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K-y
favc red to
day. ' Three
beits of last lalil'sj Aggid water
t^am which wa^s und ifeated
pricticaliy unchbijlengedlarti on
College Station)! team, a ad the
iher positions are filled tty sev-
al" of the best svjimmersfin the
te ihduding |iw§ state high
on the
thool -champs.
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are l)pnny^Greei M^hio holdil more
i records, pool anjd !
other swimmer in
Jerry Fisher, a njember 4f the
Aggi« medley and free st}|le fe-^
lay -
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took fourth in the SWCi
individual medley Aid
the A< 400-yai|l flee
ityle relay ream. ; p T
opnlr member* cf the teim jare
Vi|in Adamsor^, *talte high school
backs-Uroke champ and f on • of
swimniing coacl: Art Aftimpon;^
Billy Karow, spill d coach Mi'rty
KaroW and high sihool clumpiori
jit thei brcaststrojke pill, MifCuiley,
San Jose State;
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PA HO ALTO„| Cfiliif., Jui 2 —
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polo team, made up of mem-
nath prof and official at midst Ag-
;ie swimming meets; ahd Ga^le
tnpple and Scottie Porter? two
ocal youngsters who arW proving
heir abilities on the waterways.
; The Waco team is composed
thiefly of xiayLor University swirp-
hiers who -piayed on the Baylor
^vater polo team last fall. The tA
jliM water polo team took two easy
Victories from the Bajdojr crew
jin icohjpetition last fall. 1
j On juiy 16 and 17 the College
tation swimming team wiil go
i Houston and compete fti the
MCA Meet there. Last year the
ollege teami won the intermediate
and;™ senior YMCA meet. ! (•
They also won the Texas State
Athletic Championship and ,the
Southwest A A U Championship.
This year’s team hopes to make as
good,, if not better, showing.
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will Whittle dowin jthe field t« the
.finalists Saturday when' tie :51st
> singleie champidh vill be rroWned
, in a 36-hole IM s duel on the
Stanford Univeijsity course.
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The A&M Soccer club will start
training in the near future for
the finals in the, Texas Op*n Soc
cer Championship race. Th4 finals j
will be played in September at. the J
Cotton ball at the mate Fair in
Dallas, '.’p j, I ;
The Aggies moved into the finals
by virtue of two wins oher the
Love Field team in the semi-finals
last spring. The AggieS £tI$o beat
the Allen Academy Rambler* sev
eral times last spring. ’
At the present time there is a
shortage of soccer players due to
the graduation of a number of last
years players.
Alf parties that', are interested
in trying out for the team should
see Orlando Olcese in Dorm 14;
Room 3u8 or Jim Mamarchev, 6M
Puryear, Captain of the te;
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Aggie football and baseball hopes received a severe jolt when
STAN HOLLMIG, quarterback on the football team and hard hit
ting outfielder on the Farmer baseball nine, signed a pro baseball
contract With Philadelphia;of the National League. Stan who) re
ceived $25,000 in salary and bonus for signing played his first game
with Wilmington, a Philadelphia farm club in the Interstate Class
B League, last night.
Ben Hogan Leads
in Detroit GbM
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P O R T
FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1948
Page 5
DETROIT, July 2, —<A>>_ The
biggest little man in golf today,
Methodical Ben) Hogan of Hershey,
Pa., who wears both the National
Erase 4 Records At AAU Meet
of the first motor city open cham
Top American Track Stars May
Meadowv
MILWAUKEE, July 2 —(AV
piunship yesterday at
brook Country Club. , -1 ' ’ j
Hogan, top money main of the
summer tour, loomed squarelly as* .
the man to, beat as 92 pros and 28 ten at least two more in the six-
iow handicap amateurs set out on;
the initial 18-hole round of the
.72-hole stroke play scramble over
Meadowbrook’s hilly 6,616, yard
ji par 35-36-71-layout.
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tieth annual running of the Na
tional /AAU Outdoor champion
ships Friday and Saturdayi,
That was the word from Meet
Softball Team Plays
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Players Now
Get Contract
Not Diploma
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
PRINCETON, N. J., July 2 -
UPi^The modem version of com
mencement day seems to be that
it is the time when college and
high;school ball players pick up a
contract instead of a diploma.
;; In the past few days about half
the regulars who played in last
Week’s world series nave been sign
ed by various professional clubs,
most? bf them getting good bonus
es. the stars who were elimina
ted & jthe early rounds; of the NC
AA playoffs signed up earlier and
high 7 school graduates have been
the signal for a rush of scouts.
Latest prize is John Antonelli,
the Rochester, N. Y., high school
whiz, who was grabbed by the
Braves. , . the Phillies have been
hanging out cash at a rate that
Inspired the bulletin’s Don Donag-
hey to suggest that if the wealthy
carpenters ever get tired of run
ning the Phils, the rookies can
form, a syndicate and buy the
clqb; with their bonus money.
Mid-Westerners
Dominate Berths
Oh Boxing Team
BOSTON, July 2 -(A>>_ The
eight members of the 1948 U. S.
