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Eight Aggies Play Final Ball Game
In Career On Clark Field In Austin
By Hub Johnson
Today on Clark Field in Austin
the Texas Aggies go to bat for
the last time this year.
The season can’t be called bad
and on the other hand, it isn’t
the best it could have been. Poor
batting has marred the Aggies’
score books and has tended to
keep them out.
A loss would be just another
■that might be expected. A win
would be a happy ending for the
cadets—to defeat the University,
the Southwest Conference Chap-
pions, in their final tilt of the year
on their own Clark Field.
So to Lindsey, Conley, Doran,
Kirkpatrick, Cooper, Rice, Stone,
and Alsobrook our hats are off and
the left one’s tight as the umpire
yells “play ball.”
Minor Sports Teams Wind Up Season As
Pistol Team Dines and Fencers Fight
Farewell to coach “Soapy” En-
slow was the thought behind all
that was said by the team mem
bers at the dinner in honor of the
team at the Captain’s home Thurs
day night.
The trophies were numerous,
with Klint Kennemer receiving a
silver pitcher for the high score
of the year. Last year he won
the honor and was awarded with
a silver platter.
Talk was that he finishes his
last year of team competition this
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season after firing three or four
years around the school on various
teams. The rule states something
to the effect that a man has five
years to play four—one for fun or
for the freshmen and three for var
sity. That means on a team recog
nized by the college. The pistol team
was recognized in June of 1937 and
has therefore fired three years.
Kennemer laid out a half year or
a full year. Could it be that he
will be able to stop on the firing
line again next year and re
strengthen the team?
Incidentally, for the first time
in many a moon, one of your
sports correspondents was present
ed with something beside a bleed
or a key. Yours truly received
a swell cigarette box with a gold
pistol and wreath decorating the
top. Too bad he doesn’t smoke.
Off to Austin went the Aggie
fencing team to fight it out in
an attempt to retain the South
west Conference championship two
weeks ago and in vain they waved
the thin slivers of steel.
In the round robin of foil com
petition the cadets went down aft
er eight hard wins of fifteen
matches but the Bears claimed
twelve of theirs.
Yet in the individual competi
tion Tom Akarman faced Gree of
the University and went down a
notch. The Texas coach and spon
sor of the conference meet took
it upon himself to judge the meet.
Tom is one of the best foilsmen
in the South and was defending
a title. This seems like there
was a wolf in the bush with a
coach refereeing his own students
match.
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Amarillo Parents’
Club Donates $15
To Library Fund
The college library has received
a $15.00 donation for the Stu
dent’s General Reading Fund from
the Parents’ A. & M. Club of
Amarillo, Texas. J. W. Ross is
president of the organization. The
Student’s General Reading Fund is
used to buy recently published fic
tion and non-fiction books re
quested by the students. The usual
letter of acknowledgement and
thanks is being sent Mr. Ross
and the Parents’ Club.
Conference Of Texas
Ag Experiment Men
The monthly staff conference of
the Texas Agricultural Experment
Station was held Tuesday in the
foods laboratory of the Animal In
dustries Building and included an
inspection tour under guidance of
Dr. Sylvia Cover.
TWO PITCHERS TO AID
GRAND PRIZE IN SUMMER
At the close of the year the
Houston Grand Prize team will be
strengthened by the addition of
Lefty Bumpers and Melvin Deutsch
to their pitching staff.
This should tie the Post Tourna
ment title around a case and close
the deal. The team is on a road
trip over Texas July 7 to 21 and
then play in the tourney from
June 7 to June 16.
OWL “R” ASSOCIATION
ELECT TEAM CAPTAINS
Frank Guernsey received the
Robert Quinn Memorial at the final
meeting of the Rice Lettermen
Association this past week. This
is the highest honor paid a Rice
athlete and the little man of the
courts was well deserving of the
memorial. For three years he has
brought fame to the Rice net team
and this year he was the only mem
ber of any of the Owl’s athletic
teams who stood out in sports as
well as in his studies.
Joe Blagg of Brownwood was
elected captain of the ’41 track
team, Dick Morris of Winter
Park, Florida, the head of the ten
nis team, Harry Crissman was
chosen to captain the golf team,
and J. P. Wood, “the little gen
eral” was chosen to head next-
year’s baseball team.
