176—0 The Battalion Phillips Next Published Weekly by the Students Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOL. XXIX. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS OCTOBER 16, 1920. NUMBER 4 S. M. U. PUTS UP HARD BATTLE AT DALLAS FAIR The Pride of A. and M. 1920 AGGIES Aggies Win By Low Margin of 3-0 —Mahan and Kitts Are the Stars. The game against Southern Meth odist University at the State Fair last Saturday was a fight from start to finish. Never was the game secure until that old last v/histle had blown. Southern Methodist University was bound and determined to score on A. and M. and A. and M. was more than determined that the scoreless record of her opponents should not be broken. On the other hand it was a very difficult thing for A. and M. to get within striking distance of the S. M. U. goal. The five thousand folks at the game saw as good a game qf defensive football as they ever need to see. The first half was used in trying to find weak spots and what plays would v/ork. Nothing seeming par ticularly successful most of the time was spent in booting the ball back and forth, early becoming, very large ly a kicker’s battle. The only scoring of the whole game came in the third quarter. Af ter a gain thru a series of punts and thru the line the ball was carried by A. and M. to the S. M. U. twenty yard line. And from this place a perfect kick for field goal was made. The fourth quarter like the first two wa ; scoreles.i The afternoon was warm and that slowed the game down some but the fact is, the whole game was just naturally a little bit slow. The game did not lack in excitement for hair- raising plays followed each other in rapid succession thruout the whole game and never was the game safe. Neither team seemed to work like a piece of well oiled machinery; there was carbon in the cylinders, the mo tor growled, the engine backfired anj the Tarter wquldn’1 work. But t^ i men :fT»feight l£;d fought like demons and even if they didn’t get that unity and harmony, it must be remembered that this is really the first game of the season—S. M. U. being our first formidable opponent. The smallness of the score may be accounted for in several ways—the chief of them is the fact that S. M. U. really has a good team and is to be taken into consideration in State football this Fall. They have a much better team than they had last year. BATTALION GETS OFFICE WITH DAILY BULLETIN Wherein Lies Our Hopes Top Row: D. X. Bible, Coach; McClelland, Winn, Crawford, Brown, Wilson,Ballard, Buckner, Rothgeb Asst.Coach Second Row: Sanders, Gouger, Carruthers, Murrah, Drake, Mahan (Capt.), Pierce, Weir, Martin, Scudder, Wendt. Bottom Row: Dietrich, Scofield, Anglin, Maxwell, Baskin, M;orris, Smith, Frazier, Beasley, McMillan. '"Higginbotham not in photo. ENTIRE CADET CORPS TAKES PART IN WACO DRILL Captain Morris Presents 1200 Cadets In Calisthenics At Cotton Palacs. When the question was raised at the Airdome Tuesday night by Capt. W. H. H. Morris, the entire cadet corps of A. and M. voted to parU.ci- pate in a calesthenics drill to be presented at the Cotton Palace the day of the Baylor game. BIG SEASON IN FISH ELEVEN WRESTLING IS WINS 40-0 OVER NOW OUTLOOK BURLESON TEAM University Meet Settled—Coach Jones Making Further Arrange ments. On account of the strenuous Rea son planned for the A. and M. gqap- plers this season, a greater numbe up squad. Tentative arrangements^, have been made for contests with BJiylor, men will be called on to make nbejire" Anderson’s Fish and Ineligibles Make Second Victory at Green ville. For First Time in History Student Publication Has Office Room. Through the courtesy of President Bizzell and Publicity Secretary Mar tin, The Battalion now has a desk in the Publicity office on the first floor of the Administration Building. This is a great step of advancement for the publication as it has been managed and edited since its origin in the var ious rooms of its staff. As yet only one desk has been ob tained but every effort will be made to provide satisfactory equipment and space in the near future. The Bat talion contribution box will soon be replaced near the rotunda for the con venience of company and club re porters. Staff members alone will be able to make use of the office at pres ent. The Battalion is making application for the room in the rear of Mr. Hen derson’s office and half of the old Bulletin office. If this is obtained a reading room will be made of the outer office where students and fac ulty may make use of The Battalion exchanges. “DOUGH” ROLLINS ACCEPTS OF FICE OF SPORT WRITER. The Battalion is fortunate indeed in obtaining the services of J. T. “Dough” Rollins as Sport Editor. “Dough” knows athletics. He has pai-ticipated in every form. At Al len Academy years ago he was a star performer. In his prep years at A. and M. he gained distinction. In later years unfortunate physical dis abilities have appeared in sufficient time to forfeit his chances. He is a “light-schedule” senior and replaces Knickerbocker whose academic du ties are almost prohibitive of addi tional work. “Dough” will assist on the Daily Bulletin as well. ^•Tn . 1 91 7 V C.