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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1989-
THE BATTALION
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First and Second Aggie Nines To Play
CLUBS
Grtra* CMatjr CM
Tha Grayson Comity A. k X.
Mothen Club will five Gray son
County) boya a eookic ahowtr
March I. '!
ArchiUctaral StadenU .
Thera will ba a meeting of the
Architectural Club Monday, March
A at 7 p. m. in the Aebury room
of the library. Roger L. Waring
will apeak on Toundationa.”
BIOLOGY CLUB
The Biology Club will meet to
night at 7 In the Science lecture
room. Dr. R. K. Fletcher, entomo-
logiat of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, will address
the dub on the field of entomology
H1LLBL CLUB . *
There will be a regular meeting
of the Hillel Club Sunday night
In the Anbury room of the library.
The meeting will begin at 7 p. in
instead of 7:1b. Plans for the
dance will be discussed.
Busy Weekend Is on Tap for Aggie Athletes with
Sports Day, Laredo [Track Meet, and Exhibition Games
SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY
The S<-h<. at ship Honor Society
will meet at 7 p. m. Tuesday, Mar.
7. Dr. C. B. Campbell will speak.
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By B. C “JEEP" OATES <
Bettslion Sports Editor
This 1 is a wild week and of
spcrta. The track team In Laredo,
the fish and vanity basketball
teams and the tumblin’ team just
back from Austin, the baseball
and fotbali teams playing tomor-
the polo team getting set
for Sunday, and the intramural de
partment going crasy with so mods
stuff going ml Oh ysah, the
swimming teem is getting randy
to travel, also the pietol and rifle
teems are blasting away at their
mail order foot.
Capt Phil Easkrw’s pistol team
grabbed a couple of ms tehee dur
ing the peat week. They fired a-
gainst three teems, but one of
them wae a crew In England and
their score has not arrived from
across the pond yet
Ohio State fell victim > the
Cadet marksmen when Bob Shiels
fired the high gun with a score
of 28l Ohio State had an aggre
gate of 129b to 1360 for tho Ag
gies. The Cadets used this same
score against Xavier and it
good enough to win, ae that team
was able to tally only 1360.
The Aggie Fish also won aver
these two schools. The score: Fish
ISIS, Ohio Freshmen 1128. This
gave the Fish a 1268 to 1070 win
over tho Xavier shooters.
Some of the men have shown up
exceptionally well during spring
training are Phot, Herman, Mar
shall and Ed Robnett, Bill Dun
can, Moeer, Kimbrough, Hoary,
and Thomason.
Price is probebly the most im-
proved ball player on the lot. He
i a real honest-to-goodness triple
threat man now.
Norton .anys that Herman has
possibilities of making a center
at good aa Ki Aldrich. That Is
sayipgltot
Jhn Tho ms son looked exception
ally good pt blocking most of the
time. ‘1 4
Move than 2,000 people danced
at the Cornell University Junior
prom.
FAMIUAR FIGURE
Kanw Says Aggies Close Season by
Losing to Longhorns
G. F. Ashford, Here Since II
A Familiar Figure Around A. & M.
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Does the name George Praaklin
Ashford mean anything to you?
Probably not, but be is a fixture
here with the athletic department.
He has been around here longer
than anyone connected with the
cdllege, having put in his appear
ance here in 1868.
In 1888 Ashford came here and
helped sink the first deep water
well. It eras drilled near the present
standpipe. After a few yean he
left, but came hack In 1917 to take
charge of the barracks of the sol
diers who were drafted here for
war training.
He stayed here until 1920 aad
then left for one year. He came
hack in 11 aad worked for the
Building and Grounds department
through 16. In 17 he went down
to the athletic field aad weat to
work for Dana X. Bible. He has
served there under three coaches
now, Bible, BeU, and Norton.
Ashford makes all trips with
the football team. Hie duty Is to
take care ef the equipment Be
takes care of all the athletic equip
ment except the uniforms that
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He is the man who gives Kyle
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condition.
