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THE BATTALION
RICE GAME LIKELY TO DETERMINE S-W CHAMPS
SPORTS BITS
BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
With the Aggies being given an
even break or better in winning the
baseball, track, and golf conference
titles in the next two weeks, its looks
as though the A & M varsity sports
are in for a highly successful spring
season.
Beat Rice
The game with Rice may have an
important bearing on the conference
baseball title should the aggies fail
to win. A loss would throw the Hig-
men into a tie with Baylor—if Texas
beats Baylor or vice versa. Then the
fight would lie between A & M and
Texas as to whether the race ended
in a three way tie.
Then Texas
If Baylor whips the Steers Thurs
day, each will have lost two games
with the Maroon and White having
lost only one. Then if the Aggies
beat Texas, the championship will be
ours—or—if Texas beats us it will
go into a three way tie. If Texas de
feats the Bears the battle will lie
clearly between A & M and the Long
horns for the championship.
And Get The
With the close marking of victory
that Rice won the track meet here
Saturday, the A & M cinder chasers
are given almost an even break for
the conference title.
Conference
The meet lies clearly between Rice,
Texas, and A & M, with the other
conference schools doped to take but
few points. Rice was the last school
to hold the title before A & M took
it for the last two years.
Baseball and Track —
The Aggie golf team, led by Pen-
head Schriever, is undefeated as yet,
having tied the Texas team and de
feated the Rice crew. This puts them
in an excellent position to bring
home another conference title for the
school.
Championship
Squawk Veltman led the A & M
baseball team with the number of
runs scored on the recent road trip,
crossing the plate 9 times and being
the star of the Baylor game with his
home run in the ninth to break the tie
and win the game.
! ! ! !
Sweetie Davis gathered the largest
total of hits during the trip, getting
6 hits and 2 runs. Beau Bell collected
5 hits and 4 runs. Mitchel and Pampell
each tapped the ball safely four times.
An extract from the “Sport Fod
der” column of The Texas Aggie, pub
lication of the Ex-Students’ Associa
tion, gives an interesting light on the
old school as it usta was.
“Even in the ‘good old days’ there
was trouble over athletes failing to
keep in training. A copy of the A &
M ‘Battalion’ of June 1900 gives some
frank statements on the problem. In
relating the list of football players
on thd team of ’99 the following
statements are made. our star
half, . . . , would persist in smoking
his cigarettes.’ And how is this for
a gentle rebuke 1 ‘ end, a hard
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One Half Point
Gives Owls Meet
Nosed out by one half a point by
the Rice Owls in the triangular meet
with Rice and Texas Saturday after
noon at Kyle field, Coach Frank An
derson’s champion Aggie track team
will be forced to better their records
to win the conference title at T C U
the coming week-end.
The meet Saturday afternoon was
close throughout the afternoon with
A & M and Rice alternating in the
lead. At the end of the one mile
relay, A & M was leading by four
and one half points, but the results
of the javelin throw in which the
Owjs took second and third places,
was enough to give them the scant
margin of victory.
Captain Rufus Emmons covered
himself with glory in winning first in
the 100 and 220 dashes, and taking
part in the 440 and one mile relays,
the latter of which A & M romped to
an easy victory. Emmons was high
point man on the meet with 11 and 1-4
points to his credit.
Honors for the one mile relay vic
tory go mainly to Percy Mimms, Ag
gie half miler. After George Lord
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Golfers Win Over Rice
Owls For First Victory
Winning three singles and two dou
bles matches, the Aggie golf team
led by Bernard Schriever of San An
tonio, took a 4-2 decision from the Rice
Owl putters Wednesday afternoon on
the Bryan country club course.
This match was the first win for the
team in conference competition this
season, although they are credited
with a 3-3 tie match with the Texas
University aggregation.
Besides winning from Rice and ty
ing with Texas, victories have been
registered over a number of city
teams in practice affairs since the
start of the season.
Friday afternoon the team is sche
duled to meet the S M U Mustangs
on their own course in Dallas and pos
sibly the T C U Horned Frogs in
Fort Worth Saturday. The latter will
not be a conference match, however.
The following men, having turned in
the lowest scores in the last competi
tion between team members, will make
the trip to Dallas: Bernard Schriever,
captain and coach; Toad Christian,
Abilene; Perry Keith, Dallas; and
Charlie Malone, Dallas.
Following the match with S M U the
team will be idle until the conference
meet May 14, 15 and 1G, in Dallas.
Aggies Win Over Bears, Frogs
And Mustangs In Fast Games
Three Straight Victories Give
A & M Lead Of Conference
Crossing the plate 30 times in three
games Beau Bell’s hustling Aggies
completely routed the Baylor Bears,
T C U Horned Frogs and the S M U
Mustangs last week, thereby winding
up the final road trip of the season
with three wins and exactly no set-
gacks. By these victories the Aggies
stepped into first place with their
age old rivals, the Texas Steers a
close second.
The start of the ninth inning of
the Baylor game found the Aggies
and Bears tied up at three all, but
a walk to Mitchell and Squawk Velt-
man’s timely circuit clout practically
eliminated the Bears from the title
chase. Marshall Shaw, with flawless
support from his team mates, pitched
well for the entire game allowing
eight scattered hits in the nine inn
ings. Baylor threatened to score in
the ninth, but with two on the bases
and two men out Shaw breezed three
past Jakie Wilson, slugging Baylor
outfielder, to end the game.
Making hits count for runs and tak
ing advantage of Horned Frog bob
bles, A & M easily took a 16 to 3
victory from the lowly Froggies.
