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THE BATTALION
OPENING CONFERENCE GAME HERE AGAINST OWLS
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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
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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-
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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
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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