THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Tuesday, May 13, 1947
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Aggie Thinly Clads Tie Longhorns 61-61 Saturday c
Ag Netters Nip
Cougars 5 to 2
The Texas Aggie tennis team de
feated the University of Houston
netters here Saturday afternoon
by a score of 5-2 A&M players
took four of the singles matches
and one double.
This came as what might be call
ed an upset as two of the Cougar
players, Don Napier and Glenn
Hewitt, made a clean sweep of the
Lone Star conference meet, He
witt and Napier winning the doub
les championship and then Hewitt
beating Napier to win the singles.
Aggie wins in the singles were
Bennie Stanford over Don Napier,
6-4, 6-3, 6-1; Hank Allen beat Jack
Lanham, 6-0, 6-1; Duffie Stanley
downed High Sweeney, 6-3, 6-2;
Rod Sellers drubbed James Mercer,
6-3, 8-6; and in the doubles, Allen
and Stanley beat Lanham and
Sweeney 6-2, 6-0.
by Don Engelking
In one of the sharpest track duals ever staged on Kyle
Field, the Texas Aggies and the Texas University Longhorns
battled it out to a 61-61 tie before an enthusiastic crowd of
Aggie fans. Even when the maroon and white was trailing
by 17 points with only three events more to be run, the crowd
was at its peak of enthusiasm.
George Kadera, great Aggie+
weight man, Was at his peak Sat
urday making fifteen points by
virture of first place in the discus,
shot, and javelin. Kadera’s effort
in the shot put was 48’ 10” which
is the best that any man in the
conference has done all season,
while the same goes for his jave
lin throw of 186’ 7%”. This .marks
the first time this year that Frank
Guess of Texas has been beaten by
a S.W.C. man in the javelin throw.
Another great Aggie accomplish
ment of the day was Leland Tate’s
jump of 13 feet in the pole vaul.
This is the best vault that has been
made in the Southwest Conference
this year.
In the 220-yard low hurdles- Ag
gie Robert Hall, the dark horse in
this event, was first, while Jim
Mortensen in maroon and white was
second. Ken Boren of Texas who
had earlier beaten Mortensen for
first place in the high hurdles was
a close third. This was one of the
three events in which the Aggies
swept both first and second places,
the other two being the 440-yard
dash and the broad jump.
In the 880-yard run, the only dis
tance event in which the Aggies
placed good performances were
turned in by Aggie Carroll Hahn
and Joe Vajdos who placed second
and third respectively behind Tex
as’ great distance man Jerry
Thompson. Thompson, who placed
only second in the mile behind his
team mate Don Sparks, had saved
his strength for the 880.
In the broad jump Aggie James
Hill took first, while Webb Jay,
who is still nursing a bad ankle,
beat out Texas’ Coy Porter for
second place.
Aggies Art Harnden and Ray
Holbrook swept the quartermile as
was expected. Art took first, while
Ray was second.
Art Haws had little trouble in
taking his first place in the high
jump With a leap of 6’ 2”. Glenn
Watkins of Texas was second clear
ing 5’ 10”.
The relay events came out as ex
pected, A.&M.’s team of Bill Nap
ier, Ervin Bilderback, Holbrook,
and Harnden taking the mile relay
with T. U.’s team of Perry Sam
uels, Desmond Kidd, Lawler, and
Parker winning the quarter mile
event.
In all, the Aggies took nine first
places to only seven for the Long
horns, but the teahounds swept
four events.
Kadera with his three firsts was
high point man. He was followed
by Parker with 1114 points and Don
Sparks with 10 points.
The Summaries:
High jump—Won by Haws, Tex
as A&M., 6 feet 2 inches; second,
Watkins, Texas, 5 feet 10 inches.
440-yard dash—Won by Harn
den, Texas A&M; second, Holbrook,
Texas A&M. Time 49.4.
Shot-put—Won by Kadera, Texas
A&M, 186 feet 10 inches; second,
Dannelly, Texas, 45 feet % inch.
Javelin—Won by Kadera, Texas
A&M, 186 feet 7% inches; second,
Guess, Texas, 183 feet 3 inches.
100-yard dash—Won by Parker,
Texas; second, Lawler, Texas. Time
9.6.
