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Cadets Slaughter TCU, 18-6, With 18 Blows
Winner of “Little Conference” Meet
Today Should Win SWC Crown Next Week
The most important sport
event will occur this afternoon at
Houston when Rice, Texas, and
A. & M. fight it out for suprem
acy in what is commonly known
as the “Little Conference” track
meet.
As far as the meet itself is
concerned, not too much import
ance is attached. The outcome is
what really counts—that is, the
meet is a very accurate indicator
as to the future Southwest Con
ference track champion.
For years and years it has been
almost a tradition that the win
ner of the “Little Conference”
meet is usually the crowned champ
the following week at the big
show—the Southwest Conference
meet. This year, as of years be
fore, the three “big” teams in
clude Rice, Texas, and A. & M.
They’ve been fighting it out all
year and today’s meet will be a
kind of showdown.
The Aggies won dual meets with
Rice and Texps respectively by ov
erwhelming margins and were con
ceded an inside track for first
place today. However, their stock
decreased a bit when Coach Dough
Rollins declared that his ace hurl-
er, Roy Bucek, would not partici
pate. Bucek is suffering from a
pulled muscle, and Dough is keep
ing him out in order to have him
ready for the conference meet next
week.
Without Bucek, who certainly
would have added many valuable
points, the Aggies will be hard-
pressed all the way. The return of
Jimmy Knight and Emerick Lab-
us, important cogs of the quarter
mile and other relay events, will
aid the Cadets immensely, but I
just can’t see how they can by
pass the Owls or the Steers for
first place. They may still do it
should Bucek be well enough to
run. The runners an dthe coach
are confident, and that helps
plenty.
Undoubtedly, the meet will be a
close affair. Coach Rollins believes
that the first place team will lead
the third place entry by only eight
points. That’s too close for com
fort. It should prove to be one
of the best meets of the year.
From this corner it looks like
Texas will be first, the Aggies a
good close second, and Rice trail
ing by a hair-breadth. If the pre
diction went the other way around
—say, Rice first and so forth, it
still wouldn’t be an upset at all.
All three of the teams have a good
chance, but I’ll still take my first
pick.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Danny
Green, Swimming Ace, Due to Enroll Here
Little 16-year-old Danny Green,
one of the nation’s greatest juven
ile swimmers who was third in
the national swim meet at Connec
ticut will be among the many vis
itors present at the state 'high
school meet tonight . . . Danny has
already declared his intentions of
coming here, but financial troubles
have been bothering him . . . Coach
Art Adamson hopes to straighten
out ^everything and acquire him
self one of the greatest swimming
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Aggies Face Rice and TU
In T riangular Meet! oday
Fish Favored To
Win in Freshman
Division at Houston
Seriously weakened by the loss
of their captain and ace hurdler,
Roy Bucek, who is out with a
pulled muscle, the Texas Aggie
tracksters will take the field in
Houston this afternoon to try for
their first victory in over a decade
in the “Little Conference” track
and field meet. This meet is a tri
angular affair between the Aggies,
the Rice Owls, and the Texas
Longhorns, and will be held at
Rice Field.
The contest is slated to be one
of the hardest fought of the cur
rent season, with any one of the
three teams conceded an excellent
chance to come out on top. One
bright spot in the gloom caused
by the loss of Bucek was the news
that Emerick labus and Jimmie
Knight who were also out with in
juries, will be ready to go this
afternoon.
In an attempt to regain some
of the points which are almost cer
tain to be lost on account of the
loss of Bucek, Coach J. W.
“Dough” Rollins will enter three
men in the 120 yard high hurdles,
Bucek’s specialty. These men are
Pete Watkins, Charley Schwartz,
and Bill Mitchell.
The Aggies have defeated both
of the other entries in meets held
earlier this season. For the first
time in ten years they downed the
Texas Longhorns in a dual meet
a month ago, and last week de
feated the Rice Owls by a goodly
number of points.
Also entered in the meet in the
freshman division are the unde
feated Aggie Fish. The Fish have
piled up an amazing string of vic
tories during the current season,
and in the course of them have
defeated both Rice and the Texas
freshman squads. Because of their
past record the Fish are over
whelmingly favored to run off
with the freshman division of the
meet.
BATTALION
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1942
PAGE 3
INTRAM QRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Here is the news all athletic
and recreation officers have been
looking for. The annual intramur
al banquet will be held Wednesday,
May 6, in Sbisa
H/ hall. At that
•::? time, awards will
be presented to
all recreational
officers who, ac
cording to rules,
have had the re
quired number of
freshmen pass
Oxford physical educa-
High School Swim
Meet Held At Pool
Tonight At 7:30
Entries From High Schools
All Over State; Medals
Given High Place Winners
With the preliminaries taking
place at 2 p.m. and the finals to
night at 7:30, the seventh annual
high school swim meet will be the
order of the day. The meet is be
ing held in P. L. Downs Jr. nat-
atorium and is sponsored by the
Texas A. & M. athletic council.
The entire meet is' under the
direction of Art Adamson, Aggie
swimming coach. Coach Adamson
will be assisted in the meet by
members of the Aggie swimming
(See SWIM, Page 4)
tion. The award to the recreational
officers this year is a costly pen
and pencil set. Because of the war,
watches were not available this
year and the boys will receive this
set.
Many awards will also be hand
ed out to intramural managers as
a whole. G'eorge Van Cleave, the
only senior intramural manager on
the campus will be presented with
a watch for his fine services. Oth
er managers will receive suitable
awards.
Soph Managers
Positions are now open for
sophomore intramural managers
next year. While some recommen
dations have been turned in to the
intramural department by the
recreational officers, Mr. Penny
wants to emphasize that these po
sitions are open to any man in
college who will be a sophomore
next year. Full details of what is
offered to the sophomore man
agers will be discussed at a meet
ing which will be held next Tues
day, May 5, after supper in the
gym. All fellows interested in be
coming sophomore intramural
managers are cordially invited to
attend.
Teams Finish Series at 3
Today; Stevenson to Pitch
Scoggin, Glass, Rogers and Peden Pound
Out Homers to Lead Dimmittmen to Victory
By Mike Haikin
Genial J. E. Loupot, owner of Loupot’s Trading Post,
who pays off $2.50 for each home run hit by the Aggies, had
to dip far and deep into his pocket yesterday afternoon as
the Cadet circuit clouters had their best day of the year.
Eighteen hits included four home runs, coupled with
some nice bit of twirling by Henry Lindsey gave Coach Lil
Dimmitt’s hard-hit,ting nine an 18-6 win over the hapless
T.C.U. Frogs here yesterday after-
A University of Oregon “ath
letic honor roll” shows more than
100 former Webfoot athletes now
in the armed service of their
country.
High Flying Pete Watkins r Aggieland’s High
Jumping Ace, Also Hurdles and Throws Javelin
By Russell Chatham
The anti-aircraft defense around
Houston should be warned that
Pete Watkins will be in town this
afternoon, and will attempt to Jo
a little high flying in the high
jump event against Rice and Tex
as. For if Pete cuts loose with an
other of those leaps of 6 feet 8
inches, he might be mistaken for
“strange enemy aircraft.”
Currently, Pete Watkins, who
stands 6 feet 5, and weighs 200
pounds, is rated the greatest high
jumper in the nation on the basis
of having cleared 6 feet 8 inches
in the quadrangular meet here
two weeks ago. No one else has
gone that high this season. It
wasn’t just an accident that Pete
went that high, either. He has
cleared the*same height a few days
earlier in practice.
Last week at the Drake Relays,
Watkins tied with his teammate,
Albert Ricks, and three others for
first in the high jump at a height
of 6 feet 4 inches. The event was
delayed by rain at that height.
