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PAGE 4 Friday, February 13, 1959 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Baseball Practice Opens Monday The loss only two starters, the return of 11 lettermen and a highly regarded first-year coach in Tom Chandler at first impi'ession places the Texas Aggies in a strong contender’s position in the 1959 Southwest Conference base- Gei WILDROOT CREAM-OIL Charlie! J. PAUL SheeDY,* hair specialist, says: "Gives your hair a neat, healthy ape-earance! ” •of 131 So. Harris Hill ltd., Williamlwille, N. Y. Just a little bit of Wildroot and ...WOW! ball race. A&M begins practice Monday along with the other five South west conference teams competing in baseball. Arkansas and Texas Tech do not participate in the con ference diamond sport. Only graduating co-captains To by Newton and Jim Smotherman fail to return from an Aggie team that finished the 1958 season with an 11-11 record and a 6-8 con ference mark. Neither had out standing success as a senior but Newton was a very fine southpaw pitcher and Smotherman a strong RBI man and sure outfielder who will certainly be missed. Looking to Herrington Of 11 returning lettermen, the best bet is two-year all-conference catcher Gary Herrington, who is 1959 team co-captain, along with Baytown i-unning mate, Pitcher Donnie Hullum. Herrington, who played ball last summer with the Alpine Cowboys under Chandler, batted .367 last season, .314 in conference and led the club in total bases with 52, home runs with three and doubles with JO. Lettermen return at every posi tion except right field where Smo- Awaiting yowi AwtivaL Vi' : If: Clean, comfortable and reasonable accommodations for male' students, clubs, teams, administrators and .groups in the heart of midtown New York, close to all transportation and nearby Empire State Build ing. All conveniences, cafeteria, coffee shop, tailor, laugdry,barbershop, TV room, tours, etc. Booklet C. Rates.- Single Rooms;$2,20}$2.3e; Double Rooms $3.20-$3.60 WILLIAM SLOANE HOUSE Y.M.C.A. V 356 West 34th St., New York, N. Y. OXford 5-5133 (nr. fenn Sta.) Vn therman held forth. Four are strong pitching candidates who had mediocre success in 1958. Hullum, Wayne Schaper of Galveston, Per cy Sanderson of Nederland and Bo Paradowski of Bryan with good seasons could provide an adequate pitching staff. They will be bolstered by soph omores Larry Ayres of Paris and Joe Brooks Thompson of Bryan and squadman Don Pettavino of New Orleans who saw no action last year. Only Paradowski and Pettavino are lefthanders and Par adowski doubled as a first base- man where was a leading hitter last year. Weight on Lettermen In considering the coming season bright for the Aggies on the basis of lettermen back, one only has to look to the past season to clear up that deception. As a team the Aggies batted .229 for the season and .222 in SWC play. The 11 who returned hit .239 overall and .229 in loop play. Only three, Herrington, Paradowski and Lloyd Stone of Wichita Falls in left field, were able to hit above those averages and were able to drive in only 19 of the team’s 42 RBI’s in confer ence play. A&M also left 123 men on base a year ago, an average of 8.9 per game and the pitchers posted an earned nm average of 4.65. Chandler’s first task Monday will be to screen the 50 candidates expected. Thei’e’ll be experienced players, a couple of 1957 letter- men, two promising transfers, sev eral strong prospects from the frosh and for the first time in several years competition at every position. Herrington is almost a sure starter at catcher but will be pressed by squadman Don Chase of Houston and Soph Randy Wor tham of New Boston. Trouble in Right Side First base and right field pro vide the biggest headaches. Bill Houchin of Shreveport, Dick Hick- erson of Bryan and Paradowski are top candidates at first with right field wide open. Windel Reed of Jefferson, all conference thirdbaseman in 1957 who failed to letter last year, and Shortstop Wayne Balke of Bay- town, another 1957 letter winner, could help with a return to soph omore form. At second base Dink Patterson of Dallas and James Vrba of Hous ton are leading candidiates with Attention freshmen! Anyone with a good throwing arm ? If so, Coach Charley Thomas needs you for the Aggie Fish track team—not as a pitcher but as a javelin thrower. “Good javelin throwers are made, not born,” Thomas says. “If a boy can throw a softball 210 feet, chances are he will make a good javelin thrower,” the Aggie coach adds. But if he can throw the ball over 220 feet the Aggie coach predicts he will be an excellent javelin tosser. Only requirement: you must be 5 feet, 10 inches or taller. Any Fish interested in trying out for the javelin and who can pass the 210-foot; softball test, is invited to report to Coach Thomas any evening from 3 to 6 p.m. at Kyle Field. 