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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1950)
'J - . r V'. ■ r. u. r, Sports NICK MA5UTZA8 Lc»*U« plftyoff« In tho military «n<l nun-military divhiiona of in- tramura soft^iil atul volleyball will begin May S,!Intramural Di rector Barney Welch said today. 1 hese two A ports will cjonclude the team sports for the ye*r. with the exception of the intramural ' track meet which will be held May 17 - 19, Welch concluded. Opponents in the coming play offs include the following teams in the military softball' (with their league' standings) > W Band (5-0) meets A Cavalry (4-1), G Air Forces (3-1) versus the winner of League G, the winner of league H which will be either F Air Force or Chem Warfare will meet B Composite (4-0), and B Field Artillery (414-% takes on B Air Force, 4%-%). In the- playoffs of military vol leyball, the ASA meets A Trans portation, A Air Force takes on B Field Artillery, B Transporta tion is matched against against B Quartermaster, and K Air Force it pitted againet D Flight. Club Softball Leading their respective leagues in club softball are Reagan A&M Club of League jJv, the Business Club, the Marketing', and Finance, andjthe Poultry Science Clubs are tied for the lead in league B, while the Entomology arid V. M, ’51 clubs are tied in leagl^ G, and the Geology club -holds a clear lead in . league D.'" -'Club volleyball leaders are the Business organization at the top in league A, the Rio-Grande -club heads league B, While the Beau mont club shows tb((! way*m league ^Champions have already been TO) Beats Rice, 7-1 As Graves Hurls Houston, May 2. —<d.*i— The Texas Christian Horned Frogs took a 7. to I Southwest Con- fcrcuee hMebull victory from Rice yesterday us Pitcher Knobby (iravi'S set the Owls down with only three hits, The Frogs rirntoM 1 Rlco starter John Finch from _tlu’ mound In the second inning', with a three •run splurge on fl'i'e consecutive hits anil n walk. 7)Nv<i hits and a w'alk already hud produced a tally in the first inning. * Richard Lceder, the Rice re- lof pitcher, retired the first two men to face him as he took over with the bases. loaded. He and Finch each-gave -up seven hits. A single TCC run in the fifth cathe as Lceder threw wild to third. The final Frog scores in the eighth came on a triple by Bill Barnes, a double by Graves and a single by Jim Nolan. 1 T C U 130 010 020—7 i Rice 000 001 000-fl decided In the non-military division of softball and volleyball. The TCVV softball club walked away with the title winning six games and acquiring only one loss, while .Mitchell Hall took the volleyball crown without dropping a game. A 'Athletics Repeat After A Athletic won the infra mural swimming and diving meet last week, in which every intra mural swimming record was bro ken, the athletes of Hart Hall gained* their second team victory of the year. Their first was the handball title'which they gained in marching undefeated to the finals last week against E Air Force and walking off with the title. The A Athletic crew will pro bably win the intramural track meet this season, although they have lost their stars of last season. Most of the winners of the Athle tic (^utfit last year, are |aow par ticipating in SWC tradS* events, thereby being ineligible tq- com pete in' intramural tracks * third I 1 ohly win* in the 1 tux \ Cadet to rdler star, and took high hur- Drake Relays held Iowa. He was the gain a first place A&M, SMU Linksmen Tie; Fish Stomp Cubs Battalion SPORTS TUES’.; MAY 2, 1950 Page 3 By RALPH GORMAN The Aggie varsity golfers emer ged in a 3-3 tie with the South ern Methodist University links men; Friday afternoon on the Dal las Athletic Club course, and Sat urday afternoon, the Aggie.fresh men. swept through the Baylor Cubs, 4 and 0 on the Ag’s home course... - j • A switch in tl\e lineup of the Mustang golf team threw the match into a melee, when the No. 1\ man was fitted against the No. 4 and vicb versa. A slight wind prevailed through out the afternoon and the reHults of the singles matches-Were Ross Mitchell, SMU, stopping J, (’. Fletcher at tho lust hole for a 1 up-victory? Uity Maun, SMU, de feating Gene Darby, M and 2; Monte Currie, A&M, turning hack Bradley Smyth 2 up at the seven teenth green; amf Tonyt-Guerrero downed his opponent by the one sided score of 4 and 3. In t,he doubles division the com bination of Darby and Guerrero stroked a winning match for the Aggies in defeating the Mustang pair 2 up; while Currie and Fletch er Jfell before, the Mustang’s Mann and Smyth, 3 and. 2. Freshmen Blank Baylor In the freshman meet on