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I IF 1 11 'fiir iiifii vm 1 Tuesday, April 10, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Wilkinson SaysAgs To Be One Of Top Teams Next Year By FRANK DAVIS and BILL STREICH Battalion! News Staff “Texas A&M is in one of the best positions of any college in the nation to win national football honors this season.” These were the words of Charles R. (Bud) Wilkinson, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Oklahoma. He made the statement to Battalion reporters attending the Southwest Journalism Congress held ^ and Saturday, April 7, at the Oklahoma Friday 6 and school. Wilkinson, who kas carried his Sooner squad to the post season Sugar Bowl contest for the past three years, based his opinion on the fact that the Aggies retain an exceptionally large percentage of their 1950 team which gave the Oklahomans a long afternoon be fore being outscored in the clos ing minutes of the game. “Of course, the coaching situa tion at A&M will have a direct bearing on the team’s chances in the 1951 season, “the Sooner mentor added. The Aggies, in Wilkinson’s esti mation, had one of the three best, if not the best team, that Oklahoma faced in the 1950 season. Kentucky and TU were the other teams that were held in high regard by the youthful coach. “Boh Smith is the best offen sive back that we faced last year and probably the best ground gainer that football has produced since the close of the war,” last season’s “Coach of the Year” commented. The 39-year old Wilkinson, who brings his team to College Station early in the 1951 season, said he would have preferred to play the Aggies in a large city such as Houston or Dallas, because of the- diffficulty in securing adequate ac- *comodations in the College Station vicinity for the large Oklahoma squad. When informed that A&M was to r be written up in the Saturday ^ Evening Post as the “noisiest col lege in the United States,” Wil kinson said he felt organized yell ing, a prominent feature at all Aggie athletic contests, was a def inite aid to the home team. However, the yelling does not seriously handicap the opposing team, he added. Bud Wilkinson . . . told Battalion reporters at a Journalism Congress that A&M should be one of the top teams in the nation next year. The Oklahoma “Coach of the Year” also stated that Bruisin’ Bob Smith was “one of the best, if not the best back” he had ever seen. 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(Bud) Wilkinson of the University of Oklahoma who spoke to delegates from 13 schools attending the an nual meeting of the Southwest Journalism Congress held at Nor man, Oklahoma, Friday and Satur day, April G and 7. “Today’s sports page, instead of printing the straight story, has drifted into a sheet giving the read er little more than editorialized comments and predictions,” Wil kinson said. A college newspaper, or any other newspaper, should in the opinion of the coach, try to pre sent both sides of a sports con troversy. An honest attempt to get all the facts ought to be made before the paper prints any kind of story. “ . . . Learn Sports ...” “If a person really wants to be a sports reporter, he should learn as much about sports in general, and especially the sports he wants to cover, as he can. “Most college athletic depart ments will be glad to cooperate with a reporter, but they don’t like the paper to misrepresent the facts,” Wilkinson emphasized. Wilkinson, who is entering his fourth year at Oklahoma as head football coach and athletic direct or is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in English. He was voted the honor of being “Football’s Coach of the Year” for the last two seasons. Dale Long, rookie up with the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit at least one home run in every ball park in the Eastern League last season. TODAY & WEDNESDAY The Damned Don’t Cry’ THURSDAY & FRIDAY (First Time in This Area at Popular Prices) m ACADEMY AWARD WINHERI LflUREIUE OLIVIER by WIUIAM SHAKES?!All A Uuvenal-iato'*at«Kil lelsme A 1 AI.IHUA SANK EXTUJ>t!SI Fish Bats-Pitching Whip Wharton 12-4 By CHUCK NEIGHBORS Battalion Sports Staff In a wild ninth inning rally sparked by the blow-up of Whar ton’s pitching, the Aggie Fish ti-ounced the Wharton “Pioneers” Saturday, 12-4. A1 Fuchs, Fish right fielder, knocked out three hits, and scored two runs to aid considerably in the Fish victory. The Fish pitchers held Wharton to four runs and seven hits in a fine exhibition of hurling. Sills had