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IDLE RUMORS
/f HE BATTALION
Discussion
Tuesday Nigrht
S. R. (Ammon, Jr., head of the
history department, lead the dis
cussion cn the Far East question
’ant nigh: at the final meeting of
the International Affairs Chib. The
meeting has held in the parlor of
the M C. A.
Emhhaiis was placed on the lo
cal dev41 ipments and the interna
tional all nt on the question since
the/Japanese invasion of Jehol.
Campus Personalities
THE ANCIENT] MAROONED i
And again that perennial col
/l : . J . . , • . ‘lady in his home town, who was
ilelre studhnt, Judm “Chief Lou- : . . , 7T
to keep it for him until next year.
-p^hMaaeripB our ^sda^ aitaation. p aR t week he was horrified
to find that the lp>me of the young
A conference dark horse looms
up in tht coming Southwest Con
ference t^ack and field meet to be
heM in Justin on May 12 and 13.
It is tha University of Arkansas,
who, unheard uf in a track way
for the i^st several years, is plan
ning to attend the meet with the
strongest track and field team IS
the history of the Raxorback in
stitution,
Ralph La Forge, Hog gridiron
and sprhit star, was the biggest
reason the Rasorbacks had for de
feating the Tulsa University team
in Fayetteville the other day on a
muddy (jield 864-35(4. La Forge
when entering Bizxell
Hall, sot*? vandal who Has no re
spect for college landmarks emp
tied s bucket of water on the
“Chiefs"! head. A search of the
entire l.uildinvr proved fruitless, so
Leupot Idft. When he made his ex
it from the buil^infi Die same
vandal again dum|>ed a bucket of
water oq the luckless Loupot’s
head. B
lady had been burglarized and his
ring was among the articles miss
ing.
this time “Chief dis-
IN l HR HAT
The Brat her-Ajggie spirit as we
learned it is not! yet dead! Robert
Uhr, signal corps senior, the unit’s
foremost exponent of classical tea
sipping, is awarded the leather
covered that the wuter was coming medal for his mnscling-in promts-
- from the roof of tie dormitory and euities with s fellow E.E.’s girl
immediately dashed upstairs to friend. This lothano of the dot-
apprehend the culprit only to find dash boys met the other Aggie’s
him goal And ini the interim the giH friend at the ELE. dance not
same culprit had locked the only *0 far back and was so smitten
exit froi* the roof leaving Loupot he has transformed himself
marooned on the roof qf the hall into a door-stop at the young lady’s
where he consequently stayed for home in Houston. The zenith of his
several hours as qo one would un- activities waf attained during the
lock the exit. inspection trip to Houston when
- -tt— upon finding that the young lady
(BA 1 CHVjBCK ! had a date for the night with the
K. C. j “Angus'l McCleod, first other Aggie, he stayed at her home
satch. of “H” Oompany, is now until the other called, and then
gnawing kis nails #ver a loss which stayed there and played checkers
he iacurriNl indirectly. Not so long with her parents until she re
turned. Whst-a-6»an-Uhr. Get it?
ior ring, had a diamond set in it, _ „
and presented it !o a certain young took firs* places in both the dash
es and sidded points in the javelin
and KXO-yard relay to cop high
scoring honors for the day.
Though Arkansas may have the
best team in the history of the
school it will be a fairly safe bet
that they will not be able to com
pete on Cven terms with A and M.
Texas, aed Rice, between whom the
race will! be decided. And just
which one of these three will come
out on t)op is hard to say. When
one track teams beats another,
and then looses to still another
bunch, the last winner most of the
time Is the best of the trio, but
when these three team are defeat
ed by one of the ethers all the way
around, then the going is hard.
Sach is the present tangle a-
rnong the conference favoritee.
The Aggies decisively trampled the
Longhorns, and then lost by a
narrow margin to the Owls. The
Longhoras came back strong and m« . rot
defeated! the Feathered Tribe Members 01 SClenC6
JAMES OTIS CHANUK. JR.
James 0. “Jimmie” Chance, a
true campus personality, was born
in Bryan, on February 17, 1902.
An illess at the age of three
months resulted in the loss of his
hearing, and though he has suf
fered this handicap since that time
he has progressed ia a manner
that would speak well for those not
so afflicted. He lived in Bryan with
his parents until seven years old
Jimmie received his grammar
school education at the Clarke
School for the Deaf at Norths nap-
Plans Complete
For Final Ball
And Junior Prom
Final Rail Will Feature A
War Dane* Between Sere
nades and Ainfieland.
