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Wednesday, March 7, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 5 Sport Shorts By The ASSOCIATED PRESS VERO BEACH, Fla.—Johnny Podres, Brooklyn’s World Series pitching ace, received orders yesterday to report to Albany, N.Y., March 15 for Army induction, but it appeared the induction date may be delayed at least a month, possibly longer. ★ ★ ★ FORT WORTH—SMU put together six base hits, six errors and nine bases on balls for a 5-4 victory over TCU here yesterday in a Southwest Conference practice baseball game. ★ ★ ★ TAMPA, Fla.—Baseball’s 16 major-league player repre sentatives meet here today to study the club owners’ reaction to the players’ recent demands. The players have asked for a boost in the minimum salary from $6,000 to $7,200 and for a voice in the negotiation of the multi-million dollar contracts for television and radio rights for the World Series and All- Star Games. The owners have yielded little ground on either point. ★ ★ ★ WACO—The Oklahoma A&M golf team shut out Baylor University yesterday with the first four Aggies all shooting under par 70. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—Kentucky, a three-time winner of the national collegiate basketball championship, gets the nod as Southeastern representative in the 1956 NCAA tournament. < DICK BLECKNER, Aggie second baseman, slides into third base “Pepper Martin Style’ during an intrasquad game on Kyle Field. With Five Workouts Left Aggie Footballers Change Program Ed, N»te: Fourth in a series of articles about A&M’s spring foot ball training by tackle Bob Clen- dennen, quarterback Luther Hall and halfback Kenneth Hall. By BOB, LUTHER and KEN With only five more practice periods remaining now, we’re working under a new training pro gram that we think is rather uni que in college football. AT THE BEGINNING of the week Coach Bryant divided us up by positions for separate “skull practices”, or study periods, to be conducted by a Coach who special izes in teaching a certain posi tion. Now, instead of working out in pads every day, we spend every other day inside studying plays ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS, RHYS I CISTS, APPLIED MATHEMATICIANS important on-campus North American Representatives Will Be Here March 12,13 You’ll learn first hand about the advantages and opportunities in choosing a career with a future at North American. Here engineers and scientists are now discovering new frontiers in four exciting new fields. AUTONETICS A Division of North American Aviation, Inc. In the field of electro-MECHANICAL engineering —producing new missile guidance systems,, fire and flight control systems, computers and recorders. ROCKETDYNE A Division of North American Aviation, Inc. In the field of rocket propulsion—the largest producer of large liquid- propellant rocket engines, more powerful propellants and turbines. ATOMICS INTERNATIONAL A Division of North American Aviation, Inc. Peaceful application of ATOMIC ENERGY in any phase of reactor devel opment, either for research or power production. MISSILE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING Engineering and developing Long-Range MISSILES—Intercontinental MISSILES... flying at hypersonic speeds. Contact your placement office today. Make an appointment to see North American representative, Mr. J. W. Pictrowski on 31arch 12, 13. Or, write Engineering Personnel Director, Dept. 991-20 Col., North American Aviation, Inc., Downey, California. ENGINEERING AHEAD FOR A BETTER TOMORROW / ORTH MmERICAN MVIATION, INC. Baseball Team Battles Bearkats Here Today By J. BARRY HART Assistant Sports Editor With two wins of the young season under their belts, the Aggie baseball team plays host to the always-dangerous Sam Houston Bearkats at 3 p.m. today on Kyle Field. A&M downed the Bearkats in their season opener last Friday, 6-3, in Huntsville behind the fir ing of Dick Munday and Doug Mullins, and edged Houston 7-6 here last Saturday. Either Mullins or Munday will get the starting-nod this afternoon with the other ready for relief duty. Munday picked up the vic tory in the opener, giving up three runs on seven hits, and Mullins hurled two impressive innings, striking out four and walking one of the seven men to face him. “They’re coming around fine,” said Coach Beau Bell, “and im proving day by day.” Regular third baseman Joe Wor- Tiger Baseballers Join New District A&M Consolidated opens its baseball season in a new district this year. The Tigers are now in District 20-A, joining Bellville, Co lumbus, Navasota, and Brenham in the battle for conference laurels. Consolidated has a new coach this year in Edsel Jones, who coached the junior high Kittens to a district championship in football. Coach Jones boasts seven returning lettermen. Tiger lettermen are Norman Floeck, Manuel Garcia, Steadman Davis, Bobby Witcher, Dick Hick man, Jack McNeely and Bobby Potts. Others out for the team in clude David McNeely, Mark Nye, Jerry Holland, George Carroll, Hugh Lindsey, J. D. Milling, John Wayne Todd, Alton Arnold, Bill Hite, Billy Cavanaugh, Ed Feld man, Pete Rodriquez and James Couch. Workouts began February 20. LI’L ABNER By A1 Capp 1 fir! A NURSE JELLIS HAS-£■/?