-1 nfaUf^^Vv'V.'sJ'C’rv— a First LieuU ^ Vd CAir man d ant, n .cntedy 1 ^eSthenics drill at Waco on U l.ty of the famous 3—0 game in* * which he per mitted only freshmen with no mili tary training to participate. With only five instruction periods the Fish gave a very creditable ap pearance and won the hearty ap plause of the grandstand. Movies of the drill were exhibited througn- out the country. With the entire cadet corps of twelve hundred students participat ing this year an exhibition well worth seeing will be offered. Cap tain Morris has selected a number of officers and non-commissioned officers as Physical Directors and the instruction for the drill will be by platoons with these men in charge. The guidons of the dif ferent branches will be stationed so as to permit the grandstands to know the various units of Infantry, Cavalry, Signal Corps, and Artillery. In a game that was never in doubt as to who would be the winner, Coach Anderson’s aggregation o f Fish walked up and down Burleson Col lege’s ’ gridiron for the total of 40 points to 0. The game was very Rice, S. M. U. and T. C. U., whiXe def- ! fast and marked improvement of the inite plans have Qnce can ^ojjAl with 7''rgshmen, sfA' +he last game they h n wc - wrestling 5 ' w its proper orL winter and l early spring sport tl son will be started after footba/ first regular meets probably after midyears. Classes in 1„ f , _ will be started, followed by mural bouts. Captain King and o veterans of last year are expectin have their hands full coaching- new material into shape. Coach jj is seeing to the cleaning of th^ AGGIES AND L. S. U. PLAY SCORELESS GAME AT COLLEGE ROSS VOLUNTEERS PROVIDE DUCHESS’ MILITARY ESCORT Misses Castles and Wickes Have Es cort Appointed From Cadet Officers. At the Waco Cotton Palace which opens October 30 there will be a strong representation of “royalty.” Eleven young ladies from as many states will be Princesses and twenty- five cities of Texas will be represent ed by Duchesses and Maids of Honor. The A. and M. College will be rep resented by Misses Juliette Castles and Lila Wickes of Bryan. Lady Juliette will have a military escort of five cadet officers of the corps from the Ross Volunteers. The following appointments for the honor have been announced: Captain Todda Forbes of the R. V. and Troop A. will head the party. Cadet Colonel Bonner Barnes, Major Bill King, Cap tain Vernon Edwards, and Lieutenant Thompson comprise the escort. Col. Barnes is the ranking cadet officer of the corps, Major' Bill King is in com mand of the Cavalry unit, Captain Edwards commands Battery A, and Lieutenant Thompson is from Battery B. This is the famous “Red” Thomp son, yell leader of the College. It is quite a feather in the caps of troopers and artillerymen that the entire es cort has been chosen from these two branches. The escort will appear in regulation uniform during the day and at night the white Ross Volunteer uniforms Great Exhibition of Football—Teams Well Matched— First 0-0 Game On Kyle Field. Texas A. and M. and Louisiana State University battled to a scoreless tie on Kyle Field yesterday afternoon. On a field that was slow from the rains of the previous night the Texas Aggies failed to score on the Tigers. The Aggies were on the offensive throughout the game. They had one chance to score in the first half when a blocked punt was recovered on L.S. U.’s twenty yard line. This failed, however, when A. and M’.s attempt to pass went over the goal line. The Aggies also missed two trials for field goals in the last few minutes of play. Higginbotham kicked twice, once from the fifteen yard line and once from a distance of thirty yards. Both kicks went to the left of the goal post. L. S. U. missed her chance for a score when she elected to try for a free kick after a fair catch on the fifty yard line. A. and M.’s line was outweighed by the Tigers ten pounds to the man, but numerous attempts on Louisiana’s part to penetrate the Aggie line failed. The Aggie line played the Louis iana men off their feet during the first half and the Aggie backs made re peated gains during this period. Drake, Wilson and Deitrich were the stars of the Aggie line, while Higgin botham, Mahan and Pierce were stars of the backfield, Pierce playing an ex ceptionally good game at quarter. Ives for L. S. U. played a good run ning a^ well as punting game. He we then tin: 'clot ‘Ini of left ure .~s •r* old was abb '' c og-et his punts o t good MEETING OF THE HOR TICULTURAL SOCIETY Last Monday evening the Horticul tural Society met in Room 20, Agri cultural building for the purpose of completing its organization. The of ficers who were elected for the en suing term are as follows: G. D. Livingston, vice-president; C. P. San ders, secretary and treasurer, and J. T. Martin, press reporter. The presi dent, F. R. Brison, was elected at the close of school last year. The society decided to have space reserved in The Longhorn for the pic tures of its members. Plans were discussed whereby the society could revive the old custom of having a Horticultural Show in the winter. Before the war the society gave an ex tensive exhibit of all kinds of hor ticultural products. But since the war has closed, the custom has not been revived. “Rabbi” Bertschler spoke for about fifteen minutes on the different activ ities of the society. He reviewed the history of the organization, with ap propriate suggestions as to how the customs of the olden days may be ap plied to the present day needs. The society has never neglected the social side of life. Dean Kyle fre quently entertains the society with picnics on his farm near the Brazos River. Socials, dinners and the like are held throughout the year. The Hort. System of entertainment at the close of each regular meeting is an at tractive feature. The next meeting will be held Mon day night, November the first, at the same place and hour. mat and has made arrangements to get another in time for training!'