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Friday, April 17, 1959
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Farmers Tackle Owls Here Saturday
Conference Statistics Show Ags Tops
Southwest Conference baseball
makes the turn past third base
this weekend and thunders to
wards home with Texas, A&M and
Rice battling it out for the cham
pionship.
The Longhorns currently lead
the race for the pennant with a
4-1 mark but the Farmers are
breathing hot on their necks a
scant half - game behind. Rice
trails the Cadets by a game.
Texas has a chance to increase
its slender lead this weekend when
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they tackle the SMU Mustangs
twice on. their own Clark Field.
SMU has a 2-3 conference mark.
Rice Here Saturday
Meanwhile at Aggieland the sec
ond and third place teams play in
Houston Friday and then in Col
lege Station Saturday for their
two-game series. This will be the
last meeting of the year for the
Owls and A&M.
The Aggie-Rice tilt is the most
ci'ucial series either team has
faced. If the Cadets drop one
Ags’ Big Stick
Gary Herrington, the Farmers’ All-SWC backstop last year,
will be batting in the cleanup spot for the Cadets today as
they meet the Rice Owls in Houston in a crucial loop clash.
The Aggies trail the Texas Longhorns by one-half game in
the circuit race with the Owls another game back.
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game and Texas wins both of
theirs the Steers will have a game-
and-’-a-half lead. Rice can’t afford
to lose either one of the matches.
CONFERENCE STANDING
Team Games Won Lost Pet.
Texas
Tex. A&M
Rice
SMU
Baylor
TCU
But if the Longhorns do hap
pen to lose one game to the tough
Ponies and the Aggies manage to
scrape by the Owls the Farmers
will be a half game ahead of the
Steers.
Texas has played one less game
than the Aggies and the Owls but
they, like A&M, can’t make up
those games they missed because
of inclement weather unless it has
direct bearing on the final stand
ings of the- SWC.
The Aggies have missed only
one conference game this season,
that being to the Baylor Bears, a
team they dropped in two previous
meetings.
A&M needs to win only two
more games to post their best sea
son mark since 1956, a year they
won 10 and lost 13. One year earli
er *the Farmers won their sixth
SWC championship.
Texas Leads SWC Champs
Texas has won the crown 35
times out of a possible 43. They
have shared two titles with the
Aggies and one with the Mustangs.
According to the latest South
west Conference statistics released
yesterday from Dallas, the Aggie
nine has the best team averages
on paper while the cellar bound
Baylor Bears are runnerups in the
batting department.
As a team the Farmers lead the
conference sluggers with a solid
.297 batting average. Baylor trails
with a .291. A&M has scored more
runs on more hits than any other
team.
Texas ties the Cadets in homers
(both teams have five) hut the
Aggies are second in two-baggers,
16, and have one triple to tie
three other teams in that depart
ment.
Cadet Fielding Low
In team fielding A&M stands
way down the list with 13 errors
to their credit, six less than Rice
who has the dubious distinction of
leading the field in that depart
ment. The Aggies’ fielding per
centage is .942.
A&M leads the other teams in
Undefeated in SWC Play
Percy Sanderson, who trails only the Texas Longhorns’
Elmer Rod in the earned run average department, claims
a 2-0 conference record and an ERA. of 1.17. Only two runs
have crossed the plate against the steady hurler in 15 in
nings of conference mound performance.
individual batting with three play
ers in the top ten, one more than
second place Baylor and Rice.
TCU’s Jim Walker leads the bats
men at thh plate with a .500 aver
age, but has been at the plate ap
proximately half as many times
as the rest of the leading slug
gers.
Gary , Herrington, A&M’s all
SWC-catcher, is ranked 2nd in
that list with a percentage of .445.
He ties Mel Carbo of Baylor and
Bobby Lively of Rice.
Other Aggies in the top ten in
batting are J. B. Carroll who
sports a .409 and is rated seventh
and Stuffy Davis who slips under
the wire in the No. 10 position
with a .375 mark.
Barber Leads in Homers
Left fielder Byron Barber of
A&M leads the sluggers in round
trippers with three in conference
play. Two other SWC batters have
two. Barber is second in runs bat
ted in with eight, two less than
the leading Dick Kristinik of Rice.
The fabulous Elmer Rod of Tex
as leads the conference mounds-
men with a tremendous 0.47 earn
ed run average and a 2-0 won-loss
record. Rod has given up nine hits
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and struck out eight in 19 inning
of ball. He has walked only thre<
Righthander Percy Sanderson o
A&M trails Rod with a better tha
average 1.17 ERA and a 2-0 rec
ord. Sanderson has thrown 15 in
nings and given up 13 hits. Th
junior has struck out 11 and walk
ed eight. Two runs have crossei
the plate against him.
Rice’s Paul Timme is third fol
lowed by the Aggies’ Wayne Scha
per who also has a 2-0 record
Schaper has had what might b<
termed bad luck as far as rum
scoring goes, posting a lofty 6.54
ERA. Schaper has struck out sev
en, walked two and given up 14
hits.
Timme will probably toe the
mound for Rice against the Aggies
Friday while Coach Tom Chand
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Donnie Hullum will be the two
duelists Saturday at College Sta
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Game time Saturday is 2 p.m.
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