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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1924)
gaze Ti lime Baseball Men Sirut | Stuf at Extension Picnic | as the first of a series of special fea- Probably the most interesting aiid - amusing’ ‘athletic “event of -the’ year Wis”! staged one’ Monday afternoon early“ in“ May, at’ the Royal pasture, between Bryan and College, when the “Extension Serviee Specialists and Dis- ~idtriet Agents played: a three-ining ball oi games which displayed a multiplicity 9h jdeals of championship form, rang- ing from town ball, alley ball, school ball, etc., to thé modern national pas- Sr girhie” The annual spring outing was Db hy occasion for the game. «/The; participants. were. ex-champion ball tossers, of prehistoric college days iol ranging from the periods of Pop An- son “to the €olling and Rickney stan- Each had play-; ed:mahy aiverbal championship to an interested ;audience in, the Extension building, growing. eloquent in the re- "lation of stellar feats in which their light shone with a brilliancy rivaling “Vithat - of - Walter = eMashevson; «Ty: Cobb, Lajoie, However, there were doubting Thomases in the Extension ‘dards of ‘the present: ‘Johnson, Wagner, etc. Service’ and these disciples of the Ex- “IStudents’ - Association determined to put these claims to the acid test of ¢ demoénstration. Whiskey Smith swore Sh the district, agents lay over the specialists like a dollar over a thin “dime, while “Stud” Barnes, the cham- “pion “of “the “Specialists, laughed to! #ilsdorn the elainms: and the district agents. srs «Che. anual picnic of the Extension EA Ip: Ser rice, was finally selected as an ap- * propriate ‘time to “settle the mooted quéstion “ii “the presence of wives, ii iigsveethearts, children; yea, grandchild- hrirenjsgrandmothers and grandfathers. ..; These: soon caught the spirit of en- ’ _thusiasm and anticipation raged at “fever ‘heat, os «The. game ‘was ‘called promptly at 5 p.m m., with that Ancient Patriarch of the. diamond, S. ‘C." Hoyle, acting as “arb biter oF play, and the record-smash- game of the season.was on. ig gah district ‘agents won the toss Fe CF 8 £udn yy, and went to bat. Swallow and Barnes called -upon«their ancient gods and with much- yigor and enthusiasm, kept opt fof | ithe ‘danger. zone and retired thir opponents without a score. Christy Hans of ‘the whiskeyites' i ‘The specialists ‘then Sadi to bat with a determination to make so many runs that the district agents would become discouraged and give up. “Chick” Evans led off with a smash that brought yells of approval from the specialists and groans of dispair from the district agents. He started round the bases like a Nancy Hanks, but soon found that his old time speed was a memory and sank to rest at second blowing like a whale. Orms and Smith then settled down to work in earnest, but were unable to keep down the wild pegs of over zealous players, and Evans: trotted in for a score. After this they found their “luck piece” and -amid steam and smoke mingled with dazzling speed (?) and change of pace retired the side. In the final alt H. E. Ran- dolph the score keeper, pronounced the game a tie, as his records showed that each side had made thre runs. This brought on wrangling and friend- ly confusion, which created much fun for all concerned. The district agents gracefully consented to let the spec- ialists claim a tie so that their dis- sapointment would not spoil their ap- petite for the excellent repast which their families had spread near the lake. : { The call to “come get it the discussion, and the crowd hurried | ”» Ito the lake to enjoy the good eats] and the evening program which had | been prepared. Everyone pronounced the occasion a grand success, and the scorer brought | District: Agents— Darow 1b, Egan ss, John- in the = following lineup: son, 2b, Smith ¢, Crms p, Crawford 3b, Wood cf, Stanford 1f, Buchanan rf, McGee rf. ‘Specialists—Evans 2b, Bentley, 1b, Barnes cc, Swallow p. Thomas 3b, Persons ss, Ward cf, Mil- ler If, Laneaster rf. Runs—Evans,- 2; Johnson, Bentley, Wood, Crawford, M:Gce. Two base hits—Johnson, Evans... Home run— McGee. .. Struck out—Orms 4; Swal- low 6. Stolen bases—Evans, Smith. Score by Innings: Specialists 102-3. District Agents—031-4. Umpire—Hoyle. VE om M. CLUB wy wy FL 51 it NE duds . By RABBL BERTSCHLER.. Am enclosing copies of some dope av dive been; getting out for the local in whit a2 aothis,: direction, tell. them arrange to = {XK if 4 yerow, aut, regularly. these days. {PADErss Qur; club meets on first and third ‘Mondays at 7:00 p. m., Hotel s Beaumont, Beaumont’s million dollar Free-for-all, catch-as-catch- No, . regular price, each pays for Sy own. .oxder., If anybody starts in A good I . shave just: recently. been appointed fBperintendent of. City Parks. Assume duties Mondy,. and, an rushed in order yr get everything completed and in order in my present, connection with iSFTiRg Nurseries. Hence the short ; bsPest regards. * gk make the city on those dates. \ At; seven otdonlt ‘Monday evening ri JRE ABs. ,ex-students.. of the Aprieal. + tural and Mechanical