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Ags Battle Longhorns in Crucial Tilt Today Let's Come Out to Kyle Field Today And Support Aggie Nine in Battle With Steers! The Texas Aggies and the Texas Longhorns, rivals for the top spot in almost every sport in the Southwest Confer ence, will battle on historic Kyle Field this afternoon, in what many experts regard as a championship fray. It’s only the second tilt for both teams, but is still ex pected to have much say as to the conference winner. Texas brings out a team that is flaxed by new faces. No longer are there such names on the roster as Pete Layden, Melvin Deutsch, Doc Smith, Leslie Croucher, Lynn Bostick, or Udell Moore. Only Jack Stone and Grady Hatton remain as remnants of the ’41 championship squad. Uncle Billy Disch, the dean of all Southwest Conference baseball coaches and the retired Longhorn mentor, regards Texas as having one of the weakest teams in its baseball history. However, this isn’t the first time that Coach Disch has spoken in that manner for Longhorns in the past were regarded as having weak teams, but the end of the season found them perched on the conference top. So disregard what you hear about the Longhorns. They have a smart coaching staff that is sure to put out a whale of a team. Today’s game means much to the Aggie cause. They’ve already dropped one tilt, and another one would he a serious blow to their championship hopes. To avert any kind of setback, Coach Lil Dimmitt plans to open with Charlie Steven son, ace hurler of the Aggie pitch ing staff. Stevenson came through nicely against Baylor in his first time out and is expected to give the Steers plenty of trouble. So if you’re desirous of seeing a championship battle this early in the season take a short walk to Kyle Field this afternoon at 3:30. The Aggies will be battling their roughest foe of the year and will need all the support that can be garnered. Let’s all turn out and give all we’ve got to help the Maroon and White clear a tough hurdle! Sports Squibs From Here and There; Jimmy Newberry, Outfielder, to Miss Today's Game Little Jimmy Newberry is still in the hospital and is expected to be out for the next few games . . . he was stricken with the mumps while on the Waco trip . . . Irvin Smith, another soph, will take over his spot in right field against Texas today . . . Here are the batting averages of the leading batters on the team . . . AB R H BA Stevenson 6 0 4 .667 Porter 23 4 9 .391 Glass 24 7 9 .375 Smith 6 0 2 .333 Peden 16 5 5 .313 Scoggin ...23 6 7 .304 Big John Kimbrough, former Aggie grid star, is now on duty (See KYLE FIELD, Page 6) FILTERED SMOKING M ABSORBENT FILTERS HANf ■ tXIEBi erssst & GENUINE FILTERS FOR MEDICO PACKED ONLY IN THIS REDS BLACK BOX 66 Baffle Filter retains flakes-slugs and whirl-cools smoke in Medico pipes, cigarette and cigar holders. 1— MORNING at the office and then off for 1*1 golf ? 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AGGIES LONGHORNS Cecil Ballow, ss Irvin Smith, rf Ira Glass, 2b John Scoggin, c Sam Porter, lb Leslie Peden, 3b Cullen Rogers, If Bill Black, cf Charlie Stevenson, p Lil Dimmitt, Coach Neil Hector, 3b Clinton Grell, cf Grady Hatton, ss Jack Stone, 2b Speedy Houpt, lb Henry Harkins, rf Horace Reeves, If Jack O’Reagan or Wilson Deutsch, c Bill Dumke, p Bibb Falk, Coach INTRAMORALS ^ 16 Aggie Tracksters To Enter Tex Relays Rollins’ Highly Touted Fish Also Entered In Meet to be Held Saturday Sixteen members of the Aggie varsity track team will journey to Austin this week-end to par ticipate in the fifteenth Texas Re lays which take place on Satur day, March 28. The Cadets ran second to the Longhorns in the annual Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Exposition Field and Track Meet last Saturday. Pete Watkins and A. C. Ricks, who will represent A. & M. in the high jump, will have to meet Don Boydston of Oklahoma A. & M., record holder of the high jump in last year’s relays when he leaped 6 feet, 7 7/8 inches. An outstanding event will be the 120-yard high hurdles in the university class. Listed among the best hurdlers will be Roy Bucek, Aggies, Ralph Tate, Oklahoma A. & M., and Doug Jacques of Tex as. The Aggie fish track squad will be entered in the junior college class, freshman division relays. The fish have a strong team as indicated by their Fort Worth per formance in which they