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ON KYLE FIELD &A -With Hub Johnson- SOUTHWEST CHAMPS MAY BE DETERMINED TONIGHT — Tonight in the P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium the Aggie tankers will take on the Southern Methodist Mustangs. The meet last Saturday gave Texas the upper hand in the water. The one tonight will tell the tale as to whether or not S. M. U. and possibly Baylor will take more points away from the Longhorns than the Aggies next Saturday in the Southwest Conference meet to be held in Austin. If such be the case, Coach Art Adamson will have his first try at that title in many a year. It’s been nine straight years that Texas has splashed away with the honors and Harris McClamrock of the Texas squad who was closed out three times last week says that it will be ten before it’s over. T CLUB PREXY NAMED AS 2nd LIEUTENANT Howard Shelton, varsity center and president of the Aggie T Club, who acted as host of the largest T Dance ever held at Aggieland last night was one of the three honor appointed officers to the U. S. Army. Final word is pending an eye examination. If he passes, he’s “in the Army now.’’ If he is rejected and chooses to come back next year, he can start as No. 1 center for the cadets. A second game in the Beaumont Exporter series will be played this afternoon commencing at 2:30 p. m. L. S. U. RESCHEDULED FOR AGGIE GRIDDERS Homer Norton and the football gang must have liked Louisiana After The Dance Are you usually hun gry or thirsty ? After eating one of our tasty sandwiches, you will a- gree that we serve the best. A cup of hot coffee always hits the .spot. Meet your friends at College Courts Coffee Shop East Gate In A Tight See JACK TITUS Borrow the cash you need on your car or furniture. TODAY’S SPECIAL Borrow $400.00 Repay $29.90 Monthly 215 S. Main Bryan Track Team Exporters Gets Real Test n r „ Today in Ft. Worth Squeeze Out Rollins Depending On Bucek, Thomason, Ricks for Many Points After suffering two straight set backs at Laredo and San Antonio, respectively, the Texas Aggie track team will attempt to salvage their first contest when they compete with top-flight teams, including Texas University, in the Southwest meet at Fort Worth today. Coach Dough Rollins’ thin-clad team will depend on their ace hurdler, Roy Bucek, to amass them enough points to place high in the standings. Bucek annexed the 120 yard high hurdles in the Laredo meet in 14.7 seconds, only three- tenths slower than that set by Freddie Wolcott, former ace hur dler with the Rice Owls. He will attempt to better his time in this meet, and thus break Wolcott’s record. The cadets came through with third place honors in the meet last year with Texas University hogging the whole event. This year, the story appears to be the same. Texas has a bigger and faster team, while the Aggies have lost some noteworthy stars, inculding Ed Dreiss, ace hurdler, John Mc Lean, long distance runner, and Red Cecil, whose specialty was the 100 yard dash. Jim Thomason, cinder captain, should also add some points to the Aggie cause in the shot-put event. Jim won the championship in 1939 but lost it last year. Albert Ricks, surprising sopho more ace, will be the cadets’ con tribution to the pole-vault event. Although placing second in the San Antonio event, Ricks showed promise in becoming the top pole vaulter in the conference. He dead locked with Small of the Steers for the runner-up honors. and the southern hospitality as well as the corps trip New Year’s Day of ’40 for they’ll go back three times starting next year to play L. S. U. in Baton Rouge, La. This will not be the first time these teams have met as the Ag gies claimed one game in 1906, 22 to 12, and another in 1923, 28 to 0. THINLY CLADS FACE STRONG TEAMS TODAY In “cow town” today Captain Jim Thomason will lead his de termined cinder and field follow ers into the Annual Southwest meet. Texas will be the heavy fa vorite but with Bucek in the hurd les, Thomason in the shot, Hender son in the half mile, Watkins in the high jump, Ricks in the pole vault, and Smith in the dashes, the Aggies will come through with an accountable score. Aggies Arrange Schedule With LSU An arrangement of a three year schedule between the Texas Aggies and the Louisiapa State Tigers at Baton Rouge