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EATTALICN SPORT5 EOTOR
By Mike Haikin
TEXAS HANDED FLAG ON A
SILVER PLATTER BY BEARS
If ever a baseball championship
was handed to a team on a silver
platter, it certainly was Saturday
afternoon at Waco. Texas Uni
versity won its twenty-second con
ference crown, but it was the first
time in the twenty-seven years
of Southwset Conference baseball
that another team was responsi
ble for the title-holder’s crown.
That’s exactly what happened at
Katy Park over the weekend.
Frank (Lefty) Golden not only
pitched the Baylor Bears to a vic
tory, but he hurled the Longhorns
to a flag. Golden alone accom
plished a feat that no other hurler
in the league could do, for with
out him," his teammates were a
hapless bunch, as evidence by
their season record.
—0—
BUMPERS PERFORMANCE NOT
ENOUGH TO STYMIE BRUINS
The game was a tough loss for
the cadets, especially for Lefty
Bumpers, who pitched one of the
best games of his career. He let
the Bears down with only four
blows, but a glaring error by
Marion Pugh proved to be the win
ning margin for the Baylorites.
Coach Marty Karow can well be
proud of his diamondeers for they
played hard and always upheld the
Aggie honor of fair play and hus
tle. Even though it was not in
the cards for them to take the
pennant, they had the satisfaction
of plastering the champion Steers
twice, which is a successful sea
son in itself.
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DIMMITT HAS WEALTH OF
MATERIAL FOR NEXT YEAR
Lil Dimmitt, who takes over
Karow’s job, will have quite a batch
of material to start the campaign
for next year. Loss of seven key
men will naturally handicap him,
but there are enough promising
diamondeers on hand to give him
a good start. At this time only
second base seems to be unac
counted for. Unless Hub Moon
should break his other leg, he is
a cinch for the first base job vacat
ed by Marion Pugh. Cecil Ballow
will be at his old spot at short
stop, while Ira Glass is a good
bet for the hot corner. Captain-
elect John Scoggin will be in left
field, while Cullen Rogers, Les
Peden, and Bill Black should
have a good scrap for the other
outfield posts.
The same trouble will confront
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To Present
Awards
Men Receive
Awards In Four
Major Sports
Most valuable player and cap
tain awards in the four major
sports of baseball, football, bas
ketball and track are to be pre
sented Wednesday night at an in
formal gathering in the home of
Ford Munnerlyn. These gifts,
known as the Lipscomb-Munner-
lyn awards, are presented yearly
by “Doc” Lipscomb of Lipscomb’s
Pharmacy and Ford Munnerlyn of
Seaboard Life Insui’ance Com
pany.
Winners for 1940-1941 are Ma
rion Pugh as captain of the base
ball team and most valuable man
in football, Lefty Bumpers as most
valuable man in baseball, J. T.
Lang as most valuable man in bas
ketball, Bill “Dog” Dawson as cap
tain of the basketball team, Roy
Bucek as most valuable man in
track, Tommie Vaughn as co-cap
tain of the football team, and Jim
Thomason as co-captain of the
football team and captain of the
track team. Pugh and Thomason
are the only double winners.
Trophies for captainship are a
lifetime Sheaffer pen and pencil
military set, and to the most val
uable players go a lifetime Sheaf
fer pen desk set with a bronze
statue of a player of the sport
represented. A plate on the mar
ble base names the winner and
the award. These sets are finely
detailed and they are extremely
useful to the men who receive
them.
The winners are selected by the
coaching staff according to their
ability, sportsmanship on and off
the field, and scholastic work.
Lil as it did Karow this year—
namely, the pitching and catching
departments. He will only have
Bill Henderson and Charlie Steven
son as regulars for the pitching
corps. With the graduation of Roy
Peden and Red Carden, the catch
ing staff will be in a bad shape
unless Dimmitt does a lot of shift
ing around.
Rigorous physical training from
kindergarten to maturity is recom
mended for Americans by Harold
C. Deutsch, associate professor of
history at the University of Minn
esota.
