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I Tuesday, September 2, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3 A&M Should Be First Psychology May Determine SWC Football Champ By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Editor Coaches usually profess great pleasure when their teams are rated out of championship contention. They say that’s fine psychology—and it also makes their jobs easier. If nobody expects anything, nobody will be disappointed. At * least that’s the way it ought to be. But a lot of coaches have been fired for not winning with a team that wasn’t supposed to win. Anyway, Coach George Sauer of Baylor is going against * the accepted theory. He says his Bears have much more ability than the sports writers give them credit for. He doesn’t like that sixth-place rating they’ve accorded Baylor in the Southwest Conference race. Perhaps he’s a trifle alarm ed ; perchance he fears that if the fans are led to believe Bay lor can’t beat anybody they will stay away from the stadium. Crowds are as necessary to coaches as good football players. But Sauer is different from most coaches anyway. He isn’t the crying type; he considers his team’s good points along with the bad. The others only talk about the bad. Psychology Favors A&M But if psychology favors any body Ray George should be the fair-haired boy.- Ray is coach of A&M, which is ranked seventh in the conference only because there are just seven teams. At least he’s better off than Jess Neely of Rice was last year. Somebody placed Rice eighth. Which caused Jess to ask if maybe some other team— Texas Tech perhaps — had been slipped into the conference without him knowing about it. Rice did a pretty good job with a largely sophomore team. It fought for the title down to the last week. Recalling the uncertainties of Southwest Conference football over the years, we are tempted to pick A&M to win the championship with Baylor a good second. Eight SWC Sell Outs Howard Grubbs, executive secre tary of the Southwest Conference has applied to the NCAA for eight televised games this fall. The NCAA, you know, is allot ting games over the country to TV and has already indicated which are to be televised. But the Southwest Conference wants to follow its 1951 policy of telecast ing all games that are sell-outs. ^ And Grubbs thinks he has a good chance of getting this for the con ference. The Southwest won’t be able to send television out over the nation ' until Jan. 1—the Cotton Bowl game. But San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas can tele vise locally. The games indicated by Gi’ubbs as possible sell-outs are Texas- Notre Dame, Oct. 4; Texas-Okla- homa, Oct. 11; Southern Metho- dist-Rice, Oct. 18; Texas-Rice, Oct. 25; Texas - Southern Methodist, Nov. 1; Texas-Texas Christian, Nov. 15; Texas-Texas A&M, Nov. 27; Texas Christian-Southern Methodist, Nov. 29. Austin can not televise but San Antonio will do it on the Texas- Notre Dame game at Austin if permission is granted. Last year four games were tele vised—Texas-Oklahoma, Southern Methodist-Texas Christian, Texas Christian-Texas A&M and Texas- Southern Methodist. They were sell-outs. Aggie Grid (Continued from Page 1) more, Lafayette, La.; Bobby Dix on, senior, Ingleside; Howard Chil ders, sophomore, Amarillo; Lon nie Martin, sophomore, Cotulla; Jack Little, senior, Corpus Christi; Dick Frey, senior, Houston and Lawrence Winkler, sophomore, Temple. Guards—Bob Cosney, junior, Ft. . IVorth; Ray Burnett, sophomore, * San Angelo; Marshall Rush, sen ior, Lampasas; Sid Therio, soph omore, Gibson, Marvin Tate, soph omore, Abilene; W. G. Blair, sen- / * /or, Carthage; Louie Capt, sopho- more, Uvalde; and T. K. Niland, junior, Houston. Centers—Leo Marquette, soph omore, Marrero, La.; Bob McCar- ley, junior, McKinney; Cooper Rob bins, Jr., senior, Bi*eckenridge; Bill McMahan, junior, Itasca; Ivan Greenhaw, Sunset. Quarterbacks—Roy Dollar, sen ior, Mexia; Ray Graves, senior, Stephenville; Edgar Hennig, soph omore, Taylor and Don Ellis, ju nior, DeQuincy, La. Halfbacks—John Salyer, junior, Austin; Pete Mayeaux, junior, New Orleans; Raymond Haas, senior, Kingsville; Juan Coronado, soph- '* omore, Pearsall; John Cavileer, , sophomore, Austin; Elwood Kett- ler, sophomore, Brenham; Bill Bal lard, junior, Wylie; Bob Stout, j sophomore, Baytown; Herbert Scott, junior, Hearne; Warren An derson, sophomore, San Antonio; Major League Standings National League W L Pet Behind Bx-ooklyn 83 42 .664 — New York 75 52 .591 9 St. Louis 74 57 .565 12 Philadelphia .. 70 58 .547 14y 2 Chicago 66 68 .493 211/2 Boston 56 73 .434 29 Cincinnati 57 75 .432 291/2 Pittsbux-gh 39 95 .291 481/2 American League W L Pet Behind New York: 77 54 .588 — Cleveland 75 57 .568 21/2 Boston 69 59 .539 61/2 Philadelphia .. 69 61 .531 71/3 Chicago 67 62 .519 9 Washington .... 