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Captain John Scoggin May be Called On
To Do a Bit of Pitching in Texas U Series
Captain John Scoggin, the dynamite slugging ace of the
Texas Aggies may be called to do yeoman duty for Coach
Lil Dimmitt’s, nine when the Cadets collide with the vastly
improved Texas Longhorns down at “Jinxland” (Austin to
you) next Friday and Saturday for the championship of
the Southwest Conference.
Those who were in the stands Saturday afternoon may
have wondered why Scoggin was sent on the mound in the
last two innings. No, it wasn’t the idea that John should
squander $5.00 from Loupot by slamming a home run as
some people were wont to believe. It was just an experiment
that Coach Dimmitt used. You see, Scoggin may be called
on to pitch sometime in the Texas series!!
Big John has one of the strongest arms in college base
ball, and from what the fans viewed Saturday, he can do
more than just throw a ball. He showed plenty of stuff, and
may be the answer to Coach’s prayer at Austin.
At this time I want to take time
out to pay tribute to a great ball
player. I haven’t mentioned much
about John Scoggin in this col
umn, but instead of just saying a
little at a time I want really to
spread it on thick. Undoubtedly,
he has been one of the major fact
ors for the grand showing of the
Aggie diamondeers and it has been
his playing and leadership that has
sparked the Cadets on to every
victory.
Besides being a great college
star, the big Collinsville slugger,
is one of the best professional
prospects that has ever hit this
campus. John has all the earmarks
of a power hitter, and if anyone
will ever carry the banner of Ag-
gieland to far and wide corners
in the athletic world, it’ll be none
other than John Scoggin.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; A Few
Notes on Southwest Conference Track Meet
When the annual Southwest Con
ference track meet goes off at
Dallas this weekend, there’ll be
many tracksters shooting for some
long-time standing records . . .
Johnny Ziegler of the Aggies will
be trying to better the 17-year-old
2-mile record set by Esquival of
Texas . . . Roy Bucek of the Ags
and Bill Cummins of Rice will be
trying for the hurdle records . . .
Cummins bettered Freddy Wol
cott’s low-hurdle record of 23 sec
onds last Saturday in the “Little
Conference” meet but he has not
been as consistent as Bucek all
year . . . Pete Watkins will be at
tempting to break the 6.7% record
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College and Bryan
in the high jump . . . Looking over
the 1907 SWC track meet just look
at some of these figures ... the
100 yard dash was won by Rams-
dell of Texas in 10 flat . . . Madden
Spivey, father of Marshall Spivey,
Aggie footballer, threw the discus
106 feet 4% inches . . . the present
record is 163 feet 2% inches as set
by Hughes of Texas in ’40 . . .
Bone of Texas pole vaulted 9 feet
7 inches in ’07 and Kendall of Tex
as made a broad jump leap of 18
feet 8% inches ... Oh yes, Texas
won the meet!
Ags Can Win Crown by Drubbing
Texas Twice This Week at Austin
Cadets Play
Southern Pacific
At 3:30 Today
The Texas Aggies will take on
the strong semi-pro team from
Houston—Southern Pacific—here
this afternoon starting at 3:30.
Charlie Stevenson will toe the
mound, and, according to Coach
Dimmitt will attempt to go the
distance.
Meanwhile, the Aggies continu
ed their heavy hitting Saturday
afternoon and sparked by the big
bat of Captain John Scoggin swept
the last of a two-game series with
T.C.U. 16-2.
Six for Six
Scoggin closed his final home
game in a blaze of glory by slam
ming oat six hits that included
four doubles and batting in the
same number of runs. Big John
also played three positions, start
ing out in his regular catcher’s
post, then going to center field,
and finally winding up as a pitch
er. He hurled the last two innings,
fanning three Frogs, allowing one
walk and no runs or hits.
Twenty-five base hits were rat
tled off Frog hurlers with Sam
Porter slapping out four, Jimmy
Newberry three, and Les Peden
three. Cullen Rogers again hit a
homerun.
Big Rally in Second
The Aggies scored in every in
ning but the sixth and had 10 men
left on the bases. Their biggest
rally came in the second when
they counted six times on five hits.
The Frogs’ only kind of a threat
came in fourth when they com
bined a hit and two errors to count
two runs and break Pitcher Char
lie Stevenson’s consecutive score
less frames at 28. Charlie, inci
dentally pitched five innings to
receive credit for his eighth con
ference victory.
(See CADETS PLAY, Page 4)
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SHIRTS and TIES
Cadets Working
Over Time For Ali
Important Series
Coach Lil Dimmitt’s Texas Ag
gie baseballers are preparing for
that long trek to the “forty acres”
Friday from which they hope to
return with their first baseball
championship since 1937. It was
back there that the immortal
Woody Bell smashed a ninth in
ning home run which spelled a 5-4
win for the Aggies and a confer
ence championship.
Working Hard
The Aggies are working hard
for the series with Texas, and
spurred on by the burning desire
for revenge for last year’s tenth
inning defeat there is a spirit of
hustle and fight down around Kyle
Field these days which can mean
but one thing, the Aggies are all-
out for a clean sweep of the series.
However, they need only a split
with the Longhorns to cinch a tie
for the title, bqt according to
Coach Lil Dimmitt “there ain’t
gonna be no run-off.”
