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1 .ri Page 4 T H E BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, 1945 Aggie Diamondmen Play Frogs Friday Maroon And White Drop Pair to Owls, WAAF, Break Even In Series With SMU By Ed Wendt Battalion Sports Editor NEW COACHES ADDED Three new coaches were added Tuesday to the staff of Head Coach Homer Norton of the Athletic De partment. The additions included Barton (Bochy) Koch, Johnnie Frankie, and Frank Anderson. FRANKIE FORMER TUTOR OF MILBY BUFFS To fill the recently vacated post of basketball coach is Johnnie Frankie, former coach of Houston’s Milby High School cage teams. Frankie comes to us with quite a record as a cage coach, and with plenty of high school and college experience. Frankie graduated from Rice Institute in the spring of 1937. While enrolled there, he piled up a neat reputation as an athlete, lettering three years in basketball and football. Upon grad uation, he stepped into the assist ant coaching bracket of high schools and finally took over the Milby Buff cage responsibilities in 1941. His team of last season went to the state finals, to be ousted from the title only by Pas chal High of Fort Worth. Frankie, too, will assist with football this fall, until cage season opens. He will join the staff on Sept. 1. We have Brown Rubber Heels Any Size Holick’s Boot Shop ■f A&M ALTERATION SHOP Aggies! A.S.T.R.P. We give you 2-day service on all Patches, Stripes, Al terations. BRING IT TO TILLIE KOCH, BAYLOR BEAR ALL-AMERICAN Bochy Koch will join the coach ing staff on June 1, as a football line coach. Koch graduated from Baylor in the spring of 1931 and became line coach of the Bears that fall. He coached five seasons for the Bears, after which he ac cepted line coach responsibilities at George Washington University of Washington, D. C. Hel*e, he spent four years coaching, fol lowed by a year at Tulsa at the same position. In 1941 he returned to Baylor to coach one season, be fore going into the Merchant Ma rines, from which he was dis charged last June. Since that time Koch has been with the Brown- Root Construction Compapy of Houston. FRANK ANDERSON, VETERAN TRACK COACH In the Southwest, wherever the word track is mentioned, you’ll find Frank Anderson’s name heads the list. His name has come to be a by-word in track language. While still in high school “Col. Andy” began his track career by winning the Mississippi state title in pole vault in 1912. Upon leaving high school, he entered Mississippi Col lege and ran the 100-yard dash, broad jumped, and pole vaulted for them. In 1920 Col. Anderson joined the coaching staff of the Texas Aggies as an assistant coach. Two years later, he took full responsi bilities as track mentor. It Was in the spring of 1935 that Mr. Ander son resigned as track coach,, leav ing a reputation of 15 years of ex cellent coaching for the Aggies. During his time as track coach, Frank Anderson coached four Con ference champion track teams plus six cross-country winners. He has bpen with the Physical Education department for the last seven years and will take over the track team Sept. 1 of next fall. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS If you have a negative on file, we still have time to get your portrait ready for Mother’s Day. Hurry be fore it is too late to attend to that important must. AGGIELAND STUDIO JOE SOSOLIK, Proprietor 25 Years Service to Aggieland Reliable — Friendly — Economical We take pride in our continued growth as evidence of satisfactory service to Texas Aggies and the College Station community. BLACK/S PHARMACY Medicine Delivered to Your Door Phone 4-1182 College Hills Summer Battalion AGGIES, we’re going to have a Battalion this sum mer and you’ll want to read it, especially if you’re planning to be away. Place your order now and be assured of keeping posted on the happenings of Ag gieland during the summer session. THE SUMMER BATTALION - $1.50 ORDERS NOW BEING TAKEN IN ROOM 3, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Battalion Sports "t Maroon And White Thinclads Edge Out Rice For Second Place In Houston Meet m Despite the Rice entry’s efforts, Oscar White gives Aggies easy win in 120 yard high hurdles. The Owl runner is Corley. Aggie Linksmen Meet Steers Sat. On Bryan Course The Aggie golf team will be host to the Texas Longhorn links men on the Bryan Country Club golf course Saturday afternoon. The Maroon and White team suffered a terrific loss this week, as Mac Stewart was declared in eligible. This loss will handicap the Aggies in meets to come. It is expected that the Long horns will bring down a four-man team for the match. If they do, the following men will represent the Farmers: Fesperman, Henry, Juliff, and Henning. If, by chance, they should bring a six-man team, Halcomb and Nichols will also compete. The Longhorn golf team has suf fered two losses this season, where as the Aggies have one win to their good. Since the Texas links men were handed both defeats by the Rice Owls and it was at the Owl expense that the Aggies won their match, the Maroon