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T r A&M Baseballers Start Spring Practice Today By BARRY HART Assistant Sports Editor A & M’s defending South west Conference baseball title holders take to the diamond today with only 14 practice days before their season op ener against Sam Houston State March 2. Answering Coach Beau Bell’s call to action will be 11 lettermen, three transfers and some promis- ENROLL NOW Spring Term Opens Monday, March 5th DAY and NIGHT SCHOOL HY-SPEED LONGHAND will be offered for the first time in a special ten-week course at night. This is an ideal system for taking notes in college and for taking light office dictation. Typing will be given with this special course. Phone TA 3-6655 for information or call at 702 South Washington Avenue, Bryan, Texas. McKenzie-Bald win Business College “Roy Henry’s clearing his used car lot all the way from the latest to the oldest models. Here’s a chance for you to pick up a good clean used car, with plenty of miles left in it at a very low cost. Look at this: 1949 FORD TUDOR—excellent condition, ^19^ paint in perfect condition 1951 PONTIAC CATALINA—beautiful interior, fully equipped, just like a new one V* 1953 PONTIAC 4 DOOR SEDAN-unbelievably clean, one car owner, extra low mileage 1950 CHEVROLET 4 DOOR SEDAN—many ____ good miles left in it Roy Henry Pontiac Co. Hearne, Texas Knox Furniture Co. — featuring — ► WHIRLPOOL ► CROSLEY ► O’KEEFE & MERRITT “Furniture to suit any taste” BRYAN Dial TA 2-3581 26th & Bryan Mr. W. B. Knox on business or pleasure SAVE A DAY/ travel the Continental way n HOUSTON FT. WORTH 42 mins. 2 hrs. 11 mins. NEW YORK* 8 hrs. 12 mins. ‘Via Connecting Airline Call Continental at Victor 6-1789. WO ontinonfal M-JLWJE & ing sophomores. “We should be stronger this year,” said Coach Bell, “but our biggest concern is catching. If we find a catcher we’ll give someone a fit.” Gone is Jimmy Williams, twice a unanimous all-SWC choice be hind the plate, and filling his shoes will be Bell’s main chore. Reserve lettermen Louis Nelson and Dale West, 1954 Fish letterman who didn’t play last year, will be bat tling for the heavy duty depart ment. DEPTH AND experience fill piactically every other position, with a complete letterman infield, two outfielders and four pitchers returning. John Hoyle, first baseman, Char lie Puls, second baseman, Joe Bor ing, third baseman and Dick Bleck- ner, shortstop will be the men to beat out in the infield. Boring moved to regular shortstop from second base in 1955 when Bleckner was injured and is expected to make the change to the hot corner without much trouble.. Puls took over the second sack and did a terrific job and Hoyle was the starting first baseman all last sea son. RETURNING TO his centerfield spot is John Stockton, who gained all-conference honors in 1955 and was third in hitting among the champions with a .341 average. Behn Hubbard, a 1954 letterman who didn’t play last year, will be hack in right field. On the mound will be Dick Mun- day, the big Bryan Junior who fashioned a 4-1 record last season with a terrific 1.1 earned-run aver age. Back of him is two-year let terman Wendell Baker and reserve lettermen Doug Mullins and Lynn Monical. Clyde Stinson, outfielder, Elo Zatopek, pitcher-first baseman, and Billy Frank Ross, outfielder are returning squadman. Adding depth to the infield will be Joe Worden and Phil Newport, both transfers from Florida junior colleges while pitcher Paul Lang is an Arlington State transfer. v SOPHOMORES Toby Newton, pitcher, Ed Dudley, outfielder who will report after football spring training and pitchers Cam Castle- man and Ira Oertling are expected to bolster the squad. The Aggies journey to Hunts ville to meet the Sam Houston Beai’kats in the season opener March 2, then return to Kyle Field the following day to face the Uni versity of Houston