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Tuesday, May 22, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Sportsmen Honorees At Barbecue Tonight Aggie Sports Bear Sweet Fruit In 9 51; At 6:30 this evening in the Bra zos County A & M club house located at the West end of Mun- nerlyn'Village, all participants in Spring Sports will be honored with a barbecue. Special attention will be directed to the presentation of the Lips- comb-Colson awards, made annual ly to the captains of the baseball, track and basketball teams and to the most valuable players in each of those events. Buddy Davis and Jewell McDow ell were awarded the valuable play er and team captain awards at the sports banquet but W. N. “Flop” Colson said they would be honored as a part of the program. Guy Wallace will receive the captain award for the baseball team and Jack Simpson will re ceive the award for track. Colson said that in the absence of the baseball team, those awards would be made and presented at some future date, pending the re turn to the campus of the team from its trip to Arizona. Over 150 athletes who have part icipated in tennis, golf, fencing, swimming, the rifle and pistol teams as well as the other sports will be honored. The following lettermen will be honored at the feast. Varsity Track Robert H. Allen, James E. Baker, William E. Bless, Thomas K. Burk, Jr., (Mgr.), James H. Dimmitt, Walter F. Davis, James C. Gabriel, John H. Garmany, Don R. Graves, William S. Henry, Julian C. Her ring, C. Darrow Hooper, Charles M. Hudgens, Marshall M. Lazarine. Paul J. Leming, Malcolm T. Marks, Robert E. Mays, James F. McCarty, Donald R. Mitchell, Ber nard F. Place, R. Daniel Pratt, Bobby J. Ragsdale, Robert J. Shaeffer, John A. Simpson, Robert L. Smith, Glenn D. Spradlin, Wil liam B. Stalter, James A. Terry, Edwin D. Wilmsen. Freshman Track „ Glenn A. Blake, Lamon L. Ben nett, James L. Blaine, John P. Cavileer, Tom C. Cox, Dale D. De- Rouen, James H. Earle, Robert B. Faust, Richard W. Hampton, Don m F. Jordan. Roger E. Lawrence, Carl B. Light, Hayden E. Mayeaux, Eric E. Miller, Burned D. Manning, Frank D. Norris, Harrie A. Smith, Jr., Gerald C. Stull, Marvin N. Swink, Edward E. Travis, Verlon E. Westmoreland. Varsity Golf William D. Baker, Jr., Johnny Barrett, Robert G. Dahoney, J. C. Fletcher, Oten Guerrero, III. I I I I I I I I I I I J I Opportunity j Unlimited... ! For men of high caliber and university training, Douglas offers limitless opportunity. Today, as for the past thirty years, our future depends on men who can continue to help pioneer in the field of aeronautics. I I i I I l i \ I ) l t I t l i i I l University and college gradu ates have made important con tributions to our progress, and have found Douglas a good place to work. As we push forward the development of aircraft, guided missiles, and special classified projects for the Government, we shall always be interested in men trained as aeronautical, mechani cal, electrical and civil engineers... physicists... and mathematicians. DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT COMPANY, INC, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA I l I I I I Varsity Fencing Truett N. Fields, John R. Gott lob, Jr., Homer C. Holmes, Robert W. Jones, Carl W. Matthijetz, Joseph Mayes, Frank A. Ragusa, Wallace G. Schlather, Curtis L. Wilson, Jr. Frazelle, Billy J. Assistant Trainer. Varsity Tennis Raymond G. DeBerry, Alfred R. Hardin, Eugene J. Letsos, Royce D. Tate, Thomas West. Pistol John Bontke, Ramon Chavarria, Brian P. Lowry, (Mgr.) Duane Unrue, Jack R. Vincent, (Capt.) B. R. Wright. Varsity Baseball Hollis 0. Baker, Henry Candel- ari, John U. DeWitt, Joe D. Ecrette, Albert S. Goodloe, Wil bur M. Hamilton, Patrick L. Hu- (See SPORTSMEN, Page 4) Davis, Hooper Take Places In Modesto Relays A&M’s two wandering track stars, Walter “Buddy” Davis and Darrow Hooper have re turned from their California trip with a share of the top honors wrested from some of the outstanding stars in the country. Davis won first place in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays high jump event Friday night with a leap of 6-6 and then Sunday at