The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 20, 1948, Image 3

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    1 Fish Baseballers End Season With Record Of
Thirteen Victories Against Only Two Defeats
Saylor Games
Close Season
Cor Farmers
Winners in their respective classes in the 1948 Intramural boxing finals are pictured above.
Reading from left to right are: RALPH WHEAT of C Inf., 119-pound class; HERSCHELL SHELBY
of C AF, 129-pound class; TAYLOR of B AF, 149-pound class; SAMMY SARGENT of Dorm 4, 169-
pdund class; KENNETH TIMMONS of Dorm 10, 159-pound class; and FRED WHISENHUNT of
Bizzell, heavyweight. Not pictured are GUS VLETAS, 139-pound class, and SAM LIBERTO of Dorm
7, 179-pound class.
Sarazen Predicts Open Season On
Name Players in PGA Tournament
By SKIPPER PATRICK
ST. LOUIS, May 20 —OP) Gene
Sarazan, an old master of the Fair
ways, predicts an “open” season
on the name players in qualifying
rounds of the professional golfers’
association 30th tournament that
opened yesterday.
“Golfing ability counts for plen
ty,” Sarazen said, “but the short
(‘6,467 yard, par 71) course here
could result in a bunch of the hot-
slpts getting knocked off before
nptch play begins Friday.”
IpSarazen, a three-time PGA
Champion (he last, won in 1933) is
ope of the 135 golfers scheduled for
competition in the professionals’
exclusive show that winds up next
Tuesday.
“On a short and treacherous
course such as this layout, a com
paratively unknown golfer has
just about as much chance win
ning as the habitual champion,”
Sarazen said.
The shortest hole on the Nor
wood hills country club course—
number 11—measures 177 yards;
the longest, 555 yards.
Sixty-four players will comprise
the match play field.
Most prominent of the “-efyitfe”
players who figure to give Jim
THE BATTALION
SPORTS
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1948
low Country Club, a battle royal
for the title are Sammy Snead, the
Hot Springs, Va., slammer; Claude
Harmon, of Mamaroneck, N. Y.,
winner of the recent masters; Ban
tam Ben Hogan, Hershey, Pa.;
Chick Harbert, Northville, Mich.;
Former National Open Champion
Lloyd Mangrum, Chicago, and Jol
ly Jim Demaret, Ojai, Calif.
Eighteen holes of medal play
were on tap today. An additional
i'—j—- — — - - ■ - - . round of 18 is scheduled for tomor-
Ferrier, 'who won the tournament j row _ Thf, 63 low medal player's,
last year at Detroit’s Plum Hoi-
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plus Ferrier, who rates the favor
ite’s role simply because he’s the
defending champion, begin the
fight for the $3,500 first prize
Friday.
Golf Team Takes
Match From Tf C
A&M’s championship golf team
won a 4 to 2 practice match from
Texas Wesleyan College (Tf Fort
Worth here yesterday afternoon.
Bart Haltom was medalist for
the winners with a 70, followed
by teammate Johnny Henry with
a 71.
Haltom and Jack Barnett team
ed to beat Jim Hill and Charles
Royer of TWC, six and five in the
woi'st defeat of the day.
The visitors got their two vic
tories when Doug Smith and John
ny Foster beat Henry and Travis
Bryan in doubles two and one, and
Smith out pointed Bryan, one up.
North Texas Wins
Lone Star Title
CORSICANA, Tex., May 20—hP)
North Texas State College won its
second straight lone star confer
ence golf title when a four-man
team posted a 599 total in medal
play here Tuesday.
The University of Houston came
in second with 623. East Texas was
third with 630 and Southwest Tex
as of San Marcos fourth with 637.
Trinity University had 657 and
Stephen E\ Austin 730.
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A&M’s off and on baseball team
closes out a mediocre season this
weekend when they play the Bay
lor Bears two games. Scene of the
games will be the Brenham May
Fete festivities in Brenham.
The Farmers will go into the
series with a two to one game ad
vantage over the Bruins in season
play. The Ags won two conference
games played with Baylor on the
Kyle Field diamond, 8-0 and 5-2,
then dropped a 9-4 decision to the
Bears in a third conference game
played at Waco. The games Friday
and Saturday will be the rubber
series.
