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THE BATTALION
SPORTS BITS
By W. J. Faulk
AGGIES-BAYLOR IN POST SEASON GAMES
The passing of Beau Bell from the
ranks of Southwest Conference base
ball marks the end of one of the most
brilliant baseball careers in the an
nals of the conference history.
And the election of Squawk Velt-
man to lead the 1932 team gives the
Aggies another slugging captain.
Of the 37 points scored by A. & M.
in the conference track meet this year
thirty were scored by seniors grad
uating Saturday.
A conference swimming meet will
be held in Houston next year for the
first time in history. A. & M., Rice,
Texas University and T. C. U. will be
the first to enter. The holding of
this meet brought about through the
efforts of Lieutenant Nachman, Ag
gie team coach.
A. & M. should have one of the
best lines in the conference when the
gridiron race opens this fall. Some
12 to 15 men will be competing for
backfield berths.
A review of the major sports of the
conference for the year closing shows
that no major sports were won by the
same school. A. & M., Rice, T. C. U.
and Texas took honors in baseball,
track, basketball and football.
Intramural sports have again pro
vided entertainment for about eighty
per cent of the corps in the past nine
months.
During the spring months, some
600 students take part daily in or
ganized athletics at A. & M. This in
cludes varsity, freshman and intra
mural sports.
The Aggies started the year with a
disastrious football season, but came
through and won Cross-country for
the fourth consecutive time. A fair
basketball season was followed by a
championship baseball year to cli
max the sport year.
What A. & M. teams did this year
is now past history, and will have no
bearing on next year’s teams. The
success of the football team this fall
will depend on what we make it, not
the record of last year. The sport
year begins Saturday afternoon at
2:30, September 26. Be there and
watch the Aggies go!
Nude culture is spreading over
Germany with hundreds of men and
women being converted to the move
ment each week. At one swimming
pool recently 500 nudists gave a sport
ing festival before newspaper men,
the purpose being to show the attrac
tiveness of the movement.
About 50 medical students at Valla
dolid, Spain, recently locked their
professors in a class room until they
agreed to allow them to pass their
courses without examinations. The
students had asked the faculty to do
away with the exams this year be
cause of the time lost during the past
year through strikes and disorders.
The faculty had refused.
Missouri has just passed a law
making Jefferson’s birthday a legal
holiday in that state.
Lightfoot Individual
Winner In Intramurals
J. H. Lightfoot, Battery C Artillery,
having amassed a total of 200 points
for participation in intramural sports,
has been awarded the gold intramural
medal which is given annually to the
high point man by the department of
intramural athletics. The medal is of
the exact design as other intramural
medals with the exception that it is
gold plated.
Lightfoot was safely in the lead at
the end of the race, with some 30
points between him and his foremost
rival. Competition for this medal is
open to any person taking part in in
tramural athletics, thereby making
every student in school eligible.
Those students having garnered as
many as 125 points in this race are
as follows:
Lightfoot, J. H., Bat. C 200
Kauffman, C. D., A Sig 170
Cunningham, H. E., Bat. F 165
Shellberg, J. A. Jr., A Sig 160
Worden, R. F., Bat. F 155
McNerny, D. B., Bat E 150
Parker, H. E., Bat. F 146
Andrews, T. J., D Inf 140
Garrison, S. H., Bat. F 135
Taylor, M. K., A Sig 135
Kunkel, F. L., A Sig 135
Russel, W. R., Bat. F 134
Mitchell, J. M., Bat. B 132
Paine, O. W., F Inf 130
Stubbs, S. M., Bat. F 130
Laughlin, E. B., Bat. B 130
Smith, H. C., Bat. F 125
Aggies Open Grid
Season Sept. 26
Opening their season against the
Southwestern University Pirates on
September 26, Matty Bell’s 1931 Grid
iron crew will face one of the tough
est assignments ever arranged for an
A. & M. footballl team. From the
initial game with Southwestern until
the curtain is rung down after the
Thanksgiving game there is not a set
up game carded.
