TUESDAY, NOV. 28, 1939-
THE BATTALION
PAGE 3
Intramural Competition
Hits New High This Year
Basketball, Football, Riflery, Tennis,
Water Polo, Cross-Country Engaged In;
Handball and Eight Other Sports Remain
By Hub Johnson
It is the aim of intramural ath
letics at Texas A. & M. to provide
an opportunity for every student
to take part in athletic sports in
which he is interested and to en
courage every student to take part
in as many sports as possible. The
department is primarily interested
in those students who are not pro
ficient enough in a given sport for
varsity competition.
After the development of the
program, various organizations de
veloped teams and later developed
the attitude that the organizations
winning the intramural games were
of top ranking on the campus. At
first the games were played be
tween battalions, but as the school
grew, events were scheduled be
tween companies, troops and bat
teries.
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RICHARD CARLSON
HELEN PARRISH • ROBERT ARMSTRONG
VIRGINIA GILMORE
Directed by CHARLES RUSHER
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Nov. 28-29
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Varsity Material
In many of the games varsity
material or material for the fresh
man teams has been discovered.
It therefore remains that a letter-
man in a varsity sport is barred
from competing in that sport in
intramurals.
Past Records
The first record of actual com-
petion was in 1927 when some 1100
students took part in the program.
During the ’37-’38 year the number
of participants In the games was
set at 2,810. Last year this number
was boosted about 400, but already
this year a sign of at least a hun
dred per cent increase over that
has been shown. This is due to
the migrating of the large number
of students from the project houses
of Bryan and Navasota into the
new halls. The highest record in
the history of intramurals so far
is expected to be set this year.
Supervision of Program
The program is supervised by
W. L. Penberthy, a faculty com
mittee, and a student committee
made up of representatives of
each of the three higher classes.
The senior managers elected this
year include W. W. Downer, P. J.
Lemm, and George Tillson.
W. W. Downer is captain of 3rd
Headquarters Field Artillery and
a resident of College Station.
P. J. Lemm is captain of C In
fantry and hails from Brenham,
Texas.
George Tillson comes from Mis
sion, Texas, and is in D Field
Artillery.
Banquet Opens Season x
The 1939 season was officially
opened Monday, November 2, with
a banquet attended by all senior,
junior, and organization managers
in old Sbisa Hall. The faculty ad
visors were introduced and each
wished the organization managers
luck throughout the year.
“Mr. Penny”, who is known as
a boy’s best friend on the campus,
was the toastmaster and super
visor of the function and gave
many good points on leadership
The '‘'All-American” Hitch-Hiker--
He's Keyes Carson, And A Texas Aggie
By George Fuermann
Editor’s note: This is the fourth
and concluding article in Fuer-
mann’s series relating the adven
tures and experiences of Keyes
Carson on his record-breaking
cross-country hitch-hiking trip this
past summer. The first three arti
cles appeared in The Battalion of
November 21, 23, and 25.
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The nation’s All-American hitch
hiker . . . From Texas to New York
in less than two days . . . Then
from New York to the other side
of the continent, San Francisco, in
four days . . . And finally, back
to Texas again in two more days.
Aggie Keyes Carson is the man
who did it. Including the days he
spent at the two world’s fairs, six
teen days elapsed from the time
he left San Antonio until his return
on July 8.
Many there have been, in the past
few months, who have doubted the
truth of Keyes’ amazing trip. But
there’s proof to spare, because
the cautious Texan anticipated the
hesitancy with which his fellow
Americans would accept his story.
Arriving in New York from Tex
as, he telegraphed home, and the
exact hour of his arrival is thus
established by the hour marked on
the message which his parents re
ceived. In a like manner he sent
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and the object of the program.
Basketball First ’Mural Sport
Basketball and football were the
first games to make their appear
ances on the campus and have of
fered many interesting and excit
ing minutes of play.
The weather has held back the
completion of the football schedule
although the upperclassman bas
ketball finals were run this last
weekend with an Infantry com
pany carrying off the title.
The ’39 co-champions, 1st Head
quarters Field and A Battery Field,
both boasted as good teams as they
had last year, but so far the Head
quarters football team has been
the only team that has stood out
for the battery.
Rifle-Shooting
F Company Engineers carried
off the rifle-shooting title with a
score of 465 of a possible 500. This
was the first mark for the Engi
neer team but since that time they
have taken the lead with a good
margin for this early stage.
Some fine shooting was seen on
the range with Dave Fitch firing
a score of 99. Following him were
Paul Dillon and Johnnie Zercher
in the 98 bracket, and Bill Becker,
Lewis Kennemer, Allen DuBose,
and James ‘Buck’ Skinner, each
firing 97.
The championship team was com
posed of Bolin, Mason, Clay, Ap-
pelt, and McCutchan.
Other Sports
Water polo matches are now
being held with ten minutes of
fast, hard, and rough swimming
being the program for each match.
