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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1930)
FREE-THROWS If there is an all-Conference cen ter in the Southwest Conference it is none other than Shiro Hoke. His per formances in the Texas and Arkan sas games, not counting his other conference games, is practically enough to give him the berth. The Porker players were high in their praise of the jumping Aggie center. Coach Frank Anderson is willing to take the “Gripes” from Business Manager Sullivan for his men burst ing fences with the discus, providing they can hurl the ancient weapon as far in the Conference track meet. Bob Farmer, holder of the Confer ence broad jump record, hurled the discus through the top of tire fence which was about 150 feet from the ring the other day and that is “pretty good” when you consider that Leo Baldwin just reset the conference record with 152 feet last year. Farmer is carrying the hunk of wood around for luck so we hear. hf X X V' The Engineers and First Ai-tillery are now the only real (Contenders for the Intramural football crown. They each have two games to play and it takes two wins for either to win. The Engineers and First Artillery meet in the last game. Announcement has been made that the Intramural track stars will com pete with the Texas University In tramural thinly clads in a telegraphic track meet. The Aggies’ meet will be held April 27th and since the Texas meet is scheduled for the 25th, The winner will be known here as ^ soon as the last event is finished here. It is hoped that the Aggie In tramural track stars can win this Hirst meet; the intramural record as a whole is a little better and mem bers of the Intramural department wish to keep Aggieland on top in an Intramural way. Journey around Kyle Field and v take a look at Higginbothams crew— looks like a real club in the making and one that can give Aggieland’s V * f traditional foes a beating. X X J i ± V ¥ 1 ? ± r X I GAMES THIS WEEK Basketball Wednesday, Feb. 25— S. M. U. at Texas Saturday, March 1— Texas at A. and M. Baylor 'at Rice ' T. C. U. at S. M. U. T Football Cavalry vs. Artillery at 2:0fl * Engineers vs. Composites at X 2:30 il 2nd Artillery vs. 2nd Infan- .f. try at 3:30 X £1 I. M. GAMES CLOSELY CONTESTED; ENGINEERS AND 1ST ART. LEAD With the last games of the Bat talion football league just two weeks off, the race for Intramural fotball honors has been narrowed down to the First Artillery backed by Major Sloan and the Engineers with a Pick as their supporter. Due to the fact that the Engineers did not get to play their first game of the season on account of weather condition and the fact that the First Artillery will play their full schedule, the Wagon Soldiers will have a slight advantage since they play one more game. The Artillery can win one and tie one, while the Engineers must cop both their games to win the flag. The En gineers will play the First Artillery on March 8th in the last game of the season and a victory over the Artillerymen would give them the flag or not less than a tie. The Composites held the First In fantry to a scoreless tie when the two teams met this past week-end. The game was played in the Com posites territory most of the time, but the First lacked the driving- punch when they had the ball in scoring distance, i Ellis, No}lafi ajnd Schnurr continued their good playing for the First while Price and Sud- derth were the mainstays of their opponents. The Second Infantry failed to break the winning streak of the En gineers and dropped a game to them by a 12 to 0 score. The scores were the result of a continuous aerial at tack. “Swede” and Blodgett were the big guns for the opposing teams. A scoreless tie was also the re sult of the Artillery duel. The Wa gon Soliders did their best to out do each other, but they were too well matched. O’Dowd and Hewit shared the honors for the First, and Moser and Criswell upheld the Second. FISH CONTINUE TO WIN Coach “Red” Petty’s 1930 freshman basketball team continued their win ning streak when they met and de feated two different opponents on two successive days. First, Caldwell Hi bowed by a 47- 19 count when Embry, first-year for ward, led the scoring with a total of 18 points. Porter and Houston of the Caldwell club 'each scored 8 points for their club. The second game proved to be just another g-ame when the fish found