I
Winning Pigskinners
‘A” QMC, Upperclass Football Champs—1951
“A” Quartermaster emerged as the 1951 Intra
mural Upperclass Football Champion, this year.
On the bottom row is (left to right) Harvey
Helms, Dwight King, J. C. Fletcher, Jimmie Will-
son, Wayne Toepperwein and John Schaffer.
Across the top row (left to right) is David Yea
ger, June Clark, Frank Trahan, John Wagen-
fehr and Roland Shivers.
Dorish Pitches,
Plays 3rd Base
Here’s the sports oddity of
the season—and yet everything
was perfectly legal. Check the
B o s t o n - Chicago (American)
summary in the Major League
Standings.
Chisox manager Paul Rich
ards pulled one out of his hat
yesterday when he pulled Harry
Dorish in the Bosox ninth. With
Ted Williams due to lead off,
Richards called in Lefty Bill
Pierce and shunted Dorish to
third base.
Pierce got Williams to pop up
and turned the mound chores
back to Dorish, who went on to
gain his first victory.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 000 000 000—0 1 2
Cincinnati 000 000 lOx—1 2 0
Bickford and St. Claire; Black-
well and Pramesa. HR—Pramesa.
WP—Blackwell (5-2). LP—Bick
ford (5-2).
Brooklyn 010 110 500—8 11 1
Chicago 000 040 000—4 6 1
Newcombe, King (5), Branca (7)
and Campanella; Rush, Lown (4),
McLish (6), Kelly (7), Leonard
(9) and Walker, Owen; HR—
Hodges 2, Robinson, Snider. WP—
King (3-1). LP—McLish (1-2).
New York 000 003 000—3 9 0
Pittsburgh ....020 230 OOx—7 10 0
Spencer, Kennedy (4), Gettel
(5), Koslo (6) and Noble; Werle,
Law (6) and McCollough. HR—
Strickland 2, Thomson. WP—
Werle (2-0). LP—Spencer (1-1).
Philadelphia....100 000 -202—5 9 1
St. Louis 000 030 001—4 11 1
Meyer, Roberts (9) and Semi
nick ; Ppholsky and Garagiola. HR
— H e m u s, Slaughter, Seminick.
WP—Meyer (2-1). LP—Poholsky
(2-3).
Today’s Pitchers
Brooklyn at Chicago. — Erskine
(1-3) vs. Minner (1-2).
New York at Pittsburgh (Night).
—Hearn (2-2) vs. Muir (0-2).
Boston at Cincinnati (Night).—
Sain (1-4) vs. Raffensberger (1-3)
or Wehmeier (1-2).
Philadelphia at St. Louis (Night)
—Church (2-2) vs. Staley (4-3).
LAST TIMES TODAY
44 A Lady Without
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY
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ARLENE DAHL
THERE’S
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BEAUTIFUL
ABOUT
GARMENT’S
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Standings
W
L
Pet
GB
Brooklyn .
15
10
.600
Boston
15
12
.556
1
Pittsburgh
....13
12
.520
2
Philadelphia -13
14
.481
3
Chicago ...
12
13
.480
3
Cincinnati
....12
14
.462
3%
St. Louis ...
11
13
.458
3%
New York
...13
16
.448
4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago ...
.300 010 021
02—9
16 2
Boston
.400 101
001
00—7
11 1
Judson,- Dorish (8), Pierce (9),
Dorish (9) and Masi; Nixon, Mas-
terson (8), Masterson (9), Kinder
(9) and Batts. HR — Robinson,
Williams, Fox. WP—Dorish (1-1).
LP—Scarborough (1-1).
St. Louis 015 130 001—11 10 0
Philadelphia..200 230 001— 8 12 2
Starr, Garver (5) and Lollar;
Shantz, Wyse (4), Kucab (6), Zol-
dak (7) and Tipton, Murray. HR—
Zernial 2, Lenhardt. WP—Garver
(5-2). LP—Shantz (1-3).
Detroit 022 303 020—12 14 1
Washington..200 002 000— 4 9 2
Newhouser and Ginsberg; Con-
suegra, Ross (4), Brown (6),
Haynes (8) and Grasso. HR—
Mele, Souchock. WP—Newhouser
(3-2). LP—Consuegra (3-1).