piled up 70 points. Rifle Team To Meet TSCW Sharpshooters Sat The Aggie Rifle team will mark time until Saturday afternoon when they face the TSCW sharp shooters here in a regulation match. It was last year when the cadet team invaded Denton with high aspirations in winning an other match, but the girls proved too true with their shots, tri umphing by the margin of two points. The girls, under the direction of their coach, Diana Boone, will bring nineteen of their best shoot ers to challenge the skill of the cadets. The TSCWites will bring their own equipment plus a news correspondent from the Lasso' and will arrive at College Station at noon Saturday. Following dinner at Sbisa Hall, the girls will pro ceed to the firing range to prac- The finals in class A and class B wrestling were held Wednesday night and the following men were pitted against each other. Class B Carter vs Catt Robertson vs Singletary Garrett vs Freeze Reich vs Lohn Franka vs Baker Class A Jones vs Vick Whitten vs Eilrburg Mouser vs Colvin Donnell vs Allen FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class A: I Field Artillery, Ping Pong Beckley vs Sibley Black vs DeArment Class A and B Harang vs Odem (B) Scott vs Pomerenk (B) Rehders vs Patton (B) Borrier vs Riordan (A) Ivey vs Havleka (A) tice and get their new target guns sighted in. The match will consist of 18 shooters on both teams fir ing, with the five highest scores deciding the winner. ,. v ,.The winners of a k° ve ma t c h- ' eS k e crown ‘ t‘ ed champions of H the school. The 1 medals for intra- / mural wrestling will be awarded liilPSr Jllliil the contest- wBmm Jmmi ants as they fin- Oxford ish the bouts. Luke Harrison On Campus Luke Harrison, former assistant intramural director, was on the campus yesterday talking with old friends. Luke will be inducted into the army soon. All of Luke’s friends are looking forward to see ing him back soon. B Softball Wow! Can freshmen play soft- ball ? Take a gander at these scores: 26-1, 34-4, 20-5. These “whitewashes” are really swell. Old Big B Infantry, under superb pitching walloped their arch-en emy I Infantry 26-1. Making 17 runs and allowing their opponents only 1 run, H Infantry just ”nach- erly” beat A Coast. 27-5 is a nice win too. And 3 Hq. Field beat B Field by just that score. K. D. Volgth of 2 Hq. Field, pitched a fine game for the buggy boys. His pitching won the game from A C.W.S. 84-4. Annual Cavalry Horse Show Sat to be Based On Military Theme; ManyEvents A rescheduled By Mike Mann War, additional drill, and tire shortages were the factors which caused the Horse Show Committee to restrict the participants of this year’s Texas A. & M. Horse Show to Aggie Cadets mounted on U. S. Government mounts. In previous years horsemen from throughout the state have been invited to enter the events and to show their horses Riding clubs from the University of Tex as have also added color to the show in past years. The A. & M. Horse Show, an annual affair, will be held on the Cavalry drill field from 10 a.m. ’til 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. ’til 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 28. This year’s Show, in keeping with the military theme, is open ed to any ROTC cadet enrolled in school provided he is mounted Stenos Needed In Washington Uncle Sam is still in need of Junior Stenographers for employ ment in Washington, D. C. The en trance salary is $120. per month. Opportunits for later advancement to the position of Senior Stenogra pher at a salary of $135 per month and higher are excellent for capable young women. Before appointment applicants will be required to take an exami nation, consisting of a test in copy ing from plain copy for ten min utes and a dictation test at a speed of 80 words per minute. Stenographers who want to help their country during this National Defense period should immediate ly contact the Secretary, U. S. Civil Service Board, Post Office, College Station, Texas, or the Man ager, Tenth U. S. Civil Service Dis trict, Customhouse Bldg., New Or leans, Louisiana. on a government mount at this post. Some of the events which will take place in the ring are fresh man and sophomore ROTC horse manship events and ROTC charg er class for seniors. The featured field event will be the hunt race in which will be entered three Cavalry teams and three Field Artillery teams con sisting of