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' ■ i ; ■:»V / f Softball Collegiat ■n new C611 tonight 0n tht tennis cqiUrts. B. if Lloyd, newlj Nixon Clay College Collegiates of Ausin in a brmei softball team play, softball diamond e| time is 8 p. m. north oi host to the jftball game the vafsity .• Z' Tyler Baek iin Place inPlon. Star Lea! V,L i an scpref enth; inning to sm tc][ the Three fiite and in ^erro Heriderso: and a 4-2( decision Gladcwitor swep of a doubk*Jnea<ler trcm Marshall, winning ijhe'f first'(5-3 and t iking the night: cap U-S pitcher] for last year V?ill ice intramural pitcher an W. S. D.i of Brya, st^rt on tjhe mound 1 ) for the Aggies. Lloyd’s battery mate will be Herb Turfy, letterman footballer, j iManager Taylor] Wilkins start ing infield will probably be: Willie Zapalac on first, ]Earl MerrOl on nn/tnnrl .Q Tt? of «lmrfafnn By Tj)ie Asaociajtet e I’ress '.'The Tylbr Trbjanii ucre bark: in second place in t] ie Lone Star- League Tfjday. The r -an ns rrow the mai'giti between ;hqm andi lead ing Longview if they fin thl ohd gaiTid of the [sefies to ' -with the f’exans.- Tyl'er \fhipped Ijbniview last night]with manager Hacli ler drlviflg'in seven n ns: r Third-place Ki gore Jlost ground as the Drilliys toeijk a 10-5 trimming fropi l ryan. Bry- refl five !tim!i(^ in the jsev- Tl eefcond, S| E. Cook Jr. at shortstop pi K'lpp ! and Leslie Palmer over in the ‘mot v * l fVy |Corner » i BiH Wa i^ e fi e i d wi n il- rwl' on the |key- wtill be in sec- night idll Mil- error two^rurtls ih the aver Luflin ioth games ninth • a' ... ‘ Tigers Scor4 H Win Over Yankees Tim Tigers scored / run by virtue of an < rror by the Yankees’fthird basijiri! n and went | on to wi| a 1-0 sHjutclit from the Yankees fin the ojjily Comir unify League softball <gnm: scheduled ’yesterday. Bailey nf the Tigers got or when thej. Yankees" si ortstop — bled a ©found !bal|i. :le the i ad vanced tb third bn tight-f ielder Manningdi (loubile, theil came on the mjror. ] The Tjeers got ,thi ec hjt i and t the Yankees two. Tie winning ( pitcher was Rdfisel): aij^ the pitcher Slbitelsi ij BOULPER, Coloi.--'^' Dean, standout center of the 4.1 .x. I Colorado jfgotball tjean, has had a, abdut 18 mo Dean payed muf of action last broken neck far at fall but sj|ii te( f Up fot spring ing .this 'year. Ajfter a few’ outs he eomplained oi necl^ Physicians discoyeited a bred i S|r ’ a une aimed said' the 5|njuryi\«as ah old o Jdoctoi'fj will attemjpt to ■ a fusion it»f the break so Dean man play thifi fall. ir?' ; ... I ’ • * i ■ : fih. d : first daob- home osing J ternate with Mei stone saijk. Jack iRollins w[iU be in l^ft 1 field, Bill Hodge jwill cover the center gardens, and Buryi Baty is scheduled to part in right field. Tom Pickett and Milt Sor rells Will also priobably see ac-i tion. M . ; Several, of the players on the present nine played on the W. S. D, team thp lost only one game last season ^nd that in the state softball playoffs. Tonight’s game should give a good indication as to how well tljds Wear's nine posed of many of the same players will fare ig coining games The C(jllegiates''fre Austin’s ^ep- resentatiyes in the Texas Softbal League and boast one of the best softball teams in the state. Last yeah they were runnerups in the Veterans: of Foreign Wars Nation al Tournament, anil only last week they split a douple header with, Lake Jackson, a j powerful