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Aggie Gridsters Face One of Toughest Schedules in School’s History This Fall Replacement Center Wins VolleyballTitle Winners Annex Class B Intramural Sport by Scores of 15-9 and 15-11 The Corpus Christi Naval Base schedule finally completes the Ag gies’ 1942 card and it’s one of the toughest ones ever taken by the Maroon and White gridsters. Starting with the L.S.U. game and ending with the Washington State tilt, not one fracas can be classed as a “breather.” in years gone by, the Aggies had a knack for scheduling a push-over to serve as an opener, but Coach Bernie Moore’s Tigers of L.S.U. are noted for their rough and ready teams and the report from Baton Rouge states that this year’s crop is more than adequate to give any team in the nation a tough tussle. From Baton Rouge, the Aggies move to their home grounds to face a Texas Tech team that for years upon years has been putting out powerful teams. Morley Jen nings, former Baylor university football coach, is director of the athletic program at Tech and it’s safe to say that the former uncan ny Bear mentor and Coach Dell Morgan will see that the Red Raid ers have a fiery squad out on the gridiron. Duke university previously was on the Aggie schedule for October 10, but it has since been cancelled and the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station put in its stead. If the Aggies thought they had substi tuted a relatively easy team, they were unduly mistaken. For Coach Lt. Marty Karow has in his midst some of the greatest array of foot ball material ever compiled in any college, with some six former All- Americans serving as a nucleus. Such names , as George Franck, Dave Rankin, Ed Frutig, Bob Sag- gau and others are only a sample of what Corpus has to offer in way of competition. Then come the six conference games and those are as tough tilts as there are in the whole country. December 5 and Washington State ends the Aggie slate, but even there the Aggies will find plenty of headaches. There you have one of the toughest schedules in the nation. Each team flanked with power from bottom to top—the teams the Aggies will have to face week after week from September 25 through December 5. Coach Homer Norton’s crew will be after their fourth consecutive conference title and you can bet your life that should the Cadets come through with that “suicide” schedule still intact, they will really be cham pions—no question about that! September 7 is the date the boys will start their fall training—a training intent upon garnering an other Southwest Conference foot ball crown! Sports Squibs From Here and There; Danny Green May be Greatest of All Aggie Tankers Danny Green, sensational fresh man swimmer on the Aggie team, has a great chance to earn the distinction of “the greatest swim mer in A. & M. history” . . . Al ready, as a freshman, he compiled a great showing in his initial start this past week at the juniof and senior AAU meets at Dallas . . . This boy George Heaney, freshman on Coach Art Adamson’s swim team, is another one of those boys that will have to bear watch ing . . . How many times have you heard of the phrase, “Athletes are dumb” . . . Well, Felix Bucek and Willie Zapalac certainly didn’t fall into that class as each knocked off 52 and 47 g. p.’s respectively in the midterm grades ... Of course those are only two exam ples, but it’s enough to convince some of the howlers that you do have to have a braincell or so even to be an athlete . . . Twilight League notes from here and there ... the Twilight League teams plan a schedule of a game a week with Bryan entries . . . the Cam pus Cleaners started it off when they scheduled a game with West ern Auto, the perenial leader at Bryan, giving the/ homelings a I furnish the cut, You furnish the jingl^ L-O-U Something you won’t learn in books! Arrow Shirts rate tops with two out of every three college men. Arrow white shirts are Mitoga- tailored and sanforized (fabric shrinkage less than 1%). How about treating yourself to an Arrow white shirt. $2.25 and $2.50 Arrow White Oxford “Doubler” Shirts $2.50 Arrow Mesh Shirts $2.25 up w:o. i/ CiOCKlERS College and Bryan