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Thursday, April 12,1951
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Hold It!
Golfers To Meet
Baylor In Waco
Ry FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Edtior
The undefeated but once tied Aggie Golf team will take
a whack at its second conference foe tomorrow when they
journey to Waco to meet the Baylor Bears.
“I think we can take ’em,” said Aggie golf coach Gay-
ther Nowell. “They only have one or two really good golfers.
For the most part they are very young ... not too much ex
perience.”
Nowell may have good reason to-t
be confident for, as seen in the
past, anyone opposing the A&M
goK team must have experience—or
else. Only one team has come close
to whipping the Cadets this year
that was the Rice quartet—and
th*y brought the Southwest Con
ference individual champ, Buddy
Weaver, with them.
Although it is not one of the
major sports at A&M at pi-esent,
the Golf team has been playing
like champions all the way.
The first four times out the
Aggies won going away—two were
shutouts. Twice A&M has taken
the measure of the University of
Houston and twice they have whip-
( ped the knickers off them, one
was a shutout.
Another Blank
St. Edwards of Austin was the
second team to be blanked by the
Farmer linksmen and Hardin-Sim-
mons was the fourth victim.
The 3-3 tie played with Rice last
week on the Bryan Country Club
Course could almost be called a
moral victory for the Aggies for
in "many circles the Owls are con
sidered “the team to beat” in the
SWC.
Members of the Golf team are
B«b Dahoney, Tony Guerrero,
Johnnie Barrett and Bill Baker.
When asked if he had rated his
men this year, coach Nowell said
“Yes.”
“1 rate Dahoney as the number
one man . . . Guerrero second . . .
Barrett third . . . and then Baker.”
But then he added with a laugh.
“< change these things around,
although. In this match at Waco
Baker will probably be the num
ber one man.”
The Playoffs
The Aggies have only three
games left, after they play Baylor,
before the Southwest Conference
Meet May 11th and 12th on the
A&M Memorial Course fairways.
On the 20th of this month the
team will go to Austin to clash
with Texas. Seven days later, SMU
will provide the competition at
College Station. The last dual meet
will be May 4th when the Cadets
invade Fort Worth to take on the
Frogs at Colonial Country Club.
Net Team Host
To TCU Aces
“Were supposed to win, but
I don’t know if I ought to say
it.”
Tennis Coach W. M. Dowell
said it with a laugh, but you
may be sure that there won’t be
any joking when the Aggie tennis
team takes the courts; against the
Frogs from TCU tomorrow after
noon.
This will be the second confer
ence game of the season for the
Cadet netters, and it will be played
at College Station.
The last time out, A&M was
downed by a powerful SMU aggri-
gation 4-2 in a game which saw the
No. 1 seeded Aggie, R. G. DeBerry,
fall before the terrific onslaught
of Porry Kenneth Crawford, 6-3
and 6-1.
In the No. 2 singles, however,
Eugene Letsos overran Dan Stans-
bury of the Ponies, 6-3 and 6-0.
The other A&M victory was in
the No. 2 doubles match when Let
sos and Dick Hardin took Don
Burkett and Dan Stansbury.
The Aggies will meet some stiff
competition from at least one Frog
tomorrow. Dixon Osborne, a for
mer high school champ is very
highly regarded in tennis circles,
and has yet to be defeated this
year.
The Cadets, represented by De
Berry, Letsos, Hardin and Royce
Tate, have tied in their matches
with Southeastern College and the
University of Houston while drop
ping before singles matches to
Houston and SMU.
Craig Patton
. . . will perform daring feats of
coordinated skill on the danger
ous trampoline this weekend dur
ing the Intercollegiate Recrea
tional Club Meet at A&M. Patton
is a member of the Gymnastics
Club.
A&MBowling
Club Host
To Bowlers
The Aggie Bowling Club will be
busy playing host to five kegler
teams this weekend during the
Second Annual Southwest Confer
ence Recreational Club Meet.
Competing for bowling honors
will be teams from the University
of Texas, the University of Hous
ton, Southern Methodist Univer
sity, Baylor University and A&M.
The five teams will be composed
of five men each. Both singles
and doubles matches will be enter
ed and play will start at 1 p. m.
both Saturday and Sunday.
The five-man A&M bowling club
which will enter this Intercollegiate
Bowling Tournament is sponsored
by M. H. Butler of the Economics
Department.
Softball, Ping Pong Battles
Top Intramural Schedule
.By JOE BLANCHETTE
and
PAT LeBLANC
* Battalion Sports Staff
Monday
Ray Bruns twirled a neat one-
hitter into the baffled batsmen of
A QMC as A Composite edged out
the supplymen, 3-2.
Bruns fanned eight of the QMC
hitters and walked only three in
turning in one of the years top
pitching performances.
Both clubs were scoreless in the
first inning with the Composite
team going down in order against
the pitching slants of Mailhos, and
the QMC retiring after sending
four men to the plate to face
Bruns. Clark was the only man to
reach first during the first stanza
of play and that on one of Bruns’
three free tickets.
Wagenfehr, Bruchmiller, and
Neal all went dowm on strikes in
the first inning.
