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VOL. XXII. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 5, 1915. NUMBER 30
WHOP STOCK
FARMERS AND LONGHORNS
BREAK EVEN IN SERIES
IS GREAT SUCCESS
ANNUAL FRESHMAN EVENTS TO
BE HELD IN JUST A FEW
DAYS.
Southwestern and T. C. U. are Easy Victims, but Farmers
Found Stumbling Block in Baylor.
AG. DEPTS. GIVE PARADE AND
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS
RUN SHOW BOOTHS.
TWO MEDALS TO BE GIVEN
The second annual Freshman live
stock judging contest will he held in
May, probably the 22nd, the fate to
be definitely decided on lat*r. Mr.
A. M. Waldrop of Bryan is offering
a beautiful gold medal, which will be
come the property of the Freshman
who stands highest in the contest.
The Scientific Agricultural Associa
tion will present a silver medal to the
man who ranks second.
The contest had its inception last
year, when Mr. Waldrop offered a
gold medal to be presented to the best
judge of livestock in the Freshman
class. Forty-five men took part in
that contest, which was a most suc
cessful event from start to finish.
The class grades in Animal Hus
bandry 1 and Animal Husbandry 2
are made the basis of eligibility for
the contest. Only -one-third of the
Freshmen taking these courses will
be eligible to take part in the con
test, being the men who have made
the highest averages in their class
work thruout the year. On this basis
there will he about forty men in the
contest this year. It was announced
to all the Freshmen at the beginning
of the school session last fall that
their daily work would determine
whether they could enter the contest,
and their desire to be among those
chosen has been manifested by the
spirit which they have shown in their
class work.
The Freshmen have been working
hard all the year, and now show
marked ability in selecting the most
profitable types of farm animals. The
officical judges of the contest last
year stated that the work done, both
in placing the classes of stock and in
giving reasons for the placings, was
far above what they expected the
students could do after only one
year’s study of the subject, and it
looks as though the coming contest
will fully uphold the reputation. The
fact that it was very difficult to
choose the men who were entitled to
take part in the contest shows that
everyone had learned the essential
features of good livestock.
The contest will he conducted simb
lar to the daily class work. Each
contestant will be required to place
several classes of livestock, and give
either written or oral reasons to sup
port his judgment. Twenty minutes
will be allowed to place each class
for which reasons are to be given,
and fifteen for placing where no rea
sons are required. Fifteen minutes
will be allowed for written reasons,
and two minutes for oral reasons.
Stove wood, $5 per cord, delivered.
Good, cut kindling, $5 per cord, de
livered. Phone T. M. Reddell, Feed
ing and Breeding Station, 87-3 rings.
A. & M. 2, T. C. U. 0.
A. & M. won the first game on the
road when the Christians were blank
ed by the Aggies. The final score
was 2 to 0. The game was fast and
snappy all the way thru, but at no
time were the Farmers in danger.
The Farmers’ first score came in
the fourth inning, when Beringer
knocked a long two-bagger and then
reached home when the Christians
tried to put him out stealing third
and threw the ball away. Coleman
made the second run when a Christian
overthrew one of the Aggies’ sacri
fices.
Skeeler’s pitching was one of the
high lights of the game. He only al
lowed the Christians two hits, both
of them singles, and struck out twelve
men. Ciotty allowed five hits and
the hits came when they were need
ed. The Farmers have a habit this
year of hitting the ball when a hit
means the game, and it seems to get
the other team’s goat. Beringer and
Hooker both got two-base hits, and
both hits helped the score along.
The lineup:
A. & M.—
Hooker, cf.
Kendricks, If.
Powers, rf.
Cherry, lb.
Rigney, ss.
Coleman, c.
Beringer, 2b.
Brailsford, 3b.
L. J. Skeeler, p.
T. C. U.—
Christenberry, rf.
Nelson, 3b.
Wingo, lb.
Couch, ss.
Miller, c.
Shelburne, If.
Brewster, cf.
Ramsey, 2b.
Crotty, p.
Cooper, cf.
Summary: Two-base hits—Hooker,
Beringer. Struck out—By Skeeler 12,
by Crotty 6. Bases on balls—Off
Skeeler 2, off Crotty 1. Stolen bases
—Shelburn, Nelson, Beringer, Rigney.
Wild pitch—Skeeler. Umpire—Akers
Time of game-^-One hour and thirty-
five minutes.
A. & M. 8, T. C. U. 6.
The Farmers walloped the Chris
tians again Thursday by a score of
8 to 6. The game was simply a repe
tition of the first one. While the
Christians got a goodly number of
runs, they lacked the punch that
characterizes the Aggies this year.
The game was more loosely played
than the first one. Olson replaced
Skeeler in the fourth, and from then
bn the Christians were at our mercy.
