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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1920)
-~ — BRANCH RICKEY IS MANAGER OF = STUDENTSHAVEA THE CARDINALS WIDE POPULARITY IS SPEAKER FOR Will Bring the St. Louis Team to Col- Many Prominent Men Representing | lege Station in an Exhibition Largest Companies Seeking Their Game This Month. | Employment. Galen M. Fisher, International Sec’ry Y. M. C. A. in Japan to Speak at Evening Service. | When the St. Louis Cardinals ap- | More satisfactory. popularity could| The Guion Hall speaker Sunday pear in College Station on March 29, | hardly be obtained than that which is | morning will be Dr. J. W. Mills, pas- for their exhibition game with the] | tor of the First Methodist Church of Philadelphia Athletics, Branch Rick-| being enjoyed by the engineering stu. | Beaumont. Born and reared in East SUNDAY MORNING ey will be in charge of the Mound | City Club only as manager. three years Mr. Rickey has served as | president of the club but early this | year he resigned that position rand will hereafter devote his time ex- | clusively to conducting the affairs of | the club as team manager on the | field. During the 1919 season, Mr. Rickey served in the dual capacity of Pres- ident and Manager of the Cardinals. Although burdened with two big po- | sitions he succeeded in molding a ball} club, which at the close of the 1919 | campaign was generally considered | one of the best aggregations in the | National League. At the close of last season, how- ever, Mr. Rickey informed the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Club that he would not again undertake both jobs. It being the consensus of opinion that the task of managing the club is the more important, this position was assigned to Mr. Rickey. In making his decision to decline one of the positions, Mr. Rickey was guided considerably by the advice of Mr. Connie Mack, Manager of the Athletics; Mr. John Griffith, Manager of the Washington Americans. These men are looked upon as three of the brainest and craftiest men in baseball and each and all pointed out to Mr. Rickey that he should not handicap himself as team manager by again taking on the added duties of club president. Mr. Rickey has had a highly inter- esting career in baseball. He is one of the few men in the game who has risen from the ranks of a bush lea- guer to the position of president, man- ager and part owner of a major lea- gue club. Mr. Rickey was born December 20, 1881 in the hill country of Southern Ohio. He attended common school un- til he was seventeen years of age and then taught country school for two years. He attended Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity from 1900 to 1904. He taught at Allegheny College in 1905. In 1906-7-8 he taught and coached at Ohio Wesleyan University. During the following three years he attended University of Michigan. Mr. Rick- ey holds degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Literature and Doctor of Jurisprudence. Mr. Rickey’s career as an athlete included his participation in base- ball, football and basketball. He made his debut as a professional baseball (Continued on Page 4) dents of this College. The prove ly used by smooth tongued orators, especially in graduating addresses “that the world stands with open arms, beckoning unto you” is surely true in their case. The graduating classes this year spend their leisure time no doubt, in pondering over the good jobs that have been offered them in an effort to choose the best one. There have been seven men here ih the last few weeks, representing the largest public companies and corpor- ations in the country, who have spent from one to even two days in talking personally with students, in an ef- fort to induce them to accept employ- ment with the firms they represent. They are using the “Personal con- tact” method emphasizing the earn- estness of their appeals. H. W. Mash and C. A. Oliver of the Southwestern T. and T. Com- pany spent Wednesday and Thursday here. They came chiefly in search of engineers but interviewed others with- out technical training with reference to employment in more general work relating to operation of their busi- ness. G. H. Pfeif, assistant to the pres- ident of the General Electric Com- pany spent Monday and Tuesday here on a tour of the south in search of men for employment in the work of his company. H. E. Braunig and Knox Lee both graduates of this College and now in the employ of the East Texas Electric Company were here two days last week talking to students for the pur- pose of interesting them in becom- ing affiliated with the East Texas Electric Company. W. G. Smauder, superintendent of the Texas Power and Light Company came here from Dallas and talked to individual students of both the Elec- trical and Mechanical Engineering Departments. He has several grad- uates of these departments already working under him and wants others for good positions. Professor Fer- mier put him in touch