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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1957)
Consolidated HP* i igers Cop Class A A Title At Travis Arnold Pitches CHS To Victory By MAURICE OLIAN Using their same old formula that has worked so well throughout the season—Alton Arnold’s tremendous clutch pitching plus the ability to make a maximum of runs from a minimum of base hits—the A&M Consolidated Tigers copped the regional Class AA baseball title Tuesday night at Travis Park. Their victims were the Belton Tigers, who succumbed to the young College Station club by a 3-0 tally. The win concluded the locals’ season with an impressive 16-7 record. Teams in Class AA high school baseball can advance no farther than the regional championship; a state tournament is held only for Class AAA and AAAA schools. Orioles’ Nail Leads With .500 Batting The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday? June IS, 1957 Tf - • ii. HP HIP 1 # 1 exas 1 ech Signs Speedy” Gonzalez 44 In recording his fourth con secutive triumph and his tenth of the season, Arnold set down 17 of the visitors via the three-strike route, giving him a fabulous season mark of 203 strikeouts in 98 innings. While hur ling the seven shutout innings— thereby extending to 31 the num ber of consecutive innings in which he has failed to surrender a single earned run — Arnold issued five bases on balls and was nicked for only two safeties. He was in serious trouble only in the fifth frame, after his team mates had already staked him to a 3-0 margin. A walk, an infield “bleeder”, and an error loaded the bases for Belton with no outs. Arn old then breezed third strikes past the second, third, and fourth bat ters in the losers’ lineup to work out of the difficulty. One had only to witness the hustling play of Steadman Davis, scrappy, tenac ious CHS catcher, in this inning to be assured that Consolidated would maintain its lead. In the bottom half of the third CHS tallied twice on a pair of base hits. Bobby Ross was safe when the Belton third sacker fum bled his slow roller with one out, and he moved to second on John Mai'tinez’s neat sacrifice bunt. Bobby Potts, the only senior on the winning club, reached first by beating out a high bounder to third base, and Ross advanced to the “hot corner”. Davis’ high chopper to third base enabled Ross to score and Potts to move to sec ond. Edgar Feldman, who led the game’s hitters with 2-for-3, scored Potts on a line double to center field. Consolidated made it 3-0 in the fourth round. John Wayne Todd walked to open the inning, went to second on a stolen base, and took third on Pete Rodriguez’s long fly to left field. Ross perfectly exe cuted a squeeze bunt, and Todd dashed home safely. The bottom of the sixth found CHS making an unsuccessful bid to add to its lead. George Carroll singled and Arnold drew a base on balls, but Belton’s Leo Alsup retired the next three batters in succession. Through Monday’s double-header, the Student Co-Op Orioles’ Jimmy Nail paced American League South batters with a torrid .500 mark and was even farther ahead of the rest of the loop in slugging per centage. Only two other batters, the Bry an Office Equipment Company Red Sqx’s Dennis Math and Tommy Hughes, were over the .400 level through Monday night’s action. Muth was in the runner-up spot at .462, while Hughes had a .417 per centage. .490; the Black’s Pharmacy Sen ators’ Sidney Coufal and Pete Dehlinger, the Red Sox’s Charles Gandy, and Bobby Houze of the White Sox, all at .333; and Jody Rush, of the Senators, and the Red Sox’s Joe Joyer, both with .286. League Average the league in stolen bases with three, while the leading mark in two-base hits is shared by a quintet of players—Nail, the Senators’ Mike Robison, Gandy, Muth, and Hughes—each of whom has two doubles. LUBBOCK,—One of Texas’ top schoolboy milers of the past few years has signed a Texas Tech let ter of intent. Carlos “Speedy” Gonzales of El Paso High plans to attend Tech on a track scholar^ ship, Coach Delmer Brown an nounces. Gonzalez, defending state champ ion in the conference AA mile, was nipped by Littlefield’s Bobby Ciinn- ingham in this year’s meet. Cunn ingham was pushed to the best competitive time of the year in Texas in winning state with a 4:26.5 mark. The El Paso flash, who had beaten Cunningham the preceding week at Lubbock’s Red Raider Re lays in an even closer race, was timed in 4:26.6 at Austin, gasily the second best time in the state. Rounding out the top ten batters in the College Station Little League are Harold Cooner, of the Marion Pugh Lumber Company White Sox, Nail, who also leads the league in home runs with two and is far in front in total bases with 13, is almost “out of sight” in the slug ging department, where he has a fantastic 1.300 percentage. Trail ing him in slugging percentage (which is figured by dividing the times at bat into the number of total bases) are Houze, .667; Muth, .615; and Cooner, .600. The Red Sox’s Jack Fugate tops Gandy and Dan Bates, of the White Sox are tied for the lead in runs scored, each having tallied five times. Nail is the pace-setter in RBI with seven, and he is fol lowed in this department by Houze, Gandy, and Muth, each with five runs batted in during the initial week of play. Four pitchers —• the Senators’ Larry Godfrey, Randy Ransdell, of the Red Sox, Muth, and Cooner— own won-lost records of 1-0. 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