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.
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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.
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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.