TEXAS TRACK STAR TO
RETURN FOR ANOTHER GO
Coach Littlefield is all smiles
as the ruling committee to decide
the eligibility of athletes has just
passed judgment on the Freddie
Ramsdell.
It seems that Ramsdell has sur
passed his five years limit to com
pete three years. He was out of
school a year due to serious ill
ness and an exception was judged
by the committee.
He won the 220-yard dash in
the Southwest Conference meet and
ran the leg on the winning dash
relay team. This will add strength
to the team that had not been
expected.
SPORTS WRITER JOB
FOR BOY WHO WANTS IT
Next year there will be a vacancy
on the sports staff which is de
sired to be filled by a junior or a
sophomore.
Anyone having any desire to
scribble off a few lines a week
can contact me in room 220 dor
mitory 6 or at The Battalion Of
fice.
Beautiful
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For Final Ball
The most important
dance of the year and
this means special at
tention to whom to get
the corsage from. We
have the prettiest cor
sages and at the most
reasonable prices.
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Great Game, But
Errors Lose Game
Wired To Battalion
By E. C. Oates
AUSTIN, May 17.—The Univer
sity of Texas Longhorn baseball
team clinched the Southwest Con
ference title here today by beat
ing the Aggies 19 to 6.
Lefty Bumpers pitched his heart
away for six innings, but Cecil
Ballow kicked the ball game away
with five errors. Two of the most
pitiful umpires ever to work a
game gave the Steers another
handful of runs.
Towards the last of the game
the cadets were whipped and the
Steers started pounding the ball.
Scoggin and Stone hit triples
for the Aggies, and Alsobrook and
Bumpers clouted homers, but this
was still not enough.
Score by innings:
R H E
Aggies 203 001 000— 6 8 8
Steers 411 035 50x—19 16 2
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GAME IN AUSTIN
TODAY FINISHES
CONFERENCE
Texas University is holding its
fifth Southwest Conference title
this year in its closing game with
the Texas Aggies. The game will
be played in Austin today and is
the last for eight of the Long
horn players.
The Steers playing their last
collegiate series are Captain Clar
ence Pfeil and Charley Hass, out
fielders; Johnny Hill, first base;
Bobby Moers, third base; Fred
Everett and Joyce Rawe, catchers,
and McDonald and Still, pitchers.
Aggies completing their eligibil
ity for the baseball series are
eight in number and include Ralph
Lindsey, Kurten; Snipe Conley,
Texon; Charles Kirkpatrick, Hous
ton; Jack Doran, Midland; Johnny
Rice, Sherman; Jack Cooper, Dal
las; and Co-captains Dave Also
brook and Bob Stone of Brenham
and Holland, respectively. Johnny
Rice goes into the army as sec
ond lieutenant in the Quartermaster
Corps.
Charlie Stevenson or Walter
Bass will probably pitch against
Bill Demkek, Udell More, Ned
McDonald, or Charlie Still in to
days game.
Texas has already won the track,
golf, swmming and cross-country
championships for this school year
and have only. to lay the cadets
low in this two-game series to add
yet another crown.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Bob Myers
F Engineers wound up the speed-
ball season in fine style by de
feating E Field Artillery 11 to
8. This final game was the fol
low-up of the E Field Artillery—
A Signal Corps match that the
“Buggy-boys” won by a margin of
two points, the final score being
7 to 5. In entering the final play
off however, they found the com
petition a little tougher and had
to be satisfied with second place.
One of the few tie games on
record came off between 1st Com
bat Train Field Artillery and A
Signal Corps when they played to
a 9 to 9 deadlock. The balanced
score could have been broken by
an extra inning but circumstances
prohibited the additional period
play.
The Infantry Band split two this
time and won a softball game
from F Coast Artillery by a score
of 5 to 4 only to turn around and
drop the other one to G Infantry
10 to 3.
Still in the Band Hall the Field
Artillery team took a close ball
game from the I Infanry boys 3
to 1. The competition was pretty
even and plenty tough up until
the sixth when the Band cut loose
on a winning three run spree.
