r>i Puls Ably Fills Shoes Of Injured Pleckner was beginning to hum with preci- might throw the smoothly moving five out of balance. Secondly, Puls replaced the sec ond ranking hitter in the confer ence, as Bleckner was slapping the ball at .429 in loop play. Puls stood at the plate for the first time in an Aggie varsity game against Baylor at Waco. He smashed a triple and scored a run in A&M’s second-game rout of the Bears, and helped ease the Tigers Play Chester Today For Bi-l)istrict A & M Consolidated meets the Chester Yellowcats at 3 p.m. today in Huntsville for the bi-district baseball crown. Win or lose, it is the last game of the season for the Tigers, de fending bi-district champs, since class B schools do not have any other playoffs. Manuel Garcia or Bobby Potts will start on the mound for CHS, who are 7-5 over the full season and won the district by defeating Cypress-Fairbanks, two out of three. Garcia has a 4-1 record and is the team’s leading hitter with .429. Potts, despite a 2-4 mark, has a .92 earned run average. Chester has won 10 and lost four and has a 61-B. The Tigers probably will Ijne up this way—Winfred Pardue, catch er; Dick Hickman, left field; J. B. Carroll, shortstop; Norman Floeck, first base; Travis Englebrecht, center field; Jack McNeely, third base; Bo Lin ton, second base. If Garcia pitches, Steadman Davis will play right field. Garcia will be in right if Potts starts. pain of Bleckner’s loss even more by bi'eaking up the Nelson-Bowers By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Staff Little Charlie Puls had two duel here las t Saturday with a etrikes against him when he step- S ame -winning single, ped into the shoes of injured Dick In the two - game senes witn Bleckner, but the hustling sopho- SMU, he got in on three double more second baseman proved he Plays, and fielded flawlessly ° n To -o n , The 5 ' 9 second sacker ‘ from ... eg ! n Wlth > Puls took over a Houston was dubbed “Possum” by hpd ^ ^ A ? Sie infield that his teammates, but bears no resem- wi “ d b , la "« * W* *!«««' namesake on . - the diamond. The agile Puls roams sion as the season wore on. There his second base territory like a was a chance that the new member veteran. He played in only four of the Fish’s 12 games last year, and came to bat seven times. He had only one hit, a single, all last season. A&M meets oft-beaten, but po tentially dangerous TCU at Fort Worth tomorrow and Frjday in a vital two-game series. Only a scant half-game behind fiont running SMU, the Aggies face a team that was rated as the “team to beat” by most of the sports writers in Texas. SMU stands 8-2 in conference play and A&M 7-2. The Horned Frogs split a two- game set with Baylor last week, indicating that they may be on the road to recovering from a long string of setbacks. Richard O’Neal, TCU’s second ranking hurler, retired 17 men in a row against Baylor before losing 3-0. Bob McDaniel, Froggie ace, whipped the Bears the day before. Right fielder Fred Ablon tacked on 25 points to his season batting average and 28 to his conference efforts last week against SMU. He now leads the Aggie squad in hitting with .318 over the season, and .381 in conference after Joe Schero went 0 for 8. Les Byrd is next with .306 over the season, but has only .257 in conference play. Schero sports a .301 average in season action and .359 in league contests. The Aggies brought their number of double plays for the season up to 16 by turning in three against the Mustangs. A&M also chalked up the first triple play in the con ference this year. Joe Hardgrove continues to pace Cadet pitchers with a perfect 6-0 record, and leads in strikeouts with 49. He has a 1.5 earned run aver age. Jerry Nelson is 3-4 over the season and 2-1 in conference games, ranking just behind Hardgrove in strikeouts with 48. Dick Munday has a 3-1 season^ record, and has the lowest earned run average on the mound staff with 1.2. Wendell Baker has a 1-0 won-lost