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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
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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
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Highlights
A antiaircraft artillery ousted
C field artillery 8-2 in the quarter
finals of upperclassmen softball
behind the one-hit pitching of Bob
Plumblee and Johnny Johnson last
night on the lighted softball dia
mond.
Pitcher Fred Standard doubled
down the left field line in the first
off Plumblee and scored when
Chuck Newman let Jim Carter’s
ground ball go through him at
shortstop.
The losers scored their other run
in the second on four consecutive
walks, but Johnson came in and
forced Standard to pop to third
and threw Ralph Clement out on
a. bouncer back to the mound.
The antiaircraft men got to
Standard in the third for five runs
after he had struck out five in the
first two frames.
Plumblee, who moved to right
field when Johnson came on, singl
ed. Standard then walked John
son, John Grant and Dewayne Wil
liams to force in a run and New
man drilled a basehit to center,
scoring Johnson and Grant. New
man scored when Dale Avant’s
ground ball was hobbled. Avant
made it 5-2 as he rode home on
Phil Speirs double.
The winners put the game on ice
in the fourth as Jim Blackstone
homered with Newman and Avant,
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