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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1939)
1 PAGE 2 THE SUMMER BATTALION 'wilight Softball League Organized On TVBSDaV, JUNE S, 19S» US i ""ih* •Od” haa been written to- • intt-rcollefiate sporta for the springr aeaaion and now we torn to the Hummer spurts on the campua. ‘ Tafc+io and softball alone with swiiamine make np the program for the next 12 weeks. The swimming pool will be open to students this summer daring the afternoon and night. Students are t admitted free to the pod if they ' hard their registration slips. The pool is well equipped with life Sonny Campbell is running the team for Aggie Cleaners. All games will be panyed on the diamonds near the Y. M. C. A. They are scheduled to start at 6:90. BAYLOR U. MAS PLANNED BIG SUMMER SESSION Bhl Burton, manager af the Col* lege bin team, has stated that he fully expacts to win the league Ohampion»hip this season. Ho has ' a gpod team started and has oas of the best pitchers in the bus- ] ino«>. Last season Fred Richmond ranked second oaly to M Mitt'* Wil- [ Hssts who piu-h< d two wins in the All Btar fray. He pitched the Bryan toam to a victory in the first tiH t sad then pitched the College boys | to «( win in the second fray. Mitt hurled for both Bryan and College teams during the regular season. Billy Joe Adams is st the helm of th.- Ijpecomb Pharmacy tease P and should get together s powerful outrnJr 'L;.- at i/t% Rack • Me I. HORACE KRAFT late Farm lasaraaee Co. Baylor Unhrersity’s fiftieth nual summer session. June to August 18, has been plsnned on i more comprehensive scale than ar before. Dean E. If, Jonas has announced. It offers a maximum in faculty and courses, superior in many inspects to oven the k>i«*r More then 60 per cent of the summer school faculty, made up of ruftinc 1 members of the regular faculty and others, hare the doe- tort degree, a list of faastrueton revealed. Outstanding in the offer ings will be s lecture course by Frank Speight, actor, in the ad a conservation course ad daily lec tures by the state’s sad some of the nation’s lending conservation authorities. Arrangements have acconlaodate the study only half of session by offering conrsee in six* week terms. The first term will end July 11 sad the second will be gin July 12. , Eight Teams Are Signed Up and Ready To Go, Two More Soon To Join; Softball Season Starts June 13 Gigantic New York WorUTs Fair Note Causing Great Peace-Time Migration ) • keen made to who wish to ' the 12-week 1/ This year witnesses the greatest- peace-time migration of the human race. No movement of peoples in all history compares with the visit of millions to the New ork World’s Fair. By train and airplane, by boa, automobile, and steamship, these multitudes flock to the Fair—the Other World’s Fairs haw sought to recapture the Past—to typify the Present—to review an era of development and portray Ka achie- vementa. The New York World’s Fair points to the Future by dem onstrating how today may bo lived, and tomorrow so planned, that the world may be a batter, happier abode for sty mankind. “Fair Enough for the Whole World!" That’s what K called. And as it is—w score nations, our own and states contributing to its mar vels—a virtually *T)ving geogra phy" of thh earth and iu peoples in vivid exhibits stretching 814 miles in one direction and 114 miles trrcxw—with s thousand things to do, a million things to see. First in importance, of course, is the theme exhibit with its “Mag ic arpefi kfde inside a 200-foot ball to a mile-high view of “The City of Tomorrow." Next, the six huge. Fair built focal exhibits, oach a gigantic show within itself. Visitors will aas at one time fhre acres of flowers i a writable riot of aaturv’s rarest colorings—the “Spiral Gardens"—the "House of Jewels" with its fh.MO.OOO exhibit of precious stones that would ran som a king—a walk-in "Human Eye" from which to gase out upon the kaleidoscopic scans! ' —Toasorrow Town”, an example of community design with 16 com pletely furnished homes—the food exhibits, prosentiag man’s prime interest in ways of unending nov elty—a hard of prise cattle, fed and milked under glass—a co plate farm with every modern de vice for convenience and efficiency The storiee, of oil, mines, asetal Uirgy, textiles—each in it* *. p«rat«- sating. Fashions, Fabrics, Costum ing, Coemetics—Biology, Medicine, Health, Education. Sports, Produc tion. Distribution, Communication —every serious pursuit—every bob by of man, woman, and child grat