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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1945
THE BATTALION
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Conference Chatter
By Charlie Weinbaum
OPPONENTS BOW TO
MIGHTY OWL NINE
The powerful Owl diamonders
have an unspotted record thus far,
not having lost a single game.
Superb pitching, good fielding,
and all around excellent teamwork
characterized a smashing victory
by Rice over another Houston
team. In fact, the contest was so
one-sided that it was stopped after
seven innings, the final score being
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College and Bryan
27-6. Their opponents were (hold
your breath) St. Thomas High
School (probably B String). The
Cookie Pushers did, however, man
age to eke out a victory over one
team that was out of diapers. They
defeated the Houston Amateurs
8-1 (Boy, they must have really
been amateurs).
TEXAS RELAYS APRIL 7
The annual Texas Relays, a color
ful event which is held in Austin
every year, will commence April
7. It will be an all day track and
field carnival consisting of thirty-
five high schools, fourteen army
posts, and several colleges and
universities, the latest being Louisi
ana State. The only large college
squads will come from inside the
Southwest Conference. Special
events will be the 100-yd dash,
120-yd high hurdles, 3000-meter
run, shot put, javelin throw, dis
cus throw, high jump, broad jump,
and pole vault. Relays scheduled
are 440-yd, 880-yd, mile, distance
medley, sprint medley, two-mile
and 440-yd, shuttle football relay.
The honorary referee this year will
be Dr. Wilber C. Smith, president
of the National Collegeiate Athle
tic Association and director of
athletics at Tulane University.
HOGS BEGIN *
SPRING PRACTICE
The Arkansas Razorbacks start
ed spring football practice this
week under Head Coach Glen Ross.
Aggie Tracksters Swamp Rice Owls 7 5-45
Team Entered In S. L I. Relays Saturday
Aggie Diamondmen Split In
Two Game Series With S. U.
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Buck Newsome Clouts Two
Four-Baggers In Opener
The Maroon and White base-
ballers split the honors in the two
game series in Georgetown with
the Southwestern Pirates nine last
Thursday and Friday afternoons.
The cadets copped the first game
by a score of 9-2 and dropped the
second to the tune of 4-3. Purtle
pitched the first game for the Ag
gies and Smith stood mound in the
second.
Purtle hurled a beautiful game
Thursday allowing but seven hits.
Tight defensive infield and out
field playing allowed but two of
these hits to develop into runs,
Rahh and Brechtel of the Pirate
team doing the good in the fourth
and fifth innings, respectively.
Buck Newsome knocked the only
two home runs of the game. He
tallied the first score of the game
in the second inning when he
slugged the ball too far out for
the outfielders to bring in before
he crossed home plate. Again in the
sixth inning this fast swinging sec
ond-baseman started a rally when
he scored the fifth run for the
cadets by planting his second
“homer’ over the outfield. Stubby
Matthews put a triple over left
field in the fifth for the only oth
er long hit of the game.
In all, the Farmers totaled twelve
hits off Allen, the Pirate hurler;
Purtle allowed but seven hits. The
Southwestern boys, too, had trouble
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Steers Gain
Revenge From
Ag Tankmen
A revamped and much improved
Texas team, swelled with several
new additions, swept over the Ag
gie tankers 56-37 in a dual meet
last Saturday in the P. L. Downs
Natatorium. During the ten days
following the Texas swimmers de
feat at the hands of the Aggies,
their condition improved so great
ly that they were able to take six
out of ten firsts, and seven out of
ten seconds, to completely swamp
the dauntless Aggies.
The score ran much like the first
dual meet for the first half, stand
ing at 26-28 following Self and
Syfan’s first and second in the
100 yd freestyle. But from there
on, things went from bad to worse,
with the Aggies winning only 3
points to Texas’ 24 in the 100
breast, 100 back, and 440 freestyle.
In the final spurt of energy, the
four Aggie freestyle artists, Riley,
Thomas, Syfan, and Self, took the
400 yard relay with yards to spare.
The results of this meet give an
edge to Texas over the Aggies in
the Conference meet two weeks
ahead. Coach Adamson, in the next
two weeks, hopes to draw the last
extra seconds from his pupils, and
have them swimming faster than
they have ever swum in their lives
by the time of the last battle with
the T. u. tankers.
Results of the meet are as fol
lows:
300 yd. medley relay—Texas
(Hill, McLellan, Alexander) 3:29.6.
220 yd. freestyle—Self (A&M),
Bean (T), Pierce (T). 2:33.3.
50 yd. freestyle—Carpenter (T),
Syfan (A&M), Pierce (T). 26.1.
100 yd. Individual medley—Bol
linger (T), McLellan (T), Arm
strong (A&M). 1:07.
Diving—Facio (A&M), Sargent
(T), Matthews (A&M).
100 yd. frestyle—Self (A&M),
Syfan (A&&M), Carpenter (T).
59.2.
100 yd. breaststroke—Bollinger
(T), Hill (T), Lea (A&M. 1:14.4.
100 yd. backstroke—McLellan
(T), Schoeller (T), Riley (A&M).
1:12.2.
440 yd. freestyle—Bean (T),
Pierce (T), Escobar (A&M). 5:44.9.
44 yd. freestyle relay—(A&M)
Riley, Thomas, Syfan, Self. 4:03.8.
with Purtle’s curve-ball as he man
aged ten strike-outs against them;
whereas Allen could manage but
seven.
Fate was with the Pirates in the
second game, Friday afternoon.
The Maroon and White led the en
tire ball game until the Pirates
came up for their last bat.
Smith pitched a beautiful game
allowing but four hits up until the
last inning. Only Frances could
score on the Aggies before the fatal
final rally by the Pirates. Smith
struck but three men out, although
Cox fanned but one Farmer out of
the box.
George Strickhausen tallied the
first Aggie run in the third and
Frances tied the score by slugging
a triple over center field in the
fourth. Katt and Newsome got
on base in the eighth and a double
play by DeLafosse put the Aggies
ahead 3-1.
Wilson, White, Pace
Maroon And White
By Sam Nixon
Coach Lil Dimmitt’s Fightin’
Texas Aggie track team breezed
through the first dual meet of the
1945 cinder season to take a 77-45
lead over Cecil Grigg’s Rice Owls
last Saturday afternoon. In fact,
the Aggies won the meet so fast
that they were back on the campus
in time to attend the Corps Ball
that night.
The Maroon and White tracksters
were led by Warren Wilson and
Oscar White. White was only a
quarter of a point under Wilson,
who scored 9 1-4 markers for the
Farmers. The Aggie spikemen took
ten of the sixteen track and field
events, and placed second in nie
of them.
The event of the afternoon, say
the Owl supporters, was the pole
vault. Coach Grigg had already
conceded the event to Coach Dim-
mitt, when the Rice baseball game
was called off. Ed Murphey, base
ball and basketball player, got in
to a track suit and won the event
on a fluke, with a vault of ten
feet, six iches. Tate, of the Aggies,
vaulted eleven feet later just to
prove that he could do it.
Cookie-pushers Missimer and
Walmsley had to do some fast
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At present most of the time is being
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six will compose the squad.
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pushing to win the events they did,
for there was an Aggie breathing
down their necks every step of the
way.
Coach Dimmitt is taking five
men to the SLI track meet this
Friday morning. The Aggie track
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mile relay team, Wilson, Morten-
sen, Alley, and Holbrook and
White, who will run the 120 yard
high hurdles. The meet will be held
at Lafayette, La., on the thirtieth
of this month. The main colleges
to be represented there will be
A&M, Tulane, LSU, and SLI.
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