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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
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BAc* Field
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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
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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
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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*. Warren
Tommy N*lm» and UdsO
PALACE
NEW DIXIE
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