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Financial Report Athletic Department Shows S
FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL
ONLY SPORTS SHOWING PROFIT
PRESENT IMPROVE-
MENTS NOT SHOWN
F
TEXAS GAME PROFITABLE
State Appropriates Little Money for |
ON THIS REPORT
ootball Pays Expenses of Most of
Athletic Program With Basket-
ball Showing Slight Balance
on Right Side.
Athletic Department; Value of
Plant Greatly Increased in Past
Five Years; Report Shows
Complete Activities
JAMES SULLIVAN,
Business Manager of Athletics.
FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL
EDUCATION FOR THE SESSION OF 1926-27
Income Exp. Surp. Deficit
Cash balance brought over from
last fiscal year ......$ 2,087.96 $ 2,087.96
Major Sports Accounts
Football >; vive oie + Sntien 79,313.26 26,857.19 52,456.07
Basketball --........... 8,670.78 6,259.07 2,411.71
MBaseball 5... 0. mui, 8,587.61 10,757.20 2,169.59
TREK oir vifieie sate sinie's » 3,144.30 7,506.45 4,362.15
Minor Sports Accounts
TennisNh,. . «+ wondi®, 150.00 462.21 312.21
Golf ... a. Loris sande tiane Te 0. 1s 4 50.00 315.12 265.12
Miscellaneous Expense Accounts
' Intra-Mural and required
Physical Training ....>. 70.00 3,917.27 3,847.27
College Appropriation .. 2,000.00 2,000.00
Permanent Improve-
ments’ sr Ll a Lr LL, 8,007.97 8,007.97
INSU OANCE Se a ore ie sie oye 382.75 382.75
Refund—Coupon Books, Letter
Men, Band, ete ......... 6.50 1,769.45 1,762.95
Traveling Expenses, Coaches, :
Business Mgr., ete. .... 709.25 709.25
Postage Stamps & Office
SUPPLIES ener ties s ves 1,116.17 1,116.17
Incidentals =, «eevee dis’ oi 356.33 356.33
Sale of Equipment, Mer-
chandise bought for Stu-
dents and faculty members
thre this Dept. ........ 4,018.0z 3,674.79 343.23
Fe] fairies dutnio sss vs sve 399.65 399.65
Furniture & Fixtures. . 60.00 497.25 437.25
Notes Payable—Gym. .. 31,000.00 31,000.00
Net Surplus of Income over ;
Bxzpenditures .......... 4,170.31
$108,158.43 $108,158.43
ASSETS
CYMOSMIIIL ola arene ets «io stom in 4 sioneie cd big. sand oioiirs ble 2 0 #'s. disnsin 3he woe $145,000.00
Athletic BauiDMENL. sve dvi soe tomvim vos » +0 + +0 0s slo niv eo sinste s 47% 6,000.00
Trak Ft ieies fe eine smn t ek vith sie Wiiatite «o's s Sesto pitied isos lelatee ale 5,000.00
Football-Bleachers (SLeel) ...... veasnisot sas ves siaitiesiss sos sess 20,000.00
Baseball. Grandstand ou. «i ve nisi vies sis s 4:0 wiee ws sams. sats suivie sie ks 8,000.00
RTT I SR SR RN SRE aR a 3,000.00
Fences—Including Main Entrance to Kyle Field ................ 6,500.00
TWO Collages com. is nisi sles ove v dite vases a's le # wie e Delo Co's ie mie She 0a 5,600.00
One CroMNAReepPer’S CoLLaZa ves 2's «vrs vinin ov sis nae s vais ats eines 3,000.00
Furniture Sond eFPiZIULES woes’ sv os « 40% 50 2's oie Siew sinzs bo iors’ os winledeece 2,500.00
Cashion hand Fiscal Department  .c. ovo cosomsostoie vu vudvs «usin 4,170.31
Working Fund—City National Bank, Bryan, Texas ............ 3,000.00
PO PAL ASSIS, ov rane strep bsosdinns ess $211,670.31
LIABILITIES
One (1) Note Due Fiscal Department—Working
Fund—City National Bank, Bryan, Texas..........c.couuu.... $ 3,000.00
TOTAL TJABILITIES.L.. oi.’ iio deals « 5 ve siete nls a o's $ 3,000.00
SUMMARY
INCOME AND EXPENDITURES
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE—FOOTBALL 1926
INCOME
From Home Games:
Southwestern University
University New Mexico
Texas Christian University. ...cve cove cov sivrrs sees
Rice Institute
From Foreign Games:
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Trinity University
Sewanee
Southern Methodist University
Baylor University
Texas University
. & M. Freshman Games:
Allen Academy
Miscellaneous Income:
Football Box Seats for Season
From Athletic Coupon Books:
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923.50
2,183.84
1,883.11 § 5,507.20
600.00
7,430.32
16,419.36
8,173.60
33,994.86 $66,618.14
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The historic baseball diamond of
Kyle Field is no more. In the new
plant the diamond has been moved
about a hundred yards south and now
faces out toward the north east. The
new baseball stands will seat 3500
spectators. ‘
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Many famous ball players have
tried their skill upon the old diamond.
