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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1934)
/■; \ - Ai * . I'- A : HOPES BRIGHT -fi-i —)—- ► w atching the Ai BY CARKOLL ROBERTS Battaliee Sports Editor Igies 1 JOHN HERRING is the sensation of the Aggie track team. After beinc transferred to the dashes, he decided that two races were not enough to run so he added oae more to his list and has been winning all three since. Besides this, he ran the 100 yard dash in Oil, just JS seconds behind the con ference record and ran the Tib low hurdles in 23.1, .1 second below the existing record set by Casper of TCU last year. Herring is prob ably the best all-around hurdler that the conference has ever seen. He approaches the record in high hurdles but as yet has not been able to lower it any—but the hopeful thing is that Herring is becoming better and better in ev ery meet as the season advances. Some argument has been going on whether Lanky Forrest Wilson of the Longhorn team is better than Herring and Randow of the Aggies. Hop Hopkins of the Aus tin American stated that the only reason that Randow won the high hurdles in the dual meet was that Wilson stumbled right before the finish line while he was in the lead. The argument cannot be settled definitely until the conference meet held in Dallas May 12, but until Wilson can reach the 23.1 mark in the low hurdles and beat the 15 in the high, only home town pride can cause him to be classed ahead of Herring. HONK IRWIN now holds the shot put record for the Fort Worth Southwestern Exposition; the. Southwest Conference; the Kan sas relays; and the discus record for the Southwestern Institute re lays. With such competition as Jack Torrance in the Drake re lays, Irwin has small hopes of ad ding a record to his list for these relays in the shot put, but he has been grooming on the discus and will attempt to cop a first place and perhaps set a mark in this event in Des Moines. -JAKE’ MOOTT is now pitch ing 1000 percent in conference games after having beaten every team in the conference. If he can again win all his games, the Ag gies will have a virtual cinch on the conference championship, for all the Aggies have to do for the remaining *half of the baseball season is to split with their series to cinch a tie for first. This is al lowing Texas or T C U, who are tied for second, only the one de feat that tie Aggies would give them in ;spl|tting their series. Be sides his, excellent pitching, Mooty has been giVing good fielding ser vices in ;right field and has been l>ounding the pellet to place third in Aggiej Bittern. THE INFIELD was coach Hig ginbotham's biggest worry at the start of the’ pea son, but his worries have now turned to a coach’s happines*. “Dutch" Voelkel at sec ond has ' been fielding practically 1000 percent, having only made one error and that one could almost be called a fluke error and Bill Cou ser has been snagging aH-comers at his shprt stop position. Besides this, Voelkel has began hitting and Couser shows signs of coming out of his batting slump. In the second game with TCU, Couaer slapped one through first that went on by right fielb and netted Couaer four bases although it did not count in batting srverbges but as a double. THE AGGIE BAND and the tenth msk'-ksere a great help in the second l baseball game with Texas. After the Longhorns had held the lead for most of the game, a rally started in the eighth inning and with the hand playing ••Wildcat ', the entire inning, the Cadets put over three runs to win the gamd- Several at the players said after the game that yelling of the corps put the little bit of extra fig(it into them that helped tide over the runs. AGGIE POLO fans were well pleased With the fine showing of the two teadis, the Artillery and the (. avalfy, In the first polo game played slice the reorganisation of that sport >this year. Because of the interest shown in this new sport, plans have been made to have a gkme every Sunday after noon for the rest of the year. The games are