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8 THE BATTALION AUSTIN TOMORROW CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WINS CHAMPIONSHIP DROP KICKS. Well look; the Cross Country team has gone and brought another cham pionship in to Old Aggieland. * sfc * You were down to see the Fish Football team strut their stuff against siki Sikes boys from Bren- ham. * * * Won’t next years Varsity look sweet with that material to rein force their present weaknesses ? * * ❖ Gang, Clark field was fifteen years old befere an Aggie team pulled a victory on the statites, this will make our third trip to dedicate their Stadium and in case we do don’t try to bring the Capitol back here to use in place of the Chem. build ing. * * * After weeks of hard work which would do them no good according to the dope bucket the Cross Country team did more than conquer, they did it in strange territory. * * * Winders beat the spectacular Brun son of Rice by a large margin, this means that Soph distance runner has a wonderful future before him. With proper care he should accom plish great things with the Aggie colors. * * * The last game of the season, gang. Let’s make it good. * * * The Aggie team is not just eleven men; the whole gang has to do their share. Stay in and Pitch. * * * Sure looks like things will be rough going Thursday and there will be no let-up. * * * With a dry field or even a wet one lots of things can still happen. THE FLAGPOLE PROBLEM While engineering profs rubbed their hands in glee at the idea of anyone of their students willingly working on an engineering problem, the whole corps took time off Sat urday morning to remove the revo lutionary flag that flung its folds unmolested to the winds with no restraining ropes to check its merry play. Kites, climbing monkeys, bows and (Continued on Page 9) COMPANY C WINS BASKETBALL TITLE Company C romped away from the Artillery five Saturday night for the Championship of the College in basketball, the score being 37 to 15. The Infantrymen’s passing attack was hitting on all cylinders and the Battery C players were unable to provide a defense to check it. Battery C’s long shot artists were covered so well that they were unable to score this route. Blount’s men dem onstrated clearly that they were the class of the Intramural teams. Bat tery C failed to make as good a bid for the championship as expected; this was the second consecutive year Battery C has been in the finals. Hyland, fast diminutive forward of Company C, was the outstanding player and high point man, register ing 17 points during the game. The personel of the winning team is: E. M. Liem, J. Hyland, W. E. Law less, R. C. Barron, R. B. Lane, S. A. Mercer, C. A. King, and M. S. Garrison. Blount, Aggie center and guard, was coach and McCollum was manager of the champion team. This game terminated one of the most successful seasons in basket ball that the Intramural department has sponsored; 318 men took part in 50 contests held to determine the championship while 270 registered in the chase for the honors last year. The Intramural department will award eight medals to the winning team and the company will give their players sweaters for winning the title. NEW INTRAMURAL SPORTS. Saturday, a new sport was initia ted into the Intramural Sports of A. and M. The new game is called kite fishing. For the benefit of* those who were not present at the open ing game the following rules will be given: 1. The game will be played by any number of players on a field which shall be prepared as follows: A cleared level area at least 25 yards in radius with a flagpole at least 75 feet high. 2. There shall be no time limit. 3. The object of the game is to remove the flag from the flagpole without a special Act of Congress or an injunction from the Supreme Court. (Continued on Page 9) FISH WIN OVER BLINN ELEVEN Saturday afternoon on Kyle Field, Coach Roswell Higginbotham’s Fish defeated Siki Sike’s Blinn College gridsters 13 to 7 in a bitterly con tested game. The game was hard fought from the first whistle and the freshmen were not able to put the winning touchdown over until the latter part of the game. Sike’s charges were greatly out weighed and particularly outnumber ed. If Blinn had had as many teams to put on the field as the fish had, the score might have been different. Every member of the Blinn eleven fought until the last shot—and most of them were injured or “out” be fore the third period was over due to the hard plunging of the Aggie backs and line. Shick and Koy were Sike’s outstanding backs, while Nei- hbur, Jenkins, and Bennet showed up well in the line. Blinn’s touchdown came as the re sult of a blocked punt of Clarks and a Blinn player grabing the ball and dashing across the goal line; the extra point was made by pass. Blinn made seven first downs as compared with twenty-two for the Fish. The Fish had several outstanding stars. Neldon Rees carried the ball (Continued on Page 9) REAGAN HI BEATS FISH HARRIERS Saturday afternoon during the Fish-Blinn football game, the Rea gan High School of Houston edged the Fish hill and dalers out by the count of 26-30. The Fish took second, third, fifth, tenth, and eleventh places, while the Houston boys placed first first, fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. McDonald, Houston star, finished the course first with a time of 14.55. Fish Roberts chased him in for sec ond place. The order in which the men finished is: McDonald, Reagan; Roberts, A. and M.; De Carlo, A. & M.; Dobbs, Reagan; Hahan, A. & M.; Klops, Stenson, and Sparks of Reagan; Love and Nesmith of A. and M. These Fish were selected from some seventy members of the fish squad and several of them have ben finishing ahead of some of the Var sity men. Next year these Fish should prove very valuable in helping keep the title in Aggieland for three consecutive years. AGGIE HARRIERS WIN CON FERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP The famous fighting spirit of Aggieland rose to its greatest heights last Saturday on the Texas Long horn hilly course and tied the Rice hill and dalers to win the Confer ence meet for the second consecu tive year and the third time in the last four year; also this gives Coach Anderson four championships dur ing the nine years the race has been a recognized conference sport. Dur ing these last four years trophies have been awarded to the winning team and just three of these em blems have a place among the many trophies resting in the Memorial Gymnasium. The Aggies were accorded only an outside chance of winning the title again this year because the Rice representatives had decisively de feated the Farmer boys during the Aggie-Rice football game. But the Conference meet is always won on the course and never in the dope bucket, so the Aggie runners had a little private meeting before the race and decided to drop the dope bucket over the Rice boys head— and HOW! It was decided that Winders would cross the finish line ahead of Brunson, Shoemaker ahead of Willis, and so on down the list. Winders completed his part of the schedule and finished about one hun dred and fifty yards ahead of the great Rice star, who is admitted to be the best runner in the South. But some way during the race, Shoemaker got the signals mixed and nearly finished ahead of Brun son, he needed only a few inches to turn the trick. The Conference championship was awarded to A. and M. by virtue of the fact that the Aggies were the 1927 champions. The word, “HEADS” won the beautiful 2 1-2 foot statue of Mercury. George Moore, Captain of the Champion team, called the flip and left the Rice bag empty for another year. Only four Conference schools en tered the meet: A. and M., Rice, S. M. U., Texas. The Aggies and Owls finished second with a score of 70, and Texas was last with a score of 72. The championship will be determined on the Rice course next year. Dick Winders finished the course in the short time of nineteen minutes and forty-eight and three- fifths seconds. Only a partial list of these finishing could be obtained: