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THE BATTALION
FARMERS SET FOR CONFERNCE TRACK MEET
A^ies Expected To A ^ ies Take Thir( i
Take Third In Meet j n Triangle Meet
For Season’s Title At Steer Stadium
Sport Sidelights
By W. J. Faulk
Preliminaries In Main Events
Will Be Run Friday After
noon, Finals Saturday.
By W. J. FAULK
Sports Editor
Texas University, Rice Institute,
and A & M will be favored in the
order named as the Southwest Con
ference track and field meet opens
at Rice stadium Friday afternoon.
Preliminaries in sprints, - hurdles
and middle distances will be run
Friday and finals in all events are
scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
Without a single defeat to mar
their record this season the Long
horns easily rank as the outstand
ing contenders for the title this
season. Their real strength was
proven when they won first place
in a triangular meet with A & M
and Rice last week. They took the
Texas Christian and Southern
Methodist trackmen into camp with
apparently no resistance and beat
Rice decisively in a dual meet one
week previous to last.
Oliver Out
Texas Christian’s Horned Frogs,
at first considered to be contenders,
dropped from the likely winners
last week when Red Oliver pulled
a muscle in his right leg at the
Drake relays two weeks ago, and
thus lost, probably costing his team
at least 20 points and certainly
16 y 4 .
Oliver has consistently won first
Texas University Track Team
Still Undefeated Following
Saturday’s Meet.
Coach Clyde Littlefield’s Texas
University undefeated Longhorn
cinder-chasers ran up another vic
tory when they bowled over their
most formidable foes, the Rice
Owls and the Texas Aggies, in a
triangular track meet Friday af
ternoon in Austin. The Steers led
with 66V2 points to 60 2/3 for Rice
and 44 4/5 for the Aggies.
Four First Places
Although taking only four first
places the ability to gain seconds
and thirds enabled the Longhorns
to win. Rice took 7 first places and
tied for another. The Aggies failed
even more so in the second places
although they took four first places
and tied for one more.
“Honk” Irwin, Aggie weight
man, broke the conference record
in the shot-put when he heaved
the 16-pound sphere 50 feet and 1
inch. Percy Burke, who took second
in the shot-put, holds the existing
record of 48 feet 1/8 inch.
Mike Hale, Rice, also bettered
the conference broad-jump by 9
inches with a leap of 24 feet 7
inches.
Fuentes Defeats Archer
Two outstanding feats of the
meet were the upset of Archer,
As the year is very speedily be
ing brough to an end for athletics
at Aggieland we wish to reminisce
for just a trifle, and recall those
things which have been outstand
ing in the realm of sports since the
opening game on the gridiron in
September, 1928. While doing so
it seems very much in order to in
clude the gripes for the year, which
were few during the football sea
son, with the possible exception
of once or twice. Basketball saw
the start of a decline of interest,
and it is that one thing on which
we wish to spend a few precious
moments.
in the century and furlong dashes m ,
: Texas, m the mile by Fuentes of
this year and m the low hurdles. ’
His running the anchor position on
the relay team gave him Iti more
points and his team five more.
With Oliver in condition the Horn
ed Toads were virtually certain to
win at least 36 points.
Owls Drop To Second
A and M, and the defeat of Cap
tain Bill Hodges of Texas, in the
javelin by Baldry of Rice, who also
took first in the pole vault with
a jump of 12 feet 9 inches.
Holloway of Rice was high point
man with 11% points, taking first
in the 100 and 220 yard dashes and
The lack of attendance at base
ball games this season could hard
ly be said to be anything short of
terrible, from the very start. True,
the Aggies did not produce a cham
pionship aggregation for the sec
ond time this year. It is seldom
that any school, in fact never has
any one save Texas University won
more than a single baseball title
in a row. But, for some reason ap
proximately fifty per cent of the
Corps suddenly decided that since
there was no title in view there
was likewise no good reason to at
tend the games.
When such is the case then the
question naturally follows— “Is
that the Aggie Spirit?” It is in as
far as many of the present “Sunny
weather” Aggies are concerned.
Anyone can support a wininng
team. It’s easy to cheer when your
side gets all the breaks, but it takes
a real man to stand up for his
side when the odds are reversed,
which reminds us of a verse read
ing thus:
“It’s easy to smile and be cheer
ful
When life flows, by like a song,
But the man worth while, is the
man who will smile
When EVERYTHING goes dead
wrong.”
Reputed to be the best in the wag a member 0 f the winning 440
conference for the second straight y ar d relay team. “Honk” Irwin of
year, at the start, the Rice Owls
now rate second and possible third
with T C U entries, which are like
ly to cost the Birds no few points.
