THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940
THE BATTALION
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KAROWMEN LEAVE FOR BIG SERIES WITH STEERS
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Wide Field Of Minor Sports Offered Here
“Soapy” Will Feed Pistol Team Tonight
For Winning National Championship
Coach Enslow will feed the Pis
tol Team at a banquet tonight at
which awards will be given and
a captain for the coming year
elected.
Members of the team who will
be lost due to graduation will be
Capt. Bob Shiels, Bill Lewis, and
Bert Burns. Also the two-bar coach
will be lost as he is being trans
ferred.
Coach Hub McQuillan looked like
he had just stepped out of Esquire
when he walked into the Athletic
Office Monday morning.
Mac, you won’t have any coeds
in your class for another month.
Johnny Rice was voted another
year of eligibility by the confer
ence last Saturday in Houston, but
he is going to graduate and take
a commission with the quarter
master’s corps in Uncle Sam’s
army.
Hubert Moon was also given an
other year because of his acci
dent this year and you will see
the left hander in the outfield next
baseball season.
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Jude Smith ended his career in
Houston Saturday by chunking the
javelin 198 feet for first place
in the event. That throw practic
ally clinches the most valuable
award for him.
We wish that the sailors who
are going to sail in the intercol
legiate races in June would drop
around and give us a story on their
prospects.
LONGHORN HAS SWELL
SPORTS SECTION
The Longhorn has done a very
nice job with the sports section
this year. The front part of the
section shows a picture of the
SUGAR BOWL, and across the top
it says, “ALL-AMERICA.” Then
spread across the picture are John
Kimbrough and Joe Boyd, the Ag
gies’ All-Americans for the past
football season.
SNIPE CONLEY IS
DUE TO GET LETTER
Snipe Conley is due to get a
letter in baseball this season and
here is one corner that will be more
than glad to see it. Snipe has
been out there every day for three
years and he has earned a letter.
If he was told to step out on the
mound and pitch both games
against Texas, throwing nothing
but curves, he would step right
out there and throw his arm
away for Ole A. & M. and never
whimper. A BOY LIKE THAT
DESERVES AND WILL GET A
LETTER.
There is one Oates who can do
something besides peck a type
writer. This writer’s kid brother
stepped out and helped Schreiner
win the junior college track title
last week by running the 440 and
anchored the relay team.
AGGIES IN WORLD WAR
Texas A. & M. College gave
more former students to service in
the World War than any other
United States college. A total of
2,200 were in service 55 and made
the ultimate sacrifice.
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Friday, Saturday
In Games at Austin
Texas University Drops
Three Games In Oklahoma
It will be do or die for the
Aggie baseball team when they
meet Texas in Austin Friday and
Saturday. If they “do” they will
have three more games to play,
two with S.M.U. and one with
Baylor, which were rained out
earlier in the year. If they “die”,
well they will just die and Texas
will walk off with another pen
nant.
If A. & M. heats Texas both
games and then wins the “wash
ed out” games they will tie with
the Steers for the title.
Coach Karow has indicated that
he may send Lefty Bumpers to
the mound in both games. The last
time he twirled against the Steers
he sat them down for seven in
nings with three hits and no runs.
In that fray he went to the mound
after Texas had murdered Char
lie Stevenson and Ralph Lindsey.
If any pitcher in the Southwest
Conference can stop the big bats
of Bob Moers, Clarence Pfiel, John
ny Hill, Elmer Layden, Jack Stone,
and Charlie Haas, it will be the
“Bump”.
Last week the Steers ran into
trouble in Oklahoma and dropped
three straight and that may be an
indication that the Texans are past
their peak.
Texas will send Melvin Deutsch
to the mound Friday and will pro
bably come back Saturday with
Dumke. Deutsch is the leading
twirler in the league, but the Ca
dets had little trouble hitting him
in his last appearance here.
These ball games will end the
athletic year for the Aggies and
it will be the last appearance of
Dave Alsobrook, Jack Doran, Jack
Cooper, Johnny Rice, Bob Stone,
Snipe Conley, Charlie Kirkpatrick
and Ralph Lindsey.
It looks like the Aggie lineup
will have Cecil Ballow at short,
Jack Lindsey at second, Marion
Pugh at first, Bob Stone at third,
Jack Doran behind the plate, Char
lie Kirkpatrick in right, John Scog-
gin in left, Dave Alsobrook in
center and Lefty Bumpers on the
mound.
If It’s Pingpong or Football
It’s Offered at Cadetville!
By H. O. (Hub) JOHNSON
By BOB MYERS
With examinations becoming
more of a reality every day, so
slows the schedule of intramural
sports. From the stastistics on the
bulletin board in the office, the
finger of championship points very
favorably in the direction of E
Field Artillery for the class A
Division.
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On the softball diamond Mon
day, A Engineers turned back the
team from B Cavalry in a very
close race. Up until the seventh
inning the Cavalry was leading
by a score of 10 to 9, but at this
point Burklin got a double and
Koettter followed with one of those
four-base hits. In making the hom
er to bring in the winning runs
Koetter redeemed himself for sev
eral walks that he allowed in the
third and fourth.