the Bryan Country Club course Satur day afternoon, the Cubs brought along only tluree of their team members and jhe A&M Fish golf ers won each iof the singles match es and the lonne doubles match for the day. Johnny Barret, stroked the No. 2 post for the Aggies, and down- 1 ed Baylor’s George Reese; Miller Barber, No. 1 man on the regular Aggie, foursome downed SMU’s JackoWesterfield; while Billy Bak er A&M, propped Hank McFad- deh (o close out the singles divi sion. Thb lonq doubles match was played and won by Barrett and Bake) 1 agaipst the combination of Reese and McFadden for the Cubs. Thb next; match scheduled for th4 golf teams will be that of the varsity this; - afternoon w h e n they ■ meet Rice in Houston. 'jf’hp Owl golfers boast of Buddy WeaYcr, ujno is Houston City Champion (ind an uKcellent col legiate golfer, along with Carroll Bainl for (he No, I and 2 posi tions | followed by Snel|y and Carl son m the remaining posts. Steers, c m Cadets Lead SWC Nine In 2 Team Race j he Southwest Conference base ball race continued jto remain as n two-team affair arid may be set tled ot) May 17 and 18 when the Texas' Aggies meet the Texas Longhorns in Austin. The Steers were the winners, of the first meeting between the top teams in the conference by a score of 12-2. A&M gained Ita second loss of (the season yester day at the hapds of SMU Mus tangs, who woni their first confer ence game of the season. 8-1. This dropped the Cadets 1% games behind the league leading Longhorns, who’s game with tlie Baylor Bears scheduled for yes terday was postponed because of wet grounds. The Austinites de feated the Beaids last week, 22-3, which tossed thb Baylorites by the wayside in the race for the crown. Yesterday in Houston, TCU rode over the Rice Owls, 7-1, but the conference standings remained un changed by this game. The next conference games are scheduled! for Friday’and may be the deciding gdmeSj- of the cham pionship race. H Full Season Standings Team— Texas A&M Rice _ . T C G . Bavlor SMU Team— Texas A & M Baylor TCU Rice S M U This Friday L R Op I»ct 4 133 70 .765 8 171 152 • .636 7 109 95 .'563 8 86 66 .579 7 86 94 .533 1 93 89 .533 Standings L R Op Bel 1 63 23 .875 2 52 51 .750 4 51 58 .556 C 42 40 .454 8 137 63 .200 5 23 35 .200 < Schedule A&M vs. Rice at Col lege Station, Sbuthcrn Methodist vs. Texas at. Dallas, Texas Christ ian vs. Baylor at Fort Worth. Saturday—Texas- vs. Southern Methodist at Dallas, A&M vs. Rice at College Station. Gay Wallace Wallace, who was all-conference shortstop last season, is on his way up again after recovering from a chipped ankle bob. He is batting well over .50|) which includes his performance! in yes terday’s game. \ By HAROLD GANN Lee Weber's six-hit hurling . ben. f tcrficld Gerald Jensen’s spectacular fielding, and 12 SMU hits proved disastrous to A&M’s baseball team yesterdgy. - In winning, 8-1, the cellarj-hpld- ing Mustangs gained their! first conference victory after (oping five, and handed the Ags j their second loss, forcing them farther Cadet Swordsmen Defeat Buccaneers For 3rd Time ami 1 h 4!ji ’vi a itecflhnlical 22 Reserve Your Books F Summer Semester By J. K. WHITMORE Tim Agg c fencing squad made local fencing history this weekend when it bea . the Galveston Buccan eers for thy third time this year. Tjhe seene of the upset was the A|&M{ Consolidated Gym. 1 Th > final outcome of the affair Was that the Aggies (won the di visional championship in epee and a (second ir sabre, loping only to the) iHce swordsmen in sabre, n the' epee competition, Rice (t Agtrie B team tied 4% to H’i(h R,' t ' < f finally winning on ore on the spphtm start ?d skun dug J Ba n ;! is bjadc sn ion Count of touches. They tipnes to the Aggies’ protege, Gottlob, out-pointed him. Returning for blood, Bill Brown 3- SJC Tourneys To Start Friday By A&M Dept, of Information More ' than 200 athletes frpm all over Texas will be h^nre Friday and Saturday to compete for State Junior Col lege track, field, golf and ten nis championships. Meet director Barlow rvin an nounced that entries have beep, ixc- ceived fro.pi Hillsboro, Woather- ford, Decatur, Navarro of Corsi cana, Allen Academy, Tcfxarkana, San Antonio and Cisco jipiior col- logos. He expects several other schools to enter. "There will he competition i for hoys in truck and field, golf and tennis, and for girls i(i tellliU. Truck and field preliminaries will he hoW starting at (1:30 |j. m. Fri day and finals starting (it 9 q.m. Saturday, Golf inatehoM, to he played at the. nearby Bryan Co(i». try Club, will begin at 111) a. in. Friday. > . . . Aggie Sports On Schedule . . . Tuesday, May 