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THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941
HO/HUB* JOHNSON
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Aggies Back In Good Shape After Win From
Houston Team; Sportsmanship of Corps Poor
Exams are on and this time
next week many coaches here at
Aggieland the same as elsewhere
over the country will be faced
with the problems of who is to
replace “Kilvenbesty” and will a
certain Jones come through now
that he has made the grades.
The Aggie cage team takes time
out after Thursday’s game to hit
the books and taken on one of the
top opponents of each year—final
exams.
Their first game after return
ing for the second semester will be
with the T. C. U. Hornfrogs in
“Cow Town” on Feb. 11 and with
the S. M. U. Mustangs the fol
lowing night.
Mid-term will find Sammy Dwyer
and Mike Cokinos returning to the
hardwood floors to finish out the
season. Dwyer has been faced with
grades as has the “Iron Man.” It
was said that there might be an
age limit and Mike didn’t meet it.
Again Thursday night the cadet
corps cut the team’s throat in the
stands. Booing and heckling the
visitors while they are attempting
free throws comes back at the Ag
gies when they hit the road for
foreign schools.
It has been discussed time and
again—the fact that some players
don’t even hear these distractions—
that’s true—on the other hand,
some do.
An apple core was even thrown
into the game, splattering over
some one fourth of the playing
floor. This will be the winning
point for the opponents some even
ing and the cadets will lose one
they should have won.
Minor Sports To Share In Highlights After
Mid-Term; Tankers Swim With Dallas Sat.
Dallas Athletic
Club Wins From
Baylor Swimmers
Aggies Will Meet
Same Team In First
Home Meet of Season
A strong swimming team from
the Dallas Athletic Club that tor
pedoed the Baylor University aqua,
men in a meet January 4 will make
their appearance at Aggieland on
February 8 to take on the strong
A. & M. team.
The Dallasites, in their meet with
the Bears, came out on the long
end of a 47-14 score by copping
first places in all events entered.
Stars of the meet were Sonny
Smoot, Bob Sinclair, Phil Mont
gomery, and Danny Green, all of
the Dallas Athletic Club.
This strong team will meet an
equally strong bunch of swimmers
in the Cadets. A team made up of
record breakers and near record
breakers.
Harold Hensley, captain of the
Aggie team, will lead such stars as
Bob Taylor, who took two new rec
ords in Kansas City, Mo., and E.
W. Conway, Jim Davis, and N. A.
Ponthieux who made up the medley
relay team that set a new record
against the Kansas Cityians.
The Cadets will meet the Dallas
Athletic Club in a return meet in
Dallas on February 15.
After mid-term the minor sports"
season will be in full-swing.
Already golfers have covered the
Bryan Course in their preparation
for the coming tournaments.
Fencing lessons are being taught
at DeWare Field House in the box
ing room each evening at 7 o’clock
by team captain Tom Akarman
and classes of around thirty stu
dents have been attending.
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Pistol and rifle shooting will get
into full swing and shoulder tour
naments should be more numerous
this season.
Polo will make its reappearance
under the leadership of the team’s
new coach, Major Stevenson of the
Cavalry.
Freshman try-outs for the tennis
team are being held and varsity
team practice will commence right
away.
Saturday night, February 8,
Coach “Water Duck” Adamson will
send his tankers against the Dallas
Athletic Club here in P. L. Downs
Jr. Natatorium. This is a good
lag-season event and will feature
some fine swimmers.
Last Monday night at the Hous
ton Ex-Aggie party a magician gave
Coach Homer Norton fair warn
ing as to who the fumbler would
be in his backfield next year.
He called Derace Moser, Jake
Webster, Willie Zapalac, and Ma
rion Pugh to the platform along
with the coach. Pugh substituted
in for the fourth man.
A small silver ball was passed
back and forth amongst the quar
tet. The more it Was handled the
hotter it got. Finally to bring the
prediction straight home Pugh
dropped out of the race. In the end
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Zapalac dropped the ball.
