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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1937)
SPORT FODDER aA - Death took a pair of former Ag- gie athletic stars within the past few days, in the persons of C. R. “Ruby” Drake, ’21, a great tackle, and Rue Barfield, ’34, steady back of a later date. Many grid follow- ers still insist that Drake was one of the finest tackles ever to play in the Southwest, and back their assertions with impressive facts and figures. In the 1920 season he blocked at least one punt in every game of the season. Final Exams, grim reaper who cuts down much athletic talent, was pretty generally beaten by Ag- gie athletes this spring. Chris Flanagan, hard-hitting short-stop was lost to next spring’s baseball team and a few other lads bit the dust at the hands of their studies. No serious injury to prospects for next year were suffered, however, and Homer Norton and his staff drew a big breath of relief when all returns were in. AGGIES IN THE BASEBALL BUSINESS: Beau Bell continues among the leading major league sluggers, with an average of around .375 at latest report. He's a member of the ’31 Class.—Jake Mooty, ’35, was sent from Cinci- natti to Syracuse in the Interna- tional League, where he is pitch- ing winning ball—Ash Hillin, "27, veteran Texas League tosser is still winning games, this year with the Oklahoma City Indians—Dal- las sent Johnie Morrow, ’37, to Longview in the East Texas Lea- gue—several others from this spring’s championship Nine will report for professional try-outs this month following the close of school. Melvin Herzik, hurdler, and “Doe” Pitner, pitcher, were chosen as the “Most Valuable” perform- ers on the track and baseball teams by the Aggie coaches at the close of the spring season. In the past seven seasons the Aggies have copped the baseball ‘title as often as Billy Disch and his Longhorns. Each have won three titles, with T. C. U. winning one during the past seven seasons. The loss of Johnie Morrow, vet- eran end, may cause a shift among football players next fall. Rankin Britt, 210, and Bill Seago, 185, will be returning lettermen but don’t be surprised if Bruno Schroe- der is put on one of the flanks. The big full-back saw a little end service last spring and might blos- som into a star wing-man. Anoth- er lad who should be about due for some real football is Joe Tur- ner, 198, who has been tried at tackle, center, end, and in the back- field. He may find himself at end, where he spent most of the time last spring. When Doc O'Neil of S. M. U. threw the javelin at the conference meet this spring for a new record his throw marked the first time the javelin record had been held by other than an Aggie. It start- ed way back with J. T. L. McNew, ’18, and has come on up thru the years with Jack Mahan, the Die- terich brothers, Neeley Allison, Bull Floyd and Skripka holding the record until this spring. The Aggies also lost their high hurdle conference record this spring, held by Herman Harlan, ’31, and have only left the shot- put record held by “Honk” Irwin, 34. Write down the name of Lloyd Freeman, a senior from Trinity, as a boy with a courageous heart and an agile thumb. They combined to bring him the letter he’d sought for three full years but didn’t win until the last five minutes of his collegiate athletic career. The let- ter was awarded officially by the Aggie athletic council this week. Freeman had little luck as a cross country runner or as a half- miler, and his efforts last winter to make the basket ball team got him nowhere. As reported in this column a few weeks ago, though, he “thumbed” his way to Waco and placed third in the mile in the Ag- gie-Baylor-SMU-TCU qumdrangu- lar meet. It wasn’t enough to let- ter but it did convince him his best lettering chance lay in the mile. Last Saturday morning Freeman finished a quiz at 11 o’clock hop- ped a ride to Austin with Basket- ball Coach Hub McQuillan and a- bout 3 o’clock ran his heart out to win fourth place in the conference mile. Fourth place meant one point and that one point in a conference meet was enough to letter him. CHAMPIONSHIP SMILES eetetept lt These former Aggie athletic greats, Joel Hunt, 28, left and J. V. “Siki” Sikes, ’28, right; were in a happy mood when the camera caught them shortly after Woody Bell’s home run smash brought this spring’s baseball championship to Aggieland. Sikes coached the cham- pions and Hunt was on hand to cheer for his former roommate’s team. wc seen] Hunt is backfield coach of the LSU Tigers at Baton Rouge and Sikes is head freshman coach and varsity baseball coach at A. & M. Both were members of champion- ship football teams at A. & M. in 1925 and 1927 and both were all- conference performers. Both are married, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have one daughter. SABINE CLUBS IN GOLF MEET A mass golf match between 60 members each of the Beaumont and Port Arthur A. & M. Clubs was staged at the Sunset Grove Golf Course in Orange on June 12. H. E. Braunig, 14, Beaumont, was chairman of the big party. The Sunset Grove Golf Course was turned over entirely to the two A. & M. clubs for the day. The af- fair proved a great success. To date no information has been re- ceived as to which club proved su- perior on the golf links but a tie or truce was