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Baseball Games Scheduled Today and Friday-Maybe!! ON KYLE FIELD -With Hub Johnson. About the best thing to do is to look out all the windows. If the sky is clear, it’ll rain and no games will be played. If you get a sun burn in two seconds, the Aggies might play the T.C.U. Horned Frogs this afternoon on Kyle Field. Five straight games have been rained out, the first with the Baylor Bears in Waco, the second with the Longhorns at Austin and the third and fourth reset games with the University. Yesterday’s game came near being played but mother earth was still a little too damp. Look for the Texas Longhorns to run off with the “Little Con ference” meet tomorrow with the Aggies and the Owls fighting for the runner-up position. Star for the “Forty Acre” team will be Carlton Terry who won first place in the Drake Relay 100-yd dash and who closed a big gap in his team’s relay run. 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Anyone desiring to partici pate in this playoff should notify either Cokinos in 225, Dorm. No. 4, or Kenny in A-8 Hart Hall. This tournament will mark the second time a sport has been spon sored by students. The first o^ its kind occurred last semester when Jake Wilk procured a football game between students picked from the corps. The project was extremely popular and is slated to be an an nual affair. the race, will push the Texas star close. Big Jack Hughes, who has brok en some sort of a record with every throw, will be the field’s favorite in the discus event. Colonel Andy’s cadet golfers wind up their exhibition play to morrow with the T.C.U. Frogs. They reign as one of the few teams who have defeated the Aggies this year, winning out in the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show Exposition meet. Next week the Aggies travel to Austin for the conference tourna ment and will have as their main task the defeating of the Frogs and the University Longhorns. 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THE EXCHANGE STORE A&M Plays SMU Here in 2-Game Meet Game to be Played This Afternoon If Weather Permits Adverse weather again played havoc with the Texas Aggie nine as the scheduled game between the cadets and the T.C.U. Horned Frogs was washed out yesterday afternoon. If weather conditions improve the game will be reeled off at 3:30 this afternoon. This marks the fifth consecu tive game that the Aggies have forfeited to the weatherman. The Aggie hurlers will have a job on their hands as they have three tilts coming in as many days. Fol lowing this fray they take on S.M.U. in a two-game series to morrow and Saturday. With the game reset a day, Coach Marty Karow will probab ly save Lefty Bumpers and Roy Peden for the Mustang series and counter with lanky Bill Hender son. The Houston athlete has look ed surprisingly good in his last workout and is due to be in top shape for the Frog fracas. The T.C.U. Frogs, who have on ly one victory to their credit, will send A. J. Brumbaugh to the hill ock in an attempt to knock the cadets out of the conference race. Like in basketball, luck has been against the valiant Toads. They put up a slam-bank bat tle against the Texas Longhorns some three weeks ago, and were leading 5 to 4 in the eighth frame. Mel Deutsch, the Longhorn ace pitcher, had been given a thor ough workover, and a Frog victory seemed in the making. However, lightning struck in that fatal eighth canto, and the Steers ral lied for five runs and a 9 to 5 win. Such has been the luck of the Frogs all along. Brumbaugh, their ace hurler, has been in nearly every game that T.C.U. has played. His pitch ing has been well above par, but his support and nil, especially in close games. Last year, the Frogs slammed a monkey wrench in the Aggie championship aspirations, and it was one of the causes in the ca det collapse. To retain their chance for the conference championship, Coach Marty Karow’s nine will have to win the T.C.U. game. A loss will be a hard blow to the cadets’ chance for the flag, and will give Texas a shortcut to the title. How ever, a victory will strengthen the Aggies and will ^ive them a chance to put all their might against the Texas juggernaut. BATTALION MAY 1 PAGE 5 Intramurals B FA Fish Follow in Upperclassmen’s Footsteps in Annexing Handball Title By Bob Myers Another sport hit the shelf until next year when B