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Aggies Ride Mustangs For 4-2 Win Here Saturday ‘Little Conference , Shows Track Title Will Go To Texas; Freshmen Run Close In Austin Friday the Southwest Conference track question came to a pretty good head as the Texas University team ran off with the “little conference” meet by a wide margin between themselves and the Rice Owls. The bayou team, in turn, beat the Aggies out of second place by a safe score. With the remaining schools of the conference in the final run next weekend in Houston it will again be the University’s but this time the Owls will have to fight and run hard to keep the cadets out of that second spot. The fseshmen in their own “lit tle conference” ran closer races and gave warning to the South west that the track title in the next three years would be one hard to get. Texas frosh won the meet with a score of 55% and the Ag gie fish beat out the Rice fresh men 51% to 50%. Many of the times of the fresh men races and the distances were better than the varsity. Fish Ricks of the Aggie freshmen cleared six feet six and one-half inches in comparison to Bagget’s and Barnes’ 6 feet and 1% inches in the varsity competition to give Texas a tie for first place. Texas Sweeps Over Baylor; Owls Split With Ponies; Netters Meet Soon The Dischmen swept the Baylor series last week and continued on their way to the title and the play ers continued their scoring race. They allowed six hits and collected sixteen to win 22 to 4. Owl feathers ruffled up Thurs day as they downed the Southern Methodist Mustangs 12 to 4 and then flew wild as the Ponies turn ed the table and nosed out a 9 to 8 win Friday. In the tight one, Wood and Palmer led the way for the Owls with home runs. The game was tied up in the ninth and ran into the eleventh where the Ponies scor ed one and held the Owls tight. Billy Wilkins and Fred Higgen- botham starred for the Southern Methodist netters as they turned back the Baylor Bears 4 to 3. The matches ended in a tie but the value of the number one doubles was the deciding event. The Texas team fell to the strong Rice gang in Houston last week as did the Baylor Bears. This leaves the Rice team the only undefeated team in the Conference and as far as the rest of the schools are concerned they can raise the old pennant even before they enter the Southwest Confer ence finals in Houston Friday and Saturday. Frank Guernsey and Bobby Cur tis ran their opponents ragged and led the Owls to the two 6 to 0 wins. Notes From Here And There Show Houston A Busy Place Saturday; Meet In Austin From the above and elsewhere it appears that Houston will be JEFFREY LYNN • ALAN HALE • FRANK McHUGH DENNIS MORGAN • DICK FORAN William Lundlfin • Guinn ‘Bl( Boy’ Williams Directed by WILLIAM KEIGHLEY A WARNER BROS.-First Nat’l Picture Original Screen Pt«y by Norman Reilly Rein*. Fr*d MMo. Jr., 1 OMR FnaUbi Wednesday, May 8 3:30 - 6:45 quite a busy place next Thursday night. Three teams from every school in the Southwest Confer ence, barring Arkansas, will move in and prepare for the two days to come. On the Braeburn Course the Aggie golf squad will fight to keep the University team out of the number one plate. Both teams have been rounding the courses FLASH PHOTOS* of Senior Ring Ceremony and Senior Ring Dance • Make reservations before Friday with— Phil Golman Jimmie Wall 37 Legett 218 - No. 2 JUNIORS You’re going to want a pair of the finest boots ever made. INVESTIGATE NOW! —We are taking orders every day for next year. Ask our present wearers —then dash down to the North Gate and order— HOLICK’S BOOTS Aggies Upset Frogs 4 to 2 In Golf Match Aggies Take Both Doubles Matches, Halve Singles A. & M.’s golf team marked up another victory in Ft. Worth by defeating T. C. U.’s team 4 to 2. The game was played at the Glen Garden Golf and Country Club in a wreath of warming sun shine. The doubles were played in the morning rounds and saw Henry Hauser and Bill McMahon out- shoot Ed Rinercomb and Benton Beasely four-up and three to go, and saw Henry Richards and V. C. Denton go an extra hole be fore the match from “Dub” Rankin and Kyle Gillespie, one-up in the nineteenth. The singles matches were played in the afternoon, being evenly split with each team taking two. Henry Hauser defeated Ed Rinercomb three-up and two to go; Bill Mc Mahon lost to Benton Beasely one down; Henry Richards took “Dub” Rankin one-up, and V. C. Denton went down to Kyle Gillespie four and three. The team’s next action will be this Thursday and Friday at the Braeburn Golf Links in Houston when they participate in the South west Conference meet. GOLF’S HOT BOY IS HOUSTON’S DEMARET In a story about Jimmy De- maret, Stan Witwer, St. Peters burg Times sports writer, says the newest golf luminary might have been a football or baseball star to day instead of the country’s stand out professional golfer. At North Side High School in Houston Jim my was a star tackle on the foot ball team, a crackerjack shortstop on the baseball team, a forward on the basketball team and a swim mer. He was the city’s high school golf champion, too. When it came to choosing sport careers after his graduation, Jimmy decided he could wield golf sticks better than he could hit