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-
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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
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WL/lLL
WISJT
YOl^ALLj
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, 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
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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-
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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