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1945 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1945 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 were if the >f the )phies and also rd of ecom- the 3 1 > ? By Ed Wendt Battalion Sports Editor Baseball Competition Stiffens A slight shadow was cast on the Aggie hopes for nabbing the base ball crown this year, as the Texas Longhorns have announced the re turn of five regulars from their 1944 squad. Crippled badly, how ever, by the absence of Bobby Layne, all-conference football hero and ace hurler for the orange and white baseballers last year, the Texas gents preceded to boost the pitching spot as being their only weak spot. With a host of Naval Trainees to fall back on, the Long horns are worrying little about ma terial with which to develop their weak positions. The Rice Owls, also are a threat for the crown by announcing the return of almost all of their 1944 infield lettermen. Neely will prob ably build his team around letter men Charlie Baily (pitcher), Bill Scruggs( second-base), Ed Mur- phey (shortstop), Bill Callender (third-base), and George Wilkins (left field). Naval Trainees, too, are destined to play a large part on the diamond for the Owls this season. To be in the title chase also are SMU and TCU. For the first time in three years, the Mustangs and Frogs will field a team in the race. Handicapped by lack of exper ience and an absence of returning lettermen, these conference en tries boast large squads from which to develop teams. James Stewart, athletic director of SMU, reported that the game was es pecially popular with Naval Train ees and that he expected to build a fighting team aided by that group. “Rusty” Russell Visits In his tour of the state, scouting high school prospects for the Mustang gridiron next fall. Rusty Russell, acting head coach for SMU, dropped in to have a chat with H. H. Norton and to view the grounds upon which the Ponies suffered a 20-0 defeat in 1943. He also made the track workout Wed nesday afternoon, closely observ ing the material in preparation for the Laredo Border Oympics March 9. One More Week Coach Lil Dimmitt is fast con ditioning his thin-clads for the Laredo Border Olympics which is only a little more than a week hence. The Aggie bid in the contest is nothing short of the title; cor respondingly, one admires the spirit that the boys show in the stepped-up-race of work-outs, due to unreliable weather. “Pete” Jones, yesterday, issued equipment to fifty sortie odd base- LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - • - A BIG SAVING! ball prospects. Crowded for time, also, Pete is keeping close with the weatherman as the opening clash with Southwestern is but two weeks off. “Art” Adamson is working dil igently with his inexperienced group in preparation for the dual tank meet at “forty acres” on March 15. Alvario Facio has de veloped his diving from to the point that “teahound spring- boardsmen” are beginning to tear at their hair. Weakened by lack of speed in the dashes, however, the Maroon and White still offered considerable scare to the Navy- Longhorn surface splitters. Oklahoma IL Is 3rd In Big 6 Conference Cage Standings Oklahoma’s 1945 basketball sea son will be done to a crisp brown and taken out of the oven after this week. Coach Bruce Drake’s Roundball Runts close their season on the road within the next ten days, meeting Iowa State at Oklahoma City Saturdey, Long Island uni versity at Madison Square Garden in New York City February 28, La Salle at Philadelphia March 3 and Missouri at Columbia March 5. Two of the games terminate Oklahoma’s Big Six conference season. At Oklahoma City, the Runts will try to turn the tables on Coach Louis Menze’s Iowa State Cyclones who beat Oklahoma at Ames last week 51-43 with For ward Jim Myers, the Big Six con ference’s leading scorer, hurling the leather through the hoops for 20 points in the last half alone. The season’s finale, against Coach George Edward’s Missouri Tigers at Columbia, could be a headache. Despite the loss of Paul Collins, Missouri beat Nebraska at Lincoln 47-41 a few days before Nebraska spanked Kansas by 14 points on the same court. Later Coach George Edwards also lost Center Jim Mickelson and still had enough to beat Nebraska one point at Columbia after an overtime. Drake hopes to have Harould “Scooter” Hines, his 5-foot 5 1-2 inch ball-handling ace, back in trim for these four games. Hines turned an ankle in the final mom ents of the Kansas defeat at Law rence and has been able to play but little since. Long Island’s Blackbirds, long a power in eastern basketball, has a big, rugged band of players, the kind who always give Oklahoma’s 5-foot 10-inch team unmitigated trouble. The Blackbirds recently carried Valparaiso to a 64-59 win in the Garden and later made Coach Adolph Rupp’s strong Ken tucky team go two extra periods THE WISE OWL KNOWNS and so does the Wise Aggie that the best place in town for good ole home cooking is the new A. & M. GRILL where you still can get home cooked pies, short or