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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.
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KOCH, BAYLOR BEAR
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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.
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Battalion Sports
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Maroon And White Thinclads Edge Out
Rice For Second Place In Houston Meet
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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.
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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.
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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
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