Field Artillery “Fish” followed the example of their upperclassmen and annexed the handball championship. Com petition for the final game was Provided by E. | F i e 1 d Artillery, \ ' who gave the win- I ners a tough fight. Three matches pi were required to bring the contest to a close at a count of 2-1. Out standing players of the games were: Webb, McIntyre, Marsh, LeBlanc, and King of B Field, and Simmons and Schaper of E Battery. Myera Ping pong hit a slump- last Fri day when so many teams failed to show up that no games could be played. Up until that time partici pation in the sport had been un usually good. The Infantry forfeits can be understood but the others remain clothed in mystery. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE The letters following the organi zation name represent the sport in which the forfeit occured. A Field Artillery (pp) A Field Artillery (pp) 2nd Corps Headquarters (pp) 4th Corps Headquarters (sw) 5th Corps Headquarters (sw) 5th Corps Headquarters (pp) Machine Gun Cavalry (sw) C Cavalry (pp) A Coast Artillery (pp) B Coast Artillery (pp) H Coast Artillery (pp) E Infantry (pp) H Infantry (sb) I Infantry (sb) D Engineers (pp) E Engineers (pp) Another outstanding game Mon day was between E Coast Artil lery and C Field Artillery. E Bat tery came from ’'behind to short end of a 4-1 score in the fifth to pour on steam for a seven run spree. The 8-4 score stood until Little Conference Meet Will Uncover Track and Field Stars Once again the “Little Confer ence” track meet, a triangular meet between Texas, Rice and A. & M., will single out in the South west Conference stars of the track and field events. Tomorrow afternoon on Kyle Field the three teams will meet to give track followers aj week early preview of the conference meet to be held in Austin next Saturday. Each will boast of teams strengthened by their Drake Relay entrants and each will un derwrite teams eligible to prove themselves tops in this section of the country. Texas Won ’40 Meet Texas University proved the power of the cinder track last year and then returned to cop the league title. But it was Rice’s Fred Wolcott who last year and the year before led the individual scorers with this running of both hurdles and the 100-yard dash. The century dash this year will be all but ceded to Carlton Terry of Texas, the Steer sprinter who ran the event in 9.7 seconds last week at Des Moines, Iowa. Roy Bucek will make his bid for the league high and low stick titles with Pete Watkins a prob able favorite in the low hurdles. Rice Field Slacks ‘ With their usual amount of speed on the track, the Rice Owls have failed so far this year to show their strength in the field events. Deal in the shot put and discus events and Christopher in the broad jump will be the main stays of the Owl attack. Pete Watkins and Albert Ricks, Aggie sophomores, will probably fight for the number one place in the high jump with Coffman of Rice a favorite for the finals. Bill Henderson to Enter Bill Henderson who is destined to become the Aggies’ first four- sport letterman will enter the high jump, discus, shot put and javelin events and will go far in each. He is rated as one of the best high jumpers of this section. Against Rice he won the javelin throw with a distance of 170 feet. Aggie Team Favored to outclass the Rice Owls and push the Longhorns close, the Aggies will have Smith in the 100 and 220-yd. dashes, Mayer and Steward in the mile run, Ralph Henderson and Stew ard in the 880-yd. run, Brush in the 440-yd. dash, Laney and El more in the two mile run, Shal- nik in the javelin throw, Thoma son in the shot put, and Felix Bu cek and Pete Henry in the discus. Prof. Douglas McClay of Georgia Tech, with a Ph.D. of the Harvard variety, is positive that it’s easier for a boxer to become a scholar. McClary suffered a technical knockout in his first public fight, in the weltherweight division of a Golden Gloves tournament. He is a professor in mathematics at Georgia Tech. the end of the game saw a sur prised C Battery playing the role of the good loser. Only three Class B horseshoe matches remain to be played to decide the championship. G Coast Artillery has reached the finals and the Infantry Band and E Field Artillery meet today to see who plays them for the crown. All contestants for the track meet Sunday are requested to re port to the,stadium at 1:15 to sign