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THE TEXAS AGGIE
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HONOR TO THE CHAMPION CATS
All honor to Bill Stripling and his
Champion Cats. Lhe crew, headed by
Bill as president of the Fort Worth
Baseball Association, brought home
the bacon again this year in their con-
test with the Memphis Chicks, cham-
pions of the Southern League. The
world is beginning to realize that in
professional baseball and intercolle-
giate sports Texas holds its own with
the best of them. All Texas is proud
of the Fort Worth Cats.
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Texas, her educational institutions,
and more especially the State College
for Women, formerly known as C. I.
A., are to be congratulated on the se-
of
Kice Institute, as president of the
Woman’s College. Dr. Blayney, as he
is better known in educational circles,
has a wonderful equipment as an edu-
cator. Born in Kentucky and spend-
ing nearly a score of years in a Texas
educational institution he knows this
State and its traditions. He will en-
ter upon his new duties having the
best of relationships with all other
Texas educational institutions and
the whole hearted cooperation of the
administrative officers of those insti-
tutions.
We venture the assertion that there
will be no clashing of interests be-
tween A. & M. College and the Wom-
an’s College as long as Dr. Blayney
directs the destinies of that institu-
tion.
Dr. Blayney was the chapel speaker
at College last Sunday.
BR a
LOUIE MILLER
Sometimes it seems that the finger
of misfortune weighs rather heavily
against one man. So it is with Louie
Miller. Denied the right in the season
of 1923 to lead the football team
which he captained—denied that right
through a broken leg sustained in
spring training, Louie was back on
the squad again this season as Capt-
ain and giving every ounce of his
strength and ability to put the Aggies
back at the top of the winning col-
umn. And then came a eo break
in the same leg, just a little above and
involving the old break.
The Captain was carried from the
field, heartbroken, not because of his
injury but because he will not be able
to go again this season, because he
has completed his athletic career.
Hard working, clean, asking no fa-
vors, no odds, Miller is one of the fin-
est types of athletes and all sport
lovers everywhere are greatly grieved
over his tragedy. He will be retained
as Captain, no doubt and will be taken
on the trips with the teams. In that
way his silent influence will to a
great extent overcome the burden of
his loss to the team as a player.
Every son of Aggieland salutes
you, Louie, as an athlete and as a
Man.
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THE AGGIE SPIRIT
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From the heart out come the yells
of the cadet corps of the A. & M. Col-
lege. Yell Leader Cy Edwards and
his assistants, Abercrombie and Oaks
and Buck have wrought well and the
old fighting spirit of Aggieland is
rampant. There is a bark, a bite, a
determination to the yells that were
lacking last year. The mechanics of
the yelling is just as good and in
every shout there is a spirit of fight
and determination.
The fighting spirit flows from the
Corps to the team. If the corps
takes a game seriously the team takes
that game seriously. The effect and
influence of the twelfth man in the
stands is not only immediate but it is
tremendous.
The team this year seems to be
taking every game as they come to it.
Realizing a lack of strength and abil-
ity which characterizes other confer-
ance teams they are trying to make
1p in heart and fight and devotion to
rictory what they may lack in capac-
ity. And that augurs well for the
season.
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THE FALL REUNION
The Thanksgiving game is played
ly every other year at the A. and
M. College. Then of course there is
a tremendous gathering of old men
hack on the campus. In the absence
»f a home game on Turkey Day this
vear the Association of Former Stu-
dents voted at the commencement
meeting to provide a fall reunion to
be held this year at Waco, Nov. 1,
when the Aggies and the Baylor
Bruins engage each other at the Cot-
son Palace field.
. Waco Aggies with characteristic
"ospitality are preparing to feed free
500 of the former sons of A. and M.
There is to be a brief but inspiring
srogram, no collection, and a general
rood time. YOU MAKE YOUR
°LANS NOW TO BE THERE.
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. FOR “SILENT” MILLER.
Dear Ike:
When I saw “Silent” Miller
being taken off the field with
a broken leg, I felt like erying
like his team-mates were doing.
From what I can learn Capt.
Miller was an exceptional play-
er and will be greatly missed
by his team. He has the true
Aggie spirit and was game to
the last. I think it would be
a nice compliment to Miller if
the ex-students would see fit to
contribute $1.00 each to a fund
and buy him a fine watch and
charm. :
1 dont expect nor do we want
all of them to send in their dovl-
lar but want about 200 fighting
Aggies that will deem it a
privilege to send in the amount
mentioned.
