r r Jr :■ 1 f vt ;\ H-.'-l 41' 4 It 1 J-'j-M. ■ -'V . Connie M jcs Good Chance Aggies Ploy u\ ’■fr For Pem :or A’s lor 1949 '9 AP N«w»felkt we have th? B?af pitching and the BaylorFrida best infield in the league.” if!5? | WEST PALM BI Mack looks for an improvement Lovable Connie ' in his pitching, pointing out that Ifi By LEON SOMER 1 his 49th season at appears to have Mi Philadelphia Athl completely recovered from his ill­ The Texas Aggie basebafl! Ip •V'! busy to think of ness of last year, and Bill Mc- ' nine will play the Bryan Bom­ 86-year-old gen' Cahan’s sore arm has healed. W-M HIu bers tonight at 8 o’clock at concerned about winning “Last year Marchildon and ican League p Bomber Park. The Farmers . McCahan won only 13 games will be after their second win “Me retire?' between them,” says Mack, r ll I win another over the East Texas League ! H i “Marchildon won 19 and Mcf want to make it Cahan 10 the year before. If m- * jf -Ji team, having defeated the Connie thinks they can duplicate 1947, we Bryan nine 8-3 last Saturday to wait too many years should have plenty to say in, the on the Kyle Field diamond, coming race.? ili In Saturday’s contest with the THUMBNAIL PRE1 With Joe Coleman, Dick Fowler, Carl Scheif and Lou Brissie win­ Bombers the Aggies played ­ j | Philadelphia Athlei ning .57 games among them, the less ball and four of their eight hits went for extra bases, indi­ Hitting—Fair ' A’s almost upset the dope last year. Picked to finish in the sec­ cating that Karow’s hitters Pitching—Excellent are improving at the plate. atching—Fair ond division, the Mackmen jumped into the race from the start and Pm I® Tonight’s game will give the infield—Excellent Mm remained in or around first place Farmers more practice in prepar­ , Outfield—Good ation for their meeting with the I Finish—Fourth until , late August. m I.*-' Except for the addition of Wally B Baylor Bears in Waco this Friday ■y-r: '■mm Moses and Taft Wright, a couple Hi and Saturday. Currently the Ca­ ther, “It might eve» dets are tied with Texas for the of veteran pinch hitters, and Joe m mM mm 04 ynr.” he! says. “If not, U Astrpth aiul Earl Brucker, Jr., i ' —A conference lead, with onfl/Win and Will be in 1950 or ” j | \\ pair’ of young , the team, fey no losses. Tt was only a month i a is the same as last year. This week’s series with the Muck predicted the Cleyel Bears will probably determine diant would win thi The infield, which Hack con­ .j.Mv which of the two teams will bat­ a breeze/’ ‘ : siders the best defensive unit n tle it out with the Longhorns for “I’ve changed my minlh ’L he's ever managed, is composed the conference title. The Steers Ihe old gentleman, “il doh' j of at first, Pete Su-i ' already have defeated the Bruins /MSeyeland will have (nuchl 11 der at aecond, Eddie Jooat at Top men on the Aggie golf team are from left to right: Bottom. BART HALTOM, BUBBA MAYES. JOHN HENRY, and GAYTHER NOWELL, coach; Back row, JACK BARNETT. ALEX thus setting themselves up as the time any more. I th| nk ltd I short i and Heinie Map ski at team to beat in the title race. will foafow the pat ern! j| IfS third. in right, Bar­ I'EGUES, JACK RALEY, and TRAVIS BRYAN, JR. Not shown are GENE DARBY, JACK AN DREWS and TOM AITKEN. ! Against the Aggies Bpylor will ysa-r. H will ht' a foiir-t|ii ney McCoaky in center and Sam fielq a veteran team backed by a between Cleveland, [Ioan>l?i'! Chapman in left make up the -H———H------"i—'1|------^------‘------rj------— fine pitching staff led by Leroy Yn^k and Philadelphia,! hrtt ... veteran outfield trio, Aatroth, Jurlj and Fred Copeland. Tne Bears "(ably won't be derUIdd pn H who hatted .352 at Memphis, and )u»vq power id the plate with Dutch last week," ! T|l| . ;H Brucker, g. bonus player-son of Schroeder, Chuck Dcvereuux, and the Vh bullpen coach, figure to Oklahoma City! Indians Need (Ot just as go.Mh Joe Szeckley all hitting .400 or Vihe to >1 illil undefutudy yeieran Buddy Itosar, bettor, the No. 1 receivdtr. Topw among the Cadet hitters Help From Cleveland In ’49 thisj aeaHOii are Cottpnj Llndloff, John DeWltt, and Boh Frets. Lind- luff; hgx gotten aeveral qxtra hHNe ib^Senators WiU Ktl, Note: This is the first of a work lineup against mxltlhitlun iri-| baseman John Kornandox, outfltHl- kitnckM this year, Ineludlng a home HtM'les lilsrttssitig Texas LengUo laments, . Tj 1 opBeteLewlsandpitt'horsITemh- runjggnlnxt the Ohio Mtkte nine, ttrosnorts, , ] ^ Absentee and lt|Jui,l|s also claim-lor Dorsetl, Len (lilmoi'e anil Itjny I in,1! WKltk'H Mi ll KIM l l Finish Hig^ Than Last Year j MAHHIIAlJ,, Ti'X,, Anrll ft ed their regular toll, and Vosmlk Flanigan...... Tuomlay^ llleu vx, Texka al Aus- Diu% ehiefiy to a Hugging Infield, has been ‘concerned about t he tribes Pete Hpatufore is hack, striving llu,j Texas AA1M vs Bryan (Fast the Oklahoma City TeVnn Leuguers lack of punch. ORLANDO, Fl*; - 11*01 gone now, appear to b«' Worse off than ever Counting two missing pitching litst Henson at Wilkes-Barre, Frlday and Saturday^ UU*o vs, sophomore rtutnagei* jif thi Kuhel nlans to go [along with this spring, a(id they will need con­ holdovers, Lefty Vic Johnson and Brightest hope among the new­ HMU at Dalian, Texas vs, Texas (ton Honators, thinks hi!t(i#Vk; tth Kjue Scurboiough, Walter Master- siderable help from Cleveland if Tom Reis, the Warriors have comers Is a big young ntmimlh- Chtjstlait at Ft. Worth, Baylor vb, era ot \uat year litre tu^t|h to son, Mickey Hncfner, >Sld Hudson Joe Vosmlk i|« to field a winner. seven men returning from the man, George ttuvcrlnk, who toss­ Texas A&M lit Waco, mirth higher tni* year itndj Haynes as his itnrtlng five, The new has been ho 1918 team which wound up sixth ed 12 scoreless innings at tne .fcfc.v....*, - ;A—v... Mj-oi ttBons: j * Klieman, free agent Paul Calvert hu k ug inBUHiclbnt infield taleijt under Pnf Ankenman. start of the practice games, j 1—his pitching staff Is tfijHmgm'. and Southpaw Forrest Thompson that he was forced to put a patch- The other returnees are first The faRt right-hander, 23, is a a2—the outfield, is impiaiw Will be hik relief brigade. * Dick native, of Holland, Mich., ami had 3—the infield is better. Weik, a fast freshman righthander an 18-12 mark with Spartanburg 4?—the club has added from Chattanooga, has made a in 1948. Here is the way th|c 42i- fine iimpresrsion on Kuhel. Vosmik may be able to assenji- O Battalion ble a cofps without landing one Kadera Throw! irk His pildt sizes up the Senator: The regular infield will consist “The trades we madje wi(tiH or two more flingers off tlje of Robinson at first, holdovers Cleveland roster, for Dorsett, land and Stj Louis hiive <1 :fi?dt dy A1 Kozar and Eddie Yost at Way Into Top ild Sl»| helped us. We got Eddie iRbljimon Gilmore, Flanigan, Reis add DALLAS, Texas, April 6 — second and third, respectively, O PORT •Joiinso/i ay team up well witiii for first base jin ejchanlifeet-l 1 and Dente at short. Al Evans, It looked today as if Maykiger Bar­ Rookies Zuverink, Gordon Wal­ One of Texas A&M’s pip . Robby hoit and young! Al Okrie TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1949 Page 5 ney Shotton of the Brooklyn Dod­ den and Fred Wollpert. Other sistent point makers in trai io count the better hitter, but is a. will do the catching. ’ gers has settled upon a regular drive in mdre runs tm possibilities are recruits Bdb outfield. • \ j field events is George Kaidejl i,-H record* home runs than Vernqn d John Simmons, a graduate from Chakales and Leland t rissman. might easily be called “The Ail jr 8s sophpmqie, he-1 Montreal; Clyde Vollmer, Syracuse After experimenting all through He'll hold m The tribe entertains high hopes For the past two seasons, d! arm ir jan early meet product, and holdover Sherry’ Rob- the spring training campaign with j|d didn’t throw in the field: of getting Milt Nielsen back jfor has been gaining some jbhristi ertspp, Will back up the regular almost as many trios as the‘ ini; again atlseds Don Mitchell Gives Helping the outfield. If it did the oujter points for the Aggies in th t Brooks have played games, Shot- he.I conference IBN outfield trio and- serve as pinch garden probably would include events, the discus throw*! •n [ to. win hitters. ton apparently hap decided on Ca! c secollil shiington Nielsen; Pete Lewis, a .315 hitjter put, and the javelin. ‘J [j! Abrams, Duke Spider and Carl scus. ■■ Hand to Runner in Austin last term, and Joe Morjoseph, j up Furillo as his first string picket- Kadera, who stands 6' fMdie! s beeq;.jent^red in two from Vosmik’s Dayton club of ijast men. 212 pounds, and plays'at n. l](ir this Reason a id has Outfield—fall campaign, with a .314 average.! Pitching—fai i I Fish Baseballers j By HAROLD V .RATLIFF I kin had cut in fropi of Mitchell He played? the three for the sec­ position on the football squiil dbi- 2-| pofnts Ivhich jn ts him too quickly and therefore did The catching seems to be in cap­ ing the fall, started hia a nit qg Catching—fair DA S, April 5 -—UP>— The ! ond day. in a row yesterday, a:r vard't if. tiqj, oi point Finish—seventh ( not blame Mitchell for the shove. able hands, with veteran Ed Mjut- the Brooks thumped the Dallas ways ,in the field events f till he conflreijce. Play Blinn Squad Texas rts Writers Association “It was held that he had put his student at John Reagan H u. ryn and Rookie Joe Kratzer hcjld-; Ea.gies of the Texas League, 8-3. the B ifde'r Olympics ‘ Joe Haynes, one iof ;l| can expect some acrid letters from hantj ou( to protect himself. mg forth, but the Indians would! Morris Martin and Erv Palica School in Houston. I f [itvlfo the women v^ho work on newspaper c do am lithe Southwcst- we got for Earlyl W ^llinn Junior College will invade* explained Coach Clyde Little­ not turn their backs on Ray Mpr- 3hared the Brooklyn pitching a.s- At the state high school; ni Wyrn, sports deskis. The TSWA showed iqn Mei at' Fort Worth won more games thah jwy iii College Station Wednesday after­ field of Texas, director of the ray, now with Cleveland. j signment. in 1943, George placed aid j courage if not diplomacy in its an­ placed rst in the shot last year.. Ed Kliemah,; thft noon for a game with the unde­ Relays. “Bufkin would have been Oddly there are three men co thc discus throw. In the saril nual j meeting held in connection e disc and third in , is ono of lthe hertit feated Fish baseball squad. The disqualified had Tech placed in peting for the regular first base Porterfield, hurling as though , in 1944, he again placed sec. with' the Texas Relays at Austin next; pptui’knjcc will fitrhers in baseball. tilt will start at three o’clock. | the