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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1918)
2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, January 30, 1918. for more than a few minutes, and the half ended in a tie score. The second half saw both teams come back as strong as ever; our boys with their confidence restored by their showing, and Rice determined to gain a lead and hold it. We can not but think that if the Aggies had been more confident of winning the first game the result would have been different. But it seems to be the policy of the powers to cause pessimistic feeling to permeate the entire team. Not only that but the cadet corps was told the prospects for winning were slight. It has been our observation that athletic mentors always endeavored to instill some confidence in their charge, no matter who the opponents, with the result that even sometimes winners were produced of forlorn hopes. By this we do not wish to go on record as be ing in favor of optimistic braying, but it must be remembered that our team is playing its first year in col lege athletics and a word of encour agement would act as a wonderful stimulent while an indifferent atti tude has the reverse effect. The heart breaking game came to an end, Rice winning, 18 to 14. There were no individual stars on our team, all our boys played hard and valiantly showing the best team work of the season. Not among the inconspicuos of the participants was one Dwyer, fish, an erstwhile guard, who played a .bang up game against Kingsland, the visitors seven-foot center and star performer. That Kingsland was prevented from playing his usual good game is “Nuf Sed.” Longcope shot his quoto of spectacular goals and eluded the Rice guards persis tently. Wise played his usual strong game at guard and also managed to ring a couple of goals. £!ouger and McQuillen played equally as hard, as jjbfr>p>T,^p whn r>U<vo^^:ynW the first malt. Aggies 25, Rice 2i. The second game was largely a repition of the first with the only and important difference that we won. Fouls were plentiful on both sides, but it was our misfortune that Rice gained more than we did by this method of scoring. In fact, Tim mons of Rice was very adept at shoot ing fouls, scoring about half of their points in this manner. For us, Long- cope was not nearly as successful. But this was more than offset by his long distance shooting, he scoring 15 of the 25 points made. Wise and Dwyer each threw a couple of baskets and McQuillen threw the other. Our team early took the lead and kept Rice playing on the defensive, and only once were the Owls ahead. The main cause for our winning, however, was that our team was con fident of winning for they felt they were the Owls’ superiors after their showing the night before. The first half ended with the score 13 to 11 in our favor. The second half saw our team grad ually increase their lead until they were eight points ahead. They play ed with a vim and enthusiasm that nothing could stop; and although Rice staged a rally they only suc ceeded in reducing our lead. The final gun saw our team wdn by 4 points, the same margin by which they had lost the night before, thus both teams scoring the same number of points during the series an I break ing exactly even. These games give us rea : *.i to be lieve our team is as good as any in the state. It has acquired that essential which is conducive to play ing good basketball—confidence in themselves; without which no team can make a good showing. FOOTBALL RECEIPTS AND EX PENDITURES 1917. RECEIPTS: Incidentals 8.90 Box Seats 52.45 Season Tickets _ 4,760.00 Gate Receipts __17,504.80 Refunds 5.82 TOTAL OF RECEIPTS. _$22,331.97 EXPENDITURES: Incidentals 1,723.63 Office and Salary 3,430.36 Hotel and Trav’l. 1,808.04 Equipment 1,186.47 Officials 798.80 Field and Per manent I m - ' provements __ 754.61 Guarantees 6,672.61 Advertising 260.95 TOTAL OF EXPEND $16,635.47 AMOUNT ON SEASON__$ 5,696.50 Austin College: Receipts 124.50 Expenditures 374.90 Loss on Game 250.40 Dallas University: Receipts 86.50 Expenditures 213.85 Loss on Game 167.35 Southwestern University: Receipts 125.75 Expenditures 374.40 Loss on Game _______ 248.65 Louisiana State University: Receipts 4,234.65 Expenditures 3,558.83 Net. Gain on Game 675.63 Tulane University: Receipts , 205.20 Expenditures 1,197.^0 Loss on Game 992.00 Baylor University: Receipts 3,437.65 Expenditures 394.79 Net. Gain on Game 3,042.85 Texas University: Receipts 6,005.30 Expenditures 3,235.55 Net. 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