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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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