15
THE BATTALION
SOPHOMORE ATHLETES
In many ways the spirit and mor
ale of a class is exemplified in its
athletes. They are the men of the
class who are in the public eye and
in most cases the leaders of a class
are picked from the men who repre
sent it on the athletic field. In this
sense then, are we proud of our re
cord on Farmer teams and of the
group of men at the top of this page.
Here at A. and M. we have learned
to value highly the service that a
man gives to the College. And this
service to A. and M. is nowhere more
loyally given than on our teams. The
man who makes his letter works and
sacrifices for it. And by doing so
he creates within himself a spirit
of loyally that goes higher, if possi
ble, than that of us who watch them
from the sidelines. And because of
this spirit of loyalty to the old school,
we are glad to give to them this rec
ognition of their work.
The present year has been the most
successful that has ever come to
Farmer teams. A Southwestern, and
probably a world, record was set up
when we took our thirty-fourth
straight win. The football team that
piled up a score of 275-0 we believe
was the most wonderful combination
in the South. The basket ball team
that went thru a schedule of nineteen
games undefeated has never before
been equalled in Texas. The baseball
team is playing great ball and the
man that counts them out of the race
doesn’t know that old A. and M.
fight. The track season is too young
to show the real strength of the team,
but we know that it is well-balanced
and dangerous. In the minor sports
we are making strides in new direc
tions and before the year is up we
shall have met colleges in tennis, box
ing, and wrestling. In all these div
isions, sophomores have been strong
men on the teams. Over one third
of the “T” Club is composed of our
class. We had unusual opportunities
for making the teams in our fish year
and we did not neglect them. This
year we came back as strong and in
the future years we expect to furnish
the best of the wearers of the “T”.
A resume of the athletic year now
nearly over is unneccessary in this
place. A true portrayal of the part
that the “T” men of our class had in
the success of the year is our aim.
The Staff does not believe in setting
forth the merits of individuals of the
class in the class edition. But the
men who have made personal sacri
fices and have upheld, as individuals,
the traditions of our teams deserve
individual recognition.
The group at the top of the page
are Sophomores of the “T” Club who
are now at College. Other men of
the Class are absent and could not be
in the group. Beginning at the left
and the top row, we present:
“Pat” Dwyer has the reputation of
being one of the prettiest players
ever put out at A. and M.—we mean,
his playing and not Pat, is pretty.
“Jaybird” was a sensation as a fish
back in T8 on the basket ball squad.
He was in the service until the fall
of last year when he came back as
one of the Class of ’22. On the all-
Southwestern basket ball team of this
spring, Pat played a wonderful game
at guard. What he hit didn’t wait
for a second meeting. Right now,
Dwyer is out with the baseball team
on its trip. He covers the first sack
in great style and swings the stick
hard. Pat plays fast and hard. He
is good for the years to come.
“Heinie” Weir is one of the best
SOPHOMORE “T” MEN.
all-round men at college. He makes
the “Distinguished List” and two let
ters at the same time, besides making
it interesting for the Juniors. Weir
came here in the fall of 1918 with a
reputation and he pushed it up a few
notches as an end on the scrappy lit
tle football team of the S. A. T. C.
days. And in track he proved him
self the speediest man in the dashes
in Texas. Bible shifted his fast man
to half-back last fall and Heinie was
beginning to run wild in his new po
sition when the season ended. This
spring in track he hasn’t even been
pushed. When he met Lindsey of
Rice Friday, one of the greatest
sprints in the South was pulled off.
Heinie can’t be beat, any way you
take him.
“Lefty” Matthews is the little man
with the mighty wallop. He comes
over here from Eagle Lake, and drove
out a home run in his first college
ball game. Last year he was among
the best in Texas. He promises to
pile up a better average this year.
Besides hitting, Matthews can hold
most any place on the team. Last
year he ranged in the field, covered
first, and hurled the ball in emer
gences. Bible is depending on him to
pitch this season as well as play out
in left. Matthews plays an exper
ienced, finished game of ball, minus
the assumed fancy stuff that we were
so disgusted with in a visiting star
some weeks ago. “Lefty” is a two-
year man, and we hate to lose him
this year because he is a man as well
as an athelete after oitr own heart.
“Cap” Murrah, in an athletic way,
is closely kin to “Woodrow” Wilson.
In his fish year in 1918 he took his
place beside the center of the foot
ball team and he stays there no mat
ter how hard they ram him. “Cap”
came back last fall and helped make
the famous line that turned back
Texas and won the Southwestern for
us. He’s always in the game hard
and his next two years ought to place
him among the best guards in the
South.
Oscar Frazier first became famous
as brother to “Mule” Frazier—until
he began to do things himself. “O”
fought his battles during the S. A.
T. C. at Sbisa Hall and Kyle Field.
His backfield ability gave him a T-
second that fall in football. In the
spring of 1918, Frazier came into
his own in the hurdles and his T
came to him. Last fall he couldn’t
quite oust Jack Mahan from full back,
and won his “T”-second. This track
reason “O” is out there all the time,
fighting in the old way. No man trains
harder than Frazier and his natural
ability and determination make him
a sure bet for the next two years.
