The Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1957 Page: 3 of 4
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Wednesday, March 20, 1957
THE LONE STAR LUTHERAN
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Bulldogs
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BULLDOGS SPLIT WITH TEXAS Tourney Entries
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Still Being Taken
LETTERMEN'S GROUP
KIEFFER ANNOUNCES
INITIATES EIGHTEEN
TEN CAGE LETTERMEN
Charlie McMahon went the dis-
Women Athletes Have
Volleyball Playoffs
LEON STUDIO
PORTRAITS
Daily Service
On
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Phone 19
Jr. Women Take
Basketball Trophy
“Courtesy Demonstration”
Plaza Hotel Building
Bulldogs To Play
Conference Champs
Coach George Kieffer recently
announced that ten Bulldogs let-
tered on the 1956-57 TLC basket-
ball team.
Entries are still being accepted
for the badminton, archery, tennis,
and golf tournaments for women
students. An entrance fee of 25c
will be charged for each sport en-
tered. This money will go toward
purchasing individual trophies for
the winners in each event.
Last year trophies were won by
Lois Knipling and Lila Pfennig
for doubles in tennis; Lois Knip-
ling and Cynthia Scrogin for dou-
bles in badminton; and by Kay
Mountain for archery.
There have been no entries in
golf for two years, and participa-
tion in this sport is encouraged.
The Aggies pushed across two
runs on three hits in the seventh
frame against Bulldog starter Ray
Erxleben and scored another pair
of tallies in the bottom of the
ninth on two Bulldog miscues.
Correa, who relieved Erxleben
with two out in the ninth, fanned
all three A&M batsmen in the
tenth for the win.
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COSMETICS
tance for the Bulldogs in the sec-
ond game and absorbed his first
loss of the season.
The game, which saw most of
the Bulldog bench in action, was
called after five innings because
of darkness.
The women’s intramural basket-
ball trophy now permanently be-
longs to the junior team.
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The captain of the freshman
team was Frances Marth, with
their high point player being Kay-
lene Wachtendorf with 15 points.
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Bulldogs Bow
To Rice Owls
The Bulldogs went scoreless
yesterday as they lost 12-0 to
the Rice Owls in an afternoon
contest in Houston.
Billy Graeber singled home Lon-
nie Anderson with run number
one, and Ken Dismukes added the
second run in the second canto by
stealing third and home.
Starter Ray Erxleben allowed
eight runs before being re-
placed by Charlie McMahon in
the fourth inning. A number of
Bulldog errors together with
impotent batwork told the tale.
The winning team was captained
by M’Liss Spaeth who was also
high point player with a total of
17 points. Other members of the
junior team included Rheba Mey-
er, Chris Bertelson, Louise Ohlen-
busch, Kay Mountain, Judy Kern,
and Willene Kiesling.
TLC jumped to a 4-0 lead in the
opener on single runs in the first
and second innings, and a two-run
third frame.
Graham Kersten, Glenn Bland,
Don McKee, Jerry Weiser, and Al-
lan Eichler were named as squad-
men.
Thursday night the Bulldogs
encounter the Oklahoma A&M
Cowpokes, champions of the Mis-
souri Valley Conference last year,
in the first of a two-game series.
The Thursday game, which be-
gins at 8:00 p.m., is a benefit
game being sponsored by the Se-
guin Rotary Club. Tickets, which
are now on sale in downtown
stores and by Rotary members,
are 50c for students, and $1.00 for
adults.
Rotary Clubs in San Marcos,
New Braunfels, and Gonzales are
handling out-of-town ticket sales.
This will be TLC’s first meeting
with the Cowpokes, last year’s
national finalists and one of the
top teams in the nation. Both
teams defeated Rice University in
games played last year.
Bulldog
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Bulldog Banter
by “Boogie”
Eighteen men athletes were ini-
tiated into the “T” Association in
a special ceremony, March 4.
Boys receiving varsity letters
in four major sports were given
membership.
Tennis initiates were Buzzy Den-
yer, Leslie Opperman, and Buddy
Kubena. Golf lettermen include
Howard Evetts, John Pfluger, and
Ted Windt.
Football players, Charlie Mc-
Mahon, Jim Green, Ken Goessler,
Myron Schneider, Larry Fanklin,
Randall Rohne, Aaron Sampson,
and Roy Joe Moore were initiated.
New varsity basketball members
are Buck Turk, Ivan Leschber,
Fred Buhr, and Robert Gilbreath.
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AGGIES IN TWIN BILL 6-4, 3-4
Texas Lutheran’s Bulldogs, a-
gain jinxed by a ninth inning col-
lapse which sent a game for the
second time this season into extra
innings, split a double-header with
the Texas Aggies in College Sta-
tion Wednesday afternoon, March
13, winning the opener 6-4 in ten
innings and losing a brief second
game 4-3 in five innings.
The football spring training at-
tracted a number of newcomers,
along with the returnees from last
year’s team. However, a number
of the gridders are participating
in other sports and were not out
for football practice.
Myron Schneider, Bulldog right-
fielder, has taken an early lead
in the batting department with a
hefty .429 average. He has six
hits in fourteen at bats.
