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‘ BY E. c “JEEP- OATES
Ibttalioa Sports Editor
Afgis inUrest was turasd tow
ard Houston when Jos Routt made
his debut as a professional W*. r
Tue * d *T nifht Jos won the match
in just under two minutes of the
first round. There have been all
Kinds of remarks made about the
match by different Ones who saw
it There were many cheers and a
few boos when the match was
pear, , - ' • j.
• To our refret soate of the hot-
in* fans say that Joe will not fo
far in boxinf if he does not im
prove a lot
The Affie golf team is getting
in shape for the conference match
es at Houston next *eek. The con
ference teams will h*re a two-day
session Thursday sod Friday at
the Braehurn eouraa TUce and Tex
as will give most of the competi
tiun.
There was aa error shout
the piste! team bsmjuet ea this
page last week. This banquet
Is to be fives by Dr. George
• Summey in honor of the pistol
team. By the way. Dr. Bam me y
is one of the best pi-toi shots
Rice Wins
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Conference
Ed Dreiss Frightens
Wolcott in 220 Hurdles
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With three fifst places to his
credit. Prod Wolcott led lis Rke
Owls to 69 Vfc points while Texas
scoring 69 1/9 and the Texas
Aggies were garnering SI 1/S. This
Rice victory in the “little confer
ence" meet establishes them as
the fsvoritee to conquer the confer
ee for the title here next weak.
Besting tbe star Texas runner,
Boyce Gatewood, in the 100 dash,
and both hurdles, Wolcott scored
16 >4 points for high honors. ,
Gilliam Graham, who had boon
counted oa by Texas to win the
javeUa toss, eras unable to com
pete because of an arm injury.
In the freshman division, the
Texas Yearlings finished first with
85 points, the Aggie Fish
second with 45, and the Owletts
tapM with 19.
Wolcott's roommate, Joe Blagg,
ran an almost dead heat with the
-flying Dutchman” in the century
dash. Oscil was foarth in a 9.9
dash.
Ed Dreiss of the Aggies ran sec
ond to Wolcott in the 220 hurdles
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Rice won nine out of the 10 track
events. Claude Strother of the Ag
gies took the two-mile canter in
10:19.2.
One of the highlights for the Ag
gies was the javelin toesing of
their -big throe” Marshall Rob-
nett, Henry Potthast and Jude
Smith. All of these lads tossed the
pole better than 190 feet
Ed Dreiss gave Fred Wolcott
e of the biggest scares of his
life in the 220 hurdles. Dreiss was
lees than a step behind at the fin
ish.
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VARSITY EVENTS
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Battalion Sports
COLLEGE STATION
MAY S, 1939
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Gass ‘A’ Intramurals in Last Stretch;
Flag Race Mayibe “Dead Heat” Inn
Hooa.
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ia this Reck ef the weeks. The
banquet will be held May 10,
st which time the Wttenaes of
the Less* wil he aaaoaRced.
-Banm” Smith has been doing
*om»- great catching for the Aggie
Fish baseball team this season. He
ban caught Stevenson’s strike-out
slants and has also bees rapping
the ball at the plate.
In Wednesday's tilt with tbe Bay
lor Cuba, u Bama n almost fainted
when a ball came across the plate
for a called strike. Tbe ball was
cutting up so much that “Bama"
took a look st the ball when he
One sure thing
In these days
Of uncertainty
Is the way yomW
Men like
Mansfields.
Another:
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BY HI B JOHNSON 4
CIsm A intrsmurslt entered the
"last go-round" this week as the
softball play-off began. Tbe first
game of the final series ended with
G Infantry holding the top side of
an 8-6 score over the ArtiDary
Band. Bill Nash wad die winning
pitcher and also accounted for two
runs for his team.
Last week’s three-way tie in
League A was decided in a play-off
that declared A Engineers the rep
resentatives. The Engineers won
the decision by a T-4 win over C
Field Artillery. The Artillery boys
had eliminated the third team, C
Cavalry, in a previous game.
Two games are scheduled fer
todsy and the remainder will be
played the first pert of next week.
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PAY LATER
Small Deposit
SAM KAPLAN
Bryan
At this Iste sUge of the season,
a tie for the Class A championship
is visible. 1 Hq Field Artillery now
stands on the records with 06
points and A Field Artillery has
690 points. If A Battery, wins its
first game in the softball play-off.
