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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1944 THE BATTALION PAGE 5 G Battery Takes Intramural Track Title By S. L. “Slim” Inzer Battalion Sports Editor Injury Jinx Hits Aggies Early The old injury jinx has hit Ag- gieland early this year; in fact, Coach Norton has not had a prac tice session this fall where all of the boys were in shape to scrim mage. In Saturday afternoon’s in trasquad game, no less than five boys who would have ordinarily been on either the first or second teams, were on the sidelines be cause of injuries. All five of these boys are ex pected to be able to go full steam this week, but nevertheless, they have missed some valuable time and will have to catch up with the rest of the squad. This is putting a hardship on the Aggie coaching staff, for the opening game of the season is just two weeks away and a clicking eleven must be put together before that time. On the injured list Saturday were Milton Cherno, end; Arthur Abrahams, guard, Bob Goff, back, Grant Darnell, end; and Jimmie Parmer, back. Abrahams has been nursing a side injury which has kept him, out of action for nearly a week. Darnell was in the hospi tal Saturday but is expected to rejoin the squad the early part of this week. Goff and Parmer, both first string backs until they were shelved, could have taken part in Saturday’s game but were held out of the rough stuff. Both boys have injured knees, but are expected to be able to scrimmage this week. Several other members of the squad have been on the sick list at one time or another during the first four weeks of fall practice. Maybe the Aggies have their sea son’s share of injuries here in the first few ^eeks and lady luck will smile favorable for the* re mainder of the year. Sideline Shots of Saturday’s Scrimmage After 'getting off to a rather slow start, the Aggie gridders put on a "pretty good show in their weekly intrasquad game Saturday afternoon. Coach Norton put his charges through two hours of rough and tumble football, and seemed pretty well pleased with the boys’ showing. The squad seems to be rounding into good physical condition, and as a whole showed improvement over the previous week’s game. Plays were being run off more smoothly and the overall play look ed better than it has at any time this year. Saturday’s scrimmage was di vided into four periods. The first period between the second and THANK YOU AGGIES - - - for the business given me this term, and here is hoping that I will see you again next semester. Bring in your home-town boys and help them purchase their school supplies. We Are Still Buying Books and I. E. S. Lamps THE STUDENT CO-OP STORE — One Block East of North Gate — Ed Garner, Graduate, ’38 New Intramural Records Set for Mile Race and 300-yard Dash in Track Meet With a lead of only one-half point, Epp Brown’s G Battery freshmen won the track meet last Sunday afternoon with a total of twenty-five points. Running them a close second with 24^ points was Gene Alley’s A Company In dians. Running them an even clos er third with 24% points was Ray Martin’s C Battery freshmen. D Company with 20 5-6 points and G Company with 19 points won fourth and fifth positions. Opening event of the meet was the 300-yard dash which was won by Holbrook of the Band with a new intramural time of 32.4 sec onds. Wilson of C Battery, fastest man in the preliminaries, came in with a close second. Trickey of G Company, winner of last semester’s same event, came in third, daggers of D Company and Vanham of D Troop placed fourth and fifth, re spectively. Another new record was estab lished by Hampton of G Battery with a time of 4:46.5 on the mile run. Hampton, with a long, beau tiful stride, had the race all the way. Hays of G Company came in second followed in order by Green of D Company, Wilshusen of A Company, and Norfleet of D Troop. Closest event of the afternoon third; the third quarter between the first and third, teams; and the final period was between the first and second teams again. Tassos Moved Damon “Greek” Tassos was moved from the center position to the right guard slot by Coach Nor ton, Greek played center in his high school days and while a freshman at A. & M., but won his letter last year at the guard posi tion. However, since Bob Gary has been showing up so well at center this fall, the Aggie mentor moved Tassos to guard in order to strengthen his line. Starting Lineups The first team Saturday was composed of the following boys: Bob Gary, center; Greek