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4 J i 1 .! sory d^teils, th^j; Ifiy.^pUyg, and'all the other data that comprise a baseball briefly, here’s what happened. John Finch 8tai It Be Jley • |#w ♦ . t _ — " • i:H pitches to enable two more runs to a sore. i 1 (Mirty Karow then called on Star) Hollmig to come in from left , th e Aigfiii lutshpll felt r j ’ V ;• pitcher, mesiey k on him. 1 two hilts and an ! jdirbr, eia let Is went down i^'orddr un- e fourth when they pic^CK l the; f|flli a nu Jed to one tCLniothing. m- up ardeiijt baa^ball fan^ who didn’t see the state edition of. either the Houston turday night 8 to 7 at Buff Stadium. ;he game). But if you want an accurate account of ajU the goings- es beat the Rice Owls Sa r^f l ! :■ the mound for . * •-1 fes 'Crossed the plat L Ini 4e; Sixll creased; by two '\ 3ta* Boilmlg si ffiftteeW me the ’Aggies , their ;5cor^.! With . hjerfof assets frtnn tfe iRice infj^ld iand, out held, Jfive A&M tafli|8 crossed the platf frdrpifouf hits., Ini the;sixth the l|ad was in- *uns. r slapped a double if eld! fenep but J ButdiU !hold- ingi np at second. 5Big Stan did the next betst thiig in such tuition, j. pe slid|into;third. - M He^gw Garcia'wHb iseem to enjdy the^ame no! endj, ; didn’t notice the mistake unf 1 sofine fan wised ip- the Rice fim baseman. Hollmig then smilingly wa%id off the bate when he ,was called out. Beesley pitched until theidighth ing, allowing onl; r twip hits ‘ - and fanning | A|y 5 s Nixon c«me in then to coritinue ;the .game, Nixon fanned two Ri|ce ptoyers, - l J * 'sTand three E gaye up three hits bases on baBs lb allots to come home. 31 five field to finish the game. Hollmig retiifed the side, after walking oqe man. At the beginning of the eighth frame, the Aggies had lead eight to zero, the score at in nings end was eight to seven, Elton tumlinson went to the mound for the Owls and the Agi gies promptly filled the bases. Alert infield work kept the pOf tent al A&M runs from scoring.; lin the last half of the tijntb, . three men faced Hollmig and all thrse 1 Wient down, two by striK«| r ouls. The game was finally ovei\ Both Marty Karow and Jest Ne dy Were down to their last man. ' ‘ J ' 1 j ie Aggies looked good ip the ng department. Hollmig, Beesr and Lindloff all cracked oyt doubles,'hits that would have been home runs at Kyle Field. Bobby Fre 2 got two hits out of four time s at bat. i Scot e by innings: R H;E A&lf .100 062 00Q 812 3 Ricg ooo 000 700 7 6i 0 , '» i ' i •; i • ' i 1 i « i IggiesE p; ime, Bli butlhitj 1 and threjw tyt’o) (wild ostly error® «j»n the |A $d the 'pwls ; this'|trmesi £sp then came in| but jh|t| the GUY H. D E |A T! Q ‘N Tj : TiT»writcr Exch New Si Used Guaranteed R^paTH ..116 S|. M^in ■ I* 8. - Tx 111 Win Weekend Tilts i i ■ W\ i T I Ponies Beat Bears 6-5 j I DALLAS April 12 —(Al—S|HU virtually eliminated Baylor from the Southwest Conference baseball race Saturday by edging the Boars 6-.B on an 11-hit attack. The Methodists won in the tejnth inning when Ernie Hughes slugged a ! single with Jack Maroney on third. Hughes thus made up for three errors he had turned in at second base. Irwin Kay held Baylor to seven hits. ; i 4 It was the third straight defeat for the Bears in the conference race. i j' : j * { | : : K ; ■ Texas Blasts TCU 6-1 AUSTIN, Tex., April .2 —UP) Young Charley Gorin, rapidly be coming the ace of coach Bibb Fs m Farmers S*eep hile Beating Texas A&M’s powerful Track Team took i in Baton Rouge Saturday. The Aggies were i captured all of the track firgt p aces and thr Coach Frank Anderson used only a 27 the defending champion of the Southwest