THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Saturday, May 17, 1947:
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Longhorns Sweep A&M Series
To Take SWC Championship
With the score see-sawing back and forth the entire game, the
Texas Aggies dropped the last of their series with the conference cham
pion Texas Longhorns by a score of 11 to 9 at Kyle Field, Thursday
afternoon.
The game was all tied up in the TU half of the ninth when Ran
som Jackson tied onto one of Earl Beesleys pitches for a home run,
pushing ahead of him Billy Cox.-f
The Aggies were unable to score in
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their half of the inning. The Long
horns used three pitchers to subdue
the Aggies, Tankersly, Wheless,
and Wall, while Roy Gibbens start
ed for the Farmers and Earl Bees-
ley relieved him in the third to
finish the game.
In the first inning, the Aggies
quickly jumped on pitcher
Charles Tankersly for six runs
and five hits. In this frame,
Peck Vass banged out a homer
to score two, after Lindloff got
a double, Willingham singled,
Moon cracked a triple to right,
field, Hollmig doubled and Fretz
reached first by virtue of an er
ror.
Gibbens held the Longhorns
close in the second but weakened in
the third and allowed to Sips to tie
up the score before Beasley came
in and put out the fire. Bobby
Fretz put the Ags out in front in
the third when he scored on a
long fly by Vass.
Coming to bat with one away
in the sixth frame, Frog Walker,
big Aggie catcher fouled three
pitches before sending one out of
the park against the center field
glare shade. The Longhorns wait
ed till the eighth, then quickly
pushed three across, two of these
off the bat of Tom Hamilton,
whose homer smacked against Kyle
Field stadium over the center field
fence. The other run, Shamblin,
scored on a passed ball.
The Aggies then evened the
score after Fretz singled, Thorn
ton flied, and Fretz scored on
Yass’s long fly against the cen
ter field fence. Then in the TU
half of the ninth Jackson sewed
up the game for the Longhorns
with his homer with one aboard.
Considering the fact that both
Aggie pitchers, Gibbens and Bees-
ley, had sore shoulders, the Ag
gies appeared fairly well on the
field in their last game this sea
son. Bobby Fretz moved over to
third base without any strain and
Tex Thornton took over the short
stop spot in the same manner. Cot
ton Lindloff played bang-up ball at
second base and his excellent de
fensive playing held many of the
Texas runs down. Aggie pitchers
were always in trouble and four
teen Longhorns died on base.
Ellis Wheless relieved Tanker-
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women who died while serving in
the Army to make certain that two
Army agencies have their present
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Many instances have been found
where addresses of next-of-kin in
the files of the Casualty Section,
Adjutant General’s Office, and
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“I am next-of-kin to (name)
(grade) (serial number). My
former address was (street, city,
state). My present address is
(street, city, state).”
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sly in the seventh to get credit for
the win. His team was ahead when
Murray Wall went in to finish
the ninth inning for the sips. Chick
Zomlefer sparked the Steers’ in
field defense.
Score by Innings
Score by Innings: R H E
Texas 006 000 032—11 12 1
A&M .. .601 001 010— 9 10 4
Batteries: For Texas—Tanker
sly, Wheless, Wall, Watson, and
Winters.
For A. & M.—Gibbens, Beesley,
Walker, and Calvert.
Officials: Tucker and Tollar.
Game time: 2 hours and 30 min
utes.
Baseballers Bow to Steers As
’Sips Stage Ninth Inning Rally
After eight innings of exciting ball, the Texas Aggies
allowed the Longhorns to squeeze past them by a score of
6 to 5 Wednesday afternoon on Kyle Field. The Longhorn
win came by virtue of a home run in the ninth by Billy Cox,
right fielder for TU.
The Aggies lost this heartbreaker after playing wild
ball for the first six inninge, then settling down to put across
extra runs and tie the game up when the Longhorns came
♦'to bat in the ninth. Starting on
■m T . o T • o t* 16 mound for the TU nine was
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Meet in Austin
WINNERS of the freshman in
tramural swimming title for the
spring semester of 1947 are pic
tured above. Pictured in the us
ual order are: front row, Isen-
hower, Williams, Syker, Bennett,
Phillips; back row, Simoneaux,
Welder, Mayo, Rogers, and Klatt.
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pair of tweezers. It is risky to
handle the pests with bare fingers.
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN-
As the Aggie track squad vies4
for honors with other SWC schools
in Waco today, the baseball team
brought their season to a none too
satisfactory conclusion Thursday
afternoon.
In the two-game series with the
visiting Texas U. team on the Kyle
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Martin
sew the match
Hub Moon,
Field diamond
before record
crowds, the
Cadets turned
in some excep
tional individ-
u a 1 playing
but apparent
ly they were
n’t clicking in
other phases.
Each day the
’Sips, after a
furious strug
gle, had come
from behind to
up in the ninth,
who had worked
his way up to the top in South
west Conference batting aver
ages with a .428, was connecting
pretty regularly and Stan Holl
mig, the SWC home run king,
outdid himself by belting two
over the fence Wednesday. This
brings his total up to seven in
conference games this season.
