THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Saturday, May 24, 1947:
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Baseball Statistics
AB
R
H
TB
RBI
BA
A
E
W
L
Texas
....526
134
150
219
108
.285
166
38
14
1
Opp
....511
68
116
169
59
.227
196
49
Baylor
....473
112
128
184
90
.270
176
35
9
5
Opp
..4177
67
118
156
56
.258
154
49
A. & M.
....506
129
146
227
114
.288
166
41
8
6
Opp
....477
89
119
168
78
.249
150
44
S. M. U.
....459
73
114
147
53
.248
143
49
5
9
Opp
....495
91
137
195
70
.276
160
40
Rice
....495
65
118
143
50
.238
161
55
4
10
Opp
....509
141
144
185
110
.282
180
42
T. C. U. ...
....520
79
127
171
63
.244
187
41
3
12
Opp
....526
126
149
213
100
.283
159
35
Aggie Track Men to Participate In
National Meet in Salt Lake June 21
Col. Frank Anderson’s t r a c k-fr
track squad is not through for the
season—or at least some members
of it. On June 21 in Salt Lake
City, Utah the national meet will
be held and Col. Andy has an
nounced that he intends to take
George Kadera, Art Hamden, and
possibly several others.
Art Haws who has been carry
ing the hopes of the maroon and
white in the high jump this year
has been taking all comers and get
ting some good heights. If Haws
repeats his performance in the
Corpus meet, he is undeniably na
tional champion material. In that
meet, Haws went out at 6 feet
6 and one-quarter inches. Since
that time, he has been jumping be
tween six feet and six-three.
Broad jumper James Hill is an
other who has been turning in con
sistently good performances. He
has gotten 23 feet or better at
almost every meet though he went
out at 22 feet 11 inches to take
first at the SWC meet Saturday.
Manager Mix-up
In the last issue of the Bat
talion in the story concerning
the lettermen in spring sports
as announced at the Brazos Co
unty A. & M. Club banquet Mon
day night, W. L. Pollard was
mentioned as having received a
managers letter in track.
The Battalion erred in this re
spect as Pollard received a man
agers letter in baseball. Warren
Gilbert was manager of the track
team and as such received a track
managers letter. Our apologies
to Messrs Pollard and Gilbert.
Ag Baseball
Lettermen
Announced
Having wound up a partially suc
cessful season the Texas Aggie
baseball team were honored last
Monday night along with athletes
in other spring sports. Coach Lil
Dimmitt at that time announced
the team captain, the most valua
ble player, and the lettermen for
1947.
Leo Daniels of Bryan was elec
ted team captain by his mates and
as such received the Lipscomb-
Munnerlyn Trophy along with
Charles (Tex) Thornton who was
named the Most Valuable.
Lettermen named, in addition to
these two, were Earl Beesley, Dal
las; James (Cal) Calvert, Dallas;
Robert Fretz, Houston; Roy Gib-
bens, La Pryor; Stanley Hollmig,
Hondo; Dewey Jacobs, Fort Worth;
Young B. Johnson, Coleman; Clif
ford Lindloff, Waco; Hubert Moon,
Holland; Stanley Turner, Beau
mont; Claud Vass, Houston; Har
old (Frog) Walker, Dallas; Rob
ert Wasson, Dallas; Walter Wil
lingham, Seagraves; and a man
ager letter to L. W. Pollard, San
Antonio.
Finishing third behind Texas
and Baylor, the Aggies won eight
and lost six, to get an average of
.571.
★
Conference Records
Harnden Given Top Honors
PECK VASS, lanky left field
er on last seasons’ baseball nine
landed among the top when sea
son statistics were averaged,
and, in regard to hitting, was
among the dream team as re
leased by Executive Secretary of
the Southwest Conference James
H. Stewart by virtue of a .338
batting average and a .826 field
ing average.
Player
AB
RR
H RBI Avg.
Moon
..43
11
17
14
.395
Fretz
..50
19
17
15
.340
Vass
..62
17
21
15
.338
Hollmig
..54
18
18
17
.333
Thornton ...
..45
12
15
9
.333
Willingham..
39
9
13
11
.333
Lindloff
..28
8
8
3
.285
Daniels
..29
6
8
6
.272
Walker
..34
4
9
9
.264
Beesley
..16
3
4
1
.250
Calvert
..21
• 4
5
2
.238
Mays
.. 5
3
1
2
.200
Wasson
..26
3
5
6
.192
Jacobs
..15
3
1
0
.066
Gibbens
.. 9
3
0
1
.000
Johnson
.. 3
0
0
0
.000
Turner
... 3
1
0
0
.000
Hughes
.. 2
0
0
0
.000
Maltz
.. 2
0
0
0
.000
Brown
.....
