Thursday, March 1, 1956
THE BATTALION
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Ag Tracksters Battle
Texas, UH Saturday
A&M\s power-laden track team,
pre-season choice for the South
west Conference crown, opens the
1956 carnpaigri against the Univer
sities of Texas and Houston on
Kyle Field Saturday.
Runners-up in the SWC behind
Texas in 1955, the Aggies rely
heavily on their field events for
victory over the sprinter-laden
Longhorn and Cougar squads.
Winton Thomas leads three Ag
gie pole vaulters who have been
over 13 feet and will be favored to
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win his specialty. Thomas has
vaulted 13-8 already this year and
Jim Jackson and Jim Clark are
right behind him. The conference
record is 13-11%.
A&M boasts one of the most
powerful group of shot putters in
the nation, with Bobby Jack Gross,
Tom Bonorden and Herman John
son all battering the 55-foot mark
and Harry Cox just short of 50
feet. Gross won the SWC shot
put in 1954 and Bonorden took
first last year.
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Aggie Nine Begins
’56 Season Friday
With the infield and outfield ap
parently set and a converted out
fielder behind the plate, A&M’s de-
fending Southwest Conference
baseball champions meet the strong
Sam Houston State College Bear-
kats in the 1956 opener tomorrow
in Huntsville.
Game time is 2:30 p.m.
Coach Beau Bell’s nine put on
their hitting togs for the first time
Wednesday, pasting second-line
pitchers Ty Hungerford and Ira
Oertling for 15 hits and nine runs
in six innings.
“THEY GOT MORE hits in six
innings today than they’ve collected
in two weeks,” said Coach Bell, ob
viously pleased with the workout.
“It’s the best they’ve looked all
year. They ran harder, hustled
more and really hit the ball.”
With little Charlie Puls, last sea
son’s regular second baseman,
dropping the diamond game be
cause of poor health, Bell has had
to rearrange his starting infield.
Regular shortstop Dick Bleckner
has moved to second with Captain
Joe Boring filling shortstop, Flo
rida Junior College transfer Joe
Worden going to third and John
Ho^le back at first.
BRYAN’S JOHN Stockton, all-
SWC and the only two-year letter-
man on the squad, returns to cen-
terfield. Flanking him are 1954
letterman Behn Hubbard in right
and Phil Newport, another Florida
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STUDENT FLORAL CONCESSION
Run by Aggies for Aggies
transfer, in the left-field meadow.
Newport, a port-sider all the way,
drove out a homerun and two
doubles in Wednesday’s intrasquad
game.
With Jimmy Williams, all-SWC
two years, missing at catcher, Bell
has moved sophomore James
Smotherman, who lettered in the
outfield as a Fish, behind the plate.
DICK MUNDAY will open the
season for the Aggies on the
mound, and will pitch six innings
against the Bearkats. Munday and
Wendell Baker, slated to start
against Houston Saturday, along
with Lynn Monical and Doug Mul
lins are the lettermen hurlers. Mul
lins will finish the last three in
nings Friday.
Swift Toby Newton, left-handed
sophomore strikeout artist from
Galveston, is expected to carry a
good deal of the pitching load this
year. Newton fanned 60 batters in
41% innings as a freshman, and
retired six men in order Wednes
day.
Sqd. 7 Clinches
Bowling Title
Squadron 7 rolled a resounding
1,499 to clinch the freshman bowl
ing championship yesterday. Tom
my Blanton was the game’s out
standing bowler with a 513. Run
ner-up was Sqd. 21, with 1,456, and
B-FA was third with 1,400. Sqd.
19 took fourth place and B-Inf
fifth. Other members of the
champion’s lineup included Felton
Phillips and William Burks.
Sqd. 16 and Sqd. 10, freshman
basketball titans, will clash Friday
for championship honors. Sqd. 10
upset Sqd. 7, 19-14, yesterday with
a tight defense and an extremely
deceptive offense. Squadron 7’s
Buddy Schmidt, who amassed 14
points in Tuesday’s encounter with
A-FA, was held to two baskets.
Sqd. 16 squeezed past Sqd. 6,
15-14 with a last minute flurry.
The Sqd. 10 quintet has much in its
favor for Friday’s showdown. Its
defense is hard to crack, its offense
is versatile, and center John Crews
has scored eight points in each of
two consecutive games. However,
the Sqd. 16 cagers play magnifi
cent ball when the chips are down
and present a definite threat in
Paul Martin and Harry Gould.
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For Gridiron Performance
Ag Linemen Praised
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
Spring football pi’actice at A&M
passed the half-way point yester
day as Coach Paul Bryant and his
busy crew of as
sistants groom
their 63 charges
for Sat u-r day
night’s i n t r a-
squad game on
Kyle Field.
“The whole
bunch of our
linemen have
shown a lot of
improvement ^
so far,” said Stanley
Coach Bryant, “but I’m not satis
fied with our backs.”
Saturday night’s Maroon-White
tussle, an annual affair that cli
maxes Sports Day activities, will
be played under full game condi
tions. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Coach Bryant had words of
praise for several players on the
squad who have been outstand
ing in the first half of grid
workouts. Among them are guard
Jim Stanley, quarterback Roddy
Osborne, tackles Bobby Lockett
and A. L. Simmons and end Bob
by Marks, all returning varsity
players.
Sophomores-to-be who were men
tioned as having shown the most
improvement so far are guard Don
Browning, tackle Ray Doucet and
end John Tracey.
“Right now, I’d say Stanley is
the most impressive player on
the team, Bryant said, “His per
formance so far is head-and-
shoulders. above last season.”
The Aggies are divided into five
teams at present, with returning
lettermen still dominating the No.
1 unit. Running on the first team
yesterday were ends Gene Stallings,
Marks, Bobby Keith, tackles Lock
ett and Simmons, guards Stanley
and Dennis Goehiing, in the line.
Quarterbacks Don Watson and
Jimmy Wright split the man-
under chores, while John Crow,
Jack Pardee and Loyd Taylor
rounded out the backfield. The
first two teams went in early
yesterday after working on pass
patterns and defenses.
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