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
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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).
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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
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Elimination of spring training
in Class AAAA, however, may be
another matter. There is no age
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