Conference add is fa vored to win the title again this year. George Kadera took first place in the shot put and discus for his 10 points which made him high scorer for the day. ; However, Coach Anderson . .I " ' "j-f : : ^ 4 J lig’s Relief Hurling Saves Beesley’s Wji , rulh rnrmprs, (hit . ^ m alls Farmers Out in Wild Ball Game By ANDY MATULA mm {Catcher Jim Calvert was the Angles’ leading batsman in Siturday night’s game but he ran Into a bit of hard luck. Al ter ‘ hitting safely two out of three times, Calvert sprain ed his ankle rounding third bajse in the sixth inning, i Coach Marty Karow expects Cglvert to be in shape in time for the SMU,-TCU series next weekend but doubts if he’ll piny before then. Calvert’s loss wpuld be a blow to Aggie base ball chances this spring. >{ iPl m % , '< MM Gorin, willowy; sophomore l;eft- hander from Austin, permitted a single to Paul Koch and a double to Billy Beck in' the Hijfth ihning for the Frogs’ lone vunTUp j gave up the other base hit in the l ninth, Brown Chiles singling. US TO RESUME OIL INTERESTS IN MEXICO MEXICO'■d¥f? v A^rifl^; i -i'/Pi United States oil interests, barred from Mexico for 10 years I s|nce expropriation by. the government, will resume operations ini this country. Speedy BOR HALL took first place in the 220-yard low hurdles against LSUiSaturdajf. This was the.fourth first place which HALL has made this season and raised his point-total to igS 1 /;. Fish Beat Reagan 16-4 For 5th Win By JAMES DeANDA Coming from behind for the third time this season, the Aggie Fijsh tjaseballers bounced back from Thursday’s loss to Sam Houston’s Bearkats iwith a 16*4 win over a game but ou-^ classed Reagan High School (Houston) nine. For the first three Innings of Friday’s tilt, t]hje Cadets gave a perfect demonstration of V J* Pf 1 ; oiit: eleven bits in tb|eir la tfielder t. u rns ip the barter’s box. j i , - / i Xeagan n !!lfe±j£. tstel "t Pinny P grip j KHAKI PANTS premex, has announced that cop-! D I n High Back Zippers I . ' he: Kind You m, H 1 • • f ike Best Po lard's Jordan erably with a paiV of singles that sent three Farmers across the late. Two other Cadet*, Guy Wal- P1 , lace and Billy Mel was most pleased aver the show ing of three runneror-Wehster Stone, Webb Jsy, and Don Car- . den. All of these men lowered their previous best times. Jay beat two LSU men in the 100-yard dash with a time of 9.8. Aggie Bill Napier came in on a quick finish splurge, but. the judges failed to watch him and he was not given a place. Webster Stone turned in a fast 880 to lead Jackson of LSU and Bab Atkins. Stone’s time was 1:56.3, pis best of tRe year. Bill Garden starred in the 120- yard high hurdles, turning in a time of 14:8, also his best effort of the season. > [. The Mlile Relay Team 1 romped to an easy win over the Tigers’with out the services of Ervin Bilder- back, who was out with a hurt leg. Don Carden took Bilderhack’s place wijth G. S. Ludwick, Ray Hol brook and Art Hamden. Earlier Holbrook and Harn- den wop the 440 in slow time to save thjeir strength for the mile relay effort. They led the field easily and won in a dead heat deliberately. Carrol Hahn won the one-mile race, followed closely by teammate J. M. McGothlin. A&M swept the 2-mile distance race with three place&J Aggies > J. D. Hampton, R. R. Raven, and Jerry Bonnen finished tin that order to pick up nine points for A&». j ;[P George Kadera failed to make the 170 ;yards in the discus which he had been making in .practice, but he came in ahead of Robert with a 153’ 6” heave. However, the wind-wag with the throwers and kept their dis- (See TRACK on Page 4) MONDAY, A# Tennis