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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,
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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.
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BATTALION.
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940
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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
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Mesdames Paul Haines, chairman,
J. O. Alexander, Coulter Smith, A.
Benbow, Jack Shelton and R. S.
Miller.
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.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.
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Bumpers Pitches 1-Hit Game
To Tighten Hold on 2nd Place
By H. O. Johnson
Another bearskin padded the se
cond place runner in the Southwest
Conference baseball ladder as the
Aggies turned back the Baylor
nine in a one hit game Saturday
afternoon on Kyle field.
Lefty Bumpers, hurling the en
tire game for the cadets, fanned
ten men and allowed only one hit,
but blurred his win with eight
walks and by hitting two batters.
At the same time he took advan
tage of five fielding chances and
was credited with as many as
sists.
The Aggies’ first scores came
in the third inning as Dave Also-
brook in his final stand on home
territory sent one over the right
field fence with Stone and Ballow
on.
In the sixth inning the Bears
threatened but were stopped with
only the single tally. 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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