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f- Football, Baseball Featute'Sports Day ! • (Continijed from Page i) 'I I ^ good!” according to Knrow. , Positions with the hottest com petition will probably be in the outfield. Eight players are lined up to patrol the extremities of the field. The three spots may go to Billy “Shug” McPherson in right, ■Hollis Bakcg* in center, and either DeWitt or Moon in the left field -position. I Pitchers are fairly deep in num bers, bpt slim in actual combat experience. Bruce Morisse, Pat Hubert, Blanton Taylor, George Brown; Sam Blanton; Bob Tankers- ley, Bob Calloway, and Sid Good- loe—Some or most of these hurl- ers should see action in the pre season games. Following is a complete roster of the ba^ebaMers, as released by the coach’s loffice: *- (1) Guy Wallace . n SS (2) Joe Savarimr 2nd B (3) diesteir Lackejy ... Inf Util. (4) i AJ Ogletree **. C (5) John j DeWitt Out F (6) Bjrace Morisse P (7) Martin .Hamilton C (8) Hersehe.1 Maltz .\....'.lst B (9) Pat Hilbert .: P 110) Sarri 'Blanton t,... P (11,) Joe Ehrette ui F (12) Hollis Baker .. . ......Out F (13) Bill Wariner ... v . Out F (14) Bobby Farmer Out F (15) Wally Moon Out F (18) Sid Goodloe (17) Bob Tankersley (18) Hunk Cundeluri 22) Bill McPhersun (23) Yalh I^iry (24) Phillip HuhhoII (26) (Jeoege Brown . (20) Jim Calyert ,1 (! (2?) jBlamon Taylor P Itaprmteil below lw (he official I'fmter for |tomorrow night's foot- halj lolriiwiuiol cbiHh, ns iVrolveil. J from Coach IlniTy Htlteleiii MAROON MOUAII ENDS 80 Davenport, Walter 81 Hill, Carl , 82 Barton, Dbrbandt P P .3rd B Out F Out F Out F P 1 - “Shug” McPherson “Shug” McPherson will supply much of the Aggie hatting pow- ! er »n this year’s baseball cam paign. High in the running for an outfield position, McPherson may also be used at first. 84 Grossman, Jerry 85 Self, Dick I 86 Netardus, Jaro 88 East, Rodney .90 Pratt, Robert •91 CentiUi, J. D. TACKLES 70 Dixon, Bobby 72 Spencer, Mickey 74. Niland, T. K. /■ 76 Holjitch, Miirry 77 Ghapin, Tuck 78 Little, Jack . . , 79 Strobel, Alex GUARDS 63 Rush, Marshall 65. Nohavitza, Elo 66 Greiner, Max f 67 Blair, W. G. 68 Wright," Bobby CENTERS 50 Robbins, Cooper 52 Meyer, Hugh 53 O’Neal, Chuck 56 Hates, Bob QUARTERBACKS 11 Gardemal, Dick 15 Hooper, Darrow FULLBACKS 33 Moore, Doyle 36 Lemmons, Bernie 38 Lawson, 1 Bull LEFT HALFBACKS 20 Haas, Raymond 22 Menger, Carl 25 Lippman, Glenn 27 Yeager, David 28 Scott, Herbert RIGHT HALFBACKS 44 McDonald, Chaflie 45 McJunkin, Herbert 46 Tidwell, Billy - ‘ 48 Parma, Wesley WHITE SQUAD ENDS 8(11 Hill, Walter 81 j Saxe, Charles 821 llurmi, Prank 84| Copeland, Cedric 80 (Iwln, ■-Cjlnton ’ Hit Hodge, CharleM 87 Zueh, Howatil 88 Hush, Roy TACKIES 71 Scott, Durwpod 74 Tuckec, Dwayne 7fj Moses, Ham li Sinith, Harvey r 78 Hlideck, .t^uMbtl j 7!) Langford;, Alvin GUARDS i- 60 .Schulte,' Gjerhnrdt OhlDugas, A. J. j I 66 Frey, Richard 67 Molberg, Carl 68 Rush, W. T. CENTERS 50- Flowers, Jim ■52 Diffie, Pet 56 Heatherly, Van 56 Cox, Ralph 90 Fowler, Jim QUARTERBACKS 15 Sikes, Delmer 19 Graves, Ray FULLBACKS 32 Stoeltje^ Max 33 Duncan, David 36 Smith, Bob 38 Stubbs, Austin LEFT HALFBACKS 20 Royalty, Charlie 25 Bradford, Robert / 26 Christensen, John 28 Lary Yale RIGHT HALFBACK 42 Dobbyn, Jim 44 Graves, Key 45 MagpUrik, Connie j 46 Saxe, Augie ! L. j Field Narrows ir-one more winne led to the list of vie- le intn mviral boxhg ffinishing its secoid taction yesterdty. je r59, Hi9, 139, and 119- isions. Matches to< ay I p‘.m. fi DeWare Field 8 \ i , tick Wescoft >f I Air