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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1945)
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 12, 1945 THE BATTALION Page 3 i * 7 *• * > * * On Kyle Field • • • By Ed Wendt Battalion Sports Editor STUDENT COACHES HANDLE RESPONSIBILITIES CAPABLY Due to a pressing shortage of coaching man power in the Athle tic department, Coach Norton re cently appointed Tommy Penn and Richard Henning as student tennis and golf coaches, respectively. Working out for the past three weeks with some thirty-five boys, Tommy Penn has narrowed down the number to eight, to represent the Maroon and White in Varsity net meets. Tommy lettered on the Aggie 1944 net squad and by the way, is the only returning letter- man. He has been doing a great job so far, and all the boys seem to feel confident under his super vision. This season’s golf team will compete in conference meets as the result of long afternoons of hard workouts and through the unrelinquished efforts of Richard Henning. Calling a group of some fifteen boys together at the be ginning of the season Henning be gan to work on prospects for the season’s squad. The men have been able to survive the handicap un der which they have been prac ticing and will be present at the tee-off of the Southwest conference meet. BOBBY FRETZ MAKES MON. AFTERNOON PRACTICE Bobby Fretz, top-notch hurler on Presto Change — FREEDOM SHIRTS One moment you’re dressed for business. Presto! you’re ready for fun. All you’ve done is remove your tie and turn down your collar. That’s because you’re wearing a Freedom Sport Shirt, the shirt that’s built to take a tie or leave it. Prepare for a caree-free sum mer by selecting from our wide assortment of Free dom Shirts tailoredd by Arrow, B.V.D. and La-Playa $2.25 and up 7 t T WIMBERLEY-STONE-DANSBY w. ^ j-/ CLOTHIERS College and Bryan OLE ARMY!! When it is time to deliver the goods LOU is always right on hand. I have a new shipment of Khaki O’Seas Caps with BLACKBRAID now. Also Khaki Shirts LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Ags Meet SMU In Doubleheader Here Sat. Swimmers Meet Longhorns In Conference Meet At Austin Saturday Team Seeking Initial Conference Win After Loss to Steers In Opener WTAW To Broadcast Both Games Beginning At 1:45 p.m.; Teams To Have Quarter Hour Interval Between Games By Floyd DeLafosse, Jr. This Saturday afternoon the Ag gies meet the SMU Mustangs in a twin bill, starting at 2 o’clock. It will be the first meeting of the year for the two clubs. So far the Ponies have two conference wins over the Rice Owls, while the Ma roon and White are winless. Should the Aggies take both ends of the affair, they will be second in the conference standings. The Mustangs boast a formid able twirler in Skelton Napier. Na pier took the toll of the Institute boys last week in Dallas. The Methodists took both the games f^om Rice by scores of 3-0 and 4-3. The likely starter in the first game Saturday for the Aggies is Elmer Purtle. The big right-hand er has been working on his curve ball all week and says that his arm feels great. Purtle throws his fast ball, curve ball, and change of pace with the same motion. With a little support from the team, he should be able to take the count of the Ponies. In the nightcap, a seven-inning affair, Pete Jones will likely use Charlie Smith or Vernon Dietz. Dietz’s arm is rounding into shape and he should be ready for a starting assignment soon. Should any of the starting pitchers need help, Jim Love will be available for duty. The Maroon and White have been tuning up for the Ponies by play ing four or five inning games in the afternoon with the ASTRP nine. The infield seems to be com ing around, and the outfield is improving every day. By Saturday the Aggies should be ready for the Ponies. In direct contrast to the hopeful feeling about Saturday’s game is the whipping the Maroon and White took at the hands of T. u. last Friday. It was A. & M’s first conference game of the season, with the score 13-0. The Aggies looked very bad against the Long horns. They committed seven er rors afield, while collecting only six hits. “Lefty” Culp, Texas’ ace pitcher, kept the six blows fairly well scattered. The Longhorns scored in the first inning on Wooten’s walk, Matthew’s error, and two fielder’s choices. They made four runs in the third on a walk to Lindsey, an infield error, hits by Horneyer and Wilemon, a sacrifice by Milik, and another error. One more run was added in the fourth, three in the fifth, and four more in the seventh. A. & M. had