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Hooper, Hubert
Davis and Smith
Top A&M Sports
By ANDY ANDERSON
Battalion Sports Editor
This has been a banner year for A&M in the sports
field. Aggie teams have produced All-Americans in two of
four major sports—track and baseball—and most all the
United States will recognize another in a
third sport—football.
Over the weekend, Pat Hubert was
named to the American Association of Col
lege Baseball Coaches All-America team and
Harrow Hooper and Buddy Davis were picked
for top honors on the National Collegiate
Athletic Association’s all-America team.
Of course, the third is “Hamblin’ Rob-
* ert” Smith, who last Fall was picked on sev
eral highly-rated all-America teams, among
them the Chicago Tribune team which is
picked from a tabulation of players who
^nlayed against the candidates. Smith, on this team, was prac-
^rically a unanimous choice from all opposing players.
This has been the first time in recent years that A&M
has been so honored in baseball. One of the oddities of this
choice is that an all-American coached an all-American, for
in 1931, Coach R. C. “Beau” Bell was picked to the top rank
ing in the United States.
It was Hubert who, almost single-handed, pitched the
Aggies into the NCAA playoffs at Omaha, Neb. last month.
Who can forget the way he pitched and won two out of the
three games against a supposedly strong University of Ariz-
one nine in just a little more than 48 hours. If he had gotten
a little better support in the first game at Omaha, which was
charged to him 5-1, Hubert might have carried the Aggies
into the last round against Oklahoma. His 12-1 record for
the year is proof enough of his all-America capabilities.
Hooper, Davis Set New Records
On the track scene, both Hooper and Davis had the honor to set
new records this past season. It was Hooper, Hooper, Hooper in both
> the shot and discus events at almost every meet he attended during
the Spring. Hooper had been conditioning himself for this honor since
his high school days when he set a national record in the shot put
his senior year at North Side in Ft. Worth.
As a freshman, Hooper broke the SWC record almost every time
I he pushed the 16 pound ball into the ozone. In his first competition
against varsity performers, Hooper cracked the mark set by Boyce
“Honk” Irwin—50-214—in 1934 with a heave of 52-9% and he kept
it up through the SWC track and field meet held at A&M in, May.
Here he set a record of 54-714 and then added the discus to his string
of laurels, hurling the disc 162-8%.
Davis, one of the hardest workers in A&M’s athletics, realized
a lifelong ambition by being named to the highest |honor a
track man can receive. It sounds like a Frank Meriwell ending
to the old story and that is just what if is. Davis overcame
polio as a child and through practice, running and jumping,
he strengthened his legs until they had as much bounce and
spring as a rubber ball.
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Because of the extension of basketball into April, Buddy did not
participate in any of the early track meets/ of the Spring but when
he did return, he let the rest of the world know he was on the scene.
In, Austin at the Texas Relays, Buddy cleared the standard at 6-9 to
post the second highest mark of the year and at that time, the high
est. ! i.
It came within a little more than two inches of topping the world
record, held by Les Steers of Oregon State, set before WW II. It also
eclipsed the SWC record of 6-8% held by Wolters of Texas and it,
too, was set before the last war. Buddy never did attain the 6-9 mark
again last season but he was consistently clearing 6-6 and that was a
good enough mark to take practically all the meets in which he was
entered. He won the SWC high-jump with that 6-6 mark.
Can’t Say Enough About Smith
Tuesday, July 3, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page .3
When the name of Bob Smith
comes up in any conversation, it’s
hard to keep a man who has been
following the exploits of this de
mon of the gridiron from doing
anything but talk about Smith.
As a sophomore in 1949, Smith
caused a few eyebrows to be raised
hut it was this past Fall that
Smith really got to steamrolling
opponents like pins on a bowling
alley.
Smith was left off all-America I
teams that were named while
football season was still in pro
gress because of the fact most all-
America teams were picked on the
strength of pre-season dope and
on actual performance.
Smith had a name for ground
gaining prior to the SMU game
in Dallas, Nov. 11, 1950 but it
was not until that day with a
record 201 yards gained rushing
in 75 and 73 yard runs as well
(See SMITH GOES, Page 4)
Little League
All-Stars Trip
Austin Nine 1-0
Bryan-College Station Lit
tle League All-Stars edged
out a 1 to 0 victory over the
Austin All-Stars in a tight
hurling duel at Sports Park
Saturday night.
In a preliminary game the Col
lege Station minor league All-
Stars defeated the Bryan minor
league All-Stars. College Station
made three hits and committed
three errors with Johnny Crain
the winning pitcher. Bryan got
four hits and made two bobbles,
hurling chores were shared by
John Herrera and Ken Patranella.
Heads-up fielding on both sides
characterized the main event game.
Joe Campise going the distance for
Bryan-College Station got credit
for the win. He allowed only two
hits while striking out six Austin
batters and walking two.
Austin started Gary Ross and
he allowed no runs off one hit in
two and two-thirds innings and
struck out two and walked five.
