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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1920)
~\ yp'. N Aggies to Brandi Texas Steers Friday and Saturday Night r ' ' • •• v' ' v >' : >•: sv..; ,v -.v — • ' •r : * : •. f . v ‘ r ; - tis&ypjfc t v." •'«.• - , *' v - * .*7- ’ . .. -JL VOL. XXVIII Published ^Vtekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 5, 1920. NUMBER 13 “FLU” PREVAILS AGAIN IN LIGHT FORM AT COLLEGE So Far Not Serious and Doctor With Nurses Meet Situation Amply. GOOD OPPOSITION IN TRACK MEETS FOR THIS YEAR Cinder Path Artists Get a Real Chance to Show* Ability at Coming Schedule. Again the whole nation is swept by another epidemic of Spanish In- . j oyr? r Tr?iv thiL-rg'Viip .the .K^U.-of 1918. Nobody win the interior igh that time will ever foration wh-'nis- sery, grief and sorrow whicn that desease produced in such a short per iod of time. All the big cities have been affected already for quite a time, and even though College Sta tion is in the country with perfect higienic conditions to live in, the “Flu” exists too. On Monday there were one hundred and nine cases. The hospital is com pletely filled at present so that it has become necessary for those who can not be accommodated at the hospital to remain in their respective rooms. All cases are of light nature, and none of them tend to become compli cated with pneumonia, due to the in cessant attention on part of Doctor Ehlinger, the nurses Mrs. M. Clag- horn and Miss Haskell, Mrs. J. M. Nagle, Hungry Jonas, and Baskin, and others. It is a lamentable fact that Mrs. Claghorn overworked her self doing her duty with the sick so that at present she is confined to her bed. That the percentage of cases is very small, and that they are only light in themselves does not excuse the students and campus resident to be careless in their ways of living. Dr. Ehlinger suggests some very im portant rules, being for all imper ative to observe them if we want to prevent a repetition of the sad cat- asthrophy of 1918. Be outdoors as much as your time permits, enjoy the sun and the fresh air. Keep your rooms well ventilated by having all windows open day and night. Ventilation does not mean to have a draft. Change your underwear as often as possible. Should it rain again keep your feet dry. If they are wet change shoes For the first time in several years the track men get some real meets re/vod opposition. The schedules as announced by Mr. Driver will be as follows: Inter class meet, College Station, date not set. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, April 10. Baylor University, College Station, April 17. Texas University, Austin, April 24. Rice Institute, College Station, April 30. Southwestern Conference, Hous ton, May 15. During previous years only one or two dual meets and the conference meet composed the year’s meets which did not give the men the prop er chance to show their real ability. BASKET BALL MEN NOW ON ROAD AFTER FINALS The Outcome Will More Than Like ly Decide the Conference Championship. By James Sullivan. Basket ball coach W. L. Driver and leave Thursday for Austin where they pieet the Longhorn on Friday and Saturday nights in a pair of basket ball games. From Austin the Aggies journey to Dallas for two games with the fast traveling Mustangs then to Waco where they meet the Baylor Bears on Wednesday and Thursday nights of next week. This is one of the hardest trips ever undertaken by an A. and M. basket ball club. Six games in a row with three of the leading confer ence teams is by no means a small job, but Billie Driver says the team is in good condition and will be equal to the task. The Aggies have been going at top speed all season, not AGGIES DEFEAT OWLS WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT Farmer Basketball Team Meets Old Rivals and Runs the Game Their Own Way. This year the men will have a bet- having once met defeat. It is, of ter chance toward showing up and a far better chance toward winning' one of those much coveted T’s. With the team under the leader ship of Captain Lee Hugon and coached by Prof. J. A. Clutter, former Ames track star and coach of the 1916 A. and M. track team, we feel sure that our team will do their best to help hold up the record of our football team of this year. and sox immediately. If during practice or drill you per spire, do not allow your underwear to dry on you. Change it. Do not eat “trash” and keep your system clean. If you feel bad, report at once to hospital, they will attend to you. Its their job. The above may seem very natural to the average man or woman, but if you start the analysis of the indiv idual you will be surprised to find that things seem so natural to him that they are forgotten or observed in the least if observed at all. To be healthy is to be happy. Want to be happy? Observe the rules. course, true that most of their games have been played at home, but still they have had comparatively easy sailing thus far. The Aggies have a great record thus far and give promise of finishing ahead of the bunch. Starting their season back in December with two wins over the Baylor Medics of Dal las, they have continued their march without defeat, winning two games from Baylor, one from Simmons Col lege, two from the Southern Methodist University and two from Rice Insti tute at Houston. Of the nine games played, six of which are Southwestern games, the Aggies have won all, pil ing up a total score of 304 points to their opponents 130. In the six con ference games the Aggies scored 194 points while their opponents were scoring 77. The Aggies have played more con ference games than any other confer ence team and stand at the top of the percentage column with 1000 per cent, six wins and no losses. The outcome of this road trip will more than likely decide, as far as the Ag- (Continued on Page 8) After a lapse of two years ath- llllllllllllllllllllliri!.iations between A. and M. and_ the Farmers over the feathered birds from Rice Institute. The issue was never in doubt from the time Har- tung scored the first field goal until the final whistle sounded. Only one word can describe Rice’s condition after the first few minutes of play and that word is “outclassed.” The Farmer quint outfought, outplayed, outpassed, outran, out shot and out generaled their opponents and the victory was justly won. The brightest star of the evening was one Forbes of the Aggie clan who shot nine field goals and cavort ed generally in a manner calculated to bring much grief to the Blue and White supporters. The graceful center of the fast-moving A. and M. five ran up a total of twenty-three points—more than enough to win the game. Although their work was not pos sessed of quite the luminosity of young Forbes the Aggie guards, Dwyer and Hai’tung, deserve un stinted praise for the manner in which they completely smothered any wild ideas the Owls may have entertained regarding scoring upon the Red and White. The Rice for wards were helpless and incidentally those A. and M. guards did their share in the scoring of the home club. Williams, playing out of his regular guard position, put up an ex cellent game at forward and display ed a versatility worthy of mention. At the other forward Capt. McQuil- len seemed to amble along about as usual and in spite of the efforts of the so-called “Death-Valley’’ rang up five field goals. The whole A. and M. club was right and Rice never even enjoyed a thrill of a chance. The game was played at the Y.M.C.A. before a packed house and the work of the