THE BATTALION
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SNOOKS”GARDNER
SPORT EDITOR
‘MACK” MCREYNOLDS
ASSISTANT
SPORTS
“JINX” JINKS
ASSOCIATE
SPORT EDITOR
STEERS VS. AGGIES
IS HEADLINE CARD
FOR AUSTIN SHOW
THE PASSING
ATHLETE OF
1922
PENNANT DREAMS
SHATTERED BY
BEAR VICTORIES
OWLS SUCCUMB
TO ATTACK OF
TRACK TEAM
Monday’s Meet Looks Like the Best
Track Bill of the
I Year.
The track meet carded for Friday
afternoon at Austin between the
Longhorns and Aggies has been post
poned on account of the inadequate
train service, the result of the heavy
rains'in this section, and will be held
Mtmday afternoon, if conditions per
mit. Meanwhile, the Aggies have re
sumed theid strenuous training pro
gram, and from all indications, this
meet promises to eclipse all dual
meets held in the Southwest in the
past few years.
To date, both teams have a clean j
slate in the conference, however, the
Longhorns have lost to L. S. U. and
the powerful Illinois aggregation. The
Aggies, undefeated champions of last
year’s conference will have continued
their winning streak this year under
the guidance of Coach Anderson hav
ing registered lopsided scores against
all comers this far.
Thrillers Galore.
In the century and furlong. Sin-
nett, who defeated Lindsey and Goss
early in the season will be opposed by
Smythe and Stephens of the Aggies
in what promises to be two of the
closest short distance sprints of the
year. The old fight between McNatt
and Sanders will be renewed again in
the quarter mile event, though Ritchie
or Sprague may spill the dope bucket
in the feature race of the afternoon.
For the first time in years, the Ag
gies have an even chance to break in
on Texas’ seemingly impregnable dis
tance trio, and little Red Reynolds
undefeated thus far this year, will
give the veteran Hawley or Vickers
the race of their career in the half
mile. The marvelous improvement of
Heard in both mile and two-mile as
sures the Aggies of places in these
events and it would come to Aggie-
land as no great surprise should he
cop first places in these both.
Aggies Look Best in Hurdles.
lit the hurdles, the Aggie hurdler,
Frazier, has shown marked improve
ment over any of his other seasons,
and regardless of the good time shown
by Sapp, Longhorn hurdler, in the
highs is now slated for first place in
both events.
The jumps and polevault will be
split with probably the broad and
polevault going to the Aggielanders.
Weight Men to Bear Brunt of
Attack.
The Aggie weightmen who have but
a. single second place scored against
them this year, are by a relative com
parison due for their full 24 points
against their ancient and bitter ath
letic rivals. With Dieterich locating
the source of trouble in his late jav
elin heaves, and the giant Keen in
looking like a million rocks in prac
tice this week, the A. and M. weigh^
-men promise to give the Austin fans a
treat in these field events.
With the pasing of the Class of
1922, all the coaches will be forced to
seek new men to fill the shoes of the
individuals who have contributed im
mensely towards the acquisition of the
many championships which came to
Aggieland in the past four years. No
longer the scribes will write of the
deeds of the impregnable line with the
generating Murrah, flanked by the ag
gressive Dieterich and Wendt, direct
ing his forwards, Carruthers and
Winn, and Smith on the wing position.
Rothgeb’s human wall is now history
and the whirlwind backfield that
brought Bible fame against Centre,
the dashing Captain Weir, and Pin
son, the batering ram, the elusive
Beesley, and the speedy field general
Morris—their names too, will be
memories too, will be memories for
The Class of ’22 Exacts Its Toll!
And after the battle at Austin has
cleared away, the interest here will
be turned to basketball and wrestling.
No more will the big dailies carry
columns of the work of the brilliant
Captain Dwyer, of the invincible Har-
tung, the versatile Williams, and the
dependable Ehlert. The quartet who
brought the three successive cage
championships to Aggieland have don
ned the spangles for the last time. The
matment will have no letterman avoil-
able for Captain Gardner and the
wiery Matthews have crawled through
their last roped arenas, for
The Class of ’22 Extracts Its Toll!
With the coming of Spring, the 1
thinly clads will have only to remem
ber the nucleus of the evenly balanced
machine that added the needed thrill
to track—the sprinters, Weir and
Smythe, Frazier, the hurdler, Rey
nolds, the middle distance man, Steele,
the broad jumpef, Beezley, the pole
vaulter, Dinwiddle, the Discus tosser,
and the cheerful Dieterich, crowned
king of the Southwest in javelin
throwers. This aggregation who
brought the first einderpath cham
pionship to Aggieland in a decade
will never crowd the headlines in the
news of collegiate sports, for
The Class of ’22 Exacts Its Toll!