Texas A. & M. has to offer to
its students many minor sports for
their pleasure and chance to rep
resent the school in athletic com
petition.
From swimming and golf to
fencing and polo, the sports are
represented.
No other school boasts of as
many minor sports teams for the
participation of its students.
This year the teams brought
back to the school three first and
four second places in conference,
national and corps area competi
tion.
The first Minor Sports Festival
was held in April with seven of
the teams taking part.
What next year holds in store
for the cadets remains to be seen,
but based on the members yet hav
ing years of eligibility and the
freshman squads, all of the teams
should have the greatest seasons
of their history in store.
•
The Eighth Corps Area Randolph
Trophy was awarded to the Cadet
rifle team this year after their
defeat of six of the highest-shoot
ing schools in this section of the
country.
Firing a score of 938 of a pos
sible 1,000, the Aggie squad turn
ed back Oklahoma A. & M., Uni
versity of Arizona, New Mexico
Military Institute, John Tarleton,
Texas Technological College, and
the Colorado School of Mines.
At the same time the team
marked up the highest group score,
one of the members shot the sec
ond highest of the Eighth Corps
Area, that of 191 of a possible 200.
Members of the team include
four seniors, William E. Lewis,
Stanley F. Krogstad, Bert Burns,
and Bill Guy, and one junior,
Charles A. Lewis. The two broth
ers, William and Charles, are also
members of the championship pis
tol team as is Bert Burns.
Defending the Southwest Con
ference fencing title, the five-man
squad ventured to Austin last week
to return with one of the four
titles they formerly held, and the
league trophy in the hands of the
strong Baylor Bears.
Suffering from the loss of their
team captain and instructor of last
year, the team was slow on start
ing practice but quickly developed
into a major threat of the confer
ence. They claimed second place
at the meet with John Baird tak
ing the saber title from his team
mate, Leroy Everett. Everett won
second place in the weapon and
Tom Akarman, team captain, won
second place in the individual foil
weapon.
All members of this year’s squad
will return to slash away again
next season and should once more
recapture the trophy.
•
Twenty schools were defeated by
the Aggie pistol team as they re
peated as National Collegiate
Champions for the second consecu
tive year.
To repeat as champions Captain
Phil Enslow, coach of the team,
issued challenges to every college
in the United States which was
listed by the U. S. Army as hav
ing an R.O.T.C. pistol team and
then defeated all of the 20 schools
-f-which accepted the challenges.
Their score for the week ending
April 27, 1,425 of a possible 1,500,
was the best of the season and de
feated University of Wisconsin’s
1,310 and Xavier’s 1,387. In this
match Louis Kennemer, a junior,
fired a score of 288 of a possible
300. The second high man fired
285, and the remaining three tied
with scores of 284 each. Earlier in
the year Kennemer set a new col
legiate record of 292 and the final
team firing left a mark for all fu
ture teams to aim at.
Teams defeated this season in
clude: U. S. Military Academy,
(West Point), Virginia Military
Institute, Penn. State, Ohio State,
Illinois U., Arkansas State Teach
ers, East Kentucky Teachers, Mi
chigan State, Utah U., M.I.T., Yale,
Colorado State, Iowa State, St.
Benaventure, St. Xavier, Wiscon
sin U., and Purdue.
Pitchers of A Field Artillery
and F Infantry battled it out for
four innings of no-hit no-run ball
game at which time the Field bunch
came in with two runs in the fifth
and added three more in the sixth
to take the game by a margin of
four runs. The Infantry got a
foothold in the sixth and made one
run but was unable to improve.
A second inning game went to
13rd Headquarters Field Artillery
j by a score of 12 to 6 over D Field
I Artillery. 3rd Hq. put the game
I on ice by virtue of a seven-run
spree and cinched it by adding five
more to them before the end of
the game, thus overshadowing the
six runs of the opposition.
The pitchers of the Artillery
Band and I Infantry shone in their
game by limiting the total runs
to four. Of these, the Band took
three and the Infantry settled for
one. I Company made their run
early in the game and held the lead
until the sixth at which point the
Band boys began to sweat. The
sweating must have produced a
little fire because they settled down
and brought in all of their runs
in short order.
Class B water polo is fast com
ing to a close with another of the
league play-offs out of the way.
G Coast Artillery won a 2 to 1
game of legalized ducking from
the boys over C Engineers way
and are now in line for more com
petition on the way up.
For 13 minutes, 1.9 seconds they
pounded the road steadily on to
ward the finish line last Novem
ber 10 as thirteen of the South
west’s finest cross-country run
ners put their best in the run that
served as the preliminary to the
final race two weeks later.
Four Texas boys finished first
in the run and Texas also carried
off the conference run on the
24th.
In both races the group stayed
in a body for the first mile but
then the pace began to tell on dif
ferent ones.
Southern Methodist was the
third member of the final run
and finished in that place.
Runners for the Aggies include
Wilmeth, Walker, Laney, Hogan,
Graham and Owens.