One week following the warm-up
game, on October 3, the Aggies will
journey over to New Orleans to tan
gle with the strong Tulane Greenies,
co-champions of the Southern con
ference last season. The Tulane ag
gregation boasts one of the strongest
backfields in the south, with Don
Zimmerman, who won All-American
honors last season as a sophomore,
as the pivot man. With exception of
the experienced line, the Aggies will
face the same team which succeeded
in giving them a 19-9 drubbing in
Dallas last fall.
Following the Tulane game comes
the University of Iowa at the Dallas
fair. The lowans are a new addition
to the Aggie schedule and their pow
er is yet unknown. However, the
Centenary Gentlemen from Shreve
port took the measure of the Iowa
boys at Des Moines last October.
Next after the Iowa game The Ag
gies open their conference schedule
with the T. C. U. Horned Frogs, at
the Frog stadium in Fort Worth. The
entire Corps will accompany the team
on this trip and the Aggies will be
out to break the long jinx held over
Veltman Chosen to
Lead Tossers
Lester “Squawk” Veltman, all-con
ference outergardener at A & M for
the past two seasons, who hails from
San Antonio, has been elected to lead
the champion Aggie diamond crew in
the 1932 conference race.
The selection of Veltman as a cap
tain is most fitting since he has for
the past two seasons figured conspicu
ously in the success of Aggie baseball
teams. He has an enviable record for
the race just finished, in which his
swat average was 411 and his fielding
967. Eleven stolen sacks speak well
for his ability on the paths, and elev
en free passes show good judgement
at the plate.
Squawk is an aggressive and a fin
ished baseball player. What more
could be asked for a baseball cap
tain, nothing.
them by the Frogs. Since T. C. U.
entered the Southwest conference in
footballl, although A. & M. has won
several championships, the Frogs
have never been victims to the short
end of the score at the hands of the
Aggies. A tie game is the best re
cord A. & M. can offer since T C Us
entry into the conference.
The Baylor University Bears come
to College Station on October 31 to
resume football relations with the Ag
gies after being absent from the
schedule since 1925. This game should
prove one of the biggest attractions
of the season. Baylor will present a
formidable crew with an imposing ar
ray of backs, while the Aggies will
depend on a seasoned forward wall
and what appears at present to be
only a mediocre set of ball carriers.
For the year’s sports thus far the Ag
gies hold an edge over the Bears,
which will only give the Baylor boys
an incentive to work for and should
make the game more interesting.
In two encounters A. & M. has only
gained an even break with the Cen
tenary Gentlemen. Next year’s tilt,
being scheduled to be played in Shre
veport, is in favor of the Gentlemen,
but the presence of the A. & M. cadet
corps will greatly enhance the chances
of the Aggies. As yet it is not posi
tively known whether the entire corps
will make the trip, but it is likely
that a corps trip will be made to the
Louisiana city.
And two straight defeats by the
Ponies in the last two games mark
them as a dangerous foe when the
maroon and white engage them on
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Lewis To Illinois U.
Gabe W. Lewis, San Antonio, who
graduated in architectural engineering
in 1930, plans to do graduate work
leading to the degree of master of
science in architecture at the Univer
sity of Illinois next fal.
Since graduation Mr. Lewis has been
connected with the Central Texas Iron
Works at Waco. He is now architect
in charge of superintendents of the
new medical clinic under construction
in Bryan.
Track Varsity Team
Strengthened By Fish
Outstanding candidates for varsity
track positions on the freshman track
team this season are J. W. Herring,
Cuero; J. P. Hayes, Temple; G. H.
Kohler, Palestine; H. Fruentes, Sal
tillo; T. B. Hamilton, Hollywood, Cal.;
Jerome Wright, Paris; Tom Kennerly;
and B. M. Irwin, Kosse.
Herring displayed talent in the
hurdles, topping both the high and
low timbers in record time. Hayes
is also a hurdler and has been clocked
under sixteen seconds in the high hur
dles. Kohler ran with the varsity
men in the dashes and shows some
promise in that line. Fuentes is the
outstanding half miler of the squad.
