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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
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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.
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Norton Talks Over Aggies’ 1940 Football Prospects
BATTALION
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1940
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Ugly Boy Contest Ballot
(First Primary)
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CAMPUS
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A. & M. Campus is
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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.
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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
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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)
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