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Bell Goes To Northern Uni
versity To Investigate Con
ditions Of Contract; Ex
presses Himself As Well
Satisfied Here.
Coach Madison Bell, foot ball
mentor for the Aggies and head of
the Department of Physical Edu
cation left this afternoon for Iowa
City, Iowa, to confer with author
ities of Iowa University following
a recent offer to coach that college.
The offer, which was made by tele
graph, was only announced this
afternoon, and did not stipulate
any particulars as to the work or
conditions under which he would
be employed.
On being questioned in regard
to the offer, Coach Bell said: “I
am well satisfied here at A and M
and like to coach here. The student
body and players are pleasant to
work with, and I desire to continue
here. The offer to coach at another
school was made without any solici-
tatidn upon my part and I am go
ing to the University only to in
vestigate the offer. I expect to re
turn the last of this week.”
Registration Just
Over Two Thousand
Latest reports from the Regis
trar’s office today showed that the
total registration for the school
year 1931-32 would run up to ap
proximately 2250. The number of
day students showed an increase,
the total today running approxi
mately 450 students. The number
of old men who have registered for
the second term totals 2003 show
ing that about 175 old men have
failed to re-enter. The total number
of new students enrolling for the
first time in the college has not
yet been computed but has been
estimated at fifty.
The students who failed to re
register the second term amount
to quite a number but the decrease
in the number of students is not
quite as large as expected.
A rally in the second of two ex
tra five minute periods, which net
ted them four field goals after
A and M had taken a one point
lead on a free-throw, gave the
league-leading Bears from Baylor
University a 40-33 victory over a
gallant Aggie five, in a bitterly
contested affair in the Baylor gym
nasium in Waco, Monday night.
The final score is far from an
accurate account of the closeness
of the game, which in the duration
of play both teams were tied six
times. A and M scored first on a
field goal when the game was less
than five minutes old, but the
Bears soon retaliated, by way of
the free-toss route to knot the
count. From that point the game
developed into a give and take af
fair, with the Aggies giving more
than they took, until the initial
half neared the close, with Baylor
leading by eight points. The Ag
gies then embarked on a scoring
spree and the half ended 16 to 14
in favor of A and M.
Baylor assumed control of the
situation in the final half and
guarded a small lead of two points,
which they gained shortly after
the half began, until when only fif
teen seconds remained, oJe Merka,
Aggie pivot-man, sunk a field goal
to deadlock the game.
One extra period proved insuf-
ficinet for either team to score,
although Strickland muffed an ex
cellent chance to win for Baylor
when he was given a free-throw as
a penalty for extra time-outs by
A and M, and a second five min
utes was added to the game. Again
A and M took the lead, this time
on a free toss, but the Bruin of
fense broke through and counted
four times before they could be
repulsed as the game ended.
Joe Merka, sophomore center of
the Aggies who was playing his
first game against conference com
petition, was probably the out
standing man in the Aggie line-up.
Merka very nearly matched the ef
forts of Strickland in obtaining the
toss-up and displayed plenty of
ability as a floor man.
High point honors for the even
ing went to Raymond Strickland,
star Baylor center, who led both
teams with fifteen tallies to his
credit.
Future For Track Team Dark
As Season Training Begins
Despite the fact that there are
no glaringly weak positions, pres
ent indications are that the Aggie
track and field team of 1932 will
not be particularly strong in any
position, as compared with the pow
erful aggregations of Rice Insti
tute and Texas University. And
the fleet-footed tracksters of T C
U, coupled with the polished field
representatives of S M U are cer
tain to provide plenty of competi
tion in several events.
