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The Battalion
PAGE 4
College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, April 19, 1956
Ags Point For
Austin Series
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
As a former Aggie diamond star, Coach Beau Bell has
more than one reason for wanting to sweep the two-game
series with the University of Texas which starts tomorrow
at Austin.
Bell, who hit .474 in his senior year at A&M and whose
homer in the final game gave the Aggies a Southwest Con
ference championship, hopes pionship last spring, the Aggies
the Texas series will be the
turning point of a so-so sea
son.
“I like to win them all, but
I’d especially like to see us take
these games with Texas,” said
Coach Bell. “Texas hasn’t shown
much so far this year, but take it
from me they’ll be tough this
weekend.”
The Aggies are currently fourth
in league standings, while Texas,
a perennial power, is conspicuously
tied for the cellar with Rice. A&M
brings a 2-3 won-lost record into
the oldest of all conference rival
ries. UT has only one victory to
show against five setbacks.
Texas is way out in front in the
number of SWC championships
won, having copped 'SIVz titles in
40 years of loop warfare. A&M
ranks next in line with six crowns,
two of which have come in the last
five years under the guidance of
Coach Bell.
In winning the conference chani-
downed the Longhorns in two of
their three meetings. A&M rang-
up one of the most decisive wins in
the long series between the two
schools last year with a 13-1 runa
way on Kyle Field.
Consolidated Hosts
Cubs Today at 4
With victory a “must” to stay
in contention for the district crown,
the A&M Consolidated baseball
Tigers battle the Brenham Cubs
today at 4 p.m. on Tiger Field.
Edgar Feldman gets the starting
nod on the mound this afternoon
with Steadman Davis behind the
plate, Alton Arnold and the initial
sack, Bobby Witcher at second,
eighter George Carroll or Jack Mc-
Neely at third, Manuel Garcia at
shortstop, Dick Hickman in left
field, Mike McGuire in center and
Pete Rodriguez in right.
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A&M’s Bobby Gross
Ags Bobby Gross
Looks to Olympics
By BARRY HART
Assistant Sports Editor
Bobby Jack Gross, A&M’s brightest 1956 Olympic pros
pect, has been a track champion since his high school days.
Although Gross began thowing the shot put and discus
in his junior year in Big Spring High School, he didn’t ac
tually enter into any competition until his senior season.
Bobby Jack didn’t start from the bottom, though, but went
on to capture the 1951 Texas - *
schoolboy shot put cham
pionship with a throw of
52-10 and took second in the
discus with 150 feet.
Twirling the wooden saucer
has since become Gross’ best
event and the one in which he
hopes to make the trip to Aus
tralia this coming August.
“I might have a chance to make
the team,” said Bobby Jack of his
Olympic chances,” If I can get off
a throw of better than 170 feet on
the day of the trials.”
Gross spun the disc 170-2 here
last Saturday for the finest throw
of his career while winning the
event in the triangular meet with
Rice and SMU.
Besides being a track star in
High School, .Bobby also starred
in football and basketball two
years. His first love was track,
Walton Grasps
Volleyball Win
Walton Hall grabbed a civilian
volleyball decision from Milner in
yesterday’s intramural action. Bill
Willis, Charles Henson, Bill Cox
and Ike Garza spearheaded the
Walton line-up.
Other members of the Walton
team were Tow Owens and Warren
Grant.'
Puryear topped Mitchell in a
volleyball tussel with Thomas
Schenck and Ronnie Gardner pac
ing the Puryear drive to a 2-0 win.
William Swan and Noah Cryar
held the line for Mitchell’s volley-
bailers.
Squadron 5 blanked B-Engi-
neers in an upperclassman match
as James Anz and Bill Sansing
starred. Ken Beaird, John May-
field and Tommy Giles were out
standing for the winners. Dale
Bradley and Bob Hamilton com
pleted the squadron’s roster.
John Morrow, Bobby Pipes and
Terry Wadsworth led the Engineer
defensive attempt. William Crol-
ley, George Frese, and Murdock
Baker completed the Engineer line
up.
Squadron 15 /lumped Squadron
19 in the day’s final upperclass
man match. Gary Waters, Blanton
Hanes, Dan Burrows, and George
Pierce provided the necessary
points. Edward Wyatt and Billy
Housman completed the line-up.
though, and he came to A&M.
“A&M had the second best track
team in the world, behind the Uni
versity of Southern California, at
the time,” said Gross, “and I
wanted to be with the winners.”
As an Aggie Fish, Gross had the
best distances in the Southwest
Conference in both the shot and
discus, throwing 48-6 and 140 feet.
The following Spring Bobby was a
fine number two punch behind
Olympic runner-up Darrow Hooper
and finished second behind Hooper
in both SWC championship events.
With Hooper gone via gradu
ation, Bobby Jack took over the
throne and brought home both
titles, throwing 52-9 in the shot
and 161 feet in the discus as a
junior in 1954.
Injury forced the big guy out of
competition in 1955 with a knee
injury that required surgery, but
Bobby bounced back with all the
power he ever had.
His best shot put has also been
this season—54 feet in the trian
gular meet with Rice and LSU in
Baton Rouge a month ago, but
Gross feels that his best chances
to make the United States Olympic
team is in the discus.
“Throwing the shot is just
plain work,” says Bobby Jack.
“It makes throwing the discus
seem easy in comparison. In fact
I only work on the disc every
(See BOBBY GROSS, Page 5)
That “new suit” I “bought”
for Dad is really an old one
I had rejuvenated at . . .
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