Coach Anderson Ordered to Report for Duty
By (Hike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Circumstances Make it Almost Necessary
For Coaching Staff to Add Another Man
If that A. & M. coaching staff
continues its onward march to the
army, this scribe’s worry for gath
ering sport news will be all but
over.
For the second consecutive week,
a member of the coaching staff
has been called to duty, this time
Col. Frank Anderson, cross-coun
try and golf mentor, and a candi
date for Capt. Dough Rollins’ va
cant spot in the track department.
Well, whatever Coach Homer
Norton had in mind in that respect
is over for Col. Andy leaves for
Ft. Sill July 11 to resume his du
ties as a full-fledged colonel of
the U. S. Army.
But back to Coach Norton’s
problem. His statement that no
new coaches will be hired at pres
ent doesn’t mean that no new
coaches will be hired later. In fact,
the latter may be made necessary
by the circumstances.
But as to who the new coach or
coaches will be, your guess is as
good as mine. Before Dough and
Col. Andy bid this school adieu
for a short duration, the possibility
of reorganizing the staff was only
a simple gesture to Coach Norton,
but now, well, that’s a horse of a
different color.
Let’s just take a peek and see
what kind of a reorganization
could be made out of the coaches
present. Football, baseball and
basketball could easily be taken
care of by Coach Norton, Lil Dim-
mitt, and Manning Smith respec
tively. Bill James plus the three
mentioned above would take care
of football adequately with such
boys as Bill Buchanan, Fuel Wes
son and Charlie Stevenson among
the student coaches taking care of
the Fish.
But the big problem still reverts
to track. Of course, Coach Norton
could take over baseball and Lil
Dimmitt put on track, but that
hardly would be adequate to either
of the mentors. Coach Norton, in
the first place, would be tied up
with thousands of other important
things at that particular time
while Lil could hardly take care of
two sports at once.
So if you’re still a bit bothered
on the question whether A. & M.
will hire a new coach, just put
your money that they will, but on
a temporary. basis only, for both
Capt. Dough and Col. Andy are
returning to their home grounds
following the termination of the
Cross-Country and Golf
Mentor to Leave July 11
Fort Sill to be Destination of Former
A.&M. Commandant; Served 22 Years Here
The possibility of appointing
Col. Frank Anderson, head A. & M.
cross-cduntry and golf mentor, as
the logical successor to army-
bound Dough Rollins as head track
coach of the Texas Aggies, was
nipped in the bud when it was
learned Monday that the farmer
A. & M. Commandant received
orders from the War Department
to report for duty July 11 at Fort
Sill.
Col. Anderson’s call left the A.
& M. coaching staff in a more
complexed situation than it has
ever been. Coach Norton, however,
still maintained that “nothing will
be done until September.” Only
Coach Norton, Lil Dimmitt, Bill
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Pete
Watkins Steals Spotlight in Corpus Meet
Pete Watkins, representing Lip-
smob’s Pharmacy stole the spot
light in the Corpus Christi Air
Station track meet Saturday after
noon by winning or placing in
seven of the seven events that he
entered . . . Watkins tied for first
in the highjump and placed in the
javelin, discus and shotput . . .
he also participated as member of
Lipscomb’s team which won sec
ond in the 440-yard relay, mile re
lay and the 880-yard relay . . .
Ulbert Ricks, Ken Stallings and
' harry Wolfe also shouldered their
>art of the burden . . . Ricks won
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first place in the pole vault, sec
ond in the highjump, and second
in the broadjump . . . Stallings
won firsts in the 100 and 220 yard
dashes . . . Wolfe placed in the 100
and 220 yard dashes . . . Ralph
Henderson, 880 and mile relayist,
is in officers’ training school at
Fort Riley ... he is slated to be
commissioned on or about August
8 . . . Any Twilight League team
that wishes to schedule games with
one of the Navy softball teams,
see this writer at any time, and
arrangements will be made to that
effect . . . the same goes for the
Navy or the Marines . . . Best
pitching effort of the early Twi
light League season goes to John
ny Hejl of Loupot’s who recently
shutout the Aggie Cleaners with a
one-hit performance . . . He had
a no-hitter working with two men
out in the final inning, but the
tension was too much and a line
single from an Aggie Cleaner bat
ter ruined Johnny’s bid for en
trance into the Hall of Fame . . .
Managers are requested to save
their scorecards after each game
and give them to the writer .
Paul Christman, former Missouri
football star, dropped around Col
lege Station, to recruit cadets for
the Naval Reserve.
head Aggie golf coach producing
some strong contending golf teams.
His departure also affects the
physical education department
heavily since he served as a pro
fessor of PE courses.
Aggie Cleaners Hand Campus Cleaners First
Defeat; Lipscomb’s, Theatre, Loupot’s Win
The heretofore league-leading
Campus Cleaners fell down a notch
yesterday evening when a sur
prising and hustling Aggie Clean
ers fired away with both barrels
to come out on top, 3-1.
Surprises do end right here
though for the Campus Theatre,
sparked on by the two-hit hurling
of Charlie Beasley annexed its
BATTALION^—
Tuesday, June 30, 1942
Page 3
Entries Already Submitted For
Intramural Tournaments; More Desired
first game by defeating Holick’s
Cleaners, 9-0.
Lipscomb’s Pharmacy took over
first place with the Campus Clean
ers by edging out the Faculty, 5-3.
