Wednesday, M^rch 21,1951
THE BATTALION
PageS
Ags Win National
Defensive Crown
By B. F. ROLAND
After a down-to-the-wire battle
with Oklahoma A&M, the Texas
Aggies have at last slipped away
with the National Defensive Cham
pionship.
A&M started the season slowly,
which was to be expected under
a new coach and a completely
different style of play, but with the
addition of four throttling starts
for NCAB representation, the Ag
gies ended the season with a 43.3
point limitation on their foes.
Second place Oklahoma A&M
posted a 44.G defensive record, but
the Iba Men have played three mox-e
games than the Floyd Men, 31.
No A&M
The first NCAA statistic sheet
was printed to include games
through Dec. 16—A&M wasn’t
listed. The Cadets had limited
North Texas to 35 points, Okla
homa City to 44, Siena to 56 and
Canisius to 44, but Duquesne Uni-
vei’sity broke the tape by stack
ing up 73 markers on the road-
weary Farmers.
When Southwest Texas totaled
119 points in two games, the first
defensive report was publicized.
Games through Dec. 30 found the
Aggies No. 13 in the country. They
had limited Sam Houston to 76
Cadets See
Floydmen Ofj
At least two thousand Cadets
turned out at the Southern Pac
ific station yesterday to see the
basketball team off to Kansas
City. A&M will meet the Uni
versity of Washington Huskies
Thursday night in their initial
game in the NCAA playoffs.
If A&M wins their first con
test, they will meet the win
ner of the Oklahoma A&M-Mon-
tana State game.
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points in two games and the Uni
versity of Houston tp 52 in one
contest. Trinity was held to 40 on
Dec. 29.
No. 10
Jan. 6 found A&M 10th in na-
tiopal standings. The Cadets had
played only one game during that
period, the Rice Owls whom they
held to 39 tallies. This was the
least number of points Rice made
in one game through the 1950-51
season.
At next report, Jan. 13, the Ag
gies had fallen back to the 13th
national position. TCU had been
held to 36 scores, but Baylor had
flipped in 53.
The SWC cage race was in full
swing by the time the next set of
national figures came through on
Jan. 20 and A&M had jumped up
to the ninth spot by holding SMU
to 51 points.
The following week A&M was
still in ninth place with the same
average of 48.2.
On Feb. 3, the Aggies took a big
jump to 3rd spot by allowing only
29 points to Texas and 33 to
Arkansas. The average had fallen
to 46.2.
With the Feb. 10 statistic pub
lication came A&M to take over
the nation’s defensive leadership
with a 44.8 average. TCU could
get only 30 tallies from Floyd’s
boys and Baylor was allowed only
36.
Games through Feb. 17 dropped
the Texas Aggies to second place,
five-tenths of a point behind an
other group of Aggies. These were
the Oklahoma Aggies headed by
Henry “The Iron Duke” Iba, for
mer teacher and coach of Floyd.
Arkansas and Houston had scored
45 and 46 points respectively.
Floyd’s Aggies jumped ahead
two-tenths of a point the next week
by limiting SMU to 43 and Rice
to 42. The average was 44.6.
Tied
At the end of the Cadet’s regu
lar schedule, Feb. 27 Texas had
scored 42 points on the Aggies,
enough to tic the Texas Fanners
with the Oklahoma Ags at an
average of 44.5.
The SWC playoffs cinched the
title for Texas A&M, for while
TCU had meshcd| 44 points in
Waco, the next tliree games with
the Steers saw only 100 markers
chalked up against the Aggies.
Final standings? The pupil had
surpassed the teacher for Texas
A&M won the National Defensive
title with an average, of 43.3 while
the Oklahoma Aggies trailed in
second place with 44.6.
Texas Wallops
Buckeyes Again
To Win Series
Austin, March 20CP)—Held hit
less for a 4 2/3 innings today,
the Texas Longhorns exploded in
the late frames to defeat the Ohio
State Buckeyes, 4-3.