ders, malts, shakes and all such good things to eat. Mrs. Sally B. Clark, formerly with Creamland, has purchased A. & M. Grill and invites you to bring that hungry appetite to - - - THE A. & M. GRILL “Where the Aggies Like to Eat” Waldrop Building Phone 4-9384 Handball, Basketball,. And Horseshoe Pitching Are Headliners For This Semester’s Intramural Program Sixty-Two Report To “Pete” Jones For Initial Baseball Workout Thurs. Jones Directs Beginners In Fielding, Catching Pete Jones met with sixty base ball hopefuls on the Kyle Field diamond in the first official prac tice of the season yesterday after noon. Baseball playing equipment was issued to sixty boys, yesterday —a group swelled by twenty as compared to the number reporting three weeks ago in the initial pre conference. Most of the boys have had prev ious experience with high school teams, but the group was limited to only two returning lettermen and only a handful of returning squadman. The accumulated anx iety for the season to open and to get the ball rolling was partially released yesterday, as the spirit was high and each player out had hopes for making the squad this season. Watching closely the swinging power and fielding abilities of each individual, Pete Jones began to shape up the possibilities for each open position; consequently, the men showing up the best this first week of practice are the “liables” for making the team this spring. Alternating at infield positions, Allan Self Leads Aggie Swimmers In Daily Workouts Jack Riley Showing Most Promise; Facio Improving In Diving Texas is in store for a real fight on Thursday, March 15, when the Aggie tank team journeys to Aus tin for the first dual meet of the season. In the next two weeks, Coach Art Adamson expects to have his aquamen whetted to a fine edge in both sprint and dis tance events. On the weekend fol lowing this meet, the Texas team will invade the P. L. Downs Nata- torium for another dual meet. As this is the only swim meet sched uled for College Station, the Ag gies are looking forward to the support of the “Twelfth Man”, as the swimmers can certainly use plenty of encouragement when driving in on those last ten yards of a thrilling hard-fought race. Coach Adamson, with years of ex perience as both a participator and supervisor of top-flight meets, promises tense moments and fast moving events between these two top teams of the Southwest. All workouts are now being done lengthwise, presenting new prob lems to the less experienced swim mers. Allen Self has been setting grueling paces in all distances from 100 yards up. Se far he has turned in the best time of the sea son in the 100, 220, and 440 yard freestyle events, with plenty of room for improvement left. Jack Riley, a Fish from Wills Point, is perhaps the best poten tial swimmer of the team, needing only a little more experience to enable him to cut his freestyle and backstroke times down drastically. Richard Lea, from El Paso, shows exceptional promise but is likewise handicapped by lack of experience. Coach Adamson hopes to have both these swimmers turning in cham pionship performances by the time of the Conference meet, April 16. Alvaro Facio is looking forward to the arrival of two new diving boards on which to practice his fancy dives. Anyone who saw the Conference meet here last year will readily agree that Facio has a grace that is geometrically per fect, on the board and in the air. His performance alone should be attraction enough to draw the en tire Corps to the dual meet here on March 24. The entire squad has been down hearted all week after receiving an answer from Texas to a chal lenge to play water polo this sea son. They pleaded that they “don’t have time,” but could it be that they remember several consecutive years of crushing defeats handed them by the Aggie Poloists? Per haps that’s it in the Garden before Kentucky won.. Kentucky was then at full strength, too. LaSalle, a small Catholic school, has posted some astronomical scores, defeating Drexel 95-34, Loy ola 82-42 and the Philadelphia U. S. Marines 78-53. each nominee took his try at handl ing infield balls. Pete Jones batted to each man individually and watched the ball handling which resulted at each try. Outfield prac tice was handled by the players themselves, each getting to feel the familiar sting of the white “apple” which is due to see much action in the weeks to come. Pitchers, working out individual ly with respective catchers, whipp ed the ’ole arm into shape so as to enable themselves to give that ball the familiar “ride” in games to come. Only time will tell who will stand the mound for the Ma roon and White; as yet five men are working out at the position. George Strickhausen and A1 Retteg make a combination that is going to prove tought to handle in competition this season. Reteg, leterman at short-stop, and Strick hausen, letterman at first base, showed a quality of ball handling that excelled that of last season. These two men are the only re turning lettermen of the Aggie 1944 ball club. An overcast sky indicated