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'• Sf>n ' e of th« old-time A^Rie*
would probably turn over In their
?ravv* U they knew a coed wae
writing the iporte column for the
Battalion—it juet happened be-
<*o»« Hub deserted the paper for
the rest of the summer. It seems
he wanted to devote more time to
scholastic activities, but we still
catch him occasskmally snoopin'
around the playgrounds. ••
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Now then—we’ve seen lets of
food swimming in the pool this
■■■■er—here's a chance fee all
»f you to show what you can do.
The first annual summer swim
ming meet will be held in the col
lege pool next Wednesday night
at 7M; se hold that date open
and come try your hand. . .
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Here's some goocf news for the
long-suffering Aggies^-Bruce Lay-
{ «r, sports scribe for the Houston
,. Post, selects A. 4 M. as the poten-
9 . tial “tops” in the Southwest Co»-
* ference this year. He admits, how
ever, that it’s mighty early to be
paedicting. The rust of them, in
. order, are Rice, S. M. U., T. C, U.,
Arkansas, Texas, . and Baylor.
Among the promising sophomores
he names Moser of A 4 M. ns an
up-and-coming trouble-maker, and
Joe Boyd, John Kimbrough, and
i Ernie Pannell ns cnndidntes for
nil-conference honors ^
high-school ail-sthr game comes
off tomorrow night at Rice field,
. in Houston. Coach Bo McMillan of
the University of Indiana will
. coach the North Texas All-Stars,
and “Bear” Wolf of the University
of North Carolina will lead the
South Texas boys ... ^ And Allen
Academy's new commandant of
cadets will be sn ex-Agg)e, Lieu-
tensnt Nicholas Willis, better
known as Nick, oTthe class of 1M.
He was a varsity football letter-
■ - ■lan for two years, and co-captain
in ’M. _ ,
Two all-star games' will be play-
ed with Bryan teams next Thurs
day night, at Haawell Park in
Bryan. The first team from College
■ will be the Aggie land Pharmacy,
winner of the Twilight Softball
League, and the second will be
made up of stars picked from. th«i
other five teams in the Legue.
“Chick" Denny will be manager of
the Aggie land Pharmacy team, and
the other manager is Jack Fugate
^ of Aggie Cleaners.
* t $ 6 # •
The tennis tournament is swing
ing into the final rounds now—the
last matches will be played off
tomorrow and Sunday morning.
The girls steered shy of the singl
es, but four teams signed up for
the mixed doubles. A number of
promising players have been spot-
sad the finals slxyuld he
•euing. Copse on out to
te finish fights, snd let’s
these summer breeses ami
hold off.
•••s»e«
More swimming notes — this
to us prutty much like a
reetktft—Leslie McCarthy swam
the width of the college pool under
w*|rr five times, totaling lth»
JTkrfs, in one and one-hSlf m
wind the boy basil... “
y probably ex pres
- / opinkm when
every afternoon
► hot either to sleep < r study
■ Bums performs fell
board . . ; nad
members of the
Sid*” dub we see Clift<*
laif Boy Myers, snd
M 1 - il
. |l . ! I f x. o
Net Toumey
Has Number
Of Entrants
Interest Runs High;
Tennis Tournament
I^ay Become Annual
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Battalion Sports
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AUGUST 11, 1939
Wp U jrsgulur league schedule Tuesday
with Ov
■W«tjfor A. 4 H. students opened
Monday of this wfcek with 17 boys
playing in the singles, eight coup!
«• in the boys’ doubles, and four
tuples in the mined double Km*i
arrangements were made at the
UMtlllt last fridsy night in the
T. M. C. A. The preKminaries and
seminfinals were played during the
is not Just exactly
on to someone’s column,
guy AIN’T no E
;ing of bomething a f
links above, we just happen to
m« nher that Bruce Layer
«ii p ck a winner, as don’t
ybfr hopes, too high on his
. The Austin and
Legion teams pla
other at the baseball
Ttieaday afternoon. . . . Ana-
won 21 to 1 in seven innings.TX
glad it didn’t go nine. . . j.
football team reports for fall
Sept 5 and that;
that the new uniforma are
Imre.... Tka tops or .
'olid 1 white With maroon
for foteign games and
i white 'numbers for home gsm-
,, , r 1>e pants are something
the Colo of strawt, . .1 It would be
• 'joke If tfe St Louis Cards h* »•
tie Rads oat in the National Lea
ggaj . . . They are noted for their
•filtty in the home straboh. J|. .
