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Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 27, 1961
Granddad Tourney
Starts Today in SA
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
The granddaddy of winter golf
tournaments—the Texas Open—
goes on this week.
This tournament began back in
the golden twenties and was the
first to offer what was considered
“big money.” In those days it
was almost unheard of for a golf
tournament to put up $1,500 in
prize money.
The Texas Open, to attract at
tention, came up with $5,000. It
was a sensation and established the
tournament as one of the top stops
on the then limited golf trail.
The greatest names in the game
played in this tournament, held at
Brackenridge Park Course in San
Antonio. It didn’t, however, keep
a rating of big money tournament.
It was the slowest of them all to
raise its prize money. Only a few
years ago did it get up to $20,000.
This year it offers $30,000 and
will be in new surroundings.
Brackenridge Park Course is the
best located golf layout in the
world. It is probably the only
course extant that is almost in
the business district of a city.
Only a few T blocks from, downtown,
the course is quite accessible.
But it did never go in for at
tractive facilities. The club house
is small, the locker room is smaller.
The course itself was for years
about the shortest and easiest to
play in the country. Here was
shot the first round of 60 and the
first 257 for 72 holes. The latter
still stands as the record in golf.
There were complaints from the
players that the course was too
easy, that its rubber mats used
as tees could cause wrist injuries
and that the facilities were too
meager for a player to spend a
comfortable four days playing
over the la^mut that measured only
a little more than 6,000 yards.
There was no prospect of the place
being improved because it is a
municipal course. It couldn’t be
enlarged because there was no ter
ritory into which to expand.
The tournament was shifted to
the longer Fort Sam Houston
course but it didn’t draw the
crowds. It went back to Bracken
ridge Park, which had been length
ened enough that the sensationally
low scores were eliminated. Still
there wei;e complaints and when
some of the top players failed to
show up two years ago, it was sent
back to Fort Sam Houston.
That didn’t work out very well
though and this year the tourna
ment will be held at the Oak Hills
Country Club where there is a
6,616-yard course and better fa
cilities—and, it is hoped, a more
attractive place for the fans. It
also is being held two months la
ter than in the past with the idea
of escaping the bad weather that
always harrassed the tournament.
One year there were four kinds
of weather in the four days—rain,
freeze, snow and sunshine.
SPORTS
SECTION
Twelve Ag Cagers
Awarded Letters
For 1960-61 Play
Twelve A&M varsity basketball
players won letters during the
1960-61 season.
Coach Bob Rogers announced the
honorees which include four sen
iors, three juniors and five sopho
mores.
The lettermen:
Seniors: Don and Pat Stanley,
Buna; Wayne Annett, Chicota; El
liott Craig, Navasota.
Junioi-s: Carroll Broussard, Port
•Arthur; Tommy Smith, Jefferson;
Ronnie Durbon, San Antonio.
Sophomores: Jim Keller, Terrell;
Charles Minor, Pampa; Lewis
Qualls, Houston; Jerry Windham,
Hamilton; Billy Young, Haworth,
Okla.
Also winning awards were Her
bie Campbell of Dallas, trainer;
and Jimmy Roberts of Bryan, man
ager.
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Long on hitting and short on
pitching, the Aggie baseball team
attempts to come up with a happy
combination of both in a two-game
series with Southern Methodist
University on Kyle Field Friday
and Saturday.
The games will begin at 3 p.m.
and 2:30 p.m., respectively, the
two days.
Five Aggie regulars are batting
.333 or above for the season, and
the team’s hitting average for the
19 ball games is a hefty .291.
However, the pitching corps,
plagued with arm trouble during
much of the campaign, owns a
high earned run average of 5.33
per game—although the Cadets
have, come up with 11 victories as
against seven losses and a tie.
In Southwest Conference play
A&M is 2-5-1.
The records of the four starting
pitchers of Coach Tom Chandler
are 3-1 for Mike Spence, 2-0 for
Jerry Warren, 3-3 for Bob Collins
and 2-2 for Ed Singley.
Spence, Warren and Singley are
sophomores and Collins is a junior.
Senior outfielder Byron Barber
leads the hit parade with a .370
average, including four doubles
and eight home runs—good for
58 bases. >
In three games against TCU last
week, Barber went nine for 12 at
the plate and picked up four
walks. Of the nine safeties, three
were home runs and one was a
double.
Outfielder Ray Hall (sopho
more) is batting .357, Second Base-
man Terry Cobb (sophomore) has
a .355 mark, Outfielder Clifford
Davis (senior), a .352 average and
First Baseman Dick Hickerson
(senior) is .338 for the season.
Run, run, run has been the base
ball theme for the Aggies this
spring. They have scored no less
than three runs in any one game,
and in the record book are seven
contests in which A&M tallied ten
or more runs—and lost two of
those.
The opposition also has seven
10-plus run games, such as TCU
victories by 11-10 and 18-17.
Chandler feels his team might
have contested for the SWC title
had his pitchers not developed the
arm trouble during the early—and
cool—part of the year and lost lots
of work.
With at least nine of the regu
lars (counting the four pitchers)
expected to return, perhaps the
1962 season can be another cham
pionship year.
The Aggies have six games re
maining this year, including the
two against SMU, two with Bay
lor at Waco and a pair against
Texas here on May 12-13.
A&M defeated SMU, 11-8, when
the clubs met earlier at Dallas.
Folly Malone Signs With Ags
George (Folly) Malone, consid-
sidered one of the state’s prize
junior college basketball players,
signed a pre-enrollment agree
ment with Texas Aggie Coach Bob
Rogers Wednesday.
The 6-5 forward from Bailey-
ton, Tenn., was twice named to
the National Junior College Tour
nament all-star first team while
playing at Tyler JC.
In 1960 Malone scored 600 points
for a 17.6 average and last season
despite an ankle injury poured
638 points through the hoops for
a 20.6 per game norm.
He tallied 1,238 points while
leading the Tyler Apaches to run-
nerup honors in the National JC
Tourney at Hutchinson, Kan., in
both 1960 and 1961.
Several major colleges includ
ing the majority of the Southwest
Conference schools and Tennessee,
Kentucky and Houston sought the
services of Malone, who will be
eligible here with the start of the
next basketball campaign.
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