that workouts are liable to be ham pered quite a bit by the weather in the afternoons to come; how ever, if the weather permits, the team should be in shape to make a good showing in the season open er March 17. Baseball Calendar Opponents Date Southwestern (H) . ... March 16 Southwestern (H) .. ... March 17 Southwestern .... March 30 Southwestern .. March 31 Texas April 6 SMU (2-H) ... April 14 SMU April 19 TCU ... April 20 TCU April 21 Rice (H) April 27 TCU (H) May 4 Rice May 9 Rice Texas (H) ... May 18 Texas (H) May 19 —DONATIONS— Continued from Page 1 night to the present sum. “We got the idea after seeing last Tues day’s “Batt,” Frog Weigand ex plained. “Some of the other fel lows came in my room and told me of the idea,” he said. “We got the floor C. Q. on each floor to go around to every room on his floor and tell the fellows about it and take up a collection right then. Since then, I have asked for do nations every morning at reveille.” He added that he hoped that no one would get the wrong impres sion by their actions, because the Frogs are trying to win two im portant battles. First, to buy a grave marker for Reveille, and second, to try and convince others that they are capable of, want to, and are determined to become just as good Aggies as any other class has ever become. So far the donations of other classes has been sadly lacking and almost negligible. The Jarrah tree, a species of Eucalyptus of Australia, some times sends its roots down 120 feet to obtain its water supply. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS Athletic Officers Receive Schedules By R. L. Bynes Amid a gay atmosphere, the Student Athletic Officers, headed by Mr. W. L. Penberthy, head of th Physical Education Department, held their annual Barbecue at the Y Cabin, west of the Creamery, at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, February 28th. Special guests present at the af fair were: Joe Skiles, Student Pub lication Director; M. L. Cashion, General Secretary of the Young Mens Christian Association; and “Dough” Rollins, Director of Stu dent Activities. Athletic Officers attending the Barbecue were: T. G. Murname, corps athletic officer; A. F. Weig and, Jr., First Company; T. S. Deeper, Second Company; G. A. Stone and George Manning, B. Company; M. H. Abelow, C Com pany; J. W. Davis, D Company; J. F. Evans, E Company; J. D. Reitz, F Company; Harold “Blotto” Bo- rofsky, H Company; M. E. Linder, A Battery; C. R. daggers, B Bat tery; Morris Libson, C Battery; D. W. Boyd, D Troop; S. J. Lab el, F Battery; R. C. Zivney, G Battery; and C. A. Austin, Band. J. S. Wyble represented A Com pany as Leonard Mizel, athletic officer, was not able to attend. Also present were Wallace Beck and Hilton Hall. Mr. W. L. Penberthy first intro duced the special guests present whereupon a delicious barbecue dinner was served with all the trimmings. At the completion of the dinner, the definite rules as laid down in the intramural ath letics student handbook, were dis cussed with the guests present at the dinner. The three sports to lead this semesters irttramural pro gram will be Handball, Basketball, and Horseshoe Pitching. Athletic officers will be given schedules of the sports events Fri day evening and the intramural program is definitely slated to be gin Monday afternoon, March 5, not later than 4 p.m. The roster has been worked out so as to have most of the events played at 5 p.m. each evening, however, most of the Handball and Basketball games will probably by played at 4 p.m. on each of the scheduled af ternoons. All intramural Basket ball games will definitely be play ed in De Ware Field House and not on any of the outside courts. Let it be known at this time that all varsity players are in eligible for the intramural sports in their respective events. The following quoted information from the Intramural Athletics stu dent Handbook governing the rules connected with the sports to be held this semester; that Is—Basketball, Handball, Tennis, Track, Horse shoe Pitching, Swimming, Soft- ball, and Volleyball, are published for the benefit of all concerned. However, swimming, softball and volleyball rules will be listed in the near future. In both tennis and handball the team will consist of six’ men ar ranged in three sets of doubles. Each captain will report to the scorer his men properly paired and no changes will be allowed except that new men may be substituted at any time, but a man removed from the contest may not play again until the next contest. Cap tains and managers will toss a coin for the right to place their respective sets of doubles. The win- Alley, Tassos, Holbrook Sparkle In Track Workouts As First Meet Looms Alley Beck To Run 440 Dash, 880, Mile Relay By Sam Nixon Well, Ole Army, now is the time for all good Aggies to come to the support of the Aggie track team. Your reporter has been down there quite a few afternoons these past weeks, watching the boys go through their paces, talking to them, getting their opinions on the men working out with them, and their views as to the season