6
THE BATTALION
SPORTS BITS
BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
The game last Friday night brought
out several facts. One is that Coach
Reid has a real bunch of fighters
down there working out daily. The
last inning rally that they put on
would do credit to any team.
And, another fact is that from pres
ent prospects, this year’s basketball
team is to be the strongest that Ag-
gieland has put forth in at least four
years. Every member that got in the
game displayed real stuff.
In addition to the usual line-up of
Hoke, Bell, and Beard—several new
faces were seen. Doche, a sophomore
from Amarillo; Marcum, sophomore
guard; and Moody, forward, all play
ed their first game for the Maroon
and White.
These aforementioned sophs were
unusually outstanding among the
non-lettermen playing. With a little
more experience, and confidence gain
ed, these boys should cause critics to
take notice.
This week, the team will journey
down to Huntsville to play the Sam
Houston State Teachers College’s
strong quintet two games Saturday.
The reserves will play the Teacher’s
reserves in the afternoon, and varsity
vs varsity Saturday night.
The changing of Beau Bell to for
ward from guard seems to be a good
change. Beau was already good, but
this change makes him look better
yet, especially after he got 14 points
in the last game.
The last game before Christmas will
be held at College, Thursday, the 18th
with the Sam Houston State Teach
ers as victims. A tentative schedule
calls for the opening conference game
on Jan. 16 with Arkansas at Fayette
ville.
Earl Secrest of Hope, Ark., Razor-
back guard, has been elected to pilot
the University of Arkansas team
through the 1931 season.
Varsity football letters have been
awarded to twenty-three members of
this year’s team at T C U. S M U
and Texas each awarded twenty-five
letters.
Ox Emerson, veteran guard, will
captain the Orange and White eleven
this coming football season. Emerson
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Intramural Standing’s
Standings of all organizations hav
ing a total of more than 200 partici
pation points to their credit, in compe
tition for the intramural standard,
are as follows:
Bat. F 276.5
A Sig 272.6
Bat. E 262.5
Bat. C 246.
B Sig 245.
H Inf 240.
Bat. D 230.
F Inf 230.
B Eng 230.
C Eng 230.
Bat. B 220.
A Inf 210.
Bat. A 205.
The above standings are complete
through Saturday December 6.
GRID CAPTAIN
MGULDEN
Moulden Elected
Capt. 1931 Eleven
Carl Moulden, veteran Aggie tackle
and all-conference mention this year,
will pilot the 1931 A & M grid eleven
through the next football season, and
will fill the shoes left vacant by the
graduation of Bull Floyd, 1930 foot
ball captain. This was decided at a
meeting held Friday night by the
1930 lettermen.
Moulden earned his first letter at
tackle his sophomore year and gained
much favorabe comment among the
various sport critics of the state. He
again lettered at tackle this year, and
was pronounced one of the outstand
ing tackles of the conference.
With Carl at the helm, the 1931
Maroon and White players may be as
sured that they have made a logical
choice for the position. Moulden is
one of the hardest fighters on the
team, and if the team will follow the
pace set by him, a successful season
should be assured.
The Cisco lad has proven his value
to the Aggies in many of the games
this year by his fighting ability, even
against men considerably heavier and
larger than himself. In selecting
Moulden captain, the 1930 lettermen
chose a man of outstanding ability,
that will lead, and not push, his team
mates to victory.
Gridsters Feted
By Ex-Students
The Texas Aggie football team were
the guests of the Houston Texas Ag
gie club at the annual football ban
quet held at the Rice Hotel, Satur
day night, December 6th. This ban
quet is given each year by the Hous
ton club for the Aggie football team.
With Dr. William States Jacobs
acting as toastmaster many stories
-i’-ere told on the different guests at
the banquet. As far as the Aggies
are concerned Dr. Jacobs can be toast
master at all the Aggie banquets.
