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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1912)
Published Weekly by the Students' Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOLUME XIX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 3, 1912 NUMBER 25 Team On Road Started Off Well. Took Both Games Easily From the Christians at Fort Worth. Excellent team work, hard hitting and fast base running were the chief factors of the two victories at Fort Worth. Higginbotham and Miller were in fine form. Eleven Farmers went to the bat in the second inning of the first game, getting six hits and seven runs. Dan iels of T. C. U. connected with one of Higg’s fade-aw r ays in the seventh, get ting their only score of the first game. The features of the second game were spectacular catches by Jack Wat kins and little “Baby” Collins and a three-sacker by McConnell of T. C. TJ. The catches were in the eighth and retired T. C. U.’s best hatters—Camp bell and Daniels. In the seventh Gris som scored from first base on a single by Morrison, making the score 2 to 2. The club rode to the grounds in cars provided by “Pete” Saunders, and each wore a red carnation from the same “Pete.” FIRST GAME. T. C. U.— AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Schumache, ss-lf .4 0 0 1 3 3 Graves, 3b 4 0 2 2 2 0 Daniels, rf 4 1 1 1 0 0 Campbell, p....4 0 1 1 2 1 McCollum, cf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Hopkins, c 3 0 0 9 0 2 McFarland, 2b . . 3 0 0 2 2 0 Hander, ss-lf .... 3 0 0 0 3 1 Park, lb 2 0 0 10 0 0 Totals 30 1 4 27 12 7 A. & M.— AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Bruton, 2b 4 1 2 3 1 0 Wathen, ss 5 2 1 0 1 0 Stietler, 3b 5 2 3 1 1 0 Watkins, lb 5 1 1 11 1 0 Hohn, If 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collins, If 4 1 1 1 0 0 Vesmirovsky, cf .5 0 0 0 0 0 Skeeler, rf 1 0 1 2, 0 0 Grissom, r f 4 1 2 8 0 0 Morrison, c 5 1 0 0 i. n Higginbotham, p. 5 1 1 0 5 0 Totals 43 9 12 26 11 0 By innings: A. & M 270 000 000—9 T. C. U 000 000 100—1 Summary: Two-base hits—Bruton, Wathen. Home run—Daniels. Bases on balls—By Higginbotham 1, by Campbell 1. Wild pitch—Campbell 1. Struck out—By Higginbotham 10, by Campbell 4. Hit by pitcher—Hohn. Umpire—Deardorff. (Continued on page 2.) Farmers Won Easy In Triangula! Meet. Foit Worth High and Trinity Defeated Marshall Training Win. In Both Games. A. & M. Made More Than Twice Com-j Take Cups from Beaumont and Allen Hohn’s Bunch Proved Too Much for bined Score of Its Two Academy Respectively—Littfield Waxahachie Fel^Jvs—Club Re- Opponents. The Austin-Baylor-A. & M. track meet Tuesday was a walk-away for the Farmers. Although we made more than twice the combined score of our opponents, there were no records en dangered. “Senior” Hambert came within two feet of the Southern record on the hammer throw, with a distance of 133 feet. Jakie Block outthrew Hambert and Bowler on the discus, he having been on the team one da.y. Simply another Jack Watkins stunt. Jimmie Johnson, ex-student and vis itor to the college, outvaulted the whole field. Jimmie had been out of training for two years, too. The standing at the finish was: A. & M. 88V2 points. Austin 21 points. Baylor 16^ points. The results: 120 high hurdles—Ewing (Baylor), Dreiss (A. & M.), Everett (A. & M.). Time 16 2-5 seconds. 880-yard run—Turner (A. & M.), Tonkin*- (Baylor), Clyoe (Austin!. Time 2:11 2-5. Shot put—Hambert (A. & M.), Bow ler (A. & M.), Neilson (Austin). Dis tance 35.3 feet. 100-yard dash—Eagleston (A. & M.),j Fritter (A. & M.), Ewing (Baylor). | Time 10 1-5 seconds. Pole vault—Fendley (A. & M.), Rother (A. & M.), Cobb (Baylor). Height 10 3-5 feet. Cobb and James of A. & M. tied for third. In flip off Cobb got the place and the point was di vided. 440-yard dash—Eagleston (A. & M.), Bracken (Baylor), Hunter (Austin). Time 57 2-5 seconds. Discus hurl—Block (A. & M.), Ham bert (A. & M.), Bowler A. & M.). Dis tance 97.3 feet. 220 low hurdles—Everett ( A. & M.), Dreiss (A. & M.), Ellis (Baylor). Time 26 4-5 seconds. Broad jump—Smith (Austin), Mc Donald (Austin), Rothe (A. & M.). Distance 20.5. High jump—Klug (A. & M.), Everett (A. & M.), Penrod (Baylor). Height 5 feet 6 inches. Mile run—Clyce (Austin), Turner (A . M.), Gribble fAustin). Time 5:06 4-5. 