Modesto, Calif., tied for third with two others by leaping a mediocre 6-4 in the 10th Annual California Relays. Weight-star Hooper placed fourth in the shot at the Friday night meet with a heave of 54-6% and won third Sunday with a toss of 53-41/2. A new intercollegiate record was established in the javelin event when Bill Miller of Ariz ona State whipped the spear 237- 10 to surpass the 234-3% set by Bob Peoples of Southern Califor nia in 1941. Even with this fine toss, he fail ed to win the event as Cy Young, representing the Los Angeles Ath letic Club chunked the javelin a mighty 241-11. This mark has been exceeded only by a toss of 248-10, held by Dr. Steve Seymour. Dick Attlesey of the Los Angeles Athletic Club set a new mark in the 120 yard high hurdles with a fleet 13.6. He had just established a new mark of 13.8 in the prelim inaries. Hooper failed to place in the discus throw which was won by Dick Doyle, representing the Mon tana AC, Missoula, Mont., with a toss of 165-10 %. 75th Is Gold Year By FRED WALKER Battalion Sports Editor “It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, whfen they see the strets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the fe male sex, followed by three, four, or six (coaches), all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. “These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to emplay all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants: who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the pretender in (Austin), or sell themselves to the (dollar). My apologies to Johnathan Swift' (God rest his soul!) for this harmless bit of play ful plagarism, but I couldn’t but notice how strikingly similar was his “Modest Proposal” to coaching situations of years past. The main difference was, however, that there weren’t many of them begging on the streets, for all they had to do was turn out poor teams with good material and sit back and wait for the rich alumni to buy up their contracts. 1 We have no such proposal as did Mr. Swift. In the first place, the wheels in Aggie sports circles are turning quite well without emitting any horrible squeaks. In the second place, I can’t conceive a tough old campaigner like Col. Andy, a lean strong John Floyd, a big rugged Beau Bell or a Rocky Mountain range like Ray George with an apple in his mouth. What does all this gibberish mean? It darn well means that the lean times are definitely over (At least for a while) for Aggieland sports. Who’s Floyd? Back in September an unknown name, John Floyd, very quietly made his way across A&M’s campus for the first time. “Who in the devil is John Floyd,” the wolves howled. (Wolves here does not mean A&M alumni as Jinx Tucker would have you believe. This word is used to in clude all skeptics and infidels.) Six months later (March 13th) the same Floyd could have asked for and gotten the MSC, Fort Knox, America’s supply of atom bombs or a letter from Harry Truman. In five short months, Floyd had changed the entire system of Aggie basketball style and whipped out 45 years (Twenty- eight on the title and 17 in Austin) of field goal misery with an Aggie game in Austin. And like any man with a grain of sense, he said the credit belonged to his “boys”. Make it 50-50 J.F. and we’ll call it even. A Bell for A&M And then there was an Aggie-Ex that strolled across a not-un- familiar campus last January. R. C. “Beau” Bell pleased the grum blers. He was an Aggie and an ex-pro from the St. Louis Browns and two or three other American League clubs. Now, at this very moment, Bell and his charges are facing (Or it might be over.) a potent Arizona Wildcat nine in Tucson in the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs. And what manner of man is this? He seems to be a lot of man. It started in 1931 when Beau slam med a homer against jolly old Texas to give A&M a Southwest Con ference baseball title. Six years later he hit .340 for the Brownies and lead the league in doubles. His team here this year started with a cross on the button from Baylor and dropped a couple more while a seemingly unbeatable Longhorn crew was still flexing its muscles. Barbecue