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5 4 ia a> Ry evil Rsea O0 a le i ye FODDER | SPORT Watch for a come-back next spring in track by Walter “Red” Cecil, former Freeport, Texas, high school flash. Ineligible this spring “he has been working regularly un- der track mentor J. W. Rollins and reports indicate he will be heard from in conference competition. His best events are the dashes and the broad jump. It is not known if he will take up football again or not, but since he did not participate in spring training this year it is, likely that he has given up hopes of playing the pig-skin game. Featuring the Ninth Annual Ag- gie Coaching School, scheduled for August 14-20 this summer, will be several old A. & M. football stars. Outsiders who will participate in Abe. school are Bob Berry, ’26, now head coach and athletic director at East Texas State Teachers Col- lege, Commerce. His Lions won the Lone Star Conference title last fall. Another will be J. V. “Siki” Sikes, ’28, now assistant football coach at Georgia University and formerly a member of the Texas Aggie staff. Joel Hunt, ’28, head coach at Georgia may take part, and of course the regular members of the Aggie coaching staff will be prominently in the picture. Lil Dimmitt, coach the Aggie freshman baseball team, thinks he has a coming pitching star in the person of lanky Walter Bass, Hous- ton, whose tossing has featured ! the “Fish” diamond season. Bass is tall and has plenty of stuff but is inclined to be wild. He has much to learn about mound duties, but with some polishing should be a great college pitcher and possibly good enough for professional play. In a recent football “Bull-Pen” an old timer spoke up with the statement that in any discussion of former Aggie gridiron stars Tyree L. Bell, '13, should not be overlooked. “Not as flashy, per- haps, as your Hunts, Hamiltons, Kellys or Todds, but a great all- around performer, an inspiring leader who twice captained Aggie teams, good blocker and defensive man and a rugged, smart team player”. Welcome to Aggie football fol- lowers is the news that Marshall Spivey, All-State High School foot- ball star from Lufkin, will enroll at Texas A. & M. in September. The youngster is from an A. & M. family, his father M. C. Spivey, State Highway Engineer at Luf- kin, having graduated in the class of 1908. A brother, J. S. Spivey received his degree in 1937. Young Spivey is one of a number of high school and junior college stars who have already announced they would be at A. & M. this fall. Texas A. & M. sponsors more in- tercollegiate teams than any other school in the Southwest Confer- ence. In addition to the major sports, football, basketball, track and baseball, the Cadets recognize and enjoy intercollegiate competi- tion in swimming, cross-country, golf, tennis, rifle shooting, pistol shooting, polo and fencing. The Aggies and the University of Tex- as are the only conference schools now entering full teams in all sports recognized by the confer- ence. A record like the above is one of the best recommendations there can be for intercollegiate football. None of the above minor sports could be fostered and financed were it not for football revenues. Thus the gridiron game opens athletic par- ticipation to hundreds of other stu- dents. Incidentally, in the above minor sports the Aggies are “Tops” in this section in both pistol and rifle shooting in both polo and water polo and in fencing. When “Bubba” Gernand of Bay- lor closes his athletic career this spring the conference will lose one of its best “Money” athletes in history. Gernand has consistently starred in the pinches in football, basketball and’ baseball. His feats are all the more remarkable be- cause he has no great amount of natural ability. As an example of his type of performance, consider Gernand in the last Aggie-Baylor baseball game at college. He struck out twice, looking like the rankest | kind of a ball-player, which the AGGIE supposes he is. But, com- ing to bat in the ninth, with men aboard and Baylor's only rally of the game under way, he slashed out a single to score the. Bear's only run. For three years at Baylor he’s been that way, a great athlete when the heat was on. With a brace of games, May 20 and 21 remaining, Marty Karow’s Aggies are still en- trenched in second place in con- ference standing following their victory over Rice Insti- tute Owls last week. The Texas Longhorns have already won the championship. The Rice victory was a loosely placed affair that saw the Aggies stage a seventh inning rally to count three times and win their third game against the Owls for this season. “Dough” Rollins’ Aggie track team took third place in the conference meet held last Saturday at Dallas. Strother, of the Aggies, was an easier winner of the two mile event and Potthast, of the Aggies, was a surprise winner in the javelin throw. the rest of the Aggies points were pick- ed up through second and third place winners Lead by Fred Walcott, Rice Institute nosed out Texas Uni- versity for the championship. ’29, engaged in has moved his Jay Bertrand, the oil headquarters