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THE BATTALION
SHIRO HOKE MAKES ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
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T C U CROWNED CONFERENCE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
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Dietzel Breaks All-Time Season Record
In Game to Win Championship
SPORTS BITS
BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
SPORT BITS
Now that the reign of basketball
has died a natural death, the next
attractions on the sports calendar
are baseball and track. Both are
symbolic of spring, and graduation.
Interest in basketball seems to be
becoming more active in the South
west conference. This year, for the
first time, basketball paid for itself
at S M U. Also the competition was
the closest it has ever been in the
conference as practically every school
had good teams.
If the strength and evenness of
teams displayed this year continues,
there is no reason why basketball
should not become at least a break
even proposition. Outside of school
loyalty, it is the spirit of competi
tion that draws a crowd to any ath
letic contest. A football game be
tween Notre Dame and some junior
college at South Bend would hardly
draw a crowd, but a game between
Notre Dame and U S C draws many
thousands.
When one team continues to win
championships as long as Arkansas
did, interest in the game as a whole
dwindles until someone is found who
can match the champions. Then com
petition livens and interest picks up.
The conference title holding A &
M cinderchasers will make their first
public appearance of the season in
Ft. Worth next week when they com
pete at the Ft. Worth Live Stock
show.
This year the Aggie basketball
team gets low score prize for the
conference scoring honors in scoring
322 points, but at the same time
the Reidmen held their opponents
to a total of 318 points for the low
est in the conference.
Coach Hig’s baseball team is round
ing in shape for the first baseball
game, which should come off in a
few weeks. The completed schedule
for this season has not been announ
ced yet.
When the game ended in Austin
Saturday night, two Aggie basket
ball lettermen, Capt. Shiro Hoke and
Beau Bell, ended their last game
for the Maroon and White. In los
ing these two men, we lose the best
center in the conference and an out
standing forward.
There has been comment on who to
place at center on the all-conference
team—Hoke or Dietzel of T C U. We
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HORNED FROGS TAKE LEAD EAR
LY IN GAME TO WIN CHAM
PIONSHIP
Leading the game most of the way,
the T C U Horned Frogs won their
first Southwest conference basketball
championship by winning from the
Southern Methodist Ponies 37-29 at
Fort Worth Tuesday night.
Adolph Dietzel, Frog center, broke
the all-time conference record for to
tal scoring honors when he scored nine
points for a season total of 168 points.
The former record was held by Holly
Brock of Texas with 161 points made
in 1929.
The Ponies established an early lead
of four to nothing, and soon after had
the score 10-5. The Frogs soon de
serted the long shot method and be
gan shooting short, crip shots and
forged into a 12-10 lead with eight
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Bell Divides Spring
Gridders Into Teams
Although hindered by a week of bad
weather, head coach Matty Bell and
Klepto Holmes, line coach, with twen
ty six members of last year’s squad
including eight lettermen, nineteen
freshman numeralmen, and a number
of intramural stars have already be
gun to round out several likeable com
binations and have a few dummy
scrimmages.
The first week’s work, owing to
rain, was devoted to a review of rules,
signals and fundamentals which can
be taught in the classroom. At the
start of the present week five com
plete teams were chosen at random
and signal practice started. Plans for
the spring workouts at the present
date call for one practice game each
week between elevens chosen from the
large squad. In these affairs, if pos
sible, every man will be given a chance
to show his prowess on the field each
week.
Coaches Bell and Holmes will spend
a large part of their time drilling on
fundamentals along with the signal
drill throughout the training period in
order to give the entire squad ample
time to become well seasoned before
the opening of. the fall training ses
sion.
Among those missing from the
spring practice at the present time is
Carl Moulden, Cisco, captain elect of
the 1931 team. Moulden will be kept
out of practice during the early part
to enable him to recover from an op
eration recently performed on his
shoulder, which was injured last sea
son. Four other lettermen Sweetie Da
vis, Fort Worth, Paul McFadden, Cle
burne, George Lord, Jourdanton, and
Jimmie Aston, Farmersville, are on
the list of absentees, being occupied
at the present time with other duties
which prevent their participation in
the spring practice.
Battalion Picks
First All-Intra-
mural Eleven
For the first time in the history of
the college The Battalion with the aid
of the intramural coaches of last sea
son, has selected from the seven teams
an all-intramural football team.
The championship First Infantry ele
ven won honors for the number of
men placed on the all-star team, with
five of the eleven composing the first
string being selected from its ranks,
while the Engineers, Second Artillery
and Cavalry followed in the order
named with three, two and one respec
tively.
