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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1942)
Swim Tourney Opens at Downs Natatorium Tonight Football Attendance for Next Year Due To Fall Off Here; Constant in Large Cities One of the most important sport subjects discussed during these hot and dreary days is foot ball attendance for next season. Most people feel that the war and present unsettled conditions will find the crowd decreased quite a bit for the coming season. Attendance, as everyone knows, is the heart and soul of the grid iron game, for without it colleges and schools could not support foot ball. This coming fall, it’s true, attendance will fall off a bit, but only in cities like College Station, which house a limited number of people. The attendance in the large cities certainly won’t come under last year’s quota. Sure, tires and gaso line will be scarce next year, but there’ll still be buses and street cars around for the games. To drive a 100 or so miles to see a game at College Station may be difficult, but to gof five or six miles to see a football game is a horse of a different color. E. W. Hooker, business and tick et manager here, expects the at tendance to fall way below par this coming year at College Sta tion, primarily because of the dis tance involved in coming down here from the neighboring cities. So when we play Texas Tech, T. C. U. and Arkansas, Bryan and College Station people will com prise the majority of fans present on Kyle Field. For example, a tilt with T. C. U. hertofore drew between 20,000 and 30,000 people, but this year, Hooker expects be tween 10 and 15,000 fans including the cadet corps. Yes, all that’s happening at home but the Aggies are expected to pack ’em in on foreign soil. Why, the Texas game is already almost packed and by game time, Thanks giving, a toll upward of 40,000 football enthusiats is expected to be present for the annual grudge af fair. Certainly, the Ownby Stadium in Dallas will be packed when the Aggies play S. M. U. The city has a population of around 375,000 people and you can certainly pick 30,000 grid fans out of that crowd. And down Corpus way, you can bet your life that those flying sailors from the Naval Air Sta tion are as sure as anything to fill the newly-constructed foot ball stadium there. Corpus Christi has always been known as a “foot ball'' town, and when the Aggies drop around you can count on some 20,000 patrons coming out. The Aggies’ prospect of small attendance here caused the Rice game to be moved over to the Ba you City. Lost year 30,000 wild and woolly football fans filled Rice Stadium to see the A. & M. Owl battle ,and there’s no reason why that same crowd won’t drive over to see a similar affair be tween the two teams. Football attendance decrease ? Well, could be, but that’s what they said about baseball and only re cently a major league game be tween New York and Cleveland drew 71,000 people. I don’t know, but that’s proof enough that folks are still very much interested in sports. Sports Squibs From Here and There; Chas Henke Is Signed Up by East Army Grid Team Lt. Charlie Henke, former Aggie guard has been added to the East Army team, coached by Bob Ney- land. . Jim Sterling and Roy Bucek are the other Ags on the team. . . On the other side, the West Army team, coached by Duke’s Wallace Wade, comprises, nine other Ag gies. . . Headed by Jarrin’ John Kimbrough, the Ags make up a big part of the team. . . Besides Kimbrough, there are Derace Mo- LOUPOT’S IS AN AGGIE TRADITION ser, Marion Pugh, Jim Thomason, Bill Conaster, and Dennis Andricks among the backfield men andHer- bie Smith, Jack Kimbrough and Leonard Dickey are the linemen. Latest report from Wade’s camp is that there is quite a big possibil ity that the starting backfield for the opening game might well be Kimbrough, Moser, Thomason and Pugh. . . Only a possibility but a good one at that... Freshman foot ball at A. & M. and everywhere else will see quite a bit more ac tion this year. . . In the Southwest Conference, the customary three schedule games will be present plus three more with service teams. . . Bill Buchanan, Aggie grid and baseball star, stopped by College We Are Backing The AGGIE RODEO Aggieland Service Station East Gate YOU CAN’T BEAT IT! IT’S A FACT - - - You can’t beat those ice cold Refreshments served at the Aggieland Pharmacy Keep to the Right at the North Gate Battalion Sports Saturday, August 15, 1942 Page 3 Infantry Band Cops Class