played on the polo field which is Just across the road from the poultry farm. BILL SODtD, Aggie hard slug ging outfielder who broke a small bone in his fbot in the first game of the season, may be able to en ter the T C U games here week after next as a pinch hitter. He then hopei to have his leg streng thened enough to play the entire final series against Texas to wind up the conference season. AW TRACKMEN SCORE DECISIVE . VICTORIES IN RECENT DUAL MEETS WITH RICE OWLS AND ARILENECC Herring and Irwin l^ead Team Mates in Impressive Exhibi- i tions. Featuring J. W. Herring, Cuero, and B. W. (Honk) Irwin, Kosse, Coach Frank Anderson's Texas Aggie Iruck team took two dual meets un Kyle Field during the past two weeks. The first meet was taken from Rice as the Ag gies swept the Owls off the field with a score of 81 to 41 which was accumulated from winning twelve firat and seven second places. Twelve firat and nine second plac es were taken in the second meet, which was held Monday, April 23, from Abilene Chriatian College to score an 87 to 32 victory for the Aggies. Herring, fleet-footed dash, hur dle, and 440 man, was the sensa tion of the meets by taking a to tal of six firat places in the two. Against Rice, Herring glided in first in the 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, and the low hurdlea. In the meet against A C C, he gal loped in first in the 100 yard daah and the high and low hurdles. In the low hurdles. Herring came tearing across < the tape one-tenth of a second bUlow the conference record of 23.2 set by Charlie Cas per of T C U last year. Irwia showed that he was still king of the conference shot-put ters and discus sailers by overcom ing Johnson in both events. In the discus, Johnson came close to Ir win by throwing 146 feet 5Vi in ches. Irwin had to then exert him-ffi**; self and threw the discus a dis tance ef 181 feet 11 inches, just 2 feet and 6 inches below the con ference recerd. Irwin easily took both these events in the Abilene meet with shorter distances than he had to make against Johnson. r One of the most interesting rac es of the : moet was the two mile run between Hector Fuentes of the Aggies and “Iron man" Wil son of the Owls. Fuentes and Wil son ran almost side by side dur ing the distance and on the home itretch Fuentes attempted to take the lead and a sprint started for the last Ifik) yards that looked like a dash race. Wilson finally nosed Fuentes out by only a few feet as they crossed the tape. A special three lap race was in troduced in the dual meet with A C C for the purpose of deter mining whb would go to the Drake relays for this race. Foy Cook took the lead at the start with long high stridcp Chat characterises his running but after the first lap, Roy Cook forged into the lead with Fuentes co«niag into second place. The last home sprint was close be tween Kuehtes and Roy but in the last 50 yards. Cook increased his lead to con*« across the tape first. Roy Cook Had already been choaen to attend the Drake relaya for the half mile, however, so Fuentes was picked to enter the three lap part of the mediay relay at Des Moines. Summary of the meets:* RICE MI&T: 44# yard run: Brother*, |ilp; Akins, Aggies, time 50. IQ<i 'srd dash: Herring. Aggies;, BeUenfant, Rice, time 9.9. Mile nil: Taylor, Aggies; Wilson, Rice, time 4^A8. 22# yard dash: Herring, Aggka; Haley, Rice, time 21.6. )2« yard high hurdlea: Randow, Ajrgi**; Oliver, Rice, time 15.6. >srd rma: Cook, Ag- Schults, Rice, time 2K>L8. 440 yard rdlay: Rice (Haley. Bal- lenfsnt, Hutxer, Cash man)) time 44.3. 