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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1924)
8 THE BATTALION A^qie) S'porK/ 3 D. H. KEITH Statistician A. C. TAYLOR, Editor 0. C. GENTRY, Associate Editor MARVIN STEPHENS Assistant Editor AGGIES WIN THE FIRST CON FERENCE SERIES TENNIS TEAM TO TAKE ON HORNED FROGS SATURDAY AGGIES TAKE TRACK MEET FROM PIRATES ID. X. BIBLE RE- | TURNS FROM COM MITTEE MEETING Owls Go down Like the Titanic; Ag gies Show They Have the Hitting Power. T. C. U. Opens Tennis Season Here; Old Aggie Coaching the Horned Frogs. Poor Track Holds Down Time; Aggies Win All But Two First Places. Southwestern Representative Returns and Gives Out Football Rule Changes. The Aggies opened the conference baseball season with a bank. The Rice Owls blew in Friday and blew up Saturday and the Aggies took both games 11. to 2 and 25 to 9. Rogers pitched a splendid game the first day and the Aggie Murderers Row helped out the second, with a slashing atack that drove the Owl moundsman to cover. The Aggies demonstrated that they had a well-balanced defense and played smart baseball throughout the series. First Game. The Aggies laid down a bunt bar rage on Wilford, who started on the hill for the Owls, in the first inning. Sharp fielding prevented them from scoring but in the second Kyle and Forgason bunted safely, Bradford was hit by Wilford and Rogers scored Kyle on a long sacrifice fly to right. In the third the Owls hit safely for the first time, Wilford tripling to left after two were down. In their half of the third the Aggies sewed up the game. Craig and Chapman singled in quick succession, Puckett walked and Johnson cleared the sacks with a long double. Kyle grounded out to first and Jack Forgason popped up a fly that the first baseman dropped. Bradford, Rogers, and Williams singl ed scoring six runs in all. From here on the Aggies were nev er in danger and in the fifth they broke loose and scored three more. Late in the game Lefty let up a lit tle and the Owls scored a couple of runs but the wrong-hander had the game in his hip pocket from the start. Every man on the Aggie team hit safely while the Owls collected only six measly bingles off of Rogers. Second Game. The second game of the series went to the Aggies by the top-heavy count of 25 to 9 after one of the most hec tic sessions ever staged on Kyle Field. The Owls jumped onto Graves in the first two innings and finally drove him from the hill and then the Aggies came back and ran away- with the contest. Graves made a good start but seemed to be a little nervous, his wildness getting him into frequent trouble. Crawford took the mound and pitched good ball at times. The Owls counted twice in the first stanza when Graves issued two free strolls and then allowed Wilford to hit. The Aggies came back in their half of that session and with two men down, took the lead. Chapman drew life on Adam’s error, Puckett singled and Johnson hit one a mile for a homer. Graves started the second by walk- Continued on Page 9) Captain Bill Rounds will lead the Aggie tennis team of 1924 against the Horned Frogs of T. C. U. here Sat urday in the first conference tennis meet of the year. The Frogs are coached by Johnnie Baker, Aggie ten nis and baseball man who dropped out of the class of ’24 last year, and while the personnel of the Frog team is not known it is thought that he will bring a strong team to battle his old team mates. Captain Rounds and Coach Baker are old friends, having roomed together here in addition to having |played together on the doubles team. They are both Fort Worth boys and a bitter battle is expected. Rounds and Darby will probably play first doubles against the Frogs with Captain Rounds playing No. 1 singles and Darby playing No. 2. Hin- man, veteran of last year’s squad and a flashy little tennis man, will tie up with the third Frog and either Mitch ell or Underwood will make up the fourth man. The Aggies have been handicapped by the soft course and in cessant rain; yet they are in fairly good shape and expect to take the Frogs to a trimming. Captain Rounds is a splendid play er—a man capable of turning back the best that the conference can send against him. The Aggies have not seen his equal since Wilson was here in ’21 and if he is given the proper support in the doubles he will take most of the teams to a cleaning. Gene Darby was brought out after the bas ketball season and though he has had little opportunity for practice, he is reaching midseason form. Hinman has always been a fighting, aggres sive player. He is the type that is never beaten and this fighting spirit will go a long way toward batering down an opponent. Get with ’em, gang, and see a win ning team get started on the right foot. Be there Saturday to watch them clean up the frogs. WE