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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1925)
THE BATTALION /^\qqie) S'porl'c/ 5 D. H. KEITH Associate Editor W. H. CALDWELL Sports Editor O. C. GENTRY Assistant Editor AGGIES WIN FROM RICE AND AUSTIN AUSTIN COLLEGE LOSES TO FARMERS Non-Conference Team Defeated on Eve of Oklahoma Aggie Games. Tucker, Aggie forward, started the fire works between the Aggies and the Kangaroos Monday night in a game which ended 26 to 5 in favor of the Aggies. The game was erratic throughout and even though the home team won by a margin of twenty-one points they played mighty poor ball compared to what they did with Rice last Friday night. If Austin College wishes to enter the Southwestern Conference they must present something other than a wonderful football team. During the first half of the game which ended 11 to 0 in favor of the Aggies, the Kangaroos had only five shots at the goal and two free throws. They simply aren’t equal to a con ference team. Duckett and Kyle tied for first place in points made with seven each to their credit. Fincher looped two goals for four of the visitors’ five points. Baker still refuses to shoot a goal for the Aggies. A new system of officiating was in order that night. House refereed and McQuillen, former basketball player and coach of the Aggies, umpired. The plan followed Monday night makes the work of all the officials easier and surer when the game is played on a large court. We would like to see two officials on duty at every con ference game. Line-up. Austin College Fincher R. F. ANNUAL INTERSECTIONAL GAME WITH SEWENEE FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. Aggies Duckett Tucker Kyle Baker Washburn L. F. R. G. Nelson Lingo Baker Morgan L. G. Substitutes: Aggies — Damon, Dealy, Dansby. Austin College— Cooper, Jones, Blair. Scoring: Field goals; Aggies— Duckett 3* Damon 3, Tucker 2, Kyle 3,' Washburn 1. Austin College— Fincher 2. Free throws; Aggies—Duckett 1, Kyle 1. Austin College—Baker 1. Referee: House Umpire: McQuillen. Announcement has been made by the Department of Athletics that the contract with Sew- anee, otherwise known as the University of the South, calling for a football game every year on the opening day of the Dal las Fair, has been extended for another three years. The clos ing of this contract insures the playing of this annual inter sectional battle, the first one in the Southwest every year and one of the most important grid iron struggles in the Conference every year. The. game in the fall of 1925 will be the last one in the present agreement but with this announcement, the time of expiration has Peen ex tended thru 1928. The next game between the two institutions will be played on October 10, 1925 and on the same date in 1926, 1927, and 1928, in the Fair Park Stadium in Dallas. FISH DEFEAT BRYAN HI. THE AGGIE OFFENSIVE. Duckett F.G. 10 F.T. 7 Tot. 27 Damon . _ 11 4 26 Kyle _ 12 1 25 Tucker 11 1 23 Washburn 8 2 18 Dealy 5 1 11 Baker 0 4 4 Krueger 0 1 1 In the closing seconds of the game the Fish defeated the Bryan High quintet on the gym court Saturday night by a score of 14 to 13. The game was nip and tuck throughout with first the Bryan High team mak ing a goal and then the Freshmen retaliating. Furneaux of the Freshmen was point man with six points and Cloud was high point man for the visitors with the same number of points. The Fish team was poorly organized and no outstanding players were to be be seen, although the entire squad was given a chance to play. TO USE INTELLIGENCE TEST IN HIGH SCHOOLS OWLS TAKEN IN BY 35-17 COUNT Bible’s Men Come From Behind End of First Half and Put Over Win. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the won- .der of the world. I hardly know which feeling leads, wonderment or admira tion.—John Burroughs. ST. LOUIS, MO., Jan. 17.—Wash ington University will take its first step in the use of intelligence test for the admission of high school graduates starting with the next scholastic year in September, Chan cellor Herber S. Hadley announced. The “Thorndyke” test will be ap plied to high school graduates from the lower third of their class, he said, in addition to the unusual entrance examinations in English mathematics and foreign language.—Dallas News. Life is a fragment, a moment be tween two eternities, influenced by all that has proceeded, and to influence all that follows. The only way to illumine it is by extent of views.— William Ellery Channing. BASEBALL MEN START PRACTICE Baseball practice is progressing de spite the very unfavorable weather conditions that have been prevalent since Christmas. The pitchers and catchers together with the first base- men have been working out for some time and the others have been go ing out on their own initiative. Coacn Rothgeb will call the remainder of the squad out as soon as the weather per mits. It is too early to start picking the logical men that will go to make up the Aggie nine this spring as prac tice hasn’t really begun. However it can be said with safety that the men that will make up this year’s entry in the Southwestern flag chase will be a group of fighters and under the leadership of Coach Rothgeb and Cap tain Rogers, the veteran port-sider, they should give a splendid account of themselves before the season is ov er. Rothgeb will have charge of base ball here for the first time. During his stay here previous to 1921, he coached the track team and succeed ed in annexing a couple of champion ships in that sport. The Aggies are fortunate in having this individual to guide the destinies of the Farmer nine during the coming season. The Coach has had experience in inter-collegi ate baseball having played on the University of Illinois team, in addi tion to his career in organized ball. He began as a member of the Wash ington club of the American League and also included several seasons with the Baltimore Orioles, a member of the Eastern League, and the Chicago Cubs. He later entered coaching cir cles at Colorado College. With this able man in charge, a coach that insists on hard work all of the time, the Aggies are promised a team that will be able to take care of themselves against any opponents that they might meet during the sea son. Live and Think. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the under taker will be sorry.—Mark Twain. With the score 10 to 4 until nearly the close of the first half, the Aggies showed a burst of speed and goal shooting ability and came from be hind to defeat the Rice Owls 35 to 17 in the new gym last Friday night. The game was the third to be played and won on the new court and was without doubt the fastest and hard est foug-ht contest witnessed thus far. The Owls seemed lost at first on the large court and resorted to long passes which for a short time were success ful but Captain Washburn and his men settled down to business and soon the visitors were confronted with a defense that they found almost im pregnable. The final score would in dicate that the game was one-sided, but it was only so in the points made, for both teams fought from beginning to end. On occasions the Aggies showed the form which was preva lent during the regime of Pat Dwyer and his followers. Before many minutes had passed in the first half. the Owls were leading 8 to 2, then the Aggies looped one and the Owls another and there the score stood for some minutes when Kyle started a rally which ultimately brought the score at the end of the half to 15 to 10 in favor of the home team. Duckett lead in the scoring with six points. “Admiral’s” crew came back in the second half and rang up ten field goals to the visitors’ three field goals and one free throw. Tucker, sub stituting for Damon, made three of these goals making him high point man for the second half. Line-up: Aggies Rice Duckett Prafka R. F. Damon . Fitch L. F. Dansby Hopkins C. Baker Ray R. G. Washburn Underwood L. G. Substitutions: Aggies — Tucker, Kyle, Dealy; Rice—B. Morris, R. Mor ris, Bloxom. Scoring: Field goals—Aggies, Duckett 5, Damon 1, Tucker 4, Kyle 4, Dealy 1, Washburn 2. Owls—Prafka 4, Fitch 2, Ray 2. Free throws, Ag gies, Washburn 1. Owls, Prafka 1. Referee: McCurdy (111.) Shadows owes its birth to light.— Gray.