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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1948)
F r-‘ Vs * • ' I ips Puryear 3 to 2 td Mitchell all came through with victories tb.keeiji the Intramural softball race all knotted ^irge teajms remained in a tie for first place. team which had previously been in a tie teams lost over Pluryear was as Is indi- Don Fisch day scon i, jrler, forimance l ra&s ,t semester. r • 1 IAhjpu* w ip. act ipjeach it the • lX ~ the Law- goung into, ME » l- 1 I'.'"; Battalion P 0 R . ■ - • (* tiia' ; 4 ! ■ N DAY, AUGUST 2, 1948 , 1 • ■fr t Pafee 3 . ■ HB-J — IVi last hi secohd douqle 3 [to 0 if th to to the J rains to game score ,sti f the ■ »r| up for I ight fii fishier proceajdqd,' to nnt 'tJin Mftfet tWO DICI1 1 \o I flih th® bot- th to push eep the out- raufme. j pt 3-21 in the inning, the eajrf got' a one opt. » strike nd the fun on oyt the |»ekt , ball] game with-th^tjymg Spicer, Hall second Ipd' flie -bitters piith two . __ . o^fic® trips to the ' Plate- ' ^ 1 I '} ! i Bo?c ilcorc: Puryear it ...,....-0 (li o o5 p I i 1 In i l ■■ deans After More Honors ’bird Day of ’48 Olympics Aggie Coaches In Abilene at Annual Coaching School f; : I ' .; I • f Practically the entire A&M coaching staff left for Abilene Sat urday tp attend the Texas Coach ing School which started there, this morning. This is the ope time j of the year when rival high school, • junior college, and college coathes get together to talk over strategy. Most of the school will be de voted vto football lectures by several of the coaches. Later in the week they will witness the annual high school all-star foot- By GAYLE TALBOT 1 'NDON, Aug. 2, tflR).—America’s Olympic athletes, Uected five gold medals and an amazing total of 941 ball and basketball games, points on Saturday, will be shooting for more of both Mon day when the 1948 games are continued after a day’s rest by the British blue thc ^2 flaaiL‘ahi.te and the discus throw are down for ann tne discus throw are down tor th 100 d *. McCoitmodale settlement in track and field, and'f^^loJ Britsh sonSer who a wcop of tta threo event, vir- ato . JSSToH a tually would assure Uncle Sam’s muscle' men a cohtinuation of the chanipipnship of this phase of the games ithey have held since the games I they world games were revised in 1896 OnlyJ the women’s ion-meter swim tank Aton and Bljue gifls aren’t expected to great finishing spurt by Patton. / IVack Fast ! tlel will be decided in the day and the Red, White i tjil M l Blue gitl molest: the Danish ladies in this. But the men’s 400-meter trials con tinue and it isn’t unlikely that the Alex Jany bubble will be biisted even farther, i. Janji, a • 19-year-old Frenchman who lotves to cat and worry, came to London with the reputation of being the nearest approach to a fish since Johnny Weismuller for- jH sook ijhe water for a Hollywood , v „h, tree. 11 But he already has been beaten f twice by Americans. Wally Ris of aquatic team. Any doubts about the ,speed of thc new Composition track were dissipated by Dillard’s! record- equaling time of 10.3 seconds in the hundred and ..Roy Cochran’s new Olympic mark of 51;1 in thc 400-meter hurdles.; Both marks are certain to be recognized. Dillard ran all the way into a fairly stiff West bbeeze, and Cochran did the last 100 pieters of his race against thc samel obstacle. The Olympic record book also took a beating from two American men swimmers—and a Dutch girl —in the first two days.' Another record was equalled by ojhe of the highly favored banish j? women’s DON FISCHER