SOMETHING NEW AT BRYAN—PARK'S JEWELRY STORE.
open up the holes and should other
wise permit of those plays being
pulled off successfully. That our line
was better than any previous one is
not saying enough; it was better than
any other in the state and would have
withstood the onslaught of any team.
Second only in importance to his bril
liant coaching were his gentlemenly
and sportsmanlike qualities, which
never failed to impress the causual ob
server. In leaving us Coach Andrews
carries away the good-will and God
speed of the inhabitants of College
Station, who hope to see his familiar
figure on the side lines again.
Eagleston, E. G. comes to us from
Carlislfe. But we cannot give Carlilse
the full credit for developing his ath
letic ability. During the session of
1908-1909 he attended Lakeside Insti
tute at San Antonio. It was there that
he received his first athletic training.
During the San Antonio Fair in 1908
he attended a track meet and won two
first prizes.
The following year he attended Car
lisle. He was captain of the Carlisle
eleven. During the track season he
starred for Carlisle. His principal
features were the 50, 100, 220, and
quarter mile dash. He attended the
Intercollegiate track meet here last
spring. During the meet he won three
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first prizes and' one second. During
the same season he attended a track
meet at Carlisle. He won four first ■
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places there.
At the meet in Austin last spring he !
won one first place and two second '
places.
Next year, he will make the Football
Eleven here and we can expect some
good work. During the past season
he played substitute at half back. I
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Cretcher did not come out until late :
this year. Last year he was one of
our strongest guards. He can be de- |
pended upon at any and all times. I
Very few gains were made through !
guard when “Cretch” was on the job. *
His greatest work last year and this '
year was in blocking punts. And he !
holds this place without a peer. He
made guard on the all-state eleven i
this year. Moran says he is the best
all round guard he has ever seen.
Cretcher is quiet, but his actions
speak louder than his words.
Lutrick, another of our substitutes,
seems to take for an example, our
old reliable guard, Stud Barnes. He
followed Stud to the dairy last year
and through close attention learned
to speak the Bug Hunter’s language.
This year, he is seen on the gridiron,
and is going to make good.
This is his second year in school,
and first year to try the game of foot
ball. From all indications, Lutrick
will work his letter next year. Noth
ing would suit him more than to make
an equal to his predecessor, Barnes.
Everybody yell for our sub guard.
Who is that husky sub that plays
guard? I saw his picture pasted in
the Main building some time since.
That is Hans Christien, our lad" from
Laredo. This is Hans’ first year to
try for the squad, and from his show
ing, he promises to be one of our great
guards for next season. To hear the
talk of some, a person would
think Hans to be a taught football
player, but he is not, has never taken
lessons, nor tried to coach a team.
Just plain Hans. Born and raised in
Laredo, where he has learned to speak
fluently six different languages, viz:
Spanish, Italian, Gridiron, Lingo, etc.,
and a little English. This is Hans’
second year in school. He entered
as a. sophomore last year. Through
good work, he was made a junior at
the beginning of the present session.
Bateman hails from Dublin. Two
years ago he entered Peacock Militarj
nified his intention of entering A. and
M. this fall; so when the college foot-
j ball squad went to Seabrook in Sep
tember to begin the season’s work, the
coach had him in the crowd. While
there in camp he did good work, and
by the time the spuad came to col
lege he had made his position on the
team. He has held that position in
every game this year, and has never
been hurt seriously enough to be re
moved from any game. His greatest
work is in running interference, but
he can carry the ball as well as the
next fellow, and is a hard man to pull
down. When he runs, he runs all
over, and with his long stride he can
cover a great deal of ground in a very
short time. Bateman said that when
he came here he hardly expected to
make more than the second team; but
that was modesty, for he well deserves
his place as an all-state half back.
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BARNES,
Captain 1310 Football Team.
Academy, at San Antonio, as a soph
omore. For two years he worked his
way, paying all his own expenses and
keeping well up in his classes. Last
year as a junior he was a commis
sioned officer—second lieutenant in
company “B”—and was also a member
of the band. In athletics he showed
up as well as in other things, knowing
nothing at all of football when he en
tered the Academy, he seemed to have
a natural talent for the game and soon
made his position as right half back
on the first team. In the spring he
played on the Academy baseball team,
and in the fall he again won a place
on the football team, this time as
fullback. That year the Academy won
the state championship for prepara
tory schools. Last year Bateman sig-
We want to see him an all-Southwes-
tern if not an all Southern half back
next year.
Beazley began life on a farm near
Cleburne. His football career began
several years ago in a preparatory
school at Grandview, where he played
for a short time and then went to
San Marcos to the Normal School
there. After playing two years at San
Marcos, he came to A. & M. to take
‘‘‘Bug-hunting,” but did not make the
team in football. He left college in
the spring of 1908 and went to Cali
fornia to work in the oil fields, where
he stayed for eighteen months, work
ing most of the time in the black
smith shop. Swinging a sixteen pound
sledge hammer twelve hours a day for
seven days in the week, is a more
strenuous training than most football
players ever take, but all will agree
as to the result. In May of this year
typhoid fever broke out in the com
munity, and fearing for his health,
Beazley returned to Texas, with the
intention of re-entering college and
finishing his course. When school op
ened he went out on the squad and
made good from the start. He was
somewhat stubborn at first, but the
coach soon learned how to manage
him and soon developed him into the
greatest battering ram in the state.
When Beazley bucks the line, the en
emy always wakes up wondering what
kind of a steam roller has been put
into the game. In the Houston game
the coach told Beazley he was loafing.
That made him mad. He pulled his
head down between those shoulders of
his and went in to knock the stars
out of somebody. Right there he was
picked for an all-state half back, and
a good one he is, too. When asked
why he played football, Beazley an?
swered, “Tell ’em I’m playing because
a certain little girl told me to, and
I’ll play three more years if she does
n’t go back on me.”
J. E. Millender, alias “Rattlesnake
Jim,” commonly known as “Linds',” is
at home when he is in Houston. How
ever, to quote his own words, he has
been every place and has seen every
body, so that the exact spot of his
nativity is of vers' little consequence.
He went out on the squad early in
the season, and worked faithfully until
his left hand was seriously injured in
a scrimmage. This misfortune drove
him back into the more peaceful pur
suits of cadet life. He is an old track
man, having had two years experience
in that branch of athletics. He has
been one of our best runners and
hurdlers in the past, and we expect
big things from his next season. He
is six feet, two and one-half inches
tall, which necessitates his lying in
bed diagontlly to keep his feet from
hanging over the foot-board. His
weight is one hundred sixty-two and
one-half pounds. Besides being an
athlete he handles the ladies with the
greatest facility. He is authority on
everything pertaining to Mexico, and
is one of the most entertaining con
versationalists on the campus. He
has an exceptionally good voice, es
pecially in its carrying qualities. Evi
dence of this fact may often be heard
in the vicinity of tent one hundred
and sixty-one at reveille. It is self-
evident that a man of such sterling
qualities should be one of the most
popular cadets at college.
“Dutch,” whose real name is Caesar
Hohn, came to college from Yorktown
in 1908 to keep from getting married.
He began his career in “E” company
under Captain Sigel, and got his start
in football by playing on that com
pany’s team while a freshman. Since
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