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FOR T. C. U. FROGS
Down went the Aggies next to
the bottom of the sea, or list—call
it what you may!
The Bears proved to be a bit
too much for McQuillen’s men Sat
urday night in Waco and Sunday
saw some downhearted men return
to Aggieland. The material is there
but there is something lacking.
Thursday they play their last
against the Longhorns in Austin.
Here Dawson, Lang, Duncan and
Dwyer play their final minutes
for A. & M. In their days on the
bench and on the floor they have
seen the Aggie squads up and
down.
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Rifle Team
Engages TSCW
Squad Saturday
Aggies Were
Defeated by Team
At Last Year’s Meet
The Texas Aggie Rifle team will
engage the T.S.C.W. squad in a
return match at Denton, March 3,
in a shoulder to shoulder match.
Last year, the cadets met the
Denton markswomen here, and went
down in defeat after giving T.S.
C.W. a handicap. This time, how
ever, no handicap will be accepted
from the Aggies, according to a
reliable authority from the Den
ton college.
In their last engagement, T.S.
C.W. outfired the Dallas Rifle
Club to come off with five medals.
Louella McManus, Rifle Club pres
ident, shot top score, with second
place honors going to Eugenia
Stewart.
Others making the trip to Dallas
included Francis Wall, who took
third place in the rifle contest;
Joza Bullingham, Irene Chamber-,
lain, Shige Nagai, Edna Schmidt,
Gertrude Lyon, Josephine Albert,
Jerry Lamar, Carolyn Brown and
Josephine Rice.
Aggies Close
Basketball Season
With Longhorn Game
The Texas Aggies close their
basketball campaign Thursday
night when they take on the third
place Texas Longhorns at Austin.
This will be the second meeting
of the two teams, with Texas whol
ly dominating the first tilt to
come off a 42 to 22 winner.
Texas will be the heavy fav
orite in view of their high scoring
feats in the past few games. They
will rely on the ever dependable
“Slue” Hull, who dropped in a
total of 19 points in his previous
engagement against the Aggies to
sweep the series with the cadets.
Meanwhile, Coach Hub McQuil-
len will garner his team together
and attempt to salvage one more
game before the season ends. His
hopes will rest on Bill Hen-i
derson’s ability to hit those one-
handed crip shots of his. If h'e is
right, Henderson will be hard to
stop. The rest of the lineup should
include Dwyer and Lang at for
wards, Dawson at center and Nab
ors at the other guard post.
SOONER AGGIES SWIM
AND PLAY HERE TONIGHT
Tonight the Aggies meet the
Sooners in the Downs Natatorium.
Oklahoma A. & M. will send
a much better swimming and water
polo team against the Aggies to
night than the football team they
sent against the gridders year be
fore last in Oklahoma City.
Harold Hensley will meet his
closest rival of the season when
Merle Clubb, Missouri Valley champ
leaves the tile floor to take to the
cool waters in the 50 yard free
style event.
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BATTALION.
MARCH 4, 1941
PAGE 3
Class A Water Polo Champs
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A. & M.’s intramural water polo champions from E Field Artillery:
Front row—left to right: Jack Hudson, William Donnell, Gus Worth
ington, W. P. Biggs and William White. Back row—left to right: Ray
mond Terrell, Sam Wheeler, C. R. Landon, Charles Taylor and Ben
Griffith.
Intramurals
Wrestling Matches Reach Half-Way
Point; Finals Scheduled for March 12
By Bob Myers
The grunt and groaners are at
the half-way point of the current
season and the usual number of
upsets, skinned joints and satis
fied customers were on hand to
make the matches
complete. All pre
liminaries are ex
pected to be fin
ished in time to
have the finals on
Wednesday, March
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lowing wrestling
will be boxing and
all contestants must be weighed
in for classification by 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 8. The handling
of these matches will be the same
as in wrestling.
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FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Machine Gun Cavalry
K Infantry
E Engineers
L Infantry (2)
H Infantry
B Coast Artillery
C Coast Artillery horseshoers
shod the Headquarters Cavalry
mare in their match by turning in
a 2-1 score. Norris, Galt, Abbott
and Myer accounted for the wins
on the Coast’s side and Holt and
Maloney took the single.