Homer Norton—he refused
take the ball at all.
Here and there . . . Sammy
Dwyer and Mike Cokinos claim
midnight Saturday night as their
line . . . both say they will go to
the field house and shoot a couple
just for luck . . . Levi Craddock
ate oysters for dinner before the
cage game Thursday night . . .
along about the half he began to
swim in a daze . . . Coach Harry
Faulkner is out this week-end to
sign up some Texas League teams
for practice games during base
ball season . . . Oklahoma City,
Tulsa, and Dallas will all train in
East Texas ... a game might be
scheduled with the St. Louis
Browns who will train at Seguine
. . . many games are played in
basketball and technical fouls are
scarce but Thursday night three
were called . . . Nabors knocked
the ball away from the floor on an
Aggie goal for the first one . . .
the other two came when two ca
dets failed to report . . .
James Craig, Rice Institute’s
and Houston’s ex-grid star, re
turns to the bayou city on the
screen with Ginger Rogers in “Kit
ty Foyle” . . . the first sign of
the army interfering with Aggie
sports was evident Thursday night
Dwyer Returns To
Aggie Cage Squad
Hard luck man of the Aggie
cage team, Sammy Dwyer, will
return to the hardwood floors Feb
ruary 11 in Fort Worth against
the T.C.U. Hornfrogs.
Coming to A. & M. from El Paso
High School where he made two
letters in basketball and football
each, captained his teams in each
sport his senior year, and claimed
all-state honors in basketball, he
won his freshman numerals in both
sports and donned a varsity letter
his sophomore year in the five man
game.
He returned his junior year to be
the only experienced letterman.
Thus he captained the cage team
until mid-term at which time he
went ineligible due to insufficient
grades. For the rest of the year
the squad was captained by game-
appointed leaders.
At the end of his spring term
he had a clear record, but the fol
lowing fall found him in the rut
again. Last semester he cleared
his record once more and the pres
ent term makes the second.
In Fort Worth he will play his
first game since his junior year
and start the final lap of his col
legiate eligibility.
During the past two years he
has aided in coaching the Consoli
dated High School team and played
a roll in the scrimage sessions of
the varsity squad.
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. . . Snapper Norton, noted cage
star of the Carr-Sweeney five, has
entered the army air corps in
California . . . Bobby Moers had
a final exam facing him yester
day morning at the University of
Houston and failed to make the
game. . . .
Major Fox Becomes
Sponsor For Boxers
The A. & M. Boxing Club begins
the next semester with Major Tom
Fox as sponsor of this minor
sports activity.
Major Fox accepted the position
after H. C. Spencer, head of the
Engineering Drawing Department,
resigned. Spencer was unable to
continue in this capacity because
of his extensive duties elsewhere.
Boxing has been growing in pop
ularity at A. & M. every year since
it was recognized as a club organ
ization, and members plan to bring
it on a level with other sports
Activities of Aggieland promin
ence.
Gaining experience in the four-
cornered ring at West Point dur
ing his school days, Major Fox is
fully able to give Aggie boxers
assistance and leadership which will
carry a top ranking to boxing as
a minor sport.
Rejuvenated A&M Cagers
Down Carr-Sweeney 48-44
Game Is Last
For Semester;
TCU Next on List
Captain Bill Dawson hit a high
stride Thursday night to lead the
Aggie cagers to their first win
over the Carr-Sweeney five with
his seventeen points.
Pete Creasy tied Dawson’s rec
ord to keep the amateur team al
ways close to the Aggies’ heels,
and took much credit in the 48 to
44 count.
Wednesday night the Car-Sween-
ey registered the same count over
the Houston Y.M.C.A. Triangles.
This time however the 44 points
were worth of the game win.