Burditt
..
....
Pressly
..15
3
2
3
.133
TEAM:
506
129
146
114
.288
ART HARNDEN, crack Aggie track star, is shown being
awarded the JACK DEMPSEY ADAM HAT TROPHY after be
ing selected by the coaches as the outstanding athlete of the year
at A. and M.
Harnden was undefeated in conference competition throughout
the year, both as anchor man on the mile relay team and as a
440-yard dash man. Head Coach Homer Norton congratulates the
cotton headed Aggie as Track Coach Frank Anderson stands at
center. Harnden was also named captain-elect of the 1948 track
team and awarded the Bert Pfaff trophy.
A Infantry, B Field Take
’47 Intramural Crowns
Cliff Ackerman
A Infantry upper classmen re
ceived the honors of being the
Class A Intramural winner for the
1946-47 season. The hard fight
ing upperclassmen dominated class
A Intramurals all the way to take
the championship in a burst of
glory.
Charles A. Mattel from San An
tonio is the Athletic Officer and
the Assistant Athletic Officer
Guinn Fergus.
The Class B Intramural cham
pionship for the 1946-47 season
was taken by the freshmen of B
Field who out-pointed their nearest
rival A CWS by 46% points.
The men responsible for the fine
freshmen teams are Athletic Of
ficer Clarence M. (Cotton) Howell,
Assistant Athletic Officer Newton
Butts and the freshman Athletic
Officer Ed Hodges. The winning
units will receive the Intramural
Banners at retreat in a Victory
ceremony in which the Corp will
pass in review before the winning
units. The Athletic Officers of
the winning outfits will be honored
by the inscription of their names
in the Court of Honor.
Following are the final stand
ings in the Class B race:
FINAL INTRAMURAL
STANDING
Class “B”
As of 4-6-1947
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Place Organization Points
1— B. Field Artillery 806%
2— A. Chem. War Serv 760
3— A. Field Artilery 755
4— D. Infantry 713
5— E. Field Artillery 703)4
6— A. Infantry 702%
7— A. Air Corps 700.375
8— B. Engineers 675
9— C. Field Artillery 670
10— E. Infantry 666
11— A. Signal Corps i 655
12— D. Field Artillery 642
13— G. Infantry 640%
14— F. Infantry 640
15— D. Cavalry 637%
16— C. Cavalry 627%
17— A Cavalry 617%
18— B. Infantry 617%
19— B Cavalry 607)4
20— A Coast Art. Corps 605
21— C. Infantry 601%
22— C. Engineers 574%
23— A. Ordnance 530
24— F. Field Artillery 510
25— Field Art. Band 509%
26— Infantry Band 470%
27— A. Quartermasters 425
FROM THIS ANGLE
-by LARRY GOODWYN
Goodwyn
INTRAMURAL WEIGHT
LIFTING CHAMPS
The first Intramural Weight
Lifting contest was held Thursday
with six men winning champion
ships in six weight divisions.
The winners are as follows:
123% lb., Royce Riddle, Dorm 5.
132% lb.,Lee M. Duggan, C Field.
148% lb., Don Fitzgerald, E
Field.
165 lb., J. C. Elrod, B Engineer.
181% lb., Raymond G. McCavley,
Dorm 5.
Heavyweight, M. G. Rolnick, C
Field.
Events were held in the military
press, snach, and clean and jerk.
Intramural medals went to the
winner along with an AAU Weight
Lifting Certificate.
Time Schedule Of
Final Exercises
Baccalaureate services for
the graduating seniors will be
held in Guion at 10 a.m. Fri
day, May 30, F. R. Jones, chair
man of the commencement com
mittee announced. The proces
sional will form in front of the
building at 9:30 a.m.
The Commencement exercises
take place Friday evening at 6
p.m. in Kyle Field Stadium.
Graduates are asked to form
promptly at 5:30 p.m. at the
main entrance of the field.
In the event of inclement
weather, the Commencement
program will be held in Guion
Hall.
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The athletic season, 1946-47 is,-t
for all practical purposes, all over
but the shouting. Only the ten
tative “Duel of Champions” be
tween Big Six
Confer
ence and
S outhwest
Confer-
ence track-
men and the
A. A. U. Track
Meet in San
Antonio, both
scheduled for
June, remain
on the slate.
All collegiate
competition in
- the Southwest
Conference is over, last Saturday’s
tract meet in Waco and tennis meet
in Austin ringing down the cur
tain.