of Law Hal! did some fancy softball pitching last Friday. He 'allowed only {wf hits as his team downed Furs- year Hall 3-2 in the top In|. tfamural game ofUhc da> - . j Bizzell Stomps Leggett As Burch Hurls No-hitter * i Io t wa, Alan Ford of Yale and Keith j The attacks on thc records and ^ Carter helped shunt him to fiftlj j the battling for Olympic Swimming place in the 100-meter free style i and diving crowns will ty; renewed that pis won in Olympic record ; Monday with the' likelihood that: • Members of the A&M staff mak ing thi trip are Harry Stiteler, Bill Ctlrmichael, Marty Katowi Barlow (Bones) Irvin, Bill Du-, Bose, Dog Dawson, and Clarence | Weikel, athletic publicity director. 1 ' The Texas Sports Writers As sociation will also hold its annual meeting in Abiline Friday. At a banquet; in honor of the coaches they Will present awards to the outstanding coaches of the year. Coaches from the SWC, high schools^: Lone Star Conference, Texas Conference, and Texas Ju nior I College Conference will be honored. Weikel is on the committee to select the SWC coach of the year. Threie future A&M students who will play in the all-star football game are Donald Stuart of El Paso, [Carl Hill of Denison, and E. Davidson of . Port Arthur. time. To make it stick, young Jim my . McHale of Akron, Ohio, thrashed through his preliminary in thej 40Q-meter in 4 minptes 42.2 seconds to wipe out the Olympic mark in that event. Jany finished 11.1 gieconds later. Whitfield Has Hard Race Thel 800-meter run equivalent to a haljf-niile, will find Mai Whit field, | a staff sergeant ip the American Army, tangling with a number of brilliant,middle-distance men from France, Sweden and else where. It promises to be a terrific race, land Whitfield said Sunday he we* ready for the effort of his life. 1. —Old records and so[pfie of the new ones, too, will be bettered in a full week of Olympic water sports competition; 2. —Amer.can male swimmers, having deflated the Jdny myth, stand a good chance to succeed the nondefending Japanese |in a ma jority of Olympic male sWim cham- Milner Trounces Walton As Bowers Hurls One-hitter Scoring seven runs in the first shown starting the football-ticket stiff look on. W. D. Dansby of Bryan, Firfel Contained in Lucky Folder at D. Dansby of Bryan By BILL POlTj; to be sittjinb on fijfty-yard line next Turkey SLXftefcr * r t01 ’ ot the U8tin Wi - ton Etow- er S|6 that was drawn first at Kyle Field Friday ^ftjernoon, pionships; ; 3.—Tl[ie Danish girl .swimmers will grab a mlajor shajre of the swim titles on the feminine side ers, Milner’s fancy hurler, pitched |Thi8 drawing, one h|t ball as he scored his second mand for football victory of the current semester. spectators was on hand to witness* The Walton team was sulfer- 7 r ing from a bad ease, of the jit ters as they made many costly fielding errors allowing Milner to pile up a comfortable lead. Sullivan, manager and third becom tickets, attracted much aTjmal aftf ifitfemt ji Tlic selection of ducat-buyers Bizzell downed Leggett 11 to 1 tyst Friday behind the no-hit pitch ing of Russell Burch. The victory enabled." the Bizzell team to stay W I* 0 , wit ^ ^H^-bformanccs in 'the trial heats, are Mvtthell foi fust place. Marcel Hnnscrme of France. In. The American’s most dhffgerous was; operated thc same as before, with applications being placed in numbered folders and a number T ~ . —„ for eaAt : folder placed in a bowl. as the Dutch girls did [at Berlin baseman for Milner, clouted a Drawings for each game were in 1936, and home run with thp bases