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SKIN BEARS IN 5-1 TILT gSSIRgg E.C.Jeep' OATES BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Aggies Drop To Fourth Place In Track In Conference They Once Controlled There was once a day when the Aggies were the kings of the track meets in this section of the coun try, but that day is gone. Satur day Coach Rollin’s proteges fell to fourth place, lower than S.M.U. Ed Dreiss failed to place in the 120 high hurdles, hut that was only one point lost. He was running the first leg on the mile relay and passed out on the last curve to knock the Aggies out of the race. Ed was running a fast race until he played out. The two hurdle races and his attempt in the high jump had just taken too much out of him. '‘Bama’ > Smith couldn’t get it through his head that he was to take second in the 100 dash and second in the 220 and as a result he ran fourth in both. “Bama” was running in his first conference meet and maybe by next year he will have the confidence he needs. Terry of Texas ran over in his lane in the 100-yd. dash and bumped him just as Smith was getting ready to pass the Texas boy. After it was over Terry offered an excuse that he stepped on a rock or clinker or something, but the excuse was very thin and he should have been dis qualified. Thomason, who was conference champion in the shot put last year, got fourth in the event this sea son. It is a funny thing about this shot putting. Two years ago Cook won it for T.C.U. as a soph and then fell behind Thomason who won it last year as a first-year man. This year Jack Wilson comes along to win it as a sophomore. Jack Hughes Is Real Champ With Discus; Bryan Fails To Break Pole Vault Record Jack Hughes, the big 6.4, 245- pound Texas athlete, can really throw the discus. After a couple of throws Saturday he broke the old record every time he threw. There is a little story about Hughes. He lived out west of La- mesa. When he was in school there the doctor who brought him into the world gave him a discus and told him to learn to throw it. When Jack got to high school this doc tor brought him to town to live with him and go to school. Jack won State and then the doctor sent him to Texas and he has been winning every since. The doctor was a great discus thrower in col lege himself, but how he ever guessed that Jack would get as big as he did is more than I can see. Beefus Bryan and Edmunds, both of Texas, tied for the pole vault at 13 feet and then Bryan had it moved to 14 feet so that he could attempt a new record. He took his three trials, but he never came close to getting over. He got his feet over on every try, JEWELRY the gift for GRADS Hamilton $37.50 up Elgin $24.75 up Ladies or Gents Fountain pen and pencil set in box. Parkers - $1.00 up Sets - $2.75 up Gifts to suit your needs for graduation or all occasions. C. W. VARNER, Jeweler North Gate Bryan but that is about all. He has clear ed this distance several times in other meets. A. & M. stands a good chance of gaining back third place next sea son. They have about five freshmen coming up who will give them some badly needed points. The most valuable men in three sports are to be selected soon. It looks like Bill Henderson will get it for basketball and Jude Smith for track. In baseball it will be between Lefty Bumpers and Jack Doran. CHEM SOCIETY TO MEET TONIGHT The seventh meeting of the lo cal section of the American Chem ical Society will be held Tuesday, May 14, at 8:00 p. m. in lecture room No. 9 of the Chemistry Build ing, according to a notice received yesterday. The program will include the following 15 minute talks: “The absorption principle involved in analyses and titrations performed in high frequency fields,” by J. H. Griffin and F. W. Griffin; “Con struction of a modified Stedman fractional column,” by R. E. Fix and J. D. Lindsay; “An investiga tion of egg deterioration caused by feeding cottonseed meal to laying hens,” by B. J. Thiegs and W. M. Potts; and “Flash Vaporization” by M. Knezevich and F. F. Bishop. Following the papers, there will be a report of officers, membership committee, porgram committee and miscellaneous business. Aggies Place 2nd In Southwest