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T THE BATTALION SPORTS Page 4 College Station, Texas Friday, April 8, 1960 S PORT SLANT By JOE CALLICOATTE s This must be the year of change in almost all phases of football in the Lone Star State. The Interseholastic League has been busy all year chang ing and revising its rules and regulations; One of their first changes was to adopt a code of ethics that really wasn’t needed, since most of the teams and coaches are about as ethical as they come. Another change looking the Interscholastic League in the face is in regard to eligibility of high school transfer students. They contented it is pretty hard on a boy whose family has to move around to make a living. However, there has been some problem with high schools trying to do a little recruiting in the past few years. At the present the old one-year rule is still in use, but there is plenty of agitation both for and against it. Pros and Colleges The prose and Colleges are getting in their share of this year’s changes too. The prose would like to change their playing days from Sunday, which would conflict with some of the college and high school games played on Friday and Saturday. They also have expressed a strong desire to use some of the col lege stadiums. For instance there was one pronosal for the pros to pse the Cotton Bowl and let the New Year’s game be plaved in Houston. Well it would comnlicate matters. In the first place there could be only one Cotton Bowl and it should be in Dallas, where it alw’ays has been. In the second place Houston has just formed their Bluebonnet Bowl that is played a few days before New Year. Either there would be two games within a few' days of each other or the Bluebonnet or Cotton Bowl would cease to exist. Besides you just can’t have a Cotton Bowl game without a Cotton Bowl. The whole problem was brought about in the first place when the pros came dow r n to “the college football territory.” College Changes Some of the colleges are getting into the changing act by moving the game time to 7:30 instead of the standard 8. Teams that wall play in Fort Worth, Austin, Lubbock or on Kyle Field have made the change. _ Representatives from Dallas, Houston and Little Rock decided that the heavy afternoon traffic would cause too much of a hardship on the fans if their times were changed. The new time will offer several advantages and not too many disadvantages for those cities mentioned. Probably the most good will be done for the teams and sports writers. In the past sportwriters who worked on the metropolitan papers had to rush at break-neck speed to meet their dealine. Sometimes there wasn’t enough time to get a polished, story in the paper, but now the extra 30 minutes will give the writers a chance for their best pro duct and give the teams everything they deserve. Why? Why so many changes? Probably no one reason could be nailed down, but the number of football teams in Texas could be a contributing factor. So far there are 966 teams slated for grid action in Texas during the coming year. There has been three new pro teams added besides the already existing 916 high school teams, 27 senior college teams and 14 teams from the junior college ranks. The football population will put approximately 50,000 players in uniform for 1960. Anyone care to go into the sporting goods business? Cadets Secure Cage Star Special to The Battalion Lynn Merritt, a 6-5 All-State forward from Robstown, today announced he would attend A&M next fall and signed a letter of intent with Cadet Head Coach Boh Rogers. * Sit fil SmII 1 . i its : : W ' " s / Tf H ? . wf & ' 'j'»4 'i |j , ^ iilf . vf* Mtmg- ■■■■I ^ m JillllPf >' PMr iill Cross Country Winner David Lowman of Bizzell Hall took the Class A intramural cross country championship yesterday. The cross country event was scheduled for the first semester, but had to be rescheduled because of bad weather. INTRAMURALS There were only two undeter mined leagues in Class A softball as of yesterday. Those teams which have already won their re spective leagues are Co. D-2, Co. G-2, Co. F-l, Co. A-1 and Sq. 11. In the only game played in Class A softball yesterday Co. M-2 post ed a victory over Co. H-2. Freshmen softball is also near ing an end as there are only two undetermined leagues in this class. Co. A-2, Co. B-2, Co. F-l, Co. G-l and Co. D-l have already won their respective leagues. Four tennis matches were played in Class B competition as Co. D-2 posted a victory over Sq. 11, Sq. 17 won their match from Co. C-l, Sq. 9 defeated Co. B-l and Co. G-2 won over Co. E-2. also slated in tomorrow’s schedule. Cross country results will appear next week. Freshmen Settinff Hot Baseball Pace Today’s competition will com plete the league winners in both Class A and Class B softball. Class C softball and freshmen tennis are The freshmen baseball team is setting a hot pace on the diamond this year, boasting a 4-1 record. As a whole the team creates a hot spot on any diamond, but some of the individuals keep adding plenty of wood to the fire.. Bill Musemeche is pounding the horsehide at a .583 pace closely followed by Jerry Carter with .471. Musemeche’s total has five doubles and a homer figured in it. Jerry Warren is the Fish’s top pitcher with a 3-0 record followed by Mike Spence’s 1-0 record. Ed Singley has lost ,one game but has an earned run average of .52. Owls, Aggies Tangle Today In ‘Crucial’ Conference Battle By JOE CALLICOATTE Battalion Sports Editor The Aggie baseball team meets the “once favored” Rice Owls today on Kyle Field in a contest that could create a bigger problem for the Owls or give the Ags a 4nuch needed shot in the arm. Rice was almost everyone’s pre season pick for the Southwest Con ference championship, but lately things haven’t been going so good for them. The Owls were downed 9-3 by the SMU Mustangs earlier in the week, which brought their conference record to 2-1 and put Baylor and Texas in a tie for first place honors. The Bears and Longhorns both stand 3-1 in conference compe tition. If the Cadets wan to equal their last year’s record, today is the time to start because they must win the remaining 10 conference games to have the 11 wins they chalked up last year. Lately the Cadets have been nosed out by a lone run in several games which is just the opposite Roeber— High Jumper We find an interesting little news item in the Hallettsville New-Era Herald dated way back in 1924. The article says that Charles Roeber, business manager of A&M, set a new high jump record while a senior at Hallettsville High School. On April 5, 1924, Roeber leaped 5-8, besides win ning the pole vault event. that they did in the final stretch of last year’s SWC race. They won the majority of the last games by one run. Pitching and errors have been the Ags biggest headaches this season. Most of the games have bden fairly close until the final two innings and the opposition would nose them out. The only conference victory the Cadets have mustered was a 16-6 drubbing handed SMU in their opener. A three-man pitching battery has had to share most of the Cadets’ load in conference play. Don Costlow is boasting the best earned run average with his 3.74. He is followed by Olen Jordan and David Pitcock with 4.69 and 4.26. Jordan received credit for the lone win against the Ponies. John Burton has taken over the slugging lead for the Ags with his .625. Johnny Hudson has .500; Pitcock has .400; Bill Houchin has .333; Don Davis has .333; and Byron Barber rounds out the over- 300 class with .313. Today’s game is half of Rice- Aggie activity for the weekend as they play again tomorrow at 2 p.m. COURT’S SHOES SHOE REPAIR North Gate Merritt, one of the most sought after cage stars in the state this past season, scored 2,321 points during his three-year tenure with the Class AAA Robstown High School. In 44 games this past season, Merritt averaged 27.3 points per game and thrice surpassed the 40-point standard in single con tests. Merritt is a member of the National Honor Society and was president of his graduating class at the South Texas High School. And he will play in the annual High-School All-Star game in Ft. Worth early in August. 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