BATTALION
MAY 27
PAGE 3
v
Baylor Gives Steers Flag
With 3 to 1 Win Over A&M
Golden Bests Bumpers in Pitcher’s Battle;
Pugh’s Second-Inning Error Proves Costly
Intramurals
Intramural Managers to be Guests At
Annual Intramural Banquet Tonight
By Mike Mann
The annual Intramural Manag
ers’ Banquet, an appreciation ban
quet for the outstanding work done
by intramural managers, will be
held tonight in the Banquet Room
of Sbisa Hall at six-thirty. The
organization intramural managers
of both Class A and B divisions
will be the guests at the banquet,
together with other campus guests.
The intramural champions of
both classes will be announced at
the banquet and the managers of
the winning organizations will re
ceive suitable awards. The man
agers of the outfits having the
least number of forfeits in each
class will also receive awards.
Mr. Penberthy wishes to com
pliment the managers for their
splendid work and cooperation
throughout the current year, for
through their efforts a successful
intramural year has been realiz
ed.
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The semi-finals in Class A
swimming found F Coast Artillery
completely outclassed by the swim
mers of E Field Artillery. The
Field swimmers outdistanced the
Coast Artillery boys by over a
lap in the free style relay. The on
slaughts of Biggs, Burney, Grif
fith, Patterson, Terrell, and Wor
thington brought the Coast team
down in defeat by a 35 to 13 score.
—o—
A pitcher’s duel was seen in a
quarter-finals Class A softball
game between Thompson of G.
Coast Artillery and Moncrief,
pitching for F Coast Artillery.
Thompson whitewashed the F
Coast team and won 2 to 0.
—o—
The softballers of A Engineers
nosed out the B Infantry team in
their quarter-finals match by a
close score of 9 to 8.
The 7 runs scored by 2nd Hdq.
Field Artillery topped the A Chem
ical Warfare boys who could only
bring across 5 tallies, in the third
quarter-finals game.
—o—
Two Coast Artillery teams tan
gled in another softball game and
resulted with A Battery going
down in defeat before D Battery
6 to 3.
A Chemical Warfare outplayed
Hq. Signal Corps to win a ball
game by a 4 to 2 score.
The Infantry Band lost the last
game to I Field Artillery by a
score of 8 to 3.
Championships were decided in
two different sports in Class B
Intramurals.
E Field Artillery took the blue
ribbon in tennis competition by
blanking the netmen of F Coast
Artillery 2 to 0. Carlisle, Maroney,
Phillips, and Welsh were the star
ring players for the champion
freshmen.
—o—
The Class B Softball crown went
to the fish of B Infantry who de
feated the E. Field Artillery team
in the final round with a 5 to 3
score. The big guns for the Infan
try boys were Klare, Phillips, and
Wendel.
—' it
The first of two semi-final games
of Class B Softball saw E Field
Artillery smother G Coast Artil
lery 11 to 2.
B Infantry defeated the D Field
Artillery team by a score of 10
to 6 in the second runner-up game.
The two quarter-final games
ended with identical scores on the
tally-cards. G Coast Artillery won
over 2nd Hq. Field Artillery and
B Infantry trounced G Infantry
both games ending with a 11 to
3 score.
The last Class B Softball match
had Hq. Signal Corps and E En
gineers fighting out a close game.
The final score was 6 to 5 with
the Signal Corps team out in front.
0
The Intramural season is rapidly
drawing to a close. The ending of
the season undoubtedly has a bear
ing on the doghouse, which is emp
ty today.
Texas A. & M.’s baseball club
ran into the Baylor Bears in Waco
Saturday afternoon and it was one
game too many as they lost the
tilt and a chance to be co-cham
pions of the southwest conference
with Texas University. Lefty Bum
pers did a beautiful job as he
pitched four-hit ball, but Franklin
Golden of the Bruins set down
Aggie batters with only five hits
and he was tight in the clutches.
Playing a loose and easy game
as compared with the tense and
pressured Aggies, Baylor ran their
three runs across in the second in
ning. The Cadets scored one run
in the first on a hit by Scoggin
who drove Bill Buchanan over the
plate. With runners on second and
third and one man down in the
second inning, Baylorite catcher
Joe Byrd batted a slow-moving
roller down the first base line
where Marion Pugh, A. & M. first-
baseman, came in to field it. In
his haste to catch Don Haley at
home, he threw the ball away and
Jack Lummus scored from sec
ond. The original run came as a
result of a walk issued to Witt
and a slashing double by Haley.
