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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1934)
p > s. / i I ' t ■Hi I’ll 1 Ht: THE BATTALION I / f Victory Puts Fighting Aggies ‘ * ^*1 . 1 (l. S{ T T1 Back In Race For Southwest Conference Harriers Elect R. E. Taylor To ' Captain ’34 Team "‘T" * [ If 1 ® 4' I ? r ■ .r Aggies BY C/U ROBERTS Battalias Sports IMitor DEFEIT WEST Merku treads Farmers To V'ictory (her University in Ijast Half of Game. By taking the Texan Longhorns into forral Thursday, by a 34-19 • Gray, the Wills Point goal shoot- tag sensation of the Longhorns was high point ma* of the game with a total of 19. although Mar- Captain-Elect was Outstand iag Man on 1933 Champion ship Crosscountry Team. R. E. “Bob” Taylor, CHAMPION STUFF! That’s what cidcibniny St. Clair, although Coach Reid's Aggie quintet show- seemingly calm and quite, was ed in Austin Thursday night by wringing his hands. As the Mus- eoming from behind in the middle tafcgs, led by Zachary, started their of the last half to win from the thrilling last minute effort to ' Hawley, Longhorns. To further show tail h the leading Aggies, Coach Freshmen Hold Lead END BAPTIST r 1 the score. Starring for the freshmen were Paul Evans, Fort Worth, high ■ 1 point man with' 8 points; P**e Dowling, Houston; A Helbing. San * Angelo; and the five foot seven j inch giant. J. A. Crichton, Shre veport. Crichton, who tips the scal es at just over 120 pound*, wa- probably the smoothest player, and despite his site gave thv big ger boys plenty of competition. Qygg j Other games scheduled for the Ji. HlEntl Team Entire, ^^^men include the follnwing; ka was high point iaan of the Ag- elects Captain of the 1934 “where the Aggies are headed this Sw Clair jumped up and asked the ^ gies, the points were well diatri- Aggie Cross-Country team in a year” this was the first time since timekeeper how much mone time Length ®f Game to Win by , f * nu * r J Thrall high school. buted among the entire team, mw tj n g i,,* wrtk of the 1933 1923 that the Cadets have won a there was. When he found there i ) Score of 32 to 23. at least two points. Texas Gray, Thompson, f Francis, c j». Totals 13 3 5 29 score, The Fighting Farmers of Aggieland came into the limelight of the conference basketball race, tying with T C U for second place in the conference standing. Out of three conference starts, the Aggies have won two and lost one game. The first game of the season was lost to the Rice Owls at Houston in a nip-and-tuck game, the Owls happening to have the larger side of a 31-28 score at She time that the final gun shot to end the game. The six foot and one- half inch giant from Owl-land, f “Tree top” Kelley, led Coach Jim- Shepherd, f my Kitt’s quintet to victory by be- ^* er * 1 *’ c 7 —T ing the spark-plug of his team and "Hhins, g —..p by making a total of 16 points to P* v ‘ s - K take high point man honors. I ^ armichael. g In the second game of tha sea- ^ utto » * *-• son played here, the Aggies trounc ed the S M U Mustangs 40-34. Af ter taking the lead at the latter part of the first half, the Aggies never relinquished it and at only ane time daring the remainder of k the game let the Ponies come near to taking the big side of the scor ing. Zachary of the Mustangs was high point man in this game with 14 markers to his credit. In the game Thursday, although the Longhorns led for nearly the entire length of the game, the Aggies came out at the time that was necessary and neatly took the game out of the University’s hands by a 34-29 score to win the first game frofn Coach Ed Olles' quintet in two years and the first game played on the University's, floor m eleven years—the last j time the Aggies won in Austin wws In 1923. every member that entered making i ettermen . Taylor, a graduate of basketball game from Texas on were only a few seconds to play John Tarleton Agricultural Cal- the University floor, lege, came to A and M last fall hejagmin took his seat with a long frown on his face. Coach Roswell Higgenbotham’s Texas Aggie Freshman (agers undar the new Southwest Confer- FROM “BOOMER COUNTY" com- 0n the other hand. Coach Reid opened their basketball schedule TP enee Junior college rule which ai- es Taylor Wilkins, stellar Aggie jumped only a few seconds Saturday night by defeating the ^ lows a junior college graduate to guard who