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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1928)
THE BATTALION 9 NEW SHIPMENTS of Military Goods Just Received at our College and Bryan stores. Stiff Brim Army Hats Side Lace Leggins Hnglish Serge Breeches Sam Brown Belts Fine Serge Shirts White Duck Pants Gym. Shoes and Suits Yellow Slickers All sizes in Herman's Dress and Drill Shoes. A. M. Waldrop & Co Two Convenient Stores — Bryan and College whole student body and not only just for the Fish. At present more than 80 % of the players registering are Fish. Upperclassmen should take a more prominent part in these games than the Fish because this is practically the only organized physical exercise available for them. There are several Fish playing on the Intramural teams that should make the Fish team. Last year four Intramural Fish players were Num eral men. Tennis starts October 22. Six men will be needed to form a team for each organization. By this method a man can at least play in several games and even though he may lose some of his matches. Four leagues will be formed and the champion ship will be determined on a per centage basis. Aso soon as the legue Tennis is over, a regular sin gles and doubles tennis tournament /ill be run off. D 13-10; Tuesday after an enjoyable drill Troop C lost decisively to Bat tery B by the score of 15-4; next Troop D uphelp the horsemarines name and dubbed Battery A 9-6; Wednesday Troop B pulled the Com pany G flag down with a 20-16 sign attached to it. The best and most interesting game of the six bat tles was between Battery C and B. Engineers. When the guns stop ped cracking and the dust had clear ed, Battery C was barely holding on top and calling for aid. The score was 12-11. Noah Webster’s offsprings lost the game by having six men on the floor when one of his forwards rung a field goal. This cost him the two points it took to win. In the last four minutes of play Noah’s men were the only ones to score and they made only two points. Intramural athletics are for the Leaves Tobacco Tin as All-time Calling Card Calgary, Alta., „ „ ^ March 4, 1928 Larus & Bro. Co., Richmond, Va. U. S. A. Gentlemen: While in Banff, Alberta, in 1909, I climbed Tunnell Mountain. On top of this mountain there is a cairn of stones where tourists leave their cards with remarks about the scenery, etc. Not having a card with me, I left a tin of Edgeworth Sliced, scribbled my name and address on a piece of paper, and said, “Have a fill on me.” I have kept up a haphazard corre spondence with one of three who wrote me thanking me for the Pipeful of Edgeworth. What makes me write you is that today from Australia I received two slices of Edgeworth with the words, “Have a fill on me,” so you see Edgeworth keeps friends friendly. Yours sincerely, P. B. Johnstone Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco What Shakespeare says about Coca-Cola mm- ‘t ■ E 'vW KING LEAR Act IV. Scene 6 8 million a day GOOD TO **Nat\ire*s above art in that respect” — King Lear may have looked like a walking florist shop, but he cer tainly talked a full-meaning head line for this Coca-Cola ad: A pure drink of natural flavors— produced before the day of synthetic and artificial drinks, and still made from the same pure products of nature. The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga. GET WHERE IT IS T.K. LAWRENCE, INC. * present the newest Star of the Middishade “lot” "Hollywood” CONCEIVED, direct-a, and produced by Mid- dishade — and presented to you by us—the “Hol lywood” offers style and performance difficult to approach at the price. T^ASHIONED in a rich, -l restrained blue — the deep Middishade tone that has made blue the dominant style note* Note the smart double- breasted vest, the high rise English trousers, the clean-cut peaked lapels. HANGLISH in its style in- X-J spiration, the “Hol lywood ” is thoroughly American in its inbred stamina • . and American in its democratic price — *3750 MIDlSf§HADE ‘The specialized blue suit Speedball beings October 29, and practice equipment may be had at the Intramural office. The Fish are learning the game fast anil with the great number of Sophs and Juniors that have played, tlje fight for the championship should prove to be most interesting since the sport was first introduced. This game was originated only : a few years ago; it wa.s introduced at the University of Michigan and is now being taken up all over thq coun try. Columbia coaches say it pro vides the long needed game for per- (Continued on Page 10)