‘that is maintaining a freshman team
“must make a sufficient amount to
MGR. SULLIVAN
DISCUSSES ATH-
LETIC FINANCES
OLD DEBTS PAID AT EXPENSE
OF PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT. h\
Twenty Thousand Dollars Needed to
Construct Bleachers for the
Thanksgiving Game.
Manager Sullivan was requested by
the secretary to submit a statement
showing the present financial condi-
tion of the Athletic Department and
some of the needs of this department
in the immediate future. This infor-
mation was sought in order that the
former students of this college might
become acquainted with the present
status of athletics in the A. and M.
College.
The following letter from Mr. Sul-
livan will indicate how urgently this
building is needed. Mr. Sullivan
might have stated that people had to
be turned away from our basket ball
games last winter on account of the
present building being too small. It
is also a signifieant fact that this in-
stitution is bonded for approximately
one million dollars worth of U. 5.
Government property which is housed
at present in shacks and fire traps.
An armory and gymnasium would re-
duce the expenses of the Athletic De-
partment four or five thousand dol-
lars and would also increase its earn-
its earning capacity approximately
that amount making in the total a net
gain of approximately eight or ten.
thousad dollars.
Mr. Sullivan’s letter follows:
College Station, Tex., May 5, 1921.
Mr. W. B. Cook, Secretary,
Association of Former Students,
‘College Station, Texas.
Dear Cook: —
In accordance with your request I
am glad to answer your inquiry con-
cerning the present financial condi-
tion and the future outlook of the
Department of Athletic Training of
the A. and M. College of Texas.
First, I deside to give you the to-
tal receipts and expenditures this fis-
cal year. The total receipts to date
are $45,950.25. The total expendi-
tures to date are $47,075.90. Of this
amount $16,000.00 was spent to care
for an indebtedness which'has ac-
cumulated during the past three
years. In erder to care for actual
running expenses and take care’ of
some outstanding accounts the de-
partment has borrowed $4000.00 to
carry us through the summer.
To the casual observer it would
seem that we show a nel earning of
approximately $12,000.00 for the
year, since we will begin our fiscal
year, September 1, 1921, with a Min-
ancial obligation of : approxinintely
$4,000.00, whereas September 1,
1920, our obligation was $16,000.00
This, however; is not the case, since
the $12,000.00 of indebtedness was
cleared at the sacrifice of our physi-
cal plant, our athletic teams and
equipment. Not less than $20,000.00
must be expended this summer if we
are to place our physical plant in
shape to even meet the immediate
demands that will be made upon us
this fall. The old football bleachers
must be replaced and new ones added
to care for our Thanksgiving Day
crowd; new dressing rooms must be
added to care for our athletes and a
complete new heating plant installed.
Another expense we have today
that was not so a few years ago, and
in all branches of sports. It is nec-
essary to employ a special coach, fur-
nish equipment and maintain a sep-
arate schedule for the various fresh-
man teams. No revenue whatever. can
be derived from contests played by
the freshman teams.
Then again, the department ar-
ranged schedules for tennis and
wrestling teams, all at a heavy ex-
pense, without one cent of revenue
being derived ‘therefrom. Fortu-
nately, through the kindness of Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Jones, these teams
were efficiently coached, as is shown
by their records, without cost to this
department. We cannot, however,
except this service indefinitely with-
out return.
Still another increased cost is that
of railroad fare and pullman rates.
These items alone have increased our
expenses several hundred dollars dur-
ing the past few weeks in moving our
track and baseball teams.
The day has passed when he can
half-equip our athletes. They must
have the best if you expect them to
render good service, and they are en-
titled to the best. We had twice as
many men ‘out ggr football last fall
as any previous “mea, and were not
able to equip all who reported for
practice.
As you, of course, know, the only
revenue-bearing sport now maintain-
ed at College is football. This sport
carry the losses of all other sports. It
is true we have a few big games away
from College that really show a nice
‘games at home.
financial return, but this is offset by
the losses on the big games at home
which are necessarily played on the
guarantee basis. We cannot play
away from home all the time, and the
students and public demand big
Financially speak-
ing, our location handicaps us. As a
matter of illustration, Rice Institute
at Houston has 150,000 people to
~ aw from; Southern Methodist Uni-
versity at Dallas has a like number;
Baylor at Waco and the University
of Texas at Austin have approxi-
mately 35,000 each, while A. and M.
‘has a bare 7000 at Bryan. Consider-
ing the drawing ability of all teams
equal, Rice and S. M. U. should take
in twenty dollars to our one on home
games, and Baylor and the Univer-
sity seven to our one. Baylor and S.