15 points will be added to the books
and throw,the two batteries into
a tie. In the event that Battery A
wins the softball title, it' will be
declared the Class A champions
by a narrow margin ef five points.
had it in his hands. He muttered,
-no wonder”, when he saw it and
umpire McNeely grabbed the
When the ball was tossed out of
game, it was noticed that there
a big cut in the dover. A few
utes before, the ball had hit
edge of a drain and been cut
Stevenson said that no one wotd<
ever hit the ball if they would |e
him throw that kind of a pill.
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The conference track meet
wfM be held here Friday aai •
Saturday next week. There will
be aa admiseioa charge of S>0f
and 26c. AU student* will be
admitted for 25f. It is a corn
fereace rale that these meets
are to be charged fer; so cou
pon books will net be honored.
Seam of the beet track ami
field athletes ia the country
are expected to he at this meet.
“Muttering" Karow and his base-
ballera will have T. C. U. here
next Wednesday. T. C. U. will be
their last opponent until they start
their four game siege with Texas
May 15. The Cadets will play
Texas two conference games on
the 16th and 16th and then will
play them two games in Brenham
on the 17th and 18th.
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E Field Artillery is scheduled to
meet G Infantry to decide another
entry into the play-off matches in
the Class B tennis tournament. Tbe
winner of this match will meet'B
Infantry in one of the quarter-final
matches. Other teams and their op
ponents in the final ran of the
matches are B Field Artillery
against D Cavalry, 0 Cbast Artil
lery opposing C Field Artillery,
and 2 Hq Field Artillery facing C
Cavalry.
PISTOL CHAUPS
LEAVE FOR NATCH
The pistol t< an which is alroady
*ure of at least a tie for the inter
collegiate championship, will journ
ey to Hous’c tomorrow where it
will meet some of the best teams
in the state at the Bayou Rifles’
invitation meet
Two kinds of matches will be fir
ed at the range, which is located
near the Southern Pacific railroad
station in the Bayou City. In the
slow fire matches the men will fire
in teams of two men each. C. A.
Lewis and L. C. Ketmemer will be
the Aggiee’ hopes in this part of
the fray. Both men fired 199 out
of a possible 200 on their home
nge in practice.
In the match under police rules,
in which the teams fire ten rounds
each at slow, timed and rapid fire,
the Cadets will enter their regular
team that has carried them to the
top college circles.
Captain Phil Enalow, coach of
the team, has announced that he
will carry the following to the
ches: Bob and Gene Shields,
L. C. Kenn^ner, C. A- Lewis, W.
A. Becker, J. T. Ashford and J. M.
Singleton.
Tbe water polo Class B cham
pion* might crime from just about
any organization on the calendar
as (fm teams are reviving from
the heavy strain of the fast moving
and tiring games. Batteries B of
the Coast Artillery and E Field
Artillery art definitely ia line for
top place or tie for Urn top in
League A and B respocthfely. Both
have four wins and have yet one
game to play. All other teams in
their leagues have lost at least one
game. The top teams in other L
gues include C Infantry with three
wins and no losses, A Field Artil
lery with the same record as C
Infantry, B Chemical Warfare tied
with E Infantry with two wins and
oae lots, and D Cavalry tied with
B Infantry each with one loss.
The play-off in the freshmen
softball league will begin the first
of next week with Regimental
Headquarters Field Artillery aad
A Chemical Warfare Service play
ing the first of the series. The win
ner of this game will play 0 In
fantry for chance at the title.
A Coast Artillery will meet B
Field Artillery In a quarter final
game. Winner of this contest will
face F Engineers to decide the op-
poser for the winner of the upper
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Rifle Team Gets
Ranking: With Top
Teams of Country
With a rating in the top half
°f crack rifle teams of the country,
the A. A M. rifle squad celebrated
the dose of the season with Ha
annual banquet last night.
The .team has fired in some 80
intercollegiate matches this season
and has carried off 20 first places.
These matches were held between
A. A M. and some of the most
outstanding teams of the United
States, fifteen of these rating as
top teams in both varsity and mili
tary competition.
