The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 02, 1948, Image 3

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td Mitchell all came through with victories
tb.keeiji the Intramural softball race all knotted
^irge teajms remained in a tie for first place.
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Spicer, Hall second
Ipd' flie -bitters piith two
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deans After More Honors
’bird Day of ’48 Olympics
Aggie Coaches In
Abilene at Annual
Coaching School
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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
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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
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fine traveling companions
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to Jtplp you fnjoy your trip.
collection of
for men
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in many col-
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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
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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
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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
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, 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,
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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:
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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
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..Whidh has been bn American mo- the y win the & ame - j |» in the league, most of the other
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Hamson Dillard, the Baldwin-Wal-1 Dorr0 14, w voiked six ®f the first
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teams haying despaired of match
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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
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