Wednesday, April 15, 1953
THE BATTALION
Page 3
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^ 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 —
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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.
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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.
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H O R T
By BOB BO RISK IE
Sports News Editor
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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
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43
37
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.243
.243
.222
.214
.200
.170
.167
.125
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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. At the
Texas Relays, Kleb i‘an the quax*-
tex', while this week, the Aggies
ace quartermiler, Baker will lead-
off. Kleb has been moved back to
his specialty, the half mile, and De
Rouen has taken Whitmox’e’s posi
tion as the three lap maxx, apd
Blaine, the Cadet’s top distance
man has taken over Hudgins posi
tion, in the mile.
This should make the team
strongei’, and better than the Tex
as squad. If the Kansas team as
pi-eviously mentioned should pass
up this event oi’ has entered all
four, they will be tired and the
Aggies will be vex’y hax-d to beat.
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