In the Hearst Trophy Match
which ia open to all military schools
in the Eighth Corps Area, made up
of Texas, New Mexioo, Arixona,
Oklahoma, and Colorado, the Ag
gie team captured second place,
with New Mexico Military Insti
tute taking first. The score was
one thst would appear ia no other
place than a story. The "prairie”
team one point higher than the Ag-
The New Mexico team scored
921 ioiats, out of a possible 1,000,
to the Aggies’ 920.
engineer section of the
has entered the rifle con
test held by the Society of Ameri-
cha . Military Engineers, but the
outcome has not yet been de-
Their score was recorded
oufti of B possible 4,000,
which is a higher mark than was
set by the winner of last year’s
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Winning third place in the pre-
limhuur match for the National
Intercollegiate Most, the Aggie
team placed second in competition
FISH WIH 9 TO 1;
OVERBRIM CUBS
Although the Aggie Fish were
out hit seven to su they took full
advantage of ever* break aad con
verted breaks, stjategy aad hit*
into nine runs to trim the Baylor
Cube 9 to 1 here Wednesday after
noon. Charlie Stevenson eras on
the hill for the Aggie* and struck
out eight of the Baylor freshmen.
He retired the sfcf in the first in
ning on
Duncans pitchdf for the Cubs
and was effective, until the fourth
inning when the (ish scored three
rum without y. tting a hit In the
seventh the Fudfi got to hitting
and ran up W tallies. In the
eighth they add' d two more runs
to completo the Rearing for the day
Baylor got theif only run in the
third fraami . ' j <
The Aggies w lorried the Cub
catcher all af tern Mm, stealing eight
bases off him. TNs C ub* were able
to pilfer only one^saek off "Bams
Smith, the star j Hsh catcher, who
was also the lei King Fish hitter
wit!h-a double ar^ a single to his
credit.
Allen was the CMf. noise in the
Cub attack. He doubled his first
two times up ajid later added a
single.
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The Cubs wei r hurt by eight
errors, while th j Fish held their
miscues to three.:;
Stevenson had Jots of stuff on
the ball and some^sf the Cubs look
ed foolish when t|p> ump called the
third strike on n*ny of thorn. Dun
can hit three Rsh with pitched
tmlls. Eight
Cub twirier.
Tennis Team
To End Season
In Houston Meet
' The Aggie Tennis team will of
ficially wind up its season oa May
1142-18 at th* Southwktt Con
ference Tennis Tournament ia
Houston. This team of Mitchell,
I)«nton. Given, Adams and Camp
bell, with Coach Manning Smith,
will make the trip.
All schools ia the Sbuthwert
Conference will enter
ment. Guernsey, of
top-seeded net man
favorite to take th*
This year's tennis team emerg-
i from the past season with three
wins, three ties, and four losses.
All the men who played this year
will return next year, this will
give A. A M. a seasoned squad
of veterans and prospect* for one
of the best teams in many yflBis.
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Frogs’And Aggies
Meet on Golf Course
In Dual Mitch Today
Hie Aggie ani T. C. U. Horn-
frog golf tearngi hit the course
early tins morning in the final
inter-team matcl( before the con
ference meet. j •
The contc-t • -day will give both
teams a bit of liMbering-up for the
Southweat Conference Meet to be
held in HoustoM next Thursday
and Friday. The Jneet will be held
on the Braebuns; Course^ *
at 8:30 ThursdaR morning.
Hie A. .V M. tifrm on the-course
today, aa4 ent^kag .next week's
meet, is compos.Nj of Bill Livings
ton, Jack Gourlty, Tommy
ards, Henry Hauslr, and "Pi
Paggi,
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NUDE NOGGlt: LiLst money
making freak Stunt to supplement
the gold fish snd phonograph rec
ord esting contests of coll.-gums
comes from Ohio-State. Last week
Ernest R. HennsrbHum. a sopho
more, had his hsiA clipped off neat,
ly and smoothly |or a |8 bill do
nated by his tBu Epsilon Phi,
brethren if he’d go through with
the dare. Hair t«Mk manufactur
will prosper as never before if this
idea goes the w*f of th* gold fish
gulping contests.'
|TwmA| five pec cent of the Holy
Croee College student body srt
studying Greek ia the originsl
Th* first degree-grBatiag, pool
graduate school in the U. 8. de-
voted entirely to insursnee train
ing has been founded ja Hartford,
Conn.
in the Eighth Corps ktm, once
again falling behind th* New Mex
ico Inattm* *>1 » narrow margin.
Of the 14 members of Urn team,
seven have qualified for letters by
firing in 76 per cent of the matches
ia which th. > are eligible and hold
ing a year's average of 164 of a
poaaibl* 400. Tha#* lettermen in
clude team captain R. L Miller;
A. S. Mitchell, It B. Hodgee, C.J.
Weimer, Bert Burns, C. A. Lewis,
and W. f. Guy, 1 , ,
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