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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1922)
THE BA TTALION S ———————— (l«H ITS A HARD LIFE! THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS A YEAR Not a bad year from the stand point of athletic success! With a Southwestern championship in foot ball and a victory over the Centre College Wonder team on the Dallas gridiron, the Aggies’ supremacy in this section in football hardly can be questioned. Then comes the South western championship in basketball, making the third successive year that the Southwestern honors have come home to A. and M. In baseball we have not made the record that was made in the other sports. Track— that is another matter. At the time this article is written the Southwestern conference track, meet is in progress at the University of Arkansas. The Aggies, under the tutelage of Coach Frankk Anderson, go into the conference tilt with the record of having administered decisive defeats to Southern Methodist Univer sity, Baylor University, and Rice in the conference and to Southwestern University of the Texas Intercolle giate conference, and having whip ped the University of Texas in a hot ly contested struggle. With that rec ord back of them they should have lit tle difficulty in annexing the third Southwestern flag for this one year. Three Southwestern championships in, one season should be sufficient to sat isfy even the most exacting fan. The baseball team started the year with bang up prospects. The Hous ton Texas League entry came here for two games. The first was won by the Buffaloes after a hard uphill fight. The second was taken by the Aggies in a beautiful game. Next came the Omaha Bees fresh from a brace of victories over the San Antonio Bron- choes, Texas League team. Olson pitching a masterful game for the Aggies held the Bees well in hand and again the Aggies triumphed with a one to nothing victory. Then hard luck overtook Coach Cochreham’s pro tegees when Bugs Morris, stellar short stop and leading hitter for A. and M. was taken ill with the mumps. The Aggies surprised themselves and the Rice Owls by dropping a contest to the Owls. The next day they won easily from the Owls. S. M. U. fat tened the batting averages and sweet ened the standing of the College Sta tion lads by dropping two games to us. Then the University Dischites. dumbfounded the sporting world by beating the Aggies in two contests. Baylor University, which this season is boasting the best baseball team it has had for some years, contributed a pair of victories to the Aggies. Oh; Jupe Pluvius prevented the playing of the North Texas series and the Ag gies stopped over at Waco. There Baylor evened the count by winning, two fast games. The two games with, the University at Austin with a vic tory for each institution will be fol lowed by a pair of contests with Southwestern University at Brenham during the Maifest this week. If Coach Anderson and his speed and weight artists do the obvious thing and cop the flag at Arkansas, A. and M. followers will have much pleasant ruminating to do this sum mer. Three championships in oue year. Not bad! In fact it seems that life at A. and M. is becoming to be just one championship after another. A feature of the present sport cal endar was the game last Sunday be tween the Chemistry Grave Yard De serters and the Animal Husbandry Meal Hounds. A four ply swat by Babe Ruth Hartung when the Grave Yard Deserters had the bases drunk was one of the high lights of the go. Smokey Fahey pitching for the A. H. artists had worlds of speed, control breaks, and change of pace and had the Chems eating out of his hand un til the sixth frame. In that stanza Red Hurley drew a walk. Empty Harrington popped out on an infield hit. Friedlander hit safely to center advancing Hurley to third. He pil fered second on the next delivery and the bags were loaded. Hoots Williams was complimented with four wide ones. The story was told when Flop py, the hero of many such contests, picked out a fat one, put his mark on it for a four base drive, scoring five points, a lead which the stock judg- ers never were able to pull down. NOTICE. This space was reserved for an article entitled “What Good is the Athletic Department?”, by Mr. James Sullivan. After a thorough investiga tion, Mr. Sullivan was compelled to admit that it was impossible to fill this much space on the subject assigned to him. The editor regrets that the space was not given to a more suitable department,—the Library, for example. CRfl FTSMflN L/15T W0RP IN flOTQM/VriC PENCILS pent Simply can’t get out of order Pencil postpaid 65$. Pencil postp; Liberal reduction on quantities. 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