and White are favorites to win; however, the loss of Mac Stewart may affect the outcome greatly. On Thursday and Friday, May 10 and 11, the Aggie golf club will journey to Dallas for the Southwest Conference meet. The match with Texas Saturday will start promptly at 2:00 p.m. INTRAMURAL STANDINGS The final intramural standings in basketball, handball, and horse shoe pitching are as follows: BASKETBALL League A W. L. T. A Company 5 1 0 C Battery 4 1 0 C Company 2 3 0 Second Company 2 3 0 Band : 1 3 0 H Company 0 4 0 League B W. L. T. Dorm 6 5 1 0 G Company 3 2 0 F Battery 3 2 0 B Battery 3 2 0 D Troop 2 4 0 F Company 0 6 0 League C W. L. T. B Company 7 0 0 E Company a 5 1 0 D Company 4 2 0 E Troop 2 4 0 A Battery 2 4 0 First Company 2 4 0 G Battery 0 5 0 HANDBALL League A W. L. T. F Battery 6 0 0 D Company 3 2 0 D Troop 2 2 0 G Company 2 3 0 B Company 2 3 0 A Battery 0 4 0 League B W. L. T. Dorm 6 5 0 0 C Company 3 2 0 A Company 3 2 0 E Company 3 2 0 C Battery 1 4 0 E Troop 0 5 0 League C W. L. T. B Battery 4 1 0 G Battery 2 1 0 F Company 2 2 0 H Company 1 2 0 Band 0 4 0 Holbrook Beaten By Guy Groves Twice Coach Lil Dimmitt’s fighting Texas Aggie track team barely eked out the second place position over the Rice Owls, 47-46, in the Little Conference track and field meet last Saturday afternoon in Houston. Clyde Littlefield’s Texas Longhorns ran away with the top honors with 80 points. High and individual honors with 10% points went to Walmsley of Rice, who won the 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, and ran on the sec ond place 440-yard relay. Second place laurels were taken by Um- stattd, of T. U., who broke the tape first in both the 880-yard run and the one mile run. Aggie places were, first places: 120-yard high hurdles, White; shotput, Tassos; high jump, Haws (tied with Kegan, Texas). Second places: 440-yard dash, Holbrook; mile run, McDowell; 880-yard dash, Holbrook; 220-yard low hurdles, White; mile relay, Henderson, Alley, Wilson, Hol brook; pole vault, Williams; dis cus, Tassos. • Third places: mile run, Hargis; 120-yard high hurdles, Hensch; Guy Groves comes from behind to edge out Ray Holbrook of Ag gies to give Rice first place in the mile relay. The boys are shown as they crossed the finish line. * * * 440-yard relay, Henderson, White, Zeitman, Alley; two-mile run, Mc Farland; 220-yard low hurdles, Wallace. Fourth places: 440-yard dash, Wilson; mile run, Hargis; two- mile run, Joyce; 220-yard low hur dles, Hensch; pole vault, Haws. The Dimmittmen’s next meet will be fhe Southwest Conference track and field meet at Dallas on May 12. SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB SPONSORS JUDGING CONTEST Saturday, May 5th, the Saddle and Sirloin club is sponsoring a judging contest which will be held in the animal husbandry pavilion. The judging will begin promptly at one-fifteen p.m. and those eligi ble to participate in this contest are those students now taking A. H. 107. These men have been urged to take part. Reasons are not required and the final decisions will be made by professors of the animal hus bandry department. There will be three breeding classes and one fat class of each species of cattle, hogs, and sheep to be judged. There will be five prizes award ed the five high scorers of the af ternoon, as follows: First prize—a tex tan hand tool ed belt with silver buckle set do nated by J. E. Loupot. Second prize—a hand tooled bill fold donated by Holick’s Boot Shop. Third prize—$5.00, donated by Lauterstein’s cleaning shop. Fourth prize—a hunting knife donated by the student Co-op. Fifth prize—a billfold donated by A. M. Waldrop Co. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS Damon “Greek” Tassos, two year grid letterman, throws the jave lin for the maroon and white in the recent dual track meet with Rice. Netters Lose To Longhorns and TCU The Aggie tennis team lost two hard-fought matches this past week, the first on Thursday to Texas and the other to T. C. U. on Friday. In the games played here with Texas, the Longhorns displayed a very strong team and won all six of the matches played. Playing number one singles position for the Aggies was Mimo Elizondo, number two, Jimmy Killebrew, three, Boots Gilbert, and four, Bob Huston. In the singles competition Bill Sayres of Texas played a brilliant game to win over Elizon do 6-0, 6-1. C. F. McCarter beat Killebrew 6-3, 6-1. Gilbert was nosed out by Jack Blanton 6-3, 6-4, and Rod Dellano won over Huston 6-4, 6-2. For the two doubles match es Sayres and Dellano teamed to gether to beat the Aggie number two team, Tommy Penn and Boots Gilbert, 6-1, 6-1, and McCarter and Blanton played together to beat Killebrew and Elizondo, the num ber one team, 6-2, 6-2. Friday the Aggies went to Fort Worth against T.C.U. and again met defeat, although this time by a much narrower margin. The same players that competed against Tex as made the trip and each played his same position. The first sin gles match was a close-fought deuce-ad duel between Elizondo and Robinson, T. C. U.’s top man. Elizondo finally edged out a vic