soft- 1 ball aggregation. ] Pride of the Collegiatesi is , their pitching staff composed 1 of ' three top notch] hitrlers. iThey are Monroe "Lefty” Kreig. Gil bert Wallace, apd John "Doc” Stanford. Other; members, of the team arc Jasper. Elliott, ‘jCap” Kiiehner, Don A. Phillips, f'Dutch” Schroe- der, Roy Best, Bruno Schoen, Gene Powell, | Marshall j Boling, Aubrey Boone, Jiames ‘‘Lefty” Rydeh, Gehw Ciirringion, and Igitt but not leap Mascot (Clay Gault. y... Present plans ci|ll for a schedule of two fcanics a week at the local diamond with gapes already Sche duled with Houston’s Grand Prize team, Waco’s Stijve Circle 1 Cafei and Matlin. . u p , There! will be! no admission {charge gt any of ithe games. 11 ■ First Week of PlayEndsThis Pictured above are the members of the Nixon-Clay Cotlege Collegiates who meet the Aggie ioftballers in the Ark first home game of the season. They/are: , Hack Row L-R: JASPER ELLIOTT, “CAP” KI EHNEK, DON A. PHILLIPS, JOHN "DOC” STANFORD, and "DUTCH” SCHROEDER. Middle Row: MONROE "LEFTY” KREIG, ROY BEST, BRUNO SCHOEN, GENE POWELL, and MARSHALL BOLING. Front Row: AUBREY BOONE, JAMES “LEFTY” RYDEN, C&LAY GAULT (Mascot), GIL BERT WALLACE, and GENE -CURRINGTON. ih | mbs.' Hogan & pemaret Absent From Open train- work- pains, k aridf i: 1 O Battalion £1 a p o r t IS FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948 V Page 5 r eavy ound G Softball enters its schet ies thii Representing A^M in the weights events at the NCAA meet Friday and Saturday will be big GEORGE KADERA who Will compete in the discus. Baylor Moves Back Into Playoff Picture With Win Over Colorado Dillard & Likens Ruled Ineligible For NCAA Meet MINNEAPOLIS, June 18 . , n , Collegiate track and field athletes !’ un( ' j Ul y 1 ‘ CHICAGO, June 18 I A field of, 75 of golf’s leading jiiro- 'i-| feksionajs and amateurs teed off this slimmer ^'Midlothian Country Club yes Cleveland And Boston Top Night Winners ! By JOE REICHLER VjThc Cleveland Indian* and Bos- toii Braves owe their lofty stand ing in the Major leagues to their ''exemplary behavior after dark, jThe Indians, leading the Amcri- ! cajn League by three gabies with a i .689 percentage, also own the . bkst ni^ht gartie record of any | . i club. Lejd by their ace, Bob Lemon! LLNvEK, ( olo., June 18 ^ the ti;ihe has won eighb and lost ] Balylor Boars, with all hands ] ^ Bavlor attack with a home ’ W "“ .** “ ' 80 °! c,'i clSl^st'lTut 1 oTthc w e ? t : ! l l a ; d iflH 1 si T” “ lhc ™"“ ‘ hc i ™“‘' lble lut “ nd « 1 '« t thTO The Detroit Tigers also show jem NCAA play-offs Thursday with i^^le-eliminatiofl an .800 percentage, hut have » 11 .f»y L.-to-l decision m a slop-• his homer on a i rekit meet lost some of its luster played only five night games. [ PV- l°>* drawn-out contest before ; even before it commenced. Tonight they play their first , 2o ° * a " s - hum in tne secon l name, tt looKert . indimble on the eve of night garnet in history at home. The .Southern California Trojans | Righ the chlmpbnships . w^re Unison , The Braves, tied with the New ; defeated Oklahoma A&M, 7 to L , vShnTtook i bad i Dillard of Baldwin Wallace, the York Giants for first place in the and thus remain the only team left: M < (, jj J \ he ^'world’s best hurdler and Bob Lik- tfyht National League pennant! with a perfect record in the double . „ ‘ | ens of San Joe State, winner of nfee, have won nine ami lost four j