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f / Wednesday, August 8, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 r Tankers to Bid For Texas AAU Crown By RAY RUSHING Battalion Sports Staff Coach Art Adamson’s trium phant College Station tankers journey to San Antonio tomorrow afternoon to make their' bid for the Texas AAU swimming crown. The annual event, slated to last Friday and Saturday will be held Texas to Have 43 Colleges On Football Field By The Associated Press Texas will have 43 colleges playing football this Fall. This is a decrease of 11 from last year and the small- t est number since the war. Eleven colleges discontinued football this year. Reasons includ ed loss of manpower and patron- ^^Ahc biggest decrease was among ^We junior colleges. There will be 26 senior colleges playing the game—four fewer than last year. Junior colleges playing football number 17—seven fewer than in 1950. Lamar Tech was added to the Lone Star Conference and the Pion eer Conference, made up of Junior Colleges, took on Ranger College. Among the senior colleges, Southwestern of the Texas Confer ence has suspended football. The Gulf Coast Conference lost Univer sity of Houston, which entered the Missouri Valley Conference. Three independents gave up football— University of Corpus Christi, Dan iel Baker and East Texas Baptist. Among the junior colleges the Texas Junior College Conference fe*ll from 10 to six and the South Texas Conference from seven to three. t Lost in the shuffle were Odessa, Weatherford, Panola, South West Texas, Edinburg, Regional, Laredo and Texas Southernmost. ip the Alamo Heights Swimming Pool. Adamson plans to enter nine members of his College Station amateur swimming club in this year’s spectacle, that will include five diving events and 18 swim ming events. In Friday’s events, Kay Parnell will swim the women’s 220 yard freestyle. Gayle Klipple, Tommy Butler and Ricky Boughton will comprise the men’s 220 freestyle relay team also scheduled to swim Friday. Martha Ergle will enter the wo men’s 110 yard breaststroke, while Dick Weick will swim the men’s 110 yard breaststroke. Ann Cope land, outstanding performer at the recent Gulf AAU meet held at Nacogdoches, is scheduled to swim the women’s 110 yard backstroke Friday. Baker in 110 Backstroke In the men’s 110 yard backstroke, James Baker will represent College Station, while Miss Copeland, Miss Ergle, and Miss Parnell will swim on the women’s 330 yard medley relay team. The men’s 330 yard medley re lay team will be made up of Van Adamson, who is Coach Adamson’s son, Dick Weick and Klipple. In Saturday’s events, Miss Par nell is scheduled to enter the wo men’s 110 yard freestyle, while Boughton and Butler will swim the men’s 110 yard freestyle. Martha Ergle in Medley Miss Ergle will swim the wo men’s 165 yards individual medley as the men’s 330 yard individual medley relay team composed of Adamson, Klipple and Weick make their bid for first place. The men’s 440 yard freestyle re lay team composed of Butler, Klip ple, Weick, Adamson and Boughton will also swim Saturday. Miss Copeland and Miss Parnell are scheduled to enter the stren uous women’s 880 yard freestyle. Competition will be stiff for the College Station tankers in this year’s meet Coach Adamson stated, because no divers from here will be entered, thereby eliminating the possibility of added points. Aggies Drop Deciding Game of 7-Game Series The home-field jinx held last night as the Madisonville All-Stars eked out a 3-2 sev enth inning victory over the Aggie Softball- ers in a game played at Madisonville. In the rubber game of seven played thus far this Summer, the All-Stars scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh af ter two were out. Bryan Beard, erstwhile Aggie mounds- man, got the first two batters of the inning Sqdn. A, Co. C Take Volleyba ll Ma tches Sqdn. A walked away from D Co. yesterday afternoon in a freshman volleyball match. The A Men took two games in a row to win 15-6 and 15-12. C Co. won the other freshman game by downing B Sqdn. 2-1. Scores on the games went 15-7, 14-16 and 15-9. Matches have been scheduled in both singles and doubles open in tramural tennis. There have been nine singles entries and six doub les entries. Finals in both divisions will be played August 21. A revised schedule in non-mil itary softball call for five of the remaining