“Bugs” Raymond, the former New,
York Giants star, Christi Mathewson, |
the greatest hurler of all time, Jack
Combs of the old Philadelphia Ath-
letics and many others have thrown
their pet ball over the plate here.
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Many present big league and pro-
fessional stars saw service on the his-
toric old diamond. Trim Rigney, Pat
Olson, Barnyard Henderson and other
Aggies received their first baptism
of fire on its turf. Eddie Dyer of
Rice, Teddy Lyons of Baylor, Bib
Falk of Texas were some of the vis-
itors who learned the game thru tilts
at Aggieland.
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Marty Karow, all-American back
from Ohio last year has been secured
as Assistant football coach at Texas
next year. He ought to make Little-
field an excellent aid.
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Dana Bible is spending this last
part of the summer in Florida where
he and Wallace Wade, coach of the
Alabama Crimson Tide, are conduct-
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H. A. Hillin, the Aggie twirler of
last year, is going like a house afire
with Palestine in the East Texas
League. They seem to be trying to
work him every day but he is thriv-
ing on it and will likely go to the big
leagues next year.
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“Red” Grange is back “Pulling Ice”
getting ready for the coming pro sea-
son. Red and C. C. Pyle have piled
up $500,000 dollars since the former
Illinois star turned professional.
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Jim Kendrick, ’16, the perennial
football star, will have another pro
football team this fall. He is taking
Neely Allison, 25, Bones Irwin, ’25,
and “Mule” Wilson, 25, up with him
again.
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Jim Kendrick tells us Charley Mo-
ran will manage and coach the Frank-
ford pro football team this fall. Char-
ley will also be one of the umps in
the World Series this year. He is one
of the best likes and most capable
arbiters in baseball ranks.
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Phillips of McKinney and Baise of
Harlingen, two of the best high school
backs last year, have said they will
enter A. and M. this fall. Both are
hefty, good kickers, passers and ball
toters and will make Aggie stars two
years from now.
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Great plans are being made in West
Texas for the Aggie-Tech game. It
will be the first game in that section
of the State and there will be a grand
home-coming of A. and M. men at
Lubbock for the occasion.
DUD MOORE, 20),
CHOSEN COACH
OF MARLIN HIGH.
Dudley S. “Wrinkle” Moore, ’20,
has been elected as football coach of
Marlin High School, succeeding Dew-
ey Mayhew who has gone to Abilene.
Dudley coached the Lampasas high
team for three years, winning his dis-
trict championship each year. He has
been called by some of the sport
scribes of his section the “Jakey Atz”
of the “Heart of Texas” football. At
A. & M. “Wrinkle” was a varsity
catcher and one of the most popular
men who ever attended at Aggieland.
He will have the best wishes of hun-
dreds of his A. & M. friends in his new
task.
FT. WORTH GETS
D. W. CARLTON, ’23
IN C. OF C. WORK
D. W. Carlton, ’23, has resigned his
position as Assistant Sanitary Engi-
neer of the City Health Department
of Fort Worth to accept a place in the
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
as membership secretary. He will
succeed C. W. Kirberg. Carlton has
served the Fort Worth A. & M. Club
in various capacities and has become
known as one of the most active A.
& M. men in the State. He is well
qualified for his new work and will
make good.
Bill Cook’s M. P. Agricultural Dept.
Manned by Young A. & M. Graduates
Rated One of Best in United States
HERE THEY
ARE!
Above are the
boys and girls at-
tending thisyear’s
Farmers’ Short
Course as win-
ners of the Mis-
souri Pacific
Scholarships.
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Bottom Group, left to right—Jack Turner, ’26; F. P. Wittman, 19; W. B. Cook, ’20; Harry Meyer, 25 J. V. Meyer, 16.