elimination tournament. , waik i H mon . mfl the NCAA javelin throw a year atf night, a .692 gait. That is ex-1 Baylor and Oklahoma A&M will t Jot water as aitly 178-'percentage points better: meet at 8:15 p.m. Friday to deter- “ ^ ^ L ‘ 1 th four game ccimpetition. Ga Dorni 14, Lalv pl|yng I Milner taking the'field Wilton. Trailer Camp is ndtl dujed for play this aiternoc|nj flames to date have been edj by much heavy hitting most of the teams in the getting an abnormal nun bake knocks. Milner displhyi of (the heaviest hitting seen when they pounded out hifs against the offerings o: elfs pitcher, Plpigens, in Wednesday afternoon, 1 [gelt iins:: i 1 d j .om; to; dots 9 'bass M itet ■amje Law with two wins ahlli no Usses. and Puryear with one din and no losses are cu r jtly leading the Campus l,e gut Standings. Both teams hale jker iinpressive in recent yirl ries 4nd are labeled as stron; :on- benders for the league chamiiioh' !]hip. However, only a few g|iimef ijave been played to da e anc many upsets are anticipa el tie ftore competition ends. Wednesday’s Results Play Wednesday afternoc|nflQur|c fiur mdre games reeled league competition. Bizzfc! L iw met in a slugfest on 1® with Law emerging on 14-7 score. Fischer was poured into Minneapolis from all sides today, each determined to win a .place" in thu final tryouts for the U. S. Olympic tcijim by scoring in the NCAA champion ships opening here tomorrow. But with two ojf its stars on i«rl . third round of the {others suffering from one kind of event. ! misery or another] the 27th an- —Sr For Your. Visual tfreoienjia Consult Divparlton RJ Lee Ol’TOMETRjiST , 268 S. Main — Brvan **hnn*- t-ldfi? . -■ - ri HUE LARGEST ELECTR CA A R PL I A N C STORE IN BBYANL- fl Come hi and see us for, large jpr small app iances: , RADIOS, ELECTRIC HONS STUDENT LABI'S, FIOOR LAMPS, PRESTO qOOKE (10FFEIE MAKERS KELVINATOR ... r . . HOTpqiNl and many other useful UNITED APPLIANCE FARM & HOME STO^E & AGGIE R VDIO I ^IPhoine 2-U 96 tfvday as "the four-day sixth ,an- fiija] $15,000 victoi-y national tour-' 'itgnieht opened. Ben Hogan, recent winner of tl)e National Open and the PGA. tpur- rtey^, was not on hand to defend .the title he won last year^at Chi cago's Westward '4q. club. Neither wms Jimmy Demaret, runnerup to Hogan in the NationaFOpen. it 3 i t ■< J / f Crack Player J. B. Dean was ['regular football U. iw lO-Khand , Lasy sea- football because good start dn jan center, alt Coloradc saw- a lot of actioju son he didn’t play f< he wanted to get a law school. Dean turned out] for spring prkc- i.tice lasjt month knd after a few pdrills complained;[of a sore neck, j- The medicos took some X-ray snap shots and told hiim his heck had been broken-—probably in 1946— nevertheless J. B.! says he will be in the lineup next September. T~ For Your Sporting Goods Needs JONES SPORTING GOODS 803 S. Main Ph. 2-2832 Bryan tl)a rec an their daylight won and lost ovd. Only the Philadelphia Phillies, winners of eight of 11, boast a better record in the (senior icf’cuit. (Here is how the teams have n , t t i• n iin n n n f i n ij at, wi n v ’ o Cojdrado State loaded the bases mine USts opponent in Saturday s fco finals. | three times without scoring, j In the first, the Coloradoans had L"tE£» ,!.