Looking back over the year, it
can be said that the Aggies didn’t
exactly cover themselves with
glory. The football team, expected
to be strong, was a hot and
cold outfit that won four, lost six.
The basketball team, expected to
be weak, was good, but even then
took a back seat in the conference
picture. Ditto the tennis team.
The swimming team, after setting
the league on fire all season, lost
the title in the conference meet to
Texas. The golf team, likewise
potent during the pre-championship
season, folded in the conference
meet and bowed to teams it had
beaten earlier in the year.
The baseball team, expected to
be in the middle of the scrap for
the title, suffered too many ear
ly season reverses and late-sea-
son injuries to its mound staff to
be a contender. Only the track
team, steadily improving from
the first meet on, came in the
clutch.
Not a record to look back on
with pride; but not exactly one to
be ashamed of either. The im
portant thing, right now, is the
prospects for next year.
The 1947 football team will have
these distinct advantages over
this year’s squad: The coaches are,
at long last, familiar with what
they are working with and this
should result in much less idle
substitutions than in ’46 when a
sub or two was running out on
every play. This, in turn, will re
sult in the Aggies fielding a team
composed of 11 guys who know
what to expect of each other, rath
er than a squad of about 30 who
had scarcely played together—as
was the case last fall. Moreover,
the Aggie attack, the sore spot in
the grid set-up last year, should
be vastly improved. Better balan
ced the Cashion, Dusek (or more
probably Paul Yates) Goff and
Smith (or Welch) combine should
cross the goal much more frequent
ly than any one of last year’s six
or seven different backfields.
In Cashion, the Aggies may
well have the sparkplug, the ab
sence of which, cost the Aggies
their chances to win the Tech,
O.U., and Arkansas games last
year.
As for basketball, Coach Marty
Karow has most of last year’s
team plus some new faces around
which to build the ’47 cage quintet.
Only Homer Adams of the ’46 team
will be missed. Back for another
crack at conference opponents will
be the colorful and consistent Mike
Garcia, tall, dependable Don Void
ing, equally tall and equally de
pendable Ray Kamperman, Tex
Thornton, and Sam Jenkins
and, of course, Bill Batey one of
the Aggies’ chief point-makers last
year. With Texas definitely weak
er than its championship squad of
this year, the Aggies, with luck,
may be coming home with the SWC
cage crown next February.
As for baseball, all the Aggies
need for a title team next year
are a few breaks and one dependa
ble pitcher. The Aggies had prob-
a b 1 y the best-balanced diamond
squad in the league this year—even
Texas ball players have admitted
that. But the lack of pitching
strength proved decisive. With a
little luck in rounding up a hurler,
Coach Lil Dimmitt may well pilot
his crew to a title. Its not only
possible, it may well happen—very
easily.
As for track, the outlook is as
bright as a new silver dollar. Of
the 59% points the Aggies scored
in winning the loop crown in Waco
last week, men who accounted for all
but one of these will be action again
next fall. Only Joe Vajdos, who
placed fourth in the 880, will grad
uate. In addition, Jack Simpson,
one of the prize high school plums
ever picked by A. & M. will return
to a Maroon uniform next year.
Simpson, who is quite capable of a
12 foot 6 inch vault, a six foot,
4 inch high jump and a near 23
foot broad jump, first came to A.
& M. in ’45 but was declared sch
olastically inelgible before he ever
got a chance to compete in con
ference meets.
In addition, another pole-vaulter-
high jumper - broad jumper -
named Rix who performed here in
’43 will return. Performing in
the same events as does Simpson,
Rix should help give the Aggies one
of the fanciest group of field event
men this league has ever seen.
Check this group for power: Pole
Vault—Bodeman, Tate and Quirey
(currently the league three top
men) Simpson, Rix and Davis;
Broad Jump—Hill and Jay (one-
two in conference meet) and Simp
son and Rix; High Jump—Haws,
Simpson and Rix; Shot Put—Ka
dera and Young; Javelin—Kadera
and Goode (’46 SWC champion);
and Discus—Kadera. There’s gold
in them hills, people, plenty of
gold.
As for the minor sports, the
Aggies should again be up there
in swimming and golf. The Farm
ers’ surprising third-place finish
in the conference tennis tourney
indicates definite strength for next
year. The cross-country team,
which copped the title last fall, has
reason to expect a repeat perform
ance again this year.
All in all, ’47 could be one of
A. & M.’s most successful in
SWC history. Whether it will
or not remains to be seen.
But, anyway, come what may,
we’ve got a buck or two to spare
(or maybe we can borrow some)
that says the Aggies will take at
least two major championships
next year, and two more minor
ones. Wanta bet?
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