Two of the Composites three
runs crossed the plate in the top
of the second frame. Two errors,
a walk, a sacrifice and a hit re
sulted in the two runs.
A double play and a strikeout
erased the QMC in the second go-
round. Choate crossed the plate in
the third inning for the third
and final Composite tally.
Trahan and White scored the
mipplymen runs in the third and
both were unearned.
G AF walloped C Vets 13-6 in a
slugfest.
* A Armored Wins
The cavalrymen of A Armored
Ag Grapplers
To Meet TU
*
Saturday
•Coach Jim Griffith’s A&M wrest
ling team will tangle with a Texas
team Saturday afternoon at 2:30
in DeWare Field House.
Wrestling will be a part of the
Recreational Club Meet.
The Aggie team, composed of
eight men, have won two matches
this season. Both from the Dallas
YMCA, and have yet to be defeat-
ed.
Wrestling in the heavyweight
division will be H. D. Maxwell,
while Leon Scott will represent
A&M in the 177 lb. division.
Warren Pierce will wrestle in
the 167 lb. class, and Dick Bat
ten leads the 157 lb. weight group.
Wayne Bradford, 147 lb., Harold
Turner, 137, “Curly” Penn, 130,
and Rudy Rivera at 123 lbs. round
eut the Aggie squad,
stormed to a 10-1 win over A Eng
ineers. The armored blasted out
nine hits in the contest.
A Cavalry scored one run off
Leeman in the first and one in the
third before climaxing the contest
with eight runs in the final inn
ing.
The Engineers scored their lone
run in the first inning.
Maroon Band Victorious
The Maroon Band stopped B
Armored 4-1 in a five inning con
test. The Armored tied the score
in the fourth inning 1-1 but weak
ened in the final inning to give
the winners their three nan mar
gin.
C Armored Wins, 12-5
C Armored stormed to a 12-5
win over D FA. The cavalrymen
spotted the artillery a 5-0 lead and
then came back with six runs in
each of the final two innings to
win by the lop-sided margin.
B FA gained a forfeit win over
A Athletics.
F AF and B Engineers battled
to a 4-4 deadlock as a result of
the 6 p. m. deadline for the comple
tion of ball games.
Tuesday
The pingpong players of B Com
posite caught the gasmen of A
Chemical Warfare without their
gasmasks, as the Compositers won
the Intramural Table Tennis Cham
pionship, 4-1.
Phillip West was the big cannon
in the Composite attack as he
pingslashed two straight wins over
CWS Wes Jones. West took the
first contest 21-10 and the final
one by the count of 21-11.
Only Victor
Raymond Mondshine won the
only tilt of the night for the los
ers. The lithe warfarer edged by
his adversary, Don Cummings, in
the initial game, 21-19 and then
increased his victory margin by a
comfortable eight points in the
second contest.
Walt Eldrid, B Comp, had to
contest hard in older to subdue
Wilbur Lippman, CWS number one
man. Eldrid downed Lippman by
the coinciding scores of 21-18 for
both games.
Ira Goodlett, also was pressed
but came out victor in two straight
tilts by defeating last years’ Fresh
man Champ, Thomas Mondshine.
The last game between these ping-
slashers was a close match in which
Goodlet, employing an abundance
of “english” disposed of the hard-
slashing Mondshine.
Goodlett won the latter tilt, 23-
21, and the first game by the score
of 21-17.
B Comp’s number four man dis
posed of Bill England in two conse
cutive games.
With the hurling of Don Avilez
B Eng downed C FA in a ’mural
softball battle, 4-1.
Although the batters from B
Eng gathered only two base knocks,
they took advantage of errors made
by the field artillery team. Belin-
shy and Spreen collected these two
hits.
K AF blasted out a win over
L AF, 6-1. Rand was the mounds-
man for the winners while Love
performed the chores for the los
ers.
In a tight game, C Comp nipped
a B Inf team, 5-4. Going in the
final inning, Josey crossed the
plate for the winning tally to break
a 4-4 tie.
In other games that did not
materialize, A Inf, B TC, and C
Vet won over A Ath, C Inf and B
Cav respectively in forfeit games.
Fish Pingpong
The Fish Band nipped out a 3-2
win over Co. 6 while Co’. 4 accomp
lished the same mission by an iden
tical score. Co. 4 beat Co. 10 in
their engagement.
Co 2 sat out a win over Co. 8 by
recuring a forfeit.
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Rough And Tumble
Courses Will Be
In Top Shape
For SWC Golf
The Texas A&M Champion
ship Golf Course, called by
one professional golfer "“ . . .
a real test of golfing ... ”, is
now being readied for the
Southwest Conference Golf meet to
be held May 11th and 12th.
A maintenance crew of six have
been working steadily on three dif
ferent greens in. older to have the
course in tip-top shape by com
petition-time.
The course, which was officially
opened Dec. 8, has met with fair
success so far. It must be remem
bered that continued bad weather
has prohibited play a great deal.
