THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947
THE BATTALION
Page 3
by PAUL MARTIN
ON KYLE FIELD | Aggie Swimmers To
Meet Ponies Here
Saturday at 3 P. M.
Swim Team Takes on SMU Again
This Saturday the Aggie Swim
ming team, still standing at the
head of the class, will meet the
SMU Mustangs for the second
time, this time in the home pool
a p d they
should be able
to administer
an even more
decisive lick
ing than the
52-25 shellack
ing handed
them at the
first of the
season. Chan
ces are that
the Cadet
tankers are
headed fora
few more
broken rec
ords.
The 62-62 tie with the Texas
Aquatic Club in Dallas last week
only proves that the maroon and
white is sporting a team of aquat
ic champions. The Aquatic club
1947 Aggie Grid Prospects
Martin
is made up not only of college men
from Austin and vicinity but of all
local talent, many of whom may be
ineligible. The only requirement
is that the swimmer be an ama
teur. The AAU does not require
that entrants be collegians though
the NCAA does.
Later in the season the Aggie
splashers are scheduled to make
several out-of-state trips, includ
ing one to Columbia where,
though it may or may not have
been known at the time the sche
dules were made, the Farmers may
make a name for this school in
the field of aquatics.
Next Saturday’s match is the
last of the meets to be held in the
home pool. Only three meets were
slated for College Station which
might indicate that the students
will not get to see as many match
es as they should. However, this
is not the case as the number of
home meets and out-of-town meets
are equal, three each. The rest
are AAU, and NCAA meets.
The uncertainty and indecision
of the last few months in regard
to the coaching situation has not
exactly enhanced A&M’s chances
for a conference football title next
season and it has put the Aggie
gridders at a disadvantage from
the start.
As to material, Norton states
that he and his assistants at least
have a better idea of what they
have this year though the mater
ial is not any better than last
season. Coach Norton further
stated, “we ought to have a better
team than last year. The staff
and I know much more about the
capabilities of our players than
we did last fall, though I don’t
think our material will be any
better. The manpower will be about
the same strength, in fact, with
the possible exception of center
and tackles.”
There will probably be about
two dozen lettermen from last
year’s squad plus some sixteen
lettermen from the B team.
Add to this a dozen freshmen
and four or five transfers from
other schools and you have the
1947 Aggie football team.
More freshmen might have been
available but due to the question
able position of the present coach
ing staff, Norton thought it bet
ter not to try to lure them here
under what might turn out to be
false pretenses.
The late spring period will place
the team at a further disadvantage
as football training will interfere
with the spring sports. Some of the
men will be engaged in baseball,
track, or other games and will be
available for only limited practice
or none at all.
Rumors have it that Bill
James, the veteran Aggie line
mentor, will take this oppor
tunity to retire and give his
full attension to his expanding
resort properties in the Kerr-
ville hill country, an idea
which he has had for several
years; but as far as it is
known, the same staff will
handle the team as last year.
These include James, Marty
Karow, Botchey Koch, and
Johnnie Frankie.
Southwest Pro Football Possible
It looks as though we may have
pro football here in the Southwest
this fall. The Association of Pro
fessional Football Leagues has
granted an option for a new cir
cuit, which might have teams in
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San
Antonio, El Paso, Amarillo, Tulsa,
Oklahoma City, New Orleans,
Shreveport and Santa Fe.
So the old question pops up
again: what will pro football do
to college attendance? Experince
indicates that college teams will
not suffer, unless, of course, the
pro games are played on Saturday
afternoon in opposition to college
engagements. Pro teams general
ly play on Sunday, and there is no
reason to expect anything differ
ent here.
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The Texas Aggie swimmers will
make their final home appearance
of the season here Saturday af
ternoon when they meet the SMU
’gators in a dqal meet starting at
3 p.m.
So far this year the Aggies are
undefeated although they do have
a 62-62 tie in the Southwest AAU
meet at Dallas this past Saturday.
The Texas Athletic Club of Aus
tin composed of Texas University
and other Austin swimmers are
the only ones which have come that
close to a victory over the speedy
Aggies this year.