TOP GROUP—List of Boys and Girls Winning Missouri Pacific Scholarships to the A. & M. Short Course During 1927 Season—
Goldie Collier, Eskelle Garrison, Anderson County; Agnes Michalczak, Fred Stark, Bexar County; Jim D. Lindsey, Brazoria County;
Ethel Mangus, Tillman Jones, Brazos County; Lois McIntyre, Delbert Ward, Cameron County; Elsie Hood, Cherokkee County: Lola
Messick, J. D. Smith, Ellis County; Wilson Wieting, Falls County; Charles Dent,
Frio County Johnnie Clemens, Gregg County; Dorothy V. Shannon, Edward Salzmann,
Plasters, Grimes County; Charles F. Earnest, Hardin County; Julia Hilzendager,
Freestone County;
Jr.,
Homer Sheffield, Harris County;
Omo Smith, Benton Roberts,
Alene Moody, Theron
Orville Dumas,
Galveston County;
till County; Aldee Kolb, Arthur Caskey, Houston County; Anah Wilde, George Best, Jackson County; Ruth Ebner, John C. Ebner,
Jefferson County; Nelma Griffin, Joel Turner, Jasper County; Jessie Wilson, Ben Edwards, Johnson County; Leona Brodenhousen,
William I. Trant, Kleberg County; Lela Mae Evans, J. T. McAdams, Liberty County; Winifred Hake, Madison County; Marietta Pool,
Hugo Aigner, Milam County; Blanche Mann, Curtis Clark, McLennan County; William E. Hulon, Montgomery County; Joe Bailey
Woods, Newton County; Marie Cates, Hoke McKim, Nueces County; Mary Brown, Lewis Ackers, Orange County; Howard Irwin, Rusk
County; Lillian Clair Ray, Bryant Collins, San Patricio County; Tinsie Chapman, Reagan Hathcock, Smith County; Allie Stephenson,
William Turner, Tarrant County; Leona Nauert, Elmer Nygren, Travis County; Louise Farber, Delbert Taylor, Victoria County; Car-
men Jones, Tom Watson, Walker County; Mildred Anderson, Williamson County; Flossie Evans, Wood County.
With the appointment of Jack Tur-
ntr, ’26, to the position of Assistant
Agricultural Agent, effective July 1,
the Gulf Coast Lines—International-
Great Northern Railroad of the Mis-
souij Pacific Lines—increased its
agricultural staff to six men, five of
whom are Texas Aggies. The depart-
ment is headed by W. B. Cook, ’20,
otherwise known as “Bill,” “Concept”
and various other cognomens he ob-
tained in his stay in and around Col-
lege Station from 1913 to 1923. Oth-
er members of Bill’s staff are J. V
“Jimmie” Meyer, ’16; F. P. “Frank-
ie” Wittman, ’19; Harry Meyer, ’25;
and F. C. Quereau, ’06, Louisiana
State University. Mr. Quereau is a
Louisiana Aggie looking after the
Louisiana end of the railroad.
Incidentally, the Gulf Coast Lines-
Enternational-Great Northern Agri-
cultural Department is the largest
railroad agricultural department in
the Southwest, and the Missouri Pa-
cific Lines, including the old Mis-
souri Pacific and its recently acquir-
‘ed lines, have the largest railroad ag-
ricultural development department in
the United States.
Bill Cook is known to most Ag-
gie exes as the fellow who pioneered
the Association of Former Students
as its first full time secretary. Bill
says that in spite of the hectic times
that he had in those eventful years,
he retains some of the most pleas-
ant memories of his life from the as-
sociations he had with such loyal old
campaigners as Charlie DeWare, E.
P Hunter, Marion Church, A. Y.
Shiels, Col. Downs, Col. Cushing
and hundreds of others who stood by
the Association when it counted the
most.
Leaving the Association June 1,
1923, Bill entered into another job of
pioneering as Agricultural Agent of
the International-Great Northern
Railroad, at that time just out of
the hands of the receiver and ir ihe
process of reerganization and reha-
bilitation. By fall tha: year N. D.
Zuber, ’15. Hortic.uturist for the
American Refrigerator Company, and
Cook juired hands and put on twe
joint Horticulturists. Wistman aud
Jimmie Meyer were selected for these
positions. Later when the Interra-
tional-Creat Northern, with the Gulf
Coast Lines, was acquired by the Mis-
souri Pacific, Cook’s jurisdiction was
extended to all the newiy acquired
lines and two more assistants were
authorized. Jimmie Meyer was pro-
moted to first assistant Agricaltural
Agent, Mr. Quereaa of I.. S U. was
appointed Assistant Agricultural
Agent to look after the Louisiana
territory, and Harry Meyer was ap-
pointed to take the place vacated by
his brother Jimmie. Frank Wittman
has become such an institution in
Southwest Texas that they Jo not
dare change him around.
