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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5, 1945 Now that the Federal Inspection is a thing of the past, and Fish Ball has ended and a short but generally happy Easter Holiday season has left its memorable im pressions on Aggies over the cam pus—intramural enthusiasm is gradually returning to its normal high peak of interest. Wyble’s A Co. has slugged out five consecutive wins over its op ponents in League A since the start of intramural basketball com petition this semester and it looks as though those A Co. lads have a mighty good chance of taking the basketball title. In piling up this series of wins, A Co. defeated the Band 18 to 6, then eked out a slim 18 to 16 victory over Char ley Caraway’s stubborn C Battery- men. Second only to A Co. in this division is C Battery headed by Caraway which has accounted for three wins but has one loss to A Co. In League C cage competition J. B. Kearley’s E Company has plastered out three wins and no losses to reign as tops while Jim Henderson’s D Co. Infantrymen are but a shade behind them with three wins and one loss. League B basketball Bennet’s F Batterymen have seized a momen tary one game lead by dumping the D Troop cavalrymen by the wayside while Stanley Leventhal’s B Batterymen and Delbert Run yon’s G Co infantrymen are tangled up in a two way tie. F Battery is setting a pace which will be difficult for its League A handball opponents to catch up with in that it has already batted out four straight wins for itself. We can give you QUICK SERVICE on Expert Shoe Repairing We use only the best material available Don’t forget we also maintain fast service on Cleaning and Pressing HOUCK’S BOOT SHOP “54 Years in College” In doing this F Battery has slaugh tered D Co. 3 to 0, it has drubbed A Battery 3 to 0, and it has squeezed out a 2 to 1 win over a potent D Troop. Second in League A is B Co. with 2 wins and one loss, while Jim Henderson’s D Co., and Boyd’s D Troop are neck and neck in third place. League B handball finds Dorm 6 out in front with 3 wins and no losses followed by McGuyre’s C Co. infantrymen, Wyble’s A Co. lads, and J. B. Kearbey’s E Co. boys who are all on the same level with three wins and two losses each. F. Co. is stalemated in a two- way tie up in the sparsley populated League C handball warfare, sus taining two wins and no losses. G Battery is the outfit of second ary importance in this same league while the hapless H Co. occupies the cellar position with two losses and no wins. Mike Cokinos Given Silver Star In Ger. Lieut. Mike P. Cokinos, all conference Texas Aggie basket ball star and captain of the 1943 Aggie cage team, has been award ed the Silver Star for gallantry in action while serving with the 8th armored division, 9th Army in Germany. Lieut. Cokinos was cited for directing artillery fire on a strong German position that was knock ed out by his gun crew, and he also received a battlefield promo tion as a first lieutenant for this feat. According to press accounts, Lieut Cokinos and his forward observer crew fired several rounds at an enemy gun position across a river and failed to knock it out. The “kraut” crew added insult to injury by openly thumbing their nose at the American artillery men. That was too much and Lieut. Cokinos called for another round and a shell was dropped in the middle of the enemy position. A son of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Cokinos of Beaumont, “Mike” is one of three brothers to graduate from A. & M. College. He was a pre-med graduate from A. & M, receiving his degree prior to en tering the armed services in June 1943. A brother, Jimmy, is now a major in the 1st Cavalry. Pete, youngest of the three, at last account was in Beaumont. Captain Rob. S. Bailey, stationed with the Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D. C. is visiting this week with her sister, Mrs. C. D. Ownby. Formerly of Green ville, Mrs. Bailey has had a year’s service oversea with the RedCross in New Guinea. She arrived Sun day and left Thursday. *** Mrs. Scott McNeil, Beeville, Tex as, and Mrs. W. D. McNeil, Mathis, Texas, were visitors on the cam pus over the week-end. *** Mr. J. W. Rollins was in San Antonio Tuesday to address the San Antonio A. & M. Mothers Club. COLLEGE FADS AND FANCIES, CLASS OF 1850 Fads and fancies in college costumes are by no means modern phenomena. Here is a gay undergraduate of the Class of 1850. Observe his flowing collar and tie, his super expanse of Panama brim, and his studied air of nonchalance. This was in 1850, when America was basking in peace. The Golden West was opening up, and Express Service was keep ing pace. Today, there are few