The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Friday, April 10, 1959
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PORT SLANT
By BOB WEEKLEY
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After the Aggie freshman baseball team had played its
first couple of games on Kyle Field the fans began wonder
ing just what was happening when along about the fourth
or fifth inning five of the starters would pack up their
bags and depart from the diamond towards the football field.
They had been hearing of the close cooperation that
was supposed to exist between the various Aggie coaching
staffs, but just couldn’t see any connection between players
leaving a game for another practice session in football and
that word “cooperation.”
The cooperation exists as shown by the simple fact
of the football players playing baseball, only not to the high
degree that could be expected.
Of course when you look at things from the light of
football being the banker that pays most of the bills for
the various sports the switching action is not as bad as it
first seems. And then when you realize that those boys
seeing double duty on the baseball diamond and the foot
ball field are top candidates in both sports the fact is driven
home that if a choice has! to be made as to what they play,
football goes unchallenged.
But really things are supposed to be different next
year. Athletic Director Jim Myers now has plans of hold
ing the 1960 spring training during the months of Febru
ary or March. This will benefit spring sports since they
do not start until the middle of the latter month, and just
think of the shape they will be in after going through 18
days of spring training.
There’s another reason for moving the spring training
date up a month or two. Rain, like we’ve seen for the last
couple of days, is not so predominant in the late winter
months at College Station as it is in the spring.
Myers firmly believes that there is room at Aggieland
for those athletes who are capable of playing more than one
sport, and does his best to encourage them to participate in
all of them.
Dual participation is impossible for many athletes be
cause the time required month in and month out for prac
tice and then the days away from school for games throws
them and their grades way behind. Not only do they have
to be a better than average athlet’s to play two sports, they
have to have a goodly amount of brains in their heads to
stay eligible.
That happened in one game, against the Allen Ramblers,
and the freshmen lost that contest. Incidentally, Bill Vin
cent, an outstanding candidate for tackle, was pitching and
had to leave around the fifth inning.
Perhaps the best solution would be to let the players
finish the game and miss that day of practice, or set up an
alternating schedule where they play one games and miss
the next.
One solution seems about as good as another.
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Rain Threatens Bruin Tilt
Rain, that bugaboo of all spring
sports, has cast its dark clouds
over Kyle Field and rained out
two successive days of practice for
the baseball, track and football
squads.
Probably the hardest hit of all
three is Coach Tom Chandler’s
baseball nine who move into their
first two-day series of the season
Friday and Saturday against the
tough Baylor Bears in Waco.
The baseball team, scheduled to
depart from A&M at 12:30 p.m. to
day, may have to stay at home due
to showers that dampened the Bay
lor diamond Wednesday and de
luged it yesterday. The Aggies
have been unable to work out since
their Tuesday victory over the
TCU Horned Frogs.
If the Aggies do make the trip
it will probably be Wayne Shaper
and Percy Sanderson on the
mound against the Bears in the
two-day series. Larry Ayres, the
ace sophomore hurler, will more
than likely miss the series due to
a sore shoulder.
A&M will enter the game with
a 3-2 season mark and a tie for
second in the Southwest Confer
ence race with the Rice Owls, a
team that downed the Cadets by
one rurt earlier in the season.
Both teams are a half game be
hind the league leading Texas
Longhorns.
Baylor trails the Owls and Ag
gies in the conference with a 2-3
mark, barely keeping their pen
nant hopes alive by downing the
SMU Mustangs, 4-3 Tuesday. The
Bears had gone into that contest
riding a three-game losing streak,
one of them a 19-6 drubbing by the
Cadets.
Rudy Raughton, a three-game
I winner with one blot on his record,. an injured knee. Turner is also
‘Play Ball’
To Attract
(AP)—With the special cere
monial opener out of the way, the
rest of the big league baseball
teams are swinging into action to
day with seven games expected to
draw more than 200,000 persons.
The New York Yankees, out of
first place for at least one day
Now It’s Like This, Ump!
Baseball Coach Tom Chandler goes through his umpire
baiting routine against the TCU Horned Frogs Tuesday.
The Aggies won the game but Chandler lost the argument.
Trigon, Faculty Bowlers
Challenge Bowling Squad
A top secret group from the
Trigon and a well-known faculty
clan will meet the second and
third A&M bowling teams at the
Memorial Student Center Bowling
Lanes Saturday at 2 p.m.
John Geiger, spokesman for the
Trigon group, declined to give the
names of the “G. I. Keglers”, but
the faculty group readily divulg
ed its team members. Marvin But
ler, professor of economics, will
spearhead the team, followed by
Jack Amman, Leslie Palmer and
Emil Mamaliga of the Department
of Physical Education. Dickie Mc-
Casland of the Texas Transporta
tion Institute will complete the
squad.
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The Aggies’ team will be tak
ing on the match team from
North Texas State College at the
same time, rounding out the af
ternoon of bowling.
Cry Today
200,000
this season, open their bid for a
10th flag in 11 years for Manager
Casey Stengel at Yankee Stadium.
The Boston Red Sox, minus ailing
Ted Williams, provide the opposi
tion.
Perhaps the largest crowd of all
will be the 73,000 expected at De
troit for the struggle between
Chicago and the Tigers. These two
clubs generally are given the best
chance of upsetting the Yanks.
Kansas City opens against the
revamped Cleveland Indians. Af
ter their presidential opener
Thursday in Washington, the Sen
ators and Baltimore Oxdoles will
take the day off to resume Sat
urday.
Pittsburgh fans are due to turn
out 30,000 strong for the Forbes
Field game with the defending
champions froip Milwaukee. The
Chicago Cubs are at Wrigley
Field in their home opener against
Los Angeles.
The night games round out the
seven-game opening schedule. San
Francisco, picked by many to beat
out Milwaukee, will be at St.
Louis, and Cincinnati, with one
game under its belt, will be at
Philadelphia.
Navy Has Problem;
No Coach Signed
ANNAPOLIS (AP) — Naval
Academy officials indicated yes
terday they are in no rush and not
particularly worried about finding
a successor to Eddie Erdelatz, who
resigned after nine years as head
football coach.
“We realize this is going to be
a very difficult problem at this
time of year,” said Capt. Slade
Cutter, director of athletics.
“I have talked to no one about
the job—directly or indirectly —
but I’m not particularly worried.
We have a very competent staff
of assistant coaches and any one
of them can do a fine job for
us.”
is scheduled to draw the starting
assignment against the Aggies
Friday.
Baylor boasts one of the top
sluggers in the conference in first
baseman Mel Corbo who has a
lofty .512 average. The Bruin has
slashed out 22 hits and driven in
18 runs.
Four of Baylor’s starters are
currently batting over .300 while
the team average is .290. The
Bear’s have one injured starter
in shortstop* Bob Turner. Aggies
remember him for his basketball
prowess—who has been out with
batting over .300.
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