Each member of the department is
assigned a particular section of the
state to look after, and he is primar- young orchards.
ily responsible for the development
that takes place in his territory. Jim-
mie Meyer is now serving the Gulf
Coast and Lower Rio Grande Valley,
Frank Wittman the territory between
San Antonio and Laredo served by the
International-Great Northern, San
Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf, Asherton
and Gulf and Gulf and San Antonio
Southern Railroads. Harry Meyer
looks after the tomatoes and peaches
of East Texas and Jack Turner will
look after livestock and poultry de-
velopment throughout the terrizory
served by these lines in Texas.
Bill Cook, besides his duties in di-
recting the work of the department,
has devoted a large part of his time
to stimulating interest in irrigation
and colonization in South Texas. As
a result of his activities one 100,000
acre project has been organized, sur-
veyed and bonds voted for construec-
tion. A second project involving 40,-
000 acres has been organized and the
survey practically completed. A third
project amounting to about 40.000
acres has recently voted funds for
making a complete survey, and other
projects aggregating 100,000 acres
are being investigated.
Jimmie Meyer started the rehabili-
tation of East Texas peach orchards
in the fall of 1923. At one time the
I.-G. N. Railroad handled approxi-
mately 2,000 cars a year out of that
section, but for several years prior to
1923 no carloads at all were hauled.
Jimmie set his goal to regain those
2,000 cars, and he was well on his
way when he was transferred to the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. There hs
is testing out some new practices with
respect to tomato production that
give promise to revolutionize the busi-
ness. He is getting a greater di-
versification of crops in that section
through the introduction of new crops
that are adaptable and profitable,
and is doing much toward discourag-
ing the use of poor seed which is
causing heavy losses to the vegetable
growers
Harry Meyer had a rather stren-
uous pace set for him by his brother
Jimmie, but he has succeeded in liv-
ing up to it. Bill Cook believes that
showing a man is better than telling
him, and acting on this theory two
large power sprayers were acquired
for service in East Texas. These
sprayers and the services of these
trained horticulturists were placed at
the disposal of the orchardist free of
cost except the spray material. In
one winter the Agricultural Depart-
ment of this railroad sprayed over
1,000 acres of orchards scattered over
six counties, and used over a car load
of spray materials. As a result the
railroad handled 200 carloads of
peaches the following season, and the
growers, gaining confidence in their
ability to successfully cope with in-
sects and diseases of peaches, have
planted several thousand acres to
These are only a few of the con-
structive things this Agricultural De-
partment is doing. They have ex-
tended the tomato district in East
Texas over 100 miles into new terri-
tory along the I.-G. N. Railroad.
They have brought about several
highly profitable green corn and mix-
ed vegetable deals. They have dis-
covered some new varieties of both
citrus and deciduous fruits that no
doubt will become of great economic
importance. They are giving effect-
ive publicity to the Southwest in all
parts of the country. They are pub-
lishing a twenty-page agricultural
paper that has a circulation of ap-
proximately 15,000 in Texas and
Louisiana and 30,000 over the entire
Missouri Pacific System. Hundreds
and thousands of individual requests
ranging from how to set a hen to
how to develop a 100,000 acre tract
of land are handled each year. By
the way, the two young ladies that
handle all this correspondence, Miss
Maude Bookout, Chief Clerk, and Mrs.
I. H. Johnson, nee Ethel Evans, Sec-
retary, are both Texas A. & M. Col-
lege trained. Miss Bookout was
formerly secretary for the poultry
department of the Extension Service,
and Mrs. Johnson was formerly sec-
retary to President Walton while he
was Director of the Extension Ser-
vice
Speaking of publicity, Bill Cook
conducted the American Agricultural
Editors’ Association on a three weeks
tour of Louisiana, Texas and the Mex-
ican Republic last spring, which has
already resulted in approximately 6,-
000 inches of publicity for the South-
west and Mexico in the leading farm
papers between the Atlantic Coast
and Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of
Mexico and the Canadian Border, cov-
ering that area almost like a blank-
et.
This tour into Mexico at a time
when relations between that country
and the United States were most
strained no doubt has been of con-
siderable significance from an inter-
national standpoint. While in Mex-
ico this party were the guests of
President Calles and the Mexican
Government. The Mexican Minister
of Agriculture personally conducted
a part of the tour.
Seventy-two farm boys and girls
were in attendance at the Farmers’
Short Course last month as a result
of as many scholarships given
through its Agricultural Department
by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Last
vear this same company had about 40
boys and girls here as its guests.
Needless to say Bill Cook and his
gang will make them all Aggies if it
is possible to do so.
E. O. Dietel, "27, is with Stone and
Webster and is working at Galveston.
He gets his mail at 2101 Ave. J in
that city and says he is enjoying his
work very much.