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> % t Ping s to !om- •ally fuse mch lun- »und ask- crn- 1 b» ows But :han tion )ubt ved, orld i i \Y i > % y Kimbrough Selected To Helm Hall of Fame Wtu''UkZi.'S■ By FRANK N. MANITZAS A&M’s Jarrin’ Jawn Kimbrough will be named to the Helms Hall College Football Hall of Fame by the Helms Hall Board tonight in conjunction, with a dinner program which is given by the Glendale Junior Chamber of Commerce at Los Angeles, Calif. Along with Kimbrough, four other college football greats will be honored at the same time. The others are coaches Frank W. Thom as and William A. Alexander, and players Charles Daly and Hector Cowan. This brings to thirty-five th*e number of college football notables, including coaches and players, who have been honored by the Helms Hall Board. Paul H. Helms, found er and sponsor of. Helms Athletic Foundation and Helms Hall, is chairman of the Helms Hall Board. The selection of Kimbrough brought to the Hall one of the greatest backs the Southwest has ever seen. Kimbrough helped the Aggies whip Fordham in the Cot ton Bowl game of 1941, 13-12, and Tulane in the Sugar Bowl game of 1940, 14-13. Only Player From SWC Of the three players selected in this group to Helms Hall, Kim brough is the only one to have played modern time football. He is the only player to ever be chosen from the SWC. Kimbrough was also the Cadets fullback in ’38. After having serv ed in the Army during World War II, he played professional football with the Los Angelus Dons. In '39 when the Maroon and White grid machine was named to the mythical honor of National Champs, Kimbrough together with teammate, and also All-America tackle, Joe Boyd helped the Cadets roll up 212 points to 31 for the op position. Six of the eleven teams which the Aggies met that year A&M Consolidated Grid Schedule Set Coach Othel Chafin announced A&M Consolidated’s football sched ule for, the coming fall season. The Maroons will play 10 games with four of them being at home, although one of the games is not yet scheduled. Only one of the home games is a district game. Complete Schedule failed to score against the Na tional Champs. Another Aggie All-America The following year saw another teammate follow Kimbrough to All- America honors. Guard Marshall Robnett went along with Jarrin’ Jawn as the Aggies garnered 183 points to 46 of the opponents. In the final conference game of the season, the Aggie eleven tasted defeat for the first time in two years. The Texas University grid- sters edged the Cadets, 7-0. Charles Daly was quite a football player himself when at the turn of the century he had the unusual distinction of gaining All-America honors five times. In 1898, 1899, and 1900, he was named All-Ameri ca at Harvard, and in 1901 and 1902 at the United States Military Academy. As a quarterback he was chosen to Walter Camp’s first All-America line-up in 1898, 1899, and 1901, was named for second-team laurels in 1900, and third-team laurels in 1902. In 1901 he was also chosen College Football Player of the Year. As a cog in Princeton’s cham pion team of 1889, Hector Cowan, who in reality was a tackle, fre quently carried the ball and was one of the leading scorers of Tiger elevens. He was named to All- America honors in 1889. Tech’s Great Coach Georgia Tech will never forget William A. Alexander, who served the Ramblin’ Wrecks both as a player and a coach. He played for the Yellow jackets from 1907 to ’09 and served as assistant coach to John W. Heisman from Sept. 15—Madisonville Here Sept. 22—Navasota Here Sept. 29—Waller There Oct. 6—Cypress-F’rb’nks There *Oct. 13—Smithville Here Oct. 20—Open *Oct. 27—Bastrop There *Nov. 3—Somerville There Nov. 10—Granger Here *Nov. 17—Lexington There *Denotes District foes. (ft i * Musial Tops Hopp For NL Hit Lead New York, Aug. 22—GP)—Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals holds an imposing 20-point lead over Pittsburgh’s Johnny Hopp in the National League batting derby. Musial is hitting .363, Hopp .343. Brooklyn’s Jackie Robinson, the defending champ and leader a month ago, continues to slide downwards. The Dodgers’ second baseman is hitting .337 for third place. Pittsburgh’s Ralph Kiner is the No. 1 man in home runs with 37. Maroon & White... . . . Sports Chatter In the September issue of Sport, Bill Stern, in making pre-seaSon predictions, says the following concerning one of A&M’s better footballers. . . “We have picked only four com plete backfields, but there are other backs who may pull a dras tic switch and rise to great heights . . . boys like Bob Smith of Texas A&M . . .” Three Aggies, are playing in the National Baseball Congress Semi- pro tournament in Wichita, Kan sas . . . Pat Hubert is pitching for the Sinton Oilers while Guy Wal lace and Shug McPherson are swatting the sphere for the Al pine Cowboys. 1912 through 1919, except during the first world war when he was in the service. As head coach for Georgia from 1920 through 1944, he tutored the Engineers to 131 victories, lost 93 games, and tied 15. Serving three seasons as a quar terback at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne, may have been a big help to Frank W. Thomas, who coached at Alabama from 1931 through 1946. His Crimson Tide teams won 115 games, lost 24 and tied seven. Prior to going to Alabama, he coached at Chattanooga, and served as assistant mentor at Georgia. Six of Thomas’ Tide squads played in New Year’s Day Bowl games. The College Football Hall of Fame honor roll to date includes coaches Walter Camp, Amos Alon zo Stagg, Glenn S. Warner. How ard Jones, John W. Heisman, Gil- mour Dobie, Dr. Henry Williams, Andrew L. Smith, Robert Zuppke, Fielding Yost, Knute Rockne, Dana X. Bible, John B. Sutherland, Percy Haughton, Herbert O. Crisler, Frank Thomas, and William Alex ander. The players are James Thorpe, Harold Grange, William Heston, Harold Muller, Wilbur Henry, Ben nie Oosterbaan, William Heffelfin- ger, Frank Hinkey, Ed Weir, Bron- ko Nagurski, Truxton Hare, Adolph Schultz, Walter Eckersall, George Gibb, Ernest Nevers, Charles Daly, Hector Cowan, and John Kim brough. John Kimbrough TCW New Mural Softball Champions TCW won the second session intramural softball championship when the last scheduled games were played Friday. The winners won their last scheduled game of the session Friday, defeating the Milner Tigers, 9-7, with the Tigers rallying for two runs in the final inning before losing. Finishing the second session with a record of 12 wins against one loss, TCW completed one of the best records ever held by an intramural softball champion. Dorm 15 handed the league win ners their only loss in the early part of the month, when Hershel Fitts pitched the softballers to a 14-4 win over TCW. Like A Rubber Ball Harris Keeps Promise While Bouncing Around By WHITNEY MARTIN New York, Aug. 22—(/P)—Our favorite rubber ball, Bucky Harris, is quietly going about keeping a little promise he made to himself at Orlando, Fla., last spring. “I never had a team finish last, and certainly don’t want to or expect to finish last this year,” he mused aloud, and you could tell it was more than a hope. It was a vow. Bucky was resuming his dareer as manager of the Washington Sena tors, and the rubber ball designa tion traces from his habit of al ways bouncing back, no matter from what height or how unex pected might be the drop. He was dropped from the Phil- Simmons Stops Giants As Phillies Win, 4-0 New' York, Aug. 22—(A 5 )—-Young £urt Simmons stopped the Giants with four hits yesterday as pace setting Philadelphia whipped the New Yorkers, 4-0. The high-riding Phils maintained their fat 5% game edge over Brooklyn, which beat Pittsburgh, 3-2. Simmons, notching his 16th vic tory fanned five, walked two, and was in trouble only once. With two out in the eighth, the Giants filled the bases on two sing les and a walk. But the 21-year-old southpaw got Don Mueller on a roller. Puddinghead Jones hit his 25th homer and Andy Seminick his 18th. Richie Ashburn, out since