Olymuic boxing team—thei cream
of many thousand of fistic-minded
iyoungsters screened all over the
world—and their alternates head
ed for the U. S. Military Academy
at West Point, N. Y., for two weeks
of final polishing before sailing
for 'England.
The octet to survive through all
of the final Olympic tryouts, which
ended last night at the Boston
Garden, was dominated by Mid-
Westerners.
Half of the regulars who won
berths on the glove team came
from that section, two from Penn
sylvania and one each from Florida
and- Utah.
Two were members 6T the U. S.
NaVy team. The army also gained
two* berths. A ,
Tuesday’s successful finalists
picked for the team were: fly
weight Frank Sodona, Philadelphia
bantam-weight
Bill Bossio, Pittsburgh and
Nafy; featherweight Edward John
son; Kansas City and Army; llght-
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a 11-
High
BYRON . TOWNSEND,
state back from Odessa
School, who received the “Texas
Outstanding High School Grid’’
award, is shown with the trophy
awarded him by the University
Of Houston ExiStudents Associ
ation. i !v
Lloyd La Beach and Heijb Me-;'Petersburg, Fla., and Navy; mid-
Kenley,; Who’ll compete ih Ijhe dleweight Washington Jones, Love-
Olympics for Panama and the joy* 111., and Army; light heayy-
British Empire, respectively, are weight Charles SpeiZer, Detroit;
record (threats at 200 and 400 heavyweight Jay' Lambert, West
Chairman Conrad M. Jennings of meters. La Beach seta newlAmjer- Jofoan, Utah.
Marquette University as the van-; ican mark of 21.1 seconds around j' jj —
guard of some 5001athletes; due to a curve; a week ago and cobld fop I ¥C f»r»tiir»Uv T
compete in junior and senior di-, the meek mark of 20.9. McKenley, "f; •***' l4, *' B *v
| visions arrived. V has 4ope 46 seconds flat jin ihe
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200- ibo- ami l,r,00-mrter’ events tr8ncc - Thc record is 46 “f 0 " 4 ’-
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and the 110-meter high hurdles
| He figures the 100-metcr dash and
discus standards might topple, too.
All except the 200rmeter dash arc
semifinal Mryouts for the j United
States / Olympic team.
Perhaps the best field in the
meet will run the high hurdles.
Entered are such standouts as
Harrison Dillard of Bald win-Wal
lace, who needs ho introduction:
Clyde (Smackover) Scott, the Ar
kansas football star who won the
event at the NCAA meet two weeks
ago, and Bill Porter of Northwes
tern^ Big Nine Conference hurdle
king. ■
Scott and Porter have done 13.7
seconds, which equals the Ameri
can and AAU marks. Dillard has
run the 120-yard highs, 10.7 inches
PROMOTE
Rep. William T. (Bill)
MOORE ,
A te State Senator
Louis Not Sure
On Politics I
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NEW (YORK, July 2 i-IA’l-
Joe Louis, who calls himself ‘
ex-boxer”, appeared at the |offi
of the Twentieth Century I Spt
ing
political future.
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William T. (Bill) Mooro
GRADUATE OF A. & M. ’40
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Now .scrying as State Representa
tive.. Former member of faculty
at M * M. College. World War U
veteran, 42 months, 20 months
overseas. Family man. Lawyer.
Elect A Man Who Wfll Work
For A. & College ■
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GOLF LINKS
Prizes & Free Games
Given Away
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6:00 - 11:00 P.M.
' . .J- A i [
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Club yesterday to clarjify his
..deal future.
“I won’t make up my mijid Who
for until after tl
cratic Convention,” said
yavyweight champ
it definitely won’t be * Wallace.
To Phillips 66
TULSA, Okla., July 2 —<A>» The
AAU champion Phillips 66 Oilers
bekt the University of Kentucky
College champions for the second
j tinje this year last night, winning
i 60--62 in a pre-olympics basketball
! exhibition super-heated by outside
tafont.
/Dazzling Don Barksdale, the
Wbst Coast’s Negro cage star,
gave Phillips a powerful assist
that kept the Oilers ahead from
hik entry midway in the first half.
Kimbrough Will
Play With Dons
Again Next Year
LOS ANGELtes, July 2 -ji®
Jarrin’ John Kimbrough, former
Texas A&M All-American back-
field star, will be back with the
Los Angeles Dons for his third
season in the All-America foot
ball conference this fall.
Coach Jimmy Phelan announced
that Kimbrough, who has an aver-i
age of four yards per crack carry-,
ing the ball in his two years with
the Dons, has signed hiu 1948 con
tract.
