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4 THE BATTALION VARIETY OF SPORTS ON CARD FOR EX’S SPORTS BITS BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR. The Aggie nine played a beautiful game Saturday afternoon—but as some one said, “the only thing left out of the track meet Monday after noon was the javelin throw.” Shaw pitched an excellent game Sat urday—the best seen on the local sand lot thus far this season. If his pitch ing continues, he bids fair to be the leading Aggie moundsman for the sea son. The track team waded through their first track meet for victory at Aus tin. From other conference track scores it looks as though the confer ence meet is going to be between Rice and A & M for the main part. T C U has one man on their team good enough for a first place—Houser. He turned in a 9.6 in the century dash last week. The Ponies’ only hopes lie in the weights and javelin with Hermann and Sprague. Hermann is about the most consistant javelin tosser in the confer ence—always throwing between 180 and 190 feet. Sprague is the leading shot putter, getting around 45 feet and over with alarming regularity. He is about the conference’s best in the discus. Bull Floyd should be in fine shape by the conference meet, and the contest between he, Hermann and Hodges for the conference title should be interesting to watch. Texas runs about third in the confer ence from a team standing. Perkins appears to be about the best in the high jump, getting 6 feet 3 1/8 inches Saturday. Craig is outstand in the broad jump, jumping around 23 feet and over. Hodges is their best in the javelin and one of the first three in the conference. Baylor has her hopes in the dashes in the form of Goddard, in both the 100 and 220 yard tears with a 9.8 and a 21.6 being his best times in these for the season so far. Strickland runs the high hurdles in about 15.5. The rest of the events probably lie between the Aggies and the Owls. The feathered tribe has Kroschel as their leading hurdler, Holloway in the dash es, Baldry in the pole vault and broad jump, Pamerson the quarter mile, and about the best mile relay team in the conference. The Aggie thinly clads can just about match the Owls man for man. The conference will not be won on first places this year. The winning team will have to get a few first places and a large number of seconds and thirds. That is where the Aggies will come in. The track meet with the Ricemen in Houston Saturday will prove of in terest to anyone able to attend. It will be a meeting of the best in this man’s conference. It is our belief (Continued on Page 5) Track Team Wins Meet From ACC And Longhorns The A & M southwest conference championship track team opened their conference season at Austin last Sat urday and emerged victorious over Texas University and Abilene Chris tian College in a triangular meet. Tex as placed second and A. C. C. third. A. C. C., although last in the num ber of points accumulated, was first in the number of first places, getting seven. The Aggies were second with a total of five, while Texas gathered three first places. A & M and Texas tied for first place in the pole vault. The Aggies took advantage of a number of second, third, and fourth places to run the total of their score to 71 points, Texas got 53% and Abi lene Christian 46%. Through some mistake, the “100” yard dash was run for a distance of 105 yards. Summaries: 105 yard dash—Emmons, A & M, first; Craig, Texas, second; Meyers, Texas, third; Weems, A. C. C., fourth. Time—10.3. 200 yard dash—Emmons, A & M, first; Weems, A. C. C., second, Mey ers, Texas, third; Badger, A & M, fourth. Time—21.6. 440 yard dash—Wood, A. C. C., first; Schiller, Texas, second; Tracy, (Continued on page 5) Pool Tournament To Be Sponsored By College Y A pool tournament, sponsored by the Y M C A and scheduled to get under way Monday, April 20, is the latest addition to the sports offered A & M students during the remain der of the spring term. The tournament is the first of its kind ever held at A & M but plans at the present time are to make it an annual affair. The twenty-five campus organiza tions have been divided into four groups, consisting of the Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, and the Composite regiment, in arranging the matches. The Composite regiment is composed of the Band, Casuals, the two Signal units and the three Engineer com panies. From the men entering in each of four divisions, the three high men in each will represent the member in the quarter finals and thereafter un til the college champions have been decided. Each member of the winning team is to receive a worth-while prize giv en by the Y M C A. Along with these the individual having the highest score will also receive a special prize. The (Continued on page 5) Netsters Lose To Rice In Opening Matches In their first meet of the spring, Coach W. H. Thomas’ Aggie tennis team was defeated by Coach Ed Beck- enbach’s Rice Owl netsters five matches to one at College last Sat urday afternoon. Emery and Cunningham of A & M won the lone match of the evening in defeating Gwin and Carter of Rice in their doubles match. The following are the results of the matches: Henry Holden (Rice) defeated Em ery (Aggies), 7-5, 6-3; Quinn Con- nelley (Rice) defeated Frank O’Ban- non (Aggies), 6-0, 6-0; Winthrop Car ter (Rice) defeated Jorden Cunning ham (Aggies), 7-5, 6-2; Gilmore Gwin (Rice) defeated A1 Saenger (Aggies), 10-12, 6-4, 9-7; Holden and Connelley (Rice) defeated O’Bannon and Saen ger (Aggies), 6-2, 6-1; Gwin and Car ter (Rice) lost to Emery and Cunning ham (Aggies), 5-7, 4-6. Cinder Chasers Meet Owls Sat. Faced with their hardest dual meet of the season, Coach Frank Anderson’s track squad is putting itself through the final paces in preparation for the meet with the Rice Owls at Houston Saturday afternoon. It has not been definitely stated as to which men will be taken on the trip, but it is probable that the