record. Wednesday, May 4, 1955 THE BATTALION — Page 3 Minn JC Wins State Track Title Blinn junior college won only three events and tied for first in another, but piled up second, third and fourth place points to win the state junior college track title for the second straight time. Blinn scored 32% points in the finals held at Kyle field yesterday to edge San Antonio, which finish ed with 29. Odesak was third with 20 3/5. Gayle McGinty won the high and low hurdles in 15.9 and 25.2 and tied for first in the pole vault with 11-8 to lead Blinn. L. M. Kill- ough won the, broad jump with 22-1 for the winners’ other first. Killough was second in the 100 and 220 and tied for third in the high jump. His 9.9 in the prelims of the 100 set a new record and his 21.5 in the 220 prelims was another record. John Curtis of Howard County won the finals in 21.5. Three other records were set. They were San Antonio’s 44.0 in' the 440 relay, Paris’s 3:33.5 in the mile relay, and 2:03.2 in the 880 prelims by Emilio Calvillo of Con cordia. Calvillo also won the mile. ♦ J7i nn f, r9 , ° f ,f vents: 440-relay San An tonio 44 7; mile. Emilio Calvillo. Concor- 1 : i 3 ’ i 40, , :Don Benthal, Cisco, 51.7; non’ Joh P ^ urt i s . Howard County, 10.0: Blinn ya i5 9 hlEh hurdles - Ga y le McOinty, in S Tn 0t j PUt ’ Maitland Huffman, Navarro, too £ £ US y Vernon Kostohryz. Navarro, 129-6, high jump, tie between James Hen- sley, Amarillo, and Tuffy Zellard, Odessa, 880, Billy Carter, Odessa; 220, John Howard County, 21.5; 220 yard low hurdles, Gayle McGinty, Blinn, 25.2; mile 3:33.5; broad jump, L. M. Killougln Blinn, 22-1 ; pole vault, tie be tween Gayle McGinty, Blinn, and John Coyle, San Antonio, 11-8, Charlie Puls His Hit Won the Big One IMfi *1: Jtllj CLEVELAND, jfray 3 — (2P) Catcher Yogi Berra’s muff on an outfielder’s throw after Bob Avi la’s bases-loaded single in the sev enth inning provided the Cleveland Indians a margin of three unearn ed runs in a 7-4 victory last night over the New York Yankees. Toby Newton’s six-hit pitching- o-ame Wl t ^ The victor y in the first 1955 and a seven-run sixth inning gave at-bats SUlg ^ m ° m meeting ' of th e pennant rivals kept the Fish baseball team a 12-4 win Allen scored three runs in the ^ ^ PlaCe ' over Allen academy yesterday in fourth for a 3-3 tie, but the Fish AviIa Came to bat in the seventh Bryan, their third straight after solved starter Felipe Ybanez for after south Paw Eddie Lopat had ive losses. six hitg> including . a triple by “ nam filled the bases on two walks and Indians Beat Yankees Fish Beat Allen, Newton Fans 14 in, and Avila took third. Vie Wertz brought Avila home with a single, and Tom Morgan replaced Lopat to check the Tribe the rest of the way. In winning his second game in and a double by Bobby Conrad, and a . double b y Hank Foiles. His thiee decisions, Newton continued iced the e-ame with s*w a v, single to right drove in the run fanning 14. He now has 49 strike- won i.o anq lost lour, °uts in 32 2/3 innings, while giv- 7-1 record in district in S up five earned runs, 18 hits and 16 walks. His earned run average is 1.2. Leftfielder Dennis Ham third baseman Gordon Maxwell paced a 14-hit attack on three Rambler pitchers. Ham slugged two triples and a single to bat in two runs, and Maxwell hit a homer and three singles to bring in three right runs. Rightfielder Ed Dudley, who brought a .455 average into the USED BOOKS WANTED We want your used books — whether reused here avahablT ^ ^ prepared to P a ^ the bes t price FOR COMPARISON TRY ALL THE REST THEN COME TO THE BEST THE EXCHANGE STORE ‘ — ^•»*» one xun his sensational strikeout showings, the sixth. Twelve men came to wbicb tied tbe game at 4-4, and fanning 14. He now has 49 strike- bat. whe n Berra muffed the throw-in right drove in the run (See FRESHMEN, Page 4) from Hank Bauer, two runs came LOU GETS BEST PRICES OF THREE HOUSES Longs College Book Co. 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