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Wednesday, April 25, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3. No Gloves of Velvet The 1951 Boxing Champs . . . gained their fame the hard way—taking the hard ones. Botton row: (left to right) Jack Rowler, Co. 3; Ray Akridge, Co. 11; Harold Williams, College View; J. I). Guidry, A Vet. Top row: Weldon Calhoun, Sqd. 8; Quinton Mil- hollan, C Inf., Joe Jackson, D Vets. A Model Team OU Learns Latest Net Fad From A g s The Aggie tennis team came toppled the through with what might be called Sooners 4-3. their most impressive victory of the year yesterday, when they mighty Oklahoma TODAY thru SATURDAY ' FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:24 - 3:35 - 5:38 - 7:49 - 10:00 Oklahoma, who had previously won 13 of 19 Big Seven tennis championships, legrned tlje hard way during the jaunt through the Southwest Conference. Texas had whipped the Sooners last Monday. A&M took three of five singles matches while the No. 1 doubles combination of R. G. DeBerry and Royce Tate waltzed through Soon ers Charles Cunningham and Glenn Land 6-2 and 6-3. DeBerry started things with a 6-0, &2 slaughter of Cunningham and Eugene Letsos followed by taking G. Land, 6-3 and 7-5. Tate picked off Don Walraven, 6-3, 7-5. Aggies Dick Hardin and Tommy West fell before OU’s Dick Land and Roger Clark, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6 and 6-4, 7-5 respectively before carry ing the Soonei-s to extended ef forts. After DeBerry and Tate had their party, Hardin and Letsos carried D. Land and Walraven three sets, but finally fell 2-6, 8-6 and 6-8. Pistol Team Fires In National Match The A&M Pistol Team has com pleted firing for the 1951 NRA National Intercollegiate Pistol Team Championship. Team members taking part in the match were B. P. Lowry, C. D. Unrue, J. W. Bontke, Jack R. Vin cent, and Ramiro Chavarria. The A&M Team will be rated with the teams from other colleges in the nation as a result of this match. The team’s score was 1270 out of a possible 1500. 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The mile relay team is composed of Fuston McCarty, Bob Mays, Bernard Place and Don Mitchell. Running on the sprint relay quar tet will be Bobby Ragsdale, Place, Bill Stalter and Billie Bless. Last week three of these six en tries went to the Kansas Relays. Hooper, Simpson and the mile re lay team made themselves nation ally known when they captured two firsts, a third and a tie for third. There at Lawrence Hooper won both the shot and discus, Simpson tied for third in the pole vault and the mile relay took third in their race. Davis had been slated to go but a tender ankle made it undesirable. All of these entries should do very well at Des Moines. The sprint relay has already tied the best times posted in the country with a 42-flat; Leming has posted a fine 14.4 on the high hurdles; and Davis came up with the second best high jump of the year with a 6’ 9” leap. Holbrook A&M Relay Teams Best In Nation? Officials Blunder? By RAY HOLBROOK Battalion Sports Staff When the A&M sprint relay team enters the Drake Re lays this weekend they will be gunning for an undisputed claim of the nation’s best 440 relay team. The speedy foursome of Bernie Place, Billy Bless, Bobby Ragsdale, and Bill Stalter have lost but one race this year, that being at Texas Relays where they failed to qualify for the finals due to some bad passing and an unfortunate incident. And too a substitute was running in the number one spot instead of Place. At that, they ran a 42.8 which would have qualified them for the finals had the officials been on the ball. Before the race the sprinters had been told that the first three teams in each heat would qualify plus the fastest fourth. The Ags finished fourth behind OU, LSU, and Baylor. These three teams placed first, second and fourth in the finals with Texas the only team from the other heat placing in the finals. Finishing a fast fourth in their heat, the Aggies were sure they had qualified for the finals even with their poor passing and the stupid seeding of the heats. Assistant Coach Ray Putnam had already drawn the lane for the finals when someone brought up the question about whether the A&M team was eligible for the finals. It seems that