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Another basketball season is over,
baseball and track are about ready to
go, spring football is started and the
ever changing panorama at Kyle Field
continues.
The final court game with Texas
was reminiscent of the old days when
the only foul called was for breaking
an opponent’s arm or leg. Only one
official showed up and even had there
been two the game would still have
been rough. An Aggie-Longhorn
game is always hard-fought.
An unpleasant event attended the
game. After it was over it was found
that one of the Texas players had se-
cretly taken the ball and concealed it.
Coach Bible and James Sullivan de-
manded the ball which the visitors de-
nied having, with Coach Fred Walker
of the Longhorns leading in the de-
nial. Finally the ball was discovered
in the Texas’ players locker and then
Coach Walker changed tactics and de-
clared that it was taken because “That
was the custom wherever he had
coached”. After much argument the
ball was secured by Coach Bible who
later brought it back in and presented
it to Captain Estes of the Longhorns
with the compliments of the Aggies,
stating that, “If Texas wanted the
ball the Aggies were glad to present
it to them, but that it could not be se-
cretly spirited away with our know-
ledge.”
It is natural for the Texas players
to wish the ball and too much blame
cannot be laid to the boy who spirited
it away after the game. It was poor
judgement and sportsmanship, how-
ever, for Fred Walker, their coach,
to take the stand and attitude he did
on the matter.
Walker has been described as a
“Belligerant” coach. In his case the
word covers a multitude of sins if his
behavior here may be taken as a sam-
ple of his customary actions.
Schoonover of Arkansas and Allison
of S. M. U. at forwards, Pickel of
Arkansas at center, Rose and Lambert
of Arkansas at guards seem to be
the best combination as an All-Con-
ference selection. Brock of Texas
and Strickland of Baylor might have
been placed at the forward places
without loss of strength to the quint.
Both the latter starred on poor teams.
Knute Rockne says the co-ed schools
are handicapped in putting out win-
ning football teams because of their
jelly-bean tendencies, and that 20
years from now all the best athletes
will be from Agricultural schools. It
is a good theory if it were not for the
performances, year after year, of
teams from such schools as Michigan,
Illinois, Nebraska, S. M. U., Califor-
nia, and the like. Notre Dame, Navy,
Army, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Tex-
as A. & M. have only men students
but cannot claim to be better in foot-
ball than their jelly-bean rivals.
Here’s hoping, however, that Rockne
is right.
Aggie baseball fans will watch with
interest the work of Punk Baker and
H. A. Hillin, stars on last year’s team,
to stick with Houston and Wichita
Falls of the Texas League. Hollis
Tucker will also be given another try
with Beaumont.
The Waco Cubs of the Texas Lea-
gue go in strong for collegians. Ace
Elliott, star pitcher, Tess Edgar,
catcher and “Bo” Molenda, former
All-American football fullback, are on
their list and are all from Michigan
University.
The S. M. U. basketball team is
now playing as the Dallas Athletic
Club team and is entered in the Na-
tional A. A. U. tournament in Kansas
City. On their way up there they
stopped in Athens for a game with
the high school of that little city and
took a good beating, score 32 to 26.
Athens won the high school title last
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year.
John Broad, 27, is the only out-
sider playing on the Dallas Athletic
Club team except the S. M. it. players.
Alonzo Stagg, veteran football
coach of Chicago University, will pay
the College a visit on March 21st.
He is in Texas to referee the Rice
and Texas Relay games.
Nixon Askey, who played en the
Aggie football team of 1920-21, is
coaching Corpus Christi High. His
basketball team was in the Champion-
ghip Tournament at Austin. Nick is
also president of the Corpus Christi
A. & M. Club.
Six Aggie athletes were on the
scholastic honor role for the first
term, Lister, Wylie, Figari, Mosher,
of the football team, Kennedy, star
hurdler and Dittman, bassball player.
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Not so bad for the supposedly dumb
athletes.
The Aggie swimming team recently
trounced the strongest aggreation of
that kind in Houston.
More than 700 A. & M. students
have taken part in intramural athlet-
ies to date, according to W. L. Pen-
berthy, director of that phase of the
work of the Athletic Dept. Basket-
ball, volleyball, football, tennis, cross-
country, golf, boxing, wrestling and
speedball, are some of the competi-
tions. The men taking part in this
sport are men who can not make the
varsity teams and are the rank and
file of the Aggie students. It is car-
rying athletic participation to prac-
tically every student in the college.