Before a record breaking crowd of
600 people, practically every speaker
extolled the merits of Matty Bell as
coach, and promised a better day for
Texas Aggie football. Coach Bell res
ponded with a speech lauding Aggie
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Intramural Grid Teams
In Good Shape For Fray
With the opening of intramural
football season scheduled for Satur
day, December 13th, the intramural
teams are fast rounding into shape.
There are seven teams entered in the
intramural league this year.
The First Infantry, under the di
rection of Red Hornsby, Jelly Wood
man, Rube Tracy, and Dutch Sebesta,
has several men from last year’s
team back. The team is much strong
er than last year as several freshman
and two varsity men are eligible for
competition. Sully Woodland is per
haps the most promising prospect on
the squad this year.
With ten men from last year’s team
back and several fish showing good
form the Second Infantry, coached
by Ox Emmons, Bus Moore, and Jim
mie Aston, is working out daily. The
old men that are back are W. A. Oles,
E. P. Giberson, G. P. Donaldson and
others. The squad has in “Bottles”
Kinnison one of the best punters ever
seen at A & M, being kept from the
fish squad this year by a sore knee.
The Engineers, with practically the
same squad of last season, have one
of the strongest teams in the league
this year. The Engineers finished sec
ond last year and are due to give
somebody a fight this year. The team
is coached by Ox Abbey and C. H.
Flourney. A. H. Grantham, A. E. Row-
lins, W. E. Maxwell, and Swede Par
ker are the old men who are showing
much form, and there are several
fish that are playing good football.
The Composites were hard hit by
graduation this year. With only sev
en men back, Coaches P. L. Tracy
and Ralph Dorsey are faced with a
hard task in molding a strong team.
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Holmes Weeding- Out
Fish Gagers Rapidly
With 90 candidates reporting for
the initial workout, freshman basket
ball under the supervision and direc
tion of Klepto Holmes, freshman bas
ketball coach, got under way last
week, scrimmages being held almost
daily.
The squad this year is unusually
tall as a whole, boasting of more than
20 men who will tower above the six
foot mark. This one factor is quite a
help since in former years Aggie
coaches have been handicapped by
the lack of a sufficient number of
tall men for this sport.
By the middle of next week Coach
Holmes expects to have the squad
cut to 25 or 30 men, since it is prac
tically impossible to make any notice
able progress with such a large squad
as is now coming out. The late table
will begin as soon as the squad has
been cut to a limited number to be
carried through the season.
Although it is a bit early to make
predictions, a few of the men are al
ready showing signs of developing
into capable ball players. Most of
those going out have played on some
intramural basketball team in the past
six weeks, which has given them some
added practice and experience over
those who did not participate.
Those who have made a good show
ing so far are C. L. Cobb, J. Merka,
and F. L. Webb, all of Bryan; F. M.
Sorrell, Natalia; C. M. White, Camp
Normoyle; H. C. Stefani, Galveston;
J. E. Robertson, Austin; R. L. Mur
ray, Mercedes; J. M. Mitchell, Gal
veston. These men have had from two
to four years basketball experience.
Aggie Five May
Play Baylor
Tentative Schedule Has Games Be
tween Schools
Subject to the approval of the
Southwest Conference Athletic Coun
cil, which will meet in Dallas on De
cember 11, the following schedule is
tentatively announced for Coach John
Reid’s Aggie quintet during the 1930-
31 season. It is probable that this
schedule will be adopted as it now
is, but it will not be definite until
the council has approved.
The tentative schedule is: Dec. 13,
Sam Houston Teachers at Huntsville;
Dec. 18, Sam Houston Teachers at
College; Jan. 2 and 3, Southwestern
University at Georgetown; Jan. 5
and 6, Southwest Teachers College at
San Marcos; Jan. 9 and 10, Centenary
at College; Jan. 16 and 17, University
of Arkansas at Fayetteville; Jan. 24,
Rice Institute at College; Feb. 2, Bay
lor University at Waco; Feb. 7, Uni
versity of Texas at College; Feb. 7,
Baylor University at College; Feb.
13, Texas Christian at Ft. Worth;
Feb. 14, Southern Methodist at Col-
las; Feb. 17, Rice at Houston; Feb. 20,
Southern Methodist at College; Feb.
