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Sport Sidelights
By W. J. Faulk
SPOTLIGHTS
Saturday night will write finis
to a basketball season which rivals
the best in conference history and
boasts of one of the greatest ar
rays of versatile stars of the hard
woods ever assembled in the loop.
While there is an abundance of ma
terial for every berth on the mythi
cal five, there is a preponderance
of brilliant pivot-men.
So many in fact that it would
be an unjustice to leave any of the
three, Dietzel, Strickland, or Sexton
off the first five. Since there can
be only one center on a team, then
it is necessary to shift the other
two to some other position, pre
ferably forward because both are
great scoring machines.
Joe Merka’s rapid improve
ment over early season form
makes him easily the choice
for the center post on the sec
ond team, and had he played
the entire season as he has
the past four games, it is not
highly improbable that he
would not be the possessor ot
a berth on the first all-confer
ence quintet.
The final gun, or the whistle if
Captain Lyons gun fails, will con
clude along with a basketball
game and season, another of Ag-
gieland’s fighting Captain’s ca
reers, which matches well his pre
decessors in brilliancy. And the ca
reer of none other than Captain
Charlie Beard’s who by his undying
fight and determination has won
lasting admiration from all who
have seen him play in his three
years on the Varsity. Despite his
size he has kept pace with the best
the conference had to offer thro
ughout the season and has upheld
in every sense the title of a “fight
ing Captain of the fighting Texas
Aggies.”
Lester “Squawk” Veltman will
accompany Charlie Beard in
making his final appearance
as a member of the Aggie cage
team. However, he will not
“wind-up” his athletic career
but will assume his duties as
leader of the “Horsehide” nine.
Eyes of the Southwest will be
turned toward the diamond at Kyle
field as the champion Aggies pre
pare to open their 1932 schedule
early in April. The Aggie team of
1932 is due to be the source of vast
amounts of conversation and won
derment; and the target for each
of the five other conference schools
as they swing into action headed
toward a second successive pennant
in as many years.
The question arises—with a
wealth of sophomore material cou
pled with several veterans, includ
ing Marshall Shaw who pitched the
boys dizzy in the conference last
season. Will the Aggies repeat?
The schedule calls for 16 gam
es, or the maximum number that
could be scheduled, while TCU and
S M U scheduled only ten games
each. Uncle Billy Disch and his
Longhorns, diamond kings of the
conference for very nearly a score
of years with a single interruption,
will again be the chief competitors
and the schedule favors the Steers
with the last two games to be
played in their “Corral.”
While Varsity Spring train
ing has just gotten underway
in good style, the Intramural
football season closed officially
when the Cavalrymen battled
the First Battalion Infantry
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to a scoreless deadlock, to win
their second title in five years
by a margin of one half game.
A few men were outstanding
in the season just passed but
weather conditions so handi
capped the schedules as a
whole that very few were able
to demonstrate their prowess
in the games played.
Those rampaging riflemen con
tinue to set the pace among the
nations leading small bore indoor
teams as they have just completed
another week’s firing in which they
have bettered all previous records.
Crass capped the situation by-
setting an all-time mark of 3eB
out of a possible 400 for A and M
riflemen. Although records have
not been returned from the foui’th
week’s “shoot,” reports from Lieu
tenant Nachman are that the team
has beaten the score set in the
week previous. North Dakota, who
is tied with A and M with two legs
on the National Intercollegiate Cup
seems to be definitely out of the
running as they fell to the lowest
of the ten teams last week with a
bare 3519 points.
Optimism seems prevalent in
the camp of the Longhorn
“waterboys” over in Austin as
they announce their intentions
of taking first place in the
first Southwest conference
swimming meet this spring.
Word comes that the Orange
and White can boast of several
possible Omympic prospects.
Well, there is always a possi
bility, but remember the Ag
gie swim team has lost only
two matches since it’s organi
zation, and the team appears
to be fairly strong in nearly
every event this year.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday —
Palace — “Dancers in the Dark.”
Boxing-Wrestling Student Government
Starting Next In Talked Of As Press
Intramural Events Club Plans Program
Intramural boxing and wrestling
will get underway early next week,
ors as soon as tournament sche
dules can be completed after parti
cipants have finished weighing in
on the afternoon of Thusrday and
Friday this week.
A plan which differs slightly
from that of former years is to be
inaugurated in the scheduling of
the matches this season in that the
boxing and wrestling bouts will be
staged on alternate instead of the
same afternoons. This plan will
provide plenty of time for full at
tention to be given each sport.
Seven classes will be offered in
each sport. They are: 115, 125, 135,
145, 160, 170 pounds and the heavy
weight. Contestants will be allow
ed to enter classes in which they
are within four pounds of the
weight either way. Individual med
als wil be given to winners of their
respective classes.
A possible plan for student gov
ernment in which officers of the
student body would be elected to
replace the student welfare com
mittee but whose authority would
not interfere with that of the class
officers under the present system
was discussed at a meeting of the
press club held Thursday, Febru
ary 11, in the Asbury Room of the
library.
A committee was appointed to
invited John Lomax, famous lectur
er and authority on national folk
songs, to visit the college and lec
ture to the studevres on cowboy
songs. Lomax was formerly asso
ciated with the Department of Eng
lish here.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday —
Palace — “Dancers in the Dark.”
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Frogs Play First Game
As Sport World Speculates
Conference history will be made
when the Aggies open their 1932
baseball season as defending cham
pions of the Southwest conference
for the first time, facing a sche
dule of sixteen games on the road
to a second triumph.
Furnishing the brunt of the op
position will be the dethroned
Longhorns, Rice Institute’s Feath
ered tribe, and Baylor’s wearers
of the Green and Gold. Four games
with each of the aforementioned
are listed on the trail which the
Aggie machine must travel and
master in their title march, while
two games each will be played with
Southern Methodist and Texas
Christian Universities.
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