thorough thrashing, 18-6 . . . Then came the All-Star games in which the Twilight Leaguers swept the two game series from the Bryan- ites, 3-2 and 17-9 respectively . . . Last week, Loupot’s Trading Post engaged a galaxy of Commercial League All-Stars and defeated the latter in 11 innings to the tune of 14-13 . . . Now, Campus Thea tre and Lipscomb’s Pharmacy, both are contemplating games with Bryan teams . . . Fast and furious action was observed last Wednes day night in the clash between the Faculty and Campus Theatre . . . the seven-inning affair was reeled off in the record time of 45 minutes . . . Clayton Atkins; Lipscomb’s sturdy shortstop, has connected safely ™ l as ^ seven times at bat not counting last night’s games . . . Boots Simmons', Theatre second-sacker, also has been givifig the leather ball a working over, having lashed out six hits out of nine times at bat . . . Coach Homer Norton leaves for Chicago Wednesday and here’s hoping that the Coacher brings home the bacon like he has so gra ciously done for the past few years at Aggieland . . . By Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor Playing with the skill of a pre cision machine, the C Replacement Center freshmen annexed the Class B volleyball championship yester day evening as they defeated E Infantry in two successive games. The Replacement Center team took the first game by a score of 15-9 and the second with a tally of 15-11. The matches were refereed by J. J. Bardgette, Intramural Departmental Manager. The Infantrymen put up strong resistance but were outplayed by the Replacement Center team, who showed much cooperation and skill in their efforts. With only a few exceptions the Replacement Center squad played a flawless game and gave a display of “volleyball as it should be played.” The lineup for C Replacement Center was: W. W. Wilson, G. E. Wilhite, L. Cantu, E. H. Bruce, G. L, Chastain, R. C. Flowers, and 0. F. Schwanke. The Juaior Re creational Assistant for the Re placement Center is Forest Arm strong. The E Infantry roster included: D. D. Pollen, J. J. Rollins, C. R. Perry, R, W. Sparks, R. L. Butch- otsky, and S. A. Dines. R. J. Bas sett is in charge of the freshman intramufalists of E Infantry. Golf, Aggieminton Champs Crowned InTournamentPlay Champions have been crowned in the Intramural Department’s open tournaments as the contestants enter the final rounds in the other divisions. Jackson, F Coast Artil lery, took the singles title as he defeated Washington, F Engineers. Forrest and Lietz, both of G Coast, clinched the doubles contest as they beat Hancock and Harrison of B Field Artillery. Maury Curtis, A Coast, will meet Dave Meyer, C Coast this week in the finals of the Horseshoe sin gles. Meyer and Dreiss, B Coast, took the doubles title in Horse shoe last week as they defeated Boyd and Barton, both of B Coast. Boyd and Barton took the cham pionship in Aggieminton doubles when they walloped Lanier and James of B Coast. The singles champion in this sport will be de-, cided this week when Meyer, C Coast, meets Caro, 4 CHQ. The quarter-finals slated to be played this week in the Tennis sin gles are: Elliston, D Field, vs. Whitacrq, D Field; Jones, I Inf., vs. Penn, 6 CHQ; and Gilbert, A Inf., vs. Pettit, A Inf. The Ten nis doubles will be decided when Schultz and Coston, Inf. Band, and Allen and Stanley, A Signal Corps, Rifle Team Grabs 6 Firsts To Win East Tex Bore Matches Firing the new U. S. Garand rifle for the first time in its history, the Texas Rifle Team took six first places, five seconds, and two thirds to win the East Texas Big Bore Rifle Match which is sponsored by the East Texas Rifle and Pistol team at Kilgore Sunday. The rifles are part of the government prop erty at A. & M. for R.O.T.C. training. Russell Cook, team captain, used a .30 caliber Springfield rifle owned by Col. J. K. Boles, F. A., who has used the rifle in a num ber of Olympic matches. The rifle POP SHAW MAKES Best Hamburgers “ ’Nuff Said” — Back of Legett — has won two world Olympic championships which have not been broken to this day. Lt. C. A. Wililams, C. of E. rifle team coach, accompanied the squad to Kilgore for the match. The match was a four-position