Frog Walker, the catcher for the
Farmer nine, connected with a long
one over the fence a little left of
center field Thursday to give the
hosts a two-run lead in the sev
enth.
However, Tom Hamilton, the
husky first sacker for the visitors,
slammed a Texas Leaguer over the
right field fence in the Texas half
of the eighth to tie the score up.
Tex Thornton, who had
moved from second base to short,
did some smooth fielding as per
usual, converting what looked to
be several sure hits to an out on
first.
This leaves the Ags back where
they started—in thix-d place in con
ference standing as the season clos
es. Baylor, by trimming the TCU
Fi'ogs 10-1 in their closing game,
returned to second place and sev
eral of the other teams are still
slugging it out for the cellar.
B Baseballers Have
9 Wins, 3 Losses
Though the first string baseball
team wound up by losing two
straight to the Texas U. Long
horns, the Bee team ended its sea
son Monday by polishing off the
Texas Shorthorns for the second
straight time.
Coach Charlie DeWare’s charges
first trimmed the junior ’Sips 4-3
on Kyle Field May 8 and then jour
neyed to Austin Monday to take the
second of the two-game series 12
to 9.
Freshman hurler George Brown
was credited with the win and
in addition to going all the way
on the mound for the Ags, slam
med a homer somewhere over the
head of the center field.
Zeke Strange, Cadet right field
er tallied four hits in four trips to
the plate to pace the Farmer bat
ting.
Catcher Ray Katt has been the
heavy hitter for the Ags this sea
son with four homers to his credit.
Katt has been a consistent hitter
as well as a first rate catcher.
Lou Tosses Party
For Stan Hollmig
Following the first defeat of the
Aggie baseballers by the Texas
Steers Wednesday night, J. E. Lou-
pot, owner of Loupot’s Trading
Post and Aggie fan DeLux, tossed
By Earl Grant
The Aggie net squad journeyed
to Austin Friday to participate in
the annual Southwest Confex*ence
tennis meet held this afternoon.
It appears that Texas and Rice
are the powerhouse teams of the
conference this year. They both
copped easy wins from each of
the other‘teams in the conference.
In Sam Match, Rice has one of
the best all around tennis stars
ever to hit the southwest. Match,
seeded twelfth nationally, leads a
well-rounded Rice team which
should give the other conference
squad a hard time.
Texas possibly Has the best bal
anced team in the conference. Con
sistent throughout the entire sea
son, Texas has already defeated
Rice earlier by a six to one margin;
Match being the only Owl netter
to break the Longhoxm winning
string that day.
The Aggies will stake their
hopes on such men as Bill Bennett,
Benny Stanford, Hank Allen, Rod
Sellars and Duffey Stanley.
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a shindig at his home in honor of
Stan Hollmig, Aggie home-i'un
king, who had just belted two hom
ers in the game to bring his total
of the year up to seven.
Some 50 to 60 friends attended
the affair as the husky first sack
er was recognized for leading the
conference batters in home runs.
Bobby Layne, who has 22 wins in
his conference play. The Aggie
batters became too hot for Layne
to handle in the eight frame and
Coach Faulk sent in Murray Wall,
who got credit for the win. Dew
ey Jacobs was charged with his
fii’st loss of the season as he went
the whole way for the Maroon and
White.
The Teasips pushed across one
run in the second only to have
A&M come right back and go out
in front by one x*un in their half
of the inning. Stan Hollmig, the
first Aggie batter, swung on the
first pitch sending it over the
fence at the 355 feet sign in left
center. Leo Daniels got a single,
stole second, and came home when
Bob Watson put a single against
the right center fence that neither
of the two fielders could handle.
The Longhorns went ahead in
the third, 4 to 2, and the Aggies
picked up another run in the sixth.
Tom Hamilton, lanky first sacker
for TU, cracked a homer over the
right field fence in the first half
of the eight. Not to be outdone,
Stan Hollmig, stepped to the plate
in the Aggie half of the frame
with Hub Moon on first, and slam
med another homer, this one a good
sixty feet over the left center
fence, to put the Aggies back in
the bail game. The Aggies then
missed a chance to sew up the
tilt, after Daniels walked and
Walker grounded out.
Dewey Jacobs managed to put
the first two batters safely away
in the ninth, then Billy Cox sent
his winning homer over the right
center fence. The Farmers were
unable to score in their half of the
ninth.
Bobby Layne kept the Aggie hit
ters baffled until he gave way in
the eighth to Murray Wall. Big
Dewey Jacobs took the first several
innings to settle down, then fin
ished the game. Stan Hollmig
boosted his home run record up to
seven in this game, to continue
leading the league in that depart
ment.
Score by Innings
Texas 013 000 Oil
A&M 020 001 020
Batteries—For Texas: Layne,
Wall, Watson. For A&M: Jacobs,
Calvert, Walker.
Officials: Tollar and Tucker.
Game time: 2 hours and 20 min.
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