220-yard run—Eagleston (A. & M.), Fritter (A. & M.), Sheriey (Austin). Time 23 1-5 seconds. Hammer throw—Hambert (A. & M.), Bowler A. & M.), Calloway (Baylor). Distance 133 feet. Half mile relay race—A. & M. won, Austin College second, Baylor third. Time 1:413-5. Captain C. T. Schaedel and Manager Q. Adams and the A. & M. track team will leave Wednesday for Austin, w r here they -vvill participate in the an nual state meet Thursday and Friday, May 9 and 10. The winners in the state meet will go to the Southern meet, which will be held in New Or leans May 16 and 17. of Marshall Individual Star. ceives Much Hospitality. The High School Track Meet was a success in every way except finan cially. The “preps” strove hard and put up noble contests at all stages. When “Dindy” announced just before the relay race that Fort Worth and Beaumont were tied with 31 points each, the tension reached its highest. The “Beaumonters” were counting on Maxson to bring in the winning points, but in the second lap Foster gained a lead for Fort Worth that even the fast Maxson could not recover in spite of that he ran the prettiest race of the entire meet. Some of the side events were the daring hold-ups perpetrated by a band of robbers who called themselves the “Whitecaps.” The Whitecap organiza tion was apparently a popular one, by the frequency with which members were taken in. No quarter was shown. Captain Fenton being the first taken in, and cadets; profs, Bryan business men and visirors following. The noticeable ‘•vea.K > e ' '■ o the jiar * to “he ice cream stand immediately after the election of a new member with the cries of “Water me!” The Final Standing. The standing of towns was as fol lows : Fort Worth, 36; Beaumont, 34; Orange, Sj^Rogers, 5; Texarkana, 14; Sherman, 1-2; Brownwood, 9; Haskell, 1; Roby, 2; Temple, 4; Marlin, 16; Dallas, 4 1-2; San Marcos, 1. Maxson of Beaumont has the largest individual score—21; Braumiller of Texarkana second, with 11, and Sharp of Fort Worth, 10. The following records break the state interscholastic marks: Tucker of Fort Worth, in 220-yard hurdle; Nettles of Marlin, the high jump, with 5 feet 9 inches; Sharp of Fort Worth, the broad jump, with 21 feet 8 inches; and the mile relay race by Fort Worth in 3:48 3-5. Other state records broken were the The boys reached Waxahachie on Monday morning. They were met at the train by some loyal old A. & M. men whose love for their school has not yet died. Owing to the fact that the hotel at Waxahachie had burnt down some time ago, the boys were fortunate in being able to put up with private families. If it had not been for the popularity of the Farmer alumni at this place the boys would probably have had a difficult time in finding a place to “bunk.” The boys stayed with three different families and w r ere treated as royally as though they were honored guests. It is sel dom that a team goes to another place and meet with the treatment that the A. & M. boys met with at Waxahachie. Everybody tried as hard as possible to ma,ke the boys feel that they were wanted in that town and that the peo- ” pie there were at the service of those who needed it at any time. “Meni” Culberson did all he could in showing th£* boys over the city. rte a half dozen of tubes by running his Rambler around with a crowd of ca dets in it. The girls could not do enough for the A. & M. boys. It went so far that they had “Fish” Skeeler compeltely paralyzed. The first game was a real easy one for A. & M. The boys remembered Avhat Trinity had done to them two years ago and went out on the field with the determination to win. Every one of them played hard ball all through the game. The feature of the game was the fielding of Wathen and the long throw made by Vesmirovsky. The way the boys clouted that apple the first day was a shame. They knocked the first pitcher out of the box in four innings and then took the rest out of McElree, who relieved him. The game ended in a score of 23 to 0 in favor of our bunch. After the boys had made their twenty-three runs they decided not to make any more because it would look better to have a re minder of the Houston game of ’09. The following.day Hemphill was put 1 t L r0 7let y < B i„Tes le "t h °e f *»* He pitch- .J i ^ o-.r»-m c* oil r n o t-imo rl Iron*- , ’ ± J .led a nice game all the time and kept /ut bv Gibbs of Brownwood. 41 feet! . , A ^ 1 . »' - smoke to/Ae-vepr last. He was 5 1-2 inches; tke\iA4c29 miller, ‘ 98 feet Sinche&T ^ hurdle, by Caldwell, in i. the four 40-yard run, by Fxfo.lt ly Fort Worth, in 53 1-5; and Maxson Beaumont equalled the state record l in the 220-yard dash. i ; •wha. yjtf.JcTf^hn was V s ,'jG CO. J. ^ £EN, MANAGER. Interscholastic Results. results in the interscholastic time in idleness when ; son v t^he x • It is a .mame to see so_ ^ ' person stand around a.nd r- Ht. __ .g husky svaste his The results in the interscholastic | t-ime m mieness w^n *. little fellow track meet held Saturday follow: I like Hemphill gets up and holds his 220-yard hurdles—Tucker (Fort own i n college baseball. Worth), Goodrich (Marlin), Massey! The morning before the last game (Orange). Time 27 2-5 seconds. j the boys were all invited out to see (Continued on page 2.) (Continued on page 3.)