Although seemingly capable of
defeating both the Frogs and the
Mustangs in a dual meet, the Ag
gie thinly-clads are likely to trail
them at the conference meet be
cause where these oponents are
strong they are capable of over
throwing the best that the other
schools can offer. Only four men,
Captain Percy Mims, Fort Worth;
W. E. Nance, Lometa; G. R. Ad-
dicks, La Grange; and T. C. Mor
ris, Forriston, remain of the team
that took 37 points at the confer
ence meet last spring at Fort
Worth, to take second place after
being dethrowned by the undefeat
ed Rice Owls. Of this quartet,
Nance is ineligible.
Discus Prospects Good
A and M has apparently only two
chances in which to take first place
in the conference meet—in the dis
cus throw and in the one mile run.
B. M. Irwin, Kosse, freshman num
eral man from last year, and the
best in Aggieland since the days
of Tiny Keen, will probably rule
the conference in that event, and
will likely break the record made
by Keen eight years ago. Hector
Fuentes, stellar little runner from
Saltillo, Mexico, led the wiry Texas
cross-country captain, Adolph
Schiller, to the finish line in the
dual meet held last fall, although
the Texans won the event, and ran
a close second to the same man
at the conference meet in Dallas
when Texas toppled the Aggies
from the championship they had
held for four consecutive years.
Rice Favored To Repeat
The flashy champions of Rice
will compare favorably with the
strongest teams in the nation, not
excepting the national champion
Trojans of Southern California.
With a few additions to the same
team that was undefeated last year,
the Owls are heavy favories to cop
the title for the second consecutive
year.
Texas will be in line to give the
champions a tight race while T C U
has a host of sprinters and hurdlers
that are seemingly as good as any
in the conference, and although
they lack strength in other events,
the points gained in those divisions
will probably give them a higher
final standing than they have en
joyed in recent years. S M U is
strong only in the weights while
Baylor and Arkansas will probably
cause no one any great amount of
trouble.
T. W. Klein, College Station, and
G. J. Kohler, Palestine; will be
A and M’s only sprint representa
tives. Klein has been ineligible for
two years and is appearing in var
sity competition for the first time
while Kohler was a freshman num
eral man of last year.
Lettermen For Quarter-, Half-Mile
G. R. Addicks, La Grange, letter-
man; G. P. Lord, Jourdanton, let-
terman; and S. S. Harrison, Jour
danton; make up the quarter-mil-
ers while Captain Percy Mims will
(See TRACK on page 3)
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Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 3, IB&T
T. C. U. FRESHMAN BEAUTIES
All Men On Team Show Good
Scaring Ability In Games
With Texas U. And South
ern Methodist; Play Baylor
Friday And Saturday.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 3.
—A quintet of juniors will carry
the championship hapes of the
University of Arkansas on the
Razorbacks’ first invasion of Tex
as this week end.
Five juniors, all playing their
second year on the varsity, will
face the Baylor University Bears
at Waco Friday and Saturday in
two games that will go far toward
determining the 1932 title.
James “Doc” Sexton, the Razor-
backs’ leading scorer, is a sure
starter at center. He has piled up
the impressive total of 151 points
in Arkansas’ 14 games to date. In
the four conference games with
Texas and Southern Methodist,
Sexton tallied 38 points.
Captain Raymond “Hoot” Gib
son, who was shifted from forward
to guard in the S. M. U. games,
has scored 91 points in 14 games.
Bruce Kendall, who now seems to
be a fixture at forward, has count
ed 65 points to date.
Tom Murphy, the Razorbacks’
(See ARKANSAS on page 3)
Frog Fish Select
Beauties For Year
FORT WORTH, Jan. 3.—Fresh
men at Texas Christian University
have selected the four prettiest
girls in their class as candidates
for the beauty section of the “Hor
ned Frog,” student annual. The
four chosen are: Christine Ackers,
Abilene; Doris Higgins, Ft. Woi'th;
Dorothy Scott, Cleburne; and Nat
alie Collins, Mathis.
Horse Show To Be
Held By Army Men
Plans for a Mid-winter Horse
show to be conducted by the Cav
alry and Field Artillery Officers
on duty at A and M College, Feb
ruary 13, at the Stable Corral, were
announced by Lt. J. V. Carroll, to
day. In case of bad weather the
show will take place at the A. H.
