v /- r! ’~'vzy ^' THE BATTALION -» Aggie Quintet Meets Rice Owls Here Tonight ‘Outcome of Game Will Depend on Aggies Ability to Guard Kelley 411 Watching the Aggies : BY CARROLL ROBERTS Battalioa Sport a Editor , WELCOME COACHES t ! Thf near coaches have arrived at Ajr irWland to make it their home for the next month. Th^jr are jubi lent over the Aerie prospects for next jreer and are anxiooe to start the sprtnr train!nr. for A and M athletics appears to be very brijrht indeed. JOS MERKA. or better known M “Wimpy" amonr his basketball associates, was devastation itself •vtUi the Baylor Bears m Waco Saturday nirht. After making a total qf 20 tallies in that rente he *-as described by Jinx Tucker. ■WA LEADS CAGE TEAM TO VICTORT OVER BAILOR U Conference Leading Scorer SUr Ajnpr Captain Xccomiis for Twenty of Tour's It, »ointa. CAL HUBBARD waa astonish ed at the sixe of A and M. When j gports scribe extraordinary of the aaked what impressed him moat Wra) News-Tribune, as being able at ftrat rlances at the Collars, he I „ stand on the bridre leadinr to ‘Well, I watched the boys (he girls dormitory and chunk the march in to supper. It looked like | .^u dear to the rym ai d into thousands and thousands of boys tj,,, basket. Tay.or Wilkins, soph marching. I juat can’t forget that J () more r u h n i w ho always has a airht But the part about it that I brirht crark handy for all oocas- tickled me waa the way the 'boys lo ns, then brought back a story did when they got within about 0 f just what Merka waa doing on twenty feet of the mesa hall steps, the bridge leading to tie girl's Without an exception, they all j dormitory. broke and ran for it." • & ■ 1 1 A MERE 275 POUNDS!! And bdbbling over with personality and gbod humor—that is Hubbard, the all-time, All-American tackle who will coach the thin Red Wall oi Aggieland during spring training and next year. When Jeremia (Peck) Merka, Aggie guard and Jack Roach, center, first aaw him they looked at each other and ex claimed, “Whew, he's a giant. I’m glad we're on his aide!” Something of the good humor and spirit of this massive player and magnetic leader can be got ten from a story told by Lon Evans, great TCU guard who play ed next to Hubbard on the Green back Packers professional team Evans said that Hubbard waa al ways ready for fun and that one time they were playing against a team that Ox Emerson, great player from Texas University was on. When Hubbard learned that Emerson, who was playing oppo site him waa from Texas, he turn ed to Evans and said, “He's from Texas, let's give 'Im the works”.— and they did. HERE'S A STORY from Hunts ville that was overheard recently. A high school football coach oi that city was talking to a friend and said that be had a player who he thought had inherent ability enough to be an All-American foot bar player. “I hope that he gets under Norton because I know of rx other coach who he would stand a better chance of shining under— aad I have always wanted to have coached a man who made an All- American team.” With such an at- titede as this toward the Texas Aggie coaching staff, the future ONLY ONE MORE WIN and the Texas Aggie basketball team will finished higher ia the conference than they have since 1023 when they last won the championship, if the cadets win both of their re maining games, they will only be two games behind the conference champions, TCU. Of course “irs” don’t coqnt but juat how close the Aggies came to the pennant this year can be realised by this one. If the Aggies had split the aeries with TCU, they would now be tied for the ehampienship. Coach John Reid has done n won derful jo6 of the Aggie team this year. At the first of the so After making a whirlwind start ia the first half, and then allow- ing Baylor to take the lead in the second. Coach John Reid’s Texas Aggie Cagera led by Captain Joe Merka stagad a last minute rally to take the basketball game Sat urday night from the fighting Bay- : lor Bruins by a margin of 34-32. During the first half, Merka hit his stride and almost by himself, as far as scoring was concerned, ran over the Bear team. The score at the end of the first half was A and M 20, Baylor ll. At the be ginning of the second half, how ever, the Baylor lads began to stay with Merka and held him to no field goals until there was only three minutes left to play. Dur ing this time. Parks and- Clark, star Bear forwards began to sink field goals and the score at the ' three minutes to play period was Baylor 32, A and M 29 With his team on the small side of the score, Merka darided that his first half starring should not be in vmin and started an Aggie rally by sinking a long field goal. Wilkins. Aggie guard who always wraits aatil late in the game to score, then added to this by mak ing one of his famous long shots that was good. This gave the Ag Jack ing record. Buoyed up by the hope of finishing second in finsl Southwest Conference cage percentage, Coach John Reid’s youthful Texas Aggies will entertain the Rice Institute Owls here tonight on the Memorial Gymnasium court st 8 o’clock. If the Aggies win, they wili clinch at least a tie for eventual second plaeBTa ranking they have not reached in many years. Their best showing of recent years was third place In 1933. Facing the Aggies again will bfW~ Coach little hope was given to the Aggie team and, Httle was expected of them. Then Reid began to work with his tiro lettermen. Merka and Breageale,. and his crop of sopho more* and before long the confer ence had Its eyes open and were game because of fouling, watching the Aggiea. The cadet- MerkM high ^ ^ ^ , had a faat neat' working clear M of ^ and p, rlt!