The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 18, 1954, Image 5

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 18, 1954, Image 5

Newspaper Page TextX SWC COMMITTEE—Members of the Southwest Conference Faculty committee have a laugh as they met in Waco. The members are (left to right) Dr. Delbert Swartz, Ark ansas; Dr. E. D. Mouzon, SMU; Howard Gru bbs, executive secretary; Dr. H. E. Bray, Rice. Back row, W. L. Penberthy, A&M; Dr. J. D. Bragg, Baylor; Dr. Gus Hodges, Texas; and Dr. Henry Hardt, TCU. Penberthy Party To Rejection of Tech A&M’s vote to table the problem of Texas Tech’s entry into the Southwest conference until the De cember meeting of the conference’s faculty committee was the deciding one in Waco Saturday. The faculty committee, which de cides upon entrance of new mem bers, turned down Oklahoma and failed to decide on University of Houston, whose motion was not seconded. A&M Reverses Vote Dean of Men Walter Penberthy, A&M’s repi'esentative to the SWC group, could not be reached for comment after the meeting, accord ing to reports. His vote was a reversal of A&M’s position last year, at which time the A&M dele gate voted for Tech. Reason for the reversal is thought to be worry on A&M’s part over recruiting of -West Texas high school players. Other conference schools against allowing Tech to enter were SMU, Rice and Arkansas. In favor of admitting Tech were Texas, TCU and Baylor. Select Meet Sites In other business, the confer ence committee selected the site of the 1954 cross country meet (A&M), abolished the half-a-game- won, half-a-game-lost ruling in baseball in cases where a playoff game would have a bearing on the Conference championship; made Detroit Agog Over Williams’ Hatting Show DETROIT—May YJ— (IP) Tha city of Detroit—famed for cars and Ty Cobb—was still buzzing today over the wonderous batting exploits of Ted Williams. Players, managers, sports writ ers, the milkman, your neighbor next door—just about everybody— ! still spoke in awed tones of Wil liams’ one-man show Sunday in a double header against the Detroit Tigers. Hits Eight for Nine Playing with a pained shoulder, the 35-year-old outfielder of the Boston Red Sox returned to regu lar duty and lashed out eight hits in nine times at bat—including two home runs. He scored three times and knocked in seven runs. “That was one of the greatest shows I have ever seen,” said Wil liams’ manager, Lou Boudreau. “With the big guy back in the lineup, it’s bound to improve mo rale on this club/’ “The Greatest” “I’ve never seen anything like it,” added Red Sox Coach Del Baker, “and I’ve seen some great players, including Musial and Di- Maggio. He’s just the greatest, that’s all. Anybody who can hit like that without spring training has to be the greatest.” ATTENTION AGGIE GOLFERS Buy one bag of balls at the regular price and the second bag for . . . 10c From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday thru Friday at the K & B Driving Range Rice the home school for the 1955 conference track, golf and tennis tournament unless a national tele vision bid is received, in which case the site will be Austin. A&M Called Down A&M was censured by the com mittee for allowing an alumnus to loan former freshman football player John (Sonny) Ray money with which to buy a car. Ray, if he returns to A&M, will lose a year of eligibility. He left school at the end of last semester for schol astic reasons. Cards Smother Roberts; Take Easy 8-0 Win PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (TP)—The St. Louis Cardinals drove Robin Roberts to cover tonight with an assortment of extra base hits, including three homers, and coasted to a 8-0 win over the Philadelphia Phil lies. Earlier, the Phillies put a Sunday curfew-curtailed twin bill nightcap into the record books to the tune of 8-4. St. Louis AH II O Moon, If 5 2 0 Hemus, ss 3 1 0 aHaddix 0 0 0 Gram’s, ss 2 0 0 Sch’d’st, 2b 4 0 4 Musial, rf 4 2 6 Jabl’ski, 3b 5 2 0 Alston, lb 5 3 6 Rep’ski, cf ..3 2 7 Rice, c 4 1 3 Presko, p 4 0 1 Totals 39 13 27 Philadelphia AB H O Jones, 3b 4 0 2 Ashburn, cf 4 0 6 Tor’son, lb 4 2 S Ennis, If . . 4 2 2 Ham’er, 2b 4 1 2 Wyr’tek, rf 4 1 1 Burgess, c 3 1 4 Morgan, ss 2 0 1 sClark 1 0 0 Kaz’ski, ss 0 0 0 Roberts, p 1 0 1 Konst’ty, p 0 0 0 bSchell . 1 o 0 GGr’nw’d p 0 0 0 dLopata 1 0 0 Drews, p o 0 0 Totals 32 7 27 a—Ran for Hemus in 5th. b—Struck out for Konstanty in 6th. c—Filed out for Morgan in 8th. d—Filed out for Greenwood in 81 h. St. Louis IOC 022 012—8 Philadelphia . . . 