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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1939)
11 ON VPPP KYLE FIELD BY R. C “JEEP" OATES BktUlioa Sporta Editor Thii week-end the “bit r*M” of t»i« college* of the SouthweifcoB- ference will decide if they will take Texae Tech into the c»nf*TiT>c<> It is almost certain that they will not, however. Of the best feeds that this writer has ever stUnded was pat on by Dr. George Summey Wed- ***d»y night in honor of the pistol The rifle teem has received word that they finished second in the O. T. C. Engineers matches. Oklahoma A. A M. was first, the TnMM Aggie, second. The Cadets here have won the trophy twice end noed to win it only once more to t* able to keep it. ■ Incidentally, the Aggie freshman baseball team beat the Texas fresh men Wednesday by a score of 6 to S, bat lost a night game to a high school in Austin 7 to 6. Char- W* Stevenson was the winning pit- Pennant-Winning Steers Will Meet Aggies Twice Unde Billy Disch. with the pennant already in his haad, will bring his Ixmghom baseball team to College Station for games with the Aggies Monday and Tuesday, with the tilts doe to Mart at 4 b’clock The Aggies went to Austin earlier in the season and the Steers trimmed their ears 18 to «, but that was in the tricky Texas park, and the Aggie yelling corpajmns not there Several times Uncle Billy has brought his team here only to see Tony Pelaaovich of the baa* hall team was swarded a watch > by the Petroleum Engineering department for having pie best grains ia that department far the last three years. Ed Dreiaa of the track team and “Greek” Given of the tennis team Were Bfrea handbooks for fcidors having the best grades for two year* “Dough” Rollins picks hip Ag gies to some out third in the finals of the track meet tomorroir. We will have to agree With the coach. He picks Rice for first and Texas for second. J;X * ,! «t | * I 1 Thursday and Friday the Aggie nine will go to Brenham where they will play Texas in two games ia the ••7 feta there. The two games will nof count in the con ference, but they will give the Ag- giee some relief if they can win them. them driven cresy by the yelling* of the CadMl and that is just about what R is going to take for the Aggies to win here next week. The Longhorns ate strong on the mound, in the field and at bat; bah. the Aggies are also strong. Most of the Aggie-Steer games have b.m fire-scoring af fairs and this year should prove no exception Mel vis Deutsch will pruoably op pose Ralph Lindsey on the mound in the first game, but it is probable that neither of them dill go the rdNE' Deutsch has been the main stay of the Steer twirling staff this season, but he was routed when the Aggies met him in Aus tin. Sam Baas will probably go Sfninst Ned McDonald in the sac- ond fr^f. .McDonald is an ex perienced pitcher and shoqld give the Cadets a lot of trouble. ' One of the bright things for the Aggies la the hitting 1 of late, of Bob Williams Against the Progs he hammered the "rock” all orer the lot. Pugh, Alsobrook. Nolen, end Cooper are also hitting well Aggies Have Good Shot at ’40 Title attle with Londioms ’rT Battalion lit STATION MAT », 1S» Sports COLLEG Aggie Water Polo Team Has Stayed On Top Since Art Adamson Came Here la 1986 Arthur Adamson joined* ^ the coaching staff of the Aggie*, after five years of service as ama teur coach at the Houston Y. M. C. BY E C “JEEP” OATES Battalion Sparta Bitter When old and new students ar rive next fall their first questions will be about the chances at the Aggies in foetball. The conference football race will be tough. 8. M. U. had a powerful team last season that was co posed of sophomores and with an added year of experience they art going to be strong. Rice had an unbeatable machine in ’37 that was composed of sophs, but they ran into the injury jinx last season and finished with the also rant. They will have that same bunch of boys back next season a with Cordill and L*ia in old time form they are going to be rough AGGIE PICTURE BRIGHT That ii the dark side of the pic tore, but the silver lining morv than offsets this. There will be three Idttermen ends back. They The Steers will probably start are J M white, 190 pound lad who Haas in right, Moers oh third, has lettered for two years. Herb Preil in center, Evans at second,, 8,,,^ {or ^ j** Conway at short. Hill on first,, end the Cadets have had id rears I-..,, ta Wi. Erne* UcWM wNI b. b -Sc™ In* catching and Deutsch pitching. Coach Marty Ksrow will prebab- ly start Alsobrook m center, Nolen at short. Stone on third, Pugh in left. Cooper In right. Williams on pitching. j * Many has been the time when a The golf and tennis teams are Texas pitcher’s “death march* was In Houston at conference meet, started every time he started for today. The Aggies will the mound an dhe was enable to either of them, hut they will not find the ptmaer sgth the ball and be in last place either. . jhad to be taken out of tfie game. will be b there. “Scrap I rod" Dun can will be fighting for a Starting position. Added to these lettermen will be “Big Dog” Dawnon who stands 6 foot 6 inches and earriis 226 pounds. “Dog' 1 lett.