to Fete Mural Managers There will be an Intramural Managers’ Barbecue tonight at 6 in the Grove. All managers are requested to attend. Athletic officers who have not turned in all Intramural athletic equipment are urged to do so immediately in the Of fice of Student Activities. “Beat Baylor twice? You’re nuts?” Jt was nothing, real ly; 9-to-0 and 12-to-6. ‘Well, we should take Rice.” And that was that “Tie for the title? BEAT TEXAS TWO GAMES IN A ROW?” Well, no mat ter what anyone else thought, Bell and a group of Aggie baseball players had another idea. Texas spent most of Thurs day and Friday embarrasedlj clutching their orange panties which were being gleefully taken from them. Can Beau and the boys do the same to Arizona? You’ll have to wait for that one. And then there was another . . . shall we say a mountain with a child’s smile? He weighs 263 and smiles like the Mona Lisa. That’s a man named Ray George who hasn’t ever won a ball game for A&M but has every austere and dignified Aggie—ready to lead yell practice. Tell anyone he’s talked to that A&M won’t be a champion this Fall and you’ll probably get a slap in the kisser. Jolson couldn’t have laid them in the aisles any faster at A&M. But don’t forget a newly con verted business man in Houston. Harry Stiteler? That’s right. For (See AGGIE SPORTS, Page 4) THERE’S 1 SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL SPV\ ABOUT’ iFi) GARMENTS m i L CLEANED |l di j] i BY i v • '• Y-) AGGIE ( LEA IRS No :th Gcitc . . College ... Phone 4-4o54 TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:20 - 3:30 - 5:40 - 7:50 - 10:00 JOAN CRAWFORD ROBERT YOUNG FRANK LOVEJOY NEWS — CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN Baseballers Journey to Tucson; Prep Today for Opening Game By ANDY ANDERSON Battalion Campus Editor A&M’s baseball co-champs ar rived in Tucson, Ariz. at noon to day where they will meet the Uni versity of Arizona to determine who will represent District 6 at the NCAA playoffs in Omaha, Neb. next month. The team left the campus yester day evening aboard the Sunbeam, remained in Dallas overnight and boarded an airliner for Tucson earlier today. Plans called for a workout this afternoon prior to tomorrow af ternoon’s first game at 3. The sec ond game is slated for Thursday Bryan Takes First Blind Bogey Meet Travis Bryan, Jr. of Bryan won the first flight of the Blind Bogey golf tournament Sunday with an 18 hole score of 71. Carlton “Tiny” Hill, with a hand icap of 8, won low net with a 68 while Sam Gardner copped the runner-up’s position for low net in the first flight. He came in with an 85 and with a bogey handicap of 14, it gave him a net of 71. In the second flight, A. W. Don aldson won low gross of 84. B. E. Jordan with an 87-18 took top low net honors with a 69. Col. Whitney was second to Jordan with an 85- 14 for 71. Chuck Laakso and J. Slaughter, each with 98’s tied for top honors for low gross in the third flight. Winner of low net was L. R. Callo way with 103-32 for 71 with Tom Ball coming in behind him with 108-36 for a 72. The winners were awarded golf balls as prizes. In case you’re wondering just how this thing works—here’s a brief explanation. Each player plays 18 holes, turns in his score to the judge who adds the score on a certain number of holes—in this case nine—chosen at random from the 18 on the course. From this total, he subtracts the par for the holes and the re sultant figure is then doubled and subtracted from the gross score on the entire 18. This gives the low net and from this, the winners are determined. Bryan 2’8879 LAST DAY “Grounds for Marriage” WED. thru SAT. ? ROUGH! RAW! RUGGED! REAL! presents RANDOLPH JEROME C0URTLAN0 • PETER THOMPSON • JOHN ARCHER ' WARNER' ANDERSON • Screen Play by Kenneth Gamnt • Based upon n norel by Janies Marsbetl and a story by Louis Stevens >A SCOTT-BROWN Produo. lion • Produced by HARRY JOE BROWN • Directed by IRVING PtCHEl QUEEN LAST DAY “The Great Man Hunt” WED. thru SAT. MNGED TERROR SWEEPS THE JUNGIE! Killer beosls and barbaric natives trap renegade white raiders of forbidden wilderness! night at 8 and if a third is neces sary, it will be played