The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 3, 1924 Page: 6 of 6
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GREATEST COACHING STAFF IN SOUTH
latest action shots of the four Rice athlctic catches—coachcs declared to he the greatest coaching staff ever assembled hy a Southern university.
1 )<pcr left, Coach John \icholson. track and basketball. I pper right, Nichotson clearing a hurdie.
(enter. Jack Heisman, football ace, head grid coach for the coming five years. *
I <twer left, Mike O'Neill. head baseball coach, demonstrating hook siide.
[ «wer right, Frank Ashcraft, physical director and head of gymnastics, starting a Rice track man.
Ashcraft has been at Rice ali this}
year, 't he other three men at e new ;
in thr Owl school. Briefly their re- ;
cords are:
Heisman—Two years member var-
sity team at Brown University, two
years varsity football at University of
Pennsylvania, end and tackle.
Coach at Obertin. University of Ak-:
ion, Alabama Tech. Clemson. coach of'
ail athletics.
Fourteen years coach at Georgia
Tech. turning out championship teams,
including famous "CoMen Tornado.";
world's champions.
Three years head coach at Univer-;
sity of Pennsylvania.
One year head coach' at Washing- i
ton and Jefferson University. 1923-24.!
Nichotson—Once holder nationai
high jump record. Fuilback on Uni-
versity of Missouri footbail team.
Center ott Cniversity of Missouri foot-
bal] team. Captain of University of
Missouri track team. World's record
in high hurdles, 1012. Nationai hurdie
champion. National intercoitegiate
champion in high jump and in broad
jump. In )i)!3 finished second in ali-
around nationa) championship. Mem-
ber 1912 Olympic team.
19)5, Coach at DePauw, where he
won state interschoiastic track cham-
pionship, turning out Ivan Myers, na-
tional miie run champion.
Head basketball and track and as-
sistant footbali (the same position he
wili hold at Rice) at the University of
the South (Sewanee), 1916, winning
Southern championship in track one
year, second and third other years.
Coached Montreal team that won
Canadian national track championship
in 1923.
Basketball coach Center Coilege,
winter 1924, winning second place in
Southern Interschoiastic conference.
O'Neill—Star in footbail, baseball
and track at Viiianova Coilege. Pitched
for Montreai in Hastern League.
Pitched for St. Louis Nationals, one
of famous O'Neiil Brothers battery
for St. Louis for five years. Piayed
left fieid Cincinnati Nationals. Piayed
outfield for Montreal two years. Man-
aged Eimira, New York state league.
Managed Utica, New York state
league, and won pennant first year.
Manager Syracuse, New York state
league, and won pennant second year.
Has specialized in deveioping young
ptayers, sending them to big ieagues.
Among the more famous he has sent
to the big ieagues are Mike McNaliy,
infieider for New York Yankees,
world's champions. Steve O'Neiii,
brother to Mike, who has caught 1500
games in Cieveiand in 12 years and is
now a member of the Boston Red
Sox. James O'Neiii, another brother,
with Washington and iater jvith
Omaha. Charies Shorten, iate of St.
Louis, now with Minneapolis. Fred
Coumbe, pitcher for Cincinnati. Geo.
j Burns, for years with New York
Giants^ now with Cincinnati. Howard
Ehmke, pitcher for Boston.
CONFERENCE BASEBALL
SEASON ALMOST OVER;
THREE SERIES REMAIN
The end of Southwestern Conference
basehall is almost at hand.
Besides the present series with A.
and M.. Rice has only four more games
two with Southwestern May (i and
and two with Baylor May iH and
17. Of these the Bayior games are the
most important. Bayior is fighting
to catch the league-leading Texas
Longhorns and will be primed for a
doubie-killing.
They wiil find a fighting bunch of
Owls. The pitching staff, faitering
at first, has rounded into shape. In
addition the old batting eye has been
revised and the bunch is now swatting
the bait for ail it is worth.
This Bayior series wiil see three
men in Rice uniforms for the last
time. The steady, reliable fielding
of Jimmy Locke has graced Rice
teams for the past three years. Rice
wiii be missing one of its most con-
sisten outfieiders when Jimmy de-
parts.