In Danny Green and Jimmy
Flowers the Cadets have two of the
top men in this part of the na
tion. Both have been regular rec
ord breakers and both smashed
Southwestern AAU marks last
Saturday. Both also have broken
the pool records at the P. L.
Downs, Jr., Natatorium and are
performing in better than South
west Conference record time.
Green is a freestylist and Flowers
a breast stroke swimmer. Both
work on relays with Flowers
swimming on the 30Q-yard medley
while Green does the freestyle
part. Green also swims on the
400-yard relay team. He holds all
freestyle records in the Aggie
pool.
Not to be overlooked are How
ard Spencer in the back stroke;
Bob Cowling former champion in
the individual medley; and the
freestyle relayist, Ed Fisher who
swims on both relays when Green
is held out. Allen Self, Bernard
Syfan and Jack Riley are the oth
er top freestyle men who fill out
the relay and events ranging from
the 50 to the 440-yard freestyle
individual events. All are top
men.
college teams, and though our
crowds are not so large as in other
sections, they are large in pro
portion to population. Which
means that no Southwest pro teams
could pay the salaries shelled out
by the Washington Redskins or
the New York Giants, but a minor
league, with a maximum salary
limit, ought to be well supported.
One result of the move is that
Aggie-exes, even more than now,
will probably play pro ball for
some years after graduation. Have
you noticed that even with A. &
M. teams no longer in the top
bracket, the pro managers still
sign up many of our boys?
Members of Aggie
Golf Team Chosen
Just who will form the Texas
Aggie golf team will be settled
this week after the 72-hole elimina
tion rounds have been played by
all the candidates, Head Coach
Marty Karow announced Tuesday.
All week the candidates will play
the required 72 holes and at the
end Coach Karow will select the
best of the lot to form the Cadet
squad.
Candidates all should report to
Gaither Nowell, Bryan Country
Club professional, who will ex
plain the method of qualifying to
Aggie 880-Yard Enterics
Joe Yajdos (left) and Ray Holbrook are two of the Aggie 880-
yard run men. Vajdos, a veteran track and cross country man, was
with the team before entering the Army. Holbrook holds down both
the 880 and the 440-yard dash.
Aggie Track Team in Three-Way Meet
With Baylor, TU in Austin Saturday
The Texas Aggie thinly clads-f
will get another crack at Clyde
Littlefield’s Longhorns who edged
them out by but half a point in
the Border Olympics meet in Lar
edo last Saturday. A three-way
meet involving A&M, Baylor and
Texas wil be held in Austin Sat
urday.
Feature of the meet will prob
ably be the duel between Baylor’s
Bill Martenson and Longhorn
Freshman ace, Charlie Parker. In
the Border Olympics meet, Marten-
son nosed out Parker in a photo
finish 100-yard dash after telling
friends in Austin that he could
and would beat Parker. Both men
have run the 100 in 9.5 seconds.
This is fast developing into a
personal test between the two
dash aces. Track Coach Clyde
them. Cards are to be turned in
to him and from those cards the
coach and the pro can work out
their conclusions.
The Aggies open their season
next week when they meet SMU at
Dallas on Thursday, March 20. The
next day they move to Fort Worth
and play TCU and then on Sat
urday, March 22 play in the Fat
Stock Show matches.
The remainder of the schedule is
not settled as yet.
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Littlefield said that with an even
start the former San Antonio star
would beat Martenson.
Of the trio, the Aggies hold the
edge to date in the field events and
brought all four places in the 440.
Texas, for the first time in years,
is comparatively weak in the field
events and relatively strong in the
track events, according to a re
lease by Bill Sansing, Texas Uni
versity publicity manager.
Rice, Oklahoma A&M, and SMU
will not participate in this meet
and these were the teams that
copped most of the honors in the
hurdles and the javeline.
Aggie Track Coach Frank An
derson stated that he does not
even expect the Cadets to show in
the 100-yard dash as in the pre
vious Border Olympics meet, Bay
lor and Texas finished neck and
neck in 9.6 and the two men be
hind them were so close that they
even had a chance in the picture.
.All were from Baylor and Texas.
He farther said that the 440 would
be a different story.
