Stress Blocking In Spring Conference Swimming Meet To Be Held And Hubbard Well Pleased With Material Out For Practice "Blocking, blocking, and more blocking/’ ia the battle cry for Aggie footballers as spring training swings into its third week. With the players rounding into top phy sical form. Coaches Homer Norton and Cal Hubbard are putting their prospects through daily scrimmages and drilling them espe cially on football fundamentals rather than attempting to create team plays to any extent in this phase of the train- With the idea in mind that there* ha* never been a great team that did not have exceptionally good iilocking, the coachea will devote meat of the remaining time allow- ~ed for spring training not only to teach the boys how to block, but to also create in the players a de- , atre and a delight to block- In the words of Hubbard who has fu»t completed actual playing, there is no part of football that is more real fun and gives a player -greater pleasure than to carry an opponent completely out of the ‘play by a terrific block. “Why.” said Hubbard, '“I had rather flat ten out a would-be tackier than eat. It is a lot more fun than to actually make a good tackle.” “But,” he continued, “blocking is short session to work on team plays enough to put on a regular game at that time. There will be king and hard scrimmages held daily for the rest of the season, however.” Fine Material When asked what his opinion of the material out for spring train ing so far, Norton said that, al though it was really too early in the season to predict anything at all on what the boys would do next year because of the many elements that might enter between now and then, the material is the best that he has ever had to work with ami there is more natural ability in the boys here than any he has ever started with, barring none." The main trouble with the like eating olives. At first the boys themselves emfel ■ctoall what possibilities mey nave and do not know how good they can be come with plenty of hard work and Utttaiaf.” VARSITY GOLFERS CHOSEN AS RESULT OF RECENT TRYOUT is this he added, player looks at blocking just as j -they actually do not know juat work and antil he learns how to block effectively and powerfully, takas it something like medicine. Then as blocking is learned and becomes natural with a boy, he begins to get delight in it as he can in no other phase of the game.” Norton then said that the pur pose of the coaChes would be to instill such a desire into the boys although it would be hard work at first and would take continued drilling to do so. “But,” said Nor ton, “the players had just as well it into their* minds now ' to learn and perfect blocking because if they don’t, they will get so tired if the continued drilling that they will have to learn it if for no other reaaon than to stop the in tensive drilling on blocking”. Scrim maxes Every Day : Although there will be scrim mages every day until the end of the season, there will not likely be any full game played at the end of the thirty days training as has been the custom in past years. “We are advancing at a rapid rate ia the training “Coach Norton said, “but we still have plenty of work to do on the fundamental drills and won’t have any time in this Meets With U of Texas and SMU Are Scheduled In Ad dition To Conference Meet At Fort Worth Mav 8. 1ES TIE FIRST , GAME WITH HUMBLE OILERS LOSE 2HD Mooty and Moon Hurl for Ag- gies in (James Played at Henderson; Both Go To Kxtra Innings. As a result of the recent elim ination round held at the Bryan Country Club, the 1 i<34 Aggie var sity golf team will be composed of Frank Bolton. College Station, George Bargmann. Gonxalea. J. B. Heinen. Dallas, and W. H. Turner, Iiongview. These men won positions on the team by virtue of their low qualifying scores snd they have been practicing regularly in prep aration for the dual meets' of the spring and for the conference meet to ; be held ia Fort Worth May 8, which is the climax Of the period Above are a few scenes taken from the spring football training camps taken from their second week’s practice. In the center are the coaches working out with the team. They are Head Coach Ham er Norton. Line Coach Cal Hub bard. Freshman Coach Kay Mur ray. and Barkfield Coach Maiming Smith. The team scrimmages each afternoon and will continue to work out every afternoon until the time for spring practice to end. Watching the Aggies BY CARROLL ROBERTS Battalion Sports Editor Coach Roswell Higginbotham's Aggie* and the Humble Oil nine weto hsrdly able to break a dead lock in two extri innning ball g*mes at Henderson Friday and SaCut-day afternoons. The first con tent. which ended In a 6-6 dead lock, was called on account of dark- nesa. at the end of the twelfth in ning. In the second game, h took cleUtn innings to settle the dis- putO in favor of the Oilers by a score of 8-7. ftlnke" Mooty pitched effectively m-the first contest after a rather wiki start. The Oilers had Mooty in serious trouble when he passed (tree men snd allowed three hits in the second inning hut after this did not threaten the hurling “Jake” seriously. The Aggie righthander settled down in the latter part of the game and held the Oilers score less for the last five innings. Bill Sodd furnished the batting power In the first contest with 3 hits in 6 times up, two of these hits being doubles. Mooty snd Cochran collected two hits each off the Oilers. In the second game, “Bugga” Moon, Aggie captain, ran into' a bit