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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1949)
V i ■ / n i rbrn th« Urdiy on Mcnumont tWo run« front Utrcd hit bail for tbr«o Hemlon»./! "Lttck M LR(!kcy, »l ur error# lo field ed five, of th.c tnl Of 14 Hit# for On hi* first, tilde ikable Mhortstop # i lard one into lef Hhodld have run, but Lackey o gain ■ third bssf only one disadva: the bases about ‘ ion would. Jinv Tiinnell, a ‘ looked don. Tunn ur to place; si iman bingo list, ynei Watkins, ourth, conii ( run of the ... one of Blurt .bout 400 feet ou^ i ield. Smith had Wi ore counting f< two tallies of the A1 Ogletree, from Austin, whi ty Acres City” school had a con; day at the plate. , Al, who was ii this contest* ba T v.'T • ; ' j ‘ r n\ ; ' - Vy \ ! y ] yy! / A. ' 1 ‘ i ’• A • V- . i 1- ‘ • < ! I r x 7 ’/ 2 ,y t \ • i x 1 " 1 ■ 1 B attalion P 0 R 1 WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23,1M9 P*|«3 ftf; Pmnk W With home rum, bun putihnd over an o balka, atolan baaca, and a dotfen ©r- Navarro Junior College hi itii lo© diamond by a on© aided acor© of 12 fc2. lion went ffv© Innings fof the Pish allowing th© op| >b Tankersley took over from thf alxth Inning l «t itlon hurled houfrti pla, WM youfg: |tja thejaf' a 1 pp' gar rpl of inly n, he fekl for of Na varro pitcher George chunk# every bit a# far one Watkins hit, but due to an idert center fielder who made a spectacular one handed catch the young Austinite was cheated out ©r nfai round trip. George Hodges, Navarro pitcher from Conroe, did fairly well for the Corsicana hoys on the mound the five innings he was in the fray. Hodges allowed eight hits and nine runs against five errors and considerable bad play from his teammates. u - • . The Navarro diamond play was not too good, but the Pish j looked even worse when it came to mishaps. Lackey, who made four of his teams errors, made j up for it though by ending up with a five for six hitting aver* ] age. Alton Frost, in the first inning, hit the third ball pitcher Sam Blah- ton threw him into right field for the Corsicana, team’s! first safety of the day. Frost then advanced to , second on a balk committed by Blanton- Holland also got on on a freak hit but the Junior Col lege lads were Unable to put across ia taRy as the next two men at the plate struck out. Ji- The Texas M team takes on thd | nine tomorrow iff *;lhe first gamei of ij Heriea to be pliiyM Kyle Field dit These samfi last year will Uklng two of played. , j- Tho Farmers a good start th tholr first thne ball State [er|i6on in ™ T *am? | ijm thej Week. H met. team gaums! 4w ho taking HI [The Cm* nrocccdod to atrlk* the int throe mm out to n dur* third fourth. Vinson Ni|te — NEW Hpl dots shut out the University of Houston Cougars twice, 6-0, 7-0, and then trimmed Stephen F. Aus tin 5-2. This week’s game with the 'Buck eyes will bu the first real test for the Aggies and* this series will give Coach Marty Karnw a chance to see if his pitchers can^ go the distance. Showing'best form so far this ytnu are tossers Pat Hu* isn't, Bruch Morrlsse, and Bob Frvti. MorrisM* gave notice agalivst Slcphcn P. Austin that he wn* ready to go the route a# he struck out 15 batsmen In the seven 'Innings tl>ni he worked ngainst the Hast Texas team. The Ohio State rdstor llstir seven pitchers who will be down for the three game# with the Angies. Heading their group of mound# men is Petr Porini who gave the Farmers a lot of trouble last year. The Buckeyes have a capable shortstop in Robert Weygant who hails from McDonald, Ohio. ■ Weygant played: semi-pro ball with the strong Conroe nine last summer. ' Tomorrow afternoon’s game will begin at three o’clock. Students Who plan to attend the game are reminded to bring along their student athletic card. 1« the next inning miked the first man rocoeded *«* sides. Two double plays were ing the content, one in frame and another in The firat one came wi got to first onj one of iLackey’s errors, but was put ou I on the next play when Holland hit one to the short stop who hrew to second and the second Sicker re laying it on to first for the third out. • The game never developed into a score for the Fish as tiey went ahead early in the fray ind were never threatened during the rest of the contest. In their next game of the sea son the Fish take on the Rice Owlets in a game on Kyle Field March 31. Coach Andrew will next send his touch into action on the sixth of April. j. Bill Bybee, who has been taking it easy the past week aihd a half will probably start for the Fish on the mound in the Rice contest By bee has been bothered lately by a sprained shoulder, but should be ready for the Owl game. Farmer Netters Blast Bobcats In Match, 7-0 Aggie netters defeated the San Marco# College tennis team, seven matches to nothing herte, Tuesday afternoon. . It was A&M all the way a# the Cadet# ran through tpc Bobcat# with the loss of only one set. The. only close match of tbt* day was between- Benny j8tanf<|>rd, A&M Mpd Wrtyne Harris, So, Stanford came through i| set to win the match, Cl in the other Mingles Price Metcalfe, A&M. Charlie Smnll, San Ml 6%t; Allan Aafonson. J over J. D. Owen*. Sal 0*1, 0.0; Rodney Hella edged out Henry I’aj Marcos, in the Necondiset to win 61, 7-5; Jamen Wallis^ A&M. de feated Emory Grandstaff, San Marcos. 