The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 21, 1939, Image 3

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    Battalion Sports
COLLEGE STATION
FEBRUARY 21, It St
PAGE S
Schedule of Intra-squad Clashes
For Spring Training Is Changed
BY K C. “JfSXP- OATKS
■M tba New Tort Gtaata pUyin*
the Green Bay Packers, and the
Washington Radakina playing the
Chicago H<pn Wednesday at 4:4k.
Saturday the Beam and Packan
meet and the Redskins and Giants
play. Ooach Norton ha
the games to Wednesdays ad 4
and Saturdays at 4:M.
Manning Smith’s fresh
man mere handed a 40 to £9
feat hr Depto Holmes' N. T. A. C.
team Friday night. The freshmen
are not looking as good as they
aheeld. This may be caused by the
fact that Moser, one of the start
ing forwards is practicing football
now instead of basketball. Yon
cant practice football all week and
than play good Iwakethadl.
Stevenson, Henderson, Cole and
Ooach looked pretty flair for the
I all of
McQaillan
than fair varsity
t. M. C. A.
for Saturday night here, has been
catted off.
Soothwoot Confe
player. O'Brien, Hale. Tedd.
and Patterson havo rsfaaid to
sign. Cistern has said that he
to threegh with football.
Coach Dutch Meyer of the T. C.
U. Frogs says that his tB team
will be at toast BO par cant as
>ng as kto national champions
of 1B1B. Ho has 10 lottennen hack.
His first eleven, which consists of
siivon littmwisa mho represent U
grid Utters.
The conference trade race will
again be between Rica and Texas.
The Aggies will hog third
again and will no doubt have
to say aa to whether Rice or Texas
with him Friday night. He played
five of them one half and five the
next half and there wee little dif
ference between tho two sets. The
kid who wore number f'is a broth
er to Whitey Baccna, S. M. V.
basketball coach. He certainly tak
es after Whitey in hie ability to
i the floor and to
The half-time score on the game
was N. T. A. C. M, A. A M. Fresh-
Bveryone arewad Aggie dr-
dee are pleased to heas of the
Improves^at of Clyde Uttie-
field, Texas track cench. He to
ene ef the flnaat
Texas and A. A M. wig have
as ether rengh fight far the
baseball crown Baylor win be
aember three ia the race. Rice,
S. M. U. end T. C. V. wiD have
a mad scraatole far Urn other
pedtiona. The Aggies wiD hare
the sdrsatage ia pitchlag and
hattiag streagth.
»
Our vote for the best ell roun-1
athlete of the campus ia V. C.
iton. Ho ia a demon at horse
shoe pitching, probably the best
golfer ip the county, sn outstand
ing tennis player, the heat softball
fh-stbasemen this orriter baa seer
around here, a fair basketball play,
ar, a good man in volley ball, and
pretty fair la several other sports.
Border Olympics
Officials See Best
Games Coming: Up
Officials in charge of tho seventh
inning of the Border Olympic
night games scheduled for March
t at Laredo looked forward to an
other record-breaking list of en
tries as the field of SCO ptsnrc,
rose yesterday to tea colleges and
twenty-one high schools.
Cart Kelch, Junior College
Champion, was Edinburgh's lone
bid for points In the Olympics, and
the best entry up to tbs present
time in a field that to scheduled to
Include Fred Wollcot ef Rice, the
famous Rideout Twins of North
Texas State Teachers College, Boe-
fus Bryan of Texas University, and
a host of others.
Schools entered follow:
Colleges: Texas A. A M., Terrill
College, Rice Institute.
Southwest Texas State Teachers
Collage, Texas University, West
Texas State Teachers College,
Abilene Christian Collage, Howard
Payne College, Edinburgh Junior
College, and Baylor University.
High Sehaols: Karnes City,
Kingsville, Thomas A. Edison
(San Antonio), Austin, Dilley, Co-
tulla. Goose Creek, Carriae Springs
and Pearsall, Hariandale (San An
tonio), Platon ia, Asherton, Wauri-
ka (Oklahoma), Freer, Pleasanton.
San Diego, Lockhart, Crystal City,
Laredo, Kerrville, end Caere.
Mustangs Break Losing Streak
Everyone talked about the else
of Ernie Lain last fall, bat the
Aggies wfll have the largoit back
in the conference next year. Euel
Wesson, who to now in the Cadet
beckfield, tips the bean* at 262
pounds when he gets hU uniform
Walter Hag cm. great golfer.
H miles eat ef
receatly. One after-
aeow be appeared la Menomi
nee, Michigan far a golf exhi
bition when 444 people were
waiting far him at the first toe
to Me
EIGHT LETTERMEN
RETURN TO TOO I
BASEBALL CLUB
Eight lettarmen end e promising
group of sophomores will report to
Coach Howard Grubbs whoa the
varsity baseball club call is issued
March 1 at Texas Christian Uai-
Aggies Mark Dp
Second Win of
Season Friday
The cellar championship of
Southwestern Conference for
was settled hare Friday night whan
the Aggies defeated the T. CL U.
Frogx 44 to M, the Aggies mark
ing up thsir second win of tho
saaaon, both of which havo boon
over the Progs.