ified. - | The youngsters may be parked in “ChiUhen’s World". One may dine in any language—dance to any Eight teams, forming the Ted- light softbsll league, will swing into action Tuesday evening, Jane IS, and at that time the summer sports program will strida. » According to softball < C. “Jeep” Oates there split season this summer. The first round will be played during the rt seesion of summer school sad the second round will be played ring the last half. . At the «»nd of tlie second round ere will be two All-Star teams pie had and they will meet an AO- Star aggregation from the Com mercial League in Bryan. Last sea son Bryan won the first tilt and the Twiligbters won the second fray. Sense of the teams that are al ready Signed up sad are ready to go are'College Ian, Lipscomb Phar macy, Aggie land Pharmacy, Aggie OMyrnfah 1 Seaboard Life Insurance, and Campus Cleaners. Two other teams will be added during this Two games will be played the first week and the last week. Dur ing the other two weeks there will be three games on tap. Anyone wishing to enter a team should get in touch with "Hub" Johnson, sports editor for Tbs Summer Battalion. A. & M. Swimming Pool^South’s Largest Is A Center of Campus Summer Activity r;>. School means SPORTWEAR TIME! f ’‘a I ; , | For clam room or casual wear these smart sport shirts and slacks will be, i the smart thine to wear hll sapa after. . Bee our select ion of sport- wear by Marlboro, B-V.D. and Arrow. : feport Shirts $1.00 Up Sport Slacks $1.95 Up Sport Shoes $3.95 Up Sport Socks 35# Up Sport Belts 4 Jl-00 Up Si><ift«srfa $1.00 Sport Coats $10.00 Up T t T WIMSfSUY STONE ciocKiens BY BOB N IS BET < Swimming, the chief summer division at A. A M . begins this afternoon (Tuesday) at 8 o’clock. Hours for swimming will be from 8 to 6 in the afternoon and from T until 9 at night. Admission is free to summer school students on the presentation of their fiscal re ceipts. Guests will be charged a fee of 26c and must be accompanied by a student or s member of the 'im mediate family of one of the fac- ulty. Members of the faculty will be allowed to purchase individual tickets for $190, or family tickets for IS, to be good for use all sum mer. Lifeguard service is maintain, ed at all time. Spike’’ White. N. A. Ponthieux, and E. C. Johnson be ing the protectors. Every swimmer will be required to wear a robber bathing cap when in the water, ac cording to W. L. Penberthy. who is to be in charge pf the pool during the first semester of summer school. h By being regularly and frequently tasted > not only by officials here but also by the Stats Board of Health, the water in the pool is kept absolutely free of harmful bacteria and is actually purer than the water we drink. The water runs continuously through a filtering and chlorinating system. Visitors may watch the swim mers from seats bull one one side of the pool. There is room for more than 600 spectators. Here is wit- .! wed sH the local swimming and diving matches, the water polo con tests of the Aggie teams, sad the annual State high-school swimming and diving contest which is spon sored annually by dimming coach Arthur Adamson. Known officially as the P. L. Downs Natatorium. the A. A M. swimming pool is the largest in the South, measuring 100 feet in length and 60 feet in width. It was built seven years ago at ,a cost of $90,060. and Is said to be food for a hundred years of use. The pool is 3V4 feet deep at the shallow end and 10 feet deep at the opposite end and holds approx tmstely 816,000 gallons of sratagr. ASTRONOMY COURSES OFFERED Students interested in ster-gas- ing will be pleased' te learn that’ aa introductory codVse in astron omy will be offered by the Physics Department during the first term of Summer School. Dr. D. F. Wee ic es will teach the subject, which will give s credit of four semester hours. The course will constitute s sur vey of s general nature, including such topics as the following: the earth, the moon, and the motion of the planets, comats, and meteors; stars, clusters and nebulae, and the determination of their tem peratures and composition and their distance ajsd distribution in space. There will be lectures, lab oratory exercises, assigned read ing sad discussion. Occasional ev ening periods will be devoted to constellation study sad telescopic observation of various objects of special interest. ' M E A L TICKETS \ $11.00 for $10.00 — $5.50 for $5.00 — $3.30 for $3.00 GOOD ANY TIME — PLENTY OF ROOM COLLEGE INN i ii 1 . Upstairs Over Lipscomb Pharmacy t ■ H