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Starting tomorrow at A&M and at the other Southwest Conference schools is King Football, with sixty players expected to be trying for berths on the Aggie squad. Leading interference for Yale Lary is Don Pfefferkorn during one of the intrasquad games played during spring train ing. Jim Dpbbyn (42) tackled Lary, while the person in the center trying to get out of the way is End Coach Dog Dawson, who was acting as an official for the game. Mize’s Two Homers Gain Yankees AL First Place Sixty Aggies Expected Friday For Start Of Football Practice New York, Aug. 31—(A 1 )—Pow ered by the big bat of Johnny Mize, New York’s defending champion Yankees soared into first place in the seething American League race yesterday by sweeping both ends of a doubleheader from the Cleve land Indians, 4-3 and 3-0. 1'he Yankees’ twin victories for ces a complete revision in the first division. New York took the lead from Deti’oit, which had a twi- night doubleheader on tap in Wash ington, by one game. The Tigers had been on top for 81 consecutive days, since June 10. Consolidated Eleven Begins Practice Friday The A&M Consolidated Ti-*- gers will be on the move again tomorrow when workouts be gin in Tiger Stadium. Head Football Coach Othel Chafin has nine returning letter- men, seven of which were starters last season. Last year, the Ma- ioons finished in second place in 1 he district with a 7-1-1 record. This year may be a different story for the Tigers who are in a new district. Coach Chafin says that he doesn’t know how the team will stack up this year, since they are” in the ‘ hew district. Returning lettermen are full backs Gayle Klipple and Roland Jones; quarterback George Johns ton; halfbacks Bobby Williams and Jerry Leighton; guards Jack Bur- chard and Royce Rogers; tackle Eddie Guthrie; and end Billy Rich ards. Expected to report for fall train ing tomorrow include backs Dave Bonnen, Luzon Beaucamp, Jimmy Bond, and Joe Motheral; guards Dan Williams, Thomas Wade, Ken-^ jieth Worsham, and Don Royder; centers Bobby Smith and Pinkney Cooner; tackles Melvin Free, Don Burchard, Bob Barlow, James Johnston, and David Carroll; and ends Jimmy Richards, Bill Blakely, Freddie Lenz, and Dick Frend. Mize blasted a pair of homeruns, one in each game. His first round- tripper started Bob Feller on the road to his 10th defeat of the sea son. His second, and 15th of the campaign, came with a man on base and gave Lefty Ed Lopat more than enough runs to register his fifth straight triumph over his Cleveland cousins. Mize also collected a couple of line singles, missed a third homer by the narrowest of margins, and drew a walk in the eighth inning of the first game that eventually became the winning run. A pinch single by Tommy Hen- rich in the eighth inning follow ing walks to Mize and Billy John- Battalion SPORTS TUBS., AUG. 31, 1950 Page 3 Othel Chafin A&M Consolidated Coach Bryan Z'Svffl TODAY thru SAT. She understood as only a woman can- giving all for the man she loved.! Saturday Prevue 11:00 p.m. ■h/lMccss THAM W 'M/ f&fhp /BMA* TC Footballers Begin Practice Abilene, Tex., Aug. 31 — (/P) — Texas conference football comes of age this fall, since this will be the twenty-first season of play for the state’s second oldest league. Six schools issue equipment to day and begin practice sessions Friday morning. They are Abilene Christian College, Austin College, Howard Payne, McMurray, South western University and Texas A&I. McMurray enjoys the same role it played in 1948 and 1949, that of defending champion, but the his tory books shows that it wasn’t always so. Howard Payne holds the biggest number of champion ships. The Yellow Jackets have won nine titles and shared in two other flags. Behind Howard Payne is Mc- Murry with two outright titles (1948 and 1949) and half of the 1947 flag (divided with Hardin College, now Midwestern Univer sity)- Frequently a doormat and now once more a threat, Austin College is the only other school to gain two unshared championships. Southwestern has taken one out- right title (the first flag at stake, in 1927) and shared in another. Abilene Christian shared top spot three times. Texas A&I is the only present member that has not won at least a share in a championship, but the Javelinas joined the conference only last season. son broke a 3-3 tie in the first game and gave Tom Ferrick his eighth victory of the season. Cleveland dropped into fourth place, a game and a half behind the Red Sox, who topped the Chicago White Sox, 6-1, in Boston. Red Sox 6, White Sox Boston, Aug. 31—CP)—By scor ing four unearned runs in the third Boston's Red Sox, registered their 15th victory in their last 16 games yesterday, a 6-1 decision over Chicago. The