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Roger’s Last Game
To Be Televised
By The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Roger Maris
couldn’t have reached the thresh
old of breaking one of baseball’s
most cherished records. Babe
Ruth’s 60 home runs, in an atmos
phere more unfavorable than Bal
timore.
The official story of the New
York Yankee’s effort is scheduled
to end here Wednesday night.
Maris arrived Monday with 58
homers and three games against
the Baltimore Oi’ioles remaining
in the decreed 154 for the record.
Mixed Emotions
Baltimoreans are bound to have
mixed emotions every time Maris
comes to bat starting with a dou
bleheader Tuesday. This is Ruth’s
home town and Baltimore base
ball fans hate tlie Yankees more
than any other American League
foe.
Maris isn’t in a confident mood
himself. Baltimore’s Memorial
Stadium and two B-B pitchers ac
count for his uneasiness.
Manager Luman Harris of the
Orioles has nominated left-hander
Steve Barber and right-hander
Skinny Brown to start pitching
against the Yankees Tuesday
night. Milt Pappas, a right-hand
er, is the Oriole choice for Wed
nesday night.
Maris Wants Excused
Maris was going to ask Mana
ger Ralph Houk to excuse him
■ j from batting against the south-
of his 53 homenrs this season in
Memorial Stadi tim. And two of
them were off Barber. But Mantle
is a switch hiitter while Maris
sticks to the lef t side of the plate.
Mantle Hats Given Up
Mantle has fjiven up hope of
matching Ruth’s; record in the 154
decisions that Commissioner Ford
Frick ruled wifi prevail because
that was the season’s schedule in
1927 when Babe hit 60.
The schedule this year is 162.
Wednesday night’s game will be
available o n television sets
throughout the nation except in
major league cities. The Ameri
can Broadcasting Co. announced
it will carry the game 8 p.m. EDT
on 150 stations. ^
The Wednesday game actually
is the 155th of the season. The
Yanks have played one tie—as
they also did in 1927 when Ruth
set his record.
paw Barber.
“He’s rough on me,” said Maris.
The Yankee added: “I’m bushed
and I can sure use the rest.”
Houk nixed in advance any time
off for Maris until the Yankees
clinch the pennant. They are two
victories away from it.
Maris not only has had trouble
against Barber’s pitches, but the
other Oriole pitchers have been
no bargain for him either,
j .133 Average in Baltimore
In 15 official times at bat in
five games in Memorial Stadium,
Maris has only two hits for a puny
A33 average. Neither of the hits
was a homer. He did knock one
out of Memorial Stadium on July
17, but it didn’t count because the
game was called at the end of 3^4
innings because of rain.
His only official homer off an
Oriole pitcher was knocked at
Yankee Stadium May 21 against
Chuck Estrada, who is not slated
to face him during this series.
HR Territory Is Tough
Memorial Stadium’s home run
territory is one of the toughest
in the league. Although it is only
309 feet down the foul lines, the
14-foot high concrete stands curve
sharply to 382 feet.
Between the 382-foot marks,
there is a seven-foot wire fence
with dead center 410 feet from
home plate.
Mickey Mantle, Maris* team
mate, has been able to knock four
Coach Myers
Will Speak
Athletic Director and Head
Football Coach Jim Myers will
be guest speaker at the regular
monthly meeting of the Brazos
County A&M Club on Wednes
day night at 7:30 p.m.
Coach Myers will discuss the
upcoming football season and
the prospects for his Texas Ag
gie squad.
The meeting is open to all
A&M Ex-Students and their
guests. It is a stag affair, to
be held at the Brazos County
A&M Clubhouse on Ehlinger
Drive in Bryan. The meeting
will be preceded by the custom
ary meal at 7:30.
X-Rays Reveal
Phil’s Mahaffey
Has Skull Fracture
CINCINNATI CP> — X rays
taken Monday disclosed that Art
Mahaffey, Philadelphia Phils
pitcher, suffered a skull fracture
over his right eye when hit by a
thrown ball in Sunday’s game
with the Cincinnati Reds.
