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Thei Aggie Tankers will go into action again tomorrow
afternoon when they meet the Baylor EeartiMii Waco. Baylor
will be after its first win of thje sbasohi, having lost to Texas,
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A&M took the last dual meet herb, against Baylor,
4 nirlg hy to 27..while i)sing
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every
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Blackwell, his biggest winner last: th( j A gii-their first setback last
season, and rookie Howani Fox week, touk an*even woi-se (58-26)
-Arigelcs, ik making aj bid fbr i
third basd job M?ith | the jflosl
t Red Sox. Chief cjonipetition pr<
;ably will come frejm Jjihnny Pes
(or Vern Stephens, depending
which of tlhem is |pick|ed for rtho
agains^ Detroit Sunday.
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5—'-'Pi—-Stan Musial, the St. Louis
stop.
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Mtlh the Cadets heavy favorites
Coach j^rt Adamson will prob
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ended his holdout today and signed last .meet against the Aggies
Cardinals’ slugging first baseman, 6ayloj|-j to<d< (Only two firsts in
ie d the last , meet against the Aggies
j | here. RuHet Manale took* first in
dicing hhd Jean McCoy yron the
15-1 100-yaW: free style.
‘ Workhprse Danny C
prpbab|$(%ilwe it easy
and swijiii; in only one, or two etents
if the rpiet grj-es according to sche-
a contract
The signing came after a
minute conference with Robert p. Workhprsc Danny Green will
Hannegan, president of the Cards- probabMAalw it easy tomorrow
|tl Is believed the contract fig
ure was somewhere between $31,-
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records! $rith'regularity this season.
|2d Krpse and Buddy Fisher will
probably fig^rt it out for honors
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la.^t wie#k against Texas, winning
[by several yards.
I--This will be the Aggies last
dOal (npet bf the season, and a
wjin t|o|nbrrow will give them a
| total iof eight victories against
one djefeat.
Next gatyVclay the team will take !
part in ijhe Southwest A.A.IJ. meet
I anil tqeyfollowing week comes the
cpnfeierftt* meet to be held here.
Dn Mairch 26, and 27, the team
'will takft. part in the NCAA finals
at Micj^gun 'University.
pjf (lagc Team
Piclfe LaSalle As
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gieland Monday for a dual njid:
pions of the Southwest
first event will be rur
Monday's meet jv
'Reason.
' Roasting two of the
around track squads in t
the Aggies and the Lorigh
display some of the best
[field men tjhis Conferene
produced. Eadh team h
mep who ijrill be trying ■
on the US Olympic team
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Olympic prospects on thejjK
er squad are; Art Harndpil
.Rky Holbrook in the q‘
mile. (Jeorge KafSera irt
cqs and Hob Goode in.tbe
Ion
he decathlpn, incidents
sisjts of the following ev er t
be I Me fi
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n a i atteimbt to beat the Orajuge
iml Vihite,[Collcjnel Anderson ( Ajjr-
-d truck cbacIhJ with the able as-
i^tan e of Ray* Putnam, has been
trying to d<fve|loiv some nliddle dis- 1
ice LrunpCrsi dapable of pushing
’tyompson so that the mighty Tcx-
r wit not he i able to run a(l three
mitarwe . events jin one afternoon.
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AI»ove is the Lamar teiani which won the Junior College tournament here. Bottom row ; Opr
Phillips GHIrerl Jlaasey, Veplon -Bobbitt, Frank Garvey, Charles Shoptau, an«l Jimmy Anderson.
Top row: Janies Kirkland, Jerry parish, Coach Elbert Piekell, Bill Moody, and Joe Mouton.
Moody was on the first All-Tournament team and Parrish was placed on the {second.
Cagers Close Medicocre Season
Against Sips Tuesday Night
C. N. HILRCHER of
F ipior Colljpi
•ARRISHh
and Coac
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presenjting the .
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captai n. JER
gold I asketballs,
leathc ■ traveling
Best Opponent
ji FD|;T WORTH, Tex.. March 5
ijsPi—Ttixas Weselcyan’s “traveling-
teh|li}i jn the, nation, thinks the
ijiest pasketball tcani they 'met in
yj jaunt? over 15 states and the Dis 3 -
tjji'ict^b^ Columbia this season was
LaSalli? :Of Philadelphia.
i| Agaihst TVVC, Foust made 19
points* When LaSalle beat Ar
kansas. Fopst out scored the Ra-
: zorbaeks' George Kok, 29 points
; to 25.! The, Rams’ E F. Parham
outscqred Foust 32 to 19, and
Parhajm fouled out v with four
f miniites to go,
Kirsft team—Jim Lacy, Balti-
i morc.^oyola; Mickey Marty, Lo-
j ras; C-ollcgc (la.); Larry Foust,
I, LaSaUe; Burt Rollings, Southern
, ! M^aidist; VVilliam Caterna, I)u-
Brazos County A&M Club is shown r gdeisne, or Johnny Orr, Beloit
Championship Trophy to Lamar’s (\V|is.:). >
addition, the plavers each received
|| ELBERT PICK ELL was awarded a
Sidccmd team—Dee Nutt, Abilene
By BILLY GERSCH
A&M’s basketball team will pipy
the role Of underdog again' fuxt
Tuesday night when they l^jver
the curtain oh another basketball
season with a gahie againstj the
University of Texas bohghprijsj
The Aggies are dosing out a be
low .par season. They have (won
only two of their conference games,
defeating SMU 51-16 and [T<pU
48-22. ' ' :• 1 S
Regardless of this game’s (up-
come the Farmers final sttjnl-
ing in the conference will be|oiie
step above Texas Christian' !in
i the cellar. ,
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The Maroon and White fyunul
could embarrass the Longhorlj|s by
shading them in this. final game,
as the Steers are due to plqy in
i the National Invitational Tcjjjiijna?
ment at New York City.
