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Stevenson's Four Hit Ball Downs Baylor Bears 2 - 0
Aggies Tankers Have Good Chance to Topple
TU in SW Conference Swim Meet Tonight
WACO, March 20.—Coach Lil Dimmitt’s baseball nine
will conclude their two game series with the Baylor Bears
this afternoon at Katy Park. Bill Henderson, Senior
moundsman will be Dimmitt’s choice for this afternoon.
However, the most important
event will be taking place on the
ole home grounds at Downs Na-
torium tonight when Coach Art
Adamson’s highly touted swim
ming team seeks its first win over
Texas in 10 years. Yes, 10 years—
from the time swimming was con
sidered an inter-collegiate sport
until this very day—the Aggies
have been coming in second best
to Texas university. Their meets
have always been a battle, with
the Aggies at times coming with
in a whisker of sinking the Long
horns.
Take last year’s meet as an ex
ample. For weeks and weeks,
Coach Adamson’s tankers had been
preparing for the Longhorns only
to find that the inimitable Long
horn mentor, Tex Robertson, had
something up his sleeve. The Ag
gies brought a strong agregation
to Austin last year, and many
will agree that they were stronger
than the TU squad. In a dual
meet that day, the Ags would have
been easier victors since they grab
bed 7 out of a possible 10 first
places. However, those first places
don’t seem very much when you
take into consideration the second,
third, fourth, and fifth spots.
That’s where most of the points
come from, and that’s the story of
Texas’ win over the Aggies, 77-70,
last year.
Tonight, Coach Adamson again
fields a strong swimming squad—
one of the strongest in Aggie his
tory. In a dual meet earlier this
year, they swamped Texas, 50-35,
and are in an excellent position
to duplicate their feat. They have
the swimmers to match anything
Texas can offer, including first,
second, third, or fourth place in
most any event.
So come on you land lubbers
and sea-hawks to Downs Nator-
ium and see and enjoy a real
swimming battle. The Aggie tank
ers are championship-hungry and
it looks as if they will get their
fill tonight!!!
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Tennis
Schedule Announced by Coach Manning Smith
Coach Manning Smith has an
nounced the schedule for his ten
nis team . . . they lead off with
East Texas Teachers at Commerce
on April 9, go on to S. M. U. at
Dallas on April 10, Rice here April
21, Texas at Austin, April 25,
Baylor here May 1, and the Con
ference meet May 7-8-9 . . . the
trip to Waco was filled with fun
and laughter all the way, with all
the boys and H. B. McElroy of the
Publicity Department spreading
the bull all over the bus ... In
looking over the Aggie batting av
erage we find that the infield
seems to be doing all the hitting
. . . the outfield, the supposed
power-house of any team, in this
(See KYLE FIELD, Page 4)
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Aggies Battle for S W Swim Title Tonight
Errors Hinder Chances Of
Bruins, Provide Both Runs
Prelims Held
Last Night In P. L.
Downs Natatorium
By Chick Hurst
For the first time in ten years,
the Texas Aggie swimmers are
conceded a good chance to wrest
the conference swimming crown
away from the Texas University
Longhorns. In a dual meet early
this season the Aggies defeated
the Longhorns by eight points in
a hard fought battle. It is this
early season triumph that leads
observers to predict that the Ag-
geis might at long last upset the
favored Longhorns and prevent
them from copping their eleventh
consecutive crown.
Phil Montgomery, ace swim
mer of the S. M. U. Mustangs
will not be allowed to compete
in the meet. Montgomery, count
ed as a definite threat in the
100 yard breast stroke and 50
yard free style events, was rul
ed out of the meet last night
on account of a protest filed by
Coach Tex Robertson of the Tex
as University Longhorns. Mont
gomery’s entry card was turned
in late, and Coach Robertson
protested his right to compete
in the meet on account of this
matter.
BATTALION.
MARCH 21, 1942
Page 3
Anderson’s Golf Team Will Enter In
Competition at Livestock Exposition
With the preliminaries having
been run off last night the main
event is scheduled to get under
way in P. L. Downs natatorium at
7:30 tonight. Four schools, S.M.U.,
Baylor, Texas, and the Aggies are
slated to battle it out for the con
ference championship, and the
meet promises to be one of the
most thrilling clashes in South
west Conference history.
There will be nine events in to
night’s meet, all of which should
be closely contested. These events
(See PRELIMS FINISH, Page 4)
Colonel Frank Anderson, coach
of the Texas Aggie golf team left
early yesterday morning for Fort
Worth where his team will com
pete today in the annual South
western Fat Stock Show and Ex
position meet.
The team played a practice
round yesterday against Texas
Wesleyan College of Fort Worth
and familiarized themselves with
the course over which today’s
tournament is to be played.
This meet is one' of the largest
to be held in this section of the
country, and in previous years
there have been 10 or 12 schools
competing for the prize. Because
of the fact that most of the other
Southwest Conference teams will
be entered today, this meet will
serve as a good indication of which
teams to watch in the forthcom
ing Southwest Conference meet to
be held at Dallas on May 7-8.
Coach Anderson selected five
men to make the trip. Number one
man on the team, and acting cap
tain for this meet is T. B. “Tom
mie” Howell. In the elimination
competition which was held last
Saturday at the Bryan Country
Club, Howell’s brilliant putting
and consistently long drives mark
ed him as the standout member of
the squad. Coach Frank Anderson
is fortunate in having two stand
out sophomores on this year’s
team, L. E. Fouraker and H. J.
INTRAMDEALS
By
DUB OXFORD
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The great rush experienced
Thursday night by the intramural
department is over. After the dust
had cleared
away, it was as
certained that
138 upperclass
men had answer
ed the “call du
ty” and signed
up for boxing.
