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.
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You were down to see the Fish
Football team strut their stuff
against siki Sikes boys from Bren-
ham.
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Won’t next years Varsity look
sweet with that material to rein
force their present weaknesses ?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The last game of the season, gang.
Let’s make it good.
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The Aggie team is not just eleven
men; the whole gang has to do their
share. Stay in and Pitch.
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Sure looks like things will be
rough going Thursday and there
will be no let-up.
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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
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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.
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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
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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: