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r Page 4 THE BATTALION -SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1942 Upperclassmen, Freshmen Wrestling Champions Crowned INTRAMORALS By DUB OXFORD Oxford Here’s the information you have been looking* for. Tuesday, April 7 will see all of the one-quarter finals of both class A and class B boxing taking place. Then on Thursday, April 9, all of the semi finals will be held. And the climax of intra mural boxing will be held Saturday, April 11. The finals are being held Saturday night because these boxing matches will be on the program of the Former Students Homecom ing. In other words, all of the Exes will be on hand next Satur day night to see the champions of the school crowned. Participation Record When class A and class B intra mural boxing terminate next Sat urday night, there will have been staged a total of 827 individual wrestling and boxing matches. This draft number figure was compiled last night and it is fur ther proof that the Aggies have the largest intramural participa tion in the country. W. L. Penberthy, Head of the Physical Education department, was referee of all of the matches and he was assisted in the judging of the bouts by students who were adept in boxing. In boxing, the winners were judged by “the num ber of clean blows landed, ability to make the opponent miss, ag gressiveness if it pays off, and general ring attitude.” The above was taken from Penny’s Seren ade. A FORFEIT MEANS A WAST ED AFTERNOON FOR A “BUNCH OF KIDS WHO WANT ED TO PLAY.” G. B. Noland Class B has a water polo player. G. B. Noland of B Field Artillery was the big noise in a water polo game played between B Field and K Infantry. The score of the water fight was 5-1 in favor of B Field and Noland made all five of the FORFEIT DOGHOUSE CLASS A: G Infantry, Softball A Replacement Center, Ping Pong. I Hq. Field Artillery, Ping Pong. G Replacement Center, Ping Pong. C Infantry, Ping Pong. E Coast Artillery, Ping Pong. C Field Artillery, Ping Pong. CLASS B: Hq. Cavalry, Handball. E Engineers, Aggieminton. A Engineers, Tennis. B Replacement Center, Ten nis. Infantry Band, Tennis. G Infantry, Water Polo. H Coast, Water Polo. , Hq. Signal Corps, Water Polo. H Field Artillery, Water Polo. Class A Wrestling Champs . Class A wrestling champs. Back row, left to right: Barrier, Ivey, Vick, and Whittier. Front row, DeArment, Donnell, and Colvin. . . . and Class B Crown Wearers goals. B. L. Richey of K Infantry { made the one goal for the paddle feet. Class A Softball M Infantry smeared A Cavalry 17-1 yesterday in an all out base ball game on the part of the In- Mansfield Shoes With a Scotch lilt.,,its rugged leathers and Alpine swing in every line MANSFIELDS offer the correct, comfortable shoe for right dress. $5.95 and $6.50 College Station Wimberley stone „ W.O.JL/ ClrOCKlCRS SHOE DEPARTMENT B. C. Allen, Owner Bryan Class B college champs. Back row, left to right: Garrett, Robertson, Reich, and Catt. Front row, Pat ton, Scott, Odom, and Franks. —Photo by Ralph Stenzel fantry. The Infantry Band also won an easy game. They beat C Field 12-5, and made all of their runs in the second inning. Quite a rally. A Infantry dominated E Engineers by superior pitching and strategy and won 8-5. H Coast in a battle with their pseudo arch enemy G Coast came out on the top side of a 6-8 score and were mighty happy. Big B Infantry must practice softball in their spare time. They beat 3 CHQ 9-4 in a really tight game. All of the scoring was done in the last two frames of the game. Of 123,389 American college stu dents given the tuberculin test in 1939-40, 25.4 per cent showed a •positive reaction. Black Mountain (N.C.) college began its ninth year in buildings constructed and renovated by its own students and teachers. JUNIORS! A ttention It’s getting late! Come in for your Boot measure ments today. OUR BOOTS GIVE • Style • Quality • Service Guaranteed to fit by Mr. Lucchese Measurements Taken At D. Cangelosi College Station Shoe Repair Shop Lucchese Boot Co., Inc. 101 W. Travis San Antonio Southwest Conference Standings Team- W. L. Pet. A. & M 4 2 .667 Texas 2 1 .667 S. M. U 2 2 .500 Rice 1 2 .333 T. C. U 1 2 .333 Baylor 1 2 .333 S.W.C. Race Getting Tighter And Tighter: Ags, Texas on Top The Southwest Conference base ball race is growing tighter and tighter with each game. Follow ing S.M.U.’s sensational upset win over the Texas Aggies, Coach Bibb Faulk’s defending champions, the Texas Longhorns, dumped the Rice Owls from the undefeated ranks by a double victory over the Houston nine at Austin. With the exception of the Texas Longhorns, every other team has suffered at least two losses. Tex as lost to the Aggies for their only setback of the year. There are no more conference games scheduled for the week, but The sweet tooth of Iowa State college men in the armed forces is due for a treat from some 2,000 students. Nearly half the student body gathered around some 200 kitchen burners recently for one of the biggest amateur taffy pulls on record. Hundreds of pounds of candy were made for shipment to 1,000 former Iowa State students stationed in Ireland, Iceland, the Pacific and United States training camps. Finishing touches are being put on a $150,000 plant improvement project at Hamilton college. Eight Latin American doctors will study on fellowships in the department of tropical medicine of the Tulane university school of medicine. the teams go back to work next week. The Aggies play Baylor here Saturday, April 11, and until then will be polishing their pitch ing staff, which, incidentally went haywire in their northern trip. Members of the A. S. M. E. met in the mechanical engineering lec ture room Thursday night for their regular club meeting. A film called “Calvacade of Texas” was shown. Plans were discussed relative to the Engineers’ Day Saturday. Welcome Parents To Aggieland Appropriate Gifts of Jewelry for All Occasions We feature only nation- ally-known timepieces. Jewelry that reflects lux urious living without the cost. VARNER’S JEWELRY Bryan College Station Class B Has Three Way Tie For Top Organization Spot By Dub Oxford Assistant Sports Editor. The college champions of class B wrestling have been decided after the “groaning” and “grunt ing” that went on in DeWare Field house and the individual class A champions will be decided as soon as Beckley and Sibley meet. Intramural wrestling, a very popular sport with the Aggies be gan almost a month ago and every night the gym was filled to ca pacity with Aggies pulling for their team members. The sport is a new one, having its inception some six years ago. It was through the efforts of Mr. Penny, who wrestled in his undergraduate days, that the sport has become so popular. The individual winners in Class B and who are also college champ ions are: Charley Catt, B Signal Corps; A1 Robertson, 1 Hq, Field; Arthur Garrett, B Infantry; Har old Reich, H Infantry; Mike Franks, E Coast; Ralph Odom, C Coast; Scott and Elmo Patton, E Field. Class A Winners The class A winners with the exception of the Sibley-Beckley match are: Nathan Barrier, D Cavalry; Harold Ivey, A Field; Neal Vick, B Cavalry; Ed Whit- ton, A Engineers; John Colvin, I Infantry; Bill Donnell, E Field; and Dick DeArment, A Field. Class B Team Standings There was a three way tie in class B wrestling for first place. The tie was among 2 Hq. Field (See WRESTLING, Page 6) HOT WEATHER ^prescription' USE SUMMER Mobiloil Winter-weight oil shouldn’t be used in summer weather because it’s too thin to provide adequate lubri cation. 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