King Francis relieved Ross with
two out and the bases loaded on
three straight walks. Francis al
lowed one run off four hits in one
and two-thirds innings to be tag
ged with the loss. Robert Wingard
came on in the fifth to get the
last two outs.
Joe Brooks Thompson, Stuart
Helvey, Dick Hickerson (2) and
Gordon Gregg were the Bryan-
College Station hitters.
Austin left six runners on base
while the Bryan-College Station
nine had nine runners stranded on
base.
Hubert Only Texan
Named All-America
By RAY RUSHING
Battalion Sports Staff
Pat Hubert, big right hand Ag
gie hurler was the only Texas
honored on the 1951 all-American
collegiate baseball team, John H.
Kobs, secretary-treasurer of the
American Association of College
Baseball Coaches, announced re
cently.
Hubert won 12 games during the
regular season, and lost only one.
He had an earned run average of
1.99.
Guy Wallace, A&M shortstop and
Larry Isbell, Baylor catcher were
named to third team berths, while
Chili Bigham, TU first baseman
was selected for the second team.
Young Earl Averill, Jr., sbn of
the former Cleveland Indian star
outfielder and outfielder for Ore
gon, was named to the first team
along with three others from the
Far West. The East placed one,
the Midwest two and the South
three.
The only repeater frdm last!
year’s team was Ray Van Cleef of
Rutgers, an outfieldet who batted
.348. The third outfielder was
Stewart Hein of Ohio State with a
slugging average of .304.
Don Barnett of Fresno State
was selected to fill the pitcher’s
spot along with Hubert. Barnett
won 11 games during the regular
season and lost none. Hb earhed a
run average of 2.26 for each nine
innings hurled.
Dick Groats, Duke’s basketball
ace, was named as shortstop. He
batted .386. Dick Raklovits, crack
fullback for Illinois, took the third
base berth. His batting average
was .387.
Little League Red Sox
Crush Lilly Tigers 19-0
By GUS BECKER
Battalion Sports Staff
The Southside Food Market Red
Sox of College Station slaughtered
the Seven-Up Tigers of Bryan 19
to 0 at the Little League Park, yes
terday evening.
Bobby Potts, ace Red Sox pitch
er who hasn’t lost a game this
year was credited with the win.
Potts was relieved after the third
frame by Wayne Thompson. Potts
allowed only one hit, struck out
one and walked four. Thompson
retired the last three Tiger bat
ters in order.
Campise Started for Tigers
Jbe CampiSS started on the
mound for the Tigers, but he gave
up three hits and seven runs be-
Duffers - Here’s
Chance to Shine
Have you ever won a tourna
ment of any kind?Are you one of
the unfortunates who seldom ever
breaks 100?
If you are a member of either
of these categories, you should be
one of the many who will be at
the A&M Golf Course tomorrow
afternoon at 1 for the Fourth of
July Blind Bogey golf tournar-
ment.
Joe Fagan, pro-manager of the
course, said there would be three
prizes in each flight. Prizes will
be in the form of merchandise.
Winners of the last blind bogey
were Guy Smith with a low net of
62, garnered with a low gross of
80 and an 18 handicap and Byron
Joiner who had a 69 after deduct
ing a handicap of 28 from his 18
hole total of 97.
Play for the tournament tomor
row afternoon will begin at 1.
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fore he was relieved, with two
men out and the bases loaded, by
Ed Hubacek. Hubacek retired the
side with only one more run cross
ing the plate. Hubacek gave up
four hits, walked eleven and struck
out five the rest of the game.
Alton Arnold, Red Sox lead-off
man, lead off with a single to cen
ter and scored two of the eight
runs made by the Red Sox in the
first frame. Fourteen men batted
in the first inning before the Tig
ers could put out the fire.
The Tigers threatened only once.
That was in the second inning when
they had the bases leaded with one
out. Moehalman came up and hit
into a neatly executed double play,
pitcher to catcher to first;
Sox Run Rampant
The Red Sox scored five more
runs in the second and six more
in the fourth. Three consecutive
strike outs got the Sox in the third
inning.
Arnold, Red Sox shortstop and
Thompson each got two hits with
Arrtold scoring three runs and
Thompson scoring two. Lionel
Broemlihg, Potts, Paul Hildebrand
(See RED SOX, Page 4)
The other infielders were first
baseman Sylvester McNinich of
California and second baseman
James Cleverly of Utah. McNinich
batted .323'while Cleverly held the
team’s high mark with an average
of .494.
Joseph Buck of Oklahoma A&M
who sported an average of .406
was named first string catcher.
Six of the ten team members
are juniors which is a record num
ber for this group that is picked
annually by college coaches.
Exclusive of pitchers, the team
has a collective slugging average
of .375.
Oklahoma, NCAA champion,
placed only one man on this year’s
three-team squad. The lone player
Was John Shirley, who was select
ed to fill the pitcher’s berth on
the second team.
A&M Choice Of
Three All-State
Baseballers
Three all-state baseballers
from South Park (Beaumont),
wihners of the Class AA base
ball championship, will enter
A&M next fall on full four-
year scholarships, the Athletic De
partment announced this morning.
