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■■i bs sion to ! advi s . Athens hairmao al dele. 'e would this? possible the mid ere wen have to can put want to. ver, any 1 is just M’ Combination Hits More Pitchers .00 .25 D >E ) ) !' ) By FRANK ECK AP Newsfeatures Sport Editor Casey Stengel has criticized the merican League as being “pitcher dn” because the circuit expanded 10 teams. This spreading of lurling talent to accommodate ex- ansion has also been advanced as ne of the reasons for so many |ome runs this year. There may be a lot of patsies [r cousins serving up those gopher alls this season but you can’t Jrove it by the muscular M-Men— |Eoger Maris and Mickey Mantle— |f the New York Yankees. Both figure to break Babe Ruth’s ■cord of 60 home runs hit in 1927, |nd if both remain healthy they lould reach the splendid 60 within 54 games. The eight additional ames due to expansion shoulcj not e necessary. If there are any patsies around either Maris nor Mantle has found bem. Long before the season ends bey figure to have hit their homers gainst more pitchers than the 33 huckers who tossed 60 home run alls to the Babe. When Maris cracked four home uns on one recent night in the July 25th) twin bill against the hicago White Sox his 40th four agger was achieved against veter- n Warren Hacker who began the sason in Chattanooga. Ex-Cub lacker was the 30th pitcher to jel the sting of the Maris wallop iis season. Mantle hit No. 38 the same hu mid evening off Frank Baumann. He became the 31st pitcher so subjected. At the 40 mark, Maris was 10 homers or 25 games in front of Ruth’s record pace. When Mantle hit No. 39 the following day he went 6 homers or 22 games up on the Babe. The writers on 10 daily news papers covering the Yankees are using all sorts of charts compar ing Maris and Mantle with Ruth’s record output. The fact that Maris and Mantle are walloping moz-e starting and relief pitchers than the pitchers who opposed Ruth seems not to faze them one bit. Can Maris and Mantle be stopped ? “No, ’ says Ralph Kiner with emphasis. “They have the mo mentum. They can’t be stopped. They are hot. Most people favor Mantle because he is a switch hitter, but I think Maris has a slight advantage because he bats ahead of Mantle. “Pitchers who walk him are only taking the chance of giving up an extra run because Mantle follows him.” Outside of Maris and Mantle, and Willie Mays, who hit 51 in 1955, Kiner was the last man to seriously threaten Ruth’s maz-k. Ralph had two shots. In 1947 he hit 51 for Pittsburgh and in 1949 he bashed 54 for the Pirates. THE BATTALION Thursday, August 10, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 3 NOW GOING ON Buy now... quantities limited and going fast... sale ends Labor Day! AVE! CHAMPION Blackwall Tube-Type 1.00 1.00 Other sizes jJ95* start at... 9 Plus tax and trade-in tire off your car mr i a MONTH Road Hazard Guarantee AV ^7 Tf"^ >t!/ Every new Firestone tire is V-) Sj! GUARANTEED 111 V;! 1. 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Three junior colleges quit and another moved up to senior col lege status. San Angelo, Victoria and Del Mar of Corpus Christ) gave up the game altogether, farleton State became a senior college. It wrecked the Pioneer Conference, leaving only Wharton. Then Whazton entered the Texas Junior College Conference. This year thei’e will be 35 sen ior colleges playing football, an increase of one over last season— this one being Tarleton State. Ten junior colleges will be field ing teams, a decrease of four. In fact the junior colleges have di minished so much the two confer ences will have double z-ound-robin schedules in order to pz*ovide enough games. There will be 912 high schools, seven Negro - colleges and three professional teams. Thus Texas will have 960 football teams, which should be enough to provide the fans with all the football they might want. The senior colleges ai’e: Southwest Conference — Baylor, Rice, Texas Christian, Texas A&M, Texas, Southern Methodist, and Texas