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By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Sports Editor
Sandlot baseball finals are just around the corner, and
the two big tournaments of the year will soon be underway.
The National Baseball Congress Tournament at Wichita,
Kansas which has representatives in every
state of the Union is the acknowledged lead
er in amateur baseball.
In the eastern half of the United States
the National Amateur Baseball Federation
meets during September in Youngstown,
Ohio, with more than 20 outstanding local
winners from Chicago to New York and
from Atlanta to Springfield.
Two teams have dominated the field in
each of these leagues.
General Electrics from Fort Wayne, In
diana last year walked off with its third
straight national championship and is not
even being required to face preliminary opposition this sea
son before reaching the final rounds at Wichita.
At Youngstown the repeater has been the New York
Equitable Life aggregation which has won the title for two
years in a row.
Two teams from Texas—the Alpine Cowboys and the
Plymouth Oilers of Sinton—are qualified for the national
tournament at Wichita and will probably enter the three
week meet which gets underway Friday.
Jerry Feille of San Antonio, who is the Texas semi-pro
ommissioner, certified the duo. The second Texas team was
udded with the withdrawal of the Helper Utah Merchants.
Three Aggies To Play At Wichita
' P a t Hubert, Gily Wallace, and lie between the Weimar Truckers
Shug McPherson will play with and Alpine, each winner of a re-
their respective teams in the tour- gional semi-pro tourney in the
nament which is scheduled to start state.
Friday in Wichita. r ru w • • , . , . , , ,
the Weimar nine which is loaded
Hubert, A&M’s top pitcher who with Texas Longhorn players was
was chosen to the All-Conference defeated in the first two games of
nine at the end of the season, is the best three of five games series,
hurling for the Sinton Oilers and j n the first game Alpine hit
should see some action at the three TU hurlers Frank Womack and
week tournament. Jiggs Kana for 19 bingles which
Another Cadet All-Conference led to a 17-10 victory. Continuing-
star, Wallace is playing for Alpine their hitting spree, the Cowboys
as is teammate McPherson. pounded another Steer hurler, soph
Of the three, Wallace was the Jimmy Hand, out of a 17-16 win.
heaviest hitter in conference play TCU contributed to the Gow
ns he pounded the sphere at a .306 boys’ victories. Knobby Graves
pace, and McPherson hit a .295. pitched all the way the first game
Hubert was not among the top Ag- and had a perfect day at the plate
gie sluggers, but he did win five in five trips. Baylor’s Buddy Park-
while losing one game for Maroon er wasn’t a slouch as he rapped
and White. two homers for Alpine.
Until the Sinton Oilers were ap- A total of seven circuit blows
^pointed to the National Baseball were registered in the first game
*Congress, Texas’ entry seem to of the series.
Kilgore Rangerettes Well Liked In Chicago
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Rey es Chosen
To All-State
Softball Team
Bert Reyes, right fielder
for Loupot’s Aggies during
the ASA State Tournament,
was named to the All-State
softball team by the tourney
officials.
Reyes was one of fourteen play
ers who were selected to the team.
Winners of the tournament, Lake
Jackson placed only two men on
the team while Lackland Air
Force Base placed the most men
on the team, a total of four.
Gerald Bourne of Lackland Air
Force Base was chosen as the out
standing player of the tournament,
and Britt Ryan of Dickson Drillers
was chosen as the team manager.
Chosen to the All-State team were:
Catchers: Larry McGowan, Lack-
land AFB and Gene Migt, General
Plumbing.
Pitchers: Gerald Bourne, Lack-
land AFB; Bob Harding Lackland,
AFB; G'ene Faull, Lake Jackson,
and Nino Garza, Monte Alto.
First baseman: Bill Hinton, Hig
ginbotham of Brownwood.
Second baseman: Loyd Pond,
Dickson Drillers.
Third baseman: Bobby Reed,
Lake Jackson.
Shortstop: Dub Holt, Lake Jack-
son.
Outfielders: Jack Russell, Lack-
land AFB; H. Selman, Beaumont;
Bert Reyes, Loupot’s Aggies; and
Buddy Holmstrom, Hutto.
Team manager: Britt Ryan,
Dickson Drillers.
Outstanding player: Gerald
Bourne, Lackland AFB.
Holland Winder
Winder, who usually pitches
for the College Station Mer
chants, played in left field last
night when the Nedbaleks Serv
ice Station softballers edged the
College Merchants, 3-2, in the
Bryan Commercial league tour
nament.
I During the intermission at half
time of the recent Collegiate All-
Star—Philadelphia Eagles game,
the Kilgore College Rangerettes
put on a show in Soldiers’ Field
which 88,885 football fans
remember for a long time.