The freshmen
were more pro
lific in their en
deavor to uphold
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their organization’s place in the
sun. Exactly 236 fish weighed-in
for the boxing matches.
The matches will begin Thurs
day night. This inception of the
matches will include both class A
and class B entrants. Incidentally,
the semi-finals in class A and
class B wrestling will take place
Monday night, and the finals will
be held on Wednesday night. Don’t
forget, the arena is in the big
gym; be sure and come down to
see the winding-up of this sport.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
Replacement Center, Volley
ball
Machine Gun Cavalry,
Swimming
Class B:
E Coast Artillery, Horse
shoes
B CWS, Horseshoes
C CWS, Horseshoes
D Replacement Center,
Horseshoes
Horseshoes
Class A horseshoes is almost
completed and here are the upper
classman league winners:
C Engineers
E Field Artillery
I CHQ
Hdq. Cavalry
F Engineers
D Engineers
Hdq. Signal Corps
C Cavalry
F Coast Artillery
F Field Artillery
C Coast Artillery
H Coast Artillery
E Infantry
F Replacement Center
I Infantry
Games Played
Class A softball, the game of
the hour at present, was indulged
in by D Infantry and A Coast.
The Infantrymen were the best
hitters and they scored 8 runs to
their opponents 4. B Coast, by the
skin of their teeth beat H Replace
ment Center 22-20 in a really
heated six inning game. The In
fantry Band rolled over A CWS
11-8 because of excellent pitching
on the part of the bandsmen.
Wahrmund.
Both of these men are able to
deal their opponents plenty of mis
ery with their wicked short game,
and excel on t he greens.
The other two members of the
team making the jaunt to the
Fort Worth tourney are Wayne
Rohrer and Howell Young. In the
pre-season warmups this pair has
demonstrated a very sound game,
and are being counted on heavily
to share a great part of the load
in this years matches.
The team’s regular schedule
opened yesterday with their match
against Texas Wesleyan, and the
rest of the season’s matches are
as follows:
March 21—Fat Stock Show
Tournament at Fort Worth.
March 30—Rice Institute at
College Station.
April 2—Baylor University at
College Station.
April 17—Texas University at
Austin.
April 24—S. M. U. at College
Station.
May 7-8—Southwest Confer
ence meet at Dallas.
Aggie Thinly-Clads
Participate In Duo
Track Meet Today
Aggies And Owls Block
Steer’s Chance To Repeat
As SW Conference Winners
The Texas Aggie track team
will participate in the track and
field meet at the Southwestern
Fat Stock Show and Exposition in
Fort Worth this afternoon.
The Cadets have entered two
meets so far this year and have
made favorable showings in both
of these meets. In the Border
Olympics at Laredo two weeks ago
the Aggies ran a close second to
the University of Texas Long
horns, who nosed out the Cadets
by a score of 40-37%.
Last week-end, in a triangular
meet with Sam Houston and San
Marcos State Teachers Colleges,
the Aggies delivered their oppon
ents a severe trouncing and took
thirteen out of a possible fifteen
first places. They lost in only the
javelin and discus events. Sam
Houston ran up a score of 28
points and San Marcos totaled
18% points while the Cadets hit
a high of 112%.
In the field and track meet at
the Exposition last year over 1200
high school and college athletes
were entered but this large num
ber is not expected this year. De
spite the decline in the number of
participants several records are
expected to be broken. The pre
liminaries were held yesterday
while the finals will take place
today.
Texas university is the defend
ing champion in the college divi
sion but both the Aggies or the
Rice Owls are given good chances
to upset the Steers and take the
honors this year.
The Aggie squad, led by Cap
tain Roy Bucek, is in the peak of
condition and is expected to be in
the top brackets all the way. Bu
cek has recently recovered from a
thigh injury. Other members of
the track team are: Brush, Bruah,
F. Bqpek, Drake, Garrett, Knight,
Labus, McGlothlin, Mitchell, Mont
gomery, Ricks, Schwarz, Stallings,
Vajdos and Ziegler.
Scoggin, Newberry Score Crucial
Tallies in First and Fifth Innings
WACO, March 20.—Under the four-hit pitching’ of
Charlie Stevenson the Texas Aggies blanked the Baylor
Bears 2-0 here yesterday afternoon as the Cadets took the
opening game of the 1942 Southwest Conference season.
An error in the second inning by Nonnie Jennings, Bear
leftfielder, opened the way for the Aggies’ initial tally.
Jennings dropped John Scoggin’s
fly. Porter, Aggie first-sacker,
grounded out and Scoggin moved
to third and scored on Peden’s
sacrifice.
Stevenson led off in the fifth
stanza with a single and went to
second when Newberry was safe
on a fielder’s choice. On a double
steal, Stevenson was thrown out
at third base. Glas was safe on an
error by Miller and Newberry
scored on the play.
Baylor made its sole bid for vic
tory in the ninth inning, when,
with one down, Jennings was walk
ed. Miller hit a long fly to center
which was dropped by Black and
Miller advanced to third. The threat
was ended as Garcia grounded out
Fish Baseballers To
Meet Allen Ramblers
This Afternoon At 3
The Texas Aggie freshman
baseball team will open their sea
son this afternoon on Kyle Field
at 3:00 o’clock when they meet
the Allen Academy Ramblers. Bill
Buchanan, former Aggie athlete,
is coaching the fish squad which,
as yet, is untried. The squad has
a number of high school baseball
stars who should develop into fine
varsity material.
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Prof: “What are you doing
college, a nyway?”
Frosh: “I was about to ask you
the same question.”
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