Chicagoans com mitted three errors in Boston’s four run third inning. Cubs 6, Dodgers 5 Chicago, Aug 31—CP)—Walt Dubiel scored the first victory of his career over the Dodgers yes terday as the Cubs beat Brooklyn 6-5. Dubiel needed help in the ninth from relief pitcher Bob Rush and shortstop Roy Smalley Rush put down the Brooks after they had scored two runs on Dub iel. Smalley made a diving catch of Gil Hodges’ liner with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth. Giants 4, Pirates 0 Pittsburgh, Aug. 31—(A 5 )—Sal Maglie fashioned a five-hit shut out last night as he pitched the New York Giants to a 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates before 7,794 fans—one of the smallest night crowds in Pirates history. Braves 9, Reds 4 Cincinnati, Aug. 31—OP)—Vern Bickford Easils won his 17th game of the season yesterday, 9 to 4, as the Hostoh Braves pounded (lincjn- natti pitchers for 15 hits, mcliid- mg three homers. Tigers 10-2, Senators 3-3 Washington, Aug. 30—CP)—De troit rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to snare the second game of a twilight-night double- header from Washington last night, 10-3. The Senators won the first game, 3-2, in 11 innings. Phillies 9, Cards 8 St. Louis, Aug. 31—(A 5 )— A pinch double by Dick Whitman and a long fly by Jimmy Bloodworth brought in three runs in the ninth inning to give the Philadelphia Phillies a 9 to 8 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals last night. By FRANK N. MANITZAS Battalion Sports Editor Tomorrow on football fields all over the nation and especially in the Southwest Conference, football will be underway. At A&M, the Aggies will begin at 9 a. m. with another workout scheduled for 4 p. m., following the usual practice of two workouts each day such as is performed throughout the conference. Sixty men are expected to re port for play at A&M with all of last year’s lettermen, with the ex ception of six who graduated, plus added assistance from last year’s freshman ranks and ineligibles. Among the returnees is Andy Hillhouse, who should be one of the top candidates in the league for all-conference honors at the end position. He sparkled as a sophomore in ’48 but was not in school during the ’49 season. His height (6’2”) and weight (220) will help him along his way. The question which must be solved for the Aggies is the same as that on four of the other SWC campuses—who will be the quarterback ? Gardemal First At the present time, Dick Garde mal, who last year directed the Cadets to a 27-27 tie with SMU, is in the top spot, having a year of experience behind him. Sophomores Ray Graves and Dar- rbw Hooper and Gardemal’s class- DYEF*S'FU & 5TO RAG EH ATT EPS moricciri —College Station Representative— LOUPOT S TRADING POST Goode Scores Tally For Red Skins Dallas, Aug. 31—(AP) — The old pass master, ancient Sammy Baugh, creaked off the bench and pulled one out of the fire last night for the Washington Redskins. He sparked ?.h 80-yard touchdown drive with three minutes to go to bring the Redskins a 28-24 allout offensive decision over the youthful, ebullient Detroit Lions in a National Foot ball League exhibition. Sam tried to ram it over but pouldn’t make it in two tries. So he turned it bver to Texas A&M’s Bob Goode, who slashed across for the winning touchdown. Texas’ Bobby Layne passed for three touchdowns and Southern Methodist’s Doak Walker kicked a field goal to give Detroit a 24-21 lead early in the fourth period. Harry Gilmei*, the Alabama great, had done most of the pass ing for Washington up to that time, with two of his shots bringihg touchdowns. Then Baugh put on a show for the home folks. The old Texas Christiah star now in his four teenth season of professional foot ball unfurled his buggy-whip arm and pitched a 19-yarder to Bill Dudley on the Detroit one-yard line. Then came the final score. A crowd of 50,000 saw the game played in the Cotton' Bowl for the benefit of charity. Harry Stiteler Head Football Coach mate Delmar Sikes are the other candidates filing for the man un der job. On the ends, the Cadets, will be redeiving support from the only two-year letterman at this posi tion—Cedric Copeland, previously mentioned Hillhouse, Dorbandt Barton, Jaro Netardus, Cotton Hill, and newcomers Jerry Cross man, Walter Hill, Charles Saxe, and Roy Bush. Two year lettermen on the tackle posts include Tuck Chapin, Mick ey Spenser, Dwayne Tucker, and members with one-letter Russ Hu- deck, and Sam Moses. Among the newcomers who should show pro mise include Bobby Dixon, Jack Little, Alvin Langford, T. K. Ni- land, Harvey Smith, and Durwood Scott. Greiner, Molberg—Again Max Greiner and Carl Molberg are almost sure cinches for the guard positions which they ably held last