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THE BATTALION
AGGIES MEET ENNIS
S. P. FRIDAY IN 1ST
BASEBALL GAME
Coach Roswell Higginbotham’s
first diamond crew will swing into
action Friday and Saturday against
the fast semi-pro club representing
the Southern Pacific of Ennis. This
will be the initial appearance of a
Tiumber of the Aggie players and
much depends upon them the coming
season; this game will in a way
test their mettle under fire.
Rainy weather has hindered prac
tice the first part of the week, but
the Aggie diamond stars are ready
for the season to open and will pre
sent a well balanced ball club.
Following this game the Aggies
will make several road trips and
will not be on their own diamond
until April 11th and 12th when they
play the Mustangs a two-game ser
ies.
NATADORS PREPARE FOR MEET
W(ith but one month remaining be
fore the first meet, the Texas Ag
gie swimming team is rapidly round
ing into form. Recently the squad
was cut down to 14 men and assign
ments made for the different events.
The Matadors will journey to Hous
ton on April 5 for a tiff with the
Houston Y. M. C. A. team. A week
later they will take part in Gal
veston's annual “Splash Day,” and
will attempt to win the Gulf Coast
championship for the fourth straight
time.
A meet is being arranged with
Texas University to be held at Aus
tin sometime after the R. V. holi
days, and it is hoped to have a meet
with the Longhorns here a week or
so later. Several other meets are
still in the process of arrangement.
Those remaining on the squad af
ter the cut are Humason, Clardy,
Suggs, Smith, Moeller, Lowe, How-
der, Garrison, Ketterson, Jorgen
son, Moody, Evans, Threadgill and
McCullough.
HOKE AND KEETON RECEIVE
VALUABLE PLAYER AWARD
Cecil Hoke, who was recently
elected captain of the 1931 Texas Ag
gie cage team, has been awarded the
most valuable player trophy in bas
ketball presented by the Aggieland
Pharmacy. Establishment of the a-
wards, one in each of four major
sports, basketball, football, track and
baseball, as well as a captain’s award
in each sport was recently announc-
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RIFLEMEN SECOND IN 8TH.
CORPS AREA MATCHES
The Texas Aggie rifle team con
tinued its expert firing and placec
second in the Eighth Corps Area In
tercollegiate Matches just closed and
as a result the team will be allowed
to fire in the National Intercollegiate
Matches which are sponsored by the
National Rifle Associaiton. The Uni
versity of Arizona copped first place
in the Eighth Corps area matches by
scoring a total of 3,725 points, while
the Aggie team could gather only 3,-
667. Scores of other teams are as
follows: New Mexico Military Insti
tute, 3,601; New Mexico A. and M.,
3,526; North Texas Agricultural Col
lege, 3,516; Oklahoma A. and M., 3,-
494; and Colorado School of Mines,
3,466.
During the past week the Aggies
won six of their seven intercollegiate
matches and a special match with
a girls’ team of the University of
Wichita. This gives the Aggie rifle
men 17 victories and three defeats
in intercollegiate competition (not
counting the 8th Corps Area Match
es) or a percentage of .850. The
Aggies had won one other special
match beside this one the past week.
In all the matches the Aggies have
fired they have won 24 matches and
lost four for a percentage of 857.
Scores of the matches were as fol
lows: University of Tenessee 3,707,
Texas Aggies 3,672, Iowa State Uni
versity 3,671, Georgia Tech 3,655,
West Virginia University 3,586, Rose
Polytechnic 3,5)25, Depaw University
3,452, and University of California
(Default).
The Aggiees won the special match
from the Wichita University dam
sels by a score of 979 to 967, thus
demonstrating that they are as good
riflemen as “shieks”, although as the
match was a mail (and not male) af
fair, Nachman’s square-shooters did
not have the opportunity to demon
strate their art in the latter.
Competition seems to be getting
much keener on the squad as three
men tied for first honors with scores
of 371: Winders, Anderson, Bethan-
court. Myers and Cook each scored
368. Scores of other members of the
team: McGinnis 367, Price 365, Rhine
365, Janak 363 and Griffing 363.
Coach Roswell Higginbotham’s
diamond crew will battle the Ennis
Eouthern Pacific crew here Friday
and Saturday.
* * *
Playground ball equipment has been
issued 25 organizations and soon
many teams will be seen practicing
and playing games on the drill field
each day. The league games will
start April first.