up for their events. The Upperclass track and Freshman Field events will stax’t at 1:30 and last until 3:30. From 3:30 until 5:30 the procedure will be reversed and the program will consist of Freshman track and Upperclass field events. Coming to the top Class A sports are Horseshoes and Volleyball. On ly seven games of the finals re main to be played and should see these sports wound up before Mother’s Day. Ball playing verging on the pro fessional took place when A Engi neers won a game from C Infantry 7-0. For four innings the Infantry’s batting record was three up and three down. In the other innings, the greatest number of men to come to bat in a single inning was limited to five. If Larson keeps up this brand of pitching we may see A Company on top of the heap come season’s end. D Engineers advanced to the quarter-final stage in volleyball by their win over G Coast Artillery. The Engineers overpowered the Artillerymen for two straight 15- 9 matches to close the game 2-0. Four of the foui'teen softball teams that turned out for Tues day’s game, regardless of the rain, had a swell time with plenty of mud but not much ball game. They must have been playing with a mud ball because even the score cards were muddy. L Infantry mudders came through with a decisive 28-9 win over D Field Artillery and C Coast Artillery slid through four in nings to down 1st headquarters Field Artillery 11-4. At Brown university there’s a student named Foist. Intrigued, developed he was the son of imi- grant parents who had Angliciz ed their name, presumably in Ny- awk, Nywak. Qainpas 15? to 5 P. M. — 20? After LAST DAY BIG DOUBLE FEATURE No. 1 “Dawn Patrol” Errol Flynn Shows at 3:01 - 7:00 No. 2 “A Man Betrayed” John Wayne - Frances Dee Shows at 1:24 - 5:00 Thursday Night Campus Film Club Presents “Night of the Mayas” Shows at 9:00 - 10:30 Due to Campus Film Club show there will not be a dou ble feature Thursday night. Only DAWN PATROL will show from 7:00 until 9:00 . . . Admission 15? Friday - Saturday “Tobacco Road” Shows at 1:12 - 3:19 5:08 - 7:13 - 9:20 Inclement Weather Wins As TCU Game Wetted Out Opening Game of Series Begins at 3:30 P.M. Tomorrow Pending the cooperation of the weatherman, the S. M. U. Mus tangs will make their initial ap pearance with the Texas Aggie nine. Game time is 3:30. The Mustangs have been an in- and-out team all season. They downed the cellar-dwelling T. C. U. Frogs twice, beat the pesky Rice Owls in a single game, and ad ministered the only setback suffer ed by the Texas Longhorns. On their “off days” they were plaster ed in a two game series by the Baylor Bears, and hit in the bud twice by the revenging Steers. They are now perched in fourth place just below the Aggies. Atchison Probable Pitcher Coach Roswell Higgenbotham is determined more than ever to blast the cadets into submission. His team still retains a mathematical chance for the flag, and a defeat of the Aggies would place the Ponies that much closer to the league-leading Steers. It would top ple the cadets from third place, and put the Mustangs in their stead. -To accomplish this feat, Coach Higginbotham has indicated he is planning to use his ace hurler, Bi’ooks Atchison, to start against the cadets. His opponent more than likely will be Lefty Bumpers, the star twirler of the Aggie staff. However, should S. M. U. decide to save Atchison for the closing game, Karow will probably start Bill Henderson or Roy Peden. The cadet record, too, has been none too impressive. They have won three games and lost two. As long as Bumpers was going smooth ly, the whole team followed in his footsteps. He won his first two starts against Baylor and Rice, respectively, but withered against the Owls in his next encounter. The brilliant hurling of Frank “Lefty” Golden was too much for the Ag gies in their second tilt. Following this series the cadets journeyed on to Fort Worth for a two game series with the T. C. U. Horned Frogs. And over at Providence college in Rhode Island, members of the Rev. Paul C. Perrotta’s class in logice wrote their own examina tion. Eight per cent of them flunked. Mothers Day Is May 11th ■mI Take advantage of our special offer to give your mother the gift she really wants! SPECIAL! Our $2.50 8 x 10 for $1.50 Complete with Glass Frame for $2.00 AGGIELAND STUDIO HURRY! North Gate HURRY! 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