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Scrapping Aggie Swimming Team Loses To Longhorns 42-33 Newly appointed freshman baseball eoaeh Paul Andrews, on the right is instructing Sam Blan ton:, Aggie freshman from Beaumont, in the correct stance on the mound. Andrews Whips Freshman Nine Into Shape During Third Week By FRANK SIMMEN, JR. A&M’s fish baseball team was being whipped into shape this * week during it’s third week under the new Fish Coach, Paul M. An drews. Coach Andrews said he could not remember when he wasn’t inter ested in baseball. He played con tinually as a youth. During the first summer after graduation from high school he played with the Eastland, Texas, Semi-Pro team. The following year he held down a permanent second base spot with the Grandberry team until a better offer came and took him to Gorman. In 1924, he graduated into the “nil belt league, a group of semi-pro teams from small Texas oil towns. He played in that league until he joined Big Springs the following » season. After what he termed a “success- ful”... stay with the Big Springs club, Andrews joined the Kings ville club in the Gulf Coast League. The team was bought by Mission. Andrews finished the season with a better fielding average than Bernie James second base- man for the World Champion ship New York Giants. Andrews was voted the most valuable sec ond baseman in the league. He played with Texon of the Big Lake Oil League in 1927 and joined the Cisco squad the follow ing year. After playing one sea son with the Rising Star nine, An drews, then recognized as a talen ted second baseman, decided it was time to quit, at least for the time being. During his stay in professional and semi-pro ball Andrews play ed every position except first base, catcher and pitcher. One bright morning in 1937 An drews, after being discouraged by the high rate of injuries of the oil business decided to take a job with the Taylor Public School sys tem and it wasn’t long before he was assistant coach and head of the Physical* Education Depart ment. Just before he decided to settle down in Temple Coach Andrews met Modene Norris and they both decided it was time to exchange vows. The Andrews’ family now con tains, besides Mama and Papa, two fine looking future Aggies. One Two things every College man should know! 1 >• This is an electrical engineer. Really a live-wire but frequently gets Ohm-sick. Knows what's Watt. Never goes sparking without a "Manhattan' tie. boy, Byron, now 14 is interested in baseball, but his 10 year old young er brother, Garland hasn’t quite made up his mind yet. Andrews is quite an inventor having had quite a few gadgets up before the patent office from time to time. His most famous invention is a baseball hitting device. The gadget is now in the patent office. Andrews said he thinks it ought to be approved by this sum mer. It is a hitting device made up of a stationary ball that when hit, travels about fifty feet or more on a long rope, and then is hit back by another player. Andrews said that this gadget developes coordination and tim ing at the plate and improves the batting eye of the average baseballer. Andrews said that they have stationary practice de vices in football and other ma jor sports but he believes his is the first in, baseball. Andrews’ creative ability is not limited to baseball. In his spare time he came upon the idea of a combined tooth brush and gum massager made as a decaying pre ventative. Andrews, who has been using this device for years states “I’ve had wonderful teeth all my life, but maybe its because I’ve been a little more fortunate than others.” FISHING BILL PASSED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE AUSTIN, March 9 —(A>)_ The Senate Game and Fish Committee Tuesday recommended passage of a house bill providing for a uni versal fresh water fishing license. The bill calls for a general lic ense of $1.65. It would eliminate the need for special licenses now required, including the $1.10 fee for artificial bait fishing. Other freshmen thought lost on the Texas campus are footballer Bob Raley of Bowie and eager Joe Ed Falk of Houston. Both of these lads get to take re-exams in their courses, however. Three Pool Records Fall As Longhorns Invade Aggieland SCOTTY SWINNEY Pool records fell last night at P. L. Downs Natatorium as the Texas University swimming team took to the pool and beat the Ag gie swimmers 42-33 in their second dual meet of the year. Texas seemed to have no trouble as they swept by the Aggies to win six of the nine events, and break three pool records in the process. It was truly the Long horns night, but the Aggies made a proud fight of it, and did some fine swimming on their own. Backstroke man Bob Cone, star ted the 300 yard medley relay for the Longhorns and outswam Ed Kruse by 20 feet to give them a nice lead. Hylmer Karbach length ened the lead to 30 feet over breaststroke man, Jim Flowers, and L. C. Montgomery picked up five more on Gilbert McKenzie to give the Steers a 35 foot lead at the finish, and a five point start on the Aggies. One of the surprises of the evening came when Ed Gilbert, the Texas dash star, swam the 220 yard freestyle. He not only swam it, but he won it, and