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THE BATTALION
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D. H. KEITH
Statistician
A. C. TAYLOR, Editor
O. C. GENTRY, Associate Editor
MARVIN STEPHENS
Assistant Editor
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LONGHORNS WIN
OVER AGGIES
IN DUAL MEET
AGGIES LOSE
STELLAR ATHLETES
BY GRADUATION
Farmers Give Favorites Tough Bat
tle; Records Broken in Sensa
tional Meet.
Austin, Texas, May 2.—The Texas
Longhorns continued their winning
streak by defeating the Texas Aggies
in a dual track meet here today by
the score of 72 1-2 to 44 1-2. The Ag
gies gave the Longhorns a tough bat
tle but the superiority of the Orange
team in the weights and hurdles car
ried them over the hill.
Many of the events were sensation
al in every respect. The Aggies
threw a scare into the Longhorn
ranks by sweeping the hundred to
start the meet. The flying Pbth
made the century in 9 4-5 seconds,
and Wilson took second by a hair.
Another record was broken in the
two-mile when Trout beat Gillespie
of the Aggies in 9-51-3-5. Five men
entered this event and all of them
broke the old record of 10 flat.
Long Jim Reese broke another rec
ord when he stepped the half in
1-56-7-10. He finished without ap
parent effort. The relay was per
haps the closest race of the day with
R’ch’e overtaking Davidson on the
last lap for a hairbredth win. All of
the track events were so close that a
shade on one side or other might have
changed the trend of the meet.
Summaries:
100-Yard Dash—Poth (A. & M.,
Wilson (A. & M.) Time—9.8 sec
onds.
One Mile Run—Reese, (Texas, Old
(A. & M.) Time—4 minutes 29.4
seconds.
Shot Put—Sprague (T). Dayvault
(T.) Distance—41 feet 6 inches.
220-Yard Dash—Poth (A. & M.),
Wilson (A. & M.) Time—22.1 sec
onds.
120-Yard High Hurdles—Jackson
(T.), Thames (T.) Time—15.8 sec
onds.
Pole Vault—McCullough (A. &
M.) Ward (A. & M.) and Barmore
(T.) tied for second. Height—12 feet
440-Yard aDsh—Ritchie (T). Da
vidson (A. & M.) Time—50.8 sec
onds.
Discus—Dayvault (T.) Harris (T.)
Distance—130 feet.
Two-mile Run—Trout (T.), Gil
lespie (A. & M.) Time 9 minutes
and 51.3 seconds.
High Jump—Yard (A. & M.) and
Bowles (T.) tied for first. Height
—feet 11 inches.
Javelin Throw—Shearer (T.) Diet-
rich (A. & M.) Distance—173 feet
and 8 inches.
20-Yard Low Hurdles—aJackson
(T.). Thames (T.) Time—25.4
seconds.
Half Mile—Reese (T.), Wendell
September 1924 Will Find New Faces
In Ranks Of Fighting
Farmers
With graduation week in sight, the
sport lovers of Aggieland are begin
ning to note the favorites that will
be counted out by Old Man Gradua
tion. Many Farmers who have repre
sented A. & M. for three years will
fade away with the coming of June
3, their memory remaining as the on
ly landmark of their achievements
while representing the maroon and
white. A. & M. will miss them for
the cadets have appreciated the un
dying devotion that prompted these
young men to sacrifice their limbs,
imuscles, and time to the Godess Vic
tory.
When September rolls around and
the thud of boot meeting ball re
sounds over , Kyle Field as D. X.
drills his youngsters in the gentle art
of smashing the line, the swath cut
by the graduation of ’24 stars will be
noticed. Gone will be Jack Evans
and Puny Wilson, Gibraltas of
strength at the end positions. Gone
will be rangy Dick Wilson, the Cole
man giant that dealt misery to ene
my punters. Gone will be Bull John
son, the fighting guard that feared
no man. Gone will be Jim Bradford,
the little center that stood up like a
giant. Gone will be King Gill, he of
the fighting heart and the cool head,
the human battering ram that “al
ways got his yard.” Gone will be
Roy Neely, the little rabbit that lead
the backs in ground gained, who
fought his fight with a smile that
belied his grim determination. D. X.
will miss these men of ’24.
Basketball will take the stage in
early December and again the class
of ’24 will exact its toll. No more
will ’Gene Darby loop his long arch
baskets from the middle of the floor
and no more will King Gill rage down
the court to smash an offense before
it is well formed. Washburn, Dealy,
Damon, Duckett, Wilcox, and others
will carry on but the stars of this
year’s team will be sorely missed.
Baseball and track teams of ’25
will not be hit quite as hard but the
services o fthe stars of ’24 will be
missed. Coach Anderson will have to
mold the championship track team of
1925 without the services of David-
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(A. & M.) Time 1 minute 56.7 sec
onds.
