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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.
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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
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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.
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’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.
Billy Steele won first in one event
of the ribbon roping and was se
cond in the average. Steele also
won third in one go-round of the
tie-down.
Lowie Rice won third and two
fourths in the bull dogging event.
Charlie Bouse won second in
one bull riding event.
Kenneth Beasley won third in the
bull riding. He also won third and
fourth in the bareback riding.
The next show for the Aggie
team will be the championship two
weeks after school is out at Hard-
in-Simmons university.
10th Anniversary Sale
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