67 64 .511 10 St. Louis 55 78 .414 23 Detroit 43 8-7 .331 33 Ms Roster Joe Boring, sophomore, Dallas and Joe Schero, sophomore, San An tonio. Fullbacks—Don Katchtik, soph omore, Rio Hondo; Herbert Wolf, sophomoi'e, Houston; Charles Hall, sophomore, Dallas; Hoard Zuch, junior, Austin; and Connie Ma- gouirk, junior, New London. Mitchell Gains AL Bat Crown, Musial Leads New York—UP) — After leading the American League in hitting for the better part of two months, Ferris Faine, Philadelphia first baseman, slumped to a point'where he must now share the lead with Cleve land’s Dale Mitchell for a day at least. Horsecollared in eight appear ances at .the plate in yesterday’s doubleheader with Washington, Fain dropped to .332, where Mit chell was waiting for him. The husky Cleveland outfielder maintained his .332 pace since last week and his three-for-eight day in Monday’s twin bill enabled him to deadlock Fain for the leader ship. Still atop the National League race and gaining ground steadily is Stan Musial of the Cardinals. Stanley, the perennial hitting champ, came out of his doldrums of last week and shot up to .337, a gain of 12 points. He now has a lead of 21 points over Cincinnati’s Ted Klussewski. Kluszewiski dropped a point from last week but still holds down sec ond place with .316. The Yankee’s Gene Woodling re tains the| third spot in the Ameri can League with .329. George Kell of Boston and Woodling’s mate, Mickey Mantle round out the A.L.’s top five. Kell has gone up three points, to .315. Mantle is on the rise again with an eight-point leap from .300. In the National League, Frank ie Baumholtz of Chicago came from nowhere to fall in behind Kluszewski in third place at .314. The Giants Whitey Lockman, en joying a two-point increase over the week, fell a notch to fourth with .309. Following Whitey is Brooklyn’s Jackie Robinson at .305. Walt “Buddy” Davis, Olympic high jump champion and A&M track and basketball star, was given a hero’s welcome when he arrived at his home in Nederland from Helsinki and the Olympics. First to greet the gold medal winner were his wife, Margaret; one* year-old daughter, Mary Edith; and three-weeks-old Nancy, who got her first glimpse of “Daddy”. It is hinted that Davis brought home a basketball contract from the Philadelphia Warriors which he will “carefully look over”. (AP Photo) Rain In Spotlight During AL Stretch By Associated Press Jupiter Pluvius may have a hand in deciding the American League pennant this year. No, Jupiter Pluvius is not an other castoff plucked by the New York Yankees for their stretch drive although he proved to be as helpful to the world champions as Ray Scarborough, the refugee from the Boston Red Sox. The two combined to increase the Yankees’ first-place margin to 2% games over Cleveland yester day. Scarborough, purchased last week from the Red Sox, hand cuffed his former mates with three hits last night in pitching the New Yorkers to a 5-1 triumph. Rain Helped St. Louis Mr. J. P., otherwise known as Old Man Rain, helped the St. Louis Browns defeat Cleveland, 2-1, in the second game of the double- header after the Indians had won the opener, 9-3. Rain halted the nightcap for an hour and 12 minutes in the bot tom half of the fifth inning With the home team Brownies ahead, 2-1. After the rain let up, St. Louis failed to score in the fifth and the Indians rallied for three runs in the top half of the sixth to take a 4-2 lead. As the Browns prepared to bat in their half of the sixth, another rain storm broke and this time there was no let-up. The three runs were wiped out and the score reverted back to the fifth inning with St. Louis winning, 2-1. Brooklyn Washed Out Rain washed out Brooklyn’s scheduled twin bill in Philadelphia but the Dodgers retained their nine-game lead in the National League as the second-place New Yoi’k Giants divided a double-head er in Boston. The Braves came back to win the second game, 5-1, after the Giants had captured the opener, 3-1. In addition to washing out the scheduled twin bill between the Detx-oit Tigex-s and White Sox in Chicago, the rain, which swept the Eastexm Seabox'd, fox’ced the Yan kees and Red Sox to call off their two aftexmoon games in New Yox’k. Yankees Down Red Sox The Yankees, howevex', managed to salvage something by playing one of the games in the evening. A cx-owd of 16,529 saw the 34-yeax'- old Scaxboi’ough limit the Red Sox to thx-ee hits for his first victox-y in a Yankee unifoxm. But for a CIRCLE PHONE 4-1250 TONIGHT & WEDNESDAY Children under 12 FREE when accompanied by an adult. “Song of Bernadette” Starring JENNIFER JONES and CHARLES BICKFORD —Also— THREE COLOR CARTOONS first-inning home run by Billy Goodman, Scarborough would have had a shutout. The Yankees collected eight hits, five off loser Ellis Kinder-, who hurled the first three innings. A’s, Senators Split Splits mai'ked all other double- headers. Philadelphia’s fourth- place Athletics won a 10-inning 9-8 opener from Washington but the Senators came back to take the nightcap, 4-2. Cincinnati won the second game, 3-2, after the St. Louis Cardinals had walked off