Force ored th» only Inockout yester day when he successfully laid out Jack Craifciof A Engineers. Cnig jumped to tie front in the first l roijind landing bio vs at will, wljiile .Wescott rarely co rmected. , be second rouid proved to be a different Story with Wescott t< ss- ijng all Hie blows and knocking ( oppoijent" to ^ the capvas with a fight hook. Stunned as he V as, Crjaig cojutinued fighting in the third round, but; Wescott countered again with his -ight apd Giaig wdnt dow'n for thje second time in the fighfc)j Timmons Downs Duke Apot'lm th; 159-m mens of A Infartry battled Gone Duke' of C Cavalry am -■ ' m . IP! PI un- \icith still in one Duke' of C Cavalry and maged to come out bn to] the three-round if fair. Timmcfps took :the first round esjsily. battering his opponent all o^er the fink, but Duke game back m nnentaj-ily in ihe second round w th enough bio' vs to tie up the bout, 'fipimons coasted in the in. A1 Risinger of Quartermaster, right, tosses a punch at Billy Neal of B Field Artillery in the second round of their intramural boxing match Wednesday ■ afternoon. Risinger took the decision' and advanced in (he tourney. McDowell Selectedi On All-SWC Five ■ r T-' ■iiv x; : 1r h ■ I [ , ■ 'jlVackmen Try Favo onghorns in Olym By RAY HOLBROOK Twepty-five A&M track ami field in embarked this morning for Ic annual Border Olympics (n ido. Preliminaries are jkchc- d(iled for Saturday morning, with ic finals that night. Texas University, defending champions, will again 'be faVored, lith A&M a close second in ppe- ieet prognostications. | Although the Cadets won the SjWC meet last year, Texas ;haS a Wide advantage this spring.] The fleers lost but 9% points from last gear’s conference meet, while the Aggies lost 20% by graduation. On a basis of last year's teams, Texas ; is approximately 11 poiijits ' tier than the boys frbm College Station. The Longhorn freshman team was much better than the Aggie Fish •last year, having scored aD most twice as much in a dual meetj V, l |)set (Inly -I It might appear that the Austin ites have this border affair sewdei up, buL the A&M team is quite promising. Ah Aggie victory, how ever, will definitely be an upset. J. D. Hampton may be a good choice to break both his records, set last year, in the mile and the two-mile .events. Hampton ran these events in 4:18.6 and 9:36.fl, respectively in last year's Border Olympics. Ford Rodgers, promis ing 1'exas sophomore, should give Hampton a goodly amount of coni- •‘“’tltion in the ver. c Kad (nan, will be si brd of 157’ which him for three years $?8 bdut. Timmons third roiaid to wir ip-cordiilg to th+ Intramural Of- lice: Result^ of visterday’s figils ding to • ■ ' I I e s I'uf- n u I Rob Jim Nel inn ) 160-pqund divsion: Chur C Hu mile I (G Flight) defjiated fy Ciupfller (A Infanfi'y), I’ Yoore CA Field) droppwl Joe Crowley! (A TrwiixuortHtlon), Suitlv (Cl Flight) beat Dave Him (A Giiviilfv). Jeccy Glmid ((’ Field) drubbed Hulse (H Elgin ebrs), (f Hatulfm (It Cavurlv) '. .. ' , ' lings ( II W o n d b u I I (A Tronsiiii i’<lged fflehnliis II QMC), Hob jjji'hubert (A QM<’) won by deftiull (Tver Hnico, Hngee (Dorm 16)', Kim Timmons (A Infiulry) defeiitial (iene Duke, (A Caviilcy) Jol.M DljKim (C '’(eld) Won In de fault ov#!’ Shmm Abouu (A QMC) iLnuis liny (C •'light (iroppid J. it. Millin' (M Tn insportation)] nnd It. SwiI'Sky (A •'io(d) took n for feit win from Bi 1 Bain (B Flight). 169-pOund div sion: Honry Lee (B Coailt) dropped A1 Hootbji (E Field). 