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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1930)
CINDER DUST | FISH TRACK TEAM OPENS | SEASON TOMORROW For the first time in seven years .. and for the last time for seven, the ■ Thursday, May 8th, Coach Frank annual Southwestern Conference track meet will be staged on Kyle field, with the Texas Aggies the de fending champions. Texas University bids fair to cop the title this year, although the Aggies have a fair chance of repeating. A win in the relays and points in the shot and discus may be the deciding factor. ❖ * Anderson’s Freshman thinly clads will open their 1930 season with the University of Texas first year cinder stars in a telegraphic track meet. The following- Monday, !M]ay 12th, they will meet the John Tarleton Plow Boys in a dual meet on Kyle field and on Saturday of the same week they will meet the Southern Until the last year or so the Ag gies were always famous for their relay teams, but recently something has always caused their defeat, some times a member of the team not training, other times the failure of veteran and tried men to run the race properly. This year the Aggies have several of the greatest poten tial 440 men in the country and the Aggies’ hopes for a second consecu tive track championship depends much upon these men. ;’;i Battery F copped the annual swimming meet and thereby cinched the winning of the Intramural Stan dard which will be awarded Sunday, May 25th. Two other Artillery out fits were at the head of the list, Ea tery A second with 757 points, and Battery E with 570. There is much rivalry between all six Batteries and each is always fighting the other for some championship. In the other units there is only one organization that seems to be much interested: Company D in the Infantry, Troop D in the Cavalry, Company A En gineers, and Company A Signal Corps. TEXAS LEADS IN CHAMPION SHIPS University of Texas Longhorns, with eight titles to their credit, hold the lead as track and field champions of the Southwest Conference since the organization of the modern con ference in 1915. The Texas Aggies, defenders of the title Friday and Sat urday, rank second with three championships. 1915 Texas 1916 Texas 1917 No meet (World War) 1918 Oklahoma 1919 Oklahoma 1920 Texas 1921 A. & M. 1922 A. & M. 1823 Texas 1924 Texas 1925 Texas 1926 Texas 1927 Texas 1928 Rice 1929 A. & M. Pacific team from Houston. The Plow Boys nosed the 1929 Aggie fish out last year, and this year’s freshman class is determined to win their dual meet. A part of the famous Southern Pa cific girls’ basketball team will ac company the S. P. team to College Station, hut are not expected to par ticipate in the meet, however, they do have a girls’ team. Coach Anderson has about 80 freshmen under his tutelage on the squad this season and about 30 of them will take part in the three meets. The squad as a whole, Coach Anderson believes, is the best group of first year tracksters in the his tory of A. and M. although none of them were outstanding high school performers. BATTERY F WINS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP By virtue of winning the annual - splash meet Saturday afternoon with a total of 30 points, Battery F cinch ed the Intramural standard. In point of numbers, competition and manner of running the meet, this was the best swimming meet the Intramural De partment has sponsored in the last four years. Although the meet was held on a week-end that passes were permitted, the entry was larger than last year’s and the competition was much keen er. Fifteen organizations were repre sented, although only' 12 teams were entered. Forty-two individuals took part in the meet. Battery F won first place with 30 points, C Engineers came second with 11, A Engineers third with 10, the Casuals fourth with 9, and B Signal Corps, Battery E, and Troop C, tied for fifth place with 5 