Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVIII COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 25, 1920. NUMBER 20
RESULT OF THE
TENNIS TOUR
NAMENT HERE
Forty-Two Men Contest for Place on
Team and Coach is Pleased
With Results.
Forty-two men took part in the
preliminary tenrjs tournament which
was caiiTeu out' Satu-rtray -wfteinoon
on the courts behind the Shirley An
nex and those in front of the Y. M.
C. A. A number of the players were
not in practice and were handicap
ped as a result, but several of these
showed good possibilities and are
urged to continue practice, as
they will be given chances to
challenge when they are in better
practice. This tournament is in no
way final and anyone who wishes
may still try for the team. Tennis
is new here and as there are no old
stars to rely upon it is especially im
portant that anyone who has had
much experience at tennis come out.
Coach Thomas was much pleased with
the results of the tournament Satur
day and expressed belief that an ex
cellent team can be developed.
The tournament will be continued
this week until only one man is left.
The schedule for the second round
is as follows:
Adkison plays Stansfield; Hamilton
plays Close; Hanna plays Welsh;
Perry plays Merchant; Wilson plays
Jones; Cook plays Lancaster; Gra
ham plays Milner; Varnell plays
Shiflfiett; West plays Daniel; Cham
bers plays Bailiff; Hayes plays
Richards.
Results of tournament Saturday:
Adkison defeated Notestine 6-0; 6-0.
Hamilton defeated Bossy 6-3; 6-1
Hana defeated Rapp 6-1; 6-4.
Jones defeated Johnson 8-6; 6-3.
Lancaster defeated Webster 6-0; 6-2.
Perry defeated Waltrip 7-5; 6-1.
Wilson defeated Fortier 6-1; 6-1.
Merchant defeated Cahn__6-1; 13-11.
Cook defeated Vanderberg
Hayes defeated Cavitt 6-3; 7-5.
Richards defeated Martin —6-1; 6-0.
Shifflett defeated Alexander 6-4; 6-2.
Chambers defeated Meyers _6-4 6-2.
Graham defeated Rogers 6-0; 6-0.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING
ASSOCIATION IS
NAME ADOPTED
Debating Club Now Thoroughly Or
ganized and Going Good and
Will be Permanent.
The members of the Public
Speaking Association of the A. and
M. College met for their first debate
in the chapel of the Y.M.C.A. Thurs
day evening March 16. The debate,
as announced was on the Blanket
Tax and as all students were inter
ested in this subject just at that
time, the attendance was very satis
factory to all concerned.
The first thing on the program was
business left over from the previous
meeting, namely, a name for the or
ganization. The subject of naming
this Band of Debaters waxed into a
very heated debate for the simple
reason that several very suitable
names had been suggested. The final
vote revealed the fact that the major
ity present were in favor of the name,
Public Speaking Association; so thus
it will be called.
After the subject of the real de
bate was announced with the names
of the men taking part, McQuillen and
Brunnemann were on the affirmative
with McQuillen leading the debate,
while Shuhart and Berchler, with
Shuhart leading, took the negative.
Those present heard more about the
Blanket Tax than they really knew
existed on the subject. The decision
was left to a vote of the association.
The affirmative lost.
The program ended with the sign
ing of the constitution and by-laws
by all charter members present.
The evening proved a very bene
ficial and enjoyable one and the pro
gram committee has promised even
better ones in the future. A hint to
the wise is sufficient, they say; so
you take a hint and be on hand for
the next meeting.
Impatient Junior: “Say, can you
go faster driver?”
Driver in green-lamped Ford:
“Yes. but I’m not allowed to leave
the jitney.”
JUNIOR BANQUET
HELD TUESDAY
WITHOUT MISHAP
Bill King of San Antonio Popular
Toastmaster and Appeared With
out Loss of Life or Limb.
At last the agitation of weeks
caused by the thought of the ap
proaching Junior Banquet reached a
climax on Tuesday evening when the
event was crowned with a success
very seldom attained. As a culmin
ation on the part of the Juniors to
secret their pivot man and on the
part of the Sophomores to prevent
his appearance, the former were
awarded the victor by executing the
thing which is the hardest of under
taking for any class to do. As in
previous years early indications of
the day pointed to what was to fol
low that evening—these indications
being principally in the form of
Freshmen getting everything in
readiness and planning an early get
away. This coupled with the excited
attitude of the Juniors and the ner
vous condition of the Sophomores
served as a notice to all neutral or
non-combatants to assemble at every
point of vantage to witness the
struggle, defeat and victory. And it
was a right well excited crowd as an
audience which assembled bedpuse
though they realized that there was
to be no calamities, crimes or atroc
ities committed—still there was that
mystery which surrounded the occas-
sion as to just how everything would
work out—and mystery always lends
inchantment. As yet little is known
of what all went on except from ob
servance of the way that all roads,
entrances to the Mess Hall, etc., were
barricaded and guarded. To the
casual (noun and adverb) observer
it seemed that the only possible way
to seat the cause of much worry and
loss of sleep—alias the Toastmaster
was to wish him in or fly through an
open window as everything had been
taken into consideration and nothing
was left undone—except the dark
ness which could not very well be ac
counted for. The old use of rushing
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AGGIES TAKE THE
FIRST BASEBALL
GAME OF SEASON
37th Infantry Team From Fort Mc
Intosh Fails to Score Against
'che Farmer Nine.
The Aggies 'opened the baseball
season yesterday by defeating the
37th Infantry team from Browns
ville, Texas, by a score of 11 to 0 m
a slow, listless game covering nearly
three hours time. The only redeem
ing feature of the game was the hit
ting of the Aggies who gathered
eleven hits including eight singles,
three doubles and one home run in
the eight innings. They fell on the
offerings of the soldier southpaw
who went the entire route with a
vengeance and he was in trouble in
most every inning. Laake, of the
Aggies, connected for a home run
and a single, while several of the
Aggies hit for extra bases. As a
whole the Aggie team gave promise
of being a hard hitting aggregation
and will undoubtedly make trouble
for opposing twirlers during the
coming season.
The soldiers played only mediocre
ball and their fielding was ragged at
times. They were able to gather but
two singles off the three Aggie
twirlers, both hits coming in the
ninth frame. Twelve of the soldiers
were struck out by the three Aggie
twirlers. For the Aggies the catch
ing of Crawford, Moore and Dinan
as well as the pitching of Sprague,
Ferrell and Ehlert, stood out. Coach
Bible used three pitchers and three
receivers, all of whom gave promise
of coming through with the goods.
Many changes were made in both
the infield and outfield in order to
give the entire squad a chance to
show their ability under fire. Hig
ginbotham was absent from the
shortfield but this position was well
cared for by both Arnespiker and
Wilson. At first both Dwyer and
Rhode performed like big leaguers.
The score:
R. H E
A. and M.
22050200 x—11 11 4
Soldiers
00000000 0— 0 2 8