M. U. would hardly draw in that
proportion, and Rice may fall a little
short of her proportion, but you can
. . &
safely count on the University of
Texas drawig seven paid. admissions
to our one on all home games in
every athletic contest except the A.
and M.-University football game,
when out-of-town people swell the
crowd.
Still it costs just as much to coach,
equip and maintain A. and M. teams
as it does those in any other institu-
tion of equal standing. A. and M.
has no “Stark” to give her athletic
teams equipmet and otherwise aid in
a financial way when needed.
Baylor Alumni have completed a
stone fence, and a beautiful one, on
one side of the athletic park at Waco
at a cost of $6,000.00, while the A.
and M. alumni have in three years
aised about $4,000 toward a $40,-|
000 Memorial Stadium.
We should, it seems to me, simply
face the situation at the College as
it is, and after twelve years of obser-
vation and one year of hard work
and close study I am of the opinion
that we have only three courses open
to us, if we are to do justice to our-
selves and to our athletes who come
here.
First. To secure state appropria-
tion for a complete physical plant, in-
cluding a gym and stadium.
Second. To secure, through the
alumni and ex-students and other
wealthy men of the state, sufficient
funds to build a complete athletic |
plant.
Third. To drop back in the junior
college and high school class in an
athletic way, aand schedule games
accordingly. ie
As. stated above, it will be neces-
sary that not less than $20,000 -be
spent at Kyle Field this summer, if
we, are to care for the crowd in the
proper manner on Thanksgiving Day. |
They were well taken care of last
year at Austin. Are we going to ad-
mit we are too small for the big game
of the season and of the South?
There was rot a football game soutna
of the Mason and Dixon line that
drew the crowd that the A. and M.-
University game did last year in
Austin. The same will be true this
year if we will prepare for it.
Rice Institute has a $70,000 dress-
ing room and plans are under way
for a $500,000 gym. Baylor will have
a $200,000 gym within the next two
years. As soon as the room is se-
cured at Austin there will be a “Stark
gym” built and it will be second to
none in the country. Is A. and M.
going to set steady in the boat and
permit every other college to get in
on the ground floor with the high
school athletes? This question can
only be answered by the alumni ad
ex-students. ‘Dr. Bizzell has provided
a coaching staff second to none in the
South, but this staff must have suffi-
cient athletic material to coach and
a physical plant to properly care for
them. Without this we cannot hope
to keep pace with our rival institu-
tions.
Yours very cordially, "
JAMES SULLIVAN,
Business Manage:.
—- Er
BAYLOR CHORAL CLUB WILL
BE ENTERTAINED AT A. & M.
College Station, Texas, May 13.—
The Baylor College Choral Club will
pay its annual visit to the A. and M.
College of Texas and give a musical
entertainment May 14.
For many years the club has visit-
ed A. and M., and the alliance bpe-
tween the two student bodies is ri-
valled only by the existing relation-
ship with C. I. A., which is familiarly
called the sister institution of A.
and M.
The cadet corps, according to the
custom of the past, will give a mili-
tary parade, to be reviewed by the
girls, and will escort them in the
main dining room of the college to
dinner Saturday night will be provid-
ed. Other means of entertainmet dur-
ing their stay here.
—_———————
Mr. J. H. Brigham, ’98-'99, is ab-
stractor and lawyer, Abilene, Texas
Wm. A. Ball, ’12, is now engaged
in live stock raising at Armstrong,
Texas.
E. D. Baccus, ’16 E. E., is now en-
gaged in the wholesale and retail
grocery business at Brackenridge,
Texas.
SNOWSHOE BASE-
BALL IS ALAS-
KAN PASTIME
Former Aggie Baseball Leader Plays
Game On Ice In Far
~ North
It’s a far eroy from Fort Liscum,
Alaska, to College Station but base-
ball is in progress there just as it is
in progress at the College according
to a letter received this week from
Captain Thomas C. Cherry, U. S. A.,
>> 15, now stationed at Fort Liscum.
In the letter to Major Ike Ashburn,
commandant, Captain Cherry des-
eribes baseball ‘“‘as she is played’ in
the frozen North.
Captain Cherry was captain of the
Aggie baseball team in ’15 and was
rated ds the best college first base-
man in the Southwest. The letter fol-
lows:
; April 4th, 1921.
Dear Ike: —
Have intended to write to you for
several weeks but you know how it
is when a fellow tries to be busy and
puts anything like that off for a
while. I have a quartermaster and fi-
nance job which keeps me pretty busy
and have not even had time to have
‘a hunt since returning from up in the
interior last summer. This place is
not so bad when a fellow can get out
sometimes but to have to be shut up
for a.while makes it pretty bad.