A Tennis Title Defeating A Infantry 2-1 in Match Thurs INTRAMURALS By Mike Mann Open tournament champions: Your medals are now at the Intra mural office and you may pick them up at any time. See Dewey Hoke or anyone in the office for your medal. All men who expect to enter the FORFEIT DOGHOUSE CLASS A E Replacement Center, swim ming G Infantry, swimming 1 Corps Headquarters, volley ball CLASS B H Infantry, water polo A Signal Corps, water polo F Infantry, water polo C Cavalry, tennis Intramural department-sponsored swimming meet which takes place in the natatorium tonight at 8 are reminded that they only have until noon, today, to file their entry blanks at the office. Recreational officers are urged to check on the participation re cord of the freshmen in their out fit who are taking Intramurals for P. E. Credit. Slightly over a month of school is left and 16 games are necessary for a fish to pass P. E. and 20 games are needed before he can get a grade point. Class A volley ball saw an ex citing match as F Field Artillery defeated A Infantry 2-1 the other afternoon. The Field boys took the first match 15-8 but the Infantry team came back to win the second 15-13. The last match was one which see-sawed back and forth and the Artillerymen finally came out on top of a 19-17 score. Intramural Scores Class A D Eng. 8, 3rd St. QMC 3 F Inf. 10, B CAC 9 MG Cav. 9, B Ord. 6 Class B ■ Infantry Band netmen took the Class A tennis championship of the college Thursday afternoon as they defeated A Infantry 2-1 in hard-fought matches. This marks the close of another intramural sport in the Class A division. J. L. Bell and Bobby Schultz took one of the matches for the Band when they defeated I. M. Wasserman and G. H. Haby. The other match won by the Band boys was taken by T. N. Inglis and Bob by Stephens who beat J. B. Pet tit and A. E. Denton. The sole winning match for the Infantry men was decided by C. W. Gilbert and J. W. Griffin who defeated R. E. Alston and K. G. Yarvel. All of the matches were closely- contested all the way but the Band teams proved to be just a bit bet ter than their opponents and took the deciding two out of three games necessary to take the bout. Bobby Stephens is the recrea tional officer of the Infantry Band and is assisted by Bobby Schultz. The senior in charge of Intramur als for A Infantry is R. L. Hanby. Softball E Inf. 12, A Cav. 7 D Inf. 15, MG Cav. 4 F CAC 17, B FA 14 Aggie Cleaners Stun Loupot’s 7-3; Campus Cleaners, Lipscomb’s Pharmacy and Holick’s Cleaners Also Win A surprising and hard-hitting Aggie Cleaners crew astounded the Twilight League for the third time this season when they upset the dope and defeated Loupot’s Trad ing Post, 7-3, in one of the four league games played Thursday afternoon. In other games, the Campus Cleaners added a game to their lead by edging out the Faculty 5-3, Liscomb’s was handed a game by the Campus Theatre, 5-3 and Holick’s continued its onward march toward a first-division berth by slapping out a 6-0 victory over the hapless Madeley’s Pharmacy. With Sarge 1 Brown pitching 5- hit ball, the Ag Cleaners wasted no time ih x taking advantage of Johnny Hejl’s fast pitching. Hick man, first man up, was safe by error. Hits by Kerby and Robin son, then, accounted for a tally in the first stanza. Three more runs came across in the fourth on three hits, a walk, an error and a field er’s choice. Another threesome was ’Mural Tournament ChampsUrged toCome By Office for Medals Champions in the intramural open tournament will be reward ed for their work and ability if they come down to the gym office. Medals have been received and will be handed out to i^he champions in the various divisions. All winners are requested to go by and add another medal to their collection. Station on his way to Weatherford. Buchanan has been playing base ball with the Waco Dons and was given a few days rest before re turning to action...Twilight League notes. .the Holick Cleaners are fastly approaching their destina tion—the first division of the Twi light League. . .they are only a game behind the “generous” Camp us Theatre, who, in their last time out handed Liscomb’s Pharmacy a game on a silver platter. . . Lip scomb’s, however, has to get credit for making every break they re ceived pay off. . . Manager Mopey Smith’s Holick bunch has been an on-and-off team throughout the campaign. . .they have a better than average fielding and hitting team, but their pitching is a bit off. With good pitching, Holick’s