Trusting this will meet with
your approval and be a success,
I am
Yours very truly,
J. Webb Howell.
Note: Send your checks to J.
Webb Howell, Bryan Cotton Oil
Co., Bryan, Texas.
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BAKER IN HOSPITAL
HAS 3 OPERATIONS
FOR APPENDICITS
J. F. Baker ’24, of Fort Stockton
is in the hospital at Brady finishing
up a six or seven weeks stay there
with that same contrary appendix
that put him to bed in the last term
of his year here. Members of last
year’s class will recall that when the
surgeons operated on him here for
appendicits they could not find the
appendix. He has had two more op-
erations at Brady and faces a third
before he is discharged. “Never the
less I will see you in Austin on Tur-
key Day even if I have to be there
on a stretcher,” he writes. “Tell the
bunch to pour it on Sewanee. I have
a radio and will be listening in.”
Baker was one of the most popular
members of the Senior class, bein:
Lieutenant-Colonel in the cadet corps
and business manager of the Long-
horn. His many Aggie friends are
wishing him a speedy recovery.
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CAMP °’16—JONES °’23
ROOMING TOGETHER
AT FAR-AWAY BOSTON
THE AGGIE had a very interest-
ing letter from T. R. Camp ’16, who
is doing advanced work at the M. I.
T., at Boston. He has completed one
full year’s work at Boston Tech and
is now entering upon the second year’s
study. That you can not keep these
Aggies separated is shown by the fact
that he and T. Lewis Jones ’23, in
C. E., who is taking some advanced
work at Harvard are rooming to-
gether. Their address is 21 Ellery
St., Cambridge, Mas..
“Through the courtesy of A. D.
Johnson ’16, whom I happened to run
across at the Bolton Air Port, I had
the privelege of giving the Round the
World Fliers a part of their official
welcome back to the U. S.” Camo
wrote. “A. D. is a captain assigned
to the 13th U. S. Infantry and was in
command of the company selected to
do the honors for the fliers. A. D.
just returned a few months ago from
a three year detail to the Panama
Canal Zone.”
Of course Camp and Jones are in-
terested in the football games and
are looking for the THE AGGIE to
give the details to them.
BROTHER OF FIVE
A. & ML. MEN WAS
KILLED IN WRECK
A. M. Puckett Is Killed in Southern
Pacific Crash Near San Antonio.
Son Now Senior at A. & M.
The many friends of the Puckett
Hoys, five of whom are old A. and M.
men, are deeply grieved over the trag-
¢ death of their brother Almor M.
Puckett, Sr., of 632 Hays Street, San
Antonio, who was killed in a South-
ern Pacific freight train wreck at
Pearson on Thursday, Oct. 2. A son
A. M. Puckett, Jr., is rounding out
his career at A. and M. now, being
an outstanding baseball player and
axceptionally popular boy.
Mr. Puckett was engineer on a fast
moving freight train which crashed
nto a freight bound in the opposite
direction, but which was standing on
the main line at Pearson. Failure of
the operator at Hondo to deliver
orders to the east bound freight was
responsible for the wreck.
That Mr. Puckett did not attend A. |
and M. because of financial difficul-
ties was the statement of Felix S.
Puckett, United States Department
cf Agriculture, 701 Polk Ave., Hous-
ton. He was the only one of the six
boys who did not attend A. and M.
He has a son, Manor Puckett, who is
completing his fourth year at A. and
M., however. My brother entered the
employ of the Southern Pacific as
a fireman in 1898. As far as his abil-
ity would permit he helped his broth-
ers through A. and M. and always
has been a great friend of the insti-
tution.
He had been an engineer for some
fifteen years. The accident that re-
sulted in his death was the only one
he had ever had.
There is some comfort in the fact
that he met his death carrying out
his orders as was verefied by the
copy taken from his clothing.
Mrs. Puckett, his wife suffered a
severe break down as the result of
his death and her recovery was fear-
ed for several days. She 1s though to
be completely recovered now, hov-
ever.
MANY OLD TIMERS
SEE AGGIES WIN
IN DALLAS GAME
Lots of Good Fellowship Prevails at
A. and M. Headquarters Follow-
ing Victory over Sewanee.
While not so many old timers were
at Dallas as are expected to be at
Waco nevertheless there was a con-
siderable influx of former students
at the Jefferson hotel, A and M.
headquarters throughout Friday night
and all of Saturday. E. P. Huater and
Marion Church, former president oi
the Association were on hand early
and late as was Polly Eraeger, the
present president. Polly brought Runt
Hanson with him from the Alamo
City. :
Hal Mosely, Carl Scudder, M. H.