. It is hoped that the intercollegiate ijneets will be over in time to allow participa tion in the amateur meet at 1 Fort Worth next spring. Last year this came two days before the state con test, making it impossible for A. and M. men to attend. Most of last (year’s matmen are back this year and) there are several good men from other insti tutions. This will be an advantage to the new men in whipping into fqrm. BAPTISTS COMPLETE ORGANIZATION With Sterling Evans as President the Campus Baptists have completed organization for the year. Thje First Vice-President is Travis Hallj also a Senior and active Y cabinet man. Three additional vice-presiderits have been selected and each has ain assis tant from the Infantry, Artillelry, Cav alry, Signal Corps and Casuals. Ed wards, Littlejohn and Stevens are vice-presidents. W. P. Trice is Secretary of the organization, L. C. Jinks, Treasurer and F. L. Bertschler Corresponding Secreatry. The or ganization has been with the intention of having officers in Infantry Cavalry, Signal Corps and Artillery. Every academic class is well represented and every Baptist student is a committee of one on attendance. The Sunday night services have been well attended thus far and a steady increase has been noted. SUNDAY BAPTIST SERVICES. The i?t, R/ L. ^snowed up better Ifhan evei./ 1 4ne men played with a rare show of determination, aggress iveness and skill which was worthy i of any College’s first string. . The interference was excellent. I The aggressiveness of Johnson and •Forgason easily placed them in the • front rank of the stars of the game. Mitchell’s long boots were very good, often going over the goal line. As- key, who made his letter on the first squad last year but who is ineligible this season showed the stuff that gave him the old “T” on the South west Champions ’19. Space does not allow us to give mention to all who deserve it. But Chawning deserves recognition for his spectacular run of sixty yards for a touchdown after intercepting a forward pass from Burleson. The line-up was as follows: Right End—Evans. Right Tackle—Cunningham. Right Guard—Maufrais. • Center-—Chawning and White- house. Left Guard—Martin. Left Tackle—Tom (C.) and Stef fens. Left End—Adams and Abrams. Quarter—Askey and Furman. Left Half—Mitchell. Right Half—Johnson. Fullback—Forgason. Touchdowns by Forgason, 2; John son, 2; Mitchell, 1; and Chawning-, 1. TROPICAL COTTON TREE NOW IN GREENHOUSE In Guion Hall last Sunday night a delightful service was he d by Cam pus Baptists. Rev. Brown presented the weekly lesson. Miss Carroll provided music for the o|casion. A vocal number was pleasingly render ed by Miss Simms, also a Bryan young- lady. Quite a number of Campus residents were present and about fifty students were in attendance. A male quartet is planned fo* the future. Tomorrow’s service wih P e at 6:45 p. m. in Guion Hall. An v ^ n joyable and beneficial hour is pro- ed and every one, especially thos . Baptist in clinations, is urgen" i y enir iuested to at- ,-mbers tend. Campus tertainment < cort of the novel featu. ment at the _ 'Viilitary es- HandS' astles j-q a )yal Entertain- It is expected that Misses Ca^ s and Wickes will be in the reviewing stand to welcome the cadet corps at Waco on their ar rival Novembei' 6th for the Baylor Game. This is the first year A. and M. has been represented by ladies of royal caste at the Cotton Palace. Dr. Biz zell proposed the plan of having a military escort. The royal ladies have been chosen from twelve states and such an assemblage of beauty will be a treat of rare nature. HORT. SECTION PLANS TWO TRIPS OF INTEREST Students Go To Many Points On Tours of Inspection Soon. In the Agronomy section of the Horticulture and Agronomy green house is a cotton plant more than ten feet in height. The plant is two years old and Dr. Morgan states that a problem for the Department now is to find larger quarters or else cut back the tree. The specimen was obtained through a student of the College by Prof. Suttle of this department who is now doing work for his Ph. D. at Cornell. Dr. Morgan states that the cotton tree is a tropical perennial, which produces bolls and locks but to a less extent than the plant with which we are familiar. This perennial is a pro totype of the annual cotton grown in the United tates. The annual cotton of this country is a modified form of the tropical tree. In equatorial re gions the tree is sometimes topped and grown for the lint produced which is of low grade and small quantity. Dean Kyle has been in Austin-the latter part of this week attending the National Nut Growers’ Association, which convened last Wednesday. Dean E. J. Kyle, Professors Potts and Hensel, and the Seniors in Horti culture and Landscape Art are plan ning interesting trips of inspection for the coming year. The Hort. men will go to the Rio Grande Valley re gion with the threefold purpose of studying vegetable production, irriga tion, and citrus fruits. The Landscape men have not reached a final decision as to where they will go. A single trip to New Orleans and surrounding country, or a trip to each Dallas and San Antonio will probably be taken. An extensive Galveston-New York journey has been proposed by some