Mile-run—Won by Sparks, Tex
as; second, Thompson, Texas. Time
4.26.4.
220-yard dash—Won by Parker,
Texas; second, Lawler, Texas. Time
20.9.
Broad jump—Won by Hill, Tex
as A&M, 23 feet 3 1/8 inches; sec
ond, Jay, Texas A&M, 22 feet 7/8
inches.
120-yard high hurdles—Won by
Boren, Texas; second, Mortensen,
Texas A&M. Time, 14.5.
880-yard run—Won by Thomp
son, Texas; second, Hahn, Texas
A&M. Time, 1:58.4.
440-yard relays—Won by Texas
(Samuels, Kidd, Lawler, Parker).
No second place. Time, 43.1.
Discus—Won by Kadera, Texas
A&M, 162 feet 7 inches; second,
Krames, Texas, 145 feet 2% inches.
Two-mile run—Won by Sparks,
Texas; second, Whisenant, Texas.
Time, 9:59.1.
220-yard low hurdles—Won by
Hall, Texas A&M; second, Morten-
son, Texas A&M. Time, 23.7.
Pole vault—Won by Tate, Texas
A&M, 13 feet; second, three-way
tie between Bodeman, Texas A&M,
Sheppard, Texas, and Burrus, Tex
as, 12 feet.
Mile relay—Won by Texas A&M
(Napier, Bilderback, Holbrook,
Harnden). No second place. Time,
3:22.4.
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College and Bryan
Whites Drub
Maroons As
Season Ends
By Larry Goodwyn
Football is over at Aggie
land until next fall. King
Pigskin bowed out Saturday
afternoon on Kyle Field as
“Coach” Marion Flanagan’s White
team wrapped up spring training
with a convincing 44-0 thumping
of the “Maroons”.
Although several players, notab
ly Ed Dusek, Barney Welch and
Red Burditt, showed plenty of
stuff, there was little doubt among
the fans that bullet-armed Jim
Cashion was the big difference in
the two clubs.
The flashy No. 18 was every
where, completion of 12 passes
for one touchdown and scoring
two more himself. Dusek got in
for his share of the glory by
teaming with Cashion to produce
the game’s first tally and then
reeling off a sparkling 66 yard
intercepted pass return in the
third quarter for the White’s
fourth score.
The game’s classiest run was the
36 yard beauty uncorked by Red
Burditt in the opening minutes of
the final quarter. Burditt hauled
in a punt on his own 34 and circled
his way through almost the en
tire Maroon team before being
roped in from behind on the Mar
oon 30. The play set up the game’s
final score, Welch carrying the
ball over from the nine-yard line
five plays later.
The Maroons made a ball game
of it through most of the first
half. After the Whites had tak
en the opening kickoff and driv
en 64 yards for a touchdown, the
game rocked along until one min
ute remained in the first half
before the Whites counted again,
on a safety. The two-pointer
was set up when Cotton Howell,
first-string end who was on the
receiving end of several of Cash
ion heaves during the game,
broke through to nab Beryl Baty
behind the Maroon goal line.
The half-time score was 9 to 0.
Shortly before the close of the
third period, Cashion capped a 28
yard march by tossing jumpassing
14 yards to O. L. Pollock in the
end zone.
Welch’s ten-yard scoring romp
in the final period closed the
game’s scoring.
For the Maroons, it can be said
that they were just out-manned.
Flanagan’s team simply had a lit
tle too much of everything.
Bob Gary emerged as the game’s
outstanding lineman. The scrappy
center was a thorn in the Maroon’s
side all afternoon long and inter
cepted three of Batey’s passes to
halt scoring attempts by the Mar-
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN-
Whites Drub Maroons 44-0 in Game
Saturday; Blocking Determines Win
Saturday afternoon about 4000
fans got a short pre-view of what
might be expected fom the Aggie
football squad next fall as the
> Whites snow-
r ;^, r . . ~ ed the Maoons
under in the
inter squad
game by a
score of 44-0.
Though your
reporter miss
ed slightly in
the pre-game
forecasting of
the score
(Whites by 3
TDs), it wasn’t
because the
first string
was underesti
mated. From now on, we’ll stick
to forecasting the Brazos County
weather.
