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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
By Mike Haikin
Melvin Deutsch, Texas Pitcher, Just Not
Good Enough to Make All-Conference Team
Among the many questions pop
ped to the writer after the all-con
ference team was hashed up was,
“What about Melvin Deutsch ? Why
was he not on the team? Well,
what about him? Just because he
pitched one good game during the
year is no sign why he should be
on the mythical squad. I admit he
was just about the best pitcher in
the league last year. But that was
only LAST YEAR. A player who
gets shelled off the mound five
consecutive times certainly can’t
be considered for an all-star team.
Yes, he did pitch one good game
(that against the Aggies), but if
all-conference teams were chosen
for one good performance, Brooks
Atchison of S. M. U. and Roy
Peden of A. & M. would certainly
have to be considered seriously.
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If you really want to see some
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sometime tomorrow afternoon to
the official opening of the Lake-
view Saddle Club, located on the
Navasota road, just past the Shiloh
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Mrs. Harry Pelot. Harry is the
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does the instructing.
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Rex Francis, Aggie Gardener
Bent on Professional Career
Bumped into Rex Francis, fleet-
foot Aggie outfielder of the past
season, the other day, and had a
good bull-session with him on the
subject of baseball (of course). He’s
made no plans for the future yet,
but has a hankering for pro ball.
He thinks he can get in with a
West Texas League team just as
a start. Rex has completed his eli
gibility here, and it’s a darn shame
that he has. If he had another year
it’s almost certain that he would
have set the conference afire with
his playing. He was one of the
fastest men on the team this year,
and, undoubtedly one of the best
clutch hitters in the league.
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Sport Squibs From Here and
There
Football training will open here
September 5, with the boys due to
get plenty of hard work. . . Coach
Homer Norton will be confronted
with the job of rebuilding his cham
pionship teams of 1939-1940. . .
Texas University is the choice of
most of the sorcalled “eggsperts”
to cop the flag, but the Aggies
think they’ll have a lot to say
about it. . . When Thanksgiving
comes in the “horseshoe” of Kyle
Field, it will be, “Katy, bar the
gate,” for the Steers.
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Watkins Can Jump J\J’ S Intramural Champs
Over Dean’s Head
Some in this school get on the
“Dean’s team” while others just
merely get in his hair. But when
you get over the Dean’s head you
are in the air—especially when it
is Dr. T. D. Brooks, Dean of the
Graduate School and Arts and Sci
ences. And there’s a long, lanky
lad in this institution that can ac
complish the task.
He is Kendrick “Pete” Watkins,
ace high jumper of the Aggie track
team. How you can get “Pete” out
of Kendrick is something that Pete
could not explain when asked how
he acquired his nickname. Pete
scrapes the sky at six feet four
inches, weighs one hundred and
eighty-five pounds and is now at
the ripe old age of twenty years.
Coming to A. & M. from Iowa
Park High school, Pete’s awards
there list like a “Who’s Who. Lis
ten to this—All District, All Re
gional, and All State high jumper,
with a record of six feet two and
seven-eights inches.
Continuing to improve while here
at A. & M., Pete has boasted and
hoped that he might be able to
jump over Dean Brook’s head. The
Dean you know, is one of the tall
est men on the campus.
When asked what he thought
about the performance of the feat,
Dean Brooks replied, “Watkins
may jump two inches over my
head, but let’s hope he doesn’t try
it, for he might be a little off his
style when he tries.”
Watkins has proved himself quite
capable of such a feat when he
won the quadrangular meet with
Baylor, S.M.U., T.C.U., and the
Aggies this year with a jump of
six feet seven inches, exactly two
inches over the Dean’s six feet five
inches.
Watkins is a sophomore at A. &
M. and has two more years to see
how high he can really jump.
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$6.96 a Day. This examination is
announced for filling vacancies in
this position at the U. S. Naval
Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas.
The examination is open to per
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Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi,
Texas, until further notice.
Additional information and ap
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BATTALION
MAY 31
PAGE 3
Intramurals
E Field Artillery Hustled and Played
Hard to Come Out Intramural Champs
By Mike Mann
The curtain has fallen on an
other intramural season and it’s
“Hats Off” to the full squad of
Battery E, Field Artillery who are
college intramural champions in
both Class A and B.
Ben Griffith, Class A manager,
deserves much praise for the part
he played in leading the upper
classmen to many victories. He put
forth much time and effort to
bring his teams to the front.
Not to be forgotten is D. W.
Simmons who held down the man
aging post for the ‘fish’ intra-
muralers. Being manager of a
Class B team is somewhat of a
handicap due to the fact that the
boys are together for the first
time and their talents are un
known. Simmons proved to be an
efficient manager and his teams
had only one forfeit for the entire
year.
The E Battery boys were col
lege champions in Class A water
polo and swimming; and finished
runner-ups in wrestling and track.
They placed high in handball, touch
football, speedball, volleyball, box
ing, and ping pong.
Wilson college girls have or
ganized 35 different types of cam
pus “services” to raise money for
their share of the seventieth an
niversary fund to be used to con
struct a $250,000 student alumnae
building.