voted between the two groups along eating and story telling lines. The Beaumont Club will hold only one meeting a month during the summer. above visitors were J. V. “Pinky” Wilson, ’20, Recent campus left; and Joe McReynolds, ’22, Wilson is ranching at Florence, Texas and McReynolds lives at Mineola. McReynolds is an avid athletic fan and a frequent visitor. “Pinky” Wilson is well remember- ed as the author of “Good-bye to Texas University”, well known A. & M. song. The song was written in the trenches during the World War by Wilson and later set to music by George Farleigh, at one time A. & M. bandmaster. J. B. Crozier, ’32, is living at Hillsboro, New Mexico, where he is temporarily employed by the George G. Ehunborg Company. This company is making an ap- praisal of electric plans in New Mexico and Crozier is on the move most of the time. John A. Morris, ’27, gets his mail at P. O. Box 205, Many, Louisiana. C. Sawyer Wolston, ’18, is now located at Mansfield, Louisiana, where his address is P. O. Box 483. Charles E. Birk, "21, is in the gin business at Iowa Park, Texas. At the present time, ‘Birk is president of the Lions Club of Wichita Falls, a past president of the Chamber of Commerce of that city, and a member of the Board of Directors of Wichita County Irrigation Dis- trict No. 2. R. D. Blumberg, 20, is an engi- neer with the Texas Power and Light Company and is located at Taylor, Texas. Lincoln R. Burns, ’16, is in the cattle business at Seymour, Texas. Marion E. Carper, ’17, is living at 107 W. Henderson, Cleburne, Texas. Carper has been in the real estate and loan business for the past 10 years. Alton C. Thompson, ’27, has been in the Engineering Department of the United Gas Public Service Company for the past year at Shreveport, Louisiana. His home address is 431 Egan. T. Gilmore Harris, ’27, who has been with the Federal National Bank at Shawnee, Oklahoma, has accepted a position in the Liberty State Bank at Dallas. Cashier of this bank is C. L. Dowlen, ’25. R. K. Eason, 26, who is with the Oil Well Supply Company, has recently been transferred from Pampa, Texas to Shreveport, Loui- siana, where he gets his mail at Box 1126. Joe J. Fox, ’22, is chief chemist of the Missouri Portland Cement Company and his mailing address is 8859 Portland Terrace, St. Louis, Missouri. Fox says the AGGIE is always his most interesting piece of mail of the month and that he personally, would like to see it con- tinued as a paper rather than a magazine. N. T. “Boots” Langham, ’35, is with the Standard Oil Company of "Louisiana in the Exploration De- partment and is getting his mail at Box 1079, Shreveport, Louisiana. Alvin B. Welsh, ’27, is getting his mail at 2041 N. W. 20th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Arthur C. Bayless, ’26, is still getting his mail at 1201 Tower Pe- troleum Building, Dallas. James J. Loving, ’29, is with the Tennessee Power Company as an electrical engineer. His ad- dress is 101 S. Crest Road, Chat- tanooga, Tennessee. Charles R. Smith, ’34, is an en- gineer for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and his mail- ing address is 1711 Elmen Street, Houston, Texas. 0. H. “Bill” Smith, ’33, is work- ing for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and is located at Hous- ton, Texas. Harold M. Jinks, ’26, who has been with the Soil Conservation Service at Forrest City, Arkansas, has recently been transferred to Jonesboro, Arkansas. Roy R. Ford, ’35, who is a me- chanical engineer with the Shell Petroleum Company, has recently been transferred from Houston to Kilgore, Texas, where he is still with the Shell Company. Ford had a brother in the senior class at A. & M. this year. J. Ralph Dickey, ’27, is in the Power Department of the Central Power and Light Company and gets his mail at 1609 E. Power Street, Victoria, Texas. Gordon G. Langston, 34, is a salesman for the W. C. Nabors Company, Houston, Texas. His res- idence address is 1203 Arlington. As a student at A. & M., Gordon was a member of the Aggieland Orchestra and prominent in many student activities. Horace Holden, Jr., ’31, has re- cently been transferred by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Com- pany from Huntsville to Madison- ville, Texas. William M. Collier, Jr., 31, is making his home at 2210 South 7th Street, Abilene, Texas. John R. Allen, Jr., ’35, has re- cently changed his address from Box 372, Longview, to P. O. Box | 59, Henderson, Texas. ~ 1800 To 5000 Students Expected To Enroll At A & M Next Fall 500 To Be Put In Project Houses New Plan for Assigning Dormitory Rooms Put Into Effect Next Year According to an estimate by the Registrar’s office somewhere be- tween 4800 and 5000 students are expected to enroll in A and M this September. This figure will represent an increase of approximately 700 over the present enrollment. In spite of this large increase offi- cials are confident that the entire number can be accommodated. The dormitories will take care of 2750 students, and 500 will be placed in the new project houses which are now being built and will be ready for use next fall. The re- maining students will be able to find rooms in private homes and other project houses. Due to confusion and delay here- tofore experienced in assigning dormitory rooms a new plan has been worked out by which these