seven games to he played under the lights of the diamond by The Grove. The lid lifter of the revised slate calls for Dorm 15 and Texas to clash there tonight while tomoi’- roW night finds Dorm 15 playing again, this time against Dorm 16. Monday night at 7:30, Bizzell tangles with 16 and on Tuesday, Texas and 16 get together for a go at each other. The only two remaining games which won’t be played under the arcs are slated for next Wednes day and Thursday with Walton meeting Dorm 15 on Wednesday and then Bizzell on Thursday. The Walton-15 game will be played on Diamond 5 while the Prep Stars Get Paid Vacations To Vie w West Point Grid Set-Up Chicago, Aug. 8—OR)—The Chi- >ago Tribune said today that a Vlint, Mich., high school football player told in an interview that he and 22 other prep grid stars spent a six-week, expense paid va cation at West Point this Summer. The Tribune, in a copyright story from Flint, said the “high pressure recruiting of football t players for West Point” was re lated by Duncan MacDonald, 18- year-old 180 - pound quarterback. He was described by the Tribune as one of the nation’s outstanding high school athletes and one of the <most sought after athletes of re- ^ cent years. Story Told “While . . .” The story of the 23 prep grid stars at the Academy was told, the Tribune said, “while sports, polit ical and military circles still reeled over the ordered dismissal of 90 cadets accused of cribbing—includ ing most of the Army football squad.” MacDonald was quoted by the Tribune as saying that features of the vacation were “chatty, infor mal talk sessions with Col. Earl (Red) Blaik, head Army football coach; reimbursed travel expenses; rffers of an easy appointment to the Academy; help from Academy ^jistructors in passing entrance ex- ^^ninations, and—most important all — draft free status while playing football at West Point.” The Tribune said: j Not Previously Interested “MacDonald said he never had an interest in an Army career un til he was entertained by Col. * Blaik and his staff. Their sales talk, he said, stressed the draft free status so much that he left Flint Northern High School, where he won nation-wide acclaim, in May, thus missing his own gradu ation ceremonies.” The newspaper said MacDonald told that representatives of the Academy “made it easier for the 23 football players to pass the en trance examinations by showing them short cuts in answering ques tions and by giving them the tests which had been given the year be fore.” However, MacDonald was quoted in the Tribune, only 11 of the 23 passed the examinations. He pass ed the entrance tests but later he decided not to enter the service academy. “But I really felt sorry for some of the fellows,” the Tribune quot ed MacDonald. “They were taking the tests a second and a third time and still failed, xxx I felt honored at being picked among the 23 boys because they really were terrific football players. Most of them were quarterbacks and tack les.” The Tribune quoted MacDonald as saying he would have been bet ter off at West Point, financially, for as a cadet he would have been paid $936 a year. “But with this scandal,” he said, “I’m glad I de cided not to go back.” Upcoming Games Can Make Or Break Cleveland Tribe Qmw TODAY thru SATURDAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:44 - 3:48 - 5:52 - 7:56 - 10:00 THE GUY 1 WHOCAMi SACK Paul Jloatfji DOIIBUIS •PURNELL la KSWS - CASTOON By Associated Press The Cleveland Indians, favorites in many quarters to end the two year reign of the New York Yank ees as American League champ ions, are nearing the make or break phase of the pennant race. Embark On Road Trip Following their current brief home stand, the Indians embark on a short road trip and then return home Aug. 20 for an 18 game stay that in all probability will de cide their fate. The Indians, trailing the pace setting Yankees by a half game to day, must clean up on their long home stand. It provides the In dians with their best opportunity to take command of the race for upon its completion they take off on a 16-game swing that includes stops in every other American League ball park. Pennants sel dom are won on the road. Observers believe that if the In dians can leave their home lot with a fairly comfortable lead they will be hard to overtake. Garcia Handcuffs Browns Mike Garcia, hufeky righthander, pitched