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Texas Is Favored
In First Postwar
SWC Track Meet
The first post-war South
west Conference track meet
will be held on Kyle Field
here Saturday, May 11, with
all seven schools in the con
ference sending contestants
to the sstarters. Preliminar
ies will be held Friday after
noon, beginning at 3:15.
Many past performers are back
in competition after war service,
but in the opinion of several coach
es no records are expected to fall
this year. Some may be threatened
but not too seriously. If any marks
fall they may be in the 440-yard
or mile relays since good time has
been done in those events this
year. The Baylor Bears sport the
best time in the 440-yard event,
while the Texas Aggies are tops,
undefeated in the mile event. There
is also a slim chance for the oldest
of them all, the two-mile mark, to
fall if Johnny Zeigler of the Ag
gies can recover from his mile race
in time to put on speed the whole
way in the distance run. He has
come within 30 seconds of the
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9:32:4 set by Sandi Esquival of
Texas in 1925, but in making his
best time he did not run in the
mile.
The Texas Longhorns are fav
ored to win this year’s classic with
the Aggies taking second. The fin
ish could be close but even the
most optimistic forecaster can’t
get the Aggies closer than three
points off the crown. Baylor and
Rice will fight it out for third
place by about the same margin,
and SMU and TCU should follow
in that order. Arkansas can slip
in anywhere except at the top,
since no season record is available
in Texas on them. During the
regular season they do not com
pete in any meets against confer
ence opponents, so are an unknown
quantity.
Baylor is a new threat to high
placing for the first time in many
years and has several first or
second place men in the “best
marks” report just released by
James H. Stewart, executive sec
retary of the conference.
The Aggies are weak on sprint
ers and do not figure to place any
men in those fast events except
the sprint relay. This fact is what
will keep them from winning the
meet, Coach Frank Anderson fig
ures. The Cadets have depth but
will have to come up with some
unexpected points in field events
to turn the tide their way. The
strength of the Bears will take
some points away from both Long
horns and Aggies but not enough
from Texas to slip the Aggies up
front.
The Longhorns not only have
top men in several events but they
also have those important men
who take off the seconds, thirds
and fourths which win meets when
they are close. They have Lawler
in the 100-yard dash with his 9.7
mark; Kidd in the 220-yard dash
with his 21.3, and second in the
440-yard dash with a 49.6 second
only to Harnden of A. & M., who
has 49 flat; Joyce in the mile with
4:34 in a tie with Zeigler, A&M;
Cunningham in the 880-yard run
in 2:00:7; Joyce with a second to
Zeigler in the two-mile race; Pen
dleton is top shot putter with a
heave of 45 feet, 8 inches; and
Robertson is high in the broad
jump with 24 feet, 8 inches. Their
sprint relay team (440 yards) is
neck and neck with Baylor’s time.
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EntriesDue Tomorrow for Intramural
Track Meet; Eleven Events Slated
Aggie Nine Meets
SMU Here Friday
In Last Home Tilt
By Bill Rippetoe
The Intramural track meet which
will be held on Kyle Field May
19 will include the 440-yard dash,
the 100-yard dash, 880-yard run,
120-yard low hurdles, 440-yard re
lay, 880-yard relay, shot put, high
jump, broad jump, pole vault, and
the mile and seven tenths run. The
latter will be held for freshmen
only. Athletic officers are urged to
hold their tryouts as soon as pos
sible and turn their entry blanks
in before May 9.
Softball
Dorm 12 walloped Mitchell 22-1
in the only ball game Friday after
noon. Schibert, the winning pitch
er, allowed Mitchell only two hits.
In the Monday evening games, A
Troop upset A Infantry 11-5 while
Other second, third and fourth
placers are too numerous to men
tion and in some events they could
sweep all places.
The Aggies’ hopes lie in their
undefeated mile relay team of
Harnden, Napier, Fischer, and
Benson. That same quartet prob
ably will run in the 440-yard dash
in which Harnden is tops with
49 flat. Kidd and Ferrell, Texas,
rank second and third, and Napier
fourth. Zeigler should win the mile
and two-mile events as he has all
season.