CAN TRUST THE FAMILY. Marion Star: A scientist says that, within a few years, we should be able to tune in with the movie theaters and see the latest films without leav ing our homes. But the thing will hardly seem natural without the man behind us, to read the subtitles. MORE NICELY PUT. Boston Transcript: She—You say this dress is like me? Oh, because it is expensive, I suppose. He (smilingly)—Let us say be cause it is just a little dear. The Aggie track team took the first meet of the season Wednesday, March 26, by downing the Southwestern Pi rates 87 to 22. No phenomenal times were turned in as the track was in poor condition and Coach Anderson seemed well satisfied with the showing that his men made. Poth was high point man with three firsts for a total of 15 points while Mateer, South western star, was second with 14. The Pirates took two firsts, the high hurdles and the high jump. 100-yard dash: Poth (A. and M.); Wilson (A. and M.); 10-1. Mile: Bowen (A. and M.); Old (A. and M.); 4-50. 220-yard dash: Poth (A. and M.); Wilson (A. and M.); 23-3. 120 high hurdles: Mateer (South western); Quinby (A. and M.); 16-3. 440-yard dash: McConnell (A. and M.); Waterson (Southwestern); 53-2. 2-mile: Not run (the T. I. A. A. does not include the two-mile in their events). 220 low hurdles: McCullough (A. and M.); Mateer (Southwestern); 27 flat. Half-mile: Johnson (A. and M.) Weddell (A. and M.); 2-06. Shotput: McCluney (A. and M.); R. O. Wilson (A. and M.); 37-6. Pole vault: McCullough (A. and M.); Ward (A. and M.); 10 feet. Discus: McCluney (A. and M.); R. O. Wilson (A. and M.); 115. High Jump: Bergson (Southwest ern); Ward (A. and M.); 5-8. Javelin: Allison (A. and M.); Ma teer (Southwestern); 171-11. Broad jump: Poth (. and M.); Ma teer (Southwestern); 21-1%. Relay: A. and M.; 3-34. Referee: Littlefield, (Texas). ON WITH THE FIGHT. Farm Life—A certain married cou ple is in the habit of falling out and having a big quarrel every few days. One morning immediately after one of their regular family rows, the hus band said: “Jane, I want you to leave; for I’m tired of you. And I want you to take all of your clothes with you.” A moment later he turned around and added: “But, say, let me know when you’re ready to go.” “But why do you want to kno.v when I’m ready to go, if you’re tire i of me?” asked his wife. “Because I want to go along wich you, answered the husband. D. X. Bible, the canny coach of the Texas Aggies, returned from the an nual meeting of the National Football Rules Committeee, of -which he is the Southwestern representative, last week. The good coach spent some time at his home in Tennessee before he went to New York where the meet ing was held and while in the North ern states visited a number of gym nasiums for inspection purposes. He reported seeing the Princeton-Dart- mouth basketball game and seems to have enjoyed his trip thoroughly. Mr. Bible, in commenting upon the football rules changes enacted by the committee explained that most of the work this year consisted in clarifying the present code and speeding up the game in general. The thoughts and reactions of the spectators were taken as a guide in making the changes this year and it is thought that a better, speedier game will result. In all, there were fourteen major changes made. The most important was the abolition of the artificial tee on the kickoff and the compensating rule of moving the kickoff up to mid- field. Too much time was wasted in moulding the tees, was the opinion of the committee. The referee was grant ed the power to prevent stalling by substitutions and the number of time outs was increased from three each half to four each half. The penalty for excess timeout was increased to five yards. The onside kick was clarified and the return punt from kickoff was ren dered harmless by this revision. An onside man may only recover on the kickoff and on a free kick according to the new wording. The try-for- point, the muchly debated side of the football game, was again altered, this time to the extent of bringing the ball out to the three yard line instead of the five. This will encourage the rushing game a little more in the opinion of the committeee. The rule relating to shift plays was reworded in an effort to stop the jump shift and passive interference on a screen pass was legislated against. A new ruling was made in the case of a defensive man intercepting a pass that has been touched by an ineligible offensive man. Next year the inter cepting player will be allowed to run and claim what ground he may gain instead of accepting the penalty. It was also decided that a man going out of bounds would not be eligible to return and receive a pass. A revision was made in the case of a defensive player committing a foul behind his own goal and the penalty will be half