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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.
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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.
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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. Students
now receiving this assistance who
have questions to ask may also see
him at this time.
A fraternity at S.M.U. collected
$316.17 for the “March of Dimes”
with an “Ugly Man” contest.
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