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Aggies Crush Mustangs in Thriller, 54-47 September or October is not the only time good foot ball can be found for last Saturday “Kyle Field” witnessed some really good head knocking. And there is more to come. Some games between the squad under regular game conditions are yet to come and when they do start coming, there maybe two a week. Some of you men stay by and see the team work out while resting after the cross country. * * * With only Rice, Texas and the Aggies left in the con ference baseball race, the games are going to be very few and far between; at least they will be few between the con ference members. Now there is a good chance for the teams to play some service teams, but that is not good colorful as playing the “Teasippers” or the In-" 4 - ' stitute boys. Last baseball season, the con ference teams played two games with each member; one at home and one away. Now this season if played the same way, only four conference games will be on the schedule. But if each team play ed a two game series with each member at home and away, that would double the games and inter est too. It would also be a better Bochy Coch, the first All-Amer ican guard of this conference, and and later line coach of Baylor, was down to see the Baylor game two weeks ago. During the game that Baylor was losing, the Ag gie Corps was really jarring the goal post. As this corner heard it, Bochy said that: “I can stand a beating any way in the world, but when this corp gets started, that’s too much. This Aggie Corps has got something there. If they are losing 20-0 or winning 20-0, they still have the same force and same pitch.” Search through your bureau drawers for old partly filled war stamp albums, fill them up and turn them in for a bond at your nearest bank, postoffice or savings and loan association. Baylor Decides To Drop Baseball For War’s Duration Leaves Texas, Rice, and Aggies in Conference Baylor has just dropped baseball for the duration of the war, leaving only Rice, Texas, and the Aggies in the Southwest Conference race. Al though T.C.-U. withdrew early in the year along with S.M.U., they both continue to maintain teams which play local talent. Because Manuel Garcia, pitch ing ace of Baylor was called to the Air Corps along with other mem bers of the Baylor squad, leaving many vacancies which could not be filled, the Bears decided to with draw from the race. Inter-Squad Games For Gridsters Planned This Week Welch, Sturcken, Haas Spark Backf ield; Freshmen Show Promise With some inter-squad games coming up this week and some more following later, spring foot ball training is getting well under way. A game was scheduled last Sat urday but there were too many boys attending to some “army bus iness,” so the boyg just scrimmaged between themselves. Later this week there will be a game between the different “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” teams, which will be played under game conditions with the corps invited. Barney Welch, the little 165- pounder that galloped through the entire Texas eleven last Turkey Day, was looking good last Satur day in the scrimmage along with Dickey Haas and Ed Sturcken. Ed is playing the fullback spot and will be bucking the line next fall together with Otto Payne, who is at present recovering from an ankle injury. With the uncertain conditions as they are, the team is going right ahead with plans of entering into another football race next fall. Every day the staff says good-bye to someone else that is leaving for the service, but as long as the con ference has plans to continue, the Aggies will have a team. A host of freshmen are reporting every day and some bright prospects are among them. BATTALIONiL. g^cCE Dawson Paces Ags With 19 Before 3,000 Wild Fans Watkins and Cokinos Show Fine Floor Play; Tomlinson Lead Ponies With 13 Points By Hank Avery, Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Aggies rolled back a strong and determined S. M. U. cage team before 3,000 thrilled fans to the tune of 54-47 last night. After three and a half minutes of hardwood pounding, the Cadets broke into the lead with Watkins’ one hander; followed by a free throw by both teams the score stood 3-1 after five minutes gone. Both sides begin to missing shots and the game started into a fist and furious tilt, which didn’t see a slow down until half time. HELP KO THE AXIS! INVEST 10% OF YOUR INCOME IN WAR BONDS WSS 713 S U. S, Treasury E>mti Texas U Looses Tank Members It looks as though the Longhorns will have a swimming team despite the loss of five main-stays to the air corps this week, and are mak ing a strong bid for the South west conference championship. The T. U. tankers reporting for service with the armed forces are Joe Demmer, the all-around soph omore threat; Louis Randall, a fine diver who came in third in the conference meet last year; Harold Bronfin, one of the best divers of the conference; and Phil Smith, a great breast-stroke tank er. The captain of the Longhorns tank team, Wade Smith, was also ordered to report to the army air corp engineers. Watkins showing great accuracy, paced the hustling Aggies that showed the score board 11-7 after ten minutes had ellapsed. Fighting back, the Mustangs tied it up with two minutes remaining before half, and momentarily went ahead, but the Ags struck back and put the score 25-23 at mid point. But all was not through, for the Fighting Cadets came rolling out of half time and pushed the lead to 33-23 after two and one half minutes of sharp-shooting