The winning ran crossed the
plate as Guss Hrncir doubled in
the eighth and reached third on
centerfield Hein’s error. He scored
a moment later on Frank Kana’s
fly to right.
3 For 1
Texas went ahead in the sixth,
getting three runs on just one hit,
as starter Williams and reliefer
Bechtol walked two men.
Ohio State tied it 3-3 in the
seventh.
O. State 002 000 100—3 6 3
Texas 000 003 Olx—f 4 2
Williams, Bechtol (6) and Can
non; Womack, Deason (7) and
fate, Benson (6).
During the 1950 baseball season
in a Sooner State League game be
tween Ada and Pauls Valley there
were 14 balks, 18 walks, 30 hits
and 39 runs registered.
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Winning Ways
Continued By
Aggie Golfers
A&M’s golf team continues
in classic stride, as they
blanked St. Edward’s Univer
sity of Austin in a two team
and one singles match Mon
day afternoon on the Bryan Coun
try Club course.
In the first team match with
Johnnie Barrett and Bob Dahoney
of the Aggies pitted against Jim
Allbright and George Salhab, the
Cadets won 6 to 5. Barrett downed
Allbright 8 to 7, while Dahoney,
No. 1 man for the Farmer links-
men, stopped Salhab with a 5-4
score.
Bill Baker and Otto Guerrero
composed the second team for the
Cadets to score a 5 and 4 win
over the Austin team of John
Skard and Loren Milnarist. Baker
topped Skard 6 and 5, while Guer
rero won out over Milnarist by
the same tally.
In the only singles match of the
day, A&M’s J. C. Fletcher turned
back Bill Leahy of St. Edward’s
7 to 5.
St. Johns, Illinois,
NC Stale, Kentucky
Take First Starts
New York, March 21—UP)—Four
members of college basketball’s
elite top ten—Kentucky, St. John’s,
Illinois and North Carolina State
— will square off at Madison
Square Garden tomorrow night in
the semi-finals of the NCAA East
ern eliminations.
Kentucky, No. 1 nationally, will
face a tired St. John’s team, No.
9, Illinois, No. 5, will oppose North
Carolina State, No. 8. Illinois and
N.C. State are expected to play
the first game, at 7:45 p.m. (EST).
Those four powers moved for
ward last night in opening skirm
ishes at Madison Square Garden
and at Raleigh, N.C.
Western Battle
Meanwhile, the Western NCAA
will start catching up with the
East tonight, staging the first two
quarter-final games at Kansas
City.
Brigham Young, winner of the
National Invitational Tournament
last week, will take on little San
Jose State while Kansas State will
Triumphant Tracks lers
To Meet Rice and Texas
By RAY HOLBROOK
The devastating Texas Aggie
track team moves to Houston Fri
day to engage Rice and Texas in a
tri-meet.
Again, the Cadets will be heav
ily favored to beat both teams de
cisively, on the basis of last Sat
urday’s humiliating 91%—44% de
feat of Texas. Then, too, on the
basis of the 77-plus total at the
Border Olympics as compared to
second place Texas’ 39.
Leading the Ags will be the ex
plosive soph weight ace Darrow
Hooper, who will be trying, for the
third straight time, to break by
more than a foot the existing SWC
shot record. Hooper will also be
favored to retain his discus laur
els.
One of the day’s best races will
see the Cadets soph surprise Ed
Wilmson defending his undefeated
880 record against Rice’s Othq
Byrd and Bill Graf. They have
finished in that order at the Olym
pics.
Relay Fight
Texas’ 440 relay team will be
gunning for the Aggies after hav
ing come out second in both meets.
The Steers may be stronger this
week with the addition of Carl
Mayes, outstanding sprinter.
Another very close race should
be the high hurdles contest be
tween Paul Leming and Rice’s Bill
Howton. Leming edged Howton
at Laredo.