6-4, 6-3. In the^doublil# matcljihs Metcalfe and A&ronson whallobbd Owens and Small, 6-0, 6-2; and Wallis and i Sellar^ defeated Grandstaff and Parish, \6-4, 6-2. Coach, Dowell's Fishj team will play hosts. to\ Ball high School tennis team this weekind on the clay courts and in DeVVare Field House, Friday night.' j Playing for the Fi#H tennis team will be R. G. Deberry, lobby Dun can, Royce Tate, and Aaron Co hen. This will not pef a regular match, but only a chance for the stiWent body to see the Fish in action, said Dowell. Michigan State Cpflege placed Marcos, the final 2-6, 6-4. matches defeated rcoa, 6-6 &M, run M a rcoa. , A&M, iah, Ban t to win Cotton l.inrtioff, the Aggie’s first, string swpnd baseman, has three letters for baseball to his credit. He was all-state in both foot ball and baseball In Waco High School before coming to A. & M. s /\ \ f. v*0 Y x I. \ \ I y .i Cotton Lindloff Is After Fourth Baseball Fetter three players on th; all-opponent footbai 1948. Halfback Georgje a unanimous choice. Penn State team for Guerre was FLOWERS ) For Your Da :e at Saturday Night's T.S.C.W. Red Bud Ep ince t Still can be o tiered by mail; : wK . By LEO B1KENBERG What are Hie Texas Aggie chances of winning the Southwest Conference haaehuU crown? To get this answer aa well aa a C orsonal interview of u grout huae- all player, I doelded to sec Clif ford (Cotton) Lindloff, throe year Idterman and all-confcrcnic sec. bpd baseman of the A&M baseball team. Trying to got Cotton to say «omdtl)iag, about himself was a voiy hard Job. The modest Lind loff answered my question# about himself with comments praising the other, boys on, the tea in. “Wwfhave a good hail club," he said. “And as Coach Karow says, ‘if the pitching holds up I we have a good chance.’ How ever, we will miss Hollmig (last years leading homerun hitter) and Beesley (the number one j twirier from last season). But even at that. We have some good sophomore pitching prospects that will be hard to beat” Lindloff, who is playing his fourth year as an Aggie starter, has had a great athletic career. A Waco product, he was l all-state quarterback mi the Waco team of 1945 that tied Highland Park for the state championship. He was also all-state in baseball for the Tigers. When he entered A&M in the spring of ’46, he immediately made the varsity team as a short; stop. In hjs freshman season, he set an enviably record a# he be came one of the outstanding short stops in the circuit. The next year found the ver satile Lindloff playing ! second base for the Aggies. This change was for two reasons. Fjrst, an arm injury suffered during the summer while he was playing semi-pro ball made the change necessary because of the short er throw from second to first, and also, the Aggie infield was sorely in need of a keystone man and Cotton seemed able to fill the bill. It must have worked out all right, for Cotton has re mained at second ever since, j Last baseball season found Cot ton having the best year of his career. He hit h healthy .381, which placed him third in conference bat ting and first ampng the Aggie sluggers. Gotten also smashed but 3 homers against conference com petition. It v^as also in the ’48 season that Lipdloff had |m great est thrill. The first hit he ever got off Bobby Layne in 3 seasons was one of those i’our-baggers. Lindloff is a little optimistic on thia year's chance#. He claims that the hitting ahMiUf improve, and the fielding should also he hell*-)- than last year. He also says that no man is safe at his position. (And that includes Cot ton.) Lindloff believes that with everybody trying to hold im to their Jobs, the competition will result In the hoys putting out a little more effort. Cotton Is one of the few college players playing bnseball today who does not want to play professkmal ball. A coaching career Is hi# am bition, and he «*em# to be getting well-fitted for the job. He is a PE major here at A&M and expects to get hi# degree in January. Right now, however, the blbnd second baseman is interested in winding up his jbnseball career for the Texas Aggies