My morale has begun to get a lit-
tle higher now though as I am get-
ting to be a short-timer and probably
'|will go out about the first part of |
July. My two years will be up the
first part of August but due to the
fact that there are now three cap-
tains with one company here I look
for the War Department to send re-
lief up ahead of time. In fact I think
that they would send it sooner were
it not for the fact that they are try-
ing to cut down transportation as
much as possible until after this fis-
cal year. I will be satisfied though if
they get me out of here by the first
of August.
Have had a very unusual Witter) :
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here this year and even the old-
timers don’t know what to think
about it. Haven’t had more thar
about half as much snow as we had
last winter but even that amount is
enough. Up until ten days ago we had
about six weeks of regular spring
weather but on Easter Sunday it
snowed three foot and then the sec.
from the good State of Texas. We
have lalways been at home in this
regiment as there were 27 to come to
it from Texas at one time and sev-
eral of them are still with it. Eight of
them happened to be in Alaska too,
and Texans are not used to this.
Have not heen back to Texas since
Xmag 1917, but hope to be able to
get a leave after returning to the
states this time, and get back to look
aroufid and see what has H2ppened
sincq then.
Will Return This Year ,
I consider that this tour of duty
vp here has been a wonderful ex-
perience to me. Have been almost
all over Alaska and into the Yukon
territory and up into the Artic Cir-
cle, and had trips to the Interior both
in summer and winter. Have made
one trip to the States since I have
been up here but only as far ss
Seattle and Spokane. All of this may
be all right for a married man that
wants to come up here and settle
down for a couple of years but for a
poor bachelor that craves little ex-
citement, there isn’t much to it. I
didn’t mind it so much as long as I
was on the move and was going from
one post to another and twas on tem-
porary duty at one for a while and
then the other but the last time that
I came back here the C. O. stopped
all of that by making me quarter-
master and finance officer. That has
sure kept me on the job ever since.
Had to pay the troops over at An-
chorage for a long time but they
have finally opened up an agent of-
fice there and Stewart Harvey is my
| agent officer over there. We have a
ifty thousand dollar working fund
and disburse close to thirty thousand
cach month.
Was glad that this kid brother of
| line decided to go back to A. & M.
iis year and hope that he is getting
along all right.
Remember me to Dr. Bizzell, Sully
and any others that you run across.
I was sorry to hear of the death of
Dr. Ehlinger.
Always,
CAPTAIN THOMAS G. CHERRY.
FIVE THOUSAND IS
GOAL SET IN DRIVE
local A. and M. Club should be form-
ed. Such local organizations can be
of material assistance to the secre-
tary in getting in communication
with former students of the College.
A copy of the constitution and by-
laws of the Brazos County A. and
ond day after [that it repeated foy|M. Club is printed herewith for the
the same amount. It may sound 1iM3 |
a whole lot of snow to anyone tha
hasn’t ever been in this part of Alas |
ka, but lots of times we have a five
foot snow in twelve hours.
Last winter I confined my wintex
sport to just taking a hiking trip ouf
on snow shoes but this winter, I de:
cided that I was going to learn tu
skii, and have had lots of sport ol
skiis since I started. The first day |
out I broke a pair of skiis, but out
side of a few hard falls that has been
my only accident. It is great sport
and we have lots of long niils to try
it out on. Of course any old Texan
is not used to them and it takes a
Swede to do the real skii jumping,
and we have a few that are all right
on them.
Baseball On Ice
I conceived the idea that we should
have some kind of baseball games 2n
snow here and at first used snow |
shoes to play on and used the indoor
baseball and bat but later when the
snow was frozen over, we left off the
snow shoes and could make more
speed, and just run over the hard
snow. Am sending you a couple of
pictures that one of the men took of
one of the games. We usually have a
game on Sunday afternoon and
sometimes during the week when the
men have nothing to do, and that is
most of the time. Quite a difference
in the kind of ball that I used to play
about five or six years ago. We have
some good games during the summer
though and as there are several small
towns in a radius of a hundred miles,
we take them all in as .we have a
nice harbor boat and that is the only
way that we can get out of the post.
The post is backed up against the
mountains with no roads at all. You
never did know that I was a pitcher,
well neither did I but last summer
we were playing at Cordova and the
man that was pitching was knocked
out and I went in to try my luck.
Threw nine balls and struck out three
men. Could hardly move for a week
after that though, and gave up the
idea that I was a pitcher.
Promotion Bee
Next time you see Kurtz, congrat-
ulate him for me on the strength of
his promotion and tell him that the
same bee stung me. He don’t know
how lucky he is that he got out of
the 21st Infantry at the time he did
and especially the company that he
was with as they are now at St.