Only Games Scheduled
Standings
W
L
Pet
GB
New York 17
8
.680
Chicago 13
9
.591
2%
Detroit 13
9
.591
2%
Washington ..13
10
.565
3
Cleveland 12
10
.545
3%
Boston 12
11
.522
4
Philadelphia.. 7
18
.280
10
St. Louis 7
19
.269
10%
Bar-B-Q Set
For Athletes
By A&M Club
Athletes from A&M’s Spring
sports will be honored with a bar
becue by the Brazos County A&M
Club Tuesday, May 22.
Each coach of the Spring sports
will be on hand to introduce the
players and announce the names
of the letterman.
Included among the honorees will
be members of the basketball,
baseball, track, tennis, golf, fenc
ing, swimming, rifle and pistol
teams.
Tickets, which will provide ad
mission for one person and one
athlete, are two dollars each, and
may be secured from Lipscomb
Pharmacy, Cotton Price, G. A.
Manning, Bub Mousner, Chief Riv
ers, Ed Garner, Brownrigg Dewey,
W. S. D. Clothiers, Conway & Co.,
Bullock & Sims, Joe Falk, Oscar
Crain, W. G. Brezeale and P. L.
Downs, Jr.
Members of the local club and
public may buy tickets until next
Monday when sales close.
TODAY thru SATURDAY
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Can Our Collegiate
Sports Really Be
Called ‘Sports’?
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
Is there such a thing as a collegiate sport?
Sport: “That which diverts and makes mirth; pasttime;
diversion. 2. A ^diversion of the field, as hunting, fishing, rac
ing, games, esp. athletic games, etc.; also, any of various sim
ilar games of diversions usually played under
cover, as bowling, rackets, basketball etc.”
Keep your mind on that esp. athletic
games, tor it is there where the answer lies.
To start from scratch, we say NO! At
least this isn’t the case in the colleges any
more. A European once remarked that
“Americans don’t play for the sport, they
play to win.”
“Is this bad,” you ask yourself? “Should
n’t you want to win if you are active in some
sport?”) What’s the use of playing it in the
first place if you don’t want to win it?”
Those are all very normal, but mislead
ing, answers. A lackadaisical attitude is worse than the pre
sent situation. You have to want to win, but you don’t have to
make the outcome mean the difference between life and
Atta Sport
You, for instance, get in a football game. You lose it.
You realize that you have played to your utmost and know
that your teammates have done likewise. Does this football
game then remain a sport if you run about practically beat-
ng your breast, or, perhaps, hide in a corner of the locker-
room muttering curse words, condemning yourself or repeat
ing the inevitable “IF, IF, IF ?”
No, in the first place you wouldn’t be doing something like that un
less you had a guilty conscience. In the second place, there can be
nothing “sporting” in the contest if it renders you so helpless to your
emotions.
Now that is one small point, but the big one is this. All of our na
tional .so-called “sports” cannot be classed as such any longer. They
are businesses, and anyone who has enough guts to admit this will
back us up.
One doesn’t speak of a football game or a football team as such
anymore without quoting points, prices, scholarships and gate re
ceipts.
There is no such thing as “The Sport of Kings.” Someone once re
marked that “only a king could afford to be in racing.” Horse racing
is now called “The Sport of Big Business.” The same thing applies to
college sports, at least football.
•
A very emminent publicity director in the Southwest
Conference told another publicity man quite frankly that
he didn’t send out releases and publicity on any sport but
football for the simple reason that football was the only
one that made money for his school. These babies don't
die, fade away or even disappear. They always manage to
hang around until something like the Madison Square Gar
den basketball scandals break.
This one is awfully close to home, but here are the very words of
one man who is very active in A&M alumni circles.
“If we’re going to have A&M in big-time football, then we have
to talk big-time prices.”
If there wasn’t so much pathos in the situation, we would laugh
at amazements on the faces of the multitude when sports scandals are
broken. How can anyone possibly be surprised about such things when
they know what the present situation is.
Day in and day out athletes are exposed to prices and points as
quoted by the “solid citizen.” And they don’t just talk about it, they
encourage it. Is it any wonder then that there are scandals? And think
of the ones that haven’t been and never will be told.
We Like It
Now cut the snarling and cursing. You’re sitting there muttering
hypocrite and you’re right. No, we don’t want athletic scholarships
stopped. We surely won’t walk away from a group that happens to be
talking odds, points or prices. BUT WE SURE WON’T BE HYPO
CRITICAL ENOUGH TO GO AROUND TALKING ABOUT THE
GOOD, CLEAN, ALL-AMERICAN SPORTS.
As long as there remain those who have one eye on the opposing
line or pitcher and the other eye on a big-time contract you can’t call
it a sport.
