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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1942
Bucek Takes 120-Yard
High Hurdles in Texas Relays
Nosing out Bill Cummins of
Rice, Aggie track star Roy Bucek
took the 120-yard high hurdles in
the Texas Relays with a time of
14.4. The relays were held in Aus
tin Saturday and although the Ag
gies did not win the meet, they did
dominate the freshman-junior col
lege division, taking both the mile
and quarter mile relays. The Aggie
Fish taking the quarter mile relay
with a time of 43.5 were Frye,
Wolf, and Kennemer.
Mile Relay
The mile' relay winners, were
Aggie freshmen trackmen Hardin,
Barten, and Wolf with a time 3:
41.2. Tying for first place in the
high jump, was Albert Ricks, Ag
gie stellar high jump man, Billy
Christopher of Rice, and Don
Boydston of Oklahoma A. & M.
All three leaped 6 feet 5J4 inches.
The co-holder of the record is Don
Boydston of the Oklahoma Aggies.
Outstanding Meet *
The Texas Relays were one of
the country’s outstanding track
and field events and attracted
schools from all over the nation.
Highlight of the relays was the
soaring of Nebraska Husker Har
old Hunt over the fourteen foot
mark to set one ol the two records
in the relays. The only other rec-
ord came in the high school divis
ion with Sunset High of Dallas
taking the sprint medley.
As usual, the fight between the
Aggies and Longhorns was omni
present and there was plenty of
fireworks in every department
And the longhorns did come out
on top when the final score was
tabulated. This is the third tri
umph the Longhorns have over the
Aggies this season.
This meeting at the Texas Re
lays was the stiffest competition
the Aggies will run up against in
the current track season. Al
though, the Aggies will have an
other chance to redeem themselves
this Thursday when the Aggies
meet the Longhorns here on Kyle
field in a dual meet.
The cinders on Kyle Field will
get a real working over when
Track Captain Roy Bucek is pit
ted against Don Jaques of Texas
in the 120-yard high hurdles. And
it is conceeded since Bucek won
the 120-yard high hurdles at the
relays, he will not have a hard
time winning this event Thurs
day.
The really big event of the Re
lays was the high jump starring
Aggie Albert Rix and his oppon
ents. While the first .place was
tied for, there is a big chance that
Rix will improve his style and
come through with an extra
amount of inches to really win
Ahoy--
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An Aggie Institution
his event in the dual meet held
here Thursday.
Texas Relay Summaries
440-Yard Relay—Won by Texas; second,
Texas A. & M.; third, Oklahoma Univer
sity ; Fourth, Rice.
High Jump—Tie for first among Ricks,
Texas A .& M.; Christopher, Rice, and
Boydston, Oklahoma A. & M.; 6 feet 5%
inches; Tie for fourth place between Wat
kins of A. & M. and Hosfield, Minnesota;
6 feet 4 inches.
880-Yard Relay—Won by Christopher,
Rice; Second, Texas; Third, Texas A. & M.
120-Yard High Hurdles—Won by R. Bu
cek, Texas A. & M.; Second, Cummins,
Rice; Third, Tate, Oklahoma A. & M.
Pole Vault—Won by Hunt, Nebraska;
A. & M.
Second, Defield, Minnesota; Third, Rix,
College Station “Black
Aggies” Play First Ball
Game Sunday in Bryan
The Texas Aggie nine is not the
only team opening their season.
The College Station “Black Ag
gies”, who go by the official name
of Grand Prize Tigers, play their
first game Sunday afternoon at
3:30 at Curry Field in Bryan.
The “Black Aggies” meet the
Brenham Lyons, also a colored
team, and out of eight meetings
of these two teams, the “Aggies”
have won three games.
Composed entirely of colored
employees of the college, the
Grand Prize Tigers are managed
by Charlie Hadley, Chemistry de
partment employee and captained
by Joe Foster, hospital janitor.
Coaching School Is
Cancelled; Mentors
Will Be Too Busy
Norton Expresses Regret;
School Will Be Continued
Soon After War Closes
The Free Coaching School held
annually at Texas A. & M. Col
lege under the auspices of the
Athletic Department has been can
celled for this year, Head Coach
Homer Norton announced this
week.
The present speed-up program
at the college whereby students
attend the year around will take
up the dormitory space formerly
used by the visiting coaches. It
also is anticipated that many of
the coaches will be busy on defense
work during the summer and would
not be able to attend.
Coach Norton expressed regret
that the school had to be called
off for this year but said that it
will be renewed the first year
after the present war ends.
In the past the Aggie coaching
school has attracted over 200 high
school and college coaches who re
ceived instruction from a staff of
coaches who had tutored state,
conference and national champ
ions the previous season. All
phases of athletics and athletic
training were always covered in
the five-day course.
Portable radios were among the
possessions of 71 per cent of col
lege students questioned on six
campuses recently.
Acquisition ol nearly 35,000 vol
umes last year brought the Uni
versity of Texas library’s holdings
to 673,888 volumes.
Hoke Is One Man Dynamo,
Keeper Of-The-Records, Secy.
Continuing the thumb-nail biog
raphies of the men behind the
scehes, today is presented Dewey
Hoke. Dewey is known as the
keeper-of-the-records in the in
tramural office. His official title
is secretary to the Physical Edu
cation department but that tells
only half of the story.
Commuter
Dewey was bom in Shiro, Texas
(Aggies who travel the road to
Huntsville are well acquainted
with the place) and he now re
sides in Navasota. He commutes to
College Station every day and car
ries several Aggies with him.
Perpetual Worker
Hoke has been with tne college
since September, 1937 and prior to
being an employee of the college
was tax assessor for Grimes coun
ty. Dewey really enjoys his work
and he is always working. His job
never ceases. There is always
someone to check out a punching
bag, or some intramural standings
to compile, and most of all, he
gives each man credit for the
games he participated in. And
when you consider that there are
six sports going on at one time,
at least 25 games a day and some
10 men per game ... it adds up
to a draft number figure.
When you hear someone yell
“Hokie,” that’s the staff of the
intramural department’s pet name
for this tireless worker. “Hokie”
is the man who answers at least
ten thousand questions a day and
takes care of all the many little
things that arise concerning some
Aggie’s P.E. credit.
Participants Recorded
An interesting sidelight is the
fact that upperclassmen intramur
al participants are recorded as
well as the freshmen. Many times
there has been a question arising
whereby some senior is about to
graduate, and for some reason has
not successfully completed his P.
E. credit. From Hoke’s files, the
number of games he has partici
pated in as an upperclassman has
given many an Aggie a degree.
This may be explained by the fact
that credit in the P. E. must be
had before anyone may graduate
from a Texas College. If a man
has completed enough games as
an upperclassman he may be
awarded a P. E. credit. So Dewey’s
hard work is not in vain.
Hall Of Fame
For a person to nominated to
the Hall of Fame, there is usually
very good reason, and Dewey
Hoke is one person that has all
of the qualifications to be nom
inated. So hats off to Dewey
Hoke, Hall of Fame nominee!
INTRAMURALS
By
DUB OXFORD
. It’s swing time in DeWare Field
house.
Now don’t get me wrong. I didn’t
mean the “hep-cats” or the “Bugs”
are riding. You can hardly call
taking a lusty poke at your best
friend dancing. But that’s what’s
going on. You’ve guessed it! It’s
intramural boxing.
These matches get better and
better every night. Friday night
it seemed as if the boxers were
practicing the
tactics they are
going to use on
the Axis rats.
The fellows who
won, won sound
ly,. and the fel
lows who lost,
lost badly.
Here’s the way
the class B
Oxford matches ran.
Doshier of E Infantry by fairly
shellacking his opponent, Burnett
of D Field, won the unanimous de
cision of the judges to win his
bout. A scrappy battle was put up
by Stroud of C Engineers, but Har
dy of B Engineers put the leather
to him in a big way and won the
match. McDaniel of I Field took a
beating from Sparks of H Infan
try. Sparks was in fine form and
truly was the best fighter.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
CLASS A:
I Infantry, Ping Pong.
C Infantry, Ping Pong.
B Coast, Ping Pong.
E'Field Artillery, Ping Pong.
Infantry Band, Ping Pong.
I Hq. Field Artillery, Ping
Pong.
A Replacement Center, Ping
Pong.
A Engineers, Ping Pong.
CLASS B:
Infantry Band, Tennis.
E Engineers, Aggieminton.
3 CHQ, Water Polo.
Headquarters Signal Corps,
Water Polo.
I Infantry, Softball.
G Infantry, Softball.
A FORFEIT MEANS A WAST
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“BUNCH OF KIDS WHO WANT
ED TO PLAY.”
Lee-Nelson Match
The Lee (I RC) and Nelson (F
Inf.) waltz was one of the best
exhibitions of floor work the spec
tators have seen. Lee won the
match entirely on the way he han
dled himself in the ring. D In
fantry cheered Winston to a nice
win over Williams of B. C. W. S.
When Spiegel of A Signal Corps
began flaying Prude of E Coast
everyone thought he had the
match cinched. But Prude came
back in the second round and
fairly “pinned Spiegel’s ears
back.” Brough, who lives with I
Hq. Field, and Hayden of Hq. Sig
nal Corps were two 169 pounders
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that slugged it out toe-to-toe. This
match was the wildest bit of glove
slinging I have seen i na long time.
And was the bout good! These
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