1U memWf -when hike Dean boy*
pplltd them through in the last
two games a few years back? ||J.
ife Yankees are! doing • little
•PPP'Bg now too. J. . Byron Win-
•U u on the West (>>ast dding
», little publicity work for the Ag-
well as working up the All-
games there. . . . ftm Aggies
fn> to San Francisoo again you
Ur, j. . . Tht Aggie f.otball
Ifipphlet is ready for the pres*
4*4- . I. . Where will yell practice
If held this year’?
—“Jeep” Oates
week, and the
off tomorrow ai
will be made to
event
9 If A groat deal
* been shown ia
promises to
affair. Some e
ers have appea
dents, and the
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ECHO TEAROOM
Special Rates far Aagust
Until Sept l»tk
Lunch aad Sapper 25#
• Breakfast 2t#
N. E. Career College Campus
Highway 6
ASSEMBLY
HALL. .
Saturday, Aug. 12th
“EVERYBODY’S
BABY**
Starring
Jed Proaty - Shirley Deaae
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Tuesday, Aug. 15th
“DARK VICTORY**
cP Starring
Bette Davis •» George Brent
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Thursday, Aug. 17th
“DODGE CITY**
Starring
an - feral Ftyaa
DeHsvillaad
Olivia
ALL SHOWS 1-M
it-Aggie Football
at A. & M.
j Sid T. Martin, of the class of
passed through College 11" u
hop last week on bin way to Ft.
Mclnto*h st Laredo, where he will
befia active duty as a second h*i-
ietjaat in tht Engineers Corps of
Ihs U. S. Army after September
1. He graduated from the tj. 8.
Military Academy at West Point
fhir spring !
Martin, 4 ho is from Gilmer,
Texas, was captain of “B” Infan
try In 19S4^S, and won his foot
hall letter in ’54; however, injuries
iradimlsll his development into
M* alpr ckas here.
became a real star at the
•‘Point”. It was he who uncorked
the winning play in the Army
gamae against Navy Inst winter -
> typical Southwest Conference
•lay that scored the winning touch-
»dc*wn ia the dying minutes of the
■■Phi ;
' pfariin’s former conch at Gilmer,
[H^nry McClelland, *28, now super
intendent ef schools there, also
jviaitod A. 4 M. last weak.
McClelland lettered as g center
at A. 4 M.,hpd coach.-d f.M)tball at
CnterkMli pe achieved consider
u ? fame in this field before giv
ing up coaching to become auper-
intendent
UUTSBtBBi' 1 '
will be played
Awards
winaerx of each
of interest has
tournament, snd
an annual
tennis play-
img the stu-
—y tent is doing
double duty in providing them with
"killed com pet it Kir. and in helping
them to meet other tennis enthu
siasts on the campus.
IWJrile it is too.early to do much
predicting, there are several play
ers known to have good chances
of coming out on top. Among
these are V. C. Denton in the boys
singles, Denton and Jimmie Giles
the boys' doubles, and Denton
and Angel Amelia in the mixed
doubles. These am just n few of the
however, and there are
others on the list who might upset
MHik •'* I
350 Texas Coaches
Now At Rice Meet
A full week of entertainment
ha* been and is being given some
350 Texas coaches at Rice Insti
tute. Houston, during the Texas
High School Football Coaches' As
sociation school which began then
Monday and lasts through tomor-
Twilight League Comes to a Closet
With Aggieland Pharmacy Winner
The Twilight League closed its- ►—
Among thoae presented at the
school were A. If “Bo” McMullin,
bred coach, and ’’Swade” Ander
son, assistant coach, of Indiana an
Unireraity; “Boar” Wolf, hem
coach, and Johnny Vaught, nsaiat
ant coach, of the University o*
North Carolina; Chuck and Frank the game I to 0.
Pharmacy baing declared the win-
ir. \*
The Pharmacy played ffve gam-
os, winning all of them, although
the last game was won on a forfeit
by Campus Laundry. Campus
Cleaners bent Aggie Cleaners 2 to
0 and went Into a 4k with them
for second place. College Inn came
back and beat Lipscomb Pharmacy
5 to 4 to win third place. Lip
scomb’s and the Laundry finished
with n tie for the cellar.
TWO ALL-STAR games
Two All-Star teams were select
ed. One of the teams is the Aggio-
laad Pharmacy’s complete team
with the addition of Rob Adams
from Lipscomb Pharmacy, the oth
er team was selected by the man
agers of the six teams.
These two teams will play each
other one game and then next
Thursday night they will go to
Bryaa where they will play the
Bryan All-Stars. The Aggieland
team will play the first game of
tba twin-bill and the other All-Star
play the night-
Mfcr .
One of the games will be played
under the softball rules that the
Bryan team uses, and Urn other
will be played under the College
or Twilight League rules.
For the last two years the teams
have been meeting each other un
der this arrangement and strange
to say. the have split in both eases,
the winning team being the one
using the strange rules.
MAY WIN BOTH
The Twilighters have a good
chance of winning both games this
saason. The Aggieland Pharmacy
stars have a very good ball club
and one of the best twirlers in
this port of the country in Burton
Moncrief. Moncrief will probably
tengie with Mitt Williams of Bry-
in a pitching duet These two
1 met once before this saason
snd the gam* went IS innings be
fore Williams and his team won
PLAYER
El well
Moncrief
Denton
Denny
League
TEAM Nb. 1
h * x I 1
Tftt •'*
Rodger*
mmt.
Harbison
Haddock
Hatka
Hoebel
iffejim
mhamr
Holland
Yarbrough
Lilly
Hens*!
Carl
Gofer
Carroll
Yeweli
Hanby
MeAshan
Todd
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TEAM No. t
fl
TEAM
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
AggkUnd Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Aggieland Pharmacy
Lipscomb Pharmacy
.
Aggie Cleaners
Aggjf Cleaners
Campus Cleaners
>■'. College Inn
• Campus Cleaners
Campus Cleaners
A^gie Cleaners
Campus Cleaners
Campus Cleaners
College Inn
Lipscomb Pharmacy
Cologe Inn
Campus Cleaners
Managers: Denny, team No. 1; jugate, team No. 2.
Readers, Here's Your Chance
To Help Select Sports Stars
■fcall folks, Well be around onlyOBryan next week, the swimming
Cramer, and many other immortals
of ths gridiron.
A feature of the meet will be
the Texas All-SUtr Gridiron Clas
sic tomorrow sight This will be
the first public introduction to ths
new Rice stadium and its modern
lighting , cetera Arrangements
have been completed for the re
ception of 25,0(Hi pvopU
The 44 boys constituting the per
sonnel of the two Afl-Ctar teams
are representative of 54 Texas
cities and towns Among these are
Houston, Austin, Lufkin, Athena,
Robstown, Bryan, Tykr, Mexia,
Texarkana, Weslaco Waco, Yoa
kum, Temple. Beevilk. Palestine.
Junction, Cuero, Kerrville, San
Antonio, Groesbeck, Rockdale, and
Corpus Christi,
Through its athletic committee,
the Houston Char tx-r of Commerce
is extending s < ordial invitation
to football fare to witness the big
gume
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U. T. Proxy Predicts
Youth-old Age Conflict
“Unless p
youth are on ^
route k going to
ia*4h« increasing conflict betwoefl tern
young people aad old-age groupa.
It will ba a tragedy to have thk
national conflkt, but It saems al-
H tenet curtain to eaten.” Dr. Homer
P, Rainey, reeseOy elected pres-
ifent of the University sf Texas,
bnlkres ten eonfUct threatens
youth with less of financial aaakt-
for
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DROP IN BEFOR
THE iki
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Enjoy Our Cool Refresh
HRDLICKJl 1
One-Half Mile Sooth of
FRANK SI W
E AND AFTER
1NCE
rn,i>j 1 [
■touts and Fine Koodij
j.LL- i 1
S PLACE
L * M. on Hichwaj «
ION, Mgr.
F. S. A. Man Dies
While at Meet Here
(»t*org# Wj-lfaifk, 4S, training
officer for the Federal Farm 8e-
runty Administration, died sud
denly last Thursday night nt Col
lege Station, where he had been
attending the W. S. A. abort course.
He had been gyving a series of
lectures hare relative to the F. S,
A* as a representative from the
headquarters effice of the U. S.
ef Agriculture, Waah-
1 D. C. He completed hk lec-
eourne Thursday afternoon,
and Inter suffered a heart attack
which proved fatal.
