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•m^vs-imieiauBk rtm r TrsTnurm r*t Swimmers Entered In TAAF Contests ' y u ,(i li « By RAY RUSHING Battalion Sports Staff Coach Art Adamson and his Col lege Station tankers will journey to Tyler this week-end to compete in the Annual Texas Amateur Ath lete Federation Swimming Champ ionships. This year’s meet, which is slated for Saturday and Sunday, is ex pected to draw the largest field in the history of the event, accord ing to a report from the Associated Press. About 27 to Represent CS Adamson is expecting about 27 mermaids and mermen to represent College Station in both Junior and Senior Divisions of the coming spectacle. It will take place in Tyler’s Fun Forrest Pool. For the past three years, Col lege Station has either won this meet, or placed second. Coach Adamson favors his team to place high this year. Nancy Hale is expected to give an outstanding performance in the Junior girls 50 yard breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle. She will swim anchor in both Junior girl relays. Adamson is also expecting a fine performance from his Junior Boy’s ~edley Relay Team composed of obby Karow, Dick White and Gayle Klipple. In the Senior Men’s Division, Adamson expressed high hopes of excellent showings from Van Adamson in the Individual Med ley, Karow in the 100 yard breast stroke and the Men’s Relay Team composed of Adamson, Karow and vocalist Tommy Butler. Those falling in the Junior Div ision in the coming event will be boys aged 14 and under and girls aged 17 and under. All other ages will be classified in the Senior Division. Expect 300 For Meet TAAF Officials are expecting the number of entries to reach the 300 mark. Last year 230 individ uals from seventeen Texas cities swam in the meet. Graham Price of Dallas and president of the TAAF, has been named meet referee. Kellam Johnson of Dallas, acting president of the Southwestern AAU, will be diving referee. William H. Keeling, superinten dent of recreation for the City of Dallas, a member of the executive committee of the TAAF and secre tary of the Southwestern AAU, has been invited to be the head timer. SWC Official Chief Judge Chief judge at the finish will be Johnny Morrow, director of parks and recreation for the City of Wa,co, a leading Southwest Confer ence football and basketball offi cial and a district director of the TAAF. Teams from all points in Texas ranging from El Paso to Beaumont are expected for the meet. The Tyler parks and recreation department and the Tyler Junior Chamber of Commerce are spon soring' the event. Miss Tyler will be chosen in a beauty contest that is to be held the night of July 21. Coach Adamson and his College Station tankers will leave here early Saturday morning. Williams, Coan Tied in Hitting Chicago, July 17—(/P)—Gil Coan, Washington outfielder, slugged for near .500 average last week to tie Boston’s Ted Williams for the American League batting lead at .336. Ferris Fain, Philadelphia first baseman, and third baseman George Kell of Detroit were only two points behind the leaders with identical .334 averages. Only one player dropped out of the leading ten, Vern Stephens, Boston third baseman, and anoth er third baseman, Bob Dillinger of the Chicago White Sox, stepped up to replace him. Outfielder Minnie Minoso of the White Sox was in fifth place with .331 and Larry Doby, Cleveland Indian center fielder, was right behind him with .330. Nellie Fox, Chicago second base- man, dropped to .325 and seventh place in the standings. Dom- Di- Maggio, Boston center fielder and Dillinger, were tied for eighth at .315 and Clevelands giant first baseman, Luke Easter, brought up the rear with .313. Three-Day Cardinal Tryout Camp Underway Tomorrow The Red Bird scouts, George Silvey, Fred Hawn and Runt Marr, will be looking for talent such as that which is being displayed by Vinegar Bend Mizell when the St. Louis Cardinals conduct their tryout camp at Buff Stadium on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I, Vinegar Bend has shown the rapidity with which it is possible to climb the minor league ladder to the Major Leagues, having been signed in a tryout camp only two short years ago and playing with Albany in 1949, Winston-Salem in 1950, and then jumping to Houston this year. Other members of the present Cardinals team have preceded him into the Major Leagues, although they were first signed in a tryout camp. Stars such as former Mr. Shortstop, now Mr. Manager Marty Marion, the old Warhorse Enos Slaughter, famous second baseman A1 “Red” Schoendienst and hustling Solly Hemus are all graduates of the Cardinal tryout camps. The tryouts under Silvey, Hawn and Marr, working with man ager A1 Hollingsworth, will start each morning at 11. All those interested in seeing if they are qualified for a professional baseball career are invited to attend. Those who plan to attend are asked to bring their own