The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 08, 1946, Image 3

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 8, 1946
THE BATTALION
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:: On Kyle Field ::
by U. V. Johnston
A few weeks ago we were
speaking of the cost of staging
football games at different times
and places, and this past week we
were looking over an old Ath
letic Financial statement of the
University’s and ran across some
interesting figures on the 1915
season. That year the athletic
department started the season
with $32.06 and finished with a
$3,931.12 indebtedness. From
these figures it would seem that
athletics were not nearly so pro
fitable then as they are at pres
ent.
During the season of ’14-’15
football was the only sport
that paid for itself, and this
sport did not make it through
the season with very much to
spare.
The Rice-T. U. game that year
had a total rate receipt of $218.05,
and T. U. had given Rice a three
hundred dollar guarantee. This
gave T. U. a net loss of $81.95,
which looked like a very sad day
for the boys who paid the bills.
The Baylor game the same year
also gave the T. U. athletic coun
cil a headache, as it also came
out in the red. That game was
even worse than the other, as it
lost better than $75.00. The game
with Oklahoma University that
year prevented the athletic de
partment from going completely
bankrupt, as it showed the very
big profit—according to the stand
ards of that time—$3,574.30. This
however is not the net profit as
the expenses of the game had to
be paid out of this amount.
The A. & M.-T.U. game
played at Austin on Nov. 25,
1920 broke all existing at
tendance records with the
huge crowd of a little better
than 20,000. This attendance,
according to our standards of
today, is nothing to brag
about, but at that time it was
a very formidable showing
It did not hurt the feelings of
the athletic council either,
as an attendance of that size
netted the schools as much
as all the other games togeth
er.
In the twenties a game of the
size of the last A&M Cotton
Bowl Game in 1941 was unheard
of... In ’42 when the Aggies played
Alabama there was an attend
ance of a little more than 30,-
000, and the gate receipts were
slightly more than $100,000.
These figures give a little of the
history of the development of
sports in this part of the country,
and show that it has become a
much more profitable business
during the past 25 years.
COLLEGE STATION
STANDINGS
Standings: Aug.
Team Won
Tigers 2
Indians 2
Cubs 2
Pirates ......1
Yankees ....1
Giants 1
5, 1946
Lost Pet.
0 1.000
1 .666
1 .666
2 .333
2 .333
3 .250
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SATURDAY, AUG. 10
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Mural Softball Gets Warm
As Season Draws to Close
By Cliff Ackerman
This second half of the Intra
mural summer sports program
has been fast and furious, and
with one week to go the league
leaders will have plenty of com
petition in holding their top po
sition. In the New Area Dorm
No. 3 is leading with Dorm No.
12 right behind. This league
could easily end in a tie when
these two teams meet again.
Pitchers like Patterson and Huff
for Dorm No. 12 slated against
the smooth pitching of Dickson
can prove to be anyone’s game
from start to finish.
In the Old Area there is an
other close league with Puryear
leading the race and Mitchell and
Bizzell bidding for their share of
the wins. Players like Giesek
and the “nothing ball” pitching
of Crew will do their part in
helping Puryear hold the lead.
Catcher Drake and firstbaseman
Schemuck for Mitchell will be
playing heads-up ball to make Pur
year earn what they get. It will
be Bizzell, a team that has had
some hard luck, that can cause
some upsets with the fast field
ing of , shoftstop L’Hommadieu
and third baseman Perry.
Puryear only played one game
this week and defeated Dorm No.
15 8 to 4. The losing pitcher was
Grafa, the winning pitcher Crew.
