Tuesday, May 24, 1955
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Aggies Dominate AI1-SWC Selections
A&M’s baseballei*s, due to meet
Arizona for the District 6 NCAA
championship in Bryan next week,
almost completely dominated the
final conference statistics and all-
Southwest conference team.
The Cadets landed five players
on the Associated Press all-con
ference squad. Two of them, catch
er Jimmy Williams and Joe Hard-
grove, pitcher, were unanimous.
Williams was named to the team
for the second straight year.
Other Aggies making the all
conference team were third sacker
Joe Schero, left fielder Les Byrd
and centerfielder John Stockton.
SMU hurler Tommy Bowers,
Tommy Jungman, Texas pitcher;
Jim Payne, SMU first baseman;
Danny Brown, SMU second base-
man; Wayne Connally, Baylor
shortstop; Lee Mattinson, TCU out
fielder; Jerry Mallett, Baylor out
fielder and Bobby Boggan, SMU
utility infielder make up the rest
of the team.
The Aggies, sporting six players
among the league’s top 12 hitters,
led in team batting with a healthy
.291 average, exactly 40 points
above second place Baylor. A&M
batted only .219 over the full sea
son last year.
Sophomore shortstop Dick Bleck-
ner, who sat out the last half of
the conference season with an in
jury, ranked second to TCU’s Jim
Mayfield in loop slugging with a
.409 average.
Bleckner came to the plate 22
times, collected nine hits and drove
in five runs.
Fred Ablon was fourth in stick
Athletic Council
Lauds Baseballers
The A&M Athletic council has voted this commendation
for the Aggie baseball team and Coach Beau Bell:
“Dear Coach Bell:
“In recognition of the successful baseball season record
climaxed by winning the conference championship, the Ath
letic council, on behalf of the college, extends heartiest con
gratulations to you and your entire baseball squad.
“We hope your success will continue through the post
season games and will carry you to the national champion
ship.
“Please convey our commendation and best wishes to
your squad.”
work with .368, and Schero fifth^
with .354. Ablon led in total hits
with 25, was second in doubles
with five and drove in 15 runs,
good for third place.
Stockton hit .341, Charlie Puls
.313 and Byrd .306 to round-out the
Cadet leaders. Clyde Stinson, soph
omore outfielder, batted .333
against conference pitching, but
came to bat only nine times.
Captain Byrd and Joe Boring
finished second and third respec
tively in homeruns. Byrd had five.
Boring four. Boring was second
in runs scored, crossing the plate
16 times*
Seniors Joe Hardgrove, Tex
Vanzura and Jerry Nelson ranked
one-two-three among conference
hurlers in won-lost ‘records. The
trio accounted for 12 of A&M’s
13 SWC wins.
Hardgrove paced the conference
with a perfect 6-0 mark, Vanzura
had a 1-0 record to show for his
lone appearance of the season
against powerful SMU, and Jerry
Nelson stood third with five vic
tories against one defeat.
The Aggies meet Arizona at
Travis park in Bryan at 8 p.m.
Monday, Tuesday and if necessary,
Wednesday in the NCAA district
playoff.
Tickets for the games are 50
cents for students, $1 for general
admission and $1.50 for box seats.
Aggies must present their ID
cards.
Sport Club Photos
To Be Made Today
Group pictures for the Aggie-
land of all club sports will be
made at 5 p.m. in back of De-
Ware field house today.
These sports include wrestling,
boxing, handball, softball, soccer,
rodeo, bowling and gymnastics.
All members of these teams are
urged to be present, and have
their pictures made.
About two out of every three
adult Americans wear eyeglasses.
S
PORT
H O R T
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By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Staff
Ken Loeffler, A&M’s new basketball coach has assured
the Aggie cagers of a nation-wide audience, even if they don’t
win a game next season.
Yesterday Loeffler had pictures taken of next year’s
team to be used to illustrate his book on basketball which
appears in the fall. (“Prentice-Hall, $4,” he says.)
Called “Incentive Basketball,”
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the book is primarily about the
styles and systems which Loeffler
used to get LaSalle into six na
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The last chapter wryly is
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line read, ‘If the things in this
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send complaints to the author.”
The manuscript has been finish
ed, and with the pictures, will be
sent to the publisher next month.
It probably will appear for sale
next October or November.
Loeffler jokingly told his
team, “I’ll give you personal
autographed copies for free—
when you win your first game—
or should I make you wait that
long?”
Two Speeches Today
He is in Beaumont tonight for
a speech, spoke at a luncheon in
El Campo today, and addressed the
local Lion’s club yesterday. Sat
urday night he was principal
speaker at the Houston Junior
Chamber of Commerce dinner.
His first words there, a mild dig
at the conference action on A&M
recruiting, were, “If there are any
high school athletes in the crowd,
will they please leave ? I don’t
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