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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1925)
THE BATTAJLIOJSi AGGIES LOSE TWO FIERCE GAMES TO OKLA. »}* ♦i* ♦♦♦ ❖ ❖ THE DOPE BUCKET * ❖ ■ej* -ij*- -•$»- -*■£*• ■»$*• ■»$* The Aggie basketeers left today on their first and last extensive road trip of the season. Wednesday night they tangle with the Mustangs in Dallas and during the week-end, they will play games with the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville. The lat ter team has lost only one game this season, and that one was to the strong T. C. U. aggregation. The following week, on February 3 3, Bible’s men face the Mustangs bn the court in the new memorial gym in the last contest before the dedi catory game with the University Longhorns the following Monday. * * * BALL TOSSERS HARD AT WORK ON KYLE FIELD Prospects for Winning Team Bright en as Players are Declared Schol astically Eligible. Coach Rothgeb’s ball hawks are hard at work, practicing daily to get into condition for the opening of the baseball season. Advantage has been taken of every bit of warm weather and the entire squad of nearly fifty men have been working out on Kyle Field. The first game of the season was played Saturday before last be tween two teams picked from the men on the squad. Coach Billy Disch will have a vet eran combination in the field when the baseball season opens, that will be strengthened by the addition of several freshman stars from last season. So will Coach Rothgeb. * * Hs Word has been broadcasted from Austin that many of their freshman stars in football have either flunked out or have quit school. Dispatches telling of their reinstatement or that they have suddenly or miraculously become eligible are expected with ev ery issue of the daily press. * # * The Intramural Football League has passed its halfway mark. Many men that will be of value to Coach Bible in the selecting of next season’s football squad are being found and the members of the 1924 freshman team are adding experience and gain ing confidence while playing in Aggie- land’s own football conference. IMPORTANT GAMES SCHED ULED FOR SATURDAY INTRUMURAL LEAGUE The intramural football season is half over. Five of the seven teams remain undefeated but only three of them have broken into the games won column. Owing to the fact that exams were the order of the day last week and that so many men had left the com- pus after they had finished their work, the games were suspended. They will be resumed Saturday after noon with the following games on the card: Air Service vs. Artillery; 1st Battalion vs. Cavalry; Composite vs. 3rd Battalion.. These games will have a very important bearing on the outcome of the race for supremacy as all of the undefeated teams are slat ed to play. Come out that afternoon and give your team the support they deserve. Stock in the club took a sharp rise after the examinations were over and practically all of the men who are out for the team made satisfactory grades in their work. There are letter men back for ev ery position and this material is sup plemented by members of the strong freshmen team of last season who are back this year fighting hard for places on the Aggie nine. If the pitchers can come through with the goods, the cadets are practically as sured of a team that will render a splendid account of themselves in the conference pennant chase that will be gin in March. DEDICATORY EXERCISES AND DANCE IN NEW GYM, ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH Monday, the sixteenth, is to be an eventful day at the College. With the coming of the old “T” men, the dedicatory exercises of the Gym, the dance, (and most important of all) the game, business should be rush ing. The exercises are to be held in the gym at seven o’clock, and immediate ly following will be the game with State University. The game will probably be over by nine thirty and the dance will start as soon as the floor can be arranged and the gym is cleared. The dance is to be a regu lar corps dance given in honor of the old “T” men and is scheduled to be a gala affair. TEAM STANDING IN INTRA MURAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Team Cavelry Air Service . Artillery .... 1st Battalion 3rd. Battalion Composites . . 2nd. Battalion GPW L T .3 2 0 1 .2101 .2101 .3 0 0 3 .2 0 0 2 .3 0 2 1 .3 0 2 1 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 [ In two of the fastest games of basketball ever played in the south west, the Texas Aggies were twice in as many days the victims of the terrific onsloughts of John Maul- betsch’s charges from Oklahoma A. & M. The first game ended 24 to 15 although the pupils of Dana Bible scored more points than the visiting Aggies, while the second encounter ended with the Texans on the small end of the 19 to 17 score. First Game. The visitors opened the game with a dazzling attack that the Texas Ag gies were unable to solve and before the first twelve minutes had ended the score stood 12 to 1 in favor of the Ok lahoma aggregation. At the close of the half, the Texas team staged a somewhat belated rally and the period ended 16 to 6. During the latter half of the en counter the pupils of Coach Dana managed to hold their own, but the lead that had been piled up by the visiting team was too great and there was* little hope of wrestling the laurels of victory from their grasps, despite the fact that nine points were added to eight for the invaders. Lookabaugh and Captain Connor both played brilliant games for the Oklahomans although it would be rather an injustice to the other mem bers of the team to name any indi vidual stars. The excellent team work and the ability of the entire team to make long shots were the factors that made possible their vic tory and spelled defeat for the Tex ans. Hall was high point man of the contest with a total of 13 points. Dealy and Wilcox playing forwards for the Texas Aggies, were the high point men for that team, the former accounting for three field goals and Wilcox looping two of that vari ety and one free throw. “Punk” Bak er turned his best game of the sea son at guard and this is evidenced by the fact that all of the goals made by the pupils of Maulbetsch were made from long shots. The lineup and score: Oklahoma Aggies Position PG FT To’l Calmes, forwar..d 2 0 4 Peery, forward 2 1 5 Hall, center 6 1 13 Connor, guard 0 2 2 Lookabaugh, guard 0 0 0 Elder, forward 0 0 0 Total 10 4 24 Texas Aggies Position FG FT To’l Dealy, forward 3 0 6 Wilcox, forward 2 1 5 Kyle, center 0 0 0 Washburn, guard 1 1 3 Baker, guard 0 1 1 Tucker, forward 0 0 0 Damon, forward ......... 0 0 0 Duckett, foi'ward 0 0 0 Totals 6 3 15 Referee: Sweeney, Bethany. Second Game. The Saturday night’s tussle was a heartbreaking loss for Bible’s men. It was the most thrilling encounter that has ever been witnessed on the court at College Station; two extra five minute periods being necessary to decide the victor. Captain Wash burn blazed his way into basketball history at Aggieland by looping two goals from beyond the center of the court making the two extra periods necessary to determine the winner of the exciting contest. The Texans stepped off to an early start through the aggressiveness of Kyle, Dealy, and Washburn and the first half ended with the score 10 to 5 in their favor. At the start of the final period, both teams came back with a furious rush that lasted the entire length of the half, and kept the student body and spectators on their feet the en tire time in the excitement of the affair. After the invaders had rushed the ball against the defense of the defense for a couple of times with out success, they launched an aerial attack from the center of the court and its vicinity. This togeth er with several free throws enabled the visitors to cut down the lead that the Texas Farmers had gained dur ing the first half. Hall looped a long shot and tied the score and Peery placed another one in the basket to put his team in the lead. With only ten seconds left to play, Washburn astonished the thousands that packed the new gym by a sensational shot made from the center of the court just before the shot was fired that would have ended the game. After a minutes rest, the team returned to take up their furious gait that had been maintained through the game. The Oklahomans repeatedly attempt ed to bring the ball down to within scoring distance but met with dismal failure when they struck the air tight defense laid down by Washburn and Baker. In a desperate effort to score they resorted to long shots and finally Hall tallied. And with only seconds left to play, the stocky guard and captain of Coach Bible’s aggre gation again repeated his spectacu lar feat of a few minutes before by looping another basket from al most exactly the same spot on the court, and another extra five minutes were required to settle the tied score. But the strenuous pace that had been set throughout the game was beginning to tell on both teams and the play was slowed up. The visitors with their clever passing finally succeeded in chalking up another marker that the Texans were (Continued on Page 9)