Joe Fagan, pro manager, report-1
ed that 4925 people have played
the course since it was opened to |
the public, Dec. 9. Thirty eight .
hundred of that number were stu-1
dents, while faculty and guests j
played the remaining 1125 rounds, i
Par has been attained twice on
the Championship Course. Aggie-
Ex Bart Haltom of Bryan, now a j
professional, broke the magical 72
last Mai-ch.
Billy Baker, a member of the
Aggie golf team, was the other
man to break par.
When Lucille Mann, several
times Curtis Cup team member,
shot eighteen holes over the new
course, she emphatically told Fag
an;
“This is a fine course, and it of
fers a professional a real test of
golfinjg.”
The young and glamorous Bauer
sisters, Alice and Marlene, were
present for the opening ceremonies.
They played eighteen but neither
were able to par.
The course’s pro shoj, said to be
the finest in the South, is able
to supply amateur and pro with
any and all equipment, and is the
pride and joy of Fagan.
. . . will be one of the Gymnas
tics Club’s top performers in the
Recreational Club Meet
Weight-Lifters And
Gymnasts Perform
The unveiling of the entire Ag
gie gymnastic club will take place
Saturday afternoon at DeWare
Field House when it encounters
the mat and bar men of Texas Uni
versity.
This will be the Aggies’ first
competitive meet of the current
season. Heretofore, their efforts
have been confined to halftime ex
hibitions at the basketball games,
a Fite Kite demonstration and a
show for the patients of McClosky
V. A. Hospital at Temple.
Will Go To Dallas
On April 21, the Aggie club will
journey to Dallas to compete in
the SWAAU meet being held at
the Dallas Athletic Club.
Many people, do not realize that
in other sections of the country
gymnastics is a team sport, on a
par with football, basketball, base
ball, and other major sports ac
cording to Bud Matthews, club
sponsor. Actually, gymnastics is a
much older sport than any of these,
he said.
The events included in gymnas
tics are side horse; parallel bai-s;
horizontal bar; rings, flying or
still; rope climb, 20 feet without
use of feet; tumbling; trampoline
or bouncing bed; long horse; and,
free calisthentics.
In each event, the exercise of
the contestant is judged on a basis
of 100 points by each judge, allot-
ing 50 points for form and 50
points for difficulty.
Difficult Moves Discouraged
This discourages a contestant
from trying a difficult move or
trick in a meet and perhaps get
ting hui-t without first having mas-
tered it in practice, Matthews said.
It also encourages originality in
contriving a suitable exercise to
use in competition, he added.
The scores of the three judges
are added giving the contestant’s
total score for that event; 300
points being perfect. If five judges
are used, the highest and lowest
scores are discarded and the re
maining three are totaled. The win-
ners of the first five places are
awarded team points, usually 6, 4,
3, 2, 1, for first, second, etc.
Team Members . . .
Members of the Aggie gymnastic
club are Harold Turner, Bert Bee-
croft, Conrad Webb, Bod Doby,
Craig Patton, Clyde Mabler, Jack
Ross, Olan Boyd.
Bill Curry, Carl Johnson, Sheets
Cameron, Bob Moore, Bob Wag
goner, Wally Smith, Bob Bell, Bud
Wilson, Charlie Little, Nat Floi'es,
Don Bleyl, Bill Scott, Ralph Turn
er, Buster Lockhart, B. J. Rankin,
Claud Holmes, Hickman, Rice, Kil
lian and Fry.
Sponsors of the gymnastic club
are N. A. Ponthieux and Bud
Matthews of the Physical Educa
tion Department and Jim Abbott of
the mathematics department.
When the Weight-Lifting Club
meets Texas, they will have a two- •
year recoi'd to defend. In the 1949- _
50 Recreational Club Meets, the
Aggies strongmen proved to be a
little tougher.
Last year they made a trip to
the Gulf AAU meet in Houston
where Frank Thurmond and Dale
Thompson took 1st and 2nd places
i-espectively in the 148-lb. class.
Sam Bass was 4th in the 181-lb.
class and Kelly Anderson took 4th
in the heavies.
The Club made a trip to the
Southwest AAU meet in Dallas
where Thurmond and Thompson
took 2nd and 3rd respectively in
the 148 poundei's. L. C. Fincias
was 4th in the 123-lb. class and
Andy Cotton took 3rd in the heavy
weights.
A newcomer to the Club is Bob
by Fletcher who is expected to
take a clean sweep of the 132 divi
sion in the coming meet.
Other members of the Club are
Bobby Moore, Charlie Bi'agassa
and Jim Fitzgerald.
Dale Thompson
. . . will show their wares in the
weightlifting and gymnastics
division in the Recreational Club
meet this weekend at A&M.
Thompson, on the weights, is a
member of the Weightlifting
Club while Webb (right)
Antiques Wanted
For Homecoming
In conjunction with muster
day weekend, Kenneth Bond,
A&M Sports Publicity Director,
and P. L. Downs, Jr., official
greeter for the college, are
searching for pictures, trophies
and other material connected
with eai-ly sports at A&M.
These will be paid; of a display
to be set up for home-coming
weekend, Apill 21st. Credit will
be given to the lender of each
item and will be returned to the
owner if desired.
If the owner so wishes, the
trophies will be turned over to
the college Archives Office for
preservation.
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