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Aggie Nine Through as UT Game Off The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas Wednesday, May 16, 1956 PAGE 3 CS Little League Begins Workouts Lynn Monical Joe Boring Wendell Baker John Stockton Elo Zatopek Squadron 14 Sneaks Past TC’s in ‘Mural Volleyball By JOE BOYD Battalion Sports Staff Squadron 14 edged A-Transpor- tation 2-1 Tuesday winning a bid for quarter final honors in upper classman volleyball. Marcus Crow paced the squadron’s spikers with Ed Mikulenka and Jerry Gelason also showing well. Charlie Hargroves and Ronnie Briggs aided in the squadron 14 victory as Roy Powell, Jessie Sali nas, and Bobby Bowen rounded out the winning lineup. Jerome Lednicky and John Och- terbeck accounted for a high per centage of transportation points. Both used unerring precision as spikers and displayed above aver age power in placing the ball. Wayne Lange and Fred Raby started well and played consistently for the transportation team. Jim Regmund, Don Weber, Fred Galley, and Bud Fichte completed the TC roster. A-Ordnance swept a 2-0 series with squadron 17 for a chance to meet Sqd. 14 in semi-finals. Leon Stacha and David Gore played fine ball for the Ordnance team as Jerry Wheat and Weldon Morris ti*ailed closely for outstanding honors. Willie Cole and Bobby Breitschopf anchored the winning roster as they secured a berth in semi-final competition. John Janak and Bryan Dedeker paced the Sqd. 17 volleyballers and Robert Kidd’s fine playing also featured the airmen’s lineup. Bill Davis and Dick Morton finished the roster. Squadron 15 was the third team to cop a berth on the semi-final slate defeating Maroon Band 3-2. A1 Cowdes sparked the winning team, looking good as a set-up man. Ag Basehallers End Season in 5th Place Coach Beau Bell and mo're than 20 returning Aggie baseball- ers look to a promising future, as the cancellation of the A&M-Texas game ended their 1956 season yes terday. The game with Texas, regularly scheduled for Tuesday on Kyle Field, was postponed originally be cause of rain. As a result, the Ca dets wound up in fifth place in the final Southwest Conference stand ings with a record of five wins and nine setbacks. Five seniors depart from Aggie- land this year, including pitchers McCALL’S Humble Service Station “Where Service Is First” East Gate VI 6-4922 Hy 6 Bryan 2*6879 TODAY thru SATURDAY In her husband’s house... GLENN FORD ERNEST BORGNINE ROD STEIGER THRU THURSDAY CLIFTON WEBB GLORIA GRAHAME CIIM e rvi>*S CO P £ ~ IVIAN INI IE\/IiE I 9 5n-tttnrTr i " a ' M '' |fm ns CLASS C TENNIS CHAMPIONS—Milner Hall are (left to right) Jaime Quesada, Joe Netardus, Robert McClure, Jack Quinn and Don Anderson. Read Battalion Classifieds Daily Lynn Monical, and Wendell Baker, first baseman Elo Zatopek, short stop Joe Boring and outfielder John Stockton. Boring and Stock- ton were both starters this season. The Aggies dominated only one series during the SWC season, win ning two out of three games from Baylor. A&M split with Texas, won one and lost two against Rice and SMU and went 0-3 against champion TCU. Over the full season A&M fared better than against SWC competi tion, copping 10 and dropping 13 games. Texas Christian was the leader in both conference and full season standings, having a 14-4 overall slate and a 13-2 SWC mark. College Station’s Little League opened Spring training Monday with four major and four minor league team hitting the diamond for the first workouts. Training will run through May 25 with the player auction to be held on the 26th for the major league teams and the 28th for the minor circuit. Opening games in both leagues are slated for June 4 and the sea son will run through July 21. Those participating in Little League for the first time are urged to submit their birth certificates to Jim Bev- ans, Player Agent, by May 22. A Minor league Steering Com mittee composed of Walter Var- I Sport Shorts By The Associated Press LUBBOCK — Texas Tech presi dent Dr. E. N. Jones announced Tuesday a special Tech committee to work with a committee from the Southwest Conference on arrange ments for Tech’s actual admittance to the SWC. vel. Chairman, Robert Darwall and Rusty Beamer has worked out a 12 game schedule with playing running the same as the senior circuit. Minimum age for Minor League is eight years or second grade school classification. Major League teams and man agers: White Sox—Herb Thomp son and Clinton Bippert; Orioles— Wayne Smith and Herb Johns; Senators—Mitt Williams and Hank Mills; Red Sox—Kenneth Midkiff and Bobby Nowak. Minor teams and managers: Cubs—to be announced later; Pir ates—Billy Bates and Herbert Sauer; Dodgers — Major Edward L. Scott and Steadman Davis; In dians—W. E. Lyles and assistant to be announced. League officers are J. Wayne Stark, President; Robert A. 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