Ps&e 4 THE BATTALION Thursday, June 11, 1953 f r Realignment of Minors May Ease Money Pains By The Associated Press Every year you hear about re alignment of baseball leagues. Nothing ever is done about it ex cept talk. Clubs go on folding up because there is insufficient attendance to support them. The major trouble comes from placing clubs of dif ferent potentialities in the same league. Realignment should be set up on the basis of grouping cities by their drawing power. Hal Sayles, president of the "West Texas-New Mexico and Long horn Leagues, is convinced that re duction of travel is not the key to the problem — that the cities do not have to be close together to make a strong league. While a couple of towns close together might have a, natural riv alry that would mean good crowds when these two play, they wouldn’t have natural rivalries with other clubs in the league, so in the over all, the league would suffer. The West Texas-New Mexico and Longhorn Leagues both are class C. Sale of players is the life of a ball club. If there is any profit it usually comes from that. Leagues of like classification aren’t going to sell players to each other. The solution is for one lea gue to be of lower classification where more rookies are used. This league should take in the towns with the smallest potential draw. CIRCLE 4-1250 TODAY and FRIDAY Children under 12 admitted FREE when accompanied by an adult. IVCHfe Also SATURDAY ONLY ii | lou,s h«w«'d'S m !0 .h* Also “Battle of Chief Pontiac” Starring LES BARKER TODAY thru SATURDAY DANGER AT GUN POINT when he gets a lift! Prevue Saturdav ONE WEEK Starting Sunday Mightiest of Motion Pictures! TECHNICOLOR But any league should govern it self according to its potential. It should take steps to live within its income. A league that doesn’t draw heavily must think about develop ment of ball players that will bring revenue. The West Texas - New Mexico League is a good example. There have been more scouts in this lea gue’s stands this year than in the past three or four put together. The big reason is that the club owners reduced the player classi fication rules from 10 veterans and only two required rookies in 1951 to a figure of five veterans and five rookies in 1953. The rookies don’t draw high sal aries. They also can be sold at good prices. The veterans can’t be sold. Force Realignment Happenings in the Longhorn and West Texas-New Mexico Leagues this year are going to force a re alignment. Lamesa, which does not have the potential drawing power of Odessa or San Angelo, tried to play in the Longhorn League. The club lost Harold Webb $7,500 in less than two months. The fran chise was moved to Winters-Bal- linger and couldn’t draw there either. So it folded. There are other clubs in this league that are losing money. It is the same in the West Texas- New Mexico League. It appears here the solution to the problem is forming a class D league with plenty of rookies so the cost won’t be excessive and of grouping the cities of like poten- tialties. The cities with class C potentials could be grouped in a class C league. Rec Council Announces Player List All College Station Recreation Council softball games will begin this summer at 5:45 p.m. on desig nated diamonds. The games will be played oh Wednesdays and Fri days. The following is a roster of the four teams in the League. Indians Ray Jarvi, Ed Andrew, Curtiss Holland, Barney Welch, Bryon An drews, Bob Butler, John Denison, Hank Mills, F. Fisher, W. Fisher, M. W. Deason, and Taylor Wilkins. Tigers K. A. Manning (mgr.), Bob Ja cobs, George Johnston, John Lyons, John Lyons Jr., Lee Richai-dson, Calvin Janek, Bill Coonei - , Spike White, Bill Blakely, and Dee Ku- tach. Yankees Lucian Morgan, Ed Garner (mgr.), Curtess Gray, Ralph Ter ry, David Bonnen, Bill Hensel, Pin- key Cooner, Dalton Fah'doth, Lar ry Hayes, Dickie Dowell, J. C. Ger ald, and Freddie Walters. White Sox Homer Adams (mgr.), George Carroll, J. B. Carroll, John Floyd, Bud Denton, Hoss Schaffer, John Manther, K. G. Seymour, Jim Wood, Bill Atkins, E. C. Bashaw, and Ray Perryman. Or, better still, why not just take the best clubs of both leagues and put them together in one class C league ? A ten-club league would be quite all right. Amarillo, Abilene, San Angelo, Odessa, Lubbock, Albuquerque, Carlsbad and Midland would seem to be a very good league. Eisenhower (Cont. From Page 1) “A total struggle—let us never forget it—calls for a total defense. As there is no weapon too small— no arena too remote—to be ignor ed, so there is no free nation too humble to be forgotten. “All of us have learned—first from the onslaught of Nazi aggi-es- sion, then from Communist aggres