a total of three strike outs and Mel Work, who relieved him in the fifth inning, had seven. Errors Hurt Errors in crucial places hurt the Aggies and allowed one Wharton rUn to cross the plate. Wharton errors put five Fish on the bases. Ernie Lawrence’s double with one man on was responsible for the Aggie’s first run in the fourth inning. After Wharton had taken an early lead in the second inning after a triple by O’Reagan of the “Pioneers” drove in a run. Bob Naiser, Wharton pitcher, did very well until the eighth inn ing when A&M got to him for a walk, a run, and a hit. Ninth Blows Up In the explosive ninth, Buck Jackson began the inning with a walk, and ended it with a strikeout. Work started the fireworks with A&M AB R H E Lawrence, cf 5 0 12 Milligan, If 110 0 Hunt, 2b 3 110 Marin, 2b 0 2 0 1 Leissner, ss 4 111 Schero, 3b 5 0 10 Stephens, 3b 110 0 Selman, lb 6 12 1 Fuchs, rf 5 2 3 1 West, rf 3 0 0 0 Jackson, If T: 2 1 0 0 Patterson, c 4 10 0 Sills, p 10 0 0 Work, p 3 110 Totals 43 12 11 6 Wharton AB R H E Pearson, lb 5 0 0 0 Williams, If 3 12 1 F. Neiser, If 10 0 0 Trojack, cf 2 0 0 0 Treybig, cf 10 0 0 O’Reagan, c 3 0 10 Woods, 2b 4 0 0 0 Fuentes, 2b 10 10 Hatch, p&cf 3 2 10 Copps, 3b 5 110 Kiesling, ss 4 0 15 Gilder, ss 0 0 0 0 Naiser, p 3 0 0 0 Totals. .36 4 7 6 Big Man * MS I E l ■fc, ■»*.,»i Guy Wallace . . . was the big man at the plate yesterday for A&M. The Aggie baseball captain got two doubles in two trips and batted in two runs. ITS THE GRILL for Real Taste TREATS • Home Made Chili • Delicious Malts • Bar-B-Q Sandwiches • Friendly Service B<S B nohth gats a single through short, and Milli gan and Marin walked. Leissner struck out, Stephens went to first on a fielder’s choice, Selman singled, then A1 Fuchs came to the plate and hit a base clearing triple deep in left, field. Coach Dalton Faircloth is fair ly well pleased at the progress his team is making^ both in the field and at the plate. The Fish have shown plenty of ability, especially in the field, but their hitting still has room for improvement. Texas. SMU In Wins Over Baylor, Rice Austin, April 10—OP)—The fast slants of Jim Ehrler brought the University of Texas from behind to beat Baylor 5-1 yesterday. Texas has a conference record of 3-0. Ehrler, using a right-handed sizzling speed ball, struck out 16 Baylor batters and ' walked only two, allowing but three hits. He matched his pitching with good hitting. In four trips, Ehrler got two hits, driving in one run and scoring another'. Houstin, April 10—(A*)—SMU jumped on three Rice pitchers yes terday while taking a 9 to 3 verdict from the Owls. Fred Benners, Mustang football passing ace, allowed the Owls eight hits but kept them scattered. Box Score TCU AB R H PO A King, 3b 4 0 12 2 Carroll, ss 4 0 2 2 3 Ethridge, 2b 2 0 2 2 0 Elliot, lb 5 1 1 10 0 Barnes, If 5 114 0 Stepp, cf 5 2 2 2 0 Rose, rf 3 0 0 0 0 Looney, c 2 0 15 1 Salim, p 3 110 3 Graves, p 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 35 A&M AB Wallace, ss 3 Ecrette, 2b 4 Lary, lb 4 McPherson, rf 4 DeWitt, If 3 Candelari, 3b 3 Baker, cf 4 Hamilton, c 2 Ogletree, c 1 Goodloe, p 2 Blanton, p 0 Hubert, p 0 a—Munnerlyn 0 b—Dishman 1 c—Britt 1 5 11 27 9 R H PO A 2 2 13 0 14 3 0 16 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 8 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 4 6 27 11 a—walked for Hamilton in 8th. b—Singled for Blanton in 8th. Score by innings: TCU 000 302 00—5 A&M 100 000 03—4 Errors— McPherson, Ethridge, Goodloe, DeWitt, Wallace, Ecrette, Stepp 2, Salim, King, Wallace 2, Lary. 2B—Wallace 2, McPherson. SB—Candelari. DP—Candelari to Ecrette to Lary; Wallace to Ec rette to Lary; Ecrette to Wallace to Lary Salim 2; Goodloe 6; Blanton, 1; Graves 3; Hubert 2. BOB — Salim 2; Goodloe 6; Blanton 1 Graves 1; Hubert 1; Graves. PB— Hamilton, Looney HBP—Ethridge Looney 2 (Goodloe) LP—Goodloe WP—Salim. Hits and Runs off Sal im 5 and 4 in 7 (o out in 9th). Goodloe 8 and 5 in 5 2/3. Blanton 2 and 0 in 2 1/3; Graves 1 and 0 in 2; Hubert 1 and 0 in 1. LO— TCU 11; A&M 5: Earned runs— TCU 2; A&M 4. Umpires—Ton- gate, Bonneau. rniTra Bryan Z'8$79 LAST DAY QUEEN of a FfiONTOR GAMBLING HOUSE! QUEEN NOW SHOWING Frogs Score Three Unearned Runs and Slip Past A&M 5-4 By FRED WALKER Battalion Sports Editor Aggie baseball pennant hopes took a serious jolt yesterday after noon on Kyle Field when the TCU Horned Frogs scored three un earned runs to upset A&M 5-4. TCU just didn’t figure” to beat the Aggies during pre-game time, but the nine who had already dropped