Quoting Arch Ward of the Chi-
rago Daily Tribune, “It was Choo-
A month later at the Cotton
Bowl the sime group of girls who
are under ! the direction of Miss
Gussie Nell Davis performed be
fore the SMU and Oregon fans
will who saw the Mustangs romp over
the visitors from up North.
Another bowl game on January
2, 1950 down in New Orleans
Choo Justice of North Carolina b ’ ht the 48 sweeties to the
who carried the ball, but it was s ar Bowl where th stole the
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the
the bevy of beauties from
down yonder’ who carried
crowd in Soldiers’ field.”
But this wasn’t the first time
that the Rangerettes had added
that something extra to a special
event.
The Kilgore beauties starred
first in December of ’48 when they
performed at the Little Rose Bowl
in a game which featured the cuties
own college, Kilgore JC, and Comp
ton Junior College. Compton won
the junior college crown in winning tell you who will
the game. or even play in it.
show as the Oklahoma Sooners
trounced the LSU Tigers.
But when we liked them best
was on Kyle Field during Sports
Day, March 11, 1950, when the
intra-squad game between the Ma
roons and Whites was the football
game. The Whites won 19-14.
In case you’ve never seen them,
you’re next chance will be the
coming Cotton Bowl. Don’t miss
them, and we only wish we could
win that one
'Dropo Still Held
Under Observation
Boston, Aug. 17—GP)—“They
floored me, but I’ll be back,” said
Red Sox slugger Walt Dropo yes
terday as he lay hospitalized after
being cracked on the head by a
pitch of Philadelphia’s Hank Wyse.
The giant rookie had a visit
from Wyse at Santa Maria Hos
pital in neighboring Cambridge
and both agreed:
“It was just one of those things.”
Meanwhile, physicians said the
Moosup, Conn., athlete is improv
ing but will be held several days
for observation.
Dropo, the American League’s
runs batted in leader, suffered a
* cerebral concussion as a high in
side pitch caught him on the left
ear in the fifth inning of the first
game of Tuesday night’s twi-night
'dougleheader with the A’s.
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SMU Relied Mainly
On Backs for 3 Years
By WILBUR MARTIN
For three years they said
Southern Methodist University’s
backfield carried the team, 1947-
1949.
“You don’t need much of a line
with guys like D'oak Walker, Dick
McKissack, Kyle Rote, Gilbert
Johnson, Frank Payne,” was the
usual line.
This line incidentally burned up
the said mentioned backs, who al
ways figured they had quite a line
in front of them.
It is true that Southern Meth
odist has attracted more than a
fair share of backs since World
War II ended, and if you’ll take a
look at the fellows who’ll be in
Southern Methodist’s backfield this
season you’ll find the supply as big
as ever.
Rote—A Senior
First, there’s Kyle Rote. A sen
ior this year, the big San Antonio
lad has already been tabbed a
cinch for All-America if he does
n’t get hurt.
Johnny Champion, Pat Knight,
H. N. Russell, Jr., Henry Stollen-
werck, Bill Richards, I. D. Russell
and Fred Benners are among the
returning- lettermen backs.
Most folks figure new head coach
H. N. Russell will start a back-
field of Rote, son Rusty, Jr.,
Champion and either Knight or
Stollenwerck.
Knight, like Rote a product of
Thomas Jefferson high school at
San Antonio, is used as a defen
sive end.
Benners to Replace Johnson
Benners is the boy that was go
ing to make the fans forget about
Gilbert Johnson when Johnson
passed up his final year for pro
football. He didn’t, but he did
show that he was a better than
fair passer.
These backs alone would make
any coach smile, but Russell can
also choose from: Bill Forrester,
Val Joe Walker, Benton Mussle-
white, Micky Sharp, D. C. Chan-
cey, Ray decider, Sammy Stollen
werck, Gene Gillis, Don Donavan,
Kenneth Duke, Lee Mitchell, and
Bill Crisler, all sophomores.
In this crop are excellent pass
ers, punters, runners and defensive
men. And Musslewhite' is regard
ed at a top quarterback prospect.
Which means you might be heari
ing that line about SMU’s backs
carrying the team for a few more
years.
Rickey Claims
Robinson Will
Not Be Sold
New York, Aug. 17—(AP)
—Jack Robinson has a hunch
he is playing his last season
as a Brooklyn Dodger.
The second baseman’s
hunch is not shared by his boss,
club President Branch Rickey.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if I
were traded at the end of the year,”
the National League’s most val
uable player of 1949 said yester
day.
