The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, March 15, 1937, Image 3

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FODDER
Now that basketball and spring
football are over, and the weather
turns warmer, sports fans will turn
their attention to track and base-
ball. Texas and Rice are favored
for the track title this spring, with
the Aggies due to come in third.
About the only consolation Coach
Rollins can find is in the presence
of a nice group of freshman run-
ners, headed by “Red” Cecil and
Walter Schiller, sprinters, and Mar-
tin Stuart and McLean, quarter-
milers. :
Siki Sikes’ Cadet baseball team
might go places in the conference
this year. Right now Baylor and
Texas loom as the favorites, Bay-
lor because of a veteran team and
the league’s best pitching staff,
and Texas because of some out-
standing players and Billy Disch.
However, the Aggies may present
one of the hardest hitting teams
the conference has ever seen, and
if they get good pitching will be
hard to handle. Kyle Riddle, Sen-
“jor southpaw is the Aggies’ best
hurler.
Today’s bouquet goes to A. P.
Olbrich, better known as “Brick,”
who stands to play considerable
football next fall at a guard posi-
tion in the Aggie line. He hails
from Burlington, Texas, weighs
190, and was unknown as far as
football went when he came to A.
& M. He came out and stayed on
the scrubs all last fall and this
spring he has come along. until
he’s in line as a first replacement
for one of the big three of the
Aggie guards, Routt, Jones and
Minnock. A quiet, plugging type,
he is proof that you don’t have to
be a big high school or prep school
star to get plenty of attention from
the coaching staff.
And the railbirds are singing
sweet praises over the work of
one Waleman Price, 185 pound
freshman back, who hails from
Newcastle, Texas, and who was one
of the sensations of spring grid
practice. He is a nice passer, a
fair punter and ball carrier anid
“looks like a coming star. Last fall
in preparing for the T. C. U. game
Price was labeled “Sammy’’ Baugh
in all pre-game scrimmage ses-
sions. After that week of pound-
ing at the hands of the varsity
linesmen who were charged with
rushing the passer there was no
doubt in the minds of the Aggie
coaching staff about Price’s abil-
ity to absorb punishment and keep
going.
With “Siki” Sikes giving it care-
ful attention, the Aggie end play
has improved greatly during the
recently completed 30 day spring
football practice. Big Rankin Britt,
210, letter-man from last year, Bill
Seago, 185, letterman, “Teff”
Sikes, 175, and Bailey Timmerman,
195, both squad-men, all have im-
proved. Add Johnnie Morrow, 188,
to that group next fall and the
Aggies should get satisfactory if
not brilliant end play. One thing
~ is certain, the ends will do a bet-
ter job of blocking next fall. And
don’t overlook Joe Turner and
Bruno Schroeder, a pair of big
boys who have been working at
the flanks this spring. And then
there are Bill Duncan, 185, Don
Mims, 175, Jack Kimbrough, 180,
and other “Fish” ends.
~ In the last issue of the Aggie
the sports writer joked about put-
ting Joe Routt in the backfield in
an effort to find the right “Com-
bination.” From the way Norton
has been shifting his boys about
that might not be a joke after all.
He recently had Bruno Schroeder,
a full-back, at end, and center Zed
Coston at guard.
Spring practice observers credit
the Aggies this spring with having
the best organized spring practice
ever seen in the Southwest. Head
Coach Norton oversees the entire
. group from his sky-buggy. Bill
James would have the guards and
tackles in one group, with the
ends working under the eagle eye
of Siki Sikes and the backs get-
ting some special instructions from
Manning Smith. After their indi-
vidual and fundamental work is
over the big squad reports to Nor-
~ ton for team play. This Norton
directs from his high perch, aided by
all the other coaches. And they
‘have really gotten in the work this
year, according to the boys who
"have been out.
Cadets Blast Win
In Baseball Opener
“Siki” Sikes’ Texas Aggie base-
ballers gave the fans a sample of
their power with the willow when
they walloped the Austin Seven
Uppers, 10 to 2, in their season’s
opener at Kyle Field. Most of the
Austin team were present or
former stars of the diamond at
Texas University.