with a 6-0 opening win. Chicago’s Cubs thrashed Pittsbux-gh, 6-0, but the Pirates won the second game, 5-4. Early Wynn registered his 18th triumph as the Indians backed him with a 14-hit attack against loser Gene Beax-den and Tommy Byrne. Two-run homers by Luke Easter and Wally Westlake high lighted the Indians’ victory. Clint Courtney’s two-run homer ixx the second inning off Bob Lemon ac counted for all St. Louis’s second- game x'uns. Satchell Paige went the curtailed distance. Cax-ds, Reds Split The Rice boys of St. Louis lax-- xuped first-inning homers to give Wilmer Vinegar Bend Mizell more x-uns than he needed to register his ninth win. Hal Rice’s homer came with the bases loaded off loser Bubba • Church/ Del Rice hit his with nobody on base. An error by Billy Johnson and singles by Joe Adcock and Roy McMillan produced a sixth-inning Cincinnati x-un that snapped a 2-2 tie and gave the Reds the second- game win. Rookie x-ighthander Ex-nie John son pitched a seven-hitter for the Braves, who knocked out Giant starter Larx-y Jansen in the first innig of the nightcap. The Giants took the opener on Max Laniex-’s four-hit hux-ling. PALACE Bryan Z'f#79 LAST DAY Joan Fontaine and Ray Miiland in “Something to Live For” WEDNESDAY thru SAT. DON DeRM • PHYLLIS THWEP* PATRICE WYMORE BRUCE HM-B-EgSiPE ^ ★ Football ★ Training Briefs By ASSOCIATED PRESS Austin—Head Coach Ed Pxice of the University of Texas was all smiles after a pair of brisk woxkouts opened fall practice for the Longhorns yestei’day. A 75-man squad giving the appeax-ance of being in fine shape whipped through a mox-ning session but found the going a little rougher under ' the broiling mid-aftex-noon sun. Only one Longhorn griddex-. Sophomore Halfback Dick Willing of Dallas, was unable to work out. He will be oxxt until Wednesday with a foot injury suffex-ed ten days ago. Group work on fundamentals was spotlighted the first day. * * * Dallas—The Soxxthern Methodist University Mustangs were up with the sun yesterday for their fix-st workout of the season and the sun was low in the sky before they headed back to their dormitory. One casualty was reported. Jim Mahew, St. Loxiis, a letterman guard, chipped a tooth in a collision, with another teammate. * * * Fort Worth—Seventy candidates were on hand as Texas Christian launched fall grid dxills today. Coach L. R. “Dutch” Meyer sent his chax-ges through two drills marked by i-ough contact in blocking and tackling. * * * Fayetteville, Ark.—Coach Otis Douglas worked his 66 grid prospects in two sessions yesterday as pleasant 80-degree weather gi-eeted the University of Arkansas football squad. The Razorbackai worked out in shorts during the morning sessioix and then donned full equipment for the afternoon practice. * ❖ * Houston—Rice opened football txaining on Labor Day, but the Owl’s labor was light as they spent the day in light exercises in shoxds and T-shii - ts. Fifty-eight men reported, including two junior- college transfers— End Tommy Wilson and Halfback William Gaskamp. “We’ll have some contact wox'k by the end of the week,” said Coach Jess Neely, “but no scx-immage. I want to give the boys several days yet to get their legs in shape.” * * sk . Waco—Baylor started fall football practice yesterday with Coach George Sauer working four backfield units and de claring “every position on our entix-e team is wide open”. Juniors Jimmy Davenport and Francis Davidson and soph- omores Billy Hooper and Frank Paschel quartex-backed the various units. Little Gets Sport Mention At Center Slot Aggie Jack Little, who will see duty on the 1952 grid squad as offensive center and defensive tackle, was named honorable mention in the Sports Magazine All-America pre season football selections. Little was named to the Look Magazine first team last year as defensive tackle. Sjkart Magazine picked Bill Forr ester of SMU on his first string in the tackle position. , Others from the Southwest Con ference picked on the mythical pre- season teams were the following: second team—Bill Athey, Baylox-, guard. Honorable mention — Don Rhoden, Rice, center; Ray Mc- Kown, TCU, back; Gib Dawson, Texas, back; and Lamar Mc.Han, Ax-kansas, back. Blair Meets Gaytan In San Antonio Tonight San Aixtonio, Sept. 2—(JP)—■ Jacky Blair, Dallas, Texas feath erweight champion, will meet Francisco Gaytan, Matamox-os, Mexico, in the 10-round main event of a boxing show here tonight. J.W. Sorenson Co. Complete Line of Hardware BIG REDUCTION LAWN MOWERS — FANS We Invite You to Visit Our Store 301 N. MAIN NORTH GATE FOR GOOD TELEPHONE SERVICE!” It’s simple—yet it pleases all the families, on any party line! And here’s all you need: • a little consideration—in spacing your calls instead of making one after the other. • a bit of patience—in hanging up g-e-n-t-l-y when you find the line already in use. % A In these busy times it's more important than ever to make sure you're calling the right number. 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