year, but if needed one- year award winners Elo Nohavit- zas,. Murry Holditch, and W. T. Rush will be available. Starting on offense at center will be either Hugh Meyer or Bob Bates although Jimmy Flowers could give both considerable trouble if he gets down to work. Flowers outweighs Bates five pounds and Meyer 17 pounds. Flowers is also used some on defense along with James Fowler and Bates. Two-year letterman Charley Royalty and Glenn Lippman will alternate at left halfbick, while the right halfback position will be decided between Charley McDon ald, Buddy Shaeffer, and Billy Tidwell. Connie Magourik up from the Fish team, may be used some on defense, if he shows the form demonstrated near the end of last Other things which TU says it needs to win are to develop its inexperienced halfbacks, achieve better balance in its ground game, and improve its kicking game, and, of course a better deal from Lady Luck than the one which it received last year. ★ SMU ★ At Dallas, 65 Mustangs will re port to new Head Coach H. N. Russell tomorrow where they too will participate in the twice-a-day workouts until the opening of school. Already claiming injuries and with the graduation of a large number of their regulars, SMU seems to have a long way to go if it is to finish as high in the na tion and even conference as many are predicting. Karo Kyle Rote will be the big gun with the Ponies and is the only man on squad to have been a letterman regular for the past two seasons. Others who have gained two letters at SMU include Co-captain Bobby Collier, Neal Franklin, and Bob Vann, tackles; Bill Richards, halfbacks; Sam Wood, center, and Bill Sullivan, end. Players with one letter and pro bable lettermen in the coming sea son are Johnny Chapipion, Pat Knight, Gene Roberts, H. N. Rus sell, Jr., Henry Stollenwerck, I. D. Russell, and Fred Benners, backs; Herschel Forester, guard; Dick Hightower, center; Charles Perry, tackle; and Ben White, end. ★ Rice ★ Rice Institute will be stronger than everyone thinks, mainly be cause of its experienced backfield. With linemen comparable to right tackle Paul Giroski, 6’ 5” and 235 pounds, the Owls should do all right. With some 56 gridsters expect ed to be fighting for berths start ing tomorrow at Rice, Head Coach Jess Neely isn’t feeling as sure as he was last year, for the heavy, hard-hitting line which made the Blue and Gray the fifth team in the nation is gone. Rice will still have a hig line with the tackles, guards, and cen ters all weighing over 200 pounds and the ends weighing in on an average of 190 pounds. With Vernon Glass, who should be one of the best in the con ference this season, in the man- under position, the Owls will be one of the best controlled clubs in that spot. Last year, Glqss led the Feathered Flock to a thrilling 17-15 victory over Texas Long horns. In the backfield, look for Billy Burkhalter, Sonny Wyatt, Rex Proctor, and George Glauser while linemen Lee Stonestreet, G'ene Lit tle, Ike Neuman, Glenn Walls, Bob Winship, Giroski, Frank Allen, and A. L. Houghton top Rice pros pects. ★ TCU ★ TCU’s Head Coach Dutch Meyer, who is beginning his 17th year with the Horned Frogs as football coach, will start tomorrow with 58 players. Broken down they num ber nine ends, 12 tackles, 12 guards, five centers, six quarter backs, six fullbacks, and eight half backs. The Purple’s line will average around 199 on offense and 204 on defense with the respective back- lields averaging around 190 and 182. Along with the 24 lettermen re turning are tentative starters guard Tom Evans, fullback Bobby Jack Floyd, and halfback Malvin Fowler who have yet to play var sity ball. The TCU team will be young and in the backfield—weak, with the departure of Lindy Berry and Jack Archer. Replacements for the above will probably come from Team Cap tain Red Marable, and Charlie Jackson, who is co-captain. The big thing which the backfield can boast of is more speed. Dan Wilde, Johnny Dunn, and Texas Class A high school sprint champion of ’48 Bobby Harding can provide the speed which will be needed by the Frogs. Summarizing, TCU will have good manpower and fair exper ience which Coach Meyer will try to tie in with his new formation, the T-wing, which may help the Christians live up to expectations. ★ Arkansas * men of the squad with three let ters, and guard Charles Milam. Other returning lettermen include ends Frank Fischel, Jack Richards, Marvin Stendel, and Pat Summer- all, tackles George Eckert, Dave Hanner, Travis Simpson, and Fred Williams. Returning guards include Buddy Brown, Don Reiderer, and Jack Rushing, center Harold Stockton, quarterbacks Don Logue, Jim Rinehart, and Charlie Temple. At the backfield posts are half quarterback. At the present time Hayden Fry, who