loaded in held separately because every buy- 4—The California diVing quar-' the first inmng to takb the batting er d d not r ' qu ^ t tickets to all tet—Zoe and Olsen, Mik Victoria; honojrs. . games. Miss Jeanine Brown of Manalo Draves, Patty bjlsener and! Murray, Waltons pitcher, was drew t h e fj r? t number for Juno Stover—will carry,[off all, 0 r i wnU 1 the l° si V | the Texas game while other spec- nearly all, the womens spring-' victory gives/Milner a^rec-l^ylg d j. eW j or f qyd pf two wms ahd one loss ti> ^ch v folder ‘ wnui. vuiv;i Going [Vl Jj in styl f : ; i with t h e s d fine traveling companions “TT z u{ to Jtplp you fnjoy your trip. collection of for men ;e and 'fail •. notched complete in many col- LO' RS Leggett started the scoring] by plashing across a run in the ; f|rst inning: on two walks and an erVor. ! Bizzell cami; Hack strong jin the second lof take the kajd by pushing across four runs: Fnim then oh there Vas no doubt abqut the outcome of the game |as [Burch gained control and set his Opponents down without a nit. f Plage'hs, Leggett’s hurler, allow ed <■ nine hits as he was-changed kith his second loss of the. aeji 16 ®- tor. Costly errors by The Leggett fielders were responsible for,'the) high score. ' t ' | ;■ McGanmm of Bizzell ,was the. leading hitter as he banged 1 out ithree hits in four trips to; the plate. ! j.. Box Score: ■ 7 , j. [, Bizzell .0 1 2 J. 1:3 R Leggett a 0 6 0, 0]0 R . / -, | . The only Southwest Confidence player ever to win the coveted Heisraan trophy \vas Dax-y O’Brien of Texas Christian in 1938. France, In- gvar Bengtsson of Sweden,' and Arthur Wint, a Jamaican with a stridi Jike an antelope. Alfo to be decided is the 5,000 meteis run. That.one is strictly for the i European distance demons. Curtis Ston of State College, Pa., the dhly American to qualify, will be fortunate if he isn’t lapped. Zatopek in 5,000 From all appearances, it will de velop into a classic duel between Emil Zatopek, the singulat Czech who I won the 10,000 meters on I Milner I Walton onnoiients based noon their ner-I board am! high (living; places as ' ™ '-“T <r Mch folder had appfiCa- Skran™’ ” j r - - - - •’ . . ,..i vl Box score and (the general public. After the I drawing, the applications were 3—R 11 filled in the following order. 0—R I I The Aggie-H xas game had thd largest number pf applica tions with the SMU game run- niug it a close second. The only one lor which there was not k drawing was the Yillanova game. C D. Ownby, Business Manager of the Athletic Department, stated tha( thbre were still some tickets left for the Texas game because of ijhe recent increase fin the seat ing capacity of Memorial Stadium in Austin, These are rjot expected tjo last long, howeyer, because they are! to be sold on a “first come, first served’’ basis to the general Mitchell Swamps lorm 14 in Night Mitchell Ahead In Contest, 15 to 0, ’Mural Volleyball Mitchell remained in ( a tied for; Tlie defending champion Mitehell first place in the Intramural soft- yj a ji volleyball team scored two ball league by swamping Dorm 11, pas .y victories 15-1 15-2, last opening day, and Erik Ahlden of 15 to 0 on the lighted spftbaH dia- Thursday afternoon to remain up-' Sweden. Ahlden nipped Zatopek in ( mond, last Friday nightj defeated in Intramural ])luy thenj heat Saturday-After a furious aUdwd ontv ] Widly Dixon, Cartwright, and spruit in the stretch. ! Holland kept Leggett’s offense Zajtopek hopes to be first man j 0,18 bit in the four Intong garne 1 as he pitched Mitchell to their axo; to viin