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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1931)
6 THE BATTALION GENT NINE TO PLAY AGGIES FRI. AND SAT. *** %. *** * * m * * ^ *** TRACK TEAM TO COMPETE IN TEXAS RELAY MEET Texas Meet Friday; Full Team To Go: To Rice Relays Saturday SPORTS BITS BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR. After over a month of dilly dallying' around, Ox Emerson, 1931 University of Texas football captain, has finally been declared ineligible for further competition in conference football. It was brought to light that he played a few minutes as a substitute in the 1928 Baylor game. It seems that there certainly must be something wrong with the system of keeping records in this conference if it takes them that long to discover whether a man did or didn’t play. The games against the Buffs last week brought out that the Aggies have a very promising pitcher in F. M. Shaw. Going in on the last half of the second game he -held the Buffs to four hits, the smallest number they made off of any pitcher. Shaw is a sophomore from Ennis and should be a valuable addition to the staff. As a whole, the staff looked better than was predicted. Ah Hawes and Lagow both looked pretty good in the opener, allowing 8 and 7 hits respec tively. The Buffs got to Scheer easily enough in the second game, but with a little seasoning he should show up much better. Ox Emmons and Shiro Hoke both held down the position at first base in pretty good shape. Shiro held the advantage at bat, but Ox was plainly nervous—and that may account for his inability to hit that day. The games against Centenary this week end will bring Coach Hig’s team together with a team that is more their equal. That should bring out the strong and weak points more than games like last week. Don Slocomb is still nursing a bad leg, and it will be some time before he will be in shape again. His loss is a hard blow to the team, but he will probably be back in prime condition before the major meets of the season. Coach Frank Anderson boasts of a well-rounded freshman track team this season, even better than the one of last year. One of the most outstanding freshmen on this team is B. M. Irwin, former John Tarleton star. This fresh man does everything from putt the shot to run the hundred. It is reported he plays an excellent football game, and good basketball (Continued on page 7) A & M Sending Six To Texas; 38 Colleges Represented Track Coach Frank Anderson and six track men will depart Thursday for the Seventh Annual University of Texas Relay Carnival to be held Fri day at Austin. The following day, these men, strengthened by the re mainder of the Aggie track squad will go to Houston to participate in the Rice Relay Carnival. Coach Anderson is taking his relay teams and one hurdler to the Texas meet, and practically the entire squad, or about 28 men, to the Rice meet. The relay teams, composed of Cap tain Rufus Emmons, C. A. Tracy, M. H. Badger, G. R. Addicks, and J. H. Rutledge will be entered in the quar ter, half, and mile relays. H. V. Har lan will be the only other Aggie rep resentative at the meet, being enter ed in the hurdles. Men are entered in all the events at Rice. The Texas Relay Carnival is held each year by the University of Texas, and has grown into one of the out standing relay meets of the season, drawing almost a thousand college track stars from all over the nation and hundreds of high school and aca demy athletes in the state. This year thirty-eight colleges and universities have been entered in the meet, includ ing nine new schools entering the meet for the first time. The University of Nebraska leads the college division in entries, with a total of 27 men. Lig-htfoot Leader In Intramural Standing J. H. Lightfoot, Battery C, having already amassed a total of 170 points, for participation in intramural sports, has virtually cinched first place in the race for the individual award giv en annually by the athletic dept, to the student having the greatest number of participation points at the close of the school year. The leaders com peting for this medal are as follows: J. H. Lightfoot, Battery C 170 H. E. Cunningham, Battery F .... 125 S. H. Garrison, Battery F 120 R. F. Worden, Battery F 120 C. D. Kauffman, A Signal 120 J. A. Shellberg, A Signal 115 W. R. Russel, Battery F 115 D. B. McNerny, Battery E 105 R. L. Suggs, B Signal 105 E. B. Laughlin, Battery B 105 H. C. Smith, Battery F 105 S. M. Stubbs, Battery F 105 J. L. Cunningham, Battery E 100 T. J. Andrews, Company D 95 M. A. Maedgen, Company F 95 R. L. Taylor, Company H 95 G. E. Moody, Battery F 95 J. L. McMahan, B Signal 95 E. Levy, Troop D 95 M. K. Taylor, A Signal 95 CAGE CAPTAIN Z ■ -L- CHARLIE BEARD Beard To Lead 1931 Cage Team At a recent meeting of the 1931 basketball lettermen, Charlie Beard, diminutive eager for the past two sea sons of Coach John Reid’s quintets, was elected captain of the 1932 Texas Aggie cage team. Beard was one of the main cogs of Coach Reid’s strong defensive team of the past season, his deceptive pass ing and clever floorwork and drib bling fitting in well with the