Monday Afternoon, February 25, 1946
The Battalion
Page 3
Seventy-Five Men Work Out for
Positions on Aggie Track Team
“The Texas Aggie track team for
1946 is about as much a question
mark as it has been during the war
years,” Track Coach Col. Frank
Anderson said this week when
queried about the outlook for the
coming season which will open for
the Aggies at the border Olympics
at Laredo on March 8-9.
Although he has about 75 hope
fuls working out daily under his
and Assistant Coach Johnnie Fran
kie’s tutelage, only six of those
are left from the 1945 squad. In
addition he has picked up three
other lettermen who are back at
Aggieland after service in the
armed forces.
Those left over from last year
include Jesse Hargis and Jim Jones,
mile and two mile events; Oscar
White and Jim Mortensen, hur
dles; Arthur Haws, high jump; and
Harold Zeitman, broad jump. Back
from military service come Leon
ard Dickey, shot, discus and pos
sibility for javelin; Johnnie Zig-
ler, mile and two miler who once
held the conference cross country
record; and Arthur Harnden, 220-
yard speed merchant. Noticeably
absent are experienced men in the
100-440 and 880-yard events and
those are the men who also make
up the relay teams. Also absent are
candidates of renown for the pole
vault and javelin unless Dickey
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CLO (TKIERS
College and Bryan
Aggies Will Close Out Cage Season
With Arkansas Tonight and Tomorrow
SPORTS
Kok vs. Dawson Battle Promises
Thriller for Two-Game Series
comes through on the latter event.
Some high school trackmen
checked in this week but as yet
they have not had time to demon
strate their wares to the Aggie
coaches. White is currently busy
with basketball and after that is
over he will be busy with Winter
football training as will Morten
sen, all of which makes it look
like other hurdlers will have a
chance to make the team until those
two timber toppers get free for
cinder track service. There also
are some gridders working out for
track who will devote a goodly
part of their time to football
training from Feb. 11 to March
12.
Only one open date remains on
the Aggie track schedule' and for
a change no “Little Conference”
meet will be held with Texas and
Rice although both are met in two
dual meets on a home and home
basis.
Also for the first time the an
nual Southwest Conference track
meet will be held in Kyle Field
here on May 10-11.
The full schedule is as follows:
March 8-9—Border Olympics at
Laredo.
March 16—Fat Stock Show at
Fort Worth.
March 23—Rice Institute at Col
lege Station.
April 2—Texas University at
College Station.
April 6—Texas Relays at Aus
tin.
April 13—Rice Institute at Hous
ton.
April 20—Open date (may be
filled in later.
April 27—Drake Relays at Des
Moines, la.
May 4—Texas University at
Austin.
May 10-11—Southwest Confer
ence Meet at College Station.
June 21-22—National Collegiate
Athletic Ass’n. Meet at Minneapo
lis, Minn.
July-'—(date to be announced)—
National AAU Meet at San An
tonio.
LOUPOTS
WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET
A FAIR TRADE
By Marion Pugh
Battalion Sports Editor
Tonight the Texas Aggies will take on the Arkansas
Razorbacks in DeWare fieldhouse at 7:30 o’clock. There
will be a repeat performance at the same time tomorrow
night. Each game promises to be a thriller all the way even
though the conference standings will not be altered re
gardless of who gets the upper hand.
Aggie Golfers
Begin Workouts
Coach Marty Karow has an
nounced that seventeen prospective
members of the A. & M. golf team
tave begun practice at the Bryan
Country Club. An intersquad tour
nament is scheduled for the week
end of March 2, and a match be
tween the Aggies and the Country
Club is in the making for March
9.
The Southwest Conference tour
nament will be held here begin
ning May 10.
Mixed Doubles In Tennis
Will Start Next Week
A mixed doubles tennis tourna
ment for veterans and their wives
will start the first of next week,
according to the intramural office.
Entries are now being accepted,
and the deadline is Friday after
noon at five p.m. The matches will
be played on the concrete courts.
This is the first of a series of
co-educational recreation and ath
letic events that the intramural
office is sponsoring. Spike White,
intramural director stated that the
office would sponsor anything of
interest if there were enough de
mand.
Aggies Lost Latest Rifle
Match to U.S. Coast Guard
The Aggie Rifle team lost in
theft* latest match against the U.S.
Coast Guard Academy of New
London, Conn, by a score of 1847
for the Aggies and 1887 for the
Coast Guard.
The match was a best five out
of ten affair, with ten men firing
and the best five targets being
used. The following men fired in
the match for A. & M.: Daniels,
Watson, Richardson, Cook, Sexton,
McGown, Jones, Grosser, Kury and
Midgely.
K The Razorbacks are firmly em
placed in second place, behind the
Baylor Bears, conference champs.
The Aggies are holding down fifth
slot, but a win for the luckless
Aggies would tend to prove what
many fans have contended all year;
this is, they are capable of beat
ing anyone, anywhere at any
time.
Arkansas, favored to take the
conference flag until Baylor and
T. C. U. upset the dope bucket by
taking one each from the Razor-
backs, will be trying to keep their
record of eight wins and two los
ses intact. Led by big, tall George
Kok, the leading scorer in the con
ference, the Razorbacks offer a
smooth well balanced machine. Ja
mie “The Pup” Dawson will have
his hands full looking after Kok,
and vice versa. It should be an
interesting duel between these
boys.
These games will be the last for
each club, and will spell finish
to the Southwest Conference race,
a race that has seen the turnstiles
click like they have never click
ed before. Practically every game
at all the schools has enjoyed pack
ed houses. This is supposed to
prove something. Perhaps infla
tion, or deflation, who knows, but
it does prove every school in the
conference needs either to build *
a new field house or enlarge its
present one to take care of the
fans in a decent manner.
Come early if you wish a seat,
for none of the seats are reserved.
160 Wrestlers Weigh In;
Matches Start 4:30 Wed.
One hundred and sixty wrestlers
have weighed in for the intramural
wrestling matches to be held this
week, starting at 4:30 Wednesday
afternoon. The number is about
evenly divided in to upperclassmen
and freshmen.
Brackets for the matches are
already posted on the intramural
bulletin board, and schedule slips
will also be sent out to those
participating in the bouts.
Refreshment
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