same men making the Austin trip last week will also make the Houston trip. The form shown by the Aggies in winning the Texas meet, coupled with improvements of men on the injured list, gives the Maroon and White cin der-chasers the edge in the meet against the powerful Owls. The Owls have their strongest track team they have had in a number of years to offer track fans this season, the team being loaded with individual stars. Last week, the Ricemen over whelmed the T C U team by a score of 103-36, getting every first place with the exception of the 100 yard dash. Tennis Team Plays Frog And Ponies This Week Captain Frank O’Bannon’s A & M tennis team will play their first matches of the season away from college this week end when they in vade Dallas and Ft. Worth for matches with Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University Fri day and Saturday of this week. The following men will compose the team which will leave on the Sun beam Thursday afternoon: Frank O’Bannon, Dallas, captain of the team; A. M. Emery, Dallas; J. L. Cunning ham, San Antonio; and A1 Saenger, Beaumont. It’s entirely mental, the spring fever business. There is no physiological basis for it.—Dr. E. M. Winchester. Baseball, Football, And Boxing To Entertain Ex’s Fri. And Sat. Golfers To Hold Meet With Texas Saturday Returning with victories over the Georgetown team this past week end, the Aggie golf team, captained by B. A. Schriever of San Antonio and coached by W. L. Penberthy, is undergoing strenuous practice for the coming matches with the University of Texas team at Austin this Satur day. The golf team beat the George town team 5-4 in the six man matches, and tied 3-3 in the regular four man matches. Final selections of the men to make the trip have not been announced, but it is probable that the following men will make the trip: B. A. Schriever, G. L. Christian, Abilene; Charlie Ma lone, Dallas; and Perry Keith, Dallas. Swimmers Defeated By Houston YMCA Team For the first time since its organ ization five years ago, the Aggie swimming team met defeat Saturday afternoon at the hands of the- Hous ton YMCA team by a score of 52 to 26, in Houston. Not only was this the initial defeat suffered by an Aggie swimming team, but also the first time they have ever failed to win even one first place. The nearest approach to a first place was scored by Dan Humason, team cap tain and coach, who won a tie with Freeland of the Houston aggregation for the lead in the backstroke race. Second places in the meet were won (Continued on page 5) Aggies Win From Baylor In Con ference Opener After winning a baseball thriller from the Baylor Bears Saturday after noon in the tenth inning 4 to 3, to open the conference race, the Aggies were helpless before the slants of Hansen and White, Monday afternoon and were forced to accept the short end of a 15 to 0 decision at the hands of the Fort Worth Cats. , Probably the feature of the game Saturday afternoon, while the A & M diamond representatives were taking the measure of the Baylorites, was the stellar mound work of Fred Shaw, sophomore from Ennis, who bids fair to become ace of the Aggie hurling staff, as shown by his work thus far this season. Shaw toiled the full ten rounds and limited the Bears to six base blows, one of which was a scratch hit to the infield. With the possible exception of the seventh inning, when all the Baylor tallies were made, Shaw had them well in hand throughout (Continued on page 5) AGGIES TQ MEET T C U NINE FRIDAY AFTERNOON While the ex-student’s association convenes at college this week end, practically every form of athletics will furnish them entertainment. The first athletic contest on the slate is the ball game between the Aggies and the Frogs Friday afternoon. Satur day afternoon the gridsters under coach Matty Bell will have the final game of the spring' training season at 3 o’clock, and that night at 8, the intramural boxing finals will be held in the Memorial gym and the school champions determined. The ball game Friday afternoon will be the second conference game on schedule for the Aggies. The first game was won from Baylor by a 4-3 score. T C U has about the same cal ibre team as last year which finished second in the final conference stand ing a few points ahead of the Ag gies, because of the greater number of games being played by the Frogs. The probable A & M line up is as follows: Shaw, pitcher; Garvey, catch er; Hoke, first base; Davis, second base; Pampell, third base; Carpencer, short stop; Bell, left field; Veltman, center field; and Mitchell, right field. The game will start at 4 o’clock. The next athletic contest to attract the interests of the ex’s will be the closing game between the Navy Whites and the Army Reds. This will be the final day of spring training for the gridsters. At this time the visitors will be given their first show ing of the future 1931 Aggie grid team starting at 3 o’clock. The line up: Navy Positions Army Murray L. E Wright Magrill (c) __ L. T Cummings Hornsby L. G Sulak Rudder Center Nolan, W. Guseman R. G Christian (c) Pittman R. E McFadden Kenderdine ... R. T Nolan, E. R. Domingue .... Q.-back Aston Harling L. H Shepherd Barfield R. H Hewitt Spencer Full Graves Cards bearing the name and num ber of every player will be distribut ed to the visitors before the game. The final athletic contest staged for the ex’s will be the final matches of the intramural boxing tournament for the school championship in va rious weights. The quarter and semi final matches are being held this week in order that the finals may be held Saturday night. The bouts will be held in the gym beginning at 8 sharp. Politics is a farce unless it deals openly and bravely with questions of work, commerce and finance that af fect men where they live.—Prof. John Dewey. The time will come when we will take St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, an d make them into museums. Willi arn Z. Foster.