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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1931)
4 THE BATTALION OPENING CONFERENCE GAME HERE AGAINST OWLS ' — SPORTS BITS BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR. TRACK PROSPECTS LOOK PROMISING The important sport news of the week covers two things—we defeated Arkansas for the first time since 1924, and Mr. James Sullivan’s resignation from office as athletic business mana ger of A & M. c.ome sport writers just won’t ack nowledge that we have a good basket ball team this year. One mentioned ball game this year. One mentioned that our victory over the Hogs was just another one of the lucky breaks. Members of the team that played re port that Arkansas played a far bet ter game the night we won than the night we lost. The Rice Owls will be the next test for the Aggie cagers. Rice defeat ed Baylor for their first conference win Saturday night, but they are out of the conference running as far as the title is concerned. From the looks of things, the con ference basketball season is to be greatly likened to the past football season. Everybody seems to be beating everybody else. Texas and Arkansas, both preseason favo rites have been defeated twice, and T C U and S M U are riding the crest, each having won two and lost none. It looks as though Arkansas, Rice and Texas are out of the running. Arkansas has finished half her sche dule, and the worst is yet to come. Baylor has played but one game, and doesn’t look as though they will be in the final struggle. Judging from all apperances, it seems that the final contenders will be A & M, T C U, and S M U—with T C U the out standing candidate. Ths Aggie baseball squad will be gin work on the 1st of February. The greatest calamity this season is the very noticable dearth of pitchers. Track training has already begun, and the aspirants are eating on the training table. Prospects point to wards an even better team than the championship squad of last season. Tommy Mills and Doc Farmer were the only two-point men lost to the team, and many good men have come up from the fish team. When Mr. Sullivan closes his desk for the last time as business manager of A & M athletics, the school will lose one of the most valuable men ever here. He has brought A & M athletics up from practically nothing to one of the best equipped athletic plants in the entire south. Papers say Sully resigned because of pressure brought to bear by ex students over the cancelling of the State Fair games. That must be the reward of long years of faithful and efficient service. There appears on the stadium en trance a bronze plate, written upon as follows “In appreciation of James (Continued on page 5) With the coming of spring and track season not so far away, many of Track Coach Anderson’s thinly clads are braving the chilly atmosphere in or der to get in condition for the com ing meets and to attempt to hold the track crown for the third season. The team, unless hit by the old bugaboo sickness and inteligibilities, should be stronger than it was last year, as far as present indications go. The graduation of Tommy Mills and Doc Farmer took away sure points in the broadjump and weights, but the men for all the rest of the events remain intact. Undoubtedly, these men are the severest loss to the team, but men gained in other events will probly more than compen sate this loss. With Bracey of Rice graduated, and mnly Cy Leland of T C U left among the super-dash men, the A & M dash pien stand a far better chance this year than ever before. J. Rufus Em mons, letterman from Plainview, was the fastest man on the track team last year and one of the fastest in the conference. M. H. Badger, Austin, made his letter in 1929 and was in- teligible last year. His return to com- jpetition gives the Aggies a well roun ded dash team. G. R. Addicks, La Grange; J. H. Rutledge, Alice and E. J. Steel, Denison, all freshmen num eral men of last year, complete the list of the outstanding spring men. The thinly clads have C. A. Tracy, letterman from Houston, and M. Ses sions, Austwell, running thier last '.year of competition in the quarter mile dash. Both of these men are among the best quarters in the con ference. In a case of necessity, both Emmons and Badger can be used in this event. A number of good men have come from the fish team includ ing G. P. Lord, Jourdanton; and G. R. Addicks, La Grange. The half-mile run has P. J. Mims, Ft. Worth letterman, return ing and will be further strengthened by W. E. Nance, Lometa, and I. C. Hahn of Houston. There are no mile runners of out standing ability, and it is probably that some will have to be trained from the half milers or the milers. last year, we had no point-wining miler, and none have come up with the fish team. The Maroon and White two milers jhave the strongest combination in the conference from all past records. Last year, Winders, Perkins, and Smith finished two, three and four in the conference meet, and the win ner of that event, Willis of Rice has graduated. In addition to these. Coach Anderson has Salvador Marquez of Yorktown, and P. T. McClendon of Dothan, Ala., both letterment in cross country this year. Winders is run ning his last year of competition. Dean Christian Gauss, of Princeton University, declares that one-third of the undergraduates in American col leges and universities today have no business ever going beyond high D. B. Slocomb, Cameron, and H. V. Harlan of Cameron, will again carry the colors of A & M in the high and low hurdles for their last year. For the second year, Slocomb made the .National Track Honor Roll with a time set in a meet against Texas, last year in the high hurdles. T. C. Mor ris, Forreston, and C. J. Gabrysch from Falls City will run their first year of varsity competition in their hurdles. Both are freshman numeral- men. W. K. Laster, Cuero, and W. B. Holsonbake of Farmersville, tied for first place in the conference high jump last season, and will be jump ing their last year this season. Jimmie Aston of Farmersville, and G. W. Me- Vey, Parsons, Kansas, freshmen, of- \ten times jumpted as high and high er than the varsity candidates last year. Both of these men are consist- ant six foot jumpers. , The loss of Mills and Farmer in the broad jump leaves a wide vacancy