The Longhorns’ outstanding en
try will be Ralph Person who will
be favored in the 100 and low hur
dles over Ags Bill Stalter and Billy
Bless respectively.
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For another thrill, the two-mile
will pit Texas’ C. A. Rundell
against Aggies Charlie Gabriel and
Charles Hudgins.
Mitchell Goes
Don Mitchell looks to be the
conference’s outstanding quarter
milpr this year and should win
handily in Houston. The fine Ag
mile relay team, composed of Ber-
nie Place, Bob Mays, Fuston Mc
Carty and Mitchell should win eas
ily, also.
A feature of the meet will prob
ably be A&M’s great pole vault
foursome of Jack Simpson, Don
Graves, Malcolm Marks and Glen
Spradling, all of whom cleared 13
feet last Saturday. Simpson and
Graves are a good bet to clear the
14-foot mark Friday.
Graves and Longhorn Ray Wom
ack will dual again in the high
jump. Graves won last week after
tying Womack at Laredo.
Other Entries
Other A&M entries will be James
Baker, 220; Buddy Shaeffer, 440;
Robert Allen, J. A. Terry and Alex
Ortig, 880; Julian Herring, John
Garmany and Marshall Lazarine,
mile; Jim McMahon, two-mile, Con
rad Stelan and Bill Hansen, high
hurdles; Bobby Ragsdale, low hur
dles and broad jump; Jim Dimmitt,
high jump; Bill Henry, broad
jump; Bob Smith, shot and discuss;
and Dan Pratt, javelin.
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face Arizona. K-State and Arizona
play first at 9 P.M. (EST).
Oklahoma’s Aggies, favored to
win the Western title and play
heavily-supported Kentucky for the
title at Minneapolis March 27, will
open their bid tomorrow night
against Montana State.
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Washington, Pacific Coast
champion, will oppose Texas A-
&M in the other game.
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Kentucky had its troubles for a
while at Raleigh last night but
brought its class to the surface in
time to trounce a fired-up Louis
ville team, '/g-GS.
N.C. State, playing without three
of its stars, thumped Villanova,
67-62.
At Madison Square Garden, Il
linois’ Big Ten champions shatter
ed Columbia’s unbeaten record —
the only one left—79-71, while St.
John’s disposed of little Connecti
cut, 63.52.
Until they ran up against Illi
nois’ Ted Beach and Don Sunder-
(See UPSET, Page 4)
Don Mitchell, Aggie 440 and mile
relay speedster, will be one of
the top A&M entries at Houston
Friday. Mitchell currently won
the 440 in the Texas meet with
a time of 49.8.
Wallace, Russell Lead
Ags Over Sam Houston
By FRED WALKER
Batt Asso. Sports Editor
Hitting the ball to all comers of
the park and then out of it, the
Aggies slugged the Sam Houston
State Bearkats into submission yes
terday afternoon, 16-8.
Leading the way for the Cadets
was shortstojp Guy Wallace, and
left,fielder Jimmy Russell.
Wallace, All-SWC shortstop last
year, had started the season slow
ly, but yesterday he eluminated all
doubts of a possible slump as he
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Houston
AB
R
H PO
A
Lloyd, ss
5
1
1
0
1
Loth, If
4
1
2
2
0
Duncan, cf
5
2
1
2
2
J. Hughes, c
2
0
0
3
1
Hodges, c
3
1
1
2
0
O. Hughes, rf ...
5
1
2
2
0
Gottlob, ?b
4
1
2
0
1
Farrar, lb
Crews, lb
Wilkins, 2b
4
0
1
6
0
1
0
0
2
0
4
0
2
5
1
Bilnoski, 2b
1
0
0
0
0
Hernandez, p ...