Kyle Riddle, veteran southpaw,
and Hal Welch, sophomore, work-
ed on the hillock for the Cadets
and pitched steady ball. The de-
vastating attack of the Aggies
was lead by Jess Landrum with a
pair of circuit wallops and Cap-
tain Pete Dowling also poled one
against the Stadium for a homer.
Wrestling Event
Carded For Band
Benefit April 10
W. A. Ruhman, president of the
Senior Class, has announced that
wrestling matches featuring promi-
nent wrestlers will be held here
April 10. Proceeds from the match-
es will be used to establish a fund
for the purpose of sending the
Aggie Band on trips next fall.
Morris P. Sigel, Houston fight
promoter, has been contacted and
has agreed to furnish four out-
standing wrestlers for the event.
Those tentatively agreed upon are
Wycoff, Bashara, Henry, and Sav-
age. As a further attraction it is
planned to have boxers from the
University of Texas meet Aggie
boxers in preliminary matches.
This event should attract great
interest, as it is only seldom that
prominent wrestlers are matched
in this section. Sport fans will al-
so have an opportunity to see the
Aggie boxing team in action.
Advance ticket sales will be
handled by members of the band.
It is to be hoped that this will be
the first step toward establishing
a permanent band fund to provide
transportation for band members
on football trips. The need for
such a fund has been sorely felt
for some time, and the corps should
cooperate to the fullest extent in
this step toward establishing it.
Lieutenant Joe C. McHaney, ’35,
is located at Battery A-10th Ma-
rines, F. M. F., Quantico, Virginia.
Joe likes his work fine but says
he enjoys receiving the AGGIE.
As a student at A and M, Joe
was cadet colonel and a popular
student on the campus.
Anthony M. Knouse, ’35, is lo-
cated at Lafitte, Louisiana, and
gets his mail at Box 273.
V. T. Kallus, ’30, is teaching
vocational agriculture at Devine,
Texas. :
Walter I. Scott, ’36, has been
transferred as assistant in agri-
cultural conservation from Throck-
morton County to Haskell County,
with headquarters at Haskell, Tex-
as.
Marion H. Badger, ’31, has been
appointed an assistant in agri-
cultural conservation for Bexar
County. His headquarters will be
at the Bexar County Court House,
San Antonio, Texas.
Clarence E. Marcum, ’33, is an
assistant in agricultural conser-
vation for Deaf Smith County,
where his headquarters are Here-
ford, Texas.
Charles E. Reed, ’35, is as-
sistant secretary-treasurer for the
Wichita Falls Production Credit
Association, 223 Radio Building,
Wichita Falls, Texas.
John W. Herring, Jr., ’35, and
George A Logan, 35, send in their
Association dues from Box 446,
Lockhart, Texas, where they are
both with the Soil Conservation
Service.
Arthur Adamson, Aggie swim-
ming coach, has compiled some sort
of a winning record. No water
polo team he has coached has ever
been defeated. This winter, al-
though taking a licking from the
University of Texas swimming
team, the Aggie water polo team
upset the dope to win from the
Steers. Which calls to mind Cal
Hubbard’s definition of the water
polo game, “Whichever team
drowns the most opponents wins.”
i FINEST SPRING
WORK I'VE
EVER HAD” DECLARES NORTON A
66 MEN CLOSE 30 DAY SESSION
With spring football practice
closing last Wednesday the AG-
GIE presents a roster of the men
who took part in the 30 day drill.
Every man expected to play next
fall, with the exception of Johnnie
Morrow, 190 pound veteran end
who was on the basketball team,
participated in the work-outs. Head
Coach Homer Norton and Line
Coach Bill James declared their
practice this spring was the best
they had ever held.
A thorough grounding in fun-
damentals and a machine-like pre-
cision in the shifts, formations
and plays that will be used next
fall featured in general the work
this spring. Encouraging to coaches
and side-line observers has been
the obvious improvement in end
play and the smoothness and clever
ball-handling shown by the backs.
