Wednesday, May 9, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Ags Should Sweep
Four Field Events
By RAY HOLBROOK
Battalion Sports Staff
In the six field events in the
coming SWC track meet this week
end on Kyle Field, the Aggies ap
pear to be stronger than any other
school, and perhaps stronger than
^ill the other SWC schools together.
The Ags are favored to win four
of the events and Texas is the
top choice in the other two.
Darrow Hooper, the Cadet’s soph
•weight star, will not only be favor
ed to win both the shot and discus,
but will also be almost a, cinch to
break the conference record in the
sfcot.
Hooper’s best put is 53’ 1”, which
he tossed at the Texas Relays.
This is more than two feet farther
than the present SWC record of
50’ 214”, held by Irvin of A&M.
His best discus throw is 157’ 9”
which he tossed last Friday. That,
however, is below the standing con
ference record of 163’ 214” held by
Hughes of Texas.
Bowlers Slug
U-of-H Twice
Scoring on the Peterson Point
System—one point for each game
and one point for the total pins—
the A&M “A” Bowling team de
feated the University of Houston’s
“A” squad 4-2.
The “B” team won their con
test over the Houston Bees, 5-to-l.
Bill Zwing was high man for
the Cougars’ “A’s” with a five-
game series of 831 while Vic Bart-
ling was high for their “B” team
.with an .874 series.
Clem England was high man for
the Aggies’ first team with an 880
series and Marvin Butler was high
in the “B” division with an 842.
Closely following Butler was
Aggie Bill Utzman with an 841 ser
ies.
The A&M “A” team was com-
po*ed of C. England, J. Geiger, W.
McReynolds, B. Cooney and D.
Lenzer.
J. Koontz, B. Utzman, M. Butler,
B. Hoefeleyer and J. Martin were
the members of the “B” entry.
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The number two choice in the
shot and discus competition will
be Bill Forester of SMU, who holds
marks of 45’ 9” and 142’ 8” in these
two events.
Bill Milbum of Texas and Ron
nie Berger of Rice should follow
in that order in the shot with Don
Pratt of A&M and Milburn next
contenders in the discus.
Jack Simpson
Jack Simpson, Ag captain and
pole vault star, is the Mo. 1 man
in that event for the conference
meet. He also has a fine chance
to break the record of 13’ 10” set
by Weichert of Rice in 1936. Simp
son’s best vault is 14’ and he has
been consistant at 13’ 6”.
On his home field Saturday,
chances are good for his clearing
that 14’ mark.
Don Graves of A&M has made
13’ 7” and is defending SWC cham
pion at 13’ 6”. He and Malcolm
Marks and Glen Spradlin, all soph
omores who represent the Ags in
the vault, will give the Cadets
plenty of depth in that event.
Another potential Aggie first is
the high jump with the fabulous
Buddy Davis leading the way. Da
vis cleared 6’ 9” at the Texas Re
lays for a new record and cleared
6’ 8” at Austin last Friday.
Although the odds are against
his beating the record of 6’ 8%”
set by Walters of Texas last year,
he looks like a sure thing over 6’ 6”
with at least a fair chance at 6’ 8”
or 6’ 9”.
Ray Womack of Texas has clear
ed 6’ 6” on one occasion and is con
sistant at 6’ 3”. Ags Graves and
Jim Dimmitt have both cleared
6’ 3”. Byron Townsend and Rans-
opher of Texas have also jumped
(See HIGH JUMP, Page 4)
Frogs Beat Steers;
Ags Chances Grow
Austin, May 8 — CP) — Pitcher
Norris “Knobby” Grayes throttled
a ninth inning Texas rally today
to upset the loop-leading Long
horns, 4-3.
It was the first Texas South
west Conference loss on home
grounds since the 12-0 defeat by
Texas A&M in 1943. It was the
first time TCU has won on Clark
Field since May 8, 1937.
Bill Looney, TCU catcher, hit a
home run with two men on base
and two away in the fifth inning.
With a Horned Frog ran in the
fourth, Looney’s homer overcame
the Longhorns’ first-inning lead of
t\yo runs.
None of the TCU runs were earn
ed. Looney’s homer gave TCU
three runs which were technically
unearned because there were two
outs and the men on base had
gotten there on an error and a
walk.
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Selves For SWC Singles
By ED HOLDER
Battalion Sports Staff
The SWC Tennis Tournament to deter
mine the Individual Singles and Doubles
champions will get under way tomorrow in
Austin on the Penick Courts at TU.
Preliminaries will begin as soon as the
tennis coaches from each participating
school meet at 9 a. m. on the courts and
draw up the matches.
SMU, TCU, Rice, Baylor, TU, and A&M
will send teams.
Friday will be a continua
tion of the preliminaries and
the finals are scheduled to be run
off Saturday.
This tournament is held at the
end of the season each year and is
not a team competition event, but
is played to decide the conference
singles and doubles champions.
A&M has its best chance to sur
vive the competition in the doubles.
