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The Battalion -.•> College Station (Brazos County), Texar
Thursday, May 28, 1959
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Highlights-Sidelights of 58-59;
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Arizona Bested Farmers
In 1955 NCAA Series
With the curtain slowly closing
on the last act of A&M 1958-59
sports seasons fans can look back
over the past months and see that
it was an exciting, surprising nine
months of athletics.
Only one Southwest Conference
crown was copped, but that’s one
more than the Cadets have won
in several years. Coach Tom
Chandler’s baseball team was the
sole victor.
Highlight of the football season
came on a Saturday night in Waco
October 25 when Aggie lightning
struck four times in the last half
to defeat the Bears, 33-27.
Baylor led 27-7 when the debacle
started midway in the third quar
ter. The Farmers scored on a pass
by Ed Dudley, a one-yard drive up
the middle by Luther Hail, a pass
by Milstead and a 50-yard pass-
completion play by Hall that went
all the way for the final score.
Basketball had its hour at Ag-
gieland in the fading days of De
cember when the Aggie five came
out of nowhere to capture the
Southwest Conference Tournament
crown and achieve the 19th spot in
the Associated Press’s national
standings.
Three individual records were
broken by the basketball team, the
outstanding one being Neil Swish
er’s new mark of most points made
during three seasons. The grand
total was 983.
Archie Carroll set the other two
marks of total conference scoring
in one season and most field goals
in one season. The new marks
were 220 points and 142 field goals.
Track started rather slowly,
but the fans certainly have to
stand up and cheer for the fine
third place finish in the conference
made by Charley Thomas and his
boys, a distinction no one thought
they could achieve.
And then comes baseball and the
conference championship. The fi
nal chapter still has be written
here since the team has entered
the NCAA playoffs against Ari
zona.
College Station Little League
Opens Season Monday Night
Four years ago the Aggies, 1955
Southwest Conference Champions,
played Arizona a three-game se
ries in Bryan’s Travis Park.
All three games were good, the
Aggies dropping the opener, 6-2;
winning the second game, 5-0 and
losing the final game, 2-1.
There were some good players
in that 1955 series here. A&M
had Pitchers Jerry Nelson, Joe
Hardgrove and Dick Munday
Hardgrove pitched the opener
for A&M but Don Lee, son of the
former Chicago White Sox great,
Thornton Lee, bested him for the
Wildcats. Jerry Nelson, fireball
ing righthander, won the second
game for A&M over Carl Thomas.
Nelson held held Arizona to four
hits and fanned 11 during his great
shutout effort. Munday then
pitched a heartbreaker in the fi
nale losing on an error in the top
of the 9th, 2-1. •
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By JOE CALLICOATE
Battalion Staff Writer
College Station Little Leaguers
will get a chance to “show their
stuff” Monday night when the
season opens at the College Sta
tion Little League Park.
Banda’s Dropped Fly
Gave Ags SWC Life
The story of the Aggie South
west conference baseball champion
ship can be summed up as follows:
Hustle, clutch play and George
Banda’s error.
All are important including the
patience and hard work under the
smart coaching of Tom Chandler
in his first year at the job. But it
was the little TCU shortstop’s
muff of a pop-fly on May 2 at
Fort Worth in the 9th inning that
sent the Aggies on their success
ful drive to the flag.
TCU was leading the Aggies,
7-5, going into the final inning.
Randy Wortham led off for the
A&M 9th taking a called third
strike. Dick Hickerson then rolled
out, pitcher to first. Ralph Plum-
lee hit a pop fly to shallow short
and the Aggie bench was sacking
up the bats when Banda let the
ball dribble out of his glove.
Before you could say Arizona
or Omaha the Aggies were back
in the ball game. Bo Paradowski
singled to center. Dink Patterson
singled to left to score Plumlee,
Don Davis walked to fill the bases
and J. B. Carroll walked to force
in the tying run. Patterson stole
home to give the Cadets an 8-7
lead. TCU tied it up in the ninth
but A&M scored the winner in the
10th and returned home with new
life and a 6-4 record good for a
tie for second place with Rice.
Texas had opened the season
with a 6-7 loss to A&M at Austin,
then had won nine consecutive
games before losing to Rice the
same day of the Banda muff.
It’s time to take this
tax off your
telephone bill
The eight teams that make up
two leagues, minor and major,
have been preparing for the open
ing tilt dui'ing practice that has
been going for the last two weeks.
This year the major league has
about sixty boys and the minor
league has about one hundred.
The major league has the White
Sox, Senators, Red Sox and Ori
oles. Minor league teams are the
Cubs, Indians, Pirates and Dodg
ers.
Major league teams will play
double headers on Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday nights, with
the minor leagues playing on
Tuesday and Thursday nights.
Both teams will play regular
schedules until July 18 when there
will be a one week break.
On Wednesday night the “B”
squad of the minor league will
play.
Directors for this year’s teams
are Wayne Hall, president; Wal
ter Varvel, vice president; Russel
Beamer, vice president of the ma
jor league; Billy Kling, vice pres
ident of the minor league; Bob
Skravanek, treasurer; and Dick
Hervey, Secretary-
Equipment manager is W. S.
Edmonds, score keeper is Russel
Brown and Judson Loupot is in
charge of selling signs for the
park fence.
Managers who are presently
working with the clubs are Billy
Hemphill, Hank Mills, Manuel
Garcia, Wayne Smith, Tommy
Letbetter, Wilson Bradley, Joseph
Hornsey, Bruce Thompson, W. W.
Gilpin, Billy Oxley, Kelly Parker
and P. D. Gandy.
The major league is sponsored
by Marion Pugh Lumber Co., Gar
ner Student Co-op Store, Bryan
Office Equipment Co. and Ridge
crest Pharmacy.
The minor league is sponsored
by College Station Lions Club, the
College Station Kiwanis Club,
Fitch Contractors, and the College
Station State Bank.
Also the College Station Rec
reation Council makes a grant to
the little leaguers each year and
the money from fence signs helps
support them.
Varvel said that there* *^8'
still a shortage of managers and|
more work to be done on the park.
He added that anyone interested
in helping with the teams should
contact one of the directors.
Varvel also said that there
would be no admission charged at
the games this year, but instead a
membership drive would be held
next week. In this drive the boys
will sell memberships to individ
uals in the area who wish to help
support them.
After the regular season is fin
ished a winner will be declar
ed from one of the leagues. There
will be an area and district play
off. The teams that win there
will pursue a state title and go
from there to a national play-off.
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