Cougars. Wednesday, February 1*6-, 195(5 * THE BATTALION 9 Page 3 -Armor Annexes Fish Tennis Title “MOTHER SAID baseball is a funny game. They give you a round ball and a round bat and tell you to hit it square.” (1. to r.) Charlie Puls, Joe Boring, Dick Bleckner and Dick Munday are among 11 A&M lettermen starting Spring practice today. Starting Next Week Read Inside Story Of Ag Grid Drills Two of the Aggie football team’s top prospects for next season, # Lu ther Hall and Bob Clendennen, will give their views j| on what goes on inside the A&M camp during Spring practice which begins Monday. Hall, a jour- n a 1 i s m major Hall from Dallas, was a standout quar terback and halfback on last fall’s Fish eleven. Clendennen, who hails from Waco, is also majoring in journalism and HH® was a letterman tackle who saw lots of action last season. Their column is planned as a reg- e*”< ular feature for - Battalion readers Clendennen throughout the 18 gridiron drills. By JOE DAN BOYD B-Armor captured the freshmen tennis championship by clipping C- Infantry, 2-1, yesterday. A1 Smith and Harold Oxspring bounced back from a so-so showing in the semi finals to a thumping 6-2 win over Infantrymen Bill Martin and Don Stringer. Charles Schurig and George Fleck had a field day on the court, drubbing Jim Vrba and Bob Snead, 6-0. Jack Smith and Jim Kelly took a 6-2 pounding from C-In- faritry’s Loyd Neal and Johnny Dennis. Sqd. 17 romped over A-AAA for the upperclassman horseshoe title 2-0. Bpb Kidd and Larry South- worth defeated Gene Haddox and John Polk, racking up the cham pions’ first win. Larry Martin and Dave Westfall responded for win number two by downing Dale Avant and Glynn Chandler. Pat Robertson and Philip Johnson are the remaining members of the Sqd. 17 team. A-Field Artillery frounced a powerful Sqd. 9 freshman basket ball team 31-23 yesterday. Some aggressive defensive work has pro vided A-Field with three straight impressive wins. Their first vic tory was 11-8, the second 27-6, and the third 34-0. It would be inter esting to watch them paired with powerful A-AAA’s team in the fi nals. John Chamberlain, standing 6-2, was the big gun for A-FA. Cham berlain was a superb center ac counting fox 1 eight points and mar velous on defense. Tommy Daw son, also 6-2, was another defensive ace and sank two points. Windel Reed sank nine points, edging Chamberlain for the team’s top slot. Robert Powex^s, and Jack Harzke sunk three baskets each, completing the scoring. Other basketball victoi’ies went to Sqd. 5, Sqd. 15, B-AAA and Sqd. 20. Football wins were scored by A-Inf., Sqd. 15, Sqd. 18, A-Eng. and C-Infantry. We Highly Recommend To You SPRED SATIN—100% Latex Paint SPRED SATIN is the most beau tiful, most washable, easiest-to- use paint we’ve ever seen. Do It Yourself and get beautiful results on walls and woodwork. CHAPMAN’S PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. Next to Post Office A&M Pistol Team Plans Florida Trip A&M’s pistol team, after gar nering five first places in the San Antonio Mid-Winter Pistol Match last weekend, is now holding squad tryouts for a team to attend a Florida meet scheduled in March. The marksmen selected in the ti’youts will accompany Col. Henx’y L. Phillips, team sponsor, and SFC Floyd R. Adams, team coach, to the National Pistol Match in Tam pa, Fla. Mai'ch 11-18. Last year the Aggie pistol team won the na tional championship in the colleg iate division of the Tampa meet. I Sport Shorts By The Associated Press CLEVELAND — Sale of the Cleveland Indians baseball -club to a new cox-poration for nearly four million dollai's was recommended to the stockholders yesterday. The offer may be presented for a for mal vote in three weeks. A cor poration headed by William R. Da ley, president of the investment firm of Otis and Co. made the of fer. 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