by Co kinos and Dawson; later the Ponies began to strike again but the floor play and hustle of the Aggies de nied the Ponies of ever reaching within seven points of the lead. From the point where the Cadets had it 45-38 with seven minutes remaining, the game began to get (See BASKETBALL, Page 4) Believe nothing you “hear”, and half you see—let’s stop rumors! Sports Squibs By John Stout Buy war bonds and stamps to day so our fighting men can come home tomorrow. WeVe Gottem ... You Gettem! We’ve gotten in a sup ply of smart coats and jackets styled to meet the needs of every one. Short, medium and reg ular lengths in a wide variety of fabrics and colors. You’ll want one for now and all season. $3.95 to $19.50 CL@CKl£%» College and Bryan The Air Corps knocked at the athletic department’s door last week, and the athletic department answered with many great men in the sporting activities here at A. & M. Such men as Lynn Smith and Poul Pennington are not seen on the basketball floor anymore. Neither will Bill Redus, Bob Bunt- in, nor Bill McKinnon be seen on the football gridiron until ‘after the war is over’. Tom Kumas, ex pected starter on the baseball nine, was the only one called from the diamond, while Johnny Ziegler, Southwestern Conference two-mile champion and anchor man on the relay team, was the only one leaving the cinders. * * * This years polo team with a squad of twenty-five players, many of much experience, is expected to be one of the greatest in the his tory of the college. Capt. Harry Owen, coach of the team, will have at hand such boys as the Mertz boys, Jack Buie, Tobin Armstrong, Gus White, and Bob Shaw. Only three of these are lettermen but all have had the experience re quired to make this team ‘one of the best’. There are only two games scheduled, and the usual traveling poloest of Aggieland will stay at home this year because both of these games are home games. Jack Buie looked excep tionally good in the scrimmage game that the team had last Sun day on the polo field. Westbrook was thrown in the game and suf fered a minor knee injury. Horses will be assigned this week to members of the squad so that they may practice during their off periods in the evenings. * * * The baseball diamondmen of Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University lessened the competition of Nor ton’s diamondmen in his attempt to equal or better the conference champion team of Lil Dimmitt by the announcement of the dropping of their names from the South western Conference’s baseball roll for the duration. Incidentally they still have their teams, but they will Come In and See Our New Shipment of STATIONERY We Have Aggie Stationery Organization Stationery Also Navy, Marine and Air Corps Stationery COLLEGE BOOK STORE North Gate be used only for local and service games. * * * Another loss of Coach Homer Norton’s hopeful eleven for ’43 is Buryi Baty. Baty, an outstand ing freshman back from Paris, received orders to report to his draft board for induction. His de parture leaves only six of the original thirty numeralmen of 1942 left. * * * The announcement in Tuesday’s Batt of the bowling alleys soon changing to all-wooden balls caus ed an increased attendance at the bowling alleys showing that Ag gies prefer the hard rubber balls. Both experienced and amateur bowlers were present as can be seen by the score sheets which read from 216 as a high to 48 as a low. Surely old army you come in this range. * * * A survey by the Associated Press today shows most major colleges in America “intend to play football as long as they can field eleven men on a side and get a man to blow a whistle.” Its one sure thing that as long as there are a dozen Ag gies in school Norton will have at least eleven of them out for foot ball . . . someway. Aggie Cagers Travel to Arkansas Wed; Play Razorbacks in Two Game Series Lrad-RiceiS Comets This Season Have Tallied 690 To Opponents 424 Spectators at games where the Naval Air Station Comets have performed this season are begin ning to talk. And, not in every case about the stellar performance of Coach Gray’s Navy quintet. Those scorekeepers have a busy job too, they remark. And they in variably recognize the Navy score- keeper as Ensign Gwyn “Mule” Dowell, former Royce City, Texas high school athletic star, who later gained fame in the Southwest as a great fullback with Texas Tech. Dowell is sort of a superintend ent of transportation and manager for Coach Gray and his bluejackets, until game time, then he is busier than the two-headed cat in a fish market keeping tab on who’s doing what—and to whom. Just a squint at the records kept by the once assistant athletic di rector at Texas Tech, is proof in black and white of the Comets playing ability. Keeping check on a team averaging more than 57 points per game for their first twelve encounters is no cinch, he Aggies Have 4 Games Remaining; Rice Next Thursday night Coach Manning Smith’s cagers travel to Fayette ville, Arkansas for their two game series with the Razorbacks. Arkansas was on the wrong end of the winning column as they ended the series with the Texas Longhorns last week. In the first game, the conference leading Longhorns downed the Razorbacks to the tune of 45-31 with Overall the lanky T. U. forward, pacing the scorers with 19 tallies. Follow ing Overall was Wilson of Ar kansas with 11 points. Clayton Wayne, big Arkansas guard was held scoreless by the close guard ing Longhorns. In previous games Wayne had been the workhorse of the Razorback’s offense. The second meeting of the two