tory, 7-9, 6-4, and 6-2. Killebrew lost the second match to Robins 6-3, 6-2. Then in the third Gilbert defeated Mayfield 6-1, 6-3, and Huston lost the last to Chu 7-5, 6- 2. This left the score tied 2-2 and it was necessary for the Ag gies to win both of the doubles to take the meet. The Aggies seemed sure to win after the singles re sults, but T. C. U. buckled down and won two very close decisions. Robinson and Mayfield won over Killebrew and Elizondo 7-5, 4-6, 7- 5; Chu and Robins took their match from Gilbert and Penn 6-4, 6-4. Saturday Penn, Killebrew, Gil bert, and Elizondo journeyed on to Tessieland and put on an exhibi tion match at T. S. C. W. Play ing among themselves the Aggies displayed very good form. On the schedule for this week is a game here today with T. C. U. at 2:30 and a match Saturday aft ernoon in Houston with Rice. HORSESHOE PITCHING League A W. L. First Company 5 1 C Company 4 2 E Troop 4 2 G Battery , 3 2 C Battery 1 3 B Company 0 5 League B W. L. D Company 5 0 A Battery 4 1 H Company . 3 2 B Battery 2 • 3 Second Company 1 4 F Company 0 5 League C W. L. A Company 4 0 G Company 4 0 D Troop 3 2 F Battery ....i 1 3 Dorm 6 1 4 Band 0 4 The Maroon and White finally*" won a conference ball game at the expense of the SMU Mustangs Tuesday afternoon. It was the sec ond game of a twin bill which saw the Ponies take the first tilt by a margin of 4-1, and the Aggies cop the abbreviated night-cap by a count of 2-1. In the third inning of the first game the Ponies got two runs on two hits, a base on balls, and an error. They got their other runs in the fifth on two bases on balls and a pair of hits. A. & M.’s only score came in the sixth on a pile driving home- run by “Stubby” Matthews. The blow carried well over the left-center field wall. It was the longest blow hit in the park this year. In the nightcap, which was lim ited to six innings because of time, Jim Kucera bested Skelton Na pier in a well pitched ball game. The Ponies got an early lead, scor ing in the first frame on two hits and an error. The Maroon and White came storming back in the second, however, when they tied it up on George Strickhausen’s triple into right, and Strange’s base hit through short. The game was won in the sixth on a walk, a hit, an error, and a well-timed squeeze play. The winning run was scored by Raymond Katt. DROPPED FRIDAY’S GAME TO OWLS Last Friday the Rice Owls down ed A&M 10-3. It was the same old story of too many errors and too few hits. Ed Murphey, the Rice chunker, limited the Maroon and White to three hits. He was a bit wild, but kept the knocks well scattered. Meanwhile, his mates were collecting eleven safeties off the combined efforts of Elmer Purtle and Jim Love. Eight mis- cues by the home team did nothing to help the cause of the Maroon and White. WACO AAF TOOK SATURDAY’S GAME Saturday afternoon against the Waco Army Air Field nine, the Aggies made their best showing of the season. True, they were beat en 4-1, but they were playing a combination of major league ma terial. Three of the Waco runs were marked up in the first in ning. From then on the Aggies fought them on even ground. The Medals Awarded to Swimming Champions Texas A. & M. College’s first championship swimming team will receive special awards denoting their feat. Their coach Art Adam son, also will receive one of the special awards voted by the Ath letic Council, Coach Homer Norton announced yesterday. The Aggie T medal with swim ming bar will be awarded to the following: F. E. Armstrong, J. V. Clark, M. S. Escobar, A. R. Facio, W. E. Geer, J. A. Heeman, Richard Lea, J. H. Riley, R. V. Sawyer, S. A. Self, T. C. Syfan, J. W. Thomas, P. E. Webster and R. Whitley. Lettermen on the rifle team in clude Edwin R. Daniels, Robert H. Sanders, Drulane R. Brannen, Ha rold Borofsky, James M. Purdy, Robert L. Powell, A. C. Jefferson, John T. Hunt, Thomas A. Halff and Jere W. Higgs. Waco nine collected only four safe ties during the afternoon, while A&M could get only three. The Ag gies’ lone run came in the ninth. AGGIES FACE TCU HERE TOMORROW This Friday afternoon A&M is host to the TCU Horned Frogs. The two clubs have met only once this year, the Frogs winning by a count of 7-1. Three pitchers looked particular ly good for the Aggies this week. They were Charlie Smith, Jim Love, and Jim Kucera. These three will likely shoulder a lot of the load in the remaining conference tilts. Game time Friday afternoon is 4:00 p.m. CONFERENCE BASEBALL STANDINGS Team W L Pet. R Op. R Texas 4 1 .800 42 12 Rice 3 2 .600 35 14 SMU 4 3 .572 29 34 TCU 2 3 .400 21 35 Aggies 1 5 .166 18 50 ALTERATIONS LAUTERSTEIN’S PHONE 4-4444 CASH - - -Highest Prices Paid for BOOKS - - - LAMPS DRAWING INSTRUMENTS We have always paid highest prices for these items. COLLEGE BOOK STORE B. W. BOBBITT, ’40 UsedBooksWanted The Exchange Store is in the market for USED FRESHMAN BOOKS which have been approved for the Summer Semester. We will give 50 per cent of list for all such books we can use. Additional lists will be an nounced soon. 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