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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1939)
ONj KYLE FIELD BT E. C. “JKKP” O^TH Batulion Sparta Editor Coach Art. Adamaon’a atrintm loot a close meet over at fee Rouge last week. The trutfa of the matter is that they lest It by six inches in one of the races. Friday night ha takes his team to Waco where they will compete with teams from SJI.U. and Bay lor. A new eagle has K*-.-n ailii to the Thaakagiviag foothall game here next fall betwpen the Aggies and Texas Cniter- aity. It has been announced that thd game wil be dedicated to Jesse H. Jones of Heoatoa sad Chairman of the Reoon- straction Finance Corporation. Janas played a big part la getting the aatf dormitories for A. * M. aad it is fltttag that this game, the game of gaama for the Aggiea. ah on Id be dedicated to him. Hal Welsh looked very good pitching Saturday. In his other trips to the slak this year lie has been wild and has been belted hard. Loop Swat Tilt Thors but Saturday ha had the ball smoking and showed good control. The Aggie twhrlers have been rather slow in rownding into shape, hut it seems that they are about ready to go now. r The nine is shaping into a smooth unit now after appearing very rough in their first few games. Marshall Robaett meets McMill an arid Lori] meets Carson In heavyweight fights tomorrow night, Robnet is representing L Inf., McMillan A C.W.S, Loril B Coast, and Carson A C.W.S. Robnett won the heavyweight class as a freshman last year and will be favored to take the upper- clato title. “Rob” was strutting a- roand with a cats little girl by the name of Betty from Arkansas at the Infantry hop. It la understood that Roy Young, fins Aggie tackle of ’87. has with drawn from school and is working for the Bellow’s Construction Co. on the new dormitories. Rice polled a nice stent re- ' costly. They were going to ■sect the Aggies In a dual meet la Houston. A match be tween the two teams weald no doubt go the the Cadets be cause ef their better balanced team. Rice baa since invited North Texas Teachers aad Ok lahoma A. A M- to the meet. These two teams wil) win some of the events that wonld have gone to the Cadets aad (rill I Wave Mae's imiiwdual stars eaeogh events to taka first place. The Rice star* will still win their specialties, la which they are as goad as aay la the United States, hot the other teams will cot heavily into other events that would have aided the Aggie's score. Capt. Phil Enalow's pistol team will have their benefit show m the Assembly Hall Thuradhy and Fri- day night. The picture la “If I were Xing” and Is rated as a top picture. Ronald Coleman la starred. The pistol team got a scare in o»e of their recant matches. They won by only four pc into. Battalion filports COLLEGE STATION MARCH 21, 1*39 Aggies Take Third in Southwestern Exposition Track and Field Meet Gooch “Dough” Rollin’s Cadet, thinly-clmds grabbed third place behind Texas and Oklahoma A. A M. Saturday tat the university div ision of the Southwestern Exposi tion Track and Raid Meat ia Ft. Worth. Ralph Moaer and Ed Dreias were the Aggie first place winners. Moser ran the 440 in M flat for a new division record on the track. Dreism won the 220 low hurdles In C4.S. Texas led all the way and finish ed with 64 S/g points. Oklahoma A. A M. was second with 37, Texas A. A M. was third with 33 1/2, T. C. U. followed with 8, Baylor was next with 7 2/8, and S. M. U. and Tulsa tied for last with neither team scoring. Dreias was second to Gatewood of Texas in the 120 high hurdles. Cecil was third in the 100 yard dash. Hogan was fourth in the mile run. Dreias tied for fourth ia the high Jump. Schroeder was second and Faubkm was fourth in the dis cus. McLean was fourth in the Moaer winning 440. Dreias took third in the pole vault, and Schroeder took second in the shot. Cecil and Todd took third in the 220 dash. The Aggie relay team finished behind Oklahata A. A M and Texas. Gatewood, star hurdles end dash man of Texas pulled a muscle in the special 100 meter race and may be lost for the rest of the season. IOWA ASSISTANT Coach Anderson To Announce Twelfth Texas Relays Cross country coach Frank An derson has been selected for head announcer fbr the Twelfth Texas Relays to be held in Austin April 1. Clyde Littlefield, popular track coach of Texas, has announced the relays for the past several years, but has been ordered by his phy ms not to participate in his relays in any way this season. TTm ble Littlefield is recovering rapidly from a near-fatal attack of neumonia. Coach Anderson has been c nectod with track In this sect for many years and should prove s By Jack, SordU "apideq BAc* Field CoACA M -file- U»*n?