Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-14
AGGIE BRIEFS

COLLEGE STATION, Tex, April
13.-The performance of j. G.
FLOYD, Rosewood boy who hurls the
javelin on Coach Frank Anderson's
Texas Aggie track team. at Austin
in the dual meet between the Ag-
gies and Texas Longhorns where ne
threw the pointed shaft 20l feet to
surpass the Southwest record by
nearly eight feet, has aroused hope
among the followers of the Aggie
team of having a new official rec
ord set in that event this year. TIE
present record is 1913 feet, 5 inches,
and was set by COX" Dietrich, Ag-
gle track and grid star three years
ago. Floyd, a sophomore at A. &
M, earned his first Aggie IT" last
fall when he lettered at guard on
the Aggie grid team and he is one
of the most promising javelin
throwers seer here in several years.
With several practice games with
the varsity each week and with a
schedule Of nine games with teams
from other schools already planned,
Coach Roswell Higginbotham'S Tex
as Aggie freshman nine is faced
with a busy season this year. The
freshman met and defeated the Al
len Academy nine in their initial
game of the season at Bryan and
will go to Mckinney April IS for a
three day series with the high
school there. Coach Sikh Skies
Blinn college nine will invade Ag-
gieland for a two game series with
the freshmen May ga and on May
II Coach Higginbotham's team will
make a return visit to Brennan for
two games with the Blinn aggrega-
ton. It is likely several more
games will be arranged before the
season closes.
"Kewpid'' Rektorick, former
Texas Aggie football guard and last
season an assistant to Coach Ros-
well Higginbotham with the Aggie
freshman gridsters, will 60 to Har-
lingen next fall as head coach of
football in the high school there.
Rektorick played guard On the Ag-
gle elevens of 1925 and 1927 and
last year, working with Tucker
Lister. all-conference tackle In 1927,
turned out one of the. strongest
freshman lines ever een at A. & M.
Besides Floyd's record throw OF
the javelin. two other feats by
Texas Aggie athletes in their dual
meet with the Longhorns indicate
that Southwest Conference records
are In danger Of being broken this
year. Captain Dan O,Neil, Green
vile. equalled the 220 yard record
OF 81 3-5 seconds and Don Slocomb,
Cameron, came within a tenth Of a
second Of the low hurdle record of
23.5 seconds. O'Neil, who is now
on the road to recovery following
a brief illness, is also expected to
run the quarter-mile, his regular
event. in record time this season,
and the consistent Improvement be-
ing made by Slocomb, a sophomore
at A. & NJ, a the season progresses
has aroused the belief that he will
push the conference record his first
year as a varsity runner.
Results of the recent wrestling
and boxing tournament conducted
by the intramural department at A
& M. indicate that there is plenty
CT fighting blood" to be found on
Coach Frank Anderson's Texas Ag-
gle track team, for among the
champions at the close of the tour
nament were four members oil
Coach Anderson's team, two OF
them boxing champions and two
wrestling. Herschel Burgess, Hale
Center. Aggie fullback and sprinter
Won the championship in the 16C
pound class in boxing and j.. G.
Floyd, Rosewood, a guard on the
Aggie grid team and ace of the Ag-
gle javelin throwers, won the lis
pound or light-heavy class. Ed
Thompson, Cameron, fleet half
miller. won the title in the 1885,
pound class in wrestling and How
ard Ashley, San Antonio, pole
vaulter, carried away honors in the
IT'S pound class.
There are probably few more YER
Satile runners in the Southwest
Conference than Ed Thompson,
Cameron. who already this year has
taken his place as q quarter miller
on the Texas Aggie mile relay team
and as a mile and a half miller in
individual races. Thompson was
called on to run a lap in the mile
relay In the S. M. u. relays and
last week at Austin he ran both the
mile and half-mile races, taking
first place in both events. In 1927
Thompson was an outstanding
member of the Aggies' champion