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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1915)
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Prescribed and used by the Cadets of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. LODGE AND SOCIETY EMBLEMS WEDDING FLOWERS FUNERAL DESIGNS CUT FLOWERS PLANTS Phone Direct SCOTT FLORAL CO., Navasota, Texas Holmes Bros. If Its Cold Drinks and Can dies. Ours Is Best. SUN GO. Commercial Printers Bryan, Texas USE THE TENNIS COURTS. Through the efforts of our Presi dent and the Athletic Association, four tennis courts have been con structed with back stops. These courts were made to be used, and it is hoped the entire school will take advantage of them to the fullest ex tent. The idea seems to prevail that no one is to be allowed to use them except those who were members of the tennis club, but while there is no game being played by the regular schedule of this club and while no one is practicing for a regular scheduled game, the entire corps is invited and urged to make full use of the courts. Tennis is just being started this year in A. & M., and there is no money to take up the offers that are coming every day for intercollegiate games. Next year, it is believed that we can have a tennis team that will come into favorable comparison with our baseball and football teams. Ten nis is a game that every person in college can play and one that every one will enjoy. It is said that no other form of athletics furnishes a more all-around physical exercise, and it is easily seen that there need not be only a favored few that can play. Tennis is destined to become the popular sport at A. & M. if for no other reason than that it can be par ticipated in by every single cadet in the college. Letters come every week inviting A. & M. to send representatives to various tennis meets over the South. Next season we want to accept these challenges and send men out to fight for tennis honors. Why shouldn’t there be a “tennis manager,’’ and why shouldn’t tennis be mentioned in paragraph 380 of the Blue Book? Look at this paragraph when you re turn next session, and if the corps will have shown a desire this year, you may find the word “tennis.” Next Saturday we hope to begin tbe tournament. If you are interested in this, turn in your name, room number and company letter to O. S. GraV at 63 Mitchell at once, together with the same information about your partner. I shall be glad to give you any infor mation that I possibly can along this line. O. S. GRAY, President Tennis Club. WEST POINT PITCHING STAR. Neyland Has Not Been Defeated Since 1913—Football Crack, Too. The following interesting clipping concerning Bob Neyland, who played first base for A. & M. in 1911, is taken from the New York Times and mailed to us by J. T. Davis of the class of Tl, now a Senior at West Point: West Point, N. Y., April 20.—Cadet Robert R. Neyland of the class of ’16 of the Military Academy is making a record for himself in amateur base ball. His defeat of Harvard last Sat urday made sixteen straight victories for the Army pitcher, five of which have been garnered this season. Ney land went through the season last year without a defeat, winning eleven games for the cadets. He beat the Navy in 1913, and turned the trick again last year. His last defeat is credited to Fordham, which team won from the cadets in May, 1913. Walsh, the Fordham star, was pitted against the Army lad, and bested him in a tight game, 2 to 0. However, Neyland and his mates had their re venge last spring when the two teams met, for the Army pitcher won, 7 to 5, the cadets driving Walsh to cover. Since then all teams have looked alike to "Neyland, and the Army hard ly knows how it feels to be defeated with him in the box. Neyland played in fourteen games last year, batting .311 for the season, making fourteen hits in forty-five times at bat and scoring eight runs. He had six stolen bases to his credit and three sacrifice hits. He shut out Colgate without a hit or a run. In the fourteen games in which he play ed he had eight putouts, forty-one as sists, and four errors chalked up, fielding for a total of .925 for the sea son. In the games in which he has played this year he has pitched twenty-seven innings, yielding in all six hits and three runs. Two of the runs were the result of passed balls with men on third. His 1915 strike out record is thirty-three for the twenty-seven innings. Besides his wonderful prowess in baseball, Neyland starred in football on the gridiron last fall, running as mate to Merrillat in the Army’s splendid forward pass formations. With Prichard, also of gridiron fame, the same trio is a powerful factor in Army baseball this spring. Neyland is also heavyweight box ing champion of the corps of cadets, having bested all comers in the ath letic meet last month. He