Later the bar was raised to 6 feet
7 inches, but with wet footing un
derneath, none of the five contest-
New Mexico’s mice get around,
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Dr. Frank Blaire of the Univer
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every whim and fancy of the mice
for three months, said the New
Mexico mouse is possessed of a
wanderlust that takes him over an
area of six or seven acres during
a lifetime, while his midwestern
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ants could make it. However, Pete r Pete piled up 10 points for the
won the first place award anyway, Aggies in the meet with Sam
by flipping for it. It was an ex- Houston and San Marcos by scor-
pensive little gold trackshoe med- ing in all three events. Last week
al. against Rice he picked up eight
Watkins also picked up another I points by winning first in the high
first place medal by running on
the winning Aggie shuttle hurdle
relay team with Roy Bucek, Bill
Mitchell and Truman Cox.
It seems trying for first place
is a common thing with Pete Wat
kins. He has done it at least four
times this season—in the Border
Olympics, Fort Worth Exposition
Meet, dual meet with Texas, and
in the Drake Relays. Albert Ricks
figured in two of these ties. The
one in the Texas meet was a vol
untary tie between these two, with
no attempt made to jump it off.
In addition to jumping and hurd
ling, Watkins also throws the jav
elin. In workouts, he has no defin
ite practice schedule, but spends
most of his time on the hurdles
and javelin. He says the hurdles
help him in the high jump.
jump and second in the javelin.
Iowa Park, Texas, is Pete’s home
town. While a senior in high school
there he won the state champion
ship in the high jump with a leap
of 6 feet 3 inches. Coach Dough
Rollins then got on his trail ancj.
brought him to A. & M.
Dough Rollins also changed
Pete’s unorthodox style of jump
ing to the standard western roll.
This, according to Pete, has been
a definite factor in his success and
much credit is due Coach Rollins
for it.
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noon. It was a wild and whooly af
fair for the Aggies who had anoth
er one of those slugging sprees.
Start Off in First
They ‘didn’t waste any time
starting it off either as seven runs
came across in the opening frame.
Ballow walked, Rogers scratched
a base hit and Glass walked to fill
the sacks. Scoggin then came up,
and, on the second pitch smashed
a line-drive home run over the left
field wall to put the Aggies ahead
4-0 and put Loupot behind $2.50.
However, that was not all as
Porter continued the terrific on
slaught with a triple. He came in
as the third baseman missed the
shortstop’s relay to the hot-corner.
Peden and Stevenson both ground
ed out but a hit by Daniels, a walk
to Newberry, a double steal and
an error netted the Cadets another
two runs before the inning was
over.
Glass Hits Onel
Ira Glass, the first man up in
the second, put another crimp in
Loupot’s bankroll, as he homered
over the left field wall.
The Frogs, meanwhile, could do
nothing with Lindsey’s pitches. A
hit here and there produced a run
or so, but they were never con
sistent in their hitting.
Cullen Rogers decided to intro
duce himself to Loupot in the
fourth as he lashed a long home
run with one man on. That, coupled
with a triple by Glass and a doub
le by Scoggin gave the Ags an
other four tallies.
Peden Connects
The Aggies were scoreless in
the fifth but Les Peden wasn’t one
to disappoint Loupot in the seven
th as he caught one of Max Hum
phreys’ slow ones, and, to the de
light of the crowd sent it far out
to Homer Norton’s' pasture with
two men on the sacks.
The Cadets added their final two
runs in the eighth canto. With one
down, Lindsey and Aldrich singled.
The former was trapped off sec
ond but Ballow came through with
a bingle to score Aldrich. Rogers’
fourth hit of the day sent Ballow
to third from where he scored on
a balk.
Rogers Leads Attack
Cullen Rogers, with four hits
that included a double and a homer,
weilded the heaviest bat for the
Cadets. He was followed closely
by Scoggin who had three hits to
his credit.
Bill Conard, left fielder for the
Frogs, led the T.C.U. attack with
three blows.
Conclude Series Today
The teams conclude the series
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