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E.C.Jeep' OATES BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Southwest Still Tops in Hurdles; Wolcott, Gatewood, Dreiss Standouts The Drake Relays saw the South west really go to town. Wolcott, Gatewood and Dreiss was the fin ish of the 120 high hurdles, and that is just the way they have al ways finished and always will. Bu- cek finished sixth in the same heat. In the qualifying heats Dreiss, Bucek, Gatewood and Wolcott were separated and each won his heat. Jude Smith had trouble in the prelims, but got in the finals and bettered 190 feet. Wolcott ran a 9.7 100-yard dash in the prelims, but was third in the finals in a 9.9 heat. John Kimbrough Avows He Is Not Going In Movies; His Number Is In “Star Dust” John Kimbrough says he is not going in the movies, but he is in the show “Star Dust”. The other night at Waco the flickers were showing this show. A big fullback was standing on the side lines read ing a letter from a movie concern, offering him a contract. The coach looked over and told him to go in the game. He stuffed the letter in his pants and there on his jersey was number “39”. At this point several Aggies in the movie house yelled, “There goes Kimbrough”. There were only seconds to play when the team started a series of lateral passes. Some of the Aggies yelled, “Give it to Kimbrough”, and about that time here came Number “39” to take the ball and score the winning points. Also in the show some Arizona team was playing Texas Baptist, which can be called Baylor as it is the Baptist school in Texas, and it looked very fitting to see “Big John” tear through the “good ole Baylor line” like he did last fall. This writer has read many “dime” sports magazines and has thought that anything could happen in a story, but the authors don’t have a thing. They should come down and watch the Aggie Fish play a game. They pull everything in the book and then add to it. Saturday Bill Kamperman was on the mound for the Fish, that is, he was on the mound most of the time. Coach Faulk ner had to call Les Peden in to get the side out one inning, but he sent Kamperman to center field, rather than take him out, so that he could re turn to the hill. Faulkner said he was going to make the big right-hander work nine innings if he did have to switch posi tions everytime he got in trou ble. He ended up the day by walking 12, hitting two or three batters, throwing some five wild pitches, striking out seven, bouncing a double over the fence and clouting a homer over the left center field en closure. The Aggies were away to a 3 to 0 lead in the first inning of the second Baylor fray when the rains came. That is the third conference game that the elements have stop ped against the Aggies this sea son. In winding up the season in pis tol shooting last week the pistol team scored a 1425, the highest score that has ever been fired by an A. & M. team. This match was against the University of Wiscon sin and Xavier. Those teams have not sent their scores in yet, but we will bet they “ain’t” no where close to it. It looks like we have the National Champs again. TAKE A LOOK AT OUR MARLBORO SHIRTS! • We’ll give you the shirt off our back if you’ve ever seen more style in shirts— than you’ll find in our new MARLBORO collection! • The Marlboro people are not merely shirt-makers —they’re style-creators! New colors, new weaves; new models ; . featuring Marlboro's custom - grade tailoring. They're America's smartest shirt buy — as advertised in Esquire! $1.65 1 1 The new staff will put out the Battahon’s next issue and the lads doing the sport chores will be Hub Johnson, “Red” Meyers and Jack Hollimon. Hub has put in two years on the Bat sports page and is ready to take over the head job. Meyers has put in one year and has done some swell work. Hollimon is comparative ly new, but shows promise of being the real McCoy. And look where the Brooklyn Dodgers are today . . . won eight straight (maybe nine by this morn ing) and topping the national league . . . yeah, and look where the Yankees are without the “Day go”. AGGIE GOLFERS OUTSTROKE S.M.U. Drawing near to the end of the road for the year, the Aggie golf team defeated the Southern Metho dist linksmen here on the Bryan Country Club course Friday, 4 to 2. Hauser and McMahan won the number one double from Cook and Hanley in the feature match of the evening. McMahan