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By Jack Hollimon
Monday’s Game was Played by Both the Ball Club and the Students
The A. & M. Cadet Corps is to be complimented for the great
display of self-resthaint exhibited at Austin Monday during the baseball
game when over-ripe tomatoes and rotten grapefruit were hurled
repeatedly into the A| ie section from the Texas cheering section.
When the barrage started the natural inclination was to retaliate,
but after the first fruit was tossed back, Captain Roberts and Buster
Keeton passed the word along to cease firing and no more missies
were thrown from the Aggie section.
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Soon Letter men and Numeralmen Get Long Sought-After
Awards for Work
Getting out of class at three or earlier in the afternoon, going
down to the gym and suiting up for several hours of muscle straining
labor, and dragging home to your room so tired that sleep is the only
possible solution to a weariness that envelops your whole being is
what Aggie athletes have been doing this year for the school and for
our Maroon and White. They have done yoeman duty for A. & M., and
their recognition now comes in the form of coveted Aggie Letters.
When you see those boys wearing them, take a good look and catch
a glimpse of happiness in their eyes. Official announcements are about
to be made for 1940-41.
•Baylor Plays in Aggieland
Your writer made a hurried
journey to Waco in the company
of Byron Winstead, Harry Boyer,
and H. K. Edwards of the Exten
sion service today, and we arrived
in time to see an impromptu meet
ing between Botchy Koch, Homer
Norton, and Marty Karow making
the decision for the Saturday
championship game in College Sta
tion. Marty was happy about the
whole thing because everybody gets
a rest and that is just what they
need after the Texas series. Every
players, including Bumpers, want
ed to play them last night under
the lights unless the game could
be played in Aggieland. “Lefty”
claimed he really has a fast and
dark ball at night and he wanted
another crack at it. This rest will
put him right.
“Slick” Rogers in Waco
Ex-Aggie football captain,
“Slick” Rogers of Mart, Texas,
drove over to see younger brother
Cullen in Waco, when he told us
about his new Sinclair Agency in
Mart. Rogers took the fatal step
last November 30th and his wife
didn’t even have to change her
name to be Mrs. “Slick.” Her name
was Mary Lee Rogers and she is
a native of his home town.
Jitterbug Gets Drowned Out
Bill “Jitter” Henderson, sleep
ing quietly in his hotel room in
Waco yesterday afternoon, left his
door wide open. The temptation
was too great for a few of the
boys, and he caught enough water
to fill a medium-sized ocean. He
would have given chase and Bill is
no slouch at running, but one thing
prevented it—he was dressed or
undressed in only his socks!
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Marty and Players say Thanks
Karow got your writer off to
the side in the hotel lobby and told
how much he wanted to thank the
students, the band, and the civil
ian population around college who
backed his baseball team so nobly
in the battles with Texas. Everyone
of the fellows were seconding all
Karow said, and it was easy to
tell it came straight from the
heart.
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No Playoff
After Aggies
Test Bruins
Conference Rules to
Block New Contest
There will be no playoff between
the Texas Aggies and the Texas
Longhorns for the Southwest Con
ference baseball championship. Ac
cording to the conference rules, all
games must be played before the
final exams, and Texas’ finals com
menced yesterday.
The conference ruling will put
the Aggies and the Longhorns in
a tie for the baseball champion
ship, provided the cadets beat Bay
lor Saturday.
Earlier this season, the national
championship minded Aggie grid
iron machine was rocked back on
its feet by one Pete Layden, and
was forced to share the champion
ship with S. M. U. This was not
enough, however, and to add insult
to injury, Layden came up in the
tenth inning of the Texas-Aggie
game last Monday and slammed a
homer over the left field wall to
climax the Longhorns’ most pre
cious victory since Thanksgiving
day.
The Aggies, however, did most of
the surprising in this close confer
ence race. At the outset of the
season, it was conceded that the
cadets and the Steers would fight
it out for the flag, but only an un
usual optimist would have predicted
that the Aggies would win or even
tie for the title. Starting out with
only one seasoned hurler, the ca
dets developed a formidable ball
club within a few weeks as evi
denced by their two game win
over the Texas Longhorns here last
week end. Following their victory,
they journeyed to Austin with a
winning streak of eight consecutive
games. All the cadets needed to
win the pennant was to defeat the
Longhorns, but the jinx that has
hovered so long in Austin was still
there; and the Aggies were plough
ed under.