B Infantry went down under the
guns of F Coast Artillery by an
other 2-1 count when Angell, Bow
man, Little and Schmaltz found
the range on the iron peg and took
full advantage of their opportuni
ties. In the third match, Wade and
Adams came out on top for B
Company.
E Infantry will be a team to
watch for the volleyball champ
ionship judging from their quick
work on D Infantry. They won the
game 2-0 in easy style.
Another game of volleyball that
showed plenty of competition on
both sides ended in favor of A
Engineers when B Cavalry could
only account for a single.
Headquarters Signal Corps won
a close one from B Coast Artillery
by a 2-1 decision and F Infantry
proved too much for E Engineers
by cutting them short on a 2-0
score.
Patty Berg Will
Be Here Wednesday
Patty Berg, outstanding wo
man golfer, will make her appear
ance at Aggieland Wednesday''af
ternoon according to reliable word
received from Colonel Frank An
derson, Texas Aggie golf coach.
Miss Berg is on tour under the
auspices of Lowe & Campbell Ath
letic Goods Co., Dallas, and through
the kind offer of C. H. Buck, sales
manager of the Dallas branch, it
will be possible for her to make a
public appearance here.
Fifth Annual
Sports Day Opens
Saturday Evening
Football, Water
Polo, Baseball to
Be Featured Events
A. & M.’s fifth annual Sports
Day takes place next Saturday un
der the auspices of the Texas Ag
gie “T” Association with a full
schedule of events on the program.
Water polo, football and baseball
will hold interest and many visitors
are expected on the campus for this
sports field day.
Tentative arrangements have the
Grand Prize Brewers of Hous
ton clashing with the Aggie nine,
Coach Art Adamson’s varsity wa
ter polo team taking on Texas A.
& M.’s intramural champions, and
an intra-squad gridiron battle be
tween players of A. & M.’s cham
pionship club.
All Aggie athletes who are
backing this presentation and Coach
Norton and his staff will be hop
ing for a record breaking crowd.
Sporting events that will interest
everybody should give the day a
successful and thoroughly enjoyed
program that will please spectat-
tors, athletes and the “T” Asso
ciation.
Baylor Downs
Hapless Aggies
In Waco 53 fo 39
Baylor dropped the Aggies 5.3
to 39 Saturday night in Waco to
end the Bruin season with an even
.500 percentage for season play
and A. & M. became more firmly
lodged down among the filso-rans
of Southwest conference basketball.
The cadets were unable to hold
Baylor after midway of the first
half, and intermission found A.
& M. buried under a 28 to 17
score.
Only bright light for the Aggies
was big Bill Henderson who scam
pered around Baylor to chalk up
11 points. Dwight Parks was high
scorer for the night with 13 mark
ers, while leading his mates to an
easy win.
Henderson’s feat was accomplish
ed under handicaps as a Baylor
man kept him scoreless the first
half by close guarding.
Although A. & M. gave them a
real tilt in their first meeting when
the Aggies triumphed 33 to 31, it
was Baylor all the way in Waco
to even up the count Saturday
night.
T.S.C.W. RIFLE TEAM
TAKES ON AGGIES SATURDAY
Last year the A. & M. rifle
team gave the T.S.C.W. squad
a handicap in their contest here
in the first annual Minor Sports
Festival, but with the betterment
of the accuracy of the feminine
shooters, no such handicap will be
accepted.
The two teams meet Saturday
night in Denton.
Baseball Prospects Bright in Spots, Black
In Others; Aggies Will Depend on Lefty Bumpers
By Mike Haikin
“Play ball” became the key word
of A. & M. athletics when some
40 promising baseball prospects re
ported to Coach Marty Karow yes
terday afternoon to start the ball
rolling in the coming Southwest
Conference baseball campaign. The
official conference baseball train
ing period opened March 1, but the
players have been working out
daily for the past two or three
weeks on their own.
Prospects of the Aggie nine will
hinge heavily on the left wing of
L. P. “Lefty” Bumpers, one of the
most colorful players to don an
A. & M. uniform since the days
of Jake Mooty. Bumpers was the
star hurler for the cadets last sea
son, wholly taking away the spot
light from two Aggie greats—
Dave Alsobrook and Bob Stone.
This year, due to his added exper
ience in pitching for Grand Prize
this summer, bigger and better
things are expected of the young
southpaw. He won nine and lost
three for the Brewers last sum
mer, with a 4 to 0 shut out of the
national champion Halliburton ce-
menters being his masterpiece.
