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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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