The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 21, 1948, Image 3

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gie soljball biain^ lost |. the^r
opening ganiQ to- 1 the ^ T ixon
Clay Cdllegiatei cf Austin 4’'
to 1 heste last; Friday. |
The gltme, phlyeil uni er the
lights o^i the ne y. SoftbU 1 dia
mond, was praccide? by |i brief
cereinony L "in'augjuiiati ig . tht 1 field.
Higjhlighit of the) cnenony t as the
tosBing pif ;fhe |firstlpitch ■ jy the
President .'if flu (follegei, Gibb
Gilchrist. j L !' i - ^’ i ;
The seven inpiig ltame turned
out to be a pile iei|s duel! a» B.
»' J. Lloyd, tfie Aggie^ 1 mound^tnan,
,\l allowed ostlyf t>v< i hits whjile his
mates Collected < nh thretf blows
off of the offeringi of 1K > Col
legiate; hurler, (leoifee Wi lace.
Scoring pile rini iii the firs^in-
,rii;ig oh d walkl. tin frror, j stolen
baafi aijjd a-plasdid |>all, fjie Ccd
legtans! took th
.ej Iliad ait
never headed. I A * |
The--] Austin teun sepreid ifhree
. . moi-e ri ns in tjhi.tup half'
fourth i n an e.nro % a bit, .aj n _
i -play ami some head s-up. b|ise\run-
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G/«y Whips Aggies
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Longhorns Play
Purdue, Temple
^’49 And’50
AUSTIN, June 21 f/P>—A home-
and| home football agreement be
tween Texas and Purdue Univer
sity- the first such agreement in
history between Southwest and
Big Nihe Conference teams—was
announced today by Texas Athletic
Director D. X. Bible*
run by : Les Pain er|in the
inning^ accounted |f
Aggiei: tally.
The Ihext gain?
vft
mcmd HVednesdar n
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Texas.';!
team will be lujr.e on the||
mcmd HVednesdar night y
Rush Aflotor'COiina ly
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fourth
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. LES PALME
MuT^thp 4KRie
n ^nvoJknocked one of (jleorge Wallace’s
‘ pitched out of tpe park last Fri
day night on the new Aggie
softball diamoijd. The game,
first of the season for |he Ag
gies, saw Palmer's blow go in
vain ds the Aggies lost to the
Nixon Clay Collejgiates 4 to 1.
Aggie
ew dja j
ith the
Conroe,;
C-RovvWii^TlKiIii
College V few] Ball
list Week
; lie's
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Thj' losirlfe
4th when they, icc rtTi H
■ winning pitcliw' wj» Sinil
. loser Showuliier
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14 to •
of -Sim
flxi' firs
v tli' Col
in in
h g mn.yjg.in thf j game which wilp\ be pai't dlf the
rmelon t’estival.
XaVasota will' be
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f % BILL TH?)UNION
; B-Ocjd and A-F.v; :n opjned the
softban season in Collg jcy Vieu
lidt Tuesday with a bail game thttl
lasted two hours i nd a 'half, tin
findl steore being 24 to
H^'ame turned into ; hitt.ii
thon fj'ith B-Odd idmiiij
top. Tlje winning pi chei' i as Fhui
Ugan, ]|tlie Ibsen Mas Wiy. , Thi
game haV Cppk,i j leDan (fl, ‘Shel
jton anil Lakpus of B-Qdd
son .pfj A-Evjcn -rfct 1 5 for
pLate. :
- C-R|'W defeated! fJ-Evei
behinq the 8-hit p. fching
mens last Tuesday in
game; J for both
lege View Soffh
scoreq mosti of
the 3if|l ihnipg,
Was .lliitnesr
C-I®w nqupdl'd font. 1
tops Hi-Odii 15! t i i last Tliiusda:
forHNeir secoild win in tf ree'day.
C--Ro\fi had thjei
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third baseman
softball team,
4-1: Law Wins Third
Straight Gam
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The Boilermakers of Purdue will
play the Longhorns here Sdpt. 30,
1950, and Texas will go to Laf
ayette, Ind., in 1951.
Bible also announced several
other intersectional games which
will give the Longhorns foes from
the east and west as well as the
midwest new opponents will be
Temple and the University o{ Ida
ho.