( w „ thinking cage team that put plenty jj. of fire into the conference race. versity quintet moota the Aggiea ia Memorial Gymnasium Saturday giem a one point lead and Shep- night Gray is a'junior and haila from Wills Pplat herd then made good a free throw to get the other point The game was rough al the way through with both teams fighting hard. There were 39 fouls made and three Baylor stars were taken TRACK TEAM WINS iAGGIESWIMIIRC SECOND PUCE IN TEAI MEETS SMU BORDER OLVIPICS SATDRDAT NIGHT BELL TO T C negotiations are being tween Francis Schmidt, head coach of T C U, and the Ohio State Uni versity concerning the head coach ing job at Ohio State, one cannot lelp wondering who wrould succeed Jchmidt. He intends to take his ib.e assi* qnt, ‘ Bear” Wolf, with him in case he leaves. When Matty Bell left T C U in • 1929 he was very popular there. It will be remembered that Bell Irwin Wins Only First Place for A and M in Discua Throw; Skripka Takes Sec ond. Contest Will be Held Follow ing A and M-Texas Basket ball GaWe. Texas A and Ms track J U.r u?? now that Wrestling Opens As emg made be jy| a j or intramural Sport March 5th. New iaterest will be taken in intramural sports starting next Monday. March 6, which is tne la e set for the beginring;of com petition ia intramural wrestling. Wrestling has always been one of he most popular of intramural sports a-d. because of the large ea ly started the Frogs ort theiy I number of contestants working out uad to fojtbaH recognition. In already, it is expected that more "T *"**'. "T” *"u*" „ ~ u -in k.. -w I— it ’hampionahip m this meet with and twenty-five cents to faculty team re- urned fVbm Laredo' last Friday bringing with them the second place that they captured the day before in the Border O'ympic Track Meet held on Washington’s Birth day. The cadets' took one first, four seconds, and two third p'aces to finish next to j roach Clyde Littlefield’s Texas University Longhorns who retained their team, under the tain Lemwrd N by their captain. Antonio. wRl off 1934 season Satur The Texas Aggie swimmi team, under the tutelage ai Cap- Jfadunan and led Tommy Uhr, San officially open their 1934 season'Saturday night, March S, when the 8 M U Mustangs come here for *.#t9l meet. The contest will start Immediately after the A and M-Texas basketball game An admission charge of fifteen -em* will tit made to all cadets (Tree top) Kelly, 6 feet inch es Rice center who gave them so much trouble at Houston early in the season when the Owls trim med the Cadets by a 39 to 11 count. In that game Kelly not only gave his team the tipoff consis tentiy but also tallied fifteen point* for individual scoring honors. The task of stopping him and also get ting some of the tipoffs will fall to Aggie Captain Joe Merka, of Bryan, who now ranks among the lending individual scorers in the conference. Besides having their principal scoring threats at the pivot po sition. the Aggies and Owls are closely similar ih at least two oth- respects. They rate almost Squally in respect to offensive and defensive ability, judging frem their own and opponents' scoring tabulations. And each can offer a sterling sophomore guard, the Ag gieS listing Taylor Wilkins, of Franklin, and the Owls having R. T. Eaton. Just as Wilkins' goal tossing from his guard poet has pulled the Aggies out of several tight spots, so has the work ef Eaton made the way easier for the Owla The Owls will come here after having had twe hard games over the week-end. one with the SMI Mustangs and the other with the Chaotpion Texas Christian Homed Frogs. The Aggies have seen no action since Saturday night, when, after receiving the scare of their season, they came from behind ia the fine! three minutes to defeat the Bayler Bears 34 to 32. Wednesday night’s game well ajpftk be billed as a “Battle of Sophomore*" for at least eight oi the starters, three for Rice and four for the Aggies, probably will be first-year varsity men. The Owls probably wiU start Captain Harry Journeag, a junior, aad Harry Witt, sophomore, at for ward; Kelly, a sophomore, at cen ter; and Eaton, a sophomore, and Tom Brum met, senior, at guard The Aggies' tentative lineup in cludes Captain Merka, a senior at center; Max Tohline and Johnny Davis, sophomores, at forward; and Wilkins and Monte Carmich ael, sophomores, at guard. TCU Wins Southwest Conference Basket Ball Championship yiV !