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It took the Aggie
to run thei^i consecuits
day afterno >n. This unfi
wer| the yicamsand t!
Coach ] toy Bingh
ling for three rounds iyesjl
farmer hurlep Truett Mi
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lanton Taylor gave
it in the last six frameff
The viaitorsj picked u||lpe
a
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| - Hit Assault
AMtS beANDA . X • i X
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sh < hly orie hour jand fifty minutes
wir streak to seven games yester 1 -
yBl an-Junior College’s Bucaneers
f|ij? 1 count was 7-1. : ;,|j i
I’l i ucftneers were only in the run-
leyfan
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jle tally in tl)ie fir$t stair
iheyi-cormected saiely il|n|
off starting p itcher J.
, While the Cadt^Uw
busy handcud'fing Ahe I
! attack; the Aggie hititefs
• peppering- r ght hanc
i Horstman apd .Jack fTBasSI
eleven blov a. ^ M
l Horstman .4ras '^roupdJVfor.'lfiijp l !
innings. He l )st’thp b®l( jgane li
the fourth wlen catcher pil Dot
nis hit a long tly tojlett fjifeld |Wa
' t)
lace Moon scared casil ift*
Catch to notchj up the vritn ing |mai -
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The Blinn hurler cailejd i‘ iqui i
he sixth 'round whk'ini B dnt< [i
iTaylor sent «(ne of his jctirvi ball
far; over the' left-cmt>t- ifiel!
fence. Taylor; did pust. aNut nil
pall; player caln do in n mj ! inriing
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He jpaiwled jeented
ess fashion [|for six irisiijre^f'ai
landled the liound dutijiis
;hree roundsj! ! -
The Hondo Aggie re .ire J; tl
nine batters %o face hini
ptilir as tne pucs were at)
only one ball'-out of tie
: Taylor’s offensive re :oHl
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Jour , tjmes, drawing ?
first time, flammingX A
* against the lift fjtdd wall
time. His third trid'.to ItiK
iKnv 'Vcoulfoil! in liiic ■ frllli
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resulted| in his- fimr- r
‘and he .cloeeil the bookf
afternoon with a single
popular left ifield. He; cl c
plate three .Mimes, j ; ;
Second socket Joe Hu
e'lth
%fild
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toj \ hi
thsj ne
also made life miserable forlthe
pair of Buc twirlers. He too col
lected a trio, of base knocks gnd
drove in two runs.
The entire Aggie infield gave
heir . tossers air tight support.
baseman Bill McPherson
landled fourteen chances without
i hobble, while the left side of the
Farmer infield, Guy ’Wallace, and
Sonny Bollman, also turned in top
f , jerformances. -
1 l-l Coach Charlie DeWare’s first-
ear crew invade Austin tomorrow
or a Contest with the strong Texas
niversity Shorthorn*
spine
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Seventh
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To Hold Tri-Sport
Here Monday
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Athletes from 15 junior colleges
will participate in a three-sport
contest at A&M next Monday and
Athletic Director Bill
ij announced yesterday,
olf and tennis tourna-
be held simultaneously
under) thip direction of college of-
ficials-X [ i' . •
Cql. Frank Anderson will direct
the track meet, Coach ](V. M. Dow
ell. will handle the tennis tourna-
TT
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ments. Vvi
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Savarino, 2b
Warriner, rf
Britt, rf j!
McPhersoh, lb
Copland, lb
Wallace, Ss
Moon, If
fScheulke, i If
. [Bollman, 3b
t Taylor, cf-p
iH Baker, cf
-,| Deiinis, c
| Graham, c
j j-McCoy, p 1
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sppervisq the golf p’ " ' ”
ah Country Club.
Dlayoffs at Bry-
G. C. Boswell, president of the
Texas Junior College Athletjc
Association, is sponsoring this
meet. Bj°s we lI is expecting from
250 to; 300 jaycee ftthletes to
enter thei three contests.
The teams will be jhoused and
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son,
land ah'
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received
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In the next; few days,
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eld) io^ reach 15.
iniiha
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hejld Monday in track, but the
3 3 3 1 3 t® nil ‘s and golf programs will pro-
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THE BATTALION
SPOR TS ^
X, APRIL gg, 1948
Ruth Is Honored
By Japanese Fans
In Tokyo
TOKYO, April 28 — Babe
Ruth | was honored today in all
Japanese professional baseball
parks)-
Four Japanese players who hit
home runs here were given, 1,000
yen (920) each by bekai Nippo, a
Tokyo newspaper. Another 1,000
yen went to a home run hitter at
Osaka.
A special message from Ameri
can baseball commissioner A. B.
(Happy) Chandler was read to
-fans in Korakuen park in Tokyo.
Britishers Jnvent
Collapsible Cycle
ill
Errors
Iff
A
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|tt Baylor Bears
Hid place stam
top of a 9-4 sco
Wnto Tuesday
rl BeesleVIsta
had difficulty with K '° «
was the Beails* winn ng hi
pitched only eight inninf.
The Aggies took «l slim,
their half of the first on sii
Red Burditt and Stan Holl
Bruin catch ;
boundfj
Utttiv III'UICII nan V
homer by Szekley,
The third inning
But the Bears add
in the third. Cll
singled, then stole
home op Jack Re
Not to be ogti
pounced on Cop
fourth. Burditt
doubled, Fretz 1 wan
Thorpton bingled t ) dr
runs. On Walter [Wil
shart fly, turned into jin
Sneed’s tumble catch, Fre t
ed. That was the extent
Aggie’s damage. )
After! peering in the
rence
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fo^ti
wards the Aggie’s] defea
peacetime
the paratroopers’ collapsible mot
orcycle.