cautious style used by the team. Most of Beard’s playing has been done at guard, but he showed up very well during several of the games at for ward, and it is possible that he will fill a forward berth, regularly next season. He earned his freshman numeral at A & M in 1929 and was a varsity let- terman in 1930 and 1931. MONTREAL HERE WEDNESDAY Following games at Brenham with Montreal, International League Class A A team, Aggie nine will return to Kyle Field diamond for a one-day stand with the Canadian team Wed nesday, it was announced today. Playing Against Houston Shows A & M Club Very Formidable Bat. A Pitching Champs, Co. A Wins Volley Ball Two more intramural sports, horse shoe pitching and volley ball, were brought to a close last week when Bat tery A and Company A Signal Corps defeated Battery D and Company B Signal Corps, respectively, for the col lege championships. When the Signal units tangled for the title in volley ball, it was the second time in as many years that the winner of that sport had been decided between Companies A and B Signal Corps, while practically the same sit uation existed in the horse-shoe com petition, since Battery D, this year’s runner-up was the defending cham pion of last year, and Company D, one of the semi-finalists in the race just finished was runner-up last year. The horseshoe pitching title has been held continually by the Artillery for the past four years. The men composing the winning horse-shoe pitching team were D. B. Porter, C. J. Hansen, N. J. Yentzen, M. B. Airhart, O. O. Mattiza, and F. E. Haltom. The winners in volley ball were C. D. Kauffman, T. L. Kankel, R. R. Krezdorn, J. A. Shellberg, E. H. Brady, (Continued on page 7) AGGIES TO PLAY TWO-GAME SERIES WITH MONTREAL Veltman Awarded Most Valuable Player Award Following his selection as the out standing member of the 1931 basket ball quintet, Lester Veltman, outstand ing guard from San Antonio, was awarded the most valuable player trophy of the Aggieland Pharmacy. Although Veltman saw little service last year with the team, he broke into prominence this past season with his trong, deceptive defensive playing and was given a second team position on the official all-Southwest Conference selection as a guard. He is a good offensive as well as defensive player and is expected to be an outstanding member of the A & M five in 1932, when he will close his college athletic career. The all-Conference mention was his second within a year, as Veltman was practically unanimous selection for all conference outfielder last year. The most valuable player award is given at the close of each major sport season to the team member selected by a committee composed of members of the A & M athletic department and S. At Lipscomb, manager of the Ag gieland Pharmacy. Team captains are not eligible for the award, a special trophy being given to each of them. Encountering their second team of the season, Coach Roswell Higgan- botham’s Aggie baseball nine will play two games at College against the Centenary College of Shreveport this Friday and Saturday afternoons. In the showing of the A & M nine against the Houston Buffs last week, the Maroon and White bearers dis played much promise of having a bet ter team than was at first predicted. The Centenary aggregation is bring ing over a fairly strong club in ex pectation of rather close games. Little is known as to the strength of this club, these games being their first of the season. The games Friday and Saturday should settle the A & M club down into their regular positions and settle the contests between Hoke and Emmons for first base and Garvey and Golasin- ski behind the plate. The A & M line-up will probably be: Garvey, catcher; Hawes, pitcher; Hoke, first base; Davis, second base; Pampell, third base; Carpenter, short stop; Crozier, left field; Veltman, cen ter field; and Bell, right field. Arrangements have been completed for a two-game series with the Mon treal, Canada International League club which is at present training in Brenham to be played at Brenham next Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Aggies Lose Two To Houstonians Failure to connect in the pinches coupled with some erratic fielding cost the Aggies the opening baseball games of the 1931 season last week when the Houston Buffs made a clean sweep of the two-game series 4 to 3 and 10 to 3. In the first game Ab Hawes and Charles Lagow divided time on the mound and did a nice job of the hurling, holding the slugging Buffs to four runs for the entire route, but their mates were unable to solve the offerings of Heise and Starr, Houston tossers, until the final frame, when Binder booted Veltman’s ground ed to start a rally which fell two runs short of victory. The second encounter was even worse for the Aggies, for the Buffs lost no time in getting to George Scheer, sophomore righthander, scor ing eight hits and as many runs in four innings. Scheer was replaced at the start of the fifth inning by Fred Shaw, also a sophomore and a right hander, who in limiting the Buffs to four hits and two runs for the remain der of the affair, displayed quite a bit of promise.