of “pitcher's tough luck”. He distHbuteil 10 hits over eleven In nings and allowed only 3 earned rune, yet lost the game. Moon was steady in the pinches despite the ragged support given him by his mates and allowed only one extra base blow. Veelkel, Aggie second baseman, got three of the seven Aggie-hits in second contest. Bill 8«dd w-as on the defense and$ave the Oilers warning early in the second game to stay near the bags when the-hall was in his possession as he threw the fleet-foot Novar out at ihe> plate when he attempted to scoi* from third, after Jones had Hied out to Sodd in centerfield. Er rors were few in the two games for sb early in the season with the Aggie* making only two each game. New Coaches Talk! To Honor Society Members of the Scholarship Hon or Society were entertained by brief talks frofn Coaches Norton and Cal Hubbard at their regular meeting in the Asbury Room Tues day night, March I t. Coaches Norton and Hubbard, who will have charge of the A and M football team next year and who are now directing the spring train ing here, both expressed great hopes and expectations for the Ag gies next year since they are re ceiving so much cooperation in spring training. Both coaches stated that they were more than glad to be on the A and M cam pus and that they had certainly enjoyed their viait here since tkieir arrival. NEW YORK, N. Y—The f.ft annual soaring contest for printar, gliding flying will be held as us ual at Elmira. New York, June 2 to July 2, it was announced by th^ Soaring Society of America. FOUR CONFERENCE SCHOOLS ARE TO BE REPRESENTED Tecta* - t T ni'«*rsltv Tankmen Expected To Capture First Place; Students Admitted , 1 To Meet for Fifteen Cents. :!’» ^ ; jf' (rack swimmer* from four Southwest Conference schools will meet,in the’Aggie swimming pdol Saturday nijjht at 8 o’clock as the inference swimming meet takes iflace. Three schools will enter complete swimming teams. They gr« Texas University, S M-U, and Texas A an 1 M. whila Texas Chris tian will only have t ntfies in one or two events. Becausf of the small tumber-of schools entering tearis. r*» preiiniHiaries will be necessary. Conference records »iv expected o b«- broken from all kides when it'ont.n ed on i'ajre 3) T GREATER PALACE THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY Aggie athletics for this week-end. Starting Saturday afternoon at three o'clock there will be a base ball game between the Aggies and the “Grand Prixe" team of Hous ton. Then Saturday night at eight o’clock the conference swimming meet will be held in the Aggie pool. Sunday afternoon the wrestling finals will be held in Memorial gymnasium and besides this there will be a hard scrimmage in the spring football training, the fresh men track men are scheduling a track meet with Harry Stiteler’s (ex-Aggie star athlete) Smithville high school team and the final championship games in intramur al horseshoe pitching and volley ball will take place. To add to the hum and buzz of activities in sports, boxing and playground ball are starting. HERE IS THE SPIRIT the Ag gies want. After spring football training began, somebody told Cal Hubbard about big W. H. Miller, ACTIVITY IS the key word to | gigantic 270 pound man who had not reported for spring training. Hubbard immediately looked Mil ler up and found out that he had to work daring the time that spring training was going on and for that reason could not report. Such a small detail did not stop Cal from obtaining the big boy so he ar ranged to come out and work indi vidually with him during any off period that Miller had. Hubbard found after a little work that Mil ler was exceptionally fast for. a man of his size aad has hope* of developing a star player out of him. ;|J IF the coaches had not shown this interest in MiOer, he probably would not have even thought of going out for football and as far' as football ia concerned would have been wasted material. Nor ton expressed the belief that there are many boys in school at A and M now- who have natural abilities in football but do not even know it themselves. Norton does not wont a man who has done things in foot ball as much as he wants men who can do things and even if they have never had any experience in the grid game, he wants them to come and talk to him if they have any idea at all of being able to play. It is not too late yet for aay- one who aspires to play to enter training and Coaches Norton ami Hubbard xaid Monday night that the training was open to anyc who wished to come and talk to them about coming out. 195 Wrestlers Sign , Up For Competition • Entries were heavy this year in intramural wrestling, as the check up at the conclusion of the weigh- fog-ia formalities showed that 195 qadets had become aspirants for Am ' championship medals which Vt't* awarded the winner in each of the eight weight classes. The first bouts were held Mon- 4. Mink •nN lyric«. Roy Mondonon tech Y*Go*» ood IrvUf Cooior IimvMvo Prtewcor. ROKIT T. KANE •i j i Bargain Matinee I EVERY DAY ' V 1* 6P.M.4-25* Preview Saturday 11 P.M. JOHNNY MITCHELL AND fi C. STEFANI, both of Galveston, have made an enviable record in intramural handball during the last four years. In fact during this tine they have asade it hard for all the other teams to do any more than just enter the handball tou menu. This year they wet? instru mental in Battery B Field Artil lery winning the intramural cham pionship in this sport for the fourth consecutive year that they have been members of the team.