relay.” role. Hernandez hopes to wjn it were the middle of the season, this event, and added Lp itj. by. voting pot io accept member- n II wnert [he will |be our “Sam Dente, whcjin w« g The Fish have woh two games so A&M won the epent. i , out despite his poor .2155 maiik set the down place in the shot put. 4; [ far tjhi« season. They defeated an ships from the rto-called fair sex. miT ft oonte jilersi in St. Louis Browns in; o. The crowd got a kick out of the for 1948, but he is beingig chaf- with one in fashioning a 2-0 In 1946, George : added 4 H!1! Johnny Sullivart atidiTjoi outclassed Navarro Junior College The crisis was projected when sev- . ll\K hZ ienged strongly by Krutzer arjd 1 eral lady [sport* editors sent in 1'lcl,ent; pu, ,h‘s shut-out for the Bronx Bombers glory to his personal ycedi L or in Th; cation; (, figures to be an m'prd\ nine; and then slipped past a Herb Conyers, with Jim Cepa crew yesterday. winning tht' State AAU crqyr short oyer Sulllvup uoifj bunch from Rice at College Sta­ application*. But the male scribes th.u"< *"to \ufk ",S„b?n lit ; now running third. y l ‘that Ion uf- were not afrajd-besides there the latter ahead by four yards m- Stengel is busting dut all over both the snot put and the be a oei iafl tion kiist Thursday by a score of Christman.| We’ve peep w«e no ladies there to urge their Htoa(i of thc bli,e one pie- But the rest of the infield with good pitching. Added The same year, hp entered onp mo rc year since 1946. He is young,wnf.j d tOiijjl j 1' vailed before the shtvvo. far fronr being set. > Porterfield's workmanlike c^ore, where he was to odd to'it fji which alve, a good pipy ri d cafse. j t nick it pihy ri Beaumont an* Sam Blanton ★ i ; Vosmik, who is bringing Con wt*rc the recent fine performanceH As a college .ft’eshniuh I'ohapiftty , bring The major objection to gals in Coach Frank Anderson of the wi l get hlH shuro will probably hold down mound yers C.354),iMorjoseplv, piteheHljiy :u,f jor Page, Wally Hood and Tom thc 1947 track itenaon, ttvoiw tjfijjk AggioH. P! the aHNocijitionlit was that it would Texas A&M- track team is doing ••Wt’r# 100 perfenj imp jdulioH for )hc Ag Freshmun.: Girdlcy...... and“J Connie1 Gregory frqm Byrne. mean they would have to he ac­ some missionary wofk toward cut­ In our mutfiel d. Buddy ip, Blainon pitched four Innings in corded presH ; box privileges, Dayton, hopes that the lattoi 'tha! Ipavarro tilt Untiling the ting down- the strung anil some­ back after a year which gives them freedom they make the grade at shortstop. RL PASO Leo Durhcher, manj- retirement, flgurvk Central Texas nine to their only times unethical rivalry among the A quesGon murk at Third base ager of the New Yot'k Giants, do not know elsewhere. Southwest Gonfcreuiee schoors in ngat hlttek He wl I I e lit H two. runs. •' j However, the; woman angle in Ih rangy Larry Lee, a ,‘42u n,li­ seemed determined today to g e t I'm sticking with going after athletes. Andei’son Hus ter for Han Diego in the Inst Jack Loiirko into tho line-up tp THifi .Baylor freshmen journey to HRortH writing is Homething the reached an ugmmtqnt with Texas center. Hera fast aid i goi^ race. And second base—it is qs stay. *' 'M . I. ij College Station this Saturday to ‘nsHociution will ipive to face again, and Baylor like this: Neither will off hlter. Ed Stow wide open as a broken gale. uJay thi* Kish in the second »chc- and probably spon. The wfitprs lake an athlete from the other Lohrke, wim haa been belting tt» left. Juki compurMJi^H mileij ggme of the rtcanon