could have led this league today. . . The cunning and hard-hitting Aggie Cleaners have done it again. . . They have been continually tak ing it on the chin, but at times have surprised a favored team. . . First it was Campus Theatre, then Campus Cleaners and last Thurs day they handed it to Loupot’s. . . Final day of the regular season is August 24. . . scored the following frame on hits by Robinson, Riley and Sturcken and an error on Kerby’s ground ball. Loupot’s scored all their runs in the sixth on hits by Martin and Shaw and a safety by error for Newberry. Campus Theatre started off in a hurry in their game with Lip scomb’s by scoring three runs in the first inning but some mental errors on part of the Theatre out field gave the latter five runs and a 5-3 victory. Doubles by Black and Bob Walker and a long home- run by Fowler accounted for the Theatre runs. Lipscomb’s got two of the tallies back in their half when two runs came in as Albert and Fowler looked on “Soup” Og- dee’s high fly. The. following in ning two more came in as Lovett and Fowler let a fly drop between them. Andy Cokinos walked and came in all the way as Bill Walker threw past Nutto at second. The final run came in as Lovett drop ped Maroney’s fly in center. Jake then stole third and came in on a fly. Meanwhile, a two run rally in the last inning proved to be the winning runs for the Campus Cleaners as the league leaders eked out a 5-3 win over the Facul ty. Hits by Wischkamper, Dunn and Lietz brought in the tallies. Before this, the game rocked along at an even pace. For four innings, the Cleaners were held scoreless by Carl Tischler, but they finally broke loose for three in the fifth. Hits by Tillery, Ramsey and Jennings plus two Faculty er rors accounted for the runs. The profs counted once in the first on a hit by Quisenberry and an error by safety for Terrell. They added two more in the fifth on hits by Hoke, Dana and an error on White’s grounder. In the other game, Red Day held Madeley’s Pharmacy to five blows as he whitewashed them to give Holick’s a 6-0 win. Holick’s ac counted for one run in the first, three in the third and two in the seventh. They slammed out eight base hits, included Warren’s home- run with a mate on base. O’Conner proved to be the leading hitter for the winners blasting out three con secutive bingles. Campus Cleaners League Standings W. L. T. Pet. GB. ....14 4 0 .778 ....12 6 0 .662 2 ...11 7 0 .611 3 ....10 8 0 •555 4 Lipscomb’s Pharmacy Campus Campus Cleaners 5 Faculty 3 Lipscomb’s Pharmacy 5 Campus Holick’s Mammoth Aquatic Meet Starts at Eight O’Clock Entry Blanks Have to be Brought to ’Mural Office by Noon Today; Much Interest Shown Tonight at 8 at the P. L. Downs, Jr. Nataorium the big open swim ming tournament which is sponsor ed by the Intramural Department will be staged. So far entrants have been slow in turning in their applications and all tankers are reminded that they have till noon today to fill out the Entry Blank Cleaners 9 9 0 .500 5 Aggie Cleaners 5 11 2 .350 8 Faculty 4 11 3 .333 8 Vs Madeley’s Pharmacy 4 12 2 .300 9 Thursday’s Results Theatre 3 Aggie Cleaners 7 Loupot’s Trading Post 3 Holick’s Cleaners 6 Madeley’s Phar macy 0 Monday’s Schedule Campus Cleaners vs. Aggie Clean ers Diamond 6 Campus Theatre vs. Holick’s Cleaners Diamond 4 Liscomb’s Pharmacy vs. Faculty Diamond 7 Loupot vs. Madeley’s Pharmacy Diamond 9 printed in this newspaper. All en tries must be in the Physical Ed ucation office by noon today. Any one who is eligible to participate in intramurals is eligible to swim in the meet. Medals will be award ed to winners in the various events. Following are the events that will be held in the tournament: 220 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 dives—front, back, and half-twist) (3 optional) 4 man free-style relay (each man swims two lengths of pool) Entrants are reminded that they must wear either swimming trunks or a suit during the competition as a big crowd is expected to wit ness the events. Art Adamson, Ag gie swimming coach, will supervise the meet. Aggies!!! Let us serve you some of the best food in town after the rodeo Closest Place To Eat From Rodeo Grounds NAVLES 55SE Don’t Miss Out On the Fun and the Cash Enter LOUPOT’S $50.00 Contest Be Sure To Attend The AGGIE RODEO m HUMBLE Service Station East Gate Sophomores I have 200 Lilley-Ames Uniforms, America’s leading uniform manufacturer, reserved for me. 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