Bob Countryman can not find ary
a southpaw hurler for his baseball
team. The Aggies have not had a suc-
cessful port-sider in many moons.
Spring football starts March 12th.
with both Bible and Bassett on hand
‘to work the material over. Football
titles are won in spring football ses-
sions and both the Aggie coaches
have plenty of building to do to re-
place the men lost from last fall's
title winning machine. More anon!
MARRIAGES
Pistole-Higgs.
The approaching wedding of Louis
Pistole, ’25, of Big Springs and Miss
Katherine Higgs of Bryan was recent"
ly announced and the date set as
April 17.
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G. W. Scott, 26, and Miss Eliza-
beth Kilpatrick of Navasota were
married at Navasota, March 8th. They
will make their home in Dallas.
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BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Boykin, 22, of
Clarendon, announce the birth of
James Lester Boykin, weight 9 1-2
pounds, at their home in Clarendon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jim S. Denison, 20,
of Bastrop, announce the arrival of
Miss Dorothy Nell Denison into their
home on February 10th. ‘Both the
voung lady and her mother are doing
nicely.
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A. A. “Apple” Ward, ’25, former
pole vaulter de luxe, is now with the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany at Houston and lives at 3713
Bell Ave. “Apple” held the confer-
ence record for the pole vault for sev-
eral years until it was bettered last
spring.
J. A. Blieden, 26, celebrated his
first wedding anniversary recently at
his home in Beaumont. He gets his
mail at Box 499 in that city, and is
with the Southern Iron and Steel
Company.
K. K. “Slick” Prestridge, '17, is de-
signing engineer for the Maverick
County Water Improvement Dist. No.
1 at Eagle Pass, address Box 34.
Harry Wheeldon, ’22, is with the
Lone Star Gas Company and located
now at Gordon, Texas.
C. C. “Spitz” Clark, ’22, is with the
Blue Diamond Company, Building
Material Dealers, of San Antonio and
has become quite an expert in that
line. Incidently he has been married
for several years and has become
quite a solid citizen.
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M. S. “Parson” Church, ’05,
prominent attorney of Dallas,
wrote his senior thesis at A. &
M. upon the subject “Pork Pro-
duction in Texas.” ' H. E.
“Mark” Hanna, ’05, big lumber-
man of Tulsa, Okla., wrote his
on “Feeding value of Black
Strap Molasses for Cattle”, and
Temple Hoffer, '04, played alto
in the band, while C. E. Maed-
gen, Lubbock Banker, ’04, beat
the drums. Gus A. “Fatty”
Saper, '15, wag historian for the
’15 Class and Vice President of
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the “Anti-Swearing Club.” W. J.
K. “Runt” Hanson, ’15, and J. 2
P. “Johnnie” Garrity, ’15, eof A
Dallas, were Chief Trumpeter ..
and Sergeant of the Bugle ;
Corps, respectively. Gus A. +
Mistrot, ’12, Advertising expert i
of Houston, was known te his
classmates as “Cokey” and was
the youngest man that ever
graduated from the C. E. Dept.,
finishing at 17 years of age.
Pat Devine, ’12, Rio Grande
Valley Engineer, was President
of his “Fish” Class and Charles
Puryear, now Dean of the Col-
lege, was manager of the foot-
ball team of ’94, and one of the
gay poung blades of the eollege.
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TELLS OF IN-
TERESTINGLIFEIN NICARAUGA
WITHSANDINONOT FARAWAY
Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua,
March 3, 1928.
Association of Former Students,
A. and M. College,
College Station, Texas,
U. S. A.
Dear Sir:
I am very glad to receive your card
requesting location, etc. of members
of Association of Former Students of
A. and M. College of Texas. As it has
been some time since I have been in
the States, I have not had the privi-
lege to visit in College Station or to
correspond with the Association.
During last summer I returned to
the States Via Panama Canal and
California, but did not have -suffi-
cient time to come to College Station.
I am very sorry that I was unable to
drop by the College during Septem-
ber 1927.
Since leaving Texas A. and M. I
have been in the employment of the
Bragmans Bluff Lumber Company, a
division of the Standard Fruit and
Steamship Company of New Orleans.
For a period of about five months I
was in the field on railroad construc-
tion. This work dealt with location,
bridge building, drainage, etc. During
this period the Nicaraguan revolution
of Sacassa was taking place thus giv-
ing each American on the line a nice
experience in revolutions. I was call-
ed into the Engineering Department's
office where work on maps, plans,
etc., was done for a short period. For
the past year I have been in the Me-
chanical Deparement as Mechanical
Engineer or Engineer to Superinten-
dent of Mechanical Department. This
position ranks in this division as As-
sistant Superintendent of Mechanical
Department.
