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THE BATTALION
FREE-THROWS
The second defeat ihe Owls hand
ed the Aggies practically floored
them as conference contenders. The
Reidmen now have only a mythical
chance of winning the litie because
to do so means winning their re
maining games against Texas and
Arkansas and that would only give
them a tie with the Razorbacks. The
Aggie quintet may eke out one win
against both Texas and Arkansas,
but it is hardly likely that they will
sweep both series.
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A final check-up shows that the
1930 Ag-gie football squad was hit
harder than was first thought. Van
Zandt resigned from school and De-
5.ery, another linesman, had quit
Thanksg-iving. Eligibility )-ules will
keep Cummings and Barron off the
Varsity. Barron was a likely looking
back and his services could well have
been used. Zarafonetis has not been
declared definitely ineligible, but it
will take plenty of work for him to
come through.
Intramural speedball finally closed
when Battery F won the champion
ship from Company D, Infantry. In
terest in this sport grows yearly as
evidenced by the increase in partici
pants.
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The famed Cavalry football team,
like the Varsity eleven, was hard
hit by students flunking out and no\
they hardly have a team that is ca
pable of beating any of the other
intramural teams. The Engineers
took their measure last Saturday and
Coach “Bean” Woodman’s crew will
try to duplicate the feat next week.
Woodman’s outfit has lost its two
games by one-point margins.
Rip Collins, famous Aggie athlete,
is spending a few days on the cam
pus prior to joining his ball club for
spring training.
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GAMES THIS WEEK
Basketball
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Saturday—
S. M. U. vs. Arkansas
Fayetteville.
Football
2nd Infantry vs. 1st Art.
2:30
2nd Art. vs. Composite
2:00
1st Infantry vs. Cavalry
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BASEBALL SQUAD
BEGINS WORK
With real baseball weather pre
vailing for the past few days, Coach
Roswell Higginbotham and his Var
sity nine have been getting down to
hard work preparing for the coming
conference season^ The initial ses
sions have been devoted primarily to
conditioning. Each day members of
the squad take a few laps, get in a
few pepper games, and then “Lit
tle Hig” doses out many varied and
long calisthenic drills. Saturday aft
ernoon the crack of the bat could be
heard—just letting his men get their
eyes on the ball.
The squad now numbers about
thirty-one and will be increased by
fibout eight members of Coach
Reid’s cage team when the present
season ends. Those out for the club
now are: Carpenter, Cody, Conover,
Davis, Hall, Crozier, Haneman, Ish,
Dansby, Franklin Golasinski Harvey,
German, Hawes, Hornsby, Keith,
Lackey, Lagow, Wendt, Weston,
King, Mills, Mitchell, Phillips, Rich
ardson, Voelkel, Emmons, Johns,
Henderson, Smith, Pampell. Members
of the basketball team who are ex
pected out later: Martin, Hunter,
Keeton, Bell, Konecny, Beard, Velt-
man and Brown.
SWIMMERS TRAIN FOR MEETS
Old Man Winter might be herding
his storm -clouds before him in a fur
ious gust, or slinky breezes might be
trickling in from the south, but neith
er make much difference to the hardy
candidates for the Texas Aggie
Swimming team, who are working
out daily in the “Y” pool.
The team members ha,ye been in
training for nearly a month, and are
rapidly rounding into first class
form. Clardy and Humason are di
recting the swimming element, while
Walter Woodlief is spending a bit
of time with the diving contigent.
New prospects arrive at the pool
nearly every afternoon.
Among some of the exercises be
ing indulged in by the hopefuls daily,
are to swim anywhere from 11 to 40
laps (each lap being 20 yards) as a
starter, to swim five or six laps us
ing the feet only, to spend from 15
to 30 minutes on starts and turns,
to have a few short distance races
of from HO to 40 yards, and to ease
along through several laps while us
ing only the arms for locomotion.
Stanislaw Pietkiewicz, Polish con
queror of Nurmi and Eino Pur-
ja, of Finland, will compete in the
16th annual track and field meet of
Brooklyn College, January 18. Oth
er star athletes have been invited to
participate in the events.