Pavilion.
An entrance fee of fifty cents
will be charged in each event with
the exception of the Plantation
Saddle Class and the Enlisted
Men’s Jumping Class. Two-thirds
of the total amount of the entry
fee in each event will be awarded
the winner and one-third will go
to second place. The show will be
open to Officers of Infantry, Coast
Artillery, Engineers, and Signal
Corps; members of the Veterinary
Science Department, and members
of the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment are invited to participate and
ladies are also invited to take part.
The prize in the Plantation Sad
dle Class is donated by Dr. Mar-
stellar and the prize in the Enlist-
(See SHOW on page 3)
AIEE HEAD
TO LECIURE
President Of Engineering So
ciety Speaking Here Last
Of Month.
It was announced this week that
Dr. Charles Edward Skinner, Pres
ident of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, will speak be
fore the students of Texas A and
M College at the last of the month.
Dr. Skinner is assistant director
of engineering with the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company and is known through the
world for his development of spe
cifications for insultation and for
methods and apparatus for test
ing insulation. Dr. Skinner is a
graduate of Ohio State University
and is recognized as a leader in his
profession. He has also represent
ed the United States in conferenc
es held in Brussels, Geneva, Lond
on, and Tokyo and he has been
chosen by Secretary of State Hen
ry S. Stimson as a member of the
cooperating committee for the
United States in the organization
of the Fourth Pan-American Scien
tific Congress to be held in Mexico
City in February 1932.
The address will deal with the
problems of the world today and
the part of the electrical engineer
in solving them.
Arkansas’ Championship Hope
College Publicity
Directors Holding
Session In Dallas
A meeting of District Five of
the American College Publicity As
sociation featuring practical dis
cussion of education in the news
by newspaper editors and writers
will be held in Dallas, February 6.
Woi’k of the one-day session will
be devoted to topics relating to
the work of educational publicity
directors.
The meeting was called by Cur
tis Vinson of A and M College,
vice-president of the national as
sociation and director of District
Five, is in keeping with a decision
of the national body to hold re
gional meetings in each of the
six districts. The fifth district in
cludes Mississippi, Louisiana, Tex
as, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minne
sota, South Dakota, North Dakota,
and adjacent provinces of Canada.
Speakers on the program will be
prominent newspaper men, publish
ers, and college publicity directors.
John A. Lomax, Dallas, lecturer
and authority on native music of
America, will be featured as lun
cheon speaker on “Songs of the
Cowboys.”
Morning and afternoon sessions
with programs of ten minutes talks
followed by ten minute periods of
discussion will be held and a brief
business session in the afternoon
will close the meeting.
Ponies and Frogs
Next On Schedule
Thrice turned back in as many
conference battles, twice by Bay
lor and once by the Owls from
Rice Institute, Coach John Reid’s
basket-tossers will make a desper
ate effort to remove themselves as
the stepping stone for conference
cage teams when they engage the
Southern MethodisL Ponies in Dal
las, Saturday night. Following dRis
game the Aggie five will meet the
champion Horned Frog quintet on
the latter’s home floor in Fort
Worth, Monday evening.
Realizing that a defeat would
virtually cinch the cellar position
for them, for the present season,
both teams will likely put forth
their best efforts in hope of gain
ing a victory. The Ironies, playing
at home, will be favored by the
location, while the Aggies, because
of their improved showing against
the Bears, hold a slight edge in re
gard to comparative scores.
Texas Christian’s Horned Frogs,
boasting such stars as Dietzel, all-
American center; Sumner, all-con
ference forward; and “Flash”
Walker, brilliant sophomore for
ward; will be favored to win hand
ily over the Aggies. Both playing
conditions and past records point
to a Frog victory, and only by
“superhuman” efforts are the Ag
gies conceded a chance to drop the
“Toads.”