By Mike Haikin
Blaring forth out of nowhere to
become' the league’s leading hurler
is the job accomplished by Lemuel
Pierce (Lefty) Bumpers within the
space of one year. It was just a
year ago that Bumpers reported to
Coach Marty Karow for the open
ing of the 1940 baseball season
after being ineligible for two sea
sons.
Not many cadets had ever heard
of the southpaw when he started
his first game against the Ran
dolph Field Flyers of Sari Antonio.
He won that game by a 13 to 3
count, but that still didn’t sell the
majority of the corps on him. He
lost his next tilt to T. C. U. 4 to 1.
Bumpers Stops Texas
Then came the crucial series
with Texas. Stevenson, Bass, and
Lindsey were the “big three’ of
the cadet hurling staff, so Karow
had quite a variety to choose from.
He started Stevenson, but it was
no soap as the Longhorns hit ev
erything he offered. He replaced
Charlie with Lindsey, and Ralph,
too, couldn’t stem the tide. Bass
had a sore arm, so the only choice
that was left was Bumpers. The
southpaw came in with none out in
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Honors Players, Captains
the second frame, and limited the
hard-hitting Longhorns to three
scratch hits. The Longhorns had
their batting practice in the first
two innings, but after that, all
they could hit was thin air as
Bumpers whiffed eight of them.
That performance made Bump
ers. Following the Texas series, he
went on to pitch masterful games
against S.M.U. and Baylor, the
latter being a one-hit tilt. On top
of all that, he was accorded all
conference mention by most sport
scribes throughout the southwest.
Lefty was the hardest working
as well as the best pitcher in the
league this year. He pitched in 15
games, 110 innings, and had a re
markable earned run average of
2.67. He struck out: 74 men and
walked but 41. The latter mark
was especially good, because Bump
ers was known to be as wild as a
March hare.
Lefty’s most treasured perform
ance this year probably was the
Texas series. He was the only Ag
gie athlete to subdue the Long
horns in any sport this year, and
he is certainly proud of that rec
ord.
(Continued on Page 4)
Informal Meal Given
Winners and Guests
By Jack Hollimon
Climaxing a great season in Ag-
gieland sports, Doc Lipscomb and
Ford Munnerlyn presented the most
valuable player and captain awards
to the winners Wednesday night in
the home of Mr. Munnerlyn in
South Oakwood. Receiving most
valuable player awards were Roy
Bucek, track; Marion Pugh, foot
ball; J. T. Lang, basketball; and
Lefty Bumpers, baseball. Men who
captained the clubs and were
awarded were Bill Dawson, basket
ball; Marion Pugh, baseball; Jim
Thomason, track and football, and
Tommy Vaughn, football.
Awards were in the form of life
time Shaeffer pens and desk sets
for the most valuable players and
lifetime Shaeffer military pen sets
for the captains. Each award was
beautifully engraved with the name,
sport, and date.
Before the presentation, an in
formal dinner was served under
the guidance of Mrs. Lillian Mun
nerlyn. Beef barbecue, fresh beans,
potato salad, relishes, and iced tea
composed the well-received menu.
In the first after dinner speech,
Mr. Lipscomb complimented Mrs.
Munnerlyn and she entertained
with several songs of her own com
position including the newest en
titled “The Twelfth Man,” recent
ly written for the A. & M. cadet
corps.
Lipscomb introduced Mr. Mun
nerlyn who expressed best wishes
to the honored men and he pre
sented the trophies. In behalf of
the entire baseball squad, Marion
Pugh gave to Coach Marty Karow
a pen and pencil set in apprecia
tion of his efforts and sportsman
ship with the boys and the team.
Karow is retiring from the baseball
front to take over Aggie basketball
wars.
This terminates a season of great
athletics for A. & M. and the party
was a fitting tribute to those cadets
who have competed under the col
ors of maroon and white for the
past four years and those who have
gained recognition as the most val
uable man on the team.
Those present besides Vaughn,
Pugh, Thomason, Lang, Bucek,
Bumpers, and Dawson were A. &
M. coaches “Dough” Rollins, “Hub”
McQuillan, Lil Dimmit, Marty Ka
row, Charley DeWare, Virgil
Jones, Harry Faulkner, Frank An
derson, and Manning Smith.
Dean T. D. Brooks, dean of the
school of arts and sciences, was
once mayor of the city of Waco.
We have enjoyed serv
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The Class B players came out on
top in three sports; horseshoes, ten
nis, and track. They took second
places in handball and softball. The
rest of the sports in which they
placed were ping pong, boxing,
touch football, and basketball.
Class A teams of E Field mass
ed a total of 840 points while the
Class B squads gained a total of
809.1 points. Class A intramural
competition had seventeen sports
and Class B saw fifteen sports
being played.
Notable about the champs was
their attitude in the game. From
the very first game they came out
to win and worked hard. The Field
boys brought their best teams out
for every game and did not hold
back. They were in the game to
win and win they did!
The E Field teams were not
necessarily composed of superior
material. They were, however,
above the average players who
went into every game with the
idea of winning fairly and square
ly-
Orchids to Battery E, Field Ar
tillery, Aggieland’s Intramural
Champions for 1940-1941.
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