won the number one single from Cook, 8 to 7. The other Aggie wins were Den ton over Berry, 3 to 2, and Richards over Elder, 3 to 2. Richards and Denton lost to Eld er and Berry in the other double of the tournament and Hanley de feated Hauser 3 to 1 for the sec ond win. Texas Christian University will be the final opponent for the Ag gies before the conference meet in Houston May 10 and 11. The cadet team will play in Fort Worth May 2. Fish Swimmer Beats Conference Record In the Southwest A. A. U. meet at Dallas, Bob Taylor, Aggie fresh man swimmer, sped the 440 free style in 5.14 for first place, the time being 16 seconds faster than the Southwest Conference time. Hensley of A. & M. bettered the conference time in the 50-yard free style by four-fifths of a sec ond when he splashed the dis tance in 24.1 to beat Bob Sinclair of the Dallas Athletic Club and I. B. McKey of A. & M. Sinclair nosed out Hensley in the 100 free in 54.8. Wally Hoffricter and Mike Sojka of DAC and University of Texas respectively, beat out Nick Ponsieux in the 100 breast. 71 r V/IMBERLEY STONE DANS8V CLOCKIER5 Pop Shaw Still Making ’Em Best! College Campus Sandwich Shop Back of Legett Hall Aggies Play Grand Prize Here Today Teams Split Pair Of Games Earlier In Playing Season Bass Scheduled To Start Game For Karow Charges Coach Marty Karow’s Aggie baseball team, just back from a trip to Waco where they beat Bay lor in one game, before the rain washed out the second, will play the Grand Prize Brewers at Kyle Field this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Earlier in the season these two teams met at College Station and split even in a two-game series. The Brewers beat Ralph Lindsey and “Lefty” Bumpers 9 to 3 in the fii’st contest and Sam Bass, Charlie Stevenson, and Roy Peden came back to beat the visitors 11 to 5 in the second. Chubby Nolen, Aggie shortstop who is ineligible this season, will play for the Brewers. The Grand Prize team has some former out standing organized baseball stars on it. Heine Schuble, shortstop, held down that position several years for Detroit. Pete Dowling, right field, is a former Aggie and a former member of teams in the American Association. Tom Ang- ley, catcher, is a former receiver of the Houston Buffs. John Mc- Grew is still capable of pitching Class AA ball. Coach Karow will probably start Walter Bass, junior letterman from Houston on the mound. Marion Pugh will probably be ready to play first base after missing the Baylor game on account of an in jured finger. The Aggies seem to have found their batting eyes after being in a slump during most of the early season. In the first game the Aggies collected five hits off the Brewer hurlers and in the second fray they massed 13. The Aggies have had three of their conference games washed out in addition to two with Randolph Field and Coach Karow has brought Grand Prize back to give the cadets a struggle before they meet S. M. U. here Saturday. By Bob Myers Swimming and diving intramural style filled the pool Saturday and Sunday afternoon when E Field Artillery took the meet by a mar gin of ten points. Second place went to the 1st Corps Headquar ters boys with a total of 23 points. Placing third was C Field Artil lery with 12 points. The Coast Artillery took fourth when B Bat tery racked up 11 points. Making the Field Artillery victory com plete, D Battery made 9 points and scored fifth honors. J. H. Stevens, 1st Corps Head quarters, was high point man of the meet and took first place in three events. Winners of each event and the winning time are, diving, Cockrell, R. B., D Field Artillery; 400 foot relay, E Field Artillery, time 1:11.7; (team members were Pat terson, Dillon, Burney, and Oliver); 100-foot breast stroke, Stevens, 1st Corps Headquarters, time 20.2; 100-foot back stroke, McCarthy, L. J., B Coast Artillery, time 21.0; 100-yard free style, Stevens, 1st Corps Headquarters, time, 1:02.3; 100-foot free style, Stevens, 1st Corps Headquarters, time 16.6; Medley relay, E Field Artillery, time 62.; (team members were Biggs, Carpenter, and Patterson). BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940 PAGE 3 Boxers Make Bid for Official Recognition; Desire Training Two outstanding games of play ground ball took place this issue and included the games between A. Infantry and B Coast Artillery and the one between K Infantry and Coast Artillery. The “paddle- feet” won