Mitchell won three games this
past week. First to fall under a
hail of hits was Dorm No. 15 to
the count of 12 to 7. Next game
was a hitting battle in which
Dorm No. 16 was defeated 14 to
10. Leftfielder Andrews led the
batting for the winners with 4
OLD AREA LEAGUE
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
Puryear
4
0
1.000
Mitchell
4
1
.800
Bizzell
5
2
.714
Milner
3
3
.500
Dorm No. 15
2
4
.333
Dorm No. 17
1
4
.200
Dorm No. 16
0 5
NEW AREA LEAGUE
.000
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
Dorm No. 3
6
0
1.000
Dorm No. 12
5
1
.833
Dorm No. 7
7
4
.333
Dorm No. 9
1
5
.166
Dorm No. 1
1 5
VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE
.166
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
Dorm No. 15
3
0
1.000
Dorm No. 16
1
0
1.000
Dorm No. 12
1
0
1.000
Dorm No. 17
1
1
.500
Dorm No. 9
1
1
.500
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hits for 5 trips to bat. For the
losers Broun led with 3 hits for
4 trips. In their third win Mitch
ell stopped Milner to the score of
8 to 2.
Bizzell won three games and
ran up a new scoring record for
three straight games by their
hard slugging. They outslugged
Dorm No. 16 to the tune of 21 to
9. Their next victory was over
the up and coming Dorm No. 17
team to the count of 16 to 13. The
following day it was a fast vic
tory over Dorm No. 16 by a 12
to 1 score.
Dorm No. 15 took their only
win of the week by a close played
game with Milner to the score of
11 to 9.
After their defeat by Dorm No.
15 Milner came back to outplay
Dorm No. 17 to a 12 to 2 count.
“Old Men” of Dorm
No. 17 Win One
Dorm No. 17 finally came
through with a win by defeating
Dorm No. 15 by a score of 12 to
11. The score was 11 to 5 when
Dorm No. 17 came up for their
last bat in the 7th inning to get
9 hits and 7 runs off the pitching
of Day and Schaeper. Galberth,
hard hitting firstbaseman for
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Battalion
Tigers Win Over
Pirates to Go
Into First Place
The Tigers won their second
game of the last half of the Col
lege Station softball league last
Friday afternoon from the Pirates
to take over first position in the
league. Riddle, pitching for the
Tigers allowed the Pirates to hit
6 times for their 3 runs. Karrow
was the losing pitcher, allowing
the Tigers to hit 10 times for
their 9 runs. The only double
play of the game occured in the
5th inning; Fly to Potts for the
Pirates. The Tigers got three
2-base hits; Denton, Perryman
and Bearden slugging one each.
The Cubs playing their third
game won for the second time
from the Giants last Wednesday
afternoon, July 31, on the College
Park diamond. Jones, R. was the
winning pitcher allowing the
'Giants, to hit 3 times for their
2 runs. Rogers pitching for the
Giants, allowed the Cubs 5 hits
for their 6 runs. The longest hit
of the game was a home run for
the Cubs by Terrell in the 2nd
inning. Stiles slugged out a
tripple in the 7th inning for the
Giant’s longest hit.
The Giants won their first
game of the last half of the seas
on last Monday afternoon from
the Yankees by a score of 10 to
0. Rogers pitching for the Giants
allowed the Yankees 4 hits. Jay
pitched the game for the Yankees
allowing the Giants 9 hits. The
longest hit of the game was a
home run by Richardson for the
Giants in the 3rd inning. The only
double play of the game occured
in the 5th inning for the Giants:
Adams to Spriggs.
WTAW to Carry
Boy’s All-American
Baseball Game Sat.
The Esquire All-American Boys
Baseball game on Saturday, Aug
ust 10, will be broadcast over
WTAW at 12:30 P. M. This is
the third game of its kind, and it
will be played at Wrigley Field,
Chicago. Harry Wismer, ABC di
rector of sports will give the play
by play description, and Johnny
Neblett will provide the descrip
tive color.
The players for this game were
selected on the nominations of
sports editors throughout the
country, and then final selections
were made in run-off playing.
The 32 boys who were selected
will be divided into two teams,
one representing the East and
the other the West. Ty Cobb will
coach the team from the West,
and Honus Wagner will direct the
eastern team.
Entries for Swim
Meet Due Monday
Entries for the Intramural
Swimming Meet are due in not
later than Monday, August 12th.
The meet will be held Thursday
night, August 15th at 7:30 at the
P. L. Downs Natatorium.
Events will be held in the 400
foot relay, 100 foot back stroke,
200 foot breast stroke, diving, 300
foot free style, and 300 foot med
ley relay.
