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» * ' :* ■' % -v. .., ■. ~ ‘y'" ■' " Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 4 Friday, May 11, 1956 Aggie Softballers In Austin Tourney The Texas Aggie Softball Team made final preparations today to invade Austin for the fifth annual Southwestern Softball Tourna ment. The Aggies, presently displaying a 5 won 5 loss record on the reg ular season, will have tomorrow to participate in the elimination af fair. A. double loss eliminates a team from competition as a conso lation winner will be decided. At least seven teams will enter Ag Net ters Beaten Rice’s John Zimmerman and Clayton Williams defeated A&M’s John Medlin and Joe Young ves- terday in the doubles quarter-finals of the Southwest Conference ten nis tournament. including two teams from Texas, one each from Baylor, Sam Hous ton State Teachers College, South west Texas State Teachers Col lege, and Concordia. Coach Barney Welch will choose a starting lineup from this group: Bill Bates, catcher; Craig Wieg- and, firstbase; Ben Rektor, third- base; and Harvey Helms, short stop have already drawn starting bids, while Don Anderson and Ted Muenter will be battling for the keystone job and C. J. Sanfilippo, Ralph Clements, Gene Harding and D. Miflin will be after the three outfield berths. Welch’s starting pitcher in the first engagement will probably be Bryan Beard, although Bruce Ter ry and regular firstbaseman Craig Wiegand will be standing by for the other starting nods or relief. Large Selection of Used TY Sets $39.95 and up SOSOLIK’S RADIO & TY SERVICE 713 S. Main St. (Across from Railroad Tower) Phone TA 2-1941 Bryan America believes in the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man . . . Vote “NO” to SEGREGATION Cabinet YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION d ticket pocket adds that polished look” #/A , r MlUfft mH/L ; ;i m style flash A ticket pocket is the crowning point of the modern "polished look". It is both eye-intriguing and finger-tip convenient for tickets, keys or coins. Ticket pockets, long a favorite subject of Varsity-Town designing skill, are a featured detail on many of our newest suits. d-TT|. Ci3aXLclAop <sCo. MS CLOTM 1 NO SINCE 1896 BP VAN! - TEXAS Ags Face Champ TCU Saturday in Fort Worth BEAU BELL—Aggie Baseball Coach By BOB HARKRIDER Battalion Guest Writer Hoping to regain fourth place in the SWC standings, A&M’s base- ballers journey to Fort Worth to morrow to meet the newly-crowned champs, the TCU Horned Frogs. Game time is 2:30 p.m. The play-by-play will be aired over M TAW by Ken George beginning with a warm-up at 2:15 p.m. The Aggie baseballers will close out their season against the cellar dwelling Texas Longhorns Am Kyle Field Tuesday at 3 p.m. A win Saturday by the Aggies will push them a half game above Rice to take fourth place in the conference standings and pull their league record to 6-8. Texas Chris tian has already cinched its first Ex-Big Leaguer Producer Of A&M Baseball Champs By BILL BLASINGAME Battalion Guest Writer Ironically, Roy “Beau” Bell, A&M’s head baseball coach, played more basketball in his undergrad uate years as an Aggie than he did baseball. Although Bell lettered three times in basketball as compared with two years on the diamond, his fame came from hitting the ball and he was all-Southwest Confer ence right fielder both years. As a fly-chaser, Beau led the confei’ence in hitting during his senior year. An exceptionally good eye brought his collegiate average .474 that year. His homer in the final game of the season gave A&M the SWC crown. After college Bell played major league ball for the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians and New York Giants. In his best big league season he hit .344. Three of Beau’s all-conference products of last year, Jimmy Wil liams, Joe Hardgrove and Jerry Nelson all signed with major league teams and are in organized ball now. Coach Bell has won two league titles in his six years coaching the Aggies. Of this season’s team he (See BEAU BELL, Page 5) Thinlyclads (Continued from Page 5) in 3:12.4. Gross could break the 170’ record set by ex-Aggie, Dar- row Hooper in 1953. THE TEXAS SHORTHORNS, paced by brilliant Eddie Southern and fine distance man Joe Villar- i-eal, should walk away with the freshman division honors. One of the outstanding freshman perform ances is expected to be turned in by S.M.U.’s Don Stewart, whose 6’10!4” leap is the nation’s best mark this year. Head Coach Frank Anderson and Assistant Coach Ray Putnam left College Station by bus yesterday morning with a total of 22 varsity and 7 freshman thinlyclads. The varsity entrants making the trip are Ed Blake, Bonorden, Eddie Bussa, Bobby Carter, James Clark, Bill Cocke, Fritzie Connally, Harry Cox, Dale ElmoTe, Gross, Helvey, Kenneth Hall, Bill Holloway, James Jackson, Herman Johnson, Bob Mc- Knight, Lee Newman, Johnny Rob erts, Joe Schiraldi, Smallwood, Thomas, and James Whitmore. Freshman are Herb Ckrper, Don Earle, Anthony Erisman, Ronald Kirkpatrick, Frank Madura, Bass Redd, and Jim Walpman. COACH W. M. UOWELI Aggie tennis coach with two of his net men, Don Dixon (left) and Bill Ash- burn. A&M finished fifth in the 1956 SWC net stand ings and are in Waco today and tomorrow for the con ference tourney. Dixon, along with Rex Reed, John Medlen and Joe Young are expected to give the Texas volley men a battle for indi vidual honors this weekend. USED BOOKS WANTED The Exchange Store is in the market for your used books C6eck our prices before selling the exchange store * • “Serving Texas Aggies’* 20 USED CARS MUST BE MOVED QUICKLY! — All Makes & Models — ANY REASONABLE OFFER ACCEPTED PICK YOUR OWN TERMS TRADE FOR A LATER MODEL Bring your title while this BARGAIN SALE LASTS CADE MOTOR COMPANY Texas Ave. & Burnett St. Your Friendly Ford Dealer 204 West 24th St. 415 N. Main St. Southwest Conference baseball championship in 23 years as they swamped the University of Texas, 9-1, last Tuesday. That victory gave the Frogs their 12th victory against two de feats and left them two and one- half games ahead of second-place Southern Methodist in conference play. Saturday’s game will be the final for TCU in conference play, but on May 21 they meet the Uni versity of Arizona in the first of a three game series to decide which will represent District 6 in the NCAA baseball championships. The Aggies will be trying for their first victory over TCU in three starts this season. The Frogs surpassed the Aggies in both pre vious tilts, heating them by a score of 5-1 in the first game and blank ing them 2-0 in the second. Coach Bell said Thursday that the probable starting pitcher for the Aggies Saturday will be Dick Munday. Munday holds a 4-4 sea son record on the mound and 2-3 conference record. Munday has a 2.7 earned run average in confer ence play. The Aggies will be looking forward to a great deal of help from the bat of Joe Boring, who, in the last four games, knock ed in eight runs with four round- trippers and one triple. 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