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Jti Friday Night, Saturday The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, May 3, 1956 PAGE 3 Ags Host Rice This Weekend ITUE ‘bWOT- PUTTER TUKT WO COLLEGE Vj^LiTtD \i4UEW UE CKME TO A4M . r CTd£Y .. *7TLL POKi'T f ) Cool UKSTSU A JUMP PLACE TECE1PIC PU^M * poece \t> c>o CiR.EAn—r i4 Arr 14E. tCs POtjWEDv IKTTO CiPOOMD? V NLAC A 14ICU JUIAPE52. WE OlfeCOVEKED TWW OP Z'-S'/v WOULDWT IW THE OL-VWPlCfe/ \ Ue'wAS BlioK- EW WVAWV T2EC- oeco- CPJJOMO QEAPM TYPE 5 A JUKiiOe PROM, ' BIC BKANCW .QOOM WA^s A RECORD OP (2-2". BECSSET TO WIB eoc- ce<E^,; we TWEOW5 A LIGHT CsWOT / Varsity, Fish to Austin Aggie Cinder Men Tangle With Texas, Rice Tonight Aggie Golfers Finish Second In S WC Chase A&M’s fine golf team came within reach of the Southwest Conference title this week, but once again it was powerful SMU who walked away with the crown. The Aggies, who finished second behind the Mustangs last year, put on a determined drive in the final stages of the conference race only to see their hopes dashed with SMU’s crushing 6-0 victory over Rice Monday. A&M lost to the University of Texas, 4-2, at Austin Tuesday, but the match meant little as SMU had already cinched the championship. SMU had 31% wins and 4 1 / 4 losses against conference competition, while the Cadets finished second with 26 wins and 10 defeats. Tex as was third with a 23%-1214 rec ord. Member’s of Coach Joe Fagan’s crew, four of whom will compete in the SWC tournament at Fay etteville, Ark. May 11-12, include Jerry Durbin, Bobby Nichols, Mar- celino Moreno, David Vandervoort, Gary Fletcher, Dick Chapman, Jim Christopher, Stuart Nuckols, and Harry Stietler. Vandervoort, a 21-year-old Dairy Manufacturing major from Dallas, is the only senior on the team. • GOLF STANDINGS *► While TCU and SMU are making a two-team race out of the South west Conference derby, A&M tries to hit the .500 mark this weekend with three games against the Rice Owls. The Aggies open the series with a game Friday night in Bryan’s Travis Park at 8. Sat urday afternoon the same two clubs square off again on Kyle Field in a doubleheader that be gins at 1:30. All three games will be import ant from the standpoint of A&M and Rice, as both are currently tied for fifth and sixth in SWC standings. The Cadets and Owls stand 5% games out of first place with identical 3-6 won-lost records. A meeting between the two teams was postponed earlier in the sea son because of bad weather. The Owls were surprisingly potent against cellar dwelling Texas last weekend, spanking the CIn fan try On tlasts Sqd. 10 in Playoffs Kicking off the mammoth Texas Interscholastic League track and field meet, the Aggie track team battles Texas and Rice tonight in the final triangular meet before the Southwest Conference get to- CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY “Santa Fe Passage” JOHN PAYNE — Also — “Bengazi” v RICHARD CONTE gether in Fayetteville, May 11-12. The Aggies will be out to even things up on this year’s “big three” meets. The Longhorns sprinted their way to victory in the first affair wuth Rice second and A&M third. The Cadets have beaten the Owls twice already this season, but as yet haven’t placed ahead of the Texas thunderers. “We hope to beat Rice Thurs day,” said head track coach Frank Anderson. “We can if we turn in the performances we’re capable of doing.” As usual, the Steers^ rely on their -teriffic array of speedsters and middle distance men. The Tex as foursome of George Schneider, Jerry Prewitt, Bobby Whilden and Frank Daugherty hold the world i-ecord in the 440-yard relay, 40. which they set earlier this season A&M TURNED in their finest sprint relay in history last Friday night in Dallas, finishing second behind Texas in 41.9. The Aggie crew of Emmett Smallwood, Bob McKnight, Johnny Roberts an Ken Hall placed a step-behind the Longhorn team, who turned in 41.6. The Aggies will be favored in the field events, hoping their weight men can offset the Texas sprinters. Tom Bonorden, Bobby Jack Gross and Herman Johnson could sweep the first three places in the shot, while Gross and Bonor Team W L Southern Methodist 31% 4% Texas A&M 26 10 Texas 23% 12% Baylor 12 18 Rice 10% 25% Texas Christian 5% 25 Arkansas 5 25 The Boston Red Sox were only three games off the American League lead last Sept. 8. By JOE BOYD C-Tnfantry copped a semi-final berth last night in a nine-inning pitcher’s duel with Squadron 10. Bill Boyd, speedy infantry second baseman, placed a short single over the Sqd. 10 third sacker and cleared a path for George Johnson’s tie breaking score to edge the airmen, 2-1. Infantry pitcher Norman Mor rison struck out thirteen men al lowing no hits until the seventh inning when the airman center fielder Bob Brown caught on for a double. Brown climaxed the in ning with a complete ch'cuit to tie up the contest. Ray Bowen allowed only five hits for Squadron 10 and struck out seventeen infantry softballers with his deceptive mound strategy. Jake Lyon was the first to solve Bowen’s style with a single in the second and converted the opportunity into an early infantry lead when short stop Don Fai-ek caught on with a double. The infantry nine displayed su perb fielding and as a whole the entire team exhibited a confident cagey batting form, adapting well to Bowen’s fine hurling. They should give someone trouble in further playoffs. A-Ordnance edged Squadron 17 in a freshman playoff game 13-12 with second baseman Anton Stacha and center fielder Jimmy Best heading the slugging list. Longhorns 4-2 and 7-3 at Hous ton. A&M, on the other hand, absorbed two defeats at the hands of second place SMU, 1-4 and 5-4, in a series at Dallas. Centerfielder John Stockton’s ex plosive bat continues to be an im portant asset to the Aggie nine. Against SMU last Saturday he knocked in all four A&M runs with two doubles to pace the Cadets at the plate. Pitcher Tobf Newton, who was unable to start against the Pon ies last Friday because of illness, should be able to take his turn on the mound this weekend and will no doubt bolster the Cadets’ al ready fine corps of moundsmen. COXFKnTCNCE STANDIXOS TVam W I. Texas Christian 9 1 SMU 7 3 Baylor 5 5 Texas A&M 3 6 Rice 3 G Texas 2 8 SEASON STANDINGS Team VV I. 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