149-pbund divsion: Owen Davis (B Fielj) gained a forfeit, wi er R. Ki Saunders n ov- edricl( (D Field), .lerry 'ansportation cie- Hed (B 139 rott Craig neth George Dishma feat«-d Beck (B Cavalry), J. W. Canning (D Field) beat Ross Van diver (A QMC), Bill Casey (D Field) scored a “forfeit win over Stan ]Livesay (C Flight), George Moglia (ASA) defeated Dav s (C rWS) and Earl Bryan (A Flight) drubbed ~ ‘ Don Aistin (D Infantry). pound division: Rick (J : , Flighi ) defeated IA Eng neers), and Lewis (White Band) i (K Flight). A&M’s Jewell McDowell joined a single player frbm each of four other Southwest Conference bas ketball teams on the 1950 all-league selection named by the sports edi tors of the seven conference school l.apers. SMU and] Rice were the ofily teams failing to land first team dnurels. :D‘>n-Heathingtoh of Baylor was the only unanimoiis choice of the seven “editors who named the col legiate sports writers’ teani. Mc Dowell and Texan) 1 Tom Hamilton were each on six jflist and a Min gle secn'ml Imllot, I Fourth choice iiji '' voting was Genrae Mclii'fid of TCU, The fifth ptisltlon went to lllm ( athenrt of Arkansas by a ' narrow, nvnrgjn over Caul Mitchgil of SMU, j I Mupnort for Mustang idnyers j Was dividbil among Mitchell, t'linr ! lib Luts, and Jack Blown, a fan | Which might explain why .there Was no SMU eager on the first ((•am. jl10WoVer, (ill three Ponies ] ibirde (he second string, together with Joe McDermott of Rice and John DeWitt of A&M. Each editor participating in the poll voted for three teams, with out regard for filling specific pos itions on the honor teams. Votes counted five, three, and one for first, second, and third teams, re- Battalion SPORTS FRL, MAR. 10, 1950 Page 5 )■/ Li' ' DJI Of DL Dc own We Nbw Have . . Fillet Mignon Steaks .... 80c with Potatoes, Salad, Vegetable DJI Of DL Do /own 118 So. Main the oynr-ZM/vzvesr gym shoes you EVER had! Training Camp Briefs Pasadena, Calif., March 10—**T > > I -—Manager Jack Onslow directed i the Ciicago White Sox through a four-hour drill yesterday in pre paration for their exhibition sea son opener against the Chicago Cu.bs here Saturday. spectivei/. Casting ballots for the selec tion were Deane Hardy, Arkansas Traveler; Thank Creasy, Baylor Daily Lai iat; Howard Martin, Rice Thresher; Den Peeler, SMU Cam pus; Joe Stjosid, TCU Skiff: Bob Seaman, Daily Texan, and Chuck Cabaniss, The Battalion. The A&M paper compiled the results of the voting. FIRST TEAM Player llealhlnglii'il. Hay lot' Md/iowell, A&M Hamilton, Tcxitii McLeod, TEC Catheiu), ; 4 ikiinsaH KECUND TEAM ■ Mltehell, HMD : Me I tenni ill, l{lce Lutx, SMii Brown, SMl ! DeWlH, A&M THIRD TEAM Slack, Baylor Hess. Arkansas Ambler, Aikansns i * Schmidt, T< 11 "Preston, Baylor '"Frointne, TCU '•'Three playcis tied for two places. HONORABLE MENTION Switzer, Rice Davis, A&M Dewitt, Baylor 'adetNetmen Meet Uof HTennis Team By HAROLD GANN A&MV tennis team is iii tip- op cbndition, and is ready fbr the Jnivejrsity of Houston netters \yho [viil make their appearance bn the day |ourts opposite P. I,. l{)o\ji/ns latatorium tomorrow afteriifion n a match that was postponed a .week because of unfavorable Weutl)er conditions, j R, G. Deberry and Bobby l)|m- chii, two sophomores, who hid jlho Firli (earn last season, are prosiint- ly pacing the varsity sfjugii. JDe- herry will start the mutch at 1;IH) jwhba lie laky.s the uumbeji' lone singles court tu piny Jasna) Dfur- tint, (Hi's number one man,] I Dulienu will tie pitted iigidust •' fl lllujh Sweeney, the Cougar's iipni- 21 liber t wo man, and then he wll|l ejem- l