THE BATTALION
W. “RIP” COLLINS
ASSISTS AGGIE
PITCHING STAFF
Former Aggie Star Returns to Give
A Week’s Coaching to
Twirlers.
Warren Collins, better known to the
student body as well as football and
baseball fans throughout the country
as “Rip” Collins, returned to College
Station, last Thursday to assist Coach
Rothgeb in whipping the baseball
squad into shape for the coming base
ball race. During his stay here which
lasted for a week he had charge of
the pitching staff and during that
time the Aggie hurlers received the
coaching of a man successful in the
big leagues.
Last season, Collins was a member
of the Detroit Tigers of the American
League, but up to the present time
has not signed a contract for the com
ing pennant chase. In the race last
year, he led his club in pitching and
ranked sixth in the American League.
His colorful career began in 1920 as
a member of the New York Yankees.
Later he was traded to the Boston
club along with other players, and De
troit obtained him from the latter
club.
Besides being famous as a baseball
player, Collins also has the distinc
tion of being one of, if not the great
est punter ever produced in the South
west. He was a member of the team
of 1915 that defeated the University
of Texas 13-0 in the face of over
whelming odds, and one of the deter
mining factors in this wonderful vic
tory was his punting that averaged
65 yards for the day. The old men
in talking of the football games of
the past, often talk of the time “Rip”
stood behind his own goal line during
the Texas Aggie-Mississippi A. and
M. game and made a punt that hit
the crossbai* on the goal posts at the
opposite end of the field.
He attended the homecoming of the
former “T” men that was held a few
days ago, and consented to help with
the task of getting the Farmer ball
heavers ready for conference chase.
Consequently, he was on hand for
practice Thursday afternoon of last
week. His methods of catching run
ners off the bags and how to work
the opposing hitters were explained
and demonstrated to the proteges of
Rothgeb and results of his work with
these men has caused the hurlers to
show a decided improvement in the
practice games that are played every
afternoon.
THE DOPE BUCKET.
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mark at the end of the T. C. U. game
that he didn’t want to live through
another one like it. We are sure that
Aggies agree with him in hoping
there will never be another like it as
far as the score is concerned.
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Within two years, Texas A. and M.
will lead the Southwest Conference
in basketball by a wide margin. This
is the statement made by Doc Stew
art, coach of the University Long
horns, as he stood in the center of
the court in the new Memorial Gym
nasium the night of the Aggie-Long
horn game that followed the dedica
tion exercises.
“The erection of buildings like this
—the knowledge broadcast that here
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What Some
Agricultural College Graduates
are doing for American Farmers
"VTOU know of the excellent work that many agri-
^ cultural college graduates are doing as county
agents and government experts. But do you know of
an equally important service to the farmer that many
other graduates are performing?
Employed by the big mills that supply thousands of
farmers and dairymen with Purina Chows is a staff of
scientific men like yourself. These men understand
the importance of lowering the farmer’s cost of pro
duction—and they are helping him do it.
Some of them in the chemical and research laboratories
of Purina Mills developing the very newest thoughts
on animal nutrition. Some of them making actual tests
on poultry farms, dairy farms and feed lots—-proving
by practical comparison the relative values of various
rations. Some of them working with farmers and
dairymen—helping them weigh their milk, cull non
producers, keep milk records and egg records, and
records of their feed costs.
The Purina Mills are doing more than furnishing the
highest grade concentrates for balancing home-grown
feeds. They are teaching the farmer to realize that
the most economical, efficient and profitable ration is
not necessarily the one which costs him the least. It
is the one which produces the most milk, eggs, pork
and beef at the least cost per pound!
PURINA MILLS, 959 Gratiot Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Kansas City, Mo.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Fort Worth, Tex.
is an ideal playing plant for the
greatest college sport, has never fail
ed,” Coach Stewart said, “to attract
to the institutions that erect them,, the
cream of the section’s talent. It is
easy to envision the procession of fine
school basketball players here in the
next few seasons. In 1927 the College
should easily lead the conference.
—W. B. Ruggles in The Dallas News.
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