22# low hurdles: Herring, Ag gies; Rand#w, Aggies, time 23.1. Mile relay: Wee (Haley, Hutaler, (Continued on Page 5) / — wra p is id Five Aggie Trac (I ■ 1 I I Herring and Irwin Expected To Place In Hurdles and Weights ^ To Enter Drake Relays Cook, Fuentes, Herring Will Relay; Team Maaiiay. ■JPH Taylor, and Run Medley WUI Return Coach Frank Andersen and five members of the Texas Aggie track team left Tuesday morning for DeaMoinea, Iowa, where they will eater the Drake Relays to be held there Friday and Saturday. The members of the team will make the trip by car and will be gone until Monday, April 30. The five members of the team who are making the trip are: J. W. Herring, Cuero; B. M. Irwin. Kosse; Roy Cook, Lampasas; Hec tor Fuentes, Tampico, Mexico; a ad R. E. Taylor, Hawley. Irwin will enter the shot put and the discus. Herring will enter the low hardies and will run the 440 part of'the medlay relay. The remain ing men will make up the rest of the relay team; Cook to run the 880 yard part, Fuentes the 3 lap or 1420 yard part, and Taylor will’ finish up with the mile climax. The Drake relays are held an nually and are considered one of the major track events of the en tire year. Nearly every large Uni versity and College in the United States will be represented in the meet. Varsity Tossers Play Baylor In Two Game Series Two Victories Over Bears <Would Put Aggie* in Reach of Conference Pennant. Starting on the last half of the baseball season, the conference leading Aggies will invade the Baylor Bear’s lair in Waco Friday and Saturday afternoon for the final two game series between these two clubs. The first two games were played in College Sta tion and resulted in victories for the Aggies by scores of 5 to 3 and 9 to 7. These two games will be the “crucial point” in the Aggies sche dule and if the Cadets come through with two victories, they will be well on their way to a con- ^ and M fere nee championship, but if they Lowenstein, drop one of the games, the winner Voelkel, 2b of the Longhorn-Horned Frog Jones, If game will advance to within only Connelley, 3b one game of the Aggie lead. Couser, ss 1 The Bruins have not shown well Mooty, p except occasionally in conference Alania, rf games so far, but in those time* Cochran, rf when Coach Morley Jenning s nine Hutto, lb were right, they proved exceed- Steves, c ingly dangerous. In the seUond game with the Aggies, the Bear* TOTALS kept the lead during almost the TCU entire game and the only thing Donovan, cf that saved the day for the Fight- Walker, 2b ing Farmers was an eighth inning Hanflon, p rally that gave them a two point Myefs,\C lead. In other games, the Bears Manton. *s put up game fights and Mat Sat- Jacks, lb y_..t urday pulled a major surprise by Graves, rf downing the highly touted Texas gtanton Longhorns in one of the hardest Lasrrence, fought games of the conference season by a score of 4 to 3. TOTALS" Hurling “Jake” Mooty. Aggie A . nd M pitching ace and curve ball artist, TCU l*_ < will get the call for the first game Summary -f and will likely be opposed by Jim mie Parks, Baylor ace who defeat ed Texas. Parks has a baffling slow curve ball that is hard to catch on to and will probably give the Aggie sluggers a real teat. FROGS GAME LEADIN TTWO ES WITH AGGIE 9 S SWEEP 2 SERIES FROM ITY NINE Defeat longhorns in (■ameM for First Time .ma. first time in 11 years Farmers made a of a two game series University of Texas Mooty Win* First (lame IH Longhoi^* here April It and 14 Tenth With a Triple Aftejf by taking the first game 7 to 4 Ht'^ J FFogS To Foui behind ike effective pitching of ■PPk IF -I I ' :'Jake M« *y and taking advantage ; of Long *rn errors to win the last In an airt«ht baseball game l^arae 7 i 6. It was the first time that lasted 10 Innings the Texas the Ag^t* bad turned the trick Aggies provitsd tuperior to the f ; Ji * ■ Farmers Leading Conference Loop , With Five Victories! In Six Games - 4- IRWIN WINS TWO FIRST PUCES IN KANSAS RELAYS] Star Weight Artist Breaks Kansas Shot Put Record of Nine Years Standing. C U Horned Fr+gs by a 5-3 mai -; gin Friday afternoon to win their, fifth straight game but the Cadets baseball teapt' nwt sUnd “Pt to the Frog* as trackmen in the second game Saturday which turn ed into a track meet. Twenty five runs were m*d« in the second game, 14 of whith were portioned to the Frogs aSd only 11 to the Farmera. L Mooty was the spotlight of the firat game as he held the Frogs to 4 runs for lU innings, struck out 12. and wonl his