Coach Marty Karow is expec
ted to start Bruce Morisse
against the Baptists Friday, and
Saturday, Earl Beesley, work
horse of the Aggie pitching staff
will toe the rubber for the last
time as an Aggie player. Beesley
along with six other graduating
seniors closes out his eligibility.
The other Aggie baseballers
playing their last baseball game
for A&M are Art Newman, Tex
Thornton, Peck Vass, Dusty Clark,
and Zeke Strange. Walter Willing
ham who is out with an injury is
also graduating.
Baylor will probably counter
with Rickey Rows and Leroy Jarl,
their two top hurlers. Both were
chosen on the 1947 All-SWC team,
and although they have had their
share of trouble this year, they
still rate with the best in the con
ference.
basketball Team
Ends Preparations
For Next Season
By SACK SPOEDE
Unnoticed among the spring
sports have been the daily work
outs of the basketball squad. Every
evening for the past month the
Aggie roundballers have been pre
paring for the conference race next
season.
Coach Marty Karow will prob
ably put a tall fast team on the
floor when the interest in football
begins to fade next fall. The team
will be slightly inexperienced in
spots compared to some of the
conference teams, but is expected
to make up for this deficiency
with lots of hustle.
A newcomer to the basketball
squad is Andy Hillhouse of Al
vin. Ineligible the past year be
cause he transferred to A&M
from Lamar Junior College of
Beaumont, Hillhouse is also an
outstanding prospect for an end
position on the football team.
A number of men on the team
range over six four in height.
Some of these sky-scrapers have
moved up from the freshmen
squad of the past year. Kenneth
Sutton, John De Witt, and Carl
ton Batten are included in this
group.
Jewel McDowell of Amarillo is
another standout on the squad.
He was the star of the fresh
men after mid-semester of this
year and scored twenty points
in several games.
The Aggies can’t be expected
to replace the Baylor Bear's as
conference champs next year, hut
they can he expected to finish
closer to the top than they did
the past season.
The practice tonight will be the
last one until next fall.
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Hurdler Bob Hall Looms As
Brightest Track Prospect
By LARRY GOODWIN
Those Aggie followers of track and field who have been
celebrating the Aggies’ seven-point victory over Texas for
the SWC Track title last Saturday, may be overlooking one
of the most heartening signs for the future that resulted
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Houston
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San Antonio
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Tulsa
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Dallas
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from the Houston meet. +'
The performance of little Bob
Hall, promising young Sophomore
hurdler from Dallas, in placing
second by inches to Arkansas’
Clyde Scott in the 220 low hurdles,
stamps Jiim as one of the South
west’s potential “greats” in track
during the next two years.
Scott ripped over the low bar
riers in 23 flat, a flashy perform
ance that tied the existing South
west Conference record in that
event. But while all the praises of
the 5,000 fans who saw’the meet
were being tossed Scott’s way,
few stopped to x'ealize that Hall
bowed to the great Arkansas ath
lete only after leading for 200
yards and then lost by a matter of
only inches.
If Hall can step over the woods
in that fashion at the tender age
of a Sophomore, his possibilities
in the next two years are going to
be interesting to follow.
Scott’s performance, it must be
remembered, came as a climax to
his college track career when he,
presumably, was at his best. The
fact that Hall, almost on a par
with Scott now, has two years left
makes his future prospects almost
unlimited.
Hall, despite his small (five feet
eight inch) frame, has all the nec
essary equipment for a good hurd
ler: speed, coordination and the
willingness to work. A member of
A&M’s fine sprint relay team,
Hall is capable of a 9.8 hundred
yard dash. His form over the hurd
les is good and continues to im
prove.
Apparently the biggest barrier
facing Bob is time. With another
season of Southwest Conference
competition under his belt, the
carrot-topped hurdler should be
cracking 23 flat. And that, brethc-
I’en is traveling.
The world record in the lows is
White Band Takes
Win From E Field
To Even Playoffs
By BILL THORNTON
White Band tied up the College
Intramural Corp Finals by defeat
ing E Field 8-3 yesterday after
noon.
White Band put the game on ice
in the fourth when they scored 4
runs on three hits and four errors.