FLOYD, SL0C0MB
ON TRACK FIELD
HONOR ROLL
Announcement in the March issue
of “The Athletic Journal” shows
two of Coach Frank Anderson’s
Southwestern Conference Champion
cinder artists, Don Slocomb and.
“Bull” Floyd, on the Collegiate track
and field Honor Roll for 1929.
Sloicomb made his place by travel
ing the the 220-yard hurdles in 23.6
seconds in the dual meet with Tex
as. During the past year or two oth
er men covered the distance in the
same time and two others made it
in faster time.
Floyd took his place with the great
track and field stars of 19129 when
he tossed the javelin 204 feet and 6
inches in the Southwest track meet.
Three men bested him last year.
Both Floyd and Slocomb participat
ed in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet held
in Chicago last summer and did
very well.
Selecting all-American football
and basketball teams is largely a
matter of opinion at best, but pick
ing all-American track athletes is
more exact, as the track and field
performances are measureable '^and
comparable. Each year the Track
and Field Rules Committee of the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion selects for its Honor
Roll the five men having the best
records in each of the fifteen events
during the season.
Other schools in this Conference
having men on the Honor Roll are
Rice (Bracy), T. C. U. (Leland).
Bracy was one of the seven men on
the honor roll twice. Denton Teach
ers’ and Abilene Christian College
also had representatives.
A. & M.-TEXAS FISH
TRACK MEET
A telegraphic track meet has been
arranged for Coach Frank Ander
son’s Texas Aggie freshman track
team with the frosh trinly-clads of
the University of Texas, for the
month of April. The Texas freshmen
will run at Austin April 25, and
Coach Anderson’s charges will stage
their half of the meet just two days
later on the Kyle Field course. Re
sults of the meet will be announced
immediately after the A. and M. team
has finished. Coach Anderson is par
ticularly pleased with his squad of
more than seventy freshman runners
and field men and is counting strong
ly on receiving a number of excellent
recruits from the squad to fill the
vacancies which graduation will
leave in the ranks of the varsity this
year.
AGGIES WIN TRACK
MEET
Coach Frank Anderson’s cham
pionship track and field team made
a real track meet of the Southwes-
^ern Exposition Track and Field
Meet held at T. C. U. when they
amassed 46 points and left all en
trants in the University class far
behind. Baylor was the closest with
23 Vz • Rice came third with 22, Ok
lahoma Aggies fourth with 21 %, T.
C. U. fifth with 19, and S. M. U.
on the end with 10.
The victory is all the more re
freshing when it is considered that
the Aggies were not near the top
of their form and had not intended
entering the meet until the very
last.
The feature of the meet was the
beating Leland gave his rival Bra-
cey in the 100 and 220 yard dashes.
Leland covered the century in 9.6
seconds, equaling the world’s rec
ord.
Leland and Farmer tied for high
point honors in the University class,
each having ten. Following is a sum
mary of the meet.
120-yard high hurdles—Won by
Harlan, Texas A. and M.; Slocum,
Texas A and M., second; Strick
land, Baylor, third; Ley, Rice, 4th.
Time 15.3 (new record).
Shot put—Won by Grace, Baylor;
Swartz, Oklahoma A. and M., sec
ond; Mitchell, Baylor, third; Salk-
eld, T. C. U., fourth. Distance, 42 ft.
614 inches.
100-yard dash—Won by Leland,
T. C. U.; Bracey, Rice, second; God
dard, Baylor, third; Emmons, Texas
A. and M., fourth. Time 9.6. (new
record).
880-yard run—Won by Willis, Rice;
Mims, Texas A. and M.; Burch, Ok
lahoma A. and M., Jenkins, Oklaho
ma A. and M., fourth. Time 2 min
utes, 1.1 seconds.
440-yard run—Won by Woodward,
S. M. U.; Hodges, Texas A. and M ,
second; Knight, Oklahoma A. and
M. third; Hatchell, Baylor, fourth.
Time 43.8 seconds.
220-yard dash—Won by Leland, T.
C. U.; Bracey, Rice, second; Em
mons, Texas A. and M. third; Nu
gent, T. C. U , fourth. Time 21.5 sec
onds (new record).
High jump—Won by Strickland,
Baylor; T. Mills, Texas A. and M.,
and Moser, Baylor, tied for second;
Rutledge, Oklahoma A. and M., 4th.
Height 6 ft. 1 in.
Pole vault-—Won by Baldry, Rice;
Sullivan, S. M. U., second; Stitler,
Texas A. and M. and Dodge, Okla
homa A. and M., tied for third.
Height 12 ft., 6 in. (new record).