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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1927)
6 y. ■. THE BATTALION Aggie Championship Hopes Go Up in SmoJ^e NINETY-FOUR TEAMS IN TOURNAMENT Horseshoe Pitching Meets with Wide Acclaim. ,;The ancient art of “horseshoe” pitching has been revived at A. and Mj. College under the supervision of Mr. Walter Pemberthy, who is direc tor of Intramural athletics. This term “Intramural” was derived ffom the latin phrase “intramura,” within the walls, so within A. and M. there are fifteen branches of sports ranging from football to horseshoe pitching. Every man is invited to en ter any of the contests that he is in terested in. ' ; At the present time ninety-^our teams of doubles have been entered in the horseshoe pitching tournament a|)d considerable interest is being stiown. Some of the participants have made excellent showings, Johnnie Sloan, San Saba, and R. A. Klutz, Princeton, make up the team now leading, with E. H. “Nig” Stevens, Slagle, La., and E. T. “Satch” Fuller, Beaumont, running- a close second. |ggies horses balk * AS DALLAS WINS POLO MATCH IN HOUSTON 5 ’Ao: ■■■■{ . Dallas won over Texas A.&M. Col lege 12 to 4 in the second of the ser ies df pblo games Saturday. Cecil Adkins and Dudley Mayer, pilaying in top form, were responsible for all the Dallas scores. Mayer led with four. Stick work, which was re garded as particularly good, of Coyt, Beck and DeBogory, indicated that the Dallas team will make a determined bid for the tournament championship. V The Aggie squad rode hard, but were handicapped for lack of mounts. dVtany times they had the ball out hh front but failed to land it when the ponies became unruly. Captain Amend probably was the outstanding Aggie player. His hard riding and mallet work figured in all the Aggie’s scores. Little Girl: “Mother, there’s a man in the kitchen kissing the cook.” Mother: What! In my house! Send her upstairs immediately.” Little Girl: April Fool! It’s only father.” Father (sternly): Son, what does this 60 mean on your report card ? Son (in innocent tones): Don’t know Dad, unless that was the temperature of the room. LONGHORNS OVERWHELM THE AGGIES Field Men Show Good Marks. The Texas Longhorns repeated their triumph over the Farmer track team, winning the final dual meet of the season, 71 to 46. The meet was run off in slow time, Cockrell showing only 10.3 in the 100-yard dash. Har gis flashed 45 feet five and three- fourths in the shot, while McKenzie did 45 even. Smith uncorked a good javelin heave with 170 feet four in ches, and Shepherd lifted himself over the bar at 6 feet 2. The summaries: 100-yard dash—Cockrell (Texas), first; Landa (Texas), second; time 10 3-4 seconds. 1- mile run—Hale (A&M), first; Crump (A&M), second; time, 4:37 1-0. Shot put—Hargis, (Texas), first; McKenzie, (A&M), second; distance, 54 5-4 inches. 220-yard dash—Cockrell (Texas), first; Landa (Texas), second; time, 22 2-10 seconds. 120-yard high hurdles—Stallter, (Texas), first; Davis (A&M) second; time 15 6-10. High Jump—Shepherd (Texas), first; Appleman (A&M) second; six feet. Javelin throw—Smith (Texas), first; Yeary (A&M), second; dis tance, 172 feet 4 inches. 440-yd. dash—Parker (A&M), first; Daniel (Texas), second; 50-8-10 sec onds. 2- mile run—Conner (Texas), first; Childress, (A&M), second; time, 10 minutes, 21 3-10 seconds. 220-yard low hurdles-—Kennedy (A&M), first; Stallter (Texas), sec ond; time, 25 1-10. Pole vault—Hammond (Texas), first; Brown (Texas), second; 12 feet, 6 inches. Discus—Gooch (Texas), first; Bart lett (A&M), second; 148 feet, 4 in ches. Little Boy (just finishing prayers): And, Lord, please make Napoleon a Russian. Mother (when he had finished): Why did you say that, Son ? L. B.: Cause that’s what I put on my examination paper. —Selected. CONFERENCE MEET AT RICE MAY 12-13-14 Winner Doubtful. The annual track and field meet of the Southwestern Conference will be held at Houston, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 12, 13, and 14. The Rice Owls will act as sponsors for the occasion. In times gone by Texas has usually lead the field by a big margin with the Aggies second. But this year the Owls have a strong squad, and inso much as the meet is being held in their territory promise to bid strong for Conference honors. Texas promises to be strongest in the dashes and in the field events, but with so many competitors are not liable to come out as well as they ex pect. The Owls are strong in the dis tances, while the Aggies will be fav ored to win the hurdles, the four- forty yard dash, and the mile-relay. S. M. U. has Hooper, who will bid strong for honors in the mile and half- mile. Every school in the Conference with the possible exception of Arkansas has teams entered and under favor able weather conditions several old records will probably fall. Such men (is Shepherd, Cockrejll, Gooch, an,d Jackson of Texas, Brunson of Rice, Hooper of S. M. U., Taylor of Baylor, Parker, Kennedy, and Crump of the Aggies, and others equally as famous in Conference track circles will be on hand to vie with each other for indi vidual honors. Preliminaries will be held on the 12th and 13th and the finals will be run off on Saturday the 14th. WHERE THEY CARRY ON THIS WEEK. Baseball May 13 14: Baylor—Open. Aggies—Open. T. C. U. vs. Texas at Austin. May 16-17: Baylor vs. S. M. U. at Dallas. Rice vs. T. C. U. at Ft. Worth. Track Southwestern Conference Meet at Rice May 12, 13, 14. STEERS WIN AS AGGIES LOSE TO RICE Aggies Stage Comeback in Second Game. The Aggies lost the first of a two- game series in Houston to the Rice Owls 4 to 2. The game was won on hits off Wyman who had trouble get ting them out for the first time this season. He was touched for 9 hits, 3 in a row in the 7th and 2 in a row in the 8th. Both teams played consistent baseball throvighout the game, the Aggies making 3 errors and the Owls making 2. The second game was featured by the star playing of Capt. Tucker and the pitching of Sikes, who started the game but got into trouble in the 2nd inning by walking 3 men and allow ing one hit. Hillin relieved him and pitched until the fourth when Roth- geb sent him to right field and placed Sikes back on the mound. On second attempt he pitched peerless ball and allowed only one hit. This, coupled with eleven Aggie hits, and Rice eight errors made it easy pickings for the Aggies who won 7 to 3. Score by innings: R H E A. and M. ..400 101 001—7 12 3 Rice 020 000 010—3 3 8 Sikes, Hillin and Schuenemann; Phil Abies, Dacamera and Allnoch. RESULTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Baseball Aggies 2-7—Rice 4-3. Texas 2-10—Baylor 1-4. T. C. U. 8—S. M. U. 7. Track Texas 71—Aggies 46. S. M. U. 82 1-2—T. C. U. 34 1-2. Baylor 78 1-2—Denton 38 1-2. CONFERENCE STANDING. W L Pet. Texas . . .14 3 .823 Texas A. & M . . . 9 5 .643 S. M. U ... 6 9 .400 T. C. U . . . 6 9 .400 Baylor 5 9 .357 Rice . . . 5 9 .357 Father to erring son: John, I’m afraid I’ll never see you in heaven. John: Why, what have you been doing now, Dad ? Conference Meet at Houston—May 12-13-14