23, Texas Christian at College; Feb.
28, Texas University at Austin.
Southwest Honored In
East-West Selections
Four out of the five Southwest con
ference football players who were in
vited to play with the West in the
annual East-West game at San Fran
cisco, New Year’s Day, have definite
ly accepted. The fifth, Noble Atkins
of T C U, is nearly certain to go.
Atkins is waiting to learn whether
the conference officials will rescind
the rule against post-season all-star
play. He is captain of the Horned
Frog basketball team, and thus does
not care to be made ineligible; how
ever, he may go with the rest of the
players who are disregarding the con
ference ruling.
Jake Wison and Botchey Koch of
Baylor, Dexter Shelly of Texas Uni
versity and Louie Long, Mustang end,
are the other players from the South
west conference that have been honor
ed by invitations to participate in the
annual event. These players have all
accepted the invitation.
Dana X. Bible, Nebraska coach and
former Aggie mentor for eleven years,
chose eleven out of the twenty-two
men to be invited. It is interesting to
note that five of the eleven men were
selected from Southwest conference
teams, all being Texans.
With the exception of one man from
Southern California, the entire list
of “West” players has been selected.
The list follows:
Ends—Long, S M U; Wilson, Olym
pic Club; Ebding, St. Marys; McKal-
lip, Oregon State.
Tackles— Broadstone, Nebraska;
Christensen, Oregon; Bogue, Stan
ford; Speidel, Olympic Club.
Guards— Greenberg, Nebraska;
Koch, Baylor; Beckett, California;
Colbert, Oregon.
Centers—Atkins, T C U; Tassi,
Santa Clara.
Backs—Wilson, Baylor; Bausch,
Kansas; Lange, Baker University,
Kansas; Mills, University of Oklaho
ma; Shelley, Texas University; Kitz-
miller, Oregon; Boyle, St. Mary’s.
HARRIER CAPTAIN
MELTON SMITH
Harriers Elect Smith
Captain 1931 Team
Melton Smith, Sulphur Springs, was
elected captain of the 1931 A & M
cross country team at a meeting of
lettermen of the championship 1930
aggregation Wednesday afternoon.
Smith, who was a letterman on the
championshpi team of 1929 as well
as that of this year, will be running his
'last year in an A & M uniform next
fall. He was fifth among the A & M
'runners in the conference meet this
■year and has been a consistent runner
Lor two years.
He was also a letterman on the
Aggies’ 1930 championship track team,
running the two-mile event.
Aggie Gagers Win
Opener From Y
Overcoming a 11 point lead with
but a few minutes to go, Coach John
Reid’s 1930-31 Texas Aggie cagers
opened their basketball season by
defeating the Houston Y M C A Tri
angles 38-33 in the Memorial Gym
Friday night. Bell led the scoring with
14 points, followed by Shiro Hoke
with 11 points. Hardy was high point
man for the Triangles with 10 points.
The first half was rather slow, with
neither side being able to hit the bas
ket accurately. The score at the half
was 17-15 in favor of the visitors.
Coming back in to the game with
vengence, the Houstonians turned
loose a vicious attack to run the score
| up to 32-21 with about 10 minutes
to go. At that time, the Aggies de
cided it was time to cut loose, and led
by Beau Bell, they staged the come
back that ended the game in their
favor.
Bell, Hoke and Doche were the out
standing players on the Aggie team.
Bell is playing an improved game
since his change to forward. Shiro
Hoke turned in an excellent game,
proving to all that when he gains
his stride, he will be all-conference
material. Doche was undoubtedly ner
vous during his first game in the “Big
League,” but after the stage fright
period is over he will probably prove
of great value to the cagers.
Three former conference stars
stood out for the Triangles—Looney,
former Texas center; and Brock and
Hardy, guards.
War is like an earthquake or a
flood: after the disaster there is less
material wealth to hand on to suc
ceeding generations. Whatever is de
stroyed is gone; that is the immediate
and certain result.—Foster and Catch-
ings.