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COUNTRYMAN’S COHORTS CLOUT PILL PLENY PLENTYFUL
MUSTANGS INVADE AGGIELAND NEXT
WILD PITCHES
Texas received the first defeat at
the hands of a Southwestern Confer-
ence( track team last Saturday week
for the first time in—well long before
they began to wear track pants for
underwear.
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This has gained Aggieland recog
nition throughout the Middle West,
the Kansas Relay officials giving
them mention as probable winners of
the relays.
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The Aggie Baseball Nine are at the
head of the list in baseball along with
Texas as usual. Texas has had a
way of dallying along neck and neck
with the Aggies in the past few years
and then beating them out by a game
or so in the final, but the prospects
for a championship look better this
year than ever before because of the
seeming co-ordination among the
players of this year’s Aggie Nine.
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And Coach Countryman must be
commended upon the way he has
handled the men this year by showing-
no discrimination whatever in his se
lection of the man at the crucial mo
ment. That is the way Uncle Billy
wins championships.
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The Fish team is beginning to look
good. Coach Higgy has a well bal
anced club and should win most of
his games this year. From the looks
of things now there will be plenty
of hot competition on next year’s
Varsity nine.
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At a meeting of the Intramural
Board recently the question of Bat
talion baseball was brought up, and
if there is enough interest shown by
baseball fans in the corps it will be
inaugurated in next year’s program.
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From the interest taken in the un
organized sand-lot games on the cam
pus this year it looks like there are
enough fans and good players to have
a good league. This would be played
on Sunday afternoons and thereby
give fans some place to go and spend
part of a dreary afternoon—which
will help.
“How do so many boys get killed
in football games?”
“They kick off.”
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Judge—.“Guilty or not guilty?”
Prisoner—“You guess first.”—Col
lege Humor.
MUSTANGS PLAY AGGIES
ON KYLE FIELD ON NEXT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
With two stinging defeats from
Texas University and a standing of
1000 per cent to their credit, the S.
M. U. Mustangs will come to Aggie
land to play their initial game of the
season with the Aggies.
The games should be comparatively
close with the Aggies favored to win
because of superior pitching and field
ing ability. The Mustangs have one
good pitcher in Hume, star football
player, but to find a man to pitch the
other game against the Aggies will
be a problem for the S. M. U. coach.
Texas won both games from S. M.
U. because of costly errors and one
can’t tell just when a team is going
to tighten down and play errorless
baseball, the games may be closer
than it is generally conceded by most
Aggie fans.
Where They Play This Week
Besides the two games at College
Station probably the next two most
important games will be played at
Austin, when Texas University meets
T. C. U. Texas should win the games
with ease as T. C. U. has a compara
tively new club this year.
This Thursday and Friday will find
Rice and Baylor engaging in their first
games of the season at Waco. Either
side has a good chance to lose as they
both have mediocre pitchers and hit
ters. Errors will probably determine
the victory.
THE ANNUAL HIGH
SCHOOL RELAY CARNIVAL
The annual high school relay car
nival and track meet, open to high
schools of the state, will be held at
College Station, Friday and Saturday,
April 27 and 28, according to an
nouncement made by Coach Frank An
derson, Texas Aggie track mentor.
The A. & M. relay carnival and track
meet has been an annual affair for
many years and has proven very pop
ular among the high schools of the
state, Coach Anderson pointed out.
More than fifty teams, composed
of more than 200 high school athletes,
are expected to enter the meet this
year and plans are being made by the
A. &. M. Athletic Department to make
this the most successful meet in the
history of the College. More than
forty teams were represented at the
relays last year.
Five events, the quarter mile relay,
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TRACK TEAM MEETS RICE
HERE SATURDAY
While the Aggie baseball team was
in Houston issuing out 12 to 1 drub
bings to the Rice Owls the Track team
was accounting for itself by taking
the Texas University to a defeat of
68% to 48%.
By taking the majority of the races
the Aggies offset the field strength of
State.
The form displayed by the A. & M.
team proves them to be capable con
tenders for the ’28 Southwestern
Championship.
This is the first victory in track
over State for a number of years. It
did much to bring out the ability of
our men in early season competition
and will serve to establish confidence.
The second meet was scheduled to
be run off last Monday, the S. M. U.
team was here but the weather con
ditions were such that the meet was
put off until the following day and
finally called off altogether.
Next Saturday the team will com
pete with Rice in a dual meet at
Aggieland, while S. M. U. will go
to Austin and meet Baylor and Texas
in a triple meet Thursday.
INDOOR BASEBALL STARTS
SOON.
The speedball tournament started
Monday when Co. B and Troop D
tied up. The games are being played
on the field west of the shacks and
adjacent to Dean Kyle’s residence.
With the evenings lengthening and
the sound of cracking bats coming
from Kyle Field, the baseball bug is
getting under the skin and just has to
emerge and show its spirit. The in
tramural department is going to as
sist in soothing this spring fever for
activity by starting the play ground
ball tournament. Playground ball will
offer a field for more boys to play
than ever before and it is desirous
that all companies organize a team—
even the band and casuals—-both or
ganizations have been dead as far as
as athletics is concerned but with the
fight they showed in football we know
they can put out good teams. The
equipment will be available by April
1st.
The mud hens around Hollywood
have been reviving the ancient art of
horseshoe pitching. Last year 94
teams entered the tournament in
doubles; this year to make the tour-
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AGGIES START CONFERENCE
AT HOME BY HAVING
WON TWO IN A ROW
Duplicating their action of last
week, the Texas Aggie Nine pounded
their way to a double victory over
the Rice Owls in the two game series
on Kyle Field Friday and Saturday.
Last week the Aggies journeyed to
Houston for their first game of the
season with Rice and won both games
by substantial scores, both being 12-1.
Superior hitting and fielding behind
peerless pitching brought the Aggies
in the lead in the early part of the
games and they never were in danger.
Veterans Open Season on Kylp Field
Veteran baseball players opened the
season for the Aggies on Kyle Field,
Friday afternoon, Coach Bible acting
as umpire, announced the batteries
for the Southwest Confeernce as
Mayor Bradley of Bryan, pitcher;
Col. Nelson, catcher; Dean Friley, bat
ter. The mayor had perfect control
and put the pill right down the groove
but the Dean missed it and the Col
onel, who expected Dean Farley to
hit, missed the ball entirely, begin
ning the season with an error. The
Aggies, however, soon turned the
tide and ended the game with only
three errors.
Aggies 9, Rice 5
Responding in a vicious hard hit
ting contest to the appeal of the corps,
Ag-gies staged a seventh inning rally
to contribute six hits and seven runs
after the Rice pitchers had held them
to the small end of a 5-2 score. Bray
hit a hot grounder to Tolle on third
who fumbled with it ’till Bray was
safe and Sikes doubled. Countryman
sensed victory and sent in Jeffries as
a pinch hitter who met the first ball
pitched squarely on the nose for a
single, scoring Bray and Sikes.
Wendt doubled and Cody, batting for
Conover, put on a nice hit-and-run play
with a single scoring Jeffries and
Wendt. From then on it was a free-
for-all hitting contest. Blount tripled,
Burnhardt walked, Bray singled, Cody
singled and Abies went to the show
ers. Smith came in and Blount hit
his first ball pitched for three bases
into deep center and then the Aggies
rested.
Rice showed great form in fielding
and managed to gather five hits, four
off Wyman and one off Heliums. Both
Heliums and Wyman pitched good
baseball, but both had poor control
due to high wind and cold weather.
Aggies 4, Rice 1
Following closely on previous days