And Fri The A&M entered the win! SMU Ponies ai The Aggies hat match with wins and one doubles Things: were diftifrent in Fort Worth, af ters won the mat point after having les and two doubt The Mpstangs Friday after the hands of the from SMU lookc . when they took tjj es in singles ai| they couldn't go the Aggies cleaif of the civents. “eekend Tilts im bounced back this weekend and- y virtue of a 4 to 8 victory over the technical defeat of the TCU Frogs, uble in Dallas Friday i«d took the Agios llhe A4 pn a ken event sit irday ‘ Net- bhnical sing- rest In singles, BlRl George Martin', 1 Stanford ! rolled o' 6-0, 8-2; Rodney mond Ru(|e, 6-1 jl >st to Jenny Donlifli rkett, —- « * ■; f r Stanley downed Jimmy Owen, 7-5, 7-5. Bennett and Stanford lost theip doubles match to Martin and Bur kett with a score of 4-6, 6-4, 13-11, in a very close one, The other Ag gie pa\r„ Sellars apd Stanley, won their tilt by taking Rude and Owen to the 11 'V' The Aggies wop in Fort Worth aturday due to » technical rule pes that in the case of. a tie ip a six event tennis match' the number one doubles event will count two points instead °f ® ne ’ Things were very close all the wav hut the boys'from Aggie- THE LARGEST ELECTRICAL * APPLIANCE STORE IN BRYAN— > ! Come in and see us for large or small appliances!. RADIOS, ELECTRIC IRONS STUDENT LAMPS, FLOOR LAMPS, PRESTO COOKERS COFFEE MAKERS KELVIXATOR . . . ... HOTPOINT and .many other usefuls m UNITED ; APPLIANCES FARM & HOME STORE it AGGIE RADIO I Phone 2-1496 off first base. (Another doubly play | k “ 0 7 tvvo'hitT.’One’of McffirsSn’s in the third, <jjhoki?d of* .a Reagan jjj^g Vas a two-haggler into left- center field. 1 “-uni threat with only' pne run. The Cadets won the with an eight-run rally in the RSf' The Cadets w|®n the game -pt- ' “ ‘ fourth inning. Catcher Bill Den nis got the first hit off south paw Dick Beadle with two dow n and the bags crammed. Beadle fell apart and before relief purl er Roger Edwards could V e t* re another man the Cadets stored eight times with six hits, four walks and four stolen bases. The Famiejs hit Edwards hard the rest of the afternoon and fol lowed up tlm 1 fourth innipg at tack with single runs in th| fifth and sixth, a braeo of scores!in the seventh and four more ih the eighth. DeWare’s first-year squad has a busy week ahead with three games on the schedule. After today’s con test with Allen Academy, the Ag gies meet El Cafnpo high school Thursday and wipd up the week end with a tilt against the Baylor Cubs Saturday. Aggie Golfers Play No. Texas Eagles Tuesday, April 13 DENTON, Tex., (Spl.) April 12 —The undefeated North Texas State EJ a gl e golfers will meet the University of Houston linksmen Monday and Texas A&M College J. B. McCoy, who replaced Lar ry Ludtke on the hill for the Ca-r dels in ttjic* fourth frame with two down anti thb; bases loaded, re ceived credit for his second .win of the year. j : ; I K McCoy get the visitors down with three Hinkles in the five and one-third inpiUgs he. worked, striking'cut eight batters while issuing only one free pass! An error in[| the outfield gave Reagan it® last three markers* in the eighth, j n : : L Aggie (hitters: had a merry time at the plate again Saturday..After #EXPERT \7 SERVICE ow all cand Reagan OOJ 000 300 .477 Aggies 000 811 24x 16 11 4 For Reagan: Beadle, Edwards (4) and Watts. For A&M: Ludtke, McCoy (4) and Dennis. Umpires: Pugh aind Colson. R H E Tuesday. Tickets On Sale For Freshman Ball •' Ek j. * i* Tickets for thq Freshman Ball to be held April 23 (arc now on sale for $2 each.' 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