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3rd Hdq. and C Field Artillery Collide For Class B Swimming Title Monday By (Dike Haikin Battalion Sports Editor Some Twilight League Softball Highlights; Campus Cleaners Show Great Improvement It’s down the home-stretch drive for Aggieland’s Twilight League, with only five more games re maining on the schedule. The race is slated to close Monday, August 24, and the “Shaughnessy” play off between the four teams of the first division expected to follow on the next day. Holick’s Cleaners is the only second-division team at the pres ent with any chance of surging in to the playoffs. They are only two games behind the fourth-place Campus Theatre team, and it would not be impossible to over come that advantage. The other three top teams should find no trouble in holding down a playoff berth. It took eight weeks to find out who the top team of the league ' would be, but it finally dawns upon the spectator and the Twilight League teams who that particular leader is. For a long time, the Campus Cleaners kept themselves in obscurity. In fact, it was not until last week that they surged into first place, but, brother, when they did they really did it in a convincing fashion. Since that time, they’ve been bowling over team after team, and with a two-game lead under their belts it seems almost sure that the Cleaners will come out winners in the regular round-robin race. Man ager Horace Jennings’ softballers have shown plenty of hustle in winning their games and all credit should be duly given them. The Cleaners still have five games to go, and it would be no surprise if they tripped along the way, but, take it from this corner, it’s going to take plenty of steam from the second-place Loupot ten to catch up with the leaders. Sports Squibs From Here and There; Eleven Ex-Ag Grid Stars to Play With Army Teams . . . Eleven former Aggie football stars have been invited to play the gridiron sport on the East and West army teams . . . These teams, which afe coached by Bob Ney- knd, formerly of Tennessee uni versity, and Wallace Wade, for mer Duke university mentor, will play a regulation schedule with professional teams next fall . . . The Aggies invited so far include, Herbie Smith, Jack Kimbrough, and Jim Sterling, ends; Chip Routt and Leonard Dickey, tackles; Roy Bu- cek, guard; Bill Conatser, Derace Moser, Marion Pugh, Dennis An- dricks, and John Kimbrough, backs . . . Congrats to Roy Gates of the Publicity Department for his great job in putting out one of the best football dope-books ever compiled . . . The cover is adorned by the three A. & M. coaches—Dough Rollins, Marty Karow, and Charlie DeWare—and three Aggie stars— (See KYLE FIELD, Page 4) OUR FOUNTAIN IS HEADQUARTERS FOR THOSE Ice Cold Refreshments So Necessary For Pep and Energy During Hot Summer Days ; -t {?: CASEY’S CONFECTIONERY Old “Y” Juniors a ORDER YOUR BOOTS NOW! See Mr. Lucchese at The Uniform Tailor Shop North Gate On Tuesday, Aug. 11 STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES Walker 404 No. 15 Parker 402 No. 15 Lucchese Boot Co. Inc. 101 W. Travis San Antonio \ Title-Match to Take Place at P. L. Downs Natatorium at Eight * Another intramural champion will be decided Monday at 8 p. m. when C Field Artillery and 3rd Headquarters Field Artillery meet in the finals of Class B Swimming. C Field Artillery took themselves irjto the final round by defeating the B Coast Artillery freshmen Thursday evening. The swimming champ would have been decided earlier but the upper bracket had to' be played over because one of the teams that reached the finals was found to be using ineligible men without knowing it. Both of the teams have an en viable record in the playoffs and have won all of their games by de- csive scores. The results of the C Field-B Coast Artillery game Thursday night showed a score of 36-12 in favor of the Field team. R. L. Parker is the junior mana ger of the 3rd Headquarters team whose roster includes: Medaris, Sullivan, Harwood, Lamberth, Brundrett, Boatwright, Dee, and Federman. The C Field team con sists of: Maher, Rogers, Bower, Lokey, Sylvester, Brown, McCorty, M Cokinos Wins Singles Handball Tournament Crown Also on Winning Doubles Team With Drolesky; Down Kenny and Frost for Title Mike Cokinos, H. Field Artillery, successfully defended his crown and for the second successive year became champion in handball sin gles. Cokinos won over Steele Nix on, 3 C. H. Q., in the semi-finals and the defeated Ransom Kenny of 1 C. H. Q. in the finals. Cokinos also teamed up with Drolesky to win the handball doubles. Droles ky and Cokinos won over Kenny and Frost of 1 C. H. Q. and A Ordnance in annexing the doubles crown. In horseshoes singles Meyer, C. Coast plays Curtis, A Coast for the championship and in table ten- is doubles DuBose and Meyer of C Coast meet Howard and Arm strong of B. Infantry for the title. The Intramural open tournaments are in the final stages with finals being played this week and the next.. In previous years tourna ments have been staged but this one has surpassed all in interest and competition. Intramural Department to Hold Open Swimming Tournament Saturday Aug 15 and Rheman. The junior in charge of the freshmen sports for C Bat tery is A. P. Womack. 