on a Southwest Conference championship team. And with Cotton Lindloff in there swinging, it looks like that flag which is now clown on the “forty acres” will be taking a trip east around the middle of May. Aggie Handball Team Defeats SMU A&M’s little known but well- trained Handball Club journeyed to Dallas last Saturday and de feated the SMU team, winning five 1 of the six matches. I Jewell McDowell, better known for his basketball ability, downed Rawley Blakely, who is better known for his football playing. McDowell’s scores were both 21-8., Burr Layne lost to Joe Finkle- stein. Layne won the middle game, 21-4, but lost the others, 21-17 and 21-15. A&M’s Raleigh Epps wept three games to defeat Rus Morrison. Morrison took the first game, 21- 18, but lost (he nex^ two, 21-16 and 21-17. _/■ Paul Yates lost his first game to Don Defferorai, 21-18 but surpris ed his opponent in the final two games with two wins, 21-5 and 21-7. A Layne ana McDowell teamed to down Blakely and Henderson 21-17 and 24-22. Then Epps and Yates combined to defeat Don Halm and BiR Gealy, 21-il and 21-10. 7 Games with Texas and Baylor are still on the schedule this spring fori the handball club. er wtdghu ami progress up to th* honvy wolghls. /' 1 ; Thu «ml« th« tough elimination ftfhta ! that th* wiimam fight have been through so far. Thifia will ho no admission Chargo at th* door,. / v |N[\ Here are th« matching# fm’ ft* mtls tonight. Action will get under way at 7:30 p.m. In th* DaWara Field House. For th* 119 cha npionship, George Kutch of C Field Will op pose Louis Fine I as of ASA. In the 12© pound class, Ralph Pasjternck of A Composite faces Wait Todd of B Infantry. John Hada of E Infantry will fight Bert Littlejohn of E Infan try for the 139 pound top honors. Ordnance Company puts up two boxers to try for the 149 pound crown. Bernie Parkey will tangle with Harold Springfield, i . In the 1(9 pound class, Don Hickman, A Infantry, will mix it up with Bo Uamuth of B Infantry. I The 169 pound division finds Hamp Oliver UMrjUiilj Epps. Oliver is from CWS and Epps represents C Infantry. Sam Liberto of Dorm 3 will oppose Curtis Jones of A Infan try in the 179 pound class finals. For the Heavyweight honors, j Joe Beil, A Infantry meets Don ; Grubbs of B Engineers, j Two extra bouts will also bb offered. The Intramural office has brought in two unknown but ex perienced boxers by tramp steam er and slow freight Both fighters are champions in their own right A free-for-all with 10 sophomore intramural managers in the ring blind-foided but with gloves on is also on the program. Dorm 16 shut out Dorm 14 in Vet Softball Tuesday afternoon. The final score was 4-0 with Art Burch pitching the win. Jim Tittle was the losing hurler. Clubsoftball got underway yes terday and three games were play ed. FFA ran up a 10-2 score over Range and Forestry. The game was called in the third frame a# speci fied lh x the softball rules. Agro nomy Society clipped Lamar Coup* ty by a 15-5 tally. I’re-Med Clpb ran over Fish and Game In a 21*2 jaunt. \ In a Lone Team Handball gaip*. Walton downed Dorm 10 In two straight games. /• .... i Bert see who would! on to gain Infantry, w«Ue tfte toinj: NEW YORK, March } a revived, rampaging RenUickj basketball team that define its NCAA championshijj'tn, Se^tT'' ;*y night to tk.jobn'went Mr*] Wash., Saturday again! minded Oklahoma A&jr Twenty-four loh Ru hours |f( (ojachl Adolph Rupp feared htf hia| (jlfi]| cent Senior, quintet,, |U* !ha|f top-ranked combine, might “played itself out” add i re the end of its triujmphillitjtr alma vr J “They; lr slump, P game ngat Kentucky Jdarmc ist snapped out hope for aj the Aggies." c i said ho ho- 11 hi# team ac cajdaisical 07- roljj of Chicago quartef-fimlil pf the Na- Invitation ;Toi rnument last Bqt these quail quality vahishedf Blue Grass Court# ittHstelr i when he saw his AVIlrfi iiG cN* lllonis' big . nine tllUM#, 7f last night to win Goaltown, Citation Could Be Mate! If Terms Right MIAMI, Fla. March 22 match race between Citation and Goaltown, greatest turf natural possible, probably could be staged if comliiion# are suitable, Calumet General Manager Ben Jones fluid today—adding that he still rate# Citation the better horse. Such a prize attraction at, flay, a mile and a quarter, would jam any big track and probpbly would be worth a “purse” of $50,000 or so. j (poalton’s 5-for-5 in Florida this winter has heaped new coals on turfdom’s burning question; Can Citation, deemed by many Vet eran experts the equal if not su perior of Immortal Man O’War, beat his amazingly fast stablemate —a colt fresh from tying the world marks for nine and 10' furlongs ? 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