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Farmers Play Bears Today; Last Home Game mmm t.CJcep' OATES BATTALION SPORTS -EDITOR ^ + ****** ****** ****** ****** Rice Host To Conference Track Meet Today Bill McMahon Leads First Day in Conference Tournament; Netmen Fail To Scratch By Hub Johnson The three Southwest Conference meets started off with a bang Wednesday and Thursday in Hous ton with the Aggies failing to scratch in tennis and then turn ing around to set up the individ ual star of the first day on the golf links. Bill McMahon, playing his final round for the cadets, led the field Wednesday by a one-point margin over the Texas stars. At the end of the first day the Texas team led the cadets by 36 points. On the tennis courts it was al together a different story. Frank Guernsey turned back Jimmy Giles, 6-0, 6-2. Fincher of Texas downed Mitchell 3-6, 6-2, 6-0. Poll of T. C. U. defeated Krezdorn 6-1, 6-2. Adams fell victim to Hicknet of Arkansas 6-4, 6-4. In the doubles Mitchell and Given were topped by the heavy score of 6-0, 6-1, by Guernsey and Curtis of Rice, and Adams and Krezdorn were defeated 6-2, 6-3, by Southern Methodists’ Baird and Robbins. Final Home Game Of The Year On Slate For Aggies Today As They Face Bears This evening on Kyle Field the ’40 Aggies play their last home game and are out to win rain or shine. The Aggies carried off the first tilt this year between the two schools but were sent to the stands because of rain in the second in ning of the second game. This last week the team refused to come in out of the mist at night in an attempt to be prepar ed for the Bears no matter what they might have to offer or the kind of weather in store. Dr. A. Benbow DENTIST Phone 375 Austin Building — Bryan COULDN’T BE SMARTER! Hear your friends say that about your new hairdress, styled by us. We specialize in suiting your personality with a hair-fix that’s easy to keep looking freshly done! LAVENDER Beauty Shop The Aggie fish wind up their seasonal schedule in Austin with the University freshmen. In so doing they are also out for re venge in order to settle the score of the walkaway the Texas team collected here last month. The Oklahoma Aggies turned back the Texas University team 5 to 4 to Wednesday and thus added another black spot to the Dischmen’s trip to .the Sooner state. The University of Okla homa handed them two defeats and then the Aggies came to bat in the home half of the ninth and put over four singles and walked one around to top the Texas one run. Rice Owls’ second net star met defeat and went down as the num ber one fatality of the opening day as Texas University’s Reuben Riskind turned in two 6-0 games. This throws new light on the tennis tournament and takes away a little of the Owls’ power. The Baylor Bears got off to a fast start and turned back the Owls 10 to 8. Fred Pepper, the Owl star pitcher since his win over Texas, started on the mound but gave LOOK HERE! NOCONA BOOTS RANGER BELTS BITS, SPURS and SADDLERY YEAGER Hardware Co. Bryan St. Bryan 550 GRUEN CHELSEA GRADUATION GIFTS OF JEWELRY, DIAMONDS AND WATCHES —If It’s New, We Have It— CALDWELL JEWELRY STORE BRYAN BEARS PLAY HERE! SATURDAY IN LAST HOME GAME By Bob Myers A. & M.’s baseball team is^eady for their last home game Satur day with Baylor University. When it started raining during practice Wednesday the players kept pass ing and battin’ the ball around. In two previous games with the Bears the Aggies took one and were leading the second game when it was rained out. Barring rain, “Por ky Pig” Handley, team manager, predicts not only a win over Bay lor but also a Southwest Confer ence Championship. A win over the Waco bunch will place the Cadets in a favorable position for a shot at the flag while a loss would knock the props out. The probable starting battery for Baylor will be Golden pitching and Bryce catching. This is the same combination that had charge of the old alley in the game that ended short in a deluge of rain. For the Aggies, Bumpers or Stevenson will take the mound and Doran will be stopping them behind the plate. With the pill coming from both sides of the box there’s a chance that the Bears will zig when they should have zagged. The starting line up for A. & M. will be Henderson or