Adams, M. B. Barnett, all of Dallas,
visited with the Aggies at the hotel,
too. Bob Potts, Hunter, Walter Crip-
pen, and a half dozen others were
there from Waco. Walter G. Lacy,
board member from Waco also was
in for the game as was Judge Byrd
E. White, of Lancaster, another mem-
ber of the Board.
Sangster Bizzell and “Nemo” Knapp
headed a party of a half dozen Jack-
sonville boys who were up for the
contest. Joe Bloodworth from Mar-
shall was another East Texas repre-
sentative present. J. T. Little and
Dough Rollins were over from Mt.
Pleasant. Jack Roberts, of Brecken-
ridge, was there. Josh Stears, one of
the early football men who now lives
at Shreveort, La., and Hyde, another
old football man from Jacksboro wera
on the job too.
In fact there was a goodly group
of old men there. All were pleased
with the outcome of the game and
all of them were making their plans
to be on the job at Waco and at Aus-
tin for the big football struggies
there. No registration of visitors was
made.
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GALVESTON COUNTY
CLUB HOLDS MEETING
AT TEXAS CITY
(By Hiram)
On September 5th., the Galveston
County members with their wives and
sweethearts and lady friends motor-
ed over to Texas City for their
regular meeting. Dutch Zincke, chair-
man of arrangements, got up the
party and believe us, it was just like
the invitation he sent out. The in-
vitations were made up in book form
and the cover design was an old fas-
hion Bar Room door, and above the
door in big letters were: “Mike's
Place. Upon opening the book was
an old, but familiar picture of a bar-
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The first labor-saver that the
woman of the family wants
when the farm home is electri-
fied is a washing machine; it
banishes “blue Monday” by sub-
stituting electric power for her
back-power.
Then comes the electric iron—
and after that the man of the
family can decide where he
needs electric power to take the
load off his shoulders.
Electric light and power on the
farm is an investment in better
and happier living.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
room counter with all the bottles, a
bar tender and a customer under the
weather. It seems like some of the
boys thought that there was such a
place called ‘Mike’s Place’ over there
and upon arriving at Texas City stop-
péd-several of the natives and home
guards to find out where it was. No
one knew of such a place and it had
every body asking where “Mike's
Place” was. Mike Mekeska and his
hand full of ex-Aggies had a real old
fashion chicken dinner with all
the trimmings. The dinner was held
al a cafe by the dock. Mike welcome:i
the gang but this time, as his wife
was there, did not have the kick in
his speech. He told the boys that
he would not make a long talk like
he did the night Judge Church came
to Galveston and that he would turn
the whole party over to Dutch Zincke
and that he could have as much
time as he wanted to make his talk.
The gang yelled for a speech from
Dutch, but he put it off until after
the big feed. Dutch was under tnz
weather that night and we think on
account of the ladies he could not
get started, anyway, he thanked
Mike and the rest for the interest
they took in getting the dinner and
reminded the boys that there was big
time coming and that time was a
trip to Austin. The Galveston ex-
Aggies are going to have special pull-
man to make the trip and Dutch
is now working up some kind of en-
tertainment for the bunch. He has
told us that the stateroom would be
open for a big party and reminded
the gang that every one would be
searched and anyone that was broke
could not get into the stateroom,
from that remark he must have some-
thing in shape of a midnight golf
game. After the dinner Mike invited
the guests to come over to his house
for a dance. Mike opened up his cel-
lar and you can use your own judg-
ment as the dance lasted until the
early hours of the next day. The next,
meeting for the ladies will be some
time in October, but as yet we have
not made arrangements what it will
Le, but it is going to be something
big and we hope to have a big crowd
again.
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FORT WORTH AGGIES
A meeting of the Fort Worth A. &
M. club was held at noon, Thursday,
September 4th, 1924, at the West-
brook Hotel. The president, Mr. T.
B. Hoffer, was out of the city and
the meeting was presided over by the
vice-president, Chas. H. Fleming.
Short talks were made by Mr. W
A. Polk, D. H. B. Todd, John C.
Burns and Melvin J. Miller. Mr. Polk
told of his days at A. & M. back in
"95. He was a CE, but quit that
profession sometime ago to engage
in the mercantile business. He has
been very successful and is at present
president and general manager of Ad-
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kins-Polk Co., wholesale grocers of
Fort Worth.