Played after three postpone
ments, the game finally took the
heat off Texas who was defeated
twice by A. & M. despite the fact
they were ahead at the finish of
the flag chase. This makes an
other crown for Texas’ baseball
teams who have turned the trick
many times before under the wise
old hand of Uncle Billy Oisch.
Disch was not coaching this team,
yet he held a close spot in the
playing arrangements and was a
witness at the Monday Texas-
A. & M. clash.
Both teams exhibited rare form
but Golden kept his hold on A. &
M. for nine innings while Bum
pers, pitching brilliantly, allowed
a couple of walks in the second
that combined with Pugh’s error
to give Baylor their unrelinquish
ed lead that cost A. & M. the co
championship of the Southwest
Conference.
Dean Kyle Receives
Texas’ Apologies
Dean E. J. Kyle, chairman of
the A. & M. athletic council, has
received messages of apology and
deep regret from Both Coach D.
X. Bible and Dr. J. C. Dolley of
the University of Texas athletic
department over the actions of
Texas supporters during the final
Aggie-Steer baseball game in Aus
tin last Monday.
Dean Kyle wrote a letter of
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Hub Johns
By Mike Haikin
On to the Army!
That is the fate or reward that
Hubert Otis Johnson and Robert
Myers, Sports and Assistant Edi
tor of The Battalion, respectively,
will undergo upon their “quitua-
tion” from this institution. “Quit-
uation,” yes, for both expect to be
called up by Uncle Sam before
they can graduate.
Hub, as Johnson is more com
monly known, succeeded Jeep
Oates as Sports Editor of the Bat
talion at the start
of this year, and has
done an unusually
good job throughout
the session. He is a
one-button man in
H Field Artillery
and hails from Hous
ton.
Johnson started
writing just as a
hobby while going to Sam Hous
ton High school. When he came
up here, he decided to take the
newspaper game seriously, and
soon was signed up as one of
Oates’ bright assistants. All that
happened during his sophomore
year. At the start of last year,
he replaced Tom Darrow, to be
come Jeep’s chief propagandist,
that is, assistant. He wrote intra
murals all year, and, also most
of the other stories that had to
be written. Hub was the Sum
mer Battalion Sports Editor in
1939, but did not come to school
during next year’s summer ses
sion.
As for his private life, Hub
declares that it’s an open book.
He is taking Administrative Engi
neering, and will go to Michigan
this summer where he will work
as a sanitary engineer. Another
interesting fact about Johnson is
that he was chosen in high school
as the boy least capable to suc
ceed. So says Hub, but from his
accomplishments at Aggieland, one
would have to take that statement
with a grain of salt. As for the
opposite sex, Johnson believes in
all forms of curves, whether rare or
plentiful, red-headed or white-top
ped.
“One of the best intramural
men that I have eyer had the pleas
ure of knowing,” is what W. L.
Penberthy has to say of Bob
Myers, assistant Sports Editor.
This is Bob’s second year on the
Sports’ Staff, and he has made
it his best one. He started work
on The Battalion last year, and
since then, he has risen from a
plain reporter to Assistant Sports
Editor, and sports head of the
1940 summer Battalion.
Bob is Johnson’s roommate in
H Field Artillery, with his home
town being Harlingen. He is ma-
joring in Market
ing and Finance,
and expects to
graduate in sum
mer school, unless
the army needs
him real bad.
“Cheer leader”
Myers was his
monicker in high
school where he
Bob Myers rah-rahed his
school to many football victories
Bob was the chief yell leader of
Harlingen High School, but is too
modest to talk about it. As for
his athletic accomplishments, Myers
claims that the “Dean’s team” kept
him quite busy without putting any
more sports on his shoulders. His
interest in women is nil, but from
the looks of Bob’s red face and
wavy blond hair, one wonders why.
The presses will roll for the last
time next Wednesday afternoon
and that is when Hub and Bob bid
their adieu to the corps. They
have done an excellent job on this
staff, and everyone, down to the
cub reporter, will find it hard to
get along without Hub Johnson
and Boy Myers.
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the past school year.
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