Ray DeBerry, who has held down
the No. 1 singles spot and played
on the No. 1 doubles team through
out the year, will definitely be one
of the doubles participants.
The other spot on the doubles
is undecided. It will be a draw be
tween Eugene Letsos and Royce
Tate. Tate and DeBerry held the
hpnor of No. 1 doubles players
during most of the year, but in
the last of the season, Letsos team
ed up with DeBerry to make an
impressive showing.
Doubles matches this year have
proven that DeBerry and whoever
is chosen as his partner will be a
tough combination to crack. The
record shows only two losses during
the season.
These losses were to Karren and
Crawford of SMU and Turpin and
Fithians of Rice.
DeBerry will compete in the No.
1 singles while Letsos will enter
the No. 2 singles competition. Tate
takes on the No. 3 singles chores
while Tom West, a sophomore who
will compete for the first time in
the SWC at this tournament, will
fill the No. 4 singles position.
No. 2 doubles team will be com
posed of West and the man re
maining after the No. 1 doubles
partner for DeBerry has been cho
sen. This decision js resting in the
hands of the coach of the Aggie
netters, W. M. Dowell.
“I believe our best chance lies
in the doubles end of this tour
nament,” said DeBerry. “If we
can ‘get hot’ I think we are cap
able of giving anyone at the
tournament a rough time.
“Letsos, Tate and I have all
played together a great deal, so
whomever Dowell choses as my
partner will be all right with me,
since we all know what each oth
er’s weaknesses are and know how
to cover those up,” he concluded.
Ray DeBerry
. . . will be one of A&M’s big
threats in the SWC Singles and
Doubles Meet in Austin tomor
row and Friday.
Bill Baker
. . . makes sure his clubs are in
the best condition for the SMU
match today and the SWC In
dividual Meet tomorrow and Fri
day.
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
Six Aggie golfers will play host to a field
of 26 tomorrow morning at 8, when the An
nual Southwest Conference Individual Golf
Champion Meet gets under way on the new
A&M Golf Course.
The tournament, which will be held both
tomorrow and Friday, May 10th and 11th,
will see at least five of the seven Southwest
Conference schools entering from four to six
aspirants to the individual
title.
A&M and Texas will enter
the full quota of six; Baylor and
SMU plan to enter five men; and
TCU will be sending four entries
to College Station.
Seventy-two holes of medal play
will make up the tournament.
Thirty-six will be played each day,
18 in the mornings and 18 in the
afternoons.
The outcome of this afternoon’s
match with SMU will have a great
bearing upon the choosing of fa
vorites in the following day’s tour
nament. SMU, needing four and
one-half of the six points to tie
with Texas for the Conference
crown, and five of the six to auto
matically take the title, will pre
sent one of the two undefeated in
dividual leaders, Don Addington.
Arthur Revere of Texas is the
other undefeated conference golfer.
His record is 2-and-0 while that of
Addington is 3-and-0.
The Aggies started the season
very strongly this year, weakened
at the mid-point, and then again
gained more strength as the season
came to a close.
After smothering the University
of Houston Cougars in their first
game, A&M tripped a good Hardin-
Simmons quartet, 4-2. St. Ed
wards of Austin was the next
greens-and-fairway outfit to feel
the Cadets might as the Austinites
fell before a 6-to-0 A&M rampage.
The Aggie pre-season play was
then complete with a 4-and-2 win
over the Cougars.
- Victories turned into ties after
that, as the Southwest Conference
competition began. In their open
ing match, the Aggies were sur
prised with a 3-to-3 tie by the Rice
Owls.
A week later, it was more em-
barrasment than surprise as the
“young” Baylor Bears did the same
thing—held A&M to a 3-to-3 tie.
The bitterest defeat of the sea
son was absorbed by the Cadets
on April 20th, when, for the first
time this year, they were ocm-
pletely blanked. By whom? Of
course, it was Texas—in Austin.
Aggie Golfers got back in stride
last Friday as they won their first
(See FIRST WIN, Page 4)
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Detroit 000 013 100 01—6 12 0
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Philadelphia....420 030 000—9 13 0
Chicago 011 100 010—4 12 0
Shantz and Astroth; Littlefield,
Brown (1), Mahoney (5), Rotblatt
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Washington
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Chicago
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St. Louis
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15
.250
9
Philadelphia
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16
.200
10
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Washington at Detroit—Marrero
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Boston at Chicago (Night).—
Scarborough (1-0) or Taylor (0-3)
vs. Dobson (0-0).
Philadelphia at St. Louis (Night)
—Hooper (0-2) vs. Overmire (0-1).
New York at Cleveland (Night).
—Lopat (4-0) vs. Lemon (3-1).
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Philadelphia....000 000 030—3 4 3
Queen, Werle (8) and Fitzgerald;
Heintzelmann, Candini (4), Brittin
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Kiner. WP—Queen (2-1). LP—
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St. Louis 000 010 100—2 4 2
New York 010 120 02x—6 11 1
Presko, Wilks (5), Brazle (8),
Dusak (8) and Garagiola; Jansen
and Noble. HR—Musial. WP—
Jansen (2-3). LP—Presko (1-1).
