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THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Saturday, May 10, 1047 Page Three Farmers Drub Ponies 4 to 2 Before a none-too-enthusiastic crowd in Armstrong Stadium in Dallas Monday afternoon, the visit ing Aggie nine took advantage of five hits and eight enemy errors to win a 4-2 decision from the Southern Methodist Ponies. Dewey Jacobs chalked up his fourth win for the Cadet flannel- clads while Lee Weber was the losing pitcher. Fourteen Mustang runners died on bases despite eight hits by Methodist batters. Following a somewhat erratic season, this makes the last road trip a complete success with three straight wins and also places the Farmer nine in second place in both season and conference standings. Box Score A&M SMU 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 —4 0 0 1 0 0 1 —2 Rec Clubs Win Handball, Lose To TU in Volleyball Texas University emerged vic torious in the Invitation Collegiate Volleyball Tournament held on the A&M campus last Wednesday after squeezing out the number one Aggie team in three out of five matches. Rice beat out Bay lor for consolation champ. Involved in the tourney were clubs from Texas, Rice, Baylor, Wharton Junior College and two teams from Texas A&M. Texas’ number two team failed to show up as did the Sam Houston club. S. H. Nixon, San Antonio Aggie, won the handball singles over players from Baylor, Rice, Trin ity Colege, and Texas A&M. Tex as University lost by default due to car trouble while driving up. Two doubles teams from A&M also were victorious. This tournament was conduct ed by the Aggie volleyball and handball clubs on the campus, recreational clubs sponsored by the Physical Education Depart ment. INTRAMURALS by Cliff Ackerman Spring Program Moving Into Final Stage Following along a line of success the spring Intramural Program is moving into the final stages with finals in the various sports getting underway next week. On the Veteran side of the soft- ball picture Dorm 3 and Dorm 14 will begin a three day playoff se ries Monday, May 12 to determine the Vet Championship. The win ner of this series will meet the Upperclass Championship team for the College Championship. In Freshman softball, B Field has already reached the finals. One more league championship is yet to be decided when B-C-D Cavalry plays A Field. The winner of this game will go into the semi-finals and play A CWS. Then the winner of that game will play B Field. Freshman basketball has reached the semi-finals. Games to be played are between B Field and A Field, and between A Infantry and A Coast. The winners of these games will then meet in the final game Tuesday, May 13. Bees End Season In Austin Against T.U.’s Shorthorns The University of Texas B base ball team plays host on Monday afternoon to the Aggie B team in Austin in the final game of the season for both squads. The Bees, already assured of at least an even break with the Short horns because of their four to three victory over the ’sips last Thurs day, will be out to sweep the two game series. This will be the twelfth game of the season for the Aggies. The probable starting batteries for the T.U. squad will be Joe Rutland catching and Bobby Jo Clark, a left hander, pitching. Ag gie coach Charlie eWare will prob ably start George Brown on the mound with Ray Katt behind the plate. Brown will be after his fifth victory of the season and his second against T.U. Beautiful fresh cut flowers ar tistically arranged in bouquets and corsages make a lovely gift for Mother on her special day. Contact Our Agent At— COLLEGE BOOK STORE Or Phone 2-1658 Bryan’s Main Street Florist BLOSSOM SHOP Flowers - Gifts Next to Canady Pharmacy—Bryan G Infantry Wins Upperclass Football Crown PM W" . • ■ ' ' ■■ "4 * * P* v~ *• *; - ' & k n G INFANTRY won the championship in Intramural Upperclass football competition. Pictured from left to right are: front row, Ground, Rippetoe, Hudman, Howell; back row. Berry, Wallace, Mears, Roberts, and Lavis. ON KYLE FIELD -by PAUL MARTIN- Cadet Grid Squad Shows Polish And Teamwork With No Obvious Weakness Today the Aggie ’47 grid squad terminated a month of grueling spring training climaxed by the game between the Maroon and White teams. Some sixty i the Martin completed practice s e s- sion after the squad had been whittled down from between 80 and 90 hope fuls. Part of this number were, however, on the injured list temporar ily- Of these six- t y prospects, several showed c o n- siderable promise though the go ing was tough as all were working hard for a first string berth. Paul Yates, returning back from 1944 failed to get in any practice as he was layed out with an in jured ankle but should be back in the line-up next fall. Last year