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Wednesday, April 15, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 3 ’OHS ^ greats and Ags lai\( t on Kyle Field ; today play hosts to were externalston State Bearcats Marvin’s act ei ' ence baseball game, missal. ing two games from Marvin’s tbe weekend, and cuihstances is sin f encounter to manly. ^ SMU on Monday, Afrnin m . 111 be seeking revenge ’ 1 ‘setback at the hands excuses fori — damn shai> n^ a g i didn’t write >ps Kattlers one student: r sth* Jj ship foran-'XvIMlglte 1 ill We haver. d beat Navasota 5-4 l c t t ' ^f ’trict game yesterday, ing Auld La:.: lcor ed early and held tiun in ™ vaso ta rally to garner We hope tb i i the future, opened their half of < 1 icts without 1 i n g by scoring one plement to tigjfj the lead until the Also we l hirdlwhen the Ram- t>er of the .l ie i ea d with a three :l« fine anitt CHS came back in Seth. )f the third to score jrrd gain the winning jot one run in the top j E**y i th but CHS shut the 0*5 ACClked off with the win. ^ . p *|'S play Round Top ^et rridthe iollege Hills dia- at 3:30 p.m. Round The 1953 A 5 first game between will be heldi ns earlier this year. in the MSCr. jind panel elated, saidDt, < > f the busi I >iirtment Leland has mittee heads conference. T: Manning,|| TIMES TODAY W nod, ciiteitr J. D. O’Neill,pi ful job and ' BRO °,f'"”'“ < ‘ ^ land! “VEBB MO H*B BLANKE* o- nmiR nuni LO MEOfOBO MXCMoav LEWIS SEiLEN DAY & FRIDAY onfidence to .succeeds; policy tlirot ability to •esponsible t definite m rremature de^Y Fhe willinp rve your owi xuries of lift’ JOANNE DRU 1 Phe thing \d. time, butwi: your fatherl 01,rage to te th ng tor a hie ely reachingj le not-too-di;" -a-day will dt| lev you have? nt: Youhs'^. >ur convenie.’M I ? interested. LACE m 2-8879 of Sam Houston earlier in the sea son in Huntsville. Holding down fourth place in the conference race with two wins and three losses, the Ags have a sea son record of five wins against seven losses. The SMU Mustangs look down on the rest of the field in the SWC with five straight wins. Bay lor is the runner-up with four wins and a single loss, while Texas holds down third place with a pair of victories and a defeat. In fifth place below the Farm ers is TCU with one win and four losses. Rice occupies the cellar with five losses to show for five games played. All the Aggie pitchers, with the exception of Melvin Work, who pitched Monday against SMU, will be available for mound duty this afternoon against the Beai’cats. Next game on the schedule will take place on Saturday when the cellaf dwelling Rice Owls come to Kyle Field for a conference tilt. Law Hall Winners Over Vet Village Law Hall poured seven runs across the plate in a big fifth in ning to down favored Vet Village 8-5 in an intramural softball game Tuesday. Three walks, an error, and two timely base hits, one a solid double by catcher Harry Ruff ini were put together for the big inning. The Vets retaliated in the bot tom of the fifth when they scored three runs, and scored single runs in the sixth and seventh innings but could not draw up to their opponents. James Schneider was the win ning pitcher, and Tate was the loser. Law Hall is leading the race with Vet Village and Puryear tied for second place. — LAST N I Cx H T — “MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER” & “DESTINATION MOON” TODAY thru THURSDAY —Feature Starts— 1:48 - 3:51 - 5:50 - 7:57 - 10:00 '"’2t Y &0GART W e AUY$dm ^■BATTIE CIRCUS 1 I (iencral * onal li7 on'iYI 3N0 WITH ntzpMB MINGO/ POP m\ DAVID ^mu \ OSCAR 1'fflMVAHr Directed by Writt*n by :L HOYB 3AGON WAUIR BUHOCK ITING FRIDAY N'THETU .E-NAVAL IMFLOOJ iLE.T-HO.TD TTER TH/NKA , •AUV - 1 LANCASTER i ^TEjgYMOOSE ^ JANIO. Scyffip by 4 M-c-m NEWS — CARTOON CIRCLE 4-1250 TONIGHT LAST NIGHT Children Under 12 Admitted FREE When Accompanied By An Adult. CLIFTON WEBB_U^. — l \nhn Philip Sousa s\ STARS and STRIPES FOREVER ia HjUoh- - DEBRA PAGET ALSO “SEPTEMBER AFFAIR” Starring Joan Fontaine Joseph Gotten STARTS THURSDAY “Tde 0older#Maiuk ALSO “BODY SNATCHERS” Starring Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi s PORT H O R T By BOB BO RISK IE Sports News Editor S The