will be working towards his fourth letter, Larry Isbel, and Bob Reid will be hustling for the man- under-position. Team Captain Frank Boydstun at fullback, Stan ley Williams at left end, Walter Bates at offensive guard, and Steve Dowden at offensive tackle are the regular starting holdovers. Usually a team with 20 letter- men won’t be classified as inex perienced, but the Baylorites claim backs Joe Dugan and Sammy Furo, many are injured and may not be halfbacks Ray Parks and Buddy Rogers, and fullbacks Baldridge and Louie Schaufele. ★ Baylor ★ It’s a re-building job at Baylor. That’s the task which will con front the third new coach in the conference—George Sauer. With the graduation of All-Conference quarterback Adrian Burk, Baylor is also faced with the problem of finding a suitable player who will be ready for conference play as a year. ready in time. Summing it up ; the Southwest Conference is beginning a year in which the majority of the teams will be stronger and already two teams—TU and SMU—have gained national recognition and are rank ed high among the top ten. At a glance the SWC teams will win the greatest margin of its in tersectional tilts, and maybe, up to three teams will be playing in bowl games at the first of the Roughs Move To 1st Place Tulsa, Dkla., Aug. 31—CP)—The Beaumont Roughnecks advanced into first place here last night as they blasted the Tulsa Oilers for 20 hits to score 16 runs to the home team’s 6, moving into first place. ® Oklahoma City, Aug. 31—(TP)— A twice-tied Texas League game ended after 10 innings last night with Shreveport on the important end of a 4-2 decision. Shreveport put a knot in iKe score in the sixth, went ahead '2-1 in the eighth, but the Indians made it all even in the bottom of the frame. The Sports got two runs 'in the 10th. • Dallas, Aug. 31—(A 3 )—Hurler Joe Presko of Houston put a brake on the Dallas Eagles’ drive toward a play-off position in the Texas League race by stopping the Eagles 6-1 here yesterday. « Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 31—(TP) —San Antonio’s Missions won a doubleheader from the Fort Worth Cats here last night, 16-11, and 2-0, to knock the Cats from the Texas League lead for the first time since early May. The second game went 10 innings. MORE MONEV Specials for Thurs., Friday & Sat. - Aug. 31 - Sept, 1 & 2 Washington ... 0 14 Detroit 7 7 7 7—28 7 3—24 Washington scoring: touchdowns — Goodnight, Taylor, Dudley, | Goode. Points after touchdown— j Dudley 4. Detroit scoring: Touchdowns— Box 2, Hafen. Points after touch down—Walker 3. Field goal—Walk- ! er. The puting duties will again fall to Yale Lary who last year fin ished high among the conference punters, and Shaeffer and Hooper will probably do the point-after touchdown booting. A sure cinch at fullback is All- Conference contender Bob Smith, who, if he doesn’t get hurt, may prove to be the best back in the conference. ★ TU ★ For the seventh time in the last ten years, the Texas Long horns have been picked to win the SWC title, but this time they seem to have a clear road unless . . Well, one never knows. The Orange and White will be gin stomping in the grass tomor row and Coach Blair Cherry will be looking for the same man as Coaches Harry Stiteler, Otis Doug las of Arkansas, George Sauer of Baylor and Dutch Meyer of TCU. Leading the field for the man to work the T for the Steers is Ben Tompkins, who didn’t even letter last year. Of the other 55 candidates on the Forty Acres, Dan Page, transfer from Tyler Junior College, and T. Jones, star j unless Jimmie Smith, quarterback while at Childress, will j pushes him out also be hustling for the position At right halfback will probably vacated by Paul Campbell. I be Ross Pritchard, one of the two High in the Ozark Hills, the Razorbacks will be getting the split-T down pat for the rest of the conference foes with 47 can didates available for the eleven positions. New Head Coach Otis Douglas who coached . the Philadelphia Eagles the year that the pros stomped the All-Stars, 38-0, at Soldiers’ Field, will be using pro type defense—no one more than six feet behind the line of scrim mage—and a man-to-man cover age. Arkansas boasts of a heavy team and a speedy one. Joe Baldridge and Lewis Car penter will be hustling to replace the hole left open with the de- partm-e of Geno Mazzanti and Leon “Muscles” Campbell. Bob Griffin is also expected to fit in with the split-T at the center post a junior No. 3 Diamond Tomatoes 10c Diamond No. 300 Pork & Beans . 3 for 23c No. 303 Del Dixi Hominy ... 5c No Limit Sugar 5 lbs. 46c Heinz—1 Gallon White Vinegar 65c Heinz—Gallon Cider Vinegar 75c Large Kleenex 21c Miracle Whip Salad . . qt. 59c Peter Pan—12 Oz. 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