Charlie Stevenson, topnotch
hurler of the Aggie pitching staff,
with a record of eight wins and
no losses, will be on the mound for
the Aggies in Friday’s battle. His
opponent will probably be Bill
Dumke, ace hurler of the Texas
moundsmen.
T. U. Plays S. M. U. Today
The Longhorns play the always
dangerous S. M. U. Mustangs this
afternoon, and then are idle until
Friday when they tangle with the
Aggies in that crucial series. These
two games will close the Aggies’
1942 conference season, but the
Longhorns will still have to face
the baffling curves of Manuel
Garcia, ace sophomore pitcher of
the Baylor Bears, with whom the
Longhorns have two more games
to play.
It will be remembered that it
was the fast breaking curve ball
of Garcia which held the Aggies
in check and enabled the Bears to
hand them one of their two con
ference defeats of the current sea
son.
Texas Tracksters
Outlast Rice And
Ags To Win Meet
Coach Rollins’ Thinly ,
Clads Come Out Third Best
In “Little Conference” Sat
The Texas Longhorns took five
first events and tied for another
to take the championship honors
in the “little” conference track and
field meet at Rice Field in Hous
ton Saturday by tallying 64%
points. The Rice Institute Owls
annexed eight firsts but garnered
only 56 points to win second place.
In the absence of Captain Roy Bu
cek, ace hurdler and relay man,
the Texas Aggies finished in third
place with 49% points.
In the freshman division the
Texas Aggies’ greatest squad in
history scored 70points to win
the meet with the Rice Slimes in
second place with 60% points and
the Texas Shorthorns ended in
third place with 28 points.
TRACK SUMMARIES
440-Yard Dash—-Won by Umstattd (Tex
as) ; second, Wiren (Texas) ; third, Neath
(Rice) ; fourth, Caldwell (Texas). Time:
49.1 seconds.
Shot Put: Won by Deal (Rice) ; sec
ond, Blackburn (Rice) ; third, Montgom
ery (A. & M.) ; fourth, Henderson, A. &
M.). Distance: 48 feet, 1 inch.
High Jump: Won by Watkins (A. &
B/iTALIONA
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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942
Page 3
SWC Track Meet Goes Off
At Dallas Fri; Golf And
Tennis Also to Participate
Fish Baseballers
Meet Baylor Cubs
On Kyle Field Fri
The Texas Aggie Fish baseball
team will close its 1942 season
Friday when it meets the Baylor
Cubs on Kyle Field. Coached by
Bill Buchanan the Fish have en
joyed a successful season, hav
ing won three and lost one.
Lee Forrest, ace hurler of the
Fish, will be on the mound Friday.
Forrest has a won-lost record of
two victories and one defeat.
Heavy hitter of the Fish team is
Bill Sellman, catcher, a batsman
of no mean ability. ■
The Fish have played the Cubs
once before this season, and de
feated them by a top heavy score.
Besides the previous game with
Baylor, the Fish boast wins over
Allen Academy, Goose Creek, and
the Texas Yearlings. There only
one loss was suffered at the hands
of the Yearlings.
Southern Methodist University
plays host to the Southwest Con
ference athletes in three different
sports this weekend in Dallas.
Track, tennis and golf representa
tives of all the conference schools
will gather there for the confer
ence meet in each sport.
Busy Weekend
With the Aggie baseball team
playing in Austin, and the tennis,
golf and track teams in action,
this will be the busiest weekend
of the year for the Aggies as far
as athletics are concerned.
Coach Manning Smith’s netmen
—the most promising Aggie ten
nis squad in several years—will
participate in the tennis meet
which begins Thursday and con
tinues through Saturday. The Ag
gies have had fair success this
year. They have defeated Southern
Methodist and East Texas State,
and lost to Texas and Baylor. They
also lost an abbreviated contest
(See TRACKSTERS, Page 4)
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Class of ’32
V
100-Yard Dash: Won by Hall (Rice) ;
second, Stallings, A. & M.) ; third, Moser
(A. & M.) ; fourth, Minor (Texas). Time:
Mile Run: Won by Hafernick (Texas) ;
second, McGlothlin (A. & M.) ; third, Vad-
jos (A. & M.) ; fourth, Stranadel (Tex
as). Time: 4 minutes, 35.8 seconds.
220-Yard Dash: Won by Hall (Rice) ;
second. Minor (Texas) ; third, Wiren
(Texas) ; fourth, Stallings (A. & M..
Time: 21.1 seconds.
Pole Vault: Tie for first between Small
(Texas) and Lay (Rice) ; tie for third
and fourth between Ricks (A. & M.),
Cummins (Rice) and Oualline (Texas).
Height: 12 feet, 6 inches.
120-Yard High Hurdles: Won by Cum
mins (Rice) : second, Jacques (Texas) ;
third, Mitchell (A. & M.) ; fourth, Wat
kins (A. & M.). Time: 14.2 seconds.
Discus Throw: Won by Deal (Rice) ;
second, Bucek (A. & M.) ; third, Mayne
(Texas) ; fourth. Ring (Texas). Distance:
132 feet, 6 inches.
:ourth,
Time: 1 minute, 66.2
: W
' Fie:
M. Time: 42.2 seconds.
o’nds
seconds.
440-Yard Relay: Won by Texas (Minor,
Kutner, Wiren and Field) ; second, A. &
(See TRACK RESULTS, Page 4)
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