Consolidated
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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
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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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