The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 02, 1940, Image 3

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 02, 1940, Image 3

Newspaper Page Text-■q ■» Aggies-Longhorns Will Play Last Tilt Here Tonight Karow’s Diamondeers Open Baseball Season Here Next Friday With Grand Prize There was a mistake in this column last time. It stated that the Aggie baseball team would open its season here yesterday. Under conference rules the teams cannot start their practice until the first of March and that was yesterday. The cadets will open next Fri day afternoon against the Grand Prize team of Houston. The tilt will start at 4 o’clock. The clubs will meet again here the follow ing day at 1:15 p. m. There has been some change in the baseball team since last year. “Lefty” Moon will probably be on first base in place of Bob Wil liams who graduated, Jack Lind sey will be at second with Marland Jeffrey moving over to third to take Bob Stone’s place. Bob hav ing moved to short to replace Chubby Nolen who is out because of scholastic trouble. The outfield will probably have Marion Pugh, Dave Alsobrook and Jack Cooper, all three lettermen. A. & M. will be well fortified be hind the plate with Jack Doran and Red Kirkpatrick, both senior lettermen. The mound staff will be Charlie Stevenson, Sam Bass, Ralph Lind sey, Roy Peden and Lefty Bump ers. Football Teams Will Meet Today In Fourth Round of Spring Training Tilts The four football teams will be ready to play ball this afternoon at 2 o’clock. One boy who is showing up better than well is Sibley who is going to crowd the three lettermen centers for the starting job next fall. He seems to be about the best thing to come up from the freshman squad. It looks like Chip Routt is going to hold the job at tackle vacated by All-American Joe Boyd. Chip is doing a swell job and will fill Boyd’s shoes in fine style. There will be a water polo game here tonight at 7:30 between the campus club and the San Antonio Y. M. C. A. Coach Art Adamson has announced that there will be a water polo game and swimming match here between Texas and the Aggies, March 14. Here is news direct from the front. Cincinnati has finally beat en the world champion New York Yankees. Manager Joe McCarthy of the OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT . . . OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED... Why Not Give Us a Try? The MODEL CLEANERS Bryan OIL CHANGE from WINTER to SPRING The right grade of oil makes for better driving • AGGIELAND Service Station Across Street From East Gate New York Yanks chortled with de light today after the pitching ex hibition of Leo Grissom, newly ac quired from the Cincinnati Reds. Grissom mowed down a whole battery of the Yank’s famous “Murderers Row.” This Ugly Boy contest has creat ed about as much fun and sport as anything around here this year. The hillbillys bands and other forms of advertising have the pro politicians’ methods beat a coun try mile. Jack Fugate seems to be a leading candidate after the public got a look at him tied to the pole in front of the mess hall Friday noon. INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS By HUB JOHNSON Spring has sprung and if you don't believe it, try sitting through a two-hour lecture on a bright sun shiny afternoon or working in a four-hour lab. At any rate the Intramural Office has been packed the last few days with more boys weighing in for wrestling and the boxers appearing for classifica tion. The last of the semi-final touch- football games ended with the In fantry Band dropping to the B Engineers without threatening. The castle team scored, registered the extra points, and also marked up two penetrations to the 40- yard line. The final score, 7 to 0. The remainder of the games played have been under the sta dium—volleyball and horseshoes. Recent scores on the horseshoes matches are Artillery Band over the 3rd Combat Train, 2 to 1; A Coast Artillery defeating 1st Hq. Field Artillery, 2 to 1; E Engineers over A Signal Corps, 3 to 0; 1st Combat Train turning back B Engineers, 2 to 1; B Field Artillery registering a 2 to 1 win over C Chemical Warfare; F Engineers handing C Infantry a 2 to 1 de feat; and, A Field Artillery tak ing the only forfeit from F Coast Artillery. A Field Artillery also carried off a game of volleyball by for feit from B Signal Corps. It ap pears that they are having a tough go of things. Other volleyball games finished with Machine Gun Cavalry clos ing out F Infantry, 2 to 0; B Field Artillery closing out G Infantry, 2 to 0; H Infantry downing D Field Artillery, 2 to 1; G. Coast Artillery handing 2nd Combat Train Field Artillery a 2 to 0 defeat; Hq. Cavalry downing B Signal Corps, 2 to 1; 2nd Hq. Field Artillery defeating C Infan try 2 to 1; and, Hq. Cavalry tak ing a second one, this time from L Infancy, 2 to 0. FOOT LONG HOT DOGS 10c Factory Filled PINT ICE CREAM 10c DREAMLAND North Gate Norton Talks Over Aggies’ 1940 Football Prospects BATTALION SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1940 