rooms will be assigned in advance of the registration in the fall. Un- der this plan new students may file room reservation applications be- ginning June 1. As soon as the student has been accepted he will ‘be mailed a room reservation card which should be filled out and re- turned with a check or money order for $6.00 to the Registrar. This amount will serve as a room reservation fee and it will be cre- dited to the student as his first installment of room rent upon his registration in September. As soon as the reservation has been made the student will be sent a card notifying him of his assignment to dormitory space. This card should be preserved and presented upon registration. Old students may file room reser- vation requests beginning July 1. A room reservation card will be mailed to the student along with his second semester grades in the early part of June. These cards should be filled out and returned a- | long with the reservation fee in the same manner as new students. Old students who are classified must have their reservation cards in by September 1, or they will au- tomatically forfeit their right to a dormitory room. Old students who are not classified can not make room reservation requests before September 1, and they are re- quested to withold their applica- tions until about that date. How- ever, their requests must be re- ceived by September 5, or they will lose all chance of obtaining a dormitory room. After all classi- fied students have been given space in the dormitories the remaining rooms will be awarded to un- classified men on the basis of their scholastic averages. If any student, new or old, finds that he will be unable to register after having paid the reservation fee, he may cancel his reservation before September 5, and his fee will be returned. The fee will be forfeited if the cancellation is made after September 5. W. Lambert Ballard, ’22, Jack- sonville, represents the Briggs- Weaver Machinery Company of Dallas in East and Central Texas. He and Mrs. Ballard live in Jack- sonville and have two children, a boy and a girl. Louis A. LeLaurin, Jr., 32, is working for Dun and Bradstreet, Incorporated, and is located at 218 South Briscoe Boulevard, Dallas, Texas. LeLaurin is registered re- port supervisor for Dun and Brad- street. T. N. Gearreald, ’34, is still at- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in the Department of Agri- cultural Economics as marketing assistant. Gearreald at the present time is working in New York City doing research for the State Col- lege of Agriculture in connection with the marketing of fruits and vegetables. He reports he often runs into Allen M. Early, ’34, and Jack Askins, ’35. George W. Curry, ’27, is a sales engineer for the General Electric Paul G. Haines, ’17, for the last four years director of vocational agriculture for the State Depart- ment of Education in Texas, re- cently resigned to become a mem- ber of the Extension Service staff of the A. & M. College as an econ- omist in organization work. Prior to his connection with the State Department of Education, Haines served as county agent in DeWitt and Limestone Counties and for several years was agricultural ag- ent of the Waco Chamber of Com- merce. He and Mrs. Haines and their family will make their home in Bryan. As a student at A. & M., Haines at one time held the shot-put record of the Southwest Conference and was business manager of the 1917 Longhern. Jack Barnes, ’30, is making a fine record with the Trinity Port- land Cement Company as a petro- leum engineer. He makes his home at Longview but is on the road most of the time and is specializ- ing in oil cement uses. His office headquarters are at Dallas. N. L. Peters, ’17, is an architect in Longview with offices at 216 Glover-Crim Building of that city. Peters is a new member of the Association. Carl F. “Shimmie” Gorman, 24, is living at 805 Lindsey Street, Marshall, Texas. He gets his mail at P. O. Box 14 of that city, and is in the contracting business. Robert E. Henry, ’31, is field engineer for the Edgar Tobin Aer- ial Surveys and gets his mail at 2718 Buena Vista, San Antonio, Texas. A new member of the Association is George A. Woody, ’17, Major Ordinance Department, 220 Artil- lery Post, Fort Sam Houston, Tex- as. Woody was one of the 1917’ers on the campus last week-end. G. A. Powers, 17, is living at 436 E. Weinert Street, Seguin, Tex- as. Powers is commission agent for the Sinclair Refining Company. Daniel W. Lay, 36, who is with the Wildlife Conservation of Tex- as, has recently been transferred from Huntsville to Kerrville, Tex- as, where he gets his mail in care of general delivery. S. E. Schaefer, ’14, is a new member of the Association. Mr. Schaefer is attending summer school at A. & M. and will be in the Mathematics Department of | Company at Houston, Texas. Goose Creek High School next year. | JAKE HAMBLEN AND PARTNER BUILD ELEGTRICAL BUSINESS “County boy makes good” might well serve as a caption to the above picture so far as J. P. “Jake” Hamblen, x’27, left, is concerned. In the picture are Hamblen and his partner, Frank A. DeWalch, owners and managers of the South- ern Electric Supply Company, 1605-09 Preston Avenue, Houston. rDeWalch is a University of Texas man. Jake Hamblen landed in Houston some 10 years ago with no money