THE BATTALION
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXII.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 3, 1915.
NUMBER 21
CLUTTER AGAIN ENGAGED AS COACH; A. & M. BASKET BALL TEAM DEFEATS
DAN SCOTT MAKES GOOD -BIG CROWD SOUTHWESTERN IN THE FINAL GAME
A. & M. DEFEATS SOUTHWESTERN
WINNING THIRD PLACE IN STATE RACE
Davis Makes Selection For All-State Basket Ball Team—
A. & M. Team Concluded Most Successful Season
U. of T. Are State Champions
Picture Show for Benefit of
Track Team Great
Success
The picture show Dan Scott gave
Monday night for the benefit of the
track team was a big success. The
picture was good and the crowd was
so large that the management had to
hang out the sign “S. R. O.” ten min
utes before the show started. That
certainly was encouraging to the
track team, for the Athletic Associa
tion does not support the track team.
That means that Scott has to raise
the money himself, and that is a dif
ficult undertaking y/ith the support
of the corps, and without the support
of the corps it is impossible. Every
body get the pep and when there is
a picture show, dig up a few jitneys
and go. You will all get your money’s
worth.
The track team this year is the best
one we have had in years. There is
a wealth of new material and most
of the old men are hack and look
better than ever. Under the training
of Coach Clutter, who took a squad
of absolutely green men and won
second place last year, the track team
ought to win the State championship.
LAST SUNDAY’S SERMON.
Our local pastors compare very, very
favorably with men who have been
coming from all parts of the State to
preach to the corps. This was demon
strated last Sunday, when Rev. C. H.
Storey of the First Presbyterian
Church, of Bryan occupied the chapel
hour. He spoke about the divinity of
Jesus Christ, and took it up from sev
eral different viewpoints. He pointed
out that neither the great intellects of
Christ’s time nor those of succeeding
generations had been able to find one
unsound principle in the teachings,
and further that the teachings of no
other man or group of men could be
compared to those of our Savior, for
an instant. Rev. Storey also empha
sized the strength and power of Jesus,
and strest the importance of the les
sons to be learned by the study of
these things.
MISS PROCTOR ENTERTAINS
STAFF.
A week ago Monday Miss Louise
Proctor entertained the other members
of the Battalion staff in a most charm
ing manner by a Washington’s birth
day party, having invited a number of
young ladies from Bryan for the occa
sion. The house was tastefully dec
orated and the Washington’s birthday
idea was carried out in detail. All
those who attended voted the evening
a most enjoyable one.
A full account of this delightful oc
casion was to have appeared in the
Battalion last week, but it was unex
pectedly crowded out.
The A. and M. College basketball
team concluded the most successful
season in its history last Wednesday
night, when they defeated Southwest
ern University. The team was very
unfortunate in losing, thru injuries,
two of its best men, Braumiller and
Settegast, at the very start of the sea
son, thereby greatly handicapping the
Aggie five. Nevertheless, the Aggies
only lost two games, and one of them,
against T. C. U., was not played un
der Intercollegiate rules, and conse
quently has no bearing on the status
of A. and M. in the ranking of State
teams.
The State championship goes by de
fault to University of Texas, as A. and
M. was denied the privilege of de feat-
ing them. Second place goes to the
Rice team on account of their victory
over the crippled Farmer team. Third
place is what is claimed by the Ag
gies, and all fair-minded followers of
the sport concede that the Aggies are
clearly entitled to this place. If com
parative scores are any criterion, the
Aggies should rank higher than that,
for they decisively defeated Decatur
Baptist College twice on Decatur’s
home grounds, while the State team
only defeated Decatur at Austin by
three points, and then canceled a re
turn game they had scheduled with
Decatur.
Davis of A. and M. has made the
following selections for all-State
teams:
First Team.
Tomfohrde (Rice, (Forward, Gilfil-
GLEE CLUB Oi
Ml TEXAS TOUB
PLAYERS DELIGHTED LOCAL
COLLEGE AUDIENCE
FRIDAY NIGHT.
The Glee Club and its company en
tertained a full house in the Chapel
last Friday night, nearly every num
ber being encored. The club is now
on its tour of the State, and the peo
ple of this college should feel proud
to have such an organization repre
senting them.
