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The Daily Bulletin Vol. VII College Station, Texas Saturday, March 1, 1924. No. 124 TRACK CANDIDATES ARE WELL ADVANCED Aggies Well Taken Care of in Middle Distances and Some Events of the Field. Track work at theA. & M. College of Texas has been going on for the last two months and the men are well advanced in the matter of condition. Each Saturday from now on regular competition will be held in the various events. From all indications the team will be as strong as the team of last year, with a possibility of a little added strength. The dash section with J. H. Poth of Poth, Texas and A. & M. to Be Prominent at Fort Worth Stock Show The College will have its usual prominent participation in the South- western Exposition and Fat Stock show at Fort Worth next week. The College always cooperates liberally with the stock show management and in turn receives many benefits. Twenty head of steers, 18 sheep, 37 hogs and 6 horses will be exhibited by the Animal Husbandry Depar:ment of the College for prizes. A team of 6 junior animal husbandry students Fay Wilson of Honey Grove should be | \ |] compete in the college students second to none. The distance events with R. F. Royal of Pleasanton, W. D. Old of San Antonio, J. G. Gillespie of Cole- man and a flock of other candidates should come through with their part of the places. In the middle dis- tances Coach Anderson has his hands full to put into the field a creditable representation. The passing of Harris, Davis, Littlejohn and Dunn left these events to be filled with new men. W. C. Weddell of San Angelo, the star half-miler, has been called home on account of the illness of his father, but it is hoped that he will return: to the College. His continued absence will leave the team in still worse con- dition in the middle distances. W. H. Davidson of Fort Worth, who was con- verted into a quarter miler near the end of last season, is the only quar- ter miler back, but there are a dozen or more men out for the quarter mile and the relay and it is hoped that a proper number will come through. The lack f good hurdlers has been the glaring weakness of the A. & M. track teams in recent years. The jinx seems to still pursue the team in these events. Last year injuries and ineligibilities stripped the team of hurdlers. This year .it seems to be the same story. Smith, star hurd- ler of last year freshmen became in- eligible at the end of the first term, livestock judging contest held in coii- nection with the show. The A. & M. band will play fcr the opening pageant of the expcsition and will play thereafter at different places oa the grounds and in the city. Most cf the junior and senior animal husbandry students will spend some time at the show for practice work in judging the livestock on exhibition there and in studying show ring management methods. These students will also assist the College employees in caring fcr and exhibiting the College ani- mals. A number of the Colleg: of- ficials will assist the show manage- ment in directing the livestock show. Five College officials will act as mai:- agers of livestock department; a six will be superintendents. Mana- gers will be; D. W. Williams in charge of swine department; J. M. Jones, sheep; D. S. Buchanan, horses; A. L. Ward, students judging; and Miss Nettie Schultz, home demonstration. College officials who will act as su- perintendents of the show are; S. C. Evans, superintendent baby beef clubs; G. L. Crawford, boys’ and girls’ hog clubs; M. C. Counts, agriculture; Miss Ina Baker, home demonstration. Students who have been selected by Coach W. L. Stangel to compose the team that will compete in the contest are: F. I. Dahlberg, Taylor; L. Dodson, Amarillo; B. H. Hopk'rs, and thus his services are lost to the | Taylor; O. H. Kimball, Alpine; C. G. team. T. L. “Silent” Miller of Cole- Matern, Marble Falls, and ¥. Stubbs. man, was kept out of the hurdles | Robstown. An | of the contest is the Swift and Com- last year by a sprained ankle. unhealed broken leg that he received | pany silver trophy cup. The most ccveted prize Four of the later will probably keep him from | five awarded have been won by Tex- (Continued on Col. 3, Page 4) jas"A. & M. There are a number >f money prizes awarded also which gives greater importance to the con- test. Individual prizes for judging all kinds of livestock in descending order are, $50, $25, $15, and $10. Then there are three prizes of $25, $15, and $10 offered to the first three high individuals for judging each of four kinds of livestock, in- cluding cattle, hogs, sheep and horses. It is possible for ore man to win $150. J. V. Drisdale of Juno, a member of the team last year did win $105.00. With a number of good an'mals in the string that A. & M. will take to Fort Werth, some of which are be- lieved to be the best ever produced here it is expected that the usual creditable showing will be made. The steer herd will consist of 10 Here- fords, 5 Shorthorns, and 5 Angus. Among the unusually good prospects is a senior yearling Aberdeen Angus with a remarkable finish, declared by C. S. Plumb, nationally famous author of livestock textbocks, who visited here last week to be a wonderful steer. Another promising animal is a Hereford crossbred which weighs 1600 pounds as a senior yearling. He was third at Fort Worth last spring in his class and third at Dallas last fall. In the same class is anciher good individual who was second in his class at the International last fall. Professcr Williams declared he was taking the best bunch of calves that the College had exhibited in =a long t'me. The best prospects are an Angus senior calf, Irenmere of A. & M. and two Shorthorns all of which have been bred by the College. In the hog entries are 37 barrows 16 Duroc Jerseys, 12 Poland Chinas, 6 Hampshires and 3 Tamworths. All of these are individuals that have never been exhib'ted before, all of last year’s entries being sold after the show. A string of 6 horses and 18 sheep complete the A. & M. livestock ex- hibit. Among the horses is Red Oak a Morgan stallion that has beun grand champion at Fort Worth and (Continued on Col. 3, Page 4) ETRY