leading teams of the Southwest Conference, the Razorbacks again met defeat at the hands of the Longhorns 48-35. Hargis and Overall topped scorers for T. U. while Wayne, Wilson, and Carpen-. ter did most of the loop hitting for the losing Razorbacks. When the Aggies meet the Ra zorbacks Thursday night, the Ra zorbacks will be out for blood be cause of the previous defeat at the hands of the Longhorns. Most of the Hog’s scoring is done by three boys, who are tall, fast, and experts at hitting the loop. These three, Wayne, Wilson, and Carpen ter have lead the scoring in all games the Hogs have won. Stop ping these three will be the pro blems of the Maroon cagers Fri day night. The T. U. boys stop ped up two of three and walked away with the game that decided the leaders of the Southwest Con ference. If these trio of sharp shooters are halted by the Aggie cagers it will also halt the chief scoring threat of the Razorbacks. The Hog’s also have a decided ad vantage since they are playing on their home court and will have the backing of all their rooters. says. He delves deeper into the mathe matical aspect of the team, and emerges with information perti nent to some of the aspersions that have been cast on the comets’ abil ity by a, few unbelievers. For instance, Dowell’s little black book discloses that Kinney is bet ter than his last season All-Ameri can performance with an 18-point- per-game average, more than 2 points above his Rice record. Ensign John Dick, former Uni versity of Oregon All-American performer on a national champion ship five has been credited with a 12 point per game average. This might be due, Dowell explains, to the fact that Dick has sometimes The Spring intramural activities started off yesterday evening much faster than was expected. This is probably due to the much better physical condition of the boys due to the physical education classes Played yesterday were ten speed- ball games and 12 horseshoe games. Class A opened its intra mural activities with both speed- ball and horseshoes while in class B only horse shoes were played. C. Engineers were leading A In fantry in speedball with a score of 5 to 1 at halftime. The out standing play of the first half came during the closing minutes of the half when C. J. Rich kicked 60 yards to Schufford in the left corner near the 15 yard line. Schufford immediately kicked the ball between the crossbars to bring the score to 5 to 0. A Inf returned by taking and advantage of a foul making it 5 to 1. E Infantry was safely ahead of A QMC at the half time with a lop-sided score of 11 to 0. E In fantry had a well rounded team with no particular stars, while A. O. Lacy, even though his team was loosing, looked exceptionally good. C Infantry completed the first game of this spring activities by defeating the F. A. Band with a score of 2-0. Scheduled today are 12 speedball games and 14 horse shoe games. All recreational officers, should have their schedules by now and if any of them do not have them they must contact the intramural office immediately. The intramural de partment is still short of officials Buy war bonds and stamps to day so our fighting men can come home tomorrow. Do your part to help defeat Hitler. Buy war bonds and stamps. been caught short on energy due to strenuous flying duties. Dowell’s record also might shat ter the nickname “The Terrible Trio,” given three of Coach Gray’s players. The “trio” Kinney, Dick, and Ensign Billy Dowell, ex-SMU athlete, have undoubtedly been in strumental in setting the fast pace of the Comets, but the records show that Ben Frank Gates, former Sam Houston State guard, is fast nos ing Dowell away from third high man of the team. Chief Specialist Gates turned in two commendable performances against Rice recently to top Dowell scoring by 12 points. The Comets have turned in a (See COMETS, page 4) and anybody interested in being an official should contact Mr. Pen- berthy’s office as soon as possi ble. There is still an opening for sev eral sophomore intramural mana gers, so if sophomores here is a chance at an opening which will lead up to a paying job later. Old Army, have you noticed the forfiet doghouse in todays Batt ? Lets do something about it and keep this space clean. How about it? If you haven’t been to P. E. Classes yet this week you will find it slightly changed from last week when you attend. The only change is that there is less walking. If you haven’t worked the soreness out of yourself yet Mr. Penberthy guarantees to do it before the week is up. Forfiet Doghouse Class A Speedball: F-FA. D-Cav. L-Inf. Longhorns Holds S W C Basketball The Southwest Conferonc' Bas ketball took another one on the chin this passed week as the Texas Longhorns downed the fast shoot ing University of Arkansas Razor- backs. Not only did the T. U. boys out shoot and out hustle the Hogs but knocked them out of Southwest Conference running. Many sports writers predicted that T. U. could not survive a rub of the Rice Owls and then taken the Razorbacks into camp. After the looped-sided game which T. U. was taken down to the tune of 51- 30 by the Rice Owls last week many picked the Longhorns to go down swinging before the on slaughts of the out-of-state Hogs. Rice is right now the hottest team in the Southwest Conference. After the way she has taken the last four opponents and not only that but has made herself a ser ious threat the Conference leading Longhorns. The Longhorns only have a two game lead over these up and going places Rice Owls. 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