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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1929)
■■nnflHmSHHBBimnHHUnB B THE BATtALIOK BASEBALL-RICE—KYLE FIELD—FRIDAY SAT. AGGIES BATTLE BUFFS TO ELEVEN INNING DRAW TRACK TEAM READV FOR RELAY GAMES HERE AND THERE Everyone was expecting to see the Aggies lose to the Buffs by a large score, no doubt—everyone is pleased to see that the Farmers will have a much better combination than was expected. Tom Mills did some mighty nice tossing. It seemed like he had been reading the Willys-Knight add—im proves with use. Lots of folks will miss their guess if that lad does not turn into a real hurler. He worked his socks off Monday afternoon. The Aggies will enter a powerfully good relay team in the Texas and S. M. U. Carnivals. 20 universities, 17 colleges, 6 jun ior colleges and 27 high schools, have been entered for the State meet. A. and M. has a goodly number of specialty men on her entry list. Just to tell you that the Myers that pitched for Houston last Thurs day is no Rookey, and he was bear ing down plenty hard. So it be—the line-up was manag ing to get on base just the same. * * It isn’t at all probable that the team will go up against a harder pitcher this year. It won’t be in the Conference. If Rice starts the Ace of their pitching staff it is likely that Coach Countryman will open with the line up that he started against the S. P. team. Rice Owls—Friday and Saturday. Football spring training will end Thursday. A brisk scrimmage is planned. Joel Hunt asked that we extend his most sincere thanks to the stu dent body. He is greatly pleased with the present. Letter from Joel, to the Athletic Department. March 24, 1929. Athletic Dept. A. and M. College. Dear Sirs: HUCKSTERS SET FOR TEXAS-S.M.U. RELAY GAMES Teams Making Good Showings to Be Taken to Dallas For S. M. I). Meet Coach Anderson will be hampered by the injuries of Graham and Bad ger, when he enters his aspirants n the fifth annual Texas Relay Car nival, Friday. Graham will be en tered in shorter races than he is ca pable of running, but Badger will not be able to run with the team for some time, due to an injured muscle. The 880 yard relay which was the Aggies speciality last year will be the one hit hardest by these injuries. The following men will be entered: 440 yard relay, Emmons, Graham, Burgess, and O’Neal; 880 yard relay, Emmons, Hodges, Burgess and O’Neal; one mile realy. Sessions, Tracy, Hodges, and O’Neal. The plan for the realy team now calls for them to be in Dallas the Saturday following the State Carni val. A number of men have been en tered in the special events, they are as follows: Shot put, Bartlett; Dis cus throw, Bartlett and Farmer; Javelin, Johnson and Floyd; Broad- jump, Farmer; High-jump, Brad shaw; Pole-valut, Ashley and Stit- ler; Hurdles, Slocum and Harlan. Tom Mills was to be entered in the jumps, but will stay here to take part in the Rice-Aggie baseball games, which are scheduled to be played on Kyle field this week-end. Winders and Shoemaker will meet the team in Dallas Saturday. They are to run the 3000 meter special event, at the Pony Relay Games. I want to thank the department for showing me such consideration in the past, and especially for hon oring me last Friday. The flowers were just wonderful, and you select ed my little sweetheart as flower girl—little Virginia Jones. I hope I can be of service to the department—do not fail to call on me. Very truly yours, JOEL HUNT. INTRAMURALS Indoor Baseball Starts Soon. Most any kind of athletics that can be found anywhere at present can be found down near the gym every day. Football, track, baseball, hand ball, fencing, boxing, wrestling, ten nis, and volleyball constitute the athletic activities of the students at the present time and more will be started in the near future. The pre liminary bouts in boxing and wrest ling are about completed and the finals will be held in the near future. Not as many entered the events this year, but a better class of compe tition was exhibited. The volley ball league has been started and a great deal of interest has been taken in this sport. The games are being played beneath the concrete stadium. All managers are requested to ob serve their schedules because the Intramural Department has stopped notifying and all managers will be responsible for having their teams report. Each time a team fails to appear, ten points will be deducted from their entry points. (Continued on Page 7) HI-SCH00L RELAY CARNIVAL HERE Coach Frank Anderson has an nounced that the seventeenth inter scholastic track and relay carnival will be held at College Station April 27. Contrary to the usual custom, the meet this year will be a one- day affair instead of two. This an nual invitation carnival is very pop ular with the high school mentors and a record meet is expected to be held. In the past the relay carni val and track meet were held as separate events and on consecutive days, necessitating at least a two- day trip for the closest contestants. This arrangement will enable teams or single entries to specialize in a special event and cut down consid erably the advantage which the lar ger schools have had by specializ ing in the relays. The quarter, half, mile, and med ley relays will be included in the meet this year along with special (Continued on Page 7) AGGIES TIE BUFFS IN 11 INNING OPENER Swamp Houston S. P. 13-1 Friday afternoon Coach Bob Coun tryman’s 1929 edition battled the Houston Buffs to a 4 to 4 score in an eleven inning battle. It was the Aggies’ first game and; the mere fact that their opposition was the 1928 Dixie Champions did not awe them in the least. Coach Countryman’s cohorts show ed real strength in every position with the possible exception of third base and the performance of Weston in Saturday’s game makes us doubt this statement. The Aggie infield functioned almost perfectly. Only two errors were chalked up against the Aggies and Henderson’s was the oly costly error, allowing two runs to sift in in the initial inning. Coach Countryman has a sopho more combination in the infield and with this year’s experience they should go great the next two years. “Bloody” Martin on first was credit ed with eight put outs and looked mighty fine in the field, although, against the Buffs, he was very poor at the bat. Saturday he got two hits in five trips to the plate and counted three times. He was credited' with nine put outs and no errors in this game. “Frog” Pampeli covered sec ond in the old “Buba” Blount style and that’s ’nough said. He got three hits and one run in ten trips to the plate in the two games. Against Houston he put 4 put outs and 5 as sists under his belt without an er ror. The next day he made two as sists and two errors, but still he was a shining light in the infield. Gill Johns was outstanding at short stop and gave every indication that this position would be well taken care of this season. In the first affray he hit twice in four trips to the plate and took three putouts and three as sists without an error. In the sec ond game he got a hit and run in three times at bat, made one assist and one putout. Henderson played third awhile, but was replaced by Weston. Homer Childers, playing his last year, divided time with Martin at first and got one hit in three trips RECREATION . . 4:30-5:30