College will hold 4) 5 O 3 thoetiTate of . their .semi-monthly din- Y negs :at Hotel Beaumont since the re- _c-eent commencement at the A og i 0 i I A Sal ON SpA 1 “Bary a A EE Y————: HEL 2 1 OOOO GE HOOP OPP PP EG O@4 SYIOK College + with the, ‘subsequent. return of many Beaumont students. who attended the past session. FAR “interesting program has been 1h arran ed with several numbers by lo- is Tog ih adition, to the talks by ex Stunts ‘and’ under graduates of the Golege:; + MissyRuby Smith, tal- ented Beaumont vocalist, has consent- J i vl LE TENG ALA A A A A AA 2 Ee vilit im Knitted doi gods for Individuals as : well, as for athletic clubs. JA “for every sport. ui 24 North Sacramento Avenue ed to render a few numbers accom- panied by Miss Hewitt. The presi- dent. of the ‘club, John Newton, has | arranged for the Scrap-Iron Quartete the harmony four of Magnolia Refin- ing Co., to “entertain with popular Authors, Word has been vested from the Pcrt Arthur Club that many Port Arthur ex-students will attend and a number will also drive from Orange, Silsbee, and surrounding towns. The San Jacinto Day Festivities sponsor- ed by the Beaumont club has made their meetings watched with interest by surrounding vicinities and visitors are attending with regularity. Open . invitations are extended among clubs over the country for visiting ex-students to come to mect- ings and the official newspaper of the Ex-Students’ . Association carries a schedule showing the dates and places of the regular meetings. While only 3 years old the A. and M. Ex-Students’ Association has branches in all prin- cipal cities of the United States and in the Canal Zone, Philipines, and Alaska. A: salaried general secretary publishes an annual directory giving location, year of graduation, and em- ployment of its members. The direc- tory for the present year is almost ready for distribution. Hk 3k Ben Irby, local architect, and R. C. Black of the City Engineer’s office, VV VVVVVVVVVMVVYVVVYY DS G6) 6)6)8) 868) 8) 8) 8) 88) 8).48)3)48),08)0) 0), L) 8) A) a) NANA A\ 2 ZA Z2\ 2A Z2\ Z2\ ZA ZA ZA ZAZA ZAZA AAA AAA AAA A A O NOAA broke up Wi «were appointed “Wednesday as a spec- | dist ial entertainment committee for the A. and M. Ex-Students’ Club meeting at the Hotel Beaumont, next Monday evening. An exceptionaly lively and interesting program is ‘contemplated tures to be held in connection with the bi-monthly meetings of ‘the club during the summer. : ; Tk Efforts are being - made to ' have Johnny Garrity of Kirbyville on the program. Garrity is a former yell leader of great reputation. in Aggie circles. Memoirs of the “days that are gone forever” constitute a part .of his repertoire. = Numerous’ present-day students of the College from Jefferson county will ‘be present .and speeches will be made velative ! to’ the year just closing.. ! Hk * Local musicians and vocalists will be asked to render numbers. Numer- ous out of town visitors from through- out the Sabine district will be pres- ent for the evening so John Newton, president of the club, announces. The activities of recent months have given the Beaumont Club considerable im- petus and in both numbers and activ- ity itis rapildy: forging into the upper division. ERI or, Wn Py. at DALLAS A. AND M. CLUB. By A.Y. SHIELS. ‘All you fellows that were unfor- tunate enough to miss the meeting of the Ex-Students’ Association at Col- lege, surely passed up one of the best meetings that the Association has ever had. Tt was one of the most en- thusiastic meetings that: the writer has had the privilege of attending. The fellows who were there repre- senting the classes of 1876 and 1877, displayed a’ spirit and show of loyalty that would make some of us younger fellows take water. @ Their talks of the older days of A. and M. College were not- only interesting but were fascinating. The gatherings around the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. got absolutely be- yond control. Marion @ Church = had those’ Waco; Houston, San Antonio, Galveston, and Ft. Worth fellows bit- ing at his jokes so fast and consis- tently that some of them swallowed line, hook, sinker and all. For the benefit of some of those who inquired as to the health of Ewing Mosely might say that Ewing is doing nicely at the present time and is expected to recover entirely. The game leg that Marion Church was nursing all day is also in good shape at the pres- ent time,” but might give way under him at any time. % kk In other places in this issue you will see that Mr. C. C. Krueger of San Antonio, was elected to the presidency of the Association for the year. “Pol- ly” will no doubt be an able successor to Church. He has put in a years work already covering the San An- tonio district under Church and from the spirit he shows he will without doubt get some wonderful results from his work as president. “But when this fellow gets on the floor to talk you want to listen. He hadn’t been on the floor three seconds in making his speech of acceptance un- til he was taking a crack at the ladies and their “interesting” short skirts. Confidently “Polly” is a ladies man