Three T C U pitchers were unable to
stem the Aggie attack and when the
affair ended fifteen hits had been
made. Ab Hawes hurled well through
out the game, and chalked up his sec
ond conference win this season with
no defeats.
The S M U affair was just another
victory for the Aggies with Bob
Scheer, the pride of Marshall, doing
an excellent bit of mound work. Al
though he was touched for 11 hits, he
succeeded in keeping them well scat
tered and the Mustangs were able
to tally only once, while the Aggies
were busy scoring nine times.
Aggies Net Squad
To Play Tex. Sat.
Playing the final matches before
the conference meet which will take
place here on May 14, 15 and 16, the
Aggie netters under Captain Frank
O’Bannon will engage the powerful
University of Texas net quartet here
Saturday afternoon.
Texas has one of the most power
ful teams in the history of the school,
being undefeated for the season and
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Freshmen Tossers Show
Form In Two Victories
While the varsity baseballers were
taking Baylor and T C U for a clean
ing, Coach Earl Lyon’s Aggie fresh
men baseball team was busy at college
humbling the Blinn Memorial College
of Brenham in two out of three games
Friday and Saturday. The freshmen
won Friday’s game by a 6-5 score,
losing the first game Saturday 3-2
and taking the twilight event 7-6.
McMillan and January issued hits
sparingly Friday while their team
mates collected ,'six runs and held
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Three Way Tie Between Texas,
A & M, and Baylor May Close Season
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Ag’g’ie Swimmers Easily
Win From University
Seven first places in the eight events
of the meet enabled Dan Humason and
his Aggie swimmers to win decisively
over the Texas University naviga
tors by a score of 50 to 25, in the
Y M C A pool Saturday aftrenoon.
This victory was the second for the
Aggies this season in three meets,
being defeated in the initial meet by
the Houston Y M C A.
From the very beginnnig of the meet
when the Aggies won the opening re
lay race with a margin of three and
one-half seconds, they assumed the
lead and were never in danger
throughout the meet.
Probably the feature of the after
noon was the work of Dan Humason,
Aggie captain and coach. Humason
took three first places and figured
prominently in the four man relay
team victory. He was first in the 100
yard back stroke, the 220 yard free
fetyle and the 100 yard free style, in
which he set a new tank record for
the Y M C A pool.
One of the closest races of the meet
was the 40 yard free style in which
Howder of A & M, Fort Crocket, nosed
out Irwin, Texas University, by 3/5 of
one second.
The one first place won by the Uni
versity was in the fancy diving com
petition. Taylor of Texas won over
S. H. Garrison, A & M, with a nine
point lead. Cecil Threadgill another
A & M man was third in this event.
The medley relay team, composed
of Dan Humason, Robert L. Suggs,
San Antonio, and J. D. Howder easily
topped the University team with a
nine second lead at the finish line.
Suggs also won a first place in the
100 yard breast stroke race.
Returning with three victories over
the schools in the northern end of the
conference loop and leading the con
ference race by one-half a game.
Captain Beau Bell and his Aggie nine
will meet the Rice Institute baseball
team on Kyle Field Thursday after
noon in the last conference game be
fore the final game with the Univer
sity of Texas Longhorns on May 16.
With the Aggies heading the con
ference win column, the game will be
of much importance to the Aggies as
a defeat at the hands of the Owls
would greatly reduce A & M’s title
chances.
Although fourth in the conference
standings, Rice is an ever dan
gerous opponent, as Owls have a
powerful combination that has been
unable to click together thus far in
the season, and if the feathered tribe
be right, they will be hard to beat.
Rice has won three out of eight con
ference tangles to date, having two
more games to play.
Ray Hart, ace of the Owl staff,
will likely draw the assignment
against the Maroon and White crew.
Marshall Shaw, leading Aggie
pitcher, will probably take the mound
for the Aggies, with Garvey behind
the bat. The rest of the line up will
probably be: Carpenter, first base;
Davis, second base; Pampell, third
base; Henderson, short stop; Bell, left
field; Veltman, center field; and Mit
chell, right field.
FISH BANQUET
“Citizenship” was the topic chosen
for a talk before members of the
freshman class at a banquet held in
the mess hall annex Monday night
by Bishop Clinton S. Quinn. Class
president Barfield was the only other
speaker on the program.
First Football Coach Was Paid
With Donations From Corps
By W. J. Faulk
Battalion Sports Writer
For thirty-seven years A and M
has been represented on the gridiron
in intercollegiate combat, but for only
thirty-two of them has there been a
regularly paid football coach.
From E. C. Boettcher of East Ber
nard, who wore the Maroon and White
for four years as a linesman and who
played every minute of every game
held during his time in college comes
the story of A and M’s first gridiron
tutor.
In 1898 the so called Aggie football
squad being without the services of
an advisor, players raised the sum of
$50 by means of passing the hat
throughout the then small cadet corps,
and with this amount hired a man by
,the name of Taylor from the Kansas
City Athletic club to serve as coach.
The money lasted but one month, and
so likewise did the coach, for when it
was found that no more money was
forthcoming, coach Taylor folded his
tent like the Arabs and departed
northward again to Kansas City.
In desperation the team appealed
to the cadet corps once more, which
body finally responded by donating,
to the fund all refunds due the mem
bers at the end of the school year. The
refunds would consist of the residue
remaining from a $5.00 breakage fee.
With more cash in sight, another
coach appeared on the scene. This one
finished the season of 1898 but failed
to return the following year.
The same policy was used to obtain
funds at the start of the next season,
and Coach Murray appeared on the
scene as a result. He remained for sev
eral seasons.
The collection means of raising suf
ficient money to keep the football
mentor satisfied was used until par-
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