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-
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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
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