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1941 i It 3SS und y— •ing Rex jrn. an ♦ # 1 f f * * J <*: * 1 :1 r l ‘ * i With Hub Johnson foreign OWLS FLY OVER sh and ^ ' AGGIES AGAIN—WHY? is an Dow* to the banks of the muddy »rk and Buffalo went the Texas Aggies »d man early this year only to be downed and drowned by the Rice Owls ws do. with Frank Carswell taking the ve you lead of the ducking crew. e it is Six weeks later we bad them on which f i the home ground and had them on ning. the run. At the half the score dif- . fered but one point. At the finish, it S r differed but four. Your writer missed this game G but has heard— ILL “The Aggies seemed to turn to the Beer Barrel Polka” for their 15— fight, and, “Sure shots aren’t the :y,” ones that count.” Maybe there is a good thought l ay- mdy fl '> here and there. SPER SHOOTS GAME 3:30 * 4 FOR MR. JOHN FAN 2R,” Norman Sper wound up his four ler- day visit here last Saturday shoot- Ste- ing action shots of the rebuilding and of the Texas Aggie grid machine. He is picker of the All-Player- AU-American team for Liberty and runs a syndicated weekly football column and a Friday forecast of Saturday’s games. With him were A1 Wetzel and Bus Southerland, veterans in shoot ing and playing the game. Sper on his tour of the country is producing a picture to give the fans—“Mr. John Fan”—the funda mentals behind the grid game. Shots are being made with Mr. Fan sitting in the end zone since Boots That Look Like A Million . . . and Stay That Way They look “swell” the first tirpe you put them on . . . and keep on look ing like a million after months of wear. T ha t ’ s where quality counts! You’ll Like ’Em! The Boot Center of Texas mim 323 Alamo Plaza San Antonio, Texas Rice Cagers Down Aggies in Fighting Battle Selman and Kinney Star for Owls; Cokinos And Henderson for Ags Bert Selman and Bob Kinney came through with “money” shots in the last thirty seconds of play to give the Rice Owls their second consecutive victory over the sur prising Texas Aggie quintet, 50- 46, before a packed crowd at the DeWare Field House Saturday night. It was a nip and tuck battle all the way, with the Aggies attain ing their best form of the year. Their hustle, fight and determina tion kept them in the game at all times, and only last minute field goals by Kinney and Selman de prived them of an upset victory over the feathered flock. The game started out with what looked like a rout in favor of the Owls as they rolled up an early lead of 14-5. However, hustling Mike Cokinos and dynamic Bill Henderson disproved that theory when both banged in goals from every point of the court to bring the Aggies within one point of Rice as the half ended with the score be ing 19 to 18. Cokinos’ ball-hawking and ever hustling manner and Sammy Dwyer’s floor work were the features of the Aggie attack during the first half. The Tumbling Team proved to be a most pleasing added attract ion between halves, with their al luring clown act rolling the cus tomers in the aisles. Frank Carswell sank in a long shot to open the second half and put the Owls ahead 22 to 18. The Aggies tied it up immediately with a basket by Henderson and a free throw by Lang. From there on it was a nip and tuck affair with the (Continued on Page 4) ex-players and ex-students fill the sideline stands. NEW SOUTHWEST SCORE RECORD SET Johnny Adams the lanky eager from back in the Ozarks ran atop the Southwest Conference scoring record last week as the Hogs de feated T. C. U. 67 to 42. Johnny sank 36 points to top the record held by Hub Kirkpatrick one point. Frank Carswell missed tying the late record in the season opener at Houston by one point. Saturday night the T. C. U. Frogs dropped their eleventh straight game. Sunday’s paper carried the story of Mike Brumbelow’s being re lieved of his duties as cage coach at the Christian school. He is a great line coach and couldn’t give the proper instruct ions and help to his basketball squad and plan the next year’s forward wall. Jake Wilk, the manager of the recent charity football game and the manager of the Batt Bowling tournament has lost a silver cig arette lighter with his intials— JLW—engraved thereon. Reward is offered if returned to 94 Pur- year. •' 'A- ■ ■ . :v Cv i v> V'- ' Assembly Holl Last Day "Men Against The Sky" - Taylor - Lowe - Barrie News - - Comedy - - Sports 3:30 and 6:45 BETTE DAVIS BATTALION FEBRUARY 25, 1941 PAGE 3 Face Sooner Aggs From the Story by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM HERBERT MARSHALL* JAMES STEPHENSON Wednesday & Thursday 6:45 and 8:30 Cartoon - Henry Basse Orchestra «nTTT^ an d Special Short CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE 19 : . ■■a,;# • . •• Coach Art Adamson is seen carefully going through a play before scrimmage with his water polo team who face Oklahoma A. & M. here next Tuesday. Players pictured left to right—Fred Renaud, Bob Taylor, Captain Nickey Ponthieux, George Japhet (kneeling), E. W. Conway, Harold Hensley, and Jimmie Davis. Swim Team to Have an All-Aggie Meet as Result of Date Cancellation Cancellation 6f the Texas Aggie- Kansas City Y.M.C.A. swim meet left an open date on the Aggie swim schedule, so Coach Arthur Adamson lost no time in digging up another team to fill the hole, with the result that it will be an