the Allen cadets easy pickings to win by a 33 to 13 score. Malone, big center from Terrill of Dallas, was closely pushed for high point hon ors with 11 points by Miller with 10. Wilkerson of Allen was high scorer (Continued on Page 7) AGGIE RIFLEMEN WIN FIRST MATCH OF 1930 SEASON The Texas Aggie rifle team, coach ed by Lieutenant Nachman, won its first inter-collegiate small bore rifle match of the 1930 season by a score of 3,6G6 as compared with 3,638 made by North Carolina State Col lege of Agriculture and Engineering who placed second. Mississippi A. and M. placed third with a score of 3,558 and the University of Illinois placed fourth with 3,555. McGinnis, of Troop A Cavalry, was the only man on the Aggie team to shoot a possible, making a perfect score in the prone position. The Aggies score is particularly gratifying as this is the first inter collegiate match fired this season. The new small bore range has added much interest to the work of the rifle team and the facilities should make improved scores a certainty. The team is captained by Johnnie Janak, major of the Frist Battalion of Infan try. Following is a list of the scores of individual riflemen of the Aggie squad: Porcher, C Inf . . . ...376 Griffing, E Inf. . . ...371 Winders, E Inf. . ...369 Rhine, A Cav. . . . ...369 Price, B Inf ...366 Myers, A Sig. . . . ...366 Cook, C Eng. . . . ...352 Janak, 1st Bn. . . ...365 McGinnis, A Cav. ...352 Johnson . A * - ...360 v i. m. Football standing Team— W. L. Pet. 1st Aft .31/2 y 2 .875 Engineers .21/2 V2 .833 2nd Art . .2 2 .500 Composites .IV2 iy 2 .500 Cavalry .1 2 .333 2nd Inf . .0 3 .000 PREPARE FOR S. W. C. TRACK MEET James Sullivan, business manager of athletics at A. and M., is laying- plans to facilitate the handling of the Southwest Conference track and field meet to be held at Kyle Field May 9-10 this year. The Aggie busi ness manager is looking forward to having a large crowd in the new stadium for the meet, which is ex pected to attract a large number of track and field stars from the high schools and junior colleges of the state. Optimistic reports from a num ber of the conference track training camps indicate the meet this year will be one of keen rivalry and that Coach Frank Anderson’s Texas Ag gie track team, acting in the role of hosts and defenders, will be hard pressed in the defense of the title won last season. PORKERS WIN FROM AGGIES; BUT WHATA ARGUMENT Aggie teams have been called “The Fighting- Aggies” and Friday and Saturday nights the Arkansas Pork ers found that the old saying was far from wrong when the Aggies held them to three and four-point vic- ories. And had the Aggies been half way lucky the first night with their shots, both long- and crip, the Pork ers would have suffered one of the worst defeats in many moons. The second night the Aggies took about one fifth the number of shots the evening before and made them count, in fact so much that it looked as if the Porker had lost a game until the very last few seconds when a free throw was made to tie the count. 25-22 tells a big story, but nothing like the tune of 28-24—even tho the Aggies lost. For the Aggies Hoke was the outstanding man of the g-ame. Shiro took the tip from the elongated Holt practically every time and played an all-round game. The Arkansas play ers will never stop wondering how he gets so high in the air. Holt is not less than 6 inches taller, yet Hoke took the tips. If there is an all-conference center in the Confer ence it looks like Hoke is it. Keeton played a good defensive game with Bo Bell—especially in The second tilt. For the Porkers Creighton with his long shots in the first game and Schoonovers superb playing in both games were our picks. Next Saturday the Aggies meet Texas in the last g-ame of the sea son. Buster Keeton and Johnnie Ko- necny will be playing their last game under Maroon and White colors and a victory over the Longhorn’s should send them out in a blaze of glory. CONFERENCE STANDING Team— W. L. Pet. Arkansas 9 1 .900 Texas 7 3 .700 S. M. U 5 5 .500 T. C. U 4 7 .364 Aggies 3 6 .333 Rice 3 6 .333 Baylor 3 6 .333 ■ *-1* *1* *1-* *1* *-1 * ♦J* *$• ♦£.' RESULTS LAST WEEK Basketball Arkansas 28-25; Aggies ;24- 5 T. C. U. 26; Texas 21 S. M. U. 26; Baylor 24 Football Engineers 12; 2nd Inf. 0 1st Inf. 0; Composites 0 1st Art. 0; 2nd Art. 0 •I- 'j 4 ♦t 4 *;* -k -!• -i* -I- j- j’ ^ *i- •;* 4* 4. .t.,