Aggie record thus far in baseball shows five wins against seven losses, but the victories can’t be attributed to power at the plate. Through the first 12 games, the team batting average is a pretty sickly .157, with 61 hits in 387 times at bat. In these games, a single home run has been rapped out, a bases- loaded poke by Jerry Robinett over the right field wall against Rice on the Aggie diamond. Unfortunately, the grand slam wallop came in a non-conference encounter as the two teams were opening season play. Pitching Good Cadet pitching to date has been very good and the defensive play has not been bad. Pitchers have held the opposition to 105 hits in 415 trips to the plate, giving the opponents a collective average of .253 in those twelve games. No Aggie hitter is a threat as of now to the .300 level to which all hitters strive. Only six are in the .200 figure class, and one of these is Melvin Work, a pitcher. Leading the Farmer hitting, percentagewise, is Jim Parrish, third baseman, who has punched out two hits in eight times at bat for a .250 mark. Farmer and Miller Lead Boriskie Tex Fiirmer and Eric Miller are running- neck and- neck for the lead among- the regular players, both posting a .243 mark. Farmer has gathered 11 hits in 41. times at bat, while Miller has nine bing- les in 37 times at bat. Other batfers hitting over .200 are Don Heft and Jerry Lastelick. The writer admits that there might be some slight errors in the figures, give or take a few points, but his math is like the Aggie bat ting at present—nothing to brag about . However, We stress the fact that the Farmers have a fine ball club, and when they start clipping the ball in the manner in which they would like to become accustomed, there isn’t a team in the confer ence they have any reason to feel that they can’t beat. Keep swinging, Aggies* Those bails will start dropping in there for base hits. Aggie Batting Parrish, 3b Farmer, cf Miller, rf Work, p Heft, ss JLestelick, 3b J.eis.sner, 2b Russell, rf Robinett, c Verble, rf Williams, c Munnerlyn, lb Byrd, If Bills, ss Nelson, p Little, p Henning, p Ablon, rf Pollard, 2b Fuchs, rf Roland, of Northrixp, ss A&M 41 37 9 S 34 43 37 24 AVE. .250 .243 .243 .222 .214 .200 .170 .167 .125 .125 .117 .116 .108 .083 :ooo .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .157 Consolidated Plays Carmine On Friday The A&M Consolidated baseball team will play the Carmine nine Friday afternoon in a crucial dis trict contest. Teh district is divided into two zones. Carmine is leading one zone with a 4-0 mark, while A&M Consolidated is in second place with a 3-1 record. Smithville is leading the other zone. Coach Jim Sevan’s Tigers have an overall season record of 4-2. Team members are pitchers, Joe Motheral and Pinky Cooner, catch ers, Melvin Free and John Man- ther, first baseman Bobby Carter, second baseman David Bonnen, third baseman Byron Andrews, shortstop J. B. Carroll, and out fielders Pete Hickman, Jimmy Bond and William Arnold. Table Tennis Club To Play Houston The A&M Table Tennis Club, sponsored by the MSC, will play the Houston Table Tennis Club at' 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the MSC. Anyone interested in trying out for the A&M club is invited to at tend the club meeting that will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the MSC game room, said Jack Besseliau, chairman. F if teen T rack Members Head for Kansas Relays Thursday morning, 15 members of the Aggie Track team will leave for the Kansas Relays, in Law- rence^ Kansas. Cadet track coach, Col. Ander son, will accompany the group. “We are hoping to win the Re lays,” announced Col. Andy. The Farmer thinclads are de fending team champions in the Kansas Relays for the last two years. Darrow Hooper, Don Pratt, and Bobby Gross will represent A&M in the weight events, Other field entries will be Pete Mayeaux in the javelin, Bobby Ragsdale in the broadjump, and Malcolm Marks and Glenn Spradlin in the pole vault. The Aggies will enter four of the seven relays in the meet. In the 440 yard relay the Cadets will have Harly Hartung, Mayeaux, Ragsdale and James Baker. The half mile relay entries are Hart ung, Gerald Stull, Ragsdale