the coaches had met the night before and decided that only the first three teams in each heat were to qualify for the finals. So the Aggies, with potentially the best team in the race, were thrown out and OU won the race in the time' of 42.0 One wonders how bad the officiating can get when they would put four top teams in the same heat and leave the other heat so easy that two teams could qualify with slower times* than the fourth team in another heat that did not qualify. Would it not be simpler to qualify on times alone? Last week in Houston the sprint relay team, with Buddy Shaeffer running in Place’s position, turned in a 42.0 which was the time with which OU won the Kansas Relays the same weekend. That time of 42.0 is) the fast est time in the nation this year in the 440 relay. OU ,has done it twice and the Aggies have now tied it. It is only a chance that Shaeffer made the) relay faster, since both he and Place run the 100 in almost a dead heat. However, if Shaeffer were available he would run the relay since Place has the mile relay to run also. But with Shaeffer out of town, Place will run his regular leadoff spot. With the fast competition of the Drake Relays, we are betting on the Aggie sprint relayi to come home a winner and better the nations best time to date. About a 41.5 is what we say the Cadets will turn in. Diamond Ballet ■ilii ■ Yale Lary . . . returned to this year’s baseball squad as Fort Worth performs on the initial sack for the a veteran letterman and holds down the first Cadets in the Southwest Conference game with base position for the Aggies. The junior from TCU, his home town, Saturday. Lary Steady at First, Dangerous At Plate John Bucha, rookie catcher up for a trial with the St. Louis Car dinals, played four years in the minor leagues. He has never hit under the .300 mark in organized baseball. Another A&M relay team which should win at Drake is the mile relay. It has the undisputed best time in the nation. It, too, has lost but one race this year, that being at the Kansas Relays last weekend when they blew a 10-yd. lead on the last baton pass and finished third. The team members are Place, Bob Mays, Fuston McCarty, and Don Mitchell. Their best time this year was turned in at Houston and is 3:16.0, the nations best by over a second. One reason why the team had the unfortunate baton accident might he that the usual order of running was changed slightly be- LAST TIMES TODAY “Never a Dull Moment” THURSDAY & FRIDAY Rice, Frogs In SWC Wins Waco, April 25—CP)— Rice scor ed four times in the ninth to beat Baylor, 4-3, today. A walk to Willy Witt and suc cessive singles by Rex Proctor, Bill Golibart and Dave Devine tied the count at 3-3. Then a Baylor er ror permitted Devine to score the winning run. Tyree Newton got a single, dou ble, triple and a walk to lead an 11-hit attack on three Rice pitch ers. It was the second time this season Rice has beaten Ray Fitz patrick, Baylor mound ace who has won six. Larry Isbell of Baylor and Goli bart of Rice, battling for all-con ference catcher, had identical days with two hits in three trips. Dallas, April 25 —(TP)— Six-hit, shutout ball by Nobby Graves en abled TCU to beat SMU 1-0 yester day. Graves bested Lefty Dick Beadle. TCU took advantage of a first inn ing unearned run. After a shaky first during which he issued three walks wrapped around an infield error to force in the lone run, Beadle settled to best Graves the rest of the way. But the damage already was done. Where’s The Fire? Tune to WTAW, 1150 KC, and find out! When the fire is within College Station City Limits, WTAW will announce the location immediately. This will save you a call to the City Hall. This New Service Courtesy of HOMER ADAMS - Insurance College Station Call 4-1217 fore the race. However, this really was quite a wise move had it not been for the pass. Place was shift ed to the thh’d spot with Mays and McCarty moved back a spot. Since Mitchell had never taken the baton from Place, a mental dif ficulty was already there and grew into a much bigger one when they ran into real trouble on the actual pass. As to just how good this, team is would be hard to say. On the end of the third lap at Kansas, the Aggies time was 2:26. This meant that Mitchell would only have to had run a 49 