"Choiiy" Swartz will leave a big
gap in the Rice infietd. Swartz is
a natura! third baseman but has been
shifted to short ttiis ssnson. He is a
flashy fielder and at ali times a bat-
ter to be feared. Swartz has also
been creating quite a stir in Houston
amateur circles.
Then there is Dunketlev. Punkcr-
tey won his first letter as a Freshman
in the days when Freshmen played on
varsity teams. Studies kept Dunker-
tey off the squad for two years but
he has found time to do his part at
first base this year.
A&M TRACK MEET
CANCELLED; MEET
AT AUSTM NEXT
The Rice ttack team journeyed to
College Station last Saturday alt set
to give the Aggies all they had. The
weather man decided otherwise. The
Heavens opened up and the A. snd
M. track looked like the Erie canal.
The caliing off of this meet leaves
oniy the Southwestern Conference
meet which is to be heid at Austin,
May 9 and 10.
Coach Ashcraft says he wiH take
five men to Austin.
Captain Stancliff will do his stuff
in the weights. Stancliff is due to
win the discus if he gets right. Fred
has been doing well above 125 feet in
practice. He should place in the shot-
put also.
Fitch will represent Rice in the
dashes. He has been doing some
pretty fast stepping lately and should
do well at Austin. Fitch shines espe-
cially in the 100.
Webb will run the 440. This is
Webb's first year on the squad and
he is due to become a star.
In the hurdles Rice has Eiser, and
in the mile, Calvin. Both should give
a good account of themselves.
OWLIENNRMEN
Rice won another tennis match
Tuesday.
Tulane was the victim.
In winning the match, the Rice team
demonstrated some of the smoothest
tennis the Louisiana town has seen in
many days. The singles, were split,
Fitch losing and Moore winning his
match.
The doubles saw the Rice pair work-
ing superbly. They backed each other
perfectly and displayed a consistent
service which kept their opponents in
the rear of ail stages. Poinds was in-
effective, the Tuiane pair winning
their only two games of the two sets
on the service of Murray.
The winning of the doubles, 6-1 and
6-1, gave the Rice pair the match
2 to 1.
Rice will play A. and M. here at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
A.y%cra/f Funeral
Coach Franklin D. Ashcraft left for
his home early last week when he re-
ceived news of his father's death,
Thursday, April 24. He has been gone
several days now, but has now re-
turned to Rice.
He was gone last Monday when the
track team was scheduled to go to
College Station, so Coach Heisman had
to take the team.
A floral offering was sent by the
teams which he coached.
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W!TM LOW
The Rice tennis tepm-tnet the much-
heralded Texas University squad iast
Saturday at Austin. They went there
a littie afraid of the intercollegiate
reputation of Thalheimer and White.
At that they offered them the stiffest
competition that the Longhorns have
received in the Southwestern confer-
ence this season. *
Moore, at one time, had Thalheimer
6-0, finally losing the set after a heart-
breaking struggle. Moore has played
a brilliant game in every meet this
season. Another season should see
him the class of the Southern district.
It is thought that if the Rice team
had used its best men against Texas'
weakest men instead of pitting her
best against Texas' best, the Blue and
Gray squad would have won several
of the singles matches.
Thalheimer of Texas defeated Moore
of Rice, 6-1 and 8-6.
White of Texas defeated Fitch of
Rice, 6-0, 6-4.
Love of Texas defeated Blayney of
Rice, 6-2 and 6-4.
Siedges of Texas defeated Reed of
Rice, 6-2 and 6-4.
White and Thalheimer of Texas de-
feated Moore and Fitch of Rice, 6-4
and 6^4.
SMHge and Love of Texas defeated
Blayney and Reed of Rice, 4-6, 7-6 and
6-1.
$
Bing—Our prof's sick in bed today.
Bang—What's the complaint ?
Bing—No complaint. Everybody's
satisAed.—Record.
Coach John W. Heisman has ieft
for his home in New York City where
he will spend the summer and wil! re-
turn to Rice next fait early enough
to get the grid season weii under way
by the time that the conference
whistles start blowing.
He has a school of coaching in New
York that is under his personal di-
rection, and he wiil be busy ail sum-
mer teaching men to become footbaii
players, as weil as other kinds of
athletes.
He wili probabiy return to Rice
about September 1.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 3, 1924, newspaper, May 3, 1924; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229985/m1/6/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.