The three players are Jerry Nel
son, husky right handed pitcher
who sported a 9-0 record for all
competition last Spring; Ray
Mitchell, third baseman who batted
.462 in District 11 AA and Catcher
Don Verble, another slugger of
note with a .400 hit record.
Mitchell slammed oiie of the
longest home runs of the year out
of Stuart Stadium, home of the
Beaumont Roughnecks, in bi-dis
trict play against the Baytown
nine last Spring. According to the
Beaumont Enterprise, the ball
cleared the 365-foot, left field fence
with ease and came to rest against
a house across the street from the
ball park, some 400 feet distant.
Nelson’s record for the year in
cluded a no-hitter against Port
Neches in district play.
South Park compiled one of the
best records ever owned by a
Texas schoolboy nine, winning 22
and losing but two over the sea
son. The Greenies scored 239 runs
and allowed but 41 through bi-dis
trict competition.
Chink Manning, South Park
coach is a 1937 graduate of A&M.
O. D. Butler Studies
For PhD. Degree
O. D. Butler, professor of the
Animal Husbandry Department,
was granted a one year leave of
absence from A&M College to at
tend Michigan State University to
work on his Ph.D. in Animal Hus
bandry.
Beard Hurls, Bats Ags
To 5-3 Win Over MVille
The Aggie Softballers whipped
the Madisonville All-Stars 5-3 in
a contest played under the lights
last night.
A big fourth inning was the
margin of victory for the Aggies
as four runs crossed the plate on
four hits and one Madisonville
bobble.
With one out, Ag Third Baseman
Dick Lentzen gained life on an er
ror and was moved to third as
Red Stribling laced a single over
short stop.
Lantzen scored when Froggie
Morris, holding down the second
sack got on via a fielders choice.
Mack Howell, Ag catcher then
doubled Morris and Stribling home
with a solid base blow to left-
center.
Howell subsequently scored the
Haltom Does
It Again—6 7
This Time
Par took a beating Sunday at
the A&M Golf Course as Bart
Haltom cracked his own course
record with a four-under-par 67.
Haltom who less than two weeks
ago had set a new course record
with a 69, played Sunday afternoon,
part of the time in the rain and
came in with a 34 on the front
side and a 33 on the back. Both
nines were two-under par.
The 69 broke the course record
of 70 set by Buddy Weaver in
the Southwest Conference Individ
ual Champion meet held on the
course in early May. Haltom post
ed his 69 on June 20.
In posting the new record, Hal
tom had five birdies and one bogey.
Three of the birdies and the bogey
came on the front side with the
other birdies on the back.
His card:
Par Out 544 344 345—36
Haltom 454 344 334—34
Par In 434 534 444—35—71
Haltom 433 524 444—33—67
fourth run of the frame when
Bryan Beard swung at a 1-0 pitch
and boomed it to right-center field.
Madisonville started the scoring
in the second' as Bill Campbell let
a slow roller get through his legs
for an error that gave Melvin
Hicks a new lease on life. He went
Fteh Add Blinn JC
To 1951 Schedule
The 1951 schedule for the fresh
man football team was announced
yesterday by athletic director Bar-
low “Bones” Irvin.
The Fish will play the custom
ary five games. Blinn College has
been substituted this season for
Allen Academy, the first opponent
in 1950.
Here’s the schedule:
Oct. 4—Blinn College
7:30 p.m., College Station
Oct. 11—Baylor Cubs
7:30 p.m., College Station
Oct. 18—TCU Wogs
7:30 p.m., College Station
Nov. 9—Rice Owlets
2:00 pan., Houston
Nov. 22—Texas Shorthorns
2:00 p.m., Austin
to second on a wild pitch by Beard
and a passed ball by Howell and
scored as Jack Crenshaw singled
to left field.
The Aggies tied it up in the
third as Beard drew a free ticket
to first, stole second, moved To
third on a wild pitch and scored
when Jewell McDowell, Ag short
stop blasted out the first hit off
B. J. Lloyd, a single to left field.
Beard set 11 All-Stars down
swinging and walked only one.
Lloyd whiffed nine Aggies and al
lowed only one base on balls.
The Aggies hits were distributed
Between five men with all of them
singles except Howell’s double "in
the fourth which drove in two
runs.
For the All-Stars, Frank Ivey
with two for three, a single and
a double, was the leading hitter.
The only other hit Madisonville
garnered was by Hicks.
All-Stars 010 010 1—3 3 2
Aggies 001 400 x—5 5 5
A lefthanded bowler, recently in
jured his bowling hand but being a
bowling enthusiast he tried , his
right arm at the game. His first
scores with his starboard arm were
233, 187 and 164.
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Sqdn. A Downs B11-2 to Cop
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A Sqdn. took the first game in a
three game series with B Sqdn. to
decide freshman intra-mural soft-
ball championship 11-2 yesterday.
A Sqdn. started the game with
lead-off man Flynt getting on base
with a one bagger. The next two
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saw A Sqdn. chalk up their last
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in the fourth and two in the fifth.
Winning pitcher was Bonzall—
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In the only non-military volley
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