The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 25, 1944, Image 5

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    TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1944
THE BATTALION
PAGE 5
Basketball and Volleyball Starts Monday
G Bat. Tops In
Tennis; Bruisers
Lead In Softball
With intramural softball and
tennis nearing the final rounds
and likely champions still winning,
each organization is preparing for
a good start in next week’s games.
Intramural competition in volley
ball and basketball will begin
Monday afternoon. Schedules of
each organization’s games will be
played at 5:00. Basketball games
will be played at both 4:15 and
5:00. As of the present, no teams
have been seen practicing, but
from all indications freshman out
fits are likely to put out some of
te leading basketball teams.
With four strong wins to their
credit, the B Company Bruisers
are still leading League A in soft-
ball with A Company running them
a close second with three victories
to their credit. In League B, B Bat
tery is tops with two victories and
no defeats. The Bruisers are well
on their way to winning the League
A championship without further
threats except for possibly A Com
pany. The League B championship
team has not definitely proven it
self yet, although B Battery looks
like the probable team. Below are
the latest standings of each or
ganization.
League A
Organization Won Lost
A Company 3 0
B Company 4 0
C Company 1 2
D Company 3 2
F Battery 0 3
C Battery 1 3
E Troop 1 2
League B
Organization . Won Lost
A Battery 2 1
B Battery 2 0
C Battery 1 2
D Troop 2 0
F Company 1 2
G Company '1 2
Band 1 1
In the tennis matches, G Battery
is leading the Corps with five vic
tories and no defeats. There is no
doubt but What this outfit will win
the League A crown. A Battery is
leading the other league with three
wins to their credit. Listed below
are the present standings of each
team.
League A
Organization Won
A Battery 3
C Battery 1
B Company 0
D Company 2
F Company 2
G Company 0
E Troop 2
League B
Organization Won
A Company 1
C Company
B Battery 1
F Battery 1
G Battery 5
D Troop 0
Band 2
Lost
0
1
2
0
2
4
0
Lost
2
4
1
0
2
1
Lava flow from erupting some
times attains a velocity of 50 miles
an hour.
Escobar Leads Aggies To Easy Win In
Houston “Y” Centennial Swim Meet
Texas Aggie swimmers ran away
with a swimming meet held in
Houston Friday night in connec
tion with the YMCA Centennial,
finishing first in five of nine
events and copping a majority of
seconds, thirds, fourths and fifths,
to wind up with 136 points, an even
100 points ahead of Rice Institute
in second place. Other scores were
U. S. Coast Guard, 24; Camp Hul-
en, 13; Texas Dental College, 10;
Mason Park, 6; ^nd University of
Houston, 2.
R. F. Jones of A. & M. came in
ahead of the field in the 100-yard
breast stroke; J. P. Westervelt
won the 50-yard free style race
for the Aggies, and M. S. Escobar
was a double winner for the ma
roon and white, leading in the 100-
yard and 200-yard free style events.
The winner’s other first was in
the 400-yard free style relay, Ag
gie entries being P. C. Fleming, T.
C. Syfan, Escobar and Westervelt.
Jones, Redgrave and Squires of
Rice took the 150-yard medley re
lay. Bowman of the Coast Guard
was the best in the individual
medley and the 100-yard back
stroke, while Graves of Texas Den
tal College received high score in
diving.
Placings by events were as fol
lows:
150-Yard Medley Relay: Rice,
A. & M., Camp Hulen, University
of Houston, Coast Guard. Time 1:-
35.2.
200-yard Free Style: Escobar,
A&&M; Eastman, Boltodano, A&M.
Time 2:25.1.
Prison Guards Win
Over Loupot Nine
Although they were held to one
hit by Otto Granzin, the Army per
sonnel of the prisoner of war camp
at Huntsville defeated the Aggie
softball team sponsored by “Army
Lou” Loupot Saturday, 3-2.
The Aggies led throughout the
game, having a 2-1 lead going into
the last half of the seventh inning.
In this frame, the guards rallied
to score two runs and cop the af
fair.