- RESIGNED- I NEED HELP, HERE. YOU COULD WORK OUT YOUR DEBT IN MERELY X YEARS IF I PAID YOU &50.oo A WEEK, AND YOU PAID IT RIGHT back to me rr- NOW, thassaa GENEROUS OFFER"— VO- IS ALL HEART, REX MOONLIGHT m.d. rr lAv x\ kI \ 'M wm "AJU/?S£ UBLL/S PXED/CTED /'D PfAPR'V H£R. r .'-c H uWe. r . r -NO/VSFA/SE. r . r - SPE'L L BE MV SLAVE FOR TWO WONDERFUL VEARSFF— P O G O By Walt Kelly NO.' AN'I AIN'T PA1.S, N£lTH£l2. COgfcVOU pea P2ANKLY, I IS NgVgfZ Sg£P YOU U00K WOPSe. SAME TO TOU* ANY POOk KIN ^ see what's WSONS. &> hit Bk r*£ HALL 5 ihQiC-ATE. //V£ < ( NOTAff TUO' 7 "YOU. LOOKS LIKE YOU eovgfletvaflTHff WHATSjiOMEOVjS YOU? CAKg 0ATTEJ? f <&> CAKE BATTER ? IT PON T harplv sgcove you- you LOOKS Sgrfgfi IN KETCHUP LKg you USUAL WEARS T&t PlNNgS '"OR POtSK r GRAVy " TUgN AROUND,. LgAAMg Sg£ HOW IT PITS IN SACK. "Mo l CAN'T TL2N" I is A jeoze STIPE. Jl/* den has an infected leg and may not be able to start today. If so, Lupe Fraga will open at the hot corner, Clyde Stinson will go to left field and Phil Newport will move to right. Newport leads the Aggies in runs scored with three. Catcher has fallen into the able hands of James Smother- man, the Frisco sophomore who looks like a solid replacement for the departed Jimmy Williams. Smotherman doubled home the tie and go-ahead runs in the sev enth inning against Sam Hous ton in the first encounter. “Smotherman has got catcher sewed up unless he gets hurt,” said Bell. . Starting today will be Smother man behind the plate, John Hoyle at first base, Dick Bleckner at sec ond, Fraga or Worden at third, Captain Joe Boring at shortstop, Stinson in left, all-SWC John Stockton in center and Newport in right. Wilson Clubs Bags GOLF Balls Shoes Gloves Student Co-op and working out our problems. These meetings are designed to give the individual the special at tention that his position calls ' for, and as a result we learn assign ments faster, have less confus ion on the practice field, and have more time for serious work. DURING THESE special meet ings we can look at the 16 mm movies of the previous day’s scrim mage and go over our assignments to see what mistakes we made, and with help from the coaches,| try to correct them. These films can be run at regular speed, slow motion, reverse or stopped at any point so that we can get the mos' accurate picture of how we ran a certain play. As you know, you can’t keep any secrets from the camera, so we have to go all-out in these 30 or 40 minute game-condition scrim mages. The coaches give us a| grade on our performance, and we’re placed on the different teams according to the grade we make in| the previous scrimmage. THE COACHES encourage us to come in and question any grades that we get, and they even let us grade ourselves if we want to. BARBECUE... Served with your Favorite Beverage Old Hrdlika Place FRITZ & JOE’S CAFE On Claypit Road A Campus-to-Career Case History i On the left, William Nock'Colonna, B.S. in Business Administration, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, ’52. Sales results...and something more 1 Two and a half months after he began training with The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland, Bill Colonna went into the army, spending a year in Korea. “While, in the service,” Bill says, “I never thought of having to look for an other job. I resumed my career in the telephone business as soon as I got back. What’s more, my rate of pay was in creased by crediting my time in the army. “After training, I was promoted to Sales Manager in Salisbury, Md. Tm re sponsible for initiating, planning and co ordinating sales activities in an area serving 50,000 customers in nine counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 1 select and train men for my sales force, and help business office managers with their sales problems. “Sales and marketing in the telephone business are growing more important every day. We’ve many new and different services to offer people. It’s a job with scope, variety and challenge. “Arranging for customers’ communi cations requirements keeps me in touch with all departments of the company. These contacts add valuable experience that will always prove useful. I wanted a career that was broad and full of oppor tunities, and that’s what I’ve got.” Bill Colonna is typical of the many young men who have interesting jobs in the telephone business. Career oppor tunities of many kinds exist in other Bell Telephone Companies, and in Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric and the Sandia Corporation. Your placement officer has more information about these companies. Bell Telephone System