M I bine With DeBerry to form A&M’s tup ranking diiuhlox rnmhlijtntion. Morton and Sweeney will Jblh tu lace jlho due, Uojmi Tate nnd Dick Hnji'i,l(tt*~ two | Impnitaiit raekut-swliigers wlie | were plagued with fl(i Inst weekend have been working! out all Week nnd ore ready to go, ae- cording to Coach W. M. Dotv»ll. Tnjte will play in the number three singles ixisitior, and , the tomtlh place berth won’t be; de- 5 eidetj till this afternoon. Hardin 4 and Allen AarollSon are contesting 3] for (lie position, and both players are almost evenly matched. . ! j Dbwell requested a two-out-of- three set match yesterday aftej-i noon between the two, but ai, “chow-time” each had one set (b his predit after two hours of playj- ing. Hardin won the first set, 7-Sj, but Aaronspn bounced back to even the match at one-all, taking the second chapter, 6-2, A playoff set will bp staged this afternoon ip decide fourth position. A freshman match is also sche duled with* Eugene Letsos of (iiijl- veston pltiying in the number one shit, I) ‘ ‘ ~ twdvrrfpe me, how- discus ipotinJf for. the rec enter the shot-put- ©• mt also, and atl/lltlsl IwtlToe- V ia •Irl r\f 11** should better His reel Bob Hadi and Paul low hurdlers, are of bettering tie 23;] ord held by J jhn the loser in th s bur) break the rec<> rd The 440-yart reco: Holbrook at 48.0, within the reach of A&M, however, he able to nip the tin the season. Rice’s relai tea “best yet” by man perts, may ble in in the boirder pity with either f ! A&M A&M a stron ners. Rice is starting tean|| carl guing them, took the Sugi event with a has, Kad escaped er* will : r eco he Ol r Bo :16 t i| f Ri' vinne n, is| singles Dtmnld Farmei', uMii of (Jalvnstun, will play in thu nnili- hi<t' two nosiUon, Tommy West a in I Harold (iM)m will fhrm thn donli(i<s loam-fur (Jki first-year men, j i- dm Cox\ seCond-place* ference 440 that event, alihougi give hint con iidera| Making thej trip and White aijn the arid field thiny-claj Gary A nd«J rson, Buddy ShaefTcr, Leming, Don iGrav Don Mitcheliy Bern) cil Inglehart Cardon, Alec Unbolt, Alhm, Inn liorrlng, ry Bimnen, J dstui, Ed Holt Him risen, Dnvid, and ih 171 II I" 9 7 6 6 6 last H, f r 100.10. w, Herschel Maltz, veteran first sacker on the A&M bksehall squad, makes a shoekstring Ith in preparation for initial * Itoroor- Field Clearwater, Fla., March 10—OTi —Gran Hnmner’s homo run with Richie Ashburnj on, base gave Coach Benny Bepgough’s Whites a 3 to 1 victory over Dusty Cooke’s' Grays yesterdav in. an intra-squad Philadelphia i’hillies’ training xamp game. S(. Petersburg, Fla.. March 10 —(Ari—-Billy Josnson, hard hitting Yankee third baseman, is going to be given a fulltime chance to win back regular duty, Manager' Casey Stengel .announce^! yester day. Starting with Saturday’s op- enirig exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals, Johnson will begin a daily nine-inning chore. . Avalon, Calif-, March 10- '/l’i— The Chicago (jXd's depart today from this island training base for another year, and Manage! Frank- id Frisch Jiad this farewell mes sage: “l don’t believe any ball elub could be in bettor condition than we are at this point in the spring training program.” catch 1 in preparation for !initial hoifie,: grimes today and row against the Brooke Vsl I ;-.■■ Maybe you don’t jump twice o$ high wWt you weor Bail-Bond Shoes, but it feeb Cke you cpuld. They At so well, look so good, and weor so long you’ll agree tfieyVe the best sport shoes you ever had. 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