and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see his wife accompanying him on his trins over the state. This wouldn’t be an unwise thing on her part be- cause “Polly” is absolutely handsome. * kk + The men from Dallas who attended the meeting were a little bit disap- pointed. As some of you know the Dallas Club and the Houston Club put on an attendance contest for their weekly meetings just before com- mencement. The Houston Club simp- ly ran rings around the Dallas gang in this contest. It was agreed that the loser in this contest would have a flag raising at college on the day of the Ex-Students’ meeting in hon- or of the winner. The Dallas gang went down te the meeting feeling a little bit humiliated over their loss, but nevertheless they had their flag and Joe Utay had prepared a won- derful address. to make at: the flag raisding, but the Houston gang wasn’t there to receive the honor. The cam- pus was combed looking for them, but the best we could do was to find Tom Blake. Here is hoping that the Hous- ton bunch put in a good year’s work because the Dallas crown will be at the meeting next year in force to re- ceive their flag. * 3k 3k Bill Orth, from San Antonio, spent the day in Dallas a-few days ago and | was just like a whole lot of these other country town boys: he had a hard time getting: anywhere on ac- count of the traffe signals. Bill saw a street car coming down Main street and wanted to know where that in- terurban went to. That’s alright Bill, come on up-to Dallas and spend a couple of days and we will let you ‘ride one of our street cars. Don’t bring your wife with you though, be- cause she would never go back to San Antonio, : * 1 is also: running around the state a whole lot of late. Tyree has dropped into Dallas a couple of times within the last week. Don’t know how Ty- ree manages it, but he always takes wife home to her mother in Waco and goes on his way. Would like to have some inside stuff on how this is done; - Ewing Mosely of Dallas has been strutting around talking about going to New York in the next few days, but from the last information gather- ed he isn’t half so interested. Mrs. Ewing Moseley announced that she was ging to New York also, That’s hard luck, Ewing. Better luck next time. EE The Dallas A. and M. Club has not failed to have a weekly luncheon each Friday for the past four years at the Oriental hotel. Dallas, however, has rassed the stage where the Oriental can do it any good. The old hotel will shortly be torn away and an- other skyscraper (characteristic of Dallas) will be built on that site. Be- ginning June 13, and each Friday noon thereafter the Dallas A. and M. Club will have . their luncheons at Joseph’s Cafe. This is just diagonally across the street from the Oriental. Will be glad to see any A. and M.er at these lunches. Some of you fellows read the first sentence of this para- graph over again. Shoot at it. ‘The Dallas crowd will pull their an- nual 4th of July barbecue again this year. If you don’t think these bar- becues are the real stuff, ask Dr. Biz- zell. He doesn’t miss them. Come to Dallas on the 4th and have a big time with us. Lake Garland will be the place. It will be an all-day affair. SHORT COURSE A. AND M. COLLEGE JULY 28-AUG. 2 Valuable Instruction in Many De- partments - Offered Farm Men and Women of Texas. ES General’ Hf ormation, Date—The fifteenth annual !far- mers’ short course will be held at the Agricultural and Mechanical College | _ at College Station, Texas, Rly: 28th to August 2nd, 1924. Who May Attend. The short course is open to any man, woman, boy or girl who desires to study and learn more about the solution of their farm and home problems. Character of Work. The short course is planned to meet the needs of men, women, boys and girls who desire to make farm life more profitable, comfortable and attractive. Agriculture—Work will be offered in the following departments: Ani- mal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, Poultry Husbandry, Agronomy, Hor- ticulture, Entomology, Plant Dis- eases, Rural Sociology, Agricultural Economics, and Agricultural Engi- neering. There will be an exhibit of the most improved and most modern farm machinery. and home equip: ment on the grounds. Home Demonstration Work—Sev- eral courses in Home Demonstration work especially adapted to the needs of girls and women from rural com- munities will be given. The work will consist of lectures and demon- strations in health work, in meal planning and table service, clothing, home improvement, and poultry. . Contests. Boys—A special feature of the course will be a poultry judging con- test, a grain judging contest for the Cameron Lumber Company Loving Cup, and a live stock judging contest for- the Progressive Farmer Loving Cup. Women and Girls—All state con- tests for Home Demonstration Club girls and women will be held at this time. Entertainment. : The evening programs will be de- voted almost entirely to instructive lectures and entertainment. In ad- dition some time during the day will be devoted to special forms of en- tertainment. Insofar as possible the entertainment will