PAGE 3 Ugly Boy Contest Ballot (First Primary) TO: UGLY BOY CONTEST COMMITTEE CAMPUS My candidate for the King of the Uglies on the Texas A. & M. Campus is (Please print) Organization Note: Please turn ballots in to the representatives in your dormitory as listed in the UGLY BOY CONTEST story printed on the front page of this issue. Aggie Fish Tackle Yearlings In A Pre-Game Skirmish Tonight in DeWare Gymnasium at 6:30 the Aggie freshmen will meet the Texas Yearlings in the preliminary basketball game to the varsity fray between the Aggies and the Steers, the team Rice de feated earlier in the week by one point for the conference cage title. The varsity game will start at 7:30. The latter tilt will close the door on the Southwest Confer ence cage race, a race in which the Aggies finish next to the cel lar just above the T. C. U. Frogs who defeated the cadets in Fort Worth a week ago tonight. Earlier in the year the Texas freshmen and varsity beat the two Aggie teams in Austin and it would appear that it will happen again tonight except that the Steers may have had a big let down after losing the conference flag earlier this week. The freshman game will be a good preliminary tilt with the Texas group being the favorite. When the Aggies returned from Austin after being beaten by Tex as, they vowed to a man that they would win the return game here and they may have another win ning tilt left in them. If Texas is down from their loss to Rice and the cadets have gotten over their fatal north Texas tour, the McQuillanmen may be the vic tors. Texas will have Bobby Moers, who is a show in himself, along with the rest of the team. It will be Moers last basketball tilt. It will also be the last tilt for Var ner, Smith, Adams, and Tinker, Aggie seniors. RATS GNAW BUTTONS OFF SHIRTS, LAUNDRY ABSOLVED OF BLAME JOLIET, 111.—After diligent re search, the American Institute of Laundering has announced that laundries should not be blamed for all the lost and broken buttons in the world. It based its theory on a finding that most buttons were made from casein, known more familiarly as a white amorphous phosphoprotein occurring in milk. Now, cheese also comes from milk. Every one knows that mice eat cheese, but it took the Ameri can Institute of Laundering to dis cover that they had added buttons to their bill of fare. I Infantry boys lived up to one of their leader’s saying that “We’re not going to drop a game in this football stuff”, Tuesday as they turned back the B Engineers with a 20-yard penetration and carry- off the Class A Intramural Cham pionship. Throughout the year, the I team has defeated A Signal Corps on penetrations, 1st Combat Train 13 to 0, C Coast Artillery 13 to 0, and tied E Enginers 6 to 6, later to be awarded the game on pene trations with a 20 and a 40. Men who composed the team were Scroggins, White, Leonard, Alsobrook, Davis, Duncan, Willie, Gunn, Jones, Bryant, Akard, Adams, Phillips, Christian, and Reynolds. Horseshoe pitching in class A resulted in the following wins and losses: C Eng. over A Cav. 2 to 1. H Inf. over 3 Hq. FA 2 to 1. C CAC over A Inf. 2 to 1. B CAC over Hq. Sig. Forfeit. D. Eng. over C Cav. 3 to 0. F. Inf. over L Inf. 2 to 1. 2 CT FA over D FA forfeit. G CAC over B Sig. 3 to 0. The class B games results were as follows: MG Cav. over A CAC 2 to 1. 1 CT FA over E Inf. forfeit. C Eng. over 3 Hq. FA forfeit. D Cav. over C CWS 2 to 1. B FA over A Inf. forfeit. Class B handball results: E. FA over A Sig 3 to 0. H Inf. over M Inf. 3 to 0. MG Cav. over A CAC 3 to 0. 1 CT FA over L Inf. forfeit. Volleyball, class A: D Eng. over F Inf. 2 to 1. F Eng. over C Cav. 2 to 0. C Eng. over D CAC 2 to 1. 3 Hq. Fa. over F CAC forfeit. A Eng. over K Inf. 2 to 0. A FA over 1st Corps Hq. 2 to 0. E FA over B CAC 2 to 0. Inf. Band over A Sig. forfeit. Uncle Billy Disch Starts His 30th Season at Texas U. AUSTIN, Mar. 2.—The “Old Man” of baseball whistled up an other batch of Longhorn baseball players Friday to start laying the groundwork for a possible 21st Southwest conference championship team. Uncle Billy Disch, white-haired 66-year-old baseball coach, offici ally started his 30th season at the University of Texas March 1. In 25 years of conference competi tion his clubs have won 20 pen nants. His ’39 team was one of his best. It swept through a 15-game conference schedule without defeat. From that outfit Coach Disch has five all-conference players back, but he looks askance at a yawning hole in the middle of his infield. Capt. Jack Conway and Cotton Evans, the ’39 keystone combination, have graduated into professional baseball. Texas’ 1940 baseball plans start with towering Melvin Deutsch, sophomore sensation of conference pitching circles last spring, and carry on through Capt. Clarence Pfeil, center field; Charley Haas, right field; Johnny Hill, first base; and Bobby Moers, third base. These players were tops at their positions last year. Haas, however, will not become eligible until he passes a postponed exam April 5, a day after