The team from Rice represents
probably the most evenly balanced
of any, being equally strong in
both track and field events. Baldry
leads the present crop of pole
vaulters, is an excellent broad-
jumper, and throws the javelin suf-
A and M, and Baldry of Rice tied
for second place honors with 10
points each. Irwin was first in the
shot-put and discus while Baldry
took the pole-vault and javelin
throw.
Summary of the meet:
440 yard dash—Earle, Texas,
first; Cox, Texas, second; Aiken,
A and M, third; Jamerson, Rice,
ficient distance to place. The Rice f ourt h. Time—50.3 seconds,
sprint relay team has yet to be 100 yard dash—Holloway, Rice,
beaten. 'first; Meyer, Texas, second; Dris-
Aggies Improved coll, Rice, third; Coffee, Rice,
A & M’s “miracle team,” so-call- fourth. Time—9.8 seconds,
ed because they were not consider- : Mile run—Fuentes, A & M, first;
ed good enough competition for a Archer, Texas, second; J. Storm,
stiff workout for any contender Texas, third; Pearson, Rice, fourth,
at the start of the season, is due Time—4 minutes 33.2 seconds,
to win no few points in the field 220 yard dash—Holloway, Rice,
events, several in the hurdles and first; Meyer, Texas, second; Dris-
sprints and possibly some in the coll, Rice, third; Kohler, A & M,
mile relay. j fourth. Time—21.2 seconds.
In the middle distances Fuentes 220 yard low hurdles—Morris, A
is the Aggies best bet, and is due & M, first; Ley, Rice, second; Staf-
to place. Ike Morris has placed in j ford, Texas, third; Bowen, Rice,
the hurdles throughout the year fourth. Time—24.3 seconds,
as has Billimek. Nothing short of 120 yard high hurdles—Ley, Rice,
a miracle will keep “Honk” Irwin | first; Bellinck, A & M, second;
from taking ten points and Joe , Holmes, Texas, third; McVeigh, A
Merka’s high jumping should place. | & M, fourth. Time—15.5 seconds.
The Aggies will have entries in 880 yard run—Schiller, Texas,
every event, more than one in most first; Adams, Texas, second; Mims,
of them. Competition in the pole A & M, third; Schultz, Rice, fourth,
vault may eliminate Jack Hester, Time—1 minute 58.5 seconds.
Aggie vaulter, but there remains
a possibility, should the bar not
exceed 12 feet 6 inches.
The Law at Vassar
There have been four lean years
at Aggieland, few championships
have been taken, but now only one
game remains on the home schedule
for the Aggie baseball team. It is
scheduled for Thursday afternoon
at 4 o’clock. So why not make it a
grand “finale” for sports at Aggie
land this year. Why not show those
who doubt that there still exists
an “Aggie Spirit’ by turning out
one hundred per cent for the clos
ing varsity competition in the
school year of 1931-32.
The “Road of Reminiscense,”
we’ll dub this week’s column, winds
through four seasons of sports at
Aggieland. A recollection of grid
iron battles brings memories of the
A & M-S M U game of 1928 as
the one which nearest resembles
that of a story book, which opened
with S M U favored to win by three
touchdowns and resulted in a 19-19
tie, S M U being fortunate not to
lose 20-19, due to a placed kick
being missed in the final minute of
play. Two A & M teams rated as
underdogs have sent a like num
ber of great Longhorn elevens
home defeated to keep the records
clean for Thanksgiving games on
Kyle field. The last was one of
the greatest two-man offensive
games ever staged in the South
west conference, Domingue lead
ing the Aggies and Koy bearing
the brunt of the Longhorn attack.
Tulane’s Green Wave was probably
responsible for the Aggies gaining
national recognition last season,
who although outplayed managed
to “Luck Home in front” by a 7-0
score.
been won by A & M teams in the
three seasons just past and a slight
possibility remains for another this
year. Claude Bracey and Cy Leland
hold the spotlight as the best
sprinters to compete in fast time.
Herman Harlan, the Aggie sprint
er who could not make the fresh
man track team, wins honors in
the high hurdles as he topped the
tall timbers in 14.6 seconds which
is only two tenths of one second
short of the world’s record in that
event. A & M men also take first
in the pole vault and javelin, set
ting those marks in the past four
years. Harry Stiteler, the diminu
tive pole vaulter from Smithville,
holds the conference title with a
leap of 13 feet three-quarters
inches. Graceton “Bull” Floyd, of
Rosewood, sent the javelin for a
ride of 204 feet in the conference
meet two years ago, and thus the
record stands.
And as we close this review of
track “Honk” Irwin continues to
“push ’em up” just a little farther
each time, putting the shot 50 feet
1 inch last week in the triangular
meet in Austin.
