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Page 4 THE BATTALION Tuesday, May IT, 1954 Aggies Finish Play This Week The Aggies wind up their 1954 baseball season tomorrow and Thursday against Texas Christian university at 3 p.m. on Kyle field. Jerry Nelson, Cadet speed bailer, will probably take the mound against the Fort Worth team tomorrow. Joe Hard- grove, the southpaw hurler who hit a grand slam home run against Texas last week, will most likely pitch Thursday. Ags Split Series The Aggies split their two-game series with UT losing the first game 4-3 and taking the second game 5-4. However, the loss of the first game to the Longhorns was enough to give them uncontested claim to this year’s Southwest conference diamond title. The Longhorns will have a two or three game playoff series with the second place Baylor Bears to determine which team will repre sent the Southwest conference in the NCAA playoffs. Texas Has Tie Game The playoff will come about be cause Texas tied Baylor 13-13 in their only game with the Baptist school. The ruling which brought about the win was made in 1948 and then promptly forgotten. It seems no one in the conference remembered the ruling until Dr. J. D.. Bragg of Baylor, member of the SWC’s fac ulty committee called attention to it. The rule states that tie games will be considered a half game won and a half game lost. Lack of Hitting The Aggies, saddled as they have been for the last three seasons with a noticeable lack of hitting power, kept from roosting in the cellar solely on the merits of their pitching. The Cadets finished the season with about a .210 average at the plate. In season hitting, Les Byrd was top Aggie hitter with a .245 av erage. Second was Shortstop Jim Dishman with a .235. In con ference play, Aggie backstop Jim my Williams was tops with a .306. Dishman is second with a .333 in eight games. Williams played in 10. Fish Defeat Texas Here Friday, 8-1 Control artist Dick Munday threw his big curve ball past the bats of the University of Texas Shorthorns Friday and helped the Aggie freshmen to an 8-1 win. Giving up only eight hits, Munday also connected at the plate with two hits for four trips. One of his hits was a long line drive double which rolled to the fence in left field. Outstanding batter for the young Cadets was third sacker Bill White, a .300 hitter, who went three for three'and had one RBI. In their last game of the sea son, the Fish avenged an earlier Do Okay In Tennis CHS IS SECOND IN STATE TRACK A&M Consolidated’s track team racked up 24 points to take second place in the class B state meet at Austin Saturday. The Tigers’ 440-yard relay team, consisting of William Arnold, Da vid Bonnen, Bobby Carter and Rob ert Cleland took first place with a time of 44 seconds. This time was only five tenths of a second off the class B record. Tennis Tiger Fred Anderson won his first round match over Billy Lang of Calvert, 6-1, 6-0. In the semi-finals, Anderson de feated Roy Brandt of Columbus, 6-0, 6-2. Anderson lost in finals to state champion Fred Kniffen of Clyde in straight sets, 6-4, 8-6, 6-3. In boys’ doubles, CHS’s Bobby Jackson and Roland Beasley won their first round match defeating LESSON FOR THE COACH WINIFRED, Mont.— (A>) —Foot ball coach Chuck Kettering will think twice before giving “lessons” to his physical education class. Kettering decided to give his Wini fred High School class some point ers on football. He was hospitalized with leg in juries received during the “lesson.” Softball Team Loses Double-Header Here The Aggie softballers two games 4-0, 6-5 to Babbitt Realty of Houston Saturday night at the local diamond. Big Elmo Candelari blanked the Cadets in the first game as he gave only three hits and no man got past second base after the first inning. Candelari won his own game in the first inning when he hit a two-run home run. The win ners added two more runs in the fifth on three hits, an error and an outfield fly. Curtis Lemons went all thfe way on the mound for the Aggies hnd tvas the loser. He allowed six hits &nd struck out six. Don Jordon, Ralph Bledsoe and Bunk Christie each had singles for the Aggies. In the nightcap, which went nine innings, Babbitt got off to a fast start by scoring three runs in the first inning on Homer Durden’s three run homer. Jim G r o t a added a two run homer in the fifth for the winners. In their half of the fifth, the Aggies tied it up with singles by Christie and Giles Schannen, a hit batsman, three errors and a wild pitch. Babbitt pushed the winning run across in the top of the ninth with two hits and two errors. Candelaxd relieved starter Mike Kuwaja in the eighth and received credit for the win. Christie led the losers at the plate with two hits in four trips. Schannen was the losing pitcher. He dropped | gave up eight hits and the Aggies made six errors behind him. TODAY thru FRIDAY FAST... FRESH... AND RIB- RIPPING! IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU Judy HOLLIDAY Peter LAWFORD Michael O'SHEA A COLUMBIA PICTURE Ag Thinclads Could Lose SWC Title Coach Frank G. (Colonel Aridy) Anderson’s Aggie track team, which has won the Southwest con ference title six of the last seven years, faces the possibility of re linquishing the crown Friday and Saturday in the 1954 SWC track meet in Waco. The Aggies, while looking bet ter against Abilene Christian and North Texas last week than they have any time this year, will have to improve even more if they have any aspirations toward their fourth straight SWC championship. Almost traditionally weak in the sprints and short distance races, the Aggies looked good last week in the triangular meet here. They even came near beating a superla tive ACC mile