“Giving promise as future var-
sity performers are several men
from last fall’s freshman team.
Boyd, Steel, Crawford, Routt,
tackles, Rahn, guard, Rushing,
center, and Price, Cecil and Au-
dish were among the youngsters
showing to best advantage. Price
looks like the finest prospect as a
forward passer ever to enroll at
Aggieland, and along with his pass-
ing is a husky lad who is a fair
passer and ball carrier.
SPRING FOOTBALL ROSTER
Name position
End
”
Britt, Rankin
Duncan, Bill
Dwyer, Sammie
Kimbrough, Jack
Mimms, Dow
Seago, Hughlen (Bill)
Sikes, Teff
Smith, Herbert
Timmerman, Bailey
Turner, Joe
Boyd, Joe
Bokencamp, Freeman
Bransom, George
Crawford, Wynne
Church, Warren
Hart, Harold
Reid, Randow
Routt, Wm. (Chip)
Steele, Durwood
Young, Roy
Adams, G. B.
Bates, Gus
Doyal, John
Drennan, Bailey
Dunahoe, Willis
Elwell, C. D.
Faubion, Jerry
Jones, Virgil (Brahma)
Minnock, Bill
Olbrich, Alvin
Rahn, Lehman
Routt, Joe
Ryan, Key
Warden, Onis
Woodward, K.
Coston, Zed
Ramsey, Bob
Rushing, Eli
White, Joe
Young, Gail
Audish, Bill
Adams, Bob
Boyd, Bill
Brown, E. S. :
Cecil, Walter (Red)
Cooper, Jack
Dallas, J.°E.
Dittman, Henry
Fowler, Florey
Livingston, R. M.
Mills, Kenneth
Nesrsta, Bob
Price, Waleman
Reynolds, Walter
Rogers, Owens
Saltonstall, J. B.
Schroeder, Bruno
Schiller, Robert
Shockey, Jacob (Jim)
Steffens, Karl
Todd, Dick
Vitek, Dick
Wheeler, L.
Wood, Frank
VL—Varsity letter
VS—Varsity squad (no letter)
Tackle
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Home
Ranger
Henrietta
El Paso
Haskell
Houston
Gilmer
Leonard
San Angelo
Rockdale
Fort Davis
Dallas
Houston
Burleson
Amarillo
Colorado
Gilmer
Dallas
Chapel Hill
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Bryan
Ft. Worth
Grand Prairie
Cleburne
Galena Park
San Angelo
Freeport
Sweetwater
Galena Park
Burlington
Dayton
Chapel Hill
Eagle Pass
Ranger
Nacogdoches
Dallas
Uvalde
Stephenville
Amarillo
Shamrock
Brenham
Jacksonville
Gilmer
Beeville
Freeport
Dallas
Houston
Goose Creek
Mt. Pleasant
Dallas
Groesbeck
Flatonia
Newcastle
Sour Lake
Mart
El Dorado, Ark.
Lockhart
Columbus
Gilmer
Brady
Crowell
Granger
Houston
San Angelo
F—Freshman numeral or freshman team experience
A&M Tankmen
Cop Four Out
Of Six Meets
Four wins out of six engage-
ments was the admirable record
made by the Texas Aggie Aqua-
tists on their recent trip North.
Swimming against some of the
strongest teams in the country,
Coach Arthur Adamson’s swim-
mers dropped only two hard fought
meets to the Tulsa Aquatic Club
and the Kansas City Amateur Ath-
letic Club.
In their only water polo game
of the entire trip the Aggies kept
their perfect record clear by down-
ing the Tulsa Aquatic Club 1-0, in an
exhibition game of two minute
halves. This victory gives the team
an unblemished record of all wins
and no losses in their third year
of competition.
T. Murray “Larry” Doyle, 19, is
manager of the Brazelton Lumber
Company, at Tyler, Texas. Doyle
has been with the Brazelton Lum-
ber Company for the past 17 years.