line drives or make tackles, so he concentrated on golf. One of the things which made the Texas youth like golf was his first tournament as a professional. It was the Texas PGA in 1934, and he won it. It gave him a great thrill. Jimmy is married and has a young daughter. He is 29 years old. in good counts and the Texas team defeated the caddts one time. This was in Austin and on a foreign course. At the Rice courts, the tennis title will be turned over again to the Owls and the Texas track team will attempt to lay a legal claim to its title. Dick Allen, a graduate of the summer of 1938, and an old mem ber of C Field Artillery, is in Houston and will probably be there for quite some time. In his sen ior year here Dick was confined to his bed with trouble in his bones. After graduation he went to work in South Texas and again fell ill. An appeal has been made by the Houston Mothers’ Club that anyone having time and in want of something to do while waiting for a planned time to roll around, go by the Jeff Davis City-County Hospital to see him. Buddy Baer put up a funny fight Friday night against Nathan Mann. He carried off the first round with ease but then loafed and took a beating throughout the second through the sixth. In the seventh he came out and floored Mann for nine counts twice. The last time Mann stag gered to his feet, he turned to ward his comer and gave up the fight. This might put Baer in line for a crack at the championship. Rice Institute’s new football coach was on the spot yesterday noon in Houston as he appeared before the Houston A. & M. Club. Other Rice officials present at the meeting included Dr. Gaylord Johnson, business manager of Rice athletics, and Harvin Moore, pres ident of the Rice Alumni Associa tion. PAGE 5 TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940 Bumpers Pitches Four-Hit Ball After Relieving Bass By Jack Hollimon Lefty Bumpers turned in a four hit hurling job for the Aggies Saturday on Kyle field to win by a score of 4-2, over S. M. U. Bass started for the Farmers but three walks and an error forced in a run and he retired for the day. Bumpers went into the game in Longhorns Take First Place In 6 Little Conference’ Meet Fred Wolcott again took the-f spotlight in the “Little Conference” track meet in Austin Friday as he equaled the world’s record in the 120-yard high hurdles event and then returned later to win the 220-low hurdle race. Texas won the meet with a score of 76% points to the Owls’ 57 and the Aggies’ 35%. The Aggies won one first place in the javelin event as Jude Smith sailed the javelin 193 feet 5% inches on his last throw to beat Flannagan of Texas. In the hurdles both Dreiss and Bucek placed and Dreiss pushed Wolcott close in the low event. Jim Thomason fell just short of Deal’s shot put and satisfied him self with second place. The showing of the three teams gave the general idea of the way they might appear in conference meet Saturday, although many of the . winners were pushed hard and followed very closely. The freshmen in their events set some good times and distances, with the Texas freshmen winning first place and the Aggie fish claiming second. The Rice frosh carried off third place one point behind the fish. The complete summaries are as follows: 440-yard dash—Barnfield, Texas ; Hall, Rice; Sparks, Texas; Bardon, Rice. Time 48.8. 100-yard dash—Ramsdell, Texas; Wolcott, Rice ; Terry, Texas; Biagg, Rice. Time 9.6. 120 yard high hurdles—Wolcott, Rice; Gatewood, Texas; Bucek, A. & M.; Dreiss, A. & M. Time 13.7. 220 yard dash—Ramsdell, Texas; Biagg, Rice; Smith, A. & M.; Roberts, Texas. Time 21. 880 yard run—Taylor, Rice; Fraser, Texas ; McSpadden, Texas; Henderson, A. & M. Time 1:59.3. 220 yard low hurdles—Wolcott, Rice; Dreiss, A. & M. ; Jacques, Texas; Bucek, A. & M. Time 23.3. 440 yard sprint relay-—Rice, Texas, A. & M. Time 41.5. One mile run—Hafennick, Texas; Hog an, 'A. & M.; Lestak, Texas; Laney, A. & M. Time 4:35.8. Two mile run—Price, Texas; Laney, A. & M. ; Time 10:38.9. Only two men fin ished. One mile relay—Rice, A. & M., Texas. Time 3 :20.3. Shot put—Deal, Rice; Thomason, A. & M. ; Hartman, Rice; Classic, Rice. Distance 47 feet 6 inches. Discus throw—Hughes, Texas; Deal, Rice; Hartman, Rice; Henry, A. & M. Distance 133.2 feet. Javelin throw—Smith, A. & M. ; Flan nagan, Texas; Bryan, Texas; Robnett, A. & M. Distance 193 feet 6 inches. High jump—Baggett and Earnest. Tex as, tie for first; Davidson and Finley, Texas, tie for third. Height 6 feet l 1 /* inches. Pole vault—Bryan, Texas; Lay, Rice; Edmunds and Wakefield, Texas, tie for third. Height 13 feet. “Personnel-Minded” Employers Make Job Prospects Brighter A marked pick-up in employment of technical men is seen by W. R. Woolrich, University of Texas en gineering dean. Opening of new jobs, an indus trial trend to expand research act ivity, and a growing “personnel consciousness” on the part of em ployers are three factors respon sible for the increasing demand for experts, Dean Woolrich believes. He bases his assertion on an in creasing stream of requests by firms, both in and out of Texas, for trained college men. “Both the University faculty and business men of this state are be coming more ‘personnel minded’,” he