Temple University of Philatlel-
lihia, Pa., will be host to Texas
Law Hall canie from behind to
beat Leggett 13 to 9 last Friday
and registered their third straight
victory to retain first place iq the
Campus Softball League.
Don Fischer, Law Hall’s ace
pitcher, clubbed a home run in the
third inning with the bases loaded
to send his team into a lead which
they retained for the remainder of
the contest.
Leggett took an early lead iiji the
first inning by driving across) two
runs, but the men from in back of
the Exchange Store didn’t threat
en again until the last of the sixth
when they scored four times.;
Fischer, who went the route for
Law, registered his third straight
pitching triumph.
Law meets winlcss Walton Hall
this afternoon while the Tijailer
Camp and Dorm 14 tangle id an
other league qpntest.
In what should be the best game
of the day, undefeated Puryear
Hall meets the strong Bizzell team
which has been beaten only by
Law.
Mitchell tangles with Leggett in
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PORT
MONDAY,’JUNE 21, 1948
Page 3
Baylor Bears Lose to USC In
Western NCAA Baseball Finals
have two setbacks to mar j their
records.
Aggie Nine To
Play Here With
Sept. 24,' 1949, and will come to 1 game scheduled
Austin Oct. 7, 1950. Their visit f 01 ’ tomiy- Both of^ these learns
will mean the return to the South
west of Ray Morrison, who brought
razzle-dazzle to t|ie Southwest
Conference with hisj extensive upc
of passes as head coach at South
ern, Methodist University in the
I thirties. Morrison is head coach at
Temple.
j The University of , Idaho, now
coached by ex-Rose Bowl hero
Dixie Howell, will challenge the
i Longhorns here Oct/ 1, 1949.
j Three non-conference foes are
! already signed for 195 f l and prom
DENVER, June 21—W— Sou
thern California’s powerful Tro
jans won the Western NCAA base
ball championship Saturday night
with a 1G-3 conquest of the Baylor
Bears in the final game of the
double elimination playoffs.
The Baylor Bears, with Little
Jim Blair almost blowing an eight
run lead, squeezed past the Okla
homa A&M Cowboys Saturday af
ternoon in the semi-finals of the
playoffs.
Blair, a 140-pound sophomore
from Dallas, held the Cowboys to
two hits in the first seven innings.
His wildness in the last two
frames almost cojst him the ball
game as he walked eight men, hit
onie batter and uncorked three wild
pitches. • . J) j- •
Trailing 9-1 at the start of the
eighth, Oklahoma pushed across
fiVe runs to jump back into the
running. i ■ !
Baylor got eight hits off three
Oklahoma pitchers, including a
three run homer over the 380-foot
right field wall in the fourth in
ning by Hal Harris, 19-year old
shortstop'.
Rush Motor
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| Aggie softball fansyyill get their j Texas schedules aqnopnced today:
; second taste of j night .softbUll on), 1949:
the ncy Aggie d amend Wednesday . ■ Sept. 17—Texas Tech'at Austin.
! wheii i he Rush Motor Company of ! Sept. 24—Temple! University at
' Conroe sends the ir team to College ; Philadelphia. ■'
; Station for a grme with the once Oct. 1—‘University of Idaho at
defeated'Aggies, ’ >. j Austin.
The Conroe aggregation is ^ne ' } Oct. 8—University of Oklahoma
of the) many tei ms beingi lined-up jariDallas. ’ i r
j for ti)e Aggies to play. Friday Get. 15—University of Arkansas
, . night !Taylor Wilkins’ squad Will; a t Little Rock, Aiic
g an at a- | play host to Steve’s Circle Cafe! Oct. 22—Rice Institute at Austin
hut oi op Waco. Game time, for bbth I Oct. 29—8.MU at Dallas.
games will be-cjt eight o'clock. | Nov. 15—Baylor ; Universitjij. at
be free to all TrrT J.
diamond Nov. 12. TCU at Austin. • '
uiumono N()V _ 2 4—Texas k&M at College
Station.'
5 at t)u
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runs -;it,
Admission will
• l ’' l‘cih ^ ftba 'l games o \ the new
a '‘ ( ' ‘ ' however, the coiucirtsjon .stand \yill
/.sell cold drinks for top cents so
’J-that there will
some source of
1950: \ g'
Sept. 23—Texas! Tech at Lub
bock. - j.
