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Improvement Seen in Aggies Hitting Department as Cadets Prime for Opener For a while, Coach Norton was really worried over the hitting power of the Aggie nine but since this week, he has been relieved to some extent. The Aggies showed a marked improvement in the hitting department over the earlier games of the season Tuesday afternoon at the regular work out. Some nine baseballer found themselves going over the center field fence as Leo Daniels and Cullen Rogers took their hitting practice. The infield work looked plenty good ■and if the Aggies can gain some more experience which counts much in baseball, they will be going hard when they open the door of the conference race. The first game on the books will be played next Tuesday afternoon as the Cadets entertain the Rice Owls. The Owls are now taking the spot in the conference as the dark horse. But little is expected from the Birds when they meet here. Last year the Houston school trav eled with a squad of nine men and if one pitcher grew weak, the first baseman took over. Anything can come up but time will tell how the Owls will stand. Looking at the race from this corner, it looks as if it will be a dual fight with the Aggies taking the slight favorite. Texas has a young team, losing some of the more experienced boys to the serv ice. The Longhorns always come up with a strong team some way or another and from expectations, the rule will not prove different in this sport. “Kyle Field” sees a strong and tight race coming up when the baseballers meet and the home ground might make the difference. This year the two teams play each other a two-game series at home and away and the Longhorns make it a point that to make a victory on their home ground a large ob stacle to get over. The Aggies won the last game of the year in Aus tin last year to take conference honors. Texas Aggies to repeat, Univer sity of Texas second, with Rice coming in third is the prediction from this corner. Some good base ball is yet to be seen in complet ing the conference picture. Intramurals With the basketball rules changed a little and making a maximum of five personal fouls before a player is rejected from the floor, the game will be a little faster and more exciting. The tall cagers will have to hit the ball just after the circle leaves the players hand to make a defense similar to the old type of ball playing. The rule says that a player can not tip the ball out of the basket on the downward grade like it has been done in the past. Only tall men could ever reach the heights of that operation and that will handicap the 6 foot 6 boys a lot. By John M. Stout If your intramural teams have been worrying about missing last week’s intramural games you can quit worrying now because no games were played. However, it must be remembered that games are being played this week and each game that isn’t accounted for means another forfeit added to your intramural records. It only takes two of these to eliminate a team from competition, as many have already found out. If you have games scheduled for this week, check with the department and get the game straightened out if you still don’t have enough men here on the campus to play the game. A three way tie between G Field, B Rep Center, and C CWS, has held up the playoffs between the champions of the leagues. Other than this league there is still one other league that must be played off. This will be played off tomor row if possible. If this game is played and the League C three-way tie is determined, the drawing will be held by Friday. If such a case is possible, the intramural man agers will be notified by the usual manner. All recreational officers should check with the department if they haven’t received their volleyball schedules, because these schedules are out. Only Class A volleyball is being played. There will be oth er Class B sports held later on during the season, but these prob ably will not be in the league competition. They will probably be in mass competition such as the spring intramural track meet and possibly the swimming meet. There is only one and one-half more weeks until the individual (See INTRAMURALS, Page 4) Oklahoma A.