Car-Sweeney in Early Lead
Charlie Stevenson broke into the
clear on the tip off but missed
his shot. For two and a half min
utest both teams raced the floor
and shot wild until Levi, ex-all
conference player of the Rice Owl
’40 champs, broke the deadlock.
Bill Henderson came back fast to
again tie up the count.
Big Dog Dawson was charged
with pushing Craddock and the
free throw was good, making the
count 3 to 2. Pete Creasy, ex-Baylor
star, sank one for the Carr-Sweeney
team. J. T. Lange broke through
the defense and on a pass from
Henderson, brought the Aggies,
back through the defense and on a
pass from Henderson, brought the
Aggies back within one point of
the Houston five.
Dawson made a field, missed a
free throw, and then made another
field in rapid succession to put the
Cadets in the lead. Holding the
lead until midway into the first
half, A1 Albrecht, past Sam Hous
ton star, set the repair works
■fteam ahead by a lone point.
Dawson made a free throw, Ray
Jarrett sank one from close under
the basket, and thee Craddock sank
two for Carr-Sweeney, setting the
Houston five again in the lead.
Fred Nabors tied up the count,
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Master at the Art of Self Defense By Sword,
That’s Jim Rominger, Three Weapon Man
Sports Editor’s Note: This, is-f
another in a series of articles on
players whose names are flashed
on the sports page.
Mastering the art of self-defense
by sword was the task one Jim
Rominger of Breckenridge, Texas
set before himself upon entering
Texas A. & M.
He goes down on the books as
the fourteenth man from the little
West Texas town to attend school
here but also goes down on the
books as holder of the 1938 South
west Conference Epee Champion
ship.
Far from being the top fencer
or dueler on the Aggie squad, he
still takes great interest in the
sport. A1 Goodstein first put a
weapon in the major’s hand his
fish year. Major—he is in com
mand of the First Battalion of the
Field Artillery Regiment and has
for the last four years been a
member of Battery “B”.
He is a student of accounting
and plans to enter the army upon
graduation.
When asked the greatest fencer
he ever faced in competition he
hesitated before placing D. Albergo,
coach of the Anaco Team of Gal
veston, before Aggie team captain
Tom Akarman of Lubbock.
Questioning further, we found
that in ’38 the fencing team cap
tured the Southwest Championship
and will be strong contenders again
this year in conference and league
competition. The problem hereto
fore had been that of equipment
but the last benefit show bought a
good bit of new swords and masks
for the squad.
Strange stories travel around
the second floor of his dormitory
Last year his room mate. Tommy
Houston, stated to a reporter that
he would hate to be in Chamberlin’s
shoes. Now Jim has taken the
sport as a means of self-defense
more seriously in order to keep his’fHouston exclaimed. The last medal
room safe from disgrace and
shame, and “fifth columnist( ?)”.
“It’s a great sport,” he went on
to say, “There are some great fenc
ers in this part of the country, and
some good ones here on the cam
pus.”
During our visit there, his room
mate opened his drawer and out
fell a key chaim draped from one
end to the other with medals re
ceived in competition in the various
classes of the art.
“Epee differs from fencing,” he
stated. “They are divided into
three classes—fencing, epee, and
sabre.”
In Galveston last year he carried
off second place in the arm, re
ceiving a beautiful trophy for the
placing. Still, he says he can tell
nothing of this fight.
The fencing team was hard hit
two years ago by the loss of Cap
tain Roberts, devoted cavalry of
ficer who gave his services as
coach and instructor. For the past
two years, Duke Molyneaux has
been acting as sponsor of the team
but at mid-term he will enter Loui
siana State University on a scholar
ship.
“Lieutenant Sory of the Field
Artillery is now acting as the fac
ulty advisor,” Rominger stated.
“Here’s one he didn’t show you,”
we saw was one he received some
years ago at C.M.T.C. It was not
a fencing medal but it took its
place in the same box with the
others.
This season should see Rominger
wind up his collegiate competition
and carry off a few more honors
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