By Cliff Ackerman
Two Weights Ready for Boxing
Finals; Semi-Finals Ready
In Wrestling
Free swing leathermen fought
their way into the finals in two
weights Tuesday as the current
Intramural Boxing Tournament
moved into its second week. In the
119 pound class Mathis of A Sig
nal and Webb of G Infantry are
ready for the starting bell. One
of the most talked about matches
is in the 129 pound class which
will see Lomax of A CWS matched
with Pastorek from Dorm No. 3.
Lomax made his first appearance
Tuesday as he took a second round
TO from Allen of A Infantry.
The Class B matmen have been
giving the spectators a good show
throughout the tournament and are
now ready for the semi-finals. In
the 159 pound class Wooton of A
Ordnance will tackle Pfiel of A
Field and Sykes from B Field is
slated against Harrison of D In
fantry. In the 169 pound class
Copeland of D Infantry will meet
McGregor of B Field and Buchek
from C Field will take on Cleland
of A CWS.
All Class A boxers and Class B
wrestlers who have run the gaunt
let will have their chance at the
school championships Monday
night, March 17 at 7:30 when they
will square off in the finals.
Yolten Ball
Another sport that is drawing to
a close in Class B competition is
volten ball. The teams have been
putting up plenty of opposition
and at present only two teams have
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Baseball Begins Friday With
Brooke Medics in San Antonio
The Aggies baseball team take to the diamond for the
first time tomorrow afternoon in San Antonio when they
play the first of a two game series with Brooke Medical Cen
ter.
■ Coach Lil Dimmitt plans to take
around twenty-five men on this
first trip and will let each man
get a chance at playing. The team
has been hampered by bad weath
er during the latter part of last
week but they put on forced steam
Monday afternoon with both a
batting practice and intersquad
game. Y. B. Johnson and Earl
B e e s 1 e y handled the pitching
chores.
The Aggies starting lineup for
tomorrows game will probably run
like this:
Walker, c
Gibbons, p
Brown, p
Turner, p
Holmig, lb «
Mays, 2b
, Frietz, ss
Pressly, 3b
Vass, If
Willingham, cf
Moon, rf
Dimmitt plans to use his pitchers
Gibbons, Brown, and Turner for
three innings only during this
game and in other pre-conference
games. The Aggies will be han
dicapped with the temporary loss
of two players, Tex Thornton as
shortstop, and James Calvert as
catcher.
Brooke Medical Center is ex
pected to field a very good team
against the Aggies this Friday
and Saturday. They return the
engagement, playing the Aggies
on Kyle Field March 20 and 24.
Bee Baseballers
Open Season Here
Saturday at 2:30
Coach Charlie DeWare’s Aggie
Bee Baseball team will open the
season Saturday afternoon at 2:30
p.m. against Stephan F. Austin
High School from Houston,
coached by former Aggie Great,
Pete Dowling.
DeWare states that his boys are
far from ready but they can be
expected to give out with the best
they have. The team started with
some 100 applicants and this num
ber has now been trimmed down
to about 30.
Due to getting a late start and
bad weather, the team has not had
much opportunity to work out or
for the coaches to get acquainted
with the material.
After Lil Dimmitt had taken his
A squad and trimmed it down to
size, DeWare had to repeat the
process on those that were left,
leaving him little time to prepare
his team.
Pete Dowling, former Aggie
baseball star, has been coaching
the S. F. Austin High School club
for several years and this game
will be another home-coming for
him.
remained undefeated, B Eng. and
B Field. This is the late season
standings:
LEAGUE A
Team Won Lost Pet.
D Inf 5 1 .833
A Field 4 2 .666
F-G Inf 3 2 .600
A Inf 3 2 .600
E-F Field 3 3 .500
FA Band 1 4 .200
A Sig 0 5 .000
LEAGUE B
Team Won Lost Pet.
B Eng 4 0 1.000
Inf. Band 4 1 .800
E Inf 4 1 .800
B-C Inf 2 3 .400
C-D Field 2 4 .333
A Eng 1 4 .200
B-C-D Cav. 1 5 .166
LEAGUE C
Team Won Lost Pet.
B Field 6 0 1.000
A Coast 5 1 .833
A CWS 3 2 .600
A QMC 2 4 .333
A Ord 2 4 .333
Air Corps 2 4 .333
A Cav 0 4 .000
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