all-Ag gie meet in the P. L. Downs, Jr. Swimming Pool Tuesday night at 7:30. Foes that night will be Texas A. & M. versus Oklahoma A. & M., a team which has proven tough competition in the past. Coach Adamson would not predict a vic tory but says he hopes to see his aces, Harold Hensley, 50- and 100- yard freestyler and present South west Conference champ in those distances; and Bob Taylor, soph- more 220- and 440-yard freestyle ace, make a dent in the new records they set against Dallas A.C. here recently. Both are doing their distances in clockings under the South west Conference time but the rec ords do not count unless set in the annual conference meet which will be held in Austin this year. Both set new pool records in their last time out at A. & M. and have made new marks in every meet they have been in this season. The general public is welcome at all the Aggie home swim events and no admission is charged. Aggie Golfers, Local Niblic Swingers Get Professional Advice Come next Tuesday, March 5, the Texas Aggie golfers, as well as all local niblic swingers, will have a chance to get some A-No. 1 pro fessional advice at the Bryan Coun try Club and all free of charge. Col. Frank Anderson, Texas Ag gie golf coach and top golfer him self, has completed arrangements for Miss Patty Berg, outstanding woman golfer, to make a one-day stand at the college and display her knowledge of the ancient Scot tish game. Miss Berg is now on tour un der the sponsorship of Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Co., Dal las, and through the kind offer of C. H. Buck, Dallas branch sales manager, Col. Anderson was able to arrange for her to include the College-Bryan stop on her tour. Swimmers Win 2nd Consecutive Victory Over SA T Taylor and Hensley Stand Out In Free Style Events The Texas Aggie Swimming Team won their second consecutive victory in a row when they blasted the San Antonio Y.M.C.A. splash ers into submission by a score of 37 to 29 at the Alamo City Satur day night. Bob Taylor and Harold Hensley of the Aggies again were the sensations of the meet as each took complete control of the free style events. Taylor annexed to his many other winnings, the 220- and 440-yard free style events, while Hensley came through in great fashion to take the 60- and 100-yard free styles. The cadets took 6 firsts, losing only the 100-yard backstroke and the two relays. Summaries. 300 yard Medley Relay....San An tonio (Dean, Smith, F. Scott, and G. Clemens). Time 3:17.5 220-yard Free StyJe....Taylor (A. & M.), Don Smith (S.A.), Mc Kee (A. & M.). Time 2:33.4 100-yard Breast Stroke....Ponth- eaux (A. & M.), Scott (S.A.), Stevens (A. & M.). Time 1:08.9 60-yard Free Style....Hensley(A. & M.), Davis (A. & M.), Smith (S. A.). Time 29.6 100-yard Back Stroke....Dean Smith (S.A.), Conway (A. & M.), Weskaemper (S.A.). Time 1:08.1 100-yard Free Style....Hensley (A. & M.), Clemens (S.A.), Davis (A. & M.). Time 55 seconds. 440-yard Free Style....Taylor (A. &M.), Renaud, (A. & M.), West- kaemper (S.A.). Time 5:22. 400-yard Relay....San Antonio (Dean Smith, Don Smith, Hardin, Clemens). Time 3:58.5 A & M Livestock Wins in Houston Texas A. & M. livestock took more than its share of prizes at the recent Houston Fat Stock show, according to D. W. Wil liams, head of the animal hus bandry department, who is now laying plans to ship his entries to the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show in that city next month. The college won the champion ships of the Hereford and Short horn steer classes and the win 7 ning Hereford placed third in the contest to determine the grand champion steer of the show. The car load of 25 lambs shown by the college took first place and a Hampshire barrow won the cham pionship in his class. Other firsts won in the sheen and lamb classes included the best breeding flock of five Rambouil- lets, flocks of five Delaine-Merinos Polo-International Sport of Kings-Is Something More Than Just a Mere Game Many of our games appear as-f- great mysteries to the spectator. The pointless running around, the throwing of a ball from one person to another, and the mad dash from one end of the field to the other is to many people a problem yet unsolved. And so it seems in this game of polo. Yet why is a game played except for the exercise ac quired, the spirit of competition, the thrill of playing the game well, and the thought of teamwork be tween men ? Be other games as they may, but that is the object of polo. Years ago people probably sat back and laughed and wondered about the antics of football and baseball, and it is not exactly known how these people acquainted themselves with these games. May be through written reports, pos sibly it was only through exper ience itself that they acquired their knowledge, but never-the-less, these games have demanded and received national recognition and are understood by everyone. It seems that this game of polo is understood by only a select few, those who play polo and those who have played polo. Therefore, the audience for polo is very small be cause not many people play the game. So let us see if we can not find out what this queer game played by a man and a horse is about. Onto the field of battle will go eight men. The polo field is rela tively the largest field used in any game—being 300 yards