Grand Prize Wins Opening Game Of Aggie 1940 Season
Freshman Baseball Will Start Soon;
Harry Faulkner To Be New Fish Mentor
It looks like they are really go
ing to do something with fresh
man baseball this year. Harry
Faulkner has been assigned the
coaching job and old Harry really
eats that baseball up. For many
years Harry has been connected
with big league baseball farms,
and has been developing young
baseball players. With this ex
perience and his love for the game,
the freshmen of this year are very
lucky.
Anyone interested in going out
for the freshman team should see
Coach Faulkner.
The Intercollegiate Badminton
Tournament sponsored by Baylor
and originally scheduled for March
15 and 16 has been postponed to
April 19 and 20.
This tournament is one of the
first of its kind to be held in Tex
as and large numbers of outstand
ing players from Texsa, Texas A.
& M. and Baylor have already in
dicated that they were going to
participate in the contest.
“T” DANCE IS HONEY
The “T” Dance last night was
one that will go down in the his-
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'tory books. Tommy Vaughn was
really swinging out as the Aggie-
land blared and blasted in compe
tition with the Coast Dance.
The Green Bay Packers (A
team) will battle the New York
Giants (B team) this afternoon
in the full time sports day football
game. The Packers have won all
their games by large margins this
spring and the Giants were doing
all right until the Chicago Bears
pulled a tie with them Wednesday.
The C and D teams will be dis
solved and these men put in as
substitutes on the A and B teams.
In the foot races today the men
will run by positions and from the
winners Coach Norton will select
the four-man team he will send to
the football relay event of the
Fort Worth Fat Stock Show.
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Autoists between the Bryan
business district and the southern
part of Bryan and College Station
are now traveling the Bryan Main
street extension, which has been
opened to traffic.
The signal lights at the railroad
crossings show green all the time
except when a train is nearing,
and the crossing over the tracks,
while not yet completed, permits
passage.
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After the Corps Dance
Dine and dance to the
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Teams Will Play
Second Game This
Afternoon at 1 p.m.
A barrage of three home runs
in the first inning by Didrickson,
Dowling and Kentling along with
a double, gave the Grand Prize
Brewers a four-run lead and the
Aggies were never able to come
within striking distance as the
Brewers added five more runs
while the cadets were working for
three. The final score was 9 to
3 for the visitors.
Ralph Lindsey started on the hill
and after the first inning he pitch
ed well. Lefty Bumpers worked
the last few frames from the
mound and showed up well except
that he was wild and had to come
in with the “cripple” ball too of
ten.
The Brewers counted four in
the first and added another in the
second and still another in the
fifth. The cadets broke the ice
in their half of the fifth with a
brace on counters and then the
Brewers got to Bumpers for three
in the seventh. The Aggies end
ed the scoring in the eighth with a
single run.
Chubby Nolen played center
field for the visitors and Pete
Dowling, former Aggie athlete,
was in right for the Brewers.
These same two teams play here
again today with the tilt called
for one o’clock. It will be the
first thing on the Sports Day
Program. Coach Marty Karow
has announced that no inning
shall start after 3:20 * and the
spectators may go over and watch
the football game. The game
should be over before that time,
however.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
Charlie Dwyer has led the E
Battery Artillery boys to another
mark in the way of the intramural
flag by taking the Class A wrest
ling by the narrow margin of
one point. DuBose and Tilton went
to the finals but were turned back
and Newton carried off the 139-
pound crown.
Monday and Tuesday rather than
last night will probably see the
start of the glove-pushing con
test. The gloves have so far fail
ed to come in.
And speaking of the boxing
tournament—if it is run off as sys
tematically and as quickly as the
wrestling matches, a lot of con
gratulations should go to all con
cerned. Some 414 boys entered
the wrestling tournament, thus
calling for 398 scheduled matches.
These were run off in two and a
half weeks.
“Anything can happen here” was
proven this week with many a ripe
strawberry appearing in early
March. After many of the speed-
ball games, bruises and skinned
spots were quite noticeable.
Morgan, Cumner, and Adams,
excelling in their passing attack,
led the F Field Artillery team to
a hard-fought win over 2nd Com
bat Train with a final score of 8
to 2.
