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Wednesday, March 21, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 3 Homeruns Power Ags Past Bulldog Nine 11-8 By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor Homeruns by Dick Bleckner and Joe Boring ignited a six-run barrage in the fourth inning to push A&M past Texas Lutheran’s pesky Bulldogs, 11-8, here yesterday. Sophomore lefthander Toby Newton made the Aggies equally proficient on the mound as he hung up 14 strike out victims in six and one-third innings of pitching to take credit for the win. The victory evened up the home and home series with the Bulldogs. The Lutherans pounded out a 9-2 win over the Cadets last Saturday night at Seguin. Team captain Boring led the Cadets at the plate with three hits in four tries and drove in four runs with two hom ers and a single. The Aggies left only three men on base as they blasted starter Charlie-* | Sport Shorts | By The Associated Press DALLAS — Texas will make three television appearances i n football this year while Texas A&M, Arkansas and TCU each get two. ★ ★ ★ CLEVELAND— Babe Parilli, the quarterback the Cleveland Browns hope can fill the shoes of retired Otto Graham, signed his 1956 contract with the pro football team yesterday. Parilli was discharged from the Air Force last week. He is a former Kentucky and Green Bay Packer star. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK — Wes Santee, America’s No. 1 miler, was shelved again yesterday. Justice Walter A. Lynch of the New York State Supreme Court refused to continue a temporary injunction Santee had obtained against the Amateur Ath letic Union which banned the AAU from enforcing its lifetime suspen sion on him. AAA ALPINE, Tex. — Buddy Watts struck out 14 and walked one as Sul Ross took the second of a two game baseball series with Baylor, 13-4 yesterday. Sul Ross won Monday, 13-1. McMahon for 11 hits in re cording their fourth triumph against two setbacks this sea son. TEXAS LUTHERAN jumped to a one-run lead in the top of the first frame with second baseman Ken Dismukes doubling and scor ing on a one-bagger by first sacker Shane LeStourgeon. Coach Beau Bell’s Cadets quickly erased the Bulldogs’ lead by scor ing three times in their half of the initial inning. Right fielder Lupe Fraga led off with a single and moved to second on a fi-ee pass to John Stockton. Both runners moved up a base on a passed ball and Fi-aga dented the plate on Phil Newport’s sacrifice fly. Boring unloaded the first of his four-ply wallops, driving home Stockton in front of him. STOCKTON’S SINGLE started things off for A&M in the third DESIGNED FOR SCORING! These 1956 Registered Spalding top-flites® are the sweetest- playing clubs in the book. Plenty of golfers are lowering their handicaps with them. The secret? 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Bleckner started A&M’s uprising with homerun over the left field wall, and from there the Aggies batted around. John Hoyle singled, Newton reached first on an error and Fraga walked to load the bases. Stock ton’s sacrifice fly scored Hoyle and the next batter, Newport, drove home two x-uns with double down the right field line. Boring’s 355- foot homer swept the basepaths clean and drove in the Aggies’ final two runs. BOX SCORE TEX. EUTH. (8) AB Woerner, cf 5 Dismukes, 2b 5 Graeber, c 4 LeStourgeon, lb . .. 2 1. Eckert 0 Hoffman, rf 1 2. Borgstedte 1 Neumann, If 2 3. Green 1 Schultz, 3b 2 Marburger, ss .... 2 Kersten, ss 1 Mauer, ss-3b 4 McMahon, p 3 4. Schneider 0 Erxleban, p 0 TOTALS . . 33 AGGIES (II) AB Stockton, cf Newport, If Boring, Fraga, rf ackt >rt, as Worden, 3b Smotherman, c . .. . Bleckner. 2b Hoyle, lb Baker, p 0 0 Newton, p 3 1 1 TOTALS ... 33 11 11 27 12 3 1. Walked for LeStourgeon in 9th. 2. Fanned for Hoffman in 9th. 3. 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Rex Reed and Bill Ashburn out lasted the West Texas school’s Bill Herring and Donnie Campbell, 6-8, 6-3, 6-1, while John Medlin and Tohn Young were taking Jerry Goad and Benny Kniffen i n straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, to hold on to the tie in the wind-swept dual match. Don Dixon, Baytown junior, bes ted the Cowboys’ Kniffen in a long three sets, 6-1, 3-6, 10-8, for the Aggies’ only singles win. ISisilN®® m FIFTH RUN—Butch Newport, left-fielder for the Aggies, races across home plate with the Aggies fifth run in yes terday’s game with Texas Lutheran College. The action was in the third inning of the game, which the Aggies took 11-8. McCALL’S Humble Service Station “Where Service Is First” East Gate VI 6-4922 Hy 6 Fishing Equipment RODS ON R E E L S' CAT TT BAITS ^ALiUi Student Co-op N. Gate Dorm 16 Softballers Rap Mitchell Hall 9-6 By JOE DAN BOYD Keith Presswood and Robert Bean paced Dormitory 16 in a 9-6 Civilian softball win over Mitchell Hall yesterday. 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