at the same time set a new pool record. Gilbert’s time in the race was 2 minutes 16.6 seconds. This beat the old record of 2:16.9, held by Danny Green while swimming with the Dallas Athletic Club in 1940. Jerry Fisher took a fast lead in the 50 yard freestyle, but teammate Danny Green caught him on the turn and pulled ahead of him in the finish stretch to win the event. Fisher came in second, and Heber Helvinston of Texas crossed third. This gave the Aggies the first of their three first places. Aggie distance swimmer, Bernie Syfan, turned dash man again and gave Danny Green a race for first in the 100 yard freestyle. For two hundred feet, Syfan led Green, and it looked as though he would win it, but in the stretch Danny picked up the five feet Bernie had on him and added some extra to take his second first place of the evening. Bob Cone, of Texas, broke the second pool record of the night with a time of 1 minute 41.4 seconds in the 150 yard back- stroke. The old record of 1:45.6 was set by McClosky of Okla homa at the first of the season. Cone held a 30 foot lead at the finish, and it seemed as though he had no competition. The real fight of the backstroke race came be tween Ed Kruse, of the Aggie squad, and Mark Yancey, of Texas for second place. Kruse took the place by a touch out which had everyone on the edge of their seat. The crowd had hardly settled themselves after the backstroke event, when Hylmer Karbach set another pool record for the Steers in the 200 yard breast stroke. Karbach outswam Aggie Gene Surpmers 25 feet, and turned in a time of 2:33.9, to break the exist ing record of 2:37.3, by 3.4 sec onds. The old record was set last year by John Crawford of the Dallas Athletic Club. Gene Sum mers placed second, and George Dieck, his teammate, placed third. Eddy Gilbert again turned to the distance races to swim the 440 yard freestyle for the Steers and he again beat his teammate Jim McCann. As in the 220, McCann took a short lead over Gilbert at the be ginning, but again Ed swam stead ily and outdistanced him at the finish by several feet. John Peters of A&M finished third. The Aggies took the last event of the meet to give them their third first place of the meet. Jerry Fisher started the 400 yard relay for the Ags and was just a touch behind L. C. Mont gomery, of Texas, when he turn ed it over to Jim Flowers. Flow ers dropped back five feet be hind Bob Cone. Bernie Syfan, swimming third for the Farmers, pulled out from behind to give them a 20 foot lead before he turned it over to Danny Green, who swam anchor position. Danny then stretched out to put 60 feet between him and Heber Hel vinston of Texas at the finish. RESULTS 300 yard medley relay — Texas; (Cone, Karbach, Montgomery); time: 3:07.8. 50 yard freestyle Green A &M; Fisher, A&M; Helvinston, T U; time: 0:24.6. Diving — Davis, TU; Rains, TU Potter, A&M; points 116.63. 100 yard freestyle —Green, A &M; Syfan, A&M; Helvinston, TU time: 0:54.7. 150 yard backstroke — Cone, TU Kruse, A&M; Yancey, TU; time: 1:41.4. (New pool record). 200 yard breaststroke — Kar bach, TU; Summers, A&M; Dieck, A&M; time: 2:33.9. (New pool re cord). 400 yard relay — Aggies, (Fish er, Flowers, Syfan, Green); time: 3:49. S Battalion PORT WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 9, 1949 S Page 3 Four Records Tumble, Four Others Stand, in JC Tourney Four records remained unmatched and four others were broken in the second annual Texas A&M State Junior College Basketball Tournament held here last week under the spon sorship of the Brazos County A&M Club. Only one mark in individual scoring of those estab lished in the inaugural meet last^ March was replaced, and that was for the most free throws made in one game. Roy Burroughs, stellar forward for the third-place Lon This is a "Manhattan" lie. Painstakingly engineered. Foulard pattern ivith contrasting stripe current favorite in college circuit. 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They popped in 93 points against Frank Phillips of Borger and 95 in the semifinals against Lon Morris. The Apaches’ top tally in 1948 was 79. One other record fell by the wayside when a total of 63 per sonal fouls were called in the first-round battle between John Tarleton of Stephenville and Al len Academy of Bryan. Whitten’s 30 points and 15 field goals in one game which spotlight ed the 1948 event stood up under last week’s onslaught. So did the 72-point tournament total of Hra chovy. Louis Wills, sharpshooting Allen Academy forward, threaten ed Hrachovy’s mark seriously with 68. points in his four appearances. Jim Cushion, (19) on the bottom of the pile, was swamped on this play in the second quarter of Saturday’s scrimmage on Kyle Field. The play gained two yards through left tackle. Other players identifiable are guard Bill Hasson, (63), and tackle Percy Burk, (with face guard on). (Photo by “Still Life” Sandage.) Baseball And Football Head Sports Activities Saturday By SACK SPOEDE Plans for the annual sports day, held at A&M every spring, have been completed, the T Association has announced. Baseball and football will be the main dishes served to those Aggies with a large appetite for sports. The University of Houston’s Cougars will