be of educational value. Conferences. A large number of the state ag- ricultural societies will hold their annual meetings at College during the Short Course. Board and Lodging. All persons attending the Short Course will be charged only the ac- tual cost of meals and lodging. Lodg- ing 25 cents per day; 3 meals $1.25 by purchase of tickets. Railroad Rates. The railroads have agreed to make a special rate of one and one-fifth fare for the round trip. ; Tyree Bell from the Valley country SIXTE ARCHITECT RECEIVED DEGREE AND IMPORTANT POST IN JUNE IN YEARS OUT OF COLLEGE KE S. J. Blocker, venerable architec- tural student of the College who re- ceived his degree in June, feels that his choice of returning to College to take his degree after many years spent in practice of his profession was justified when he was notified of his election by the Dallas Board of Edu- cation as maintenance superintendent and architectural adviser for the Dal- las city schools. He received his de- gree and took up the work in his new position on June 1st. Mr. Blocker atended the Chicago School of Architecture as a young man, and because of noticeable ability, influential friends and what appeared at the time to be an exceptional op- portunity for practice of his art he withdrew from the school in his junior year to accept a contract for draw- ing ‘specifications for a large building project. Pressing circumstances of active business averted his intention of returning to school, and finishing the course for a bachelor’s degree, but through 16 years the desire for that final year of basic preparation reasserted itself periodically and was never completely extinct in his mind. Six years in the thriving city of Dal- las as a successful architect revived the long persisting intention to c¢om- plete his college work and he sur- rendered his business and left his home and his family and came to A. and M. last fall. His practice had kept alive his knowledge of fundamental principles learned in his earlier schooling and he was able to take up the work where he had left off 16 years before and continue his studies with vigor. When he returned to his Dallas home with his sheepskin there will be a reversal of the regular order of congratulation. Instead of the young son with fanciful ambitions of world subjugation meeting the dis- couraging warnings of a business dulled father, it was a case of the father returning home to assure son of the value of higher education. Automobile Parties. Camp Grounds—Those who con- template attending the Short Course are urged to begin now to organize automobile parties. Everything pos- sible will be done for the conven- ience of those coming in cars and wagons. They will be given the privilege of securing lodging in the dormitories and board at the Mess Hall on the same terms as all others. A special location between the Cam- pus and College Park has been set aside for those desiring to camp. Ar- rangements have been made whereby gorceries, vegetables, ice and the like, will be delivered at the camp. On account of the extremely low rates for lodging, persons who come overland may find it more satisfac- tory to secure rooms in the dormi- tories. KS SS TTI TTS INIT HTS TTT £ 2] ~ a = = =) = ~ [&] 1] = — = — ~ $a Ee ~ fo] Fol Ba ~ od ~ -—] s —1 = ~ --) Fol fe] BE HHH HITT» HHT ST HHH STS TO SEND NAMES Of prospective students to office of the Registrar. Catalogues will be sent on the request from that office. ee TITS NTT (TTT TTT STITT TITHE STITT @ LLL LLL ® LLL Le MARION (UTC a 1S NOT THROVCH WILL HELP “D OILY” “Parson” Says He Will Guarantee $25,000 the Year for the Association. Personally Although he has expended much time and a great deal of money in furthering the work of the Associa- tion, Judge Marion S. Church of Dal- las, retiring president, says he will put in as much time this coming year helping “Polly” Krueger as he did last year. “lI was poy to do the Work for the Association and the College and the fact that I have ceased to be president in no way means that I shall quit my work for the institution,” said Marion in discussing “Polly’s” election. “We must stand to a man behind President Krueger. I know what it means to want and to receive help from my friends. I guarantee now to raise $25,000 this coming year for the Association and I promise “Polly” to answer every call he makes on me.” It seems that every sort of hard luck in the shape of sickness and ope- rations that could come to a man came to Marion during his adminis- tration as president. Through it all, however, he always is cheerful and happy. BAB IE IO\ IN JON ZEN TIN I VON TN TEXAS 02 EL —— THE > I= = I - = Has much good space to sell © & = © to old Aggies for the populariza- © § = © tionof their merchandise. - No : I - 8 It also is a wonderful medium £ §& NN E WE ‘ : E @ 8 © for institutions having machmery = £ ‘ Ce =k S [© or supplies which may be needed = E 5 = : : EB § © bymen engaged in agriculture or = B 5 = iad lo E © S © engineering. [ EB ~ EE eS = I - 2 = 2 E BB 2: Send us your Copy and a Con E 2 © tract for a year. - 2 5 BN: ° EH, F ANID DAN \i/A\ NINA NE NY AGGIE
