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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1931)
mr ta,li0n VOL. XXIX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS MAY 13, 1931 No. 33 AGGIE-STEERS FIGHT FOR CROWN Longhorns To Be Issued Last Part Of This Week In Battalion Office “Originality” Heard By Scholarship Club “Originality” was the theme of a talk by Professor D. B. Gofer of the English department before a Scholar ship Honor Society meeting in the Asbury Room of the Library build ing Friday night. Orders also were taken for the new society pin which was adopted by the organization re cently. Reynolds-Carpenter Marriage Announced Announcement has been received of the marriage of Jack A. Reynolds of Sherman, a junior in Company C En gineers, to Miss Lois Carpenter of San Benito. The ceremony was per formed in Franklyn, Texas, on April 15. Mrs. Reynolds, a former student of the College of Industrial Arts at Denton, is now employed in the Ex tension Service here. Glee Club Trip To Belton Ends Year’s Program The last trip of the Glee Club was made Friday when it returned a past visit of the Baylor Choral Club with a program of varied musical selec tions at the Baylor College for Wom en. The club left here by bus, with Willis Dobson of the department of English as accompanist, and F. K. Beach of the department of horticul ture as director. While on the campus of Baylor College they were showed about the campus by the girls and following the evening’s performance were given a reception in Hardy hall. This concludes a very successful year of the club which was organized at the first of the school year and managed to finish with a membership of thirty-seven, which is unusual for so young an organization. Through the able management of F. G. Sleep er, student manager, they were able to spend several days in a tour in the northern part of the state, broad casting and making public appear ances several times a day. Saddle And Sirloin Dance Well Attended Featuring a pastoral scene as a dec orative motif, the Saddle and Sirloin Club held its annual Cattlemen’s ball in the Sbisa hall annex Friday night. The annex walls were bedecked with natural foliage, while the lights were covered with huge crepe paper shades. Mounted deer and cattle heads added to the general attractiveness of the scene. Club members wore colored shirts and ties, white pants, and vari-color- ed sashes, while other male guests were attired in white shirts and trousers and black ties. The Aggieland orchestra provided the music for both this hop and the corps dance held in the same place Saturday night. Business Manager To Announce Details Later Distribution of the 1931 Longhorn will begin either the last of this week or the first of next week, announce ment received from Ed Moore, editor discloses. They will be issued from the office of The Battalion. Both windows of the Battalion of fice will be used for this purpose and everything will be done to expedite the issuance Moore said. Yellow slips, or Longhorn identification cards, as the business manager may direct, must be presented. He also stated that all men who are members of clubs which have not paid for their space in the club section, will be assessed a proportionate share of the fee due. This action has become necessary be cause of a shortage of over $500 in the club accounts. In speaking of the results of the year’s work on the publication, Moore stated that the Longhorn staff rec ognizes the right of the individual student to criticize as he sees fit, but they realize that they cannot please everybody. They merely hope that they are more pleased than angry. Freshman Ball Team Plays Tough Games In four games played this weekend, h-: Aggie freshman baseball club emerged victorious in only one. After ’.osing to Allen Academy Thursday af ternoon 10 to 3, and being swamped by Lutheran Junior College 14 to 4 Friday evening, the freshmen came back Saturday to win over the Luth eran sluggers 7 to 3. They were de- featcie again Monday evening 8 to 5 by Allen Academy. Moon pitched nice ball Friday but the Lu.herans took the breaks and the ball game. White turned in a win Saturday by holding the opposing bat ters to three runs, and driving in .our markers for the Aggie freshmen. He collected three bingles in four trips to the platter. Perronot hurled against Allen Thursday; Fisher start ed the game Monday and was reliev ed by Moon. The only home run was made by Fisher after Weaver had drawn a walk. Lowenstein, Fish, Cobb, and Reid were the other heavy hitters. The freshmen go to Brenham Fri day to tangle with Blinn Memorial College in two games. Blinn was de feated in two of three games played here on May 1 and 2. Yell Practice Two Nights This Week Yell Practice will be held Thursday and Friday nights prior to the final championship game with Texas Saturday it was announced Wednesday by senior yell leader Fred Buford. It is probable that J. U. Parker, recently elected chief yell lead er for next year will announce his staff at one of the meetings. Both meetings will be held at the “Y” steps, immediately af ter supper Future Farmers To Banquet Next Week C. H. Winkler Collegiate Chapter, Future Farmers of America, will hold a student-faculty banquet in the Sbisa hall annex Thursday, May 21. Each student member of the club may in vite any faculty member he wishes to attend the dinner. Tuesday night the chapter held its final regular meeting of the year in the educational department offices. D. H. Taylor, senior animal husbandry student from Victoria, is president of the club- Commencement Program Full Plans for commencement this year state that C. E. Calder, president of the American and Foreign Power Company of New York, is to deliver the commencement address and that R. Wallace Bassett, pastor of the Cliff Temple Baptist Church, Dallas, is to deliver the bacculaureate sermon for the 1931 graduating class were made known this morning by Dr. E. P. Humbert, who has charge of the program this year. With the selection of the officer to give the reserve commissions to the reserve officers, the plans will be complete. A review honoring “T” men and in tramural winners, the baccalaureate sermon, and a band concert Sunday, May 24, will inaugurate senior week, and no other activities are scheduled for the seniors until Thursday, when competitive drill by the Ross