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6 THE BATTALION AGGIES TRIM SMU 25-23 LOSE TO TCU 30-26 * * * SEVENTY MEN TO ANSWER SPRING FOOTBALL CALL Practice Started Monday With Forty-five Men Reporting to Bell SPORTS BITS BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR. Whatta game that was Saturday night. It isn’t often that a game that fast and close is seen. We can’t win the conference now, but we surely did throw it into a muddle. If that game had gone into an extra five minutes, the results might have been different, as the A & M team was just about out. Any team that played as the Aggies did that night deserves the highest of praise. WORKOUTS TO BE HELD AS SOON AS WEATHER PERMITS Something must be wrong with Harry Stiteler—he seems to be off his usual form lately. Monday afternoon, he only jumped 13 ft ft. 6 inches un der the stands. This is just five and a half inches better that the conference record he set last year, and eight in ches short of the world’s record. If he does that now—what will happen when he gets in full training? In the Saturday afternoon competi tion, Fish B. M. Irwin, formerly of the John Tarleton, heaved the shot 44.7, and on his second throw of the discus passed the 140 foot mark. Coach Andy says Irwin isn’t in condi tion yet. With at least two years of competition before him, we predict that some conference records are due to fall. Capt. Earl Lyons has been working his freshman baseball pitchers and catchers out for some time and re ports that the prospects in that de partment are really good. He has six left handers working out with him. The rest of his squad will begin work ing out about next Monday. Spring football training season open ed Monday with the issuing of approx imately 45 football uniforms to mem bers of this past season’s varsity mem bers, freshman football numeralmen and intramural football stars by Coach Matty Bell and assistant Coach Clepto Holmes. It is believes that around 70 men will be in uniform before the end of the week. The following men have been issued equipment to date: C H C Anderson, Dallas; L E Bell, Harlingen; H M Breedlive, Smithville; J P Christian, Abilene; C M Cummings, Bryan; H L Graves, Dallas; O J Guseman, Hous ton; W W Hewitt, Groesbeck; T B Hill, Waco; J M Kenderdine, Fort Worth; W Nolan, Santa Rosa; B F Sulak, West; S S Woodland, Cordele; R H Wright, Alfred; R W Zumwalt, Shreveport; G H Zarafontetis, Big Spring, F Shepherd, Houston; E I Bacon, Stephenville; R E Barfield, Port Arthur; W R Boydstun jr, Clovis' L D Brown jr, Cleburne; G C Domin- gue, Port Arthur; T H Fraser, Fort Worth; J A Golasinski, Houston; L M Land, Vivian, La., R L Murray, Mercedes; E R Nolan, Santa Rosa; J C Roberts, Corsicana; J E Robertson, Austin; J E Rudder, Edin; W W Schulz, Schulenburg; T L Spencer, Gil mer; W B Williams, Greenville; Z Tipton, Fort Worth; R L Taylor, Brownwood; R D Taylor, Brownwood; Simpson; R J Bumpas, Waco, T F Moore, Dallas; J L Chapman, Lock hart; O L Billimek, Both; D D Day, Dallas; J T Kelly, Houston. The golf team will hold its tryouts next Sunday morning at nine o’clock at the Bryan Country Club, and 36 holes will be played that day. All men who are interested in trying out for the golf team are requested to see either B. A. Schriever, or Mr. Pen- berthy. Uncle Billy’s Longhorns get credit for being - the early birds of the con ference. They played the first game of the season Monday aginst an all- star team composed almost entirely of former Texas U. baseball stars now in professional ball. Fair Femmes To Flash Form Here Saturday Much credit, is due to the tumbling team for the expellent work it has been doing between the halves at bas ketball games. The boys worked hard (Continued on page 8) Something new and different will be offered the basketball fans of Ag- gieland Saturday night when the Bos- wel Dairy Maids of Fort Worth en gage the Houston Land and Trust company’s girl’s basketball team in the Memorial Gymnasium at 7:30. Although both teams have won games from the outstanding girl’s teams throughout the state, this will be their first meeting. Since the Dairy Maids were runners-up for the state amateur championship in girls’ com petition last year and their opponents boast a formidable club themselves, the game promises to be quite an in teresting affair with neither team fa vored to win by advance dope. The Dairy Maids last year played a Houston girls team here and were so well pleased with Aggieland that when asked where they desired to play this year it was with unanimous ac claim that they chose A & M, the manager said. PampelFs Return Boost To Infield Prospects The return to school at midterm of “Pamp” Pampell, crack third base man of last year and one of the club’s leading hitters for the season, bol stered materially the hopes of Coach Higginbotham in the coming diamond race. With the possible exception of Sweetie Davis, second baseman and the only other letterman in the in field, Coach Hig will likely have quite some trouble finding capable perform ers for the two remaining infield berths. However, at the shortstop po sition, George Carpenter, squadman from last year, may relieve some of his worries. In 44 times at bat last year Pampell hit just below the 320 mark, most of his hits being long distance blows, while Sweetie Davis was not so for tunate in his batting due to a slump at the last of the season. The average fell just below the 200 mark. Carpen ter, in competition with Gill Johns was credited with only 9 times at the plate for the entire sea son, and his swat average was 225. Competing for the job of holding down the initial sack will be Ox Em mons, Swede Parker, Paul McFadden and Shiro Hoke. Hoke and McFadden will not be out until the close of th-. basketball season. In the practice ses sions held thus