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•*—^ B >y L v t yr Jr arS EC.Jeep' OATES battalion sports .editor Aggie Polo Team Presents Real Show Now; Varner And Kyle Get Gregory Stated Went out and watched the Ag gie Polo team beat Oklahoma Uni versity 7 to 4 Sunday afternoon and got the surprise of my life when I saw the change that has taken place since Major Burnett has taken charge of polo here. They really have a polo field now, in place of the old pasture. You can even buy a bottle of pop out there. The real change is the quality of polo that the Aggies are play ing. They have some pretty fair nags and some boys who can ride them as well as knock that ball around. This Asa Jones is bound to be one of the top college play ers in the United States. He is a hard rider and can play that game for all it is worth. When they beat Oklahoma they trimmed one of the best college teams. Woody Varner scribbled a long letter to Lloyd Gregory, managing editor of the Houston Post who has been panning the Aggies to such great extents lately, and real ly gave him the straight informa tion. Gregory, along with many other writers and people who write in to their columns, has been writ ing a bunch of junk and most of it has been far from correct. They have seen and heard of some mis takes the cadets have made and then blown their tops on it, going to great length on downing the cadets on things they know noth ing about. That is the kind of stuff you have to read about when you are winning. Some of the others try to alibi for their team losing, and just anything for an alibi. We know now that we are the center of attraction and each of us should watch ourselves and our ac tions very closely. One boy in a uniform, doing something wrong, casts a reflection on the rest of the cadet corps. Every Student Should Go To Sugar Bowl; Grantland Rice Says Game Is Best Every student should do every thing possible to attend the Sugar Bowl game. It will probably be the best game of the day and will be no doubt the best game the Aggies have played in this year. U. S. C. will meet Tennessee in the Rose Bowl. Tennessee must have a good ball club. However, they have played a very weak sched ule and have been hard pressed the last couple of times out. U. S. C. has been tied a couple of times and should have been beaten by U. C. L. A. last Saturday. U. C. L. A. had the ball on the Southern Cal. two yard line and after be ing held for three downs they tried a pass on fourth when they Were almost exactly between the goal posts. A field goal from that position is the same as attempting an extra point. T. C. U. lost 2 to 6 to U. C. L. A. at the first of this year and should have beaten SUGAR BOWL! COTTON BOWL! ROSE BOWL! No matter where you plan to go, smart lug gage will add much to your trip. You’ll find a good selec tion of fine luggage and leather goods here. Suit Packs, Hand Bags, Gladstones, Travel Cases, and Hand Trunks. See our new Holiday line of “Gift Luggage” for ladies. The one gift any one wiil use and appre ciate. All gift luggage will be gift wrapped at no extra cost • • • • ^ t r TN. WIMBERLEY STONE DANSBV yvy/ / j ■ X CI/O Z K1XRS the UCLANS and the Aggies beat T. C. U. 20 to 6 and left no doubt in anyone’s mind about the better team. That all adds up to some thing like this. Tennessee should swamp U. S. C. and if they don’t the Vols will be the laughing stock of the football world. The Sugar Bowl, for the second straight year, offers the best game of any bowl. Grantland Rice, ace sports writ er, sent the following message to the Sugar Bowl and they relayed the message to us. A big copy of the telegram hangs in the trophy case in the Academic Building. Herb Benson President, Sugar Bowl Congratulations on getting Tu- lane and Texas A. & M. for Sugar Bowl game. Should be a knock out between two of strongest bowl teams for many years. Will be glad to help in any way. Regards, Grantland Rice. WILL ELSIE SHOW HER KNEES IN BARTLETT DOLL BOWL GAME WHERE ALLEN PLAYS? Everyone has read about Elsie Crabtree and her knees that had to be covered out at Nevada Univer sity. Well, Bartlett, Texas has Elsie engaged for the December 16 game between Allen Academy and the Hillsboro College Indians. During the half time Miss Crab tree will give an exhibition of her skill and the contestants for the “Sweetheart of Texas Majorette” will entertain between halves. I would like to see this Elsie’s knees just to see what is so differ ent about them. They must be able to wink or something. Other people’s knees are just joints or hinges and every old gate has a hinge. According to the best informa tion available, Germany had only about 65 submarines at the be ginning of the present war. It is believed that about one-fourth of these have been destroyed since hostilities began. Expert Radio Repair STUDENT CO-OP Phone No. 139 North Gate dyers hatters AMERICAN- S TEAM DRY * ♦ C LEANERS PHONE 585 BRYAN Patronize Your Agent in Your Organization Cage Season Starts With Two Wins Football Is Replaced By Basketball BATTALIONA- Coach McQuillan Foresees Doleful Future For Aggies By Jimmie Cokinos Now that football is being shov ed in the background by the time ly appearance of basketball, the Texas Aggie cage squad has knuckled to some hard practice periods, under the capable direc tion of Coach Hub McQuillan. McQuillan has six lettermen to mold the Aggie basketball hopes around. They are: Harold “Frog” Duncan, Jude “Smitty” Smith, J. T. Lang, Thomas “Tink” Tinker, Durward “Woody” Varner, and William “Big Dog” Dawson. Sam