$ept. 30—Purdujo' University at
111.-.
juiis.., Tf.
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money for the team’s uniformsiand
{traveling expensed;-
Saturday the Aggie nine ‘will [pastin' I 'X
: ffoui ney ty San d ntonio where they j 0ct . ’ 7_T e mple University j at
j k’lll play addoiib e header with one Austin. • :
id the leading teams in-the Citj Oct. 14—Univcrsiiv of- Oklahoma
I jMajor Jjcagik'. j , , ( at Dallas.
The Grand FT
t(>n -and the Aggies will [nmrf i' 1
Navasota Momla
v. July 5fh for a
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Oct. 21—University cif Arkansas
at AUstin.
Oct. 28—Rice Injstitule at Ileus- {
ton. 4. ~ ‘ '
Nov. 4—SMU at! Austin. \
Nov. 11—B,aylori University at l
Waco. : M - '
Nov. 18—TCU kt Fort Worth.
Noy. 39—Texas )A&M at Austin. I
JERSEY JOE WALCOTT, standing, is shown as he floored JOE LOUS, partially seated, in their
first title bout. The two heavy-weights meet again Wednesday night with the world's heavy-weight
crown at stake, laiuis qecisioned Walcott in their fifteen round battle last fall,
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Win Openers In
Campus Volleyball
{ 1J> BILL THORNTON
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Purytar and Dorm No. 14 got
forfeits, with only two games be
ing played in the) Campus Vcilley-
I ball League last Thursday.
Walton and Leppeu settled the
1 dispute of who was the best for
the day when Walton defeated Leg
gett 15-7 and 15- j.:Ditmar of Wal-
kon played heudi-up ball as did
Collier and Stewaft of Leggett.
The big game iof the: afternoon
was the Mitchell tind Trailer Camp
gime which had to go the full 3
games to decide) who the. victor
would be with Mitchell pulling out
of a. tight spot and winning the
last game. 15-11. j,
The other two games were, won
«v the following j order. Mitchell
took the first oilie .15 to 4, then
Trailer Camp cable back to take
the , second ope )l|5-ll. The last
game was close nil, the way with ; for scv^ai*days’ .1 . |
each tcatn holding, the lead a num-
i-ber of times. j j ;■ ,
The Trailer Gamp crew wax
I well supported by Seawald and
Koenning both^ playing excellent
l ball. Holland and Dixon sparked
1 the Mitchell teajn with Holland
making some' nicq kills and Dixon
i setting them up for him.
Docusen Meets
Robinson For
Crown Tonight
CHICAGO, June 19 —CP' When/
—and if—welterweight champion
Ray Robinsoni gcts into, tht( ring at
Comiskey Park Monday night, he’ll
be ready for raw meat, literally
and figuratively.
Robinson belatedly is scheduled
to take on 21-ycar-old Bernard
Docusen of New Orleans in his
third title defense, IF:
1. The champion can make the
147 title poundage at today’s sec
ond weight-in for the fight.
2. He doesn’t call tlje whole
thing off and go back in 4 huff to
New York, causing the; Illinois!
Athletic Commission to ddclure his
title vacant.
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3. It doesn’t rain again jas at did
last Thursday night when the 15-
round title go originally Mas sche
duled.
Tho commission scales began be
ing a night-marish contraiption for
Robinson last Thursday! upon when
he peeled off everything ejxccpt his
skin to hit 147 on tho head—and
that after starving and ‘[sweating
Campus Softball
Team
Law
Puryear
Bizzell
Milner
Trailer Camp
Mitchell
Leggett
W alton
Dorm 11
, Lost
TEXAS LEAGUE
0
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Pet.
0
Houston
39
26
;600
1
Tulsa :
Fort Worth ... . ..
.37
26
.587
1
.36
30
.545
1
San Antonio . ..
.31
33
.484
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Shreveport ..... ...
.31
34
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Dallas ......
.29
35
.453
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Oklahoma City ..
27
86
.429
weakening .weight-trimming sche
dule.