between just staved off; the question jfor Deck Woldt, normally an out­ the ball at better than a .400 clip field with last year’s. school when that athlete has al­ «• -o' id the tiwp HquadH. The first tilt, ncho- the time being.! ready registered and been granted fielder, has been sharing duty In grapefruit lougiic games, played With Lcoh Culberson | onl Mc jidujed to be played in Waco this an .athletic scholarship. Anderson there with Spatafore, and help at second base, a relatively strangle I ride“ PM!Harl W iff last Saturday, w’uh rained out. Speaking of the Texa« Relays, second is a must if Vosmik is to position, yesterday as the Giant** ... for many an faitar;; % hopes to reach an agreement with HI here’s the low-ddwri on an incident have a class AA infield. The mxt outslugged tho , other members of the conference. men have favored fhd fu «i which undoubtedly puzzled the 10-10. Ilf The Texas Aggie track coach couple of weeks will determine if crowd: j. and Rood lookilof !} also favors a player limit iiv the lie needs one, two or three nj’W In thc mile relay, Don Mitchell Southwest Conference. “It is hands in the inner defense. An Amazing Offer by r '^5 Texas Aggie runner, was seen bankrupting thc schools to bring (Tomorrow: Tulsa), is to put his hand in the back of in 100 boys for football,” he say^. i Good RUNNER-UP EYES ’52 TEST^ ti Costin Bufkin, Texas Tech ­ ner, during the first lap. Some Anderson favors this rule in all sports. SAIGON—lA^J—Ignace Heinrii-h, HOLIDAY . wondered why there was not a Place disqualification, The reason was Ai 4 ' ■' the big boy from Strasbourg who Pipe Mixture that meet officials decided But- Some of the college track, coach­ finished second to Bob Mathias ! in es arc threateninjf to pull their the Olympic decathlon last su n- fbe pipe (hat every smoker waotl—DANA, (he 37’s EVERYWHERE teams out of the annual South­ mer, has his eyes set on Helsinki modern pipe, with brightly polished alu M To Eat... ■( western Recreation meet at Fort and 8,000 points in 1952. num shank and panuiw importad brior t DALLAS —4 DPi — Unless you W'6rth because of the bad condi­ His major worry is that Mathias, ! ;! know the kid, you won’t be able to tion of the track that has prevail­ the 17-year-old California young­ -1 pick one! out at a sandlot football ed for several years. ster who outdid the iron men in tme game in Dallas.! It is to bp hoped that the South- rain at London, Will do even better. 50* Feat They all wear No. 37 jerseys. Western Recreation officials\fix Heinrich, a powerfully bujilt with inside wrappers Ii5c Luncheons Yes, each wants to wear the "ni the track adequately. It would be young man of 23 years, has been from 12 pocket tins of number made jfambus by Doak a shame to have this fine meet touring French Inao-china. Hem- MOLIDAT PIPE MIXTURE W’alker, Southern Methodist Uni­ hurt by wholesale withdrawals as rich weighs 198 pounds and stands i a • '■ versity’s All-America player. He’s bn Q I01BXT »r*Mtrs .tL- now appear likely.' 6 feet 3 inches. the idol of all (jvf them. Oat your DANA PIN 85c Dinners More than 1J000 kids’ jerseys Sind to Preston Ward, Brooklyn Dodder . ntniT. tut. cm, udaiei. nt{M ti l iii bearing Walker’js number have been , shortstop man­ rookie , played for Of far UnjUrf ygA-Pn^w v . sold by Dallas sporting goods deal­ ager of the Cleveland Indians, en­ the Southwest Missouri State Col­ - i: ■ ers in recent months. Veteran ters the 1949 diamond season with lege basketball team during tjho An Adventure th Good-Snu king And our w,