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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1922)
c THE BATTALION “SNOOKS”GARDNER SPORT EDITOR “MACK” MCREYNOLDS ASSl STAIMT “JINX” JINKS ASSOCIATE SPORT EDITOR TENNIS TEAM MEETS TEXAS ON SATURDAY Second Meet of Season For Aggie Team—Longhorns have Fast Aggregation. The Aggie tennis team have their second meet of the season when they meet the Longhorn players here on Saturday in what is expected to be the hardest of the year for the local team. It is not known exactly who will be on the Austin team but it is a sure bet that Coach Penick has developed a team of the same class as those of former years. With the pass ing of Granger and Drumwright the Longhorns lost two real net stars but there seems to be no limit to the number of net stars at the University. The Aggie team has had only one meet this year, as the first meet on the schedule was rained out two weeks ago. Last Saturday the team met the Baylor team at Waco and lost after one of the closest meets ever staged, since tennis was taken up as a major sport among the colleges of the south west. The games were played on con crete courts and as the Aggie players had never played on this kind of a court before they were at somewhat of a disadvantage. Most of the men on the team were playing on the team ana .. _re .iO. - ^o steady as they might have been. They are expected to show much better in the meet of this week, playing on the home court and facing our age-old rival. Coach Cahn has not as yet an nounced the lineup but it is expected that practically the same men who faced the Bears will perform for the Aggies. This team consisted of Chambers, Baker, Rounds, and John son, and should give a good account of themselves in this meet. The Longhorns were to play the Bears this week but it is not known here whether the meet was held of not so it is impossible to say just who will comprise the orange team. However, from reports coming from the cap- itol city it seems as if Gregory, White and Tabor are sure to appear here. It was thought at first that the meet would be held in the afternoon but due to the conflict with the baseball games and the track meet with the Mustangs, the games will be played in the morning. Though no time has been decided on the first match will probably get under way by nine-thirty. As there will be classes on at this time - it will be impossible to have a large crowd but it is a sure thing that the meet will be well worth the yhile of all those able to get off. Ten nis is yet in its infancy here so let’s turn exit and support the team and Jmng home another championship. A.M.C. S. W. CONFERENCE BASEBALL SLATED FOR WEEK-END Aggies vs. S. M. U. and Baylor-Texas Frays Headliners for Con ference Fans. Springtime— The Mustangs Are Coming A restaurant starts when Greek meets Greek; A river widens when creek meets creek; But a romance starts within a week From a campus dance, where cheek meets cheek. Recent heavy rains caused four con ference games of baseball to be post poned last week, but if these down- pouis only stay in the background for a while things pertaining to this sport are due to happen in a hurry by the time that Saturday, April 15 has come to a close. No less than thirteen con tests between conference teams are carded for this and next week. S. M. U. is scheduled for four games during the present week, two with Rice and two at Kyle Field. Baylor ami Texas meet in two promising battles at Wa co today, and tomorrow. A. and M. and Texas both have plenty of work ahead of them for next week. The Aggies are carded to go to Houston and hitch up with Bob Countryman’s Rice Owls Monday and Tuesday. Little is known of the cal ibre of the Owls’ team as a whole but it is an admitted fact that they have in Eddie Dyer the very best pitcher in the Southwestern Conference. How ever, he will probably have to work against our own Mr. Olsen and eight others that will tend to make things rather interesting. Texas plays the razorbacks from Arkansas Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and then Uncle Billy Dish brings his herd of Longhorns here for clashes on Fri day and Saturday. There is little doubt but that this will be the most exciting series play ed on Kyle Field this spring. It is enough to say “Aggies versus Long horns.” Added to this fact is the probability of a pitchers battle be tween Olsen and Captain “Bus” lett. The latter who is pitching his fourth year for “State” and has been a big factor in winning three cham pionships for that institution, has the enviable record of never having lost a collegiate game since he enrolled there. Olsen has been going great this year and with the kind of sup port he has gotten from his team mates it should be the sort of game that satisfies the most radical fan. If these two men oppose each other Matthews or Gill will work in the other for A. and M. while Liesner, Ponsford or Eckhardt will toil for the orange and white. The Longhorns that won the cham pionship in 1921 were an entirely dif ferent combination form those now taking orders from the famous “Uncle Billy.” Five stars who per formed for them last spring are miss ing, now. These are: English, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Cox and Hart. Neverthe less, the institution at Austin still has a great coach and this combined with the knowledge that there is a great deal of good material there means that the Texas Longhorns of 1922 will be a real ball team. A.M.C. Track! This typical collegiate sport will come into its own here Saturday when the Aggies, undefeat ed champions of the Southwest Con ference are carded for a dual meet with the S. M. U. Mustangs. It will offer for the first time an opportu nity for the enthusiastic fan or the skeptical scribe to obtain a definite bearing relative to the Farmers and ascertain partially if they are in line for a duplication of last year’s phe- nominal success. However, the Aggielanders will, in this meet, probably be without the services of their two leading dash champs as it was given out definite ly here Thursday that Heine Wier, captain of last year’s conference leaders and furlong sprinter extra- ordianry will not be entered and no authentic information is available regarding the entrance of Captain Sanders, high point man of last year’s conference meet. In spite of their recent injuries and sickness, the two veteran speedkings have chalk ed up midseason time in practice workouts, and their failure to appear will, in anticipation of medicore com petition of the invaders, meet the hearty approval of the conservative -MfoVESrs-- VvU-'u already nitr thoughts of another championship. The Mustang meet last year was held just after a heavy shower which made sprinting difficult and foot holds treacherous, but they were easily turned back by a lopsided score which was greatly argumented with a 15 point tally by Denny who scored in the hurdles and the pole vault and it must be borne in mind that the East Texan is now an alumi- nus, and it is no clothed fact that t]je_£.ollege Station thinly clads are slightly weak in this department. However, Frazier and Miller in the hurdles and McCullough in the pole vault are being w)atched with, in terest to definitely ascertain to what extent extent the Aggies are really weak. The weights are regarded for Saturday’s card as A. and M.’s in tact. The jumps appear an ever break, the dashes showing a decided Maroon tint as well as the distance. However, in spite of the above predictions by the Bat scribblers, Coach Anderson is preparing his men for the worst and no detail of groom ing is being left undone to mar the Aggies initial appearance on the cir cuit this spring. “Oh, slush,’ cold feet.” she said, “you give me OMAHA BLANKED BY AGGIES IN BIG TIME THRILLER Sterling Defense Features Is tractive Card of the W^ek. The Aggie nine chalked up another win over a class “A” league team Monday when they defeated the Oma ha Bees in what is really and trully “one of the prettiest games ever seen on the local diamond.” Guynes, For mer center-fielder, was the only man during the entire game to succeed in scraping the soil from the home plate with a pair of sliding pads. This one run of the contest came in the last half of the sixth. After Doherty struck out Guynes smashed the first ball thrown down the left field foul line for two bases. Morris struck out but Dwyer tapped a Texas leaguer to (Continued on Page 7) I DON’T WANT TO BE BAD. I don’t want to be bad, But I sure would like To “roll my own” An’ be a “vamp” An’ “bob” my hair, But, oh, how I wish Some big, good-lookin’ man Would grab me up in his arms An’ say I was cute An’, oh, so sensible An’—but of course I don’t wanna be bad.—Purple and White. The other day At the ball game, I sat in the press box And behind me was a •Well known cadet Explaining what they Were doing on the diamond. And she listened For a long time intently And then said: “I don’t like their suits, Do you?” And after awhile, she asked “Why don’t they play in The wintertime? It would be Much cooler.” And he said something about Their arms getting sore. 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