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Friday, April 15, 1955 THE BATTALION Page 3 Favored Aggies Meet Texas On Kyle Field Today, Saturday 16 High Schools Enter Ag Swimming Meet The 19 th annual high school swimming meet, sponsored by the A&M athletic department, will be held in P. L. Downs jr. natatorium Saturday. , Preliminaries will be held at 1:30 p.m., finals at 7:30. Admission is free. « Sixteen schools are entered, in cluding Odessa, defending champ Highland Park, A&M Consolidated, El Paso, Austin of Bryan, Paschal and Arlington Heights of Fort Worth; Austin, Reagan, Milby and La mar of Houston, Nederland, San Antonio Tech, Alamo Heights of Park. San Antonio, Tyler and Austin of Austin. 1954 individual winners who will return are Tracy Word, Lamar, breast stroke; Jody Grant, Alamo Heights, 200 yard freestyle; Albert Stevens, Lamar, 120 yard individ ual medley. • Other top contenders for individ ual honors are: Freestyle—Mike Lumby and Dick Rent, Highland Park; Geoi’ge Smith, Reagan; Dick Bai'ry, Thom as Jefferson of San Antonio; Jody Grant, Alamo Heights; Breast stroke—Dieter Ufer, Rea gan, and Bill Pulley, Highland Why do more college men and women smoke VICEROYS than any other filter cigarette? BECAUSE ONLY VICEROY GIVES YOU A PURE, NON MINERAL, NON-TOXIC FILTER WITH 20,000 FILTER TRAPS IN EVERY FILTER TIP! 1. 2. 3. Yes, only Viceroy has this filter composed of 20,000 tiny filter traps. You cannot obtain the same filtering action in any other cigarette. Besides being non-mineral and non-toxic, this cellu lose-acetate filter never shreds or crumbles. The Viceroy filter wasn’t just whipped up and rushed to market to meet the new and skyrocketing demand for filtered cigarettes. Viceroy pioneered. Started research more than 20 years ago to create the pure and perfect filter. Smokers en masse report that filtered Viceroys have a finer flavor even than cigarettes without filters. Rich, satisfying, yet pleasantly mild. 5 Viceroy draws so easily that you wouldn’t know, • without looking, that it even had a filter tip . . . and Viceroys cost only a penny or two more than ciga- o rettes without filters! That’s why more college men and women smoke VICEROYS than any other filter cigarette — that’s why VICEROY is the largest-selling filter cigarette in the world! 20,000 TINY FILTER TRAPS., plus Richer, Smoother Flavor Hardgrove, Munday Get Starting Roles By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Bajttalion Sports Staff A&M hasn’t clipped Texas on Kyle field in two years, but is favored to end that drouth today behind the hurling of ace southpaw Joe Hardgrove. Game time is 3 p.m. The same two teams tangle here again tomorrow at 2. Hardgrove brings a perfect 3-0 SWC record into the Longhorn fracas, and has posted two of A&M’s three con ference victories. He’s the hardest worker on the staff, having toiled 35 innings, and has allowed only four earned runs. His 0.9 earned run average is the lowest in the confer ence, and his 31 strike-outs rates tops on the Aggie squad. Sophomore righthand er Dick Munday, who gets to morrow’s starting assign- ment, also holds a 3-0 mark. In 24 innings, he has turned in a brilliant 0.3 earned run average, giving up only one earned run. Righthanders Clinton Irby, Ron nie Keller and Tom Jungman ap pear to be Texas’ leading choices for starting roles in the series. A&M enters the series with a loop leading 8-3 season record, and is tied with SMU for first in con- Aggie Handballers A&M’s handball team is among six entered in the third annual Southwest conference handball meet at the Houston YMCA Fri day through Sunday. The Aggies’ season record stands at 4-2, the only losses coming at the hands of Texas at Austin. President Johnny Johnson, Jim Mathis, Don Grant, Charlie John son, Gary Leslie, John Dillard and Lawrence Laskoskie are making ference play. Texas stands 4-8 ov er the year, and 1-4 in league ac tion. First baseman John Hoyle work ed out