own game in the tenth by hitting a triple to left and scoring!on Hutto’s single through first b*se. Bill Couaer broke his battiiv jinx in this game as he got 2 hits in 4 times up, one of which was good for two bases. A and M took the lead in the second innning when they scored two runs. Thw Frogs did not score off the Aggie hurler until the sixth when they nicked him for two runs and tow* more in the sev enth. The Aggie* tied the score in the first of tlm eighth and held the Frogs scoreleae until the tenth when Mooty an(! Hutto put the finishing tough im the game, i SECOND GAME The combined efforta of Moon, Martinet and But Connelley' were not enough tie stop the Frog* in the last game witch netted a total of twenty fi*e runs, twenty five hita and thirteen errtra. TCU pitcher* seemed to have had something against the Aggie second sacker as Voelkel was hit four times by pitched balls. Ed Steves, who I brt>ke his hitting streak in the first game by failing to hit safely for the firat time in a game this seasolT, was the Aggie star in the Ust game with three hits in five times at bat. Fter GAME ed one o the r|gh inning ’ [start «th< See Hr son Passes Ft Crockett Exam For Flying Cadets H. G. Seeligson, Dallas, senior agricultural administration stu dent and Captain on the Field Ar tillery Regiment Staff, has re ceived notice from the War De partment that be satisfactorily passed the physical examination required of all candidates for Kan.iolph Field. The order stated that Seeligson had qualified as a flying cadet and would be placed on the eligibility roll for entrance to Randolph ^ ♦» i J 2 8 1 ce. If J 9 0 0 7 39 11 090 920 1—5 002 .200 9—4 OdhaeUey, Couser 2, Mooty, Alanis, Hutto, Donovan, Walker, . Myers, Manton. Errors: Couaer,! Alanis, Manton 2, Jacks, Graves, triples: SUnton, Mooty, I>ouble«: Donovan. Couser. Runs batted in: Hutto 2, Steves, Graves, Stanttl, Harston 2, Cou ser 2. Left on baie: A and M 10, T C U 11. Winning pitcher: Mooty. Losing pitcher:f fl»r*ton. Sacri fices: Voelkel. Monty, Jones, base on balls: Mo**y A. Harston 3. strikeouts: Moety 12, Harston 7. Hit by pitcher:,Mhnton (by Moo ty). Wild pitch: Harston. Passed ball: SUnton. Stolen bases: Jones, Cochrane. Tin*# If game: 2:1& Umpires: Bonham and Minten. SECOND GAME A and M AB H O A Lowenstein, cf 8 2 2 1 Voelkel, 2b - -i •*- • • * Cochran, rf —X L •* • 0 ® since 1 4r- In th< first game Jake Mooty celebrati I his twenty-first birth day by risking the Steers feed right oul 'of hi* hand except in the fourth il ting when the Longhorns *cored i | their runs on 5 hits. Aside fi im this one bad inning the $te« * ociuld not threaten as the Agy * hurler kept their hits well sea &ered and did not allow a Steer (o venture past second base. J Ike Lc kenstem, who was shifted from lefl field to center to fill the vacancy ift by Bill Sodd, was a shining i Mr of the game. He pol- Hiiliarcfs fast ones over field fence in the third ith Hutto on base to Aggie* scoring. The El Paso laditnade five difficult put- outs hi ( mterfield and capped his aftertiooi |>eriformance by making a runnii ( catch of Arnolds line tire the i de with Viebig and Sikes ’driv* to snter in the eighth to re- jon ba*e. kcOND GAME Second game the Aggies took 4d v *tage of the wildness of Taylor combined with errors to make it two itraight >Ver the Dischmen. The A gies scored two runs in Ihe fitxt on one hit, two walks, ind thre errors, and scored two kiore 5n (he fourth. The Steers fcored tl 4r initial run in the t^iird #n* 'Dulled out ahead in the fourth when they scored three flora. Tk Longhorns made their final rbn n the sixth, when Anke- ilman .do bled, went to third as JlcDm* ■if’was being thrown out at first a id scored on Viebig’s in fo-id hit! ’he Aggies overcame the Dad in tl s eighth when they scor ed thrte Viuns on Martinez’s dou- !>i.