“I haven’t given a thought to
trading Robinson or anybody else
on the ball club,” says Rickey
Robinson said he is 31 and has
slowed up a step in the field. He
feels he may have outlived his
usefulness with the Dodgers.
Rumors mounted of tension on
the Dodger team—a club that won
the pennant last season, was fav
ored to repeat but now is a half
a dozen games off the pace.
Rickey has publicly criticized
the “complacency” of the team.
Robinson, first negro to play
major league baseball in modern
times, is aware of the Rickey pol
icy of disposing of a star player
while he still has considerable
market value.
“ . . . I Have No Idea . .
“Actually, I have no idea wheth
er they intend to trade me or not,”
Jackie said. “I’m prepared for any
thing that may happen. After all,
I’m pretty old as far as players
go.
“I guess I’d go wherever they
sent me, but I wouldn’t like to
leave Brooklyn.”
Rickey appeared not the slight
est bit disturbed over Robinson’s
remarks.
“I sympathize with Robinson,”
Rickey said, “the boy probably is
concerned over what has hap
pened in recent games.
“That doesn’t mean that Robin
son can’t he had for any price. If
I were offered two ball clubs for
him, I would consider trading
Jackie.”
Robinson is in a batting slump
which has cost him the National
League lead.
At Boston the other night after
Robinson had contributed one of
of seven errors, he was removed
from the game.
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SPORTS
THURS., AUG. 17, 1950 Page 3
TCVV, Texas Geology
Down Dorms 16&17
TCVV continued on its winning
way yesterday while Texas Geol
ogy snapped its two game losing
streak to break back into the win
column of intramural softball play.
Defeating Dorm 16 with a two
run rally in the fourth, TCVV
maintained a three game lead over
TU for first place honors. Wil
liams twirled the league leader’s
3-2 victory over 16 while John
Thomas was charged with the loss.
In the other game played, the
Geologists scored in three innings
to easily defeat Dorm 17, 9-1. It
was the Texans seventh win and
the losers 11th loss.
A double by Williams and a
single by Campbell brought only
one run to TCVV in the third when
they tied up the ball game. Wil
liams scored on Campbell’s single.
Dorm 16 had scored in the first
frame when R. G. Taylor hit a
one bagger to reach first and was
brought home with the assistance
of Bill Bronkhorst’s bingle.
Score Again
The losers again scored in the
following inning to tie up the game
as Von Heter spiked home plate
for the counter. John Holland was
credited with the RBI, using a
double.
Local Netters
Reach Finals
Three College Station netters
lost in the finals of the Jun
ior Olympics Tennis Champion
ships which were held yesterday
in Houston.
Penny Laverty and Carolyn
Landiss reached the finals of
the girls’ 13 and under doubles
but were defeated by Jane Booth
and Sally Williams of Chick-
sha, Okla., 6-2, 6-1.
Freddie Anderson reached the
boys singles finals in the same
age group and was defeated by
Billy Williams of Baytown with
the same score.
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In the bottom of the fourth
TCVV scored twice to win with the
assistance of a single, an error,
and a base on balls. Butler took
four passes for a walk, advancing
to second on an error while Trimble
singled to push him home.
Trimble was put out on a fielders
choice while third baseman Wood
reached first and later scored
when L. E. Winder went to first
on another fielders choice, ending
the scoring.
Only Run /
Dorm 17’s only run crossed home
plate in the third with losing pitch
er Springfield performing the leg
work. Texas Geology had scored
in the opening inning with Weath-
erall gaining the run.
The third frame was the big one
as five runs were scored by the
Geologists. Weatherall, McGhee,
Tschoepe, Boruff, and Jones scored
the markers with the assistance of
two hits.
Five walks in the third also
hurt Dorm 17, although a total of
11 walks were issued during the
complete contest. The walks made
the big difference since each team
garnered five hits.
Three walks and a double by
Sadler helped the Texans score
three runs in the sixth. Olivera,
Wessely, and Sadler gained the
final points in the six inning tilt.
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Lemon Purchased
By Cleveland Nine
Cleveland, Aug. 17 —(A*)— Jim
(Bob) Lemon, who has hit 39 home
runs and driven in 119 runs this
season for Oklahoma City in the
Texas League, was purchased last
night by the Cleveland Indians.
General Manager Hank Green
berg of the tribe said the 22-year-
old outfielder will be used in pinch-
hitting roles for the remainder of
the season.
Lemon, who is batting .286 for
the Cleveland farm club, is not
related to Bob Lemon, ace tribe
hurler. He is leading the Texas
League in homers and runs batted
in by a considerable margin.
Greenberg said he was brought
up because the club now has only
three able-bodied outfielders.
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