There was a general discussion of
ways and means of getting high
school athletes interested in A. & M,,
and a committee was appointed, con-
sisting of Mr. Williamson, E. P. Hai-
tom, D. H. B. Todd and M. J. Miller,
to make a special effort to meet all
local high school football men this
fall and visit with them and tell them
about A. & M. It is probable that
the local club will take four or five
of the best local players as their
guests to the Sewanee-A. & M. game
at Dallas or to the A. & M.-Baylor
game at Waco. The general opinion
is that if a man once sees the A. & M.
team and the A. & M. student-body
in action, it will go a long ways to-
wards making that man want to be
one of the bunch.
The local A. & M. men will attend
the A. & M-Sewanee game at Dallas
in a body. The secretary, Mr. Wil-
liamson, will get a block of choice
seats and all of -the old men in this
part of the country will be invited
to get one of these tickets and be
with us.
Our next meeting will be held the
first Thursday in October and plans
are being made to get all A. & M. men
in Ft. Worth to attend.
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BEAUMONT AGGIES
ELECT OFFICERS
By RABBI BERTSCHLER.
At the regular meeting Monday
night, August 4, on Hotel Beaumont
Roof, the Beaumont Ex-Students’
Club received the report of the nomi-
nation committee, “Bugs” C. M. Fa-
bian, chairman. H. L. “Squarehead”
Braunig, ’16, was offered for presi-
dent; Ben “Bully” Irby, ’17, secre-
tary; W. D. Atkison, 1st vice-presi-
dent; I. H. Bettis, 2nd vice-president;
F. L. “Rabbi” Bertschler, 3rd vice-
president and press agent. On mo-
tion of “General” A. Cavitt Love, the
recommendations of the committee
were unanimously adopted.
The retiring prseident, John New-
ton, who has been devoted to the res-
ponsibility of his job as first presi-
dent, gave vent to a “spread-eagle”
address which rivaled the humorous
fluency of the noted “Tanlac”
Strange. Here it may be said that
with the first officers of a club rests
its future history. If it goes big it is
their credit. If it fails, to a great ex-
tent the responsibility is theirs.
Beaumont has had unusually strong
and loyal men at the helm during the
past year and the fact that a mini-
mum attendance of 30 is now the rule
at the regular meetings bears out the
statement.
“Squarehead” Braunig, introduced
as being the owner of a head not
square but almost, briefly expressed
his appreciation of the honor bestow-
ed on him and indicated the spirit and
energy with which he assumes the du-
ties. Another successful year is as-
sured if untiring effort on the be-
half of the President will make it so.
The A. and M. dance was definitely
decided to be held Wednesday, Sep-
tember 3, at the Pleasure Pier, Port
Arthur. The Pier extends haif a mile
into ‘the water terminating in a
pleasure park with dance pavilion. A
cool and delightful place. All Ag-
gies who can arrange to be here for
the occasion are invited.
John Brazleton, 25, of the local Y
for the summer months, made an in-
teresting talk as did R. W. Hall of
Port Arthur. The Port Arthur gang
are regular attenders at the Beau-
mont Club and Monday night, August
11th, they propose a reorganization
and a dozen or so from the Beau-
mont Club have offered assistance on
the occasion.
A watermelon party had been pre-
viously proposed but was postponed
until August 18th, at which time
“Ladies’ Night” was held in Mag-
nolia Park,
After the dinner and conclusion of
business the club adjourned tempo-
rarily and reassembled at a near-beer
parlor across the street where the new
president treated the gang.
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HAVE YOU?
(By Luke Ballard)
Have you Old Former Student giv-
en the A. & M. college a square
deal? Boosted its work, help solve
its problems, shouldered your share
of its burdens.
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Had something to say or nothing
to say when asked to express your
opinion ?
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Criticized work done and urged ac-
tion on work undone, yet failed to
assist with your thought and energy
when the time for action came?
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Ever take the trouble to find out
for yourself just what work the
executive secretary and other offi-
cials of the Former Student Associa-
tion handles from day to day? Iw
you know the internal workings of
this, your organization?
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Taken the trouble to find out what
volume of information is compilad
by the association of the number of
positions that are filled through the
efforts of the secretary’s office of
which the association is backing ?
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Frankly—Have you given your
Former Student Association of the
old college a square deal during the
last twelve months? If you have,
well and good, you have rendered a
worthy service to the institution and
the state in which you are proud to
live and to do business.
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