quarter mile to break the record of 3:15.0 set by the “great” Rice team last year. That means that with no trouble at Drake this weekend, and with Mitchell running a 48.0 quarter, the team will have a good chance of running a 3:14 mile and breaking the record of 3:14.1. It will also mean that the team will have run the second fastest relay of any SWC team before or since the great 1948 Aggie team that ran 3:11.0 in winning the Col- lisium Relays. A win for this year’s team at Drake would mean an invitation to the Collisium Relays too. By ED HOLDER Battalion Sports Staff Yale Lary, veteran Aggie first base letterman, has taken over his old position this year and once again proved that a handicap can be turned into an asset if you try hard enough. Playing the initial sack from the starboard side, which is considered a disadvantage to any first base- man, Lary has been able to point with pride to high record of put- outs and a low number of errors to erase any doubts of his ability. When he started conference play against Baylor this year, Lary had built up a fielding average of .990 in non-conference competition. During this Southwest Conference pennant drive, his current aver age has been .980, very commend able when taking into considera tion some of the rough college diamonds. Lary’s conference batting aver age of .217, is slightly below last year’s .263 but coach Beau Bell knows his ability as a long-ball hitter will still make him feared at the plate. By FRED WALKER He’ll Be Back Battalion Sports Editor As for last year’s fielding aver- Southwest Conference football age, Lary wound up a very success- teams will be spreading out more ful season wlth i 989 ' u „ ■•-i— - ■<- •- xi-Lary began his baseball career at A&M last year when he first SWC Elevens To Meet Big Nat’l Teams than ever next year in their en deavor to play many of the “name” elevens in the country. A few of the other conferences that will provide action for SWC teams will be the Pacific Coast Conference, the Big Ten, the Big Seven, the Southeastern Confer ence, the Southern Conference, the Rocky Mountain Conference and the Border Conference. Independent “name” teams, such as Navy, Pittsburg and Notre Dame, will be other invading or host elevens. A&M’s non-conference tilts will include Oklahoma, UCLA, Texas Tech and Nevada while TCU will meet Kansas, Southern California and All-American Bobby Reynolds’ Nebraska Comhuskers. Two SWC football teams may find that they have bit off more than they can chew. Both Texas and SMU each meet what should be eight of the toughest teams in the country. The Ponies will warm up by tak ing on, in succession, these four “breathers”: Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Missouri and Notre Dame. How’s that for a start? Over in Austin they flexed their muscles and decided that it would be nice to start off the season with Kentucky, Purdue, North Carolina and Oklahoma. Next week, there will be the “outside” schedules of Rice, Ar kansas and Baylor, appeared in the outfield, but be cause of a great show of versatil ity, he was shifted to first. The 20-year-old junior from Fort Worth will be back again next sea son to add power and steadiness to the Aggie baseball team, and the five-foot eleven 175 pounds of baseball and football timber should add considerably to A&M diamond hopes. Read all about TEXAS A&M in this week’s Post! Here’s the whole Texas A. & M. story complete with color photos of campus and students! Here are all the leg endary student strikes and hazings of the past. Here are famous football games and feuds with Texas Univer sity, Learn about great professors and grads and how A. & M. has played a big part in building Texas. Get your copy of the Post and read*“Nois- iest College in the U.S.”! by George Sessions Perry In the April 28 issue Thai Saturday Evening IUJjCIH April - /5<r Hurry - Hurry - Hurry to A&M PHOTO SHOP for a Mother’s Day Picture PALACE Bry an 2*8879 NOW SHOWING sStcwioiy DAVID WAYNE; adJoC* | .TOM EWELL 1 MHic -untA MARINA 8ERTI • JEFFREY LYNN A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE NOW SHOWING BOBS NEW DAMON RUNYONS LAUGH RIOT h fiiQl* ***0 1 A Paramount Picture with k ANDREA KING • FRED CLARK HARRY BELLAVER BOBERT L. 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