points each. Individual winners: S. H. Garrison, Battery F, 40-yard free'style; S. H. Garrison, Battery F, 100-yard free r.tyle; G. N. Hielscher, Battery F, 40-yard back stroke; R. M. Smith, A Engineers, 40-yard breast stroke; D. J. Parmerson, A Engineers, plunge for distance; and Bob Harling, Troop C, fancy diving. RIFLE TEAM PLACES SIXTH IN HEARST NATIONAL SHOOT Continuing to uphold the record they set during the regular season when only six of the forty-six teams competed against made betterscores than the Aggie marksmen, the Tex as Aggie .Rifle Team closed its sea son by taking ?ixth place in the Hearst National Trophy Matches and second in the West Section of the Matches. One hundred and fifty-eight units, composed of practically every major College and University in the United States, competed for the Hearst Tro phy and the fact that the Aggies took sixth place speaks well for them and their coach, Lieutenant Nach man. Results of the firing are as follows: North Dakota A. and M. College, 932; Lehigh University, 931; University of Kentucky, 926; Univer sity of Arizona, 925; University of Missouri, 923, and Texas A. and M. College, 921. Firing against 37 teams of Senior College and University teams within its section of the United States, the first team of the Aggie rifle squad took second place with 921 points, be ing just four points behind the Uni versity of Arizona who placed fourth in the National matches. The second team placed seventh with 905 points, and the third team placed eleventh with 891 points. SOUTHWEST TRACK RECORDS 100-yard dash: Cockerell (Texas), 1927. Time 9.8 seconds. 220-yard dash: Poth (A. and M), 1926. Time 21.6 seconds. 440-yard run: Parker (A. and M.) 1927. Time 49.1 seconds. 880-yard run: Brunson (Rice), 1928. Time 1 minute 57.5 seconds. One mile run: Hooper (S. M. U.), 1927, and Brunson (Rice), 1928. Time 4 minutes 21.8 seconds. Two-mile run: Esquival (Texas), 1925. Time 9 minutes 32.4 seconds. 120-yard high hurdles: Wright (Texas), 1926. Time 15 seconds. 220-yard low hurdles: Brown (S. M. U -{ ), 1927. Time 23.5 seconds. One-mile relay: Texas (Wysong, Vestal, Cockrell, Daniels), 1927. Time 3 minutes 18.9 seconds. High jump: Shepard (Texas), 1926. Distance 6 feet 3 1-2 inches. Broad jump: Farmer (A. and M.), 1929. Distance 23 feet 10 inches. Pole Vault: Hammon (Texas), 1927. Distance 12 feet 11 1-2 inches. Shot put: Baldwin (Texas), 1928. Distance 47 feet 4 inches. Discus: Baldwin (Texas), 1929. Distance 153 feet 4 inches. Javelin: Floyd (A. and M.), 1929. Distance 204 feet 4 1-2 inches. BATTERY F WINS INTRAMURAL STANDARD Although points for playground ball, golf and tennis are yet to be figured in £or the final standing, Battery F has such a commanding lead that no matter how the remain ing sports terminate, they cannot lose the Intramural standard which will be presented to the Battery Sun day, May 25th. Three Artillery units are on top of the heap with Company D Infan try, in fourth place. Company D has been furnishing the wining bat tery plenty of competition, but fail ure to enter a team in the Swimming- meet eliminated them altogether. Present standing of the organiza tions: Organization— Battery F Points 632 ...... 575 3-4 Battery E 570 Company D 545 C Engineers 528 1-6 Troop D 1-6 A Sig. Corps 445 Battery B 428 Troop C 418 Battery D . 409 2-3 Company A 399 B Sig. Corps 391 1-3 Company B 387 1-2 Company C 371 Troop B 370 1-6 Company H 363 1-2 Battery C 332 A Engineers 313 2-3 Casuals 308 Company G 293 Company F 285 Company E 282 1-2 Troop A 280 Band 268 B Engineers 246 2-3 CONFERENCE STANDING T. C. U P. 10 W. 9 L. 2 Pet. .818 Texas U 13 10 3 .769 A. and M 11 7 4 .636 Baylor 14 8 6 .571 Rice 13 4 9 .308 S. M. U 14 0 14 .000 WHERE THEY PLAY Baseball May 7 and 8— S M. U. at Baylor May 9 and 10— Rice at T. C. U. May 13 and 14— Rice at S. M. U. T. C. U. at Texas Track May 9 and 10—- S. W. Conference Meet at College.