Coach Norton start ed the season short on good ends but things are a bit different now. Cotton Howell and Norton Higgins are again in there and both show considerable improve ment. In addition, Charlie Wright, Ray Whittaker, and a newcomer named Raymond Hall mark will be working hard for a place on the starting line-up. Howell in particular is showing promise of playing his best sea son, Don Voiding, an end from last year has been changed over to play tackle, one of the weaker spots on the maroon line. Jim my Flowers, a center last year, is now playing tackle also. The 220-pound sophomore has been excelling in a number of sports. In the backfield, Jimmy Cushion has drawn the top spot but he will have a fight on his hands to hang onto it for the Cadets appear to have a surplus of backs, and all of them good. Burl Baty, the quar terback who came through last SENIOR RING DANCE FOR LOVELY CORSAGES— TO COMPLIMENT THAT LOVELY LADY BRUCE THE FLORIST (Bryan Floral Co.) 506 S. College Avenue Phone 2-1266 Nile 2-1234 season to set the team afire with his passing, is back and seems to have gotten quickly back into shape. Ed Dusek, the smashing fullback will be harder than ever to stop with his power drives and in the group of running backs are Bobby Dew, who is no mean pass er, Pewee Smith, and Bobby Goff. Ralph Daniel is another smash ing back who may well offset the loss of Willie Zapalac, while John Ballentine and his educated toe should account for not-a-few extra points. Frank Torno is the man to watch when it comes to good broken field running and Jennings Anderson, now with the track team has speed to burn. Too, there are several more boys who may come up fast and it might pay to keep an eye on. Freshman end Raymond Hall mark has displayed great ..prom ise and has surpassed many of the more experienced players. Gene Green, a back who spent most of last season with the B team has shown rare running ability that may yet rate him one of the top spots. Don Nicholas, a little back who spent his entern here in 1944, is another man to keep an eye on, Nicholas is fast, plenty fast, and should he lose half his speed, he would still be slippery with his broken field running and fast starts. Little comment need be made concerning Odell Stautzenberger, Bloody Tulis, Herb Turley, and Jim Winkler. Their past records speak for them, and, like the en tire squad, they already show more polish at this time than they did even after the season had gotten underway last fall. The Aggie grid squad of 1947 is outstanding in any number of ways but mostly because of the spirit to play and win. Not since well before the war has any A&M team had a better ati- tude and shown greater interest in playing. However, as yet no single man has been found who is in the class wi£h John Kimbrough and Dick Todd. This may weaken the Ag gie chances for SWC honors in ’47 but with the kind of polish and team play the boys have been de veloping, it is my guess that this will matter little. Perhaps the Farmer aggregation will not walk away with all the honors next fall but they will do considerably bet ter than last year’s performance. The fight is already half won and barring an unprecidented number of mishaps, the fight will be won if the maroon and white continue to show this kind of spirit and en thusiasm next fall. Statistics Give Ag Baseballers The Edge Over SWC Champion Longhorns The results of last weeks con test resulted in the Texas Aggie baseball nine moved up a notch in both conference standings and sea son statistics. Though the Farm ers are trailing the Longhorns who have already cinched the crown, the redoutable ’Sips are lagging be hind the second-place Cadets in runs, hits, total bases, and all- around batting. Texas now leads in the race for honors with A&M trailing in sec ond place. Texas has 11 wins in 12 starts with two games left to play, with the Aggies on Kyle Field. Should they lose all of these games and the Cadets win both of their remaining conference tilts, the ’Sips would still be one up on us. The scheduled match with Bay lor in Waco was rained out on two consecutive days leaves us with a one-game deficite and no indica tion has been given as to when if at all it will be made up. Nevertheless, despite this dark 60‘YEARS AGO THE THEN YOURG 13S.LTA CHOSE THE WRIGHT tt DITSON BALL AS OFFICIAL TOR. THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. • • -andhavent CHANGED THEIR. AUNDSYET/ NEW CENTER puts extra liveliness in the Spalding and Wright & Ditson tennis halls. In recent tests, both bounced consistentlylo the upper limits of USLTA rebound standards — another reason why these Spalding-made tennis halls are first choice of most tourna ment players. Sharpen up your game with one of the Twins of