terminals and both are showing
considerably more promise than
last year at this time. Ends are
the positions that A&M is def
initely not weak in. Jim Wink
ler and Jim (Bloody) Tulis are
holding down the tackle spots
and both, lettermen from last
year, have shown the driving
power to hold most of the oppo
sition that the Maroon can pro
vide.
At guard are the Odell Stautzen-
berger and Herb Turley, both re
turnees from last year, and they
should spend a considerable part
of their time in the Maroon back-
field. With these two huskies in
the line, the Maroons may find it
difficult to concentrate on making
touchdowns.
Bob Gary is holding down the
pivot spot and the uncanny ability
of the 180-pound junior is backed
by three years of experience in
which he won three letters.
In the backfield is a combine
that will prove difficult to stop.
Jimmy Cashion, backfield ace of
’44, is calling the signals with
the backing of big Ed Dusek,
Bobby Goff, and Preston Smith.
Dusek at fullback will provide
the driving power for the combine
while Goff and Smith at halfback
have been showing the first take
off that is the backbone of the
double wing. ,
Defensively, the “Maroons”
must concede a little to the first
team. There is not a man in the
second-string line who can be
gin to compare with Odell Staut-
zenberger, when it comes to
breaking up opponents plays; as
a matter of fact, the “Maroons”
had better start planning on op
ening a five-man backfield all
afternoon—the four starters and
Stautzenberger. He’ll probably
be a familiar figure in the sec
ond-string backfield as long as
he’s in there. The first stringers
also rate an edge at center where
Boby Gary is the only experi
enced hand at present. The tack
les of both teams, weakened by
the loss of Moncrief, Dickey et
al, aren’t up to the standards of
last year; the second string
won’t give much ground at this
position.
Considering the advantage of the
Whites, they may expect to meet
up with a few surprise plays but
Flanagan’s boys include what will
more than likely be the A&M start
ing line next fall.
Taking into consideration the
hard driving line of the Whites
and the versital backfield, we’ll
stick our necks out and give the
White team the nod by three
TDs.
Baseballers
Play Comets;
TU May 14-15
by Andy Matula
The Brooke Army Medical Cen
ter baseball club of San Antonio
will return to Aggieland to play
the Texas Aggies for a special
Sports Day event on Kyle Field
Saturday afternoon beginning at
3 p. m.
Fielding one of the best semi-
pro teams in Texas, the Medics
have played several Southwest
Conference teams this spring, in
cluding three games with the Ag
gies early in March. In that series,
the Cadets took two of the three,
the last game being postphoned
until Sports Day. The Medics re
cently lost a two-game series with
the Sam Houston State College
Bearkats in Huntsville.
Lil Dimmitt will probably start
Dewey, Jacobs against the Medics
Saturday. The husky freshman
right-hander now has three wins
to his credit and has been a steady
ing factor for the Aggies on the
mound. Other members on the
Maroon line-up will probably in
clude : |
Bob Wasson, 3b
Peck Vass, If
Hub Moon, rf
Stan Hollmig, lb
Bobby Fretz, ss
Tex Thornton, 3b
Walter Willingham, cf
Frog Walker, c
Also ready to play in the game
will be Cotton Lindloff, Russell
Mays, Leo Daniels, and Cal Cal
vert. Extra pitchers include Bing
Turner and Y. B. Johnson.
On the Army side of the dia
mond, the Comet line-up will prob
ably be:
Landy, 3b
Andrews, ss
Gillis, lb
Zadalis, c
Toi’toriello, If
Reeling, cf
Petrone, 2b
Moody, rf
Thomas, p
Tommy Thomas is the only Com
et pitcher to have beaten the Ag
gies in play this season. A&M lost
to him 9 to 3 in the first tilt be
tween the two teams. Also on
hand to picth for he Comets will
be Herb MaHahon.
For the Aggies, this game will
be the last exhibition match of the
season and also the last game be
fore the crucial two-game series
with the top-ranking Texas Uni
versity Longhorns on the Kyle
Field diamond next Wednesday and
Thursday. At present, the Farmers
are in second place in conference
standings.
Though Texas A&M has made
a somewhat unimpressive record to
date this season and has landed in
second place by virtue of a healthy
boost by Southern Methodist fol-
owed by a number of errors by the
same team to place us more secur
ely on top, season statistics indi
cate that the maroon and white
team has a formidable array of
runs, hits, (and errors).
Martin