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I Hi f « I U K N Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas VOLUME XXX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 27, 1932 NUMBER 30 Dent, Goodrich, Kohler Elected Aggies Win Track Intramural Track Meet From Abilene Christian College Winning First And Second Places In Many Events Determines Victory. The ability to cop second places as well as firsts proved a boon to Coach Anderson’s track and field proteges Monday afternoon on Kyle Field when they defeated the strong Abilene Christian College Wildcats 71-51, in the most inter esting dual meet held on the Kyle Field track this season. The well- balanced Aggies took only seven first places, but gathered in twelve seconds which proved the undoing of the Wildcats, who took nine first places and only two seconds. Weems High Point Man Ed Weems, captain of the visit ing westerners, was high point man with 11% points, taking first place in the 440 yard run and 220 yard dash and was a member of the winning mile relay team. “Honk” Irwin took second scoring honors with 10 points by taking first in the shot-put and discus. Probably the most interesting feature of the meet was in the high jump. Worth Watkins, tall, loose-jointed westerner, cleared the bar at-6 feet 6 inches—easily breaking the conference record by 2 3/8 inches and coming within 2% inches of the world’s record in that event. Dawson Goes “Wild” “Dooley” Dawson, Aggies strong man, established a new record in the discus by hurling it three con secutive times into the improvised press box, breaking several chairs and nearly hitting several innocent contestants. Fish Relay Team Another interesting feature of the feet was the freshman dash and relay teams. Ed Wicker, Cor pus Christi, won the freshman 100 yard exhibition race in 10.3 sec onds, closely followed by W. H. Randow, Hallettsville, star hurdler; Jack Stringfellow, Terrell, and W. Meet Coming This Sunday Afternoon Thirteen Field And Track Events Will Attract Minor Athletes Of Campus. Intramural cinder-chasers will have a chance to show their abil ities Sunday afternoon, May 1, on Kyle Field as the annual intra mural track meet will take place beginning at 2:30 o’clock. There will be thirteen events on the pro gram which will be held as fol lows: 100 yard dash; 220 yard dash; 440 yard dash; % mile run; mile run; 120 yard high hurdles; 220 yard low hurdles; shot put; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; high jump; and the pole vault. The field events will continue throughout the meet and a man may take this three trials at any time during the meet so as to per mit a contestant to enter both field and track events. This rule will not pertain to the pole vault and high jump since in these two events the contestants are required to keep up with the progress of the event. Intramural track affords an ex cellent chance for men to get an invitation to try for the next year’s varsity track team since each year the winners of the intramural events are invited to try for the varsity. Sharp Elected President “Y” Cabinet Group Complete List Of Officers For For Next Year Elected In Meeting Tuesday Night. Germs Now Killed By Sound Latest Sterilizing Device Invention of College Professor Kills Germs With Sound Wave. At a meeting of the Y M C A cabinet Tuesday night, Percy A. Sharp, junior agricultural adminis tration student from Mooringsport, La., was elected president of that body for the next year. J. S. Hardin of Terrell was se lected treasurer and R. E. Porter of San Antonio was named treas urer, while the vice-president of the organization will be named at a later meeting. “Y” cabinet officers retiring at the end of this school year will be I. C. Corns of Harlingen, president; F. K. McGinnis of Dallas, vice- president; E. A. Stobart of Orange, treasurer; and H. E. Parker of Orange, secretary. Intramural Events Gradually Closing For Years Program Unusually Close Competition In Many Sports Requiring Final Games To Determine Winners. Buie Made Editor Aggie Countryman Sharp And Marshall Also Announxed On Next Years Staff—Last Issue This Week. E. C. Buie, Grandview, A com pany, infantry, became editor of the Texas Aggie Countryman for the year 1932-33 following a meet ing of the staff last week. Other new officers include Percy Sharp, Mooringsport, La., advertising manager; and R. P. Marshall, Heindenheimer, circulation man ager. The last issue of this publication during the semester will be out the latter part of this week, Buie stat ed. A special edition will be pub lished during the Farmers Short Course held here during the last of August. A complete staff for next year has not been announced yet, as there are several positions open. The new members make a special request to all interested students to confer with them at once re garding