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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Hub Johnson (Pinch-Hitting)
AGGIE DIAMOND MEN OPEN
PRE - SEASON SCHEDULED
HERE FRIDAY.
Coach Mart Karow’s nine will
open the 1940 season here Friday
evening at 4 o’clock with the
Grand Price Club of Houston. A
second game will be played Satur
day evening at 1:15 p. m.
RICE CAGERS CHAMPIONS
The Rice Owls carried off the
basketball championship Tuesday-
night by nosing out the Texas
Longhorns with a narrow margin
of one point, the score standing
42 to 41.
Bobby Moers turned against his
home-town team and ran up the
highest for the night, sixteen
points, and held Frank Carswell
to but two field goals.
Bobb Kinney, sophomore center
for the Owls who reaches almost
to the rafters, took charge of the
board for the champs and scored
fifteen points.
Fouls and field goals were un
doubtedly the downfall of the Tex
as five.
TRACK TEAM ROUNDS INTO
SHAPE.
New members to the track team
are creeping out every now and
then. A few days ago James
Prowell, a junior college trans
fer and an eligible participant this
year, appeared on the field in ten
nis shoes and slacks and cleared
the pole vault bar for eleven feet
six inches.
March 8 and 9 the team will
make its annual trip to Laredo for
the Border Olympics. This will be
the first real test for the crew.
FOOTBALL STILL HERE, AS
SHOWN IN MANY WAYS.
Talk has already begun to flow
wild and many predictions have
been made for the coming season
and yet just a few months
the Aggies hung up their hf
for a bit of rest, six weeks
and still the congratulations
In this month’s “Allied
Coach Homer Norton sub.
fitting article praising t’
ders. It was titled “So r l
gies Won.” An editor’-
praised the story as a tri,
a winning team by the
made it.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, I
ion
9 Primary Em
Sports
PAGE 5
GREAT NUMBERS
FEW MONTHS.
The eleven minor sports remain
ing on the seasonal schedule will
be making their appearances in
the next few months. Much hon
or should be given these teams as
many boys practice many hours at
their respective games. Many of
these sports are those which take
many years to perfect and to con
quer rather than a short training
period to round off the rough
edges.
The tumbling team which has
given a great performance this
year will end its period Saturday
night at the Texas Aggie-Texas
Longhorn game.
After Saturday night the squad
men of both the Texas Aggies and
the Texas Longhorns will hang up
their suits and put away their rub
ber-soled shoes for some time;
many will do so for the last time.
The Longhorns lost their last
game to the Rice Owls by one
point and the Aggies dropped their
last to the S. M. U. Mustangs.
To the Texas team a win would
merely add another win to the
cinch for second place. To the Ag
gies, it would mean a closing win
to re-establish the lull the Aggies
went into some five games ago.
Texas boasts of a great team
and it will take all the Aggies
can give to beat out the boys from
forty acres.
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tics Galore, Join Or See
Del Courtney’s bJ^-A ggie Tumbling Team
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A full afternoon of sports events
will be staged in the Kyle Field
area with the highlight being the
final football game of the training
season for the championship of
the squad. Admission will be 50
cents for adults and 25 cents for
students and children.
Gates at the field will open at
one o’clock and the baseball team
will stage a game against Grand
Prize Brewers, Houston, on Kyle
Field diamond at 1:15 o’clock. Fol
lowing that Coach Norton will take
over on Kyle Field and introduce
his 1940 Aggie grid squad. A
series of foot races between the
players according to position will
follow and then the final race
to find the fastest man on the
team. All players will compete in
full football equipment.
With that event out of the way,
the two top teams in the Winter
Training League will tie into each
other. The two bottom teams will
turn their players over to the two
teams in action so that all of the
members of the squad can see some
action.
In the past the Sports Day has
attracted a large crowd and Joe
White, letterman end and “T” As
sociation president, says that he
hopes the crowd will shatter all
records this time so that they can
send a bog check to E-President
Herbert Hoover, chairman of the
fund.
Wilkerson Stars As
S.M.U. Defeats
Aggies 46 To 39
Virgil Wilkerson, center for S.
M. U., found the basket for 23
points Monday night to give the
Mustangs a 46 to 39 victory over
the Aggies.
The Mustangs led in the first
few minutes of play, but lost
command until the closing mo
ments of the initial period. The
score was tied seven times between
the time S.M.U. lost the lead and
regained it.
The Aggies were never out in
front more than two points, and
most of the time held only a one-
point lead.
In the first thirty seconds of
play, Tommy Tinker sank a free
toss and broke the ice for the
Aggies. The Ponies went ahead
with a field goal, but Dawson sank
a field goal and brought the Ag
gies out in front 3-2. Wilkerson
found the basket, putting the Mus
tangs back in the lead. Dawson
sunk another field goal and A. &
M. went ahead 5-4.
The Mustangs did not get the
lead again until a free toss made
the basket midway in the period.
S.M.U. now led 12-11. The lead
changed sides twice and the score
was tied four more times before
S.M.U. went ahead to stay.
