THE BATTALION
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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
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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 ?”
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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
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