has been announc ed by Homer Norton. In scheduling the Louisiana school, only one open date is left for the 1942 schedule. The date is due to be filled within the next few weeks or so. Aggies 3 to 2 Bumpers Pitches Superb Game for Cadets By Mike Haikin The Beaumont Exporters of the Texas League pushed over 2 runs in the final inning to come from behind and nip a hustling Texas Aggie nine, 3 to 2, in the first of a two game series played here yesterday. Some superb pitching by Lemuel (Lefty) Bumpers went unheralded as the cadets muffed two straight balls in the final inning and let the Exporters trickle in a couple of runs. Bumpers, himself, was res ponsible for the first error, as he dropped Bengochea’s high fly. Mc Laren then followed with a double to score Bengochea. Johnson hit an easy grounder to Glass, but Henderson dropped the throw, with Johnson scoring on the error. The surprising thing concerning Bumpers was that he didn’t allow any walks. His fasVbreaking curve was coming in there, and but for the first and ninth stanzas the Exporters were completely sub dued. He struck out four men. Eadon started for Beaumont, and pitched three innings of hitless ball. He was followed by Crowe and Sparks, who allowed 2 runs and five hits between them. The Exporters looked like they were going to tee of on Bumpers in the first period. Wessing open ed the game with a sharp double to score Wessing but was out try ing to stretch the hit into a double. The inning promptly ended as both Hopac and Wood grounded out. From there on until the sixth inning it was a tight pitching duel between Bumpers and Eadon and Crowe. In the first five inn ings the cadets left seven men stranded on the sacks. Then they finally teed off on Crowe. Rogers opened the sixth with a lusty triple into left field. With the count two and two on Pugh, “Dook- ie” connected and sent the ball reeling into right field for two bases, with Rogers coming in for the tying run. The Aggies forged ahead in the eighth. With one out, Henderson got a free pass to first. Scoggins struck out, but Jeffrey followed with a bingle to left sending Hen derson to third. Henderson went on to score as Smith muffed Buch anan’s slow-rolling grounder. Then came that fateful inning. Roy Peden will be on the hill for the Aggies today as the cadets and the Exporters conclude their two game series. Game time will be 2:30. The cadets showed a fancy field ing ball club yesterday afternoon, but lacked hitting ability. The pitching of Bumpers was magnifi cent, and if he continues his bril liant work, the Aggies can just as well wrap up the “ole” conference flag today. Score by innings: Beaumont 10000000 2—3 A. & M. 00000101 0—2 BATTALIONS MARCH 15, 1941 PAGE 3 Star Jumper Albert Ricks Destined to Go Far Under the Guidance of Coach Rollins Staring with the freshman track team last year, Albert Ricks came to the varsity team this year des tined to go far with the help of Coach Dough Rollins and team mate Pete Watkins. In Laredo last Saturday he had two boils lanced on his left wrist and went through the meet with ■another under his right arm. Suffering under such handicaps, he cleared six feet and two inches and placed second in the pole vault. All he could say was, “I came to enter—so I entered.” Today he is a favorite in the two events in the Southwest Fat Stock Meet in Fort Worth. Intramurals Intramural Boxing Gets Underway As Class B Men Square Off in Ring Boxing got under way Thurs-'ftake the second. White and Ram- day night when “Fish” Morrow, A sey gathered one in for the Engi- Infantry and “Fish” Sanford, E Field Artillery squared off in the center of the ring to initiate the new match gloves. Winner of the opener was Sanford. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE C CHEMICAL WARFARE B FIELD ARTILLERY (2) D CAVALRY A SIGNAL CORPS E COAST ARTILLERY A FIELD ARTILLERY (3) F INFANTRY 1st CORPS HEADQUARTERS H Field Artillery came through with a win in horseshoes by ouc- pitching C Engineers 2-1. White and Davis accounted for one of the victories and Pou, Johnson, Schle- ier, and Smallwood combined to neers. Speedballers from M Infantry took a close one from Headquarters Signal Corps by stopping them 8-7. F Field Artillery also won by a one point margin in their game with 3rd Corps Headquarters and were on the long end of the 7-6 tally. C Field Artillery claimed a safer margin in their victory over 1st Headquarters Field Artillery and ended the game leading 7-4. Valentino, Hall, Nalley, and D’Avy of A Engineers took care of the necessary two out of three horseshoe matches and came away victorious in their contest with E Field Artillery. Adamson's Worries in the 220 and 440 Are Over for 3 Years With Taylor Holding Forth By Hub Johnson For the next three years Coach Art Adamson will be able to sit back and let the 220 and 440-yard distance races take care of them selves. Tonight Robert Taylor (not of movie fame) will take to the wa ter for the Aggies in an effort to lower his records still a few more seconds. Coming to A. & M. from Dallas and Bonham, Texas, he has been one of the outstanding water splashers of the freshman and var sity teams. A sophomore, he holds 440-yard free style records in the Texas A.A.U., Gulf A.A.U., T.W.A.F., Southwest A.A.U., Southwest In door A.A.U. and played on the state champion water polo team in 1939. This year he has either broken a record or lowered his own time which in the majority of the cases was the record every time he en tered the pool. In the first meet with the Dal las Athletic Club he set a new record in the 220-yard free style and swam the 440 in five minutes and 23 seconds. Here at College Station when Robert Taylor the two teams met he lowered the pool record and topped the con ference marks in both the 220 and 440-yard events. Against Oklahoma A. & M. he dropped his 220 record eight tenths of a second. In this meet he did not swim in the second event. Last Saturday night against Dick Beeler, Texas University’s holder of the conference 440-yard championship and 220-yard record holder and champion, Taylor drop ped his 220 record another two and a half seconds and his 440 ten and two tenths seconds. On the water polo team he plays left back and throws a mean rubber ball. He is a student of fish and game and proves himself much at home with the fish in more ways than one. In history he looks up to Ole Abe Lincoln and in politics sets A1 Smith, former Governor of New York and candidate for president, as his hero. Be sure to drop around tonight for some real food . . . Mexican Dishes Our Specialty $100.00 worth of service with each and every order!! NEW YORK CAFE Bryan Sinclair, Buddington Lead Mustang Swimmers Bulk of SMU Splashers Are Inexperienced Baylor University has dropped from the triangle meet scheduled in the Down’s Natatorium here to night and leaves Texas A. & M. and Southern Methodist Univer sity to battle it out in a dual event. The two mainstays of Coach Buddy Foster’s Mustangs will be letterman Bob Buddington and veteren swimmer Bob Sinclair. Buddington is the only returning letterman and is a free-styler. Sinclair, holder of the Southwest AAU indoor record for both the 50 yd. and 100 yd. free-style swim, swam against the Aggies on two previous occasions this year for the Dallas Athletic Club. Hensley, Aggies, Southwest Con ference Champion in both the 50 yd. and 100 yd. free style, will be Sinclair’s competition. In both previous meetings of these two men this year, existing pool re cords have been broken with each man adding a win to his credit. Montgomery, another Dallas Athletic Club member of the S.M.U. tankers, is expected to bring in some points in the 100 yd. breast stroke. He has swam in competition with Ponthieux, Ag gies, in the two dual meets with the DAC and holds two wins over the Cadet breast stroker. The balance of the swimmers from S.M.U. will be sophomores and first year men who will be in the swim for the experience. Others swimming for the Aggies will be Daxis, breast stroke and free style; Japhet, back stroke; •Stephens, breast stroke; Smith, free style; Dwelle, free style; Renaud, free style; Kiel, free style; Goodman, free style; McKey, free style, Junior Southwestern AAU 50 yd. champion; Johnson, free style; Taylor, holder of all Texas records in both 220 yd. anc( 440 yd. free style except Southwest Conference; and Bubba Reeves, diver, State High School Champ ion, 1937. GOOD NEWJ Uncle Ed has a new sandwich that is a sen sation. Come out now and try this new delicious baked ham sandwich that is a meal. 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