Michael up close to Nome and tell
him that his good friend Geo. Wear
is up there with that company. He is
a brother of Jacks and is a native
information of those who may desire
| to organize similar clubs. The dif-
ferent clubs may draw up their con-
| stitutions in any way they may see
I fit. The constitution of the Brazos
County Club may be used as a pat-
tern. The contsitution follows:
CONSTITUTION OF THE A. AND
M. CLUB OF BRAZOS COUNTY.
Article 1. Name.
The name of this Club shall be
“The A. and M. College Club of Bra-
zos County.”
Article 2. Objects. 2
~The purpose of the club shall be to
promote social intercourse and the
interchange of ideas among its mem-
bers and to further the interess of
the A. and M. College of Texas in
any maner which may seem expedi-
ent to its members.
Article 3. Membership.
The membership of the club shall
include all former students of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas, who are eligible to member-
Students, and who are residents in
Brazos County and vicinity.
Article 4. Fees.
Section 1. No fixed fees shall be
charged. ;
Section 2. Special voluntary fees
may be collected when authorized by
the Board of Directors.
Article 5. Officers.
Section 1. The officers of the club
shall be a President, three (3) Vice-
Presidents, and a Secretary-Treas-
urer.
Sec. 2. The government, manage-
ment and control of the club shall be
vested in eight (8) of its members, to
be known as the Board of Directors.
This Board of Directors shall be com-
posed of the President and three (3)
Vice-Presidents, Secretary-Treasurer,
and three (3) other members elected
at large from the membership of the
club. The President is ex-officio chair-
man of the Board of Directors.
See. 3. The officers and Board of
‘Divectors shall be elected at the an-
nual meeting. All officers and direc-
tors shall hold office for a period of
one (1) year, except when it shall
be necessary to fill vacancies, in
whici event such vacancies shall be
filled by appointment by the Board
of Drectors, and the officer or direc-
tor si elected shall serve for the du-
ration of the unexpired term of his
pred+«cessor.
, Article 6. Duties.
Sediion 1. The President, Vice-
Presicents and the Secretary-Treas-
urer hall perform the duties com-
ship in the Association of Former.
SUMMER SESSION
OPENS JUNE 6TH
NUMEROUS COURSES WILL BE
OFFERED THOSE ATTEND-
ING THIS SUMMER .
New Divisions to Summer Session
Are Being Added
The Summer Session of the A. and
M. College will open June 6th and
end August 27th. During this time |
there will be held the regular sum-
mer college term of twelve weeks,
the six weeks school in cotton class-
ing, eight weeks course in automo-
biles and tractors, four weeks for
farm boys, six weeks course for coun-
ty agents and one week farmers’
short course.
There was a time when the cam-
pus of the A. and M. College was
practically depopulated after the
students of the regular session had
gone home for the summer vacation,
but today the departing of the cadets
marks the beginning of the great in-
flux of summer students who come
to A. and M. College every summer.
Instead of having the college plant
remain idle for three or four months
during the summer, it now runs at
full capacity throughout the year.
College credit will be given for
work done in the twelve weeks col-
lege course. This course furnishes
‘an opportunity to college students to
work off deficiencies or acquire ad-
ditional credit toward graduation in
the schools of engineering, agricul-
ture and veterinary medicine.
Preparatory Work Offered
One of the special features of the
summer session is the course that is
being offered boys from non-accred-
ited high schools to prepare them for
college entrance examinations. Here-
to-fore graduates from non-accredit-
ed high schools have had to attend
an accredited high school for at least
one year or ‘take the college entrance
examinations before they could enter
college. Under the present arrange-
ment courses will be offered those
students from non-accredited high
schools which will enable them to
take preparatory work in the summer
and get through with the entrance
examinations before the fall session
begins. This course was arranged
primarily for the boys in the rural
districts who want to attend college
but have not had an opportunity to
attend an accredited high school.
The school of cotton classing has
been growing in popularity every
year. The demand for men, who are
expert at grading and stapling cot-
to has been constantly icreasing.
Farmers are becoming more interest-
ed in the market grades and staple
of the cotton they produce and they
are finding the course offered in- the
School of Cotton Classing very bene-
ficial to them.
With the constantly increased de-
mand for power farming and trans-
portation of farm porducts there is
a corresponding growth in the pop-
ularity of the course in automobiles .
and tractors. This course prepares
the student to operate and repair the
latest farm motors including wiring
the latest ignition systems, repairing
springs, transmission, magnetos and
oxy-acetylene welding. The depart-
ment of Agricultural Engineering
has a one-hundred-acre farm for the
purpose of offering practice in trac-
tor operation, plowing, discing and
other operations found on up-to-date
power farms.