fads and fan cies on the college campus. They have given place to the uniformity and efficiencies of war time. Thousands of students are con centrated on the needs of the nation in arms. Railway Express is devoting its nation wide services, both rail and air, primarily to speeding war materiel. To help all con cerned, you can do three simple things with your 1945 home packages and baggage: Pack securely — address clearly and ade quately—avoid abbreviating state names. NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE Battalion Sports Lead Aggie Team This Season . These are the boys who will carry the brunt of the attack when the Aggie tankmen invade Austin for the conference swimming meet soon. They are Allan Self, Jack Riley, and Manuel Escobar. The diver is Alvaro Facio, conference champ. A Company Leads In Basketball Race F Battery Undeafeated In Handball Basketball C CO. TROUNCES H CO. A well orgamzed C Company cage quintet led by Schaeffer, Fos ter, Drouet, Gilbert, and Epps, pounded out a 23-15 triumph over an underdog H Company five in Monday afternon’s 5:00 o’clock League A Intramural basketball race. The towering Drouet, perform ing in stellar fashion on the hard wood throughout the entire con test, plus the clever play of Gil bert and the slam-bang shooting of Foster and Schaeffer, were just too much for the out-fought H Company infantrymen who were never able to show much promi nence in the first half, boasting only one point which came on Hen- kaus’s first quarter foul shot. Drouet began the scoring parade when he dropped in two points shortly after the opening whistle had sounded — followed shortly thereafter by Foster who quickly juggled through four more points to give the C Company infantry men a fairly substantial control ling hand in the first period. In the second quarter, C Com pany’s Gilbert first pounded the hardwood in the scoring race, fol lowed by Schaeffer and Epps who dropped in one shot each, banging the score to 12 to 1 (C Company), as the midway whistle sounded. However, in third quarter play the H Company lads, led by Tur ley’s 2’points, Hill’s 2 points, and Henkaus’s 2, made a very desper ate bid for victory by piling up a sum total of 8 points for them selves, but by this time the Dorm No. 11 infantrymen’s offensive be gan to roll and with a deceptive bit of floor work plus some nice shooting, the C Company infan trymen bounced out oh top of the scrap with a 23 to 15 win. * * * D CO. DRUBS G BATTERY 39-8 Stewart of D Company pounded on G Battery’s comparatively help less goal to the tune of 8 points in the first three minutes of play as D Company began their terrific 39-8 spanking handed G Battery in Friday afternoon’s 5:15 League C cage pileup. This lad still failed to simmer down as the second quarter got under way and at half time he had polled 20 points for the D Company infantrymen. To gether with Newsom and Dowd, who collected a total of four points, the G Batterymen were trampled with a 24 to 5 loss as the first half drew to a close. Seyfarth and Smith were the only stockholders in G Battery’s first half total, Sey farth accounting for 3. points and Smith dumping in 2 points for the peashooters. By now it was simply a scoring parade with Stewart loading G Battery’s basket with a continuous rain of points which .darkened the batterymen’s hopes of victory quite a bit. While numerous examples of creditable cage floormanship came up now and then, throughout this one-sided bit of cage warfare, it was really the manner in which the infantrymen’s bag of points was piled up that made the affair interesting from start to finish. Soon after time-in in the third period the D Company lads who were now 20 points ahead, put in a secondary of Hoover, Knight, Coleman, and Dowd, who together finished up this one-sided affair by handing the hapless G Battery a 39 to 8 drubbing. In the fouls department the total was fairly sprinkled throughout the roster of participants^—no one person making more than one foul. * * * A CO. ROMPS OVER BAND, 18 TO 6 Although the versatile A Com pany, led by Edwards, Wyble, La tham, and Presnal, remained com paratively rattled throughout the first quarter of Tuesday after noon’s League A intramural cage battle—they increased their hopes for the basketball championship substantially by downing the soundly outplayed Band with an 18 to 6 pounding. In the first quarter of play Charles’ quick two points plus the extreme height of Forste looked as though it might make a big difference for the horntooters, but when A Company began to settle down late in the second quarter there was simply not much hope for the outplayed bandmen. The first half scoring for the infantrymen was entirely in