work on the magazine next year. (See AGGIES on page 4) Fish Playing Two Games With Blinn College This Week Chances to revenge their only defeat of the season will be offer ed Coach E. L. Lyons’ freshman baseball team when they meet the Blinn Memorial College nine of Brenham in a two game return en gagement in Brenham Friday and Saturday afternoons. Two weeks ago the Buccaneers were able to win one game 10-5, and tie the second at 6-6, in an eleven inning affair after the fresh men made a ninth inning rally that accounted for three runs. Much interest will be centered on the activities of William Sodd, Fort Worth, lanky center fielder, and Bob Connelly, Fort Worth, third baseman, at the bat. In the first two games against Blinn, Sodd twice lifted the ball over the left center field fence, while Connelly, in the game with Allen Academy, followed the same procedure with one homer. Past games have also featured the hard hitting and ver satile playing of Jake Mooty, star pitcher. Mooty will probably draw the assignment to pitch the first game, while C. A. Hill, Seagraves, and M. J. Schriever, Lockhart, will be available for the second game. Other positions for the two games will probably be filled as follows: C. Steve, San Antonio, catcher; Tommie Hutto, Coahoma, first baseman; Travis Voehlkel, Fayetteville, second base; Bob Con- nally, Fort Worth, third base; and E. H. Bobbitt, Hillsboro, shortstop. Outfielders are J. T. Jones, Bel ton; William Sod, Fort Worth; and C. M. Reynolds, Bastrop. (Intercollegiate Press) FORT WORTH, April 27.—Kill ing germs literally by yelling at them has been found possible by Drs. Leslie A. Chambers and New ton Gaines of Texas Christian Uni versity. The two have developed a device which sterilizes milk and other li quid foods by means of sound waves. A high-pitched sound, produced by a vibrating metal tube, does the slaying. It kills germs because sound waves are a form of energy, although just what the waves do to bacteria is not definitely known. Milk treated with the apparatus showed an average reduction of 80 per cent in bacteria. (See GERMS on page 4) Intramural sports are going at top speed with baseball, golf, and individual handball contests being staged daily, and with the track meet and wrestling finals to be held during the latter part of the week. In nearly every league of both classes of baseball there are from two to three teams that are so close in the standings that the winners of the respective leagues will not be definitely determined until the last games are played. Teams in golf have reached the quarter finals and, according to E. Levy who has charge of this sport, competition is getting ex ceptionally keen for the intramural golf title. In handball individual contests, the doubles tournaments are just beginning with the singles to be played after the championship has been determined for the doubles. The A and M intramural pro gram will be concluded this year with the swimming meet to be held in the Y M C A pool Saturday, May 14. Preliminaries will be held before Two Texas Men Win Battle Of Flowers Speaking Contest Jesse Villarreal and Frank Knapp, both of Texas University, were the two winners in the ora torical contest sponsored by the Daughters of the Texas Revolution as part of their program in the Battle of Flowers festivities in San Antonio on San Jacitno Day. Villarreal, winner of the first prize of one hundred dollars, and his co-representative, Knapp, win ner of the second award of seven- |ty-five dollars, gave their speeches at the Battle of Flowers luncheon given in the Menger Hotel April 21. The two defeated contestants from A and M were W. O. Alex ander, Bryan, and D. L. Tisinger, Garland. (See INTRAMURAL on page 4) Trackman Showing Unusual Ability In Bettering His Records Almost Regularly Special Benefit Show Next Wednesday to Help Pur chase Refrigerating’ Foun tain. By W. J. FAULK Battalion Sports Editor Rather interesting is the case of B. M. “Honk” Irwin, over-sized weight man on the Aggie track team, from Kosse, who four times this year has bettered the confer ence record in putting the shot and is a constant winner in the discus. His best put is 48 feet 3% inches which bests the conference record by 3 5/8 inches. Irwin’s athletic success nearly resembles that of a story book. Records of meets in which he has competed in during the past six years show that twice only, once in high school and again Monday, has he failed to show improvement over the preceding meet. In the meet Monday he was not forced to extend himself at all to win the meet and hence did not beat his put of two weeks back. A similar tale ’S told of his dis cus throwing, although he has not succeeded in breaking the confer ence record. “Honk” began the season putting the shot around 45 feet and thi’OW- ing the discus in the neighborhood of 135 