THE BATTALION
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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.