in length and 200 yards in width. Four of these men belong on each team, and they will most probably wear different colored shirts for each - ||gs| team so as to be easily recogniz able. Upon the backs of each four men on a team will be the numerals 1, 2, 3, and 4. To enumerate brief ly the duties of the four men of a team, it is the duty of the No. 4 man to protect his team’s goal, the same as a goalie in a hockey game. The numbers 2 and 3 are the attack men. They try to drive the ball out into the clear to be taken on down the field by the No. 1. It is also their duty to break up the attack of the opposing team. The numbers 2 and 3 could be com pared with the forwards on a bas ketball team. The No. 1 is the ad vance man. In other words, he stays out in front of his team towards his opponents’ goal and in the clear so as to be ready to receive any ball passed out to him and if possible take it down the field and score. It would be best to know just where this No. 1 is trying to score. On the two ends of the field, fifty yards in from each end, are the goals, set in mid- field, and must be neither more nor less than eight yards wide. The ball must pass between or over Aggie Basketeers Battle Longhorn Cagers Thursday First of a Two Game Series With Texas U Team Invading Aggieland Thursday night will be the Longhorn cagers from over “forty acres” way. Play ing the first of a two game round with the Longhorns, excitement is running high on both campuses as to who will win. The Aggies have won three and lost five while the Steers have taken four and drop ped four. At best, the Aggies can only hope for a fourth place in conference rating according to the present standing. According to E. T. Hooker, seats for the game have already been sold out and standing room only is available. Preceding the tangle in DeWare Field house, the Aggie Fish will meet the Texas Yearlings as a starter for the cage meet. The Slimes Shade Fish in 37-31 Cage Victory Aggie Freshmen Start Out Strong But Fade at End of Half Inability of the Texas Aggie Fish cage team to make good their gratis shots proved fatal to them as the Rice Slimes of Hous ton shaded them in a 37 to 31 match Saturday night in a pre liminary tilt to the varsity game. The Fish started out strong and built up an early lead of 14 to 5. However, Guy Lewis, the Slime star point-maker for the night, whittled the score down to a mere two point lead for the fish and then proceeded to put the Rice fresh men ahead at the half, 20 to 17. Walters and Lewis hit the hoop time and again during the second half and soon had a comfortable lead of 34 to 22. However, the Fish started to play carefully and deliberately, and with Robinson and Dawson hitting the mesh, cut the Slime lea<i to a mere 4 points, 35 to 31. From there the Slimes gained the possession of the ball and never relinquished it. They added another field goal just as the gun sounded to take their second match in a row over the victoryless Fish, 37 to 31. (Lewis, with 14 points, and Wal ters, with 12, were high point men for the Slimes, while Dawson and Robinson were the offensive spark plugs for an improved Aggie Fish team with 9 points apiece. BOX SCORE: Rice Slimes (37) Player Fsr. Ft. Pf. Tp. Lewis 6 2 1 14 Walters 5 2 1 12 McDonald 2 8 2 7 Pendarvis 0 0 4 0 Enloe 10 2 2 Gomez 0 0 0 0 Nannen 0 2 2 2 Acrgie Fish (31) Player Parker Webb Libson Dawson Sterling Robinson Carlyle Eberley Roman ' Slaughter Carrigan Fg. 4 0 0 4 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 9 Ft. 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 Pf. 0 2 0 3 1 2 1 6 1 0 0 Tp. 8 1 0 9 0 9 0 2 2 0 0 Officials: Thomas and White. and pen of three cross-breds. All of these winners will be shipped to Fort Worth as will the cham pion Hereford steer. The Shorthorn champ was sold at the Houston show at a price of 23 cents a pound and the car load of lambs brought eleven and one-half dents, about two cents over the current market. •Fish have had hard luck in their previous games, and this will be a chance for them to redeem them selves. The McQuillanmen will meet a fast and shifty squad in the Long horns and will have to put up a hard battle to keep pace with them, even though the University team is sorely missing Bobby Moers, their fast guard of last year. The Aggies will try to “bottle neck” the Steers and will depend on Dwyer’s continuance of his fine job of guarding. Coach Hub McQuillan has been drilling the squad on improving their defense and passing work. The tactics of diminutive “Iron Man” Cokinos, the cagy guard, have been improved and it is ex pected that he will be vital parlr of A. & M.’s defense. Razorbacks Annex Southwest Conference Title in Defeat of TCU / The Arkansas Razorbacks cin ched the Southwest Conference hardwood title last Saturday night in defeating the T.C.U. Horned Frogs 66 to 43. It was the eleventh time the Frogs had gone under and it gave the Hogs their tenth game. . A two game series with the Southern Methodist Mustangs winds up their season^of play. is he proud of his MANSFIEQJPSS People don’t stare at shoes as they would at sextuplets; neither do they completely fail to notice them. The best thing we can say about Mansfields is that their effect on the eye is definitely pleasing. 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