We are now having trouble with the
bandid Sandina, who is robbing and
killing in the interior. The revolution
has been stopped for over a year yet
this fellow keeps on fighting. How-
ever this port is under the supervis-
ion of marines and warships. It seems
from all indications that the Marines
are making plans to stay in Nicara-
gua for a long period. As the elec-
tion is to take place about September
am sure that this place will need all
of the guards during that period.
To give an idea of what the Niec-
araguans laws contain I will give an
example. It is a known fact that the
Spanish element in this country does
not like or admire the American. A
few weeks ago an accident took place
on the line. On a flat car, which was
ten cars back of engine, a native be-
came overbalanced and fell under the
wheels. In the states this would be
called an accident but down here the
authorities of the Nicaraguan Gov-
ernment declare that the engineer of
the locamotive be arrested for mur-
dering a noble citizen or Nicaragua.
However the Marines would not al-
low the American to be arrested.
I am expecting to return to States
within the next two or three months
for a short visit. If I have sufficient
time will try to come to College Sta-
tion.
I have been doing a small amount
of corresponding with A. Y. Gunter,
25, and L. S. Partridge, 26. As let-
ters have been few have not heard
very much news about Texas A. and
M. College. Would appreciate any
news of importance from this college.
I send my regards to the Associa-
tion and to all departments at col-
lege.
Very truly yours,
BR. P. WOODY, ’26,
Engineer to Supt. of Mech. Dept.
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Jim Kendrick, ’16, is representing
a sporting goods house out of Waco
and “making” most of the state on
his travels. He will likely umpire in
some league this summer or manage
a baseball club. Jim holds the World's
long distance record for playing foot-
ball, having been at the game each fall
for too many years to mention and
getting better all the time.
Ben C. Rogers, ’13, is with the
Southwestern Life Insurance Com-
pany and located at Abilene, Texas.
James M. Flanigan, 27, is with the
Gypsy Oil Company in their Geophy-
sical Research Dept., and is loeated
at Tulsa, Okla., Box 2044.
Lambert Ballard, ’22, dropped in for
a short visit recently. He is still with
the Briggs-Weaver Machinery Com-
pany of Dallas but makes his head-
quarters at Jacksonville in East Tex-
as. “Lambo” couldn’t stay long as he
had to get home to see Mrs. Ballard
and their four months old daughter.
Lambert has a younger brother in
school now.
Danny Clinton, ’21, was a visitor
to the campus to attend the recent
school of Cooperative Marketing. He
is County Agent at Columbus.
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A letter from E. C. “Scrapper”
Nichols, ’27, states that he has just
gotten up following a DOUBLE op-
eration, hernia on the left and Appen-
dix on the right, and although a lit-
tle weak is otherwise in good shape.
He is at York, Pa., where he is with
the York Company and his address
is Care The Yorkco Club, York, Pa.
Incidentally, he says they “made
Christians” out of the doubting
brethren during the football season.
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With seventy reservations al-
ready in and many more to
come indications point to an at-
tendance of well over one hun-
dred at the annual Civil Engi-
neers Short Course, held on the
campus March 21, 22, and 23rd.
under the auspices of the C. E.
Department of the College. Ful-
ly forty A. and M. men are
among these signifying atten-
dance and there will be many
a regular re-union of “Hard-
Boiled” engineers on the cam-
pus during those three days.
Highway engineers, contractors
and material men have so far
made up the majority of those
who will attend. Among the fea-
ture speakers will be Gibb Gil-
christ, Highway Engineer for
the State and other authorities
upon Pavement Surfaces. Write
J. T. L. McNew, ’17, for reser-
vations and come down.
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tion work was done by the R. W.
Briggs, ’17, company of Pharr, and
the W. L. Pearson company.
In addition to this gigantic enter-
prise the firm is now engaged in con-
structing a $300,000 city hospital in
Edinburg, and a $140,000 high school
at Brenham. They are also complet-
ing plans for a fourteen story office
building in Austin, a $100,000 hospi-
tal in Austin and a $50,000 high
school for Shiner. The many friends
of “Little Pal” will wish as much and
more success for him and his firm in
the future as they have so well merit-
ed and earned in the past.