Dwyer, who lettered in his sopho more year, will be ready at mid term. When asked if he would settle for two conference wins this sea son, Coach McQuillan sings the blues with “Who am I going to beat? Rice has a cracker jack ball club that is going places this year. Baylor has a great club that figures to be in the thick of the race. Texas, last year’s con ference champions, have their whole squad back and they too will be hard to stop. S. M. U. and T. C. U. both have several good lettermen coming back, while Arkansas will boast of having again the “tallest team in the na tion.” Why, they are giants! No sir, I can’t even see my ball club winning one game. It will be a long winter.” Besides having these teams to worry about. Coach Hub has the smallest squad in the history of the school. At present there are 12 men from which he must choose a starting line-up. Coach Hub has only two players that will be of any value to him coming from last year’s fish team. They are Bill Henderson and Charley Stevenson. Henderson, by the way, is the best of the lot that Coach McQuillan has out for basketball. He is a young giant from Houston and last year was just about the best basketball player we have seen in an Aggie uniform in a long time. But you know it is a funny thing how you can rave about them while they’re fish and then they look only so-so when varsity time appears. The Aggie team has played two games and has emerged the winner in both contests, that being at the expense of Sam Houston State Teachers. The scores of the two games were: 43-41 and 44-40 in favor of the Aggies. The cage team left yesterday for San Antonio to play a two- game schedule with the Saint Mary’s Rattlers. They played the Rattlers last night and the two teams will meet again tonight. They will return to College Sta tion and will play host on Thurs day night to the Denton State Teachers College. Harvard Scholarship- (Continued from page 1) as to the precise amount received by any scholarship holder. The national scholarship plan has been prepared to make it pos sible for students who have more outstanding ability than income to attend the school and to prepare themselves for a career in business. While the scholastic record of the applicant will be given great weight, the other characteristics and aptitudes which are important in business will also be appraised. Recommendations of professors and of businessmen for whom the applicant has worked will be con sidered in the selection. A person al interview with a member of the Dean’s Office or with a representa tive of the local Harvard Business School alumni club also will be required of each applicant. Seniors in accredited colleges and men who have been graduated from those colleges during the last two years will be eligible to apply for these scholarships. The first of these scholarships will be awarded to students enter ing the school in September, 1940. Applicants for these scholarships may be made direct to the Dean’s Office of the Harvard Business School or through the scholarship committee of the Harvard Business School alumni clubs. The applications should be filed not later than April 1, 1940. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1939 PAGE 3 Aggie Polo Team Beats Tough Sooner Four, 74 Jones & Company Play Smooth Game Sunday at Jackson Field the A. & M. Polo team hit a high goal stride, and we hope we can say that they hit THEIR stride. It was led by no player in particular; the whole team clicked in as fine an exhibition of polo as could be desired. The Aggies, playing excellent polo, were defeated on Friday by this strong Sooner four. The Soon- ers came back Sunday playing the same game, but this time to no avail. From the first throw in to the final bugle “Jones & Co.” were on top and driving. Score was A. & M. 7, Oklahoma U. 4. A description of a play which occurred quite often will almost describe the game. The ball was obtained by Oklahoma. T. A. Wil liams turned the play. Asa Jones and Sid McDonald retrieved it and passed the ball back. Carl Maloney did some sleight-of-hand, city slick- 4-ed the Sooner back and they were off up the field and a goal was scored. But it was not quite as simple as that. The Sooners were the best polo team that has play ed against the Aggies and they would come bouncing back like a rubber ball, keeping the play at a tempo so fast it would seem it must bog down from weariness. However, this did not happen and A. & M. won, far and away the best polo game of the season. Jerry Galbreath, Alex Cheek and Harry Hill were towers of strength for Oklahoma, and only the con stantly aggressive game of the Ag gies held them in check. Score A. & M. Okla. U. No. 1 Maloney Hethrington No. 2 Jones Cheek v Stubbs No. 3 McDonald Galbreath No. 4 Williams Hill Periods 1 2 3 4 5 6 A. & M 1 2 12 1 0—7 Okla. U 0 10 11 1—4 Goals—Maloney 3, Jones 2, Wil liams 2, Galbreath 2, Hill 2. Jeep Derides All-American Selection By College Writers By E. C. “Jeep” Oates Ken Kavanaugh, L. S. U End JOE BOYD, Tex. A&M Tackle Harry Smith, U. S. C Guard John Haman, N’western Center Bob Sufferidge, Tenn Guard Nick Drahos, Cornell Tackle Bud Kerr, Notre Dame End Tom Harmon (C), Mich Back Nile Kinnick, Iowa Back George Cafego, Tenn Back Paul Christman, Missouri Back This is the All-American team selected by the intercollegiate sports writers of the United States. There were 67 college sports writ ers from 36 states who sent in their selections to Bob Kunkel, radio station KGHL, Billings, Mon tana, who conducted the poll. John Kimbrough, the