that probably won’t be completely filled. W. B. Holsonbake is the only letterman returning for this event. The main hopes of the broad jump strength lie in G. R. Addicks and F. ■ Hillsman of Orange, both freshman jnumeralmen. These boys both jump ed around twenty-two and three last year. Harry Stiteler, holder of the South west conference record in the pole vault, is entering into his last year of competition in that event. He is strenghtened by A. P. Morris, squad- man of last year from Forreston. There were no outstanding freshmen on the fish team last season., Coach Anderson has four able men in the shot and discus events: O. Dawson, Crocket; J. R. McCluney, Waxahachie; W. H. Markle of Port {Neches who was out of school last year; and H. H. Baker, Somer ville, who was ineligible last season. With J. G. Floyd, conference title holder in the javelin, no longer both ered with a bad knee that handficap- ped him seriously last year and A. L. Sebesta, letterman from Marlin, again competing, the Aggie chance in that event are considerably more promising. J. H. Lightfoot, Rockdale, and A. A. Maynard from Lakewood, both numeralmen, are outstanding members of the freshman track squad reporting for varsity competition this year. Last year was a season of weak teams throughout the conference, and this season, all schools are re porting considerably stronger teams. Rice Institute is reported as having an exceptionally strong team of sophomores. The University of Texas has a much stronger team this year, and the conference title will probably be decided between these three teams. A magnificent painting by Titan, recently discovered in New York by Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and pur chased by him for $400, is said to be worth $150,000. Ag-g-ies Split Fair With Razorbacks Flashing a brilliant offense featur ing Hoke, Bell, and Marcum, Coach John Reid’s revamped Aggie cage team routed the Arkansas Razor- backs 37 to 34, Saturday night, split ting the series with the Porkers and gaining their first basketball victory over Arkansas since 1924. Led by Captain Hoke on the offen sive and Marcum on the defensive, the Aggies played the Porkers off their feet in the first half of the se cond game, the score at the halfway mark being 19 to 8. Hoke won scor ing honors in the second game with 13 markers to his credit, but was fol lowed closely by Bell and Marcum with 11 and 9 Respectively. The Razorbacks, led by Sexton, and Kenn Holt, lanky center, gave the spectators a thrill by a sensation al rally in the last five minutes of play that netted a goal a minute, but the Aggie guard tightened at last and the spurt fell four points short of victory. Holt was high point man for Ark ansas with nine points, eight of these being scored in the last period. Cap tain Jim Pickren, mainstay in the Arkansas offensive, was completely bottled up by the alert playing of the Aggie guards who held him to one field goal in each period. Eleven of the Aggie points in the second game were the result of free throws, while the Razorbacks were erratic from the 15 foot mark, mak ing good only six out of 18 tries. In the game Friday night, which was won by Arkansas 30 to 19, the Aggie machine failed to function. Marcum was the only man able to ef fectively check the Porkers at any time. Engineers And Infantry Tie For Football Lead With the intramural football sea son almost half over, two teams, the Engineers and First Infantry are still tied for first place in the race for the college football championship. During the first of the week, the Engineers and First Infantry each won a 12-0 victory over their opponents, the First Artillery and the Composites. The Second Infantry, now resting in fourth place, nosed out the Cavalry by a score of 6-0 in the only other game scheduled. These games were played on Monday and Tuesday afternoons of this week due to postponement be cause of rain Saturday afternoon. Although outplayed for three quar ters, the First Infantry came back in -the last three minutes of play to score two touchdowns in rapid succession, thereby gaining a 12-0 decision over the already twice beaten Composite team. The first of the two scores was the result of a 91-yard march down the field from their own 9-yard line, while the second was scored on the last play of the game when one of the Infantry backs returned a kick 50 yards for the score. Woodland was the outstanding man of the game. The powerful Engineer aggregation regained some of its lost prestige Tuesday afternoon by completely be- (Continued on page 5) Reidmen Striving To Retain Place' In Pennant Race The first Southwestern conference game of this season to be played at College will be played Saturday night when the Texas .Aggie cage team a i ’e-, with the Rice Institute Owls from Houston at 7:30 in the Memorial Gym. STANDINGS OF THE TEAMS Team W.L.Pct. Pts.Op. T C U 2 0 1.000 89 57 S M U 2 0 1.000 95 60 Arkansas .... 4 2 .667 185 165 A & M 1 1 .500 56 64 Texas 1 3 .250 99 145 Rice 1 4 -200 166 187 Baylor 0 1 .000 33 37 i_ This game will be the first oppor tunity of the student body to view Coach Reid’s quintet up against con ference competition. Thus far in the season, the Owls have been able to secure but one confer ence victory out of five starts, having been defeated by Arkansas, S M U, and T C U. Their victory was at the expense of the Baylor Bears last Sat urday night, when the game was forc ed to go into an extra period, end ing 37-33. During the earlier part of the week, the A & M squad has been working out with the following line-up: Bell and Marcum, guards; Hoke, center; and Veltman and Doche, guards. However, the line-up for the games has not been announced as yet. LEADING CONFERENCE SCORERS G.Fg.Ft.Tp. Dixon, Rice 5 17 9 43 Holt, Ark 6 18 6 42 R. Williams, SMU 2 15 11 42 Dietzel, TCU 2 16 7 39 Sellers, Rice — 5 11 15 37 Pickren, Ark 6 15 7 37 Sexton, Ark 6 17 2 36 Murphy, Ark 6 9 16 34 Elkins, Texas 4 11 9 31 Reynolds, SMU 2 13 5 31 Fomby, Texas 4 11 3 25 Hart, Rice 4 9 5 23 E. Taylor, Texas 4 6 7 19 Sumner, TCU 2 6 6 18 Bell, A & M 2 5 7 17 Marcum, A & M 2 7 3 17 Hoke, A & M 2 6 4 16 INTRAMURAL GRID STANDING Eng P.W. 3 2% L. Vz Pet. .830 1st. Inf 3 2y 2 Vz .830 2nd. Art. 2 iy 2 y 2 .750 2nd. Inf 2 i i .500 1st. Art. 3 i 2 .333 Cavalry 2 y 2 1 "Vz .250 Comp 3 0 3 .000