furnish the competition for the Aggie base- ballers at 3:30 p. m. This will be the first game of the season for the Maroon and White squad, and they probably will be" suffering from an insufficient num ber of workouts due to the bad weather and the late starting date of baseball in the Southwest Con ference. Houston’s Cougars have been working out for ball longer than the Aggies and have the advan tage of coaching from pro play ers from the Houston Buffs and other teams. Coach Harry Stiteler’s football ers will finish out the spring train ing session with their final scrim mage. This will be the last chance for Aggies to get a look at the pigskin team of the Aggies until next fall. Salad on the dinner of sports will be a game between) the freshman baseball team of A&M Four Lettermen Return To Diamond Team This Spring By ANDY MATULA Complete reorganization is in store for the 1949 edition of the Aggie Baseball team. The reason is obvious. From the high class nine of last year that finished second in conference race, only four letter men returned. These, plus several squadmen and a flock of sophomores, will be shaped into + this year’s squad by Marty Karow, baseball coach. Though baseball practice star ted officially on February 15, Karow r has been unable to devote much attention to the team un til this past week. Bad weather has slowed down drills and nei ther the pitchers nor hitters are in peak condition. The lettermen of last year, Rus sell Mays, Cotton Lindloff, Bobby Fretz and Jim Calvert, will form the nucleus of this year’s aggre gation. Three other squadmen will add strength to the team. They are Herschal Maltz, Bruce Mor- risse, and Johnny Biasing. Mays and Lindloff fill in two , important spots in the Aggie defensive infield. “Rusty” Mays .earned his spurs at third base last year and supplemented his college experience in semi-pro ball for several summers. Lindloff is a sure choice for second base. Cotton patrols the area about the keystone sack with big league efficiency and clouts the ball about the corners of the diamond and out of the park more than just occasionally. The blond lad may be put in the clean up slot this year. Bobby Fretz is a man of many positions. This year he will con centrate on mound tasks. For the past two years Fretz has succes- fully held down infield jobs, at shortstop and first base. In addi tion to these, he’s pitched some mighty good games, sporting a three and one record for 1948. Fretz may well become the Ag gies’ meal' ticket this year. Jim Calvert may not see ac tion till later in the season. A starting catcher for the past two years, Calvert recently had an appendectomy performed on him, and this will keep him in active for some time. Much is expected from Bruce Morrisse, left-handed pitcher from Nordham. Morrisse had his wild stages last year, but a summer of semi-pro ball has given him ex perience and helped his control. .Bruce is not noted for anything but a fast ball, but not very many batters have had a good look at it. PICK-UP-SHOP 418 North Main Bryan Wool Gabardine Coveralls ... Combat Boots . . Para-trooper Boots . . Field Shoes . . Rain Coats . . . Army Khaki Pants . . . Officer’s Pinks and Greens ... Fatigue Jack- pfo Qyir] nP'PmiQPV’Q STEEL COTS AND ARMY FOLDING COTS First base position may go to Herschal Maltz. Maltz certainly has the experience. This is his third season with the Aggies, not to mention high school and semi-pro playing. If Herschal can meet the ball this year, he’ll be a starter. With Tex Thornton out of the Aggie lineup, shortstop is a wide open spot. Little Johnny Biasing could very well step in there. Bias ing showed excellent form in last Saturday’s inter-squad game. The fine record of last year’s freshmen team wasn’t an acci dent. That crew had some fine ball players and most of them get their chance to go this year. The outfield, minus Stan Holl- mig, Walter Willingham and Dusty Clark, will be sophomores named exclusively. Joe McPherson, Wally Moon, Bill Warriner, and Hilmer Schulke have the best chances of making the team there. McPherson is a long ball hitter from Ft. Worth and an excellent fielder. Moon, just turned out from basketball, may fit into center field. Warri- (See BASEBALL, Page 4) and the Allen Academy team. A&M’s Fish baseballers promise to hold up their head with the rest of the freshman sports pro gram at Aggieland this year if the old baseball adage that pitching is 75 per cent of the game is true. Since only 20 trackmen will be taken to Laredo, there will be a smattering of track activities go ing on around the track at Kyle by those not taken to the Valley and the Fish cindermen. One dollar has been set as the admission charge for this gala af fair. All proceeds will go to the treasury of the club of men who represent A&M on the athletic fields. Programs will be sold aty^he game with the name and numbers of the players. Costing 25 cents, these programs will make up V,he difference between the proceeds this year and those of last, y&ir when the admission charge was\a dollar twenty-five. \ Pensacola Naval Air Base has called off the swimming match with the Aggie team in Downs Natatorium. 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