Roy T. “Dusty” Durst, ’36, is a
junior petroleum engineer for the
Humble Oil & Refining Company
and gets his mail at Box 2025,
Tyler, Texas.
Alton B. “Chink” Emmons, 27,
is teaching vocational agriculture
at Marshall High School, Marshall,
Texas. He lives at 200 North Col-
lege Street, Marshall, Texas.
James R. “Speedy” Emmons, ’31,
is assistant county agent for the
A. & M. Extension Service and is
located at Henderson, Texas. His
residence address is 113 Sunset.
Emmons was a T-man and captain
of the track team during his cadet
days.
Willis F. “Grandma” Gunn, ’28,
is a land surveyor at Longview,
Texas. His business address is 205
North Second Street. Gunn has
been in this business for the past
13 years.
JUNIORS, SENIORS
IN LANDSCAPE ART
10 BXTEND TOURS
Landscape Art Juniors and Sen-
iors will leave on a week inspec-
tion trip to New Orleans and points
in South and East Texas, Louis-
iana, and Mississippi.
A number of points of interest
will be included in the tour, the
first being Marshal, Texas, where
they will visit the nurseries. Then
they will go on to Shreveport,
Louisiana, where they will spend
the first night. The next day they
will go to Natches, Mississippi,
where they will visit the Azalia
Pilgrimage, one of the nation’s
most picturesque exhibits of the
Southern Colonial type of homes,
sponsored every year by the gar-
den clubs of that vicinity. The Aza-
lia Pilgrimage draws many spec-
tators from all over the United
States.
From Natches, they will go on
down to New Orleans where they
will make an extensive study of
the parks, nurseries, and ceme-
teries.
On the way back some time will
be spent at Avery Island near New
Iberia, Louisiana. Then the last
stop will be at Beaumont, Texas.
Pictures will be made of most
of the points of interest, and will
go in the Landscape Art library.
The main mission for this trip is
to make a study of the French,
Spanish, Italian, and Southern
Colonial types of Architecture and
Landscaping.
This will be the first inspeetion
trip to this vicinity this department
‘has made. In the past, they have
been going to Houston, and San
Antonio, one year, and Dallas and
Ft. Worth the next.
Bowling Enjoys New
Popularity at A. & M.
Bowling a popular indoor pas-
time from coast to coast, has taken
its place as one of the minor sports
at A and M. The boys who attempt
to knock over the elusive pins have
been very active lately and are
looking forward to more matches
as the season progresses.
PARROT-PUSS DICK
BOYLE IS WINNER
OF PLUG-UGLIES
Richard Boyle was voted the
ugliest man on the A and M cam-
pus last week by the BATTALION
ballot. He defeated his nearest
opponent, E. H. Moore, by twenty-
seven votes. Boyle is a senior ca-
det of F Battery. His home is in
Fort Worth, oddly enough, as the
T.C.U. clock stopper is also from
that city.
Pictures will be made of Boyle
with several views of his much
prized face for entrance in the
contest being sponsored by T.C.U.,
whose prize plug-ugly is one “Jekel
Joe”. “Jekel Joe” is confident that
he will win with a walk-over. A
and M has beaten T.C.U. in other
contests this year. We want very
much to continue the onslought.
The pictures will be sent to some
famed personage for judgement.
At present, Robert Taylor, Holly-
wood star, is the most desired
judge. If Mr. Taylor consents to
the authority, the returns will be
learned in the near future.
“Jekel Joe?” Phooey. “Parrot-
Puss” Dick has got ’em all whipped.
March on, old army, to further
triumphs. The maroon and white
shall storm the T.C.U. plug-ugly
bastile as it did the gridiron strong-
hold. We give no quarter and ask
none. Let the grimaces fall where
they may. From now on it’s
“Fight on, ol’ army!” with “Parrot-
Puss” Dick at the helm.
Debate Team Leaves
For Extended Tour
A debate team consisting of Gabe
Cazell and Bob Glasgow will leave
on the 13th of the month on an
extended tour of six or eight days
to participate in several debates.
