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Ag Baseball Accent On Youth The accent is on youth as the Texas Aggie baseball .team pre pares for its 19G2 season opener against the University of Dallas here Mar. 3. Coach Tom Chandler has several returning from last year’s nine which posted records of 14-10-1 (season) and 6-8-1 (SWC). However, A&M success depends on the development of sophomores at three or four key positions, according to Chandler. “Our pitching must improve for us to have a better record than last year, and we must find re placements for such outstanding performers as Dick Hickerson at COPYRIGHT © 1961, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY COCA-COLA AND COKE ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS r ' • -. 7... .;:^ In over 100 countries people get that refreshing new feeling with Coke! ■ ; < - I SwSP Bottled under authority of Bryan Coca _ Cola Bottling Co. The Coca-Cola Company by 1 first base, Terry Cobb at second base, Clifford Davis in centerfield and Byron Barber in left field,” Chandler explained. Ags Lose Four * Hickerson, Davis and Barber completed their eligibility, while Cobb failed to complete enough classroom work to retain his eli gibility and signed a professiona! baseball contract. All four hit .330 (Hickerson) or above last season, with Cobb lead ing the team in batting with a .388 mark. Davis finished with a .370 average and Barber .364. They poled a total of 23 home runs. It was this hefty hitting that carried the Aggies to several wins in 1961, for A&M pitching was generous in that the staff led the SWC Cage Champ Meets Air Force In First Round By The Associated Press Dayton has been tapped for the National Invitation Basketball Tournament—NIT— at Madison Square Garden, leaving only eight spots open in the top two cage tournament fields. The NIT has filled half of its dozen slots. The NCAA Tourna ment, which settles the national championship, has only two places left and one of those will be of fered to the Ivy League winner. Dayton is 15-6 on the year. The Ohio team has been runner-up five times, but never a winner of the NIT, scheduled for Mar. 15-24. Defending Providence, Duquesne, Houston, Loyola of Chicago and St. John’s of Brooklyn are the other selections for the NIT. The NCAA announced Wednes day sites and dates for three first- round games. The Air Force, an at-large entry, will meet the Southwest Conference winner on the latter’s home court Mar. 12. In the Far West division, the Seattle-Oregon State contest will be at Corvallis, Ore., Mar. 13, and Arizona State will face the Sky line Conference winner at Tempe, Ariz., Mar. 12. Southwest Conference in the num ber of walks issued and the num ber of base hits allowed. Two Hopes For Chandler Chandler has two hopes for 1962 —that the Cadet hitting will con tinue as lusty and that the pitch ing shows improvement. The top mound prospects appear to be Bob Collins of Dallas, Ed Singley of Oklahoma City and Mike Spence of Dallas, all re turnees; plus sophomores Richard Beller of Victoria, Chuck McGuire of Dallas Jesuit and Johnny Crain of Houston Bellaire. Collins posted a 5-3 won-lost record in 1961, but goes into his senior season not tested after hav ing broken his arm while deliver ing a pitch during a summer ama teur game at Brenham. Singley was 2-4 for the year and Spence had a 3-1 record on the varsity. Beller was 3-0, McGuire 1-1 and Cram 3-0 for the Aggie Fish. Puckett Returns Catching appears in good hands with starter Bill Puckett of Okla homa City (.294) returning. He is backed up by 1961 Frosh star Arthur Uresti of Houston St. Pius (.313). Infield starters loom as John Burton of Henderson (.194) at first base (moving from third), David Johnson of San Antonio Alamo Heights (.480) or Bill Gro- chett of Houston St. Pius (.275) at second base, Bill Hancock of Shreveport, La. (.188) at third base and Jack Singley of Okla homa City (.280) at shortstop. The utility duties will be handled by John Hudson of Bryan (.167). Burton and Singley played in 22 and 25 games, respectively, last season. Johnson, Grochett and Hancock are sophomores. Hall Back To Outfield Ray Hall of Fort Worth Brewer, a .357 hitter as a sophomore start er last spring, returns to right field. The other garden berths will go to two of four aspirants— squadman Charlie Watkins of Brownwood (.178) and sophomores George Hargett of Linden (.000), Roger Crouch of Kilgore (.293) and Bob McAdams of Spring Branch (.355). THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES SALUTE: DON PICKARD Soon after his return from the Army two years ago, Don Pickard began managing a telephone public office in Chicago. Because of his skill in handling the public rela tions tasks of this job, Don was transferred to a new job in the Public Relations Department. Here his public office experience comes in very handy as he works with other departments of the company to promote the kind of service that lives up to customer expectations. Don Pickard of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, and other young men like him in Bell Telephone Companies throughout the country, help bring the finest communica tions service in the world to a growing America. JO BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES m TELEPHONE MAN-0F-THE MONTH M : Ik, idlli b (Va HI i 1.; ■-AS THE BATTALION Thursday, February 22, 1962 College Station, Texas Page 5 Football Spring Training Still Big Question In High School By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer For a quarter of a century Texas high schools have been arguing about spring football training. A few years ago it was elim inated in all classes except AAAA. An attempt was made to get it out of that class too but it failed because of a campaign put on by the coaches, who claim they just can’t have good football unless they have spring training. The vote was close, however, and now those who oppose spring training have asked for another referendum. It will be held in April and the coaches have begun a spirited campaign to preserve the status quo. This time they have two things in mind: keep spring training in Class AAAA and also keep it in the junior schools. The vote on Class AAAA will be by the Class AAAA schools only but all the schools will ballot on the question of cutting out spring training in the elementary or junior high schools. The Interscholastic League does not control sports in the junior high schools but the ballot will read like this: “Any high school football team shall be disqualified for district honors the following fall if their school system conducts any spring training either in ele mentary or junior high school.” That will get the job done, if in- indirectly. Coaches do not vote on such matters. It is up to the school administrators and the coaches can only try to influence them to vote their way. Indications are that junior high school spring training will be eliminated since most of the ad ministrators appear to think boys of junior high school age get enough training in the fall ses sion. Elimination of spring training in Class AAAA, however, may be another matter. There is no age problem involved. POST-GRADS This spring, make a great big style splash in slim-line Post Grads . . . the real, honest-to- goodness “natural look” slacks by famous H-I-S! 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