3rd Combat Train Field Artil
lery took an early lead in its game
with Headquarters Cavalry and
held it throughout seven innings
of ball game to come out the vic
tor 8 to 3.
In a close starting game in
which neither team would give
ground, A Field Artillery took ad
vantage of slacker closing innings
to defeat C Cavalry 6 to 4.
BATTALIONS
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940 PAGE 3
Texas High School Boys To
Hold Swim Meet At A. & M.
Receipt of entries from 10 Tex-.f
as towns for the annual Texas
high school boys swimming cham
pionships to be held at Texas A.
& M. College, Saturday, has been
announced by Coach Arthur Ad
amson, Aggie swim coach, who
will be in charge of the meet
under Texas A. & M. College spon
sorship.
For the first time since the an
nual affair was started by the col
lege, Adamson has received en
tries from as far west as El Paso
and south as far as Beaumont.
Also entered for the first time
will be swimmers from Dallas,
Bryan and, right at home, from
College Station Consolidated high
school.
C. A. Lewis Elected
Pistol Team Captain
At Banquet Thursday
C. A. Lewis, better known as
“Ears” to many of the students,
was elected captain of the 1940-41
pistol team at the banquet given
in honor of the squad at Coach
Captain Phil Enslow’s home Thurs
day night.
This was also the farewell meet
ing of the team with their coach
and the graduating seniors, Bob
Shiels and Bert Burns and with
Lewis Kennemer who will return
next year to serve as honorary
captain due to his inelligibility.
Bill Lewis, another graduating
member, was absent from the din
ner but sent his thanks for all that
had been done for the team this
year.
Dr. George Summey, Jr., and
Colonel Moore were presented with
tokens of appreciation and auto
graphed pictures for the help they
had given this past season. After
these presentations, the varsity
and freshmen lettermen were
awarded trophies and pictures with
congratulatory messages from the
commandant.
Minor T metals and sweaters
were awarded the lettermen at
the Federal Inspection Review
Wednesday.
Captain Phil Enslow’s address
to the team expressed his re
grets for not being able to return
next year to again try for another
national championship but wished
them luck under their new coach.
After his talk, Bob Shiels, retir
ing team captain presented him
with an engraved cigaret case and
lighter.
In Class B waterpolo we find
A Signal Corps climbing up the
ladder of championship by defeat
ing G Infantry 4 to 0 in a quar
ter final game of splashes.
Other cities entering teams in
clude: Fort Worth, Houston, San
Antonio, Denton and the defending
city, Austin.
Last year Austin high swam
off easily with the title but since
that time they have graduated
some of the winners so will have
to depend on some of their new ma
terial.
Denton is entering a full team
for the first time but in the past
has always taken two first places
with their Bob Gentry who will
be back for his final year. Fort
Worth Paschal high won the title
the previous year and would like
nothing better than to get it back
this year.
Due to the large number of en
tries preliminaries will be neces
sary and so the qualifying heats
will be held this afternoon
and the finals tonight.
Despite all the tens of trillions
of stars in space, the average per
son sees only about 9,000 stars in
the sky on the starriest night,
though he thinks he is seeing mil
lions.
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AGGIE FENCERS
TO TRY FOR WIN
AT GALVESTON
The Galveston Fencing team,
members of the Southwest Fenc
ing League, will hold their annual
open fencing meet in Galveston at
the Buccaneer Hotel this after
noon. Two Aggie fencing stars,
Baird and Rominger, will enter
thig meet and both will be favor
ed to bring back championships.
The saber, foil, and epee con
tests will be offered and the Aggie
pair will enter all three events.
Baird, newly-crowned Southwest
Conference saber champion, is
favored to come away with the
saber and foil contests, while
Rominger, former Southwest Con
ference epee champion, will be
pointing for the epee victory.
The meet is sponsored by the
Moody Club of Galveston and is
headed by D’Albergo. Some of the
foremost fencing skill in the south
west will be displayed and the
competition should prove to be
stiff.
The lowest temperature ever
recorded in the continental United
States was at Miles City, Mon
tana, where the thermometer fell
to 65 degTees below zero.
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C Field Artillery and F Coast
Artillery, the two ranking Class
B Tennis teams, played yesterday
afternoon, too late to make the
paper, in a championship match.
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