They are planning to enter the
Pi Kappa Delta invitation debate
tournament to be held at the Louis-
iana State Normal College in
Natchitoches on the 19th and 20
th of March.
‘D. W. Carlton, 23, who for the
past year has been associated with
the Hotel New Yorker in New York
City, has returned to the Adolphus
Hotel in Dallas as assistant man-
ager. The Adolphus Hotel is oper-
ated by the same company which
manages the New Yorker. Carlton
has become a member of the Dal-
las A. & M. Club and extends an
invitation to his friends to visit
with him at the Adolphus in Dallas.
A recent campus visitor was H.
L. “Lefty” Rogers, 24, former Ag-
gie baseball captain and pitcher.
He expects to return to Texas af-
ter having spent the last 10 years
in the East. He is an older broth-
er of Owens Rogers, who plays on
the Aggie football team at the
present time. Their home is at
Mart.
A recent speaker at the Dallas
A. & M. Club was George Ander-
son, ’18, who is with the Greater
Texas and Pan-American Exposi-
tion, successor to last year’s Cen-
tennial Exposition at Dallas. An-
derson has been with the Texas
State Fair as director of conces-
sions for several years. He play-
ed center on the championship Ag-
gie football team of 1917.
Jack Bailey, ’13, is with the
Johnson Bros. Chevrolet Company
in Dallas. He lives at 5739 Velas-
co of that city and was a recent
campus visitor, accompanied by his
son, who may enter A. & M. next
September.
Oliver W. Thompson, ’30, has
been transferred as assistant in
agricultural conservation from Bex-
ar County to county agent of Wil-
son County, with headquarters at
Floresville, Texas.
Donald P. Gallman, ’36, has been
appointed county agent for Zapata
County with headquarters at Za-
pata, Texas.
Henry C. Atchison Jr., ’24, has
been appointed county agricultural
agent for Sutton County. His head-
quarters will be at Sonora, Texas.
Jefferson B. Kidd, ’32, has been
transferred as county agricultural
‘agent from Kinney County to Val '
Verde County. His headquarters
are at Del Rio, Texas.
Henry P. Malloy, ’16, has been
transferred as assistant in agri-
cultural conservation from Coke
County to Sterling County as
county agricultural agent. His
headquarters will be at Sterling
City.
Joe C. Tinney, ’30, has been
transferred as assistant in agri-
cultural conservation from Has-
kell County to Wichita County. He
will be located at Wichita Falls,
Texas.
Dr. and Mrs. Bruno Winkler, ’26,
recently sailed from Colombia,
South America, for a three month’s
vacation in the States. Bruno Wink-
ler is the son of Dr. and Mrs. C.
H.' Winkler, ’00, of the College
faculty, and part of their visit will
be spent on the campus. Young
Dr. Winkler is head of the Geo-
physics Department of the Tropi-
cal Oil Company in Colombia,
where he has been since the latter
part of 1934. They will return home
via New York. After graduation
from A. & M., Bruno received his
Master’s Degree from Texas Uni-
versity and his Doctor’s Degree
from the University of Colorado,
at Boulder. He was reared on the
A. & M. campus. He and Mrs.
Winkler expect to return to Co-
lombia after their vacation.
Charley E. Fritch, 28, is with
the Sun Oil Company and gets his
mail at Box 778, Gladewater, Tex-
as.
Joe C. Frobese, 35, resides at
410 Rix Street, Tyler, Texas. Fro-
bese is teaching vocational agri-
culture.
Leo L. Hairston, 82, is instru-
ment-man for the State Highway
Department at Longview, Texas.
He has been with the Highway De-
partment for the past 5 years.
C. J. Trigg, ’24, resides at 107
West 5th Street, Amarillo, Texas.
Trigg is doing sanitary engineer-
ing work in counties in the Pan-
handle.
Henry M. Jones, ’30, gets his
mail at P. O. Box 1383, San An-
tonio, Texas. Jones is doing ac-
countant work. ¢