With its handlebars folded, it
stands 19 inches high and ipaasur-
es 53 inches- long and 13 inches
wide. It opens to 37 inches high,
two feet two inches wide. It runs
30 miles per hour and weighs 95
pounds. • j . !
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Why Pitchers Get Sore Throwing Arms
Cojch Cy Perkins Says Live Ball and Slider Responsible
men stole bases bin catch;
Calvert’s roller^ tq secoi
On one occasion Wi JhlgJ
threw a ball fpm ri^
which sailed over t ndloff,
Thornton, and into left
Peck i Vass was (narked;
error when pne oifl his tl
second was fielded on
bounce by Burditt in the 4
A&M also had a
( sluggiei'S* box in sjpite oflipthe
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located near large cities will makf
debuts this year. They are Fairi-
mount Park, across the river from
.St. Louis and Laurel Raceway and
Ocean Downs, both in the Balti
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‘PHILADELPHIA — Coach ICy
Perkins of the Phillies believes he
has th$ answer to most of the siore
arms ip major league! baseball;
Th»j man who caught more
than 1;700 games iii 15 years
with the Philadelphia Athletics f
blames much of the pitchers’ <
arm troubles on the lively ball .
and the slider.
“The trouble with the pitchers )
‘Any-
istt a
time you get a chance to visjt a
big league park during hitting
practice just wqtch what happens
to any three batters.
“ujsnap
swings ei
nine iswinks. You’ll find most of
the time that fyily three out of
ninelballs hit in practice |go for
they take three
(ch. That’s a total of
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what iwe call base hits.
Clearwater the Cardiiials j were
.... .1
vvnai wt
“Ddrin
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liniji
g at
taking their pre-game : licks. One
of the batters drove a lipe drive
back at a Cardinal coach who was
pitching batting practice. The
drive; nicked the peak of his cap
and tin ned the peak around to the
side jof his head. A few inches
ana the coach who was pitching
would have been hit in the eye.
j’That’s just an example of
how the lively ball can impair a
pitchers morale.” ;
Rctikins is not advocating return
of the ball used years Ago but he
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“Years ago, I'll admit, the pall
would llike to seekpitchers vroric
a lot harder on their iontrol.
Wgs (leader but the pitchers prac
ticed) control,” says the usually
iswally
ractice
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iilent Cy. “Today they prapi
knucklers and sliders
! “Irj iny ppinioh the slider is I the
most; harmful pitch ever to come
into baseball. It’s an unnatural
pSetyjjjx' ? " I l] ''
“Fi)r years every hitter, with
few exceptions, has been wogided
about a hook. If the young pitch
ers today would spend as much
time-on a good curve ball than
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CY PERKINS
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the [effort they put into a slider
they’d have nothihg | to worry
about.
“the slider looks to me as if its
throiwn with an elbow twist. That’s
wheke all your operations are,
There's absolutely no percentage to
the (pitch at-all.” i J '[ T ,1
Rerkins believes that Ed Rom
mel, an American League um
pire since 1938 and Emil (Dutch)
Leonard, 17-game winner for the
!*hjls last year are twp of • the
few, pitchers who ever perfect
ed the knuckle ball delivery.
“Here’s an example; olf what a
pitcher^ lacking proper control
does to the team’s morale. Sup
pose you’re playing shortstop and
I’m pitching and I have three balls
and 'one strike on the batter. Why,
the shortstop gets the jitters and
pretty soon it catches the whole
infield.
“But if a pitcher.has his control
and; gets two strikes and a ball
on a hatter you ty^h how the
shortstop and the rest of the team
perk up. Thb main thing is to get
that hall over the plate. Most bat-
tere don’t hit safely once in three
—
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left
re
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moii
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AgfriOs into a defi-
as they came out on
lyed on Katy Park in
nd for t
behind H
of five
ornton
in
/
but
itting
1 ip
two
plate.
DritH
spart-
ped iri
bad da
nit)e hits. T^ce th;
t the bases full) once ii
cial ninth inning when Wijljliaghai
fanned (with two puts. } •
Lack of clutch ;hitting: pft 1
men op the sack ! for thei
team) | • .| .'.--I
The rest of the ^ame w[
less, Leroy Jarl went ii
ninth hut allowed; the ha;
filled. He fanned Wililin
and toe gk
4 . _
th put allowedl
ed. He fanned
endlthe rally and f
Stan Hollmig lead A
ters, batting .509 for th
goon. One of HiiUmig's
T
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top of the 20
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town crowd, Cotf
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“Those who do know it, fear
the lively ball because il copies
backlit you- like a( shot out of
a cannon.”
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Periins, born in Gloucester,
Mass.; 52 years ago, h|s either
caught or hit agaimit some of the
game’); top pitchers, like Lefty
Grove; Herb Penhock,; George
Earnspaw, Lefty Gomez, Jved Ruf
fing, fjpe Bush, Urban Shocker,
Waite: Hoyt, and Bob Shaw key.
During bis career he caught,
well lover 2,000 games yet he has
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fooling with.
[ “If they’d only get wise to the
percentages there’d' be a lot lees
sore arms,*’ he concludes.
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