Wright and Irwin have turned in
some excellent heaves with the javelin
and shot. Kennerly, who jumps con
sistently over twenty two feet is the
leading broad jumper while Hamilton
has a slight edge in the pole vault.
The squad was small this year and
was not outstanding as a club. How
ever, a number of likely varsity pros
pects will be among the above men
tioned when the call is issued for
track candidates next spring.
A Sig. Wins Intramural
Participation Banner
With a lead of more than fifty
points over their nearest rival, Com
pany A Signal Corps easily took first
place, and with it the intramural stan
dard, for participation in intramural
athletics for the 1930-31 session. The
winning organization each year is en
titled to keep the banner until the
close of the intramural season the
following year.
The past year, having been one of
high success in intramural ath
letics as shown by records of the va
rious sports, has seen one of the tight
est campaigns since the organization
of the intramural department for the
banner which Company A has won.
Last year Battery F Artillery was
an easy victor with a top heavy lead
at the close of the season.
The manager of the first five units
were awarded one of the intramural
medals for their efforts in piloting
their respective organizations to the
front. They are in the order that they
come: J. A. Shellberg Jr., Company
A Signal Corps; H. E. Cunningham,
Battery F Artillery; D. B. McNerny,
Battery E Artillery; R. L. Suggs,
Company B Signal Corps; and Tom
Patrick, Company B Engineers.
A resume of the season shows the
Artillery and Signal Corps as leaders
in participation in virtually every
sport on the calendar. This will also
be noted by the fact that in the first
nine units, both Signal units and the
entire Artillery regiment of six or
ganizations are listed.
The final standing of all organiza
tions is as follows:
A Sig 858
Bat. F 807
Bat. E 746
B Sig 724
B Eng 710
Bat. D 693
Bat. B 676
Bat. A ' 664
Bat. C 636
Bell Leads Aggies
In Two Baylor Games
Captain Beau Bell will lead his
champion Aggie diamond crew to bat
tle the last time Friday and Satur
day afternoons, when the Aggies meet
the Baylor Bears in two post season
games in Brenham, for the benefit
of those attending the annual Maifest
celebration.
The fact that A & M holds two
victories over the Bears this season
against no defeats will make them
heavy favorites to cop at least one
and probably both of the tilts in Bren
ham. However, in both conference af
fairs the outcome was uncertain un
til the last man had been put out,
and from this standpoint it is dan
gerous to pick either as a sure win
ner in the two tilts. In the game at
College Station is was necessary to
go ten innings to decide the victor,
while in Waco the game was close
throughout also with the score tied
for near the entire route until the
ninth frame when Mitchell was issued
a free pass and Squawk delivered
with a four-bagger to sew up the
game for the Aggies.
Axel Hawes, hero of the champion
ship game with Texas University and
who will also be playing his last for
the maroon and white, will likely
work in the opening game of the
series and Freddie Marshall Shaw,
who did a nice piece of mound work
against the Bears in each of the two
conference tilts, will twirl the sec
ond.
Since the Bears will be fighting to
avenge the two defeats administered
them by the Aggies in the conference
race, which removed them from the
title chase, and since A & M will be
out for two more wins and a perfect
season against Baylor, the games
should prove more than just mildly
interesting.
The practice of having two college
teams play at the Maifest celebration
is an entirely new idea. Heretofore
it has been the custom to have two
Texas league clubs transfer two of
their regular scheduled games to
Brenham for the affair, but due to
the fact that this is the first year
A & M and Baylor have met in an
athletic contest since the memorable
football game in 1925, the board in
charge of the celebration chose the
two teams instead of the profession
al teams, since the fans were desirous
of seeing the two college teams play
in preference to the Texas leaguers.
F Inf 634
C Eng 633
H Inf 606
D Inf 593
C Cav 571
A Inf 556
D Cav 528
C Inf ^ 472
B Inf 423
G Inf 368
B Cav 351
A Eng 345
Band 308
A Cav 288
E Inf 187
All great humorists have been old,
for age alone frees us from seriosity.
—Poultney Bigelow.
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