Dr. George Ballou, Reds’ physi
cian, said, however, that the
young hurler, a native of Cincin
nati, “is doing very nicely.” He
said Mahaffey probably will be
hospitalized three or four days.
Mahaffey was hurt in the ninth
inning of the game when he went
into second base standing up on
an attempted sacrifice by Bobby
Malkmus. Cincinnati pitcher Jim
Brosnan threw to shortstop Eddie
Kasko to retire Mahaffey, but
Kasko’s throw from only a few
feet away hit the Phil hurler over
the eye.
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Texas A&M’s 68th football
campaign opens here Saturday
night when the Aggies entertain
the nation’s 11th ranked team,
the Houston Cougars.
Kickoff time is 7:30 p.m. at
Kyle Field.
Coach Jim Myers’ Aggies have
been rated a “dark horse” in the
1961 Southwest Conference race.
To prove a point, sports writers
focus attention to A&M’s exper
ience, depth and most of all,
improvement at quarterback and
halfback—two sore spots in the
A&M offense last season.
Houston To Be Gauge
The meeting with Houston will
serve as a gauge to the Aggies’
strength in the coming SWC
chase. For Cougar Coach Hal
Lahar has assembled a veteran
club which will surely test the
Cadets in all departments.
Houston plays an independent
schedule, and received the 11th
place ranking in one of the na
tion’s better known magazines
covering the college grid scene.
That the Aggies want to win
their season’s opener is reflected
in what Captain Wayne Freiling
and Alternate Captain Wayland
Simmons say.
Only One Bad Game
They tell of playing only one
bad game last season—that
against the Cougars when A&M
lost the intersectional fracas,
17-0.
In no other contest were
Myers’ Aggies the least bit hu
miliated.
During the 1960 grind, the Ag
gie 1 ? were picking up valuable
experience and at the end of ihe
season the majority of this year’s
returnees were in the lineup.
20 Veterans
Those veterans, all lettermen,
include Ends Bobby Huntington,
Pat Latham, Russell Hill, and
Franklin Fisher; Tackles Sim
mons, Joe Eilers and Ben Krenek;
Guards Freiling, Jim Harper,
Jim Phillips, Keith Huggins and
Walter LaGrone; Centers Jerry
Hopkins and Jerry Jenkins;
Quarterback Ronnie Brice; Half
backs Bob Caskey, Jim Murphy
and Ronnie Ledbetter; and Full
backs Sam Byer and Lee Roy
Caffey.
While these holdovers form the
Ct\
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nucleus of the Aggie team, it
took the arrival of several soph
omores, a quarterback who has
not played a down of college foot
ball and a junior college transfer
to mold the Cadets into a pos
sible conference threat.
Keller Is Field General
Jim Keller is the field general
with no experience since an all-
state rating in high school two
years ago. However, he has
shown lots of grid savvy and to
day owns a first team jersey.
Running close behind Keller
is John Erickson, a transfer from
Tarleton State w'ho is expected
to lend aid to A&M’s passing at
tack. Brice presently is on the
third string.
The most promising sopho
mores are at left halfback where
George Hargett and Jim Linn-
staedter form formidable one-two
all-the-w’ay threats; at center
where big Ray Kubala (236) has
ousted Hopkins from his first
team spot; and at fullback where
Jerry Rogers has proved the sen
sation of fall training.
Rogers has teamed with Caffey
to drop Byer to third string, j
Caffey is listed as the guJ
with Rogers on the second
Byer le Still Rood
Myers notes that in the k..
for fullback, it has not
play by Byer, but outstui*
workout performances bv c >
and Rogers which promoted i
couching stuff to realign
rankings.
Byer last year was in
leading ground gainer wuJi
yards on 105 carrias .
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