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THE BATTALION
AGGIE BASEBALL PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD
Six Lettermen Returning
To Old Places On Team
SPORTS BITS
BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
Starting with February 2, the
varsity candidates will begin their
training for the great American game.
When the thud of bats, and swish of
balls begin resounding on Kyle Field,
its a sign spring isn’t far off.
Coach Hig is fairly well pleased
with the prospects for the coming
season—and reports that he may be
able to turn out a better well-round
ed team than last year.
Back in his freshman days at A
& M Coach Hig once pitched a no
hit, no-run game against the Univer
sity of Texas nine. The Aggies won
that game 1-0, but lost the next game
at Austin and the championship as
well.
Right now, his main idea of Heaven
is a team that will beat Uncle Billy’s
Texas Longhorns at will. Judging
from his success the first year he was
coaching varsity baseball—it won’t
be long now before his dream comes
true.
The return of Pamp Pampell, all
conference third sacker, to school
will prove a considerable boost to the
Aggie prospects for this season. The
old conference ruling on eligibility has
been changed, and the new one stat
ing that an athlete must register
within fifteen days after the open
ing of either term has made Pamp
eligible for the coming season.
The conference basketball race is
still a big muddle. All of the teams
picked to win this past week-end
came out on the small side of the
score. T C U was forced to accept
only one victory over the Razorbacks,
and Texas was humbled by the lowly
Baylor Bears when Strickland threw
the winning throw from the center
of the floor as the gun went off.
The next game played by the Aggie
cagers will be the game against Bay
lor University at College. This will
be the first athletic contest between
schools in over four years.
The cadet attendance at these Sat
urday night basketball games hasn’t
been near as good as it could be. At
the start of the game last week, it
looked as though almost a third of
the crops was absent.
The loss to Rice the other night
did in no way eliminate the Aggie
cagers from the conference running
—so when Aggie meets Bear, be on
hand—and give the team the best of
your support.
So, if you want to be vitilized into
the power of thinking real thoughts,
and if you want never to know one
dull instant while reading, do what
has been done by the best specimens
of mankind since there have been
books, resolutely leave out whatever
is not of the best—Ernest Dimnet.
Aggies Have Two
Intersectional
Games For 1931
Following the plan adopted this
year of playing only nine games dur
ing the season, the 1931 A & M foot
ball scedule carries only four games
outside of the conference games. Two
of these games are inter-sectional
games with the University of Iowa
and Tulane University of New Or
leans.
The game usually played with the
Arkansas Razorbacks has been om-
mitted, and the Baylor Bears have
filled in their place at the same date.
The first major game of the sea
son will be when the Bell-coached
players invade New Orleans for a
game with the twice Southern Con
ference title holding Tulane Greenies.
The week following, the Aggies will
engage the University of Iowa grids-
ters in the annual State Fair game
in Dallas on Oct. 10. This game will
mark the last apperance of the Ag
gies in a State Fair intersectional
game for at least two years, as the
contract was not re-newed by A & M
and S M U Mustangs are to take the
place.
The Maroon and White will open
the conference season against the T
C U Frogs in Ft. Worth on Oct. 17,
and will meet the Baylor Bears at
College the next week, for the first
time in four years. The game with
the Centenary Gentlemen at Shreve
port on Oct. 31, completes the sche
dule of non-conference games. S M
U at College, Rice at Houston, and
Texas at College are the other games
of the season.
The complete schedule is as follows:
Sept. 26—Southwestern U. at College
Oct. 3—Tulane University at New
Orleans
Dallas
10—University of Iowa at Dallas
17—Texas Christian at Ft. Worth
24—Baylor U. at College
31—Centenary at Shreveport
Nov. 7—Southern Methodist at Col
lege
14—Rice at Houston
26—Texas U. at College.
But change is the immutable law.
The innovations of one age to become
the familiar practices of the next. Re
vision, remodelling, progress every
where! The inexorable pressure of the
new, the fresh, the original! We may
defy, we may protest, yet the world
does move and the directing forces of
human activity is forward.—Nation’s
Business.
Of the $1,801,900 spent by the Fed
eral Government during the first half
of the present fiscal year—July 1 to
Dec. 31—$1,127,670 was for operating
costs of the War and Navy Depart
ments, veterans’ administration and
interest and sinking fund of the pub
lic debt.—the result of war loans—
according to figures given out by the
Treasury Department.
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INTRAMURAL GRID STAND
INGS
Pd.W.
L.
Pet.
1st. Inf
4
3%
Vz
.875
Eng
4
2%
iv 2
.625
2nd. Art.
3
IV2
1V2
.500
1st. Art.
4
2
2
.500
Cavalry
3
1V2
1V2
.500
2nd. Inf
3
1
2
.333
Comp
3
0
3
.000
H - 1
Aggies Will Meet
Baylor Here Tuesday
The first athletic contest to be play
ed between Baylor University and A
and M since the resumption of ath
letic relations between the two schools
will be played next Tuesday night
when the Maroon and White basket
ball team takes on the Baylor Bears
in the Memorial Gym at 7:30.
It has been hoped for the past sev
eral years that the two schools would
resume relations, which were severed
over the death of an A & M football
student at a football game, and recent
ly at the requests of president’s of
both institutions the athletic relations
were re-established.
Both teams will take the floor com
paratively evenly matched as far as
comparative scores go. Both teams
have a one point victory over Texas,
whereas Texas and A & M both split
with Arkansas.
Baylor and Rice will have it out
Friday night at Waco for fouth place
in the conference race, which is at
present shared by them and A & M.
T C U and S M U will stage the
battle for conference leadership at
Dallas next Monday night, the Mus
tangs being in the lead at present
with an undefeated season.
Interest Growing
In Intramurals
Although the school enrollment is
more than four hundred short of last
year, with the exception of class A
basketball, an increase in participa
tion in intramural athletics has been
shown in every sport. Since the or
ganization of this department, five
years ago, the number of participants
has never ceased to grow, and should
the participation thus far this year
continue at the present rate it is
practically certain that the total num
ber, competing in the various sports
offered, will far exceed the fifteen
hundred mark.
With five of the sports already
completed and tennis and handball
to be finished within the next week,
a total of 1335 students have entered
in those five completed. However,
of this number, some of the same
students engaged in more than one
of event.
In class A basketball, which open
ed the program in September, two
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Cagers Lose Close
Game to Rice Owls
Coach John Reid’s Aggie cagers
just couldn’t get going Saturday night
against the Rice Owls and lost a
heart breaker by the close score of
27 to 24. The game was one of the
most hectic affairs played here in
recent year, being marred by poor
playing on the part of both teams.
With the Aggies leading 12-9 just
before the end of the first half, Ray
Hart, Owl forward, made two beauti
ful shots in quick succession to put
the Owls in the lead 13-12 as the gun
sounded.
The start of the second half was
even worse for the Aggies, for the
Ricemen immediately proceeded to
run up their total to 21 points before
Coach Reid’s boys could find them
selves. Then with 11 minutes left to
play, Hart went out on fouls, and
the Aggies led by the brilliant Hoke
and Veltman, staged a final rally
which almost took the victory from
the Owls grasp only to be cut short
by the final gun.
Captain Hoke and Lester Veltman
the Aggies two bids for all-confer
ence positions, at center and guard
respectively, continued to shine even
in defeat. Veltman tied for scoring
honors with Sellars, lanky Owl cen
ter, both with a total of nine points,
following the Hart with eight to his
credit.
The Owls scored all but one of their
points on field goals, registering 13
to eight for the Aggies. Of the re
maining eight points scored by the Ag
gies from the gift line, five were made
by Veltman out of seven tries.
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Won Lost
Pet.
S M U
.. 3
0
1.000
T C U
.. 3
1
750
Arkansas
.. 5
3
625
A & M
.. 1
2
333
Baylor
. 2
4
333
Rice
.. 2
4
333
Texas U
.. 1
4
200
LEADING SCORERS
G.Fg.Ft.Pts.
Dietzel, T C U
4
25
16
64
R. Williams, S M U ...
3
20
15
55
Holt, Ark
8
23
7
53
Reynolds, S M U
3
23
6
52
Dixon, Rice
6
20
9
49
Sellars, Rice
6
15
16
46
Pickren, Ark
8
18
10
46
Murphy, Ark
8
13
19
45
Elkins, Texas
5
17
9
43
Sexton, Ark
8
16
10
42
Hart, Rice
6
17
7
41
Sumner, T C U
4
13
13
39
Strickland, Baylor ...
3
15
8
38
Fomby, Texas
5
14
8
36
E. Taylor, Texas
5
10
11
31
Alford, Baylor
3
9
7
25
Hoke, Tex. A & M ..
3
9
4
22
Bell, Tex. A &M
3
7
7
21
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Pitching Staff Is Weakest Part Of
Team Hard Hit By Graduation
Fortified with eight returning
squadmen, six of them lettermen, and
a number of freshman numeralmen.
Coach Roswell Higganbotham will be
gin building his second Aggie base
ball team on February first. The loss
of a large number of men through
graduation last year has hit the team
rather hard, especially in the pitch
ing staff where three lettermen were
lost.
In spite of these losses, the pros
pects for the coming season are rath
er bright when all the returning men
are considered. The team is hard hit
by the loss of Tommy Mills and Pete
Wendt, all-Conference pitcher; Lefty
Martin, all-Conference first baseman;
and Byron Lackey, all-Conference
catcher.
From the present outlook, the weak
est spot on the team will be in the
pitching staff. Coach Hig has only
one letterman back, Ab Hawes of Dal
las, and upon him the majority of the
work will fall. C. M. Lagow, squad-
man of last season will be out again,
and it is probable that he will be
called upon to do much service. F.
M. Shaw, Ennis freshman numeral-
man, did very well for the fish last
year, and quite a bit is expected of
him this year. Shiro Hoke, Aggie bas
ketball star; R. H. Scheer, Marshall;
and Charlie Malone of Dallas are ex
pected to report for work with the
pitching staff.
H. P. Dansby, of Bryan, is the only
varsity letterman returning for the
position of catcher. That position will
be made stronger with the return to
school of R. E. Garvey, freshman
numeral man, who is contemplating on
coming back. George Lord, Jourdan-
ton, is another strong contender for
the position.
The hole left vacant by Lefty Mar
tin, premier first bagger of the con
ference last year, has no varsity man
to fill it up. J. P. Miller, Princeton
freshman numeralman of last year, is
one of the outstanding candidates for
the position this year. Paul McFad-
den, Cleburne, and Shiro Hoke, are
both out for the position. Neither of
these men have played varsity base
ball since entering A & M, although
Hoke was out for a short time last
season.
Walter Davis, Ft. Worth, is the
returning letterman for the position
of second base. Red made his letter
last year as a sophomore. J. H. Brown,
Houston, and W. R. Young, Ft. Worth,
both freshman numeralmen, are on
the list of outstanding contenders for
second.
Coach Hig has two varsity men re
turning for the corner at third: V.
C. Pampell, all-Conference man of
last season from Ft. Worth; and T.
A. Henderson, squadman from Mc
Kinney.
The position of short stop will prob-
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