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Vol. VII The Daily Bulletin College Station, Texas, Friday, April 11, 1924. No. 159 DISTRICT MEET HERE. TODAY & TOMORROW Contestants From Six Counties Com- posing District 24 Here for League Events. The annual meeting of the Univer- | KILLED BY STORM 700 YOUNG POULTRY | Young Fowls Killed; Loss Is About $500. Three colony houses and approxi- | AGGIES WILL SHOW BEST IN GAME TODAY Three Brooder Houses Destroyed and Likely Rating of Aggies at End of Season May Be Forecasted by Outcome of Longhorn Games. The likely finish of the Aggie Ro fon : 3 re ; : i'y Interscholastic League, District | mately 700 ycung chicks were lost | baseball squad will probably be indi- No. 24, will be held here tcday and: tomorrow morning, under the suv- ervision of George B. Wilecx, super- intendent of the A. & M. Consolida- ted School, and Director General of the district. Other directors are: A. I. Lewis, Anderson, debate; Madison Hall, Bryan, declamation; J. T. Sha- ver, Bellville, essay writing; and A. A. Blumberg, College Station, athlet- ics. Counties composing District No. 24 are Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Wal- ler, Washington, and Grimes. The College Y.M.C.A. will be used as head- quarters for the League. Events will begin this morning, and will conclude tomorrow at noon. Registration of contestants for the meet yesterday were as fcllows, ac- cording to information given out by Mr. Wilcox: declamation 48; track and field 108; debate teams 5; tennis 23; music memory 20; essay writing 18. The preliminaries for both girls’ and boys’ tennis doubles scheduled to be held on Kyle field this morn- ing will prcbably be postponed on ac- count of the inclement weather. The debate preliminaries for both groups will be held in the Y.M.C.A. this morning, beginning at 9:00 o’clock. The program for this afternoon will be the rural school declamations and finals in girls’ debate. These events will be held in the Assembly Hall. High school declamations and fin- als in boys’ debate will be held in the Assembly Hall this evening, begin- ning at 7:00 o’clock. Events scheduled for tomorrow morning are the boys and girls ten- nis singles, class A and B. track meet and the music memory contest. The athletic events will be held on Kyle field, and the music memory contest at the A. & M. Consolidated School. Season tickets for all events of the meeting are priced at 25¢ for child- ren and 50¢ for adults. A charge of 15¢ and 25¢ will be made for this evening’s program for those not hold- (Continued on Col. 2 Page 4) in the sudden sweep of wind which | struck the College Campus and envi} ons soon after 6 o’clock Wednesday | afternoon causing damage of about | $500. The destruction was on the poultry farm about one mile west] cf the main Campus. The three hous- es destroved were situated in a vista opening toward the north, from which direction the wind blew. The path of destruction indicated that weaker buildings on the main Campus were saved by the protection of the woodland area which transverses the territcry immediately north of the institution. - The only damage on the main Campus of any considerable cost was the shifting of the well house on the northern extremity of the Campus. It was leaned forward several inches but a tractor and sev- eral men replaced it in a short time yesterday morning. But there is a clearing thrcugh the wooded area immediately north of the Poultry farm and it was through this unobstructed lane that the wind seemed to concentrate for passage, causing the heavy damage on the farm. The three colony or brocder houses, structures about 8 x 12 feet and six feet high, were lifted twirled off the ground and dropped back with a force that shat- tered them and killed most of the young fowls within. Two houses near- by were moved forward several feet. One of the buildings destroyed was smashed over 100 feet from where it formerly stood. The others were moved from 20 to 50 feet. 0. A. Hanke, superintendent of the farm was in the vicinity of the hcus- es when the wind arrived for its destructive tactics. He was put through some involuntary acrobatics and then fortunately took refuge be- hind one of the buildings which was not turned over. The wind passed quickly. He notified Professor Dun- can Reid, head of the Poultry Hus- bandry Department and Professor (Continued on Col. 1, Page 4) cated when they meet the Longhorns cn the local diamond for a two game series today and tomorrow. The steers always challenge the best in the Farmers, bring out their utmost strength and expose it for popular perusal. If the Farmers have shown their best in the past games with Rice, T. C. U. and- S. M. U. then the games this week will turn out as the sports writers have arranged the dope and Texas will maintain her per- centage of 1000 for the Sunday pa- per summaries, but if prcedent en- dures through this week the sports writers will have to recast the Lino- vype slugs which they set up for the Longhorns when they compiled their first compendium, giving the standing of the teams after the first conference game of the steers. In proper infield support of “Lef- ty” Rogers there is a situation to give foreboding to the Longhorns, but when Rogers’ strength has been spent there is disparagement for the Aggies, for there is only mediocre ability supporting him on the pitch- ing staff. Without the assistance of Rogers House has won a game from Rice with a combination of Graves ard Crawford and one from T. C. U. with Crawford singly. But the victory over T. C. U. was not so much a credit to Crawford’s ability as a dis- credit to Scott’s inability. Of the 12 runs made by the Aggies in that game all came in the first three in- nings and of the 12 scorers 8 were walked to first base by Scott. There is strength in the Aggie batting line also. It has been de- monstrated that Puckett, Chapman, Kyle and Rogers who bat consecu- tively are capable of counting runs in bunches. In the last two games this week they have not continued as strong as they showed earlier in the season and that relapse is prc- phetic of better things for them in the coming games.