While A and M is apparently
definitely eliminated from the con
ference flag race, the Horned Frogs
are credited with only one setback,
at the hands of Baylor’s Bears,
but a defeat by A and M would
practically ruin the chance of the
T C U entry. This fact alone should
make the Frogs doubly hard for
the Aggies to conquer.
The trip will likely be made with
the team minus the services of
Clarence “Bull” Marcum, letterman
at forward, due to sickness. Mar
cum was unable to make the trip
to Waco Monday night and pres
ent indications are that he will not
be in condition by Saturday.
International Affairs
Club Discusses War
Location of the positions of the
Chinese and Japanese Armies and
a summarization of the situation
in the Far East was the topic for
discussion at the meeting of the
International Affairs Club, called
by Professor V. K. Sugareff of the
History Department, Tuesday eve
ning. Open forum discussion under
the direction of Mr. J. L. Glan-
ville of the History Department
followed the lecture, and many in
teresting theories were expounded
and commented upon.
NUMBER 18
EXHIBIT TRAIN
TO TOUR STATE
Train Leaving College On Fif
teenth Will Visit All Agri
cultural Centers Of State;
Showing Improved Farm
Exhibits And Live Stock.
Plans are maturing for a special
train sent out by the College and
U. S. Department of Agriculture
to carry exhibits showing results
of tried methods in producing bet
ter profits and better living on the
farm. The 1932 Santa Fe-A and M
College Farm and Home Special
will begin its tour of all Santa Fe
lines in Texas, February fifteenth
at Navasota and will end April
sixth at Snyder, covering several
thousand miles and including 147
stop-overs in a period of forty-
five days.
The agricultural special will be
conducted cooperatively by the
Santa Fe Railway Company and
A and M College with the assis
tance of other institutions. Ar
rangements and official approval
have been given by President T. O.
Walton of the college and O. B.
Martin, of the Extension Service,
with F. G. Pettibone and J. S. Her-
shey of the railway company.
The special will be a nine car
train operated by the Santa Fe and
the exhibits and speakers will be
supplied by the college. The exhi
bits will show tried methods of
making the farm self-sustaining
and of cutting production costs.
There will be exhibits on dairying
poultry raising, livestock, farm el
ectrification, and exhibits of special
interest to women and girls.
After the talks at the various
stops, visitors will be conducted
through the train. This will be the
fourth train conducted on this plan
by the Santa Fe and the college.
During the last tour, in 1928, the
special train was visited by more
than 110,000 persons.
D. H. Short Course
On Dairy Control
To Begin Monday
The sixth annual Dairy Manu
facturing Short Course will be held
at A and M during the five days,
February 8-12, sponsored by the
Department of Dairy Husbandry.
The program includes tests for but
ter fat, acidity in milk products;
analysis of butter and ice cream;
direct microscopic work, Methylene
Blue Reduction tests, explanation
and demonstration of plate counts;
and the study of various dairy pro
ducts and dairy practices with spe
cial attention to the receiving and
grading of milk and cream.
This year’s course will deal ex
clusively with technical control
problems and laboratory procedure.
Professor Shepardson; head of the
Department of Dairy Husbandry,
stated that, “dairy plants of all
kinds are being faced more and
more with technical control prob
lems. Some of the larger plants
have met this need by installing
complete laboratories and employ
ing full time laboratory technicians
However, many plants, both large
and small, have been unable to do
this and the burden of laboratory
work falls directly on the plant
operating force.”
In this type of work, accuracy
is important at all times; but now,
when most plants are operating on
reduced margins of profit, when
every loss must be cut to the min
imum, accuracy is of the utmost
importance. The Dairy Husbandry
Department has recently installed
(See SHORT COURSE on page 3)
F&merStSiefdys
There is the same
difference between a
politician and a states-
man that there is be
tween a hireling and a good shep
herd.