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The Aggies open a 25-game slate March 2 with Sam Houston in Huntsville with the first confer ence game coming at Austin against Texas March 21. The complete Aggie schedule for 1959: March 2 Sam Houston at Huntsville March 6 Houston at College Station March 7 Sam Houston at College Station March 11 Texas Lutheran at College Sta tion March 14 Texas Lutheran at Seguin ignt March 18 Houston at Houston March 21 Texas at Austin March 24 Baylor at College Station March 26 Brooke Army Medics at Antonio March 27 Brooke Army Medics at San Antoni San iuo SMU at Dallas Rice at College Station TCU at College Station Baylor at Waco April 1 April 4 April 7 April 10 April 11 April 14 April 17 April 18 April 24 April 25 April 27 May 1 Tl,u at rort Wo May 2 TCU at Fort Worth May 7 Texas at College Station May 8 Texas at College Station Baylor at Waco St. Mary’s at College Station Rice at Houston Rice at Houston SMU at College Station SMU at College Station Texas Tech at College Station Harlem Globetrotters Succeed in Zany Show It was the old routine of zany antics mixed with some expert shooting and ball handling, but as usual the victorious Harlem Globe trotters sent some 5,000 fans home happy from White Coliseum with no idea of the final score, what ever it was. As a curtain-raiser the Holly wood Queens, an all girl’s team, played an all-Aggie team using boy’s rules. The Aggies won, dis appointing the partisian crowd that favored the basketball beauties. The comedian' of the Globetrot ters, one J. C. Gibson by name, showed his “pearly whites” throughout the game in a constant ear-to-ear grin as he performed his antics that were greeted by loud bursts of laughter from the crowd. Gibson and other trotters, like Stan Burrell, Elmer Robinson and the dribbling Leon Hilliard prov ed they were basketball wizards by clowning and playing top ball throughout the ten minute per iods. Hilliard demanded and got the attention of all the fans several times with his display of dazzling inevitable^ score that looked so easy. The show was a bang-up affair fi’om the Queens on through to the ending. The halftime show of uni cyclist Boy Foy and George Lee, the foremost exponent of the one- hand balancing art, left the crowd “oohing” and “ahhhing”. Ag Prospects Dim As Track Begins With only five lettermen return ing, Coach Charley Thomas be gins his track rebuilding program at A&M with a triangular meet here Feb. 28 as the Cadets host Houston and Texas in a meet at Kyle Field. Last place finishers in the South west Conference meet for the first time in history last season, Tho mas hopes to begin the road back with Owen Hill, discus thrower from Dallas; Henry Bonorden, shot putter from Port Lavaca; Er nesto Uribe, sprinter from La redo; Freddy Dulock, two-miler from Axtell and Charles Merka, dribbling, always ending with the high jumper from Fremont. Gary Herrington Senior Herrington will serve as co-captain for the Baseball team along with pitcher Donnie Hullum. Herrington has been an all-SWC catcher for the past two years. SWC Statistics A&M Statistics thru Nine SWC Games Player Archie Carroll Neil Swisher Wilmer Cox Wayne Lawrence* Jim McNichol Jack Collier Ernie Turner Kelly Chapman Don Mercer Elliott Craigr Dave Corson Jack Schwake Dropped Team rebounds reb tp 62 141 ave 15.6 135 15.0 81 79 54 19 12 9 6 4 0 0 5 9.0 11.2 6.0 3.1 1.3 3.0 2.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 ♦Out for season with broken foot. 9 207 137 355 651 61.2 A&M OPP 9 217 111 357 545 60.5 PRO IN TWO SPORTS SALT LAKE CITY CP)—Dick Judd, tennis professional at the Cottonwood Club here, is a versa tile athlete. He advanced to Class AAA baseball in the New York Yankee farm system, was an ama teur hockey player for three years and a pro for four years. He has been a tennis pro for three years, coming here from the California Racket club. Humble offers OPPORTUNITY in the Oil Industry Interviewing teams from Humble Oil & Refining Company will be on the campus February 17, 18 and 19 to interview students graduating at all degree levels in CHEMICAL, ELECTRICAL, CIVIL and MECHANICAL ENGI NEERING; and in CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS and MATHEMATICS at advanced degree levels only. Also, students in CHEMICAL, MECHANICAL and PETROLEUM ENGINEERING who will have completed at least their third year of college work by June, 1959, will be interviewed for summer employment. Engineers and scientists at Humble share in the dynamic progress and growth of a leader in the petroleum industry. Humble is a leading producer of crude oil in the United States. Its Baytown Refinery is one of the largest in the world. Research centers in Houston, for development of better methods of exploration and produc tion, and at Baytown for research in refining, are making valuable contributions to the petroleum industry. 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