FIRST MINOR SPORTS FESTIVAL TO BEGIN TODAY
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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Farley Given Autographed Football
By White in Behalf of Team and Students
At the conclusion of the speech
by Postmaster-General James Far
ley, Joe White, three-year letter-
man in football and president of
the “T” Club, presented the dis
tinguished visitor a white football
autographed by all the members
of the Aggie football team.
This came as a very pleasant
surprise to Farley. “I watched your
team with great interest during
the past year, and listened to every
play in the Sugar Bowl game”, he
said.
Farley was very surprised and
by the gleam in his eye, it is
thought that he will long treasure
the ball.
Here is something of interest.
The distinguished student list
shows that there were 5.25 per
cent of the student body on it. Tak
ing the athletic teams we find that
6.5 percent of the athletes were
distinguished. All teams except
swimming, water polo and fencing
were represented.
We notice that Bobby Moers, ver
satile athlete at the University, has
been chosen as its most popular
athlete. Also Clyde LaMotte, Daily
Texas sports editor, was defeated
in a tight race for the editor’s job.
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The Houston Buffs will be here
this afternoon for a game with the
Aggie “apple knockers”. This will
be the case if it doesn’t rain.
Faculty Tennis Club
To Have Tournament
The annual spring tournament
sponsored by the Faculty Tennis
Club will start April 13, with the
first matches scheduled for 2
o’clock on Saturday.
Any member of the college staff
is eligible for the tournament by
paying $2.00 which will also make
him a member of the club for the
remainder of this school year.
Bryan business men have been
invited to participate in the tour
nament. An entrance fee of $0.50
will cover their entry in both singl
es and doubles.
Entries may be turned in to John
Quisenberry of the Genetics De
partment, or to T. H. Terrell of the
Engineering Drawing Department,
before Wednesday, April 10.
The track team goes to Austin
for the Texas Relays today. They
certainly won’t win the meet, but
they have a good chance of placing
some men and teams and picking
up some points.
The tennis team could not get
their meet changed and will meet
Sam Houston State Teachers Col
lege at Huntsville today.
Cooper Union has a collection of
4,000 buttons, some of which are
four centuries old.
Goucher College has a “Chubby
Club” and its members have as
their chief purpose the loss of 10
pounds in weight each week.
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INSURANCE AGENCY
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NEWS
Here is some good news to you boys that all of
you will want to hear. When your girls comes down
for the week-ends, don’t you find that it’s hard to
find something to do in order to pass away the time ?
You can pass away the time having lots of fun
and without spending much money by playing pool
on our modern Brunswick tables. We cater to women.
We have the only standard 9-ft. tables in
this part of the country.
AGGIE
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AT THE COLLEGE INN CAFE
Feminine Side Of
Minor Sports To Be
Held by TSCW-ites
Texas A. & M.’s first Minor
Sports Festival—one of the first
to be held in this section of the
country—will start off with a bang
today at 1:30 p. m., with a match
between the A. & M. Pistol Team
and the State Department of Pub
lic Safety, and following it at 2:00
a match between the Aggie Rifle
Team and the “gun molls” of T.
S. C. W.
In rapid succession after that,
the time till Sunday evening will
be occupied by every type of minor
sport.
The Minor Sports Festival has
been recognized by sports mentors
as a great step toward the proper
recognition of all minor sports
games.
In chronological order the sports
events of these two exciting days
for all lovers of athletics will be
as follows:
Pistol Team vs. State Cops
The Texas Department of Public
Safety which has fired here sev
eral times before will furnish the
competition for Captain Phil En-
slow’s championship Pistol Team,
starting at 1:30, Saturday after
noon. The troopers are said to
be the best-liked competitors of
the Aggie team, and one of their
number is an ex-Aggie. The vis
iting team plans to witness both
baseball games and the conference
swimming meet this weekend.
T.S.C.W. Enters Rifle Team
Saturday morning the first fem
inine team ever to compete against
the Aggies in a sports event will
arrive here from Denton. A
strong girls’ rifle team from A.
& M.’s sister school will offer its
best against the Hearst Trophy
winners of 1940 in a match begin
ning at 2:00.
Boxers Fight Texas U.
A combination of intramural
champs and A. & M. Boxing Club
members will face the scrappers
from the University of Texas Sat
urday evening at 6:30 in the first
match of the year for the Aggie
boxers. The Texas team has en
tered many tournaments, and de
feated the Temple District Golden
Glove champs last week. This
event should fill the bill for a good
show and a lot of heavy fighting.
Fencers Take On Baylor
According to latest reports avail
able Friday night, the A. & M.
Fencing Team has secured a match
with the Baylor Bears. Should
the Bears not be able to appear,
a match with the Southern Metho
dist Mustangs or some other team
will be arranged in time. At any
rate, a good exhibition of the skill
ful art of fencing is assured, in
the match scheduled for 6:30.
Conference Swimming Meet
Tonight at 8:00 will take place
a Southwest Conference Swimming
Meet which promises a lot of fancy
diving, expert swimming, thrills
and laughs. With the withdrawal
of Rice, T. C. U., and Arkansas,
there will be ample time for the
running of the meet. The Aggies
have defeated Baylor, and Baylor
defeated Southern Methodist, but
the Aggies came out on the short
end against the University Long
horns; so it appears that the meet
will be between the Longhorns and
the home team.