Broad Jump—Jackson (T.), Da
mons (A. & M.) Distance—22 feet
3 inches.
Relay—Won by Texas (Harris,
Clayton, Blonstein and Ritchie).
Time—3 minutes and 27.6 seconds.
Starter—Gardner.
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Well, we didn’t whip Texas in that
track meet, but $’11 bet my last dollar
that when Poth and Wilson swept the
hundred to begin with it scared the
Longhorns to death. The score could
have been worse, 72 1-2 to 44 1-2
isn’t so worse, and I believe we’ll
stand a little better chance at the con
ference meet Against Texas we had
two men up in most of the events
even when Texas won so we’ll pick up
lots of points on thirds.
See by the Austin papers that the
University has established a string of
60 consecutive athletic contests with
out a loss being charged to them.
This sets a world record, so claims the
paper. They could have established
another record by not calling our at
tention to it.
Poor old Doc Stewart is bemoaning
the poor football prospects for next
year. Says all of his men are leaving
and he can’t see any material in
sight. It’s a darn funny they tell
these high school boys about the great
teams they are going to have and tell
the newspapers the reverse. I can’t
figure why that is unless maybe they
think the newspaper writers aren’t
going to go off to play football.
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Our predictions on the records to be
broken in the conference meet are as
follows: 100- yard dash, quarter mile,
half mile, two mile, pole vault, high
jump. Poth will break the century,
Davidson and Richie ,the quarter
Reese the half, Trout, Gillespie, and
Royall the two mile, McCullouch and
Ward the pole vault, and Perker the
high jump.
Jinx says that Parker and Johnnie
Naylor the Waco twin athletes are
headed for A. and M. next year, Thai
would be very soft for 1 the Aggies if
those two boys should happen to come
here for they have enviable high
school records. Then, too, any Waco
athlete that escapes Baylor is clear
profit.
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The eidtor says that this is the last
go-round. To be frank I can’t say
that I’m sorry that my work is over
but I have enjoyed it and I want to
thank those who have been kind
enough to help me. Razzberries have
been few and far between and I’m
sure I rated far more than I got( most
of you were kind not to gripe when
Pinky Cowan wrote the Dope Bucket).
Good luck to you—one and all.
A HOWLER.
Cockney Visitor — “What’s that
awful noise outside?”
Country Host—“Why, that’s an
owl.”
Cockney Visitor—“I know it’s an
’owl. But go’s ’owling?”—The Dry
Goods Economist.
4GGIE8 DIVIDE
THE SERIES
WITH RICE OWLS
Heavy Hitting Features First Game;
Owls Jump on Graves Early
And Annex Second
Houston, Texas, May 5.—The Tex-
is Aggies divided the series with the
Rice Owls by winning the first game
13 to 3 and dropping the second 9 to
7. The Farmers unloaded the heavy
artillery in the first game and by
crashing the pellet over the Owl
fences annexed a total of five home
runs.
The Owls jumped on Graves in the
fourth inning of the second game and
by hammering out five runs in that
session iced the contest.
First Game.
Five homeruns, three by Puckett
and two by Kyle, accounted for 12
of Texas A. & M. total of 13 runs
and were easily enough to trim the
R-'ce Owls Friday afternoon, and the
latter succumbed by the talley of
13 to 3.
The hitting of Puckett and Kyle
was easily the feature of the game.
The Aggie centerfielder poled out
three fourply blows on his first three
trips to the plate. The first was off
Wilford’s initial delivery and bounced
nto the stands in the short right
oeld. The second went in the same
place, while the third went into left
field.
Kyle’s blows were both long hits.
The first cleared the right field stand
and was truly a long hit ball. The
second came in the sixth with the
bases full and went into deep left
field. Bob Hill, Rice third sacker,
socked one for the circuit into the
right field stands, but unfortunately
for Rice, no one was on base.
Rice drove in their remaining two
tallies in the second. Ray forced
Dunkerley at second. Fisher went
out b ythe infield route. Wilford sin
gled, scoring Ray. Locke singled,
Swartz smote a double and scored
Wilford. Locke was out at the plate
: n an effort to score on the same
swat.
The Aggies’ five homers drove in
12 runs. The remaining tally came
'n the sixth, in which the visiting ag
gregation had their heftiest frame..
Jack Forgason, captain of the Farm
er nine, aided matters with four hits
out of five trips to the pan. Wilford
led the Rice batsmen with two hits
out of four time up.
Rice—
Locke, cf . . .
Swartz, ss . . .
Hale, c
Hill, 3b
Bloxsom, 2b .
Dunkerley, lb
Ray, rf
Fisher, If . . .
AB H PO A
5 12 0
4 14 0
3 17 1
3 111
3 0 3 2
4 0 7 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 3 1