0
0
0
0
0
Suba, p
2
0
0
0
0
Jackson, p
2
1
1
0
0
Totals
41
8
13
24
14
A & M
AB
R
II PO
A
Wallace, ss
5
4
4
0
4
Dishman, ss
1
0
0
0
0
Baker, cf
4
2
3
1
1
Minger, cf
1
0
0
0
0
Lary, lb
4
2
0
9
0
Munnerlyn, lb ...
0
1
0
1
0
McPherson, rf ...
4
2
2
1
0
Britt, rf
2
1
2
1
0
Russell, If
3
1
2
0
0
Taylor, If
1
0
0
0
0
Candelari, 3b
3
0
1
1
0
Lasterlick, 3b
1
0
0
1
0
Ecrette, 2b
4
1
1
3
5
Cackey, 2b
1
0
0
0
1
Hamilton, c
5
0
1
9
0
Hubert, p
3
1
1
0
2
Brown, p
1
0
0
0
1
a—Ogletree
1
1
1
0
0
Totals
44
16
18
27
14
Score by Innings:
S. Houston.. 100 003 310— 8 13 6
A&M 530 222 llx—16 18 4
a—Ogletree singled for Hubert
in 6th.
SB—Ecrette, Baker, Lacy; LP,
Hernandez; WP, Hubert.
RBI—Wallace 4, McPherson,
Candelari, Ecrette, Hamilton 2,
Russell 5, Hubert, Baker, J. Hugh
es, Gottlob 2, O. Hughes, Farrar,
Wilkins, Hodges: Errors—Dish-
man, Taylor, Lasterlick, Ecrette,
Hubert, Lloyd, Duncan 2, J.
Hughes, Gottlob, Wilkins; 2b—Mc
Pherson 2, Wallace, Russell, Hu
bert, Wilkins, O. Hughes, HR^—
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slapped out two homers, a double
and a single, batted in four runs
and scored four runs In four trips
to the plate.
Russell, who hammered his sec
ond home run of the ’51 campaign
during the second inning, led A&M
in RBI’s by knocking ground five
scorers. Another hit, a double,
gave Russell two for three.
’Kats Lead Off
The ’Kats drew first blood in
the top of the first when an error,
a HBP and a long fly by Jake
Hughes scored shortstop ' Bubba
Lloyd.
An answering rally started
from the Aggie bench when Wal
lace lifted the second pitch 357
feet away from home plate to tie
the score. A walk to Hollis Baker
and a Bearkat error, which found
Yale Lary safe at first, was follow
ed by Shug McPherson’s double
which scored Baker.
Lary then tallied on a long fly
by Hank Candelari and was fol
lowed home by McPherson as Joe
Ecrette singled. The Aggie second
baseman pooled a steal, an error
and Tom Hamilton’s single to score
a few minutes later.
Add Three
A&M followed the five-run first
inning by clouting out three more
runs in the second as singles by
Wallace and Baker were followed
by a tremendous home run by
Russell. A&M led 8-1 at the end
of two.
Two more were picked up by
A&M in the fourth when Russell
doubled home Lary and McPher
son. Another pair was added in
the fifth when Hubert doubled,
Wallace doubled and Baker sing
led.
Sam Houston rallied for three in
the sixth when they bunched an er
ror, by Oz Hughes, Cotton Gottlob
and R. L. Farrar and a double
from Ray Wilkinst to collect three
runs.
Wallace Homers
The Aggies got two in their half
of the inning when Wallace hit his
second four-bagger to score pinch-
hitter A1 Ogletree ahead of him.
Three in the seventh and one
more in the eighth was all the scor
ing for the Bearkats, while the Ca
dets picked up one in both these
innings.
Dave Britt scored in the seventh
when Hamilton was forcing Joe
Lasterlick at second.
The last Aggie tally came when
Bill Munnerlyn, after walking and
going to third on Britt’s single,
tore home on a ’Kat error.
Ags On Road
Tomorrow and Friday the Aggies
will meet the Brooke Field Medics
at San Antonio. In two previous
games with the Medics, A&M won
the first, 8-7, but lost the second,
2-1.
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