but a lot of ambition. After work- ing for several electric jobbing houses until 1934, he opened his own business, took on a partner, borrowed money, and started out. At the beginning, Hamblen and his partner comprised the firm’s entire staff including, sales force, stenographer, bookkeeper, ware- house man, delivery boy, and so forth. The little business started out in quarters 25 feet by 70. To- day the little business has grown to the extent of having 16 employ- ees and 18,000 square feet of floor space. Hamblen, since moving to Hous- ton, has been an active member of the Houston A. & M. Club and of the Association of Former Stu- dents. He invites his friends te drop by his place of business to visit with him when they are in Houston. C. C. Davis, ’27, is with the U. S. Engineers Office, Fort Peck, Mon- tana and writes that he really hates to miss the reunion of the Class of 1927. Percy Reid, ’36, is with the Bur- rough Adding Machine Company, 400 North Akard Street, Dallas, Texas. He gets his mail at 719 North Bishop, Dallas, Texas. Percy was a member of the varsity foot- ball team during his cadet days at A. & M. Grover C. McGown, ’14, is com- munity manager for the Resettle- ment Administration and has of- fices in the Federal Building, Wichita Falls, Texas. His resi- dence address is 2005 Garfield Street of that city. McGown has been with the Resettlement Admin- istration for the*past three years. Ray L. Murray, ’35, writes that he has just returned from a month on the rifle range. He said that for the first time in three years, he failed to make expert with the rifle. For some reason he just couldn’t get started on record day and just did qualify as a sharp- shooter. Murray is located at Bat- tery F-2nd AA Bn, MCB, San Diego, California, where he is a first lieutenant in the U. S. Ma- rines. Among the speakers at the re- cent annual convention at the Tex- as State Medical Convention at Fort Wort was Fred Hale, ’22, of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, College Station, Texas. He reported on his experiments of the past few years that has attracted wide attention in medical and scientific circles. Jack Shelton, ’17, president of the American Jersey Cattle Club, presided at that organization’s an- nual meeting in Springfield, Mas- sachusetts on June 7. The meet- ing concluded Shelton’s second year as president of that organi- zation and he was elected as a director. William H. Fabian, ’25, served as chairman of the third annual membership drive of the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce held recently. George T. Brundrett, '08, saw his second son graduate from A. & M. this spring in the person of Frank W. Brundrett, who received his de- gree in veterinary medicine. Anoth- er son, W. M. Brundrett, completed his Freshman year this spring. The oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Brun- drett, is George C., who graduated in 1933, and makes his home at 1665 Pearl Street, Wichita Falls, Texas. George T. Brundrett is Southwest representative for Hub- bard and Company, electrical ma- aterial manufacturers and lives at 311 North Windomere, Dallas. W. K. “Runt” Hanson, ’16, is assistant manager of the Ford Motor Company at Charlotte, North Carolina. He moved there recently from Atlanta, Georgia and went to Atlanta only a year or so ago from New Orleans. He sends re- gards to all his old friends. Louis Clay, 24, succeeded Hanson at At- lanta. Marshall A. Hays, 31, is a city reporter for Dun and Bradstreet. Incorporated in the San Antonio office. 300 AandM Students Will Attend Camp Over three hundred A. & M. students enrolled in the advanced course of the officers training corps will leave this week- end for summer camps to undergo six weeks of training. The stu- dents will be sent to five army posts. One hundred ninety-three infan- try, field artillery and signal corps students will attend Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, from June 7 to July 18.. Colonel Converse R. Lewis, reserve professor of military science and tactics, will be in command. Forty six coast artillery stu- dents, under the command of Major Ralph Hill, will attend Fort Crock- ett, Galveston, from June 7 to July 18. . The cavalry students, thirty nine in number, will attend Fort Clark, Bracketville, from June 7 to July 18. Major W. R. Irvin will be the commanding officer. Thirty four engineer students will be sent to Fort Logan, Colo- rado from June 8 until July 19. Major John G. Drinkwater will be in charge. Twenty chemical warfare stu- dents will receive training at Edge- wood Arsenal, Maryland, from June 6 to July 17. Attendance at camp is required of those students who have enroll- ed in the advance R. O. T. C. course, and is prerequisite to both their college degrees and their commission in the organized re- serves. Max Gilfillan, ’17, was snapped in a cheerful mood on a recent visit to the campus. He makes his home in Tyler but is equally at home in Houston, or in the Oil Belts of South and East Texas. He is in the oil derrick business and is also “head man” of the Tyler Rose Festival Athletic Associa- tion, under whose auspices the Ag- gies will play Mississippi State at Tyler on October 9 this fall. Henry J. Coleman, ’25, is design engineer for the Texas Power and Light Company at Temple, Texas.