Loupot’s outscored Madeley’s in
the other affair; 3-2.
Of all the games played yester
day, the performance of the Aggie
Cleaners easily tops the list. Leon
ard Holder’s bunch aren’t any su
per players^they just played or
dinary everyday ball, but that was
good enough to down the Campus
Cleaners. “Sarge” Brown, a con
verted catcher, hurled for the Ags,
Twilight League Standings
W
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Pet
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Campus Cleaners
4
1
0
.800
Lipscomb’s Pharmacy
4
1
0
.800
Loupot’s Trading Post ..
3
2
0
.600
1
Faculty
2
2
1
.500
1%
Aggie Cleaners
2
2
1
.500
iy 2
Holick’s Cleaners
2
3
0
.400
2
Campus Theatre
1
4
0
.250
3
Madeley’s Pharmacy
1
4
0
.250
3
MONDAY’S RESULTS
Aggie Cleaners 3 Campus Cleaners 1
Campus Theatre 9 Holick’s Cleaners 0
Loupot’s 3 Madeley’s Pharmacy 2
Lipscomb’s Pharmacy 5 Faculty 3
James, and Manning Smith are
left to handle the reins of Texas
A.. & M. sports. None of the four
are in danger of immediate mili
tary service. .
Coming to Texas A. & M. in
1920, Col. Anderson is the oldest
serving member of the Aggie staff.
He coached the freshman and var
sity track team through 1935 dur
ing which time the Ags won their
only four track championships
1921-22, 1929-30).
He resigned as head track coach
to become commandant of cadets
from 1935 until his position was
consolidated with the PMS&T Col
onel. Col. Anderson then returned
to the sporting world retaining his
job as cross-country coach and pro
fessor of physical education.
In 1935 he was appointed as
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All is in readiness for the open
ing early in July of the six open
tournaments sponsored by the in
tramural department, states W. L.
Penberthy, who will direct the con
tests.
A number of entries have been
submitted to the department but
more entries are desired to make
the program more exciting and
entertaining. All Aggies are eligi
ble to enter this contest regardless
of classification or outfit. An ap
plication blank may be found on
this page. When it is filled out and
turned in to the Intramural office
the entrant is officially in the con
test.
The events included in the tour
naments are golf, table tennis,
handball, tennis, aggieminton and
horseshoes. The greens fee for the
golf entrants will be 25 cents with
no charge to those reaching the
semi-finals and final matches.
Friday at 5 p.m, is the deadline
for the entrants. There are four
more days in which to fill out an
application blank and submit it to
the Intramural office. The sports
will begin early in July. Contest
ants will be notified of the opening
of the season.
allowing five scattered hits, while
his mates were blasting out seven
from the offerings of Ramsey. A
two run rally in the first on hits
by Robinson, Riley and Holder,
plus a walk to Beard sowed up the
affair.
In scoring their first victory of
the Twilight League season, the
Campus Theatre bunch uncovered
a pitcher who should give the oth
er teams plenty of worry before
the year is out. Charlie Beasley
had that wind-mill delivery to per
fection, and with a ten-hit attack,
led by Bill Black, who slammed
out three hits, the Theatre team
(See TWILIGHT, Page 4)
INTRAMGRALS
By Mike Mann
At the first meeting of the In
tramural Managers Club, consist
ing of all departmental, intramural
managers, the following officers
were elected: Johnny Mouser,
president; Dave Meyer, vice presi
dent; and “Pinky” Wilson, secre
tary-treasurer. The object of this
club is the furtherance of intra
mural athletics and entertainment
of departmental managers. The
members have planned a semi
monthly meeting with entertain
ment and food included.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
CLASS A
E Replacement Center, soft-
ball
D Coast Artillery, softball
E Engineers, tennis
B Replacement Center, ten
nis
B Replacement Center, wa
ter polo
D Field Artillery, water polo
B Cavalry, water polo
2nd Corps Headquarters, wa
ter polo
CLASS B
C Chemical Warfare, swim
ming
E Engineers, swimming
H Infantry, swimming
F Infantry, swimming
son, local swimming coach will no
doubt have a worthy assistant m
Ponthieux when the latter returns
to A. & M.
In the Class A softball competi
tion, A Engineers nosed out Ma
chine Gun Cavalry 13-12 as E
Field Artillery defeated B Signal
Corps 10-2. D Cavalry walloped K
Infantry 11-5.
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Please enter me, (or us), in the....
(sport)
tournament. In entering this tournament I, (or we), promise to play all contests
scheduled for me (us).
Matches:
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Because of the new law we will make
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Holick Cleaners
Recreational officers are re
minded that 5 p.m. Thursday, July
2, is the deadline for turning in
entry cards for new sports to the
Intramural office. The sports in
cluded at this time are Class A
volley ball and swimming and
Class B tennis and water polo.
Nicky Ponthieux, former assist
ant director of intramurals, has
written to “the boys down at the
office.” Nicky is on leave and is
spending the summer managing
the swimming pool at the Pleasure
Pier in Port Arthur. Art Adam-
Lt S M Williams To
Report For FA Duty
First Lieutenant S. M. Williams
will report here soon as an instruc
tor in the Field Artillery regiment.
Lt. Williams is from Oklahoma
City and has been on inactive duty
prior to this order from the War
Department.
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