£'T' d ^r! thr'S'ai TSoGSirr % Olympic Boxing Louisiana Leads more southpaw, held the Colora- , , r. v , , . . . , fr'JJJt*. S ,man n .vl,!,'! JiL l, " iml mjl'M gtoumlcr. In the fifth, a pop ) hit rii; uind on A third game played on 5 found Milner upsetting 7-3. The two teams pound base hits with Milner cojnMictmij;! J' SAN ANTONIO, June 18 —GB Louisiana is holdirtg its fast pace fired at night: American League Baylor’s run* as he scored his'fifth i ,j f . -i i r^T,—«7, *~ 1 .:r’":T , *« t” -fCleveland 8-2; Detroit 4-1?; Phil- victory of the season against one j s tp an( j e <j » ! ,n ^ district Olympic boxing elnbin 7.4- Wjmhinirtnn 1 l-l 1 • I defeat i nn;«uuc^. In tjie eighth, Gioso | championships a t I’ort Skm Hous- bjew York 2-3; St. Louis 6-8; Bos’] The Colorado State pitcher, Cliff] K1 ' fmnded (,ut Wl t h the silcks fu l 1 -j ton: here, tftn 2-3; Chicago 1-7, ! Olin, gave up eighteen hits and had' .' National League— Philadelphia i poor support from his teammat.es, 8)-3; Boston 9-4; New York 4-3; j who committed four costly errors Chicago 2-2; St. Louis 9-10; and lost two infield pop flies in the Brooklyn 6-7; Cincinnati 2-5; [sun. Pittsburgh 3-7. Hal Harris, 19-year-old shortstop, /"oti uaicli , v • r ivfi a i r « » 111 A w B . M':m I B H T Your watch; represents an importan in*\ l H 1. j. i ASK US NEWW BEFORE ei t. Don't lake chances on repair Jring your watch here where all scientifically checked on a , . . Master Your wSffh ’’prints'' a record of its own performance PROVINi the efficiency of - our vri AGAINS’ TEST YOUR WATCH, FREE ATCHES SIMILARLY TESTED' YOG BUY THEM TO ASSURE MECHANICAL IMPERFECTIONS i > t, [HKorth 4 . ' t •ital '] ; ' f. ... R.L McCARTY iUWELER ate — College- Anything Happens When Grew Of Girls Take Over 8-Oar Boat r. • . { • <• / ! WELLESLEY, Mass., (AV—More than 250 Wellesley College girls iire taking cr^w this season, racing on Lkke Waban in eight-oar shells. |- f Not many colleges offer this sjiort to women. And none of the hthers use the eight-oared craft, say Wellesley athletic directors. The speedy, streamlined crew members admittedly are good ath letes. ; \ But oldtime graduate** say they don’t know how to yodel. ' A Wellesley girl did,not have to row well when the sport was in troduced 60 years ag(K She had to be a good singeV though, or she never mad“ crew. S The chief activity of the crews of the 1880's was to serenade the enmn” TlmT/n r S n • d / '-‘ , k ! rt<'d d-er-s''* • or’d ro; ntiiy to a" lake cove. B6bn merry yodeling woulc echo over the w-aters. It'was more important then to know how to handle a dress than an oar, tf one of those tent-like garments got waterlogged, the row- boat Capsized. . i_ ^' One of the world's fanciest rowing costumes was Worn by Welles- kiy’a 1888 c’ass crew, • A cherished photograph shows the girls in high-necked, long- sleeved voluminous dresses. The dark material was scrolled all over with white embroidery. Crew members also wore upturned straw sailor hats. , - ( Crews this season race their shells bareheaded, in shorts and jer sey's, ;.: Read And Ilseng Win Skeet Titles NEW YORK — — Onlv two) OCEANPOKT, N. J.