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THE BATTALION
WATCHING THE AGGIES
BY CARROLL ROBERTS
Battatton Sports Editor
In its harry to put over • eeoop
in selecting All-Conference teams,
the Associated Press announced
an All-Conference team last Fri
day—a team that had been pick
ed two weeks before the date of
announcement. The AP selects its
teams by having the sport writers
of the large cities, mostly the on
es in which other conference
schools are located, send in their
recommendations for the ones they
think should make the team. Then
the players having the most vot
es get the places.
It would be impossible to pick
an All-Conference team even one
day before the conference was ov
er and pick one that would repre-i
sent the best players that the con
ference offers. As fair as the writ
ers in cities where the other
schools are located tried to be,
when they were called on to pick
a team at such an early date, they
would pick a team of players who
they hoped would finish strong—
they couldn’t do anything else but
pick a team on hopes rather than
facts, and nine out of ten of them
would naturally hope that play
ers on their home team won the
places.
By having the sports writers
pick the All-Conference team as
early as it did, the Associated
press has secured a meaningless
team—one that can only fall in
to disrepute and ruin its own pur
pose. In fact the writer of this
column thinks so much of this non
representative team that he re
frains from mentioning the names
of the players selected. Instead, he
will observe the selection made by
the individual sports writers after
the season is over and next week
publish the results of combining
these, selecting only the players
mentioned the largest number of
times and give the All-Conference
team as selected by all the sports
writers rather than as hoped for
by those writers.
No better instance of the un
fairness of this early selection can
be given than the leaving of Ray
Murray, atelier Aggie end, off the
list. How Murray rates in the con
ference can be .easily found by
looking first at the results of the
Houaton Post trophy contest for
the most valuable man in the con
ference. Murray was the only en^
to come snywhere near to cop
ping this trophy. He came out
fourth and the next end who was
mentioned waa Petty of Baylor
who came out seventh. Then still
another proof can be taken from
comments of the sports writers af
ter the Texss game. “The hardest
tackier in the conference”; toMI,
best end in the conference”; “The
Aggies AlM'onference snd” are
just a few of the descriptions he
received after this game. He was
also considered easily ths outstand
ing man on the field in both the
Rice snd ths Texas games.
The senior football players cov
ered themselves with glory in their
last game. They didn’t win the
game by the score, and although
they made mare first downs and
more yardage wa are not going
to hand out the old stuff shout
them winning n moral victory, but
wa are going ip - say that they
played n gauie that makes the
final score cobnt little—no fiction
writer could make n mors psrfect
ending to their football careers
than they made themselves wbeir
they showed the kind of spirit,
class, snd fight that they showed
last Thursday,
Leading Scorer
Show Ta 1 h
C osmopolitan Club
To Feature Talk On
Arabia Sunday PJM.
Michel Haddad ef Arabia will
discuss some t intimate phases of
life in the Near East at a meeting
of the A and M Cosmopolitan Chib
in the Y M C A parlor Sunday av
ailing, Dec. 10, according to an
nouncement made Wednesday.
Following the talk on Arabia an
open forum and a social hour will
be observed. Persons, other than
club members, art cordially invit
ed to attend.
Six-footers among ths men stu
dents at the University of Mary
land are rejoicing over the install
ation of a number of extra-length
beds in the men’s dormitories.
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Chhvjc Cas?**
Charles Casper, All-Conference
halfback of T C U, is far in the
lead for individual sconKg honors
as the conference nears an end
Although the conference scoring
will not be concluded until after
the game between S M U and St
Mary’s, Casper is holding su< h a
lead over Robert Wilson, who is
the only S M U man in the race,
it is apparent that Casper has
won the race with 11 touchdowns
for a total of 66 points. The other
high scorers are:
Player G TdPatFgPts
Casper, _ TCU 12 11 0 0 M
IjiForge, Ark _ 10 8 S 0 SI
Hilliard, Texas 11 < 4 1 43
Wilson, SMU ..11 7 0 0 42
Bell County A and M
Club To Give Dance
In lieu of the annuel Christmas
Banquet, the Bell county A and M
Club will have a Christmas Danes
on December 28. The dance will be
held at the Kyle Hotel at Tempi#,
Texas. The club has engaged Law
rence Welk and his orchestra to
play for the Dance.