sion—that all free nations. must stand together, or they shall fall separately. Again and again we must remind ourselves that this is a matter not only of politiral prin ciple but of economic security.” In hitting back at critics of re duced military spending, especially for the Air Force, the President I’eiterated that the free world lives “not in an instant of peril but in an age of peril—a time of tension and watchfulness.” That kind of situation, he add ed, calls for a carefully-planned and steadfastly - maintained de fense. “It cannot be a thing of frenzies and alarms,” he declared. “It must be a thing of thought and order and efficiency. “Precisely such a defense is now being built for our country.” Mr. Eisenhower said that by the middle of next year the Air Force will have 114 wings, and added that the Navy and Maidne air arms alone will total almost 10,000 planes. All this — I believe — promises both powerful air defense and a no less powerful deterrent to any would-be aggressor,” the President said. Reasonable defense posture, he added, “is not won by juggling magic numbers.” He said thexe is no such thing as maximum securi ty short of total mobilization. And total mobilization under present conditions, he declaimed, would mean “all the gi-im para phernalia of the gai’idson state,” which in turn would “imperil the very liberties we ax-e striving to defend.” In i-ejecting the “all-out” theox-y of military defense, Mi - . Eisenhow er also criticized the “foxti'ess” theory as “equally misleading and dangerous.” He said the ‘stx'ongest nation in the woi'ld—our country” — cannot stand aloxxe. En x-oute to -the auditoi'ium, where he spoke to an enthusiastic, cheei’ing cx - owd of 3,000 Jaycees and their wives, the President stop ped at the Swedish Amexdcan Insti tute for lunch with Minnesota Re publican leaders. Among those present were Gov. C. Elmer Axxdex-spn and Rep. Wal ter Judd of Minneapolis. At the auditorium Mr. Eisen hower was gx-eeted by prolonged cheei’s and applause. At least a dozen times during his speech he was interi-upted by loud cheex-s. QUEEN Now Showing M-G-M PRESENTS' EVERY INCH A QUEEN... EVERY HEARTBEAT A WOMAN! YOUNG BESS STARRING lean SIMMONS • Stewart GRANGER Deborah KERR • Charles LAUGHTON -V WITH Kay Guy Kathleen C«dl Leo G. WALSH • R01f[ • BYRON • KEtlAWAY * CARROLL PALACE Bryan 2 r 8$79 Now Showing TODAY THRU SATURDAY ^Thunder In The East” with ALLEN LADD Football Stars Sign With A&M Nine more Texas high school football playex’S have signed let ters of intent with the A&M athletic depai’tment. Head Coach Ray George an nounced the Aggies now have 19 such letters on hand. Sevexxteen are from px*ep stars while two ai’e fx-om junior college transfers. Latest high schoolei's to an nounce their ixxtention of accept ing A&M football scholai'ships are: John Soxxny Ray, all-American axxd all - State end from Corpus Chi'isti; Beixnie Bloomex-, all-state tackle fxom Belton; James Martin, all - state guard from Houston; James Harris, all-state halfback fiom Terrill; Otis Michalk, all- state halfback from Kingsville; Russell Moake, twice all-distxict fullback from Deer Park; Billy Cranberry, all-state fullback from Beeville; H. B. Harris, quax-terback fx'oxn Center and Walker Baxton Gx-iffith, twice all-district center from Humble. The two JC transfex's — Gax'y Woffox-d of Tyler and Malcolm Hammack of Arlington State. Entries Open For Summer Tennis Meet Hooper Arranges 77*I To Go To ’56 Olym 'fp* .fMCF- ^ Both sixxgles axxd doubles will be played uxxder single elimination rules in the Intramural summer open tennis toux-nament. Contestants may enter the tournament xxow by x'eporting to the Office of Student Activities, said C. G. (Spike) White, assistant dean of men. The Intramural office will send each entx-y a schedule slip on which the name and x'oonx number address of the opponent will be shown. Each match will be played as scheduled unless a mxxtually agree able prior date is set. Winners should x'epox't x'esults to the Intramui'al office (4-6954) xxot later than the day after the match. Matches not x-eported by that time will be considex-ed a double for feit, said White. Bx’ackets will be posted at the tennis courts and at the Intramux-al office. Winnex's may be reported at either place. Dax'row Hooper, A&M’s gx-eat shot put and discus stai’, has ai'- ranged his affaii's the next thi'ee years which will enable him to participate in the 1956 Olympic Games. Hoopex', I'unner-up in the 1952 Games at Helsinki, completed his collegiate eligibility at A&M this spring in the Southwest confei'- ence track and field meet at Fort Worth. 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