Pugh, lb; J. Lindsey, 2b; Stone, 3b; Cooper, If; Alsobrook, cf; Kirkpatrick, rf; and Ballow, ss. A capacity crowd should be on hand to see this game as it will provide a prelude to the Mothers’ Day Progam Sunday. BATTALION SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1940 PAGE 3 Model Airplane Contest To Be Sunday Afternoon The annual model airplane con--ftaining this year. Everyone who test at A. & M., which will be held Sunday afternoon at one o’clock at the College View farms two miles south of the college on the old college road, is being spon sored by the Southwestern Gas Model Association for the first time this year. The contest is be ing held under the auspices of the A. & M. Aeronautical Engi neering Society, of which Vernon Krummel is president and W. I. Truetner is the faculty advisor. Over 150 contestants from all parts of the state are expected to participate in the event and com petition is expected to reach a new high. Last year a local con test was held on the cavalry drill field, but the field was considered too small for this year’s contest. So for as is known this is the first S.W.G.A. meet to be held at a Texas college or university. Thrills and spills were plenti ful last year and the event is expected to be equally as enter- By Bob Myers Horseshoe finals in both classes were played Wednesday and ended with C Coast Artillery taking the Class A championship from A Field Artillery by a score of 2 to 1. A combination of Schneider-Marsh and Spangler - Melencon won matches for the Coast while the single victory of the Artillery boys was taken by Larson and Sulli van. F Engineer Fish took the medals in their class by outpitching F Field Artillery to the tune of 2 to 1. From the looks of the cham pionship games in both classes the “buggy boys” were just a little off on their deflection. A matter of one point, the difference between a passed score and a kicked one, spelled defeat for D Cavalry at the hand of A Signal Corps in the quarter-final play of speedball. The final score being 7 to 6. Indoor baseball came up with some exceptional and unusual games this time. One of those things happened in the game be tween 1st Combat Train Field Ar tillery and K Infantry when the up eight hits and as many runs before he was taken from the game. Poor support and a bit of wild pitching on behalf of the Owls helped them to strengthen their hold on the cellar. Club AVALON Presents Shows - 6 Acts (11:30 and 1:30) with Helen Hayden (tap dancer) Nita Tin Tall (Rhumba & Hula dancer) Alice Lynn (Acrobatic dancer) and Jeff Bently and His Orchestra Cover Charge 50f A. & M.-T. U. Grid Game To Be Played On Last Thursday Sticking to tradition, the Texas Aggies and the University of Texas Longhorns will play their annual football game on the last Thurs day afternoon in November. This year the day falls on Nov. 28 and the place will be Memorial Field in Austin, where the Aggies never have won a game and have scored but one touchdown since the field was built. At the same time they also a- greed to have the annual fresh man game between the two schools played one week earlier and also on Memorial Field with game time set for 2:30. The date for that game will be Nov. 21. Time for the varsity game will be the usual 1:30 o’clock. Field team came from behind in the sixth with a ten run spree to win the game 12 to 11. A Cavalry and G Coast took a chance on tail-spinning their grades and won a game apiece from the Milner Hall “Professors.” Both games found the Profs get ting started in the fifth but they couldn’t make enough runs to bridge the gap. “Windy” Crawford’s homer in the seventh broke the five to five tie between 3rd Combat Train Field Artillery and E Coast Artil lery and brought Nichols in to cinch the game 7 to 5. Infantry Band won an extra period game from the Machine Gun Cavalry when Koenig made a hit to get on and was brought in by a teammate. The final score was 5 to 4. 