The Glee Club, proper, gave several
selections which were favorably re
ceived. The “Googa Man” was the one
which seemed to please the audience
most greatly. This number consisted
of a kind of chant in which the per
formers on a darkened stage shuffled
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Ian (A. and M.) Forward, Braumiller,
Capt., (A. and M.) Center, Everett (A.
and M.) Guard, Edmond (Texas)
Guard.
Second Team.
Foster (Decatur B. C.) Forward,
Ross, Capt. (Texas) Forward, Little
field (Texas) Center, Burkett (A. and
M.) Guard, Blackburn (Texas) Guard.
These men were chosen not only on
account of their individual playing, but
also on account of the fact that their
style of playing is such that they
would make an evenly balanced team.
On the other hand, they were not se
lected by their physical strength and
height, notwithstanding the fact that
that seems to be one method in vogue
in Texas at present. Gilfillan, who
was considered too small a man by
one judge, is 5 feet 9 1-2 inches tall,
and only weighs 185 pounds.
Summary.
A. and M. 36, S. H. N. 5.
A. and M. 30, Dallas U. 7.
A. and M. 39, Baylor 11.
A. and M. 16, Rice 27.
A. and M. 35 ,Baylor 23.
A. and M. 20, T. C. U. 28.
A. and M. 48, Dallas U. 10.
A. and M. 34, Decatur 30.
A. and M. 41, Decatur 26.
A. and M. 36, Decatur High 21.
A. and M. 36, Decatur Gym. 22.
A. and M. 39, S H. N. 28.
A. and M. 30, S. H. N. 13.
A. and M. 17, Southwestern 10.
A. and M. 30, Southwestern 11.
Total—A. and M. 497; opponents,
272.
CHOC KELLI ■ IS
CARLISLE COACH
FAMOUS INDIAN ATHLETE GETS
APPOINTMENT FROM
CATO SELLS.
The appointment of Victor M. Kelly
of Durant, Okla., as football coach and
athletic instructor at the Carlisle In
dian School was announced Wednes
day by Cato Sells, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. The appointee, better
known as “Choc” Kelly, from the fact
that he is a Choctaw Indian, was for
merly with the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College and holds a rec
ord for work as a quarterback there.
Kelly was a gridiron star in this
State for a number of years and was
always considered one of the hardest,
grittiest and cleverest of the quarter-
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Game Characterized By Fast
Playing—Gilfillan Shoots
Difficult Goal
In the final game of the season, the
Aggies’ five overwhelmed the fast
Southwestern aggregation by a score
of 30 to 11. The game was the fastest
and most sensational one ever seen
on the local court. Both teams played
fast, brilliant basketball, and the
game was, on the whole, a clean one.
Braumiller and Gilfillan seemed to
be having a contest to see which one
could throw baskets from the most
difficult angles and until the middle
of the second half Nick had the best
of it. Then Gilfillan, standing in the
corner of the court and with his back
to the goal, threw the ball backwards
over his head into the basket. It was
the most sensational goal that has
ever been seen here. Gilfillan threw
five field goals and Nick four. Nick
played a brilliant game thruout. Runt
Hanson threw two field goals and six
foul goals. Barnes threw one field
goal. Burkett played a brilliant game
at guard and held Betts down thru
out the game. For Southwestern Betts
was the best player.
The lineup:
A. & M.— Southwestern—
Gilfillan Betts (captain)
Forward.
Hansen . .
Forward.
Braumiller
(captain) ....
Smith
Center.
Burkett . .
Guard.
Barnes ...
Guard.
. McCorkle
In conclusion, a word ought to be
said about the manager, Charlie
Davis. As everyone knows, the bas
ketball team is not supported by the
Athletic Association. Davis started
in with nothing, provided the team
with suits, and took them on two ex
pensive trips, and arranged the hard
est schedule and the costliest one
ever played by an A. & M. team. And
despite the war in Europe, etc.,
Charlie announces that if everyone
who still owe on their tickets will pay
up he will have enough to give every
man who makes his letter and A. &
M. mackinaw. Not only as he man
aged the business end of it success
fully, but he has done everything in
his power for the benefit and comfort
of the team.
ATTENTION, FRESHMEN!
Will all Freshmen who have had
any experience in editing or managing
a school paper or annual please hand
name and experience to Hugh Brooks,
room 48 Mitchell.
FOR VALEDITORIAN.
Marvin Smith and “Red” Allen have
been ominated for the valedictorian of
the Senior class. The election will be
held Tuesday, March 9th.