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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
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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.
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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.
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