Kimbrough had considered re
tiring from professional football
after thfc 1947 Campaign. He lives
on his ranch at Haskell, Tex.;
Americans Usually
Win Singles Match
LONDON, July 2 —UP>— Ten*
nis is a risky racket for progno
sticators but there’s one event
you can usually bet on in the Wim
bledon championsips. That’s j an
American victory in women’s sing
les. . L .1 _
Since 1927 ohly two non-Ameri
cans have won. [Now Margaret Os
borne returns as Mrs. Du Pont
bidding for hey second crown in
succession . *
Mrs. Du Pont meets Mrs. iJean
Nicoll Bostock, a British Wight-
man cup plajier, in a quartcrffinal
match today.
Four other Ijnited States girls,
including National Champion Ixiu-
ise Brough of Beverly Hills,;Cali
fornia, are bidding for berths in
What might well be an All-Ameri
can semi-final.
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to be played over the
Tonight Taylor Vfltin’s!
Company of Conroe,
game last ieek, but the gatne
canceled when the Coin# tea
was unable to
Starting Ion the mouijd jfor
Farmers will be B. J, LI >yf wh
record thus; far this sea
wins and one loss. Llo i
fine form again last Frjkii
against Steve’s Circle
Waco when he registert d
no-hitter of the
Tigers and G
Lead Commu
League Soft!
seasop. 1 Lloyd]);
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In a gafoe played la^t
day on thej Coll
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$ wee
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cilled o;
Three mqre softball, ganiles wen
reeled off in the Commimilty Sof|
ball League during the
Two other games which
doled to bej played wen
because of jrain.
ednei.
ege Hillfs jjiiamor <
the Pirate* defeated tiej'Tndiai!
5-4. Davis was the winning pitch*
and Barlow was the loser| Hens s
and Smith (of the Pirates and M •
gee of the /Indians each h|t safe
in two out' of three ti nef at tl) i
plate. 1
In anothfer game j layod la|;
Friday on > the College 'Parfc ^li/1
mond the [Giants wor" over tl
Vankees 11-2. On the mi|und for
the winne
the losers
A third
Colleger
with the
Pirates 4
hill for the winning
Davis^pitching for the Ihseirs. M
ning of the Cubs wi h |tWo fjji h
three was the leading
the game.
COMMUNITY LB
Team
Tigers
Giants
Cubs
Pirates
Yankees
Indians
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ash Motor
Monday
wo appearances in ga^s
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will take on Rush Motor
tfl»re scheduled to Dlay this
batt
Milt
was. Manni|igf and fof j can
ichardson.
ame was pli:
ll’s diamo'
ubs winning
Rogers was
On tj
Cribs wi|
litter
Midway
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LONDON—'^P>—Tax on betting
_ _ through the tqtalisator (pari-mu-
tVith ^foiir outside playera, the ! tuels) at Britain’s grayhound rac-
ril be for until after the. Demo-; UBited States Olympics Basket-
cratic Convention, said the re- S q Ua( j_ They have been train-
>»T Ut ing at Bartlesville, Okla., under
the Olympics coach—the Oilers Bud
Brpwning. ■ | 1 ^
twp teams together make up the 'ng tracks brought the government
CINCINNATI — _f Ewell
Blackwell, pitching star of the
Cincinnati Reds, measured fjive
feet, seven inches in his fiieshman
year of high school bnt sfood six
feet four within two years: He at
tended high school in Bonita,
Calif., same school that produced
Glenn Davis of Almy
fame.
football
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EAST LANSING, Mid
Two of Michigan State’s slar f<
ball players recently were (married
on tlie same day. George! Guefre,
fleet tailback from Flinlj, Mich.,
married Pat Whitmore of Lansing
in the latter city, and Pejte Fhsi,
veteran tackle, also froth Flint,
wed Beatrice Rossie in Flijnt. Both
players will return for regular
grid duty in the fall. j
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For Your Visual Problems
Consult
Dr. Carlton R. Lee
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heduled to play
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mate tonight will agair
rrels. , -
Aggies have played only
summer but
(irpvement
»ch additional appearance.
this
steady Imi
f rains have cut practice
j Minimum but after a few
games the. Farmers should
ig into top-form and be rated
ng the best teams in. the
Topight's game will begin at 8
o’clqbk and will be played on the
softball’ diamond located next to
Orove.\
Midnday the Aggies play their
firsi out-of-town game when they
tan) le with [the Grand Prize soft-
ball team of Houston in a tilt to
be flayed at the annual .Water-
melob Festival in Navasota. The
id Prize team boasts two ex-
gly good pitchers and is
the, strongest softball
the/sthte. The Farmers
rated under-dogs in this
ganie and will have to be in top
fonji to win.
d Will .again hurl for tKo
Ag'rifos with Hubert Clark ready
to Uke over if needed.
H hhday’s game in Navasota will
be played in the afternoon and
will begin at five : thirty.
SIREVEPORT, La (VPiU Any
fair lefthanded pitcher]' can enjoy
success in the Texas League if he
just get the ball over the plate,
sayii Francis Parker, manager of
the IShrevenbrt club who has been
plnythg and piloting teams in this
circiit for 15 years.
Tllo prevailing soutffwest wind
ia t|hc reason. i . ‘
“ Jps tough for a right-hander
either to get or control a curve
’ the breeze which usually
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