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By mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Aggies and Longhorns Favored to Fight
It Out in Every Major Sport in Conference
Tomorrow night at Downs Na-
tatorium, the preliminaries for
the Southwest Conference swim
ming meet will be held. Saturday
the long awaited meet will be
reeled off. Again, as of years be
fore, the battle for the champ
ionship, will be between Texas
university and Coach Art Adam
son’s tankers.
That in itself is not very un
usual for Longhorn and Aggie
swimming teams have been bat
tling it out for top position for
many years. But the thing that is
surprising is that both Texas and
the Cadets are expected to fight
it out for top honors in just about
every sport. Football was the first
one, and the Aggies won out al
though actually being defeated by
the Steers.
Then came the Border Olympics
at Laredo and Texas was victor
by a scant margin. Saturday after
noon, the Fort Worth Fat Stock
Exposition track meet will be held,
and the odds again favor the
Aggies and Longhorns to finish
1-2. Texas is favored to win, of
course, but not by an overwhelm
ing margin by any means.
Also on Saturday, Coach Lil
Dimmitt’s Aggie nine opens its
conference season against Bay
lor. This is another sport that has
been wholly dominated by the
Cadets and Longhorns for the past
10 to 12 years. Texas has won the
title 21 times in 26 years, with
the Aggies laying claim to three,
and the other conference teams to
the rest. However, in those fruit
ful years for Texas, the Aggies
have almost continually finished
second best. This year, the report
from the Longhorns is not too en
lightening for TU fans, as they^
are said to have one of their weak
est teams in years. The Aggies
are strong and have a good
chance to replace the university
boys as the current pace-setter.
Whatever else happens this year,
the two state colleges can boast
of the fact that when athletes are
needed in the conference, the Ag
gies and the Longhorns can pro
duce them.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Track
Team Suffers Blow as Knight Pulls Muscle
Coach Dough Rollins’ track
team suffered a hard blow when
Jimmy Knight, member of all the
Aggie relay teams and the 220
yard dash, pulled a muscle . . .
he will probably be out most of
the season . . . Leo Daniels, Ag
gie football star, has come out for
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track, and will probably take
Knight’s place . . . Derace Moser,
Coach Homer Norton’s ace last
year, made his first appearance
on the cinder track Monday after
noon . . . Little Harry Stiteler,
former Aggie star athlete and
coach of Corpus Christi High
School was chosen head mentor of
Waco High . . . Here is what John
Sidney Smith, sports editor of
the Bryan Eagle, has to say about
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Baseball Team Will Play Two-Game
Conference Series on Baylor Diamond
Coach Lil Dimmitt’s Aggie baseball team opens its con
ference season tomorrow afternoon when they invade Waco
and the Baylor Bears for a two game series.
This series is regarded as crucial in the minds of base
ball experts in the conference since Baylor and the Aggies,
along with Texas university, are favored to fight it out for
the coveted diamond championship.
The Aggie diamondeers this
year have won three and lost one
for their pre-season record. They
opened the season by sweeping a
twin-bill from the highly touted
Sheppard Field Flyers and split
a two-game series with, the Okla
homa university Sooners.
Baylor, meanwhile, has played
but one tilt, and that one was a
losing affair with the OU Saon-
ers last week.
Dimmitt’s team has shown much
spark and fire in recent work
outs and most fans agree that he
has a ball club capable of many
victories. The baseball nine is as
yet unproven but it has shown
plenty of possibilities.
The probable starting lineup for
the Cadets tomorrow in the Bear
game will include Sam Porter, lb;
Ira Glass, 2b; Les Peden, 3b;
Cecil Ballow, ss; Cullen Rogers,
If; Bill Black, cf; Jimmy New
berry, rf; John Scoggin, c; and
Charlie Stevenson, p.
INTRAM DRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
TODAY IS THE DAY.
Today, Thursday, March 19, is
the last day in which men may
weigh-in for intramural boxing.
You have until 7
after that, it’s
men who weigh-
must make their
weight before
they may fight.
And speaking
of fighting, what
is the matter ?
Don’t you want to defend the good
old honor of organization? Hie
yourself down to the Physical Ed
ucation department office anytime
today—but before 7 tonight—and
weigh-in for the annual fisticuffs.
Wrestling Dope
Any team may enter five men
as a wrestling team, and the pos
sible number of points that they
Oxford
may win is 50. But don’t forget
this. Every time a man forfeits,
his team loses ten points. De
faults, where a man is in the hos-
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
MG Cavalry, Swimming
Class B:
3 CHQ, Horseshoes
C Replacement Center,
Handball
pital or otherwise ill, do not count
as forfeits.
Class A volleyball has been com
pleted and the drawing for the
playoff’s will be held in the in
tramural club room at 6 p.m. to
night.
