The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 4 Thursday, February 28, 1957
A&M Weightlifters in First Meet
A&M’s weightlifters try the
South Texas Odd Lift Contest in
their first competition as a team
this year at 6:30 p.m. Saturday
in Houston.
The contest is in conjunction
with the Mr. South Texas contest.
Four lifts make up the meet—the
bench press, the knee-bend, the re
verse curl and the dealift. Only
one trophy, for first place, will be
given in each of the five divisions.
Winners will be determined by to
taling the points in each of the
(See WEIGHTLIFTERS, Page 5)
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Baseball Regulars
Win Squad Game 1
The A&M baseball team greeted
clear skies and warmer weather
with another intrasquad game, con
tinuing spring training prior to
opening the season with Houston’s
Cougars at 2 p. m. Saturday on
Kyle Field.
Divided into two squads, a team
composed of probable starters eas-
PITCHER DONNIE HULLUM—sophomore right-hander
from Baytown is expected to bolster the Aggie pitching
staff. Hullum had the lowest earned run average among
freshman pitchers at 2.8, gave up 48 hits and struck out 54
in 50 and 2/3 innings last season.
Texas JC Cage Meet
Opens Here Monday
The annual Texas Junior College
Athletic Conference championship
cage tournament gets under way
Monday with eight teams vying
for the title.
Four zones will send their top
two teams into A&M’s White Coli
seum to battle for Texas’ largest
junior college crown. Phillips JC
of Borger meets Corsicana’s Na
varro in the opening round at 2:15
p. m. Monday with South Texas
battling Paris at 4.
Decatur Baptist takes on Clar
endon in the single-elimination
play at 7 and the tourney favorite,
Lon Morris, tries San Antonio at
8:45.
The afternoon’s winners get to
gether at 9 a.m. Tuesday with the
winners of the night action meet
ing at 10:45. The losers of the
second round trade baskets at 7
p.m. for third place with the title
game going at 8:45.
Lon Morris has captured the
title the last three years, going all
Aggie Boxing Club
To Meet at 7:30
The Aggie Boxing Club will
meet tonight at 7:30 in the little
gym to elect captains for next
year.
Coach Andy York and Co-cap-
tain Bill Goode urge all members
and anyone else interested in box
ing next year to attend. Also on
the agenda will be the methods for
lettering this year’s team.
A&M swept the Golden Gloves
preliminary meet here and Juan
Ramirez and Bobby Langford took
their divisions at the Houston
meet. Henry Jurado and Jack Fow
ler won at Waco, but only Lang
ford was able to go to the state
finals in Ft. Worth, where he was
eliminated.
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the way to the national finals in
1954. The Jacksonville team own
a 20-9 season record, winning all
eight of their league games.
Houston’s South Texas brings
the tourney’s leading scorer in
Richard O’Neal, whose 680 points
gives him a 26.1 average.
Missouri Valley
Unable to Trace
Gambling Hints
ST. LOUIS, (IP)—The Mis
souri Valley Conference has
been unable to trace rumors
linking one of its basketball
officials with gambling inter
ests but is calling a committee
meeting to pursue an investigation,
the conference president said Wed
nesday.
“We have found no truth to any
of the rumors,” said the Rev.
Charles L. Sanderson, S.J., of St.
Louis University, the conference
president. “It seems impossible to
pin down the rumors. Nothing
concrete has developed.”
Father Sanderson disclosed the
conference is calling a meeting in
St. Louis of its officials committee
to conduct a full investigation and
is awaiting replies from the mem
bers before setting a date.
ed by the second team, 6-5, behind
the pitching of Dick Munday of
Bryan and Paul Lang of Arling
ton.
Sophomore catcher Gary Her
rington of Baytown, with a double
and single, paced the first team
at the plate. Jim Smotherman,
right fielder from Frisco, with a
double and Doug Mullins, second
baseman from Wichita Falls, with
a single, also provided hitting sup
port.
Coach Beau Bell has announced
no starting lineup, but starters
for the first team spring-training
squad were: shortstop Joe Wor
den of Apalachicola, Fla.; first-
baseman John Hoyle of Longview;
third-baseman Lyle “Hoot” Gib
son of Galena Park; Smotherman;
Herrington; Mullins; centerfielder
Cliff Tuttle of Houston and left-
fielder Wendell Reed of Jefferson.
The second team lineup consis
ted of shortstop Wayne Balke of
Baytown; first - baseman Wayne
Schaper of Galveston; third-base
man Gene Wortham; right-fielder
Leland Lantz of Houston; catcher
Lou Nelson of San Antonio; sec
ond-baseman Lupe Fraga of Hous
ton St. Thomas; center-fielder
Dickie Thomas of Dallas and left-
fielder Behn Hubbard of Cuero.
Likely starter on the mound in
the season opener is captain Dick
Munday and he will probably split
time with Lefty Toby Newton of
Galveston.
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