Although they came out second
best in the ball game, the boys
were entertained during their short
stay in Huntsville. T. F. “Puny”
Wilson, an Aggie ex and now foot
ball coach at Sam Houston State
Teachers College, met the boys and
helped show them around. They
were shown through the state pen
itentiary upon their arrival, and
after the game went to the USO
in Huntsville for an ice cream
party.
The Aggies showed some pretty
rugged fielding Saturday, and
Manager Vernon Dietz has called
workouts for every night this
week. The sessions are held back
of Duncan Mess Hall immediate
ly after the evening meal.
Loupot wants to emphasize again
that anyone who wishes to try out
for th£ team is welcome to do so.
50-yard Free Style: Westervelt,
A&M; Auback, Rice; Syfan, A&M;
Fleming, A&M; Jones, Rice. Time
26.6.
Individual Medley; Bowman,
Coast Guard; Selg, A&M; Jones,
A&M; Redgrace, Rice; Webber,
A&M. Time 1:53.2.
Diving: Graves, Texas Dental
College; Kratz, Camp Hulen; Bear-
don, Mason Park; Prater, A&M;
Andrews, Rice.
100-yard Breast Stroke: Jones,
A&M; Redgrave, Rice; Webber,
A&M. Time 1:18.1.
100-yard Back Stroke: Bowman,
Coast Guard; Prater, A&M; Self,
A&M; Meyer, A&M. Time 1.14.
100-yard Free Style: Escobar,
A&M; Syfan, A&M; Westervelt
Cousins, Coast Guard; Musgrove,
Rice. Time 1:01.8.
400-yard Free Style Relay: A&M,
Rice, Camp Hulen, Coast Guard.
The Aggie swimmers were coach
ed by Art Adamson.
Ex-Aggie Fights With
Mustangs Over Germany
Lt. William S. Fennell, class of
’42, has recently received a com
mendation from Major General
William E. Kepner for providing
outstanding escort for B-17 Flying
Fortresses attacking targets near
Leipzig in Central Germany.
Fennell’s P-51 fighter group de
stroyed 21 Nazi planes on this par
ticular mission and prevented the
enemy from shooting down a sin
gle “Fort.”
Fennell calls Gilmer, Texas, the
home of the Yam, his home and
he entered A. & M. in 1938 and
graduated in 1942.
Lamps
Campaign Hats
Dog
(Registered Cocker
Spaniel)
22 Rifle
Aggie Footballers
Scrimmage On Kyle
Tuesday Afternoon
Rough Saturday Was
Followed By Light
Workout Last Sunday
Last Thursday afternoon Coach
Homer Norton ran his young
charges through an intrasquad
game with the “A” and “B” teams
winning by three touchdowns over
the rest of the boys who are com
ing out.
Saturday the team went through
a rough scrimmage and followed it
with a light scrimmage Sunday
afternoon. Norton expects to hold
another scrimmage late Tuesday
afternoon on Kyle Field, provided
the turf is dry from the recent
waterings. The workout Tuesday
afternoon will be the first on Kyle
Field for all except two of the
boys returned from last fall’s win
ning team.
Norton would venture no pre
diction as to the number of games
he expects to win this fall but he
did say that, “All the boys are
doing a swell job working in the
hot sun without complaining. I’m
well pleased with the attitude of
the boys and they are all working
hard.”
The Maroon and White this fall
will resemble the team that the
Aggies fielded last fall in that
most of the prospects are freshmen
coming to A. & M. to play at least
one season before being called to
the armed service. Most observers
agree that in the workouts the
gridiron hopefuls look fast and
rugged with about as much weight
in the backfield as in the line.
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Gilchrist To Return
From Washington
Gibb Gilchrist, President of Tex
as A. & M. College, is expected to
return Wednesday night from a
business trip to Washington, D. C.
The nature of the business trip
was undisclosed and Gilchrist’s of
fice was completely silent on the
purpose of his trip to Washing
ton.
Gilchrist will return in time to
deliver the principal speech at the
Faculty Dinner which is to be held
in Sbisa Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday
evening.
Mercury, the planet of our solar
system nearest the sun, makes its
journey around the sun in 88 days.
Pluto, farthest from the sun, com
pletes its orbit around the sun once
in every 249 years.
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