“Mule” Davis started his athletic
career at A. and M. in the fall of
1917. The war kept him out a year,
and he came back as a Sophomore in
1919. “Mule” took care of the end
opposite Alexander and thruout the
season, played tseady and well. He
is death to end runs and sure and
fast in offense and in going down un
der punts. Davis varied his athletic
v/ork this year by handling a few
Juniors when they sought to get
rough. He is good for at least two
more years. A good end is inval
uable and we have him in “Mule.”
“Bob” Carruthers is another husky
holder of the Red and White line. A
T-second man of 1918, Carruthers
came back last fall and made his T
playing tackle. He has a habit of
doing things everywhere—and the
football line is no exception. Steady,
yet aggressive, he is hard to equal.
It looks as if we have another Sette-
gast. Bob works hard and clean,
he’s got it in him, and he puts it
out.
“Floppy” Hartung, our last year’s
Prexy, is one of Houston’s famous
basket ball men. He had hard luck
in his fish year and was kept out of
the game with an injured leg. But
he came back whole this year and
played the most brilliant game at
guard of any man in the Southwest
ern Conference. He’s the most solid
man on his feet that ever a Texas
forward tried to run over. With his
cud of gum working, “Floppy” wades
in. He’s the best scoring guard in
the Conference, averaging two field
goals a game this season. Hartung
is a guard on whom we can rely for
everything.
“Dutch” Ehlert has developed into
one of the best forwards in the State.
In his fish year he was rather wild,
but he settled down this winter and
filled out that unbeatable team of
ours. “Dutch” had the flu in mid
season but he got up in time to do
some good shooting. However, he
was handicapped and we are expect
ing him to fully take “Mac’s” place
next year.
John Rice Guynes led the sluggers
of A. and M. in his fish year. “Mr.”
Johnnie” hails from Chatfield where
they raise ball players. He holds
down a fielders job in great fashion
and has pulled some briliant catches
this year. Guynes made his “T” as a
fish. He’s stepping into them again
this year and the years average will
fiind him among the top ones. If he
doesn’t hurt himself riding the cav
alry horses and fish, John Rice is
good for many, many more hits for
old A. and M.
“Hoots” Williams is the all-round
man of the Southwestern Basket Ball
Champions. “Hoots” played a for
ward while at Houston High, but
shifted to guard on coming up here.
He played one of the best games in
the state in that position as a fish.
This year, he again started as guard,
but shifted to forward when Ehlert
was taken sick. He filled that job as
well ns he had done guard position.
It c'cesn’t matter much where he
pla;. 2—he’s always in there scrap-
p'rg. William’s versatality makes
him an especially valuable man for
future championships.
“Red” Daniels the pitching sensa
tion of Texas colleges, was forced to
drop out this winter on account of
sickness. He’s the best there is and
we are looking for him to turn ’em
back next spring. Nixon Askey, who
developed into a wonderful plunging
fullback last fall, is another “T” man
whom we want to see in action next
year. W. W. Touchstone, T-second
man in football and T man in base
ball, was forced to leave school
Christmas. “Touch” is in Sherman
and he’s coming back, if possible, to
make next year as great as this one
has been.
These fourteen are the letter men
of the Sophomore Class. There are
a score or more of T-second and Re
serve men who are going to wear the
T in the next two years. They have
worked and made this wonderful year
what it is. They are due a world of
credit. Our athletes represent the
best there is in the Sophomore class.
We cannot give them higher praise.
’22
A. and M.
Dear Editor:
I wish to raise my voice in pro
test against a very definite griev
ance. I refer to the perniscious ten
dency on the part of my Physics in
structor towards the employment of
a form of trick English and Arabic
on quizzes which leaves me totally
at sea as to what the aforesaid
teacher is talking about. As we have
gradually passed into Light, which
is very dark indeed to me, this Prof,
has developed a lingo all his own, a
special patter that would sound
much better coming from the mouth
of a side show barker. It might
cause a man to invest fifteen cents
to see what it really was. These
veiled and secret announcements of
his should not be put before me to
answer in one hour’s time unless ac-
compained by a parallel translation.
For in these little tests of one’s
sanity, words appear to have lost
all relationship to my edition of the
Physics text. We have recently
passed into sound. Prof, told me the
other day that I had not made a
sound since we had taken up sound.
I told him that a pun was the cheap
est kind of wit, but he didn‘’t seem
to appreciate the remark. Just like
one of this genus, however—appre
ciate their own wit but can’t see
anyone else’s. At first, there was
a certain novelty in this ruse of talk
ing about one’s art in terms of an
other, but it is getting tiresome now.
Fix it up please, Editor.
Yours until the canary birds sing
bass.
Gripe.
’22
OUR IDEA OF HEAVEN
A place where you sleep all the
time and they feed you while you
sleep.
’22
Mr. Brown: “Some of you got
your S mixed up in your formula for
lever arms.”
“Script”: “No sir, I got my arms
mixed up.”
’22
Prof. Mitchell (demonstrating
proposition) : “Now watch the
board carefully and I’ll run through
it for you.”