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A&M beat the Mustangs, 4-2 last year, but lost by the same score to Arkansas in the last match of the season to allow SMU to take the conference title. SUMMER VACATION . . .? -Cram to speak SPANISH, fulfill language requirement, increase your EARNING pow er, in AIR - CONDITIONED comfort. 11 weeks course $435.00. Folder free: Latin- American Institute Station A, Hattiesburg, Miss. Zatopek Takes Mound Against Bryan Tonight Elo Zatopek, a fast-balling left hander, toes the mound for A&M tonight against the Bryan All- Stars at Bryan’s Travis Park in a benefit game for the city’s teen age baseballers. Game time is 8 p. m. Ad mission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. Opposing Zatopek on the hill to night will be two former profes sionals, Pat Hubert and Buddy Gloss. Hubert was an all-Amer ican pitcher at *\&M in 1951. The Bryan lineup is filled with former A&M and professional perform ers. Coach Beau Bell’s Aggies bring the Southwest Conference’s third best season record into tonight’s contest, having turned back six op ponents while losing to five. A&M is currently fourth in league stand ings with a 1-2 won-lost record. Joe Boring, senior slugger from Dallas, is making a strong bid for all-conference honors at his short stop position. Boring, Aggie team TRIANGLE BANQUET ROOM Open for all: BANQUETS — DINNERS — LUNCHEONS RECEPTIONS and WEDDINGS (By Reservation Only) For Information Call: Mr. J. A. Ferrer! — TA 2-8508 (Between 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.) USED BOOKS WANTED The • Exchange Store is in .the ihark# .••for your used books • ('hock our prices bel'orn pcIHiig ' . THE EXCHANGE STORE ■' “Seryjiip; Texan AKines*’ Graduating Seniors . . . CADE MOTOR COMPANY is -isS now ready to deliver your NEW 1956 FORD at your speeial prices! SMALL DOWN PAYMENTS Cash or Trade-In with finance terms tailored to fit your Budget CADE MOTOR COMPANY — SEE US TODAY — 415 N. Main St. Your Friendly Ford Dealer Corner of Texas Ave. Burnett* St. TA 2-5229 TA 2-1333 captain, leads the Cadets in hit ting with a .317 average, doubles with two and total bases with 23. Boring’s two homers also tie him with centerfielder John Stock- ton for the lead in that depart ment on the A&M team. Phil New port, a junior college transfer from Florida, has nailed down an outfield position with his hustling play and sports a .267 batting av erage, second best on the Aggie squad. Toby Newton, A&M’s sensation al sophomore lefty, paces the Ag gies’ fine corps of moundsmen to- date with a 1.8 earned run aver age and a 2-2 record. Newton has averaged over a strikeout an in ning so far this season, having whiffed 37 batters in 33 and two- thirds frames. Dick Munday, junior righthand er, also has a 2-2 won-lost slate, but ranks behind Newton in earn ed run average, with 3.5. 77/c Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas Wednesday. April 11, 1956 PAGE 3 Ag Trackmen Back Home With SMU, Rice Saturday Back home after more than a month on foreign cinders, A&M’s thinlyclads play host to SMU and Rice on the Kyle Field oval Sat urday. The Aggies haven’t faced the Mustangs in anything less than the larger meets, but have split in their two meets with the Owls. A&M finished third behind Texas and Rice in a triangular meet in Houston, but swept to their first win against the Houston team and LSU at Baton Rouge three weeks ago. With the injured Bill Holloway running an under-par anchor lap on the mile relay, the Aggie relay team finished sixth in last week end’s spiked shoe extravaganza, the Texas Relays, with a fine 3: 16.3, their best time of the sea son. “With Holloway able to run as well as ever, we are capable of do ing better this week in the mile relay,’’ said head track coach Frank Anderson. “We should be stronger this week in all events.” Tom Bonorden and Bobby Gross took second and third in the shot put behind Kansas’ mighty Bill Nieder, who’s tremendous throw of 59-9 was a new national out door record. Bonorden threw 54-4 and Gross 53-1014. Gross also took third in the discus with a 156-514 heave. Phil Newport, Aggie Outfielder Unbeaten C-Inf. Blanks Sqd. 3 Pitcher Norman Morrison allow ed only one man on base yesterday as he hurled unbeaten C-Infantry to a 3-0 triumph over Squadron 3. Other scorers for the upperclass man softballers were Alan Fox and Myron Gantt. 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