The following is a list of the
league winners:
F Engineers
G Coast Artillery
MARCH 19, 1942
Page 3
Swimmers to Seek First Championship
In Ten Years Against Texas Saturday
The Southwest Conference
Swimming meet will take place
here in P. L. Downs Natatorium on
the nights of March 20-21. The
preliminaries will be staged Fri
day beginning at 8:00 p. m. while
the finals will be run off at 7:30
p. m. Saturday.
Texas University has won this
meet for the last ten years while
the Aggies have taken second
place for the past eight years.
Last year at the meet in Austin,
the Cadets won seven out of a
possible ten first places but lost
D Engineers
2 Hdq. Field Artillery
B Field Artillery
H Coast Artillery
H Replacement Center
Hdq. Signal Corps
A CWS
D Field Artillery
B Infantry
E Infantry
Class A Softball
Class A softball is well under
way and the closest game of the
season, so far, has been the thrill
ing 4-2 match between 4 CHQ and
E Replacement Center. Next in
the line of baseball thrillers was
the 11-5 battle that took place
starring K Infantry against 6
CHQ. K Infantry was the winner.
The largest number of runs piled
up was the 35-8 score with B Field
Artillery walking away with the
game. The Artillery Band, how
ever, did put up some resistence
making eight runs.
Nickie Ponthieux, Former Aggie Athlete, Is
"Man Behind Scene" in Intramural Dept
By Mike Mann
Another of the unsung heroes
of Aggieland is N. A. (Nickie)
Pohthieux, physical education in
structor and assistant director of
intramural sports. Nickie is one
of the “men behind the scenes”
of the Aggie physical program.
Ponthieux was born at Alex
andria, Louisiana, in 1919 but at
tended grammar school at Orange,
Texas. He entered junior high
school at Beaumont. From there
he went to Beaumont High School
where he participated in four
sports — swimming, basketball,
football and tumbling for the
Royal Purples of Beaumont.
During his high school days
Nickie gained the acquaintance of
Art Adamson, Aggie swimming
coach. He entered A. & M. in 1937
with the main desire of receiving
swimming instructions from Ad
amson.
Ponthieux was quite prominent
in freshman athletics at A. & M.—
acting as captain of the fish swim
ming team in 1937 ; -38 and winning
the title in the 159-pound class
of intramural wrestling.
Three varsity swimming letters
were earned by Nickie in the years
1938-41. During his senior year,
1940-41, he was captain of the
varsity swimming team. Ponthieux
was also active in the intramural
department; serving as depart
mental intramural manager from
September, 1938, through June,
1941.
In June, 1941, Nickie received
a B. S. degree with a Physical
Education major. During his first
year and a half at A. & M. he
studied chemical engineering and
then switched to P. E.
Nickie has spent a number of
his summers in the employ of the
Beaumont swimming pool and at
tended summer school here one
year. During the summer of 1941
he worked for Consolidated Steel,
Ltd., as a loftsman in the ship
yards at Orange.
In September of 1941, Ponthieux
began his present work with the
Physical Education Department.
He quit his job with the ship
building company to come here.
Pres. Robert L. McLeod, Jr., of
Centre college has warned students
of the danger of spreading un
founded rumors concerning Centre
men in the armed service.
Nicky says he is well-satisfied
with his work and wishes to con
tinue it as long as possible.
Nickie has been called for ser
vice with the armed forces but was
rejected because of poor eyesight.
Since Luke Harrison left for the
army, Ponthieux is the sole bach
elor on the P. E. staff. He is def
initely single and says he likes
both blonds and brunettes with a
preference for small women.
Well, Nickie, maybe someday
the right one will come along.
Here’s hoping!
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to the Longhorns by a score of
77-70.
. The events in which prelimin
aries will be held Friday night are:
50-yard free style, 100-yard free
style, and diving.
The Aggie swimmers will be led
by Captain Ernie Conway, a vet
eran letterman. Other members
of the team are: Bob Taylor, Fred
Renaud, Jack Baird, Ben Looney,
“Happy” Goodman, “Shrimp” Lap-
ham, Bob Cowling, Dick Winters,
Athletic Council
Awards Letters
The Texas A. & M. Athletic
Council announced basketball
awards following a meeting held
on the campus Tuesday.
Varsity letters were awarded to
Captain Bill Henderson, Houston;
Captain-elect R. B. Bayer, Hous
ton; Ray Jarratt, Stephenville;
Mike Cokinos, Beaumont; Leland
Huffman, Stephenville; Bill Un
derwood, Houston; Leslie Peden,
Azle; and Fred Nabors, Little
Elm.
Freshman numerals were
awarded to Homer Adams, Dal
las; Harry Hope, Houston; Rob
ert Barton, Pasadena; Robert Ho
vel, San Antonio; Gordon Moore,
Wichita Falls; Joe Sample, Dal
las; Henry Foldberg, Dallas; and
James Woods, Mt. Enterprise.
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