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- - - Ag Nine Opens Series With Longhorns Today Sophomore lefthander Toby New ton pits his fast ball against the bats of oft-beaten Texas today in the first of two-game series at Austin. Game time is 3 p.m. and WTAW’s Ken George will be on hand to broadcast a play-by-play descrip tion of the action. Newton, who is fast develop ing into one of the conference’s finest performers, will be out to Tielp A&M improve its fourth place standing in the Southwest Confer ence. He has a 1-2 record and ^gainst league foes the confer ence’s third best earned run aver age with 1.8. The Longhorns, although domi nating the SWC during most of its 41-year existence, are current ly bringing up the rear in loop standings. Texas and Rice both hold 1-5 won-lost records to share the conference cellar. [ the best pitching record to date, Dick Munday, the righthanded having one win and no losses in control artist from Bryan, will get the starting nod from Coach Beau Bell tomorrow'. Munday w’on his last outing, 12-3, against Baylor and comes into the Austin series with a 1-1 conference record. Phil Newport, stocky outfielder, paces the Aggies at the plate in SWC games with a healthy .417 average, good enough for fourth place in the conference. Captain Joe Boring leads the team in bat ting over the season with a fine .340 effort, and is second in loop games with .294, Catcher James Smothermon is third among the Cadets in both SWC and full season games. Smothennon is hitting .286 thru 14 games and .250 in five league games. Diminutive Doug Mullins sports Thinlyclads Leave Today Aggies Take Five To Kansas Relays By BARRY HART Assistant Sports Editor Five Aggie thinlyclads are on the way to Lawrence, Kansas, today to complete in the Kansas Relays tomorrow^. , Head Track Coach Frank Ander son is taking only field men to re present the Maroon and White. Bobby Jack Gross and Tom Bonor- -den w r ill throw' the shot put and discus, Winton Thomas and James Clark wall enter the pole vault and Fritzie Connally will be in the high jump. The Aggie runners will remain at home to prepare for the April 27th battle with the University of Southem California, SMU and Tex as in Dallas. A&M’s five men will battle some of the nation’s finest tomorrow as teams from Kansas, Oklahoma A&M, and Manhattan are expected to fight for the team champion ship. Kansas swept to the title at the recent Texas Relays and will be the favorite tomorrow'. The Jay- hawkers place their chances in the capable hands of their tremendous middle distance men and Bill Nieder and A1 Oerter. Nieder recently became the se cond man in history to put the shot past the 60 foot mark with a thi-ow of 60-3. Oerter took the Texas Re lays discus with 165-3. An added attraction to the giant meet will be the appearance of the w r oiid record holder in the shot, Parry O’Brien, foi’merly of USC and 1952 Olympic champion, who will throw in an exhibition. A&M’s Gross could win the dis cus. He took third in the Texas Re lays, but his 170-2 throw of last weekend is one of the best in the nation. Bonorden hopes for at least a se cond in the shot put. He finished behind Nieder in Austin and has bettered 54 feet this year. The Aggies’ Clark and Thomas will be right up there with the best in the pole vault. Clark hit 13-8% last Saturday here and Thomas has vaulted well over 13 feet in every meet this season. Connally will have his work cut out for him as he battles with some of the nation’s finest high jumpei’s. He has been consistently at 6-4 this year and should place. The Aggies will drive to Dallas and board a train this afternoon for the remainder of the trip. They will return Sunday. 12 and one-third innings. Junior Paul Lang has a 1-1 record to show in seven innings of relief work. John Hoyle, the Aggies’ fancy- fielding first baseman, has no er rors through five’ SWC games and has made only one miscue in hand ling 118 chances over the season. The Longhorns will probably send sophomore Harry Taylor or junior Buckellew against A&M to day. Both are righthanders. Tay lor has a 2-6 season slate while Buckellew is 1-1 over the year. Second sacker Woody Wood man’s .375 average leads the Long horns in batting, followed closely by third baseman Jerry Good’s .365. ★ PROBABLE STARTERS A&M Texas John Hoyle Wayne Graham First Base Dick Bleckner .... Woody Woodman Second Base Billy Ross Jerry Good Third Base Joe Boring John Lowry Shortstop Phil Newport Bill Moore Left Field Clyde Stinson Jim Brewer Center Field Behn Hubbard Marv Dunaway Right Field J. Smothermon Tom LeBleu Catcher Toby Newton Harry Taylor Pitcher Tho Biilfnlion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Friday, April 20, 1956 PAGE 3 Cubs Drop CHS to Fourth Brenham’s Cubs, avenging an early-season loss to the Tigers, knocked A&M Consolidated to fourth place in the district stand ings Thursday with a 6-1 win The Cubs broke up a scoreless game in the fifth, scoring four times and four base hits and two wulks off Tiger pitcher Alton Arnold. AGGIES ! ! If you left your books at Lou's before Easter Please redeem your lOU's No carrying charges! Trade with Lou, he's right with you LOUISVILLE COLONEL— Bobby Nichols will be JTmong A&M’s fine crew of golfers trying for their third straight Southwest Conference victory here tomorrow on the A&M links against TCU. Nichols, one of four outstanding sopho mores on Coach Joe Fagan’s Cadet golf team, hails from Louisville, Ky. The Aggies re cently turned back both the Baylor and Arkansas golfers. TENNIS... 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Dan Davis will run the 220- yard dash and both relays, Dick Hickman anchors the mile relay as well as enters the 880-yard run, Ed Linton will throw the discus and Bobby Witcher will anchor the 440- relay. The preliminaries will be held Saturday morning with the finals in the afternoon and night. Bill Lewis, Steadman Davis, Jerry Holland and Larry Leighton will carry Consolidated’s colors into Friday’s golf matches. The four some, coached by Bill Miller, finish ed second in the district race. Tennis concerns three Consoli dated gilds in Houston with Helen | Holmes and Margaret Manthei combining their talents for the doubles matches and Jo Ann Walk er entered in the singles competi tion. Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted DR. E. LUEDEMANN DR. G. A. SMITH Optometrists • BRYAN OPTICAL CLINIC 105 N. 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