1st Headquarters Field Artillery won the closest game of the day from E Engineers 3 to 1. The Engineers made their scores in the second and the Field brought three men in in the third to close the scoring early in the game. D Engineers made a two run spree in the sixth but couldn’t get over the hump and went down to F Infantry in a 6 to 5 ball game. is interested in aeronautics and model airplanes is urged to take part in the contest. The prizes, ranging from $5 up, will be furnished from money tak en in by concessions at the field. The prizes will be given on the basis of time of flight. Registration for the contest will probably be held Saturday and preliminary runs will be held all day Saturday in order to get the events lined up for the final runs. The contest will start at 1 p. m. Fish Tackle Texas U. Shorthorns In Austin Saturday Seeking a win to settle a long remembered beating at the hands of the Texas freshmen, the “fish” travel to Austin Saturday to tangle with the “forty acre” frosh. This will be the final game for the freshmen and now stand with a win over the Baylor Bears and the 21 to 9 defeat to the Texas team. Southpaw Rizer will take to the mound for the fish if he recovers from his cold with Kamperman, the right hand hurler who allowed the Cubs only two hits, lying in reserve. Behind the bat will be the first real ball player of the squad, Aldrich, Zapalac or Wilson will be on first, Sims on second, Glass on third, Atkins at short, Simmons in left field, Peden in center, and Mtichell in right. If Black is re leased from the hospital in time, he will make the trip and probably play in right field. Harry Faulkner takes with him a team that is based this time on a lot of “ifs” and many dependen cies but at the same time, a team that is anxious for a win to settle the “gift day” game here last month. In this game the Texas freshmen ran wild over the fish and were opposed by many pitch ers, the last of whom was Bando. This was Bando’s first game on the mound but he struck out one to count for a third of the final inning. Eighteen colleges and universi ties sent delegates to a New York state scientific conference at Vas- sar College. There are more than 200 kinds of cereals on the market—not counting just plain oatmeal. C Cavalry won an unusual game from 1st Corps Headquarters 8 to 1. For the first three innings both teams were retired three up and three down. It was in the fourth that the Cavalry cut loose with five runs to win the game and added three more for good measure in the sixth and seventh. CAMPUS Theatre 15£ to 5 p. m. 25£ After 5 p. m. Prevue Tonite - Sunday Monday Tyrone Power Loretta Young in “SUEZ” with Anabella News - Cartoon LAST DAY “THE AMAZING MR. WILLIAMS” with Joan Blondell Melvyn Douglas SMITH AND CECIL PLACE FOR A.&M. HOUSTON, May 11—Fred Wol cott qualified in two preliminaries yesterday evening to add to his two hurdle entries, a leg on the mile relay and the broad jump and set himself up as a possible record breaker of high point in dividual scorer. No preliminaries were held in the hurdle events as not enough entries were present. In the final run today Wolcott, Gatewood, and Dreiss will fight it out for the last time in their college careers. In the 100 yard dash Ramsdell of Texas won the first heat with a time of 10.1 with Smith of A. & M. following a close second. Blag of Rice placed third and Bellew of Texas fourth. In the second heat of the cen tury race Wolcott broke the tape in 10 seconds flat and led Cary and Roberts of Texas, and Cecil of A. & M., respectively. Wolcott set a good time in the 220 yard dash as he won the sec ond heat in 21.9. Bacus of Texas won the first and led Cecil, Ras- dell, and Mast.- Wolcott was fol lowed by Blag, Smith, and Roberts. The Aggies failed to place a man in the 440 yard run as Moser and McLean each ran fourth in their respective heats. Hall of Rice and Cealey of S. M. U. were the winners of the quarter preliminar- A. R. Boot Picked As Leading Methodist Student On Campus At the annual student banquet of the A. & M. Methodist Church A. R. Boot of St. Louis, 111., who is in Hq. Cavalry, was awarded the medal for being the outstand ing Methodist student on the cam pus. This is the first year that such an award has been given, but it is planned that this will be the annual custom hereafter. The new officers of the organi zation were also installed at the banquet. ies. Others to qualify were Bran non, Sparks, Barnfield, and More- locker. The finals are scheduled for 2:30 p. m. today on Rice Field. W. J. 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