Golf Meet In Houston Henry Hauser surpassed Bill McMahon, the first half leader in the Southwest Conference Golf Tournament in Houston last week end, and yet placed second to Buck Luce of Texas, trailing by two points. The cadet team claimed second place as a group with twelve strokes over the University team. Bill McMahon paced the field Thursday but went down the next morning with an 82. He was even par that afternoon but placed fourth behind Tommy Taylor of Texas. The defending champions, Rice, finished fourth with their highest man, Harry Crissman, finishing in a tie for sixth place. Team scores were as follows: Texas 1225, A. & M. 1237, South ern Methodist 1266, Rice 1277, and Texas Christian 1291. By Bob Meyers Friday’s program was very slow in the class A division and show ed up with only three games. Two of these were softball, the other one speedball. Speedball is winding up for a flashy finish with the semi-finals at the mid-way point. In the game between F Engineers and A Field Artillery, the “bridge build ers” won 8 to 3 and will represent their side of the bracket in the finals. Coming up on the other side are A Signal Corps and E Field Artillery in a semi-final game scheduled for today. The winner of this game will face F Company in the last go-round. Machine Gun Cavalry nosed out E Engineers in an 8 to 7 softball game by scoring two runs in the last inning. The game was close all the way and had an unpredict able finish. Second Headquarters Field Ar tillery took an early lead over D Cavalry and held it for the dura tion of the game to win 17 to 7. Class B tennis semi-finals on the concrete courts brought the total games left to play to two when C Field Artillery won a hard-play ed match from 3rd Combat Train Field Artillery 2 to 1. C Battery will play the winner of the G In- fantry-F Coast Artillery games for the championship. The outstanding softball game of class B came between G Infan try and C Coast Artillery. Runs were hard to get in this pitching duel and the contest ended with the “paddle-feet” on top of a 4 to 3 score. GOOD NEWS AGGIES For Your Convenience See Our New Regulation Uniform I have my sample room at the Aggieland Hotel - Room 201 Starting Monday, May 13th and Continuing for Two Big Weeks SAM KAPLAN BATTALION. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940 PAGE 3 T. U. Takes Southwest Conference Track Title Texas University and Fred Wol-. cott of Rice put on a show Satur day afternoon in Houston for the rest of the schools to watch. The Steers ran off with the meet by scoring 62 points to 39 for Rice, the second place squad. Wolcott was the point-maker of the meet by scoring 15 3/4 points. He won first in the 100-yard dash and both hurdle races, ringing up a new American record of 13.9 in the 120 highs. S. M. U. took the Aggies’ third place hole away from them by scoring 24 points and A. & M. fell back to fourth with 20 1/2. Baylor followed with 14 1/2, eight and one-half of which came from the high jump, Arkansas gleaned 10, mostly' on the strentgh of a first in the two-mile run, and T. C. U. brought up the rear with six. A. & M. scored points in 11 events, but most of them came from third and fourth places. Jude Smith was the only first place winner for Coach Rollins. He took first in the javelin toss with a heave of 198 feet. Rice dropped her hopes of vic tory in the first race, the 440. The Owls got no points in that event and Texas picked up six. Results: SHOT PUT—Wilson, Baylor, 48 feet, 8 1/2 inches; second, Deal, Rice; third, Cook, T. C. U.; fourth, Thomason, A. & M. 440-YARD DASH—First, Bar- field, Texas; second, Dealey, S. M. U.; third, Morelock, Arkansas; fourth, Sparks, Texas. Time 49.1. 100-YARD DASH—Won by Wol cott, Rice; second, Ramsdell, Tex as; third, Terry, Texas; fourth, Smith, A. & M. Time—9.8. MILE RUN—First, Gibson, S. M. U.; second, Hafernick, Texas; third, Spencer, Arkansas; fourth, Todd, Baylor. Time—4:28.2. 220-YARD DASH—First, Rams dell, Texas; second, Blagg, Rice; third, Baccus, S. M. U.; fourth, Smith, A. & M. Time—21.3. 