Just as long as you knock a man down and then feel “good inside”
because you helped the poor jerk up, doesn’t make you a good sport.
And so goes the world of sports, SPORT.
Saddle - Sirloiners Schedule Barbecue
NEWS - CARTOON
The Saddle and Sirloin Club will
hold its annual spring barbecue
Thursday afternoon at 5:30 in Hen-
sel Park.
One of the more active activities
scheduled for the afternoon is a
football game to be played by the
graduating seniors and the profes
sors of the Animal Husbandry De
partment.
The Junior Judging Team and
the Meats Medals will be presented
at the barbecue.
All Animal Husbandry Depart
ment employees and members of
the Saddle and Sirloin Club are in
vited to attend.
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Wednesday, May 16, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3
A&M Meets Texas For
SWC Baseball Crown
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
The Aggie baseball team will
either tie the University of Texas
for the Southwest Conference
crown this week, or end up in
second place when the two diamond
nines meet on Kyle Field for a
final two-games series Friday and
Saturday.
IF the Aggies win both games
from the Steers, the conference
baseball title will be shared be
tween the two schools and a play
off will be necessitated.
IF the Longhorns win one of
the two contests, the crown will
automatically go home to Austin.
The first time that these two
clubs met, the Steers were playing
baseball like they invented the
game, while A&M wasn’t hitting
the ball. That might seem like a
funny statement to make when
you look at the box score and see
the Aggies credited with 10 runs
and 10 hits, but it is true.
Up until that time, and even a
few games after, the Farmers
weren’t hitting like they have
since the last Baylor series. In
their last four games, the Cadets
have averaged better than 12%
runs per contest, or a great total
of 50. There has also been a total
of 56 hits, and an average of 14
a game.
Trail By Two
With a conference record of
nine wins and four losses, the
Cadets trail the Longhorns by
four games. Texas has an eleven-
and-two mark.
Texas scored 114 runs and had
only 39 tallied against them in
conference play while A&M has
chalked up 99 and allowed 53 op
ponents to cross the plate.
Texas won the 1951 initial meet
ing by a 15-to-10 count as they
knocked out as many hits in a
game which saw the two top hurl-
ers from each school shelled from
the box.
Ace righthander Pat Hubert
started for the Aggies and was
touched for nine hits and as many
runs in four innings. The No, 2
I’ve Got It!
AI Ogietree
Aggie catcher Al Ogietree has been a post of oak behind the plate
for the Aggies this year. He has teamed well with ace hurler Pat
Hubert to form the most potent winning combination.
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“Serving Texas Aggies”
A&M pitcher, Bob Tankersley, was
knocked out next as he gave up
three runs, but only three hits,
in two frames.
Jim Erhler and Jimmy Hand, the
Texas one-two punch, were likewise
slammed unmercifully about. Erhl
er gave up four and four in two
and two-thirds, and Hand got
knocked for two hits and four
runs in the same number of inn
ings.
Tankersley was handed the loss
for that game, but since then has
come on to win two other con
tests. He and Hubert will in all
probability be the two starting
hurlers for Beau Bell, as will
Erhler and Hand for Texas men
tor Bibb Falk.
The same line-ups will be used
Friday and Saturday as were
used last time. For Texas it will be
Ted Tate or Stuart Benson catch
ing, Chile Bigham at first, Irving
Waghalter on second, Frank Kana
on third, Eddie Burrows at short
stop, Frank Womack in left field,
Harry Bengston patrolling center
and Guss Hrncir in right,
Erhler Will Start
Erhler is assured of one start
ing role, but there is a possibility
that Milt Deason or Luther Scar
borough may take over Hand’s
chores in the second game.
‘The Aggies will have Al Ogle-
tree catching, Hubert and Martin
Hamilton receiving Tankersley.
Bill Munnerlyn will be at first,
Joe Ecrette at second, Henry
“Hank” “Yogi” Candelari will be
on third and captain Guy Wallace
will take them down at short. In
the outfield, it will be Yale Lary
in left, John DeWitt in center
and Shug McPherson in right.
Both games will start at 3 p. m.
Daniel Lauds Use
Year Rule
Austin, May 16—(A 5 )—Attorney
General Price Daniel' lauded the
Federal Senate Interior Committee
yesterday for sticking to a prop
erty rule 100 years old.
The committee voted 7-4 today
in favor of a bill giving states
control of the tidelands until Con
gress permanently settles the
ownership problem.
“We have just what we’ve had
for the past 100 years—state con
trol of this property,” Daniel said.
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