000 000 000—0 Joe Presko went the distance for .the Cards in the regular game, winning his third without a set back. Roberts was charged with the loss, his fourth against the same number of wins. Roberts, who hurled a one-hitter his last time out, didn’t have his stuff tonight. The first Cardinal to face him, rookie leftfielder Wal ly Moon, an Aggie-ex, hit a homer into the leftfield stands. From that point on to the fifth, Roberts looked a little more like the puz zling righthander he usually is. In the preliminary carry-over game, Murray Dickson held the Cards in check for the three in nings w bile his teammates scored a pair of runs to one for the Cards. In the last eight years five golfers have won the U. S. Open. They are Ben Hogan four times, Julius Boros, Dr. Cary Middlecoff, Lew Worsham and Lloyd Man- grum. Trade Your Books for Records! Trade Your Books for Records! RECORD SALE Entire Stock of 45 and 33 1 /3 R.P.M. Reduced POPULAR AND CLASSICAL 20^0 o« Remember!! You can TRADE your TEXTBOOKS for RECORDS and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to increase your record library. You Don’t Need Cash Bring Your Books SHAFFER’S BOOK STORE North Gate Tuesday, May 18, 1954 THE BATTALION Page 5 CHS in Bi-District Game at Huntsville By CLIFTON BATES Consolidated Correspondent A&M Consolidated’s Tigers play Woodville today in a bi-district game at Huntsville as a result of beating Cypress- Fairbanks 13-1 Friday and winning the district 51-B title. In the Cypress g'ame, Pinky Cooner, Tiger hurler pitched his ninth straight win on 13 strikeouts and five walks for his third one-hitter. Cooner has also* pitched two no-hit games. The Tigers won all five of their district games, Cooner winning three and Pete Hickman two. The game with Woodville is as far as the Tigers will go in baseball this year. Class B district teams go no further than bi-distidct playoffs. Hickman was leading hitter in the Cypress game with three hits, four runs and three RBIs. Every CHS player but Cooner hit in the Cypress match. Cypress-Fairbanks got their run in the fifth inning on three walks, a passed ball and a fielders choice. Cooner walked in the run. system. Negro schools are named J. B. Carroll, Bobby Carter and William Arnold each had two hits for four official at-bats. Carroll scored two runs on one RBI. He leads in runs scored for the season with 24, is batting .450 for the season and .500 for the district to lead Tiger batsmen. Arnold fin ished the season with a .395 at the plate and Hickman was third with a .325. Woodville has a 6-1 season rec ord. The Tigers’ is 13-0. ('ypn-ss AB H II PO A XviuHe. c, 1b . . 3 0 0 7 0 Zaboroski, 2b . . . . . 4 X 0 3 3 JFteifcl. 3b . . .4 0 0 i 0 Adam, p . . ’3 0 0 0 7 Cobb, J. rf . . 2 0 0 1 0 Cobb, F. ss . . . 2 0 0 2 2 Tillota, cf, c . . 1 0 1 2 2 Parker, If . . . 1 0 0 0 0 Fuller, lb ... 2 0 0 8 0 Totals . . .22 1 1 IS 14 CHS AB IX H PO A Englebrecht, If .... . . . 3 1 i 1 0 Bonnen, 2b . . . 3 2 i 1 0 Carroll, ss . . 4 2 2 0 0 Carter, Iz . . . .4 1 2 5 1 Cooner, p . . . X 2 0 1 15 Hickman, cf . . . 4 4 3 0 0 Arnold, 3b . . . 4 0 2 0 2 Free, e ... 2 0 1 13 2 Garcia, rf ... 3 0 1 0 0 q.Bond . . . 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . . .28 13 12 21 20 q. Bond for Garcia In field. Snead Named Poll Winner Ag Thinclads Nearly Always Are On Top The Texas Aggie weights team has won the Southwest conference shot put championship 22 of the last 23 years. A&M is the only Southwest con ference school whose shot putters have ever gone past 50 feet. The leading weights man this year, Bobby Gross, has improved nearly four feet since last year’s SWC meet. In 1953, Gross put the shot 48-11%. In Waco Satux’day, he did 52-4. Two other Aggies turned in out standing performances at Waco. They are sophomores Tom Bonor- den and Harry Cox. As a fresh man last year, Bonoxden was beat en by shot men from four other SWC schools. Not one of those men has approached him in dis tance this year. His improvement has been moi’e than 10 feet. But the big surprise took place Saturday in Waco when Cox, a 6-3 sophomore from Vera, pushed the 16-pound ball 47 feet. His vious best distance was around 32. Cox’ showing insure^ the Aggies of at least the first three places next year. Another help next year in the weights will 'he fi’eshxnan Herman Johnson, who has done 49 feet al ready and is expected by Frank G. (Col. Andy) Anderson, Aggie coach, to best 50 next yeaiv NEW YORK, May 18—t^)—Sam Snead, who defeated Ben Hogan in a playoff for the Masters golf championship at Augusta, Ga., yes terday was named winner of the April award in the Hickok Pro Athlete of the Year poll. Snead received 33 first place votes from spoi’ts wi’iters and sportscasters axxd a total of 150 points on a 3-2-1 basis. Sal Maglie of the New York Giants finished second with 51 points, followed by Baltimore’s Bob Turley, the strike out ace, with 50 points. Others who received votes in cluded boxer Jimmy Slade, pitch er Bob Trice, third baseman Ran som Jackson, outfielder Stan Mus ial, boxer Bobby Jones, pitcher Steve Gromek and pitcher Bob Keegan. Slugging outfielder Frank Thom as of the Pittsbxxrgh Pirates was born in Pittsburgh and still makes his home in that city. WE SALUTE W. D. KUTACH 302 Park Place College Station Ph. 6-1281 A We salute our area leader for the month of April. 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