With the selection of the Aggie-
land Orchestra and the 'Campus
Sefenaders to play for tfie final
bal, junior prom and junior ban
quet. the junior class completed the
plans for final social affairs at A
and M to be held June Isl and 2nd.
It was decided that the' Campus
Serenadrr* would play for the jun
ior banquet, which is to-be held
Thursday evening. June 1. from
6 t|o 8:90 o’clock, and thi Aggie-
land will play for the junior prom
on the same night from 9 until 2
o'clock. Both orchestras j are to
plagr a war dance at the final ball
oa the following night, Friday,
June 2. . • ^ .
Admission to the junior banquet
will be to juniors only, while both
jimaors and seniors will be admit
ted to the junior prom. All stu
dents are eligible to attend the
finalbaH. |
Term examinations in all 300
courssa which were scheduled for
Friday, May 2, have been changed
fn order
not to interfere *with the juniors
who wish to attend the junior
prom. A schedule of these exami
nations is posted on the bulletin
board*in the main build|ng,
Fish Nine Opens
Season With Two
Wins Over Lions
Yinitora Make Only Two Hits
In Second Gone Front Mar
lines.
The Texas Aggie freriimaa nine
opened their current seuson last
Friday and Saturday afternoons by
sweeping a two game series with
Co-eds Shipwrecked
On Chirikof Island
Rescued! By Cutter
H r ; * 1
. If you want to> know anything
about being shipwrecked on a de
sert island, you ran got a pretty
good idea what itfs like from the
Misses Hilda Gdiobreen and Fran-
eea Meuari, former co-ids at the
Uaiversity of Washington, who
haws just bees rescued, along with
others, from s winter oa the bleak
Chirikof Islaad off the coast of
Alaska. | J '
The two girlf spent two months
the Giddlng. Lions on the Kyle ® n t 1 * Die amount of
field diamond. The freshmen slug- wiW had to sat to keep
ged their way to a 9-5 decision in ^ k * t foe Diem sU intsr-
the first tilt and won a pitching * tenderloins sad T-bone
dual in the second, 5-0. 'teaks.
After trailing ia the early stages Tl ‘* Fir Is w** members of the
of the first game, the fish cinched J#ck McCord party which sailed
the fray in the sixth frame by col fro » Seattle op the little schoon-
1 or ting 5 hits to score 5 runs. The
game was ragged throughout, the
fish having 7 errors to their cre
dit, and the Lions 6. The freshmen
found Hazelwood. Lion backstop,
wild on his throws and stole elev
en bases-
Maxwell Proctor, freshman hurl-
er from Dallas, got off to a bad
start bat settled down after the
third stanxa to hold the visitors to
7 hits.
“Marty” Martinez, former Allen
Academy pitcher from Hebronrille,
held thp edge oa Heck, Guiding*
pitcher, in a pitching duel in the
second game. While holding the
Lions scoreless, Martinez allowed
but two hits, one in the eighth and
the other in the ninth frame. Both
pitchers were credited with 13
strikeouts. Heck yielded but 6 hits,
none of the counters being earned
runs. The freshmen had a perfect
The price of admission |o these day j n the field, while the visitors
|!thrre affairs has been greatly made 5 errors. With two out and
reduced over last year’s prices, ac- the bases loaded in the seventh in-
cording to H. C. Wendler of Boerne ning Nat Patton, freshman short-
president of the junior class. stop from Crockett, put the game
’ ' on ice by hitting a double to deep
er Dorothy in keajtrh of gold. Af
ter leaving the girls and five other
members of the party on the is
land, the Dorothy wna wrecked,
leaving the party with two week’s
supply of food.
It was not until MU« it February
that the coast guard cutter Tallai-
pooss took them +ff the island.
ton, Massachusetts, and the Penn
sylvan ia School in Mounty Airy, |L. Tul" ~»!~~ ~T
Philadelphia. Hi. Bondar, ed U - ,0 ^ *'' k
cation was received at the David
son Individual School for the Deaf
in New Hampshire.
At the Teaas School fni- th* Deaf Mard>|n
■n Austin. Texas. Jimmie iddaumd nt E , Ho.ell. freiatrar
his advanced education. Here he ^ f
studied the printing trade, work
ing in the summer for the Eagle
Printing Company in Bry*n. Upon
graduation he secured employ
ment with the Howell Lumber
Company in Bryan and is still em
ployed by that firm.
