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I i £ I ' r 1 : c N 1 I „ £ Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 5, 1961 THE BXTTSIIOF! Last Non-SW C Baseball Tilt Scheduled Today The Aggie baseball team fin ishes their non-conference action today as they meet the University of Houston Cougars in Houston. After a successful campaign in San Antonio during the holidays, the Aggies now have a 9-3-1 sea son record and stand 2-1-1 in Southwest Conference play. In San Antonio A&M opened the three-day affair with a 10-2 win over St. Vlary’s University. In the second gaime, A&M collected 20 hits to run aiway from Illinois, 22-11, and in the third game topped Brooke Medics, 7.-2. A&M’s last Conference outing was with Rice where the Aggies came out on the bottom end, 12-4. The next A&M (conference game will be with Te:cas Christian in Ft. Worth on Saturday. The PlansCompletedFiorAnnual Aggie Sports Barbecue The A&M Athletic Council and Brazos County A&M Club have completed mapping plans for this year’s Texas Aggie Sports Barbecue. _____ __ __ Morris Frank, noted humorist and sports writer for the Houston Chronicle will be Master of Ceremonies. The bar becue will be held at The Grove on the campus at 6 p. m. on Thursday, May 18. Athletes in six sports will be honored and will receive awards. These are baseball, basketball, golf, swimming, tennis and track. Dr. R. L. Skrabanek, President of the Brazos County A&M Club, has announced the following chairmen for the barbecue: Fred Wolters, general chairman; Joe Sorrels, food; J. E. Loupot, facilities; Homer Adams, trophies and awards; and J. E. Roberts, ticket sales. __ __ The barbecue will be a stag affair. The public is invited and the price of tickets is $1.25. Grand Jury Starts New Probe In College Basketball Scandal By The Associated Press NEW YORK—The grand jury Tuesday began its probe of the new college basketball scandals, taking testimony from unidentified witnesses in a two-hour session. A spokesman for Dist. Atty. Frank Hogan would not identify the witnesses or reveal if any were players. It was understood, however, that testimony was received from de tectives and other investigators working on the pi’obe which be came public when Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken were arrested and charged with bribing three players to shave points oh games in which their teams were involved. Meanwhile, the path was cleared for Wagman, 28, and Hacken, 41, both of New York, to appear be fore the grand jury, prompting re ports that one was turning state’s evidence. A New York police source has said the scandal could involve as many as 15 to 25 colleges. Froggies were nosed out, 15-13 yesterday afternoon by Texas in a 10-inning affair. Pitcher Mike Spence is still the top Aggie hitter for the season as he boasts .571 for the year in seven times at bat. Stuffy Davis, who is out of the Aggie lineup for an indefinite pe riod of time because of an injury received in the Rice game, is sec ond man in the hitting column with a .382 average in 34 trips to the plate. Dick Hickerson, firstsacker, is close behind Davis with .380. Hick erson is also leading in RBI’s with 16. Byron Barber, who was one of the top home run hitters in the SWC last year, is in the number four hitting spot with .357. Bar ber has added four round trippers to his count this season. * From the mound position Spence is also leading with three wins and no defeats. His earned run average is 2.769. Bob Collins has also collected three wins for the season but has one loss charged to him. Jerry Warren’s record is two wins and no losses; Don Costlow has a win and a loss; and Ed Singley is charged with one loss. j Intramurals As the spring holidays were over, intramural sports got under way with two events taken part in. In Class B Volleyball, Sq. 1 de feated Sq. 2 by forfeit, and 1-2 received a win over L-2 by forfeit. In the seven games played in Class A Rifle, A-l crushed Sq. 17 by the score of 435-279; G-3 shot past Sq. 11 for a 342-254 victory; F-l banged away at L-2 and won, 469-350; Sq. 8 edged past W-Band for a 435-404 .win; Sq. 10 blasted, to a 371-309 win over Sq. 5; F-2 boomed to a 425-211 victory over M-Band; and H-2 won over Sq. 6 by forfeit. Spear Thrower John Long, a transport from Westport, Conn., placed higher than any other Aggie in the San Angelo Relays last week end as he copped the third place medal. Long has been con- sistant in the javelin throw all season long with teammate Jim Brewer. Ag Thinclads Met Stiff Competition SPORTS Oldest Pro Player To Toss First Ball CINCINNATI—William (Dum my) Hoy who,' at 98 is the oldest living former major league base ball player, will throw out the first ball when the Cincinnati Reds open the 1961 National League pennant season against the Chicago Cubs here next Tuesday. Hoy, who lives in Cincinnati, was an outfielder in the major leagues from 1888 through 1902. Texas Tops Frogs For SWC Lead By The Associated Press FT. WORTH—Unbeaten Texas scored two runs in the top of the tenth inning Tuesday to beat Tex as Christian 15-13 and take over the undisputed lead in the South west Conference baseball race. Relief pitcher Bobby Callaway drew a walk and Pat Rigby tripled to drive him in. Then Rigby scored on a wild pitch by Gray Mills of Texas Christian. There were eight home runs hit in the wild game with Leon Baze, Texas Christian third baseman, pounding three of them. Don Reynolds and Cliff Justice also homered for the Horned Frogs. David Skinner, Lew Brazelton and Chuck Knutson blasted round- trippers for Texas. Texas was running' its winning streak to 11 straight. Texas Christian ran its record to 2-8. It was unbeaten in con. ference play until yesterday. * * * DALLAS — Southern Methodist blasted five runs across in tti first inning, three of them on Jin Stogo’s homer, and went on to i 7-1 victory over Arkansas in a nonconference baseball game Ties, day. Doug Thompson limited Arlan sas to three hits and fanned five. Third place was the best the Aggie tracksters could do in the stiff competition at the San An gelo Relays last weekend. Big John Long, the senior from Westport, Conn., chunked the jav elin 187 feet for the number three position. All the points the Cadets could muster was seven points while ACC won the meet with 42 points. The highlight of the meet was climaxed by the ACC mile relay team in the mile relay. They set a national collegiate record with a clocking of 3:08.9. Baylor, the favorite of the meet, took second place with 36 points while Texas, who was expected to fight the Bears for the title, took fourth place one point behind SMU, who had 25. In all 14 records fell in the three division meet as two were tied. Most of the new records were in the university division. The outstanding performer of the meet was John Fiy, the big weightman from Baylor, who set records in the shot put and discus with distances of 57-7% and 159- 9% respectively. Other Aggies who managed to get points were Jim Brewer, fourth place in the javelin, Charles Tiemann, fourth in the discus, Curtis Roberts, fourth in the 100- yard dash, and fourth place in the sprint, medley relay composed of of George Tedford, Gene Dornak, Roberts and Thad Crooks. The next Aggie meet will be in Austin this weekend at the Texas Relays. Both the Freshman and Varsity teams will be represented. 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