The body mu taken overland to
the Harris home at Axle far later-
editor of The Battalion last term
and who graduated in JuM, k
working with hk father on the
Whitewright Sun for the summer,
aad expects to he back at A. 4 M.
in September to work on hk mas
ter's degree. He wttl he on an ate
in the Agricultural Eee
IN THB JOURNALISM exhibit
of the recent annual muting of
the American Association of Agri
cultural Kd.eor*, Texas A. 4 M.
won first place on a published Ma
ture story and second honor* on
exhibits ns • whok. I >
It k to bereraembered that Wil-
Ikma was the winning pitcher in
both the all-star tilts last year. He
pitched in both leagues and made
both all-star teams. He won the
first tilt for Bryan and pitched the
Twilighters to a victory in the sec.
ond game.
The other Twilight All-Star ag
gregation is plenty strong. The
managers did a very good job in
their iMtetfoa. Buckley and Hol
land are both first-rate pitchers,
and added to the team of Glaser,
Yarbrough, Lilly, CaH, Heneel.
Cofer, Yowell, CarroU, Hanby, Me-
Ashan and Todd should give a for
midable crew.
FORFEITS FEW
Forfeits, were very few this sea-
ton. Whet College Laundry for-
feited to Aggieland Pharmacy, it
marked the first one of the sea
son. Last year when the teams
were playing, nearly every day
there were several forfeits.
CLEANERS VS CLEANERS
Tuesday the Camims aad Aggie
Cleaners tied up in a doae battle
that the Campus Cleaners won 2
to 0 to give them n tie with their
in the final steading.
1 ended the season with
three wine against two losses.
Campus Cleaners picked up a run
in the first, Hensel walked and
•tok second. Ross flew to center
and then Lewi* came through with
a bmgle to sand Hansel home.
Lewi* went out trying to go to
second and Holland poppod out.
The next scoring took place ia
ths third tuning when with one out,
Altemnd' r gut a life on an error
That completed the
Any.
Aggie dee
kite whfla Q
fag far the
picked up four
were good for two runs,
1st Summer
Swim Meet Is
Next Monday
Jr. and Sr. Classes,
For Both Boys And
Girls, Will Be Held
The wptar will splash high in
the college pool next Wednesday
night as the first annual summer
swimming meet gets underway.
The meet is open to all those who
are regular users of the pool dur
ing the summt r*, students and res-
Kknta of College Station.
The meet will be drifted into
Junior and Senior classes with sep
arate events for boys and girls.
Anyone who desiree to enter the
meet should get in touch with any
of the life guards at the pool or
Hub Johnson in Milner Hall.
•Nicky’ Ponthieux, Eddie Johnson,
and ‘Chiek’ Denny will act as
judges of the various races and
events.
In the Junior class, the events
will include the 100-yard free-etyie,
100 foot free style, 100-foot back-
stroke, 100-foot breast-stroke, and
diving, bi the girls’ divkidn, the
diving has been omitted. ]
In the Senior class, the events
will be much the same as those ia
the other with the exception that
diving has not been omitted from
the Senior girls’ class.
A* a feature race or contest, an
underwater contest will be held-
One race for the greatest distance
swum under the surface.
The meet k scheduled for 7:30
p. m., next Wednesday, <
fe«r more times before itfo all
over with, so start thiaking a bit
harckr about who those two, all-
rrnind sportsmen should be.
The tennis tournament winds up
tomorrow and Sunday; the Twi-
light Softball League finished
Tuesday; the ail-stars play in
meet domes off Wednesday, and
tee dance breaks loom tonight; so
Sever let it be said that There*
Exes Asked To Join •
“Home Folks* For
Turkey Day Game
Volunteers to join the “Thanks
giving Home Folks” will be called
fqr, when ticket applies liens for
tot omaigh dteam to pick the right * the Tuikey Day game to be play
Ones.
Fill out tha ballot below and
bend it in or ddpp it In the box in
m Acjademk BbOMfe.
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ALL-ROUND SPORTS STARS
j, ^ J'i vli.cI .jfn [ *f f/ ?||
I recommend that .1 jl 1 l. Mi .,
be named as the boy and i \
be named as the girl for the stcond-mesioq All-„^..
The sport* seen being played by each are as follows!
(Check those chosen)
o— 1
softball -
swimming
tennis
toll
tennis if,*
r*f
bowling
(Sigaed) ....