«srry op IOWA, AttfStiAlfr ae-AP oatol OR Aggies and Baylor Bears Opening Southwest Conference Games laylor Beam, second plan AGGIES DEFEAT' UNIVERSITY POLO TEAM HERE 9-5 * An unofficial University of Tex as polo toaim the Austin All-Stars, provided the Texas Aggie riders with their first victory of 11 here Sunday afternoon, 9-C. Tied at 4-4 at the start of the sixth chucker, the Aggies uncov ered a' five goal rally that gave them the gasse. Asa Jones, Cadet No. 2 man, got four goals and Cap*. Forrest Jor dan, No. 3, 3. High scorers for the Austin team were Vohres and Arm strong with two each. Cushman counted the other while Copeland weqt scoreless. Aggies -l 110 1 6—8 All-Stars 0 * 0 2 0 1—6 Umpire: Jack HsQrem The Baylor team in the conference diamond race last seasesi, srill play the Ag- r>««. third place victors, here Thursday and Friday afternoons with the games being called tor 4 o’clock. Saturday afternoon. Coach Mar ty Karow sent ^ his charges through s long i •ng the it conference •teWAs-rde- qOMHERBACK or kdUTE aoCMdg'S usr •JoTR-r o*Me- team a*jp woo au- AMeaiCAd dodops - ms Ado 1930 CARIOR) ►Us / / Map Ptalfy of ' I CoAOUAko BtPERiedCfc., ' MA'/idO SCRVEO 4Y Rjf?c>oe, Missouri ( aaid UST Ar Mississippi Stat*- Aggies Lose Close dual Swimming Match to LSU Tigers in Baton Bouge the Cadets went to Waco for I _ the short aad of both scores. ] laylor trimmed the Cadets 7 to 6 n the first fray and then halted th* Aggies 11 to 7 la the second, lister in the season Morley Jennings brotight his Bears here for a game and the Aggie swatters beat |hem 8 to 1. The hitting of Stone, Nolen, and Cooper ha* been good. Bui’the swatting of D ive Alsobrook and Bob Williams has bean far off of their usual beg^r than .300 hittil^.i All four of; the games that the Cadets have lost this year have been on the' Wildness of pitchers snd the inability to sand base run ners around. |A total of 24 run ners were left stranded against Beaumont an<| 18 died on base in the two Grand Prize frays. Karow was Well pleased with the work of Hal 'Welsh in Saturday's practice gamy. Marty say* that Hal had his fgat bail fairly smok- this right, the team has won 20 ing. He will probably sea service out of its. 90 matches. in the coming' series. A. A M. has defeated Rose Poly The CsdoW have been rather Inst-, Missouri Schol of Mines slow about rpunding intn shape, ■ Pittsburg. Polytechnical Inst, of but during the past fVw d,y, they Brooklyn, New Mexico A. A M have come along b*r leaps snd MonUns State. Drexel Institute bounds. The pitcher*, who have LeHigh. Iowa State, Kemper. Mich- been wild, hate settled down, and igsn Mining Tech., U. of Maine, the play of the inner defense is Colorado. U, of Iowa, Idaho. New functioning rhorn smoothly. Merico Military Inst. Co, College u for k * u win prob abIy Tte \ , n u * ^ Alsobrooli If; J. Linder2b; TTwy lost to BortonU. M.ry- ^ ^ J as; Coop-w, snd. Cornell, Waahmgton State Timmermln. ef; WillUm., U; n ^ rr ^ Kirkpstr.ck, c and the pitcher who u. ° t a lh ** been decided on yet. State, and Oklahoma A. A M. : ! ' RIFLE TEAM IS . EUGIBLE TO FIRE IN NATIONAL MEET The Aggie rifle team has tied for third* place in the Eighth Corps Area in rifle shooting, and is en titled to firs in the. National In tercollegiate matches^ which will got under way Monday. In winning The Texas Aggie swimming team lost a close dual match to the Louisiana State Tigers at Baton Aouge, La., Saturday, 48-32 with the victory going to LSU when Gene Fowler, Tiger spring man out-reached Harold Hensley, Aggie stay, by six inches to win the 940- relay, and sat a new tank record. The medley relay also produced a new Tiger tank record when the Aggie team composed of Paul Spaugh, 1 breast stroke); Haasiey, (free style); and Eddie Johnson, (hack stroke) swam