A loss to the Aggies would
throw Texas into a tie with! the
Arkansas Razorbncks for sH-ond
place behind the Baylor Bead’s in
final conference standings, f
In their previous meeting, [the
Aggies matched the Steers (point
for point until thjj.- last half'when
Big Tom Hamiltotj of Dallas hegati
sinking his one 5hand specijalty
shots and led thy Texas it-oking
some of their polish against the
^ips. Mike ; .Garcia and Bill Batey
were nursing colds on the northern .
T H K BATTALION
SPORTS
FRIDAY. MARCH 5, 1948
cu? throw, shot put, javeli ji jthrowj,
broad jump, high jump, pfi
l()j)-yd. dash, l:20-yd. high
44()-yaj‘<i dash ami the njjili
Goode w ill probably entei
th(-se events Monday.
[Kadera will enter the
shot and javelin! Haitndeln
brook, in adition to run
quarter pule, ' W 'H form ha
m le relqy team. •. - >
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discus*,
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ckeil just[24| points of winning the
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losses wetrel iji’on) ' One to steveh
> Woint|v Thjero Jw^re two one-point
are, first and never la.sl
fantous Longhorn sprin(c
.fey Parker, Perry Samue
Lawler, ChaifUe Tatont s
Robertson. Tatom and l|
the two slowest, can each
100 yard dash in 9.8 [s-
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| Robertson, who is noted
bfoad jumping than sprim
(the NCAA broad jum()
1946.
A definite Olympic pt
(how djefeat <, tw|o tvjp-pointers, oncjfivo,
Char . •4 ,e • 1 i < and ode seven.
Alltli >
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(bertsoiji
run thf
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amp th
l SMU averaged 52 points ! per '' ,
statlistR'i from the offit-e of ____
H. j Stieiart, executive! see- J
y, khow.' That was two-tenths 4
x iht hetjtej' thjtn Baylor, vthith
tie championship.) , {
(jefjensi'jely, the Methodists
)fpect
at mil
rbad trip to SMU and TCI . Both D ^i Jerry Thompson! Texas' g
should be in peak form Tuesday 0 1 ; ,jj ( . t ii Kt ancc rumier. Thomson, w
night. " ” ' ’ ' ‘ ‘ " - . . -
Texas leads the nation’s teams
with their splendid free throw
average of 72.8% and have won
many of their games by one or
two points. , -
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Tomorrow’s football scrim
mage will be held at 2 p.m. in
stead of 2:30 as originally plan
ned. The postponement of the
track meet was the reason for
the change.
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play host to teams from the Wa
co. Houstti and San Antonio
“Y’s" in tlcWarc Field House-
tomorrow at 3 p.m.
This same Houston team plac
ed third in the National Tourna
ment this year. < : ,
holds the copference rgee '<
rpile run, won the 880-yd.
mile run and the two m
the conference meet las
| Although Allen Lawle;
He able to run Monday,, like to
be LortfUl
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up 4jk4i liointfi—fourth in the,
j-ieihei). Bailor was tops in this
■ merit vjith at) average of
?eeo|nd 4'as Texas with 45.0
turd wasj Arkansas -with. 48.0. (
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people ll>|c In areas wttlfout
i( |ibfar)i«
ijiicent appendectomy, T
Horns Will be in the fava
ilegardlgss. j
Last year the,two-.tCp
scored exactly the same j'
, points in a dual meet heii
In 1-947 U.S. people, on tho av- Neithei; team has suffer)<
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goods and services than in 1939.
Rob Feller ojf the Indians al
lowed 17 home- Irqr.s during ll*f7.
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losses since 1 then but
horns have been bolster-
addition of Robertson wb
eligible last spring.
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iChrfetian; Sam Trombatore, Loyo- w j(;|, 20 points, i
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laiuL i- was credited with 17 point*! Billy
Cbnspicuously missing is Norm Turnbow led thej Aggie scoring,
Hailki/Js of Lawrence Tech, the netting 15 points.;The seme bf tlie
natrons high scorer and all-Amer- ; game W as 69-48. i
ica dahdjdate. After losing a humiliating: game
; ; > ' — —r ‘ to SMU-^nd dropping a dose one
jg pi st() | t0 TCU ' tho Ca l lets may Tejgajn
Defeated by Mich.;
THej A&M Pistol Team received
♦ its:first»defeat of the season last
vfteplc as, ; it fell with a score of
1288 fd Michigan State who/.scored
U!2t> pijfujts. The Aggies’ only win
torlftte 'was their victory over
Pehnsylvania State two weeks ago.
jdc-jnbev.s of: the Aggie team in
the firtatcii ..against ’Michigan State |
weWiR.-ij. Cox, H. R. McNiel, R.
T.j Cdok,'-.Ql. -Q. Ray; \Y. VV. Reed,
and S.. WT'Smith. Cox. of A&M.
vviis high jpoint man with a score
;»he Team-is back in competition
jthi* year for the first time since
bejfbrp the ‘war. Several matches
hqye *beeh- scheduled for this year’s
seinsop. This week the Aggie Team
wjll shoot a competition -match
with ...West Point.
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Waht ti» come out for baseball
tihji.year must report not later
thafn Saturday. March 6, to Tom
Pickett bn the Freshman Field
Soiith pt: the Varsitv Diamond.
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