At the half the Prog* tad BS to
It, but whan the teams
for the final parted, ti
scored 10 points before
were able to tally. After the Ca
dets went ahead t»-23 they n
tot the Ft. Worth school In
load again. The toad switched only
onto during tho gams ami that
was after tho start of tho second
ported.
Bill Dawaoa and Jude Smith ttod
for high-point honors with 11
points. Tom Tinker was next with
10 points, end Abney led the Frege
with nine markers.
It was Dawson who kept the
f-adets in the ball game during the
first round. He seared ntae ef the
Aggiea’ points during that time.
T.C.U. mieoed four oat of too
free throws while the Aggies miss
ed only two oat of twelve.
Dawson was the only man baa-
id on fools. Best, Snodgrass,
Duckworth and Abney were the
outstanding men for T.C.U. For
the Aggies it was the
five that starred.
NEW SPORTS FOR INTRAMURAL
PROGRAM BEGIN 2ND SEMESTER
Nkvft COACH
By CHICK DENNY
Saddle and Sirloin
Club Initiates 74 New
Members at Meeting
The Saddle and Sirloin Club held
its annual Initiation of now a
here in the Animal Husbandry Pa
villion last Tuesday night adding
74 members to the club roll.
Applicants for metnberehip are
raquired to be in the sophomore
year of the course of Animal Hus
bandry and to have paid the nomi
nal fee of $2.00 to the secretary of
tho club.
Membership ia the cljjb nearly
dop^ied with this year’s new mem
bers. The club membership before
iniation totaled BO. Last year's
initiation brought in a total of SB.
Back from last year’s club are
Bon Abney, third baas; Robert
Porte, first base; Mae Best, catch
er; Don Looney, outfielder; Arthur
Moseley, shortstop; and Paul
Tankersley, Woodrow Duckworth
and Durwood Horner, pitchers.
Horner, however, will probably not
be available because ef a recent
operation.
Billy BBderback, ineligible last
year, will boost the Frog stock with
his work at first baas and his
strength at bat.
Promising among tho sophomores
ere the Tankersley twins, Ralph
and Dennis, Rusty CoWart, Ross
Vanderkolk, Paul Sorrells, Jack
Odle and others.
The Progs will play 16 confer
ence games, opening March 24
with 8. M. U. at Dallas and closing
May 12 with Rice at Houston.
English and A. & M.
Pistol Teams To
Fire This Week
Capt. Phil H. Enslow is certain
ly going far afield to find oppon
ents for hie IM9 Texas Aggie
pistol team aa ha has onnoi
that a match has been booked with
the Ham end Petersham Rifle Chib
of Surbiton, Surrey, England, to
be Bred Feb. 28.
Each team will fire am their
own ranges and then exchange cer
tified scores by mail. Score of the
English team to not expected to
arrive before March 8.
The match came shoot through
a challenge made by R. T. Shtola,
Jr. of Dallas, pistol letter man end
co-holder of the college record, to
a member of the English
with whom bo was corresponding.
Further details were work.-d out
by Capt. Enslow, Aggie pistol,
coach, and R. W. Creasy, secretary
of the English Clab, with the re
sult that the Texas Aggiea new
have entered the International pis
tol picture, and marks the first
time in the recollection of the Ag
gie athletic department that a Ca
det team has ever taken on a for-
opponent in a dual match in
any sport.
A search in the Atlas shows that
Surbiton to located in
County not far from London and
their range to toes ted on the banks
of the Themes River does to
Ham and Twtckerfaaa ferry.
The dubs has as its patron the
Right Honorable The Earle of Ath-
lone, G.C.B., CXJ.V.O, DJJ.O. and
for president. Sir Lionel Tolto-
mache, Bart.
liar to the partici paata ia the In-
tra mural race. The tarn of the
tonne haf brought forth each sports
as wrestling, horseshoes, volleyball
handball. Also there to spa
to both rleeeee to be finished,
with other eporto each as tennis
and boxing to be started in the
pear future.
If the warm weather will prevail,
the program will run off nicely, but
should rain occur fi mesa tty, then
someone will be foot a little poshed
for time.
Wrestling has boon started i
between twenty and thirty bo
are being held nightly. Claes A
want to A F. A. last year
this sport, but it seems dot
ea to whether or not they will
Volleyball to another sport that
has been started in the Ossa A
division and these honors also went
to A F. A.. who defeated A Inf. hi
some well played games for the
•tie. j :
Both classes of horseshoes havo
boon started and this sport i
also won by A F. A, defeating 1st
Hdq F. A. in a does match. By
tee way, it looks aa if they might
be a repeater for this year in pitch,
tog the ahoee. ,
Last years champion in Claaa B
traoshoea was B. Cav., who de
feated E FA. Handball honors
front to 2nd Hdq. P.A. with their
Win over A F.A. Wrestling was
won by B C.W.S., and B Inf. took
tee top honor* in fish boxing.