&A/L, LS.U., T.U. Stand As Favorites in 16th Annual Texas Relays This Week End/ Aggies Take Final Drills When in Doubt About Your Eyes or Your Glasses Conaalt DR. J. W. PAYNE OPTOMETRIST 109 S. Main Bryan Next to Palace Theatre MILITARY TYPE OXFORDS By BOSTONIAN See the many types and makes of really fine mil itary type oxfords we show. Styles and brands that are preferred by OFFI CERS and MEN in every branch of the service. They’ve long been favor ed by style-minded Ag gies. Military Type OXFORDS $5.95 to $12.50 W3& SHOE DEPT. B. C. Allen, Owner CoHega and Bryan Cadets Face Randolph Again Today; Tangle With Duncan Under Lights Friday Aggies Lose Services of Alba Etie, Promising Hitter; Right Field Problem A determined and hustling Texas Aggie nine left yes terday morning for San Antonio where they will make a four day stand, swapping blows with army teams. This af ternoon they play the last game of the four game series they started against Randolph Field two weeks ago in Kyle Field. The first two games were won by Randolph and the third played yesterday was taken by the cadets. They will try to even the series at two all when they clash this after noon. Tomorrow night they will open a two game series against Duncan Field, winding up Saturday afternoon. Those four games will give the cadets lots of practice and preparation for their two opening conference games agaainst Rice next Tuesday and Wednesday in Kyle Field. Coach Norton’s baseball nine suffered a great blow when Alba Etie, promising freshman who was expected to be a big factor in the Aggie hitting machine, quit school. Norton a few days before had mov ed him from the backstop position to the outfield in order to give more power and strength to the cadet hitting. Tuesday afternoon the cadets showed a great improvement in their hitting as the afternoon was characterized by long drives, some of them over the fence. They are acquiring the ability to hit the ball which was the main factor in last year’s championship drive when they replaced Texas Longhorns in the driver seat of the Southwest Conference baseball championship. Few of the stars on last year Ag gie’s championship team are gone, and cadets still boast of having seven men that were mainstays in that team. Two of them are all conference players—Cullen Rogers and Les Peden who this year are the Co-captains in the team. The Aggies open their .confer ence schedule April 6-7 Against Rice at Kyle Field, and later the same week they will travel to Aus tin to engage the Texas Longhorns. Fifteen players are making the trip and they are as follows: Cul len Rogers, Leo Daniels, Jimmy Ramage, and Earl Seay, outfield ers; Les Peden, Ira Glass, Jimmy Newberry, Robt. Walker, Clovis Isak, Irwin Smith, and John Rob inson, infielders; “Smoky” Carden, Geo. Tassos, and Johnny Tassos making the mound staff. Relays Expected To Surpass S.W.C. Meet The finest distance event field in its history has been arranged for the 16th Texas Relays at the Uni versity of Texas Memorial Stadium there Saturday, April 3, Clyde Lit tlefield, director, declared yester day as he reviewed the 17-man entry list for the 3000-meter spe cial event. Pre-running favorite for the classic is Jerry Thompson, Uni versity of Texas’ diminutive dis tance man, whose 120-pounds moves at a faster clip than any similar weight in Texas’ annals. But, the little Longhorn will have plenty of company. Dave Clutterham of Cornell Col lege at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, likes his chance sof beating Thompson well enough to make, the trip down to Texas, and Oklahoma University’s Dan Painter and Oklahoma A. & M.’s James Martin, Edwin Johnson and Roy Hafner will put in bids, also. The field gains prestige from the entry of Norman West and Wallace Browning of Rice, Mad dox of Texas A. & M., Vic Ellis of Southwest Texas Teachers, and Ar- lie Cook, Thad Neal, Roy McClar- ren and Arkie Vaughn of East Texas Teachers. Clarence and John Hafernick of Texas will complete the Longhorn entry list. Thompson turned the mile in 4 minutes, 21 seconds in a trial meet at Austin last Saturday, just to keep in practice. He led the field in the 3000-meter last year at the Relays, but was a freshman and couldn’t take his medals. N.T.S.T.C. To Make Strong Bid If there’s any doubt in any one’s mind that Coach Lloyd Rus sell of North Texas State Teach ers College has a fine track and field team to bid for honors in the 16th running of relays, he can just ask John Jacobs, University of Oklahoma track coach who is honorary referee of the relays this year. North Texas defeated Oklahoma in a dual meet, with Capt. Boyd Vaughn, Bobby Jones and Ray Womack, three Eagle lettermen, carrying the brunt of the after noon’s operations. Somewhat below the par of El mer and Delmer Brown, Wayne and Baline Rideout, the Eagles this season are fielding a partic ularly potent outfit, with Vaughn to be reckoned with in the relays, Jones in the dashes and Womack BATTALION Thursday Morning, April 1, 1943 Page 3 SAMUEL R. CALTROP, WHILE serving as CREW COACH At HAR- _ VARD IN I865 v ORIG- uhl iMATED and patent- ED THE FIRST STREAM- LINED TRAIN. HIS IDEA WAS FROWNED UPON -AS IMPRACTICAL/ At the univ. of new Mexico TWO "LOVE TREES' WERE PLANTED. EACH NAMED FOR ONE OF TWO LOVERS. THE TREES FLOURISHED WHILE THE ROMANCE LASTED BUT DIED WHEN THE LOVERS DRIFTED APART/ NICHOLAS BUTLER PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA U. HAS RECEIVED 37 HONORARY