feet. In a dual meet with Texas University ,the first of the season, he put the shot slightly over 46 feet, and threw the discus near 140. One week after the opening meet, after an attack of the “flu,” he sent the shot a distance of 47 feet 2 inches. Percy Burke of Rice, now holder of the conference rec ord in that event, nosed Irwin out by nine inches in what was prob ably his best throw of the year and very close to the best of his career. In conversation following the A & M-Rice dual meet “Honk” re- First step toward the installa tion of a refrigerating water foun tain at the Y M C A will be taken Wednesday, May 4, with the pre sentation at the Assembly Hall of j Douglas Fairbanks in “Around the World in Eighty Minutes,” a bene- : fit show, the precedes of which | will go into the fund for erecting the fountain. Large Attendance Wanted According to M. L. Cushion, lo cal “Y” secretary the Y M C A is to make up the difference between the proceeds of the show and the actual cost of the fountain, which is to be about $500. It is hoped that at least seventy-five per cent of the members of the student body will attend the show, Mr. Cushion ! said. Two shows will be presented Wednesday evening, the first starting at 6:45 and the second immediately following. It is sug gested by Mr. Cashion that under classmen attend the opening pre- Saddle-Sirloin “Unaffiliated Ticket” Gets Club Announces Plan For Dance Annual Cattlemen,’s Ball Dat ed For Friday Before Moth ers’ Day. Following a meeting of the Sad dle and Sirloin Club Tuesday night, complete plans were announced for the annual Cattlemen’s Ball for Friday night, May 6. Members of the club expressed themselves as optimistic of the approaching oc casion. Special decorations will be put in the Mess Hall annex, fitting with the costumes of the members of the club and their guests for the night. Club members will wear col ored shirts, white pants, and a sash of a harmonizing hue. Non members attending are expected to wear white pants and white shirts, with black ties. Bids are being so proportioned as to have approximately two date bids for each stag ticket, thus tending to eliminate a large number of stag dancers. The Ag- gieland Orchestra will play for the occasion. The Cattlemen’s Ball is open to all members of the Saddle and Sirloin Club and to such Juniors and Senior non-members as desire to attend. They may secure bids from members of the club. This dance will be followed with a corps dance on Saturday night. Museum Purchases Valuable Letters Discovered Lately Letters And Diaries Give In- II lily Tommie Goodrich Marlin, Texas Religious Educator Will Hold Meetings During Next Week Allyn K. Foster To Be Convo cation Speaker In Guion Hall Sunday. Revolutionary War. T Announces Plans For Installation Of Drinking Fountains (Intercollegiate Press) ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 26.— What are believed to be some of the most valuable documents of the Revolutionary War ever uncover ed have been acquired by the Li brary of American History at the University of Michigan. They are diaries, letters and other writings of Hessian officers who fought against the Americans for British pay. Found In Westphalia The documents were found in a trunk in a castle in German West phalia, where they had lain for a century and a half, by a Munich dealer who was asked to search for the documents by Dr. Randolph (See MUSEUM on page 4) Majority Vote Of Election New Yell Leader « Dark H orse” Candidates Get Light Vote. Casting probably the largest pro portional vote in recent years, members of the A and M student body Tuesday cast their approval overwhelmingly on the so-called “Unaffiliated Ticket” in the annual general student election, choosing members of that ticket to fill each of the major student offices dur ing the college year 1932-33. Tommie Goodrich, Marlin, was elected chief yell leader; G. Mar shall Dent, Texas City, editor-in- chief of The Battalion; and G. J. Kohler, Palestine, junior represen tative on the Publications Board, completing the ticket. Although the total ballot cast totalled only slightly over 950 bal lots, it was in reality one of the most representative in a number of years since it represents appro ximately half of the voting strength of the student body. Goodrich Victor Over Three Tommie Goodrich, junior mem ber of the staff this year, was chos en over a field of three opponents to head the yell leading crew dur ing the coming scholastic year in was was probably the most inter esting of the races. Goodrich took the lead early Tuesday morning but it was first thought that a run-off election would be necessarfy to decide be tween him and H. (Preacher) Durst, strongest of the opposition candidates. As the voting became heavier, however, it was evident that the little candidate from the. band would have a