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PORT SLANT
By BOB WEEKLEY
What with one thing or another spring has finally step
ped into the on-deck circle and should move into the batter’s
box in a couple of weeks, all of which means that spring
sports are becoming more and more in style and should be
the height of fashion by the end of March.
At A&M spring means the season when minor sports
become major ones and baseball steps into the reigning
spot of king, with track alongside as a prince consort.
Baseball, now swinging along under the expert tutelage
of Coach Tom Chandler, has never received the proper recog
nition that is due the national sport by students at A&M.
A prime example would be Wednesday when only a few
hardy souls braved the blustery weather to watch the Aggie
nine come from behind to down the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs.
Now those who don’t care about watching baseball just
don’t know what they are missing. There’s more than just
sitting in the-bleachers and watching two teams go about
their business of slinging a little white ball around a field.
A lot of the fun of the game comes in barbering the
other teams and giving the old raspberry to the umpire. Most
coaches and teams would be rather disappointed if there were
no spectators on hand to give them the chance to go through
the paces that they have spent many years developing.
Chandler is going to add a lot of color to the Aggie
diamond this season.' Wednesday when he charged out onto
the diamond to protest a balk being called on Larry Ayres,
the wind seemed to slow down a couple of knots while the is
sue was contested hotly by both sides, all to the immense en
joyment of the crowd.
Also the sport is perfect for the active spectator who
likes to stand up and stretch, take a trip to the back for those
peanuts whose hulls are so comfortable to sit on and shoot
the bull with his neighbor on the pros and cons of the team.
The Aggies are going to be a better team than last year.
Chandler has spent and is still spending a good portion of
each day teaching his charges the fundamentals and rudi
ments of the game and they seem to be soaking them up in
time for Southwest Conference play.
Texas will again be the team to beat this year for the
conference flag, but TCU, SMU and A&M could be strong
contenders for the money.
A&M’s squad is composed largely of sophomores, but
the returning veterans are enough to form a strong back
bone. Ayres, the sophomore pitcher mentioned above, has
come along very well and right now seems to be the top man
on the pitching staff.
He was the first Aggie to go the full nine innings, and
tlid very well during his stint on the mound.
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Shreveport Relays
Eighteen members of the Aggie
track and field team left here
today for the South Classic Relays
to be run Saturday in Shreveport,
La. The Cadets are coached by
Charley Thomas.
The Farmers will compete in
six track and six field events at
the relays.
Making the trip were Bob Clark,
Ernie Uribe, Ronnie Kirkpatrick
and Harvey Cash in the 440-yd re
lay; Olin Garrison, 120-yd high
hurdles; Joe Flood, 100-yd dash;
Dick Hickman, mile run; John
Long and Newton Lamb, Javelin;
Owen Hill, Discus; Henry Bonor-
den and Charles Davidoff, shot put;
Charles Merka and Bob Thomas,
high jump and Jerry Davis, Don
nie Douglas or Ray Vance, pole
vault.
Not included on the list above
are William Palmer, a member of
the 880-yd relay; Harvey Cash
and C. J. Hajovsky, members of
the mile relay team and Jim Brew
er in the Javelin.
The Aggies have competed in
two meets this year, placing sec
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lege Station and seventh in the
Border Olympics.
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Aggie Nine Tackles Bulldogs
As Lutherans Seek Revenge
Coach Tom Chandler’s baseball
team moves to Seguin tomorrow
night for a return match with the
Texas Lutheran Bulldogs. The Ag
gies Wednesday defeated the Luth
erans by the score of 8-4.
Expected to be on the mound for
the Cadets is righthander Percy
Sanderson with senior Wayne
Schaper and sophomore Joe
Thompson warming up in the bull
pen ready to lend assistance.
Chandler will start basically the
same lineup that downed the Bull
dogs earlier this week. The only
The frosh baseball team,
coached by Shelby Metcalf, will
not meet the Henderson Junior
College Nine today in a two-
game contest.
Henderson canceled the game
for unknown reasons.
major change will be Dink Patter
son, the quick-moving junior from
Dallas, stepping into the second
base slot.
Slugging Gary Herrington will
be Sanderson’s battery mate at
TOM CHANDLER
Baseball Coach
Star Prep Athletes
Sign Intent Letters
Two outstanding high schbol
athletes have announced their in
tentions to attend A&M on athletic
schorlarships. The two prep school
stars are Don Sanders and Tom
my Janik.
Sanders, all-state and all-Ameri
can end from Fort Worth Paschal,
is scheduled to play in the high
school all-star game at Fort Worth
next August.
Janik, an all-district quarter
back from Poth, led his team to a
20-1 record the past two seasons
and to a regional championship
in 1957.
The 6-3, 185-pounder, also played
basketball and track.
the catcher’s possition while soph
omore Dick Hickerson will hold
forth at first base. Hickerson is
the leading hitter on the squad
with a .385 average.
Patterson will be at the key
stone position teaming with Ralph
Plumlee at shortstop. Plumlee is
a returning starter f-rom the 1958
team and hails from Dallas.
At third is all-Southwest Con
ference Windel Reed and in left
field Byron Barber will stand tall.
Filling out the rest of the out
field are Stuffy Davis and Lloyd
Stone.
The Aggie pitching staff, with
the exception of sophomore Larry
Ayres, has been coming along
rather slowly. Donnie Hullum, one
of the better hurlers last season
and expected to be a mainstay
this season, has been hampered
by a sore arm and won’t be ready
to take the mound until after con
ference play starts.
Meanwhile Chandler is still seek
ing some able batsmen to quell the
opposing pitchers. Hickerson has
come through more than enough
while Herrington is his old reliable
self. The senior co-captain led the
team in about all departments last
year.
After Saturday’s game the Ags
will remain idle until March 18
when they face the University of
Houston crew in Houston. A&M
defeated that nine earlier in the
season.
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