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Page 6 College Station, Texas March IS, 1061 the bsttccior A&M Baseball Team Opens Conference Play Tomorrow By JOE CALLTCOATTE The 1961 Southwest Conference baseball campaign will be kicked off for A&M tomorrow in Austin as the Cadets meet Texas at 3. Tomorrow’s game could be a | have a loss against them while big one for A&M, since defending they have chalked up four straight champion Texas is slightly favored victories. Their main asset has to be a repeater. been a strong mound staff built So far this season Texas doesn’t around Bobby Barnett who rolled TOWN HALL PRESENTS Z)lie Yjationai Orchestra ........,y.v. .\ / •_: ' ' •) ★ HOWARD MITCHELL, Music Conductor G. ROUSE WHITE COLISEUM Thursday, March 16, 1961 8:00 P. M. Gen. Adm $2.50 Reserved Seats $3.00 High School Students $1.00 up a 7-2 record last year and was chosen on the All-SWC team. Tex as has only given up four runs in their first four outings. One Loss After an error-plagued opening loss to Sam Houston, A&M has shown signs of improvement as they have won three straight over Rice, University of Dallas and Sam Houston in a rematch. In the first game with Sam Houston, hits were scarce for A&M, but in the last three outings the pace has quickened. The team now boasts an overall average of .297 at the plate. Soph Leads Hitters Ray Hall, a sophomore right fielder, is leading the way for' A&M’s regulars in the hitting de partment with nine hits in 18 trips to the plate for .500. In his total Hall included a triple and a home run. Veteran first baseman, Dick Dickerson, is the number two hit ter for the Aggies with .429. Hick- erson clouted two homers against U of D, one of which was a grand- slam. He is way out front in RBI’s with eight. Stuffy Davis is the third top hitter with an even .400 at the plate and has brought in two runs. Davis hit an all-important home run in the last game with Sam Houston with a man on base to win the game, 7-5, in the 11th inn ing. The only other man over the .300 mark is Terry Cobb, a soph, who is hitting .375. Cobb has a home run and three RBI’s. Pitchers Hit A&M’s pitching staff is show ing up well at the plate as three out of six men to pitch so far, have hit over .500. Jerry Warren is the leader with 1.000 in one trip, followed by Mike Spence and Bob Collins who have one for two. Collins has collected two of A&M’s wins in relief while Spence is credited with one victory. A&M will return home next Tuesday for a conference game with Baylor, who is also consid ered a contender for the 1961 championship. Intramurals Tareyton delivers the flavor... Here’s one filter cigarette that’s really different! The difference is this: Tareyton’s Dual Filter gives you a unique inner filter of ACTIVATED CHARCOAL, definitely proved to make the taste of a cigarette mild and smooth. It works together with a pure white outer filter—to balance the flavor elements in the smoke. Tareyton delivers—and you enjoy—the best taste of the best tobaccos. ACTIVATED CHARCOAL inner filter DUAL FILTER Tareyton Pure white outer filter Product of <J/u, dmLliean JiTaceo-^ryjar^ — (Xt&eeo is our middle name ©,. r < There was not too much activity in intramural sports yesterday as only one event—Class A Tennis— was on the agenda. In the four games in Class A Tennis, Sq. 9 continued to win as they wiped out E-l with an im pressive victory of 3-0. Sq. 17 came from behind in their game with Sq. 6 and won, 2-1. Sq. 5 won an easy victory over L-2 by forfeit, but it still counts on the win column. In the final game of Class A Tennis for the day, F-l swept past Sq. 2 for a de cisive 3-0 win. Stanleys Elected Cage Co-captains The Stanley twins from Buna, Pat and Don, have been named co-captains of the 1960-61 Aggie basketball team. In voting by the squad members, Caroll Broussard of Port Arthur was selected as the team’s most valuable player. The Stanleys won varsity let ters for tw y o seasons following their transfer to A&M after grad uating from Kilgore Junior Col lege. This past season they played prominent parts in leading Coach Bob Rogers’ Aggies to a 16-8 sea son record, and to a second place finish in the Southwest Conference race that ended with a 10-4 rec ord. Broussard, a junior, re-wrote the Aggie individual scoring rec ord book, now holding 12 of the 13 records and needing only 16 points next season to tie the other mark. He was a consensus honorable mention choice on the AU-Amei’- ican squads, leading the SWC in point-making with 339 for a 24.2 average. His season total was 538 in 24 games. He was also the 23rd highest scorer in the nation. Aggies Ink Another Central Texas Star The Aggies have swiped another prize Central Texan from other SWC schools as they signed Pat Smithson, an agile, 200-pound guard from University High (Wa co), to a letter of intent. This signing makes the fifth star prospect to be signed in the Central Texas region. Smithson was twice a Waco Tribune-Herald Super Centex se lection and twice all-district. Spring Sports Barbecue Set For May 18 The annual Texas Aggie Spring Sports Barbecue, co-cponsored by the Brazos County A&M Club anil the A&M Athletic Council,' has been scheduled to be held at The Grove May 18 at 6 p.m. Morris Frank, columnist for the Houston Chronicle, will be the master of ceremonies. Plans for the event were an. nounced by Jim Myers, Aggie ath. letic director. He said the barbe cue will honor the members ol this year’s basketball, baseball, track, golf, tennis and swimming teams. A stag affair, the barbecue is open to the public and an advance sale of tickets will be held. 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