With two minutes remaining in
the half, Keeton, of S.M.U., slip
ped in an overhand shot. Keeton
was fouled by Varner but the shot
was counted and Keeton sank the
By Bob Nisbet
That great group of acrobats
known as the A. & M. Tumbling
Team will make its last bow of
the current season when they per
form their inimitable antics at the
between-halves rest period of the
basketball game this Saturday
night at the Deware Field House
when the mighty Texas Aggies
tangle with the Longhorns from
the University of Texas. This
bunch of boys have worked hard
at their tumbling this year and
have presented a program of gym
nastics for all but two of the
scheduled conference home games.
Strangely enough, the boys who
are so adept at doing flips and
somersaulting do all their learn
ing by themselves. There is no
instructor for them. Newcomers
learn the art from the boys of the
past year and pass it on to the
boys of the next year. Of the 14
boys on the team, only one of the
number, R. L. Stephens, had any
experience in tumbling before en
tering college. W. L. Penberthy
of the Athletic Office acts as spon
sor and advisor for the team, but
the actual tumbling comes from
much effort, elbow grease, sweat,
and long hours of practice.
Mainly responsible for the suc
cess of this year’s team, though
they won’t admit it, are the two
co-captains, Don Simpson of
Christoval, and H. A. Derrick of
San Antonio. Other hard-working
members are B. G. Newton, H. B.
Artillery Prom—
(Continued from page 1)
may later be used by other organi
zations, was made by Marshall
Biggs, senior architectural student.
Dormitory number five will be
vacated by one o’clock Friday
afternoon , for the accomodation
of guests, who may obtain en
trance to the dormitory at three
o’clock. Reservations may be ob
tained at the Commandant’s office.
Favors for the dance will con
sist of gold plated booklets with
the Field Artillery insignia and
the letters, “A. & M.” superim
posed on them.
To aid in making a military at
mosphere for the ball, two can
nons will be placed before the en
trance to the hall.
Courtney’s band, which enjoys
national recognition, will also play
for a corps dance to be held in
Sbisa Hall Saturday night.
In charge of the dance are J.
P. Giles and Joe Cain who made
arrangements for the accomoda
tion of guests. The decoration com
mittee is composed of R. M. Ma
gee, Chairman; Joe Spiller, and
Raymond Parrish. The committee
to arrange for favors, invitations,
and programs consists of Preston
Bolton, chairman; Ellis Marks, and
Roy Roberts.
free toss making the score 19-16.
Wilkerson made two free shots
good and Keith made a field goal
bringing the score to 22-16 at half
time.
During the last half, S. M. U.
managed to keep this same margin
most of the time.
MOST POPULAR SENIOR BALLOT
TO: PRESIDENT, SENIOR CLASS
CAMPUS.
The following five seniors, in my opinion, deserve to
be placed in the 1939-40 Longhorn as the FIVE MOST POPU
LAR SENIORS of the Class of 1940.
1.
2
3
4
5 -
(signed)
FIRST SERGEANTS are directed to collect these ballots
from SENIORS ONLY and turn in to MAX McCULLAR,
ROOM 228, Dormitory No. 9 by 12 NOON FRIDAY, March 1.
They Get Lots of Bumps
Dr. Bass Tells How To
Check On Your Posture
AUSTIN, Texas.—If you can do
it, here’s the way to check up on
your own posture, according to Dr.
Ruth Bass, University of Texas
physical education professor.
Drop an imaginary line from your
'ear to the ground. If it falls
through your shoulder, hip and
knee, when standing, and through
your shoulder and hip, When sit
ting, you’re on the right track.
Next make sure that both your
head and chest “push” up, that
your abdomen pulls in.
Then relax the parts of the body
not in use.
Shown above in one of their formations is A. & M.’s active Tum
bling Team, whose acrobatics add much color to the basketball games
at Aggieland. In the picture are D. P. Simpson, H. A. Derrick, B. G.
Newton, H. B. McCluskey, C. 1 A. Gochicoa, Tracy B. Medders, W. W.
Merritt, D. E. Kelly, T. K. Pierce, A. W. Burgess, R. L. Stephens,
R. H. Suman, G. I. Siegel, and J. E. Tips.
McCluskey, C. A. Gochicoa, Tracy
B. Medders, W. W. Merritt, D. E.
Kelly, T. K. Pierce, A. W. Burgess,
R. L. Stephens, R. H. Suman, G. I.
Siegel, and J. E. Tips. All but
two of the number are Texas boys,
the two being H. B. McCluskey
from La Junta, Colorado, and C.
A. Gochicoa from Tampico, Mex
ico.
With all their jumping around
and climbing over each other, there
have been no injuries to any of the
boys unless sore muscles and tired
bodies could be classed as injuries.
As fas as that goes there have nev
er been any serious injuries to
any boy on the tumbling team
as long as there has been a team
at A. & M. The reason for this
is the careful way in which boys
who are starting are taught the
fine art. Anoth'er reason is the
use of a special belt suspended
from the ceiling of the gym that
the boys use to try out a new stunt
until they get the correct tech
nique.
For years the tumbling team has
talked of making a trip to Denton
to put on a show for the girls
at T.S.C.W., but this year they
really think they will be able to
go. Arrangements are being made
now to schedule a definite date.
However, there is another angle.
Also being considered by the of
ficers of both organizations is a
joint program between the Tum
bling Team and the Singing Cadets
to be put on in the middle of
April.
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