-ed as a first, Jeffrey or Lindsey og second, tackle last season. Junior Darby, Doran catching apd’Ralph Lindsey another 6 fool 7 inch lad, 1 will be phvftMdM* At tackle will be All-( osference Joe Boyd. Joe Is pointing for All- American this time. He made sev eral selections on the third team last season. On the other side of Before he became oeach here he played water polo and swam for the Houston Y. M. C. A., Dlinois Athletic Hub Olympic Qub, Wtto- ciub In New Zealand, and Pirate* Club of New Xeelond He won the 100-yard free style championship of New Zealand in 1936 and held it through 1927, and net record of 67.2 seconds in the 100-yard and 1:03.4 in the 100 meter free style events. In 1938 he played with the Illi nois Athletic Club watar polo team which lost the national champion ship to the New York Athletic Chib. That was the last time he tasted defeat as a player or a coach at the game until the single loss for the junior National A. A. U. title in 1938 when the Aggies took second p!ac« Adamson was born in London, England, In 1906 and has since liv ed in Canada and New Zealand be fore coming to the United States. He is chairman of the Gulf Ceast A. A. U. Swimming Committee and is also a member of the National A. A. U. Last season he took his Aggies to the national water polo meet in St Louis and took second place. This year he took them back to St Louis and captured the national title. The team has met the best swim mers that Texas has to offer this year and have defeated them twice, i Some of the Texas swimming coach#* even played for their team. Aggies Defeat . TX.IL in Ball I Game Here 18 to 8 but woM atfll beaten. Phre home runs, most of them with men on base*, coupl.-d with a desen single, and two baggers, last dosen siagteu and two-baggerm, her* Wednesday afternoon clinched second place in the Southwest Con ference' me* for Coach Marty Ka- row’s Texas Aggies when they de feated T. C U. 18 to 8. The five Aggie hits going for the circuit wure made off the willows of Alsobrook, Stone, Nolen, Pugh,' and Williams led the Aggie attack with four for five. Aggie iett^Mlir Jack Cooper stole home twice on Duckworth and Dave Alsobrook pilfered three bases. The winning pitcher was Walter Bass, although he was knocked from the box in the seventh. He was relieved by Ralph Lindsey who came in with the base, load ed and pitched ouly to two Horned Prigs, Sorrel, and Cowart, both of them greeting him with' hita, the latter a too-bane knock. Lefty Har ry Cohn relieved UnRsey and re tired the side without further earn age. The Aggie* were still in the lead. however, having scared in the second, two in the third, one in the fifth, and five in the sixth. T. C. U brought the count to 9-7 with the six-run rally in the sev enth, having scored one in the fourth. Museum Hours ( hanged for IM. 0 M. Ball, curator of A. A M. Museum, this weak nounced his intention of out a plan to keep the open on Sunday for the of students and their visitor* a plan was recently reqnsated sn editorial of The Battalion Dr. Ball said: “The Museuir operated for the benefit of A. SO what the student, want, try to give them." The Museum will be open Patti day afternoon from t to 4 a^l Sunday from 10 a. m. to noon apl from 2 until 6 p. m r trtf Austin this weekend. 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Both of thoae boy. tip the beams at around 220, pound*. There are capable reserve, for both men. LOTS OF MATERIAL Guard* will be Marshall Robnett and “Rock” Audish. both letter- men. Audish is going te .haw to fight to keep Ed Robm-tt, brother of Marahall, from beating kirn out Marshall Robnett goes over 200 pounds and can do most anything The renter job ia goiag’to be a fight between Vaughn. Herman and Haussg, three junior]m|fenRtok| All of them haw plenty Tll flfhl and haatle. In the barkfield the atttterial is three deep for every ^ -iti. >. “Big John” Kimbrough, *tho ruin ed many a line last season, will be a fullback. He carries around 220 pounds of TNT. The rougher it gets the better JohnjMHh it He is good for three yards through any line, including a concrete walk He will be the AH Conferwice hill- hack when the smoke is cleared “Cotton” Price, a hard ruimer and a good passer will he at quar ter. He will be a senior. Mo.sr, u sophomore, will be at oae half. He could have won four freshmen nu merals this year if he had tried. He won nuaMrals hi foothx.l, bas- ketball and track, and copld haw picked up one in bavrbalk He will tryto letter ia four sport* next year and become the fir*t Aggie ewr to get letters in four sport* in one year. He can pass and punt and run, and is the fastest man on the team. Jim Thomason, hard blocking. Marioa Pugh led off the seventh with s circuit knock over the left field wall, -flooper walked and scor ed ahead of William, who perked one high up ia the ceaterfield sta dium. Jeffrey walked and moved hard running letterman will hTthej 10 thlrd on Dorm, ‘ ,> **** to right, fourth nan in the starting hack- * nd Kor ' d ? bunt Alto field. He was the beat blocker on bn>ok • nd Nolen walked filling the team last season. 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