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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1946)
Monday Afternoon, April 1, ! 1946 Y h 6 Battalion n ; - : 5‘V' • •. • > M ):).) !•• v Kyle Field.. 4 i • • • • On Kyle Field • • Aggie Tracksters Meet T. u. Tomorrow By Marion “Bookie” Pugh Battalion Sports Editor Thursday and Friday of this week the Aggie nine will open the 1946 Southwest Conference base ball season against the Texas Christian Homed Frogs. These two games should make or break the Aggies. If the Dimmittmen win their first two starts against the Froggies, we predict that they will go on to win the coveted baseball crown. How do I get that way? Well, perhaps it is just a hunch, but one can’t overlook the fact that four or five of those Ags can really powder that apple, and any one of them is capable of doing it when they step in that oblong box. Yes, the pitchers are a question; but Earl Beesley is a capable hurl- er when ^the chips are down, Art Newman will win his share, and with a little more experience this WASH & GREASE young fellow Bardwell could be plenty rought. With Shufford, Tur tle, and Lindsey relieving, the Ag gies will have a capable staff. It will be a rough row to hoe, but if the team as a whole will decide, in their own minds, that at the present they ARE NOT world beaters, and those first sev en games didn’t scare or bother anyone except the scorekeeper, and if they bow their necks, play heads-up ball, run those bases like that proverbial spotted ape, and play to win all the time, they CAN win that crown. -o- Tuesday the track team takes on the boys from the 40 acres in a dual track meet. This should be an interesting outing, for both teams have met Rice and Baylor in triangular meets. The Aggie thinly clads amassed 105 points against those two teams while Texas ran up 104. So the meet For SPORTS Tuesday should prove something. Here we go again. Willie Zapa- lac is supposed to throw that dis cus for sure this Tuesday. Again we say that he will place, and by the time the Conference meet gets here he will win it. -o- Did you know that one of the most amazing feats in sports took place on Jan. 7, 1936, when Helen Wills Moody and Howard Kinsey, former Davis Cup player, volleyed a tennis ball 78 minutes without a miss. The total of shots reached 2,001 . . . Kinsey had to quit to give a tennis lesson. HUCKABEE APPOINTED ASSISTANT AGRONOMIST Appointment of Roy L. Huck- abee as assistant agronomist of the A. & M. College Extension Service was announced today by Director Ide P. Trotter. Recently discharged from the Army, Huckabee begins work at College Station on April 1. Huckablee was born and reared on a farm near Holland, Bell Coun ty. He was graduated from Texas A. & M. College in 1936 with a B.S. degree in agronomy and spent two years as AAA secretary in Foard and Haskell counties. In February, 1939, he became assistant county agricultural agent for Young County. He was appointed county agricultural agent for Throckmorton County in September, 1941, and retained this position until he entered the Army in February, 1942. Fifty-eight per cent of the na tion's known gas reserves are in Texas. Aggies Drop Rifle Match to Tessies The Aggie rifle team played host to the Tessie Rifle team this week end for their annual rifle match and the Tessies beat them 972- 971. Fourteen entrants fired on each, side, and the scores of the top ten were counted in the scor ing of the match. The scores of the first nine on both sides totaled the same, and the tenth Tessie put her team over the top by gaining the one point margin. Juanita Reed, Patty Stephenson, Edna Ruth Ayres, Helen Cox, Patty Verda- man, Jane Ramsey, Jackie Swindl er, Ann Tilman, Virginia Geisler, Jane Beale, Pauline Kener, Esth er Schmidt, and Betty Browing fired for the Tessies, while Daniel, oJnes, Borofsky, Grone, Sexton- Kury, Devine, McGown, Cook, Richardson, Tate, Mansfield, Stites, and Grosser made up the Aggie team. So far this year, the Aggie team has defeated Henderson Uni versity, Montana University, Wis consin University, Arizona Uni versity, North Carolina University, West Virginia University, and .Maryland University. They have dropped matches to the Coast Guard Academy, Pittsburg' Uni versity, and West Point. Vocational Rehabilitation Mr. J. K. Kerr of the Vocational Rehabilitation Office of the State Department of Education will be in the Rural Sociology office, room 206, Agriculture Building, from 1:00 p. m., to 5:00 p. m., Tuesday, April 2, and after 7:00 p. m., at the Aggieland Inn on the same day. He would like to see any stu- Thinclads Go to Texas Relays Sat. After a run-away victory over Baylor and Rice in a triangular track meet here March 23, the Texas Aggies are scheduled to stage a dual meet with Texas Uni versity here on Tuesday, April 2, and then compete in the Texas Relays in Austin this Saturday. Col. Frank Anderson and his two assistats, Johnnie Frankie and Ray Putnam, were pleased with the performances turned in by the Aggies in their first com petition against conference rivals. Biggest surprise of the meet was the high jump of 6 feet, 3 3/4 inches made by Art Haws, to de feat Henry Coffman, former con ference champion from Rice. His best previous jump was six feet. While times in the races did not threaten any conference records the coaches agreed that they were creditable for this early in the season and look forward to im provement from here on. Johnnie Ziegler, conference record holder in the cross-country and 1941 two- mile champion, won his mile and two-mile runs in slow time. Put nam, who handles the runners, says he looks for him to better the time he has >:ecordeG this year. Art Harnden, 440-dash dash spec ialist, took his event easily. Before he entered the army Harnden was one of the best 440 prospects in the conference. Frank Young's win in the shot was his third of the season' and in each he has shown improve ment. In the javelin John Feagan recorded his first collegiate win with a short toss of 169 feet which he should be able to do better after more competition. The mile relay team which won last Saturday is hardly the one the Aggies will use in the confer ence since three of the Aggies’ top quartermilers were in the hos pital that day and Harnden did not run. At that the quartet clock ed a time of 3:32.2. dents other than veterans who think they have claims for this educational assistance. 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