TH* BATTALION
BASEBALL SEASON
TO BEGIN FRIDAY
Prospects for a Winning Team Are
Bright This Year.
The official baseball season will be
gin Friday afternoon on Kyle Field
with the strong Southern Pacific
team from Ennis furnishing the op
position against the Aggies. From all
indications the game will be a good
one of the early season variety and
from this series of two games the sup
porters of the maroon and white will
have an opportunity of seeing the
Farmer entry in action, and in this
way some idea may be had of the way
the Aggies will stack up against the
other conference teams this year.
For six weeks or more, the guid
ing hand of Coach Rothgeb has been
at work with a large squad of ball
tossers, whipping them into shape for
the coming campaign. When the call
was issued for the baseball men to re
port, there were nine letter men that
answered roll call,—a man for every
position. In addition to these were
the entire personnel, with one or two
exceptions, of last year’s Freshman
team, the strongest the Aggies have
had for many years, besides others
who were untried.
It has been quite a job to pick nine
men from this group to carry the Ag
gies’ colors and traditions in the com
ing race, in fact all of the positions
have not been settled as yet. Sport
writers of the state have in their pre
season dope, rather ignored A. and
M.’s chances for a pennant and chain'
pionship this year, but from all indi
cations it looks as if the Aggies will
be able to take care of themselves in
a very capable manner against any
team that the other schools in the
conference put into the field,—with no
exceptions.
As to pitchers, the real strength of
this department is not quite known.
Captain Rogers is the only member of
the staff that is a veteran and he
should have his greatest season this
year. Hillin and Bryant, both of them
righthanders of last year’s Freshman
team, are looking good in the prac
tice games that have been held every
day for the past month. Kishi, an
other righthander, has shown a world
of stuff and should deliver the goods
this year. Bauknight, a sophomore
portsider, has been effective in the
practice games. Koerth, Olsen, Breh-
mer and Blackman complete the list
of hurlers.
The selection of a capable receiver
has been a difficult task, but the fight
has settled down to three men: Schu-
enermann, Johnston, and Brazelton.
Schuenermann is a product of last
year’s Freshman team while Johnston
has been shifted from the initial sack
to the position behind the bat and is
rapidly developing into a receiver of
ability. Brazelton is a veteran of
last season.
At first, Coach Rothgeb has three
candidates in Steinaker, Johnston, and
Grayson. It is possible that Johnston
will alternate with Schuenermann and
Grayson will do some outfield duty,
but at any rate this place will be well
taken care of. Crawford and Craig,
both veterans of last year, are fight
ing it out for the keystone sack. At
present Crawford is nursing a couple
of charlie-horses and may be out of
the lineup for a few days. In the short
field a merry battle rages between
“Punk” Baker, and Royder, both of
them newcomers on the squad, and
Montgomery a letter man of last year.
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STAR ATHLETES
TO VISIT HERE
Interscholastic Track Meet to be Re
vived at A. and M. College This
Season.
The revival of the interscholastic
track meet at A. and M College should
be of i merest to every student in
school. With the meet open to every
high school in the state, irrespective
of size or grade, it will no doubt at
tract athletes from every district.
In accordance with a conference
ruling, no transportation can be re
funded to the schools participating.
Unless a keen interest and spirit of
competition is developed in the meet
some schools may not be represented.
However, the awarding of handsome,
individual gold, silver, and bronze
medals should be no small induce
ment. All high schools and academies
are invited to send teams. No dis
tinction will be made as to whether a
team is class A or B or whether it
is of junior or senior rating. This
fact makes each event open to all
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comers giving each contestant a
chance to overcome some real compe
tition.
The task of getting invitations to
all high schools and academies is a
large one. In order that all schools
way have an opportunity we wish to
suggest that every student make a
personal effort to see that his high
school is invited. This may be done by
simply sending them a copy of this
issue of The Battalion or by writing
a personal letter to the principal of
the school. Requests for entrance
blanks may be mailed to Frank G.
Anderson, at College Station, who is
in charge of arrangements for the
meet. We sincerely hope that each
student will avail himself of this op
portunity to bring a prospective var
sity man to the campus. With the
magnificent athletic field at our dis
posal there is no reason why we can
not induce a goodly percentage of
these high school athletes who enter
the meet this spring to register here in
the fall. The thing to do now is to
get every eligible high school and
academy athlete invited to this meet
on the 25th of April.
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