Tassos, right guard. Bill Gray, left guard, Monte Moncrief, right tackle; Charlie Shira, left tackle; Walter Higgins, right end; Clarence How ell, left end; Jimmy Cashion, quar terback; Mann Scott, left half; Bob Butchofsky, right half; and George McAllister, fullback. The second team was made up of Herbert Ellis, center; Bill Wal ker, right guard; Thomas League, left guard; Morton Shefts, right tackle; M. D. Denton, left tackle; Eldon Long, right end; James Mit chell, left end; Tom Daniel, quar terback; Don Kingery, right half; Gene Spires, left half, and Paul Yates, fullback. Third Stringers Shine Several members of the third string showed up well and may crowd into the first one of the two teams. “Stubby” Matthews may prove to be one of the most danger ous runnel's on the entire squad. “Sparky” Eberle, Joseph Scara, and Alan Sparkman, all third string linemen, also showed up well. was the 100-yard dash which was won by Wilson of C Battery with a time of 10.8 seconds. Walker of B Battery placed second, Wallace of F Company third, Royer of D Troop fourth, and Fort of G Bat tery fifth. Holbrook of the Band took an other first in winning the 880-yard run with a time of 2:11.2 which was possibly another new intra mural record. Newsom of A Bat tery came in second closely fol lowed by Young of A Company who placed third. McKenzie of B Battery placed fourth with Goad of D Company coming in for a close fifth. In the 120-yard low hurdles A Company gained 11 points. L. Wil liams took first, Stripling took second, and J. Williams came in fifth for the Indians. Kearby of G Company placed fourth and Hol loway of the Band was fourth. G Battery won the 440-yard re lay in 48.4 seconds. Brice, Hamil ton, Fort, and Pickford composed the team. Spires, L. Williams, Clay, and Webb of A Company won the second place. Matthews, Broussard, Gripon, and Gore of C Company came in third. In fourth position was D Company’s team composed of Hoskins, Jimmy Henderson, Curtis Henderson, and Jaggers. Wallace, Bird, Bradshaw, and Cav- itt of F Company finished in fifth position. Final running event, the mile re lay, was won by G Battery. Ellis, Hampton, Buescher, and Gordon brought the baton heme in 3:44.8. Foidick, Strebber, Goodnight, and Palms of C Battery finished in second place. Goad, Haines, J. Hen derson, and Garrett of D Company came in third. Mitcham, Nygard, Lane, and Lanquist of A Battery came in for fourth place. Wilson, Zachry, Voss, and Yeargin of E Troop finished in fifth position. Young of E Troop won first place in the shotput with a distance of 46 feet. Yates of B Battery was second, Golf of C Battery third, McAlister of D Company fourth, and Jones of G Battery fifth. Richey of F Battery broad jump ed 18 ft. 10% inches to win first place. Hoskins of D Company was second, Spires of A Company third, Kearby of G Company fourth, and Mottensen of G Battery fifth. Haws high jumped 5 ft. 6 inches to win the event for F Battery. Ross of C Battery placed second. Eichholtz of A Company, Wilson of D Company, and Mitchell and Mortensen both of G Battery tied for third. Each of these contest ants received one and one-half points. Dick Hoffman of D Troop chin ned 18 times to win that event. Moseley of D Company, Burrus of C Battery, and Chapa of B Battery tied for third. Smith of D Com pany, Rodriquez of C Battery, and Gaskell of B Battery tied for fifth. Each of the three organizations received three and one-third points. According to W. L. Penberthy, head of the P. E. Department, the meet was the closest in the history Bryan High School Has First Grid Game Friday Night Bryan High School’s Bronchos blast the lid off of the 1944 foot ball season Friday night when they meet the Navasota High School gridders at Broncho Field in Bry an. Coach “Cheesy” Cook of the Bronchos would make no predic tion of the outcome of the game since nothing is known of the strength of Navasota. The game will get underway at 8 o’clock and all Aggies will be admitted for 25$. of intramurals. He also stated that the competition and enthusiasm was the keenest he had seen in some time. A Company Leads Intramural Flag Race Org. S.B. SW. TR. Total A Co 80 65 70 215 B Co 60 0 0 60 C Co 50 50 50 150 D Co 55 50 60 165 F Co 51% 70 50*^171% G Co ....51% 80 55 186% Band 51% 50 ' 50 151% A Bat 60 50 50 160 B Bat 70 50 50 170 C Bat 50 57% 65 172% D Troop ....51% 50 50 151% E Troop ....50 50 50 150 F Bat 30 50 50 130 G Bat 50 57% 80 187% S.B.—Softball; Sw. — Swimming; Tr.—Track. 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