In T? there was a snow just
before the Turkey Day game with
Texas, but by game time the field
was dry, the sun was shining, and
no one could toll there had been
any snow in the stadium.
Ashford built the little gym end
the baseball stadium. He builds the
betting cages and most of the
other things that are used there.
He has a little work shop under
the west side of the stadium, snd
it la equipped for all kinds of work
He came here when the enrollment
was about 280 and haa soon it
grow into the major college it is
now. I
When asked how old he la, he
replied, “I am as young as the
youngest athlete."
When he is off with the football
team, the coaches call him “Tom
Cat” because when he finishes his
work be cant be found. Once one
of the coadhes trailed him, hoping
The Texas Aggies play their
firat baseball game of the year
here tomorrow against the second
team Aggie dia mondeers at 2 P. M.
The batteries:
For the regulars, Cennaly, pitch
er; Doran, catcher..
- For the Yannigans, Cohn, pitch
er; Kirkpatrick, catcher.
Before the game. Coach Karow
has announced that a few funda
mentals of baseball will be demo*-
straled. The double iteal-aqueese
play will also ba shown.
The game will be about a fhre-
Inring contest with the regular
pitchers and catcher workii* on
the second team, and the relief
pitcher* and catcher working on
the Varsity, ted Coe ton has agread
to umpire.
WILLIAMS ON FIRST
Captain “Slug” WUliama, a bet
tor thaa .300 hitter and All-Con
ference man, will be oa the initial
sack. Sophomore Jack Lindsey aad
“Chubby” Nolen <wil handle the
werk around the keystone bag.
while B< b Stone takes care of the
hot comer. The outer gardeners
will be “Slim” Timmerman in cen
ter. Dave Aisobrook In iaft, and
the conference hatting champion
Jack Cooper, In right Jack Doran
wil! be behind the plate string the
slants of Connely, Peden, Thrift,
and Miller.
The second team will find Scog
gins at first Handley at second.
Harrison at short, Parker at the
corner to the home stretch. More
land it right Tinker or Rice in
MBter, and Karcher in left Kirk
Patrick will receive for “Happy
Hooligan" Hal Welsh, Tony Polo-
navich, Harry Cohn, and Ralph
AUSTIN. March ,8.—Texas A. Af
M.’s eager* claaed their current
basketball season here last aight
With a loss to th^. University of
Texas Longhorns, 66 to St. the Ag
gies this season are re
only two garnet, both
agaiast the hapless T. C. U. Frogs.
The bog score:
A. A M. FG FT '
Tinker, f • 9
Smith, t 0
Duncan, f 0
Varner, f — 0 • 2
Dawwon. e S I
Carrigan, g ^...J 1
Wofford, g 0 1;
Lang, g __..J Si'
Wheelia, c —«—0 2
TOTALS ..—II 10 82 14
FG
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Hall, f ^—i_J
OranvUla, f. .. 3
Cooley, f . 4
Ffaley, t L-i
Tate, o . y
Houpt g 0
Spears, g ...... 0
Moers, g 1 3
Nelms, g
Wiggins, g 1
TOTALS . 30
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15 j
throws missed: Tinker t.
Wofford, Lang 8, Hull t.
Cooley, Melms 2, Tele.
Scot* st half: A. A M. 14, Ttaaa
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MORK GAMES ADDED
Karow has announced that so
more games have been added to
the schedule. On April 7 and
they play the Houston Buffalo-s
in Houston. On March 10 and 11
they play the Grand Pnae Brew
ers of Houston here. It toMMP
probable that they will piey the
Beaumont Exporters here March
16 and 17.
Marty lay* that he expects a tor
bettor race for the pennant this
year than the one last year. Ha
rates Texas at about their usual
strength. Rice bettor, T. G U. t> t-
ter, S. M. U. about the same, Bay
lor a little stronger, and the Ag
gies stronger due to added ex-
perienoe and more top-flight pitch-
era. [
Sam Ba**, star freshman pitcher
Twelve Aggies
Competing in
Border Olympics
Coach J. W. “Dough” Rollins
has nominated twelve of his thinly*
dad cinder men to make the trip
to Laredo where he has entered
them in the Border Olympics to
be held in that city today.