Like other branches of sports, an
other baseball team will have to be
rebuilt and Captain Crawford the
peppery catcher, and Ehlert and Sev
ern will not be among the announced
“Batteries for today’s game.” Nd
more will Dwyer scoop ’em out of the
dirt, Doherty rob opposing batsmen of
hits, Morris and Cockrell crowd the
“Artists” column of the score book,
Smith, the guardian of the hot corner
slam out the timely blow and Matth
ews gather one in from off the track.
No more will the fielding of Guynes
and the hitting of Dinan feature the
Aggie series, for
The Class of ’22 Exacts Its Toll!
The championships will come to Ag
gieland again but the memories of
the stars of the last few years will be
heqrd in many a reference to the rise
of the Southwestern Conference Ath
letics; but the lamented passing ath- |
lete of 1922 will read next year where
Two Defeats At the Bruins’ Hands
Crowd the Aggies Out of
Pennant Race.
The Aggie baseball team met the
Baylor Bears twice on the grounds of
the latter and dropped both games.
With the second contest went the 1922
baseball pennant hopes of Aggie
land and the victory for the Baptists
gave them a right to breathe a sigh
of relief because of the fact that they
now posses a decided lead in the race
for the coveted title.
Coach Cochreham left here on Sun
day, April 23, with fifteen ball tossers
for a six game schedule during the
week. They sat in a hotel two days
in Waxahachie while Trinity’s dia
mond was turned into a temporary
lake. They then moved to Dallas
where the same story was repeated,
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Out of the last eight scheduled
games the locals have had six rained
out. Life is just naturally getting to
be one darn rain after another.
* ❖ *
The Texas Longhorns won three
games and lost two on their southern
tour. They split with L. S. U. and
the Mississippi Aggies and took the
only contest played with the famed
Alabama University.
* * ❖
Hawkshaw Crosby probably real
izes that you can’t always “fuddle
wid de Aggie Cap’n.” Crawford
picked him off third twice in the sec
ond contest with only one out each
time.
* * *
The pennant scramble lies between
Baylor and Texas now. The Bruins
are in the lead with ten wins and
two losses while Uncle Billy’s clan
has taken seven and dropped two.
* * *
We may not have a chance to win
a pennant ourselves but the outcome
of the Aggie-Longhorn games next
Wednesday and Thursday will prob
ably go a long way towards deciding
the title winner.
* *
When the locals take the field in
Austin they will welcome “Bugs”
Morris back at short. When Morris
got sick the Aggies’ pennant chances
looked like a million dollars but—
now we’ll sell ’em for a eskimo pie.
another mystery team, another re
built machine, another green team,
a replica of its forerunners—new
youngsters bearing the standards of
Maroon and White win another cham
pionship, but
The Class of ’22 Exacts Its Toll!
Coach Anderson’s Men Win Fourth
Dual Meet of Year as High School
Men Look On.
With hundreds of high school boys
from all parts of the state looking on
the Aggies won their fourth dual meet
of the year on Kyle Field last Fri
day, winning over Rice by the score of
73 to 44. The Owls obtained an
early lead due to the great running
of their two sprinters, Lindsey and
Goss, who took both places in the
hundred, first in the furlong and first
in the quarter. But for an unfor
tunate occurance Lindsey would have
probably tied the world’s record in
the century. With a safe. lead over
his teammate, Goss, at the halfway
mark, he was forced to jump a dog
which crossed the track at this point.
With this handicap he managed to
place second in the event, being
beaten by Goss by only a few inches.
Half Mile a Thriller.
The half mile was one of the best
races of the day as Reynolds, the un
beaten half of the Aggies, was pit
ted against Coleman, one of the best
middle distance men in this part of
the country. The race was nip and
tuck the first quarter but on the last
lap the A. and M. man pulled away
from everyone but his teammate
Dunn, who finished a close second.
This was more or less of a surprise
and assures the Aggies of two good
men in this event.
Weight Men Scored On.
For the first time this year the
weigh' men on the Aggie team were
scored cn, when Alexander of Rice
won second place in the discus. In
every meet thus far they have scored
the total of 24 points in their events
and Rice may well consider herself
lucky to be the only team to horn in
on this score. From the past records
it looks as if this score will be one
of the few that are made against
these men as they are improving with
each meet and are due to smash a
few records before the Conference
meet is a matter of history.
A.M.C.
Lost.
I wonder where.
* * *
I listen to a dismal rain
Come beating on my window pane.
And trickling make a winding pass.
From my casement here I gaze
Reflecting on some long past days,
When thoughtlessly I left a pair
Of rubbers in this town somewhere.
The drops click on the frigid glass
* Hs H*
I wonder where.
—Teddy Bee, in Columbia Spectator.
A.M.C.
The Millenium.
Our idea of a fellow
Who has a drag with the
Girls is one who
Kisses them and then
Pushes them away
Saying they can’t
Have any more. —Record.