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Aggie Quintet Meets Rice Owls Here Tonight
‘Outcome of Game Will Depend on
Aggies Ability to Guard Kelley
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Watching the Aggies
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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."
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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
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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.
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927, everyone said that A and M
.ad a team that couldn't be stop
ped—and it wasn’t until it flame
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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
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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
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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*—<Hp»am Tommy
Uhr, Bd Reichdrdt, L. M. Sommers,
Kurt Seidel, and C. K. Swanson,
all of San Antonio; Bob Osborn,
Fort Sam Houston; O. R. Simp
son sad Harry Wilder, Corpus
Christ!; R. R. .Simpson, El Paso
C. F. Roberta. Sugar land; W. E.
Wilsoa, Wichita Falla; R. J. Hodga,
Pledgur; J. M. Stevenson. Abilene
Joe Cockrell, Dallas.
Breast stroke—W. S. Sinclair
Galveston; Osh urn aad R. C. Hal
ter, San Antoni* Back Stroke—
Newt Hielscher, Beaumont; L. B
Csx, Houston; George Commas,
Cuero.. Fancy diving Bob Porter
and George Cox, both erf Saa An
tonio. Individual medley—Osburn
and Sinclair. Free style and med
ley relay team* as well as the
water polo team for the confer
ence meet, also will he picked from
these Candida tea.
• sessions have been 4
; Houston; W. O. Vela.
practice
Bender,
redo; and P. E.
The task of
showing for A
cles wiU probably rest
shoulders of theeS three
John
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Brownsville.
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