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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1944 THE BATTALION PAGE 5 G Battery Trounces E Troop Netters To Win Corps Tennis Championship Finishing with a total of three hundred and eighty out of a possi ble four hundred and eighty points, the A Company Indians won the coveted Intramural Flag. Taking the lead in the first com petition, A Company won the Corps Championship is baseball by defeating B Battery, League B winners. The Indians had a perfect record in baseball with the excep tion of a tie game with E Troop which was not played out because of darkness. The team was made up of J. Williams, Gressman, Dietz, Stripling, L. Williams, West, Young, Wyble, Webb, and Kibbe. In the swimming meet, the Ind ians lead the preliminaries but dropped to third place in the fin als. They won fourth place in the four hundred feet free style. Rep resenting A Company in the event were Johnson, Stripling, Black- shear, and Batley. Blackshear placed third and Copeland placed fourth in the two hundred free style. Morris, Champion, Portele, and Harris took third highest hon ors in the four hundred feet mil itary relay. With only one sixth of a point lead over the next team, A Com pany won second place in the track meet. Wilshusen came in fourth in the one mile run. Young came in third in the eight hundred and eighty yard run. In the one hundred and twenty yard low hurdles, L. Williams, Stripling, and J. Williams respectively took first, second and fifth places. Spires, L. Williams, Clay, and Webb won second place in the four hundred and forty yard relay. Spires broad jumped the third greatest A.&M. Alteration Shop North Gate If the uniforms you get don’t fit, let us alter them for you. Work Guaranteed LOUPOT’S A Little Place . . . distance. Eichholtz tied for third highest in the high jump. The Ind ians lacked only one half of a point of tying for first with G Battery who won the meet. In volleyball and basketball, A Company managed to take second and third positions in their leagues. They lost one volleyball game and two basketball games. Tennis was the only sport in which they show ed up poorly in, winning two matches and losing four. BEAT BRYAN FIELD Gridders Set For Opener; Starting Lineup Uncertain With only light workouts sched uled for this week, the Aggie foot ballers are rapidly rounding into playing form for their opening game of the season Saturday aft ernoon with Bryan Army Air Field. Coach Homer Norton will not put his charges through any heavy scrimmage this week, as the boys have been working out all summer and he deems more rough stuff is not needed. Butch Butchofsky and Monte Moncrief were named co-captains for the opening game by Norton Monday. Both boys are lettermen, each being a regular last season. Norton was undecided about his starting lineup Monday, but when the Aggies take the field Saturday, they will look something like this: Combining steady playing with advantageous height, an F Com pany sextet defeated D Company in the finals of the Intramural Volleyball competition yesterday afternoon by a 2-0 score. Although F company won the match by taking the first two games, the outcome was never cer tain as the D Company men play ed a hustling spirited game until the last point had been lost. As the first game began, both teams scored consecutively until midway in the game when the D company squad gained a 11-9 lead. The F company men rallied quick ly at this point and forged ahead to take the game, 15-11. The competition in the second Bob Gary is a sure starter at | the pivot position. This 164 pound Dallas boy is the pepper-pot of the team. Damon Tassos will be at one guard, while either Bill Gray or Joseph Sacra will start at the other. Tassos weighs 208 pounds, Gray 215, and Sacra 187. The tackle positions will be filled by Moncrief, 195 pound let- terman, and Charlie Shira, 230 pounder who also won a letter last season. At the end positions it is a free- for-all with four boys fighting it out for a starting berth. Clarence Howell, Walter Higgens, Milton Cherno, and James Mitchell are running a close race for these po sitions, and any two may get the nod Saturday. At the quarterback slot, James Cashion and Tom Daniel are fight ing it out, but Cashion will prob ably get the starting assignment. Bob Butchofsky is a sure start er at his right half back slot, but two boys, Mann Scott and Bob Goff are fighting it out for the other back back post. Jimmie Parmer, the Oklahoma all stater, will probably start at full back. George McAllister was giving him a good race, but Mac injured his trick knee in Monday’s drill. BEAT BRYAN FIELD Houston Aggies to Have Dance Sept. 27 Announcement of final plans for the A. & M. Houston Club dance to be held in Houston on Wednes day, September 27, has been made by Tommy Penn, president of the club. The dance will be held at the Plantation in Houston beginning at nine o’clock. game was just as spirited as the play which marked the first game and the two teams employed every trick in the book. F company took a quick 8 to 4 lead and held this advantage for some time until they rallied to splurge ahead and take the game by a 15 to 4 count. . Sparking the F company attack was Bob English, six foot plus sen ior who made good use of his team mates setups in spiking the ball accurately consistently. When the D company boys knocked the ball over the net, Arbuckle, of F Co., usually on the receiving end and he* neatly set the ball up for Eng lish, Bill Davis, or any other of his teammates to spike. F Company used this method quite advanto- geously and tallied most of their points in this fashion. Meanwhile, the D company men played a steady conservative game with Jim Henderson, Bob Seyle, or Dick Goad occasionally leaping up to spike one of F company’s offer ings. Completing the F Company ros ter was Blackstone, Abrams, Ar buckle, Wallace, Davis and Eng lish. On the firing line for D Company were Jim and Kirk Hen derson, Gohmert, Coscia, Seyle and Goad. The game was spirited and close fought throughout and Mr. Pen- berthy, head of the Physical Edu cation Department, declared the F company squad is one of the best volleyball teams to ever play in Intramural competition. . . . A Big Saving! BEST OF LUCK for the coming FOOTBALL SEASON COLLEGE BOOK STORE B. W. Bobbitt, Class of ’40 A Co. Wins Intramural Flag; G Btry. Takes Second as F Co. Finishes Third F Company Infantry Sweeps Volleyball Series to Win Intramural Corps Crown Last Thursday afternoon on the courts behind Kyle Field G Bat tery defeated E Troop for the Corps Championship in tennis by a set count of two to one. In the opening match, Barry and Kincannon of E. Troop played Houston and Touchstone of G Bat tery. Both teams showed a great deal of spirit and were playing an excellent game. The artillery duo outplayed the cavalrymen and won the first five games. Barry and Kancannon made a< good comeback and won the next two games, but despite their attempt to gain a lead, Houston and Touchstone won three consecutive games which gave them the set. Pickford and Harkey represent ed G Battery and Dockery and Thomas represented E Troop in the second set of the afternoon. Both sides were evenly matched. Thomas and Dockery exhibited some excellent teamwork during the match, especially on difficult return shots near the center of the court. Pickford and Harkey made some beautiful returns in this set which they won by a game count of eight to three. Set number three was played off by Turner and Walker of G Battery and Kaplan and DeVires of E Troop. Game winners alter nated up to the seventh game when E Troop won four consecu tive games. A final attempt nett ed G Battery eleventh and twelfth LOUPOT’S Watch Dog of the Aggies CORSAGES for the Dance Friday Large White and Maroon Mums for the Game Saturday BRYAN FLORAL COMPANY 506 S. College We Deliver Telephone 2-1266 games but with the loss of the thirteenth game they lost the set. Kaplan served an unusually good game and Walker, Turner, and DeVires got in some nice net shots. All twelve men that played in the finals were playing their best and were all out to win; however the G Battery teams proved the winners of a well deserved honor, undefeated Corps Champions in tennis. You’ll Find What You Want in Regulation Uniforms and Equipment Here... Make your selections now in what you need in Uniforms and Accessor ies. 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