the hands of Presnal, Kobs, and Charles as they stacked up a total of six points as against the horn tooters’ total of 4 which were sup plied by Averett and La Roach. The by-now peaceful performance became a wild and woolly affair shortly after the beginning of the third period when Presnal, Wyble, and Latham of A Company showed plenty of spark and power for the fighting infantrymen. The fourth stanza was loaded with much swift action which found both the entire amount of players and the ball on a constant rebound from one end of the hard wood to the other. If you happened to see a pair of orange trunks top pling upon the hardwood, it was simply A Company’s hard-playing Presnal attempting to steal the ball from someone. Harrison of the bandmen was highest in the horntooters’ foul tabulation with two, followed by La Roach and Charles who ran a close second with one each. Wyble, Latham, and Presnal each emerged with one foul apiece for the A Company infantrymen. * * * D CO. PLASTERS E TROOP 16-5 A hard driving D Company held the hypnotized E Troop cavalry men scoreless in the first quarter of a 16 to 5 pounding handed them in Tuesday afternoon’s 4:15 League C cage fight with a stubborn de fense. The hapless cavalrymen were not able to score until McCoy brightened their hopes with a lone foul shot after a minute and a half had run out in the second quarter. In the meantime the infantrymen had chalked up a five-point lead for themselves. Handball D CO. TOPS A BATTERY, SCORE 3-0 D Company whitewashed their pride with an uninterrupting 3-0 pasting over the A Battery pea shooters in Monday’s League A 5 o’clock handball performance. Although both of the singles games and also the doubles games began at the same time, Wilson, one of the two singlests who rep resented D Company, lost no time in disposing of Harold Allbright of A Battery 15 to 7, 15 to 4 in a game in which the score might indicate was more or less a one sided affair, but on the other hand a game which was featured by many tough breaks for both play ers. The second match of the game wound up in a doubles victory for the infantrymen when Walker and Medows of D Company tumbled Jim Vela and S. Shulman of the batterymen into a 15 to 9, 15 to 4 defeat. In the first of the two games played, the batterymen made a desperate effort to overcome a 14 to 6 lead with their stout serve returns, but Walker came through for the infantry when, with the score almost tied he batted out a 15 to 9 win which put the D Com pany lads ahead. In the second game, which emerged as a 15 to 4 In the third period Howard and McCoy tried repeatedly to punc ture the infantrymen’s basket, but fumbled away their chances on bad passing attempts. It looked as though this quarter would emerge scoreless, but a last-minute offen sive staged by Stewart, Dowd, Crowder and Stockton, broke up a fine cavalry defense and enabled Stockton to drop in a much needed 4 points for the infantrymen. Dowd again paved the way for the in fantrymen with a fighting 2 points midway of the last quarter, fol lowed by Stewart—D Company’s hopeful scoring ace—who finally came to life after a quarter of idle ness. With forty-five seconds of action left, a D Company quartet of Crowder, Dowd, Stockton, and Threadgill, hammered time and time again to try and fill the cav alrymen’s goal with a point or two, but the time element simmered out on them and the scrap finally wound up in their favor, 16 to 5. (See BASKETBALL, Page 5) Aggie Tankmen Meet Dallas Team On Saturday Coach Art Adamson is preparing a 12-man squad of tankers for a dual meet this Saturday night with the Dallas YMCA, in Dallas. Little is known about the “Y” splashers, except that they have a couple of sprint men slated to give the Ag gies stiff competition in the indivi dual events. Probable entries ax-e: 220 yd freestyle—Riley and Es cobar. 50 yd freestyle—Syfan and Tho mas. 100 yd. freestyle—Self and Sy fan. 100 yd. breaststroke—Lea and Geer. 100 yd. backstroke—Riley and Sawyer. 440 yd. freestyle—Escobar and Heeman. 400 yd. freestyle relay team— Thomas, Riley, Syfan, and Self. victory for the infantrymen, the opponents were not so lucky in this case and were forced to drop this game by even a more slim margin than before. By now the infantrymen had already stepped into the win col umn but it seemed that this was not enough so Davis of D Company then made it a complete victory by dumping Smith of A Battery by the wayside with a 15 to 11, 15 to 7 licking. LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - - - - A BIG SAVING I A&M ALTERATION SHOP , Aggies! A.S.T.R.P. We give you 2-day service on all Patches, Stripes, Al terations. 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