both games but the “buzzard busters” gave them real competition. In the first game, the score was tied 4-up in the fifth when the Infantry put on a scor ing spree to take the game 8 to 5. K Company had a closer time of it in their 5 to 4 game and were the underdogs until the sev enth when Fuller and Watson brought home the bacon. By Martin Howard ■* Boxing is at last making a se rious bid for official recognition at A. & M. with many Aggies that want the opportunity to learn to box pushing out of the closet and into the limelight. Many students are wondering why the largest men’s school in the world offers no chance for its students to learn the art of self- defense when the majority of large high-schools and many of the col leges give instruction in the sport. It is true that intercollegiate box ing has serious flaws that may render it undesirable but there is nothing undesirable in teaching us how to box and how to keep our bodies in top-notch shape. In this respect boxing has no equal, for it provides an incentive for physical development and conditioning that makes it easy for a college student to remain in perfect health with a minimum amount of effort. The Athletic Council has seen this need and is listening to the students’ plea for a capable boxing instructor in the Physical Educa tion department. It has recently made a survey of the opinion of a representative cross-section of the colleges of the nation regarding the sport and has found that al though the majority of them do not favor intercollegiate compe tition, fully fifty percent employ instructors in the sport and believe it desirable to do so. It is signifi cant that both West Point and An napolis ax - e especially favorable towards boxing instruction. Aggie Fish Outscore Baylor Cubs Behind Kamperman’s Two-Hit Pitching New Jersey College for W r omen has a new course called “Back ground for War.” By Jack Hollimon Under overcast skies Satux-day afternoon, the Aggie freshmen beat the Baylor Cub nine 11 to 5 on Kyle Field. Bill Kamperman, Fish hurler, started the game and turned in a creditable performance in al lowing the Cubs only two scratch hits while he was collecting a dou ble and a home run. The first man up for Baylor struck out and the other two men went down on an infield out and a fly to left field. The Aggie freshmen took a three run lead in the A. & M. half of the first inning on a brace of walks, a pair of timely singles, and a wild pitch by the Cub pitch er, Ben Lucas. Atkins walked, Sims singled, and Zapalac walk ed, filling the bases. The Bruin twirler lost control of the next throw and it went for a wild pitch, scoring Atkins and advancing the other two runners. Les Peden struck out, but Wilson stepped up to the platter and blasted a single through third to score Sims. Then “Boots” Simmons rolled out, short to first, while Willie Zapalac scor ed. Mitchell struck out to end the inning. Kamperman ran into trouble in the second when Baylor scored two runs. Harlen Burnett, loop ing a fly to right field, was safe on second when Mitchell misjudged the ball. Kampex-man then walk ed Bob Miller and Jim Callam was hit by a pitched ball to fill the sacks. Another walk to Gate- wood forced in Burnett, and Peden was brought in from center field to take the mound. Kamperman took Peden’s place in center. Wilkins lined the first pitch down the third base line where Miller, coming home, kicked the ball and was automatically out. Lucas roll ed out to first unassisted and Callam scored on the play. Pitman was out, short to first. The Cubs came to bat in the third and added another tally on two walks, a hit batter, and a wild pitch by Kamperman who had re turned to the mound. The outs came as a result of a forced out at the plat and two strikeouts. In the Aggie half of the third, a rally was cut short by a forced out at third and a fly to center field, taken in by Pitman, leav ing three men stranded on the sacks. The Aggies came back in the sixth to clinch the game when Kampex-man led off with a double that bounced out of the field. Atkins went out on a pop fly to third, but Sims singled to score Kamperman. Zapalac was safe at first on Casey’s error, and Sims took third. Peden bounced one out of the park that was good for two bases and scored both run ners. Wilson whiffed and Sim mons popped to short for the final two outs. In the seventh, the Fish came back to score five