\ l.owenstein's single, McDow ell's erto and two walks. I In p>, Vernon Jxmghnri “Mighty Honk" Irwin from Kos se again brought honors to his Alma Mater when he returned to Aggietand from law re nee, Kan sas, where he was the lone repre sentative in the Kansas Relays from A and M. with two first places taken in the meet. Irwin won first in the shot, in which he set a new record for the Kansas relays, and first in the discus. In the shot put, Irwin set a new record of 50 feet 3 1 * inches to better the longest standing record of any in the relays. A mark of 49 feet 7 3/4 inches was set in 1926 and has stood as a goal to shoot at in the relays until Irwin set a new distance. The discus sail was taken rather easily by Ir win with a distance of only 141 feet 3 inches. Irwin left yesterday for Des Moines, Iowa, where he will enter the Drake relays. Here he will again come up against Jack Tor- raltce, giant from L S U who de feated Irwin in the shot at the Southwestern Louisiana relays by breaking the world’s record, and probably against John Lyman, Stanford University, Californa. who broke Torrance’s record last Saturday by a heave of 54 feet 7/8 inches. This meet will briag Irwin against two of the greatest shot putters that have ever lived. Cavalry Noses Out Artillery In First A and M Polo Game ke*n Interest Shown in New ly-Onranized Ajfirie Sport; Coaches Satisfied With Re sults. A fast riding Cavalry polo team scored once in all but one chuckdr of A and M’s polo game to win . ^ wr i a. i 0 ** 1, * experienced Field Ar- Fefttlfr^S Knockouts tillery team Sunday afternoon, Ap ia Heavy Division 1B - lH?fore ,l l * r t ? e 1 " owd 11 <>f # 'apadtators on the Field Artillery Intradural Boxing « Page 8) Knockouts galore came in the ifctramtfn boxing finals held dur ing the x-students re-union as tie Agfi« fisticuffs artists wound up thehr tmxing matches for the ybar. Thi r knockouts were reg istered ir the bouts, everyone of which ea je in the three heavy dlvisioal ( JPgte B fber, Abilene, charg ing line*) #n for the freshman foMtball t am and bright prospect for the v fsity in spring training. Adored th< fastest knockout of the, evening" i the heavy-weight divia- i<m by f |tening Marvin Simms, Olina, ir the middle of the first round R 4>er charged in at the opening t 11 and did not let up an instant ui 41 hia opponent was out The oil ir two knockout* came in the 17 and the 165 pound weight#. . J E. Routt Chapel Hill, g#ve one of the best exhibitions o{ boxing and after flicking out a dandy I ft and following with • hard rig) , had kit opponent out vn his fi t in the second round. Gborge J tems, Bryan, waa the nWwr ujiHn the 175 pound weight Bowie, scored a knock- first round against Houston, and Bisbey when the second round the beginning of the round, BiAey rushed in madly nd fog awhi looked as if he were going to piake a comeback but another oAe of Davies devastating right hoo * caught Bisbey on the chin and *t him down to end the >) Smith made a the 135 pound claas and after year’s layoff again woh the championship. After three la o4j fancy light boxing, (CoAnued on Page 5) Polo Field. The game was fast and.full of excitement. The Cavalry showed the advan tage of more experienced horse manship and considerably faster mount* to a good end. The game was hardly under way when J. E. MUldr, four goal man of the Cav alry'from Sinton. scored the firat goal with a weD directed back hand slice at the ball on the near side of his mount. For the remain der of the first rhucker, the wag- ii >ol<Iuts played on fairly even terms with the saber-men, keep ing the ball well In the middle of the Field. The cavalrymen, fight ing and riding hard, managed to scorq once in e^rh of the follow ing chuckers until the two tmma lined up in the center of the field to bqgin the sixth and final chuck- er. The cannoneers threatened to score on several occasions during thos# first chuckers, but *11 of their drives down the Field were halted before they could drive the boll through the coveted goal. How#vor M beginning the sixth chucfter, they b«gan to give the Cavalry riders serious trouble to the extent that they outplayed the Cavalry team throughout the final dteefa*. but yet still lacked that little