A Chemical Warfare spurred by
Sam Arico ran over B Signal
Corps in another rough game.
This ended 10 to 2.
F Engineers, still holding onto
whatever chance they get to grab
another mark, turned back H Coast
Artillery in a closer game with the
final tally riding 8 to 6. Leroy
Johnston led the Engineers while
Cargile furnished the spark and
also a good bit of humor for the
Coast.
The forgotten man . . . who is
he? ... what outfit is he in? . . .
what does he do? These and a
good number of other phrases,
questions, and exclamations have
come from many of the observers
of the wrestling matches, of the
fish, and of the general student
body as a whole. Kenneth Hedge
peth, of the Fiscal Office, is the
man in discussion. He visits the
halls, turns out for many of the
big intramural games, and kept
time for every wrestling match
that came off this year . . .
We hear by the grapevine that
two more sports might be added
to the Class A list next year.
Ping-pong and bowling will prob
ably be the new games.
Here Is Where Sports Day Starts
Kyle Field baseball diamond, where the umpire today at 1:00 p. m. will yell “Play ball!” to start off A. & M.’s fourth annual Sports Day.
BATTALION.
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1940
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E Field Wins
Class A Wrestling
E Battery Field Artillery eaked
out with the upperclass wrestling
title this year by scoring one more
point than did 1st Hq. Field Artil
lery. H Coast Artillery freshmen
were the top place winners of
Class B.
In Class A, F Engineers and B
Chemical Warfare tied for third
place and A Signal Corps carried
off fifth. In the freshman bracket,
M Infantry and 1st Hq Field Artil
lery tied for second place and A
Cavalry and C Cavalry tied for
fourth.
Individual winners of the meet
were as follows:
Class A
119 pound-Davis (A Signal
Corps) defeated McCreary (also
of A Signal Corps).
129 pound- Durham of 1 Hq
FA downed Soto, B Cavalry.
139 pound-Newton, E FA, topped
Neldon of B Chem Warfare.
149 pound-Davis of the first
Corps Hq defeated DuBose of E
FA.
159 pound-Prowell of 1 Hq FA
claimed the title from Lippard of
D Cavalry.
169 pound-Perkins of F Engi
neers won over Tilson of E FA.
179 pound-Pierce, C Engineers,
defeated King of B Coast Artillery.
Heavy weight-Simmons of I In
fantry won out over Carson of
A Chem Warfare.
Class B
119 pound-Ball, 1 Hq FA, over
Woods, C Coast Artillery.
129 pound-Russell of A Cavalry
over Dunn, B Coast Artillery.
139 pound-Rowe, H Coast Artil
lery, won from Pietsch of 2 Hq FA.
149 pound-Coffey of B Signal
Croucher, SS, May
Appear On Texas U
And Tigers’ Lineup
AUSTIN, March 9—The notation
“Croucher, ss,” may appear in the
University of Texas as well as
the Detroit Tigers’ lineup this spr
ing, according to no less authority
on short-stopping than Uncle Billy
Disch.
Leslie Croucher, tall younger
brother of Detroit’s Dingle, already
is causing Coach Disch to revise
his infield plans- Eor the present
at least, Sophomore Croucher is a
first-stringer.
So impressive has been his field
ing and hitting in early practice
that Coach Disch has moved Jack
Stone from Short to second in order
to make room for him in the regu
lar infield.
With Bobby Moers at third and
Johnny Hill at first, both all-con
ference players, the Longhorn in
field looks great.
Croucher, a substitute on the
Texas basketball squad this sea
son, is taller than the average in
fielder, but he handles himself
gracefully, has a fine arm and
knows something about swinging
a double play.
His hitting, somewhat dubious
when he was a freshman, seems to
have improved. Whether it is yet
of Southwest Conference caliber
remains to be seen. The Longhorns
will open their schedule soon—
March 18, against Tulsa of the
Texas League at Sequin.
Corps over Reagan of 1 Combat
Train FA.
159 pound-Pitman of C Cavalry
winner over Tenison of 1 Hq FA.
169 pound-Vick, C Engineers, de
feated Cokinos, A FA.
179 pouhd-Crown, H Coast Artil
lery, defeated Kiser of M Infantry.
Heavy weight-Fritsch, M Infan
try, over Wheeler, E FA.
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