His teem will be headed by Co
captains Ralph Moser, 440 and re
lay man; and Claud Strother, dis
tance man.
Others wlp will make the trip
Include: William "Red” Cedi, hold-
of the state high school 100-
yard record of 9.6 seconds; Jerry
Faobion and Bruno Schroader, dis
cus lettormea; M. E. “Mickey”
Hogan, milar, letterman; Henry
“Blow” Potthast, javelin; Dick
Todd. 100-yard dash and 680 rainy,
letterman; Hmiry “Pally” Dito
man, mile relay, letterman; R. T.
"Bob" Kissinger, 880 relay; Har
vey Stroma, half miler and mile
relay, letterman; aad John Mc
Lean, 440 dash and mile relay,
letterman.
Strother will run the mile and
Moeer wil run in the 440 dash,
880 relay and mile relay. -
The mile relay team will indude:
ikLoaa/ Moeer, Dittman and
Su-rjngi. The 880 relay team will
have Todd, Cedi, Moeer, and Kis-
sin*W.
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to get the low-down, but found of Met year. In
The University of Georgia has
mned student hitch-hiking et
out for several night and has forbidden co-eds to
coaching to
Norton to
that he went to a picture show. :
He is the man who built the
tower that enabled Coach
continue hie coaching
during his years of Illness.
If you see any kind of a eoo-
Field a “face lifting” every year raption running around Kyle Field,
after footbiU season. He is the you can bat your last dollar Ash-
one that keeps the track, diamond, ford built it '
weeks with a broken finger.
hitch-hike at any time.
“T” Heads Have Worked Hard
in
Planning 3rd Annual All*
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three “T“ men who heed the “T”
Club. They arc Bruno ' Pur.” Sch-
roeder, president; Karl “Rocky”
M-TG-n*. vice president; land
Owen “Slick" Rogers, secretary
and traaaura* j]
These men have been active in
athletics at A. A M. for four yean,
aa is shown by the fact that Sch-
roeder won fish numerals in foot
ball and track, three vanity let*
A-
ton in football, and Is working on
his third letter in tnel^
Steffens won fish numerals in
football and track, and n varsity
letter in* football. He was firat
string gunrd in 7*
Rogers made numerals in basket
ball and football, and three var
sity letters In football He wai
first teem quarterback in 17 and
18.
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BY TOM DA1BOW *<
Aaririaat Sports 1
Last night to Austin, the Texas
Aggie tumbling team made their
last exhibition between the halves
of a basketball game. Three of
the 16 meir.b*T> of the club will
never again hear the roar of the
crowd as they perform on the
hardwood courts, for they are sen
ior* and will graduate to June
The tumbling teem has given ex
hibitions at all of the Cadet's
home games this year besides the
one in Austin.
The Tumbling team receives no
aid from the Athletic Department
aad pays all of Ha expenses. They
receive as honors from their parti
cipation -only the enjoyment they
gain from their own efforta. How
ever, in the past, the team haa
given exhibitions to Hotmton and
Belton and this year they have
been asked to be put on the pro
gram at La Grange aad Houston.
This years team includes 14 men,
from Mexico to Minnesota, snd
from Colorado to Texas. The three
seniors are J. D. A ugh try, Co-
Captain, W. R. Davie, Co-Captato,
and K. D. Bradshaw. Besides these
three there are five Junior*, four
a
sophomore*, and two freshmen.
THE GLEB CLUB WILL SING
for the morning aerricee of the
Methodist Church, campus, Sun
day, March 8*
Exclusive of the Christinas pro*
gram, this wtt be the firat appear
•nee of the dub. Director J. A
Woolket has announced that the
dub Is now open for engagements
both religious and secular.
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Saturday, Mar. 4th
6:30 end 8:30 P.M.
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