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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1922)
6 THE battalion xt*** SPORTS “JINX” JINKS ASSOCIATE SPORT EDITOR AGGIES WIN BOTH GAMES FROM TEXAS QUINT-CHAMPIONSHIP POSSIBILITIES MUCH BRIGHTER Longhorns Suffer First Defeat of Season at Hands of Coach Bible’s Men—Orange and White Unable to Penetrate the Impreg nable Aggie Defense. The Aggies stepped in the lead in the Southwestern Conferenc basket ball race last week end when they de feated the Texas Longhorns at Aus tin in two of the most sensational games ever staged on a Texas court. The Longhorns, as usual, were doped to win but the Aggies gave them the drubbing of their lives. These de feats were the first the Texas team has suffered this season and it was quite an honor for the task to fall to the Aggies. The team sent on the court by Coach Bellmont was the same that he has started in all of the other games of the season. The veteran Aggie five simply played them off their feet on defense and offense and the outcome of the two contests was never in doubt after the first few minutes of play. The first game was harder fought than the second, but the Aggies man aged to hold the lead from whistle to whistle with the exception of a few minutes in the second period. Wil liams started the fireworks early in the game when he looped a basket from the middle of the floor which was soon duplicated by Keen and Ehlert. The score at one time during the first half was 10 to 1 in favor of Coach Bible’s men but the Longhorns managed to finish the half strong with the score 10 to 6. THE SOONERS ARE COMING! This week we find the Aggies on top in the basket ball race having lost only one game of the eight play ed. Texas is trailing in second place j Farmer matartists, the septet carrying due to the two defeats handed them by standards of the Maroon and White For the first time in a decade, the Oklahoma Sooners will invade the Ag gie camp. Saturday, Coach Jacob son will pit his picked team against the A .and M. grapplers in what prom ises the most spectacular dual meet of the year. According to advance pres notices, the invaders have a more powerful aggregation than the team that was swamped last year by Coach Jones’ pupils. They have to date, however, suffered two setbacks, the first against the crafty Oklahoma Ag gies and then lost to the veteran Ames squad, reputed as the best in the West. Invasion at Inopportune Time. From the midweek showing of the BASEBALL MEN REPORT TO COACH COCHREHAN Fifty Men Report to Former Big Leaguer Season Opens on March 21 With Houston League Team. the Aggies. * * Venne the former Carlisle star who handled the Texas games said the Ag gie five was the fastest he had ever seen in action. * * * Since the “Crucial” series the en tire five of the Aggies loom up as all conference selections. There is no doubt but that Ehlert, Dwyer and Hartung are the three best basketeers Galley nine in the Southwest. ❖ The Mustangs next come for two games on Thursday and Friday and two tough battles are looked for. Coach Blackwell has changed his line up and the new combination seems to work together much better. They de feated Rice last week, who had de- Coach Bellmont’s talk between the j feated the Ba y lor Bears on the P re ' halves had some effect on his team for j v ^ ous n ight. they came back in great style and j were soon leading the Aggies 15 to 12. 1 Eugene Cochiehan, the new Aggie At this point, however, “Tiny” Keen base bal1 coacb ’ bas sported at the stepped in and looped two baskets and Colle g e and assumed his duties. The base ball men are out each afternoon the red sweatered men were never headed, the final score^ being 20 to 17. The Second Game. The outcome of the first game was quite a surprise to the Texas sup porters, and they anticipated a big victory over the Aggies on Saturday night. But the Aggies were not to show that the result of the first game was no fluke and show it they did. The now geting shape. tl ( ie old soup bone in\ playing of the entire team was simp- be continued this week after the lay- Several good events are on the ath letic card for this week end as the basketball team meets S. M. U. in a pair of games and the grapplers will face the Oklahoma Sooners. * * ❖ The company foot ball games will ly unbeatable and the Longhorns never had a look-in. The play of the home team was pretty to watch from the spectator’s viewpoint, and the Texas fans marvelled at the wonder ful team work of the Aggie five. The passing was the best ever seen on the Texas court always accurate and into the hands of a teammate. The shoot ing was on a par with the passing the whole team making shots from seem ingly impossible chances. As on the previous night the Ag gies started the scoring early and soon ran up a big score. The Longhorns managed to tie the score at six, all early in the first half but the Aggies pulled away and the first half ended 11 to 9. With the beginning of the second half the Texans expected their team to come back as on Friday night but the close guarding of the Aggies was too much for the Orange and off due to registration. White and the lead