E.C.Jeep' OATES
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Apple Knockers On Northern Trip;
Will Play S.M.U. Twice and T.C.U. Once
The Aggie nine has had good-f
luck against conference competition
at home, winning two games each
from Rice and T. C. U., but to
day they start their northern se
ries. Today and tomorrow they
meet S. M. U. at Dallas and Sat
urday they move over to Fort
Wox-th for their final tussle with
T. C. U.
The Cadets have not proved that
they can win away from home and
it is lucky that they meet “weak
sisters” on their first swing. It
will accustom them to the howls
of a hostile group of fans and they
will be ready for the stronger
teams, Baylor and Texas, when they
meet them in Waco and Austin. If
the Cadets play the brand of ball
against these teams that they did
against Houston here Monday, they
should have no trouble in taking
all three games, however it is to
be remembered that it was this
northern swing a year ago that
took them out of the conference
race.
A. & M. is going to have to get
better hitting if they are to be
formidable contenders against Bay
lor and Texas. In conference games
to date only Stevenson, Alsobrook
and Rice are hitting above the .300
mark. Stevenson, being a pitcher,
cannot be counted on accept in the
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games he is pitching. Alsobrook is
hitting .357 and Rice .429.
“Red” Ballow, at shortstop, is
playing great ball. He is not get
ting any hits, but he is getting on
base and scoring runs, and he is
covering that number six position
like one Honus Wagner.
The game against Houston was
the best contest this writer has
seen played at College Station, ex
cept the Cleveland-New York game
a couple of years ago. It was fast
and smooth and wasn’t filled with
errors, parades of pitchers, pinch
hitters, and sorry umpiring. Stein-
graph, a Texas League umpire, is
the best ump that has ever done
the guessing here.
Ole Diz Dean is still keeping the
boys wondering. St. Louis sold him
to Chicago a few years ago after
he paid off the mortgages on the
Cards, Red Birds and Buffs. He
drew enough fans into the Chicago
park to pay for himself, even after
his arm was gone. Chicago was
about ready to get rid of him when
he sat the New York Yanks down
for eight innings in the World Se
ries a couple of years back and
the Cubs decided to keep him. Last
year he didn’t go so good, but
every now and then he would step
out on the mound and make suck
ers out of the opponent batters. He
was a holdout this spring and no
one seemed to mind. Now he comes
along and sits the St. Louis Browns
down for five innings with two
scratch hits, the best pitching
shown by any pitcher so far this
year in spring training.
MANY SAILORS WANT TO
ENTER HOUSTON REGATTA
I ran a notice in this column last
time stating that the Houston
Yacht Club wanted some A. & M.
students to sail in their races in
June and yesterday I was swamped
with applicants.
Sailing is one of the best sports
that this writer knows of and it is
not surprising that so many boys
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940
PAGE 5
A. & M.’s First Minor Sports Festival
Above are shown a few scenes from A. & M.’s first Minor Sports Festival, which was held here last
weekend. It proved a great success, and helped further the proper recognition of minor sports.
Upper left: The State Department of Public Safety Team defeats the Aggie Pistol Team in the first
event of the First Minor Sports Festival. C. A. Lewis, D. L. Chance of the S.D.P.S., Aggie W. E. Lewis,
and Don Lawrence of the S.D.P.S., high-point man of the meet, are shown.
Top right: Coach Art Adamson congratulates Harold Hensley on his winning first place in the 100-
yard freestyle.
Lower left: Teeing off as the Bryan team sets the Aggies back in another tournament on the Bryan
Club Course.
Lower Right: Texas State College for Women rifle team defeats the Aggies in a 40-point handicap
match especially arranged by the Aggie team as a gallant gesture to their fair visitors.' This gesture may
have been the start of a fine friendship for A. & M. with movie star Ann Sheridan, who telegraphed the
boys her congratulations on their gallantry.
would like to participate in the
races. During the last few years
the people who live around the
Texas coast have really gone in
for water sports. For years there
were only a few who really took
advantage of our water, but now
the people are as enthusiastic as
the people in the East and North
west.
HARVARD PROF FLAYS
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
I noticed an article in the San
Antonio Light the other day in
which a Dr. Earnest Hooton, Har
vard’s famous anthropologist, took
a swing at physical education. It
is in parts as follows:
“Speaking before more than
1,000 leaders of physical education
and recreation last night, Hooton
contended that physical education
Ts the victim of some sort of in
fantile paralysis, contracted per
haps through no fault of its own,
but through an extreme suscept
ibility to the malady which is
destroying man—an avid pursuit of
culture with an almost total dis
regard of his animal organism’.”