ahead. There have been few, if any, mem bers of the cadet corps in the stands, showing the thinly-clads that they’re behind them all the way. As everyone should know by now, Lil Dimmitt’s spikemen will travel to Laredo on March 9 to participate in the important Bor der Olympics meet with high school, college, and service teams. This event is important to the team because it will show how the Aggie tracksters will stand up with the competition offered Rice Institute and Texas university in later Southwest Conference meets. When you go down to Kyle Field, be sure to pay particular attention to Tassos, Alley, and Hol brook. “Greek” is really spending a lot of time on those two strong-arm events—shot-put and discus. He has developed a lot more form and power than he had last year when he put the 16-pound shot and hurled the discus. Tom K. Alley, the red-headed president of last semester’s senior class, is showing a lot of speed on the 440-yard dash, 880-yard dash, and the mile relay. Holbrook, a member of last se mester’s cross-country team, is fast on the 440-yard dash, 880- yard dash, and the mile relay. This speeWy sophomore can make a lap or two almost as fast as one can say, “We’re going to win the Southwest Conference track meet this year.” ner of the toss will decide how his pairs will compete with his oppon ents. One man of each doubles team must play the entire match. In Basketball the games will consist of four five minute quar ters with a five minute intermis sion between the halves and a one minute intermission between quar ters. In the semi-finals and the finals of the College Championship play-off the quarters will be of seven minutes duration, with a ten minute intermission between hal ves. In order to start playing, a team must have at least four men on the floor in uniform at the time of the game. The Intramural Track meet is so organized as to permit a man to enter both field and track events but he will not be permitt ed to enter more than two track events or a total of three events during the meet. The field events continue throughout the meet and a man may take his three trials any time during the meet; how ever, in the high jump, the con testants will be required to keep up with the progress of the event. A contestant must be present at the preliminaries in order to be eligible to compete in the finals. The events include in this meet are as follows: 100 yard dash, 110 yard low hurdles, shot put, jave lin throw, broad jump, high jump, and the 440 yard shuttle relay. The varsity trackmen will be ineligible for the intramural track meet if they are still on the varsity track team after April first. In the horseshoe pitching, a team shall consist of six men arranged in three sets of doubles. The proce dure for this sport is the same as tennis. The pitchers box shall extend three feet on either side, to the rear, and to the front of the peg. A contestant when pitch ing may stand on either side of Jdie pitchers box and stepping over the foul line shall forfeit the value of that pitch. No contestants shall walk across to the other peg and examine the position of the shoes before making his first or final pitch. Wrapping the fingers with tape is allowed. A regulation game shall consist of 21 points and the contestant first scoring this —JUNIORS— Continued from Page 1 Skiles, of the Student Activities Office, is making the orchestra plans. “It is essential that every jun ior get behind the class, get a date,” said Barker. “Since our class is so small the dance is not likely to be a success unless nearly everyone brings a girl. There are five weeks between now and the dance, and it should be easy to get a date.” The banquet will be held in the Banquet Room of Sbisa Hall, if possible, and the dance will be there also. The price of the ticket will be spent for the dinner, programs, rent of the hall, labor in preparing the hall for tise, decorations, and the orchestra fee. number shall be declared the win ner. The closest shoe to the peg shall score one point. If both shoes are closer than either of an oppon ents they shall score two points. The rule, providing shoes must be six inches from the peg to count, is not in force. The closest shoe counts regardless of distance from the peg, but to count, a shoe must be in the box. A ringer shall score three points. To be . a ringer a shoe must encircle peg far enough for the straight edge to touch both calks and clear the peg. Two ring ers are the highest score a pitch er can make and count six points. All equals are counted as ties. That is, if both opponents have one shoe of equal distance from the peg or against it, or ringers, they are tied; and the next closest shoe counts. If one contestant should have two ringers and the other, one, the pitcher having the two ringers shall score three points. In case of a tie on all four shoes, such as four ringers, or four shoes each one inch from the peg, no score shall be recorded; and the contestant who pitched last shall be awarded the lead. 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