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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1919)
THE BATTALION i DON’T FORGET those who can’t £o home when yon eat Christmas dinner. “The Campus Clxib,” composed of men who live too far to spend the holi days at home, will appreciate all boxes sent to THE CAMPUS CLUB, A. & M. COLLEGE College Station, Texas. “RABBI” BERTSCHLER, Publicity Agent- iiliiii Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texhs VOL. XXVIII COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, DECEMBER 18, 1919. NUMBER 9 BASKETBALL TRAINING WELL UNDER WAY NOW Farmer Five Shows Promise of Be ing of Championship Caliber With a series of two stiff games scheduled for this week the Aggie gcal-tossers haye been decidedly busy since their initial practice im mediately after the Thanksgiving festivities. While there is almost any amount of material out for the team, Coach Driver is having a dif ficult time getting together a real successful combination. The guard positions seem well taken care of by Williams, Hartung, Pierce and Burkes. This formidable array of guards will be further strengthened by the addition of Dwyer, who will be eligible the second term, and Gouger, who will be out after the holidays. Right now Hartung and Williams are putting up a very clever and effective game and these older men will have to do some tall stepping to displace them. Who will play the remaining po sitions is something of a question. McQuilley will hold down his old place at forward, unless pushed off by some of the younger and more hustling goal-shooters. Forbes seems to be a pretty safe bet for either a berth at forward or at center. No one, however, is assuming that he has a place cinched. DeLee, Ehlert and March are all showing real class and may spring a surprise on some of the older heads. At center “Tiny” Keen, Smith and Landrum are giving each other real competi tion and who will play is almost a toss up. With Driver searching for the strongest possible combination it dould be useless to attempt any fore cast of the season’s line-up. The schedule is one of the hard est ever faced by an Aggie Five— the whole squad is overjoyed at the prospect of once more meeting Rice on the court and these games will doubtless be among the hardest of the season. McQuillen, Dwyer and Gouger all remember the last bas ketball games played against the (Continued on Page 8) WL/lLL WISJT YOl^ALLj A , MERRY pjsips A. & M. WINS BRONZE TROPHY Second Time in Four Contests. Prof. Stangel Produces a Winner With First Team Ever Coached. “T” CLUB ASKS COOPERATION OF STUDENT BODY Club Rooms Can be Made Much More Enjoyable Through Aid of Student Body The “T” Club, as an organization, is one of the livliest upon the cam pus. Membership is limited to men who have made their letters in this and other institutions. Just as a “T” from Texas A. and M. means more than any other letter from any other school in the country, so the “T”’ Club is attempting to get a club room in keeping with the pres tige of the red “T”. At present time the club is housed in a small room on the second floor of the Y. M. C. A. Plans are on foot, how ever, to procure more suitable quarters and these will doubtless be forthcoming in the near future. The club possesses a good Victrola but its supply of records is woefully (Continued on Page 8) COLLEGIATE VOTE TO BE TAKEN ON PEACE TREATY Effort Being Made to Determine Point of View of College Community The following telegram has been received by the Secretary of the College from the committee on inter collegiate treaty referendum: • New York, N. Y., Dec. 10. Secretary of Texas A. and M. College, College Station, Texas. We the undersigned have under taken to promote a referendum of college sentiment of the country con cerning the Peace Treaty. It is re alized that many colleges have held straw ballots on this subject but the statements of the question have in most instances differed and afforded no opportunity to obtain an accurate and comparative expression of the intercollegiate point of view. The plan is that on January 13 every col- (Continued on Page 5) A. and M. College is proud of her stock judging team who won the In ternational Livestock Judging Con test this year over the strongest cqm- •petition that i.eto eve* exiS-L.I ,ii alij 4- of the former contests. All of Texas is proud of the team, for the team not only represents this college in the contest but the entire state as well. And the team knows that their achievements are appreciated by the College and the student body and that the State is proud of them by the flood of congratulations they have been receiving since their return to College. Texas is so situated that few op portunities are presented teams from Texas Colleges and universities to compete with teams from the colleges and universities of the middle-west, north and east. The International Livestock Judging Contest held at Chicago each year is one of the few oportunities and for this reason much interest is always manifested in the contest not only by this institution, but by many other institutions in this state as well. But since it is an A. and M. College team that goes from Texas we have a special interest in this contest and our enthusiastic sup port of the Stock Judging team is second only to the support given our football team on the event ofevents, the Texas-A. and M. Thanksgiving Game. It is an opportunity for us to measure ourselves with other great colleges and universities of recogniz ed rank, and the fact that our teams won two out of the last four contests we have entered and stood only third the two years that we lost, only goes to prove our contention that our col lege deserves and is assuming its place along with the best institutions of its kind in America. The team was sent away this year with just such an ovation as has al ways been the custom with sending teams away from this institution. It was just such a send off as will put into the heart of every member of a team the thing our opponents have always dreaded most of all, that old