The Bell County A and M dub
extends to Aggies that are in
Temple on that data a cordial in
vitation to attend.
At the Palace:
Thursday, Friday, and Sat
urday :
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Preview, Saturday Night:
“White Woman’*
Sunday and Monday:
“Sitting Pretty”
Tuesday and Wednesday:
“White Woman”
At the Assembly Hall:
Wednesday Night:
“Peg O’ My Heart”
Friday Night: Benefit of
Architect Club:
“Moonlight and Pretxete”
Saturday Night, 6:30:
“The Wrecker**
Saturday Night, 10:30:
“Turn Back the Clock”
Saturday Afternoon, 1:80:
“Virtue”
Thursday, Friday, and Sat
urday at the Palace: “Dancing
Lady.”
Joan Craword starts her career
in a burlesque putting on a tease
strip dsnes. The joint is raided,
as so many of them are, and she’s
taken to the can, wherein she is
deposited until later extracted by
the proverbial old Prince Charm
ing. He wants her te marry him,
but she thiaks ao. He makes hsr
a proposition. He will get her into
the Follies and give her a chance,
but if she is not a success, she
must marry him. She takes the
chahce, and out of that rises the
action
This picture is Joan’s “come
back.” She has been out of shows
for some timt, but still will prove
her real worth in cinema. The air
of Sophistication on which she
rode to sadbess in “Dancing
Daughters" is somewhat cramped.
C'oastance Bennett has usurped
her place ia that field. Whether
there is anything mere to her than
that, remains to bo seen la this
picture.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark
Gable, Franchot , lone, Winnie
Lightner, Fqed Aatair, Robert
Banohley. and Ted Heoly snd bis
Foot Stooges.
Jnesdgy night at the As-
r Hall: “Pfg O’ My
Wed
sernbly
Heart.
Marion Da visa plays the part of
a rowdy, uacultur.d little Irish
t-.-som with a heart ©’ gold. Hsr
fathsr is a poor but satisfied fish
erman of the Irish coast, snd
Marion is happy with him and her
dog there; but chance picks hsr
up and pluagsa her into the life
of aft English lady 4f means. The
family of English highbrows have
a real picnic trying to verso her
in the ways of a winsome woman
of high estate. Complications sot
in to prove that little iPo^ is worth
the whole psosel of ; ’*n\. when it
comes right down to the real thing.
Plenty of sobs, but just as many
laugbs. A roman tig love affair
thatl borders on what’ romance
should bo. AH' this, in o really
good plot that unfolds neatly,
Cast: Marian Davies, Onslow
Stevens, J. Farrell MacDonald,
and Juliette Compton.
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AGGIES—Here are two of the year’s best
shows—Singing, Dancing Girls.
Thursday, Friday
i and Saturday
YOU’LL THRILL
AS NEVER
BEFORE!
The glorious lovers
of. “possessed” -are
together again;
Ninety minutes of
never - to - be-foi -
gotten beauty
•nd joy! The
year's sense
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Preview 11 P.M. Saturday
Charles Laughton — Carole Lombard
Charles Bickford — Kent Taylor
In ‘THE WHITE WOMAN”
Also Showing Tuesday and Wednesday
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traps, Walter Beaver pulled out of an exciting
tie to win the 34th Grand American—the fine
time it haa been woo by a limit contestant! He
has been a steady smoker of Camels for vean,
and saysi “During all these yaara I’vf been
smoking Camels because 1 like their taste
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Grand American Handicap, says:
t “Winning a trap-shooting champion-
ship is partly a matter of luck, partly
the result of practice and partly healthy
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nerves. I’m a steady smoker. People
kid me about it at the tournaments.
They s^y I never have a cigarette out
of ray mouth. During all these years
Tva been smoking Camels, not only
because I like their taste and their
mildness, but also because they never
jangle my nerves.”
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are ragged—and to wonder why. Check
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