Tech. Lone Star Conference — Sam Houston, Sul Ross, East Texas, Stephen F. Austin, Texas A&I, Southwest Texas, Lamar Tech, and Howard Payne. Border Conference—H a r d i n - Simmons, Texas Western, and West Texas State. Independents—H o u s t o n, Mc- Murry, Abilene Christian, Trinity, Austin College, Texas Lutheran, Arlington State, Corpus Chi’isti, and Tarleton State. Missouz-i Valley Conference— North Texas State. Negro colleges—Bishop, Prairie View, Texas Southern, Wiley, Paul Quinn, Texas College and Jarvis. There have been no changes in the Southwest Conference, Lone Star Conference, Independents or Negro colleges. One change has occurred in the Bolder Conference. Arizona has withdz’awn, leaving it a five-team circuit. New Mexico State and Arizona State are still in this league although Arizona State has officially withdrawn to join a new confei’ence of western colleges along with Arizona. Azd- zona State, however, will play this season in the Border Conference, having three games against Bor der Conference foes. Arizona State is eligible for the champion ship although not playing all of the other members. The junior colleges playing foot ball this season will be: Texas Eastern Conference—Ty ler, Kilgore, Texarkana, Paris, and Henderson County. Texas Junior College Conference —Navarro, Cisco, Ranger, Blinn, and Wharton. First football games are sched uled in August when the pros stai’t. Houston and Dallas ai’e in the American Football League. Dalas is also in the National Foot ball League. First high school games are Sept. 1. First college games are Sept. 9, with Texas Lutheran, Mc- Murry and Sul Ross having the honot' of getting the ball rolling. Texas Lutheran plays McMurry at Breckenridge while Sul Ross takes on New Mexico Western at Alpine. Kids Like Maris In Card Trading By SANKY TRIMBLE Associated Press Staff Writer On today’s baseball card market, Roger Maids is a 50-to-l offering. The smallfry or not-so-smallfry who is lucky enough to have a card on the Yankee homerun king can just about name his price. And this is only one indication of the booming business of baseball cards. The cards. come in a package at any corner di'ug store, grocery store, dime store. With them come several pieces of bubble gum. Usually the peewees could not care less about the gum and it winds up being peddled to the teen-age sister for about a cent for five sticks. Several card companies are in business. The youngster can spe cialize in oldtimers or try to keep up with current crop of major leaguers. Many do both. Some rather set standards are in effect. The New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle has a high ti'ading value— if you happen to be a Yankee fan. Many other major league playei's will demand a 10-to-l or better ratio on a trade. The cards feature full color in action pictures of the player in volved. It gives his height, weight, date of birth, home town, whether he bats or thi’ows left or right handed, a bi’ief descrip tion of his professional baseball career, and his record for perhaps the last five or moi’e years in games played, times at bat, runs, hits, two-base hits, triples, home runs, runs batted in and assists. From the cards—and the peewee is nobody unless he has at least 500, and if he wants social recog nition his collection should num ber 1,000 or more—has reveloped some unusual parlor games. . cant beat these food values! -GROCERIES- No. 2Vz Cans—Libbys Peach Halves 3 Cans 79c 12-Oz. Cans—Libbys Chopped Beef Can 49c 4-Oz. Cans—Libbys Vienna Sausage 4 Cans 79c Folgers Instant Coffee 6-Oz. Jar 69c Folgers COFFEE 1-lb. Can 69c 8-Oz. Bordens Potato Slices Phg. 29c 8-Oz.—Hickory Hill Hot Bar-B-Que Sauce .. 2 Btls. 39c No. 2V 2 Cans—O’Sage Elberta Peaches 3 Cans 69c Nabisco—Graham CRACKERS 1-lb. 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Potatoes 10 lbs. 41c Okra Homegrown .... 2 lbs. 25c SPECIALS GOOD THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 - 11 - 12 CHARLIE’S ,OOD NORTH GATE —WE DELIVER— MARKET COLLEGE STATION