Fri day with a stiff neck, returned to the lineup and hit a two run single in the seventh. Dodgers 3, Pirates 2 Pittsburgh, Aug. 22—6P)—The Brooklyn Dodgers pulled a double steal yesterday, to beat Pittsburgh, 3-2, for their fourth consecutive triumph. Jim Russell, on the scoring end, and Duke Snider, surprised the Bucs with the winning play with two out in the fifth inning. Don Newcombe, winning his 13th victory, went the route. Ralph Kiner, after hitting three homers in three games to go ahead of Babe Ruth’s record, was held to three singles. He is nOw even with Ruth—37 homers for 115 games. Tigers 7, Browns 3 Detroit, Aug. 22 —Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers of Detroit each hit a three-run homer yester day to help Paul (Dizzy) Trout coast in with his seventh straight victory, a 7 to 1 decision over the St. Louis Browns. It boosted Detroit’s lead to three and a half games over the idle New York Yankees. Cardinals 9, Braves 2 St. Louis, Aug 22—(A*)—Tommy Glaviano hit two bases-empty homers last night as the St. Louis Cardinals nudged Boston out of third place in the National League by beating the Braves 9-2. The victory, which went to Harry (the Cat) Brecheen, put the Redbirds one game ahead of Bos ton. The Cardinals’ leadoff man, Glaviano slammed his first home run into the right centerfield pav ilion in the first inning. He got his second into the leftfield seats in the sixth round . They ware his sixth and seventh of the year. National League W L Pet. Philadelphia 70 45 .609 Brooklyn 61 47 .565 St. Louis 62 51 .549 Boston *0 51 .541 New York 57 54 .514 Chicago 50 63 .442 Cincinnati 47 64 .423 Pittsburgh 41 73 .630 American League W L Pet. Detroit 73 39 .652 New York 72 44 .617 Cleveland 71 46 .607 Boston 69 48 .590 Washington 50 61 .450 Chicago 46 71 .393 St. Louis 39 73 .348 Philadelphia 40 77 .342 adelphia Phillies in midseason in 1943 when they were in last place, or close to it. With such a slight drop he didn’t bounce so high, but he bounced just the same. Wasn’t Too Proud He came up as high at Buffalo. He wasn’t too proud to take a job in the minors, knowing in his heart he is a major leaguer and would eventually wind up where he belonged. He won a pennant with the Yankees in 1947, and finished a good third in 1948, but again came the drop, and again he took a minor league job, this time at San Diego. It seemed that fate was drib bling him along like a basketball, periodically giving him a mighty slap which made him bounce real ly high. That happened again at San Diego, and he again found himself right back in the majors. Majors . . . Senators Majors is used advisedly when speaking of the Washington Sen ators. They had finished a seedy last in 1949, with 50 victories against 104 defeats, and a pathetic average of .325. What brought us to the Harris subject today is the fact that the 1950 Senators reached the 50-vic- tory mark last Thursday, and are a cinch not only to finish out of last place, but as top team in the second division. The team Bucky has assembled out of holdovers, rookies, castoffs and whatnot, has developed into a club which has the wholesome respect of even the better teams in the American League. No longer are the Nats patsies for all comers. They’ve won six out of 16 from both the Tigers and Indians, and seven of 13 from the Yankees. He can forget those cough days and smile now, though. He must know, as everyone else knows, that he’s doing the best job of his managerial career. Texas Geology and Dorm 14 finished the season in a tie for second place, each holding a total of eight wins and four losses. TU won a forfeit win over Wal ton Friday while Dorm 14 gained the same over Milner in a sche duled makeup game yesterday which never materialized. Exhibition Game An exhibition game yesterday between the Texans and TCVV ended as expected with TCVV win ning, 13-8. Williams was on the mound for the winners and he Scattered 11 hits in the seven frames of play. A home run together with two ot)ier hits in the