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Sam Lanham, ’26, is taking a few
post graduate courses at A. & M. this
spring term. He spent last year in
medical college but decided that there
were other careers more attractive
than that one.
R. L. “Buck” Edgar, cadet colonel
in ’27, visited the campus recently in
the interests of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company. He is with their
Dallas office in the plant dept. and was
on the campus for the purpose of in-
terviewing prospective men for the
company from this year’s class.
“Buck” lives at 128 N. Willomet in
Dallas and says he is fond of his work.
Dr. Hubert Schmidt, ’08, is another
old football star who makes the Col-
lege headpuarters. He is Vererinarian
for the Texas Experiment Station sys-
tem and one of the best known men
in that line in the country. He was a
great center in his day starring in the
line with sueh men as Jim Ross, Jesse
Dale, Charlie DeWare, Symes, Moore,
Cornell and Hooker.
George R. Minier, ’16, better known
as “Pud”, is representing the Atlas
Portland Cement Company in Texas
and makes Waco his headquarters.
He is well known among the Agg'e-
of his time. The Atlas Company is
one of the largest of the Nationally
known cement companies and their
re-entrance into Texas has been made
only recently.
STEERS DEFEAT
FARMER QUINT
IN FINAL GAME
Webster and Brock Furnish Fire-
Works as Texas Comes From
Behind to win Fiercely Fought
Battle.
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Coming from behind in the second
half Coach Fred Walker’s Longhorn
cagers defeated a fighting Texas Ag-
gie team, 30 to 20 at the A. and M.
Memorial Gymnasium Saturday
night in one of the fastest and rough-
est games played on the A. and M.
court this season.
Coach Chuck Bassett’s Aggies took
the lead early in the game, holding
onto it throughout the first half, but
the fighting Texas dribblers came
back strong in the second half and
soon went into a lead which the Ag-
gies could never regain. The score
at the end of the first half was 14
to 13 in the Aggies’ favor.
High point honors for the game
were shared by Noah Webster, bril-
liant Aggies forward, and Holly
Brock, Longhorn forward. Both of
them scored 12 points.
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Harry Knickerbocker, ’17, and Ar-
thur Knickerbocker, ’22, are both liv-
ing in San Antonio. Recent reports
thru the San Tone “Chile Spitter” tell
of the serious illness of Harry and
Mrs: Knickerbocker’s baby.
Robert L. “Bullet” Moses, younger
brother of “Bull” Moses, is confined
to a hospital at Tuscon, Ariz., with a
serious illness. “Bullet” will be glad
to hear from his old friends so drop
him a line at P. O. Box 315, Univer-
sity Station, Tuscon.
OLD TIMERS.
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W. W. Wipprecht, business manager
for the College for many, many years,
has been associated with the College
for the greater part of his life after
graduating here in ’86, but he, too, had
outside business periods. F. E. “Pal”
Giesecke, ’90, was an early member
of the faculty and is back again this
year after several years at Texas
University.
Then there is Bernard Sbhisa, for
whom the College Mess Hall was
named and who contiues to make his
home in Bryan. He has been out of
active service for the past several
years but still receives his mail each
day and comes out to the campus for
it.
Following the above gentlemen
there is quite an interval in time of
years at A. and M. Dean Kyle, 99,
and Prof. A. “Script” Mitchell, ’94,
have each served 26 years with the
College and are here now. Both of
them have been active in the work
of the Association of Former Stu-
dents, and its preceding Associations.
All the above gentlemen are hale
and hearty. Their youthfulness belies
their age. They are an important part
of the A. and M. College as members
of its staff and faculty. They are an
even more important part as warm
and golden memories in the hearts of
the thousands of men who have come
into contact with them in the class-
rooms and on the campus.
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March 30-31—Rice Institute at
Houston.
April 6-7—Rice Institute at College
Station.
April 13-14—S. M. U. at College
Station.
April 20-21—Texas University at
College Station.
April 27-28—T. C. U. at Ft. Worth.
April 30-May 1—S. M. U. at Dallas.
May 7-8—T. C. U. at College Sta-
tion.
May 21-22—Texas
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Bennie A. Zinn, ’26, is teaching
science courses and coaching at the
Hearne High Schools. Besides his
teaching and coaching successes there
he also married Kathleen Murphy of
Hearne. Bennie says he is starting
work on his Master’s degree this sum-
mer and will attend summer school at
A. & M. He has sent quite a few of
his proteges on down to A. & M.
University at
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