with several graduates. He offered to take grad- uates of the M. E. Department at a salary of $100 per month place them in training work for fifteen months and at the end of that time to pay them according to their merits. W. E. Wood, Manager of the Gal- veston Electric Company controlled by Stone and Webster who was here several weeks ago and interested some students in employment will return I~| Texas. For | bial metaphorical statement so free- | pioneer Texas minister, and really Mr. Mills is the son of a grew up in the State Annual Confer- ence, finally becoming presiding el- der of the Timons District Confer- ence. Before coming to his present charge, he was pastor of St. Paul's M. E. Church of Houston. While in Houston he organized a university club of Rice Institute students in his Sunday school, and was therefore closely identified with student life. He is a constructive leader and a mag- netic speaker. A special solo will be sung by Rev. Millar Burrows. Evening Service. At the 6:30 evening service in the Y. M. C. A. chapel Galen M. Fisher, International Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Japan, will speak. Mr. Fish- er has been in this foreign work for several years and is now in America on a few months furlough, during which period he is visiting the differ- ent Associations and speaking to se- lected groups of men concerning the remarkable work that is being done through the Association in Japan. A special invitation is extended to all to be present at this meeting, as the real romance of our Association move- ment has been in the foreign work. I AEE NN TEXAS A. AND M. WELL KNOWN TO ALL THE. “BiG MEN" Professor F. C. Bolton is in receipt of a letter from F. A. Cooper a for- mer graduate of this College, who is at present employed with the Southern Bell Telephone Co., at Charlotte, N. C. He says: “The Southern Bell Company are needing men badly and I think Mr. Weiseger is planning a trip to Texas to see if he can get some A. and M. men. I have run across men from quite a few schools of the country. Of the “Big Men’ I have talked with all of them know of Texas A. and M. It seems we have quite a reputation.” to College this week with the purpose in view of closing deals with a num- ber of graduates in the Electrical En- gineering departments. Professor F. C. Bolton has received notice from several other prominent men representing the large indus- trial concerns of this country stating their intention of coming here some- time this spring to present the bene- fits of employment offered .by their companies. duction of 219 eggs. Number 131 FOURTH MONTH OF THE EGG-LAYING CONTENT CLOSED The Most Satisfactory Results Were Obtained From the Birds During Past Month Professor T. J. Conway has an- nounced the results of the fourth month of the “Third Texas National Egg-Laying Contest” being held here. February has been the most satis- factory month to date. The weather has been warm and regular causing the birds to lay rather heavily. The total production for the month was 1484 eggs, from 138 birds, or an average of 10.7 eggs per hen. The feed consumed was 698 pounds of grain and 563 pounds of dry mash. The feed consumption since the contest started on Novem- ber 1st, 1919, has been 2151 pounds of grain and 1724 pounds of dry mash, an average consumption per bird of 27.6 pounds of feed. The total production of eggs to date has been 2037 eggs of which 72.8 per cent were produced in Feb- ruary. The low total production to date is due to the fact that many of the birds in the contest were late hatched and are now just begmning to lay. Winter eggs are always the most profitable ones to produce. Ac- cordingly hatch during March and April for next winter’s layers. The feed cost per dozen eggs for the month was 34.9 cents. The highest laying pen for Febru- ary is a pen of Barred Rocks, owned by Calvin G. Sayles, Brenham, Tex- as. They laid 100 eggs, a production of 62 per cent. The second highest pen are also Barred Plymouth Rocks, belonging to M. A. Lee, Seadrift, Texas, and laid 83 eggs. Six pens for the month laid more than 72 eggs or better than 50 per cent. The highest pen to date are S. C. White Leghorns, owned by A. I. Egger, of Paris, Texas, with a pro- The second highest to date are also S. C. White Leghorns, with a production of 175 eggs and belong to Wm. Moore, of Dayton, Texas. The highest individual for the month is a tie between two Barred Plymouth Rock numbers 221, 222 belonging to Calvin G. Sayles, Bren- ham, Texas, each with a production of 23 eggs or 79.3 per cent. 45 hens laid 14 eggs or better for the month giving them a production of over 50 per cent. Among the high layers this month are S. C. White Leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. C. Brown Leg- horns, White Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes and S. C. Rhode Island Reds. The highest individual to date is pullet number 19, a S. C. White Leg- horn, owned by L. F. McKay, Tem- (Continued on Page 4)
