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THE BATTALION
AGGIES WIN A PAIR FROM FROGS 7-4, 8-5
AGGIES IN FIGHT
FOR CONFERENCE
HIGH HONORS
ROTHGEB AND
BENDER TO
LEAVE AGGIES
STATE TRIUMPHS STATE LEADS
OVER AGNETTERS CONFERENCE BY
Conference Meet a^College Station,j NWNLY
“Nig-” Wyman, the Aggies Hurling
Ace
With the close of the Southwestern
Conference baseball season less than
three weeks away, the Texas Aggies,
by virtue of their two decisive vic
tories over T. C. U. here recently,
expect to battle the Longhorns for
the championship to the end of the
wire. It now seems probable that the
pennant winner may not be decided
until the Aggie-Longhorn series,
which will be played here during the
middle of May.
The Aggies snapped out of their
hitting and fielding slumps during the
Frog series here. A few weeks ago
it seemed that the Aggies had one
of the best hurling corps in Confer
ence history, but now Coach Eothgeb
has only J. D. Wyman who is abso
lutely dependable.
H. A. Hillin, regarded by many as
the best hurler in the Conference last
year, is having trouble with his con
trol. Siki Sikes, who had been re
garded as the season’s “find” has been
unable to take his turn on the mound
for two weeks on account of a sore
arm. A. C. Bryant, another veteran
hurler, does not appear to have suffi
cient stuff onthe ball and has diffi
culty in going the route.
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HIGH TRACK MEET
WINNERS NA.MED
Main High Wins Relay Carnival.
Winners in the fifteenth annual in
terscholastic track and field meet at
A. and M. College here Saturday were
as follows:
100-yd. dash—W. E. Davis, Free
port, first; D. Coe, Dayton, second;
Goddard, Waco, third; Spencer, Aus
tin, fourth. Time, 10 seconds.
120-yd. High Hurdles—John Hen
ry, Main Avenue High, San Antonio,
first; Hatch, Lorena, second, Slo-
comb, Cameron, third; Davenport,
Main Avenue High, San Antonio,
fourth. Time, 16 seconds.
Shot Put—Johnson, Smithville,
first; Dupree, Freeport, escond; De-
lery, San Jacinto High, Houston,
third; Baker, Somerville, fourth. Dis
tance, 47 feet 1 inch.
Ex-Aggie to be on Staff as Fish
Coach.
Announcement has been made by
the athletic council that Claude Roth-
geb, head baseball coach and football
line coach, has requested and been
granted a release from his contract
as a member of the Aggie coaching
staff, effective September 1.
Going into efifect in February of
1924, Rothgeb’s contract had two
years to run.
The council made public additional
information bearing on coaching ac
tivities, including the fact that R. G.
Higginbotham, former A. and M. star
in football and baseball, had accepted
the post of freshman coach, effective
September 1, to succeed Coach J. R.
Bender, who tendered his resigna
tion some time ago.
Rothgeb had no comment to make
on his immediate plans, other than to
say that he expected to continue in
the coaching field. Announcement of
selection of his successor is expected
within a few days.
Higginbotham was known as Little
Hig in his playing days. He was a
star punter and passer on the Aggie
championship elevens of 1917 and
1919 and was all conference halfback
in 1919 and 1920.
BIFFLE WINS BOXING BOUTS
Banner to be Presented to Battalion
Winner
The big feature of the Intramural
Program at the present is Playground
Ball; four leagues have been formed
in this sport and the interest and
competition are running high at the
present time. At the close of the
leagues the league winners will play
for the championship.
Horseshoe Pitching is now being
started and according to the number
of entries it should be a very good
tournament. The Second Battalion
has more entries than all the rest of
the organizations put together and so
by the law of averages they should
do real well but that remains to be
seen. The tournament will be held
just west of the shacks and north of
the Main Drive.
The Boxing Tournament created
much interest and the crowd which
attended the matches saw some good
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The University of Texas defeated
the Aggies in tennis five matches to
This week’s results caused the
flame of Aggie hope to brighten
one. Bud Mather, ace of the Long
horns, was the outstanding player, but
Joe Hyland of College Station, the
Aggies’ sophomore star, defeated
Clinton of Texas. This is the third
straight match young Hyland has won
against Conference teams.