and Baker. Four Mile Relay In the four mile relay, the Farm ers will use Harry Whitmore, Charles Hudgins, Dale DeRouen, and James Blaine. Frank Whit- well was scheduled to run in Whitmore’s place but came down with the flu and won’t make the trip. The ten lap distance medley re lay, will consist of Baker running the quarter mile, Wallace Kleb running the half mile, DeRouen the three laps and Blaine the four laps. The team and coach will leave by car and are scheduled to arrive in Lawrence Friday afternoon. The relays will begin Saturday aftr- noon. Hooper is strongly favored in the shot and discus. Last year at ► Lawrence, Hooper heaved the shot 53 feet nine inches. The Aggie weight star has yet to go below 54 feet this season and should bet ter his mark. In the discus last year. Hooper tossed 152 feet, eight and a quarter inches. Hooper has tossed the discus over 165 this season. Pratt or Gross Pratt and Gross will be trying for second place honors. In their last meet, Pratt heaved the shot ahead of Gross for the first time this year. Both will be trying to beat each other out. Gross has thrown over 50 feet while Pratt hasn’t reached that mark as yet. Pratt took third in the relays last year with a put of 50 feet, nine and one eighth inches. Mayeaux will be seeking the javelin crown. Mayeaux and last year’s relays javelin champ, Wes Ritchey of TCU, have split in two times they have met this year and the relays will be the rubber match. Mayeaux beat Ritchey in the Border Olympics while Ritchey turned the trick at the Texas Re lays. Mark Chances Good Marks should have a good chance to take the pole vault crown, if he can duplicate his vault of 14 feet 2 and a half inches, which he vault ed in exhibition last Saturday. Marks will have stiff competi tion, but has a good chance to take the title. Sqradlin has either tied or placed second to Marks in every meet this season and is very capable of finishing close to first. Ragsdale was second in the broadjump last year at the relays and is expected to do at least that good Saturday. Ragsdale hasn’t finished out of first this year ex cept once. In the Texas Relays, Ragsdale was second. The field men will probably be the Aggie main strength accord ing to Col. Andy. “If the field men do all right and the relay teams District Track Meet Held Saturday The District 68-B track meet will be held Saturday at Kyle Field. Participating in the Senior Di vision will be A&M Consolidated, Smithville, Bastrop, Biddings and Dimebox. Teams fi*om Giddings, Lexington and Smithville have en tered in the Junior Division. Field events and preliminaries, if necessary, will start at 10 a.m. Track events will start at 1 p.m. Giddings and Smithville, last year’s district champion, are fa vored. can even get a few third or fourth places, we should do all right,” Col. Andy commented. The 440 yard relay finished fifth in the Texas Relays, but the com petition will be stronger at Kansas. Mayeaux and Baker have taken the place of Bill Stalter and Bob Scarborough, which may increase their time. 880 Relay Changed The 880 yard relay team has been changed from Texas Relays team which was third. Stull has replaced Scarborough. The half mile relay finished behind Texas and Kansas State. In the fou^ mile i~elay which will be weakened by the loss of Whit- well, the Aggies still have a good chance to finish close to first. This relay was second to Kansas at the Texas Relays. However, the Kansas team which won the four mile, also ran the sprint medley, dis tance medley, and two mile relays. The Texas Relays wex - e a two day affair with two of these x’elays each day. At Lawi’ence all four will be i’un the same afternoon and the Kansas team, might not enter them all and just ti'y for a record in two ox - thi'ee of them. In the event that the strongest Kansas team doesn’t enter the four mile relay and enters the two mile instead, the Aggies would de finitely be a strong thx-eat to finish in front. Distance Medley Strong The distance medley relay fin ished thii’d behind Kansas and Texas at the Texas Relays, but should be stronger this week with the additional thi’ee new men. 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