Friday at 3 p. m. Probably Face Righthander Probably facing the Aggies in the first of the best-two-out-of- three series will be the Wildcats ace, Robin Richer, a right hander. He has a 7-0 record for the season with an ERA of 1.62. Richer, who has led the Wildcats to a 27-2 recoi’d for the season has issued 22 bases on balls and whiffed 57 men. Pacing the Border Conference NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 200 000—2 6 2 St. Louis 020 030 00x—5 9 0 Jansen, Gettel (8) and Westrum; Staley and Rice. WP — Staley (6-5). LP—Jansen (3-4). Only Game Scheduled Standings W L Pet GB Brooklyn ..18 13 .581 Chicago ...17 14 .548 1 St. Louis .16 14 .533 1% Boston ..17 16 .515 2 Philadelphia. .16 17 .485 3 New York ..... ..16 19 .457 4 Pittsburgh ... ..14 17 .452 4 Cincinnati ... ..14 18 .438 41/2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 202 000 010—5 7 2 Washington ....000 003 000—3 4 3 Dobson, Pierce (8), Dorish (9) and Niarhos; Moreno, Harris (7) and Guerra. HR—Goan. WP— Dobson (3-0). LP—Moreno (1-1). champions at the plate will be a sophomore left fielder, Mark De lay, with a batting mark of .377 for the season. Aggie leaders in the hitting de partment will be Guy Wallace with a .386 average; Yale Lary, .348 and maskman A1 Ogletree, .349. These four men were instrumen tal in most of the Aggies victories over the regular season which be gan when A&M played host to the pro-laden Brooke Army Medical Center Comets of San Antonio. Ogletree started off the victor ious season by rapping out a last Detroit 010 101 220—7 10 1 Boston 007 000 20x—9 9 1 Trout, Borowy (3), Stuart (4), Bearden (7), White (7), Trucks (8) and Ginsberg; Nixon, Parnell (8), Kinder (8), Taylor (8) and Moss. HR—Williams, Mullin, Kry- hoski. WP—Nixon (2-0). LP— Trout (2-3). St. Louis 000 000 000—0 5 1 New York 000 001 Olx—2 5 0 Overmire and Batts; Raschi and Berra. WP—Raschi (7-1). LP— Overmire (.0-3). Only Games Scheduled Standings W L Pet GB New York 21 9 .700 Chicago 17 9 .654 2 Detroit 16 11 .593 3% Washington ..15 13 .536 5 Boston 15 13 .536 5 Cleveland 13 15 .464 7 Philadelphia.. 9 21 .300 12 St. Louis 8 23 .258 13 half of the ninth inning home run to break a 7-7 tie and give the Aggies an 8-7 victory. The series was evened the next days as the Comets won 2-1. Next opposition for the SWC- co champs was the University of Houston. In a close game, the Ag gies emerged victorious with a 3-1 victory as Pat Hubert and Ernie Johnson scattered 5 hits very ef fectively. Again, the U of H furnished competition for the forces of “Beau” Bell. This time, playing in Houston, the Cougars tripped the Aggies 7-3. In a wild-scoring affair led by team captain and again first choice for SWC shortstop honors Guy Wallace and Jimmy Russell, the Cadets mauled the Sam Houston Bearkats of Huntsville 16-8. Wal lace contributed two four-masters and Russell one as the twosome teamed up to drive in nine of the Aggies runs. The Aggies next went to San Antonio to pay a return visit to the Comets and spit a pair. They entered the series with the Golden Gophers of Minnesota with a 4 won-3 lost record. Hubert’s No-Hitter Hubert realized pitchers- dream-come-true as he was in per fect form for the first game of a double-header with the Gophers. He set the boys from the North down without a hit as the Aggies won 2-0 only to drop the second game 1-0. The Aggies record rose to 6-4 following their win from the El Dorado Oilers of the Cotton States League, 7-4. Baylor’s Bears tripped the Farm ers in the first conference game 3-2 to give Hubert his only loss for the season, but he, as well as (See BASEBALLERS, Page 4) Major League. MonduW' ecu =n Q n=r )(j1)( r==<ifl)0=r ) (fi) n r Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests Number 20...the Baltimore oriole C n lean-up man on the baseball nine, this slugger u_ doesn’t like to reach for ’em ... wants it right over the plate. And that’s the way he likes his proof of cigarette mildness! No razzle- dazzle “quick-puff” tests for him. No one-whiff, one-puff experiments. There’s one test, he’s discovered, that’s right down the alley! 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