both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in the Olympics since Hanhes Kolehmaien, a Finn, did it in| 1912. third win of the current semes ter. Athletic department I y jluly 26. Ownby and Bill Car ni/ had, di rector of athletics, m infigqd 11 drawing. Other l^cky fans fro n fthig are who were included in folder S were W. S. Higgs, BtranplW^i) Navasota; A. W. Grepr vS Bryan Colleg n; M.ll w ftfSayS Madely, N’avasota; A wood, Navasota; y. IV, Navasotaj D. F. Wei Station; Frank Seal, Allen, Jrj, Bi-yan; Dr College) Station; A. College College College College an; G t Station; ?tation; M. Station; Fiqn Station; Eni< Ration; J. H. J Schlesseli laj Buchilnaj K| Bayett empletjo , 'eetbrdo ett, ,Br; , Collej e ryjan; etffln Station, C. M. Wligh F. David, Bryan; Adams, College Statit n;]Dij. Wj Andrews Bryan, Mr v, Vbra because of the heavy de- year; a large group of Quinn, Bryan; Mrs. R. Motter, Bryan and Walter W. Caldwell, Jr/. .' *:[ . ‘ . r* I^egding Pitchers me, Dorjm Fishier, Law Bt Giedn, Bizzi wers, Milnp' fodayV Gam«r« Bizzell v(i. T.CAf.V., Diamond 4 Dorm 14 vs.. Leggett,. Diamond j:15. *i : - i Mitchell vs. Milner,' Diamond 5, ;r ' v . 4 I f Walton vs. Puryear/; nigjit game on t&frted ; diamond i»t 8 o’clock. IAI..VWU u), I., both games as, the Mitchell team scored long strings pu ] l c oints. Mitchell Hall has been undefeat ed in volleyball this summer and is expected to repeat as champs Over a span of 15 years«- to 1946—there have S been deaths directly-4ue to football, indirectly: THE LARGEST ELECTRIC AL APPLIANCE 1 STORE IN BRYAN- Come in and see ua for lajrge or amall appliances: [ r I RADIOS, ELECTRIC IRONS - STUDENT LAMPS, FLOOR LAMPS, PRESTO COOKERS COFFEE MAKERS ' KELVINATOK ... M i . . . HOTPOIN1 The game was cut sh^rt because ! x ! of the rule which states that if a On Monday’s nrotriam are the ! teafl ® is leadln g by. ton or more this, semester. Trailer Camp is one ^ 01 play * £‘r nm, n? z* ! z i ssz ..Whidh has been bn American mo- the y win the & ame - j |» in the league, most of the other nopdly for many years. Although [ Huff, the lowing Ritcher for Hamson Dillard, the Baldwin-Wal-1 Dorr0 14, w voiked six ®f the first lace flush who won the 100 Satur- twelve batters he fajeed to al day,j is not entered, there seems nothing much to worry about. Be- lap low MitcheU to push across sev en runs in Die first Inning. Wiley, the manager tof the Mit- leading batter tween them, Mel Patton, Barney Ewtfll and Cliff Bourland appear capStte of protecting American in-1 chell team was the — terejsts. Bourland is not so well as he, collected two hits i.n three knoivn as Patton and Ewell, yet trips to the plate, sdmje knowing observers are pick-1 - jfw Scores ihg nim to capture the event. 1 Alitehell .............. 7 513 ' ~ ‘ 0 0 0 teams haying despaired of match ing points with Mitchell. Puryear forfeited a game to Trailer Camp Thursday, and Law and Walton both failed to show up for their match. To be included in this draw ing, applications had to reach the For Your Sporting Goods Needs JONES SPORTING GOODS 803 S. Main Bryan Ph. 2-2832 and many other uscfuls r UNITED APPLIANCES FARM & HOME STORE f AGGIE RADIO Phone 2-1496 incipal outside threats in ! the 1 Dorm CLEANING - PRESSING ALTERATIONS I ■ / Tr i' - • i; ,, !• AT THEIR BEST - AT CAMPUS CLEANERS : ; ' ‘ / j ' P " |l Over The Exchange Store Sffl' ... * CORKY’S to aU studoiiits apd residents thajt " J f . the finest jtaSStog liaes m pm .(OldNashlisie) ■Mi' r j I w '■ -r 1 . • ••1 k: mf ; 1 r i Cos. 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