DEGREES/ Basketball Rules Passed To Handicap Tall Cagers Next Season Drug prescriptions have been multiplying for many years. One gauge is the United States Dis pensatory, a standard pharmacists’ reference book, whose first edition, in 1850, listed 4,800 items—com pared with 28,000 in the current issue. Coaches at the recent National Association of College Basketball Coaches have gone a step further than was previously planned by passing the new ruling that for a basketball player to reach above the basket to tap the ball away from the goal would be considered a technical foul. This rule will be a major handicap to tall players who relied upon their height as a defense measure, for they will be now seriously curtailed by the new ruling. It was planned earlier in the week by the coaches that this ruling would not go into ef fect at once, but would be used only experimentally next year, but Tuesday the executives went on record as favoring the rule to be added to the rule book, along with other new rulings that were adopt ed at the meeting. Five personal fouls instead of four will be allowed in next year’s competition as stated by another new ruling also passed in Tues day’s meeting. Another suggestoin made was for all backboards to be transparent and of rectangular shape, or made of seme other ma terial, as wood was definitely not wanted. However, the executive body opposed the committee’s sug gestion that unlimited substitution be allowed during the game. Following are other “experi ments” approved for next season: 1. To permit no free throws on a double foul, but instead, to let the fouls cancel each other, charge the fouls against the players, and have a jump ball at the spot of the foul. 2. Make various equipment changes, such as shortening the length of the net, increasing the thickness of the net cord, increas ing the thickness of the basket ring, and cutting down the size of the backboard. in the hurdles. Vaughn, captain of the 1943 Eagles, led the North Texas cross country team to victory in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans this past winter. He won the mile run at the Fat Stock Show meet ijrt Fort Worth in 1941 when he was sophomore. Jones has had a 9.7 second per formance in the 100-yard dash to his record already this season, al though the best he could muster last year was 9.9. The fast Jacks- boro boy is training foV. a crack at the Lone Star conference 100- yard dash record this year. The mark is 9.6, .2 higher than the Texas Relays mark, at which he will make rush Saturday. Womack, a Dallas sophomore, won the high hurdles at the Bor der Olympics in 1942, and took second place in Lone Star Confer ence competition. He has a 15.1 second for the 120-high hurdles so far this season. School’s Beauties 'To Be on Hand Saturday Military spectacle will combine with glamour of Southwest Con ference co-ed beauty for the col orful coronation ofthe queen of the occasion, George E. Hurt, direct- Owls Blast the Lid Meeting Longhorn Nine in Houston Tomorrow; Again Sat Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the University of Michigan college of engineering has been named tech nical adviser and consultant to the training division of the navy. By Ruben R. Caro Costas With only three teams battling for top honors, the Southwest Con ference baseball race will unfold officially tomorrow afternoon when the Rice Owls clash with Texas Longhorns in the opening game of the conference to be played in Houston. Both teams will tangle again Saturday afternoon. The Aggies and Rice were slated to open the conference race in Kyle Field March 26-27, but the activation of the backbone of the Aggie nine forced Coach Norton up^ Texas University is the base- to postpone both games until April 6-7. The 1943 baseball season will see in action only the Texas Aggies, Rice Owls, and Texas Longhorns. T. C. U., S. M. U. and Baylor drop ped from the conference for the duration due to the shortage in manpower and lack of transporta tion facilities. The absence of those three teams from the conference race have thinned this 1943 season in a basis of games to be played by each team. In previous years when six teams composed the con ference, each club played a total of fifteen games, but the dropping of three teams this season will make an eight-game conference race. Each team will play each other four times instead of the regular three games; two home and two road games. The Aggies and Texas Long horns will field strong teams under the tutorship of two new baseball mentors. Coach Homer Norton will lead the Aggies for the first time. He is filling the shoes left vacant by Coach Lil Dimmitt, last year’s baseball coach, who led the cadets to a championship after ten years of valiant trying, and is now tutor ing the track team. As the conference curtain goes ball experts’ choice to carry the 1943 conference crown away from Aggieland. They base their predic tions on the Longhorns’ non-confer ence record of two wins and two losses, and the powerful hitting power displayed by the Longhorns in their four games as compared to the poor showing by the cadets in their hitting power and fielding in the first two games. The Longhorns, with a young and green team, have been showing plenty of hitting power, but their fielding is nothing too impressive as they have accounted for count less errors in the games they have played so far. They are depending largely on their hitting strength to recapture the pennant they lost (See SPORTS, Page 4) or of the Texas Longhorn band and director of the coronation, has announced. Places in the queen’s stand will be assigned the Sweetheart of hte University of Texas, who will be crowned by President Homer P. Rainey in elaborate ceremonies, and to sweethearts of five South west Conference schools in Texas. The Longhorn band and military units from the University’s naval R.O.T.C. and from surrounding army posts will have part in the ceremonies. Hurt said. Prestige for the Texas Relays' pole vault event was added to day with announcement that Drake University’s Billy Moore, outstand ing polev aulter in the middle west, and Howard Debus of Ne braska would participate. Bob Sherley of San Marcos Teachersi s considered one of the top bets among Southwest en tries in the pole vault event. Aggie Golphers Meet Longhorns April 16th Aggie golfers together with the Longhorns will play their season opener April 16 when they clash at the Country Club course in Bry an. Texas U., headed by Claude Wild, Jr., will seek this year to rettain the Southwest Golf crown they are holding now. Upon young Wild, Coach Harvey Penick, Texas U. mentor is placing his hopes to repeat as confetrence champion. Wild was intramural golf champion in the university and a qualifier for the national collegiates. Among Americans 25 or over* people holding college diplomas outnumbered those who have had no schooling at all—3,407,331 against 2,799,923. Henderson, Cummins, Minor To Take Honors Three of the Southwest’s great est all-around athletes meet up again in the 16th Texas Relays, Saturday, and they may be ex pected to battle for individual hon ors during the day.- The days are few and far be tween when three versatile opera tors like Max Minor, Bill Cummins, and Bill Henderson meet, but the trio who represent the University of Texas, Rice Institute, and Texas A. & M. College in the versatility field will be tangling for points come Saturday. Minor, who developed toward the close of the football season into a wingback who could handle the double reverses of the speedy Tex as system to a note of perfection, will try his hand at the dashes, the quarter-mile relay and the broad jump. He holds two football letters and a track letter for his work with the Longhorns. Cummins, whose second love is basketball, came back to Houston from New York where Rice played in the national invitation basket ball tournament at Madison Square Garden, stepped into his track clothes and started trying out the Owls’ hurdles lanes for the first time this season. Already in good shape, he is expected to oppose Ralph Tate of Oklahoma A. & M., and Douglas Jaques of Texas in the special high hurdling event. He also tries his hand in the relay events for Bill Wallace’s entry. Henderson, recognized as the greatest all-around athlete in the Southwest, will operate in the dis cus, shot put, javelin, high and broad jump events. He is an 11- letter man for A. & M., an all- Southwest football end. T. K. Hease, who’s a private first class at the reception center at Fort Sam Houston, is one sol dier who plans to be on hand for the meet—and in an active ca pacity. He’s got several good reasons, one being that if he missed com petition this year, it would be the first time in seven years of Relays that Haese hasn’t placed in some event of the University of Texas- sponsored outdoor track and field carnival which will bring 500 top- rank college and h''gh school ath letes to Austin, Saturday, April 3. Pfc. Haese was with LaVernia High School when he set the pres ent high school high jump record for the Relays at 6 feet 2 inches in the 1937 meet. As a high school participant for next year he came in in places in the high jump and the dashes. Haese then moved over to South west Texas Teachers College at San Marcos and placed four years running in the high jump and dashes. This year he’ll compete in the special events division for all com ers in the college and university class. His special ties are still the dashes and the high jump. Incidentally, LaVernia High School and Southwest Texas Teach ers are represented this year in full strength again. 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