THE BATTALION
Page 6 College Station, • Texas Tuesday, March 8, 1966
Ags Edge
Sul Ross
Cadets, Lobos
Tangle Today
By LARRY UPSHAW
Battalion Sports Staff
A ninth inning- error by Sul Ross gave the Texas A&M
baseball team a 4-3 win over the Lobos Monday afternoon.
With a knotted score, 3-3, in the bottom of the ninth,
the Aggies’ Lou Camilli singled and Mike Arrington bunted
him to second. Then Lance Cobb and Billy Crain loaded the
bases by the walking route.
Facing one out and three on, John Poss brought Aggie
cheers with a slammer to the second baseman, who fumbled
the ball just long enough for Camilli to cross home plate
for A&M’s fourth and win
ning run.
The Lobos commanded the
game action for the first
seven innings, notching a
run in the top of the first and
doing likewise in the fourth for
a 2-0 bulge.
But with one eye on the score
and one on the outfield, the
Ag’s Richard Schwartz stepped
to the plate in the bottom of the
eighth. Two were out and the
basses were loaded. „ Schwartz
promptly clouted a double scor
ing Cobb, Crain and A1 Koonce
in the process.
A&M smiled at a 3-2 edge,
but Sul Ross shattered the grins
with a tying run in the top
of the ninth, setting the stage for
the last chance heroics by the
Aggies.
The Aggie starting pitcher,
Steve Hillhouse, cooled off a mite
against the Lobos and was pulled
after seven stanzas in favor of
Hank Diviney, who gained credit
for the win.
“Our hitting was not quite up
to par,” noted A&M Coach Tom
Chandler, who saw his swatters
amass only five hits. “We ran
up against some good pitching
and just didn’t get the hits.”
Schwartz’s three-run double
and two singles by Camilli led
the Aggies’ light barrage.
This game provided the fourth
triumph without a defeat for the
early-season bombers. Sul Ross
remains in town Tuesday for a
doubleheader beginning at 1
p.m.
Metcalf Given
Commendation
RESOLUTION ON THE 1965-66
BASKETBALL TEAM
WHEREAS, the 1965-66 basket
ball team at Texas A&M Uni
versity completed the season in
second place in the Southwest
Conference, and
WHEREAS, this athletic team
displayed great courage and de
termination throughout the sea
son, reflecting credit upon them
selves and Texas A&M Univers
ity, now therefore be it
RESOLVED by the Texas A&M
University System Board of
Directors meeting this 5th day
of March, 1966, at College Sta
tion, Texas, that the members of
this board express their indi
vidual and collective gratitude
and congratulations to this out
standing athletic team and its
coaches, Shelby Metcalf and Jim
Culpepper for their splendid
representation of the A&M stu
dent body and their excellent
sportsmanship on and off the
playing court, and be it further
RESOLVED, that this resolution
be spread on the minutes, and a
copy thereof signed by the Presi
dent of the Board, be presented
to Coach Metcalf as a permanent
mark of the respect and admira
tion of the board for his 1965-66
team’s contributions to Texas
A&M University’s athletic pro
gram.
Snook Takes Title,
New Win Record
Without Hollering
Will 78-Game Win Streak Continue?
First Opponent Next Season Tough
AUSTIN lA 5 ) — The Blue Jays don’t look much like bas
ketball players and their home town of Snook isn’t on all the
maps, but Saturday they were kings — winners of their 78th
straight game and the state Class B basketball title.
Winning their 78th game — in the finals of the state tourna
ment—broke the old record of 77 straight held for 12 years by
Bowie.
The average height of the Snook players is 5 feet 10
inches, although the star, Calvin Gerke, is 6-5. From there
the height drops off to 5-2.
The East Texans from the Brazos River bottoms near
Bryan broke a 77-game record on the books for 12 years by
clobbering Channing 64-40 to win their second straight cham
pionship for schools with 110 or fewer pupils.
Calvin Gerke, 19, an All-State senior, at 6-5 is the only
six-footer on the team. He fired in 35 points to set a Class B
title game record.
The Blue Jays represent a school of 80 pupils in a town
of 141. Much of its student body comes from the surrounding
countryside.
Guiding the Blue Jays through their winning streak, which
started in December 1964 after a loss to a big-city team from
Houston, was coach James Horn, 26, who has coached at Snook
for four years.
Horn, a soft-spoken, reticent native of Newton near the
Louisiana border, said he has no secrets to account for Snook’s
success.
Snook consistently has been out-matched in height with most
of its opponents averaging over 6 feet. Channing averaged
6-1. Only three of Gerke’s teammates are 5-10 or over. One
is 5-2.