Dorm No. 17, led the hitting with
3 hits (one a homerun) for 4
trips to the plate.
Dorm No. 3 in the New Area
League proved their leadership
by rotating the pitching duties
between Dickson, Neumann, and
Crouch to win their three games
of the week. Crouch won the
first game when Dorm No. 7 was
defeated 9 to 6. The next day
it was an easy victory over Dorm
No. 1 to the tune of 6 to 1. Their
third win of the week was a fast
defeat of Dorm No. 9 with Dick
son pitching the league leaders
to a 16 to 1 victory.
Close behind Dorm No. 3 comes
Dorm No. 12. Their first win of
the week was over Dorm No. 9
to the long count of 22 to 1. Huff
was the winning pitcher. Dorm
No. 1 was the next to fall under
the hard slugging of Dorm No. 12
to the score of 11 to 2. Dorm
No. 7 was the next victim to the
score of 7 to 3. Giblin and
Brandt each got a homerun for
the losers. For the winners cen-
terfield Price led the batting with
2 hits for 3 trips to bat.
Dorm No. 7 outslugged Dorm
No. 9 in a wild scoring game to
the count of 18 to 14. McGowan
was the winning pitcher.
—TEN AGGIES—
(Continued from page 1)
Agriculture at Chapingo, Mexico,
will also be attended by the follow
ing staff members: Dean C. N.
Shepardson, Dean of Agriculture,
Dr. G. W. Adriance, Head of the
Department of Horticulture, and G.
B. Winstead, Director of Informa
tion for the college.
“This trip is a continuation of
an international good will program
between Texas A. and M. and the
Mexican School of Agriculture tjiat
started in the Spring of 1945 when
the Sears Roebuck Foundation pro
vided for a good trip in coopera
tion with The Texas Experiment
Station for 4-H boys to go to
Mexico. In the Fall of 1945 their
return visit was made by a group
of Mexican students from the Col
lege at Chapingo, at which time the
original suggestion was made for
a return trip to A. & M. students”.
Dean Shepardson says.
Before entering Mexico, the A.
& M. members will meet a Mexi
can delegate of two professors and
three students from the National
School of Agriculture, at Browns
ville, Texas, Sunday night, where
they will be given a dinner by
Cal Johnson, public relations man
for Sears Roebuck and Co.
The inspection tour proper gets
under way when a Mexican recep
tion group meet the Aggies at
Matamoras. The itinerary for the
trip includes stops at Matmoras,
Reynosa, Monterrey, Victoria, Val
les and Chapingo. On this journey
the Aggies will inspect irrigation
projects, dams, citriculture areas,
sugar mills, banana and coffee
plantations, and the Mexican School
of Agriculture.
Concentrate when you open your
book—A. & M. Handbook.
dnesday
77
stops are an^V ^^Tl
constructed fro!
propriated by thvA»%?*'
rectors upon requev
Gibb Gilchrist. The L<eP $>
Company, of Dallas, 0 ^
contract for the softbtP A
stops to be completed at v ^
cost of $5,000. V.
The athletic department
structed a wooden model so
time ago for experimental p
poses. They found their mo
to be efficient. The porta
back-stops being built by The
clone Company are very simi
in form. They are in three ei
foot sections, and made of he
galvanized wire. Construction
such as to have a canopy eff
upon the ball. Designated un :
ground concrete holders are be
set about the campus for
backstops to slide into. U
completion of the softball sea
they will be taken into stora
By having portable back-stops
area will again be free for ot
sports.
Eight of the new back-stops
to be used on the new area d?
field, two west of Law and P
year Hall, one South and West
Dean Marsteller’s Home, and
are to be held in reserve unti
later date.
Included in the $75,000 exp
ditures for enlargement and
provement of recreational fac
ties are: enlargement of
Grove, twelve new tennis com
and improvement of the int
mural football fields.
Watch the headlines in y^
text books. They indicate the ’
portance of the parts.—A. &
Handbook.
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The place is 4 miles south from the East Gate of the College on High
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