From the press box, the boys
seemed to be clicking on all four
cylinders in 80 degree weather
which could have been worse at
this time of year. The Maroons
put up a good fight but were too
outclassed and their backfield being
constantly harrassed by the White
tackles.
Jimmy Cashion and big Ed
Dusek delivered the goods for
the Whites, advancing the pig
skin yards on almost every play
Martin
to wrack up one first down af
ter another. Dusek and Cashion
along with Bobby Goff and Bar
ney Welch in the starting line
up, literally swamped their red-
jerseyed opponents bit they did
behind some of the best block
ing ever done by an A&M team
this early in the season. When
a hole was called for in one
side of the line, there was one.
In the third stanza, fullback Ed
Dusek intercepted a pass on about
the twenty and with the aid of ex
ceptional down-field blocking, ran
through practically the whole Ma
roon team to cross the line stand
ing up.
Jimmy Cashion, a College Sta
tion boy who was one of the sparks
on the ’44 squad, proved he hasn’t
lost the old touch. He also prov
ed to be a capable all-around back
by alternating line drives and end
runs and tossing a few short pas
ses to Red Burditt and Cotton
Howell to break up the monotony.
John Ballentine figured in the
conversions with a perfect record.
One of the greatest improvements
over the Aggie chances from last
year is that Coach Homer Norton
knows exactly what he has in the
way of material and about what
each man can do. This will elimi
nate the costly experimenting while
a crucial game is in progress.
A&M, TU Thinly Clade Battle to Tie;
Kadera, Harnden Outstanding for Ags
For a suspence-filled two hours,
the Aggie track team, playing host
to the Texas University Longhorns
in a dual meet on Kyle Field, strug
gled with the visitors to determine
who was to enter the SW Confer
ence track meet at Waco next week
end as favorites.
Nothing was determined along
this line as the count ended in a
61-61 tie. However, on the basis
of individual performances, the re-
sutls were quite spectacular. Jerry
Thompson, the Steer’s speedy lit
tle distance ace was beaten in the
mile by teammate Don Sparks in
the mile run by a wide margin in
the time of 4:26.4. To date this
season, Thompson has seemed un
beatable after startling perfor
mances in the Kansas and Drake re
lays.
On the Agge roster, George
Kadera turned in one of the best
performances of the season in
taking honors as high-score in
dividual. The 200-pound fresh
man took first in the shot put,
discus, and javelin.
By throwing the discus 162 feet
7 inches, Kadera not only beat his
best throw to date (excluding prac
tice in which he is reputed to have
beaten this by two feet) but came
within one foot of the conference
record. Tossing the shot put a dis-
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tance of 48 feet 10 inches, he bet
tered his own best efforts by two
feet and beat Jim Dannelly of Tex
as, by almost four feet.
In winning the javelin, Kadera
pulled what some might call an up
set by out-throwing Texas’ Frank
Guess. Here again George outdid
himself.
Art Harnden is another Cadet
thinly clad who turned in a note
worthy performance. Though
Harnden was closely pressed by
his opponent in the last leg of
the mile relay and passed as
they rounded the last curve, he
put in the strech to out-distance
the Longhorn runner by several
yards. The speedy 440 ace tied
the meet with this last burst of
speed and also won the 440-yard
dash earlier in the time of 49.4.
Times at this met were unspec
tacular as a brisk south wind
slowed the runners considerably.
Other good performances were
turned in by Art Haws who won
the high jump with a height of 6
feet 2 inches, L. B. Tate who top
ped all comers in the pole vault
with a height of 13 feet, and Jim
Hill who did 23 feet 3 1/8 inches
in the broad jump.
Pirates Wallop B
Baseballers 9 to 6
Don Crouch, husky right-hander,
pitched the Stephen F. Austin Col
lege Pirates to a 9 to 6 victory ov
er the Aggie B baseballers on the
Kyle Field diamond Friday after
noon to hand the Bees their third
setback of the season.
Hits were numerous on both sides
and the slippery mud on the field
made fielding ineffectual. Fresh
man Young Johnson went all thfe
way for the hosts, giving up 15
hits, striking out six batters and
walking two. Pirate hurler Crouch
allowed 11 hits, struck out two
and walked two. Aggie errors
totaled six while the visitors got
four.