Water Polo Contest
For tonight following the swim
ming meet an intra-squad water
polo match has been arranged,
with the best of the swimmers
taking part and lots of action in
the offing.
Aggies To Face Bryan Golfers
Henry Hauser and Bill McMahon
will lead the Aggie golfers against
a strong team composed of pros
and amateurs of Bryan and Col
lege Station, Sunday morning at
8:00. This should be a good match
in preparation for the match here
April 12 with the Rice Owls.
Polo Team Defends Record
Major E. M. Burnett’s polo four
will be defending their record
against the hard-riding Lampasas
team which they defeated earlier
this year, in a game Sunday after
noon at 3:30. The Aggie Polo Team
has established quite a name for
itself over this section and has
made a great showing against
many of the best teams of the
South. All of their home games
are played on Jackson Field on tfie
Battalion Sports
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1940
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FIRST A.& M.
MINOR SPORTS FESTIVAL
APRIL 6—7
Saturday
1:30—-PISTOL—State Dept, of Public Safety vs. A. & M.—Kyle Field
2:00—RIFLE—T.S.C.W. vs. A. & M.—Kyle Field
6:30—BOXING—Texas vs. A. & M.—DeWare Field House
6:30—FENCING—Baylor vs. A. & M.—DeWare Field House
8:00—SWIMMING—Southwest Conference Meet—Downs Natatorium
9:00—WATER POLO—Intra-squad game—Downs Natatorium
Sunday
8:00 a. m.—GOLF— ;lc Bryan vs. A. & M.—Bryan Country Club
3:30 p. m.—POLO—*Lampasas Polo Club vs. A. & M.—Jackson Field
*Games depending on climatic conditions
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Aggies and Frogs
Play 2-Game Series
Baseball held the spotlight this
week when the Texas Aggies took
two games from the T. C. U.
Horned Frogs. The first game,
which was played Thursday after
noon, ended in the first half of
the ninth after the Frogs had
been retired. The final score was
8-4. In the game Friday after
noon the final score was 4-2 with
the closing period the same,
Marty Karow played only nine
men until the eighth inning when
Peden went in to relieve Bumpers.
Friday’s game showed A. & M.
taking the lead in the first inning
when the first two men up cross
ed the home plate for tallies. The
lead-off man, Ballow, got to first
on an error and came in when
Lindsey hit a double to left field.
Lindsey went to third on an error
and then to home on Cooper’s
single. This left the score 2-0
until the fourth inning when
Bellow made another run along
with Kirkpatrick’s to bring the
Aggies scoring to an end.
The Frogs brought in two of
three men on base in the eighth
to make the score 4-2. During the
last few minutes of play the sun
came out to brighten up an other
wise rainy and cloudy day of base
ball.
Thursday’s game was just the
opposite in weather as the rays
of old Sol made even a shirt un
comfortable. As in Friday’s game,
the action came in the eighth in
ning. Pugh led off with a double
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INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
catching than he did with the one-
inch steel balls.
A Chemical Warfare came for
ward in the fifth inning to win
over C Engineers 5 to 3 and E
Infantry won over H Coast Ar
tillery 4 to 0.
Baseball games galore and a bit
of rain makes the intramural sched
ule look a bit behind, and yet you
can’t schedule a game when T. C.'
U. plays ball here, Jim Farley
speaks, and the rain comes.
B Field Artillery closed out D
Coast Artillery 11 to 0 and al
lowed more than three men’to go
to bat only once. In the second
inning four men got to home the
short way but the road was too
rough. Hill marked up two for
the winners.
First Headquarters Field defeat
ed F Coast Artillery 9 to 3 by
coming from behind in the third
inning to score 5 runs. Rogers was
the leading scorer with two to his
credit.
Joyce in the sixth tallied the
winning run for G Coast Artillery
as they turned back B Engineers
6 to 5.
Focke scored two runs for the
Field Artillery Band in their 6
to 5 win over B Signal Corps.
He also did a bit better job of
Sulphur Springs Road northwest
of the ‘Y’ Cabin.
Tennis Team Plays at Huntsville
Manning Smith’s Tennis Team
is traveling to Huntsville this
weekend to compete with the Sam
Houston Bearkats. This match was
scheduled some time ago and could
not be changed so that the Aggie
stars might play locally this week
end.
The polo and golf matches Sun
day are the only contests of the
weekend which are dependent on
outdoor weather conditions, and
might have to be called off in case
of rain.
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In a few of the other games
played . . . Crawford, Johnson,
Ghazney, Lovelady, Appelt, and
Lewis defended F Engineers’ un
blemished record in horseshoe
throwing and closed out 2nd Hq.
Field Artillery 3 to 0 ... C Field
Artillery won 5 to 2 in speedball
over the Infantry Band . . . Camp
bell, Seay, Crayton, and Hess
turned in a 2 to 1 win over 3rd
Hq. Field Artillery . . . and A
Field Artillery closed out th 2nd
Combat Train Field Artillery in
a big way in speedball, 14 to 0.
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