their best chance to score in the seventh, when Strange led off with a single to deep short. Strickhausen singled to center and a perfect throw by Wooten got Strange going to third. Ellis fanned and Abraham singled, Strickhausen holding third. Smith grounded out to end the threat. (See AGGIES, Page 4) B Company Ekes Out Win Over D Co. To Take League Basketball Crown By R. L. Bynes B Co. Ekes Out 16-13 Over D Co. In a game which could be labeled as one of the would-be play-off scrambles since both D Co. and B Co. have been two of the several the Aggie 1944 baseball squad, spent a few hours on the campus and worked out with the baseball squad. Fretz was not only the ace hurler for the Aggies last year, but he “hit fourth” for a clean-up batting average. When retired from the mound he filled in at the first base slot. Bobby Fretz is remembered as one who has contributed greatly to making that Aggie team tops. As he left Monday night, he smiled half-way and said, “Gosh, I’ll be glad when I get back.” LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - - - - A BIG SAVING I SUPERIOR DRY CLEANING LAUTERSTEIN’S PHONE 4-4444 Miisica Maestro... Have a Coke ( MAKE WITH THE MUSIC ) ..•or the cue to making friends in Cuba At fiesta time the gay little isle of Cuba is a mighty cosmopolitan corner of the globe—where the familiar American greeting Have a Coke is just as happily understood as their own native Salud. From Hanover to Havana, the pause that refreshes with friendly Coca-Cola has become a symbol of the good-neighbor spirit. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTUNG COMPANY, INC GEORGE STEPHAN. Pre«den* e quality prod- I uct of The Coca-Cola Company. notable intramural cage squads so far—the B Co. lads with a starting string of Tate, Rippetoe, Webber, Hughes, and Strange, rambled to a definite but not too decisive 16 to 13 win over a poluted but fight ing D Co. in one of the most action packed Monday afternoons witnes sed so far this semester. D Com pany’s starting quintet consisted of Stewart, Dowd, Henderson, Nash, and Newsome. As the first quarter had broken open in this all important tangle the B Co lads pulled out of a tail spinning bit of action with an un certain three point lead through the accurate rifleing of Rippetoe and the fine heads-up floor play of Hughes and Strange. However, the B Co. boys had to put plenty of fight into this affair all the way through the first quarter and also throughout the x entire first half because those B Co. lads maintain ed a very fine defense throughout until the midway whistle sounded which by the way materialized into an 8 to 3 win for B Co. D Co. managed a brief, fighting return bit of play midway of the third period, but is was soon left in the dark when B Company’s sharpshooting Weber capitalized on D Company’s fouling to bounce in four well earned points and again forge B Company’s quintet into the lead. As the fourth period opened up, however, this fighting, plugging, D Co. five led by Stewart’s, Dowd’s, and Green’s, very fine performances racked up four very well earned points to again return D Co. pretty well into the scoring. However, with a 16 to 13 score prevailing as the closing minutes waned, and with both outfits giving the game their all, and I do mean their all—this very hard fought gamble with the quakey score very apt to change at any moment, B Co. finally rolled over the fighting D Co. quintet as game time deserted both outfits. B Batt. Trounces F Batt. 23-13 B Battery shot into an early five point lead in Thursday afternoon’s League B, F Battery-B Battery up and tumble cage squabble as Broy les began to shuffle the oval thru F Battery’s defense and into their goal from all angles. daggers elusive performing pro duced B Battery’s first scoring spurt as the first few minutes had gone by in the second half, follow- (See BASKETBALL, Page 4) EXPERT SHOE REPAIRING Holick^ Boot Shop Thinclads Meet Steers In Dual Meet Holbrook, Green, and Newsome to Run Against Umstatd In Half Mile Coach Lil Dimmitt’s fighting Texas Aggie track team travels back to Austin again this weekend to participate in a dual meet of running, jumping, and throwing against Clyde Littlefield’s Long horn tracksters. The meet is to be held at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. The Aggie cindermen making the trip, and the events they will compete in, will be: 440 yard dash, Holbrook, Wilson. 100 yard dash, Zeitman. 1 mile run, McDowell. 220 yard dash, Wilson, dagger. 120 yard high hurdles, White, Hensch. 880 yard dash, Holbrook, Green, Newsome. 