Hooton charged the crowd with
“playing checkers in the firehouse
while a conflagration of human evo
lution and human civilization is
raging all around.
“Americans”, he continued, “con
sider themselves a sports-loving
nation. But vicarious exercise—of
the sort one gets by watching a
football game—is not beneficial at
all. It induces in the spectator a
coptinuous state of nervous excite
ment and muscular contraction
(Continued on page 6)
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By Bob Myers
Girls From Tulsa
Aquatic Club To
Hold Exhibition
This year’s Annual Water Carni
val will see a two-day stand Fri
day and Saturday in Aggieland
when Art Adamson and the Texas
Aggie Swimming Team sponsor
their third show of frills, thrills,
comedy, and skill.
The well known Tulsa Aquatic
Club from Oklahoma will be on
hand twelve strong to provide the
feminine loveliness and is featuring
a new lighted formation in the
water that is accomplished by
the attachment of lights to their
bodies.
Exhibitions will be plentiful and
entertaining with Ned Ewing play
ing the part of the graceless ugly
duckling in his comic dives, Bubba
Reeves and Paul Ketelson giving
their best in plain and fancy div
ing of a more serious and orthodox
nature, and last but not least is
the human torch dive in which Paul
Houston Accountants
Will Present Program
Approximately 40 members of
the Houston Chapter of the Na
tional Association of Cost Account
ants will present a program at
Texas A. & M. on April 17 for the
benefit of the students who are
studying accounting and statistics
at the college.
The meeting will take place in
the form of a dinner to be held in
the college banquet hall. Speakers
scheduled to deliver fifteen-minute
talks include G. I. Lewis, comp
troller, Eastern States Petroleum
Co.; T. N. Ayres, auditor, Hughes
Tool Co.; J. W. Emison, treasur
er, Texas Pipe Line Co.; and Irwin
Heinen, C. P. A.
testant must keep up with the bar
to stay.
Events in this meet are 100-yard
dash, 120-yard low hurdles, shot
put, javelin throw, broad jump,
high jump, and 400-yard shuttle
relay.
Ketelsen ignites his clothing be
fore diving into the drink. The
desired quenching effect is achiev
ed at the termination of the dive
by the abundant water supply
which predominates in the pool.
Two wateV polo games are sched
uled for the Carnival and will see
the Aggie All-Stars vs. the Aggies
on Friday night and on Saturday
night the Houston Water Polo team
swims against the cadets.
Tickets are now on sale at the
swimming pool and by any mem
ber of the swimming team. The
proceeds go into the water polo
team’s fund to help defray ex
penses of their annual trip.
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Play-offs in Class B handball
ended with B Engineers winning
over 2nd Hq. Field Artillery and
3rd Combat Train Field Artillery
taking a game from Machine Gun
Cavalry.
Going to Class A games we find
playground ball taking the spot
light with the following wins and
losses. B Chemical Warfare over
D Cavalry, A Signal Company in
a close one over E Field Artil
lery, G Infantry taking the Infan
try Band, A Cavalry winning from
F Field Artillery, I Infantry over
B Signal Corps, A Infantry
defeating 3rd Hq. Field Artillery 1 ,
and E Infantry losing to L Infan
try.
A singleton in Class A Speedball
between Headquarters Cavalary
and E Engineers came out with
the mounted boys riding over the
bridge builders.
Class A Volleyball had a light
schedule of two games in which
1st Combat Train Field Artillery
won over B Engineers and B In
fantry took one from the Artil
lery Band boys.
The small white sphere of noth
ing covered with celluloid took
a beating when the Class A ping-
pongers swung out in the Class
A games that saw E Engineers win
from 1st Hq. Field Artillery, C
Coast Artillery over A Chemical
Warfare, B Cavalry above F In
fantry and 2nd Hq. Field Artillery
racking up more points than A
Cavalry.
Horseshoe pitching between B
Cavalry and 2nd Combat Train
Field Artillery ended with the
Cavalry winners, while C Field
Artillery took their game from K
Infantry.
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 on
Kyle Field is the time and place
for the annual intramural track
and field meet. The first half
of the meet will be from 2:00 till
3:30 and includes all Class A track
events as well as the Class BI
field events. The second half
will see the procedure reversed
with the Class A field events and |
Class B track. Preliminaries will
be held for the track entries but
all field event entrants will be
given three tries for their highest
mark. The one exception to the
last rule is high jump. Each con-
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