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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1921)
THE BATTALION 9 SNOOKS”GARDNER SPORT EDITOR SPORTS <$><e><s><s><s><e>s><e*e><s><»<s><e><s><s><$*$><$><eKS><e><s*s*^ “JINX” JINKS ASSOCIATE SPORT EDITOR BIBLE MACHINE STARTS GRIND ON GRID WORK Farmer Gridiron Warriors Gaxher to Prepare for Preservation of Ath letic Supremacy in Southwest. On a beautifully turfed and turtle backed field which is fast becoming the center of a huge amphitheater by the erection of enormous steel seating stands to accomodate the great crowds that will view the grid iron contests that will be played here with Oklahoma A. & M., the Univer sity of Arizona and the University of Texas. D. X. Bible, head Coach of Athletics and prized mentor of the South, with his assistants, C. J. Roth- geb and Frank Anderson is wielding into shape 85 football men who next week will be assigned their positions on the team that will uphold the hon or of Aggieland and defend A. and M. College of Texas against the pow erful aggregations that will come here from the above mentioned schools. The group of huskies is encourag ing with the presence of A. B. Mor ris, J. N. Askey, R. L. Carruthers, W. E. Murrah, A. F. Dierterich, T. F. Wilson and M. V. Smith, all letter men of the 1920 squad and is con spicuous because of the absence of Jack Mahan, Roswell Higginbotham, C. R. Drake, J. F. Martin and Johnny Pierce. Last year’s letter men will almost be assured of a berth on the team this year on account of their wonder ful showing in previoxis seasons. “Bob” Carruthers, ex-tool dresser, and letter man for two years, will m all likelihood play a tackle. Morris from Cedar Hill has been slated for quarter, a position he filled last year. “Bugs” also filled a stellar role on the diamond. “Nick” A^key, from Clarkewood, made a letter on the famous 1919 Southwestern Confer ence Championship Team. Captain Wier, of Georgetown, has made three letters in football, as many in Track, and captain of last years Conference Champions, is a half of the decidely wing curver variety. “Cap” Murrah, of Plani, Texas, is being worked at center. “Cap” also has three years of varsity activity to his credit and last year was considered one of the foremost linemen in this section of the country. “Big” Dieterich from Dallas, a guard from last year and star track man, is again showing the usual bull-dog tenacity that won him his letter last year, and what is due to reserve a berth this season. The ends are both letter men. “Puny” Wilson of Honey Grove and “M. V.” Smith of Belton. “Puny” is an end of the All-Southwestern calibre and Smithy is also a letter man on the baseball team. A new man who looks unusually promising is one L. S. Keen, more commonly alluded to as “Tiny” and addresses his mail to Kerens. Tower ing like a giant and making the scal es run around to the 225 mark, Tiny looks like a likeable find to replace -*$*- ■*$*• -*$*■ ■*$*• ■»$*• -*$*• ❖ k* ❖ BIG TOWN GAME NEW * ❖ YEARS DAY IN DALLAS ❖ ❖ * *** Texas A. and M. vs. Penn State *»♦ * Jan. 1, 1922. ❖ ❖ *> Negotiations are now under ❖ way with definite aim to ef- ❖ feet probably what will result in the greatest inter-section- ❖ * al football game ever staged *> south of the Mason-Dixon line. *h Mr. Joe Utay, former Aggie *** ❖ gridiron star, is on his way to *** State College, Penn., to repre- ❖ sent the Athletic Department in making definite arrange- *♦* ments, if possible, to bring the ❖ *** Pennsylvania State College ❖ *** football team to Dallas on *$* * New Years Day. ❖ ❖ *4* •*$«• •*£•*- +$*■ -*$+ ■»$«■ the famous Ruby Drake. In Masu- da, the 210 pound Egyptian, Rothgeb is making a creditable lineman. F. K. ^Buckner, of Weatherford, and star of the inter-company battles is beginning to do all the nice things that he is supposed to do. He hits the line like a bullet and messes things in general about the end section. “Sammy” Sanders, Captain-Elect of the Track Team, has completely re covered from the effects of the broken shoulder received last year in scrimmage the week previous to the title tilt, and causes a smile if satis faction to move over the face if the ardent fan that has viewed a scrim mage. Gill, from last year’s Fresh man team, is tossing the oval in even better style than ever before and bids fair to make ’em notice. “Bill” McMillan, “Hei'o” of the Casuals, with his regular sidestepping stunts of big time calibre, is finding a place on the team, but temporarily is suf fering from a small injury on the smeller. Harry Pinson, of Proctor, who massages a pitchfork handle in the summer, is looking wonderful. Possessing a powerful charge and a quick getaway, he will play many games this year at half. Miller and Fargason of inter-company fame are doing the unting together with Gill, and all look very good for this time of the year, but the loss