T. M. Maxwell was a unanimous
choice for the position at left tackle
on every team chosen, while Frank
Shepherd and R. H. Wright, Second
Artillery quarterback and Cavalry
wingman respectively, were on all but
one of the teams at the post at which
they are named on the all-star team.
These men were outstanding in nearly
every game in which they took part
throughout the season.
The team named as the mythical all
intramural football eleven is as fol
lows:
Left end-—R. H. Wright, Cavalry.
Left tackle—T. M. Maxwell, Engi
neers.
Left guard—E. J. Robischaux( En
gineers.
Center—L. T. Braswell, 1st Infantry.
Right guard—B. F. Sulak, 2nd Ar
tillery.
Right tackle—J. R. Little, 1st In
fantry.
Right end—T. C. Morris, 1st Infan
try.
Quarterback—A. L. Sebesta, 1st In
fantry.
Left half—Frank H. Shepherd, 2nd
Artillery.
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Battery F Leading In
Intramural Flag Race
With six units separated by less
than 100 points, competition for the in
tramural banner, which is given year
ly to the organization compiling the
largest number of participation points
in intramural sports, is becoming keen
er day by day. Of these six leading
units, two are representatives of the
Artillery, two from the Signal Corps,
one from the Infantry and one from
the Engineers.
These records include all points giv
en for intramural football and tennis
just completed. The standings of che
leaders are as follows:
Bat. F
474
A Sig
442
Bat. E
421
B Sig
416
Co. H
391
B Eng
388
C Eng
334
Tr. C
328
327
Bat. A
326
T C U Lands Two Places With S M U
And Arkansas Each Getting One
ALL-CONFERENCE
Cecil Hoke, Shiro, captain and cen
ter of the Aggie cage team who has
already been given all-Southwest rec
ognition on the teams selected by
Lloyd Gregody of the Houston Post-
Dispatch, Dusty Bogges, conference of
ficial, of the Galveston News, Curtis
Vinson, publicity director at A & M,
and The Battalion.
Robertson Wins Title
In Intramural Tennis
A. J. Miller and J. H. Pate, of Com
pany B Engineers, Saturday afternoon
defeated E. E. Weber and W. D. Sor
rells, Battery F, to win the tennis
doubles championship of the college
in the annual intramural tennis tourna
ment, while J. E. Robertson, C Engi
neers, in taking the measure of G. S.
Williams, A Signal Corps representa
tive, was crowned singles champ.
The tournament, begun last Decem
ber, was scheduled to be complete
three weeks ago, but due to continued
rain it was necessary to postpone some
of the matches, thereby delaying its
completion.
Twenty-three of the twenty-five
campus organizations entered teams in
the competition, thereby making a to
tal of 69 men competing. Troop A
Cavalry and Company E Infantry
were the units without representation.
SELECTION GIVES STRONGEST
SWC TEAM EVER ASSEMBLED
Dietzel, TCU Forward
Sumner, TCU Forward
Hoke, A&M Center
Skeeters, SMU Guard
Sexton, Ark Forward
This year, the Southwest conference
had the strongest collection of basket
ball teams ever assembled at one time
in the history of the conference, and
it stands to reason that the all-con
ference selection would be a team that
could meet any team in the nation.
We believe that in our selection, we
have a team that is the strongest com
bination possible from the large num
ber of stars in the conference this sea
son.
We placed Dietzel at forward be
cause a team would not be complete
vithout his high scoring ability, he
has been a determining factor in the
Frogs winning the pennant.
Sumner is the outstanding forward
of the conference. His clever floor
work, good shooting and defensive play
has been a predominating force with
TCU.
Hoke is in our estimation the lead
ing center of the conference. He has
not been outjumped this season and
has been the most valuable man on the
Aggie squad. His floor play, shooting
and defensive work has been outstand
ing in every game this season.
Skeeters of the Ponies is the most
valuable guard in the conference this
year and no team would be complete
without him.
Sexton of Arkansas and Veltman
of A & M, both are outstanding candi
dates for the other guard position as
both are very valuable men. Sexton
has scored many points for the Hogs,
in addition to being outstanding in
floor play and defensive work.
Riflemen Continue
Sweeping Victories
The end of the third week of fir
ing of the intercolegiate matches
finds Lieutenant L. R. Nachman’s
sharpshooting riflement still unde
feated in the national intercollegiate
small bore rifle competition, and
ranks them as strong contenders
for the national title for the second
time. During the past week the Ag
gies also fired two special matches,
one with the U. S. Military Academy
and Carnegie Institute of Technology,
the other with the Women’s rife
team of the University of Wichita.
Both of these matches were fired by
five men teams. In the former, A
& M defeated Carnegie but ost to
the unusually strong West Point five,
while the latter resulted in a win for
the Aggies.
Records show that the past week’s
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