The bases were full of musi
cians when Charles Lundeiius
hit a fly to short center scor
ing Barrak and Clarke when the
ball got away from the infield
ers on the throw in.
With a man on second and one
out Ulmer went to first on an in
field error. Lawler then cleaned
the bases when he smashed a long
hit to deep left field but was call
ed out at home when he tried to
stretch the triple into a home run.
The next batter struck out to re
tire the sides.
E Field scored their three
runs in the first, third and
fourth innings. E Field was
charged with twelve errors with
most of them being evenly di
vided between the first baseman
and short-stop.
Fisher, the winning pitcher,
gave up four hits and received
good support from Ins fielders.
Hartman, the losing pitcher,
gave up seven hits and had poor
support from his fielders.
22.3; if Bob continues to improve
at his present rate, even that may
not be impossible.
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Wallace Leads Hitters With .434
Mark; Hubert Sets Pace On Mound
The 1948 baseball season came to an end last week for
the Aggie freshmen and with it ended one of the most suc
cessful years ever enjoyed by a Farmer first-year nine.
Ability and the will to win proved to be a winning combina
tion as the Aggies scored thirteen victories in fifteen starts.
But for a tenth inning squeeze-G
play and a sleepy umpire the Ca
dets could have finished the sea
son with an unblemished record.
Both losses were by identical
scores of 6-5.
Coach Charlie De Ware’s crew
first tasted defeat on April 8, in
Huntsville. Sam Houston State’s
Bearkats halted a Farmer win
ning streak at four games when
outfielder Bob Howard’s bunt
scored Neal Taylor from third in
the first extra round.
The second Cadet defeat did not
come until the final game of the
year, after the Farmers had reg
istered nine more wins. This time
it was the Texas Shorthorns who
turned the trick with a five-run
rally in the fifth frame. The Steer
come-back was made possible by
the plate umpire who failed to
notice that a. Texas runner skip
ped the formality of tagging up
in scoring after an outfield fly.
In the rest of the campaign
it was the Aggies all the way.
A hardhitting attack and a ca
pable mound staff usually build
up a sizeable margin after nine
rounds of play. The Fish finish
ed the season with a team bat
ting mark of .314 and eleven
members of the squad were
clouting the ball above the .300
level.
The Cadets gave notice that they
would make life hard for oppos
ing pitchers in their first appear-
he made only three errors while
playing a dozen games at the busy
initial sack.
Third baseman Sonny Bellman
was another reason the Cadets
tallied at least a dozen runs in
seven of their thirteen victories.
His nineteen base knocks was the
second highest total on the Fish
club.
Bollman was in the select .400
group most of the year, but a
slight lapse in the waning days
of the season lowered his slug
ging mark to a mere .373. The
Houston Cadet also accounted for
thirty-three of the one hundred
and fifty-five runs the Farmers
pushed across the plate. He was
credited with thirteen RBIs and
scored twenty times.
Another Houston Aggie, sec
ond baseman Joe Savarino,
rounded out the infield. The
hustling second sacker made the
job of getting on base look easy.
At one time during the season
the Aggie lead-off man reach
ed first safely fourteen times in
sixteen trips to the plate. Sava
rino was also one of the numer
ous .300 hitters on the squad.
He closed the books with a .347
percentage.
In the catching department the
Farmers were three deep. Num
ber one backstop on the club was
big Bob Graham. His sharp pegs
ance. Aggie batters belted a trio | nipped four base runners off the
of Southwestern hurlers for four-1 bags in the first Baylor game and
teen hits, including home run were a vital factor in the Cadets
clouts by Wally Moon and Dave 7-4 decision over the Cubs. Gra-
Britt. In his first turn in the bat- ham also did his share in the hit
ter’s box, Britt smashed a drive Gng department. He not only
over the 357-foot sign in center pounded the ball hard, but hit it
field.
Big gun in the Aggie power
house throughout the season was
Guy Wallace. The classy short
stop led the Cadets in every of
fensive department. Wallace
connected safely twenty-three
times in fifty-three official trips
to the plate for a .434 percen
tage. He drove twenty-four runs
across the plate and scored
twenty-one times.
Eunher-up to Wallace for hit
ting honors was another infielder,
Bill McPherson. The first base
man’s efforts at the plate gave
him a .391 average. In the field
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