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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1928)
)0 THE BATTALION AGGIES DROP SECOND TO ARKANSAS NORTH TEXAS TEACHERS SATURDAY DROP KICKS Things may not look the very best just now. In fact we have three of our hardest games before us. Would you like for the season to end just as things stand at pres ent. * * The team started the season over again Monday so it’s up to you to do the same, the scores stand re gardless but they could be a lot easier stood, so watch the rest. * * * In order to off-set the difference in physical conditions • the Aggies will have to develop a driving, fight ing attitude. This will be our only hope to keep in the ring. * >1= * A few weeks ago there was quite a different attitude over the Cam pus, watch your step, Gang, you are whipped when you admit it. sf: * ❖ Only a short time to put out and a life time to regret it. * * * It is being said that it is going to be a hard winter in Aggieland. Gentlemen you are the ones who will suffer the cold if you don’t keep going. A real Aggie is never through, did you know that “Good-by to Texas” was written on the battle front by an Old Timer known as “Pinky” Wilson. It was somewhere on the Rhine river. * * * When the Idea for “Taps” was originated it was A. and M. Give ’em Hell, from here on. Gang give 'em all Hell and make them like it. :f: * * Some may be inclined to think that the game coming up with the Denton Eagles will be a snap. Get it out of your minds because that team would certainly like to slip up. * * * The Ponys’ will be to ride in Cool Dallas before long, so get out your spurs and see that they haven’t rusted. MOORE CAPTAINS CROSS COUNTRY. Saturday before the third compe tition, George Moore, of Dallas, was elected Captain of th« Aggie Har riers. Moore is a squad man from last year’s championship team and is a very consistent runner. In the competition Winders again crossed the line first, 'Shoemaker came in second, and Moore third. The next in order were Perkins, Griffis and Badger. This is the first time Shoemaker has finished in the first division and the effect of his intense training is beginning to show. The course was run in about a minute faster time than was made in the last competition. Next Sat urday another will be held. It will be the last before the dual meet with Texas at Austin. AGGIES MEET N. TEXAS TEACHERS College Life: One-third of it is spent in bed and two-thirds of it is spent in bad.-—Ga. Tech. Yellow Jacket. Librarian: Isn’t this book rather technical? Small boy : It was that way when I got it, ma’m. Saturday the Aggies will enter tain the North Texas Teachers’ of Denton on Kyle Field. The Farmers should have an easy game and should defeat the Teachers. The Ag gies need an easy game before they take on the strong Pony team in Dallas Saturday week. As they have just completed three of the hardest games any team could have in a row. With a short rest the Far mers should be in fine shape for the game November 10. No, business administration is not wish Engineering. * * * A brain is only as strong as its weakest think. H- He H* “What’s the use,” asked an idle fellow, “of a man’s working him self to death to get a living?” He iji * We met a girl on the campus this morning whose mouth was so small she had to take pills with a shoe horn. —Ex. He He He “Busy?” “No.” “You busy?” “No.” “Well, let’s go to class.” H« He H< Also, why doesn’t some automo tive genuis bring out a car that will saisfy the husband as to cost and the wife as to looks ? He He He “Forget self and be happy!” ex claims one lecturer. In other words, go to sleep and stay there. VARSITY TRACK PROSPECTS. When track season opens in the spring Coach Anderson will present to the Conference the greatest ar ray of track talent A. and M. has had in ten years. We lost only two men. Buck and Kennedy, from last years team while other Conference teams lost heavily. Several men from the Fish team of ’27 came back to us this year and will be working for places on the team. Buck and Ken nedy will be hard to replace but we have plenty of material. In the 100-yard and 220-yard dash are: Burgess, Badger, Graham, and Reoench. Quarter-mile: O’Neal, Hod ges, Tracy and Sessions. Half-mile: Thompson, Michael and Jared. Mile: Shoemaker and Moore. Hurdles: Deek and Slocum. The Field Events: Pole Vault: Ashley and Stiteler. High Jump: Mills, Holsonbake, Lasten and Hiese. Broad Jump: Mills, Farmer and Thomas. Shot Put: Bartlett, Markle, Delery, McCluny and Mc- Gowen. Javelin: Johnson, Blount an Floyd. This year the Conference will give three place in the meets instead of the two formerly given. With the wealth of material we have we should profit greatly by this new ruling. The only things that can hurt us this year to any marked degree are ineligibility and the fail ure of some to return for the sec ond term. We are strong in every department and should present a strong, well-balanced squad to work for Conference honors. GAMBLING AMONG THE IN STRUCTORS. Gambling is not allowed among the cadets, that is not too loud, but there was no such restriction upon certain of the instructors (At least two are known to the Bat) for they gambled for a shine, and the loser has been long and loud in his de nunciation of the winner. He even went so far as to say that the shine he forthwith bought was the first the other fellow had had in five months; rumor has it that it was true. Poor fellows! To think that they are reduced to gambling for shines, why not a bottle of shinny if they must have something shiny. But shines. . . .alas shines are all too few among the instructors as it is with out gambling them off. Can’t the Colonel issue an order ? After six weeks of weeding, Coach Roswell Higginbotham has finally selected the members of his two squads. They are the remnants of the 212 who reported at the begin ning of the season. One hundred men were outfitted for practice at the opening of the training and as various ones dropped out, new as pirants took their places, and now all of the applications have been given a tryout. Many good men have been cut off—men just as good as the best Coach Hig can find in his outfit, but more than likely they were not showing up well dur ing the first few crucial weeks. These men, although cut off of the Fish squad have just as good a chance at the Varsity as the Fish Numeral men. Coach Hig and his assistants cannot expect in anyway, form, or fashion to select the cream of the Fish Class—but these that drop out can find a place on the Intramural teams, and if any of them show real ability, Coach Bible will be more than willing to try them in Spring training. The squad has been divided into two groups, one working under Coaches Higgin botham and Tuck Lister and the other under coaches Anderson and “Kewpie” Rektorik. Rektorik and Lister were members of the first