affair with the positions of prone, kneel ing, sitting, and standing used by the entrants. The members of the rifle team who made the- trip were: Robert Cox, R. T. Cook, team captain, George Thenn, William Obenour, Howard Crossland, and L. L. Mar shall. The Aggies dominated the grand aggregate, which is the grand total of each contestant of the four firing positions. Then took first with Cook third and Marshall in fourth place followed by Obenour in fifth. Immediately after the conclusion of the regular match, the Aggie team demonstrated the fire power of the Garand rifle in a rapid fire exhibition. Each cadet fired 16 rounds in 70 seconds. Patronize Our Agent In Your Outfit. DYEfttS" Fttft370RAGE MATTERS ■J IL JLi Ji I* \\mwmvvYKms D. M. DANSBY, ’37 Green Stars As Aggies Dominate Field At AAU Meet Green Leads Tankers To Easy Win at Jr and Sr AAU Meets at Dallas Sat Four members of the Texas Ag gie swimming team, George Hean ey, Bob Taylor, Danny Green and Bob Cowling, left last night for New London, Connecticut to parti cipate in the National AAU swim ming meet to be . held there Aug ust 7, 8, and 9. This quartet of swimmers was instrumental in Coach Art Adam son’s Aggie swimming team’s vic tory last week-end in the South western AAU swimming champion ships which were held at Lake Cliff park in Dallas. The Aggie tankers, who had previously won the junior division title, scored 94 points for an easy walkaway in the senior men’s division. The runner-up team, University Park scored only 18 points, which is convincing proof of the superiority Coach Adam son’s men demonstrated. Individual honors for the meet were carried off by Danny Green of A. & M., Coach Adamson’s sen sational freshman from Dallas. Green registered 20 points in winning three events, and set a new record for the 220 yard free style, swimming the distance in 2 min utes 23.6 seconds. In the junior division of the meet which \$as held the £lay before the senior, the Aggies also walked off with the title. In this division the Aggies won five events out of a total of nine, to pile up 56 points. Holick’s Cleaners Upset Loupot’s, 1-0; Campus Cleaners Increase League Lead In appreciation of a gift of land for the Allegheny college campu^s in 1820, the trustees purchased a $15 Canton crepe dress for Mrs. Samuel Lord, wife of the donor. tangle this week. Meyer and DuBose, C Coast, will take on Armstrong and Arm strong, B Inf., in the Table Ten nis doubles finals. The following contestants will meet in the quar ter-finals of Table Tennis sin gles: Seay, D Inf., vs. Forrest, G Coast; Meyer, C Coast, vs. Pet tit, A Inf.; Dubose, C Coast, vs. Puls, D Coast; and Swope, A CWS, vs. Hart, B CWS. C Theatre Downs As Cleaners; Madeley’s And Faculty Play Tie Holick’s Cleaners behind the two- hit pitching of Art Hogge upset Loupot’s Trading Post 1-0. The Campus Cleaners stretched their league lead to two games by trouncing Lipscomb's Pharmacy by the score of 11-3. In the other games of the evening the Campus Theatre moved into third place in the league standings by defeating the Aggie Cleaners 11-4, and the Faculty and Madeley’s Pharmacy played an eight inning tie game 5-5. The Holick-Loupot tilt was one of the fastest and tightest games of the season. Both teams went scoreless till the fifth inning when Hogge won his own ball game by connecting with a hit that scored Maley with the lone run of the ball game. With one down in the fifth Maley walked and advanced to second hs Slaughter reached base on an error; Hogge then came through with his bingle to bring Maley across the plate. Lou- pot garnered their two hits in the first inning as Reese and Taylor connected with singles. After the first inning Hogge pitched hitless ball and after that with the ex ception of the fourth inning when Taylor reached first on an error not a single Loupot runner reached base. Johnny Hdjl in losing the game pitched four hit ball and matched Hogge’s pitching ball for ball except in the fifth when Hol ick’s scored their winning run. The Campus Cleaners went to work fast and scored their eleven runs in the first four innings- and then coasted in to victory. The Cleaners knocked out of the box Puntch, Lipscomb’s