1 . . x . s MM m ’ ;Mmr m ,,, M •• ••• Jr 1 '■ sb / wmmmmm WILSON MEYER Dave Meyer and Pinky Wilson Are “Men-Behind-Scenes” Of Intramurals Pinky Is in Charge of All Class B Intramural Sports; Formerly Junior Assistant By N. “Lip” Libson Junior Sports Editor Every afternoon about 4 o’clock Aggies may be seen on the way to playing fields to participate in Intramural contests. The games are played, victories are recorded, (See WILSON, Page 4) Trade With LOU He Is Right With You LOUPOT’S Dave Takes Care of All Class A Athletics; Quite Active in ’Mural Sports By Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor One of the “men-behind-the- scenes” around A. & M. is David W. Meyer, one of the two Senior Departmental Intramural Mana gers who run the Intramural pro gram. Meyer is better known around the campus as “Abie”—a name of undecided origin. David is a senior in C Battery, Coast Artillery and hails from sunny San Antonio. He is majoring in Marketing Finance and will re ceive his degree in January, 1943. He was born in St. Louis, Mis- It’s GEORGE’S For Refreshing Drinks Delicious Lunches Smokes Galore Tourney Is Open To Freshmen And Upperclassmen Alike With the six tournaments which have already been sponsored by the Intramural Department rapidly drawing to a close, W. L. Penber- thy, head of the Physical Educa tion department and director of intramurals, along with his assist ant Spike White and Head Swim ming Coach Art Adamson, is al ready making plans for a mam- mouth open swimming to be held at the P. L. Downs, Jr., Natatorium August 14. This tournament is open to any one who is eligible to participate in intramurals, either Class A or Class B, Members .of both the var sity and freshman swimming teams are ineligible to compete in this tournament. Events to be held in the tourna ment are as follows: 200 foot free-style—(2 lengths of pool) 300 foot free-style—(3 lengths of pool) 600 foot free-style—(6 lengths of pool) 200 foot-back-stroke—(2 lengths) of pool) 200 foot breast-stroke—(2 lengths of pool) Diving (3 required—front, back and half-twist) (3 optional) In addition to the above listed events there will be a 4 man re lay, each man to swim two lengths of the pool. Any team of four men may enter this event, they do not have to be in the same outfit. Intramurals rBy Mike Mann: By Mike Mann A Cavalry pulled one out of the bag in Class A Softball as they defeated F Engineers 17-0 in a no hit, no-run, no-error, game. Kyle Drake did the hurling chores for the Cavalrymen and also banged out three hits. Ed Kingery, Bill Sel- man, and Kervin Giese were other A Troopers in on the slugfest and chalked up three safeties each. The Forfeit Doghouse is still too large and not much sign is seen of any let-up. Many of these forfeits are caused by misunderstandings within the organizations. Recrea tional officers are urged to keep a close check on their schedules for the various sports and to be positive that each game is an nounced at meal formations by the first sergeant. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE CLASS A Swimming Artillery Band E Replacement Center 3 Corps Headquarters B Engineers E Infantry C Field Artillery I Field Artillery Softball E Replacement Center A Ordnance Volley Ball A Ordnance CLASS B ' Water Polo F Engineers K Infantry B Replacement Center Tennis A Coast Artillery C Infantry E Field Artillery Softball Infantry Band A free-scoring fracas took place in Class B softball as 3rd Head quarters Field Artillery walloped A Chemical Warfare 32-4. T. S. Fortenberry led the sluggers with a double, and a single^ H. P. Har wood did his bit with a four-bag ger and two singles. souri, back in 1920 and attended Buter Grammer Schaal in that city. After spending his first nine years in St: Louis his family mov ed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lived for six years. It was here that he obtained his junior high school education. Abie came to Texas with his family at the age of 15 and they made their home in San Antonio. He finished his Junior High work at Mark Twain Junior High School and moved to Thomas Jefferson High School from which he gradu ated in 1939. David was quite ac tive in intramural sports at Jef ferson and played on the school’s all-star softball team which com- (See MEYER, page 4) BATTALION. Saturday, August 8, 1942 . : Page 3 Campus Cleaners-Theatre Tilt Tops Four Games to be Played Mon. Evening Four more games will be rolled off in the Twilight League Monday evening. In probably the most im portant game pi the evening the Campus Cleaners, the current lea gue leaders, will clash with the Campus Theatre who are at the present in fourth place. In the other games of the day Holick’s Cleaners meets Liscomb’s Phar macy, Madeley’s Pharmacy faces Aggies Cleaners, and the Faculty confronts Loupot’s Trading Post. In the two previous clashes be tween the Campus Cleaners and Campus Theatre the Cleaners have soundly trounced the Theatre boys. The latter will be out to make amends for the past and will be endeavoring to reduce the lea gue leader’s lead. The Holick-Lip- scomb tilt should he very close as Holick’s is trying hard to earn a place in the first division in order to be eligible for the play-offs. The Faculty has played tie games in their last two contests and will be out either to tie or win from Lou pot’s boys. Following is the schedule and diamonds for Monday evening: Holick’s vs. Liscomb’s Pharmacy— Diamond 4 Campus Cleaners vs. Campus Theatre—Diamond 7 Madeley’s Pharmacy vs. Aggie Cleaners—Diamond 9 Faculty vs. Loupots—Diamond 6 University of Texas faculty members have approved a proposal for the teaching of Russian. AGGIES We Invite You To Try Our Delicious Food A. ^ M. GRILL North Gate f* * r 1 AGGIES - - make the opening night complete... by coming out after the dance. Enjoy our Good Food and Cold Drinks. 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