Next year the cross-country ti
tle should change hands with the
Aggies making a strong bid based
on the returning runners while
Southern Methodist will be the fa
vorite with its experienced run-
ers and its Eastern college trans
fers.
a •
Tennis squadmen failed to make
a mark this year in the Southwest
Conference though the team pos
sesses many skilled and experienc
ed players.
The team practiced long and
hard throughout the year and yet
met defeat at every turn. In the
conference me§t the Aggie play
ers faced the strongest men of
the tournment from Rice and Sou
thern Methodist. Frank Guernsey
and Bobby Curtis of the Rice Owls
ran the remainder of the field
ragged to win first and second
places respectively. Next year it
might be altogether a different
story, for the skilled little man of
the court played his last match for
the Owls last week to finish his
college competition.
•
The Texas Aggies have one
sports team which is assured of a
Southwest 'Conference champion
ship every year and that is the
Polo Team, for Texas A. & M. is
the only school in the conference
which has recognized the sport as
official and permits its team to
appear as representatives of the
college.
Other schools have several stu
dents who play the team under
different names throughout the
year but never under the name
of their school.
This year Aggie polo prospects
and results were the best in the
history of the sport since it be
came official. Major Burnett, Cav
alry, U.S.A., took over the coach
ing duties from Captain Roberts,
also of the Cavalry, U.S.A., on
their exchange of stations and has
developed the team wonderfully
in the past season. The team won
the majority of its games and
broke even with the University of
Oklahoma, New Mexico Military
Academy, and Oklahoma Military
Academy, which are three of the
top intercollegiate fours of the na
tion.
•
Henry Hauser, who in the fall
season of the year fills the center
spot with Tommy Vaughn on
the football team, passed team
captain Bill McMahon in the South
west Conference Golf Tourna-
Texas.
The linksmen had a great season
this year and one much improved
over last year. McMahon and Hau
ser turned back Luce and Tommy
Taylor in a dual tournament for
the greatest win of the year. The
team finished second to the Uni
versity team with twelve strokes
over.
Team scores in the tournament
were as follows: Texas 1,225, A.
& M. 1,237, Southern Methodist
1,266, Rice 1,277, and Texas Chris
tian 1,291.
•
First-place team and individual
honors went to the University of
Texas swimming team in the
Southwest Conference Meet held
here last month, but the Aggie
tankers came through to claim a
strong hold on second place with
flying colors.
This year A. & M. had the
strongest swimming team it has
seen in a good number of years
and the showing of the freshman
squad helps to boast one of the
best in the Southwest for Coach
Art Adamson next season.
Paced by Beeler, the Steers took
the meet with 99 points. A. & M.
collected 63 for the runner-up po
sition while S. M. U. and Baylor
finished third and fourth with
twelve and six points respective
ly. Beeler set a new conference re
cord in the 220-yard free-style and
at the same time barely nosed out
Ty Hall of the Aggies. Later in
the year Robert Taylor of the
freshman team battered Beeler’s
new record.
On their trip to the North, the
Aggies marked up a 50-50 record,
defeating some of the greatest
teams of that section and falling
in a few of their water polo
games.
Last year the Cadet team won
the title of National Junior A. A.
U. Water Polo champions.
•
A. & M. relinquished the South
west Conference fencing champion
ship to Baylor University in Austin
last weekend at the annual meet.
Although unseated champions,
the Cadets came in second and
brought home eight of the sixteen
medals presented at the matches.
Defending the Aggie honor were
Akarman (captain), Baird, Rom-
inger, Everett, and Swigert. Gree,
Texas, won the invididual foil and
defending champion Akarman came
in second. In the individual epee,
Coffield, Texas, won first and
Aldeman, Baylor, took second.
Both first and second individual
saber honors went to A. & M.,
with Baird and Everett winners of
the respective places.
Teams at the meet were A. & M.,
Baylor, Texas, and S. M. U. Rice
and T. C. U. were unable to at
tend and therefore forfeited out.
Baird, Rominger, and several
other team members plan to par
ticipate in the Amateur Open at
Galveston this weekend. This
match is for individual prizes only.
Adamson Helps
Water Poloists
To Top Ranking
In 1935 Arthur Adamson joined
the coaching staff of the. Aggies,
after five years of service as ama
teur coach at the Houston Y. M. C.
A.
Before he became coach here he
played water polo and swam for
the Houston Y. M. C. A., Illinois
Athletic Club, Olympic Club, Wite-
mata Club in New Zealand, and
Pirates Club of New Zealand.
He won the 100-yard free style
championship of New Zealand in
1925 and held it through 1927, and
set records of 57.2 seconds in the
100-yard and 1:03.4 in the 100-
meter free style events.
In 1928 he played with the Illi
nois Athletic Club water polo team
which lost the national champion
ship to the New York Athletic
Club. That was the last time he
tasted defeat as a player or a coach
of the game until the single loss
for the junior National A. A. U.
title in 1938 when the Aggies took
second place.
Adamson was born in London,
England, in 1905 and has since liv
ed in Canada and New Zealand be
fore coming to the United States.
He is chairman of the Gulf Coast
A. A. U. Swimming Committee and
is also a member of the National
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