BOY
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KICK WILUS MOW
COMMANDANT AT
ALLBM ACADEMY
Lieut. Nicholas Lillis, better
known as Nick Willis to Aggie
football followers, has been added
to the staff at Allen Academy in
the official capacity of command-
•nt of cadets. A graduate of A 4
M I" the ckas of ’86, he was out
standing at A. 4 M both in mil
itary work and in sports, being a
varsity football letterman for two
years snd serving as co-captain in
1956. He has been doing graduate
work at A. 4 M. and the Ubivar-
•ty of Wisconsin. He reported for
active duty at Camp Bull is August
6. and at the conclusion of Ms
duty there, will assume hk respon-
sibilitiea at the academy.
Flagstones from the Tower of
London, upon which the foot of
•tony royalties have trod during
the eight and ono-half centuries
tee structure has mtsrid. farm
hut those three part of the paving in the courtyard
of the British Empire Mding hi
the World's Fair.
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Wiley Takes New Post
On Arkansas U. Staff
Bill Wiley, who last term Was a
graduate assistant in the Poultry
Husbandry Department, has re
cently accepted a now position as
assistant professor on the staff of
the animal husbandry department
of the University at Arktemaa.
Wiley received hk bachelor of
science degree at A. 4 M. in 1955
and his master’s degree the fallow
ing year. For the second term of
MMiar school he k teaching as
an exchange profoaeor at Sam
Houaten State Teachers College
H. R. Bertsel of Sam Houston
State Teachers CoRege is teach
ing in Wiky's place there this
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley will keve
far Arkansas the first of Septem
ber and will make their home at
Fayettovilk.
•t College this fall are sent out
to members of the Former Stu-
d< nu Association by the Athletic */
Department about September 10. A
The “Horae Folks’* program! Is
the idea of the board of directors
of the Association of Former Stu- i
dents, and represents that group’s -
hope for an easing at the tension
and difficulties expci lem-ed ia the
Handling of Thanksgivi^ . Day
football tickets.
Already in the ranks ef the vol
unteers are the directors and of
ficers of the association, the di
rector* of the college. 96 per cent
of the Bryan people who hate pur
chased season tickets, and 86 par
<*nt of the faculty member* who \
have bought season tickets. A
minimum of 300 volunteers from
the ranks of the ex-students will
be mpiired to put the program
over successfully.
Volunteers to the ranks of tha
] “Thanksgiving Home Fhlks” wfe
^sk that their Thanksgiving foot
ball tickets be located in the spat
ial section for them at the end of
ted, stadium. The movement is in
tended as .a gesture of hoapitalitr
to the visitors on this occasion.
In beeping with the spirit of
the idqa, men who attend several
games a year and who have an op
portunity to se* the Aggka play
often, nra being urged by the as
sociation fo lead tha yolanteers.
HOW THEY STAND
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Lipscomb Pharmacy
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TW r«UKi,
big effects of
lag demonstrated In tha
and Public Health Ruildfc* at tha
Now Yark World's Fair through
um at a full-sis* marhnniral model
«# a human Wing lying upon an
operating table, euftoonded by ani
mated figures of surgeons, nurse*
and othaiw
ttoa of
of the world
watch
strated
at the
Now Yark World’s Fair. On* item
of that republic's exhibit k a 99-
ton steel crane, a far cry from a
watch. 1: v ' 1
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Two Ex-Aggies To
Wed This Weekend •
At least two ex-Aggks are to
be married this week-mid—both
of them to Dallas girls. Miss Kath-
arina Meyer of Dallas and Matt
M- Moseley Jr . former student of
Texas A. 4 M, wig ba married
tomorrow in Dallas.
Mkc Meyer k a graduate of St
Joseph Academy. Moseley k -a
graduate of A 4 M. He
in Chicago.
The marriage of Mias Sarah EU-
■aboth Cook and Richard W\ Scott.
Aggie, will bo
Sunday at tha home of ths
Parents in Dallas.
Mias Cook k a former
cf Park Junior CoOega, aad
Med A 4 M. After a
trip the eoupk
in Dallas.
AMONG A 4 M.
kited the campus
of entering their sons ia
thk fall have been the following:
U C. “Wolf Doiv^, ’ll, Houston;
Frank Utteret, 19, Houston; Sid
IWif, 19, Houstou; C. A Sheram,
'22. Greenville; aad Dkk Winter*,
*18, Brady. Among the local
A 4 M. min who will hnva none
_ 7 thk fal are John
M. Lawrence Jr„ ’19, Bryaa batei-
X. J. “Becky” Edwards,
10, district agent, A 4 M. Ex-
Sarvka.