of the home team gradually increased till the final whistle. The score was 25 to 16. To name the stars for the Maroon and White would be a hard matter for the entire team starred in both games. The men sacrificed individ ual play for team work and the scores tell the result. Keen led in field goals with six, closely followed by Ehlert and Wil liams with five each. The low scores chalked up for the Longhorns show how effective was the guarding of the veteran Aggie guards, Hartung and Dwyer. Both of these men turned in two of the best games of their ca reers, forming a defense which the Varsity men could not penetrate. Here a word should be said in re- (Continued on Page 7) are destined to be slightly off color, but hardly enough to turn the tide: The nucleous of lightweights are slightly heavy, but the dimunitive mat mentor will have his full lineup in readiness at weighing time Satur day morning. Visitors Have Well Balanced Team. From sporting critics’ relative com parison, the invaders have practically an even balanced team, the edge if any being the lighter weights. In the 115 pound class, Stephens will have a most worthy foe in Grim- er, a youngster who is doing some ex cellent work this year, however jt is probable that the rangy Arnold may be worked. It will be remembered that the latter was the sole Sooner wrestler to score against the Aggies last year. Predictions are impossible in view of the fact that Stephens was confined to the hospital the first part of the week with a severe cold. It is not known who will face the A. and M. leader, but in McKinney, known in Soonerland as the “Find” or Anderson, the smashing boiler maker, Gardner will be forced to the iimit to turn in a win. For the first two meets, Armour, a veteran, has been worked but unless he shows remarkable improvement over his previous showings, he is des tined to fall before the Aggie star lightweight, Matthes. The blonde mat wizard has shown nothing but amazing improvement for the past two weeks. Rowland and Smith seem about a tossup, with a slight edge probably favoring the Aggie welterweight. The men are practically on a par relative to experience and strength, however the versality of the Casual looms up as the determining factor. In the middleweight division, the fans are again destined to view another highclass battle between Jack- son, who was ineligible last year, and Frazier. The Aggie wrestler has practically recovered from the effects of the injuries received in his match against Davidson. The Sooner mat- man is exceedingly fast and clever and it will be interesting to see such a foe pitted against the powerful Far mer. Cooper is slated for revenge, as last year he was unable to work against “Swede” Haney, and the latter staged a wonderful match against a substi- (Continued on Page 7) We have not yet forgotten our full loss of spring fever and March is nearly three weeks distant, but we know that spring will soon be here, not only because the Main building is surrounded with a green blanket of burr clover, but mainly because the baseball department of Kyie Field is the scene of more than fifty hard working young men each after noon under the close scrutiny and able direction of Coach Cochrehan. The pitchers and catchers have been trying to work out since the first day of February but have been unable to practice consistently until this week. With better weather came orders for all candidates to report and Tuesday the best looking bunch that probably ever came out for an Aggies baseTaall team made their ap pearance at the above station and began showing their wares. These men are working under the above namel mentor’s supervision mainly but he is assisted by such men as Crawford and Mathews in looking ’em over. To say that prospects are excep tionally bright for a winning nine this year is putting it mild enough. Of the aggregation who came so close to ousting “Uncle Billy Disch” and his Longhorns from their high pedestal last year only one man is missing now. Every one should be better than he was last spring and many new and likely candidates are out to help add baseball to the en viable collection of recent Aggie championships. It is over five weeks until the official baseball season opens with the Houston League team as their first opponents and in that time you can bet your old sun-bon net that they are going to be dry- cracking that “ole apple.” Below is the schedule of games for the coming season: March 21-22—A. and M. vs Hous ton Team at College Station. March 30-31—A. and M. vs Rice Institute at Houston, Texas. April 7-8—A. and M. vs Southern Methodist University at College. April 14-15—A. and M. vs Univer sity of Texas at College Station. April 20-21—A. and M. vs Baylor University at College Station. April 24-25—A. and M. vs Trinity University at Waxahachie, Texas. April 26-27—A. and M. vs South ern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas. April 28-29—A. and M. vs Baylor University at Waco, Texas. May 3-4—A. and M. vs Rice In stitute at College Station. May 10-11—A. and M. vs Univer sity of Texas at Austin, Texas. May 17-18—A. and M. vs South western University at Brenham, Tex as.