Today Jimmy is one of the main
stays in Aggie sports. He is pre
sent at virtually all athletic events
whether on Kyle Field or in for
eign territory and has his own me
thod of making the team# realise
his support. His favorite sport is
football.
Jimmy is a bachelor and is at
present living with his brother,
George G. Chance, in Bryan.
America still is the ceuntry fre
est from racial a»d religious pre
judices.—Rabbi Bpmett R. Brick-
ner. . [
center, scoring 3 runs.
River Severn Ticjal
W ave Tojfe Utilized wh „, ,
r Or Electric Power What it is to be young, he is begin-
London—(IPj^—A gigantic sc he- ning to grow old.—Heame.
me for hsrnesslhg the tidal water
of the River Severn to generate
electric polwer k -is being outlined
here
It
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Bryan, Texas
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ago, the first-hooter bought a sen-
BAND TRACK MEN
FiRST IN
RACE
Mile run: C- JL Herfurth, “C”
Artillery; C. H. Rollins, “B” Engi
neers; E. M. Bridberry, iB" Car-;
airy; A. P. Mofkovsky, N H" In
fantry; R. A. Barnard, “4" Engi
neers; Time: 5:5«2.
120 high hurdkM: H. E. Meisell,
“B” Engineers; ;iR. F. Hartman,
Most and Terrel Account for MH ” Inf "*«nr: “ B " Ar *
rwilfilMt MM Two Second Dllery; E. Stuterf, “B” Engineers;;
Mace* for Musicians. J M D * v ^ ^ Artillery; Time,
Against these three teams, none
of the other schools in the loop
have been able to make a good
showing.! With three on an almost
even footing, it seems that a few
breaks along with points taken by
the weaker schools will decide who
will bo the new track and field
champion of the Southwest.
t
track honors went to
Sundby ifternoon when
Lives from that organi-
zation took two first places, two
second places, and < ne fourth place
to total twenty po ints in the an
nual intramural truck' and field
meet held on Kylu Field. M. F.
Nootar, Bay City, und T. H. Ter
rell El Phao, figu red largely in
the victory for the Land, each man
taking a met janq second place,
and Terrell also win ling one fourth
place.
Second place in he meet went
Infantry with
Fo lowing closely
“D” i rith seventeen
points; Company “H"
sutte* n and one half
Com pan; r “G” Infantry
with fifteen points.
Terrell of the Bind won high
point honors with hi i total of elev
en points, winning his first place
in th.i broad jump, second in the
220 yard hardies, and his fourth in
the 100 yard dash.
The summary ia a i follows:
100 yard dash: E. p. Stansot. “G”
Inihatry; <). P Ws|ker, “A" Art
illery; C. Pi Honey. “F” Artillery;
T. H. TerrOU, Band; N. O. Thomp
son. “A” Artillery; Time: 10.7.
220 yard dash: 1 F. D. Collins,
“E" Infantry; A E| Roberts, “C"
Infhntry; M. O. Cn w, “D” Infan
try; C. B. Hussey, W F” Artillery;
B. O. Mayberry, iB” Artillery;
Thhe: 23.4
4*0 yard (dash; Ray Murray, “B
Infantry; E . lleAri.~H" Infantry;
MVCutchoo:, “B'’ 0»Tolry; R. J.
Hodge. “B* Infantry; M. M. Dike-
mat. •‘B" Cavalry; Hme: 55-3.
880 yard run: Ed. Heichardt, “B
M- V. Skuteville. "A
r . E. Spbncer, “F" Ar-
Murray, “B” Infantry;
•A" < 3avalry; Time
18.9.
220 low hurdlaa: J. K. David
son, “D” Cavalry; T. H. Trirell.
Band; R. R. Simpson. “H” Infan
try; H.. E. Meisell, “B" Engineers;
N. B. Allen. ’‘D^j ArtiUeryj; Time:
27.3.
Broad jump: T. H. Tem-ll, Band;
W. D. Collins, “G" Infantry; W.
G. Allen, “D” ^rtillery; L. C.
Roots, “C Engineers; C. H. Roll
ins, “B" Engineers; Distamce: 21
I feet 9.5 inches. . *
| - High jump: R. E. Duhon, “C"
.Engineers; D. H. Barton, “H” In
fantry; C. D. Ritter, “B” Infantry;
Height: 68 inches.