Boys’ Division Provided.
For several years there has been
a growing feeling that our farm boys
should be given better opportunities
for securing special training in agri-
cultural and farm-life subjects. A
great majority of the boys on the
farm have not had sufficient high
school training to prepare them for
college entrance. It has been thought
wise to provide an elementary course
for boys between fourteen and eigh-
teen years of age. This course will
embrace practical instruction in ter-
racing, operation of farm motors and
machinery; livestock judging, feed-
ing and management; orcharding,
vegetable gardening, crop production
and seed selection.
Farmers Short Course week will
be July 25th to 80th. This event
marks a great ingathering of farm-
ers and and farmers’ wives and mem-
bers of the boys’ and girls’ agricul-
tural clubs from over the state aec-
-e
companied by their county and home
demonstration agents. It is expect-
ed that the attendace will mount up
into the thousands this year. Many
new and interesting features will be
added to the program.
monly understood to appertain to
their respective offices.
Sec. 2. The Board of Directors
‘shall have general charge of the af-
fairs of the club and shall have power
to take any action not inconsistent
with the constitution and by-laws of
the club, unless expressly limited by
a vote of the club at any meeting.
+ Article 7. Committees.
There shall be standing commit-
tees as follows:
1. Membership and Finance.
2. Activities and Entertainment.
3. Education and Publicity.
4. Athletics.
In addition there shall be such
other committees as requirements of
the club may suggest.
All committees shall consist of a
chairman and two (2) other mem-
bers. The three vice-presidents shall
serve respectively as chairman of the
Membership and Finance, Activities
and Entertainment, and Education
and Publicity Committees.
Within ten (10) days after the
first meeting of the Boards of Direc-
tors, immediately following their
election, the Board of Directors shall
appoint all committees for the cur-
rent year.
Members of all committees shall
serve for a period of one (1) year.
Article 8. Meetings.
Section 1. There shall be an an-
nual meeting of the club for the elec-
tion of officers and Board of Direc-
tors and for the transaction of other
business, such meeting to be held
during the first week of October, the
exact date to be designated each year
by the Board of Directors.
Sec. 2. Special meetings may be
called by the President, and shall be
called upon the written request of
twelve (12) members of the club. :
Sec. 3. "A quorum at any meeting
shall consist of not less than twenty
(20) members. Five (5) shall con-
stitute a quorum of the Board of Di-
rectors. A
Article 9. Andris
Amendments to the constitution
‘may be made only by a three-fourths
(3-4) vote of the members of the
club preset at a fneeting designated
for the purpose.
. By-Laws. : <
Article 1. Roberts’ “Rules of Or-
der” shall govern all proceedings.
Art. 2. To best fulfill the purpose
of the club, the Board of Directors
or a committee appointed by them,
shall arrange for a suitable meeting
at dinner at least once a month. So-
cial meetings may be held. at any
time when approved by the Board of
Directors. .
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.
At a very elegant dinner given Fri-
day evening, April 29, at the Bryan
Country Club by Mr. and Mrs. R.
W. Howell as a prenutpial courtesy
honoring Miss Ruth Boatwright and
Mr. Travis B. Bryan, the engagement
of Miss Mary James to Mr. Waller T.
Burns was announced. Miss James is
one of the most popular young ladies
in Bryan, while Mr. Burns, son of °
the late Judge Waller T. Burns, is
one of the most substantial young
men of Houston. Mr. Burns gradu-
ated from the A. and M. College with
the class of 1920. During his senior
year at College he was colonel of ca-
dets, captain of the Ross Volunteers,
as well as holding many other impor-
tant offices in student organizations.
world over.
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SHORTHORNS
REDS, WHITES AND ROANS
DON’T FORGET, that the progress of Shorthorn
cattle is coordinate with the progress of farming, the
WHY ? Because the SHORTHORN is the farmer’ S
breed for BEEF and MILK. -
SHORTHORNS are unexcelled in SIZE, BONE,
SHORTHORN COWS are good MILKERS.
Replace those scrub and grade bulls with good
* PURE BRED SHORTHORN BULLS and make farm-
DO IT NOW, while you can get
real value in bulls for your money.
The members of the Texas Shorthorn Breeders’
Association can supply you with either registered
BULLS or FEMALES. Write for information, men-
TEXAS SHORTHORN BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION
JOHN C. BURNS, Secretary,
Fort Worth, Texas.
and EASY FEEDING
of
Stock Yards Station,
i
PARADE