the Indians to within a half game of the Yanks last night as he turned back the St. Louis Browns, 5-1, oh a neat four-hitter. The Yanks were idle. In other American League games the third place Boston Red Sox bowed, 7-4, to the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox nipped the Detroit Tigers, 2-1, in 13 innings. The Red Sox now trail by 4 J /£ games and the White Sox by 6%. In the National League, the Phil adelphia Phillies took a twi-night double-header from the Boston Braves, 3-1, and 1-0 in 15 innings, the Chicago Cubs downed the Cin cinnati Reds 4-1, and the St. Louis Cardinals swamped the Pittsburg Pirates, 16-7. The New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers were rained out. mtND OF must! AND NO DATEl Don’t waste your time fret ting, young man. Send your clothes along to us and let us remedy your sad plight. Yes, we’ll clean and press your clothes — in fact we’ll make them nice as new — and in this rapid, easy way give you the most successful key to popularity yet. Call us today. AGGIE CLEANERS North Gate College Station Walton-Bizzell game will go on diamond 6. The last game of the regular season . is scheduled for the arcs on Monday, Aug. 20 at 7:30 p. m. It will be between Texas and Wal ton. Wood Applied the Wood Boston—(A 1 )—Who said pitchers can’t hit? Smokey Joe Wood was a slugging Hurler for the Boston Red Sox from ! 1908-1915. In 1912 he won 34 games and lost only 5 but opposing hurlers feared him at the plate as much as they did the big stickers. When Joe was sold to Cleveland he turned his activities strictly to the hitting department. He played the outfield and for five years compiled a .298 average. In 1921 he batted .366 in 66 games. on a strikeout and an infield out but was greeted by a single by the Madisonville catcher who immediately stole second and scored when Wakefield, All-Star second sacker, drilled a single to center. It was a hard fought contest all the way with the lead being in the hands of Mad isonville from the first inning until the Ag gies tied it up in the sixth inning. Madisonville started the scoring in the -ffirst with Cole, the lead-off hitter, getting on via an error by How ell, Cadet catcher and advancing to third on a fielder’s choice from where he scored when Wakefield skyed out to Welch in right field. All-Stars Tally in 4th Again in the fourth stanza, the All-Stars tallied. And again, it was Wakefield who had his fin ger in the pie. He singled to lead off the inning and was pushed around on an infield out, another error by Howell, a walk and a fielder’s choice on a ground ball. The Aggies fought back for a single tally in the fifth when Wil liams was hit by a pitched ball, moved to second on a sacrifice, and scored on an error and a passed ball. A&M’s second score came in the sixth inning when Campbell drop ped a single to left after one man was away, stole second and came home as Beard blasted a terrific double. That ended the Aggie scoring, which tied up the fracas and. set the stage for the fatal seventh. Denton singled in the seventh and moved to second on Welch’s sac rifice but died there as McDowell grounded out to end the inning and the threat. Happy Over Win The starting nine of the Tigers who are in second place in the College Station Summer Softball League at present halts between innings of a re cent game to pose for a picture. Left to right, front row, Curtis Holland, • Co-manager Newt Williamson, Tommy Terrell, Aden Magee, Jr. Back row, left to right, C. P. Howard, Col. Ed. Sauer, J. M. Stephens, R. B. Christian and the other co-manager, John Rogers. The Tigers play again this afternoon. Beard gave up four .safeties to the All-Stars while whiffing three and walking three. B. J. Lloyd, Madisonville hurler let the /Ags have only three hits and set five men down swinging two. The Aggies next game is tomor row night with Cause, a powerful team from near Hearne. A godd game is expected, Manager Welch, said this morning. Game time is He walked I 8 p.m. and Welch has extended an invitation to all softball fans to be in the stands to support the home team. • Beard will probably hurl his last game for the Aggies for this Sum mer as he has agreed to pitch for Madisonville in the state tourna ment which begins this week. The {/. & Government does not pay. for this advertising. 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