observed. • Employment prospects in the fields of engineering and business Fish Batsmen Win From Yeguas; Lose Game With Baylor The Aggie fish split two base ball games Friday and Saturday with the Somerville Yeguas in Somerville and the Baylor Cubs in Waco. The Aggies took the Som erville contest by a score of 13-7 and dropped the Baylor game 10- 6. Ellis and Kamperman worked on the mound for the Aggies at Somerville, while Nizer and Kam perman pitched for the Farmers against Baylor. INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS By Bob Myers Three sports were represented in the four games constituting the semi-light schedule last Friday. Horseshoe-pitching saw C Coast Artillery take A Engineers in a 3 to 0 semi-final game. On Wednes day of this week, the winners of the match between D Engineers and A Field Artillery will repre sent the other end of this bracket and play the Coast boys for the championship. In the Class B horseshoe finals F Engineers will take on the win ner of a match between F Field Artillery and the Infantry Band. With this game and the Class A match we see the closing of a suc cessful horseshoe season. On the speedball field, F Engi neers ran the B Coast Artillery bunch into the ground in a, 12 to 0 victory to take the quarter final game in their bracket. Softball showed the smallest schedule of the season this issue by coming out with only two gam es. L Infantry won a 9 to 5 game from H Coast Artillery and 2nd Combat Train Field Artillery took one from C Chemical Warfare to the tune of 14 to 9. administration are brighter for this year’s college graduates than for any class in recent years. That is the report of Lawrence W. Zimmer, director of the New York University bureau of employ ment. A 100 per cent job placement of the 1940 graduates in the univer sity’s college of engineering by early fall was predicted by Mr. Zimmer after interviews with se niors by personnel officers of basic industries. Last year 233 men were graduated with engineering de grees. Business trained groups and graduates of liberal arts colleges are being sought on an increased scale, Mr. Zimmer said. TO BE ENTIRELY SATISFIED, Send Your Cleaning & Pressing To HOLICK CLEANERS BEN YOUNGBLOOD, Manager • Low cash and carry prices for high class cleaning. Business more than doubled this week. Join us. • WANTEDrSeniors in each organization for agents Next Year. Call and sign up now. North Gate Green Neon Sign Isay, Pugh, lb Henderson, lb Bass, p Bumpers, p Totals Kilmer, ss Davis, 2b Keith, lb the first with none out and walked in the second run, but he fanned the next three men to face him. He struck out fourteen Mustang batsmen while giving up only four" walks, and his classy relief work gave the Aggies a strong hold on second place in the Southwest Con ference pennant race. After spotting the Mustangs a two-run lead in the first inning, the Aggies tied up the game with a two-run outburst in the fifth on a double play by Jack Doran and a pair of singles by Alsobrook and Kirkpatrick. Again in the “lucky seventh”, the big sticks of the Aggies boomed to count two runs on a pair of walks, a costly error, and a double and single by Cooper and Doran respectively. Brooks Atchison went the route for the Methodists and gave up nine hits while striking out ten of the opposing batters and walking five. Keith gleaned a double in the fifth for the only extra base hit for the Ponies. This victory for the Aggies gave them a record of six games won and three games lost in conference play. Ballow, ss Stone, 3 b Alsobrook, cf Scoggin, f Cooper, If Doran, c Kirkpatrick, rf AGGIES ab 3 5 5 3 2 4 3 h po 0 1 1 0 2, 1 0 0 1 0 2 14 1 2 Bianchi, If Ramsey, rf Pace, cf Atchison, p Clement, 3b Bledsoe, (a) Aulenbach, c Tessman, (b) Totals (a) Batted for Clement in ninth, (b) Batted for Aulenbach in ninth. Score by innings: S. M. U. 200 000 000—2 4 2 Aggies 000 020 20x—4 9 2 Umpires: Etie and Walsh. 2 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 32 4 9 27 9 2 . U. 2 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 4 0 1 6 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 0 1 3 0 0 0 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 28 2 3 24 8 2 ONE FOR THE BOOKS— TO AUSTIN BY BIKE! Aggies have traveled by air, bus, railroad, auto, and thumb— but here’s a new one. Mack Hodges, senior civil engi neer living in Legett Hall, actual ly made the trip to Austin via bicycle this past weekend. Believe it or not! University of Kansas welcomed its first new Greek group since 1923 when Tau Kappa Epsilon founded a chapter there. SUNDAY, MAY 12TH IS THE DAY We’ve outdone past per formance, with our ar tistically boxed confec tions in honor of Moth ers’ Day! Make your choice, and know that you’re giving- her the quality gift that will please her most! Whitmans - Kings - Pangburns Wherever mother is, your gift of candy purchased here this week, will reach her in time for Mothers’ Day. We mail and pay postage in Texas. AGGIELAND PHARMACY “Keep to your right at the North Gate and You Can’t Go Wrong” PENNEY^ SHOE WEEK Showing the New TOWNCRAFT . . . all leather line in honest values at low prices. • * Wear Penney’s Shoes for comfort and economy. J C PENNEY CO, Aggie Economy Center BRYAN, TEXAS