White should place in the high
hurdles where he ranks next to
Erfurth of Rice but eight-tenths
of a second slower; and Hill might
get into the money in the lows
where he ranks fifth. Young fig
ures for second in the shot while
Smolik might pull third in the pole
vault and Haws a second in the
high jump if he can better his rec
ent marks. He ranks second but
has not approached his best leap
lately. Dickey should take the dis
cus but Texas figures two men
placing to offset that win. Zapalac
can get into the money if he gets
off one of his good heaves. Third
in the broad jump with Hill is the
outlook there and the javelin is a
question mark. The Cadets should
count fourth in the sprint relay
since four places are given and
they have a team entered which
should prove better than the other
also-rans.
Col. Anderson is not optimistic
about the Aggie chances. So for
this year, he has announced when
he thought the Aggies would win
and has been right every time.
Now he says Texas university will
win and should score 63 points;
Texas A. & M. should take second
with 48; Baylor third with 31;
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A Battery and C Battery won over
D Cavalry and A Cavalry. D Bat
tery also came through with a win
over G Infantry by scoring 9 runs
to their 5.
Tennis
The Class B Infantrymen won
all three of the tennis matches
Monday as F Infantry won over
C Cavalry, and C Infantry and E
Infantry defeated C Battery and
B Battery. In Friday’s games, H
Infantry edged out D Infantry
and C Infantry and E Infantry
beat B Cavalry and A Infantry.
Volleyball
In the Class A volleyball con
tests, the Infantrymen came thru
again. D, C, H, G, and A Com
panies won over No. 16, B Bat
tery, B Cavalry, Bizzell, and C
Cavalry, respectively.
SPORTS
“Dookie” Pugh Signs
To Play Pro Football
With Florida Team
What happened to The Battal
ion’s wandering sports editor was
clarified by an Associated Press
release from Fort Worth on May 6,
which reported that Marion “Dook-
ie” Pugh has signed a professional
football contract with the Miami,
Florida team of the new All-
American league.
The Miami club is coached by
Jack Meagher, formerly head men
tor at Rice Institute. Pugh was
quarterback on the 1939 Texas A.
& M. team that won the national
championship, and returned last
fall from service with the U. S.
Army in Germany. He played pro
football with the New York Giants
of the National League before and
after entering the service.
“Coach Meagher offered me such
a fat contract I couldn’t turn it
down,” said Pugh. “I hadn’t in
tended to continue in pro-ball.”
Rice fourth with 22; SMU fifth
with 11; and TCU should get 2
for sixth place. He left Arkansas
out since he knows nothing about
their men. “If they take any
points I hope that it is in some
event that won’t take them away
from us,” he said.
Qualifying heats in the 100, 220
and 440-yard dashes, the 120-high
and 220-low hurdles, and the broad
jump and discus will be held Fri
day afternoon starting at 3:30.
The Texas Aggies will play their
final home game of the 1946
season Friday, with the S. M. U.
Mustangs providing the opposition.
Game time is 3:30 p.m.
A. & M.’s defeat at the hands
of the league-leading Texas Long
horns last Saturday, coupled with
two wins by Baylor over the Rice
Owls, pushed the Cadets into third
place position in Conference com-
petion with the Bears taking over
second place. Rice is in fourth
place, T. C. U. in fifth, and S.M.U.
is holding down the cellar posi
tion.
The Aggie nine has beaten the
Ponies twice, taking both ends of
a two-game series in Dallas on
April 12 and 13. Earl Beesley was
the winning pitcher in the first
game, while Southpaw Johnny
Shuford was credited with the
other victory.
Hub Moon, leading Aggie hitter
for the season thus far, was third
in Southwest Conference average
standings at the halfway mark,
according to figures released Sat
urday by Executive Secretary
James H. Stewart. He was topped
by Chick Zomlefer, Texas u. short
stop, who has a mark of .500 for
13 hits of 26 times at bat, and by
Jack Redding of Baylor who has
a .454 average. Moon was a close
third with .441. In the pitching
department, Earl Beesley of the
Aggies had an .833 average and
was the top man in strikeouts with
a total of 61. Layne added 13
strikeouts Saturday to bring his
total to 54 for the conference sea
son, but Beesley added eight and
now has 69.
The Aggies could very easily re
gain the second place spot Friday
by winning from the Ponies, since
Baylor meets undefeated Texas at
Austin this afternoon.
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Conference track meet Satur
day, since the event is not
classified as a home contest
for Texas A. & M. College but
as a Conference-wide competi
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members, and 50^ for others.
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