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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1927)
6 THE BATTALION AGGIES AND CUBS SPLIT PAIR OF GAMES +x+ +x+ *}«■ *j<- »*» ❖ ❖ f PICKUPS ❖ 4" ❖ ❖ **» ❖ **•«■ +t+ *b ❖ ❖ ■>;» The Conference baseball season opens at College next Friday and Sat urday, March 25 and 26, with the Rice Owls as our opponents. We have the i best team in the conference, Army, so let’s get out and help them come through and land on top. The year is almost over, and we have done al most nothing in an athletic way, but now we have a chance to depose Billy Disch’s Longhorns from the top rung, so let’s help the team do it. * * ❖ This year the conference is going back to the four game instead of two game series, as has been in vogue the past two years. Teams with only bne good pitcher are a<pt to find themselves out of luck. With Hillin and Sikes going like they did against Waco, and with Wyman and Bryant in reserve we have a twirling staff as good as the rest of them. ❖ * Sikes as a pitcher was a revelation to most of us, but the way he did pitch. Boy, boy—six hitless innings against a Texas league ball club is hot so bad. Hunt and Williamson also showed themselves to be good infield ers in the second game and can well fill in if emergency calls. * * * The Texas Relays come off at Aus tin this Friday. The Aggies will send teams to compete which will no doubt give a good account of themselves. A'Jmost all %he Conference scjhools have teams entered as well as many of the leading schools over the coun try. The Rice Relays will follow the Texas Relays and will be held at Houston next Saturday. Practically the same teams that compete at Aus tin will be on hand for the Rice Car nival. ❖ * ❖ Announcement has been given out that the second annual High School and Academy Relay Carnival and fif teenth annual field and track meet will be held at the College April 29 and 30. All academy and high school undergraduates are eligible to enter who are passing in three courses and are eligible for participation. Last year was the first time the relays were held and they were a big suc cess. The field and track meet has been an annual affair for a long time. INTRAMURAL STANDINGS GIVEN OUT 2nd. Battalion Leads Organizations. Lesikar Has Slim Hold on Indi vidual Lead. The standings of organizations and points made by individuals so far in the Intramural Athletic program have been given out. The organization scoring the greatest number of points during the year will be awarded a banner at the end of the year to be carried by that organization all dur ing the next year. The individual scoring the most points during the year will be awarded a gold medal while the next eleven in participation will be awarded silver medals. The standing to date: Organization Participation in Intra mural Athletics. >> 42 r-S o 55 W EH o O o H First Bn. __100 74 55 17 50 296 2nd. Bn. _ _. 75 100 95 85 50 405 3rd. Bn. __ __ 75 30 65 10 50 230 Artillery __ 75 70 80 11 50 286 Cavalry __ __ 75 51 28 60 214 Air Serv. __ 75 50 20 50 195 Band 38 55 50 93 Casuals __ __ 10 50 60 Sig. Corps __ 75 96 50 10 50 281 Individual Participation Points in In tramural Athletics Lesikar, L. J 61 Morriss, R. J 60 Taylor, L. E 60 Courville, D. B 55 Parker, F. M 51 Mills, T. W 50 Hyland, J 48 Fagan, J. J 45 Konecny, F. J 45 Biffle, R. E : . 41 Watkins, D 41 Jared, I. C 40 Stafford, J. F 40 Heye, G. D 40 Yeary, M. F 36 Killian, J. G 35 Asbury, J. B 35 Stieler, R. E 35 Storrie, C. R. ' 32 The above figures do not include volleyball. TEAMS PICKED FOR RELAY MEETS Aggie Will Compete at Austin Fri day and Houston Saturday. A. and M. will enter three teams in the Texas Relays at Austin Fri day. There is a possibility of the fourth team entering if an improve ment is made in the time interven ing. The one-mile team will be composed of Parker, Burgess, Blair and O’Neal. The sprint team for the quarter and the half-mile events will be made up of Wooldridge, Buck, Burgess, and Utay. The teams will leave Austin for Houston where they will also take part in the Rice Carnival. In addi tion to the men picked for the relay teams, Coach Ylfnderson, will entej.” 1 several men in the individual events at both places in the track meets fol lowing the relays. This will be the season’s real open ing and we will get our first chance to compare the strength of our team with others of this conference as well as out of state entrants. Schools having teams entering the relays besides those of the Texas Uni versities and Colleges include Michi gan State University, University of Missouri, Haskell Indians, Notre Dame, Oklahoma A. and M., Grinnell College, University of Iowa and other leading Universities over the country. The feature event of the Texas Re lays will be the long endurance race of the Tarahumari Indians of Mex ico from San Antonio to Austin. Three women of the same tribe will start on the same highway and run the full marathon of 26 miles. The finish of both events will be sometime in the afternoon of the Carnival. VARSITY TRACK SCHEDULE. March 25-26—Texas and Rice Re lays at Austin and Houston. April 2—Texas at Austin. April 9—S. M. U. at College Sta tion. April 23—Rice at Houston. May 7—Texas at College Station. May 12-13-14—-Conference meet at Dallas. HILLIN AND SIKES SHOW REAL FORM Baker and Schuenemann Continue to Gather Base Hits. The Waco Cubs of the Texas Lea gue journeyed into our midst last Fri day and Saturday for a pair of games, but the best they could do was to lose the first game 4-3, and win the sec ond 1-0. Both games were fast and well played. Hillin went the full route for the Aggies in the first game and held the visitors to three runs and six hits, Aggie misplays giving the Cubs two of their runs. Waco scored first in the 4th inning but the Aggies came back and scored two on Baker’s double and Tucker’s home run. Tucker’s hard hit ball went for the circuit when it boulnced over Kelly’s head/ in left field. Nig Schuenemann with two hits and two walks was the batting star of the day. Baker and Tucker also gathered two hits apiece. The win ning run came in the ninth inning when Schuenemann singled scoring Tucker from second base. The second game was not decided until the ninth inning when Shires of the Cubs hit one to left field scoring Vigare from second. Shires was out at the plate attempting to stretch the hit into a home run. Sikes pitched the first six innings for the Aggies and held the Cubs hit less. Wyman relieved him and gave up three hits in three innings, two of them being bunched in the ninth for the winning run. Caldwell pitched a fine game for the Cubs, holding the Aggies for two hits and no runs. First Game. Waco AB R H PO A E Kelly, If . . . .4 1 1 3 0 0 Adair, ss . . . .3 0 1 1 2 0 Blackerby, cf 4 0 1 4 0 0 Glass, 3b . . . .4 1 0 1 2 0 Vigare, 2b ... .4 1 2 5 1 0 Shires, lb . . . .4 0 1 7 0 0 Courtney, rf . .3 0 0 0 0 0 Wolgamot, c . .2 0 0 1 1 0 Edgar, c . . . .2 0 0 3 1 0 Love, p .2 0 0 0 2 0 Walker, p . . . .1 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 33 3 6 25 10 0 A. and M. AB R H PO A E Williamson, cf 2 1 0 3 0 0 Blount, 2b . . . .3 0 0 1 3 1 Schow, If . . . .4 0 1 4 0 1 (Continued on Page 7) Conference Baseball Starts Friday Be There!