more runs be fore putting away their heavy bats for the day. Mitchell, first up, drove one over the scoreboard for a homer. Aldrich was safe on Carter’s error and Kamperman followed it up with a four-ply wallop over the left centerfield fence, sending Lucas to the show ers. Welch came in to pitch and walked Atkins. Sims singled to left and Zapalac added another single to score Atkins. Peden fox’ced Sims at third and Wilson struck out, but the final pitch was wild and Zapalac scored. Baylor came back in the eighth to score two runs. An error, a wild pitch, a pair of walks and a scratch hit by Wilkins scored one of the runs, while another wild pitch followed a double play and a walk let in the final run for the Cubs. The Aggie infield aided Kamper man by pulling three double plays. Beax'd pitched the last inning for the Farmers and the Bruins were unable to hit him. Summary: R H E Cubs ...021 000 020— 5 2 4 Fish 300 003 50x—11 13 2 Umpires—McNeely and Wesson. Aggies Hand Bears Defeat In Waco Game Friday, 9-7 Peden, Bass Pitch for Cadets; Alsobrook Is Hitting King With Homer, Two Singles The Baylor Bears struck first in the lead-off game of the scheduled two-game series in Waco last week only to be sux'passed later and downed, 9 to 7. Eax-ly in the second inning the Bears marked up their first run and took the lead for a few short minutes. In the third the Aggies marked up four, and in the fourth they picked up three more. When the sixth inning rolled around the Bears went on a scor ing spree, marked up six runs and evened the score, seven up. Roy Peden started on the mound for the Aggies but was replaced after the first out in the sixth by Sam Bass whe went the rest of the way allowing only one trip. Dave Alsobrook was the hit ting king of the evening, reeling off one home run and two singles, in four tx*ips to bat. Sherman Barnes hurled the en tire game for Coach Lloyd Rus sell’s Bears and was nicked for 14 hits. A. & M. ab r h po a e Ballow, ss 5 0 1 2 2 1 Stone, 3b 5 3 3 2 1 1 Alsobrook, cf 4 2 3 4 0 0 Scoggin, If 5 12 10 0 Doran, c 3 10 8 10 Kirkpatrick, rf....5 12 110 Lindsey, 2b 5 0 2 3 2 0 Henderson, lb ....5 0 1 6 0 1 Peden, p 3 10 0 10 Bass, p 2 0 10 10 Totals 42 9 15 27 9 3 Baylor ab r h po a e Hands, If 5 0 2 1 0 0 Allen, 3b 4 0 0 0 1 2 Witt, ss 4 114 5 2 Haley, lb 1 0 14 0 0 Kent, lb 3 0 1 9 0 0 Radney, rf 5 2 110 1 Richardson, 2b....4 10 3 11 Lummus, cf 4 12 10 0 Bryce, c 3 1 0 3 3 0 Barnes, p 3 1113 0 Tracksters Go To Austin For Little Conference Meet The Aggie track team will ven ture back to Austin this weekend to the same scene on which disas ter max-red the Texas Relays earli er this year. This trip will be for the annual holding of the Little Confex-ence Meet between Rice, Texas, and A. & M. Throughout the season the three teams have been dealing each other bits of misery in every meet in which they participated, the last being the Aggies win over Rice in the triangular meet with Howard Payne as the third team. This meet is the foreteller or the broadcaster to the rest of the conference as to whom the flag will go in the last round-up. Texas boasts of strong relay teams and a few good sprinteers, Rice leads the field in the hurdle events and many of the field events, and the Aggies hold threats in scattered events. Totals 36 7 9 27 13 6 A. & M 004 300 020—9 Baylor 010 006 000—7 Home runs, Alsobrook, Witt. Stolen bases, Alsobrook, Stone. Bases on balls, off Barnes, 1; off Bass, 3. Sti-uck out by Barnes, 3;. by Peden, 3; by Bass 5. Hit by pitcher, by Barnes (Doran), by Bass (Barnes). Double play, Witt unassisted. Pitchers’ record, 7 xuins 8 hits off Peden in 5 1-3 in nings; no runs, 1 hit off Bass in 3 2-3 innings. Winning pitcher, Bass. Umpires, Glenn and Walsh. The warmest events of the day will probably be the hurdle races with Wolcott of Rice holding the edge and Gatewood and Dreiss fighting to change the customary trend. The Conference Meet will be held on Rice Field, May 10 and 11. Adamson Reports “Family Night” In Aggie Natatorium In order to give the college staff and their immediate families an opportunity to take advantage of the cooling and refreshing facili ties of the swimming pool, a fam ily night has been announced by swimming coach Art Adamson. Be tween the hours of eight and nine every Thursday evening, the pool will be open to the staff free of chax-ge. 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