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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1920)
2 THE BATTALION the game. He even might admit as much himself. He hit three out of four times, struck out seventeen men, and was badly handled only in the first inning. Texas played wonder ful ball on the defense and was pow erful, to say the least, on offense. A. and M. fought hard and well, but the pace Texas set was too fast. First Game. Texas AB H R English, cf 6 3 1 McCullough, 2b 4 1 2 Cannon, 3b 4 0 1 Faulk, p 4 3 2 Fitzgerald, rf 5 2 1 Robertson, ss 4 3 1 Moore, If 2 0 1 Hart, c 4 3 4 Barry, lb 3 2 1 E 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Faulk, lb 4 Fitzgerald, rf 4 Robertson, ss 3 Moore, If 3 Hart, c 3 Gillet, p 4 Total : 32 A. and M. AB Wilson, 2b 3 Lackey, 2b 2 Lewis, 3 Matthews, If 3 Higginbotham, ss _4 Guynes, rf 4 Gleason, cf 3 Dwyer, lb 1 Crawford, c 3 Henderson, p ^3 Total 30 1 1 1 0 1 1 7 H 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 J. 0 4 1 R E 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 Total 36 17 14 A. and M. AB H R Lackey, 2b 2 1 1 Lewis, 3b 3 0. 0 Matthews, If, p 5 1 1 Higginbotham, p, If,5 2 2 Alexander, rf 5 0 0 Gleason, cf 1 1 1 Rothe, lb 4 2 0 Smith, ss 3 1 0 Crawford, c 4 0 0 2 E 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Total 32 8 5 5 Umpire: Rankin. The second Texas game, as a ball game, was much better than the first. A. and M. came back fighting and be hind good pitching by Henderson, put up a class of play above that of the previous day. Gillet was touched for six hits, but he kept them scattered and, with almost perfect, and at times brilliant fielding behind him, no scores resulted. In the sixth Guynes singl ed, but a fast double play, Cannon to McCollough to Falk, cut him off at CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND. Or Notes on the First Baylor Game. Anybody who says the team and the crowd did not show the old pep and enthusiasm at the Baylor games is far from right. The first game was played in the record time of 1 hour and 28 minutes, which shows that the teams were pretty well on the jump all during the game. This is the kind of games the public likes and is what makes the national game such a popular sport. * * He Anyone who remembers the Baylor teams of years gone by will have to admit they have certainly improved by at least a 100 per cent but they don’t make them to good for A. and M., as the box score will easily show. He H: * Boy you will have to admit that that kid Henderson has certainly got secon^an^GTezen at first. In the eighth Matthews and Glezen singled and a score seemed certain; but Moore took in Dywers fly and the chance was lost. Lackey went in for Wilson in the seventh. The Farmer defense was good except at a few critical times and then errors were costly. Guynes and Lewis connected with two singles a piece. Henderson pitched a game that was a shade better than Gillet’s. He was unfortunate enough to have his hits come at opportune times, although but two runs against him were earned. Nine Longhorns took the short cut to the bench with his compliments. The Texas fielding was exception ally good. Robertson made brilliant catches of Hig’s hot one in the fifth and Crawford’s blow in the ninth. McCullough fielded with wonderful steadiness. Speaking of fielding, one Guynes did brilliant work. In the third Faulk lifted a long one nearly to the right field fence. Guynes, rac ing back, jumped into the air and came down with the ball. Again in the seventh, he gathered in at a dead run what looked like a sure hit from Moore’s bat. All in all, it was a fair representation of the relative strength of the two teams. It is true, however, that the breaks and errors went to Texas. But they play ed a bang-up game and we can only say that we lost to a team that play ed better ball than we did. But the Farmers haven’t reached their limit or even their real stride. Texas will find it hard to repeat at Austin. Score of second game; Texas 4, A. and M. 0. Second Game. Texas AB H English, cf 4 1 McCullough, 2b 3 1 Cannon, 3b 4 0 ask any one who might have seen the first Baylor game. H« H* * We have had the pleasure of see ing some of the biggest catchers in the line of beef that any one bunch of fans ordinarily gets to see in a life time, in the personages of the Rico and Baylor backstops. Both have been the butt of many a good joke, and much to our dismay have taken it rather good naturedly but, that is about the only way they could have taken it. H* H* H* Home run Wilson as he has been dubbed by the Baylorlites had a rather hard time of it the first game he let a couple bounce over him in the outfield and to beat it all he came up in a pinch in the 8th with three on and one out and hit into a made- to-order double, they ought to call him Run Home Wilson. Hi H« H« To those who might have noticed Pat drove out his first real honest to goodness hit in the first Baylor game, and boy it was done with a new bat, now don’t you know that such a bat must have rose in value at least 50 per cent in Pat’s estimation. There s many another old knock in to Pat you can wager your life on that. Hi H* H« In passing it might not be amiss to mention the fact that Tanner pitch ed a nice game of ball and ordinarily he would have deserved a win, but he was up against no ordinary team when he hit A. and M. Hi * * Crawford seems to look like the real goods behind the bat, he is con tinually talking and trying to en courage the pitcher and that is what it takes, for a good catcher now a- days. 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