But the champion, who has put
up $10,000 as a performance guar
antee and another $1,000 as a
weight forfeit, apparently: thought
the losjs of £11,000, plus a good
chance of meeting middleweight
champion Zalc if ho kayoes po-
cusen, would bo much more,pain
ful than whittling away a stub
born pound or two of flesh.
League Standings
Beaumont
88
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L,
34 22
32 23;
30 23
29 26
Boston
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
New York
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Philadelphia
Brooklyn ...
Cincinnati .
Chicago 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
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Of the 600,000 Jewish settlors
now in Israel, about 3,000 ci
originally from the United States. 1 Washington
Cleveland
...34
New York L
Philadelphia .1:
Boston 1..
...32
.33
.27
Detroit L
...28
.421
Pet.
.607
.582
.345
.527
.474
.442
.414
.411
Pet.
.654
.582
.569
.50ft
.506
.439
points in the 27th
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hamden, Southw
for the past three year*,
8 points by taking second ijn
meter daah, Norman Rue :i
University of South Caro i
nosed out Hamden for fi
was clocked in 47.2 secop
Placing 1 third behind
Gordien of the Univeijs
Minnesota and Victor I n
Yale University, Kader:
the remaining 6 points
Aggies as he twirled th^
155 feet U/z inches. •
The fourteen points so
Hamden, and Kadera wei e
to give tHe Aggies llth
the team standings.
The University of Mir
pre-meet underdog, capi
team title for the first, ti
According to a photo N|cn at
the finish of the 100 nut®] 1 dash
the results of that race! have
been changed as folio v«; Mel
Patton. USC, first; Don {.Undei
son, California, Record;]. Don
Campbell, Colorado, thi'dJ P;
Bienz, Tulane, fourt P,
1 Cowic, Princeton, fifth; (harle
Parked, Texas, sixth, ij
‘ This changes the Unitersilty
of Texas’ point total fruti 40 |t
35.
USCSecon
Place llth
Aggies Art Harnd
they were definite Oly fflliic iti
1 11 ; ■ y
CAA 400
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Kadera showed that
they garnered fourteen
track and field meet at
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sed a total of 46 points.
vevsity of Southern Califoniia,
pre-meet favorite, came ill secoU
with 4Hi points.
The University of Tjeiis fin
ished third with 40 po mth. Thq
Longhorns’ leading poi U! jgettei
was Flyin’ Charley Pa klqr whq
scored 14 points as he
ond in the 200 meter
third in the 100 meter it
Jerry Thompson addek
points to the Steer’s t itiil
race
PH BC w» J
point ihan of. the) theet as ha tri
umph (d twice by winning the 100
nd 2p0 meter dushes. Patton
all th^ way V> bent Don Andei
of ihti University of California
Parkqr in a 10.4 sjecbnd 100 4el
h'ards as he coprifed tho 200
20.7 secohdk.
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e ni 2
Clyde Scott o|f ihe University
ansas se
ecords as
firstjiijn the 110
les T]th a time) of 13.7
Scott’ii time eclipsed the
he licit Friday in the _
arie i when he clipped one tenth
of 2. second off the record of
14.1 seconds set by Forest (Spec)
Towns in 1936. T!
Otl ier , Southwest pohferenccl ath-
leU's who placed in the .meet were:
John 1 Robertson of Texas (fourtil
I in the) broad jump), Frank Guesd
of lekas (thiril in the .Javelin
throw 1 and Vem McGrew of Rico
Instrute (tied fop thi I'd in the high
jump]),
RaHolbrook of A&M and Fer
ry S; muels and Robert Wultcru of •
Texan, other Southwest Conference
enjxi if), failed to qualify in their
resptjciivc events. Augie Erfurth,
Rice’ i crack hurdler, qualified in
the jjlO meter high hurdles but ■>
failcjUto place in tile finals.
/tajy individual who placed as
lug, ijas sixth in this meet is cli-
gible to compete in the fbial-
Olympic trials to be held at
Evanston, Illinois- on July 9
and 10.
H irfiden and Kadeni from Ai&M, ;
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Robinson and his entire rctinufi j
hollered loudly; but unsuccessfully I
when tnc commission saidj he would j
have to weigh in agaiiCtqday.
Robinson’s manager, G c (i.r g 1
Gainford, at first .said Robinson
would forget about tlie whole
thing, rather than undergo another
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