A baseball championship, the
first since the organization of the
Southwest conference, was brought
to Aggieland by a hustling team
last season behind the stellar pitch
ing of Marshall Shaw and Ab
Hawes, who subdued the Longhorns
and sent the last man to the bench
by way of the strikeout route with
his teasing slow curve. Among
those who played a prominent part
in taming the Steers was Captain
Beau Bell, whose timely home run
spelled the downfall of the Disch-
men. The present Captain Veltman
also did his part to cause the ulti
mate ruin of Mr. De La Fuentes’
balle club. Bell was chosen on the
first team of the first all-American
Collegiate baseball team ever se
lected, Veltman being given honor
able mention.
THURSDAY — ]
The closing game on Kyle
field will be free to women
and children, D. W. Carlton
announced Wednesday morn
ing. With the Aggies and the
Mustangs at the bottom of
the conference, the game
should be interesting, and
well matched.
The game will start very
promptly at 4:00 p. m.
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WAR IN CHINA
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440 yard relay—Rice, (Jamerson,
Coffee, Driscoll, and Holloway),
first; Texas, second. Time—42.9
seconds.
Two mile run—Blakeney, Texas,
first; Marquez, A & M, second;
Smith, A & M, third; D. Storm,
Texas, fourth. Time—10 minutes
18.1 seconds.
Mile relay—Texas (Cox, Schil- Two of the leading defensive
ler, Blitch, and Earle) first; Rice, teams in the loop have represented
second. Time—3 minutes 21.2 sec- j the Aggies on the Hardwoods this
onds. past season and the one just pre-1
Shot-put—Irwin, A & M, first; ceding. “Shiro” Hoke receives the
Burke, Rice, second; Cook, Texas, vote as the best all-round cage
third; Alexander, Texas, fourth, player, and probably in the confer-
Distance—50 feet 1 inch. ence in the past four years. And
Pole vault—Baldry, Rice, first; ' the team this season should easily
, Hyneman and Sewell, Texas, tie win the all-time “hard-luck”
j for second; Hester, A & M, fourth, j trophy, since they lost so few
! Height—12 feet 9 inches. games by one and two points. The
High jump — Aucoin and Hitt, best exhibition of defensive play
i Rice and Merka, A & M, tie for was given in the Memorial Gymna-
! first; Elkins and Thompson, Tex- sium against Rice, when the feath-
; as, tie for fourth. Height—6 feet, ered tribe sunk exactly one field
Broad jump—Hale, Rice, first; goal and counted for a total of only
I Elkins, Texas, second; Stafford, six points during the entire game.
Texas, third; Kennedy, A & M, “Ad” Dietzel, the T C U scoring
Miss Marion Thorp Little, a jun- fourth. Distance—24 feet 7 inches, machine wins honors for point get-
ior in Vassar college, is the su- Discus—Irwin, A & M, first; ting of all-time in the conference,
preme judicial authority among the Alexander, Texas, second; Me- but we remember that in a game
students, with power to impose Uluney, A & M, third; Seals, Texas, with the Frogs here Joe Merka,
penalties ranging from fines to ' fourth. Distance—138 feet 2 inches. Aggie pivot-man, outjumped the
expulsion- She is the newly elected! Javelin—Baldry, Rice, first; !“Too Tall” man 70% of the time
chief justice of the College Su-j Hodges, Texas, second; Lord, A & until he left the game on fouls,
preme court. Miss Little is from M, third; Lauterbach, Rice, fourth.
Newburyport, Mass. I Distance—194 feet.
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Home Runs And Errors Give
Steers Two Easy Victories
Last Week.
Numerous circuit clouts and poor
fielding were the deciding factors
when Uncle Billy Disch’s league
leading Longhorns defeated “Little
Hig” Higginbotham’s downtrodden
varsity baseball nine on Kyle field
Friday afternoon 11-4, and again
Saturday by a 9-5 score.
Although the Aggies outhit the
Steers Friday afternoon their ef
forts went for naught. Too many
errors on the part of the losers
and the well known coaching of
Uncle Billy gave the Dischmen a
decided advantage.
Davis Scores
“Sweetie” Davis, Fort Worth,
Aggie bid for all-conference sec
ond base honors, made the first
run of the game on his first trip
to the bat by knocking the ball
over the left center field fence.
Errors on the part of Moon, Ag
gie sophomore pitcher, filled the
bases for the Longhorns in the
third frame, but they were well
cleaned when Koy, Texas center
fielder, lifted the ball over the left
field fence. Texas scored one run
each in the sixth and seventh, and
five more in the ninth when the
Aggies were not able to success
fully cope with the play in which
the three men on bases started
walking all at the same time.
Four Home Runs
Four home runs, three of them
with men on bases, and counting
for all but one of the team’s runs,
gave the Longhorns their second
victory of the series Saturday af
ternoon. Captain Raymond Ater of
Texas rounded out two of the hom
ers while Howie and Koy got only
one each. These four circuit hits
defeated the Aggies in spite of the
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