—OPt—The boxing shows have been scheli- summer meeting at Monmouth uled for Madison Square Garden during July. The 20th Century Sporting Club will hold two Thurs day shows, one on July 15, the other on July 22. : d /< ■ FOR THOSE QUICK, EASY MEALS-— • , Come by A. & M. Grill t North Gate -— College Park here from June 21 to Aug. 7 will feature daily double betting on the first two races. NEW YORK—f/P— Sil Burigo, 22-year-dld third baseman frorti New Rochelle, N. Y., batted .455 in 14 Metropolitan Collegiate Con ference games for Fordham Uni versity. Among his 31 hits were seven doubles, three triples and two home runs. He has two more years of eligibility. DON’T LET YOUR OLD OF fi^| precious a|8gt£. GASOLINE GASOLINE ^'f l TV ~Z. J • SAVE Gc - • PERK IIP PERFORMAN Let us Inspect your old carburetor FUEL! Bryan Co. r ■ ,■ j * * : Bryan, Texas 415 N. Main ■ -t ■ When the field was whittled down to four contestants in each division last night, seven beak- busters from the New Orleans ath letic club still were in the running for the semifinals. Behind New Origans is Sun An- HOUSTON, Jiine 18—UP)—Top 1 tonio with five. Fort Worth and honors in the sixteenth annual, ^ a Jl as each have three hopefuls. Texas State Skeet Shoot were 0™ ^ voritc to !“ 1 L wa . s Au T stin 8 shared by Col. Pete Read, station-; Champion \ alfcntino Luna, eil at GopdfelloW Air Base, San ^hp was taken out of the feather Angelo, and Grknt Tlseng, Hous-1 w f'p ht bracket by a decision scor- j cd by Arkansas O. D. Hightower. L’ , . , , iw, . . . f Texas fistic favorites who came .Read cracked 548 targets out of i thro h inc , U(lc Abilene . s L igHt- ,530 for a one-po,nt margin in yes-, hp;lvy Tom AdamS| R ona)d C on- teniay s finals jof the all-boie w 0 j' p a ji as Jackie Woodruffjbf championship over J. T. Turner of Dall and Austin - s p ete Gilff Houston. ! Ilseng broke (j88 out of 700 for a one-point edge over Herman Ebler of Dallas for the high Over all titlfc. ] i" I Ilseng smashed 99 out of 100 tairgets to win the stuhll-bovo title a<< well. And- Rqad was a member of the fiist-\)laco San Antonio five- man team which] scored 492 out of 500. For MODEL AIRPLANE SUPPLIES Jones Sporting Goods 803 S. 'Iain Bryan Ph. 2-2832 T Select Your ^dpQ Greetings \ V i I 1 ! § ^ I THE EXCHANGE STORE Over 35 Different Types of Cards ** to iSelect FroJn : ! ■ ,\f ■ ' A COME BY TODAY ^ 'R. 1 I — ). | . I ’I jyl i*. Swim Correction Faculty members ant (!imi- lies of students are not ac mil ted free to tty swiiumir g ! tool) according to Art A< ah son, swiainiing coach. Only students are a Iri tfed free and not their families and faculty members as priv i usly reported by the Battali n laser. Swenson and Pen: oil hline runs for Law. Will a; id Spicer of Law were ti(j])lea irg batters of the game, qa ting safely in three out times at bat. In another game om ciiaithond I Puryear defeated Traile .Mmp >y a score of 8-0. Puryea • jiSush- 'd across seven runs in t ie Ifirst nning and ended the, g u|e in he fifth when they tall ej an- ithcr run. Sella was the f if ning yitcher and allowed only ivhjle Hearn was on ithe ^or the losers. w rnooi 10MB IpNT und pla L — mom pgett I' flit 2ti p 19 tinning lb lo» Dorn ; amon ►n f nd Puryear Hall facnj meeting Mitchell, anc ijts and Leggett for 9. The pitcher was Bowers and t was Plagens. 14 and Mitchell met op 6 and Once again Doriin earn w uryeaf ggetjj liner llzzell railer itche [i Talton iorm IN' t: f play this afternoon ' in Campus League nd t id going tough as they lost Mite dll by a 13-3 count. Bt!ook|i ,’89 tht firming pitcher while Puiv > was {he loser. Leading batters 1 !<Jr the game, were .Catutlnch and eavei Of Dorm 14 who each got do foijtjwo, and Wade oft Mitldhell ho hil three for .four. 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