far this season Em mons has taken care of the keystone sack on the so called first string, Davis the second bag, Pampell the third and Carpenter the shortfield po sition. Both Games Tightly Contested; Winner Decided in Last Few Minutes of Play Larg-e Number of A&M Students In Athletics Exclusive of the large number of students participating in intramural sports, more than one fourth of the entire student body of A & M is en gaged daily in some form of organiz ed athletics, either freshman or var sity competition, records compiled for the past week indicate. The intramurals on the other hand furnish entertainment for no small part of the student body, since rec ords show that a total of 1440 mem bers took part in some form of in tramural competition last year. The program of sports sponsored by the intramural department has grown yearly until at the present time it is the largest in the south, although a number of southern schools far sur pass A & M in the total enrollment. Varsity baseball and spring foot ball practice are pr-obahly the high lights in the entire sport program at the present date. HOKE AND VELTMAN SHOW ALL CONFERENCE FORM IN STAR RING IN BOTH GAMES Tracksters Hold First Competition Of Season The first competition of the 1931 Texas A&M track team was held Saturday, when Coach Frank Ander son put his men through inter-squad competition in order that he might gain the first information of the year as to their strength and weaknesses. The 440 yard relay team, a new event in the conference, picked from men coming out best in the 100 yard dash is as follows: Rufus Emmons, G. R. Addicks, J. H. Rutledge and M. H. Badger. With the exception of the half mile and two mile runs which were com bined into a one mile run, all events were run over the full regulation dis tance. A. A. Nance was winner in the one mile run, which was non-competi tive until the last lap. W. K. Lasater was leading high jumper with 5:10 to his credit. Don Slocomb won the low hurdles, and H. V. Harlan was first in the highs. In the weights, Sam Mc- Cluney took th eshot put even with a toss of slightly better than 41 feet, and Oran Dawson bettered 130 feet to win the discus throw. At the same sime the varsity- wore holding their events, the freshman cin der chasers were also holding:- their first competition, running with ahort- (Continued on page 7) Aggies Meet Texas In Season’s Final Ringing down the curtain on their 1930-31 basketball season, Coach Reid’s basketball team will engage the lowly, down-trodden Texas Univer sity quintet for the final game of the season in Austin Saturday night. Texas has won only one game out of ten starts this season, but they have pushed some of the leaders to their uttermost in beating them. This game will be the last oppor tunity for two Aggie starts to make their bid for all-conference honors, Squawk Veltman, shining guard, and Capt. Shiro Hoke, center. The play ing of these two men has been out standing in every game this season and both have brilliant prospects for the converted all-conference positions. The probable Texas and A&M line ups are: Texas: Elkins and Price, forwards; Fomby, center; Perkins and Tullis, guards. A&M: Bell and Marcum, for wards; Hoke, center; and Veltman and Beard, guards. WHERE THEY PLAY Feb. 24— TCU vs Rice at Houston. Feb. 27— S M U vs Arkansas at Dallas. Feb. 28— f A: & M vs Texas at Austin. SMU vs Arkansas at Dallas, ifaylor vs T C U at Fort Worth. Marfflf 3— T C U vs S M U at Dallas. After winning from S M U in the last thirty seconds of play with a score of 25-23 Saturday night, Coach John Reid’s Aggie quintet dropped a heart breaking game to the TCU Horned Frog aggregation by a 30-26 score Tuesday night. Both games were play ed at College. The victory of T C U leaves them tied with SMU for the leadership of the conference basketball race, which will probably be settled when the two meet in Fort Worth next Tuesday night. Before one of the largest basketball crowds gathered at College this sea son, the Aggies jumped into the lead in the first half minute of play with a field goal by Capt. Shiro Hoke. The Frog quintet went into the lead in the middle of the first half, and from then on the Aggies were never in the fore, although the scoi’e was tied several times. The first half featured the brilliant playing of the Maroon and White team, which completely outplayed the visiting five. The half ended 13-12 in favor of the Purple. After the half, the TCU team came back to increase their lead, but were soon tied by the Aggies, 15-15. Later in the game, the A&M team tied the game 20-20. With but three min utes to go, the score was 27-26, TCU but the Aggie quintet was unable to score any more points, and the game ended 30-26. In his bid for an All-conference position at center, Captain Shiro Hoke not only outjumped and outplayed the famed “Too Tall” Dietzel, but he was the star of the game in addition to gathering high scoring honors with 17 points. Dietzel was second with 16 points. The game was marked with flashy playji.g, with the A & M team hold ing the advantage in almost ev.-ry part of the game, with the exception of foul shooting. In the game Saturday night, Bull Marcum sank a field goal in the final 30 sceonds of play to break a tie, and win the game 25-23 from the Mus tangs. The Ponies jumped into the lead early in the game when Skeeters made good a free shot. The game continued 1-0 for seven minutes, with both teams displaying excellent floor work. The Aggies then went into the lead with two free throws by Hoke, and the Mustangs were in the lead again only once, that was 5-3 early in the game. The score at the half stood 11-8 in favor of the Aggies. With three minutes to go, and the Aggies leading by five points, the Ponies rallied to tie the score with (Continued on page 7)