W. L. Pet.
Texas 12 3 .800
Texas A. & M 11 3 .785
Baylor 6 7 .462
S. M. U 6 8 .428
Rice 5 8 .385
T. C. U 1 14 .071
Texas Clinches Tie
With Win Over TCU
The University of Texas Long
horns clinched a tie for the confer
ence flag Tuesday afternoon when
they defeated the cellar dwelling
T. C. U. Horned Frogs 12 to 2 in
a make-up game at Austin.
Pete Layden, the boy who broke
up the Texas-A. & M. game with
a homer, again was the batting star
of the day, getting a double and a
single and driving in two tallies.
This was Layden’s final game of
the season, and he closed out in a
baize of glory.
Udell Moore opened for the
Steers, and kept the Frogs at bay
for eight innings, scattering seven
blows to the T. C. U. hitters. Three
errors by the Longhorn infield,
caused Moore to lose a shutout.
Thompson and Brumbaugh, Frog
hurlers, were at a loss throughout
the game, walking twelve men and
hitting four. They both allowed
eight hits.
Conway and D. Tankersley led
the Frog attack with two hits
apiece, while Moore and Layden
were the offensive stars for the
Longhorns, with two and three hits
respectively.
Bryan Country Club to
Hold Golf Tournament
The' Bryan Country Club is hold
ing an invitation golf tournament
on Sunday, May 25th. The meet,
which will include driving and
pitching contests and a blind bogey
tournament, will be open to all
amateurs. The blind bogey tourn
ament is to be played by flights
and the golfers will play against
players in their own class. Golf-
balls will be thet prizes for each
flight. The low gross prize is a
handsome silver cup. The en
trance fee is to be one dollar and
will include dinner and refresh
ments. The tournament will open
Sunday but local players are re
quested to begin play Saturday aft
ernoon if possible. Jack Lee is
the professional at the local club.
A free bridge tournament will be
held Sunday for the bene he
accompanying ladies. Further in
formation concerning the tourna
ment may be obtained from E. H.
Gibbons of the Biology Department
who is sponsoring the meet.
Aggies Meet Bears Here Saturday
BATTALION.
MAY 22
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Intramurals
I Field Artillery Noses Out H Coast
Artillery in Feature Swimming Meet
By Mike Mann
The swimmers of I Field Artil
lery and H Coast Artillery proved
to be quite evenly matched in their
Class A league finals match. In
the final event, the free style re
lay, the Coast boys turned on the
heat to win this event and caused
the meet to end in a 24-24 tie. I
Field, by virtue of having three
first-places to two for H Coast,
was declared winner of the meet.
Edwards, Wilson, and Hall took
the first place honors for the “bug
gy boys,” while Langdale, Brad
shaw, Daniel, and Zedler came
through for the Coast.
In another Class A swimming
event E Field Artillery trounced
A Field Artillery by a score of 33
to 12. Biggs of E Field came
through with two first-places to
pace the field while Patterson,
Griffith, Bunnery, and Tennell pro
vided the remaining firsts for the
winners. Bell, Watson, and Mann
were in the running for the losers.
In class A softball, A Coast and
Machine Gun Cavalry fought to
a finish in a very close game. Thq
seventh frame started with the
score tied up 3-3. The Cavalry boys
came across with one run in their
half of the seventh but this was
not enough to beat the Coast team
who rallied to bring across two
tallies, taking the game 5 to 4.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A
1st Corps Hdq.
One big inning was enough for
the team from C Chemical War
fare to overwhelm the G Field Ar
tillery team. Scoring seven runs in
the third stanza, the CWS boys
followed through to win the game
by a score of 16 to 4. Weaver and
Thompson each crossed the plate
twice for the winners.
In Class A ping pong, B Coast
Artillery whitewashed C Engi
neers 5-0 to win their league. Gil
lette, Dreiss, McCorkadale, Em-
mert, and Cox were the winning
players.
Robertson, Burns, Ravey, and
Ambrose came through for 3rd
Hdq. Field Artillery to defeat the
pingpongers of M Infantry by a
score of 4 to 1 in an eight-final
game. Rogers was the lone winner
for the Infantry team.
Rain Wins Over Aggies and Bears Again
Yesterday; Bumpers Due to Face Golden
In a quarter-final ping pong
match, 3rd Corps Hdq. nosed out
the F Engineer team by a score
of 3 to 2. Harrison, Ray, and Shalit
won their games for the winners
while Gibson and Housewright
were in winning form for the Engi
neers.