Aggies’ greati plunging fullback, was plac ed as captain on the second team, polling a new record of votes for second-team men. Jack Crain was placed on the third, Kay Eakin on the fifth, Marshall Robnett on the “Jarrin’ Jawn” Is Honored Again Makes Newsweek’s Super All-American NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—A super all-American football team was presented today by the magazine Newsweek. This all-America team is a con sensus of almost one thousand sports editors and writers, hun dreds of coaches and scouts in ev ery state and scores of nationally known sports experts. Here is the super all-America team: Ends: Kavanaugh, Louisiana State, and Sarkkinen, Ohio State. Tackles: Drahos, Cornell, and Stella, Army. Guards: Smith, Southern Cali fornia, and Sufferidge, Tennessee. Center: Haman, Northwestern. Backs: Kinnick, Iowa; Kim brough, Texas Aggies; Harmon, Michigan, and Cafego, Tennessee. Among the nationally known sports authorities contributing to this consensus were Pop Warner, Bob Zuppke, Frank Thomas, Dr. Hal Stevens, and Ted Husing and Bill Stern, broadcasters; Lawton Carver, sports editor of Interna tional News Service, Dan Parker, and Ken Smith. There were 11,160 aircraft of all types and 26,144 licensed pilots in the United States on July 1, a gain of 1,400 planes and 600 pilots dur ing the last fiscal year. A much greater increase of planes and pilots is expected this year. ■sixth and Tommy Vaughn captain of the ninth team. There were only three writers in the Southwest Conference who voted in this poll. They were Ace Gailey of Baylor, Ellis Stafford of Arkansas, and this writer. This poll has a good team, but we doubt that many of the writers knew why they were voting for some of the players. They prob ably voted for their own favorite player, regardless of his ability, and then filled in the rest of the positions with players that had been getting lots of publicity and players from other sections than their own. Here is an example of that kind of stuff. I have read a lot about George Cafego of Tennessee and he certainly must be an outstand ing player, but as far as I actually know, he may be a bum who has just been blown high. Sure, I voted for Kimbrough and Robnett as well as Boyd for the first team, and not until I see Smith and Sufferidge play will I believe either is as good as Rob nett. I have seen some All-Ameri can guards play ball and none of them so far has even been in the class where they could wipe the mud from Rob’s shoes. As for Kimbrough, I / will put him against any one of the four men that have been picked in this selection. There is Johnny Schiechl, Santa Clara center, on the third team and I will bet he is better than the two who outrank him. Kay Eakin of Arkansas certainly does not belong behind some of the men on the first four teams. Until these embryo sports writ ers learn a little something about sports, they should leave this All- American picking alone. Favorite sons and publicity-built players are certainly not All-Americans. FREE ENLARGEMENT; L WITH ANY 6 OR 8 EXPOSURE FILM lPB/NTEDa*tdDEVELOPED E1KO FADEPROOFi (ORDER SNAPSHOTS. Aggieland Pharmacy THE REXALL STORE “Keep to the Right at the North Gate” INTRAMURAL . HIGHLIGHTS. By HUB JOHNSON Swimming will be the leading sport of the week with the Class B swimming preliminaries schedul ed for Saturday and the finals for Sunday. The fish have had two extra months to prepare and should be ready to do their best. The meet was originally scheduled to come off with the Class A contest but both were postponed because of the large number of boys who planned to leave the weekend of the Arkansas game. Another organization made its drive toward the top of the list this past week. Carrying off sec ond place in the basketball series, I Infantry claimed its league in football Thursday and tied up the league in water polo Friday eve ning. They won the water polo league by defeating the organization that is right above them in the season standing, C Field Artillery. The score was close, 2 to 1, but the playing was much closer. This Scoggins from the Infantry gang seems to know a bit about every thing. He plays the best for his team in basketball, football, water polo and will make many a player open his eyes when the softball season rolls around. Other water polo games this past weekend went to D Engineers, 2 to 1, over 1st Combat Train; E Field Artillery, 4 to 0, over 2nd Combat Train; and by forfeits to ii-m AXXISAVIW/Y HALL Tues. & Wed. Dec. 12 & 13 6:30 H and B Coast Artillery from D and A Infantry, respectively. F Engineers dropped its first football game Friday, as G Coast Artillery came out with three 40- yard penetrations for their record to the castle boys’ none. This doesn’t put the leaders out of the league race but someone will have to stop the Coast team. Harvard University scientists have discovered a new earthquake wave that may be used in locating enemy artillery. New York University provides its faculty members with a special weather forecasting service. Mother she'U adore these by Lucien Lelong Every Woman Will Love These Gifts by Lucien LeLong • A new small size bottle of "Indiscret” Perfume—makes a delightful gift. $2. Other sizes $5 to $60. • "Whisper” is a great favorite . . . dedicate, charming, youth ful. A fragrance she will never tire of wearing. $3.50 and more. WE HAVE MANY GIFT SUGGESTIONS TO OFFER YOU $1.00 up SANKEY PARK Diamonds—Watches—Silver GOING HOME? SEND THAT LUGGAGE by FAST RAILWAY EXPRESS! 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