the con ference season opens against S. M. U. Another outfield letterman is Pete Layden, erstwhile Longhorn fullback. Fred Everett, an infielder who turned catcher in ’39 and became one of the best in the league, may AIR CONDITIONED QUALITY WORK PALASOTA BARBER and BEAUTY SHOP Bryan COMPANIONS TO YOUR TEXTBOOK Pick up those lost grade points. Use College outlines. We have:— Chemistry 101, 102 Physics 202, 203, 204 Biology 101, 111, 112, 106, 107 Bacteriology 206 Economics 203, 204, 403 English 232 History 306 Boost Those Grade Points! For Sale at LOUPOT’S Trading Post North Gate Former Dept. Head John C. Burns, graduate of A. & M. and head of its Department of Animal Husbandry from 1907 to 1920, who is now head of the steer department of the South western Exposition and Fat Stock Show is one of the leading steer arbiters of the nation. have to pull off his mask and go back to his old position at short stop. Coach Disch has one depend able candidate for second or short —Squadman Jack Stone, who was “held out” last spring—but another will have to be found. Joyce Rawe, ’38 catcher ineligible last year, is ready to take over Everett’s job if necessary. First assistant to Deutsch on the mound is likely to be lanky Bill Dumke, a speedy sopohmore. Both are right-handers. ’40 EDITION OF TEAM SHOWS UNUSUAL MERIT With winter football training nearing the end, Coach Homer Nor ton and his staff have had a pretty good chance to look over the sopho more prospects for the 1940 edi tion of the Texas Aggies. Most of the players counted on have shown ability but the sur prise of the entire period so far has been the outstanding perform ance of Jackson (Jake) Webster, Sweetwater, fullback. Placed on the third team when the entries for the Winter Football Training League were picked, it only took Webster the first game to show the Aggie coaches that he belong ed on the first team and that is where he is most of the time now understudying John Kimbrough. In order that he can get all the training possible, Norton is play ing him on all four teams and then most of the full game time. Last week he played two full games and was on every team some of the time. Alternating with him as reserve fullback is “Wild Willie” Zapalac, Beeville. He was hurt the first day out and has not been able to go full force but has shown that he can handle the job. The Aggie coach is also using him some of the time as a blocking back in Jim Thomason’s place so that if necessary both Webster and Zapalac can both be in the game at the same time. Another pleasant surprise has been the work of Bill Sibley, Abi lene center. He is playing on the first and second teams as under study to Tommie Vaughn and Odell Herman. While he is not the polished performer that Vaughn and Herman are, he is coming along nicely and will see some playing time. When he errs he makes no pretense at covering up but asks the coaches what he did wrong and then goes about learning the right way. He stands 5 feet, 10 inches and weighs about 190 pounds. Another likely looking boy is Elvis (Boots) Simmons, Somer ville end. “Boots” was ineligible, at the end of his freshman year in 1938 but is back in good graces again. He stands six feet, three inches and weighs about 207 pounds. He can catch passes and has looked good on defense. It goes without saying that all the remaining eight starters from 1939 are going good and Chip Routt looks like he has moved into Joe Boyd’s tackle position for good. Marion Pugh will take over the quarterbacking job of Wale- mon Price and a shift of Jim Ster ling from right to left end takes care of the Herb Smith vacancy. To plug the right end hole Jack Kimbrough drew the assignment. Bill Buchanan will have something to say about that when the basket ball season ends this week but he will have to step for Kimbrough looks mighty good. All of the freshmen candidates show improvement over their play last year but very few have shown enough to oust any of the regu lars out of their staring jobs. So far as can be judged this far off from next season the Aggie team will be mainly seniors, as Derace Moser, back, and Jim Sterling, end, will be the only juniors on the starting team. No sophomores are likely to make it unless some thing unforeseen crops up. They will play as much time as possi ble, Norton has pointed out, for he wants them to come up in 1941 as experienced players. He will need plenty of replacements for that season as of the 24 letter- men on the squad, only seven of them will be here after the 1940 season. Norton has not said what type of a game he expects to use in 1940 but from all indications it will be about the same as the 1939 pattern. He is not using any shift and is using a balanced line. His formations will be the same and will include the box, double wing and punt formations with the double wing and box used the most. (Continued on page 4) SUITS FOR EASTER Have you ordered your suit for Easter? Come in and see our fine selec tion. 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