starting pitch er, in the second inning and con tinued to slug the ball at the ex pense of Andy Cokinps who had re lieved Puntch. Lipscomb’s rallied fo rthehir three runs in the third inning. The Campus Theatre had a big inning, the fifth inning when they' scored five runs, in their game witih the Aggie Cleaners. Up to this point the game was tight with the Campus Theatre leading by 6-4. The five run outburst by the Theatre boys brought the final score 11-4. , The Faculty and Madeley’s Pharmacy struggled for seven in- INTRAMURALS By Mike Mann Henry Ball, Artillery Band, poled out a long homer with no outs in the last half of the sixth inning of a Class A softball game to win the game for his team over F In- Corpus Christi Takes Duke’s Place On Ag GridSchedule Game Is to be Played At Naval Base Oct 10; Army And Navy To Get Proceeds Coach Homer Norton announced late Saturday that negotiations have been completed with the Cor pus Christi Naval Air Station for a football game October 10 which fills the only remaining open date on the Aggie’s 1942 schedule. This open date resulted from the can cellation of the scheduled Duke University clash which was to have been played in Raleigh, North Car olina. The Corpus Christi Naval Air Station team is coached by Lieu tenant Marty Karow, who until a few weeks ago was backfield coach of the Aggies. With a galaxy of stars including six former All- Americans on his squad, Coach Karow is expected to turn out one of the strongest football ag gregations that the 1942 season will be privileged to see. Coach Norton has already volunteered the information that he expects this to be the toughest game on the Aggies’ schedule. The game will be played in Corpus Christi, and will be a char ity affair, all proceeds going to the joint Army-Navy Relief Fund. The complete 1942 schedule for the Aggies is as folows: Sept. 26, L. S. U. at Baton Rouge; Oct. 3, Texas Tech at College Station; Oct. 10, Corpus Christi Naval Air Sta tion at Corpus Christi; Oct. 17, fantry 6-5. Ball, the Artillery Band third-sacker, gathered two other hits, making a perfect record of three-for-three. Almost all of the outfits have paid their five dollar intramural FORFEIT DOGHOUSE FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class B B Signal Corps, softball L Infantry, tennis F Infantry, tennis I Infantry, water polo A Signal Corps, water polo fee to the Intramural department but a few of the organizations are still lacking in their payments. Recreational officers of these defi cient outfits are requested to turn the fee in as soon as possible. * Class A softball saw L Infan try take G Infantry 7-4 while A Field beat E Engineers 10-4. A Chemical Warfare defeated G Coast 9-6 and G Field walloped A Sig nal Corps 15-8. In Class B softball A Field Ar tillery smothered D Engineers 14-1 as 3rd Corps Headquarters took D Coast Artillery 9-2. INTRAMURAL SCORES CLASS A Softball A.F.A. 10, E Eng. 4 E.F.A. 10, B.F.A. 7 K Inf. 10, B Eng. 7 CLASS B Softball A CWS 13, B Cav. 10 G CAC 11, B Eng. 7 H CAC 10, C F.A. 8 T.C.U. at College Station; Oct. 24, Baylor at Waco; Oct. 31, Ark ansas at College Station; Nov. 7, S.M.U. at Dallas; Nov. 14, Rice at Houston; Nov. 26, Texas at Austin; Dec. 5, Washington State at San Antonio. BATTALION^- Tuesday, August 4, 1942 Page 3 Twilight League Standings W L T Pet. GB Campus Cleaners 12 3 0 .800 Loupot’s "* 10 5 0 .667 2 Campus Theatre 9' 6 0 .600 3 Lipscomb’s Pharmacy 9 6 0 .600 3 Holick’s Cleaners 7 8 0 .467 5 Faculty 4 9 2 .353 7 Madeley’s Pharmacy 4 9 2 .353 7% Aggie Cleaners : 3 11 1 .250 SVa Monday’s Results Campus Cleaners 12 Lipscomb’s Pharmacy. 4 Holick’s Cleaners 1 Loupot 0 Campus Theatre 11 Aggie Cleaners 4 * Madeley’s Pharmacy 5 Faculty 5 (8 inning tie) Wednesday’s Schedule Campus Cleaners vs. Holick’s Cleaners Campus Theatre vs. Loupot’s Faculty vs. Aggie Cleaner^ Madeley’s Pharmacy vs. Lipscomb’s Pharmacy Diamond 6 Diamond 4 Diamond 7 Diamond 9 nings at which time the score was tied five all. An extra stanza was played but neither team could score. The profs came from behind in the seventh inning to score two runs to tie up the ball game. 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