440 yard relay, Zeitman, Alley, White, daggers. 2 mile run, McFarland, Hargis, Jones. 220 yard low hurdles, White, Wallace, Hensch. 1 mile relay, Mortensen, Alley, Henderson, Wilson. Pole Vault, Tate, Williams. High jump,>*Haws, White. Discus, Tassos. Broad jump, Zeitman, Morten sen. Javelin, Tassos, Haws. Shotput, Tassos. The spirit among the Dimmitt- men is very high, and more than one of them expressed the opinion that they were going to give those “yellerbellied teahounds” a run for their money Saturday after noon. Coach Dimmittt stated furth er that the 880 yard run between Holbrook, of the Aggies, and Um- stadt, of the Longhorns, will be a spectacle well worth going miles and miles to behold. In the Texas Relays last Friday and Saturday, when many long standing records were shattered, the T. u. track squad came out on top with six first places to their credit. The fighting Farmers also showed up well as the following shows: 120 yard high hurdles, White, second. 100 yard dash, Wilson, third. Distance medley relay, Hender son, Henckle, Hargis, oJnes, fourth. 2 mile relay, Green, McDowell, Mortensen, Holbrook, first. 1 mile relay, Mortensen, Alley, Henderson, Wilson, second. Shotput, Hassos, second. Discus, Tassos, third. Tennis Team Now Eight-Men Squad Aggie netmen have been working hard this week and have com pleted the tournament to pick the top men. Some further elimina tion is expected before the end of the week. Working out on the varsity courts at present are Penn, Killebrew, Kisling, Gilbert, Elizon do, Lane, Huston, and Ross. Al though the clay courts are in bad shape the men are improving dai ly and should be in good shape for their first match. A complete calendar of games has not been made, but four tenta tive dates have been set. First on the list is a match here with Texas on April 21. Then follow two games away from the campus, the first on April 27 with T.C.U., and the other with Rice on May 6. The Southwest Conference tournament is to be in Dallas on May 12. Sev eral more matches will probably be scheduled among which may be an exhibition match at T.S.C.W. —BUY WAR BONDS TODAY— FOR A GOOD PLACE TO EAT —try the — A. & M. GRILL LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - - A BIG SAVING! Maroon and White Natators Tied Steers for Crown Last Year 82-82 Once again the undaunted Texas Aggie swimming team will at tempt to wrest the Southwest Con ference swimming crown from the grasps of a Texas team with 12 consecutive years of Conference championships behind them. Sat urday night in Gregory Gymna sium, the Steers will play host to the Aggies. A&M’s record in the past ten years has been rather dismal as far as championship go, for not once have the Aggies suc ceeded in coming out on top, al though they have captured as many as nine out of eleven first places in a single meet. The closest to a victory they have come so far is the 82-82 tie with Texas last year here at College Station. The Longhorns, almost to a man Naval V-12 and ROTC personnel, hold a heavy advantage over the under-age Aggies in breaststroke, backstroke, and distance events. Conference champions Bollinger and McLellan look like sure things for victories in the breast, back, and individual medley events. The Aggies’ main hope is in garnering most of the second, third and fourth place points, although firsts are expected from Tom Syfan in the sprints and Alvara Facio in the diving. Allen Self has been withdrawn from the sprints, where he consistently won in dual meet competition, to participate in the 220 and 440. By this action, Coach Adamson hopes to rob Texas of points in the distance events, and allow Syfan to win in the Sprints. Coach Adamson is planning to take the entire squad to Austin Saturday to participate, as each team' can enter four men in each event. No reports of entries have been received from any of the oth er colleges in the conference, and the meet will undoubtedly be anoth er dual meet with Texas, as it has been for the last two years. In their last dual meet of the season April 7 with the Dallas YMCA in Dallas, the Aggies scored a smashing triumph over the younger and less experienced “Y” team, 60 to 33. The Aggiestock every first place but one, the diving event, in which Skippy Browning nosed out Webster and Clark. Fa cio was unable to attend the meet. Speaking of Operations! An invasion fleet of several hundred warships uses some 48,000 telephones—from 1,500 on a battles ship to 10 on a motor torpedo boat. That’s as many as are used by most cities of 160,000! 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