two to SMU, whom the Cadets whipped twice last week end, rode home in the ninth on the fireballing arm of Norris (Knob by) Graves. Trailing since the fourth inning, the Aggies turned on the fire in the eighth and tallied three runs off of Frog starter, Mike Salim, but Graves took the long walk in and finished the chores. The tying run had been Shug McPherson on second but Aggie left fielder John DeWitt bounced out pitcher to first and A&M came up one count short. The big ninth was filled with as much excitement as possible when Henry (Yogi) Candelari led off with a pass, but after Hollis Baker and A1 Ogletree went down swing ing the crowd momentarily cooled. Rhubarb Tension broke out anew, how ever, after Candelari stole second and tying possibilities again be came bright. But after the base was hiked, a good sized rhubarb broke out on a reversed decision which once more found the Aggies on the mean end. Umpire Bonneau, the balls and strikes man, had signaled a ball on the pitch which sent Cande lari to second. With that, Frog coach Walter Roach came roaring off the bench in bitter dispute. Roach claimed pinch-hitter Jim Britt had taken a full cut. A few minutes later, after Bon neau hurried out to confer with base umpire Jim T o n g a t e the decision was reversed and a three-two count was given to Britt. That only added fuel to the fire as the Aggie bench, belligerently led by team captain Guy Wallace, swarmed down upon the two of ficials. When the smoke, jerking heads and sound expletives had cleared, ML! MHU! MPS YMCA Swimmers To San Antonio Bob Elder and his YMCA swim ming team will go to San Antonio Saturday to take part in the region al YMCA swimming meet. Members of the team are: Tom Barlow, Pete Hickman, Robert Clelland, John Robert Smith, Al bert Stevens, Dick Weick, R. Boughton, Gayle Klipple, Tommy Terrell, Wally Penberthy, George Boyett and Bob Barlow. Last year this team won the area meet which included Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— , 1:44 . 3 : 48 - 5:52 - 7:56 - 10:00 ^MRD'^CHIIllCIl NEWS — CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN SHE SNARES THE MAN HER BEST FRIEND LOVES! starring l JANE GREER-DENNIS O'KEEFE NEWS — CARTOON Britt still had a three-two count and everyone in the park was go ing nuts Their sanity was re stored 20 seconds later as Britt fluttered at the big third one. A&M had just lost its second conference in four starts. Fast Start The Aggies’ bats and starting pitcher Sid Goodloe started off as if the game would be a holiday. While Goodloe was eating Frog gies whole, the Cadets bad already scored a first-inning talley when Joe Ecrette singled home Wallace after the Aggie shortstop had started mixing the salad with a lead-off two-timer. For three innings Goodloe cramped TCU, giving up but one hit and striking out five, but in the fourth the sky fell in and three Toad runs crossed the plate. Two singles, an error, and an other single brought two men scampering home. The throw home had sent RBI’ing Wade Step to second and a passed ball advanced him to third. After Goodloe had clunked catcher Bill Looney with the ball, pitcher Salim tossed out an infield hit to send home the third run. Two more TCU runs scored in the sixth after two were down. Stepp had gone to first with his second single and advanced to sec ond when Salim walked. Lead-off man Hervey King singled to left, but the ball kept going through DeWitt’s legs and rolled back to the fence. Two Froggies came home. Strategy Pays Coach Beau Bell sent in two fast, small men to pinch hit in the eighth. Bill Mutmerlyn drew a walk from Graves and James Dishman laced a single and sent Munnerlyn to third. Wallace con nected with his second double to score both men. Wallace scored when King forgot to throw in Yale Lary’s foul out. Hubert relieved fireman Sam Blanton in the ninth and promptly got in hot water as the first three reached base on an error, a single and a walk. Bearing down, he struck out the next two men and forced Stepp to bounce out, Cande lari to Lary. Wallace was the leading, batter for A&M, getting two doubles, scoring two runs and slapping in two in three official trips. Goodloe gave up eight hits and five runs in five and two thirds. He struck out six. Blanton let on ly two Frogs hit in two and a third innings while Hubert gave up one hit in one frame. The losing pitcher was Goodloe while Salim grabbed the win. The next game will be with Rice next Friday at Kyle Field. 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