three men per team. In this race, the riders ride at ap proximately 20 yards distance over a course 1.7 miles long including 12 jumps—3 of which are six-foot ditches. This event is a particular ly grueling race and is different on both men and horses. Other field events include the rescue race, the musical chair, relay races, polo bending races and polo reining classes The relay races will be entered by teams from the Field Artillery and Cavalry regiments. The teams consist of four men on each team and the course covers a distance of approximately three and one-half miles. Observers at the stables for the past two or three days have noted some really hot riding and predict high-spirited competition between the Cavalry and the Field Artil lery. Local horsemen predict that, despite the absence of civilian riders and horses, the 1942 A. & M. Horse Show will be the most successful meet ever held here. New Released Tennis Schedule Shows Match To Be Played April 9 The Texas Aggie tennis team will open its 1942 season with a match against the East Texas State Teachers College at Com merce on Thursday, April 9. The schedule for the season is: April 9—East Texas State Teachers College at Commerce. April 10—S.M.U. at Dallas. April 21—Rice Institute at Col lege Station. April 25—Texas university at Austin. May 1—Baylor university at College Station. May 7-8-9—Southwest Confer ence meet at Dallas. AND THERE WILL BE LOVE RE TURNED When Your Gift is a Love ly Corsage of Fresh- Cut Flowers. Every woman . ap- preciates the thoughtfulness that accompanies a gift of flowers. Bryan Floral and Nursery Phone 2-1266 Charlie Stevenson Given Assignment Against Texas Bill Dumke Expected to Hurl for Visitors; Game to Get Under Way at 3:30 PM Sharp 4 By Chick Hurst Remember Austin-in 1941! Such is the battle cry which has been ringing across the diamond down at Kyle Field the past week as the Aggie baseballers prepared for their all important clash with the Texas Longhorns. The tilt is scheduled to begin at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon. No man on the Texas Aggie squad has forgotten that 10th inning home run last year which robbed the Aggies of what would have been their first base ball championship since 1937. Charlie Stevenson, the Aggie - ^ '• ace hurler, who pitched the Aggies to victory in their game with Bay lor, will be Coach Lil Dimmitt’s choice for the mound this after noon. He will probably be opposed by Bill Dumke, ace of the Orange and White pitching corps. Be it baseball or any other sport, any contest between the Aggies and Longhorns always pro duces plenty of fireworks, and this afternoon’s clash should prove no exception. Most observers rate the conference as a tossup between the Aggies, Steers, and the Baylor Bears. With the Cadets and Bears having already split a two game series, this afternoon’s meeting should go a long way towards de ciding who will wear the coveted crown of the Southwest Confer ence baseball champions. The Longhorns come to College Station with one of the weakest teams ever to wear the orange and white, but still a team that is rated as good as or better than any other entry the Southwest Conference has produced so far this season. Comparison Close A comparison of the 1942 Ag gies and Longhorns can be had by looking at the performance of both teams against the University of Oklahoma Sooners, the only team which both have faced this season. The Longhorns swept both games against the Sooners, while the Aggies did not fare so well— winning one and dropping the other. The Cadets have, however, ex hibited an excellent brand of field ing and pitching in their games so far this year, but their hitting has been a far cry from the kind that wins championships. Never theless, Coach Lil Dimmitt has had the boys hard at it all week with SOPHS! You owe it to yourself to see Loupot's Uniforms heavy emphasis on batting drills, and the Texas hurlers will find a greatly improved group of bat ters from the one which faced the Bears last week. Rain rather hampered the Aggies in their workout yesterday, but fine wea ther early in the week afforded them plenty of practice for the game. Aggies Inspired Although the Longhorns have been installed as pre-game favor ites, the contest will probably turn out to be as tight as the well- known Pullman window. 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