Volun teers in the afternoon and an inform al reception by President and Mrs. T. O. Walton at their home in the evening, will complete the day. Friday will be more complete, how ever, for plans call for departmental inspection in the morning and a live stock show, exhibition drill by Ros^ Volunteers and formal presentation of reserve commissions in the after noon and the final ball in the even ing. Saturday, the final day of school, will be featured by the commence ment pi'ocessional, commencement exercises and the graduating review at 12:30 p.m. Game Saturday Between Old Rivals Reminiscence of Past Contests Henry Wofford R. Y. Drill Medal Winner Henry Rollins Wofford, Jr., Troop A, Cavalry, was awarded the Ross Volunteer best-drilled medal Sunday for the year 1931. Presentation was made by R. V. Captain Day McNeet following a competitive drill held as part of the Mothers’ Day program. Following an exhibition drill, the R. V. Company was lined up and jud ged on an individual basis on profi ciency in the manual of arms by Majors J. E. Sloan, J. P. Wheeler and B. F. Delmameter. The ranks were thinned until but five men were left, and these were finally graded by the judges, Wofford being selected. The Ross Volunteer medal is simi lar to those presented the best drilled men in the corps units with the ex ception that it has the Ross Volunteer insignia instead of the military branch designation. Dean Kyle Speaks At Senior Banquet E. J. Kyle, dean of the school of agriculture, was the principal speaker at the final senior banquet Monday night, may 11th. His topic dealt v nil the organization and the work o' the Former Students Associaimn and m eluded an explanation of the financial and social activities of the organvx- tion. Among the seniors who also de livered impromptu addresses were Maivin Hays, vice-president of the senior class, Fred Buford, chief yell leader, and R N. Winders, business manager of the Battalion. Ray Walk er, president of the senior class, acted as toastmaster. Dr. Bizzell Talks To Science And Social Science Seminars “The schools of today are returning to a realization of the impm'tance of the place held by science. We cannot accept everything blindly in the name of science but we must let a scientific hypothesis prove itself.” So said Dr. W. B. Bizzell, Univer sity of Oklahoma president and for mer president of A and M Tuesday night in an address at the annual spring banquet of the Science and the Social Science Seminars in the Sbi : hall annex. New officers of the two clubs who were inducted into office at the ban quet were: (Social Science Seminar, J. W. Barger, president; L. G. Jones, vice-president; and C. H. Winkler, sec retary. (Science Seminar) E. E. Vezey, president; F. A. Burt, vice- presdient; and J. T. Lonsdale, secre tary. Fire Stops “The Man Who Came Back” Visiting mothers and campus people were afforded quite a thrill Saturday night when the second performance of “The Man Who Came Back” was brought to an abrupt end by a small fire in the projection room of the Assembly Hall. The flames com pletely destroyed one reel of film and did slight damage to the projecting machines. Chief operator Ray Hirons was repair ing one of the machines when the conflagration started. Im mediately all fire doors and shutters were closed so as to prevent the flames from spread ing. The automatic sprinklers with which the projection room is equipped, soon smothered the I iaue. The entire audience left the hall without confusion, there being but a small crowd in at tendance at the time. Early Tuesday the Y M C A announced that the regular schedule of pictures would con tinue without interruption as necessary repairs would be made before Wednesday night. Expected Victory Of Texas Over Rice Will Tie A & M And Texas For Lead Visions of the days of old, when the final Aggie-Longhorn game meant the championship title will be re-in- acted at College Saturday, May 16th, when Coach Roswell Higganbotham’s league leading A & M ball club will take on the Texas Longhorn’s for the deciding game of the Southwest Con ference baseball title T'ace. The Steers will come to College following a game with the Rice Owls on Friday after noon at Houston. For the last 17 years the Longhorns have ruled supreme on the Southwes tern diamond’s and their undisputed rule has at last been challenged by the Maroon and White team. Practically every year the A & M team has fin ished in an upper berth, but has never been able to successfully stem the Orange and White stampede of ball players. At the present time, A & M is in the lead of the percentage column, having playing one more game than the Steers, however, each team has lost only one game during the season. Tex as having lost their game to Baylor early in the season and in turn de feating the Aggies at Austin for their only defeat during the season. The game will probably draw the largest attendance of any game play ed in the conference this season as it is the first time in years that the title has been decided by the curtain ringer of the conference schedule. . Mike De LaFuente, ace of the Long horn pitching staff, will probably draw the assignment to match the hurlings of Marshal Shaw, leading Aggie pitch er. In addition to settling the pennant title, this game will probably settle the title of leading conference pich- er. LaFuente blanked the Aggies 8-0 at their last meeting. Squawk Velt- man, Captain Beau Bell, and Ernest Koy will be battling to settle the po sition of leading hitter for the con ference. Veltman is in the lead at pres ent as Koy went hitless in the Texas- Baylor game. The probable line ups; Texas Position A & M Lamm First Base Carpenter White Second Base Davis Williams Third Base Pampell Ater Short Stop Henderson Baumgarten Left Field Bell Koy Center Field Veltman Sullivan Right Field Mitchell Bloebaum Catcher Garvey Fuentes Pitcher Shaw After the last out is made in the game Saturday, six members of the A & M team automatically close their career as conference base ball players, di e to graduation or ineligibility for further participation. Captain Beau Sell, centeriielder; Ab Hawes, pitch er; Pampell, third baseman; Hender son, short stop; and Hoke and Em mons, first basemen are the players who will be lost from Coach Higgan botham’s nine. The adoption of a new uniform for the Band is being considered by the I college officials.