THE BATTALION
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V. D. Want Elected
Capt. Tumble Team
V. D. Want, San Antonio product,
was elected captain of the 1932 tum
bling - team at a meeting' of lettermen
for the past season last week. L.
Manzanera, who also boasts of San
Antonio heritage, was selected to fill
the position of secretary and treas
urer of the club for the coming year.
Want succeeds W. D. Bill Staples,
who also happens to be from San
Antonio, in the leadership position.
Staples, along with F. G. Sleeper, the
pride of Alexandria, Louisiana; M.
Sledge of Godley; and A. A. E. Stan
ches from Yorktown; will be taken
from the team’s ranks by graduation.
The team last season enjoyed one
of the most successful in the past
three years, despite an apparent lack
of material at the start. Besides per
forming at basketball games and
other campus functions, several road
trips were made, the principal one to
north Texas on which the team per
formed in Dallas, Fort Worth and a
number of smaller towns.
Interest Continues To
Grow In Intramurals
Ag-g-ies Open Grid—
(Continued from page 6)
Although the school enrollment for
the year just closing is some 500 short
of that for the 1929-30 session, parti
cipation records of the current year
show a total of 1374 participants in
intramural sports against 1444 for
1929-30. The department, headed by
W. L. Penberthy, since its organiza
tion five years ago has developed into
the largest department of its kind in
the south.
So rapid has been the growth of the
department that at the start of the
present year it was necessary for Mr.
Penberthy to increase the staff of
student managers to two seniors, four
juniors and an unlimited number of
sophomores.
Heading the list in the number tak
ing part in intramurals is playground
baseball, with a total of 633 contest
ants in the two classes, A and B. With
eight daily scheduled games from the
first of April to the middle of May,
playground baseball was an easy win
ner for participation honors.
But following playground ball, with
no few contestants, comes one of the
fastest of all sports on the intramur
al calendar, speedball. Speedball,
which is a combination of soccer and
basketball, is credited with an impres
sive 444 as a total number of con
testants. And the outstanding feature
of this sport is that only four leagues,
all class A, were formed in this sport.
Basketball and volleyball followed
in order behind speedball with 440 and
326 respectively. Other sports on the
program are cross-country, rifle
shooting, handball, tennis, football,
horseshoe pitching, track, swimming,
boxing, wrestling and golf. These
sports drew from 35 to 250 partici
pants in the past year.
In the entire year Company C En
gineers is the only unit to gain pos
session of more than one title, hav
ing won first in the golf doubles
tournament, the track meet and the
tennis race. J. E. Robertson, a mem
ber of the aforementioned company,
also won the singles tennis title.
Without giving any reasons for his
action, Thomas A. Edison has an
nounced he will discontinue his an
nual brightest boy tests by which he
has for the past two years selected a
youth to send through college.
schedule. In this game the Bellmen
will need show their ability to snare
the pigskin in midair, if the Mustangs
are to be sent home an the short end
of the score, since the S M U teams
are noted for their aerial attacks,
which have proven very effective
heretofore.
Coach Meagher’s Rice Owls bid
fair to give plenty of trouble to any
tresspassers for the next two seasons,
as shown by them last fall when a
fighting sophomore team defeated
both A. & M. and Texas University.
The Aggies will tear into the Owl
hangout in Houston in an attempt to
avenge the 6-0 defeat by the Owls
last November.
The final game and the climax of
the season will find Matty Bell’s boys
tackling the powerful Texas Long
horn crew here Thanksgiving day.
The team which will represent the
Longhorns in the coming race is the
same throughout, with the exception
of Dexter Shelly, which slaughtered
the Aggies in Austin last year, and
it is needless to say that the Thanks
giving affair will climax a great sea
son.
The complete schedule for the 1931
season is as follows:
Saturday, Sept. 26—Southwestern
University at College Station.
Saturday, Oct. 3—Tulane University
at New Orleans.
Saturday, Oct. 10—University of
Iowa at Dallas.
Saturday, Oct. 17—Texas Christian
University at Fort Worth.
Saturday, Oct 24—Baylor Univer
sity at College Station.
Saturday, Oct. 31—Centenary Col
lege at Shreveport.
Saturday, Nov. 7—Southern Metho
dist University at College Station.
Saturday, Nov. 14—Rice Institute
at Houston.
Thursday, Nov. 26—University of
Texas at College Station.
McCord Wins Golf
Intramural Crown
Jack McCord, a member of Battery
D Artillery from Port Arthur won
the intramural golf singles crown
Friday afternoon by defeating his
team-mate George Fix, Dallas, in the
final round 8-7.
McCord and Fix composed the dou
bles team from Battery D which went
to the finals in that race only to be
nosed out by Zachary and Beard
Company C Engineers entry.
McCord won the singles title over
a field of seven contestants, picked
from the four teams in the semi-final
round of the doubles tournament.
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Company G, Battery C,
Baseball Champions
Company G Infantry was forced to
go 11 innings to defeat Battery D
Artillery in the final game of class
A playground baseball, 9-3, Wednes
day afternoon. aBttery C easily took
the measure of aBttery B 9-3 to win
the class B championship for the sec
ond consecutive time.
The score of the class A affair
fails to show the closeness of the
game which took 11 innings to de
cide. With two out and none on in
the eleventh inning Company G start
ed a rally when the third man up I
singled to right field, stole second, !
then showed signs of weakening and j
third and home. The Artillerymen
five more runs were pushed across
to ice the game. The battle was one
of the longest on the intramural rec
ords and easily one of the hardest
fought, with both teams about evenly
matched.
The class B tilt was finished in the
regular seven innings, although the
winning team failed to score until
the start of the sixth, when a num
ber of errors by the B Battery boys
after playing five innings of airtight i
ball coupled with several base-blows
accounted for all nine of Battery C’s
ROGERS DECLINES L.L.D.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—Refus
ing an honorary degree of doctor of
humanity and letters. Will Rogers,
noted humorist, last week said:
“The whole honorary degree thing
is hooey. I saw some college give Mel
lon one, and he is a billion dollars
short. I got too much respect for peo
ple who work and earn ’em to see
’em handed around to every notori
ous character.”
Rogers was replying to a sugges
tion that Oklahoma University might
honor him with a degree.
Health is a man’s normal condition;
he must do something foolish to lose
it.—James J. Corbett.
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week rode through the streets of
Jammu City, India, without a veil.
The academic grade of D has been
dropped by Columbia University.
D at Columbia has been just above
a failing grade.
So Long, Gang—
We Hope You Have A
Good Ole Vacation
See You In September
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