The results were as follows:
Singles—Mather (Texas) defeated
Davis (A. and M.) 6-2, 6-0; Dunlap
(Texas) defeated Ross (A. and M.)
6-3, 6-2; Hyland (A. and M.) defeated
Clinton (Texas) 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Min-
den (Texas) defeated Gill (A. and
M) 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles—Mather and Dunlap (Tex
as) defeated Davis and Gill (A. and
M.) 6-3, 6-4; Clinton and Minden
(Texas) defeated Ross and Hyland
(A. and M.) 6-4, 6-4.
The annual Southwestern Confer
ence Tennis Meet will be held on the
Aggie Courts next Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, May 9, 10 and 11.
Every team in the conference with
the exception of Arkansas will have
teams represented.
Drawings will be held early Mon
day morning or before. The school
represented by the winner of matches
will be designated winner of the meet.
The same procedure will be followed
in the doubles. Texas is favored to
cop honors, although S. M. U. has a
powerful team. Their defeat of Texas
last week was the first time in years
any school had turned the trick.
AGGIE SWIMMERS WIN FIRST
MEET
The A. & M. swimming team won
the “Splash Day” meet Sunday after
noon at the Crystal Palace natator-
ium at Galveston by defeating the
Houston Athletic Club 45 to 43. This
is the first time that A. & M. has
had a swimming team and it looks
good to see them start off by winning
their first meet. There has been quite
a bit of discussion about having an
outdoor pool here but nothing has ever
been done about it. Perhaps this will
lend renewed interest to the cause and
we will be able to get the pool and also
be able to enter the Southwestern
Conference in swimming. The men on
the team have been working hard ev
ery afternoon and were well prepared
for the meet. They took off several
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from a flickering glimmer to a bril
liant glow because of our defeating
the T. C. U. Frogs in the two games
of the series, aided by the defeat of
Texas by the S. M. U. Mustangs.
The first game of the series was
j featured by the spectacular fielding
of Williamson, playing Schow’s sun-
field with the ease of a veteran, and
the brilliant pitching of Wyman, who
allowed only six men to face him in
the sixth and seven stanzas and serv
ed each with only one ball. In this
“indifferent little man from Cleburne”
is stored the potential energy of the
Aggie hope for the championship.
The second game, contrary to gen
eral expectations, was very undoubt
ful from the beginning to the end. Al
though our fielding and hitting was
better than usual, Bryant and Hillin
were in hot corners continuously be
cause of lack of control. Both of these
men were expected to be premier
pitchers for this year but unfortu
nately both got sore arms during se
vere cold weather at first of season
and have had trouble with their con
trol all season. Rothgeb was forced
to send Wyman in in the ninth inning
after Hillin had walked one man, and
he retired the side without scoring,
ending the game. Captain Tucker
showed his old time form in both
games, playing bank up baseball.
The score by innings:
1st Game.
A. and M. AB R H
Williamson, rf ....5 2 1
Blount, 2b 5 2 1
Baker, 3b 4 2 3
Broiles, cf ........4 0 1
Clark, rf 4 0 1
Tucker, ss 4 1 0
Sikes, lb 4 0 2
Schuenemann, c .... 4 0 0
Wyman, p ...4 0 0
38 7 9
T. C. U. AB R H
Taylor, H., c 5 2 1
Grant, cf 4 1 2
Williams, G., ss ..4 0-2
Wolfe, lb 4 1 1
Steadman, If ......4 0 1
Carson, H., p ...... 4 0 1
Clark, 2b 4 0 0
Acker, rf 4 0 0
Taylor, 3b 4 0 0
xWilliams 1 0 0
PO A E
12 0
10 1
0 11
3 0 0
0 0 0
0 5 1
14 0 0
4 0 0
4 8 0
27 16 3
PO A E
10 0
10 0
0 4 3
5 10
3 10
7 0 1
6 2 0
110
0 10
0 0 0