Cincinnati 000 010 000—1 6 2
Boston - 000 001 001—2 6 1
Wehmeier and Scheffing; Sui'-
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Brooklyn 000 001 000—1 9 0
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Group to Meet
Here for Talk
Members of the Southwest
Conference Sportsman ship
Committee will gather on the
campus Friday for their
Spring business meeting.
The committee is composed of
editors of conference school pap
ers, yell leaders and representa
tives of student government.
At a luncheon sponsored by The
Battalion, committee members will
hear an address by Abb Curtiss,
assistant to the secretary of the
Southwest Conference.
Curtis will speak on “What Re
mains to be Done in Sportsman
ship.”
Guests at the luncheon will be
athletic directors and faculty repre
sentatives of Southwest Confer
ence schools.
On the business agenda for the
meeting will be an evaluation of
sportsmanship during the basket
ball, track and baseball seasons.
The committee last met af SMU
where a vote tabulation showed
SMU winner for 1950 of the
Sportsmanship Trophy. A&M won
the trophy two years ago.
Officers for the next year will
also be elected at the meeting.
The three-year old committee
first met at A&M in the Fall of
1948. The preceding year, The Bat
talion had donated the three-foot
high gold trophy to go each year
to the Southwest Conference school
displaying the best sportsmanship
for that year.
J. K. B. Nelson, 1947-48 co-edi
tor of The Battalion originated the
idea of the award. SMU was the
original winner of the trophy. Win
ners since then have been A&M,
Rice and SMU.
’Mural News
By JOE BLANCHETTE
Battalion Sports Staff
A Signal advanced into the final
round of the Intramural Softball
playoffs by drubbing G AF, 6-3.
The Signal hitters got to the air
men hurler, George Martin, in the
first inning as they crossed the
plate with two runs in the frame.
The contest was scoreless in the
second but the third frame brought
more action. The AF pushed across
one run in the top of the inning
on a walk, a double, and two sac
rifices.
The signalmen came fighting
back in the lower half of the frame
by pushing in four runs. Two walks
and three singles produced the tal
lies.'
E FA Wins, 5-1
The E FA softballers touched
Dick Lenzen, B QMC hurler, for
three runs in the first inning and
went on from there to dump the
supplymen 5-1. Cecil Lewis, pitch
ing for the artillerymen, was scor
ed on in the third by the QMC
but shut out the losers the re
mainder of the game.
In the bottom of the first, Bill
Scott opened the frame against
Lenzen by striking out. Ray Mar
lowe followed Scott and popped
out. Then the roof fell in as Lewis
tripled, Charles Peachor walked,
and Mouse May banged out anoth
er triple to produce two runs. M.
J. Dittmar followed May and walk
ed with May scoring on a wild
pitch.
In the second canto the artillery
produced two more tallies on a
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The QMC tallied their lone run
in the third on two walks and an
error.
Lewis was not touched for a hit
throughout the contest and had
fine support from his teammates
who unreeled a twin-killing.
Eligibility, TV, Aid
On Officials Agenda
Reactivation of the freshman
rule, aid to athletes, television and
a pre-season basketball tournament
will be major topics this week
when the faculty committee, gov
erning body of the Southwest Con
ference, holds its Spring meeting
at A&M.
Going on at the same time will
be the golf and track and field
meets. Tennis will be held at Aus
tin.
Indications are that freshmen
will be made eligible for Varsity
athletics starting in the Fall. This
was voted down for Spring sports,
but this time it is likely to be
brought in literally in self-defense.
Conferences .surrounding the
Southwest all have voted freshmen
eligibility and the general view is
that while the Southwest Confer
ence may not need freshmen, so far
as manpower goes, it must allow
them to compete in vasity athletics
or lose too many to schools in other
sections that do.
The NCAA in January killed the
sanity code governing financial aid
to athletics. One of the major
points of the sanity code was that
an athlete must work for what he
got.
The Southwest Conference
which doeS not actually require
them to work, does provide that
they must have an assignment of
work. They work only to the ex
tent of time they might have from
the classroom and participation in
athletics.
The NCAA has provided that one
home game per school can be tele
vised in football next Fall. But,
according to Howard Grubbs, ex
ecutive secretary of the Southwest
Conference, local conditions may
bring permission to televise more.
Limited TV
Last Fall the SWC had a rule
allowing games to be televised
where there were sell-out crowds.
The faculty committee is expected
to ask a policy similar to last year.
Six games were televised in the
conference last season.
This conference already has de
cided to hold a pre-season basket
ball tournament in December and
is considering two plans: 1—To
alternate such a tournament among
the conference cities, or 2—To hold
it in one place every year with the
idea of building up traditional in
terest.
No action as to the future will
be taken next week since the tour
nament has been voted for one year
only as an experiment.
The plan is to have the seven
conference members and one out
side team in the tournament. Van-»
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