opening frame gaVe the Texans a 3-0 lead which held until the third inning when TCVV scored nine runs. Centerfielder Wessley walked to first, Walton singled, and third baseman Dean homered to drive in three runs for TU. Seven singles, a double, and two walks, helped TCVV set up its first rally and score nine times. Olson led off, reaching first with a base on balls, but scored off of Campbell’s double. Then a single, a walk, and seven consecutive singles assisted in scoring Campbell, Butler, Timlin, Trimble, Wood, Williams, Adkins and Long. McGhee scored the Texan’s only run in the fourth frame. TU gained four more in the top of the sixth as Boruff, Cooley, McGhee, and Tschoepe scored the markers with the assist of three singles, and four walks. TCVV countered in the same period with the same number of runs. Campbell, Butler, Trimble, and. Olson scored for the winners. Cooley was charged with the loss as he gave up 14 hits, one of which was a double. Final Standings Team— W L Pct.G.B. TCVV 12 1 .923 .... Dorm 14 7 4 .636 4 Tex. Geol 7 4 .636 4 Milner 6 4 .600 4y 2 Dorm 16 7 5 .583 4y 2 Dorm 15 5 8 .384 7 Walton 2 11 .154 10 Dorm 17 2 12 .150 10 y 2 Coe Advances To 2nd Round Of NAT Links Minneapolis, Aug. 22 — (AP)—Charles Coe or Okla homa City, defending cham pion, moved into the second round of the National Ama teur tourney yesterday with a brand of golf that easily eliminated Thomas Jamison of Greenburg, Pa., and brought consternation to other- rivals. The Oklahoma thin man stormed through his opening match on the 6,655-yard Minneapolis golf club layout in sub-par figures for a 5 and 4 verdict. Par is 35-36—71. Coe got only one birdie during his 14 holes but he was off the fairway only once. He never missed a put of less than eight feet and on the eleventh hole he laid the Pennsylvanian a stymie that brought him added help. While Coe, one of the earliest winners on the day’s program of 82 matches, moved easily along such name players as Chick Evans, Jr., of Chicago, Mason of’ Clarksville, Tenn., and Ray Bil lows of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., were eliminated. Dick Chapman of Pine- hurst, N. C., squaked through with a 2 up verdict, over Benno Jens- sen of Charlottesville, Va. Frank Stranahan of Toledo, and James McHale of Bethelehem, Pa., won first round victories in the National Amateur Golf champion ships yesterday to set up today’s outstanding match in the second round. Stranahan defeated Arnold Pal mer of Latrobe, Pa., 4 and 3 while McHale knocked off Mike Galla gher of Augusta, Ga., 5 and 4. Rudolph, 16-year-old natibnal junior champion, was spillcid by the veteran Jack Munger of Dal las, 3 and 1, although the young ster did some spectatcular putting. Hottest golf of the day, played under ideal weather conditions, was turned in by Dale Morey of Dallas, who defeated Thomas McMahon of Grosse Point Farms, Mich., 5 and 4, by virtue of a first nine 33. Telecast, Radio Brings Million To Major Nines Cincinnati, Aug. 22—(AP) —Major league baseball and its player pension fund will be enriched by almost a mil lion dollars by the telecast and radio broadcast of the 1950 world series. Commissioner A. B. Chandler an nounced yesterday that the Gil lette Safety Razor Company and the Mutual broadcasting Company had been granted exclusive radio and television right for the 1950 series. The television contract will bring baseball $800,000 and the radio broadcast will bring in an additional $175,000. The money goes into the major league central fund. That corres ponds to the sinking fund of any big business. The $175,000 from radio, however, always is ear marked toward payment of the premium on the baseball players’ pension fund. The difference between that and the approximately $200,000 of the premium is made up from the re mainder of the central fund. There was competition this year for the television rights. The Dumont Network also of fered a bid but under an agreement reached last year Gillette and Mu tual were given the right to meet