F Engineers came through with
a victory over C Field Artillery to
win their league in pingpong. The
Engineers won by a score of 4 to
1 with Gibson, Tschoepe, Johnston,
and Housewright winning their
matches while Hull provided the
Field team with their single win.
B Engineers went down in an
other ping-pong match before the
players of G Coast Artillery. The
score was 3 to 2 with Tillery, El
lis, and Glover getting the wins
for the Coast team. The winners
for the Engineers were Hausman
and McClelland.
C Engineers provided another
3-2 score in their ping pong win
over F Infantry with Ramsey, Pet
erson, and Hartt winning for the
Engineers; Pealor and Noton fur
nished the wins for the Infantry
team.
3rd Hdq. Field Artillery trounc
ed R Coast ^Artillery by a score of
4 to 1. The winning pingpongers
for the Field were Robertson,
Ravey, Talbot, and Ashley, while
Langdale was the solitary winner
for the Coast.
Field House Named After
DeWare, Sr. Aggie htimortal
By Dub Oxford
Activities are just about finish
ed in DeWare Field house for this
sports season and that brings to
mind the name DeWare.
Wondering where and how the
name for the gym had been ac
quired, I made a bit of investiga
tion. No, you’re wrong, it is not
named for the present Charles De-
Ware, but it was named for the
late Charles A. DeWare, Sr., one
of the Aggie greats of the early
1900’s.
The DeWare Field House as it
is now called was originally known
as Memorial gym, but by an act
of the Board of Directors on No
vember 29, 1939, the name was
changed to DeWare Field House
and that is what it is known by
today.
Charles DeWare, SrT, was a stu
dent of Texas A. & M. in 1906,
’07, ’08, ’09, ’10. He played foot
ball and baseball and was captain
of the football team in 1908 and
captain of the baseball team in
1909.
On the gridiron field, DeWare
distinguished himself by the superb
playing of the position of an end.
And in fact, Jinx Tucker, a prom
inent Waco sports writer still in
cludes DeWare senior as end on
his all time Southwest Conference
team.
Formerly from Jefferson, Texas,
Charles DeWare was a member of
the famous team of Aggies that
early exes will remember. In
retrospection, members of the team
that played with DeWare were,
“Doggy Ward, Louis Hamilton,
Chock Kelly and Mike Balenti.
An interesting sidelight to his
athletic activities, while a student
at A. & M. Charles DeWare, Sr.,
was a member of the K.K.’s and
the Ross Volunteers.
Shortly after leaving Texas A.
& M. he was paralyzed from the
waist down, but this did not put
a damper on DeWare’s cheery spir
its. An even for this day, he had
a specially built model “T” Ford
that could be operated by hand.
Still a colorful figure after his
graduation, DeWare was an ar-
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Cadets Must Win Game To
Tie for Title With Steers
Coach Marty Karow can well be
thankful to his stars as rain caus
ed the Aggie-Baylor game to be
reset for Saturday afternoon on
Kyle Field. After Monday’s los
ing tilt with Texas, Karow was in
a dither as to what hurler he would
use for Baylor. Rain, however,
solved his problem yesterday after
noon at Waco, and it is almost cer
tain that he will come back with
Lefty Bumpers, his ace chunker.
This extra three-day rest should
do the Aggies a world of good as
they have been playing tireless
ball for the past week. In that
week of play, they won eight
games and lost only one.
The Aggies and the Bears have
played each other twice here, with
the series standing now at one all.
Lefty Bumpers’ two hit pitching
stymied the Bears in the first
game. Baylor took a twelve inning
contest from the Aggies the fol
lowing day behind the steady
pitching arm of Frank (Lefty)
Golden.
Golden is expected to start for
Coach Bochey Koch’s nine against
the Aggies. The Bear left-hander
has been the bright i'ay of the
team all season, and it was his
hurling that toppled the Aggies
and nearly nipped the Texas Long
horns. He lost an eleven inning
affair, 5 to 2, to the Longhorns
only after his support blew up.
Jimmy Witt is another player
that Aggies will have to watch out
for. Witt, one of the best short
stops in the league, is the leading
hitter on the team. It was his
single in the. twelfth inning that
drove in the winning run, and
dropped the cadets for the first
time.
For the Aggies, John Scoggins
and Marlin Jeffrey should supply
most of the offense. Scoggins is
a hard-hitting outfielder and, along
with Marion Pugh, leads the Ag
gie field in home runs. His runs-
batted-in average is something that
opposing players shun at, while his
coverage of the left field garden
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