Championship Tennis. SPOfifS TWINS OF CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS-' SPALDING- MADE TENNIS BALLS ARE OFFICIAL inmost OF THE BIG TOURNAMENT^ IpaidiUG! ^^CHAMPIONSHIP i>p CHAMPIONSHIP PROVED U.S. Both Made by Spalding B Baseballers Drub Visiting Shorthorns 4 to 3 Thursday The Texas Aggie B baseball team, behind the four-hit pitching of George Brown, drubbed the Texas University Shorthorns 4 to 3 on the Kyle Field diamond Thursday after noon. Brown, who went the route for the Bees for the third time in the past two weeks, performed brilli antly in the pinches. He struck out six Shorthorns. The teahounds scored all three of their runs in the second inning on two walks, two errors, two stol en bases, a single, and a fielders choice. Trailing by three runs, the Ag gies in the third inning jumped on Shorthorn pitcher Bobby Jo Clark for three hits and three runs. John Scurlock started the rally with a single to left. Don Clark follow ed with a screaming double inside the third base foul line. Ray Katt, the next batter, got a single to left scoring Scurlock, and on the throw home Katt went to second, Clark holding up on third. Allen Garner then drove a long fly to left center, Clark scoring after the catch and Katt going to third. Katt scored on a passed ball by Shorthorn catcher Joe Rutland to end the scoring for that inning. In the seventh inning with the score tied at three all, Brown sing led to center; then Jack Watson laid down a bunt, but Clark, the T. U .pitcher was on his toes and threw to second in time to force Brown. With Scurlock at bat Wat son stole second base, and in doing so he hurt his ankle; but the game shortstop shook it off. Then, in an attempt to pick Watson off second, the Shorthorn pitcher threw wild into center field and Watson rounded third and started home hitting the dirt at home plate, and scoring the winning run. By this time Watson’s ankle was in such bad shape that he had to be carried off the field. Scurlock and Clark were the lead ing Aggie batters, both getting two hits in four trips to the plate. This win was the eighth victory in ten starts for the Aggie Bees. picture, A&M is placing well to ward the top of the list in both in dividual and team performances this spring. Taking conference games only, the Farmers have been at bat 398 times which is 14 times less than the Teahounds yet they have 111 runs to 102 for the Steers and at the same time, the maroon is credited with 123 total hits with the orange having 110. Total bases made by the Ag nine also lead other SWC teams— 186 trailed by the psuedo-cowpokes with 153. Among the ten leading confer ence hitters, ole Aggieland is again well represented by four men. There are two from each Texas and SMU and one each from TCU and Rice. Right fielder Hub Moon is number two on the list followed by Peck Vass, Walter Willingham, and Bobby Fretz. Other outstanding performances have been turned in by Pack Vass who has the most runs—16, Vass and Jackson of Texas are tied for the most hits with 20 each, Fretz is tied with Jackson and Travis of Texas for turning in the most two-base hits—five each, and Stan Holmig, husky combination first baseman and pitcher, is setting the pace with five homers to lead the league. In the hurling department, both Dewey Jacoks and Bing Turner have place among the top eight. Jacobs is number two behind Bobby Layne of Texas. The big freshman right-hander has four wins and no losses to date. Open Fencing Champ j WILLIAM C H R O M A S- TER, was winner in the open fencing tourney this semester, edging out all contenders by a wide margin. Chromaster is a member of the Fencing club on the campus sponsored by the Physical Education epartment. It makes the third loss the Texas B team has suffered this year. This was also the ‘sips’ tenth game of the season. These two teams meet again in Austin on Monday, May 12. Box Score: R H E Texas B 030 000 000 3 4 5 A.&M B 003 000 100 4 7 4 Basketball Spring Training Ends Spring basketball training drew to a close Saturday after a month of tough work-outs under the su pervision of veteran roundball men tor Marty Karow. Here, too, as in football, the cage squad had to get along with out the services of several top men who were at the time participating in other spring sports but all-in-all, the team looked pretty much like last season’s line-up minus Homer Adams who is graduating this spring. whi-sH-SH-SH-SH ii Vry Moisturized" ..v \ (sleu) MU.NB« { Va... 7V 7?JSr£ ££7775%./ A Sr 77P S/fTV/t£Af//£££/ 5 Made by the revolutionary new “903” moisturizing process. Beneficial moisture penetrates every tobacco leaf—gives you a smoother, milder, better smoke! Get new Raleigh “903” Cigarettes today. le«< L . 9 ™*** less tl N,c °t>ne "•SWsktrf do( , 0