gloves and shoes and uniforms if possible, as this equipment will not be furnished by the Cardinals. Any expenses incident to attending the camp will be refunded to any players who are signed to a Cardinal contract. Seventh Consecutive Win Red Sox Slap Athletics 5-2 £ For Little League Victory By ANDY ANDERSON Battalion Sports Editor The Southside Food Market Red Sox chalked up their seventh straight win at the expense of the American Laundry Athletics yes terday afternoon at Little League park, slapping the A’s with a 5-2 defeat. The next contest for the Red Sox will be Thursday afternoon at approximately 5:30 at Little League Park on Williamson Drive. Stellar relief work by Bobby Potts with the bases loaded in the fifth inning was only one of the many highlights of the very well played ball game. Potts came in in relief of starter Alton Arnold who walked Louis American Shaping Up As Four-Team Fight g; l f I ■" By Associated Press Results of the next three days may throw the American League race into one of the tightest four- team scrambles on record. Only two and a half games sep arate the front-running Red Sox y.nd the fourth-place Indians today is Boston invades Cleveland for a three-game set while runner-ups Chicago and New York clash in a three-game argument of their own. A mere half game can separate all four clubs when the last put- outs are made on Thursday. All it would need is for the Indians to sweep the set from the Red Sox and the Yankees to win two out of three from the White Sox. Loss Costs One Game The Red Sox lost a full game to each of their pursuers yesterday when the tail-end St. Louis Browns roused themselves with a seven- run fifth inning to upset the Sox, 9-5. Chicago turned on their Phila delphia tormentors with an early blast to register a 9-5 victory over the Athletics and cut Boston’s mar gin to one game. The Yankees, outhit almost two to one, outlasted the Tigers in De troit, 8-6, to stay within a half game of the White Sox. They rmlled even with Chicago in per- mtage, however, at .600. Cleve- Smd waltzed to an easy 8-2 tri umph over Washington to cut its irst-place gap to two and a half games. It’s a different story in the Na tional League. The front-running Dodgers snapped their four-game losing streak with a decisive 11-2 win over Cincinnati to retain their eight-game margin. New York’s Giants slipped past St. Louis into second place by van quishing the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-6, in the rubber of their three- game set. A five-run eighth in ning kayoed Gerry Staley and gave the Philadelphia Phils a 5-2 victory over the Cardinals. Boston’s Braves spotted Chicago four runs in the first inning and came on to win, 9-4. Ted Gets Number 18 Ted Williams slammed his 18th homer for the Red Sox but it went to waste as the Browns teed off on Ellis Kinder and Bill Wight for six hits and added three walks for seven runs in the big fifth inning. Manager Paul Richards shook up his Chicago lineup and the White Sox responded by shellacking a pair of Philadelphia hurlers for 15 hits, including homers by Orestes Mino so and Don Lenhardt. Home Runs Aid Pitching A two-run homer by Yogi Berra and another four-bagger by Joe Collins offset spotty pitching by newcomer Artie Schallock and Frank Shea and gave the Yankees their second straight win over the Tigers. Luke Easter hammered his 13th and 14th homers and drove in five runs to lead the Indians to victory over Washington. 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Carrier had ' two for three with a walk thrown in while BcCerra slapped out three straight singles in three at bats. The Sox hit the inn column in the first as Arnold, first hitter of the inning, sizzled a single into right field, advanced to second on a wild pitch by H. K. Odom, Ath letic hurler who went all the way and scored as Potts drilled a single to left field. They made it 4-0 in the third as Arnold, again first batter of the inning, drew life on an error—a dropped fly by Becerra in center field—a single by Jimmy Simpson, Red Sox catcher and another sing le by Jerry Smith, Hose short stop. Arnold scored on Potts single, Simpson scored on Smith’s single and Potts tallied when Smith was thrown out trying to get back to second after almost running up on Potts on third. The A’s gob back one run in the fourth as Becerra got the second of his three hits, a single to short stop which he beat out by a lash, a walk to Johnny Hudson, catcher for the Athletics, an error by Paul Hildebrand, Sox third , baseman and a single to center by Lynn Car ter, A’s second baseman. Odom grew a little wild in the bottom of the fourth after Charles Todd drew a free ticket to first and Arnold got the second of two hits. He then issued walks to Simpson and Lyle Broemling to force in a run. Heads up fielding by Doug Stall ings saved possibly a few more runs in the fourth as Potts dribbled one down the first base