■ . i When SMU beat Rice Saturday, the TCU Horned Frogs stepped into Southwest conference basket ball championship. The Frogs in creased their margin of leadership by then coming out and defeating Rice Monday hi their last game of the season by a score of 42-36. This makes the second time in the last four years that the Frogs ’ have taken the basketball cham pionship under the leadership of Coach Francis Schmidt. The race between second, third, and fourth places ia still open with A and M leading the field over Rice and Arkansas as the favorites for this second position. Of the games to be played yet, the Aggiea would have to lose both games and Rice or Arkansas would have to win both their remaining games in or der to oust the Aggies from the aeebnd position. T • — 927, everyone said that A and M .ad a team that couldn't be stop ped—and it wasn’t until it flame I WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND" interest will be shown in it this year than ever before. A new system in scoring for par ticipation points will be inaugu- rated this year in wrestling. In stead of each organisation receiv ing a fixed number of paints for j eac!i man eatered. the scoring will be more on the order of a track meet and the best showings made by the different organisations will; be awarded rather than the mere entrance in the sport. Under this new rule it will be possible for a company to make as many as sev enty points in wrestling alone. This new rule is applicable to boxing also, which sport will be taken up as sodh as the wrestling is con cluded. Weighing in for wrestling will be held in the gym on Thursday and Friday afternoons of this week. The following weight class- will be maintained: 116-pound 126-pound, 136-pound, 146-pound 166-pound, 176-pound and hoavy- weight classes When you're handed the raspberry be fore your honey . . . puff away your, „ grouch with genial BRIGGS. Its sa- }t^ vary prime tobaccos are tempered and ( ^ seasoned for years in the wood, 'til they’re mellow and mild and minus all bite . . . The truly biteleee blend . the friend a feller needs. sarr pactoky raj 6? iaa«r liaiaS W CM I.OPHANX against Boll’s Horned Frogs. The gsme ended in a tie and was the only blight against the Aggie record that year. There is still a question of whe ther Schmidt srill leave TCU, where ho is satisfied, but a large salary and the attractions of big 16,000 student body school are hard to resist. Every coach who is winning naturally thinks he could make good anywhere and Schmidt ia likely no exception. Wkh hu job open, eyes naturally turn to Matty Boll as his probably successor 36 ■ points. “Honk” Irwin, Koa».. big Cadet voight heaver was the Aggie to *ke a first place by sailing the itscu* a distance of 146 faet and ) inches. In this event, A and M placed both first and second. Skripka taking the second dis tance. Times for the meet were onus tal'y f»st for so soon in the sea son with several conference re cords being approached. In the pre iminaru-s. Carr and Reeves of Schreiner lowered the record by making a time of 9<5. The sum mary follows: 120-yard high hurdles—F. Wil son. Texas; Herring, A and M; Randow. Aqnd M; Casper TCU. Time 15 seconds. 440-yard dash—Cox. Texas; Green. A C C; Edwards. Texas; Akins, A and M. Time 51.6. Mile run—Abbey, North Texas Teachers; G. Wilson. Texas; Ar cher, Texas. Time 4:31.6. 100-yard dash—Carr, Schreiner; Wallender, Texas; Rockhold, Tex as. Time 10 seconds. Mile relay—Texas (Archer„ Cox, Wallender, Edwards); Abilene Christian; North Texaa Teachers. Time 3.28 Pole vault—Vance, Texas; Sewell, Texas; and Alexander, A and M, tied for second; Heeter, A and M. Height 12 feet, < inches. Discus—Irwin, A aad g; Skripka, A and M; Hodges, Texas. Distance 146 feet, 9 inch as. High jump—Watkins, ACC; Logan, A and M; F. Wilson. Texas. Height 6 feet, 2 inches. Members of Tennis • r. Uriauso^,lm. be held here while the Aggies will journey to A satin for the Texaa Team Begin Practice! set-to. Definite dates for these con tests have not been agreed upon as Aspirants for the Aggie tennis I yet. team hav^ been working out daily Dm to the lack of funds for ten under Coach W. H. Thomas in pre- nis this year, Ike activities oi that I>aration tor dual meets with other team have\kpgn necessarily cur- conference team aad for the an- J tailed, and it is probable that the a——..’ll % nUal Southwest Confersncs tern meet which srill bs held at Waco this year on May IS. Besides the conference meet dual contests will be held with Rice and the Univer sity of Texaa. The Rice match will schedule meets list«*i above srill be the only ones played. Announce ment baa already been made, how- euur, that a full appropnaton has ix-en made for next year. Outstanding in early season members and outsider*. The Aggiei swimmers have been working Hard to overcome the dis advantage of a delayed start in practice, and the team is rapidly rotfnding into shape for a short but intensive period of competi tion. Besides the meet with SMU .Saturday night, the Aggie sche dule calls for the following con tests: University of Texas Long horns. defending champions hers, on March 10 and at Austin on March 17; attual Southwest Con ference meet > here March 23 and 14. Present indications are that the Aggies will be weak in the shorter free-etyle events this year but should be strung in a number of "other races, esp«*< islly the breast stroke, the conference record for which now is held by W. S. Sin clair, junior mechanical engineer ing student at A and M from Gal veston. The twenty one candidat es for Use Aggie team and their events are as follows: Frse style*—