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5 Page 4 THE BATTALION Friday, April 22, 1955 Ags Open Baylor Series Today ★ ★ Three SWC Victories JOE .Hp HARP A S&NHOR, JOE WiuU OKIE OP TME UEADlKiQ PlTOMGRS IKi TMH S.VJ.C. 'TUBS SEAS OKI. '-'"A. > ^is- \—• :::::: A T ALU LEFT- UAUDER \M1TU PpEKiTV OP cOM~rRou : V-. SOPPCCSTT PUE A600 TEAVA TUIS SEASOK # Soccer Team Beals The Aggie soccer team defeated the Ellington air force base team 10-0 last Sunday. A&M leads the league with a 5-2 record. Their two defeats were by Ellington AEE and the Univer- yity of Houston. A&M is followed Ellington AFB in the league by Bryan AFB, El lington, Allen academy, and Hous ton in that order. The soccer team has one remain ing league game which will be with Allen academy Sunday. WHY PAY MORE NEW HUDSONS $1575.00 up Metropolitan Ramblers Wasp and Hornets Taylor Motor Co. 1301 Texas Ave. Ph. 509 Bryan For Typing Perfection (yfU/s**#***^ Standard Is Unsurpassed % it® Come in or call for a demonstration No Obligation L. H. Adams BRYAN BUSINESS MACHINE COMPANY Sales—Service—Rentals—T erms 429 South Main BRYAN Dial 2-1328 Free Parking Air Conditioned Bell Picks Munday, Hardgrove to Pitch By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Staff A&M opens an important two-game series with Baylor at Waco today that could make or break the Aggies chances in the race for the conference crown. “I believe we can take them,” said Coach Beau Bell, “that’s what we’re going up to Waco for.” Work-horse Joe Hardgrove and righthander Dick Mun- day are Bell’s choices for starting roles in the Bruin series. Hardgrove will probably go against Baylor’s ace, Freddie Gottlieb, tomorrow, with Munday holding down the hill for A&M today. Munday goes into today’s contest with a 3-0 season rec ord, having pitched 33 innings and given up only three earned He has a .8 earned run 4 runs, average. Hardgrove, A&M’s leading pitcher with a 4-0 record, has hurled 44 innings, struck out //Vf// tf h l\ r i^^S 38 and given up four earhed runs. CX® * J. it JL kJ, He has taken credit for three of the Cadets’ four conference wins. Big Jerry Nelson sports a 2-4 record. He has twirled 39 innings, striking out 37 and hanging up a 5.4 earned run average. Jack Goodwyn of Matt Miller will g-et the starting assignment for Baylor in today’s contest. A&M batters are clubbing the ball at a healthy .296 in conference games, collecting 39 runs on 54 hits. The Aggies had produced only 27 runs and 44 hits at this same time last season. A key factor in the Cadets’ suc cess so far in the SWC season has been the steady rise of batting av erages since entering the race. Leader Joe Schero is batting .500 in conference action and .345 over the season. He was swinging a mere .184 through the first four games of the year. Shortstop Dick Bleckner is also hitting .500 in SWC play, and has hoisted his season average to .277. He was hitting .095 through the first nine games. Les Byrd has a .304 season mark, and a .391 slugging average. Catcher Jimmy Williams jumped his average 45 points in the Texas series last week to .243. Today’s probable starting line ups ai'e: Baylor i A&M Dykeman, ss Ablon, rf Anderson, 3b Stockton, cf Connally, If Byrd, If Freeman, lb... Schero, 3b Lucas, rf Williams, c Mallett, c Bleckner, ss Haney, 2b Boring, 2b Liston, cf Hoyle, lb Goodwyn, p. Munday, p Fish Meet Rice, Baylor Still looking for their first victory of the season after dropping four straight, the Fish baseball team meets the Rice Owlets here at 3 p.m. to day at the Kyle field diamond. The Freshmen also play Bay lor’s Cubs here at 2 p.m. to morrow. Coach Les Palmer has chos en Pinkey Cooner to start the Owlet game, postponed from last week because of rain. Cam Castleman will divide mound duty with Cooner. Toby Newton will start In against the Cubs, who beat the Fish 9-2 at Waco in the season opener. Newton struck out 16 in 763 innings in that game. Right fielder Ed Dudley leads freshmen hitting with a .667 mark, posted on 6 hits in 9 tries. He has two doubles, a triple and four RBI’s, though playing only two games. Second baseman Carlos Ec- quivel has 4 for 8, third base- man Gordon Maxwell 5 for 16. Aggie Golfers Meet Texas North Texas state beat A&M 6-1 yesterday in a non-con ference golf match on the Ag gie course. The Cadets, 3-0 in SWC play and now 4-5-1 • over the season, meet Univer sity of TexUs, also 3-0, here Saturday afternoon. Aggie sophomore Jerry Dur bin and North Texas State’s A. J. Triggs shot 69’s for med alist honors as they halved their match. David Vander- voort, A&M, halved with Max Wilkinson for the other Aggie points. Ray Ferguson, NTS, defeat ed Bobby Briggs, A&M, 2 and l in the leadoff match. Benny Castloo downed Cadet Marce- lino M,oreno, 4 and 3, and Tom Reed defeated A&M’s Tommy Cox, 6 and 5, in other matches. Veteran outfielder Del Ennis and rookie pitcher John Meyer of the Phillies are the only members of the team born in Philadelphia. Cagers End Drills Today A&M’s 1955-56 basketball team teams had Bill Brophy, George Me- Wilson, John Lesikar, Bob Gattis, closes out spring drills today af ter a one-hour workout yesterday. Jerry Claiborne, assistant foot ball coach, is handling the squad for Coach Ken Loeffler, who went back East Sunday to settle moving details, possibly pick a regular as sistant coach and fulfill his teach ing contract at LaSalle, due to run until June 1. Next season’s cagers open play with Tulsa, Memphis State and Vanderbilt on the road. The others on the schedule are: University of Houston (two), Ok lahoma City university, Tulane, LSU (two), Stephen F. Austin (tentative), the annual Southwest conference pre-season tournament, and the 12 conference games. 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The first game starts at 8 p.m. A&M tries to get over the .500 mark after splitting its first eight games. Bob Thorpe, rookie pitcher for the Chicago Cubs was named prep athlete of the year for southern California in 1952. Graduating Engineers Research, development and production activities at Northrop Aircraft, Inc., cre ate a continuous demand for young men who are building careers in the fields of engineering and science. If you have had training that qualifies you for: Aeronautical Engineering Boundary Layer Research Mechanical Engineering Aerodynamics Electrical Engineering Thermodynamics ... if you want to build a permanent, successful career in one of America’s foremost research, development and prod uction centers ... if you want to locate in Los Angeles Metropolitan area . . . please contact the Texas A&M Engi neering Placement Office. Interviews Campus interviews will be conducted by Mr. J. D. Van Gorder, Engineering Per sonnel Representative of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., on April 26 & 27 at the Texas A&M Engineering Placement Office- Please make appointment in advance so your interview may be scheduled for your convenience. NORTHROP AIRCRAFT, Inc. HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA ——