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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1931)
6 THE BATTALION AGGIES TO MEET LONGHORNS SAT. NIGHT Slocomb and Harlan Placed on 1930 All-American Track Honor Roll *» Reidmen Have Spirits Up Following Decisive Victory Over Baylor Quint Tumblers Planning Trip Through North Texas Plans for an exhibition tour through North Texas are now being made by W. D. Staples, captain and coach of the A & M tumbling team. On the proposed trip performances will be given in three or four different cities, but the number as yet is not definitely known. The proceeds from these exhibitions will go to buy swea ters for members of the team. A benefit show will be given at the Assembly hall to finance the trip. The squad now training consists of fourteen men, all but six of whom were added this year. Two perform ances have been given between halves at basketball games this year and three more are scheduled for the re mainder of the season. Dansby Lost Thru Ineligibility As Baseball Begins Coach Higginbotham’s base ball championship hopes received quite a setback Monday afternoon when the season opened and it was learned that Horace Dansby, only returning letter- man for the position of catcher, was scholastically ineligible. When the season opened Monday afternoon thirty candidates reported for the initial workout, which consist ed of a few calisthenics, along with a small amount of batting and fielding practice. The loss of Dansby now leaves two large gaps to be filled with squadsmen and freshmen numeralmen, since there was already a shortage of pitchers as a result of the graduation of Mills and Wendt last June. To fill the position left vacant by Dansby, Coach Hig will have George Lord, of Jourdanton, and Andrew Golasinski, of Houston. How ever, neither of these have played conference baseball before. The bulk of the pitching will probably be car ried by Ab Hawes, returning letter- man for that position from Dallas, with C. M. Lagow squadman of last season also of Dallas as his assistant. Although a large squad reported for the first workout, several members of last year’s team will not join the squad until the end of basketball season. Included among these are Beau Bell, Greenville right fielder, and captain elect for the coming season and Squawk Veltman, all-conference left fielder from San Antonio. The center field will be open with no letterman returning for that position. King baseball, that great American game has once more assumed the throne at Aggieland and soon will rule alone until final review. For the second straight year Don Slocomb, of Cameron, member of two championship track teams at A & M and 220 yard low hurdle champion of the Southwest conference, has been placed on the all-American honor roll of the American Athletic Journal. Herman Harlan, also a member of the above mentioned teams and 120 yard high hurdle champion of the confer ence also made the honor roll this year. Solcomb was bested by only two men in the entire U. S. last year, both of whom have since graduated from their respective universities, leaving him at the head of the list as the probable national champion for the coming year. The winning time last last year was 23.2 seconds. Solcomb’s best time was 23.6 seconds. In Harlan’s event the competition was some-what keener and he was forced to accept tenth place with the time of 15 seconds flat for the 120 high hurdles. The winning time in this competition was 14.4 seconds. Both of these boys will be running their last year of competition for the Maroon and White this year. LEADING SCORERS G.Fg.Ft.Tp. Dietzel, TCU 5 28 18 74 Williams, SMU 4 28 16 72 Reynolds, SMU 4 26 11 63 Dixon, Rice 7 24 10 58 Hart, Rice 7 21 11 53 Holt, Rice 8 23 7 53 Sellers, Rice 7 18 17 53 Strickland, Baylor 5 19 14 52 Sumner, TCU 5 16 20 52 Alford, Baylor 5 15 17 47 Pickren, Ark 8 18 10 46 Murphey, Ark 8 13 19 45 Elkins, Texas 5 17 9 43 Sexton, Ark 8 16 10 42 Fomby, Texas 5 14 8 36 E. Taylor, Texas 5 10 11 31 Hoke, A&M 4 12 5 29 Bell, A&M - 4 9 9 27 First Infantry Idle Grid Team This Week Having won three games and tied one, the First Infantry, now resting in first place in the intramural football race will be idle this weekend, while the Engineers battle the Second In fantry, the Second Artillery plays the lowly Composites, and the First Ar tillery takes on Harry Stiteler’s fight ing Cavalrymen. The Standings: Pd.W. L. Pet. 1st Inf 4 314 % .875 Eng 4 214 IV2 .625 2nd. Art 3 114 114 .500 1st. Art 4 2 2 .500 Cavalry 3 114 IV2 .500 2nd. Inf. 3 0 3 .000 Battery E Wins Second ..Straight Handball Flag Battery E, Artillery, won the col lege handball championship for the se cond consecutive time by defeating Company B, Signal Corps, in the handball finals last week. In the semi-finals Company B, Sig nal Corps, defeated Company D, In fantry, while Battery E was taking the measure of Company A Signal Corps. The personnel of the winning team was identical with that of last year’s championship team. They were A. C. and W. J. Moser, Dallas; R. L. Van Zandt, Fort Worth; J. H. Flood, Waco; D. B. McNerny, Dallas; and J. L. Cunningham, San Antonio. With the completion of this compe tition, the handball doubles and sing les tournament is scheduled to begin at once. Volleyball and horseshoe pitching, the next sports on the intra mural calander, will begin on Febru ary 17 and 23 respectively. Swimming Team Has Unusual Prospects With twenty-two candidates, six of them returning lettermen, competing for berths on this year’s swimming team, A&M will be equally as well represented in this sport in the com ing season as in former years, accord ing to Dan Humason, captain and coach. Although it is not a conference sport, swimming is rapidly becoming one of the most popular sports on the campus, as can be seen by the steadily increasing number of participants. The team itself has met with remark able success, in the past, having nev er lost a meet since its organization. The schedule for the present season has not yet been completed, although it is definitely known that the team will compete with the Houston Y M C A in a dual meet within the next three weeks. The team will also enter the Galveston open meet in March, and will follow this with a dual meet with Texas University as soon as definite arrangements can be made to that effect. The returning lettermen are Captain Humason, Houston; Robert Suggs, San Antonio; Cecil Threadgill, Taylor; James Howder, Fort Crockett; Edwin Moeller, Larchmont, N. Y.; and Rich ard Smith, Houston. I believe that none of the various causes assigned for war would be ef fective except in the presence of armed, sovereign states, each animat ed by a desire for power and support by patriotic populations. I believe, therefore, that no ultimate cure for war is possible, except by a diminu tion in intentions of the emotions and passions and loyalties which make in ternational anarchy possible.—W. B. Curry. Aggies Overwhelm Bear Quint 34-12 A fighting Aggie cage team Tues day evening completely stopped the “mighty Alford” and the Baylor scor ing ace Strickland and held the Baylor Bears to two field goals to win one of the fastest games of the present sea son by the lop-sided score of 31 to 12. Lester Veltman, star Aggie guard, held Alford well in check throughout the game by some of the best floor work that has been seen in Aggieland in recent years. Hoke, by some very alert guarding took good care to see that Strickland was also without even one field goal to his credit when the final gun sounded. Veltman and Hoke exhibited some of the neatest dribbling and passing of the season. Beard also was out standing with some great guarding along with several nice shots in the night’s scoring. Veltman was high point in the game with 8 markers to his credit, but was followed closely by Hoke with 7. Bell and Beard tied for third place honors with six each. Kiersky, substituting for Pierce at forward, and the only man on the Baylor team to register a field goal was high point man for Baylor with five tallies to his credit. Strickland and Alford Baylor’s “big guns” were held to two and three points respec tively. These were the result of foul shots. Veltman, Hoke, and Beard, by their superb passing and dribbling kept the ball in the Aggies possession through out most of the game. Baylor— Fg.Ft.Pf.Tp. Alford, f d 3 13 Kroney, f 0 0 0 0 Pierce, f 0 111 Kiersky, f 2 115 Strickland, c 0 2 12 Wells, g : 0 14 1 Witcher, g 0 0 10 Runnels, g 0 0 0 0 Wilson, g 0 0 2 0 Harris, g 0 0 10 TOTALS 2 8 12 12 Aggies— Fg.Ft.Pf.Tp. Bell, f 2 2 2 6 Marcum, f 0 2 12 Moody, f 1 0 0 2 Hoke, f 3 117 Veltman, b 3 2 18 Beard, g 3 0 4 6 Doche, g 0 0 2 0 TOTALS 12 7 11 31 Two fungi diseases recently dis covered by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture on the pines and firs of the Pacific Northwest are causing considerable damage in some localities. A&M SLIGHT FAVORITES IN GAME WITH LOWLY STEERS CONFERENCE STANDINGS SMU W. L. Pet. 4 0 1.000 Arkansas 5 3 .625 TCU 3 2 .600 A&M 2 2 .500 Baylor 3 5 .375 Rice 2 5 .285 Texas 1 4 .200 i With morale strengthened and spir its considerably heightened by a de cisive victory over the Baylor Bears Tuesday, Coach John Reid’s Aggie basket-tossers Saturday will be hosts to their ancient rivals of the sport world, the Texas Longhorns. The game will be played in the Memorial Gym and the toss-up is scheduled for 7:30. While the Aggies will be fighting to stay in the pennant race, the Long horns will also have an incentive to work for, that of rising out of the cellar position which they now hold undisputed possession with four de feats out of five conference starts, season records are to be used as a If comparative scores and early means of picking the winner in Saturday night’s tussle, the Aggies will likely hold a slight edge over the (Texas cagers. To date the Aggies have obtained an even break in four conference starts, splitting a pair with Arkansas, losing one to Rice and win ning from Baylor. However, results of past contests between the two schools prove that it is unsafe to make predictions as to the possible outcome of any game. Captian Shiro Hoke, veteran center, and Lester Veltman, San Antonio guard playing his first year as a regular, continued to set the pace for the Aggie five in the game against Baylor. Smooth floor-work and clev er, baffling passing featured their play throughout the game. Charlie Beard, shifted from forward back to his old position at guard, turned in prob ably his best exhibition of the cur- ren season in the Baylor contest. The result of the game Saturday night will determine whether the Ag gies are to remain in the race as ti tle contenders, since one more defeat would probably eliminate them. After game Saturday night the A & M quintet will not appear on the home floor again until February 21 when they meet the strong Southern Methodist five. RESULTS Baylor 53, Rice 40. S M U 36, T C U 33. A & M 31, Baylor 12. WHERE THEY PLAY Feb. 7— T C U vs Baylor at Waco Texas vs A & M at College Sta tion Feb. 10— Texas vs S M U at Austin