Spring not only brings baseball,
but tennis and golf have also
appeared on the scene.
Practices were climaxed last
Saturday with a workout which
included a number of high school
gridders trying out for next year’s
Bulldog team.
In the group were a couple of
familiar names that were looking
exceptionally good. Spreen of San
Antonio, brother of TLC’s jovial
bus driver, Willie Spreen, and
Freddy Petmecky of Fredericks-
burg, brother of TLC’s Billy Pet-
mecky, were making things tough
for the Bulldog regulars.
Victory is great whenever it
comes, but I’ll bet it will ease a lot
of strain when TLC starts winning
its games in nine innings. Notice,
I said it “will”.
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TLC Meets Oklahoma A&M Thursday & Friday
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TLC’s starting infield, shown here with Coach John Kramer, has a pair of new faces this year
as the left side of the diamond crew has been taken over by freshmen. They are, left to right, Coach
Kramer, Tommy Cryer, 3b, Lonnie Anderson, ss, Ken Dismukes, 2b, and Shane LeStourgeon, 1b.
Graeber and Shane LeStourgeon
scored for the Bulldogs in the
third inning.
TLC’s netters opened their sea-
son at St. Edward’s University
in Austin last Tuesday. They meet
Southwestern University here in
Seguin on Friday, March 22.
Returning lettermen on the
Bulldog tennis team are Buzzy
Denyer, Freddie Hightower, Les
Opperman, and Maurice Kubena.
Squadman, Eddie Dentler, and
freshmen, Fred Buhr, Wilson Nie-
mann, and Allen Eichler round
out the squad.
Denyer, last year’s number one
singles player, will represent the
Bulldogs in the number one sing-
les position, with the rest of the
team battling for the remaining
positions.
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TLC Tops Frogs 7-6
After Losing 3-0
Coach John Kramer’s TLC Bull-
dogs failed to score in their 1957
baseball debut at Seguin’s Fair-
grounds Park Saturday, March 9;
however, they retaliated with se-
ven runs in the second encounter
to split a two-game series with
TCU, 0-3 and 7-6.
In the opener, the Bulldogs
could manage but four hits off the
righthanded slants of Froggie
pitcher, Doug Balkum, while TCU
nicked starter, Ray Erxleben, for
three runs and nine bingles.
Myron Schneider had a double
for the Bulldogs, and Tommy Cry-
er, Shane Lestourgeon, and Ken
Dismukes had singles to account
for TLC’s four hits.
In the second game, the Bull-
dogs blew a 6-1 lead, allowing the
Frogs a run in the eighth inning
and four more in the ninth to tie
the game at 6-6.
However, TLC, quickly scored
the winning run in the bottom half
of the tenth when Ken Hoffman
walked, advanced to third on Bil-
ly Graeber’s single, and raced
home on Shane. LeStourgeon’s
squeeze bunt.
Pete Correa went the distance
for the Bulldogs allowing seven
hits, walking six, and fanning
eight.
The junior girls walked off with
the women’s intramural basket-
ball trophy for the third time in
a row recently by defeating the
freshman lasses 48 to 35.
Southwest Con-
ference schools in
Since baseball is still the big
sport of spring, we’ll close on this
note—The Bulldogs have been
giving the fans, their coach, them-
selves, and most of all, their pit-
chers something to be nervous
about so far this season, and that
is their ninth inning collapse
against TCU and the Aggies.
Blowing a comfortable lead in
the ninth inning two games in a
row would give anyone cause to
worry, but remember, the Bulldogs
came back and won both games in
the tenth inning.
In the doubles department, Den-
yer will probably team with Fred
Hightower in number one dou-
bles, and Les Opperman and Bud-
dy Kubena will most likely com-
pose the number two doubles
team.
Although spring doesn’t usually
bring football, a group of non-
conformists have been working
with Coach Warren Okelberry on
the gridiron for the past two
weeks.
Spring is here
and with it comes
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Walks to LeStourgeon, Tommy
Cryer, and Pete Correa, coupled
with Myron Schneider’s single and
Ken Dismukes’ double accounted
for TLC’s winning runs in the
tenth.
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West wing, first floor of Clifton
Hall captured the women’s intra-
mural volleyball championship in
playoffs held last Thursday.
The runner-up team was the
South wing, second floor, Emma
Frey dormitory.
Members of the winning team
include Marcia Rosenburg, Marian
Spill, Helen Almquist, Janice
Spaeth, Sylvia Freis, Virginia
Dahl, Arlene Gass, and Janet
Minzemayer.
Among the group were three
four-year lettermen: Pete Correa,
Billy Graeber, and Shane Le-
stourgeon; two three-year letter-
men: Fred Wendlandt, and Ken
Dismukes; one two-year letter-
man, Billy Petmecky, and four
first year numeral winners: Buck
Turk, Fred Buhr, Robert Gil-
breath, and Ivan Leschber.
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their opening matches, downing
TCU and Texas A&M, and have a
tough foe coming to Seguin next
Thursday night in Oklahoma
A&M, the NCAA national final-
ist last year.
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The Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1957, newspaper, March 20, 1957; Seguin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1301218/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Lutheran University.