claims to know and latpr and asked how much longer West End Baptist quintet from become eligible immediately for brags about knowing everybody ihqre was to play—and when he Houston 32-23. The "Little Aggies” that ever lived there. On each baa- fotind out, sat down with a grin took the lead at the opening of the <lates have been made yet. ketball trip, Wilkins sees somebody that woald do justice to any three game and held it the entire length The Freshman players who re- College Station; February 3, Thrall high school. Thrall; Feb ruary 9-10, Waco high school. Col lege; February IJ, Trinity Epis copal, Houston, ai College. Coach Higginbotham plans to schedule a number of other games besides these although no definite two years of conference competi tion. Taylor was one of the outstand ing men on the Aggie Cross-Coun try team that tied for the confer ence championship with Texas University this year. He won a first and a second place in dual meets and came out sixth in the conference race at Houston. His first place was against Rice, and second place sras in the dual meet against Texas. 9 34 Totals Officials; Sears (Kentucky Mines) referee, and Morse, um pire. —J 1 JACK MEAGHER TO COACH AT AUBURN from “Booger County”, more cons- people combined, monly known ‘(to Itobartdtb County, and always stops pi*— ie-Bear Game Arrangements have been made to begin the Aggie- Bear game Saturday night at 8 p. ns. instead of 7:30. This will permit students to attend the first show in the Assembly Hall without miss ing any of the game. The Saturday night show will be gin immediately after sup per. Jack Meagher, retiring head football coach of Rice Institute, wus elected to head coach at the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute at Au burn. Alabama, and has signed a and his Texas three year contract with that insti tution. Meagher’s.appointment was announced Friday afternoon by Dr. L. R. Duncan, member of the college's administrative committee. Coach Meagher will take charge of athletics at the Auburn School February' 1 of this year and con tinue for two more yearn. The coaching job was left open by the resignation of Chet Wynne, who recommended Coach Meagher high ly for the job. few T}(E LARGEST SCORE for an in- seconds to say hello. On the trip trakiyunl football game was made to Huntsville when the team play- by'jthe Cavalry when they trounc ed Sam Houston, he knew the cap- ed j the Coast Artillery eleven by tain of the Bearkat team and also 9 Score of 26-0 Sunday, January the scorekeepar. When the team 14., The entire Cavalry team was uas enroute to Austin, someofte “hdt” m this game with Bumpaa, asked Wilkins if he woqld likely Kainsey, and Young leading the see someone at Texas from “Boog- attack. Heretofore, tha games have er County”, h# answered “sura, b«®a won by more than one but it will likely be a girl because touchdown and tha majority have the girls from ‘Booger County’ go bean so close that the outcome had to Austin whila the boys all go to to be decided by penetrations of Huntsville”. Wilkins didn't explain the'2U yard sone. why the boys all went to Hunts-' I villa. ' t j 1 COACH JACK C H E VIG N Y, - ' coa^h-elect of Texas University CONGRATULATIONS GO TO will! be the youngest coach in the Coach and ('attain R. E. Porter Southwest Confetence next year. Aggie Tumbling NorUuV'whc was the youngest uu team for the excellent performance <*1 ihe*%n> was elected to take durirqr the half of the SMU-A and LittiefiehTs place, is next in age. M basketball game. The tumbling l hepigny is 28, Norton 36. team has many new stunts this of the contest, the score at the half main on the squad which was cut being 14-10, At the middle of the from 80 candidates are as follows; second half the West Enders put Centers: Pete Dowling, Houstonj; on a comeback to bring the score J. H. Gayden, Groesbeck; ’L. AA to within three points of a tie but — otherwise did not threaten to tie (Continued on Page 4) First Display of All That Is New For Spring In Uollege Men’s ( lathes See the Complete Line-up Here Now ROSS TAILORS By l^Salle Hotel 7\ Vi- Brvan year and, according to Porter, in- SH0OT1MG FIRE CRACKERS at tend to give some new features at the basketball games is very un- each of the remaining home games, sportsmanship-like and SHOULD — BE JSTOPPED. 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