is 23 years old and was appointed to West Point from the Fourth Congressional Dis trict of Texas. His home is at Green ville, that State, where he played semi-professional ball before entering here. However, he was formerly a first baseman and catcher. Sammy Strang, the Army’s successful coach, groomed him for the pitching job when Neyland was a plebe, and the tall Texan has been making good ever since. He says he is essentially a product of Strang’s genius. LOCAL HISTORY OF A. AND M. COLLEGE. HARRINGTON ADMINISTRATION. H. H. Harringtn was elected presi dent of this college in September 1905. He is a native of Mississippi and a graduate of that A. and M. He came to this college in 1SS8 and served suc cessively as Professor of Chemistry, Chemist to the Experiment Station, and State Chemist, from which position he was elected to the president of the college. In 1906 Prof. E. J. Fermier, now head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, began his work here. The “bughunter” association in 1903 was called the “Farmers’ Club,” and in 1904 the “Agricultural Society^” which name it sems to have retained until 1908, when it assumed its present name of “Scientific Agricultural Asso ciation.” The Sull Ross Literary Society went under in 1906. “Bull” Moses Arrives. Captain Andrew Moses, a native Texan and a graduate of West Point, became commandant at A. and M. in 1907. He was one of the most capable and seems to have been the most pop ular commandant who was ever as signed to this college. The same year Prof. J. C. Burns and Prof. R. J. Potts entered the service of the college. In the fall of 1907 the “T” Associa tion was organized, and the Y. M. C. A. published its first handbook. An organization called the Publica tion Society was organized in 1907, which was reorganized in 1909 under its present name of The Press Club. The remarkable gain, both relatively and in actual numbers, which the “bughunters” have made over the “en gineers” began in 1906 and has steadily continued up to the present with the exception of one year. The succession of good crop years, and the increasing interest in scientific agriculture have been suggested as causes for the rapid increase in attendance which began at this time. The Natatorium, the Veterinary Hos pital, and Goodwin Hall (which the following Longhorn referred to as “magnificent and spacious) were erected in 1908. It was at this time that the recent custom of selling “nat” tickets to un suspecting Freshmen originated. There were many customary practical jokes on the Freshmen at this time, a favor ite one being to post some “fish” as a guard for the flag pole, with instruc tions to stay there all night. Another was to lead the “fish” to believe the first time they saw guard-mounting that the guard was going to a funreal because all the cadets were wearing white gloves. The First Strike. In February 1908 occurred a general strike of the students. A large num ber of them left for their homes, but soon returned, and the work of the college was resumed. President Harrington resigned the following summer. (To be continued after the Junior Battalion.) TRINITY CELEBRATES MAY DAY. Trinity University, May 1.—Today being declared a holiday by the facul ty, Trinity University celebrated May Day with one of the most appropriate and interesting programs ever given on the university campus. The pro gram was made all the more attrac tive by the ideal spring morning. The following program was rendered: Grand march (from Drane Woman’s Building to the main campus). Crowning of May Queen. Shepherdess dance. Highland fling (Scotch). Winding of May pole. Shoemaker’s dance (Dutch). Tarantella (Spanish). Roman dance. Trio. Farce (by the Department of Pub lic Speaking). Selection (orchestra). Miss Dora Tucker of the class of T5 was May Queen. The whole pro gram was well rendered and showed much preparation by all those taking part, as well as those who had it in charge. This occasion has become an annual affair. Today’s program was witnesse by more than a thou sand people. GUY BOYETT BEATEN AND ROBBED IN ROOM Sunday night Guy Boyett was beat en unconscious and robbed by a con vict in search of money and clothes, who, along with a number of others, had escaped from camp on a,Brazos bottom farm. The convict secured $12 or $13 in money and a watch, hut failed to find a diamond ring which Boyett had concealed in a drawer dur ing the struggle. Boyett did not re gain consciousness until the follow ing morning. CONTEST AROUSES REMARKABLE “PEP” Austin, Tex., May 3.—The first baseball rally ever held at the Uni versity of Texas was held tonight, over 2,000 cheering students pledging their support to the Longhorn nine on the eve of the two games with the Agricultural and Mechanical College. Some of last season’s football rallies were outdone at tonight’s demonstra tion.