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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1939)
FRIDAY, JUKE 16. 1939 THE SUMMER BATtALION Pace 3 Largest Swimming Pool in the StHith Summer Short Course Calendar June «-7—State Vcterimary Medical Auoeimtiom Jane 19-23—Cottonaead Oil Mill Superintendent* Jane M-39—County Superintendent* and Supervisor* Coa- Jane 27-30—Texas School Administration Conferenr** Li \ i_ * * LL^ July 5-7—Farmers’ Short Coarse, Junior Division July 12-14—Farmers’ Short Course, Adult Division July 16-21—Firemen’s Training School July 31-August 4—Farm Security Administration Confer sacs July 81 and August 17-19—Air Conditioning Short Goafs* August 20-26—Annual Short Course for coaches Ex-Aggie Injured in ; Motorcycle-Car Wreck Leroy Koenig, formerly a stu- i<-nt of A. A M. and now a labora tory assistant at the Chemistry buildittg, was seriously injured last Friday morning when the motor cycle he was tiding crashed with a car about halfway between Bryan and College Station. S A X E T “GOOD” ICE CREAM Bryan Dairy Store 109 E. 26th Bryan , The A. A M. Swimming PeoL officially known as the P. L. Downs Ns tat or hi as. -shown above, is the largest pool in the South, measuriag 199 by M feet and being up te 19 feet in depth. It was built seven year* ego ut a cost of t90.eoo. and is said to he go d for a hundred years of use. Ha 315.966 galleon of water are regalarly and freuse*tly tested and kept akedlntely free of karmfal bacteria. The water, which is artaally purer than the water we drink, fans reetinttuOsly through a filtering and chi irinating system. . The first {Uemsdter is one thirdIn wandering over the cow trail* of the vtsy through But as last as about ye old campus we find Alvin the studies began and us fast as Goodstein forgetting his fencing th« ninu-month-impriaoned Aggies foils and appearing Quite frequest started meeting the new girls—the ly on the tennis>shirts and in tb- sports activities barged their way tank ..... -Chick** Denny doing to the front to capture the large! his part and a little more for Ate majority 0f summer students Aggielsnd Pharmacy softball crew 4-t |. . . . Jimmie Riley putting every- Tbe old boys are coming back- behind the three- ho led tml. In Leggett Hall we find Nick Willis. *35. and Bailey “Pappy” If* Drennan, TM. bai k for more coach ing an£''^ little rest. Both boys pushed leather and butted heads up sad down the field with the Aggie eleven. Nick in now coaching throe sports at HslVetsvillc and -pappy** is assistant coach at Yoakum. Baseball officially. lunched its 100th birthday Monday and sms celebrated in < ooperstown. Mass achusetts, with a party which fea tured a game between chosen teams from the American sad National Leagues. ' • - Strike and strike again—this Fred Richmond is some bowling shark as well as a deluxe pitcher. On the alleys in the *Y*, Fred’s been rolling above 180 quite rega in ly. and rolled two 191 games in Patronise Our Agent in Your Hall OTTERS MATTEttM AM ERI CAN-S TE AM :ri the bowling alley* te loam nx», • of tbs Indoor game .... Jura* > Hinson and Ed Bate meeting Mrs. Harriot Wagner and Jean Kaifer on the tennis courts for a set of i ibies j . . . Sonny Campbell, with a closed eye caused by a wasp sting, still patting out for the Aggie ( leaner* .... Bathes Artmann and F. W- Jackson kit ting the water in the srell-kmiwn tank i • . - Poncho Thompson knock ing the little white balls aroand icceftsi jn, *1 • If you can’t swim now—don’t tell any one. “Spike” White is now offering the slow ones, the young ones, and the old ones lessons in the college pool. DRY • ♦ C LEANERS BAB BRTAH -r You’ve heard about them before. You’ve re*d their stories. Now err have thei* on this news issue and one in this department. This cor respondent's test is off to Mar garet Hollmr'h.^d, a new girl as •»**» t° r Lipocomb Phar- sistant on the sport* staff. ““O **»"> against the C Jlege Inn I I j«] T ... I hut his opposing pitcher, Fred * W. L. Penix rthy, Director of RH hmond also put In a great game Physical rteifiuMsh, helped get th. | by turaing down 10 . . .. Len Glaser summer sports tewving and then ratehhsg the fastest ball in the took off to the mountains. He left league and handliog them like an last week-end for the Buckeye State - rx P* rt .... Sarah Allen Gofer of Ohio to spend a few weeks There are some athletes here on the campus already wishing that he were back. THE TEXAS CHRISTIAN ‘38 eleven was not only the nation’* No. 1 football team, but also the No. 1 news Story of TVexas, says J. Willard Ridings, diroctor of the on the Bryan Country Club course T. C. U. Nfws Service. . . . . Burton Moncrief striking out' “Our records indicate that, at ENJOY AN EVENING AT HRDUCKA’S enjoy mg a cool swim in the college pool by sitting on the bank with Lynn Hughes .... Joe Floyd. Jack Bailey, Billy Adams, and Amos Wdibble visiting the pool quite fre quently to swim aod otherwise. J “You’ll Like It Better” Ice Cream tive eotimate, the date-line ‘FORT WORTH. TEXAS’ appeared not less than 75,000 times in U. 8. newspapers from mid September until after New Years.” < THE FOOD 18 FINE DANCE TO THE LATEST RECORDINGS BY THE BEST BANDS !_ i 'J U. I I * * HRDUCKA’S PLACE ; */t Mile South of A. ft M. on Old Highway 6 FRANK SIMON. Mcr. 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