from Conroe to Hous- ton where his office is at 2020 Gulf Bldg. business, Lesser Newton, ’10, former secre- tary of the Bryan Production Cre- dit Association, has been transferr- ed to Cameron, Texas. Albert L. David, ’35, is with the Mene Grande Oil Company, C. A,, Apartado No. 35, Cuidad Bolivar, Venezuela, South America. David has been down in Venezuela for a- bout two months now and so far he states he has not run across any A. & M. men, but hopes to soon as there are quite a few scat- tered around Venezuela. Ars in I Son School Offers Basis For Liberal And Industrial Education By PAT HANNA Primarily a technical college, Texas A and M has built up a well- balanced School of Arts and Sci- ences. Instituted primarily as a service unit to the schools of En- gineering, Agriculture and Veter- inary Medicine, the school has since grown to such an extent that it ranks with the leading colleges in the Southwest. : Every student enrolled in the col- lege must take many courses in this school, for here are the re- quired English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Languages and the many other courses that are neces- sary to complete any college stu- dent’s education. Not only does it act as a service unit to the other schools, but the School of Arts and Sciences offers twelve departments that give work leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. The many departments have built up their curricula to such an ex- tent that the school is equal to the Colleges of Arts and Sciences found in many of the better universities. In the department of Biology, three major fields are offered, in any of which the student may con- centrate his studies: Botany, Zo- ology, and Bacteriology. There are also many graduate courses offer- ed for the student who wishes to follow his major field further. In the department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, over fifty courses are offered, covering prac- tically the whole field of chemistry { for undergraduates and graduate students. In the field of Geology the department works closely with the work done by the Petroleum Engineers, since in Texas the two terms are practically synonymous. In the fields of Economics, Edu- cation, Mathematics and Physics many courses are open to those in- terested in advanced study, and the degrees offered majors in these fields carry behind them the as- surance of excellent training, as well as education. The department of English, one of the largest in the college, offers complete cours- es leading to the degree of Bache- lor of Arts, as do the departments of History and Physical Education. Assigned to the School of Arts and Sciences for administrative purposes is the department of Mil- itary Science and Tactics, one of the highest rating R. O. T. C. units in the United States, and the larg- est, both in point of number of cadets enrolled, and in number of units stationed here. Training in Infantry, Field Artillery, (oast Artillery, Engineers, Cavalry, Chemical Warfare Service and Sig- nal Corps is offered, with reserve commissions in the United States Army awarded those who complete the four years of training. A new member of the Associa- tion is John S. Cole, ’26, superin- tendant of the Houston plant of the | Trinity Portland Cement Company. Mr. Cole has been with this com- pany for the past 12 years. He makes his home at 1416 Munger, Houston, and is married and has ‘two fine boys. Cole received his de- gree from A. & M. in textile en- gineering and was a member of the College swimming team while at A. & M. E. A. McClendon, ’34, is with the Phillips Oil Company, Natural Gasoline Department, and is locat- ed at Crane, Texas. Seth H. Garrison, Jr., ’33, is with the Halliburton Oil Well Cement- ing Company and is located, at Crane, Texas. Harold Lee Rose, ’37, and Dick Conolly, ’37, are rooming together at 3019 Arbor, Houston. paral Expert ent Station, Uni- versity of Florida, Florida, was redently elected presi- dent of the Stajte Rose Society, at its annual meeting at Winter Hav- en, Florida. Blackmon is one of the outstanding hg 'rticulturists of the Southeast. Gainesville, + Dr. Charles J Steeger, 336, who operates the Dy. Frank E. Ruther- ford Veterinary Hospital, 924 S. Haskell, Dallas, was a recent cam- pus visitor. H¢ was interviewing 1938 Veteringdi'y graduates in search of an agsistant. His Dallas hospital specializes in small ani- mals. John R. Agkenhausen, 184 vis , 10, head of the > of Horticulture, Agri- with the Magnolia Petroleum Com- pany and gets his mail at Box 310, Kermit, Texas. R. L. “Bob” Herbert, ’31, was awarded the distinguished service trophy of the Nacogdoches Junior Chamber of Commerce for his out- standing civic work during the past winter. He is president of the Piney Woods A. & M. Club con- sisting of A. & M. men of Nacog- doches and Angelina Counties. George C. Moore, ’35, is with the Farm Security Administration and is located at Fairfield, Texas. He resigned as vocational agriculture teacher in the Content School, Novice, Texas, to accept this posi- tion. M F. 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