Cadet outfielders Jack Clark and
Zeke Strange each were credited
with a double while catcher Ray
Katt belted a homer over the left
field fence—his fourth of the sea
son.
Box Score:
R H E
S. F. Aus 030 003 201—9 15 4
Bees 003 102 000—6 11 6
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Brooke Comets 13-6 Here
INTRAMURALS
Lagging behind for the first six innings, the Texas Ag
gies came to life in their last three times at bat to wallop the
Brooke Army Medical Center Comets, 13 to 6 for the fans
who turned out for Sport’s Day last Saturday at Kyle Field.
Aggie coach Lil Dimmitt used three of his mound staff
in this special event. Earl Bees-
ley started for the Farmers, gave
up one run, before he turned over
the pitching chores to Roy Gib
bons. Gibbons pitched three in
nings gave up two runs and Dewey
Jacobs finished the last three in
nings of the game.
The Comets led the Aggies for
the first six frames behind the ex
cellent pitching of Elmer Roelling.
Roelling allowed only one hit un
til the sixth, when Gibbons walked,
Lindloff flew out, Vass got on
with a double, then Hub Moon
cracked a long fly into right cen
ter and center fielder Moody and
right fielder Simpson collided, at
tempting to field the ball and two
runs came across. Then Moon
scored on Hollmig’s double.
Coming right back in the sev
enth, the Comets brought in anoth
er three runs but these were their
last tallys. Behind the power
hitting of Walker, Wlasson, Lind
loff, Vass, Hollmig, and Fretz, the
Aggies pushed over another five
runs and in the next inning they
cinched the game with five more
scores.
For the Comets, Scotty Tortore-
illo and Tom Simpson were the
heavy hitters, each getting 2 for
4. Simpson relieved Roelling in
the eight to finish the game.
Both Earl Beesley and Roy Gib
bons looked well on the mound and
will probably see service against
the Texas Longhorns here Wed
nesday and Thursday.
Score by innings: R H E
Brooke Med. 100 110 300 6 9 3
A. & M. 000 003 550 13 13 3
Batteries; for Brooke—Roelling,
Simpson, and Wortman; For A&M
Beesley, Gibbons, Jacobs, Walker,
and Calvert.
Officials; Pugh and Colson.
Game time; 2 hours and 15 min
utes. ’
by Cliff Ackerman
Open Tournaments Drawing
To a Close
Information received from Cot
ton Howell, the wheel behind the
spring open tourneys, is that the
open tournaments will be complete
by the end of this week with cham
pions in golf singles and in ten
nis singles and doubles.
The tennis singles championship
was decided in a close match with
Pappas defeating Waide.
In doubles Spacek and Kelley
have reached the finals by defeat
ing Pauler and Hardeman 6-4, 6-1.
Their opponent will be the winner
of the semi-final match between
the teams of Wyatt and Webster
and Pappas and Dixon.
In the golf singles tournament
semi-final matches are with
the
Williams against Robeson
Templeton playing Horne.
and
A&M Golfers Bow
To Bear Linkmen
5 to 4 in Waco
Marty Karow’s Aggie golfers
got some good practice on the Wa
co Municipal course Friday, but
lost to Baylor 5 to 4.
A.&M. won 3 twosomes and 1
foursome for 4 points and the
Bears won 3 twosomes and 2 four
somes for 5 points. Travis Bryan
closed out Wallace Martin 4 and
3, Lawrence Fouraker beat Woody
Bickers 2 and 1, and Johnny Hen
ry went to 20 to win over Don
Barfield 1 up. Bryan and Four
aker won the 4-ball 3 and 2.
Bill Washington lost 1 up on
19 to Roman Parma, Bill Compton
was closed out 2 and 1 by George
Wagner, and Don Burtan lost 1
up to Charles Waters. In the
foursomes Rutan and Henry lost
1 up to Waters and Barfield, and
Washington and Compton lost 5
and 2 to Parma and Wagner.
Special Meeting
Of Swimming Team
Called Wednesday
Members of the Aggie swim
ming team will meet Wednesday
afternoon, May 14, at 5 p.m. in
the pool to plan for the state
high school swim meet and to
consider the prospects of a sum
mer team.
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