yesterday for the first time since injuring his back last week, and will be in the starting lineup today. “He seemed to be all right during workout,” said Coach Beau Bell yesterday, “and I think he has re covered enough to start.” Cadet batting averages through 11 games: Alt Byrd Fish Favored Aggies Are Strong In Field, Distance ’Mural Highlights H 13 36 Baker 3 1 Schero 47 15 Ablon 38 10 Hoyle 40 10 Bleckner 37 8 Hardgrove 14 3 Stockton 44 9 Williams 43 8 Boring 40 7 Ross 13 3 Avg. .333 .333 .319 .363 .350 .316 .314 .305 .186 .175 .167 Today’s probable starting lineups: Texas A&M Lowry, 3b Ablon, rf Watson, 11 ...Stockton, cl Werkenthin, cl Schero 3b Snow, lb Byrd, If Benson, c Williams, c Adams, rf Bleckner, ss Daniels, ss Boring, b3 Steyen»on, 3b, . v .. . . ^ ys»v.. r -...i r'.’r.. .Hoyle, jl b Irby, p. . 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Coach Frank Anderson will en ter this varsity team: Sprints, Carol Coyer, Don Wat son, King Buckner; 440 relay, Har ley Hartung, Bill Holloway, Wat son, Goyer; 440, John Roberts, Bob McKnight, Holloway; 880, Wallace Kleb, Bennett Rags dale, Carl Wilmsen; mile, Verlon Westmoreland, John Whitwell, Bob Boles; two mile. Bill Cocke, West moreland, F. R. Rul, Ed Blake; Hurdles, James Hollingsworth, Hartung, Jim Snyder, Pat Fair- child; mile relay, Roberts, Mc Knight, Kleb, Holloway; broad jump, Dale Elmore, Watson, James Stansel, Bobby Robison; High jump, Fritzie Connally, Joe Schiraldi, John Mcllhenny; pole vault, Winton Thomas, James Clark, James Jackson; Shot put and discus, Tom Bon- orden, Herman Johnson, Lee New man, Harry Cox; javelin, John Henry, Schiraldi, Jack Pardee. Robison, out with a pulled mus cle, and Cox, recuperating from broken ankle, will be competing for the first time this year, along with footballer Pardee. Ander son “discovered” PardeQ several weeks ago when Pardee was pitch ing the javelin with some friends. Three Aggies own the best marks of any Southwest confer ence performers this season. They are Cocke, 9:53.5 in the two mile; Bonorden, 52-11 ^ in the shot; and Johnson, 153-8 in the discus. Connally’s 6-4 in the high jump ties for first in that event. Rice hurdler Wes flight’s 14.4 in the highs, set here, is the third best time in the nation this year. A&M hosts the Owls and Uni versity of Texas here Tuesday af ternoon, with a concurrent frosh meet. Ten errors by squadron 22 aided C armor to a 7-4 victory in upper classmen softball yesterday. Olen Bradley struck out nine of the army men and only allowed one hit in four innings, but his mates couldn’t hold onto the ball. Brad ley also homered with a man a- board in the first. Puryear hall put together two walks, and hits by Stan Reese, Ce cil Curry and Alton Smith to push across five runs in the second frame of its game with Hart hall and went on to score a 7-4 victory. Bob Carroll drove in two runs with a pair of hits for the losers. Leggett downed Mitchell, 7-1, in the only other contest. Rookie catcher Jack Parks of the Milwaukee Braves hit two home runs with the bases loaded in one game for Spokane, Wash, of the Western International league in 1949. Golfers, Leading , SWC, Meet Rice Winner in one of two matches this week, the Aggie varsity golf ers, now leading the Southwest conference, take on Rice at Houston today. A&M lost to North Texas 4%- 2!4 at Denton Wednesday after dropping TCU 5 V2-V2 at Fort Worth Tuesday. The Cadets are 2-0 with SMU and Texas in confer ence play, but have IIV2 points to 10 for SMU, 914 for Texas. Summary of North Texas match: Ray Ferguson defeated Bobby Briggs, A&M, 3 and 2; Max Wil kinson and Bill Franklin, A&M, halved; Ferguson and Wilkinson defeated Bxdggs and Franklin, 3 and 2. Benny Castloo defeated Marceli- no Moreno, A&M, 3 and 2; Dave Vandeiwoort, A&M, defeated A. J. Triggs, 2 and 1; Castloo and Triggs defeated Moreno and Vandervoort, 1-up; Jerry Durbin, A&M, defeated Tom Reed, 1-up. 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