of Higgin botham will be more keenly felt along these lines. The season is young and the teams are not selected and out of the young sized battalion of huskies gathered in Aggieland, it is an assured fact that new faces will dominate the Far mer aggregation, and as the saying goes “In the cool of the evening we will have been there.” Dinker: “Did you see me fall?” Dunker; “Yeh.” Dinker: “Did ja ever see me be fore?” Dunker: “Naw!” Dinker: “Wow’d you know ’twas me ?” ❖ * * He gripped the wheel and sped away Regardless of traffic laws; The reckless pace caused the car to swerve— But she didn’t fall out Because— HEINIE WEIR, Captain Football Team. WIER ELECTED CAPTAIN OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM One of the Few Ever Selected as Cap tain of Two Sports at A. & M. College. At a meeting of the remaining let ter men here last week, W. C. (Heine) Wier, of Georgetown, Tex as, foremost of the furlong sprinters of the South, was given the esteemed honor of Captain of the 1921 Texas A. and M. Football Team. The va cancy was created when Johnny Pierce, Captain-Elect, graduated last June and started serving his appren ticeship to the telephone pluggers. Calvin Wier, the fast and elusive back of the Aggies, has served three years on the Aggie eleven and as many on the Track team, of which he was captain last year when they walked away with the Southwestern Conference Track Championship. The fans, students, and alumni looked on with interest for the out come of this election, as he is considered one of the most promising men in Southern athletic circles. His wonderful phys ique, cool temperament, and general ability to serve as leader, and marvel ous speed, will render him a great asset on the Bible machine. Heine has been quite a figure ever since his first days here, both in athletics and local politics, and last year was given the coveted position as chah’- man of the Junior Banquet commit tee, and his recent election is quite a fitting and wonderful climax for his college career. Although not in seasonable condi tion, his plunges and wing dashes have satisfied even the most skepti cal, that he will help fill the stellar backfield roles that cling to the cherished memories of Mahan and Higginbotham. FARMER TRACK STARS EXCITE GREAT INTEREST Wearers of Maroon and White Make Remarkable Showing at National Collegiate Meet. When the majority of the cadet corps boarded a train at Commence ment for a vacation with “Her” or the wheatfields, depending on then - Bradstreet rating, there were left at College Station, six stellar track ar tists to resume their strenuous train ing program in order to hold up the athletic honor of Texas A. and M. in the greatest track and field meet ever held in the United States. After a week of midseason “tun ing” under the personel direction of Coach Rothgeb, the team departed to Dallas for a slight encounter. En tered also in Dallas, was one L. S. “Tiny” Keen, from the team of 1920. Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a track meet in the South, the A. and M. representa tives furnished thrill after thrill by breaking every record that they had enteded. Captain W. C. (Heinie) Wier, of Georgetown, smashed the Dallas Playground Association record for the century and a few minutes lat er duplicated his previous feat by breaking the 220 record, stepping the course in 21:4. Captain-Elect S. H. (Sammy) Sanders, the little boy wvdi the big stride, broke the record for the quarter-mile breaking the tape in 51. The field records suffered similar ly as the track records, for the boys from the other schools just could not toss the heavy paraphernalia like “Prides of Aggieland.” “Tiny” Keen, of Kerens, broke both of his previous records in the shot and discus, and Jack Mahan, of Gainesville, and A. F. Dieterich, of Dallas, both broke the javelin throw. The relay race was a spectacle withirt itself, for the Aggie team composed of Wier, Sanders, T. C. Davis, of Marfa and R. E. Harris, of Comanche, demonstrated to the ap preciation of the natives of North Texas just exactly how the Relay Race should be run. The team returned to College for the final measures in their training, when word was received that there would not be any relay race at Chi cago, so when the team left for Champagne, 111. Davis and Harris re turned to their homes. After a couple of days of workouts and loosening up at the University of Illinois track, the team invaded Chicago proper. They worked out at the famous Stagg Field where the meet was to be held. They strutted their stuff on the best cinder path in the United States, which was surrounded by the big stadium. The best individual perform ers in collegiate competition, wheth er graduate or not, were entered and eager for the fray. The Chicago papers gave the College Station rep resentatives unusual publicity- as (Continued on Page 13)