that went foul and then at the last minute fair. Potts thinking it would stay in foul territory, hesitated but (See SOX SLAP, Page 4) Sof tball League econd Half Begins Today The second half of the Col lege Station Summer Softball League, reorganized as a four-team organization, gets underway this afternoon with two games scheduled. Winners of the first half, the Pirates, under the leadership of K. Manning will tangle with the forces of Co-Managers Bill Hensel’s and Les Richardson’s Giants at Col lege Park diamond at 5:45 this afternoon. The other game will pit Hank Mill’s Indians • against John Rog ers’ and Newt Williamson’s Tigers at College Hills at the same hour. Probable hurlers for the contests will be Barney Welch for the In dians and Williamson for the Tig ers while Sgt. White will prob ably be on the hill for the Giants against Homer Adams for the Pi rates. The Pirates won the first half championship by virtue of defeat- tbe Giants last Wednesday 3-0 while the Indians, who were tied with the Bucs prior to Wednesday’s contests, went down before the Yankees. SCIENCE DISCOVERED IT.YOU CAN PROVE IT “NO UNPLEASANT AFTER-TASTE” \ I / . y ■ !vr ¥• * \ Always Buy Chesterfield Copyright 1951, Liggitt & Myiks Tobacco Co Tuesday, July 17, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Ags Ninth Inning Tally Nips Madisonville 2-1 By GUS BECKER Battalion Sports Staff With the score tied 1 and 1 in the bottom of the ninth, two men out and a man on third base, Bud dy Denton, Aggie center fielder, hit a pitch to Madisonville’s pitch er, B. J. Lloyd who hobbled it and allowed the winning run of a 2-1 victory to cross the 1 plate in a con test played under the lights last night. Bryan Beard, star Aggie hurler, scored the winning run after ad vancing to first on a walk, going to second on a sacrifice by Bill Camp bell and stealing third after “Tex” Williams struck out. Beard, who went all the way for the Aggies, received credit for the victory. He struck out three All-Star batters, allowed three hits and gave up no free passes. Lloyd, who was charged with the defeat, sent five Aggies down swinging, gave up five hits and gave up one walk—that one proved fatal. The All-Stars drew first blood Musial Still Leading National Loop Batters New York, July 17—(A*)—Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals continues to roll along as 1 the Na tional League’s leading hitter for 1951 with a .373 average, but he faced a new challenge today for the batting championship. The new threat was youthful Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies, who rapped out eight hits in 19 times at bat during the week ending Sunday to make his aver age .359 and pass Packie Robin son as the league’s No. 2 hitter. Despite his spurt, however, Ash burn still trails Musial by 14 points, since the Cardinal clouter had nine for 21 during the week to up his mark from .369. The Dodgers’ Robinson, mean while, fell off a point, from .356 to .355, as he hit safely six times in 18 trips to the plate. He enjoyed a comfortable lead over Johnny Wyrostek of the Cin cinnati Reds, who boosted h i s average 15 points to .344 by lash ing out 10 hits in 16 times up. Wyrostek had raised his batting figures 20 points the previous week. An even 20 points below the Reds’ uotfielder, the field was closely bunched with Roy Campa- nella of the Dodgers fifth at .324 and A1 Dark of the New York Giants and Bob Elliott of the Bos ton Braves tied for sixth with .322. The last three places in the league’s top ten were filled by Frankie Baumholtz of the Chicago Cubs (.314), Peanuts Lowery of the Cardinals (.312) and Pee Wee Reese of Brooklyn (.310). as they scored in the fourth inning on a hit by catcher Prescott, two sacrifices and a passed ball. The Aggies tied it up in the fifth inning when Denton got on base via an error, Buddy Davis did likewise and A1 Rollins, Aggie second baseman, hit a single through the center to score Denton with the run. The game remained a tight pitching duel from the fifth inning on with the All-Stars threatening to score in the seventh and eighth innings and the Aggies threatening in the eighth. Ags Left Six Stranded A&M left six men stranded on the base paths and the All-Stars had a like, number lost. Rollins and Jewell McDowell, Ag gie shortstop, were the leading batters for the Aggie crew with two singles each in four trips to the plate. Denton collected the other Aggie hit. Crenshaw, All-Star center field er, led the Madisonville batsmen with two singles in four appear ances. Third baseman Ivy of the All-Stars hit the only other single off Beard’s delivery. The Aggies were guilty of two errors afield while the All-Stars made three bobbles. The line score. All-Stars 000 100 000—1 3 3 Aggies 000 010 001—2 5 2 Carlos Bernier, playing for Bris tol, Conn., in the Colonial League in 1950 stole 53 bases in 52 games. 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