“Lefty’s” main problem is his con
trol, but he has been working over
time in the past few days, and has
his fast breaking curve behaving.
The Aggie infield seems to be
quite intact with only All-Confer
ence third baseman Bob Stone
missing. However, Karow has sup
plied a capable replacement in Bill
Buchanan, of football fame, who
•shows signs of developing into a-
rugged sparkplug. The other posi
tions are well taken care of with
the exception of short-stop. Cecil
Ballow, who has been counted heav
ily for that, position, has undergone
an appendicitis operation which
should keep him out of action for
at least six weeks. His place is
being taken by “Slugger” Glass,
who has shown the ability of
wielding a mean bat, something
that Ballow lacks. Covering first
base will he the job assigned to
Captain Marion (Dookie) Pugh,
while the always dependable Jack
Lindsey will do his regular chores
as a second-sacker. If anything
else should befall the Aggies, Bill
Henderson and Les Peden should
make capable reserves.
Outfield prospects for the Aggie
nine are the brightest since 1937
when the cadets won the confer
ence championship. Loss of Also
brook and Jack Cooper certainly
will weaken the team, but Coach
•Karow has some capable replace
ments in their stead. John Scog-
gin, who patrolled left field last
year, will be back for another
fling, while newcomer Rex Francis,
who was ineligible last year, prom
ises to develop into one of the
leading sluggers in the loop. Right
field is not settled as yet, with
Marland Jeffrey and newcomer Bill
Black, fighting it out for the spot.
As most baseball teams all have
their problems, so does the Aggie
squad. Their main trouble is the
pitching and catching staffs, the
most important parts of any base
ball team. The cadets have only
one experienced pitcher available
for a nine inning chore, and that’s
Bumpers. Their other bright pitch
ing prospect, Charlie Stevenson, is
due to be out for six weeks or so
because of a badly sprained ankle.
Roy Peden cannot be depended on
duing a full nine innings, for re
lief pitching is his specialty. To be
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ENTRY BLANK
First Batt Bowling Tournament
Name
(Organization) (Hall)
Team Members:
1 4
2 5
3 Designate captain and give
classification of each player.
Aggies Meet Oklahoma in
First Seasonal Swim Meet
Feature of Meet
Tonite Will Be 50 and
100 Yard Free Style
The splashes will be loud in P.
L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium as the
Oklahoma A. & M. mermen meet
the Texas Aggie aquastars to
night in a straight swim meet.
This is the first encounter of
the season for both teams.
Feature of the meet will be the
50 yard free style and the 100 yard
free style. Hensley of Texas A.
& M. is the Southwest Conference
champ and Merle Clubb of Okla-
Battalion Bowling
Tournament Booms
Numerous requests for infor
mation on the Battalion bowling
tournament to be held soon gives
evidence that it will be the larg
est organized schedule of play ever
held at College Station .
The method of determining the
winners of the tournament has
not yet been definitely determined,
but it will either be by averaging
a nine-line series of play for each
player or by the actual playing of a
bracket schedule.
Teams will be made up of five
men each with no substitutes be
ing allowed.
Captains of each team or their
representatives will meet to deter
mine the rules and methods of play
for the tournament.
All organizations wishing to en
ter teams are asked to fill out the
Entry Blank found on this page and
send to either The Battalion office
or Jake Wilk, 94 Puryear Hall.
’-homa A. & M. holds the Missouri
Valley Conference Championship.
These two men will be featured
against each other. In last year's
meeting, Hensley won the 50 yard
free style and in the next event,
Clubb came back and won the 100
yard free style. So tonight it will
be a nip and tuck battle.
In diving, Reeves will represent
the Aggies and David Wiley will
keep up the prestige of the Okla
homa Aggies. Wiley also holds
the Missouri Valley springboard *
championship.
Another feature of the meet will
be the 200 yard breast stroke
paced by Ponthieux of Texas A.
& M. Breast stroke specialists for
the Oklahoma Aggies are Jimmy
McClure and Bill Donaldson.
As a preview of next year’s
Texas Aggie team, the seniors and
Aggie swim exes on the campus
will play the juniors and sopho
mores in a rousing game of water
polo following the regular meet.
Acting student coach of the
Oklahoma Aggies is Merle Clubb,
and the team is accompanied by
Jack Baker, assistant football
coach.
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