relay team touted the second best in the nation this season. , The Aggies will face competition from' other schools besides track- rich Texas. TCU’s Wes Ritchey is expected to take first in javelin and the SMU 440 relay team is one of the nation’s best. Rice’s James Beavers will probably take the broad jump and of course Texas will most likely sweep the sprints. The Aggies will have to make up for weaknesses in these events with firsts in the distance rubs and in the field events. Guion Hall TODAY & WEDNESDAY RICHARD WIDMARK JEAN ' PETERS THELMA RITTER on South Street Deer Park’s Sammy Blount and Dicky Thompson, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2. They later lost to the state cham pions Eddie Strayhorn and Joe Smith of Pyote, 6-1, 6-2, in the semi-finals round. In girls’ singles, Betsy Burchard of Consolidated lost in the first round to Betsy Ross, Sonora, 6-2, 6-2. Ross went on to take the state girls’ singles championship. defeat at the hands of the Texas team, suffered on April 13 in Aus tin. For about three and a half in nings, the consistent Munday faced twelve batters in a row without one reaching first base. Winding up the season with a 9-3 record, the Fish demonstrated their ability as batsmen time and again through the season. Four players completed the season bat ting over the .300 mark. Barbecue Honors Athletic Officers A barbecue honoring intramural athletic officers, their assistants and intramural managers will be held at 6:30 p. m. Thursday in the Grove. Watches will be given to senior intramural managers and sweaters to junior and sophomore managers. Athletic officers will be presented tie clasps. Fencers Win SWC Crown in Houston The A&M fencing team won the 1954 Southwest conference crown Friday at a meet in Rice gymna sium. Scores were A&M 33, Rice 23, and U of T 25. So far this year the fencers are the only athletes to win a SWC championship. Individual results are as follows: sabre, Arthur Garner first; epee, James Pigg first and Gus Wulf- man third; foil, Jerry Ramsey sec ond. Team results are as follows: foil, Ramsey won 5 lost 1; Robert Braslau won 4 lost 2; Ken Jones won 3 lost 3. Epee, Wulfman won 5 lost 1; Pigg won 4 los(; 2; Donald Bui'ton Tigers To Compete With Cy-Fair Today The A&M Consolidated base ball squad will play Cypress-Fair- banks on Tiger Field at 3 p. m. to day. The Tigers lost to Cypress-Fair- banks, 8-7 in their first meeting. Thursday, the CHS team will meet Tomball. They have defeated Tomball twice in earlier games. They won the first 16-0 and re peated with a 17-0 win in 4^4 inn ings in the second game. The Tigers have a season record of 10-1 and a district 50-B showing of 3-1. won 2, and Bill Huettel won 1 lost 3. Sabre, Garner won 5 lost 1; Huettel won 2 lost 3; Carl Hill won 1 lost 1; Walter Anderson won 1 lost 2; Bill Fink lost 1, and Bob Ruiz lost 1. Other members of the Aggie team are Bill Swann, Richard For rester, Richard Bean, Bill Griggs, Kenneth Snipes, Joe Dibrell, Charles Holcomb, Don Powell, Ed Fries, Roger Clark, Don Roth, John Shanks and John Yates. Members of the freshman team are. Bob Zarbock, Bruce O’Hara, Tom Matthews, Bill Bailey, Tom Hildebrand, John Fulghum, Nelson Bourn, Lonnie Sutherland and Van Eaton. The Aggie fencers won 5 team meets, lost 1 and placed second in the Border Invite International in El Paso. Next year’s officers will be Gar ner and Huettel, co-captains, and Burton, secretary. The David Van Buskirk fencing award will be given at the spring sports baabeque May 19 for the A&M fencer who has contributed most to fencing during the year. The fencers will compete in the AFLA sectional finals in foil, epee and sabre at Galveston this week end. Teams to be represented are Tex as Tech, Dallas YMCA, Tarleton, Ft. Worth YMCA and University of Arizona. When you pause...make it count...have a BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY THE BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY “Ccke" is o registered trcde-mcrlc. © 1954, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY ’Mural Highlights Intramural finalists Sqd. 2 will play the winner of the B Armor- Sqd. 7 softball game tonight at 8:45 oil the Aggie softball dia mond. There will be a game pre ceding it which starts at 7:30. The entries will be determined before tonight. Sqd. 7 defeated Maroon Band, 5-4, Friday, in softball. Sqd. 7 lagged behind the band 4-1 until the last half of the last inning. From this point, Sqd. 7 succeeded in tallying four more runs winning the game, 5-4. Other game results were: A Chem-6; Sqd. 11-1. A QMC-8; A FA-4. Newman Club-12; B & A-0. GalvestoLL Club-1; P.E. Club-0 (forfeit) The average Eastern League um pire is 31 years old, stands 6 feet and weighs 190. Rodeo Team Is Second in Match The Aggie rodeo team won se cond in the University of Houston intercollegiate rodeo Friday and Saturday at the Rocking R Ranch rodeo arena, located near Houston. Sul Ross state college won the team trophy with 610 points. The Aggie team was second with 485. Hardin - Simmons university was third. Tex Martin of Sul Ross was all- around champion cowboy with 265 of his team’s points. Nine schools were represented at the show . Every member of the Aggie team scored some points, Bobby Rankin was high man on the team with 145. He won first in both bull dogging events and was first in the average. Rankin was third in one event of the bareback bronc Lading. George Vincent was second high man for A&M with 130 points. He won the first event in ribbon rop ing, second in the next ribbon rop ing contest and first in the aveL’age. He also won two fourth place honors in the tie-down calf roping. 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