any competing bid. Gillette and Mutual had the rights in 1949 when the television rights wCnt for $200,000 and the radio rights for $175,000. . The television outlets have not yet been selected except for New York, Chicago and Boston. Yesterday’s agreement made radio broadcasts and telecasts the big business of world series re ceipts. Unless one of the clubs with the bigger parks is a pen nant winner, the receipts from telecasts and broadcasts may ex ceed the receipts from ticket sales. CS Water Carnival Boasts Cast of 150 Competitive swimming and div ing together with other water dem onstrations form the major portion of the annual Water Carnival which will be presented tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 in the natato- rium. The Water Carnival is the final event on the College Station Recreation Council’s schedule on sport entertainment for the sum mer. Over 150 swimmers will be com peting with and against each oth er in the contests which will also be held tomorrow night. Along with all the serious aspect Battalion SPORTS TUBS., AUG. 22, 1950 Page 3 Rockdale Loses to Pee Wees, 134 College Station’s Pee Wee soft- ball team added another victim to their evergrowing list last Friday night on the lighted softball field when they subdued the Rockdale Pee Wee squad by a score of 13-4. According to Coach Taylor Wil kins, this was quite a reversal of their previous game in which the Rockdale crew won by the narrow margin of 3-2. Pinkney Cooner twirled the win ners to victory, allowing only six hits, but was replaced in the top of the fifth when victory was al most certain. Dave Bonnen led the hitters, getting two singles and scoring three runs and reaching third the fourth time at the plate on a walk. John Rob’t. Smith of College Station also got two singles in three trips to the plate. Patterson started on the hill for Rockdale but had to have help in the fourth from Duke. The game was cut short due to Rockdale having to return home before ten o’clock. Goodman Leads AL Hitters With .357 Chicago, Aug. 22 —(IP)— Bill Goodman, Boston infielder, took over the American League batting leadership last week from the closely contesting team of George Kell and Larry Doby. of swimming will be a touch of hu mor in some cases with the use of comedy diving and swimming also on the schedule. Events included on the program list the free style relay, demon stration of teaching techniques by novice swimmers (which will in clude submerging head, prone float, flutter kick, and freestyle), backstroke, “go as you please” re lay, kicking relay, and comedy life saving. Also scheduled for the program today and tomorrow include com edy life saving, breaststroke, and comedy diving. Swimming Tonight Among the swimmers who will swim tonight in the first night of the Water Carnival are Judy Lit ton, David Jones, Charles Tigner, Gail Schellesman, Sidney Smith, Louise Thompson, Alma Ann El liott, Steadman Davis, Mary Ann Linn, and Kenneth Thompson. Others are Mary L. Cathcart, Tommy Fowler, Samuel G. Cau- then, Shirley Ann Rogers, Pam Sperry, John Webb, Philip Rus sell, Mark Lindsey, Jack Makin, Elaine Waidhofer, Ray Wilson, Ronald L. Ledbetter, Bobby Adams, and Tommy Ledbetter. Also swimming tonight will be Claire Richmond, Dick Bosworth, Bill Ledbetter, Kathryn Gould, Bobby Medlin, Fred Brison, Mary Badgett, Cecelia Dayton, Bill Jones, and Linda Lynch. Gee Lamotte, Patsy Varvel, Nancy Beard, Brit Bell, John Bearrie, Cherrill Wil cox, Myra Mae Cauthen, Rufus Ramsey, and Sarah Goode may also swim in the meet tonight. Concluding the list of possible swimmers for tonight are John Hamner, James Covan, Shavor Patterson, David McQuire, Patsy Wilkins, Bill Breazeale, Donald Patton, Hugh Lindsey, Billy Rus sell, Bill Kavanaugh, John Rich mond, Willie Wilson, and Lucy Rodgers. PIANOS NEW and USED Capitol Piano Co. 501 N. College Bryan PHONE 3-3383 Australian Netters Win Na’tl Doubles Brookline, Mass., Aug. 22—(A 5 )— The U. S. 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