120 HIGH HURDLES—First, Wolcott, Rice; second, Gatewood, Texas; third, Bucek, A. & M.; fourth, Baggett, Texas. Time— Local Mothers’ Club Entertains Visitors Saturday Several hundred visiting moth ers were entertained with a tea Saturday afternoon from three to five p. m. in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Building by the Brazos County A. & M. Mothers’ Club. The visitors were welcomed by a committee consisting of Mes- dames T. O. Walton, Ernest Lang ford, J. W. James, C. H. Winkler, K. M. Sherwood and F. W. Herrsel. They were then registered by Mrs. R. S. Miller and Mrs. Jack Shelton. Presiding at the punch bowl were Mesdames R. L. Hearn, N. M. Mc Ginnis, J. O. Alexander and B. H. Dewey, and cookies and confections were served by a bevy of sub-debs from College Station and Bryan. The committee in charge of ar rangements for the tea included Mesdames Paul Haines, chairman, J. O. Alexander, Coulter Smith, A. Benbow, Jack Shelton and R. S. Miller. Fix SURE WE CAN and AT MODERATE PRICES Call For STUDENT CO-OP REPAIR North Gate .13.9, new American record. 440 RELAY—Won by Texas (Seay, Gatewood, Terry, Rams dell); second, Rice; third, A. & M.; foui-th, S. M. U. Time—41.7. 880-RUN—First, Taylor, Rice; second, Henderson, A. & M.; third, Smith, T. C. U.; Fourth, Frazier, Texas. Time 1.57.5. HIGH JUMP—Walters ’’ and Creasy of Baylor tied for first at six feet, 5 inches; third, Davidson, Texas, tie for fourth, Finley, A. & M. and Andrews of Baylor. DISCUS THDOW—Won by Hughes, Texas, 163 feet 2 inches; second, Real, Rice; third, Sprague, S.M.U.; fourth, Hartman, Rice. New conference record. BROAD JUMP—First, Puett, Texas, 22 feet, 5 inches; second, Wylie, Rice; third, Terry, Texas; fourth, Cecil, A. & M. 220 LOW HURDLES—First, Wolcott, Rice; second, Gatewood, Texas; third, Dreiss, A. & M.; fourth, Bucek, A. & M. Time—23.5. POLE VAULT—Bryan and Ed munds, Texas, tied for first at 13 feet; third, Coppedge, S. M. U.; fourth, Lay, Rice. MILE RELAY—First, Texas (Sparks, Smith, Stewart, Barfield); second, S.M.U.; third, Rice; fourth, Arkansas. Time 3:18.7. TWO-MILE RUN—First, Mc Call, Arkansas; second, Gibson, S. M.U.; third, Taylor, T.C.U.; fourth Laney, A. & M. Time—10:08.5. JAVELIN THROW — First, Smith, A. & M., 198 feet; second, Barnett, S.M.U.; third, Adair, Tex as; fourth, Flanagan, Texas. Freshmen Defeated By Shorthorns 7-6 The Aggie Freshmen nine went down to defeat at the hands of the Texas Shorthorns by a score of 7-6 in Austin Saturday. Kamperman pitched for the Farmers until he was removed in the ninth inning and was replaced by Rizer. Aldrich and Sibley did the catching for the Aggies. Greel was on the mound for the Shorthorns and Bostic was be hind the plate. Texas piled up a five-run lead in the early innings, but A. & M. came back with a four-run out burst in the eighth and Mitchell’s homerun in the ninth to tie up the game. Texas released a two- run attack in their half of the ninth to win the contest. The bright star which guided the Three Wise Men to the stable in which Christ was born (in 5 or 6, not 1, B. C., scientists have figured the correct date to be) will return in the year 2,407. You Can Read BEST SELLERS “BUT” . . . you can have a lot more fun by joining the crowd out at Hrdlicka’s and dining and dancing. 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Bumpers hit Witt at the plate and a passed ball moved him to second. On a fielder’s choice Witt crossed home for the run. Stone walked at the start of the eighth for his last time at bat on Kyle Field and was sent to sec ond on Alsobrook’s bunt down third base line. Hale, the first baseman for the Bears, had to reach far to make the catch and Dave was safe. Kirkpatrick fan ned on his final appearance and Stone moved to third. Alsobrook stole second and Scoggin came to bat for Cooper to try and bunt. He hit to Haley who played for Stone and caught him off. Mar- land Jeffrey doubled, scoring Also brook and Scoggin and then died on second as Doran struck out and closed the curtain for the Aggies home shows this season. The game was the fastest ever played here this year and no er rors were present. Air-tight field ing on both sides kept the scoring low. Bumpers, Jeffrey and Pugh pull ed two double plays and Stone and Pugh marked up another. 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