distinct major ity. Goodrich succeeds J. U. Parker, Sherman, as chief yell leader of the corps. His total votes for the day were 585. Those of Durst totalled 237, while T. D. Owens drew 100 and G. C. Brundrett 29. Dent Scores Easy Victory Marshall Dent, news reporter on the present staff of The Battalion, was chosen by a margin even larg er than that which Goodrich drew, winning the editorship of the col lege weekly newspaper and month ly magazine over Lewis Gross, ano ther staff member, and John Bat- jer, “dark-horse” of the race. Dent, who is a junior student of , ,. . , , , architecture and a member of Corn- approach to religious problems pany Cj InfantrVj piled up 605 vot _ which is considered an outstand- ! . . , , , , . | es in the election to overwhelm ing ., P i 0n T 0n . , G : J , eCt ’, aC ; Gross and Batjer with 217 and 125 respectively. Dent will succeed Claude M. Evans as editor at the close of this term. The election this year saw more than one candidate in the race for editor of The Battalion for the first time since the editor for 1929-30 Dr. Allyn K. Foster, educational secretary of the board of the Northern Baptist Church and not ed speaker who is scheduled to be on the campus five days be ginning Sunday, May 1, will speak at the convocation service at Guion Hall Sunday morning. He will also hold services Sun day evening in the Y M C A Sight Of Events During I Chapel, address the Freshman Class banquet Monday night, and will speak Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights in the Y M C A. The next week will be spent meeting groups in the class rooms and other time will be utilized with personal and group interviews on social problems. Dr. Foster has recently publish ed a book entitled “The New Di mensions of Religion,” a scientific cording to M. L. Cashion, head of the Y M C A here. Fire Alarm An alarm was turned in last night about 1:30, when a Ford car in the army barracks caught fire. The car was destroyed, but no dam age was done in the area. (See ELECTION on page 2) Improvement In American Colleges Working To Make Life Pleasanter With Changes From Old School Sophomore Speech Contest Entrants Picked For Finals (Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of four articles on oustanding cur rent developments in the field of higher education, written especially for The Bat talion by the editor of College News Ser vice.) By JAMES CRENSHAW Editor, College News Service Anyone who says that Ameri- combine its five instittuions of higher learning under one admin istration; of Washington, which may take similar steps, and Cali fornia, where a Carnegie survey now in progress promises a closer cooperation between numerous pub licity endowed regional colleges can higher education is becoming .^ the state university . standardized had better take a post -it , . , , These, however, are evidence or graduate course in observational A , , ,. . mutation, rather than standardiza- perspicacity. oiw the (See TRACKMAN on page 2) ition—a groping after the right For, though there obviously are ; ec j uca tional pattern which will best : certain significant coordinative ^ sa ^j s fy the needs of a younger gen- | movements part of a great cur- era ti on n0 w in the throes of a rent of development, moving gen- | v j^ a i economic readjustment. Classmen an,c.m tnc U pe,.n. & yi.c- ® ra [ ly in on ® dn ectl °n— styles In This mu tation is not sectional, sentation and seniors and campus hl £ her e “ c f, lon are econ11 ^ s ° j t j s t he keynote of progress in people the second. Admission will be twenty-five cents. Cooling Capacity The fountain which is expected to be purchased will have the re variegated that one can almost x . „ • , orde/an education, U k . clothes, to fit one s personality. America A]1 are experiment . It is not to be denied, of course, ^ a g rea t er 0 r lesser degree that important coordinative trends ; w j^ k new types of curricula, new are apparent, as in the case of | (See FOUNTAIN on page 4) ; Oregon, which has just decided to ; (See COLLEGES on page 2) Final hearing of the participants in the annual sophomore speech contest will be held here Thurs day, May 12, Dr. George Summey of the English department an nounced this morning. The winner will receive a twenty-five dollar cash prize offered by Owen W. Sherrill of Georgetown. Among those entering the con test are G. K. Ashby, Evansville, Ind., who won second prize in the freshman contest last year giv ing a talk entitled “Lysozyme”; and H. N. Irvine, Fort Worth, speaking on “Truth and Progress.” V. A. McCollough, Houston, will speak on the subject “Cancer, a Social Menace,” and H. G. Seelig- son, Dallas, will talk on “The In come Tax as a Source of State Revenue.” Should any of these be unable to speak, O. R. Cary, Snyder, as alternate, will speak on “Today Through Wordsworth’s Eyes.”