2—Golf, A&M vs. Rice, Houston. Thursday, May 4—Freshrtian baseball, A&M Fish vs. Rice Sjlirties, Houston. j •—i Friday, May 5—Track, A&M vs. Texas, dual meet Austin; . Base ball, A&M vs. Rice, here; Tennis, A&M vs. SMU, Dallas. Saturday, May G — Baseball, A&M vs. Rice, here; Tennis, vs. TCU, Fort Worth; Freshman baseball, A&M vs. Rice Sjliipesj Houston. ,%'t A&M away from league-leading Texas /University. Differing from previous Kyle Field tilts, the game went score less for the first four frames'. Blanton was relieved by Pat Hubert after Joe Whitley led off with a home run over the right field wall. Blanton, who now has a conference mark of 1-2, al lowed four runs off five hits while two, costly Cadet miscues were committed. Before the side was re tired in the sixth, Hubert automa tically forced a runner across the platje after loading the basesj on a walk, an infield hit, and a single. Shug McPherson romped”,’’home with the only A&M score in the sixth. McPherson gained first! on Whitley’s error, advanced to sec ond i on Lary’s single to center, Theji scored on -Hank Canilkh single through the middle; - With the bases loaded and tw men down in SMU’s half of th- eighth, errors by Guy Wallace ;an Wally Moon allowed two run; Fred Freeman’s hot grounder go past! the Ag shortstop and Moo, attempting to pick SMU ru number seven off at the . plate), ;) 1 JPP: and itgle ntfxt overthrow Calvert - T) i< Pollies, who now bonat a split with A&M, added thelrllnal run \ tho last frame. Gerald sen ead <>ff with a double, cannf home on Kyle Rote's HIM] hefor s Hubert retire i the throe batters in ordei. Weber Gains Win -}] H* ring a blank record before the g ime, Weber notcl led his first confe ence victory. Pa ; Hubert re- maiqi as the Ags* top slinger with three wins and no defeats., Using fast speed and fine judge ment, Jensen was the main bul wark in the SMU defensive align ment.; Besides patrolling (he spacious areas I of centerfield, the flrictifoot- ed fielder covered port ions oMeft- ght fields to gnb eight fly and rob A&M of several be hits, h Alex Hooks ebiploycd um of nine pla rers ii^ oving game while summoned the 16 Cadets.?- _.v; '/t ' Bici comes to Qolljge Station l Friday for a two game kpries. !l-. ilThG Varsity squad rolled into ac tion Foi the first time against the Bfuccjiiiist'rs, Ajvho are the defend ing sta’^b champions, John Gottlob, the Aggie threesome, tlcfc vijetory tk(e flowing by Baird,. 3-0. e of 'j'the ! hottest the South, but his an help SemeB- Sg We can’t use your books for you but you to get what you need for the Summer ter . . . Without your having tp wait in k lo line. Here is how it is done . . . You go • . ii fu r • your Exchange Store now, give the sales person the. list of books and supplies that you wil for the next semester. She will fill th< package them, and place the package |n [rCBCiC for you. In return you will receive af j: tion. checks which you may present at t|ho c|i 'side of The Exchange Store when you books. At the time that you get the packkjjfe any additions or subtractions to the list may be knade. There is absolutely no obligation on yojir part You pay nothing until 'you claim the r&serye ’’package. This is a service to you „ saves you time, so take advantage of it and go your Exchange Store today and resen e yo books for the Summer Semester. . ’ ■ ■ - . 1 ’ \ ' ' - ■ : ; - - ' \ -i - "Serving Texas Aggies” % \ of the Biles beat Joe Mayes, in a close match. Curtis Wilson put A&M back in the winning circle lif out stub bing Owen Holzhuscr. Baird re turned to beat Mayes and again tie up the score. But the meet was cinched when Wilson knocked Brown out of the race. Gottlob brought the Ags one bout more when he beat Holz- heuser. Baird returned long enough to put Wilson out. Gottlob added the coup de grace by knocking Bcbwn opt of the race. Rice did not put up toj much op position in the final round when the varsiey squad of Wilson, Gott lob and Mayes out - touched them. 5V4-1 1 /-. Mayes ended up high man in the Rice finals by Winning all three of his bouts. The sabre team followed suit by knocking the Galveston group! down, 5-2. However, Rice outslgshed the Ags in the final round] of sabre competition to take top honors for the ’meet. A&M-SMU Wildlife Class Visits Port Aransas Friday Ten members of the class in marine ichthyology of the Wildlife Management Department will go on a field trip to Port Aransas Friday, recording to Frank T. Knapp, assistant professor of fish eries. 1 T Box SMU (8) Salmon, 2t> Freeman, ss Whitley, lb Jensen, of Rote, rf Khnudsen. 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