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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
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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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PHONE 4-5114
Griffin, A’s right fielder to score
Johnny Carrier from third with the
Athletics second run. Potts whiffed
Lynn Carter, A’s second sacker to
erase the threat and protect the
5-2 lead the Sox had at the time:
Carrier, A’s short stop add Sim-
plicio Becerra, center fielder, were
thorns in Arnold’s side as they
touched him for five of the Ath
letic’s six hits. 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.
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Tuesday, July 17, 1951
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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
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in 1950 stole 53 bases in 52 games.
He’s now running wild on the bases
for Ben Chapman’s Tampa Smok-
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