'J’hursday, April 14, 1955
7HE BATTALION
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Ags, Steers Open Important Series Here Tomorrow
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sport’s Staff
A&M and Texas nines resume
their ever present rivalry here
tomorrow in the opener of a
two-game series that bears
heavily on the outcome of the
conference race.
The Aggies, sporting a 3-0
record, are deadlocked for first
place in the conference with
SMU, and a loss to the Long
horns could seriously hurt
A&M’s title hopes.
SMU meets an erratic Rice
team in Dallas this weekend
in a two - game set. The
Mustangs tripped Texas twice
at Austin earlier £his year to
help boost them into title con
tention.
Coach Beau Bell plans to
send his ace, Joe Hardgrove, to
the mound tomorrow in the
first of the crucial games.
Sophomore righthander Dick
Munday will probably get the
call Saturday.
An injury to sophomore first
baseman John Hoyle at Alpine
last week could keep him out of
the Longhorn series, and of
course doesn’t help the Ca
dets’ chances for a win.
“My shoulder is still pretty
sore,” said Hoyle yesterday,
“but I’m hoping to be ready.”
If Hoyle is unable to man
his post, left fielder Les Byrd
will take his place, and Clyde
Stinson will move into the line
up at Byrd’s position.
Mark Gunnels, an outfielder,
was also injured last week, and
hasn’t worked out this week.
Byrd regained the batting
leadership of the Aggie squad
in the Sul Ross contests last
week. He comes into the Texas
series with ^ .333 average.
Third sacker Joe Schero con
tinues to slub over the .300
mark with a neat .319 average.
He is clubbing the gall at more
than a .500 clip in conference
play.
Coach Bibb Falk’s unpredict
able Steer's haen’t grazed in
such lean pastures in the 39
years of the conference’s his
tory, and seem headed for the
school’s worst season.
Baylor gave the Longhorns
a 5-2 pasting earlier this week
to hand Texas its fourth
straight loss. This is the first
time Texas has dropped four
games this early in the season.
The loss left Texas clinging
to a shaky perch just above
last place TCU, who has yet
to win a conference game.
Texas comes to A&M with a
1-4 season mark, and a 4-8
season record.
Three righthanders, Clinton
Irby, Tom Jungman and Ronnie
Zeller are Texas’ top candi
dates for starting roles Friday
and Saturday.
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Highlights
A close two-way fight between A&M and Rice high
lights a varsity and freshmen triangular track meet at Hous
ton Saturday.
SMU, the other entrant, doesn’t appear to have enough
over-all strength to win the meet.
“With the meet in Houston, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised
if Rice won,” said Coach Frank Anderson, “but we don’t think
they can beat us until they do it.”
Two of A&M’s top performers of last year see their first
action of the season Saturday. Shot putter Harry Cox and
broadjumper Bobby Robison are reported in good condition
again.
“I don’t expect them to take
any points in this meet, be
cause they haven’t been work
ing out,” said Anderson, “but
they can help us in the coming
conference meet.’
Anderson plans to take about 60
tracksters, including both varsity |
and freshmen to Houston.
A&M’s promising crop of fresh
men will be out to break a three
year losing streak suffered at the
hands of the Rice frosh.
“Our freshmen have moi’e run
ning potential than any of our
recent Fish teams,” said Anderson,
“and at least three of them could
make the varsity on any team in
the conference.”
Weightmaii Carl Green and dash
men Emmett Smallwood and Glen
Bussa have all turned in fine per
formances this year.
Green has been heaving the shot
around 48 feet, farther than any
Aggie freshman has achieved be
fore. Smallwood won the low hur
dles in an intrasquad meet last
week in 22.9, probably better than
any time in the state this year.
Winning time in the low hurdles at
the conference meet last year was
23.5.
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Behind the no-hit hurling
of Bruce Terry, C anti-air
craft artillery knocked A field
artillery from the ranks of
the unbeaten, 6-2, and cinched
a tie for the title in their league
of upperclassmen softball.
The A field men got a run in
both the second and third innings
via the walk-error method, * but
Terry’s mates got him six runs in
the third on the strength of doubles
by Randy Sims and Ben Alcala,
and singles by Jerry Betsill, John
Sullivan and Charlie Sanders.
Squadron 2 sent 14 men to the
plate in the third frame of their
game, scored eight times and
smothered squadron 14, 11-0. Char
lie Bowers powered a circuit blast
for the winners.
Squadron 15 came from behind
to score all their runs in the last
inning and squeeze past squadron
3, 3-2. John Heard was the win
ning pitcher. His mound opponent,
Carl Sauer, took the loss though
giving up only two hits.
The only freshmen game saw
squadron 18 down squadron 6, 8-3.
Upperclassmen volleyball came
into full swing Wednesday with six
games on deck.
A anti-aircraft artillery beat A
engineers, 2-0; squadron 5 shut out
B anti-aircraft artillery, 2 - 0; A
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A&M Netters Tie
Oklahoma, 3-3
Don Dixon and Gene Kinard pull
ed out the last match of the day,
6-2, 7-5, and the A&M varsity
tennis team tied University of
Oklahoma 3-3 here yesterday in a
dual meet.
Dixon and Kinard, beaten in the
first two singles matches, teamed
up to beat Russell Fuller and
John Martin in the last doubles
match and deadlock the meet.
The Sooners, winner in 28 of
31 duals in the Big Seven confer
ence during the last nine years,
took the first two singles matches
before Jack Bessellieu broke the
ice for the Cadets. He defeated
John Martin 6-0, 6-0.
OU’s Ken Taylor had beaten Kin
ard 6-2, 6-0, and Barry Walraven
had defeated Dixon 6-2, 6-1, to
give the Sooners a 2-0 lead.
Bob Kerr blasted Russell Fuller,
6-2, 6-0, to bring the Aggies into a
2-2 tie. Walraven and Taylor took
Kerr and Bessellieu, 6-8, 6-3, 6-2
in the first doubles to set the stage
for the tieing match.
Boxing Club
The A&M Boxing club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. tonight in DeWare
field house, announced President
James Earle.
Softball Team
Plays Bearkats
At Huntsville
Wendy Imel takes the
mound for A&M’s softball
team tonight against Sam
Houston State at Huntsville
in the second meeting with
the Bearkat nine.
The Bearkats blanked A&M 1-0
in the first game, the contest’s only I
run coming on an error in the first
inning.
A&M softballers go into the con
test with a 1-3 season record.
We’re improving rapidly,” said
manager Barney Welch, “but our |
competition has been the best.”
Starting lineup for tonight’s
game includes Sonny Jameson at |
first base, Dick O’Connor, second
base; Bob Williams, third base;
Harvey Helms, shortstop; Pappy
Papacek, left field; Bill Thomas,
right field; Giles Schanen, center
field; Bill Bates, catcher and Imel,
pitcher.
Tomorrow night the Aggies bat
tle University of Texas in a double-
header here, beginning at 7 p.m.
The remainder of this year's
schedule is:
April 28, Lake Jackson, here
(doubleheader); April 30, Lake
Jackson, here; May 7, World Cham
pion Lackland air force base, here
(doubleheader); May 11, Lackland,
there; May 14, Southwest confer
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