necessary final drive through the goal. Had the game lasted a few more minutes they would prob ably have scored. The game end ed with the Oavaby on the top side of a 6-0 score. The game as a whole was unus ually fast and fouls were few, con sidering the short time that both teams have beca practicing and at the same time learning the game. Practically all the players on both teams showed up exgeed- « on Page 6) Return of Sodd To the Agicie I,ine»Up Should Prove Help ful To Pennant Chance*. In doping the outcome of the 1934, Southwest Conference base ball pennant chase which is now in full awing, the odds have been transferred from Dutch Myers' TCU Horned Frogs to Coach Hig ginbotham'* Texas Aggies. The Aggie* looked like champions from the start as they took the first t\v o games from Baylor, and continued by upsetting predictions made! by leading sport scribes in Southwest Conference circles by sweeping a two game series with Uncle Billy Disch’s University of Texas Ixmghorn nine.' The Cadets lost their first game of the season Saturday when they invaded the TCU Horned Frogs’ home in Fort Worth and split the series with the title defender*. The first game was a pitchers’ duel between, Mooty and Harston. while the last one was a typical New York Y*nkee, Philadelphia Ath- .etic Hugging spree, the Frogs bolding a -14 to 11 advantage. aggies should win j*: The Ixmghorns will be harder to beat on Clark Field than at Ag- gieland. |kut t he Aggies should split the series with the Steers There .The Baylor Bears are not a setup for any club, but the Hig- men should take both games at Katy park next Friday and Sat urday when the two clubs meet lor the final clash of the year. The odds are in favor of the Aggies taking both games from the Frogs on Kyle Field diamond, yet if the Frog pitching ace recovers from * sore arm, he will be capable of giving the Fanners plenty of trouble. The Aggies should finish two full games ahead of the sec ond place Steers since the Long horns are due to split with the Frogs; the Frogs to split with Baylor; aad the Longhorns to take both game* from the Baylor nine in the next series. AGGIES HAVE SHOWN BEST Whil* making these mid-season guesses we shall look over the teams as they have shown this far. The Aggies have the best pitching ip the conference with J*ke Mooty ace right-hander top ping them all. Mooty has beaten every tea(n in the conference in three starts aud has established an earned run average of 2.26 runs per game. The curve ball art ist has whiffed 26 opponent!. “Marty” Martinas, sophomore pitcher, who ha* tVo Southwest conference wins to his credit, has shown as much stuff as any chunk er to face the Aggie* this season. Captain Moon who has not been very effective so far is due to re gain his form the second half. In Ed Steves, the Aggies boast one of the best receivers in the confer ence’. The bustling Steves, who was on the squad last year, la the most improved player on the club. He is leading the Aggies in'batting with an average of .348. BEST WORKING INFIELD Coach i rtgginbotham has de veloped tht best working ififield in the conference by plugging the vacancies at shoH and second base with Bill < ouser and “Dutch”'Voel- kel. The highly touted Texas in field has an edge in batting,, but the Higmea outclassed the Viebig, - (Continued on Page 6) Aggie Golfers Meet Longhorns Saturday The Texas Aggie golf team will journey to Austin Saturday for a dual meet with the strong Texas Longhorn golf team in the second match of the year for the Aggies, In the first match, held Monday. April 23, the Cadets beat the Rice Owls 4 to 2. Members of the team who will go to Austin are: Frank Bolton, son of Dean F. C. Bolton; George Batk'mann. Gonxalte; W. H. Turner, Longvie*r; and J. B. Heanen, Dallas, The results of the matfh with Rice were as follows: Bargmann beat Denton Wiae, 3 to 2; Heinen beat Bert Moeller, 3 to 2; Turner lost to McCarthy, 2 to 1; and in the four-orne. Bolton and Heinen beat White and Mueller, 2 to 1; Turner lost to Wise 8 to 2.