Pole vault: J. K. Davidson, “D”
Cavalry and W.|li Boothe, “B“
Coast Artillery:! Me for first;
C. O. Dalton, Artillery and
F. F. Hansen, “B" Cavalry tie
for second; W. D. Collins. “G“
Infantry; Heightt,!! feet, 8 inches.
Javelin: W. N. Hickman. "D"
Cavalry; C. J. Anderson, “A" Ar
tillery; M. A. Stinson, “A" Infan
try; L. D. Brown, “A" Engineers;
J. H. Frick, “A”! Engineers: Dis
tance: 151:10.
Diactia: M. F. Poster, Band; C.
D. Ritter, “B” Infhntry; C. G. Hay-!
nes, “F” Infantry; A. P. Callahan,
“B” Artillery; T.,‘ S. Post. “A”
Coast Artillery; Distance: 116.
Shot Pot: C. fa. Haynes. “F”
Infantry; M. F. Nosier, Band; W.
N. Hickman. “D“ Cavalry; C. D.
Ritter. “B” Infantry; C. E- Mar
cum, “A" Artillery; Distanpe: 38A.
Rice’s hopes for the crown were
dimmed somewhat last week when
Ed Holloway, sprinter de luxe who
was good for 10 points in any meet
in this section of the country, pull
ed a muscle. Unless he is back in
shape for the big meet, Rice stands
to lose several points, and the dash
es will b« between Meyers of Tex
as, Goddard of Baylor, La Forge
Seminar Addressed
By Dr. E. N. Schochs
“Recent Advance* fn Atomic and
Molecular Structure,” was the sub
ject used by Dr. E. N. Sehoch,
head of the department of chemis
try at the University of Texas in
an address to the Science Seminar
Monday night in the lecture room
of the physics building. Dr. L. G.
Jones, professor of Agronomy and
acting chairman for the evening,
introduced Dr. Sehoch.
Dr. Sehoch dealt ctuefly with the
spectrum and its chemical signifi
cance, the atom and its structure,
and the chemist of tomorrow as
compared with the chemist 6f to
day. “The best teacher *f chemis
try today." Dr. Sehoch said, “Is
the physicist who studies- atomic
is contained in the 6nal re
port of a committee appointed in
1925 by Stanley Baldwin, then
prime minister, to investifate the
possibility of constructing s bar
rage on the estuary.
The estimated cost of the project
would be in the neighborhood of
$186,760,000 at the normal par val-
ee of the British , pound.
It would take about fifteen
years to complete the project.
DANCE
\
Featuring
HERMAN WALDMAN AND HIS
BAND
MONDAY, MAY 8
Scrip 1*1 us Tax $2.20
. I \> ^ [ ftfl;* il I*
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K. C. HALL
9 till I
of Arkansas. Belcher of S.M.U
and Kohler of A and M. Each of T ^ structure."
these sprbiters pace off the dashes
in very creditable time.
“Honk” Irwin has a grievance
because of losing two gold watch
es last week. Not that he really
had these time pieces, but accord
ing to this weight heaver, had be
been able to attend both the Drake
and Ptnallolays held last week in
Iowa and Pennsylvania respective
ly, he would have been able to win
a watch in each place. The distance
that won at either meet were far
ln-n**ath those that Honk’s consist
ent heavss of the weights. This
Kosse product probably would have
given the boys up there an insight
on homr the shot and discus are
handled is the South. .
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Texas
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A. A M.
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Baylor
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Youth is ever in revolt, age
alone brings resignation.—James
Huneker.
Return of 3JS Beer
Greeted At Vassar
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-*-(IJ)—The
ooming of legal beer was hailed by
many Vassar College students in
the manner appropriate. Several
tea rooms and inns near the cam
pus of the woman’s college began
tk .sell the amber 3.2 per cent 1
fluid.
Then the- fpUMty-studenl com
mittee of the college got its heads
together, and a notice went up on
the college bulletin board. •’
It said that beer no longer could
be sold or consulted on the campus.
{SENIORS .
Tfc* Matter of Insurance la A Serioua Problem
THE SEABOARD LIFE INSURANCE CO.
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HERSHEL BURGEES, ptepeeeenUtive
Y.M.C.A. Building
Games This Week:
Friday and Saturday—Texas vs.
Baylor.
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individual a tendency toward high
blood pressure. Th.s allows the
prospective high blood pressure pa
tient to care for himaelf before
the infirmity ia upon him, and pos
sibly escape it .
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May 14th.
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