The whole team hit the ball hard and
often, particularly when hits meant
runs. This was the fourth and last
game with T. C. U. this year, and the
Farmers took all four of them.
T. C. U.—
Christenberry, rf.
Nelson, 3b.
Wingo, lb.
Gunter, cf.
Miller, c.
Couch, ss.
Bloom, If.
Ramsey, 2b.
Shelburn, p.
Vaughan, p.
A. & M. 0, BAYLOR 1.
In the first eleven-inning game of
the season, Baylor nosed the Farmers
out by a score of 1 to 0. The winning
tally came in the eleventh inning as
a result of two hits and an error.
Skeeler never allowed a single hit in
the first nine innings and deserved
to win the game. It seemed to be
an off day for our heavy hitters, for
a run would have meant the game.
The score by innings:
R H E
A. & M 000 000 000 00—0 4 2
Baylor 000 000 000 01—1 4 2
Batteries: Skeeler and Russell;
Sanderford and Mendenhall.
Umpire: Burland.
The lineup:
A. & M.
Hooker, cf.
Minier, If.
Powers, rf.
Cherry, lb.
Rigney, ss.
Russell, c.
Beringer, 2b.
Brailsford, 3b.
W. J. Skeeler, p.
A. & M. 3, BAYLOR
The Aggies were again defeated by
a lone tally Saturday afternoon, Bay
lor getting the best of them by a
score of 4 to 3. Every second it look
ed as tho the Farmers were about to
get in the lead, but the time never
seemed to materialize. The men
played hard thruout the game, but
the fates were not with them. Olson,
Cherry, Rigney and Coleman were in
the limelight most of the time.
“Fannie” Coleman broke in as a pinch
hitter, scoring a run and almost sew
ing up the game. Had our men been
just a little faster on the bases there
would have been a different story to
tell.
Score— R H E
Baylor 100 002 100—4 5 4
A. & M 000 100 020—3 4 2
Batteries: Baylor, Farrington and
Mendenhall; A. & M., Gilfillan, Olson
and Russell. Umpire, Drennan.
A. & M. 6, SOUTHWESTERN 1.
A. & M. rallied from her week-end
defeat and cleaned up Southwestern
by a score of 6 to 1. A. & M. sewed
the game up in the third inning and
then just piled a few more runs on
to make it interesting.
Skeeler retired ten men by the
strikeout route and scattered the
Southwestern hits, making them
harmless. Brailsford got right in the
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ASSOCIATION CLEARS MONEY
The carnival held on Kyle Field
last Saturday Avas a grand success,
notwithstanding the fact that it had
been postponed for a week and was
staged under many difficulties. Great
plans had been to have it while tho
high school visitors were at the col
lege, but the continued rains made
this impossible.
One of the features of this year’s
carnival was the agricultural parade.
This was composed of a number of
floats prepared by the different de
partments, together with some prize
winning animals from the Animal
Husbandry Department’s barns.
The parade was led by the A. & M.
Band. Immediately behind the hand
came the Queen’s float—a gorgeous
mass of flowers and bunting — in
which was Miss Anita Park, Queen
of the carnival, and her maids, Misses
Deloise Hickman, Rowena Rhodes,
Helen DeMaret, Aubrey Wilkerson
and Mary James. Following the
Queen’s float was an immense basket
decorated with peach blossoms and
in which rode seven “Texas Peaches”
—Mises Fannie Allen, Margaret Bit-
tie, Annabel Batte, Florene Batte,
Anna Locke, Lilly Bess Kyle and
Elaine Bizzell.
Next in the parade was a wagon of
vegetables prepared by the Sopho
more horticultural students from
their own plats, and a power sprayer
operated by Farmer Dennis. Follow
ing this was a large float completely
covered with farm crops prepared by
the students of “Agony 3.”
The Dairy Husbandry Department
was well represented with two floats;
the first a small wagon consisting of
a “one horse wagon outfit,” decorated
with hay, old buckets, cans, etc., in
which “Mrs. Perkins” was demon
strating how to use the old-time
churn. The second was a large float,
decorated with white and yellow
bunting, and contained some modern
dairy machinery in operation. “Dairy
man Bruce” and “Dairymaids,”
Misses Bess Spence and Bess Chas
tain, served ice cream cones to the
crowd from the rear of the float.
Last, but by no means least, was
the beautiful and well arranged ex
hibit of the Animal Husbandry De
partment. Leading their exhibit was
a magnificent float hearing the many
trophies and loving cups won by stu
dents in the department, in which
was included the big bronze hull from
the International Stock Show at Chi-
•cago. The trophies were surrounded
by the hundreds of ribbons won by
animals from the department. Fol
lowing the float came some of the
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