the 180 yards in 1:474. The new time for the 240 relaw was 2:084 Another pool record was set when Eddie Johnson, swimming ia the 164 backstroke race,' covered the distance in 1:48. Following the meet the Aggies played an intra-squad water pole game as a demonstration. LSU does- eat have such a team so a match gams could not ha played. LOOP CAGE FLAG ACROSS CONTINENT Carrying the banner, of the Southwest Conference, the Univer sity of Texas basketball team trained late Wednesday for San Francisco to compete in the West ern N. C. A, A. tournament. Their route to Treasure Island, Golden Gate exposition site where the tournament will be held, takas dramatization Is baaed. Dr. Ashton them through El Pa*o Tur*on and ■hows proof that Ferdinand De Um AngulUe They plan to return Purdue Presents Historical Play By Dr. Ashton Dr. Ashton, formerly of Mia- art. was for years on the staff of the Breeder’s Gasette, leading livestock journal. He has written numerous articles on the history of livestock in North America, and is aa authority on that subject. In bulletin on ‘The History of Hogs in Missouri”, upon which the FIVE sophomores at a New Kngland university had' been assigned to report on the residential district* of a southern city, its principal pnxlucts and the location of Its plantations. [ , Hour after hour they thumbed through book after book in the library —all to no svaiL Then one of them had a happy idea—why not telephone the city’s MaytarT They did—and in a few minute* had all the informs hen they needed. No matter what the ijuration—fat college, in social life, in business — you’ll find -the telephone ia often the quickest, moat economical way to get the V^6CA06HTUP IfTH PRINCE AU* HOW 00*00 U ^-SMOKINe 1 I'M SUF£ plemty Of ^AStVSM^ OF (M* p,p 5, NOW F ILL up with Prince Albert, men - flU up with real pipe-joy! Hare is choice tobacco-backed up by a “no-bite” process that assures plenty of COOLNESS and MELLOWNESS to point up good, rich taste. Aad P. A. wins a cheer for its slew burning, easy drawing too. No clogging. No sogginaaa. P. A.'s choice tobaccos are “crimp cut” to pack easier and pi RIGHT. Around 60 pipefuls of extra-mild, fragrant smoking ia every big red pocket tin of Prince Albert. Climb aboard! SO MILO SO TASTY SO nUORANT MBlRr Soto landed ia Florida with his ax- tion and 300 hogs on May 12, 1680, aad in 1640, Da Soto drove his hogs into Missouri. Due to the large number of men in the pony, however .there was not enough pork to go around, and aa a result many ift the men died of what we now know as pellagra. Fringe Albert THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE Meet Summary: 60-yard freertyls—George Fow ler, LSU, first; Truman Setliffe, LSU. second; John Couch, A. A M. third. Time: :26.5. 100-yard breast stroke—Haul Spaugh, A. ( A M., first; C. E. Arm strong, A. A M., second; Harold Bronatein, LSU, third. Time: 1.18.1. 660-yard free style—Ed Millet, LSU, first; Ty Hall. A. A M, sec ond; L. D. Wtnts, LSU, third. Tima: 6:324. 160-yard Backstroke—Ed John son. A. A M., if rat; AI Kleinpetar. LSU, second; Jimmy Rees, LSU, third. Time: 1:49 (new pool ord). !. Iv t 100-yard free style—Fowler, LSU. first; Harold Hensley, A. A M, second; John Semngo, LSU, third. Time: :674. Diving (throe meter board)—B. W. Wax, LSU, first; “1 Reeves, A. A M., ascend; Paul Ket- elaon, A. A M., third. Winner ad 180 points 220-yard free style—Millett, LSU, first; Hall. A. A M„ second Wintx, LSU, third. Ttanp: 2:344. 180-yard medley relay—A. A M (Johnson. Spaugh and Hanatey) first; LSU, second. Time 1:474. (Now tank record). 240-yard tree style relay—LSU (Fowler, Setliffe, John Sams aad Tom Dock), first; A. A second Time 9484. (New pool record.) Officials: Jim Funny, timer; Bob Scoaroa,- scorer; Beany Ruhl and Lynn Sherrill, finish Judge*. by way of Salt Lake City, Colo rado Spring* and Amarillo. On the w*y out they will prac tice at El Paso and Los Angelas. Forming the official party w Coach Jack Gray, TYainar M. Kelley. Student Manager Milton Schwarts apd the following play ers: Capt. Willie Tata aad W. D. Houpt, cantors; Thurman Granville. Elmer Finley, Denton Cooley, Joe Roach and 1 neth King, forwards; Bobby ! Oran Spear*. 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