Penny” baa announced that ho
expects to have Class B tennis
start on or about March 1st. The
same goes for boxiag in both Claes
A end B.
defeat Aggies in
Fast Game Here
By Score of 48 - 28
BT JEEP
The Southern Methodist Mua-
taags broke their three-game toe
ing streak here last night whom
they boat the Aggtoe 48 te 18 to
•Of *f the roogbtet and wildest
been sees hoes te
> Ponies wore haw-
BRET2 SPEAKS AT
NEXT MEETING OF'
PLANT SEMINAR
Dr. T. W. Brets of the Depart
ment of Biology will be the speaker
at the Plant Science Seminar this
woek, on the subject, “Gray Mold
in Relation to Tomatoes Grown
ander Greenhouse Conditions".
Dr. Brets came to A. A M. last
autumn from' Cornell University
where he was instructor in the De
partment of Plant Pathology. He
was educated at Iowa State College
and at Ohio State University and
done research on the nature
and control of molds and dots of
fruits and vegetables in transit,
well as on diseases of plants
snder greenhouse conditions.
He is the author of important
scientific papers sad monographs
reporting the results of his re
searches, in spite of the fact that
ha la still in his 20's.
The paper to be presented by Dr.
Brets this week will be valuable
to ell who ere interested in plant
•cience.
The meeting will begin at 7:80
to the Conference Room of the
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The public to invited.
TCU Track Coach
Doesn't Speak to His
Men I x>st His Voice
., Not ona word has bw
by Track Coach Mack dark to
his squad of SO who have been
working out for a week now.
Conch Clark has plasity to any,
hot because of a throat infection,
he has loot his voice.
When anyone comes up and be
gins a conversation, Clark displays
a card aa which he baa typed: “I
ia tost my voice. Too do the
talking I”
Pai Clifford, captain of the 1988
track squad and recently- named
as feaahmaa track coach, will di
rect the varsity workouts until
Coach Gifford gets e
Lewis Points Out
Advance Made in Gore
Analysis to Club
James A. Lewis, of Core Labora
tories Incorporated of Dallas, spoke
to the members of the Petroleum-
Geolpgy Hub Thursday night. Mr.
Lewis pointed, out the most recent
advancements made in this field
during hie talk.
Ho enumarateA his experiences
during the talk Which began in
Pennsylvania when the first prac
tical experimental steps in core
analysis were being made.
With the aid of slides,'Mr. Lewis
illustrated many statistiA a
bled from core analysis of Various
field* and their relations to water
flooding programs.
Since the incorporation of Cqre
laboratories ia 1936, Mr. Lewie
explained, they have developed
methods at fairly accurate esti
mates of tho oil raaervea of differ-
ent types of fields.
At the request of the club preei-
David McCorquodale, Mr.
consented to have oqa of his
portable laboratory trucks visit A.
A M- at the first opportunity for
■tOtewtites portion
The Aggies i coaid sot find
basket range Wvd this
ference of the Itwo teams.
During the latter part of the
game, the Pony coach put ia a*
entire new teajp because of
friction that w^s building up
the floor.
■■tag J
Lang failed
shot. Dawson
also missed bis
ed ahead when
free
Wilkerson who 1
his gift toes, Dhwell tipped tho
first field goal. Dougherty follow
ed up with ano her basket and
w*a followed to tie stunt by Wil
kerson end Nortob and Wilkerson
again. Lang gavA the cadete an
other point on * free teas.
Smith then ggAk the first field
(coal for the Aggiea Just before
Norton dropped another through
the hoop. Dawson counted with two
points end wee followed by Noe-
ten again. Lang came through
with another gratia ahead ef an
other Norton goal. WUkeraoa hit
e gratis sad followed it with ft 4
basket. Tinker missed a fra* on*
and then came through with a bas
ket Duncan came through with
On* before Smith counted twice to
the cadet scoring for the find
hich ended 28 to 16 in the
favor.
The last half
f H ui " >Urh end eight
Tinker scored the last two
1 throws.
on tho fray on free
BILL PATTERSON. ACB BOTH
gridiron and iq the claaa
kpom at Baylor U., and! Sara Con-
nIngham, who rank* htgb in beauty
studies and aetivttoa at
named as Baylor
r’s moot
faculty and
to from Hills
boro, and
San
RABBI SPEAKS ON
RELIGION AND
SCIENCE AT MEET
Rabbi Kahn of Houston, asao-
Qabbi of Temple Both land
City, delivered a lecture
ambers of the HUM Clab
and its guests Sunday, evening in
the Asbury room of (he library.
His eheesst subject for the evening
“The Influence of Science so
Religion." A general discosaion fal-
lowed his lector*.
Rabbi Kahn pointed out
theory of evolution teaches
war and aalfiahnaaa. This to
ad by the fact that the theory
evolution taarhee tw
The straggle for existence and
survival of tho fittest.
He stated that religion- tea rhea
cooperation among the people In
tho Way of thetr welfare. Whereas,
the former principle ef evolution
cooperation among the
people as a whole and centers oa
individual or dan existence. The
latter principle to edf-oxplanatory.
he sold, to that the fittest and
PALACE
LAST DAY - WED.
“Topper Takes A Trip”
THURS. - FRI. ASAT.
NEW DIXIE
* WED. - THURS.
\ , with
Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie,
Henry Annette