“The boys just hustle real good and are real determined,”
said Horn after he received a big silver basketball for Snook’s
trophy case. “We try to be ready for any situation that might
be faced.”
Gerke, who hopes to attend nearby Texas A&M “because
it’s close to home,” says Horn deserves “a whole lot of credit.
He knows his basketball.”
The 15-man Snook squad seemed to take the record and
the championship in their stride. There wasn’t much of the
whooping and hollering you expect from a bunch of teenagers.
“It was just like we had won another game, that’s all,”
drawled Gerke, who has a 12.5 rebound average and a scoring
average of about 30 points a game.
How much farther will the winning streak go?
“I don’t know,” said Horn. “Our first opponent next season
is a tough one.”
Big John Beasley
Selected To AP
All-SWC Squad
DALLAS (^P)—Long- John Beasley of Texas A&M, who
outscored everybody by a mile, and John (Dub) Malaise, the
ace floor man and pointmaker for Texas Tech, were the
only unanimous choices for the All-Southwest Conference
basketball team announced Saturday.
They got the votes of the eight coaches and are re
peaters on the team.
Carroll Hooser of Southern Methodist also is a repeater.
Beasley, Malaise and Hooser are seniors.
Two juniors were named
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AND YOU’RE OUT!!!
. . . Aggie Richard Schwartz is out at first on close play.
Longhorn Swimmers Dunk
Aggie Tankers Saturday
The Texas Aggie swimmers were soundly beaten by the Texas
Longhorns, 77-16, Saturday afternoon in P. L. Downs Natorium.
This meet was the last dual meet of the season for the Aggies.
Their final record is 2-7.
The Fish were also beaten, but looked impressive according to
Coach Arthur D. Adamson. The final score showed the Texas Yearl
ings with 57 points and the Fish with 38.
In winning the varsity meet, the Long*horns set three pool
records. The previous records in the 400-yard medley relay, the
500-yard freestyle and the 400-yard freestyle relay were all erased
after Saturday’s meet.
Colin Dunn led the Fish by taking the 60-yard freestyle, the 100-
yard backstroke and by leading the relay team to victory in the 160
yard medley relay.
The Fish scored two other victories when Bob Nida won the
one meter diving and Bob Dommel took the 60 yard freestyle.
The final event of the swimming season will get underway
this Thursday in Austin when the Southwest Conference Swimming
meet will take place.
to the team—Darrell Hardy
of Baylor and Charles Beas
ley of Southern Methodist.
Gary Turner, Texas Chris
tian’s high-scorer and rebounder,
and Norman R e u t h e r, Texas
Tech’s second half of its 1-2
punch, came within one vote of
landing on the first team.
Turner and Reuther head up
the second team that includes
Look Magazine
Names Beasley
To Region Unit
NEW YORK — Michigan’s
Cazzie Russell, described as “the
collegiate player most pantingly
awaited by the pros,” has been
named for the third year to Look
Magazine’s 10-man All America
team, picked by the United States
Basketball Writers Association.
Texas A&M’s John Beasley,
Texas Tech’s Dub Malaise, Hous
ton’s Joe Hamood and Elvin
Hayes, and Texas Christian’s
Gary Turner were voted NCAA
All-District 6 honors.
The selections, made by the
writers’ nine-man awards com
mittee representing the eight
NCAA districts, were announced
recently in Look.
Vanderbilt’s Clyde Lee, the
only other repeater, won All
America honors for the second
straight year.
Rickey Sugg of Arkansas, Mick
ey White of Texas and Randy
Matson of Texas A&M.
White, Reuther, Sugg and
Turner are seniors. Matson, al
though he is a junior scholastical
ly, is rated a sophomore on the
squad since he didn’t play basket
ball in his second year.
Other players rated high were
Denny Holman of Southern
Methodist, Doug McKendrick of
Rice, Michey McCarty of Texas
Christian and Dale Dotson of
Texas.
The first team:
John Beasley, A&M, 6-9, Kil
dare.
Dub Malaise, Tech, 5-11, Odes-
Darrell Hardy,
Houston.
Baylor, 6-7,
Carroll Hooser, SMU, 6-7,
Richardson.
Charles Beasley, SMU, 6-5,
Shreveport.
The second team:
Mickey White, Texas, 6-5, Can
ton.
Norman Reuther, Texas Tech,
6-7, Fort Worth.
Ricky Sugg, Arkansas, 6-1,
Berryville, Ark.
Gary Turner, TCU, 6-6, Fort
Worth.
Randy Matson, A&M, 6-614,
Pampa.
JOHN BEASLEY
. Mr. Basketball of A&M,
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