Now in the quarter finals of
each bracket are the tennis
matches which were entered by so
many organizations that two brac
kets were formed. The winners of
each will be matched to decide
the final winner.
The cross-country run was held
this past Saturday with some thir
ty boys taking part. Previous to
the run, practice sessions were held
for all who wished to take advan
tage of the teaching. These were
conducted by veteran track and
cross-country coach Frank Ander
son.
Yet To Be Played
With handball games just be
gun there still remain eight other
sports to be played before next
June. These include swimming, vol
leyball, speedball, horseshoe pitch
ing, wrestling, boxing, softball, and
track.
Awards To Winners
At the end of the season* beau
tiful standards are awarded to the
highest standing Class A and Class
B teams based on any twelve sports
in which they competed.
■telegrams home when he left New-
York upon his arrival in San Fran
cisco four days later.
But Keyes wanted to be certain
that the credibility of his trip was
established. As he took busses or
street cars through the various
cities through which he passed, he
asked for transfer slips which indi
cate the date and exact hour of his
sojourn in a particular city.
Full credit for the astounding
speed in which he made the trip
goes to the National College-Uni
versity Travel Club of which Keyes
is founder. The club now numbers
members in many colleges and
universities throughout the nation
and all such institutions in Texas.
Members are equipped with reflec
tor signs indicating where they are
going and a similar sign bearing
the name and insignia of their col
lege. When a member takes leave
of a benefactor at the end of a
ride, he gives the driver a “Thank
you” card which bears the name
and address of the student.
Many interesting experiences
came Keyes’ way on his ’round-the-
nation jaunt, but most interesting
of all occurred while he was still
in Texas and only thirty miles
from his home in Cuero. While
waiting for a ride in Hallettsville,
Keyes noticed that a young man
had driven around the block sev
eral times and each time he had
given Keyes a careful once-over.
A few minutes later he came
around the corner at top speed,
skidded to a stop, and breathless
ly told Keyes to “jump in, kid.”
He got in and the driver raced off
at a far faster speed than the law
allowed. “He told me he was from
west Texas,” Keyes said. “I have
made it a habit to notice license
numbers and noticed that his num
ber was one from the western
part of the state. I told him this
and he paled a little and asked
me how I knew. I changed the
subject.”
Keyes was let out on the edge of
town and the next day learned that
the Hallettesville bank had been
robbed by a man of the same des
cription who picked him up the
previous day. Later Keyes was
called upon to identify the robber.
Bryan U.T. Star
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Don Weedon, sophomore from
Bryan, is one of the most prom
ising guards on the University of
Texas squad. He weighs 202.
SEASON FOR GARLIC
PLANTING IS HERE
October, November and Decem
ber are the months for planting
garlic in Texas, says C. E. Alt-
statt, plant pathologist at the Tex
as Agricultural Experiment sta
tion here. Texas is one of the
three states that produces the
major part of this pungent bulb
for American consumers. The oth
ers are Louisiana and California.
By Jimmie Cokinos
Speaking of bonfires! You
should take a walk out near the
drill field and see the freshman
class assisted by their “straw-
bosses”, the sophomores, make a
mountain with a wood pile. En
thusiastic cooperation in dragging,
rolling, and carrying logs and
every describable form of wood
is rapidly bringing to perfection
a spectacular accomplishment in
the way of preparing for the Ag
gie-Longhorn game. This great pile
of wood promises to make the
biggest bonfire in A. & M. history,
when it is set ablaze on the eve
of Thanksgiving.
This gigantic building program
was started the Monday after the
Aggies rolled over the hapless
Rice Owls and the “fish” builders
have only a few more days left to
gather materials for the bonfire.
But they’re doing right well!
We went out the other after
noon to watch the fish in their
work, and the scene was full of
that famous “Aggie spirit”. It
could be observed as a gang of
fish came marching to the site
of their project bringing more
wood and at the same time chant
ing the Aggie War Hymn, “Good
-by To Texas”. And “Reveille”, A.
& M.’s canine mascot, not mind-
One tremendous step forward
this machine age has overlooked
is the placing of zippers on mouths.
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.ing her rheumatism, was running
around the area and her incessant
barking seemed to tell the fish,
in a typical foreman-like manner,
for them to cut out their “bull-
sessions” and get the work done.
The bonfire program will be
handled by senior yell leaders F.
A. “Bodie” Pierce and Bert Bums.
On this occasion the cadet corps
will hold its final yell practice of
the football season. Speeches will
be made by the coaches and mem
bers of the football team, and by
a number of ex-students. They will
all do their bit towards getting the
corps ready for the game. On
that night the Aggie spirit will be
at the highest pitch ever attained
by the “twelfth man”, and it will
be shown the fans at game time
as the cadets yell for their team
to keep the tradition intact. No
victory for Texas over A. & M. on
Kyle Field!
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a person’s outlook on life and help
him to appreciate the world he
lives in.
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