BATTERY F LEADS IN
INTRAMURAL STANDING;
VOLLEYBALL STARTS
Batery F, by virtue of winning the
speedball championship, took a firm
er grip at the head of the intramural
win column and are heading toward
the Intramural standard now in pos
session of Battery B.
Volleyball started last Monday
with 25 teams entered. Last year vol
leyball gained a number of new play
ers and this year past records are
expected to be shattered as they have
in all the other intramural sports.
Volleyball is a fine game to learn
since it is one of the few games that
men play after leaving school, or go
ing into business. It is not as exact
ing as many sports, but gives much
exercise to all the muscles and is an
excellent game for any one to learn.
Thje present intramural standing
includes speedball, handball, cross
country, two classes of basketball.
Intraumral Standing:
Battery F . .
Company D .
Battery A . .
Battery E . .
Company B
Company A .
C Engineers
Troop D . . . .
Company C .
Troop B . . . .
Company F
Troop C
Battery D . ..
Battery B . . .
Company E .
A Sig. Corps
B Engineers .
B Sig. Corps
Battery C . . .
Band
A Engineers .
Troop A
Company C .
Company H .
Company H .
Casuals
300
....291
281
275
255
255
252
222 1-2
240
222 1-2
220
205
201
195
192 1-2
185
175
165
160
150
140
136
130
127
.. 127 y 2
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ENGINEERS DEFEAT CAVALRY
Followers of the Intramural foot
ball schedule saw a great improve
ment in the playing of the teams over
last week’s work. The weather con
ditions .were ideal. The gridiron^
were dry allowing- the aspirants of
the game every chance to pr-ove their
ability as football players.
The First Artillery and The Com
posites opened the afternoon's play
ing. O’Dowd cotninued his perform
ance, and led his men to a fourteen
to nothing victory over the Casual
combination. Red Sudderth played
a good game for the losers.
The Engineers gave the Cavalry
men their first trouncing of the
year in a hard fought battle. The
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OWLS HAND AGGIES SECOND
DEFEAT IN DECISIVE WAY
The Rice Owl cage team swept the
season’s series by handing Coach
John Reid’s Aggie quintet a decisive
trimming in Houston Saturday night
to the tune of 26-17. Hart and Hess
continued to hold their place as the
leading scorers in the Southwest by
scoring twelve and eight points re
spectively.
The Aggie machine, seemingly re
juvenated and ready to push the
conference leaders, sputtered , a|nd.
were never’ in the lead, except at the
very first part of the game. Coach
Reid used nine men in an attempt to
find some combination that [would
work, but anything he tried was just
as good or bad as the last.
The Aggies journey to Austin Fri
day to dedicate the new University
Memorial gymnasium. This game
should prove to be one of the best
played in the conference this year as
the Aggies handded the Texans a lick
ing on Kyle Field, and S. M. U. has
just handed them a heart breaking
defeat on the court, practically elim
inating the Steers from the present
basketball chase.
FISH WIN PAIR OF GAMES
Exhibiting a complete reversal of
form over their last week’s perform
ance when they lost to Bryan High,
the Fish basketball team took two
games from the Temple Junior Col
lege Leopards.
In the first game Friday night,
Coach Daschiell’s men led the Fish
during the first half, but the Fish
came back strong in the latter part
of the game to win with a 38 to 16
score. Malone, center on the Fresh
man team, was high point man for
the Fish with a total of eleven points;
Akridge led the scoring for the Leop
ards with the same number. The
Fish continued their winning Satur
day and won the second game 22 to
7. Malone and Akridge led the scor
ing again. Akridge scored 10 points
while Malone had a total of 7 points.
Diaz, Fish guard, showed nice form
in both games.
CONFERENCE STANDING
Team—
Ai-kansas
Texas
W.
5
... .5
L.
1
2
Pet.
.833
.714
Aggies ....
3
3
.500
S. M. U
... .3
3
.500
Rice .
3
4
.429
T. C. U
3
5
.375
Baylor
1
5
.167
RESULTS LAST WEEK
Rice 26, Aggies 17
S. M. U. 25, Texas 2(2
Texas 35, T. C. U. 21
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